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Emigrants from Austria-Hungary to the United States

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The list Emigrants from Austria-Hungary to the United States includes Harry Houdini, Peter Lorre, Johnny Weissmuller, Gilda Gray and June Mansfield Miller. The list consists of 549 members.
  • 1.

    Johnny Weissmuller
    American swimmer, water polo player, and actor (1904–1984)
    Johnny Weissmuller
    Overview: Johnny Weissmuller (June 2, 1904 – January 20, 1984) was an Austro-Hungarian-born American competition swimmer, water polo player and actor. He was known for playing Edgar Rice Burroughs' ape man Tarzan ...
    Date of birth: 2 June 1904
    Date of death: 20 January 1984
    Age: 79 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
    Height: 6' 3" (190 cm)
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    Actors from Timișoara 5T
    Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in swimming 145T
    Sportspeople from Timișoara 132T
  • 2.

    Harry Houdini
    Hungarian-American escapologist and stuntperson
    Harry Houdini
    Overview: Erik Weisz (March 24, 1874 – October 31, 1926), known professionaly as Harry Houdini (hoo-DEE-nee), was a Hungarian-American escapologist, illusionist, and stunt performer noted for his escape acts.
    Date of birth: 24 March 1874
    Date of death: 31 October 1926
    Age: 52 (age at death)
    Nationality: Hungarian
    Occupation: Magician
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)
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    Critics of Spiritualism 34T
    Artists from Budapest 112T
    People from Morningside Heights, Manhattan 18T
  • 3.

    Peter Lorre
    Austrian actor
    Peter Lorre
    Overview: Peter Lorre (born László Löwenstein; 26 June 1904 – 23 March 1964) was a Hungarian-American actor. Lorre began his stage career in Vienna before moving to Germany where he worked first on the stage, then ...
    Date of birth: 26 June 1904
    Date of death: 23 March 1964
    Age: 59 (age at death)
    Nationality: Hungarian
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)
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    Naturalized citizens of the United States 511T
    Hollywood Walk of Fame 354T
    Jews who emigrated to escape Nazism 126T
  • 4.

    Gilda Gray
    Dancer, singer, actress
    Gilda Gray
    Overview: Gilda Gray (born Marianna Michalska; October 24, 1901 – December 22, 1959) was an American actress and dancer who popularized a dance called the "shimmy" which became fashionable in 1920s films and theater ...
    Date of birth: 24 October 1901
    Date of death: 22 December 1959
    Age: 58 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
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    20th-century American dancers 576T
    Actresses from Kraków 26T
    Actors from Kraków 35T
  • 5.

    June Mansfield Miller
    Wife of Henry Miller
    June Mansfield Miller
    Overview: June Miller (January 7 or 28, 1902 – February 1, 1979) was the much-written-about second wife of Henry Miller.
    Date of birth: 7 January 1902
    Date of death: 1 February 1979
    Age: 77 (age at death)
    Nationality: Austrian
    Occupation: Spouse
    Gender: Female
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    People from the Duchy of Bukovina 49T
    Bisexual women 595T
    People from Bukovina 18T
  • 6.

    Zita Johann
    Austrian-American actress (1904–1993)
    Zita Johann
    Overview: Zita Johann (born Elisabeth Johann; 14 July 1904 – 24 September 1993) was an Austrian-American actress. She is known for her role in Karl Freund's film The Mummy (1932) starring Boris Karloff.
    Date of birth: 14 July 1904
    Date of death: 20 September 1993
    Age: 89 (age at death)
    Nationality: Hungarian
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)
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    People from Nyack, New York 77T
    People from Timiș County 66T
    Banat Swabians 25T
  • 7.

    Nikola Tesla
    Serbian-American inventor (1856–1943)
    Nikola Tesla
    Overview: Nikola Tesla (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Тесла; 10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist best known for his contributions to ...
    Date of birth: 10 July 1856
    Date of death: 7 January 1943
    Age: 86 (age at death)
    Nationality: Croatian
    Occupation: Inventor
    Gender: Male
    Height: 6' 2" (188 cm)
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    Eccentrics 12T
    Naturalized citizens of the United States 511T
    Deaths from coronary thrombosis 37T
  • 8.

    Mike Mazurki
    Actor
    Mike Mazurki
    Overview: Mike Mazurki (December 25, 1907 – December 9, 1990) was an American actor and professional wrestler who appeared in more than 142 films. His towering 6 ft 5 in (196 cm) presence and intimidating face ...
    Date of birth: 25 December 1907
    Date of death: 9 December 1990
    Age: 82 (age at death)
    Nationality: Ukrainian
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
    Height: 6' 5" (196 cm)
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    Austro-Hungarian professional wrestlers 2T
    Stampede Wrestling alumni 342T
    People from Cohoes, New York 21T
  • 9.

    Lucy Doraine
    Actress
    Lucy Doraine
    Overview: Lucy Doraine (22 May 1898 – 14 October 1989) was a Hungarian film actress of the silent era. Born as Ilona Kovács in Budapest, she appeared in 24 films between 1918 and 1931. She was married to film ...
    Date of birth: 22 May 1898
    Date of death: 14 October 1989
    Age: 91 (age at death)
    Nationality: Hungarian
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
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    Hungarian silent film actresses 25T
    20th-century Hungarian actresses 81T
    Actresses from Budapest 86T
  • 10.

    Adolph Zukor
    American businessman
    Adolph Zukor
    Overview: Adolph Zukor (January 7, 1873 – June 10, 1976) was an Austro-Hungarian-born American film producer best known as one of the three founders of Paramount Pictures. He produced one of America's first fea ...
    Date of birth: 7 January 1873
    Date of death: 10 June 1976
    Age: 103 (age at death)
    Nationality: Hungarian
    Occupation: Director
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' (152 cm)
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    Men centenarians 263T
    Fleischer Studios people 48T
    Paramount Pictures executives 32T
  • 11.

