His first wife Dorothy Weisel Hack was a prominent amateur tennis player.

Hack notes that Hoover was romantically linked to actress Dorothy Lamour in the late 1930s and early 1940s, and that after Hoover's death, Lamour did not deny rumors that she had had an affair with Hoover in the years between her two marriages.

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

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.

* 1910 – Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, English biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1994 )

The Yellow Oval Room at the White House during the administration of President John F. Kennedy, as decorated by Sister Parish. Sister Parish ( born on July 15, 1910 in Morristown, New Jersey and died in 1994, born Dorothy May Kinnicutt ) was an American interior decorator and socialite.

Originally published on July 20, 1910, it is the story of Dorothy Gale and her Uncle Henry and Aunt Em coming to live in Oz permanently.

At the age of nine she starred as Dorothy Gale in the 1910 short film The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

In the sixth Oz book by Baum, The Emerald City of Oz ( 1910 ), when Uncle Henry and Aunt Em are unable to pay the mortgage on the new farmhouse built at the end of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Dorothy brings them to live in Oz ; the bulk of their appearance in the book dealing with her and her aunt and uncle is their tour of Oz, showing them the marvelous, Utopian land in which they have escaped the troubles of Kansas.

He married Dorothy Villiers in 1910, and they had a daughter, Virginia Graham ( 1910 – 1993 ), who followed him as a writer, contributing many articles to Punch.

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.

From 1945 to 1963, Dorothy Kilgallen and her husband Dick Kollmar ( 1910 – 1971 ) cohosted WOR morning show Breakfast With Dorothy and Dick.

* July 29 – Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin ( b. 1910 ), British chemist.

They had three children: James Norvell, who was born on 29 July 1905 ; Walter Jr., who was born on 25 April 1910 ; and and Dorothy Jane, who born on 24 January 1913.

* Lady Alethea Constance Dorothy Sydney Buxton ( 2 August 1910 – 25 July 2004 ); married Venerable Peter Charles Eliot, TD, MBE ( 30 October 1910 – 1995 ), son of Hon.

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

* Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin ( 1910 – 1994 ), British chemist

In late 1909 and early 1910, chaperoned by her mother, Dorothy attended Pound's lectures at the London Polytechnic Institute ; in June 1910, mother and daughter went to Italy and joined him in Sirmione for a few weeks.

A couple of months later, on Thursday 16 November 1972, the official opening took place, performed by Professor Dorothy Hodgkin ( 1910 – 1994 ), Chancellor of the University of Bristol from 1970 till 1988, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964 and the Copley Medal from the Royal Society in 1976.

When Baum later included this story in his Juvenile Speaker ( 1910 ) and The Snuggle Tales ( 1916 – 17 ), he changed the girl's name to Doris, to avoid confusing her with Dorothy Gale.

* 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.

* 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.

* 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 )

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