This Day in Halloween: Universal classic horror movie composer Hans J. Salter is born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now Austria) in 1896. / Illustration by Caitlin Navo
Hans J. Salter is born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now Austria) in 1896. His long career as a composer includes six Oscar nominations and films like The Wolf Man, House of Frankenstein and The Invisible Man Returns. He died in 1994.
