BIRTHS/DEATHS OF RADIO PERSONALITIES

BIRTHS/DEATHS OF RADIO PERSONALITIES

Last Updated July 1, 2008
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01-01-1867 - Lew Fields - NYC - d. 7-20-1941
comedian: (Weber and Fields) “The Eveready Hour”; “George Jessel Show”
01-01-1878 - Edwin Franko Goldman - Louisville, KY - d. 2-21-1956
bandmaster: “The Cities Service Concert”; “The Pure Oil Band”
01-01-1879 - E.M. Forster - London, England - d. 6-7-1970
novelist: Many works adapted for radio
01-01-1889 - Alexander Smallens - St. Petersburg, Russia - d. 11-27-1972
conductor: “Rising Musical Star”
01-01-1889 - Charles Bickford - Cambridge, MA - d. 11-9-1967
actor: “Radio Hall of Fame”
01-01-1889 - Maruice Baron - Lille, France - d. 9-5-1964
conductor of various symphony orchestras for radio
01-01-1895 - Art Gillham - St. Louis, MO - d. 6-6-1961
piano playing vocalist: (Whispering Pianist) Plugged songs to sell sheet music
01-01-1895 - Bernard Schubert - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-4-1988
writer, producer: “The Falcon”; “Murder and Mr. Malone”
01-01-1897 - Walter Greaza - St. Paul, MN - d. 6-1-1973
actor: “Columbia Workshop”; “Suspense”
01-01-1900 - Xavier Cugat - Tirona, Spain - d. 10-27-1990
bandleader: (King of the Rhumba) “Camel Caravan”
01-01-1904 - George Landen Dann - Brisbane, Australia - d. 6-6-1977
writer: “Funerals for Field Mice”
01-01-1904 - Lou Kosloff - Chicago, IL - d. 2-12-1986
orchestra leader: “Blondie”; “Sad Sack”; “Sherlock Holmes”
01-01-1905 - Dick Aurandt - d. 7-16-1984
orchestra leader: “Voyage of the Scarlet Queen”; “Steve Canyon”
01-01-1905 - Richard Keith - NYC - d. 9-16-1976
actor: Ray Hunt “Myrt and Marge”; Frank W. Brock “Special Investigator”
01-01-1908 - Bob Russell - Passaic, NJ - d. 1-24-1998
singer, songwriter: Helped create “ Name that Tune”
01-01-1909 - Dana Andrews - Collins, MS - d. 12-17-1992
actor: Matt Cevetic “I Was A Communist for the FBI”
01-01-1909 - Frank Kettering - Monmouth, IL - d. 6-09-1973
bass player: (Hoosier Hot Shots) “National Barn Dance”
01-01-1911 - Hank Greenberg - NYC - d. 9-14-1994
baseball great: “Play Ball”; “We the People”; “Philco Radio Time”
01-01-1911 - Leona Ledoux - d. 8-16-1987
actor: Robespierre Higgins “Baby Snooks”; Bumstead Children “Blondie”
01-01-1913 - Norman Rosten - d. 3-7-1995
writer: “Cavalcade of America”; “An American in Russia”
01-01-1915 - Earl Sheldon - NYC - d. 11-14-1977
orchestra leader: “The Bickersons”; “Jack Smith Show”
01-01-1915 - Irv Orton - d. 5-xx-1960
musical director: “Double or Nothing”
01-01-1916 - Earl Wrightson - Baltimore, MD - d. 3-7-1993
singer: “Highways in Melody”; “Getting the Most Out of Life”
01-01-1917 - Shelby Storck - Kansas City, MO - d. 4-5-1969
actor: Speed Robertson “The Air Advs. of Jimmie Allen”
01-01-1917 - Ted Cott - Poughkeepsie, NY - d. 6-12-1973
announcer, emcee: “So You Think You Know Music?”; “Music You Want”
01-01-1919 - Carole Landis - Fairchild, WI - d. 7-5-1948
actor: “Warner Brothers Academy Award”; “Command Performance”
01-01-1922 - Robert De Cormier - Pinelawn, NY
choral director: “Christmas in Vermont with Countrypoint”
01-01-1923 - Milt Jackson - Detroit, MI - d. 10-9-1999
vibraphone: “Modern Jazz Quartet”
01-01-1928 - Helen Westcott - Los Angeles, CA - d. 3-17-1998
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”; “My Wildest Dream”
01-01-1938 - Norma Jean Nilsson - Hollywood, CA
actor: Kathy Anderson “Father Knows Best”; Cookie Bumstead “Blondie”
01-02-1865 - William Lyon Phelps - d. 8-21-1943
author, critic, scholar: “Information Please”
01-02-1888 - Tito Schipa - Lecce, Italy - d. 12-16-1965
operatic tenor: “Metropolitan Opera”; “La Rosa Concerts”
01-02-1892 - Artur Rodzinski - Dalmatia, Yugoslavia - d. 11-27-1958
concuctor: “NBC Symphony Orchestra”; “Cleveland Symphony Orchestra”
01-02-1894 - Robert Nathan - NYC - d. 5-25-1985
writer: “CBS Radio Workshop”
01-02-1901 - Hugh Ross Williamson - Romsey, England - d. 1-13-1978
author: “Paul, a Bondslave”
01-02-1904 - Bernardine Flynn - Madison, WI - d. 3-10-1977
actor: Sade Gook “Vic and Sade”; Mathilda Barker “Welcome Valley”
01-02-1904 - James Melton - Moultrie, GA - d. 4-21-1961
singer” “Palmolive Hour”; “Telephone Hour”; “Harvest of Stars”
01-02-1905 - Michale Tippett - London, England - d. 1-8-1998
composer: “Midsummer Marriage”
01-02-1913 - Anna Lee - Ightham, Kent, England - d. 5-14-2004
actor: “Soldiers in Greaspaint”; “Lifebuoy Show”; “Screen Guild Theatre”
01-02-1913 - David Levy - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-25-2000
producer: “ We the People”
01-02-1915 - Nick Fatool - Milbury, MA - d. 9-26-2000
drummer: (Member of the Big 7 Band) “Pete Kelly’s Blues”
01-02-1917 - Vera Zorina - Berlin, Germany - d. 4-9-2003
ballet dancer: “Duffy’s Tavern”; “I’m An American”
01-02-1918 - Joan Merrill - Baltimore, MD - d. 5-10-1992
singer: “Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show”
01-02-1920 - Charles Douglass - Mexico - d. 4-8-2003
radio engineer for the CBS radio network
01-02-1920 - Corny Peeples - Oak Park, IL - d. 11-15-1954
actor: William Snood “Tom Mix”; Bud Fairchild “Stepmother”
01-02-1920 - Isaac Asimov - Petrovich, Russia - d. 4-6-1992
Author: “I, Robot”; “Nightfall”
01-02-1925 - Richard Jessup - d. 10-22-1982
writer: “Tom Corbett, Space Cadet”
01-02-1928 - Howard Caine - Nashville, TN - d. 12-29-1993
actor: “The Brighter Day”; “The Guiding Light”
01-02-1930 - Julius LaRosa - Brooklyn, NY
singer: “Arthur Godfrey Time”
01-02-1931 - Renee Roy - Buffalo, NY - d. 7-30-2005
actor: “CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”
01-02-1932 - Peter Redgrove - Kingston-on-Thames, England - d. 6-16-2003
writer: “The Nature of Cold Weather”
01-03-1886 - Josephine Hull - Newtonville, MA - d. 3-12-1957
actor: Miss Julia “Miss Julia”; Mrs. Kayden “The O’Neills”
01-03-1891 - Gaston Anderson - d. 5-xx-1978
disk jockey: WGWD Gasden, Alabama
01-03-1892 - Marion Davies - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-25-1961
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”; “How I Made Up for the Moview”
01-03-1893 - Gilbert Seldes - Alliance, NJ - d. 9-29-1970
writer: “Americans All, Immigrants All”
01-03-1897 - Dorothy Arzner - San Francisco, CA - d. 10-1-1979
film director: “You Were Meant to be a Star”
01-03-1898 - Freddie Rich - Warsaw, Poland - d. 9-8-1956
bandleader: “Friendly Five Footnotes”; “Freddie Rich’s Penthouse Party”
01-03-1898 - John Loder - London, England - d. 12-9-1988
actor, host: “Crime Does Not Pay”; “Silver Theatre”
01-03-1898 - Zasu Pitts - Parsons, KS - d. 6-7-1963
comedienne: “Lum and Abner”; “Tommy Riggs and Betty Lou”
01-03-1900 - Cecil Underwood - Vienna, MO - d. 9-27-1976
producer, director: “Fibber McGee and Molly”; “Great Gildersleeve”
01-03-1905 - Anna May Wong - Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA - d. 2-3-1961
actor: “Campbell Playhouse”; “Hollywood Hotel”
01-03-1905 - Ray Milland - Neath, Wales - d. 3-10-1986
actor: Ray McNutley “Meet Mr. McNutley”
01-03-1909 - Victor Borge - Copenhagen, Denmark - d. 12-23-2000
comedian, pianist: “Victor Borge Show”; “Kraft Music Hall”
01-03-1911 - Al Sack - NYC - d. 12-6-1947
orchestra leader: “Beula Show”; “Tony Martin Show”; “Frank Morgan Show”
01-03-1914 - Carl (Henry) Stewart - Alabama - d. 2-4-1993
bass: “The Radio Cowboys”
01-03-1916 - Betty Furness - NYC - d. 4-2-1994
actor: Anne Williams “Casey, Crime Photographer”
01-03-1917 - Jay Sommers - NYC - d. 9-25-1985
writer: “Lum and Abner”; “Joan Davis Time”; “Alan Young Show”
01-03-1918 - Jesse White - Buffalo, NY - d. 1-8-1997
actor: “Hollywood Radio Theatre”; “Sears Radio Theatre”
01-03-1918 - Maxene Andrews - Minneapolis, MN - d. 10-21-1995
singer: (Andrews Sisters) “Andrews Sisters Revue”
01-03-1920 - Lester Bashara - d. 2-19-1990
newscaster: KGFW Kearney, Nebraska
01-03-1927 - William Boyett - Akron, OH - d. 12-29-2004
actor: Freelance in younger years
01-03-1930 - Marcel Dube - Montreal, Canada
author: “Chambres a louer”
01-03-1942 - John Thaw - West Gorton, England - d. 2-21-2002
actor: “Peter Pan”
01-04-1881 - Norman Field - Montreal, Quebec, Canada - d. 9-11-1956
actor: Glen Hunter “One Man’s Family”
01-04-1889 - Pat Kelly - North Queensland, Australia - d. 12-23-1967
announcer: “Dog Heroes”; “Getting the Most Out of Life”
01-04-1896 - Everett Dirksen - Pekin, IL - d. 9-7-1969
u.s. senator: “Meet the Press”; “American Forum on the Air”
01-04-1905 - Sterling Holloway - Cedartown, GA - d. 11-22-1992
actor: “Railroad Hour”; “U.S. Steel Hour”; “Suspense”; “Lux Radio Theatre”
01-04-1907 - Floyd Christy - NYC - d. 5-21-1962
writer: “The Johnson Family”
01-04-1910 - Ann Jamison - Belfast, Ireland - d. 4-16-1961
singer: “An Evening with Romberg”; “The Packard Hour”
01-04-1911 - Fred Killian - d. 4-25-1994
producer, director: “Those Sensational Years”
01-04-1916 - Lionel Newman - New Haven, CT - d. 2-3-1989
conductor, composer: (Brother of Alfred) “Hollywood Star Time”
01-04-1917 - Jane Wyman - St. Joseph, MO - d. 9-10-2007
actor: “Dreft Star Playhouse”
01-04-1918 - Buddy Baker - Springfield, MO - d. 7-26-2002
musical director: Bob Hope, Eddie Cantor, Jack Benny
01-04-1919 - Al “Jazzbeaux” Collins - NYC - d. 9-30-1997
disc jockey: “Collins on a Cloud”; “Happy Al”
01-04-1920 - Rosalie Crutchley - London, England - d. 7-28-1997
actor: “Advice to a Queen”; “Looking After Ourselves”
01-04-1925 - Johnny Lujack - Connellsville, PA
all-american football player, actor: Himself “Johnny Lujack of Notre Dame”
01-04-1927 - Barbara Rush - Denver, CO
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”
01-04-1927 - John Drury - Peoria, IL - d. 11-25-2007
staff announcer: WTMJ Milwaukee, Wisconsin
01-04-1935 - Floyd Patterson - Waco, NC - d. 5-11-2006
boxer: “Life and the World”; “Tops in Sports”
01-04-1936 - David Allen - Birmingham, England
writer: “Cheapside”
01-05-1879 - Jack Norworth - Philadelphia, PA - d. 9-1-1959
songwriter: “Take Me Out to the Ball Game”; “Shine On, Harvest Moon”
01-05-1882 - Herbert Bayard Swope - d. 6-20-1958
editor, journalist: “Information Please”
01-05-1893 - Ace Brigode - Illinois - d. 2-3-1960
bandleader: “White Rose Gasoline Show”; “Jersey Cereal Show”
01-05-1901 - George Price - NYC - d. 5-10-1964
actor: “Hildegarde’s Raleigh Room”
01-05-1902 - Eve Sully - NYC - d. 8-7-1990
comedianne: appearedd with husband Jesse Block on radio
01-05-1910 - Lumpy Brannum - Sandwich, IL - d. 4-19-1987
bass: “Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians”
01-05-1911 - Jean-Pierre Aumont - Paris, France - d. 1-30-2001
actor: “Hallmark Playhouse”; “Philip Morris Playhouse”
01-05-1916 - Alfred Ryder - NYC - d. 4-16-1995
actor: Sammie Goldberg “The Goldbergs”; Carl “Easy Aces”
01-05-1923 - Sam Phillips - Florence, AL - d. 7-30-2003
owner sun records: “Lost and Found Sound”
01-05-1925 - Wolfe Mooris - Portsmouth, England - d. 7-21-1996
actor: “The Hobbit”
01-05-1938 - Lindsay Crosby - California - d. 12-11-1989
actor: “Bing Crosby Show”
01-05-1942 - Susan Odin - d. 10-17-1975
actor: “Elizabeth Sharon Ann Barbour “One Man’s Family”
01-06-1878 - Carl Sandburg - Galesburg, IL - d. 7-22-1967
poet: “Cavalcade of America”; “Columbia Workshop”
01-06-1880 - Tom Mix - Mix Run, PA - d. 10-12-1940
legend: “Tom Mix Ralston Straightshooters” based on his life
01-06-1897 - Billy M. Greene - NYC - d. 8-24-1973
actor: Sheriff McGrath “His Honor, The Barber”
01-06-1903 - Francis L. Sullivan - London, England - d. 11-19-1956
actor: “U.S. Steel Hour”
01-06-1907 - Helen Kleeb - South Bend, WA - d. 12-28-2003
actor: Sarah Tuttle “Dr. Kate”; “Gunsmoke”
01-06-1911 - Joey Adams - Brooklyn, NY - d. 12-2-1999
host: “Rate Your Mate”
01-06-1912 - Danny Thomas - Deerfield, MI - d. 2-6-1991
actor: Amos “Bickersons”; Postman “Fanny Brice Show”
01-06-1913 - Loretta Young - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 8-12-2000
actor: “Family Theatre”; “Four Star Playhouse”
01-06-1913 - Tom Brown - NYC - d. 6-3-1990
actor: “Texaco Star Theatre”; “Suspense”; “Lux Radio Theatre”
01-06-1914 - George Reeves - Woolstock, IA - d. 6-16-1959
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”; “Crime Does Not Pay”
01-06-1915 - Margaret Muse - Dallas, TX - d. 3-6-2006
actor: “Family Theatre”
01-06-1917 - Dan Cubberly - Colorado - d. 10-6-1991
announcer: “Rocky Jordan”; “Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar”
01-06-1918 - Buddy Weed - Ossining, NY - d. 5-25-1997
musician: “Old Gold Party Time”; “Lanny Ross Show”
01-06-1921 - Robert Weaver - Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
editer: “Ten for Wednesday Night”
01-06-1930 - Rita Lloyd - Brooklyn, NY
actor: “Let’s Pretend”
01-06-1934 - Bobby Lord - Sanford, FL - d. 2-16-2008
country music artist: “Country Music Time”
01-07-1873 - Adolph Zukor - Ricse, Austria-Hungary - d. 6-10-1976
film executive: “Time Capsule”; “Flashback”; “Cavalcade of Stars”
01-07-1887 - H. Leopold Spitalny - Odessa, Ukraine - d. 10-14-1971
conductor: “Goin’ To Town”; “Serenade to America”; “Vest Pocket Varieties”
01-07-1888 - Myrtle Vail Damerel - Joilet, IL - d. 9-18-1978
actor: Myrtle Spear “Myrt and Marge”
01-07-1889 - H. R. Baukhage - La Salle, IL - d. 1-31-1976
commentator: “Four Star News”; “News and Comments”
01-07-1896 - Arnold Ridley - Bath, Somerset, England - d. 3-12-1984
actor: Arthur ‘Doughy’ Hood “The Archers”; Charles Godfrey “Dad’s Army”
01-07-1896 - Marjorie Crossland - d. 11-xx-1954
actor: “Myrt and Marge”
01-07-1898 - Art Baker - NYC - d. 8-26-1966
announcer, emcee: “People Are Funny”; “Dinah Shore Show”
01-07-1900 - Malcolm Uren - Hindmarsh, South Australia - d. 7-22-1973
writer: “The Stirling Story”
01-07-1900 - Mary Lewis - Hot Springs, AR - d. 12-31-1941
soprano: “Metropolitan Opera”
01-07-1903 - Alan Napier - Birmingham, England - d. 8-8-1988
actor: “Campbell Playhouse”
01-07-1903 - Betty Hanna - d. 10-25-1976
actor: Deborah Matthews “Ma Perkins”; Luella Hayworth “Step Mother”
01-07-1906 - Betty Bolton - England - d. 4-2-2005
performed on British radio in the 1930s
01-07-1908 - Eliot Daniel - Massachusetts - d. 12-6-1997
music: “Fabulous Dr. Tweddy”; “The King’s Men”; “Rudy Vallee Show”
01-07-1910 - Joe Bigelow - d. 2-20-1976
writer, producer: “Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show”
01-07-1913 - Shirley Ross - Omaha, NE - d. 3-9-1975
actor, singer: “Raleigh and Kool Cigarette Program with Tommy Dorsey”
01-07-1922 - Vincent Gardenia - Naples, Italy - d. 12-9-1992
actor: “CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”
01-07-1929 - Terry Moore - Los Angeles, CA
actor: Shirley ‘Bumps’ Smith “Smiths of Hollywood”
01-07-1930 - Douglas Kiker - Griffin, KS - d. 8-14-1991
nbc newsman: “Meet the Press”
01-07-1933 - Lee Evans - The Bronx, NY
pianist: “Voices of Vista”
01-07-1937 - Ron Chudley - Dunedin, New Zealand
writer: “CBC Stage”
01-08-1879 - Emory S. Land - Canon City, CO - d. 11-28-1971
u.s. naval officer: “Information Please”
01-08-1892 - Leeman Bone - Arkansas - d. 7-xx-1976
guitarist: “Hoss Hair Pullers”
01-08-1901 - Forman Brown - Otsego, MI - d. 1-10-1996
wrote for CBS radio
01-08-1902 - Alexander Gray - Wrightvilles, PA - d. 10-4-1975
baritone: “Chesterfield Quarter Hour”
01-08-1903 - Roger Bower - NYC - d. 5-17-1979
announcer, emcee: “Can You Top This?”; “Stop Me If You Heard This One”
01-08-1904 - Peter Arno - d. 2-22-1968
panelist: “Stop Me If You Heard This Before”
01-08-1908 - William Hartnell - London, England - d. 4-23-1975
actor: The Doctor “Doctor Who”
01-08-1909 - George D. Crothers - Fort Morgan, CO - d. 11-27-1998
moderator: “Invitation to Learning”
01-08-1909 - Jose Ferrer - Santurce, PR - d. 1-26-1992
actor: Philo Vance “Advs. of Philo Vance”; Minister “We Love and Learn”
01-08-1910 - Dick Jurgens - Sacremento, CA - d. 10-5-1995
orchestra leader: “Summer Spotlight Revue”
01-08-1910 - Fabian Andre - La Crosse, WI - d. 3-30-1960
arranger for dance orchestras on NBC
01-08-1910 - Richard Cromwell - Los Angeles, CA - d. 10-11-1960
actor: Kit Marshall “Those We Love”
01-08-1911 - Butterfly McQueen - Tampa, FL - d. 12-22-1995
actor: Oriole “Beulah”; Butterfly “Jack Benny Program”
01-08-1914 - Sam Cowling - Jeffersonville, IN - d. 2-14-1983
singer: (The Three Romeos) “The Breakfast Club”; “Club Matinee”
01-08-1920 - Robert Gordon Bollard - Buffalo, NY - d. 11-2-1964
coordinaator of radio stations services
01-08-1921 - Guy Bagil - d. 2-xx-1971
sportscaster: WALT Tampa, Florida; WTVT Petersburg, Florida
01-08-1923 - Giorgio Tozzi - Chicago, IL
opera singer (bass): “The Chicago Theatre of the Air”
01-08-1923 - Larry Storch - NYC
comedian: “Duffy’s Tavern”
01-08-1926 - Chester Feldman - d. 5-25-1997
producer: “The Henry Morgan Show”
01-08-1926 - Soupy Sales - Franklinton, NC
script writer, disc jockey: WHTN Huntington, WV
01-08-1930 - May Wynn - NYC
actor: “Amos ‘n’ Andy Show”
01-08-1933 - Charles Osgood - NYC
reporter: “Osgood File”
01-08-1935 - Elvis Presley - Tupelo, MS - d. 8-16-1977
singer: “Grand Ole Opry”; “Louisiana Hayride”
01-08-1952 - Margaret Fischer - Sydney, Australia
writer: “The Gay Divorecc”
01-09-1879- Alfred McCann - d. 01-22-1931
host: “McCann Pure Food Hour”
01-09-1886 - Arthur “Bugs” Baer - Philadelphia, PA - d. 5-17-1969
writer: “The Eveready Hour”
01-09-1898 - Gracie Fields - Rochdale, Lancashire, England - d. 9-27-1979
comedienne, singer: “Gracie Fields Victory Show”; “Gracie Fields Show”
01-09-1899 - Ted Maxwell - Oakland, CA - d. 7-15-1959
actor: “Captain Ross “Flying Time”; Fred Nino “Masquerade”
01-09-1901 - Chic Young - Chicago, IL - d. 3-14-1973
cartoonist: Creator of Blondie Bumstead nee Boopadoop
01-09-1902 - Rudolf Bing - Vienna, Austria - d. 9-2-1997
manager of the metropolitan opera: “Metropolitan Auditions”
01-09-1908 - Carl Swanson - Utica-Rome, NY - d. 6-22-1994
disk jockey: “Mr. Sunshine”
01-09-1908 - Richard Byron - NYC - d. 12-31-1969
radio comedy writer
01-09-1909 - Patrick Peyton - Carracastle, Ireland - d. 6-3-1992
preacher: (The Rosary Priest) “Family Theatre”
01-09-1913 - Richard Nixon - Yorba Linda, CA - d. 4-22-1994
u.s. president: “Image Minorities”; “Kennedy-Nixon Debates”
01-09-1914 - Gypsy Rose Lee - Seattle, WA - d. 4-26-1970
exotic dancer: “Advs. of Ellery Queen”; “What Makes You Tick?”
