Events

• Louis Le Prince
  Louis Le Prince
  Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince was an inventor who is considered by many film historians as the true father of motion pictures, who shot the first moving pictures on paper film using a single lens camera....
  
   is granted an American dual-patent on a 16-lens device that combines a motion picture camera
  Movie camera
  The movie camera is a type of photographic camera which takes a rapid sequence of photographs on strips of film which was very popular for private use in the last century until its successor, the video camera, replaced it...
  
   with a projector
  Movie projector
  A movie projector is an opto-mechanical device for displaying moving pictures by projecting them on a projection screen. Most of the optical and mechanical elements, except for the illumination and sound devices, are present in movie cameras.-Physiology:...
  
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Births

• April 3 - Reginald Barker, Canadian-born American director (d. 1945)
• April 8 - Lily Elsie
  Lily Elsie
  Lily Elsie was a popular English actress and singer during the Edwardian era, best known for her starring role in the hit London premiere of Franz Lehár's operetta The Merry Widow....
  
  , English singer and actress (d. 1962)
• May 26 - Al Jolson
  Al Jolson
  Al Jolson was an American singer, comedian and actor. In his heyday, he was dubbed "The World's Greatest Entertainer"....
  
   - Lithuanian-born American actor/singer (d. 1950)
• June 6 - Reine Davies
  Reine Davies
  Reine Davies was an American singer and actress.-Biography:Davies was born Irene Douras in Brooklyn, New York. She was the eldest sister of the actress Marion Davies. Reine was the first of the Douras daughters to start using the name, 'Davies.' One day she was driving through the Brooklyn...
  
  , American actress (d. 1938)
• July 26 - Lars Hanson
  Lars Hanson
  Lars Hanson was a Swedish film and stage actor, internationally mostly remembered for his motion picture roles during the silent film era.-Biography:...
  
  , Swedish actor (d. 1965)
• October 12 - Karl Dane
  Karl Dane
  Karl Dane was a Danish comedian and actor known for his work in American films, mainly of the silent film era. He worked alongside Rudolph Valentino, John Gilbert, and King Vidor. In 1926, he teamed up with George K. Arthur to form the successful comedy duo Dane & Arthur...
  
  , Danish-born American actor (d. 1934)
• November 18 - Jack Abbott, American actor/writer (d. 1964)