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): Emperor Go-Yōzei • Grégory Coupet • Hugh Nelson (Australian politician) • Inge Helten • Jane Badler • John Radcliffe (died 1568) • Julie Doucet • Karl Kruuda • Katie Volynets • Michal Řepík • Muhammad ibn al-Qasim • Nemanja Nikolić (footballer, born 1987) • Rosalind Cash • Silvestre Revueltas

Born in the same month (December 1908): Celia Johnson • Concha Piquer • Elizabeth Alexander (scientist) • Gertrude Bancroft • Giacomo Manzù • Jo-Jo Moore • Lew Ayres • Paul Siple • Pierre Graber • Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira • Ranganathananda • Remedios Varo • Willard Libby