01-09-1914 - Ted Berkman - Brooklyn, NY - d. 5-12-2006
reporter for ABC News
01-09-1915 - Anita Louise - NYC - d. 4-25-1970
actor: “Stars Over Hollywood”
01-09-1915 - Fernando Lamas - Buenos Aires, Argentina - d. 10-8-1982
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”
01-09-1917 - Jimmy Maxwell - Stockton, CA - d. 7-20-2002
trumpet: “Paul Barron and His Orchestra”; “Guest Star”
01-09-1920 - Betty Roche - Wilmington, DE - d. 2-26-1999
singer: “Duke Ellington and His Orchestra”; “Spotlight Bands”
01-09-1921 - Lister Sinclair - Mumbai, India - d. 10-16-2006
writer, actor: “American School of the Air”; “Stage Forty-Seven”
01-09-1921 - Seymour Barab - Chicago, IL
cellist: ABC and CBS Symphony Orchestra
01-09-1942 - John Dunning - Brooklyn, NY
writer: “”On the Air; The Encyclopeida of Old-Time Radio”
01-09-1945 - Paul Burns - Arncliffe, Australia
writer: “Memories Are Made of Fireworks”
01-10-1882 - Olive Higgins Prouty - Worcester, MA - d. 3-24-1974
writer: “Stella Dallas” based on Prouty’s novel without her approvals
01-10-1883 - Francis X. Bushman - Norfolk, VA - d. 8-23-1966
actor: John Fairchild “Step Mother”; Peter Standish “Betty and Bob”
01-10-1893 - John Bonnell - Prince Edward Island, Canada - d. 2-23-1992
preacher: “Our Spiritual Life”; “Your Life Today”
01-10-1896 - Frances Lockridge - d. 2-17-1963
writer: “Mr. and Mrs. North”
01-10-1897 - John P. McEvoy - d. 8-8-1958
writer: “Information Please”
01-10-1899 - Kenneth Casey, Sr. - NYC - d. 8-10-1965
conductor: “Winnie the Wave”
01-10-1904 - Ray Bolger - Dorchester, MA - d. 1-15-1987
singer, dancer: “Ray Bolger Show”
01-10-1905 - Harold Stokes - Nokomis, IL - d. unknown
orchestra leader: “Climalene Carnival”; “Great Gunns”; “Jamboree”
01-10-1908 - Paul Henreid - Trieste - d. 3-29-1992
actor: “Suspense”; “Lux Radio Theatre”
01-10-1911 - Don Lowe - Hartford, CT - d. 6-1-1991
announcer, emcee: “David Harding, Counterspy”; “The Fat Man”
01-10-1914 - Polly Rowles - Philadelphia, PA - d. 10-7-2001
actor: Nita’s Aunt “Lone Journey”
01-10-1916 - Don Gardiner - NYC - d. 3-27-1977
newscaster: “Monday Morning Headlines”
01-10-1916 - Jack Halloran - Rock Rapids, IA - d. 1-24-1997
singer: “The Breakfast Club with Don MacNeil”
01-10-1919 - Amzie Strickland - Oklahoma City, OK - d. 7-5-2006
actor: “The Fat Man”; “The Shadow”; “Brownstone Theatre”
01-10-1924 - Max Roach - New Land, NC - d. 8-15-2007
jazz drummer: “Bands for Bonds”; “Jazz Alive”; “Newport Jazz Festival”
01-10-1927 - Gisele Mackenzie - Winnipeg, Canada - d. 9-5-2003
singer: “F.W. Woolworth Hour”; “Mario Lanza Show”; ”Meet Giesele”
01-10-1927 - Johnnie Ray - The Dalles, OR - d. 2-24-1990
singer: “Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show”
01-10-1936 - Roger William Brown - New Brunswick, NJ
singer on radio
01-11-1870 - Alice Hegan Rice - Shelbyville, KY - d. 2-10-1942
writer: “Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch” based on her novel
01-11-1886 - George Zucco - Manchester, England - d. 5-28-1960
actor: “Encore Theatre”
01-11-1888 - Charles Previn - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-22-1973
conductor, pianist: “Sea Romances”; “Silken Strings”
01-11-1891 - Finney Briggs - Castlewood, SD - d. 9-xx-1978
actor: “Little Orphan Annie”; “Dari-Dan”; “Ma Perkins”
01-11-1896 - Armina Marshall - d. 7-20-1991
theatre guild supervisor: “The Theatre Guild on the Air”
01-11-1896 - George Houston - Hampton, NJ - d. 11-12-1944
baritone: “Theatre Magazine”
01-11-1899 - Eva Le Gallienne - d. 6-3-1991
actor: “Civic Repertory Theatre”; “Lux Radio Theatre”
01-11-1902 - Charlie Nehlsen - d. 3-30-1980
engineer: Recorded Hindenburg disaster as reported by Herb Morrison
01-11-1905 - Manfred Lee - Brooklyn, NY - d. 4-3-1971
writer: “Advs of Ellery Queen”; “Author, Author”
01-11-1908 - Lionel Stander - The Bronx, NY - d. 11-30-1994
actor: J. Riley Farnsworth “Life of Riley”; Hoolihan “Grapevine Rancho”
01-11-1910 - Betty Miles - Santa Monica, CA - d. 6-9-1992
actor: Millie Anderson “A Day in the Life of Dennis Day”
01-11-1910 - Donald ‘Red’ Barry - Houston, TX - d. 7-17-1980
actor: “All-Star Western Theatre”; “Forecast”; “Lux Radio Theatre”
01-11-1910 - Gene Baker - Portland, OR - d. 8-14-1981
announcer: “Lum and Abner”; “Queen for a Day”
01-11-1910 - Izler Soloman - Minneapolis, MN - d. 12-6-1987
conductor: “Design for Living”; “Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra!
01-11-1910 - Richard Kendrick - Vermillion, SD - d. 2-10-1987
actor: Bill Baker “Portia Faces Life”
01-11-1917 - Carl Caruso - Boston, MA
announcer, director: “A. L. Alexander’s Goodwill Court”; “The Shadow”
01-11-1923 - Jerome Bixby - Lincoln, NE - d. 4-30-1998
author: “History of Rapture/Trace”
01-11-1923 - Tllfer Chastain - Borden, IN - d. 7-6-1986
singer: Far East Armed Services Network, Japan
01-11-1953 - Joseph Catlett, Jr. - Philadelphia, PA
composed bacdground music for KMAX-FM, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
01-12-1878 - Ferenc Molnar - Budapest, Austria-Hungary - d. 4-1-1952
playwright: “Fleischmann’s Yeast Hour”; “Lux Radio Theatre”
01-12-1887 - Theresa Helburn - NYC - d. 8-18-1959
producer: Was the guiding light of “Theatre Guild on the Air”
01-12-1892 - Ed McConnell - Atlanta, GA - d. 7-24-1954
host, actor: Smilin’ Ed McConnell Show”
01-12-1894 - Georges Carpentier - Lens, France - d. 10-27-1975
boxer: Dempsey vs. Carpentier first boxing match broadcast
01-12-1894 - Tommy Handley - Liverpool, England - d. 1-9-1949
comedian: Minister of Aggravation “It’s That Man Again”; “Radio Radiance”
01-12-1896 - Harry Reser - Piqua, OH - d. 9-27-1965
bandleader: “Cliquot Club Eskimos”
01-12-1902 - Joe E. Lewis - NYC - d. 6-4-1971
comedian: “Midnight to Dawn in New York and London”
01-12-1904 - Eddie De Lange - Long Island City, NY - d. 7-13-1949
musical director: “Honolulu Bound”; “Phil Baker Show”
01-12-1906 - Tex Ritter - Murvaul, TX - d. 1-2-1974
singer: “Lone Star Rangers”
01-12-1908 - Joan Burroughs - Chicago, IL - d. 12-31-1972
actor: (Daughter of Edgar Rice Burroughs) Jane “Tarzan”
01-12-1910 - Luise Rainer - Vienna, Austria or Dusseldorf, Germany
actor: “Linclon Highway”; “Yesterday’s Children”
01-12-1910 - Patsy Kelly - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-24-1981
comedienne: “MGM Musical Comedy Theatre”; “Screen Guild Theatre”
01-12-1911 - Lon Clark - Frost, MN - d. 10-4-1998
actor: Nick Carter “Nick Carter, Master Detective”
01-12-1912 - Sara Berner - Albany, NY - d. 12-19-1969
actor: Mable Flapsaddle “Jack Benny Program”
01-12-1915 - Martin Agronsky - Philadelphia, PA - d. 7-25-1999
newscaster: “The ABC Morning News”
01-12-1916 - Jay McShann - Muskogee, OK - d. 12-7-2006
jazz pianist and bandleader: “Jubilee”; “Jazz Alive”
01-12-1920 - Theodor Uppman - San Jose, CA - d. 5-17-2005
operatic baritone: “Bell Telephone Hour”
01-12-1923 - Ira Hayes - Gila River Indian Reservation, AZ - d. 1-24-1955
raiser of second flag on Iwo Jima:: “Interview programs”
01-12-1925 - Don Atlas - d. 12-28-2005
sportscaster: KLOK San Jose, California
01-12-1926 - Ray Price - Perryville, TX
singer: “Galaxy of Stars”
01-12-1930 - Glenn Yarbrough - Milwaukee, WI
singer: “Guest Star”
01-13-1882 - Domenico Savino - Tranto, Italy - d. 8-8-1973
composer/conductor: “Evening in Paris”; “La Palina Smoke Dreams”
01-13-1884 - Sophie Tucker - Russia - d. 2-9-1966
singer: (The Last of the Red Hot Mammas) “Sophie Tucker and Her Show”
01-13-1885 - Jimmy Monaco - Genoa, Italy - d. 10-17-1945
orchestra leader: WOR Newark, New Jersey
01-13-1895 - Campbell Arnoux - d. 11-1-1966
announcer: Uncle Billy “Uncle Billy”
01-13-1901 - A. B. Guthrie - Bedford, IN - d. 4-26-1991
author, screenwriter: “NBC University Theatre”; “Lux Radio Theatre”
01-13-1903 - Charles Kullman - New Haven, CT - d. 2-8-1983
singer: “The Palmolive Beauty Box Theatre”
01-13-1903 - Kay Francis - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Territory - d. 8-26-1968
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”
01-13-1909 - Danny Barker - New Orleans, LA - d. 3-13-1994
jazz guitar: “This Is Jazz”
01-13-1910 - Jack Mercer - d. 12-4-1984
actor: Popeye “Popeye the Sailor”
01-13-1913 - Harry Budka - Chicago, IL
composer, arranger, pianist: Hal Kemp, Earl Burnett and Ted Weems bands
01-13-1913 - Jeff Morrow - NYC - d. 12-26-1993
actor: “Electric Theatre”
01-13-1913 - Paul Birch - Alabama - d. 5-24-1969
actor: Radio work in St. Louis under the name of Paul (Lowery) Smith
01-13-1914 - Osa Massen - Copenhagen, Denmark - d. 1-2-2006
actor: “Orson Welles Theatre”; “Columbia Workshop”
01-13-1914 - Stanley Waxman - Ohio - d. 9-27-1998
actor: “Escape”; “Man Called X”; “Tell It Again”; “Presenting Charles Boyer”
01-13-1915 - Mahlon Aldridge - d. 1-21-1986
sportscaster: Missouri
01-13-1918 - Steve Dunne - Northampton, MA - d. 9-2-1977
actor: Sam Spade “Advs. of Sam Spade”
01-13-1919 - Robert Stack - Los Angeles, CA - d. 5-14-2003
actor: “Family Theatre”; “Lux Radio Theatre”; “Screen Guild Theatre”
01-13-1925 - Gwen Verdon - Culver City, Los Angeles, CA - d. 10-18-2000
actor, singer, dancer: “Stagestruck”; “WOR Diamond Jubilee”
01-13-1927 - Delores Hawkins - Brooklyn, NY - d. 1-15-1987
singer: “Nick Kenny’s Children’s Follies”
01-13-1930 - Frances Sternhagen - Washington, D.C.
