Simon Wiesenthal
Simon Wiesenthal was a Jewish Austrian Holocaust survivor, Nazi hunter, and writer. He studied architecture and was living in Lwów at the outbreak of World War II. He survived the Janowska concentration camp, the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp, the Gross-Rosen concentration camp, a death march to Chemnitz, Buchenwald, and the Mauthausen concentration camp.
31 December 1908
Born on the same birth day (31 December): Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis • Dal Stivens • Friedrich Robert Faehlmann • Helma Knorscheidt • John Radcliffe (died 1568) • Julio DePaula • Karl Kruuda • Matt Cross (wrestler) • Mies Bouwman • Ricky Whittle
Born in the same month (December 1908): Alfred Hershey • Amon Göth • Concha Piquer • Dennis Morgan • Elizabeth Alexander (scientist) • Elliott Carter • Gertrude Bancroft • Helmut Gollwitzer • Jo-Jo Moore • Magnus Pyke • Morey Amsterdam • Olivier Messiaen • Paul Siple • Quentin Crisp • Ralph Hill (runner) • Yousuf Karsh