(Depending on the source, Miss Allen is alleged to have been born on July 26 in 1895, 1896, 1902 or 1906. The comedienne herself insisted that her birth certificate was destroyed in the San Francisco Fire.)

Happy 55th birthday soprano Anne Schwanewilms.

Birthday anniversaries of playwright George Bernard Shaw (1856), writer Aldous Huxley (1894) and conductor Donald Voorhees (1903)