actor: “CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”
01-13-1931 - Charles Nelson Reilly - The Bronx, NY - d. 5-25-2007
actor: “Visual Radio”
01-14-1863 - R. F. Outcault - Lancaster, OH - d. 9-25-1928
writer: Buster Brown based on Outcalt’s comic strip
01-14-1882 - Hendrick Van Loon - Rotterdam, Holland - d. 3-11-1944
journalist: “Very Truly Yours”; “Information Please”
01-14-1891 - Maurice Black - Queens, NY - d. 1-18-1938
tuba: “The Clicquot Club Eskimos”
01-14-1892 - Hal Roach - Elmira, NY - d. 11-2-1992
film producer, actor: Hollywood Hotel”; “Lux Radio Theatre”
01-14-1894 - Mary “Bubbles” Kelly - Chicago, IL - d. 6-7-1941
actor: (Ex Jack Benny girlfriend) “Honolulu Bound”
01-14-1896 - Seymour Simons - Detroit, MI - d. 2-12-1949
orchestra leader: “Romantic Rhythm”
01-14-1899 - Carlos P. Romulo - Camiling, Tarlac, Philippines - d. 12-15-1985
diplomat: “Information Please”
01-14-1901 - Bebe Daniels - Dallas, TX - d. 3-16-1971
actor: “Life with the Lyons”; “Louella Parsons”
01-14-1904 - George McCoy - d. 12-22-1976
1930’s broadcaster: (Pioneered the radio talk show)
01-14-1906 - William Bendix - NYC - d. 12-14-1964
actor: Chester A. Riley “Life of Riley”
01-14-1908 - Russ Columbo - Camden, NJ - d. 9-2-1934
singer, bandleader: “Russ Columbo Show”
01-14-1909 - Brenda Forbes - London, England - d. 9-11-1996
actor: “Campbell Playhouse”; “Theatre Guild on the Air”
01-14-1909 - Joseph Losey - La Crosse, WI - d. 6-22-1984
director: “Words at War”
01-14-1911 - David Gothard - Beardstown, IL - d. 8-2-1977
actor: Gil Whitney “Romance of Helen Trent”; Nick Charles “The Thin Man”
01-14-1913 - Mary Rita Stewart - d. 8-19-1995
dancer, singer: (The Three Debutantes) “Irene”
01-14-1914 - Harold Russell - North Sydney, Canada - d. 1-29-2002
world war II hero, actor: “A Salute to the D.A.V.”; “NBC University Theatre”
01-14-1915 - George Ansbro - Brooklyn, NY
announcer: “Young Widder Brown”; “Waltz Time”
01-14-1915 - Mark Goodson - Sacramento, CA - d. 12-18-1992
producer, director: “Portia Faces Life”; “Stop the Music”
01-14-1917 - Billy Butterfield - Middletown, OH - d. 3-18-1988
bandleader: “The Dixieland Music Shop”; “Eddie Condon”s Jazz Concert”
01-14-1919 - Andy Rooney - Albany, NY
writer: “Red Skelton Show”; “Arthur Godfrey”
01-14-1920 - George Herman - NYC - d. 2-8-2005
newsman: CBS news writer
01-14-1923 - Shirley (Ione) Cowell - Tulsa, OK - d. 10-29-1997
singer: “The Shirley Cowell Show”
01-14-1929 - Billy Walker - Ralls, TX - d. 5-21-2006
c/w singer: “Columbia’s Country Caravan”, “Country Music Time”
01-14-1930 - Johnny Grande - Philadelphia, PA - d. 6-2-2006
pianist: (Bill Haley and The Comets) “Stars for Defense”
01-14-1931 - Caterina Valente - Paris, France
singer: “Guard Session”
01-14-1938 - Jack Jones - Hollywood, CA
singer: “Steve Lawrence Show”; “Guest Star”; “Stars for Defense”
01-14-1943 - Holland Taylor - Philadelphia, PA
actor: “CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”
01-15-1882 - Henry Burr - St. Stephen, Canada - d. 4-6-1941
singer: “National Barn Dance”; “Uncle Ezra”
01-15-1899 - Goodman Ace - Kansas City, MO - d. 3-25-1982
comedian, writer: “Easy Aces”
01-15-1906 - Sully Mason - Durham, NC - d. 11-27-1970
singer: “Kay Kyser’s Kollege of Musical Knowledge”
01-15-1909 - Gene Krupa - Chicago, IL - d. 10-16-1973
drummer: “Rhythm Masters”; “Benny Goodman and His Orchestra”
01-15-1909 - Gloria Grafton - Yakima, WA - d. 12-29-1994
actor: Mickey Considine “The Jumbo Fire Chief Program”
01-15-1911 - Cy Feuer - NYC - d. 5-17-2006
music: “Escape”; “Ford Sunday Evening Hour”; “Shorty Bell”
01-15-1911 - Kathleen Wilson - Girard, KS - d. 7-20-2005
actor: Claudia Barbour “One Man’s Family”; I Love a Mystery”
01-15-1913 - Alvin Robinson - Apache, OK
NBC staff announcer
01-15-1913 - Frank Derrick - Maywood, IL - d. 5-26-1999
member of staff orchestra WBBM Chicago, Illinois
01-15-1913 - Lloyd Bridges - San Leandro, CA - d. 3-10-1998
actor: “Suspense”; “Arch Oboler’s Plays”
01-15-1913 - Stephen Courtleigh - NYC - d. 12-15-1967
actor: Lamont Cranston/Shadow “The Shadow”
01-15-1914 - Carlos Ramirez - Tocaim, Colombia - d. 12-11-1986
vocalist: “Grapevine Rancho”
01-15-1915 - Ann Sheperd - Chicago, IL
actor: Betty Fairchild “Jack Armstrong”; Joyce Jordan “Joyce Jordan, Girl Interne”
01-15-1915 - Rod MacLeish - Bryn Mawr, PA - d. 7-1-2006
writer: “Six By Corwin”
01-15-1918 - Jerry Wald - Newark, NJ - d. 9-xx-1973
bandleader: “The Robert Q. Lewis Show”
01-15-1920 - Yvonne King - Ephriam, UT
singer: (King Sisters) “Horace Heidt and His Brigadiers”
01-15-1922 - Thelma Carpenter - Brooklyn, NY - d. 5-17-1997
singer: “Eddie Cantor Show”
01-15-1923 - Ivor Cutler - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 3-3-2006
poet: BBC’s Home Service
01-15-1928 - Joanne Linville - Bakersfield, CA
actor: “CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”
01-15-1929 - Martin Luther King - Atlanta, GA - d. 4-4-1968
civil right leader: “Monitor”
01-15-1933 - Al Lohman - Sergeant Bluff, IA - d. 10-13-2002
co-host: “Lohman and Barkley”
01-15-1937 - Margaret O’Brien - San Diego, CA
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”; “Suspense”
01-16-1878 - Harry Carey, Sr. - NYC - d. 9-21-1947
actor: “Lincoln Highway”; “Suspense”
01-16-1890 - Lloyd Bacon - San Jose, CA - d. 11-15-1955
film director: “Screen Guild Theatre”; “ Screen Director’s Pla
01-16-1895 - Irene Bordoni - Ajaccio, Corsica, France - d. 3-19-1953
singer: (The Coty Playgirl) “The RKO Hour”
01-16-1895 - John B. Kennedy - Quebec, Canada - d. 7-22-1961
commentator: “Collier’s Hour”; “RCA Magic Key”
01-16-1901 - Sid Silvers - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-20-1976
actor: Beetle “Phil Baker Show”; “Jack Benny Program”
01-16-1907 - Alexander Knox - Strathroy, Ontario, Canada - d. 4-25-1995
actor: “Document A/777”, BBC
01-16-1907 - John Hiestand - Madison, WI - d. 2-5-1987
announcer: “Amos ‘n’ Andy”; “Cinnamon Bear”; “Feg Murray Show”
01-16-1909 - Ethel Merman - Astoria, NY - d. 2-15-1984
singer” “Ethel Merman Show”; “Home Front Matinee”
01-16-1910 - Dwight Weist - Palo Alto, CA - d. 7-16-1991
actor: Mr. District Attorney “Mr. District Attorney”
01-16-1910 - Jay Hanna “Dizzy” Dean - Lucas, AR - d. 7-17-1974
baseball broadcaster: (Baseball Hall of Fame) “Game of the Day”
01-16-1914 - Don Ettlinger - Detroit, MI - d. 8-6-2000
writer: “Railroad Hour”; “Our Miss Brooks”; “Doctor Fights”
01-16-1914 - Roger Wagner - Le Puy, France - d. 9-17-1992
chorale director: “It’s Time for Johnny Mercer”; “America Sings”
01-16-1916 - Joe McMichael - Minneapolis, MN - d. 2-12-1944
singer: (The Merry Macs) “Bing Crosby Show”; “Fred Allen Show”
01-16-1916 - Norval Taborn - d. 1-23-1990
singer: (The Vagabonds) “The Breakfast Club”
01-16-1917 - Brainerd Duffield - Boston, MA - d. 4-5-1979
writer: “The Ford Theatre”
01-16-1917 - Buddy Lester - Chicago, IL - d. 10-4-2002
comedian: (Brother of Jerry Lester) “Connee Boswell Show”
01-16-1920 - Elliott Reid - NYC
actor: Biff Bradley “Pepper Young’s Family”
01-16-1922 - Lina Romay - NYC
latin singer: “The Bing Crosby Show”; “The Dick Haymes Show”
01-16-1923 - Roy Lanham - Corbin, KY - d. 2-14-1991
guitar: “Plantation Boys”
01-16-1924 - Allen Swift - NYC
actor: “CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”
01-16-1924 - Katy Jurado - Guadalajara, Mexico - d. 7-5-2002
actor: “George Fisher Interviews the Stars”
01-16-1928 - Pilar Lorengar - Zaragoza, Spain - d. 6-2-1996
soprano: “Ondas Infantiles”
01-16-1929 - Popeye the Sailor - d. will live forever
cartoon character: “Popeye”
01-16-1947 - Michale Falconer Anderson - Aberdeen, Scotland
author of radio plays
01-17-1874 - Edna Wallace Hopper - San Francisco, CA - d. 12-14-1959
Gave beauty tips on the networks 1930-1932
01-17-1875 - Minetta Ellen - Cleveland, OH - d. 7-2-1965
actor: Francis ‘Fanny’ Barbour “One Man’s Family”
01-17-1880 - Mack Sennett - Richmond, Quebec, Canada - d. 11-5-1960
king of silent comedy: “Hear It Now”; “Biography In Sound”
01-17-1884 - Noah Beery, Sr. - Kansas City, MO - d. 4-1-1946
actor: “Campbell Playhouse”; “Lux Radio Theatre”
01-17-1891 - Marjorie Gateson - Brooklyn, NY - d. 4-17-1977
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”
01-17-1899 - Nevil Shute - Ealing, England - d. 1-12-1960
novelist: “Lux Radio Theatre”
01-17-1903 - Warren Hull - Gasport, NY - d. 9-14-1974
actor: Jack Hamilton “Gibson Family”
01-17-1904 - Grant Withers - Pueblo, CO - d. 3-27-1959
actor: “Calling All Cars”; “Screen Guild Theatre”
01-17-1904 - Knox Manning - Worcester, MA - d. 8-26-1980
announcer: “Advs. of Sherlock Holmes”; “Headlines on Parade”
01-17-1904 - Patsy Ruth Miller - d. 7-16-1995
silent film star: “Arthur Godfrey and His Talent Scouts”
01-17-1905 - Peggy Gilbert - Sioux City, IA - d. 2-12-2007
saxophonist: “The Early Girls and the Three Chirps”
01-17-1908 - Marjorie Anderson - Spokane, WA - d. 12-2-1945
actor: Margo Lane “The Shadow”
01-17-1910 - Tex Fletcher - Harrison, NY - d. 3-14-1987
actor: Tex Mason “Songs of the B-Bar-B”
01-17-1914 - Ann Loring - NYC - d. 7-10-2005
actor: “Casey, Crime Photographer”; “X Minus One”
01-17-1914 - Howard Marion-Crawford - England - d. 11-24-1969
actor: Sherlock Holmes “BBC Home Theatre”
01-17-1914 - Irving Brecher - NYC
writer, producer: “Community Sing”; “The Life of Riley”
01-17-1915 - Hugh Brundage - Montana - d. 3-31-1972
announcer: “Academy Award Theatre”; “Aunt Mary”
01-17-1916 - Ray Forrest - Germany - d. 3-11-1999
staff announcer for NBC
01-17-1917 - Sam Locke - Peabody, MA - d. 9-18-1998
scriptwriter: “Grand Central Station”; “Inner Sanctum Mysteries”
01-17-1919 - Dallas Townsend - NYC - d. 6-1-1995
newscaster: “CBS World News Roundup”; “World Tonight”
01-17-1921 - Herb Ellis - Cleveland, OH
actor: Archie Goodwin “Advs. of Nero Wolfe”
01-17-1922 - Betty White - Oak Park, IL
hostess: “Betty White on Animals”
01-17-1926 - Moira Shearer - Dunfermine, Scotland - d. 1-31-2006
worked briefly as a radio announcer in the 1980s
01-17-1927 - Eartha Kitt - North, SC
singer: “Here’s to Veterans”
01-17-1930 - Dick Contino - Fresno, CA
accordionist: “Horace Heidt and His Musical Knights”
01-17-1931 - James Earl Jones - Arkabutla, MS
actor: “We Hold These Truths”
01-17-1941 - Clive Elvyn Rice (Clyde Campbell) - Haslemere, Surrey, England
actor: Bobby Benson “Bobby Benson and the B-Bar-B Riders”
01-17-1956 - Steve Harvey - Welch, WV
comdian: “Steve Harvey Morning Show”
01-18-1882 - A. A. Milne - London, England - d. 1-31-1956
author: “Fleischmann’s Yeast Hour”
01-18-1889 - Brad Barker - Hempstead, Long Island, NY - d. 9-29-1951
animal sounds: Sandy “Little Orphan Annie”
01-18-1892 - Oliver Hardy - Harlem, GA - d. 8-7-1957
comedian: “Laurel and Hardy Show” Pilot, never broadcast
01-18-1896 - Art Kassel - Chicago, IL - d. 2-3-1963
bandleader: “Kassels in the Air”; “Elgin Campus Revue”
01-18-1899 - Lucille Wall - Chicago, IL - d. 7-11-1986
actor: Portia Blake “Portia Faces Life”; Belle Jones “Lorenzo Jones”
01-18-1902 - Helen Lynd - New Jersey - d. 4-1-1992
actor: Miss Duffy “Duffy’s Tavern”
01-18-1904 - Cary Grant - Bristol, England - d. 11-29-1986
actor: Jim Blandings “Mr. and Mrs. Blandings”
01-18-1906 - Ruth Lyon - Bloomington, IL - d. unknown
vocalist: “Romance Melodies”; “Words and Music”
01-18-1910 - Arthur Howard - London, England - d. 6-18-1995
actor: “Whack-O!)
01-18-1912 - Bob Sabin - Illinois - d. 1-15-1959
announcer: “Modern Romances”
01-18-1913 - Danny Kaye - Brooklyn, NY - d. 3-3-1987
comedian: “Danny Kaye Show”
01-18-1914 - Rod O’Connor - Houston, TX - d. 5-5-1964
announcer: “Red Skelton Show”; “Duffy’s Tavern”; “Count of Monte Cristo”
01-18-1915 - Bob Mosher - d. 12-15-1972
writer: “Amos ‘n’ Andy”; “Henry Morgan Show”; “Harry Von Zell Show”
01-18-1915 - Lesley Midgley - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 6-19-2002
producer cbs news: “The Twentieth Century”
01-18-1918 - Richard Lane - Sydney, Australia
writer: “The Remittance Man”
01-18-1920 - Constance Moore - Sioux City, IA - d. 9-16-2005
singer, actor: Gloria Dean “Hollywood Mystery Time”
01-18-1920 - Sid Newman - California - d. 4-10-2001
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”
01-18-1939 - David French - Canada
writer
01-19-1809 - Edgar Allan Poe - Boston, MA - d. 10-7-1849
author: Several of his works adapted for radio
01-19-1866 - Harry Davenport - NYC - d. 8-9-1949
actor: “Screen Guild Theatre”; “Family Theatre”
01-19-1886 - May Day - Isle of Jersey - d. 7-8-1945
Gave beauty talks on KF0X Long Beach, California
01-19-1886 - Samuel Pettengill - Oregon - d. 3-20-1974
conservatice commentator: Weekly 15 minute program on ABC
01-19-1887 - Alexander Woollcott - Phalanx, NJ - d. 1-23-1943
commentator: “Early Bookworm”; “Town Crier”
01-19-1905 - Anne Hummert - Baltimore, MD - d. 7-5-1996
producer: “Backstage Wife”; “American Album of Familiar Music”
01-19-1905 - Oveta Kulp Hobby (Hobbe) - Killeen, TX - d. 8-16-1995
first commanding officer of the wacs: “Meet the Press”
01-19-1906 - Lanny Ross - Seattle, WA - d. 4-25-1988
singer: “Lanny Ross Program”; “Maxwell House Show Boat”
01-19-1908 - Ish Kabibble (Merwyn Bogue) - Erie, PA - d. 6-4-1994
comedian: “Kay Kyser’s Kollege of Musical Knowledge”
01-19-1909 - Hans Hotter - Offenback am Main, Germany - d. 12-6-2003
bass-baritone: “Metropolitan Opera”
01-19-1909 - Merrill E. Joels - Hartford, CT - d. 9-5-2001
actor: “Counterspy”; “Aunt Jenny”; “The Big Story”
01-19-1909 - Norman Barry - St. Louis, MO - d. 12-25-1997
announcer: “Dan Harding’s Wife”
01-19-1910 - Jaime Del Valle - d. 9-16-1981
producer, director: “Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar”; “Count of Monte Cristo”
01-19-1913 - Edward M. Asherman - d. 7-1-2005
composer/guitarist/singer: Xavier Cugat Orchestra
01-19-1916 - Marion Sweet - d. 7-17-1978
actor: Dragon Lady “Terry and the Pirates”
01-19-1919 - Ray Eberle - Hoosick Falls, NY - d. 8-25-1979
singer: “Glenn Miller and His Orchestra”; “Glenn Miller’s Moonlight Serenade”
01-19-1922 - Guy Madison - Pumpkin Center, CA - d. 2-6-1996
actor: Wild Bill Hickok “Wild Bill Hickok”
01-19-1927 - Nancy Dickerson - Wauwatosa, WI - d. 10-18-1997
newswoman: “784 Days That Changed America (Watergate Scandal)
01-19-1927 - Peter Fernandez - NYC
actor: George Bigelow “The Aldrich Family”; “Skip “Right to Happiness”
01-19-1928 - “Little” Jimmie Sizemore
singer with father Asher: “Grand Ole Opry”
01-19-1931 - Robert MacNeil - Montreal, Canada
newscaster: CBC Canada
01-19-1931 - Tippi Hedren - New Ulm, MN
actor: “World’s Fair Holiday”
01-19-1932 - George Mann MacBeth - Lanarkshire, Scotland - d. 2-16-1992
poet, producer: BBC Radio
01-19-1939 - Phil Everly - Chicago, IL
singer: (The Everly Brothers) “March of Dimes”; “Country Hoedown”
01-20-1878 - Finlay Currie - Edinburgh, Scotland - d. 5-9-1968
actor: John H. Watson “BBC Home Theatre”
01-20-1894 - Harold Gray - Kankakee, IL - d. 5-9-1968
cartoonist: Creater of “Little Orphan Annie”
01-20-1895 - Roscoe Ates - Grange, MS - d. 3-1-1962
stuttering comedian: “Shell Chateau”; “Comedy Stars of Hollywood”
01-20-1896 - George Burns - NYC - d. 3-9-1996
comedian: “Advs. of Gracie”; “George Burns and Gracie Allen Show”
01-20-1896 - Rolfe Sedan - NYC - d. 9-15-1982
actor: “Escape”; “Suspense”; “Mystery in the Air”; “Lux Radio Theatre”
01-20-1898 - Norma Varden - London, England - d. 1-19-1989
actor: “Crime Classics”; “NBC University Theatre”
01-20-1898 - Tudor Owen - Wales, UK - d. 3-13-1979
actor: Jocko Madigan “Pat Novak for Hire”; Editor “Alias Jane Doe”
01-20-1899 - Joseph Buloff - Vilnius, Lithuania - d. 2-27-1985
actor: Barney Glass “House of Glass”
01-20-1900 - Colin Clive - St.-Malo, France - d. 6-26-1937
actor: “Hollywood Hotel”
01-20-1903 - Leon Ames - Portland, IN - d. 10-10-1993
actor: “Earplay”; “Screen Guild Theatre”; “Screen Director’s Playhouse”
01-20-1912 - Paula Stone - NYC - d. 12-23-1997
moderator: “Leave It to the Girls”
01-20-1914 - Roy Plomley - Kingston-upon-Thames, England - d. 5-28-1985
announcer: Desert Island Discs”; “We Beg to Differ”; “One Minute Please”
01-20-1919 - Tony Shryane - St. Austell, England - d. 9-22-2003
BBC radio producer
01-20-1920 - DeForest Kelley - Atlanta, GA - d. 6-11-1999
actor: “Suspense”
01-20-1920 - Derek Bond - Glascow, Scotland - d. 10-15-2006
actor: “A Christmas Carol”
01-20-1922 - Connie Haines - Savannah, GA
singer: “Abbott and Costello Show”; “Rhapsody in Rhythm”
01-20-1922 - Ray Anthony - Bentleyville, PA
band eader: Band remotes for CBS 1951-1952
01-20-1924 - Slim Whitman - Tampa, FL
singer: “Louisiana Hayride”
01-20-1926 - Patricia Neal - Packard, KY
actor: “Hollywood Star Preview”
01-20-1927 - Dawn Lake - Sydney, Australia - d. 1-1-2006
singer: “The Jack Davey Program”
01-21-1867 - John Bratton - Wilmington, DE - d. 2-7-1947
composed “Teddy Bears Picnic” used as theme for “John and Sparky”
01-21-1895 - Muriel ‘Molly’ Pollock - The Bronx, NY - d. 5-25-1971
concert pianist: “Radio-Keith-Orpheum Hour”; “Sonara Hour”
01-21-1897 - J. Carrol Naish - NYC - d. 1-24-1973
actor: Luigi Basco “Life with Luigi”
01-21-1899 - Ernestine Hill - Rockhampton, Australia - d. 8-22-1972
writer: “Santa Clause of Christmas Creek”
01-21-1902 - Smith Ballew - Palestine, TX - d. 5-2-1984
singer: “The Ipana Troubadors”; “Shell Chateau”
01-21-1904 - Allen Prescott - St. Louis, MO - d. 1-27-1978
host: “Wife Saver”; “Prescott Presents”
01-21-1909 - Sid Raymond - NYC - d. 12-1-2006
actor: “X Minus One”
01-21-1914 - George A. Putnam - Middletown, NY - d. 4-8-1975
announcer: “Can You Top This?”; “Vic and Sade”; “Portia Faces Life”
01-21-1915 - Alan Hewitt - NYC - d. 11-7-1986
actor: Ken Martinson “This is Nora Drake”; Karl Dorn “Romance of Helen Trent”
01-21-1915 - John Dunkel - Springfield, OH - d. 2-22-2001
writer: “Escape”; “Fort Laramie”; “Gunsmoke”
01-21-1915 - Ray Erlenborn - Denver, CO - d. 6-4-2007
sound effects, actor: “Burns and Allen”; “Anderson Family”
01-21-1919 - Jinx Falkenburg McCrary - Barcelona, Spain - d. 8-27-2003
hostess: “Hi! Jinx”; “Tex & Jinx”; “Weekend”
01-21-1919 - Louis Innis - Seymour, IN - d. 8-20-1982
guitar: “Plantation Boys”
01-21-1921 - Charlotte Manson - NYC - d. 12-8-1996
actor: Patsy Bowen “Nick Carter, Master Detective”
01-21-1921 - Manya Starr - NYC - d. 7-26-2000
writer: Allegedly fired by Hummert asking about God, “Who’s will play him?”
