Otto Hermann Kahn Otto Hermann Kahn Otto Hermann Kahn (February 21, 1867 – March 29, 1934) was a German-born American investment banker, collector, philanthropist, and patron of the arts. Otto was born on February 21, 1867 in Mannheim, Germany, and raised there, by his Jewish parents, Emma (née Eberstadt) and Bernard Kahn. His father had been among the refugees to the United States after the revolution of 1848 and had become an American citizen, but later returned to Germany. Kahn was educated in a gymnasium in Mannheim. Kahn's ambition was to be a musician, and he learned to play several instruments before he
Madeline Kahn Madeline Kahn Madeline Gail Kahn (born Madeline Gail Wolfson; September 29, 1942 – December 3, 1999) was an American actress, comedian, voice actress, and singer, known for comedic roles in films directed by Peter Bogdanovich and Mel Brooks, including "What's Up, Doc?" (1972), "Young Frankenstein" (1974), "High Anxiety" (1977), "History of the World, Part I" (1981), and her Academy Award-nominated roles in "Paper Moon" (1973) and "Blazing Saddles" (1974). Kahn made her Broadway debut in "Leonard Sillman's New Faces of 1968", and received Tony Award nominations for the play "In the Boom Boom Room" in 1974 and for the original