* 1907 – Dorothy Young, American actress and novelist ( d. 2011 )

After her death in 1907, his mistress Dorothy " Dorelia " McNeill, a Bohemian style icon, became his partner and later became his second wife, with whom he had two children.

Ozma of Oz: A Record of Her Adventures with Dorothy Gale of Kansas, the Yellow Hen, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, Tiktok, the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger ; Besides Other Good People too Numerous to Mention Faithfully Recorded Herein published on July 30, 1907, was the third book of L. Frank Baum's Oz series.

Neill chose to illustrate a new Dorothy in 1907 when the character was reintroduced in Ozma of Oz.

In 1921, after serving as New York city's Junior League president from 1907 – 1910 Dorothy Payne Whitney became the first president of the Association of Junior Leagues International Inc., operating as the umbrella organization for all Junior Leagues worldwide.

Tik-Tok first appears in Ozma of Oz ( 1907 ) where Dorothy Gale discovers him locked up in a cave, immobilized.

Lord Rugby married Dorothy Gladys Huggins, daughter of Charles Lang Huggins, on 28 August 1907.

Dorothy Hill, AC, CBE, FAA, FRS ( 10 September 1907 – 23 April 1997 ) was an Australian geologist, the first female professor at an Australian university, and the first female president of the Australian Academy of Science.

Dorothy Louise Molter ( May 6, 1907 in Arnold, Pennsylvania-December 1986 ), lived for 56 years on Knife Lake in the Boundary Waters area of northern Minnesota.

Dorothy West ( June 2, 1907 – August 16, 1998 ) was a novelist and short story writer who was part of the Harlem Renaissance.

* An underground Nome Kingdom is featured in several of the Oz books by L. Frank Baum, notably the Ozma of Oz ( 1907 ), Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz ( 1908 ) and Tik-Tok of Oz ( 1914 ).

* Dorothy Louisa Brand ( 1878 – 1958 ) married Percy Henry Guy Feilden ( 1870 – 1944 ) on 11 November 1902 ; they had three children: Randle Guy Feilden ( b. 1904 ), Cecil Henry Feilden ( b. 1907 ) and Dorothy Priscilla Feilden ( b. 1909 ).

* 1802 – William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a " long belt " of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.

* 1947 – Dorothy Lyman, American actress

* 2010 – Dorothy Height, American civil rights activist ( b. 1912 )

* Dorothy Day ( 1897 – 1980 )

* 1957 – Dorothy L. Sayers, English writer ( b. 1893 )

* 1980 – Four U. S. nuns and churchwomen, Ita Ford, Maura Clarke, Jean Donovan, and Dorothy Kazel, are murdered by a death squad in El Salvador.

* 1910 – Dorothy Janis, American silent film actress ( d. 2010 )

* 1928 – Dorothy McGuire, American singer ( The McGuire Sisters )

* 1960 – Dorothy Stratten, Canadian actress ( d. 1980 )

George Lucas was born in Modesto, California, the son of Dorothy Ellinore ( née Bomberger ) and George Walton Lucas, Sr. ( 1913 – 1991 ), who owned a stationery store.

* Dorothy Catherine of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( 1538 – 1604 ) married in 1556 Henry V of Plauen, Burgrave of Meissen.

As part of a 1929 – 1934 campaign, between 1930 and 1932, Dorothy Garrod excavated four caves, and a number of rock shelters, in the Carmel mountain range at el-Wad, el-Tabun, and Es Skhul.

* Dorothy Weisel Hack ( 1910 – 1963 ), American amateurtennis player

* 1967 – Dorothy Parker, American writer ( b. 1893 )

* 1925 – Dorothy Malone, American actress

* 1893 – Dorothy L. Sayers, English author ( d. 1957 )

* 1913 – Dorothy Kilgallen, American journalist ( d. 1965 )

* 1903 – Dorothy Levitt is reported as the first woman in the world to compete in a ' motor race '.

* 1949 – Celebrities Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members.

