29 May

Born in 1904 – Gregg Toland, American cinematographer.

Above: Henry Fonda, Frank Darien, and Russell Simpson in John Ford’s 1940 film, The Grapes of Wrath, shot by Toland.

Also, born in 1880, German historian and philosopher Oswald Spengler.

When the ordinary thought of a highly cultivated people begins to regard "having children" as a question of pros and cons, the great turning-point has come.

Previously on May 29, Josef von Sternberg and G. K. Chesterton.