01-21-1922 - Paul Scofield - Hurstpierpoint, England - d. 3-19-2008
actor: Kadmos “Dionysos”; “The Troy Trilogy”
01-21-1922 - Telly Savalas - Garden City, NY - d. 1-22-1994
actor: “U.N. Story”
01-21-1924 - Benny Hill - Southampton, England - d. 4-20-1992
comedian: “Educating Archie”
01-21-1925 - Charles Aidman - Frankfort, IN - d. 11-7-1993
acotr: “CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”
01-21-1927 - Milus L. Bradley - Lake Charles, LA
composer, singer, pianist, accordionist
01-21-1941 - Placido Domingo - Madrid, Spain
tenor: “The Metropolitan Opera”
01-21-1947 - Jill Eikenberry - New Haven, CT
actor: “We Hold These Truths”
01-22-1872 - Beatrice Fairfax - Washington, D.C. - d. 11-28-1945
writer: “Advice to the Lovelorn”
01-22-1875 - D. W. Griffith - La Grange, KY - d. 7-23-1948
movie producer-director: “Brooklyn Mark Strand Stage and Studio Program”
01-22-1878 - Constance Collier - Windsor, Berkshire, England - d. 4-25-1955
actor: Jessie Atwood “Kate Hopkins, Angel of Mercy”
01-22-1893 - Conrad Veidt - Potsdam, Germany - d. 4-3-1943
actor: “Free World Theatre”; “Lux Radio Theatre”; “Screen Guild Theatre”
01-22-1893 - Fulton Oursler - Baltimore, MD - d. 5-24-1952
writer: “The Greatest Story Ever Told”; “Thatcher Colt Mysteries”
01-22-1894 - Rosa Ponselle - Meriden, CT - d. 5-25-1981
opera soprano: “Atwater Kent Hour”; “Metropolitan Opera”
01-22-1895 - Ethel (Everett) Remey - d. 2-28-1979
actor: Kathleen Norris “By Kathleen Norris”
01-22-1897- Linda Carlon - Stuttgart, Germany - d. 6-xx-1985
actor: Mary Sothern “Life of Mary Sothern”
01-22-1899 - Anne Elstner - Lake Charles, LA - d. 1-29-1981
actor: Stella Dallas “Stella Dallas”; Mary Weston “Wilderness Road”
01-22-1906 - Guy Savage - d. 8-31-1981
announcer: “Play Broadcast”
01-22-1907 - Douglas ‘Wrong-Way’ Corrigan - Galveston, TX - d. 12-9-1995
intrepid pilot: “Believe It or Not”
01-22-1909 - Ann Sothern - Valley City, ND - d. 3-15-2001
actor: Maisie Revere “Maisie”
01-22-1911 - Arnold Robertson - Chicago, IL - d. 7-xx-1969
comedian: Ed Potts “Scattergood Baines”; Dr. Jensen “This Is Nora Drake”
01-22-1914 - Dick Willard - d. 9-6-2000
announcer, emcee: “The Strange Dr. Weird”; “Take it Easy Time”
01-22-1914 - Joy Hodges - Des Moines, IA - d. 1-19-2003
vocalist; “The Joe Penner Show”
01-22-1916 - Howard Teichmann - Chicago, IL - d. 7-7-1987
writer: “Road of Life”; “Theatre USA”; “Valiant Lady”
01-22-1920 - Herman Alexander Baron - NYC - d. 9-xx-1984
staff composer with NBC 1943-1948
01-22-1920 - William Warfield - West Helena, AR - d. 8-25-2002
bass-baritone singer: “Edgar Bergen Show”; “Beyond Victory”
01-22-1924 - J. J. Johnson - d. 2-4-2001
jazz trombonist: “Arthur Godfrey Show”; “One Night Stand”
01-22-1932 - Piper Laurie - Detroit, MI
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”; “NBC Radio Theatre”; “Screen Guild Theatre”
01-22-1934 - Bill Bixby - San Francisco, CA - d. 11-21-1993
actor: “We Hold These Truths”
01-22-1935 - Dave Holland - Raleigh, NC - d. 11-14-2005
author: “From Out of the Past: A Pictorial History of the Lone Ranger”
01-22-1951 - Steve J. Spears - Adelaide, Australia - d. 10-16-2007
writer: “King Richard”; “Maggie’s Ear”
01-23-1884 - George McManus - St. Louis, MO - d. 10-22-1954
“Bringing Up Father” based on his comic strip
01-23-1892 - Eleanor Nash - d. 10-3-1969
beauty and style consultant (Sister of Ogden Nash): “Ask Eleanor Nash”
01-23-1893 - Franklin Pangborn - Newark, NJ - d. 7-20-1958
actor: “Screen Guild Theatre”
01-23-1894 - Clara Acuff Adams - d. 12-31-1950
soprano: KOA Denver, Colorado
01-23-1898 - Randolph Scott - Orange County, VA - d. 3-2-1987
actor: “Academy Award Theatre”; “Campbell Playhouse”
01-23-1899 - Jospeh Nathan Kane - NYC - d. 9-22-2002
writer: “Break the Bank”
01-23-1899 - Margaret Carreau - Bedford, PA - d. 4-4-1997
accompanist to John Charles Thomas
01-23-1907 - Dan Duryea - White Plains, NY - d. 6-7-1968
actor: Lou Dana “Man from Homicide”
01-23-1910 - Django Reinhardt - Belgium - d. 5-16-1953
jazz artist: “Djanjo Reinhardt and the Quintet of the Hot Club France”
01-23-1910 - Dorothy Arbuckle - Eldred, IL - d. 11-xx-1982
radio journalist
01-23-1913 - Max Smith - Des Moines, IA - d. 7-23-1999
singer: (Member Sportsmen Quartet) “Jack Benny Program”
01-23-1919 - Ernie Kovacs - Trenton, NJ - d. 1-12-1962
announcer, panelist: Monitor, “Where Have You Been?”
01-23-1919 - Millard Lampell - d. 10-3-1997
co-founder of the Almanac Singers: “Treasury Star Parade”
01-23-1920 - Jack Coleman - Denver, CO - d. 6-xx-1985
singer: (Avon Comedy Four) “Old Fashioned Revival Hour”
01-23-1923 - Florence Halop - Jamaica Estates, NY - d. 7-15-1986
actor: Hotbreath Houlihan “Jimmy Durante Show”; Miss Duffy “Duffy’s Tavern”
01-23-1925 - Bernice Wirsbitzke - Milwaukee, WI - d. 9-14-2006
singer: “Heinie and the Grenadiers”
01-23-1926 - Lyn Osborn - Wichita Falls, TX - d. 8-30-1958
actor: Cadet Happy “Space Patrol”
01-23-1933 - Chita Rivera - Washington, D.C.
singer: “WOR Diamond Jubilee”
01-24-1862 - Edith Wharton - NYC - d. 8-11-1937
author: Many of her stories were adapted for radio.
01-24-1881 - Earl Godwin - Washington, D.C. - d. 9-23-1956
newsman: “Watch the World Go By”
01-24-1883 - Estelle Winwood - Lee, Kent, England - d. 6-20-1984
actor: “Theatre Guild On the Air”
01-24-1902 - Walter Kiernan - New Haven, CT - d. 1-8-1978
commentator, emcee: “Sparring Partners”; “Weekend”
01-24-1903 - Johnny Anz - d. 10-26-1987
orchestra leader: WESG Elmira, New York
01-24-1904 - Franklyn Baur - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-24-1950
tenor: “Palmolive Hour”; “Voice of Firestone”
01-24-1909 - Ann Todd - Hartford, Cheshire, England - d. 5-6-1993
actor: Amy Foster “Those We Love”
01-24-1913 - Gwen Bagni - d. 5-13-2001
writer: “Suspense”; “Family Theatre”; “Escape”
01-24-1914 - David Gaines - d. 8-27-2006
sound techncian: Mercury Theatre
01-24-1915 - Evie Juster - d. 6-2-1988
actor: “Amanda of Honeymoon Hill”; “Our Gal Sunday”
01-24-1916 - Jack Brickhouse - Peoria, IL - d. 8-6-1998
sportscaster: Chicago
01-24-1918 - Oral Roberts - near Ada, OK
evengelist: “Healing Waters”
01-24-1924 - Mavis Scott - Brisbane, Australia
writer: “The King and the Hard-Boiled Eggs”
01-24-1925 - Maria Tallchief - Fairfax, OK
dancer: “Image Minorities”
01-24-1925 - Robert M. Cawley - Columbus, OH
child actor who had his own radio show 1934-1936
01-24-1927 - Marvin Kaplin - Brooklyn, NY
actor: Alfred “Meet Millie”
01-24-1941 - Neil Diamond - B rooklyn, NY
singer: “Voices of Vista”
01-25-1874 - Somerset Maughan - Paris, France - d. 12-16-1965
writer: “ Somerset Maughan Theatre”
01-25-1878 - Ernst Alexanderson - Uppsala, Sweden - d. 5-14-1975
engineer: Possibly first voice ever heard on radio Dec. 24, 1906
01-25-1881 - Emil Judwig - Breslau, Selisia, Germany - d. 9-17-1948
writer: “Information Please”
01-25-1901 - Mildred Dunnock - Baltimore, MD - d. 7-5-1991
actor: “Theatre Guild On the Air”
01-25-1908 - Stephane Grapelli - Paris, France - d. 12-1-1997
jazz violinist: “Saturday Night Swing Club”; “Jazz Alive”
01-25-1910 - Portland Hoffa - Portland, OR - d. 12-25-1990
comedienne: (Wife of Fred Allen) “Fred Allen Show”
01-25-1916 - Les Crutchfield - d. 10-6-1966
writer: “Escape”; “Fort Laramie”; “Gunsmoke”
01-25-1920 - Fred Pinkard - d. 8-3-2004
actor: “Destination Freedom”; “Hello, Sucker”
01-25-1920 - Roy Rowan - Encino, CA - d. 5-10-1998
announcer: “Escape”; “Gunsmoke”; “Rogers of the Gazette”; “Young Love”
01-25-1922 - Raymond Baxter - Essex, England - d. 9-15-2006
broadcaster for the BBC
01-25-1923 - Rusty Draper - d. 3-28-2003
country singer: “Dude Martin’s Radio Ranch”
01-25-1924 - Speedy West - Springfield, MO - d. 11-15-2003
steel guitarist: “Grand Ole Opry”; “Tennessee Ernie FordShow”
01-25-1958 - Linda Smith - Erith, England - d. 2-27-2006
panelist: “Just a Minute”; “I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue”, “The News Quiz”
01-26-1880 - Douglas MacArthur - Little Rock, AR - d. 4-5-1964
general: “Special Broadcast from Tokyo”
01-26-1885 - Hugh Barrett Dobbs - d. 2-20-1944
actor: Captain Dobbsie “Ship of Joy”
01-26-1892 - Guy Robertson - Denver, CO - d. unknown
singing host: “Broadway Varieties”
01-26-1899 - Wyllis Cooper - Pekin, IL - d. 6-22-1955
producer, writer, director: “Lights Out”; “Quiet Please”
01-26-1905 - Margaret Cousins - Munday, TX - d. 7-30-1996
writer: “Holmes Radio Magazine”
01-26-1905 - Maria von Trapp - Vienna, Austria-Hungary - d. 3-28-1987
singer: (Trapp Family Singers) “Christmas Seal Sale”
01-26-1907 - Eddie Ballentine - Chicago, IL - d. 11-14-1995
orchestra leader: “Don McNeill’s Breakfast Club”
01-26-1907 - Rita Ascot - d. 3-6-1988
actor: “Fay “Ma Perkins”; “Chicago Theatre of the Air”
01-26-1913 - Jimmy Van Heusen - Syracuse, NY - d. 2-6-1990
composer: “Amos ‘n’ Andy”; “Frank Sinatra Show”; “Command Performance”
01-26-1913 - William Prince - Nichols, NY - d. 10-8-1996
actor: “Crime Does Not Pay”; “Philco Radio Playhouse”
01-26-1914 - Jack de Manio - Hampstead, England - d. 10-28-1988
announcer: “Today”; “Jack de Manio Precisely”; “Woman’s Hour”
01-26-1914 - Phoebe Ephron - NYC - d. 10-13-1971
author: “Lux RadioTheatre”
01-26-1918 - Vito Scotti - San Francisco, CA - d. 6-5-1996
actor: “Romance”; “Broadway Is My Beat”
01-26-1919 - Jan Bart - Poland - d. 8-12-1971
traveled with Major Bowes for 7 years, had his own radio show
01-26-1922 - Michael Bentine - Watford, Hertfordshie, England - d. 11-26-1996
comedian: “Goon Show”
01-26-1922 - Page Cavanaugh - Cherokee, KS
singer: (The Page Cavanaugh Trio) “The Jack Paar Show”
01-26-1925 - Joan Leslie - Detroit, MI
actor: “Screen Guild Theatre”
01-26-1927 - Billy Redfield - NYC - d. 8-17-1976
actor: Grayling Dennis “Brighter Day”; Willie Piper “Tales of Willie Piper”
01-26-1927 - Ronnie Hilton - Hull, England - d. 2-21-2001
singer: “Sounds of the Fifties”
01-26-1935 - Bob Uecker - Milwaukee, WI
baseball announcer: “Milwaukee Brewers”
01-26-1937 - Alison Steele - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-27-1995
disk jockey: “The Nightbird”
01-26-1945 - Marti Caine - Sheffield, Yorkshire, England - d. 11-4-1995
comedian: “The Marti Caine Show”
01-27-1885 - Jerome Kern - NYC - d. 11-11-1945
composer: “Railroad Hour”; “Show Boat”
01-27-1886 - Bessie Beatty - d. 4-6-1947
hostess: Martha Deane
01-27-1888 - Harry “Singin’ Sam” Frankel - Hillsboro, OH - d. 6-12-1948
singer: (The Barbasol Man) “Reminiscin’ with Singin’ Sam”
01-27-1894 - George Baskos - d. 8-xx-1972
disk jockey: KLMO Longmont, Colorada
01-27-1895 - B. G. De Sylva - NYC - d. 7-11-1950
lyricist: “The Railroad Hour”
01-27-1895 - Harry Ruby - NYC - d. 2-23-1974
songwriter: “Thirty Minutes in Hollywood”; “Great Moments to Music”
01-27-1895 - Violet Heming - Leeds, Yorkshire, England - d. 7-4-1981
actor: Connie Wakefield “Right to Happiness”
01-27-1899 - Milton Rettenberg - NYC - d. 12-24-1986
pianist/conductor: “Chesterfield Presents”; “Cities Service Concerts”
01-27-1904 - Frankie Marvin - Butler, Indian Territory, Oklahoma - d. 1-18-1985
actor: “Gene Autry’s Melody Rance”
01-27-1905 - Howard McNear - Los Angeles, CA - d. 1-3-1969
actor: Doctor Charles Adams “Gunsmoke”
01-27-1907 - Theodore Epp - Oklahoma Territory - d. 10-13-1985
preacher: “Back to the Bible”
01-27-1908 - “Hot Lips” Page - Dallas, TX - d. 11-5-1954
jazz trumpeter: “Milt Herth Trio”; “Eddie Condon’s Jazz Concert”
01-27-1912 - Benay Venuta - San Francisco, CA - d. 9-1-1995
singer: “Benay Venuta’s Program”; “Shell Chateau”
01-27-1914 - Alexander Albert Avola - Boston, MA - d. 1-20-2000
guitarist/arranger: Artie Shaw Orchestra; Tommy Dorsey Orchestra
01-27-1916 - Merrill Mueller - NYC - d. 11-30-1980
reporter: "NBC Stands By"; "Morning News Roundup"; "The Navy Hour”
01-27-1918 - Irving Cummings - d. 3-26-1996
producer, host: “Lux Radio Theater”; “Gulf Screen Theatre”
01-27-1918 - Skitch Henderson - Birmingham, England - d. 11-1-2005
bandleader: “Philco Radio Time”; “Songs by Sinatra”
01-27-1921 - Donna Reed - Dennison, IA - d. 1-14-1986
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”; “Star and the Story”; “Silver Theatre”
01-27-1924 - Sabu - Mysore, India - d. 12-2-1963
actor: “Confidential Close-Ups”
01-28-1880 - Mary Boland - Detroit, MI - d. 6-23-1965
01-28-1882 - Richard Barrows - Buffalo, NY - d. 8-xx-1969
actor: “Death Valley Days”, “Ellery Queen”; “Second Husband”
01-28-1886 - Hidetsugu Yagi - Osaka, Japan - d. 1-19-1976
radio antenna designer
01-28-1887 - Artur Rubinstein - Lodz, Poland, Russian Empire - d. 12-20-1982
pianist: “Information Please”
01-28-1892 - Ernst Lubitsch - Berlin Germany - d. 11-30-1947
film director: Intermission Guest “Lux Radio Theatre”
01-28-1898 - Alwyn E. W. Bach - Springfield, MA - d. 5-14-1993
announcer: “Enna Jettick Melodies”; “Luden’s Orchestra”; “Real Folks”
01-28-1900 - Mahlon Merrick - Farmington, IA - d. 8-7-1969
music: “Jack Benny Program”; “Skippy Hollywood Theatre”
01-28-1904 - Irene Beasley - Whitehaven TN - d. 1-7-1980
actor: Old Dutch Girl “Red Hook 31”
01-28-1907 - Martin Ryerson - NYC
writer: “Suspense”; “Molle Mystery Theatre”; “Gangbusters”
01-28-1910 - Arnold Moss - Brooklyn, NY - d. 12-15-1989
actor: Philip Cameron “Against the Storm”; Reed Bannister “Big Sister”
01-28-1911 - Donald Briggs - Chicago, IL - d. 2-3-1986
actor: Frank Merriwell “Advs. of Frank Merriwell”
01-28-1911 - William Palmer - d. 6-6-1996
co-creator of the Palmer-Mullin tape deck first used by Bing Crosby
01-28-1912 - Monty Masters - New Haven, CT - d. 12-9-1969
actor, producer: “The Mad Masters”; “Candy Matson”
01-28-1914 - Arthur Gary - NYC - d. 10-31-2005
announcer: “The Amazing Mr. Malone”; “The Colgate Sports Newsreel”
01-28-1914 - Nelson Olmstead - Minnesota - d. 4-8-1992
actor: Joe Huston “Bachelor’s Children”
01-28-1914 - Tom Neal - Evanston, IL - d. 8-7-1972
actor: “I Am An American”; “The Unexpected”
01-28-1915 - Jud Denaut - Walkerton, IN - d. 4-5-1999
bassist: “Woody Herman and His Orchestra”
01-28-1921 - Alfred Marks - London, England - d. 7-1-1996
actor: “Beginners Please”
01-28-1921 - Jerry Appy - d. 6-24-1990
sportscaster: KXXX Colby, Kansas
01-28-1926 - Randy Armbrister - d. 9-xx-1968
disk jockey: WYVE Whytheville, Virginia
01-28-1935 - Nicholas Pryor - Baltimore, MD
actor: “CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”
01-28-1937 - Ken Hill - Birmingham, England - d. 1-23-1995
writer: “Night Season”
01-29-1874 - John D. Rockefeller, Jr. - Cleveland, OH - d. 5-11-1960
rich person: “The Collier Hour”
01-29-1874 - Owen Davis - Portland, ME - d. 10-14-1956
writer: “The Gibson Family”; “Pulitzer Prize Plays”
01-29-1880 - W. C. Fields - Philadelphia, PA - d. 12-25-1946
comedian: “Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show”
01-29-1885 - Leadbelly (Huddie Leadbetter) - Louisiana - d. 12-6-1949
jazz musician: “Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin street”
01-29-1902 - Florence Rinard - d. 10-18-1984
panelist: “Twenty Questions”
01-29-1911 - Bryan Coleman - London, England - d. 7-4-2005
actor: John H. Watson “BBC Light Programme”
01-29-1913 - Daniel Taradash - Louisville, KY - d. 1-22-2003
film writer: “Lux Radio Theatre”; “Cavalcade of America”
01-29-1913 - Joe Parker - Venice, CA - d. 4-28-1970
director: “Sara’s Private Caper”
01-29-1915 - Victor Mature - Louisville, KY - d. 8-4-1999
actor: “Hollywood Star Playhouse”
01-29-1916 - Bill Lawrence - Lincoln, NE - d. 3-2-1972
newsman for the ABC network
01-29-1917 - John Raitt - Santa Ana, CA - d. 2-20-2005
actor, singer: “MGM Musical Comedy Theatre”
01-29-1917 - Lloyd Perryman - Ruth, AR - d. 5-31-1977
singer: (Sons of the Pioneers) “The Roy Rogers Show”
01-29-1918 - John Forsythe - Penns Grove, NJ
actor: “NBC Star Playhouse”; “Best Plays”
01-29-1923 - Martin Ragaway - d. 4-20-1989
writer: “The Abbot and Costello Show”; “The Milton Berle Show”
01-29-1923 - Paddy Chayefsky - The Bronx, NY - d. 8-1-1981
writer: “Theatre Guild On the Air”
01-29-1927 - Don Morrow - Stamford, CT
announcer: “Advs. of Rin Tin Tin”; “The Dizzy Dean Show”
01-29-1942 - Robin Morgan - Lake Worth, FL
actor, Former president of NOW: “Cavalcade of America”
01-29-1943 - Tony Blackburn - Guildford, England
disc jockey: “Midday Spin”; “Junior Choice”
01-30-1862 - Walter Damrosch - Breslau, Silesia - d. 12-22-1950
conductor, commentator: “Baulkite Hour”; “Music Appreciation Hour”
01-30-1882 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt - Hyde Park, NY - d. 4-12-1945
u.s. president: “Fireside Chats”
01-30-1885 - Ida Bailey Allen - Danielson, CT - d. 7-16-1973
homemaker: Told listeners her favorite recipies and household hints on CBS
01-30-1896 - Joseph Gallicchio - Chicago, IL - d. 2-20-1979
orchestra leader: “Amos ‘n’ Andy”; “Music from the Heart of America”
01-30-1907 - Lois Wilson - Iowa - d. 1-8-1983
actor: “Jack Benny Program”
01-30-1911 - Hugh Marlowe - Philadelphia, PA - d. 5-2-1982
actor: Ellery Queen “Advs. of Ellery Queen”; Jim Curtis “Brenda Curtis”
01-30-1914 - David Wayne - Traverse City, MI - d. 2-9-1995
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre” ;” Eternal Light”; “Stars in the Air”
01-30-1914 - John Ireland - Vancouver, Canada - d. 3-21-1992
actor: “MGM Theatre of the Air”; “U.S. Steel Hour”
01-30-1915 - Dorothy Dell - Hattiesburg, MS - d. 6-8-1934
actor: “Stars of Tomorrow”
01-30-1922 - Dick Martin - Battle Creek, MI - d. 5-24-2008
writer: “Duffy’s Tavern”
01-30-1925 - Dorothy Malone, Chicago, IL
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”
01-30-1928 - Ruth Brown - Portsmouth, VA - d. 11-17-2006
singer: “Newport Jazz Festival”
01-30-1931 - Conrad Binyon - Hollywood, CA
actor: Roscoe ‘Butch’ Gardiner “Mayor of the Town”
01-30-1933 - Louis Rukeyser - NYC - d. 5-2-2006
economic commentator: “Rukeyser’s World”; “College Quiz Bowl”
01-30-1934 - Tammy Grimes - Lynn, MA
hostess, actor: “CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”; “Cavalcade of America”
01-30-1937 - Vanessa Redgrave - London, England
actor: Histories “I, Boadicea”
01-30-1950 - Bruce Lidington - Harrow, England - d. 8-5-1996
delighted listeners to Radio 4 serials
01-31-1872 - Rupert Hughes - Lancaster, MO - d. 9-9-1956
writer: (Uncle to Howard Hughes) “The Story of Holly Sloan”
01-31-1872 - Zane Grey - Zanesville, OH - d. 10-23-1939
writer: “Rudy Vallee Hour”
01-31-1887 - Charlies Irwin - Curragh, Ireland - d. 1-12-1969
actor: “Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show”
01-31-1892 - Eddie Cantor - NYC - d. 10-10-1964
singer, comedian: (Banjo Eyes) “Eddie Cantor Show”; “Chase & Sanborn Hour”
01-31-1894 - Isham Jones - Coalton, OH - d. 10-19-1956
bandleader: “Isham Jones and His Orchestra”
01-31-1902 - Leo Corday - NYC - d. 11-xx-1985
writer of special material: “War Manpower Comn.”
