Question: Who was born first Douglas Sirk or Melville Shavelson?
Context: Melville Shavelson (April 1, 1917 – August 8, 2007) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and author.  He was President of the Writers Guild of America, West (WGAw) from 1969 to 1971, 1979 to 1981, and 1985 to 1987. Douglas Sirk (born Hans Detlef Sierck; 26 April 1897 – 14 January 1987) was a German film director best known for his work in Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s. Magnificent Obsession is a 1954 Technicolor drama romantic film directed by Douglas Sirk starring Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson.  The screenplay was written by Robert Blees and Wells Root, after the 1929 book "Magnificent Obsession" by Lloyd C. Douglas.  The film was produced by Ross Hunter.  Sirk sometimes claimed that the story was based distantly on the Greek legend of Alcestis. Ike is a 1979 television miniseries about the life of Dwight D. Eisenhower, with heavy concentration on the time he went to Europe during World War II to serve as Supreme Commander.  The screenplay by Melville Shavelson was based on Kay Summersby's 1948 memoir "Eisenhower Was My Boss" and her 1975 autobiography, "Past Forgetting: My Love Affair".  Directed by Boris Sagal and Melville Shavelson, the production starred Robert Duvall as Eisenhower and Lee Remick as Kay Summersby.  Film editors John Woodcock and Bill Lenny won an Eddie Award for their work and the series garnered five Emmy Award nominations. Milo Harbich (13 August 1900 – 13 September 1988) was a Brazilian-born German film editor and director.  He was born to Austrian-Brazilian parents who moved to Dresden when he was a small child.  He began career as stage actor, but by the early 1930s was increasingly involved with the German film industry.  He edited his first film in 1933.  During the Nazi era he worked on a mixture of propaganda films and less overtly political entertainment such as "To New Shores" (1937) and the Marika Rökk vehicle "Hello Janine! " (1939).  He often worked with the directors Douglas Sirk and "Hans Steinhoff". Mixed Company is a 1974 comedy-drama film directed by Melville Shavelson and written by Shavelson and Mort Lachman.  It stars Barbara Harris, Joseph Bologna, Tom Bosley, Lisa Gerritsen, Dorothy Shay, Ruth McDevitt and Haywood Nelson. The Other Woman is a 1983 television romantic comedy film directed by Melville Shavelson.  The film was originally broadcast on CBS.  It was the only television film directed by Shavelson that he did not also write. Imitation of Life is a 1959 American romantic drama film directed by Douglas Sirk, produced by Ross Hunter and released by Universal International, starring Lana Turner and John Gavin.  It was Sirk's final Hollywood film and dealt with issues of race, class and gender. Mystery Submarine is a 1950 American war film directed by Douglas Sirk starring Macdonald Carey, Märta Torén and Robert Douglas. Schlußakkord ("Final Accord" or better "Final Chord"; sometimes anglicised Schlussakkord) is a German film melodrama of the Nazi period, the first melodrama directed by Detlef Sierck, who later had a career in Hollywood as Douglas Sirk and specialised in melodramas.  It was made under contract for Universum Film AG (UFA), stars Lil Dagover and Willy Birgel and also features Maria von Tasnady, and premièred in 1936.  It shows stylistic features later developed by Sierck/Sirk and makes symbolic and thematic use of music.
Answer: Douglas Sirk