* 1895 – Dorothy Wilde, English socialite ( d. 1941 )

* 1956 – Dorothy Hamill, American figure skater

* 1905 – Dorothy Fields, American composer ( d. 1974 )

Janis Joplin was born in Port Arthur, Texas, on, to Dorothy ( née East ) Joplin ( 1913 – 1998 ), a registrar at a business college, and her husband, Seth Joplin ( 1910 – 1987 ), an engineer at Texaco.

She was briefly paired with March, and they made four films together, including Dorothy Arzner's Honor Among Lovers ( 1931 ).

He made two other early British talkies: Wolves with Dorothy Gish ( 1930 ) from a play set in a whaling camp in the frozen north, and Down River ( 1931 ), in which he played a drug smuggler.

* The Outsider ( play ), a play by Dorothy Brandon ; basis for 1926, 1931 and 1939 films ( see below ) and other adaptations action-adventure game

In Five Red Herrings ( 1931 ), a Lord Peter Wimsey novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, Lord Peter ( a Balliol man ) is asked whether he remembers a certain contemporary from Trinity.

In Five Red Herrings ( 1931 ), a Lord Peter Wimsey novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, Lord Peter ( a Balliol man ) is asked whether he remembers a certain contemporary from Trinity.

Five Red Herrings is a 1931 novel by Dorothy L. Sayers.

Lady Irwin College, a women's college in Delhi was established under patronage of Lady Dorothy Irwin in 1931.

In 1931 Millicent Hammond got to know Hugh McLeod Fenwick ( February 17, 1905 – July 24, 1991 ), who was already married to the former Dorothy Ledyard, daughter of New York attorney Lewis Cass Ledyard.

In 1931, Goldberg married Dorothy Kargans.

The group was composed of three sisters: Christine McGuire ( born July 30, 1926 ); Dorothy McGuire ( February 13, 1928 – September 7, 2012 ); and Phyllis McGuire ( born February 14, 1931 ).

* Art in Advertising ( 1931 ) ( with Dorothy E. M. Holditch ).

* Fifty-one New Nursery Rhymes, illustrations by Dorothy Burroughes, Methuen ( London, England ), 1931, Doubleday ( New York, NY ), 1932.

Hanley moved to near Corwen, N. Wales in 1931, where he met Dorothy Enid " Timothy " Thomas, neé Heathcote, a descendant of Lincolnshire nobility.

They had a son, Archie Primrose, Lord Dalmeny ( 1910 – 1931 ), and a daughter, Lady Helen Dorothy Primrose ( 1913-1998 ).

in 1931 Dorothy became the leading Lady after Mary Ann Jackson left the series

Dorothy May Miles ne Squire was born 19 August 1931 in Holywell, Flintshire, North Wales, daughter of James and Amy Squire ( née Brick ).

Although Blanche is only three years younger than Dorothy ( born 1929 ) and one or two years younger than Rose ( born 1930 or 1931 ), she frequently rubs in the fact that she is the youngest roommate in the house.

Sister Dorothy Mae Stang, S. N. D., ( 7 July 1931 – 12 February 2005 ) was an American-born, Brazilian member of the Congregation of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur.

Sales were again supported by a considerable racing programme including entries by Captain Marendaz himself up to 1931 and his secretary Miss Dorothy Summers up to 1936.

* Charles Studd ( Charles Thomas ' CT ')-third son of Edward and Dorothy, born 2 December 1860 Spretton, Northants, and died 16 July 1931 Ibambi, Congo, both an England Cricketer and missionary in China, India and Belgian Congo, and founder of WEC International.

* Honeymoon Trio ( 1931, with Al St. John, Walter Catlett, and Dorothy Granger, directed by Roscoe Arbuckle )

In this publicity photo, Dorothy Mackaill plays a secretary-turned-prostitute in Safe in Hell ( 1931 ).

The Groves of Academe by Mary McCarthy, published in 1952, is often quoted as the earliest example, although in Faculty Towers: The Academic Novel and Its Discontents, Elaine Showalter discusses C. P. Snow's The Masters, of the previous year, and several earlier novels have an academic setting and the same characteristics, such as Willa Cather's The Professor's House of 1925, Régis Messac's Smith Conundrum first published between 1928 and 1931 and Dorothy L. Sayers ' Gaudy Night of 1935 ( see below ).