1901 at the theater

• January 26 - the anniversary, hundredth, performance of the play “Tsar Fedor Ioannovich” based on the play by Alexei Tolstoy at the Moscow Art Theater took place .

Born

• February 15 - Nikolai Dmitrievich Mordvinov , Soviet actor, People's Artist of the USSR (1949).
• February 27 - Mikhail Stepanovich Grishko , Soviet opera singer (dramatic baritone), People's Artist of the USSR .
• March 17 - Anthony Yannidis , Greek actor, theater figure.
• April 16 - Nikolai Akimov , Soviet painter and book graphic artist, theater artist, director and teacher, 1935 to 1949 and since 1956 headed the Leningrad Comedy Theater .
• June 24 - Igor Ilyinsky , Soviet film and theater actor, director, People's Artist of the USSR .
• July 20 - Sergey Blinnikov , Soviet theater and film actor, People's Artist of the USSR .
• August 12 - Varvara Alexandrovna Obukhova , Soviet and Russian theater and film actress, People's Artist of the RSFSR .
• August 13 - Boris Petrovich Chirkov , Soviet theater and film actor, People's Artist of the USSR .
• August 24 - Andrei Alexandrovich Kostrichkin , Soviet theater and film actor, Honored Artist of the RSFSR .
• December 4 - Nikolai Simonov , Soviet theater and film actor, People's Artist of the USSR (1950).
• December 8 - Marziya Yusuf kyzy Davudova , Azerbaijani Soviet theater and film actress, People's Artist of the USSR .

Died

• July 29 - Antonina Ivanovna Abarinova , Russian opera singer (contralto, later mezzo-soprano) and dramatic actress.

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