    Josef von Sternberg
    Film director
    Josef von Sternberg
    Overview: Josef von Sternberg born Jonas Sternberg, 29 May 1894 – 22 December 1969) was an Austrian-American filmmaker whose career successfully spanned the transition from the silent to the sound era, during which ...
    Date of birth: 29 May 1894
    Date of death: 22 December 1969
    Age: 75 (age at death)
    Nationality: Austrian
    Occupation: Film Director
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)
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    Film people from Vienna 111T
    Film directors from New Jersey 142T
    Austrian emigrants to the United States 490T
  • 12.

    Paul Muni
    Actor
    Paul Muni
    Overview: Paul Muni (born Frederich Meshilem Meier Weisenfreund; September 22, 1895– August 25, 1967) was an Austro-Hungarian-born American stage and film actor who grew up in Chicago. Muni was a five-time Academy ...
    Date of birth: 22 September 1895
    Date of death: 25 August 1967
    Age: 71 (age at death)
    Nationality: Austrian
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)
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    Volpi Cup for Best Actor winners 76T
    American Theater Hall of Fame inductees 561T
    Donaldson Award winners 131T
  • 13.

    Lee Strasberg
    American theatre director, actor and acting teacher (1901–1982)
    Lee Strasberg
    Overview: Lee Strasberg (born Israel Lee Strassberg; November 17, 1901 – February 17, 1982) was a Polish-born American actor, director, and theatre practitioner. He co-founded, with directors Harold Clurman and ...
    Date of birth: 17 November 1901
    Date of death: 17 February 1982
    Age: 80 (age at death)
    Nationality: Polish
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)
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    Jewish theatre directors 22T
    Naturalized citizens of the United States 511T
    Method actors 68T
  • 14.

    Jed Harris
    American theatrical producer and director
    Jed Harris
    Overview: Jed Harris (born Jacob Hirsch Horowitz; February 25, 1900 – November 15, 1979) was an Austrian-born American theatrical producer and director. His many successful Broadway productions in the 1920s and ...
    Date of birth: 25 February 1900
    Date of death: 15 November 1979
    Age: 79 (age at death)
    Nationality: Austrian
    Occupation: Director
    Gender: Male
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    20th-century American screenwriters 1,746T
    20th-century American male writers 6,911T
    Yale College alumni 1,138T
  • 15.

    Dolly Sisters
    American actresses popular in the early 1920s
    Dolly Sisters
    Overview: Rosie Dolly (October 24, 1892 – February 1, 1970) and Jenny Dolly (October 24, 1892 – June 1, 1941), known professionally as (the) Dolly Sisters, were Hungarian-American identical twin dancers, singers ...
    Date of birth: 25 October 1892
    Date of death: 1 February 1970
    Age: 77 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Dancer
    Gender: Female
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    1941 suicides 46T
    20th-century American women singers 2,286T
    20th-century American dancers 615T
  • 16.

    Desha Delteil
    Dancer and model, 1899-1980
    Desha Delteil
    Overview: Desha Delteil (March 18, 1899 – July 17, 1980) was a Slovenia-born dancer and artists' model.
    Date of birth: 18 March 1899
    Date of death: 17 July 1980
    Age: 81 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Dancer
    Gender: Female
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    Writers from Ljubljana 93T
    20th-century American women 4,974T
    20th-century American dancers 601T
  • 17.

    Nicholas Muray
    Hungarian-born American photographer and Olympic saber fencer
    Nicholas Muray
    Overview: Nickolas Muray (born Miklós Mandl 15 February 1892 – 2 November 1965, New York City) was a Hungarian-born American photographer and Olympic saber fencer.
    Date of birth: 15 February 1892
    Date of death: 2 November 1965
    Age: 73 (age at death)
    Nationality: Hungarian
    Occupation: Photographer
    Gender: Male
    Partner: Frida Kahlo (Long-Term)
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    American male fencers 232T
    Fencers at the 1932 Summer Olympics 109T
    Olympic fencers of the United States 269T
  • 18.

    Helena Rubinstein
    Polish and American businesswoman, art collector, and philanthropist
    Helena Rubinstein
    Overview: Helena Rubinstein (born Chaja Rubinstein; December 25, 1872 – April 1, 1965) was a Polish-American businesswoman, art collector, and philanthropist. A cosmetics entrepreneur, she was the founder and eponym ...
    Date of birth: 25 December 1870
    Date of death: 1 April 1965
    Age: 94 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Business
    Gender: Female
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    Burials at Mount Olivet Cemetery (Queens) 13T
    Women art collectors 173T
    L'Oréal people 18T
  • 19.

    Arthur Murray
    American dance instructor (1895-1991)
    Arthur Murray
    Overview: Arthur Murray (born Moses Teichman, April 4, 1895 – March 3, 1991) was an American ballroom dancer and businessman, whose name is most often associated with the dance studio chain that bears his name.
    Date of birth: 4 April 1895
    Date of death: 3 March 1991
    Age: 95 (age at death)
    Nationality: Austrian
    Occupation: Educator
    Gender: Male
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    Educators from New Jersey 129T
    Dance education organizations 11T
    Educators from Georgia (U.S. state) 32T
  • 20.

    Shannon Day
    American actress
    Shannon Day
    Overview: Shannon Day (born Sylvia Day; August 5, 1896 – February 24, 1977) was an American silent film actress who appeared in supporting parts in numerous productions.
    Date of birth: 5 August 1896
    Date of death: 24 February 1977
    Age: 80 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
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    Actresses from New York City 1,635T
    20th-century American actresses 7,725T
    American silent film actresses 1,124T
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