births
April 16, 1900
Polly Adler, Russian-American madam and author (died 1962)
Polly Adler
Pearl "Polly" Adler was an American madam and author, best known for her work A House Is Not a Home, which was adapted into a film of the same name. In 2021, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Debby Applegate published a comprehensive account of Adler's life and times entitled Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age with Doubleday.
April 16
April 16 is the 106th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 259 days remain until the end of the year.