01-31-1902 - Tullulah Bankhead - Huntsville, AL - d. 12-12-1968
actor, hostess: “Johnny Presents”; “Big Show”
01-31-1904 - Cliff Nazarro - New Haven, CT - d. 2-18-1961
actor: “Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show”
01-31-1905 - John O’Hara - Pottsville, PA - d. 4-11-1970
author: “Information, Please”; “Eddie Condon’s Jazz Concert”
01-31-1906 - Edith Adams - West Union, IA - d. unknown
actor: Mrs. Gilman “Those Happy Gilmans”; “Jenny Peabody”
01-31-1908 - Connie Desmond - Ohio - d. 3-3-1983
sportscaster: play-by-play for the Brooklyn Dodgers
01-31-1909 - Walter Coy - Great Falls, MT - d. 12-11-1974
actor: Michael Lanyard/Lone Wolf “Lone Wolf”
01-31-1913 - Maurice Manson - d. 9-25-2002
actor: Reverend McArthur “One Man’s Family”
01-31-1915 - Alan Lomox - Austin, TX - d. 7-19-2002
host, writer: “American School of the Air”; “Cavalcade of America”
01-31-1915 - Bobby Hackett - Providence, RI - d. 6-7-1976
cornetist: “Eddie Condon’s Jazz Concert”
01-31-1915 - Garry Moore - Baltimore, MD - d. 11-28-1993
host, comedian: “Garry Moore Show”; “Camel Caravan”; “Take It or Leave It”
01-31-1917 - Fay Baker - NYC - d. 12-8-1987
actor: “Words at War”
01-31-1919 - Jackie Robinson - Cairo, GA - d. 10-24-1972
sportscaster: (Baseball Hall of Fame) “Jackie Robinson Show”
01-31-1921 - Carol Channing - Seattle, WA
actor-singer: “Stagestruck”; “Arthur Godfrey Show”
01-31-1921 - John Agar - Chicago, IL - d. 4-7-2002
actor: “Big Show”
01-31-1921 - Mario Lanza - Philadelphia, PA - d. 10-7-1959
singer: “Mario Lanza Show”
01-31-1922 - William Sylvester - Oakland, CA - d. 1-15-1995
actor: Jay Gatsby “Gatsby”
01-31-1923 - Joanne Dru - Logan, WV - d. 9-10-1996
actor: (Sister of Peter Marshall) “Lux Radio Theatre”
01-31-1923 - Norman Mailer - Long Branch, NJ - d. 11-10-2007
author: “Highlights of Monitor’s Twenty Great Years”
01-31-1927 - Norman Prescott - Boston, MA - d. 7-2-2005
producer: Boston radio
01-31-1929 - Jean Simmons - Crouch Hill, London, England
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”; “A Christmas Carol”
01-31-1929 - Joe Jack Cain - Philadelphia, PA
musician for NBC and CBS
01-xx-1874 - James R. Waters - Hungary - d. 11-20-1945
actor/comedian: Jake Goldberg “The Goldbergs”; “The House of Glass”
02-01-1859 - Victor Herbert - Dublin, Ireland - d. 5-24-1924
composer: “Palmolive Beauty Box Theatre”; “Railroad Hour”
02-01-1891 - Alexander Kipnis - Schitomir, Ukraine - d. 5-14-1978
wagnerian basso profundo: “Outpost Concert Series”; “Metropolitan Opera”
02-01-1894 - James P. Johnson - New Brunswick, NJ - d. 11-17-1955
pianist: “Eddie Condon’s Jazz Concerts”; “This is Jazz”
02-01-1895 - John Ford - Cape Elizabeth, ME - d. 8-31-1973
director: “Screen Director’s Playhouse”
02-01-1901 - Clark Gable - Cadiz, OH - d. 11-16-1960
actor: “So Proudly We Hail”; “Silver Theatre”
02-01-1902 - Langston Hughes - Joplin, Mo - d. 5-22-1967
writer: “America’s Town Meeting of the Air”
02-01-1903 - Donald Thompson - Albia, IA - d. unknown
actor/announcer: “The Right to Happiness”; “Those Happy Gilmans”
02-01-1904 - S. J. Perelman - NYC - d. 10-17-1979
humorist: “Information, Please”; “Author! Author!”; “Railroad Hour”
02-01-1905 - Joan Morgan - Kent, England - d. 7-22-2004
actor: “21st Precinct”
02-01-1906 - Hildegarde - Adell, WI - d. 7-29-2005
singer, pianist: (The Dear that Made Milwaukee Famous) “Hildegard Program”
02-01-1908 - George Pal - Cegled, Austria-Hungary - d. 5-2-1980
film producer, director: “Bud’s Bandwagon”
02-01-1912 - Clete Roberts - Portland, OR - d. 9-30-1984
news correspondent: Covered both World War II and Korea
02-01-1915 - Alan Burgess - Birmingham, England - d. 4-10-1998
author: wrote a series for the BBC on war heroes
02-01-1916 - Helen Walpole - Birmingham, AL - d. 5-26-1992
actor: Sylvia Bardine “Just Plain Bill”; Frances “Lorenzo Jones”
02-01-1920 - Walter Stone - Dunellen, NJ - d. 10-20-1999
comedy writer: “Robert Q. Lewis”
02-01-1922 - Miriam Wolfe - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-29-2000
actor: Nancy “Witch’s Tale”
02-01-1922 - Renata Tebaldi - Pesaro, Italy - d. 12-19-2004
lyric soprano: “Bell Telephone Hour”; ”Metropolitan Opera
02-01-1924 - Bill Comstock - Rockbridge, OH
singer: (Four Freshmen) “The Four Freshmen”; “Music for Moderns”
02-01-1926 - John Blashill - d. 2-21-2006
disk jockey: KVOE Santa Ana, California
02-01-1926 - Nancy Gates - Dallas, TX
actor: “Masquerade”; “Orson Welles Theatre”
02-01-1926 - Stuart Whitman - San Francisco, CA
actor: “We Hold These Truths”
02-01-1937 - Don Everly - Brownie, KY
singer: (The Everly Brothers) “March of Dimes”; “Country Hoedown”
02-01-1941 - Marian Hailey - Portland, OR
actor: “CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”
02-02-1875 - Fritz Kreisler - Vienna, Austria - d. 1-29-1962
violinist, composer: “Telephone Hour”; “Concert Hall”; “Gospel In Song”
02-02-1877 - Charles Hanson Towne - Louisville, KY - d. 2-28-1949
poet/actor: Quarter hour weekly conversational program on CBS
02-02-1882 - Geoffrey O’Hara - Chatham, Canada - d. 1-31-1967
tenor: “Roxy and His Gang”
02-02-1882 - James Joyce - Dublin, Ireland - d. 1-13-1941
author: “NBC University Theatre”
02-02-1888 - Frank Lloyd - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 8-10-1960
film director: “Screen Guild Theatre”; “Robert Arden Round Table Discussion”
02-02-1888 - Lee Millar - Vancouver, Canada - d. 12-24-1941
actor: (Husband of Verna Felton) Appeared on various radio shows
02-02-1893 - Len Doyle - Toledo, OH - d. 12-6-1959
actor: Harrington “Mr, Distric Attorney”
02-02-1895 - George Halas - Chicago, IL - d. 10-31-1983
football coach: “Tops in Sports”
02-02-1898 - William Costello - Rhode Island - d. 10-9-1971
actor: Freddie Frog “Betty Boop Fables”
02-02-1899 - Benny Rubin - Boston, MA - d. 7-15-1986
comedian: Tout “Jack Benny Program”; “Benny Rubin’s Whirligig Revue”
02-02-1901 - Jascha Heifetz - Vilnius, Lithuania - d. 12-10-1987
classical violinist: “Telephone Hour”; “Soldiers in Greaspaint”; “Concert Hall”
02-02-1905 - Ayn Rand - St. Petersberg, Russia - d. 3-6-1982
author: “Lux Radio Theatre”
02-02-1908 - Cal Tinney - Pontotoc County, OK - d. 12-2-1993
actor: Binnacle Barnes “Robinson Crusoe, Jr.”
02-02-1909 - Frank Albertson - Fergus Falls, MN - d. 2-29-1964
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”
02-02-1909 - Purv Pullen - Philadelphia, PA - d. 10-18-1992
bird and animal imitator: Horatio G. Birdbath “The Spike Jones Show”
02-02-1911 - Everett Freeman - NYC - d. 1-24-1991
writer: “The Baby Snooks Show”; “The Eddie Cantor Show”
02-02-1911 - Jussi Bjorling - Stora Tuna, Sweden - d. 9-9-1960
singer: “Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show”
02-02-1912 - Burton Lane - NYC - d. 1-5-1997
composer: “Columbia Presents Corwin”; “Voices of Vista”
02-02-1912 - Stefan Schnabel - Berlin, Germany - d. 3-11-1999
actor: Herbert Yost “Joyce Jordan, M.D.”
02-02-1914 - Beverly Freeland - Bristow, OK
singer: “Brezzing Along”; “Heinz Magazine of the Air”
02-02-1915 - Frank Telford - d. 5-19-1987
producer: “This Is Our Enemy”
02-02-1918 - Imogen Carpenter - Hot Springs, AR - d. 3-24-1993
actor: “Command Performance”
02-02-1920 - Hughie Green - London, England - d. 5-3-1997
host: “Opportunity Knocks”
02-02-1923 - Bonita Granville - Chicago, IL - d. 10-11-1988
actor: “Continental Celebrity Club”; “Stars Over Hollywood”
02-02-1923 - Haleloke Kahuaolapus - Hilo, Hawaii Territory - d. 12-16-2004
singer: “Hawaii Calls”; “Arthur Godfrey Time”
02-02-1936 - Arthur Lyman - Kauai, HI - d. 2-24-2002
vibes: Won talent contest on Honolulu radio, station KGMB
02-02-1940 - Sir David Jason - London, England
actor: “Week Ending . . . “; “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”
02-03-1883 - Clarence Mulford - Streator, IL - d. 5-10-1956
creator of Hopalong Cassidy
02-03-1884 - Maude Davis - San Francisco, CA - d. 11-20-1946
vaudevillian: (Clark Sisters) “Eddie Cantor”; “Kate Smith”
02-03-1890 - Charles Correll - Peoria, IL - d. 9-26-1972
actor: Andrew Brown “Amos ‘n’ Andy”
02-03-1890 - Larry MacPhail - Cass City, MI - d. 10-1-1975
baseball executive: “Information, Please”; “Bill Stern Colgate Sports Newsreel”
02-03-1894 - Norman Rockwell - NYC - d. 11-8-1978
artist: “The Breakfast Club”
02-03-1895 - Carl F. Kroenke - San Francisco, CA - d. 9-3-1956
actor: Alec Furguson “Houseboat Hannah”; Dr. Glassman “Ma Perkins”
02-03-1895 - Nick Kenny - Astoria, NY - d. 12-1-1975
columnist, songwriter: Reader of inspirational verse
02-03-1899 - Doris Speed - Manchester, England - d. 11-16-1994
actor: “Remember It All”
02-03-1902 - Frank Waldecker - d. 1-xx-1967
announcer: “A Date with Judy”; “The Eddie Duchin Show”
02-03-1902 - Lillian Hardin Armstrong - Memphis, TN - d. 8-27-1971
pianist: “New Orleans Creole Jazz Band”
02-03-1903 - Martin Block - Los Angeles, CA - d. 9-19-1967
announcer, disc jockey: “Make-Believe Ballroom”; “Chesterfield Supper Club”
02-03-1907 - James Michener - NYC - d. 10-16-1997
author: “You and the World”
02-03-1907 - Paul Laven - d. 5-1-1950
writer: “The Bob Hope Show”
02-03-1910 - Nelson Case - Long Beach, CA - d. 3-24-1976
announcer: “Hour of Charm”; “New Carnation Contented Hour”
02-03-1915 - Bill Miller - Brooklyn, NY - d. 7-11-2006
piano, conductor: “Frank Sinatra”; “Jim Hawthorne Show”
02-03-1915 - Helen Hall - d. 2-15-1984
hostess: “One Woman’s New York”
02-03-1916 - Andy White - d. 3-29-1999
writer: “The Great Gildersleeve”, “Fred Waring Show”
02-03-1918 - Gene Baldridge - d. 6-18-1988
disk jockey: WSIP Paintsville, Kentucky
02-03-1918 - Joey Bishop - The Bronx, NY - d. 10-17-2007
actor: “Monitor’s Salute to Jimmy Durante”
02-03-1918 - Stanley Earl Cowan - NYC - d. 12-13-1991
director: “Club Hollywood”
02-03-1919 - Dolly Dawn - Newark, NJ - d. 12-11-2002
bandleader: “Dolly Dawn and Her Dawn Patrol”
02-03-1919 - Janet Logan - Eldon, MO - d. xx-xx-1965
actor: Stella Moore “Girl Alone”; Clara Blake “Romance of Helen Trent”
02-03-1922 - Russell Arms - Berkely, CA
singer, actor: “Have Gun, Will Travel”
02-03-1924 - Leslie Stevens - Washington, D.C. - d. 4-24-1998
film director: “Stagestruck”
02-03-1925 - John Fiedler - Platteville, WI - d. 6-25-2005
actor: Homer Brown “The Aldrich Family”
02-03-1926 - Shelley Berman - Chicago, IL
actor: “Family Theatre”
02-03-1928 - Frankie Vaughan - Liverpool, England - d. 9-17-1999
singer: “Al Jolson Centenary”
02-03-1932 - Peggy Ann Garner - Canton, OH - d. 7-21-1982
actor: Esther Smith “Meet Me in St. Louis”
02-03-1933 - Suzan Ball - Jamestown, NY - d. 8-5-1955
actor: Intermission Guest “Lux Radio Theatre”
02-03-1950 - Morgan Fairchild - Dallas, TX
actor: “CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”
02-04-1889 - Walter Catlett - San Francisco, Ca - d. 11-14-1960
actor: “This Is Your F.B.I.”; “Escape”; “Campbell Playhouse”
02-04-1898 - Art Balinger - California - d. 1-18-1980
announcer: “Here Comes McBride”; “Mr. and Mrs. North”
02-04-1901 - Tom McKnight - d. 4-22-1963
producer, director, writer: “Beulah Show”; “Gibson Family”
02-04-1902 - Charles A. Lindbergh - Detroit, MI - d. 8-26-1974
aviator: CBS awards program
02-04-1904 - MacKinlay Kantor - Webster City, IA - d. 10-11-1977
writer: “Lest We Forget”; “Author’s Playhouse”
02-04-1905 - Eddie Foy, Jr. - New Rochelle, NY - d. 7-15-1983
vaudevillian: “Starlight Operetta”; “Mitch Miller Show”
02-04-1908 - Jack Fraser - Lawrence, MA - d. 1-1-2000
newscaster: “John Gordon Fraser and the News”, “Monitor”
02-04-1908 - Manny Klein - NYC - d. 5-31-1994
trumpet: “The Ipana Troubadors”
02-04-1909 - Charles Simon - Tettenhall Wood, England - d. 5-16-2002
actor: “Mrs. Dale’s Diary”
02-04-1909 - Robert Coote - London, England - d. 11-26-1982
actor: “Campbell Playhouse”
02-04-1910 - Lansing Hatfield - Franklin, VA - d. 8-22-1954
singer: “Met Opera Auditions of the Air”
02-04-1912 - Bryon Nelson - Waxachaie, TX - d. 9-26-2006
golfer: “The Bill Stern Sports Newsreel”
02-04-1912 - Erich Leinsdorf - Vienna, Austria - d. 9-11-1993
conductor: “NBC Symphony Orchestra”; “Pioneers of Music”; “Musicians Off Stage”
02-04-1915 - Ray Evans - Salamanca, NY - d. 2-15-2007
songwriter: “Hollywood Calling-George Fisher Interviews the Stars”
02-04-1916 - Frank Tarloff - Brooklyn, NY - d. 6-25-1999
writer: “Baby Snooks Show”; “Aldrich Family”; “Hardy Family”
02-04-1918 - Ida Lupino - London, England - d. 8-3-1995
panelist, actor: “Hollywood Byline”; “Screen Guild Theatre”
02-04-1918 - Janet Waldo - Grandview, WA
actor: Corliss Archer “Meet Corliss Archer”; Irene Franklin “One Man’s Family”
02-04-1921 - Betty Friedan - Peoria, IL - d. 2-4-2006
feminist, author: “Second Sunday”
02-04-1931 - Marion Ryan - Leeds, England - d. 1-15-1999
pop singer: “Ray Ellington Quarter”
02-04-1934 - Bruce Malmuth - Brooklyn, NY - d. 6-29-2005
director: New York Yankees baseball games
02-04-1935 - Delaney “Ben” Casey - Asheville, NC - d. 11-20-2007
talk show host: “Community Focus”
02-05-1884 - Joan Harvey - Bangalore, India - d. 11-5-1965
writer: “The Hidden Valley”
02-05-1893 - Carlton Coon - Rochester, MN - d. 5-4-1932
bandleader: (Coon-Sanders Nighthawks) “Florsheim Frolic”
02-05-1898 - Sidney Fields - d. 9-28-1975
comic, comedy writer: “Abbott and Costello Show”; “It’s Time to Smile”
02-05-1901 - Arthur Sheekman - Chicago, IL - d. 1-12-1978
writer: “The Marx Brothers”
02-05-1906 - John Carradine - NYC - d. 11-27-1988
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”
02-05-1908 - Bob Dunn - Fort Gibson, OK - d. 5-27-1971
steel guitar: “The Musical Brownies”
02-05-1911 - Bert Wilson - d. 11-5-1955
chicago cubs play-by-play announcer 1944-1955
02-05-1912 - Tex Atchison - Rosine, KY - d. 8-4-1982
singer: (Prairie Ramblers) “Smile-a-While”
02-05-1918 - Tim Holt - Beverly Hills, CA - d. 2-15-1973
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”
02-05-1919 - Red Buttons - NYC - d. 7-13-2006
actor: “Guest Star”; “Friar’s Club Roast”
02-05-1934 - Hank Aaron - Mobile, AL
baseball legend: “Baseball: An Action History”; “Tops In Sports”
02-05-1941 - David Selby - Morgantown, WV
actor: “Empire of the Air”
02-05-1942 - Susan Hill - Scarborough, England
writer: “Miss Lavender Is Dead”
02-06-1878 - Walter B. Pitkin - Ypsilanti, MI - d. 1-25-1953
author: “The Clearing House of Hope”; “We Americans”
02-06-1883 - Bennett Kilpack - Long Melford, England - d. 8-18-1962
actor: Mr. Keen “Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons”; “James Benson “David Harum”
02-06-1888 - Hugh Aspinwall - d. 1-xx-1981
tenor, chief announcer: WHT Chicago, Illinois
