1886 Rex Stout - Mystery writer who created the detective, Nero Wolfe
, one of my favorite comedies.
I haven't read them all but I've read most of the Nero Wolfe stories. I have a box full of them beside my bed right now.







1923 Dick Shawn – Comedian and actor (Evil Roy Slade, Love at First Bite, Maid to Order)

He was also in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, one of my favorite comedies.









1928 Malachi Throne – Actor (It Takes a Thief, Catch Me if You Can, Beau Geste, Ben Casey) He played Sandifer in the Perry Mason episode The Case of the Simple Simon And he played False Face in the Batman TV series

He was the best False Face of all time. Then again, I think he was the only one to play False Face. He had a tantrum when he found out his face wouldn't be see until the very. end but he had already signed the contract.