August 30, 1935

1935John Phillips, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2001)^[†]

John Edmund Andrew Phillips was an American musician, singer, and songwriter. He was the leader of the vocal group the Mamas & the Papas and remains frequently referred to as Papa John Phillips. In addition to writing the majority of the group's compositions, he also wrote "San Francisco " in 1967 for former Journeymen bandmate Scott McKenzie, as well as the oft-covered "Me and My Uncle", which was a favorite in the repertoire of the Grateful Dead. Phillips was one of the chief organizers of the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival.

1935Alexandra Bellow, Romanian-American mathematician (died 2025)^[†]

Alexandra Bellow was a Romanian-American mathematician who made contributions to the fields of ergodic theory, probability and analysis.

1935Henri Barbusse, French journalist and author (born 1873)^[†]

Henri Barbusse was a French novelist, short story writer, journalist, poet and political activist. He began his literary career in the 1890s as a Symbolist poet and continued as a neo-Naturalist novelist; in 1916, he published Under Fire, a novel about World War I based on his experience which is described as one of the earliest works of the Lost Generation movement or as the work which started it; the novel had a major impact on the later writers of the movement, namely on Ernest Hemingway and Erich Maria Remarque. Barbusse is considered one of the important French writers of 1910–1939 who mingled the war memories with moral and political meditations.

1935Namık İsmail, Turkish painter and educator (born 1890)^[†]

Namık İsmail was a Turkish Impressionist painter and art educator, who received his training in France.