02-06-1888 - Lucille Gleason - Pasadena, CA - d. 5-18-1947
actor: “Jimmy Gleason’s Diner”
02-06-1889 - Richard Bonelli - Port Byron, NY - d. 6-7-1980
baritone: “Universal Rhythm”
02-06-1895 - Babe Ruth - Baltimore, MD - d. 8-16-1948
baseball legend: “Advs. of Babe Ruth”; “Here’s Babe Ruth”
02-06-1897 - Erna Sack - Spandau-Berlin, Germany - d. 3-2-1972
singer: (The German Nightingale) “General Motors Concerts”
02-06-1899 - Ramon Novarro - Durango, Mexico - d. 10-30-1968
actor: Freelance
02-06-1902 - Louis Nizer - London, England - d. 11-10-1994
attorney, author: “Words at War”; “Author Meets the Critics”
02-06-1903 - Claudio Arrau - Chillans, Chile - d. 6-9-1991
classical pianist: “New York Philharmonic”; “Music America Loves Best”
02-06-1909 - John Allen Wolfe - Louisville, KY
announcer: “Capitol Family Hour”; “Our Gal Sunday”; “Woman of Courage”
02-06-1911 - Ronald “Dutch” Reagan - Tampico, IL - d. 6-5-2004
panelist, actor: Hollywood Byline”; “Lux Radio Theatre”
02-06-1913 - John Lund - Rochester, NY - d. 5-10-1992
actor: Johnny Dollar “Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar”; Chaplain Jim “Chaplain Jim”
02-06-1913 - Porter Bourne - d. 8-28-2001
announcer: WXYZ Detroit
02-06-1914 - Thurl Ravenscroft - Norfolk, NE - d. 5-22-2005
singer: (Member Sportsmen Quartet) “Jack Benny Program”
02-06-1916 - Violet Koehler - Wilton, WI - d. 10-4-1973
guitar: (Coon Creek Girls) “WLS National Barn Dance”
02-06-1917 - Penny Olson - Milwaukee, WI - d. 8-17-2000
singer: (Wife of Johnny Olson) “Ladies Be Seated”; “Rumpus Room”
02-06-1917 - Raymond Katz - NYC - d. 3-23-2000
director, creator: “Navy Hour”; “Maisie”; “Woman of the Year”
02-06-1917 - Zsa Zsa Gabor - Budapest, Hungary
actor: Intermission Guest: “Lux Radio Theatre”
02-06-1926 - Bob Trow - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 11-2-1998
wrote and produced commercials for radio
02-06-1927 - Smoky Burgess - Caroleen, NC - d. 9-15-1991
sportscaster: “Sports Report”
02-06-1933 - Leslie Crowther - Nottingham, England - 9-28-1996
comedian: “Crowther’s Crowd”; “Variety Playhouse”
02-06-1934 - Bryan Cooper - Paris, France
writer: “Operation North Sea”; “The Ragged Edge”
02-06-1943 - Fabian (Forte) - Philadelphia, PA
singer: “NASA Special Report”
02-07-1812 - Charles Dickens - Portsmouth, England - d. 6-9-1870
author: Many of his works adapted for radio
02-07-1866 - George Ade - d. 5-1-1944
humorist: WJZ New York City
02-07-1867 - Laura Ingalls Wilder - Pepin, WI - d. 2-10-1957
author: some her works adapted for radio
02-07-1883 - Eubie Blake - Baltimore, MD - d. 2-12-1983
jazz pianist: “Ragtime”; “White House Jazz Festival”
02-07-1885 - Sinclair Lewis - Sauk Centre, MN - d. 1-10-1951
novelist: “Campbell Playhouse”; “Ford Theatre”; “Cavalcade of America”
02-07-1895 - Irving Aaronson - NYC - d. 5-10-1963
bandleader: “Irving Aaronson and His Orchestra”
02-07-1896 - Earl Burtnett - Harrisburg, PA - d. 1-2-1936
orchestra leader: KHJ Los Angeles, California
02-07-1901 - Bob Stephenson - Washington - d. 9-5-1970
announcer: “Jeff Regan, Investigator”; “Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar”
02-07-1903 - Graeme Lorimer - Wyncote, PA - d. 9-6-1983
writer: “Maudie’s Diary”
02-07-1908 - Bill Johnstone - Paisley, Scotland - d. 11-1-1996
actor: Lamont Cranston/Shadow “The Shadow”; Sam Young “Pepper Young’s Family”
02-07-1914 - George Bassman - NYC - d. 6-26-1997
arranger for Andre Kostelanetz
02-07-1915 - Arthur Kurland - d. 12-24-1992
producer: “Keep ‘Em Rolling”
02-07-1915 - Eddie Bracken - Astoria, NY - d. 11-14-2002
comedian: “Eddie Bracken Show”; Dizzy Stevens “Aldrich Family”
02-07-1918 - Eugene Cines - NYC - d. 3-22-2004
manager of CBS Music Library
02-07-1923 - Jiri Pelikan - Olomouc, Czechoslovakia - d. 6-26-1999
head of the state run radio system who eliminated censorship
02-07-1923 - Keefe Brasselle - Elyria, OH - d. 7-7-1981
actor: “Stars in the Air”
02-07-1924 - Hattie Jacques - Sandgate, Kent, England - d. 10-6-1980
actor: Sophie Tuckshop “It’s That Man Again”; Agatha Dangelbody “Educating Archie”
02-07-1926 - Al Ramsen - NYC - d. 3-12-1984
actor: “Lights Out”; “Suspense”; “The Ford Theatre”
02-07-1936 - Teddy Bart - Johnstown, PA
host: “Teddy Bart’s Roundtable”
02-07-1949 - Susan Boyd - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 6-18-2004
writer: “Another Day”
02-08-1828 - Jules Verne - Nantes, France - d. 3-24-1905
pioneering science fiction writer: “Mercury Theatre”; “This Is My Best”
02-08-1868 - Evangeline Adams - d. 11-10-1932
astrologist: “Horoscope Talks”
02-08-1878 - Benicia Batione - d. 5-xx-1965
spanish instructor of conversational spanish: KOA Denver, Colorado
02-08-1886 - Charlie Ruggles - Los Angeles, CA - d. 12-23-1970
comedian: “Texaco Star Theatre”; “Suspense”; “This Is My Best”
02-08-1888 - Edith Evans - London, England - d. 10-14-1976
actor: “Kaleidoscope”
02-08-1890 - Irving Kaufman - Syracuse, NY - d. 1-3-1976
singer: “Champion Sparkers”; “Broadway Vanities”
02-08-1891 - Edward Bierstadt - d. 2-xx-1970
writer: “The Shadow”; “Empire Builders”
02-08-1892 - Will Aubrey - Lithuania - d. 1-3-1958
actor: (The Bard of the Byways) “Fleischmann’s Yeast Hour”
02-08-1893 - Ed Fitzgerald - Troy, NY - d. 3-22-1982
host: “The Fitzgeralds”
02-08-1894 - King Vidor - Galveston, TX - d. 11-1-1982
film director: “Screen Director’s Playhouse”; “Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood”
02-08-1902 - Lyle Talbot - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 3-3-1996
actor: “Your Hollywood Informer”; “Calling All Cars”; “The Unexpected”
02-08-1904 - Charles Sears - Hoopeston, IL - d. 8-12-1987
tenor: “National Barn Dance”; “Musical Memories”
02-08-1905 - Don Ball - Block Island, RI - d. 1-7-1974
staff announcer for CBS during the 1930s.
02-08-1905 - Henry King - d. 8-8-1974
orchestra leader: “Burns and Allen”
02-08-1905 - Truman Bradley - Sheldon, MO - d. 7-28-1974
announcer: “Easy Aces”; “Red Skelton & Co.”; “Drene Show”
02-08-1907 - Phil Davis - Cincinnati, OH - d. 12-10-1985
musician: “Avalon Time”; “Scramby Amby”
02-08-1907 - Ray Middleton - Chicago, IL - d. 4-10-1984
actor: Abraham Lincoln “Honest Abe”
02-08-1908 - Myron McCormick - Albany, IN - d. 7-30-1962
actor: Christopher Wells “Advs. of Christopher Wells”
02-08-1911 - Judith Allen - NYC - d. 10-5-1996
actor: Margo Lane “The Shadow”
02-08-1913 - Betty Field - Boston, MA - d. 9-13-1973
actor: Mary Aldrich “Aldrich Family”
02-08-1913 - Taylor Grant - Philadelphia, PA - d. 2-24-1998
newscaster: “Headline Edition”
02-08-1914 - Margot Stevenson - NYC
actor: Margo Lane “The Shadow”
02-08-1915 - George “Doc” Abraham - Wayland, NY - d. 1-27-2005
gardner, host: “The Green Thumb”
02-08-1917 - Robert Dryden - d. 12-16-2003
actor: Doctor West “We Love and Learn”; Sergeant Maggio “Call the Police”
02-08-1920 - Lana Turner - Wallace, ID - d. 6-29-1995
actor: “Abbott and Costello”; “Lux Radio Theatre”
02-08-1920 - Robert Garnett “Buddy” Blattner - St. Louis, MO
announcer: Armed Forces Radio, Guam
02-08-1922 - Morley Meredith - Winnipeg, Canada - d. 2-3-2000
baritone: “Metropolitan Opera”
02-08-1924 - Audrey Meadows - Wu Chang, China - d. 2-3-1996
actor: “The Honeymooners” (TV sound track on radio)
02-08-1925 - Francis Webb - Adelaide, Australia - d. 11-23-1973
writer: “Birthday”
02-08-1925 - Jack Lemmon - Boston, MA - d. 6-27-2001
actor: “Dimension X”; “X Minus One”; Dr. Brent “Road of Life”
02-08-1931 - James Dean - Byron, IN - d. 9-30-1955
actor: “Hallmark Playhouse”
02-08-1941 - Martin Huston - Lexington, KY - d. 8-8-2001
actor: Jeep Allison “My Son Jeep”
02-08-1943 - Jan Needle - Portsmouth, England
wrote radio plays in New Zealand, England and Australia
02-09-1883 - Joseph King - Austin, TX - d. 4-11-1951
announcer: “Mr. and Mrs. North”; “A Report to the Nation”
02-09-1884 - Wilmer Walter - Philadelphia, PA - d. 8-23-1941
actor: David Harum “David Harum”; Andy Agnes “The Gumps”
02-09-1891 - Ronald Colman - Richmond, Surrey, England - d. 5-19-1958
actor: William Todhunter Hall “Halls of Ivy”; “Jack Benny Program”
02-09-1892 - Frank W. Asper - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 11-8-1973
organist: “Music and the Spoken Word”
02-09-1892 - Peggy Wood - Brooklyn, NY - d. 3-18-1978
actor: “NBC Present Eugene O’Neill”; “Great Scenes from Great Plays”; “
02-09-1901 - Brian Donlevy - Cleveland, OH - d. 4-5-1972
actor: Steve Mitchell “Dangerous Assignment”
02-09-1901 - Walter Preston - Quincy, IL - d. 8-7-1982
singer: “Philco Hour”
02-09-1902 - Chester A. Lauck - Alleene, AR - d. 2-22-1980
comedian: Columbus ‘Lum’ Edwards “Lum and Abner”
02-09-1902 - Fred Harman, Sr. - St. Joseph, MO - d. 1-2-1982
cartoonist: Creator of Red Ryder
02-09-1904 - Carmen Miranda - Lisbon, Portugal - d. 8-5-1955
singer: “Hello Americans”
02-09-1910 - Peanuts Holland - Norfold, VA - d. 2-7-1979
jazz trumpeter, singer: “One Night Stand”; “Jubilee”; “Yank Swing Session”
02-09-1911 - Harry Kramer - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-23-1996
announcer: “Alfred Antonini Orchestra”; “Mike and Buff’s Mailbag”
02-09-1912 - Bob Armstrong - Buffalo, NY - d. 4-25-1994
orchestra director: NBC 1942
02-09-1912 - Bob Hannon - Chicago, IL - d. 2-16-1993
singer: “American Melody Hour”; “Waltz Time”
02-09-1913 - Erskine Butterfield - Syracuse, NY - d. 7-11-1961
jazz musician: “Cats ‘n’ Jammers”
02-09-1914 - Bob Hite - Decatur, IN - d. 2-18-2000
announcer: “Challenge of the Yukon”; “Green Hornet”; “Casey, Crime Photographer”
02-09-1914 - Ernest Tubb - Crisp, TX - d. 9-6-1984
singer: (The Texas Troubador) “Grand Ole Opry”
02-09-1914 - Ralph Hermann - Milwaukee, WI - d. 7-28-1994
bandleader: “Herb Oscar Anderson Show”
02-09-1915 - Charlotte Holland - d. 1-13-1997
actor: Nita Bennett “Lone Journey”; Nora Drake “This is Nora Drake”
02-09-1921 - Gene Lyons - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 7-8-1974
actor: Freelance
02-09-1922 - Kathryn Grayson - Winston-Salem, NC
singer: “Mail Call”
02-09-1923 - Milena Miller - d. 7-20-2001
vocalist: “The Stu Erwin Show”
02-09-1930 - Garner Ted Armstrong - Portland, OR - d. 9-15-2003
preacher: (Son of Herbert W. Armstrong) “Plain Truth”; “The World Tomorrow”
02-09-1937 - Clete Boyer - Cassville, MO - d. 6-4-2007
baseball player: “Tops in Sports”
02-09-1939 - Janet Suzman - Johannesburg, South Africa
actor: “Guest Panelist “Quote...Unquote”
02-09-1949 - Judith Light - Trenton, NJ
actor: “CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”
02-10-1868 - William Allen White - Emporia, KS - d. 1-31-1944
writer: “American Forum of the Air”; “University of Chicago Round Table”
02-10-1892 - Alan Hale, Sr. - Washington, D.C. - d. 1-22-1950
actor:“Lux Radio Theatre”
02-10-1893 - Bill Tilden - Germantown, PA - d. 6-4-1953
tennis player: “Information Please”
02-10-1893 - Jimmy Durante - NYC - d. 1-29-1980
comedian: (Da Schnozz) Claudius ‘Brainy’ Bowers “Jumbo Fire Chief Program”
02-10-1897 - Judith Anderson - Adelaide, Australia - d. 1-3-1992
actor: Royal Gelatin Hour”
02-10-1899 - Dolph Gobel - Regensburg, Germany - d. 8-xx-1970
organist: “Ethel and Albert”; “Doplh Goebel Trio”
02-10-1900 - Lou Breese - d. 1-11-1969
bandleader: “Invitation to the Fair”
02-10-1902 - Jose Cortes - d. 1-21-1996
fiddle: “The Swift Jewel Cowboys”
02-10-1902 - Stella Adler - NYC - d. 12-21-1992
acting teacher: “Fleischmann’s Yeast Hour”
02-10-1903 - Lewis Allan - NYC - d. 10-30-1986
writer for theatre, radio, television and films
02-10-1905 - Chick Webb - d. 6-16-1939
bandleader: “Chick Webb and His Orhestra”
02-10-1906 - Lon Chaney, Jr. - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Territory - d. 7-12-1973
actor: “Pursuit of Happiness”
02-10-1910 - Joyce Grenfell - London, England - d. 11-30-1979
writer, actor: “How”; “A Note with Music”; “We Beg to Differ”
02-10-1913 - James Monks - NYC - d. 10-2-1994
actor: Jim Brandon “The Avenger” I. A. Moto “Mr. I. A. Moto”
02-10-1914 - Larry Adler - Baltimore, MD - d. 8-6-2001
harmonica player: “Forecast”
02-10-1922 - Neva Patterson - Nevada, IA
actor: “Cavalcade of America”
02-10-1927 - Leontyne Price - Laurel, MS
singer: “Metropolitan Opera”
02-10-1929 - Jerry Goldsmith - Los Angeles, CA - d. 7-21-2004
composer, conductor: “Frontier Gentleman”; “Romance”
02-10-1930 - Robert Wagner - Detroit, MI
panelist: “Juke Box Jury”; “Suspense”
02-11-1882 - John H. Mills - Bellfonte, PA - d. 12-8-1967
singer: (Father of the Mills Brothers) “Mills Brothers Quartette”
02-11-1891 - Paul Ash - Saxony, Germany - d. 7-13-1958
orchestra leader: “The Merry Mad Gang Program”
02-11-1901 - Fritz Blocki - d. 5-14-1972
writer: “Chick Carter, Boy Detective”
02-11-1905 - Liebert Lombardo - London, Canada - d. 6-16-1993
musician: (Guy Lombardo’s Orchestra) “Lady Esther Serenade”
02-11-1906 - James Jewell - d. 8-5-1975
writer, actor director: “The Lone Ranger”
02-11-1907 - Art Millet - Chicago, IL - d. 4-9-1943
announcer: “American Album of Familiar Music”; “Popeye”
02-11-1908 - Hiram Sherman - Boston, MA - d. 4-11-1989
actor: “Les Miserables”; “Mercury Theatre on the Aie”
02-11-1908 - Philip Dunne - NYC - d. 6-2-1992
screenwriter, director: “Lux Radio Theatre”
02-11-1909 - Joseph L. Mankiewicz - Wilkes-Barre, PA - d. 2-5-1993
screenwriter, film director: “Theatre Guild On the Air”; “Lux Radio Theatre”
02-11-1909 - Max Baer - Omaha, NE - d. 11-21-1959
heavyweight boxing champion, actor: Lucky Smith “Lucky Smith”
02-11-1916 - Walter Brown Newman - NYC - d. 10-14-1993
writer: “Escape”; “Gunsmoke”; “On Stage”; “Robers of the Gazette”
02-11-1917 - Sidney Sheldon - Chicago, IL - d. 1-30-2007
writer: “Lux Radio Theatre”
02-11-1919 - Eva Gabor - Budapest, Hungary - d. 7-4-1995
disc jockey: “Little Night Music”
02-11-1920 - Billy Halop - NYC - d. 11-9-76
actor: Bobby Benson “Bobby Benson Adventures”; Dick Kent “Home, Sweet Home”
02-11-1926 - Leslie Nielsen - Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
actor: “Jive Patrol”
02-12-1867 - Joe E. Howard - NYC - d. 5-19-1961
singer, composer: “Gay Nineties Revue”
02-12-1880 - John L. Lewis - Lucas, IA - d. 6-11-1969
union leader: “Meet the Press”
02-12-1884 - Alice Roosevelt Longworth - NYC - d. 2-20-1980
daughter of Theodore Roosevelt: “Information, Please”
02-12-1884 - Bessie McCammon - Cincinnati, OH - d. 3-2-1964
actor: Jessie King “Lone Journey”; Olivia McEvoy “Young Widder Brown”
02-12-1888 - Victor Kolar - Budapest, Hungary - d. 1-16-1957
conductor: “Ford Sunday Evening Hour”
02-12-1893 - Omar Bradley - Clark, MO - d. 4-8-1981
general of the army: “What Are We Fighting For?”; “U.S.O. Campaign”
02-12-1898 - Charles Brender - d. 7-xx-1965
music director: “The Navy Hour”
02-12-1898 - Curt Peterson - Albert Lea, MN - d. 4-xx-1980
announcer: “Jones and Hare”; “The Pure Oil Band”
02-12-1898 - Roy Harris - Lincoln County, Oklahoma Territory - d. 10-1-1979
composer: “New York Philharmonic”; “Comtemporary Composers Concerts”
02-12-1898 - Wallace Ford - Batton, England - d. 6-11-1966
actor: “Hollywood on the Air”; “Royal Gelatin Hour”
02-12-1899 - Ray Knight - Salem, MA - d. 2-12-1953
actor: Ambrose J. Weems “Cuckoo Hour”; shopkeeper “House in the Country”
02-12-1902 - Tom Waring - Tyrone, PA - d. 12-29-1960
composer: (Brother of Fred) “The Fred Waring Show”
02-12-1903 - Todd Duncan - Danville, IL - d. 2-28-1998
baritone: “NY Philharmonic Symphony”; “First American Opera”
02-12-1904 - Joseph Kearns - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 2-17-1962
actor, host: Melvyn Foster “A Date with Judy”; Man in Black “Suspense”
02-12-1904 - Ted Mack - Greeley, CO - d. 7-12-1976
emcee: “Original Amateur Hour”
02-12-1905 - Harry Bellaver (Belaver) - Hillsboro, IL - d. 8-8-1993
actor: “Cavalcade of America”; “CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”
02-12-1910 - Ken Roberts - The Bronx, NY
actor, announcer: Commissioner Weston “The Shadow”; “Easy Aces”
02-12-1912 - Kylie Tennant - Manly, Australia - d. 2-29-1988
writer: “Tether a Dragon”
02-12-1912 - Stan Kenton - Wichita, KS - d. 8-25-1979
bandleader: “Bob Hope Show”; “Stan Kenton Concerts”
02-12-1914 - Tex Beneke - Fort Worth, TX - d. 5-30-2000
tenor sax, singer, bandleader: “Glenn Miller and His Orchestra”; “Sunset Serenade”
02-12-1915 - Lorne Greene - Ottowa, Canada - d. 9-11-1987
host Western Night: “Sears Radio Theatre”
02-12-1916 - Max Geldray - Amsterdam, Netherlands - d. 12-5-2004
vocalist: “The Goon Show”
02-12-1919 - Forrest Tucker - Plainfield, IN - d. 10-25-1986
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”
02-12-1920 - Shirley Yamaguchi - Manchuria, China
actor: “New Edgar Bergen Hour”; “Geroge Fisher Interviews the Stars”
02-12-1923 - Mel Powell - NYC - d. 4-24-1998
pianist, composer: “Jam”; “I Sustain These Wings”; “Grand Roundup”
02-12-1926 - Joe Garagiola - St. Louis, MO
sportscaster
02-12-1927 - Ann Gillis - Little Rock, AR
actor: Judy Foster “A Date with Judy”
02-12-1927 - Bobby Winkler - Chicago, IL - d. 12-28-1989
actor: Newsboy “Big Town”
02-12-1928 - William Edward Olvis - Hollywood, CA - d. 11-27-1998
opera singer: “Metropolitan Opera”
02-12-1929 - Diana Olsson - London, England - d. 10-11-2003
actor: “Phillip O’Dell Mysteries”; “Doomsday Book”
02-13-1877 - Sidney Smith - d. 10-20-1935
comic strip writer: “The Gumps” based on his comic strip
02-13-1900 - Wingy Manone - New Orleans, LA - d. 7-9-1982
orchestra leader: “Saturday Night Swing Club”; “Young Man with a Band”
02-13-1904 - Erwin D. Canham - Auburn, ME - d. 1-3-1982
news commentator: “Christian Science Monitor Views the News”
02-13-1905 - Fred Jeske - Ferguson, MO - d. 11-24-1957
actor: Uncle Remus “Uncle Remus”
02-13-1905 - Michael Durso - Brooklyn, NY - d. 12-25-1975
trombonist: “Eddie Cantor Show”; “Rudy Vallee Show”
02-13-1908 - Lennie Hayton - NYC - d. 4-24-1971
conductor: “Your Hit Parade”; “Ipana Troubadors”
02-13-1908 - Pauline Frederick - Gallitzin, PA - d. 5-9-1990
newscaster: “News of Tomorrow”; “Pauline Frederick News”; “Second Sunday”
02-13-1911 - Jean Muir - NYC - d. 7-23-1996
actor: “Great Plays”; “The Magic Key”
02-13-1912 - Art Rollini - d. 12-31-1993
saxophone: (The Benny Goodman Orchestra) “Let’s Dance”
02-13-1912 - Margaretta Scott - London, England - d. 4-15-2005
actor: “The Merchant of Venice”
02-13-1913 - Frank Phares - d. 12-24-1968
writer: “This Is Your FBI”
02-13-1915 - Lyle Bettger - Philadelphia, PA - d. 9-24-2003
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”; “Family Theatre”
02-13-1916 - Albert Harris - London, England - d. 1-14-2005
conductor, composer: “Four-Star Playhouse”; “NBC University Theatre”
02-13-1916 - James Griffith - Los Angeles, CA - d. 9-17-1993
actor: “Gunsmoke”
02-13-1916 - Ruth Batcheller - d. 7-15-1990
woman’s program on WACE Massachusetts
02-13-1917 - Clara Antonetti - d. 10-27-1995
broadcaster on WTSA Brattleboro, Vermont
02-13-1919 - Joan Edwards - NYC - d. 8-27-1981
singer: “Chesterfield Presents”; “Your Hit Parade”
02-13-1919 - “Tennessee” Ernie Ford - Bristol, TN - d. 10-17-1991
singer: “Tennessee Ernie Ford Show”
02-13-1920 - Eileen Farrell - Willimantic, CT - d. 3-23-2002
singer: “Eileen Farrell Sings”; “Prudential Family Hour”
02-13-1923 - Gene Ames - Malden, MA - d. 4-26-1997
singer,: (Ames Brothers) “Sing It Again”; “Robert Q. Lewis Show”
02-13-1927 - Jim McReynolds - Carfax, VA - d. 12-31-2002
guitarist: (Jim and Jesse) “Grand Ole Opry”
02-13-1930 - Frank Buxton - Wellesley, MA
author: “Golden Age of Radio”; “KIRO Mystery Playhouse”
02-13-1932 - Susan Oliver - NYC - d. 5-10-1990
actor: “Zero Hour”
02-13-1933 - Kim Novak - Chicago, IL
actor: “Bud’s Bandwagon”
02-14-1884 - Grace Valentine - Springfield, OH - d. 11-12-1964
actor: Minnie Grady “Stella Dallas”
02-14-1890 - John Vincent Lawless Hogan - Phildelphia, PA - d. 12-29-1960
chief laboratory assistant to Lee De Forest, invented single-dial tuning
02-14-1894 - Jack Benny - Chicago, IL - d. 12-26-1974
comedian: “Jack Benny Program”
02-14-1895 - Nigel Bruce - Ensenada, Mexico - d. 10-8-1953
actor: Doctor John H. Watson “Advs. of Sherlock Holmes”
02-14-1896 - Anson Weeks - Oakland, CA - d. 2-7-1969
bandleader: “Lucky Strike Show”; “Lady Esther Serenade”; “M.J.B. Coffee Program”
02-14-1897 - Victor Lindlahr - d. 1-26-1969
commentator: “Talks on Diet”
02-14-1900 - Eddie Marr - New Jersey - d. 8-25-1987
actor: Press Agent “Jack Carson Show”; “Jack Benny Program”; “I Fly Anything”
02-14-1901 - Peggy Allenby - NYC - d. 3-23-1966
actor: Susan Price “David Harun”; Mary Andrews “Archie Andrews”
02-14-1902 - Stu Erwin - Squaw Valley, CA - d. 12-21-1967
comedian: Fairchild Finnegan “Phone Again Finnegan”
02-14-1904 - Bruce Barrington - d. 11-4-1990
newscaster: WEBQ Harrisburg, Illinois
02-14-1904 - Jessica Dragonette - Calcutta, India - d. 3-18-1980
singer: (Queen of Radio) “Philco Hour Theatre of Memories”
02-14-1905 - Thelma Ritter - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-5-1969
actor: “Aldrich Family”; “Big Town “; “McGarry and His Mouse”
02-14-1906 - John Goldwater - NYC - d. 2-20-1999
Created “Archie”
02-14-1907 - Art Hern - Mannington, WV - d. 8-4-1997
actor: Ichabod Mudd “Captain Midnight”; “Richard Stone “Today’s Children”
02-14-1908 - Lonnie Glosson - Judsonia, AR - d. 3-2-2001
country music harmonica player: “Grand Ole Opry”
02-14-1909 - Carlton Moss - Newark, NJ - d. 8-10-1997
writer, creator: “Community Forum”
02-14-1912 - Jack Brooks - Liverpool, England - d. 11-8-1971
composer, lyricist: “Dick Tracy in B Flat”
02-14-1912 - Tyler McVey - Bay City, MI - d. 7-4-2003
actor: Elwood Giddings “One Man’s Family”; Tyler “Glamour Manor”
02-14-1913 - Matt Dennis - Seattle, WA - d. 6-21-2002
singer: “Sextette from Hunger Show”; “Victor Borge Show”
02-14-1913 - Mel Allen - Birmingham, AL - d. 6-16-1996
sportscaster, announcer: “White Owl Sports Smoker”; “Truth or Consequences”
02-14-1915 - Irving Gordon - Brooklyn, NY - d. 12-1-1996
scripted Abbott and Costello’s “Who’s On First” routine
02-14-1915 - Oliver B. Greene - Greenville, SC - d. 7-26-1976
baptist evangelist: “The Gospel Hour”
02-14-1916 - Bill Murtaugh - Chagrin Falls, OH - d. 9-22-2006
CBS sound engineer from 1944 to 1981
02-14-1916 - Eddie Arcaro - Cincinnati, OH - d. 11-14-1997
jockey: “Pabst Blue Ribbon Sport of Kings”; “Tops In Sports”
02-14-1920 - Jack Lesberg - Boston, MA - d. 9-17-2005
jazz bassist: “Eddie Condon’s Jazz Concert”
02-14-1921 - Hugh Downs - Akron, OH
announcer, emcee: “Doctors Today”; “Dave Garroway Show”
02-14-1922 - Murray “The K” Kaufman - NYC - d. 2-22-1982
disc jockey: “A Tribute to Murray the K”
02-14-1923 - Cesare Siepi - Milan, Italy
opera singer: “Voice ofFirestone”; “Metropolitan Opera”
02-14-1926 - Jack Bainter - d. 2-20-1970
disk jockey: KHQ Spokane, Washington
02-14-1927 - Lois Maxwell - Kitchener, Canada - d. 9-29-2007
actor: started career in radio
02-14-1928 - Barbara Marie Cameron - Dayton, OH
singer: “Moon River”; “Dave and Barbara”
02-14-1929 - Bobby Ramsen - NYC
actor: “The Eternal Light”; “Let’s Pretend”; “Dick Tracy”
02-14-1931 - Brian Kelly - Detroit, MI - d. 2-12-2005
actor: Started career doing radio commercials in Detroit
02-14-1931 - Phyllis McGuire - Middletown, OH
singer: (The McGuire Sisters) “Arthur Godfrey Time”
02-14-1934 - Florence Henderson - Dale, IN
singer: “Coke Time with Eddie Fisher”
02-14-1952 - Anton Lesser
actor: Marcus Didius Falco “Falco”
02-15-1882 - John Barrymore - Philadelphia, PA - d. 5-29-1942
actor: (The Great Profile) “Streamlined Shakespeare”; “Rudy Vallee Show”
02-15-1883 - Sax Rohmer - London, England - d. 6-1-1959
writer: “Fu Manchu detective novels
02-15-1893 - Walter Donaldson - NYC - d. 7-15-1947
songwriter: “Fitch Bandwagon”
02-15-1896 - Arthur Shields - d. 4-27-1970
actor: (Brother of Barry Fitzgerald) “Cavalcade of America”
02-15-1899 - Anthony Gilbert (Lucy Beatrice Malleson) - London, England - d. 12-9-1973
author: “Black Death”
02-15-1899 - Gale Sondergaard - Litchfield, MN - d. 8-14-1985
actor: “Columbia Presents Corwin”
02-15-1905 - Harold Arlen - Buffalo, NY - d. 4-23-1986
composer: “Songs By Arlen”; “Kraft Program”; “Good New of 1940”
02-15-1907 - Cesar Romero - NYC - d. 1-1-1994
actor: “Movietone Radio Theatre”
02-15-1908 - Hartzell Spence - Clarion, IA - d. 5-9-2001
writer: “Cavalcade of America”; “Lux Radio Theatre”
02-15-1908 - Hugh Wedlock, Jr. - d. 12-13-1993
writer: “Jack Benny Program”; “Lum and Abner”; “That’s My Pop”
02-15-1908 - William Janney - NYC - d. 12-22-1992
actor: Gary Haven “We are Always Young”; Howie Wing “Howie Wing”
02-15-1910 - Vladimir Selinsky - Kiev, Russia - d. 9-6-1984
music: “The Doctor Fights”; “The FBI in Peace and War”; “The Electric Theatre”
02-15-1912 - Howard Harris - d. 3-22-1986
writer: “Abbott and Costello Show”; “Amazing Mr. Smith”; “Mr. and Mrs. North”
02-15-1914 - Kevin McCarthy - Seattle, WA
actor: Richard Lawless “Richard Lawless”
02-15-1914 - Roland Kibbee - Monongahela, PA - d. 8-5-1984
writer: “The Fred Allen Show”
02-15-1916 - Mary Jane Croft - Muncie, IN - d. 8-24-1999
actor: Sandra Martin “Story of Sandra Martin”; Alice Henderson “Beulah”
02-15-1919 - Frank Behrens - Sheboygan, WI - d. 12-15-1986
actor: Billie “Billie the Brownie”; Jack Armstrong “Jack Armstrong”
02-15-1922 - Otis Carney - Chicago, IL - d. 1-1-2006
writer: “Words at War”
02-15-1923 - Keene Curtis - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 10-13-2002
actor: NPR Playhouse “Star Wars”
02-15-1924 - Kingsley Colton - NYC
actor: Buddy Watson “My Son and I”; Hancey Nielsen “Prairie Folks”
02-15-1926 - Mary Lee Robb - Chicago, IL - d. 8-28-2006
actor: Marjorie Forrester “Great Gildersleeve”
02-15-1927 - Harvey Korman - Chicago, IL - d. 5-29-2008
started in radio at the age of 12
02-15-1929 - Paul Ferris - Swansea, Wales
radio columnist, script writer
02-15-1931 - Claire Bloom - London, England
actor: “Kaleidoscope”
02-15-1934 - Graham Kennedy - d. 5-25-2005
began career on radio in 1950s as sidekick to Nicky Nicholls
02-16-1884 - Bert Kalmer - NYC - d. 9-17-1947
lyricist: “You Bet Your Life”
02-16-1884 - Joe Smith - NYC - d. 2-22-1981
comedian: (Smith and Dale) “Al Jolson”; “Kate Smith”
02-16-1893 - Jack Doty - Wisconsin - d. 4-13-1935
actor: Captain Hughes “Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy”
02-16-1893 - Katherine Cornell - Berlin, Germany - d. 6-8-1974
actor: “Tribute to Ethel Barrymore”; “Victory Clothing Collection”
02-16-1896 - Alexander Brailowsky - Kiev, Ukriane, Russia - d. 4-25-1976
pianist: “Music America Loves Best”; “New York Philharmonic”
02-16-1900 - Albert Hackett - NYC - d. 3-16-1995
playwright: “Star Spangled Theatre”
02-16-1901 - Chester Morris - NYC - d. 9-11-1979
actor: Boston Blackie “Boston Blackie”; Great Merlini “Great Merlini”
02-16-1902 - Leif Eid - Idaho - d. 3-28-1976
nbc bureau chief: Washington, Ottawa and Paris
02-16-1903 - Edgar Bergen - Chicago, IL - d. 9-30-1978
ventriloquist: “Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show”
02-16-1903 - Norman Shelley - d. 8-22-1980
actor: John H. Watson “Corner In Crime, Saturday Night Theatre”
02-16-1904 - George F. Kennan - Milwaukee, WI - d. 3-17-2005
post world war two diplomat: “Meet the Press”
02-16-1904 - James Baskett - Indianapolis, IN - d. 7-9-1948
actor: Gabby Gibson “Amos ‘n’ Andy”
02-16-1905 - Carleton D. Smith - d. 4-27-1984
announcer/executive: “Fireside Chat with FDR”
02-16-1909 - Hugh Beaumont - Lawrence, KS - d. 5-14-1982
actor: Appeared on radio in 1931
02-16-1909 - Jeffrey Lynn - Auburn, MA - d. 11-24-1995
actor: “Keep ‘Em Rolling”; “Gulf Stream Guild Theatre”
02-16-1909 - Jeffrey Lynn - Auburn, MA - d. 11-24-1995
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”; “Hallmark Playhouse:’ “MGM Theatre of the Air”
02-16-1910 - Jerry Lester - Chicago, IL - d. 3-23-1995
actor: John Benson “Life of Mary Sothern”
02-16-1911 - Hal Porter - Thornbury, Australia - d. 9-29-1984
writer: “The Forger”
02-16-1911 - “Curly” Noland - Tennessee - d. 1-16-1911
bass: “The Swift Jewel Cowboys”
02-16-1912 - Del Sharbutt - Ft. Worth, TX - d. 4-26-2002
announcer: “Hobby Lobby”; “Jack Benny Program”; “Victory Theatre”
02-16-1914 - Jimmy Wakely - Mineola, AR - d. 9-23-1982
country singer: “All-Star Western Theatre”; “Hollywood Barn Dance”
02-16-1915 - Carlotta Dale - Ardmore, PA
vocalist: “Music for Moderns”; “Rhapsody in Rhythm”
02-16-1915 - Dorothy Lovett - Providence, RI - d. 4-28-1998
actor: Libby Collins “Lux Radio Theatre”
02-16-1915 - Leah Ray - Norfolk, VA - d. 5-27-1999
vocalist: (The Phil Harris Band) “Tommy Riggs and Betty Lou”
02-16-1917 - George Neise - Chicago, IL - d. 4-14-1996
actor: “The Judy Canova Show”; “The Man Called X”
02-16-1918 - Patty Andrews - Mound, MN
singer (Andrews Sisters) “Andrews Sisters Revue”
02-16-1918 - Win Blake - d. 8-4-2003
disk jockey: WKXL Concord, New Hampshire
02-16-1921 - Francis Rickett - Covington, KY
writer: “Family Theatre”; “Al Goodman’s Musical Album”
02-16-1921 - Norman Swallow - Eccles, England - d. 12-5-2000
producer: “Speaking Personally”
02-16-1921 - Wayne Howell - d. 7-8-1993
announcer, disc jockey: “Chamber Music Chamber Society of Lower Basin Street”
02-16-1922 - Robert Campbell - Detroit, MI - d. 5-xx-1981
announcer: “Out of the Deep”
02-16-1926 - Vera-Ellen - Cincinnati, OH - d. 8-30-1981
actor: “Martin and Lewis Show”; “Tony Awards”; “Bud’s Bandwagon”
02-16-1928 - Desmond Cory - Lancing, Sussex, England - d. 1-xx-2001
Script writer for the BBC
02-16-1932 - Gretchen Wyler - Bartlesville, OK - d. 5-27-2007
singer-actor: “Sounds of Freedom”
02-16-1933 - Rod Trongard - d. 7-16-2005
announcer: Minnesota radio
02-16-1937 - Gary Barkdoll - d. 6-16-2001
disk jockey: WAYZ Waynesboro, Pennsylvania
02-17-1871 - Donald Brian - St. John’s, Canada - d. 12-22-1948
singer, actor: “The Philco Hour”
02-17-1881 - Arthur Judson - d. 1-28-1975
executive: Founder of the Columbia Broadcasting System
02-17-1888 - William Balhatchet - d. 2-3-1971
singer: WHT Chicago, Illinois
02-17-1897 - Ben Alley - West Virginia - d. 2-8-1970
singer: (the Golden Tenor) “Melody Lane”; “Sweethearts Of the Air”
02-17-1897 - Harry Tugend - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-11-1989
writer: “The Fred Allen Show”
02-17-1905 - Kuda Bux - Kashmir, India - d. 2-5-1981
magician: “Believe It or Not”
02-17-1906 - Charlie Spivak - New Haven, CT - d. 3-1-1982
orchestra leader: “Bill Stern Colgate Sports Newsreel”
02-17-1906 - Virginia Mansfield - Covington, KY - d. 2-16-2001
singer: “Andy and Virginia”; “Turn Back the Clock”
02-17-1907 - Larry “Buster” Crabbe - Oakland, CA - d. 4-23-1983
actor: “George Jessel Show”; “Hollywood Showcase”
02-17-1908 - Staats Cotsworth - Oak Park, IL - d. 4-9-1979
actor: David Farrell “Front Page Farrell”; Mark Trail “Mark Trail”
02-17-1908 - Walter “Red” Barber - Columbus, MS - d. 10-22-1992
sportscaster: (The Old Redhead) “Schaefer Star Revue”
02-17-1910 - Marc Lawrence - NYC - d. 11-28-2005
actor: “Let George Do It”; “This Is Your FBI”; “Scout About Town”
02-17-1910 - Mark Hawley - New Jersey - d. 9-5-1986
announcer: Guy Lombardo’s New Year’s Eve broadcast
02-17-1911 - Orrin Tucker - St. Louis, MO
bandleader: “Orrin Tucker and His Orchestra”; “One Night Stand”
02-17-1912 - Clifford Evans - Senghenydd, Wales - d. 6-9-1985
Producer and director on Welsh radio
02-17-1914 - Arthur Kennedy - Worcester, MA - d. 1-5-1990
actor: “Best Plays”
02-17-1914 - Larry Douglas - Philadelphia, PA - d. 9-15-1996
actor, singer: “Here’s to Romance”
02-17-1914 - Wayne Morris - Los Angeles, CA - d. 9-14-1959
actor: “Radio Reader’s Digest”; “NBC university Theatre of the Air”
02-17-1915 - Norman Thomson - Massachusetts - d. 2-3-2000
actor: (Founding member of “Meercury Theatre) “The War of the Worlds”
02-17-1919 - Kathleen Freeman - Chicago, IL - d. 8-24-2001
actor: California Artists Radio Theatre”
02-17-1921 - Ken Platt - Lancashire, England - d. 10-2-1998
comedian: “Fanfare”; “Worker’s Playtime”; “Hit the Road”
02-17-1923 - Buddy De Franco - Camden, NJ
bandleader: “Glenn Miller Orchestra”
02-17-1924 - Margaret Truman - Independence, MO - d. 1-29-2008
coloratura: “The Big Show”; “The Railroad Hour”; “Authors in the News”
02-17-1924 - Mel Welles - NYC - d. 8-19-2005
worked as a radio disc jockey before moving to Hollywood in the 1950s
02-17-1925 - Hal Holbrook - Cleveland, OH
actor: Grayling Dennis “Brighter Day”
02-17-1929 - Patricia Routledge - Birkenhead, Cheshire, England
actor: “Saturday Play”
02-17-1941 - Gene Pitney - Hartford, CT - d. 4-5-2006
singer: “Voices of Vista”
02-17-1948 - Blanquita Cullum - Ventura, CA
talk show host: “BQ View”; “Live from the Capitol”
02-17-1949 - Don Scardino - NYC
actor: “CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”
02-17-1962 - Lou Diamond Phillips - Subic Bay Naval Station, Philippines
actor: “Twilight Zone”
02-18-1890 - Adolphe Menjou - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 10-29-1963
host: “Texaco Star Theatre”; “Eternal Light”; “Hallmark Playhouse”
02-18-1890 - Edward Arnold - NYC - d. 4-26-1956
actor: President “Mr. President”
02-18-1892 - Wendell Willkie - Elwood, IN - d. 10-8-1944
presidential candidate: “Information, Please”
02-18-1894 - Andres Segovia - Linares, Spain - d. 6-2-1987
classical guitarist: “The Magic Key”; “Theatre U.S.A.”; “Concert Hall”
02-18-1899 - Bruce Kammen - Cincinnati, OH - d. unknown
actor: August Kaltenmeyer “Kaltenmeyer’s Kindergarten”
02-18-1900 - Zeno Klinker - d. 1-22-1985
writer: “Edgar Bergen/.Charlie McCarthy Show”
02-18-1901 - Wayne King - Savannah, IL - d. 7-16-1985
bandleader: (The Waltz King) “Lady Esther Serenade”
02-18-1903 - George Givot - Ekatarinaslav, Russia - d. 6-7-1984
dialectitian: (Greek Ambassador of Good Will) “George Givot Show)
02-18-1903 - Jacques Fray - Paris, France - d. 1-20-1963
pianist, disc jockey: “Fray and Braggiotti”
02-18-1905 - Queenie Leonard - London, England - d. 1-17-2002
actor: “NBC University Theatre”
02-18-1907 - Billy de Wolf - Wollaston, MA - d. 3-5-1974
actor: “Ginny Simms Show”; “Philco Radio Playhouse”; “Lux Radio Theatre”
02-18-1907 - Griffing Bancroft - d. 2-5-1999
newscaster: “The Big News of 1957”
02-18-1907 - L. A. “Speed” Riggs - Silverdale, NC - d. 2-1-1987
tobacco auctioneer: “Jack Benny Show”; “Kay Kyser Show”
02-18-1912 - Earl George - Donora, PA - d. 1-30-2004
actor: “Curtain Time”; “Girl Alone”; “Mortimer Gooch”
02-18-1914 - Pee Wee King - Abrams, WI - d. 3-7-2000
singer, songwriter, accordionist: “Grand Ole Opry”; “Pee Wee King Show”
02-18-1917 - Jack Slattery - Missouri - d. 10-29-1979
announcer: “House Party”; “You Bet Your Life”
02-18-1919 - Jack Palance - Lattimer Mines, PA - d. 11-10-2006
actor: “Bud’s Bandwagon”
02-18-1920 - Bill Cullen - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 7-7-1990
host, announcer: “Winner Take All”; “Arthur Godfrey Show”
02-18-1920 - Howard Rodman - New York - d. 12-5-1985
writer: “The American School of the Air”
02-18-1922 - Allan Melvin - Kansas City, MO - d. 1-17-2008
actor: “Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts”; “Arthur Godfrey Time”
02-18-1922 - Ruth Dean Rickaby - d. 10-xx-1973
actor: “The Lone Ranger”
02-18-1924 - Sam Rolfe - NYC - d. 7-10-1993
writer, creator: “Suspense”; “Have Gun, Will Travel”
02-18-1925 - George Kennedy - NYC
actor: “Suspense”; “Hollywood Radio Theatre”
02-18-1930 - John Patton, Jr. - Garland City, AR - d. 4-18-2005
tenor: Hosted a popular radio program in Los Angeles
02-18-1931 - Ned Sherrin - Somerset, England - d. 10-1-2007
broadcaster; producer: “Loose Ends”; “Counterpoint”
02-18-1933 - Mary Ure - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 4-3-1975
actor: Won the Carleton Hobbs Bursary Award for Radio Drama acting in 1954.
02-18-1944 - George American Horse
actor: “We Hold These Truths”
02-18-1944 - Michael Riordan - Montreal, Canada
writer: “The Other Cheek”
02-18-1951 - Mark Higgins - Milwaukee, WI
actor: Santa Claus “Billie the Brownie”
02-19-1893 - Cedric Hardwicke - Stourbridge, England - d. 8-6-1964
actor: Sherlock Holmes “BBC Home Theatre”; Winston Churchill “These Four Men”
02-19-1895 - Louie Calhern - NYC - d. 5-12-1956
actor: “Radio Reader’s Digest”
02-19-1896 - Eddie Jackson - d. 7-16-1980
comic: “Jimmy Durante Show”; “Mail Call”; “Big Show”
02-19-1899 - Carl Matthews - Oklahoma Territory - d. 5-3-1959
actor: “The Cuckoo Hour”
02-19-1901 - William Post, Jr. - d. 9-26-1989
actor: John Perry “John’s Other Wife”
02-19-1902 - Eddie Peabody - Reading, MA - d. 11-7-70
banjoist: (The Banjo King) “National Barn Dance”
02-19-1902 - Kay Boyle - St. Paul, MN - d. 12-27-1992
writer: “NBC Presents: Short Story”
02-19-1910 - Lionel Clouser - Shamokin, PA - d. 10-17-1942
musician: “The Bob Crosby Show”
02-19-1911 - Merle Oberon - Tasmania, Australia - d. 11-23-1979
actor: “Orson Welles Theatre”; “Stars Over Hollywood”
02-19-1912 - Saul Chaplin - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-15-1997
composer
02-19-1913 - Jack Leonard - NYC - d. 6-17-1988
singer: (Tommy Dorsey’s Band) “Meet the Music”
02-19-1915 - Dick Emery - London, England - d. 1-2-1983
comedian: “Educating Archie”
02-19-1915 - Fred Freiberger - NYC - d. 3-2-2003
writer: “Suspense”; “Family Theatre”
02-19-1917 - John Fenton Murray - Lincoln, NE - d. 7-24-1996
comedy writer: “Red Skelton Show”
02-19-1918 - Fay McKenzie - Hollywood, CA
actor: “Blue Ribbon Town”
02-19-1921 - Chris Gampel - Montreal, Canada
actor: “The Eternal Light”; “CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”
02-19-1922 - Sandy Becker - NYC - d. 4-9-1996
actor, announcer: Jerry Malone “Young Dr. Malone”; “Backstage Wife”
02-19-1924 - Lee Marvin - NYC - d. 8-29-1987
actor: “Dragnet”
02-19-1937 - Lee Harding - Australia
author: Several of his works adapted for radio
02-20-1874 - Mary Garden - Aberdeen, Scotland - d. 1-3-1967
singer: “The Metropolitan Opera”
02-20-1888 - Muriel Starr - Montreal, Canada - d. 4-19-1950
actor: Susan Leighton “Amanda of Honeymoon Hill”
02-20-1890 - “Prince” Michael Romanoff - Lithuania - d. 9-1-1971
restaurant owner: “Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show”
02-20-1893 - Russel Crouse - Findlay, OH - d. 4-3-1966
panelist: “Information, Please”; “Transatlantic Quiz”
02-20-1898 - Amedeo De Filippi - Ariano, Italy - d. 6-15-1990
orchestrator: Judson Radio Program Company
02-20-1900 - Paul Conlan - Indiana - d. 2-26-1980
writer, director: “Abbott and Costello Show”; “The Signal Carnival”
02-20-1906 - Gale Gordon - NYC - d. 6-30-1995
actor: Mayor LaTrivia “Fibber McGee and Molly”; Osgood Conklin “Our Miss Brooks”
02-20-1906 - Jack Jackson - Horsley, England - d. 1-15-1978
disc jockey: “Record Round-Up”; “Rooftop Rendezvous”; “Cabaret Crusie”
02-20-1906 - Richard Himber - Newark, NJ - d. 12-11-1966
bandleader: “Studebaker Champions”; “Your Hit Parade”
02-20-1907 - Nadine Conner - Compton, CA - d. 3-1-2003
singer: “Show Boat”; “Kraft Music Hall”; “Bell Telephone Hour”
02-20-1909 - Barry Wood - New Haven, CT - d. 7-19-1970
singer, host: “Million-Dollar Band”; “Your Hit Parade”
02-20-1911 - Paul Tripp - NYC - d. 8-29-2002
actor: “CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”
02-20-1913 - Tommy Henrich - Massillon, OH
sportscaster: “Tommy Henrich Show”
02-20-1914 - Dick Post - St. Louis, MO
announcer: “Scattergood Baines”; “Tony Wons”
02-20-1914 - John Charles Daly - Johannesburg, South Africa - d. 2-25-1991
newscaster, emcee: “What’s My Line”; “CBS Is There”; “Columbia Workshop”
02-20-1920 - Frank Muir - Ramsgate, England - d. 1-2-1998
comedy writer: “Take It from Here”; “Bedtime with Braden”
02-20-1925 - Robert Altman - Kansas City, MO - d. 11-20-2006
writer: “A Man Called X”
02-20-1928 - Elroy Face - Stephentown, NY
pitcher: “Tops In Sports, The Elroy Face Story”
02-20-1929 - Amanda Blake - Buffalo, NY - d. 8-16-1989
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”; “Escape”
02-20-1937 - Nancy Wilson - Chillicothe, OH
singer: “Here’s to Veterans”; “Spots for the National Guard”
02-21-1880 - Frank Orth - Philadelphia, PA - d. 3-17-1962
actor: Inspector Faraday “Boston Blackie”
02-21-1881 - Dr. Jonah B. Wise - Cincinnati, OH - d. 2-1-1959
preacher: “Message of Israel”
02-21-1889 - Russell Bankson - d. 12-2-1975
news commentator: KHQ Spokane, Washington
02-21-1893 - Ernest Whitman - Fort Smith, AR - d. 8-5-1954
actor: Bill Jackson “Beulah”; Roustabout “Circus Days”
02-21-1901 - Reginald Kirby - England - d. 5-25-1972
writer: “Road to Tokyo”
02-21-1903 - Roland MacLane - d. 2-xx-1984
writer: “Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show”; “My Friend Irma”
02-21-1907 - W. H. Auden - York, England - d. 9-29-1973
writer: “Columbia Workshop”
02-21-1909 - Ray Hedge - d. 7-11-1994
actor: Clarence Tiffingtuffer “Myrt and Marge”
02-21-1915 - Ann Sheridan - Dallas, TX - d. 1-21-1967
actor: (The Oomph Girl) “Smiths of Hollywood”; “Stars in the Air”
02-21-1916 - Norman Jolley - Adel, IA - d. 8-13-2002
actor: Dr. Milingro “Space Patrol”
02-21-1917 - Al “Red” Benson - d. 6-19-1966
quizmaster: “Take A Number”
02-21-1921 - Shirley Bell - Chicago, IL
actor: Little Orphan Annie “Little Orphan Annie”; Patsy Donovan “Captain Midnight”
02-21-1929 - James Beck - Islington, North London, England - d. 8-6-1973
actor: Private Joe Walker “Dad’s Army”
02-21-1933 - Nina Simone - Tyron, NC - d. 4-21-2003
singer: “Voices of Vista”
02-21-1938 - Wolfman Jack - Brooklyn, NY - d. 7-1-1995
disc jockey: Mexican Border Radio”
02-22-1872 - John Shaw Neilson - Penola, South Australia - d. 5-12-1942
poet: “The Pathfinder” based on Nelison’s life story
02-22-1879 - Philip F. Lord - San Francisco, CA - d. 11-25-1968
actor: Pop Gunn “Great Gunns”; Frazier Mitchell “Mary Marlin”
02-22-1889 - Carl Balcomb - d. 9-26-1977
host: “Poet’s Corner”
02-22-1890 - Enid Markey - Dillon, CO - d. 11-15-1981
actor: Lillian Burke “Woman of Courage”
02-22-1891 - George Jeske - Utah - d. 10-28-1951
writer: “Truth or Consequences”
02-22-1892 - Edna St. Vincent Millay - Rockland, ME - d. 10-19-1950
author: “Against the Storm”
02-22-1897 - Alonzo Deen Cole - St. Paul, MN - d. 4-7-1971
writer, producer, director: “Casey, Crime Photographer”
02-22-1900 - Stuart V. Dawson - Springfield, IL - d. 10-4-1958
announcer: “Backstage Wife”
02-22-1901 - Bess Johnson - d. 1-3-1975
actor: Bess Johnson “Story of Bess Johnson”; Lady Esther “Lady Esther Serenade
02-22-1905 - Jean Colbert - d. 9-5-1995
actor: “Young Dr. Malone”; “Portia Faces Life”
02-22-1905 - Robert Weede - Baltimore, MD - d. 7-9-1972
singer: “Great Moments in Music”; “For America We Sing”
02-22-1907 - Robert Young - Chicago, IL - d. 7-21-1998
actor: Jim Anderson “Father Knows Best”; Doug Adams “Passport for Adams”
02-22-1907 - Sheldon Leonard - NYC - d. 1-10-1997
comedian: Tout “Jack Benny Program”; Joe Crunchmiller “Judy Canova Show”
02-22-1908 - John Mills - North Elmham, England - d. 4-22-2005
actor: “A Christmas Carol”; “Charlie Chaplin”
02-22-1910 - Gene Hamilton - Toledo, OH - d. 11-23-2000
announcer: “Voice of Firestone”; “Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street”
02-22-1911 - Vaughn Taylor - Boston, MA - d. 4-26-1983
actor: “National Travel Club”; “There is No Night”
02-22-1912 - Buddy Tate - Sherman, TX - d. 2-10-2001
jazz saxphonist: “Jubilee”; “One Night Stand”
02-22-1915 - Jesse Ashlock - Walker County, TX - d. 8-9-1976
fiddle: “The Musical Brownies”
02-22-1915 - Jules Munshin - NYC - d. 2-19-1970
actor: “MGM Musical Comedy Theatre”
02-22-1918 - Don Pardo - Westfield, MA
newscaster, announcer: “NBC News”; “Magnificent Montague”
02-22-1918 - Sid Abel - Melville, Saskatchewan, Canada - d. 2-7-2000
sportscaster: “Play By Play Detroi