Friday, November 07, 2008

 

OTR Births/Deaths JAN thru JUN

Last Updated April 1, 2009

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 - Maurice 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”
01-01-1939 - Ray Bellew - Montreal, Canada - d. 10-10-2006
announcer for CBC radio
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”
01-02-1923 - Mary Elizabeth Smith - Ft. Worth, TX
associate radio producer: “Wide, Wide World”
01-02-1925 - Larry Harmon - Toledo, OH - d. 7-3-2008
actor: “The Great Gildersleeve”
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”
01-05-1898 - Irene Kuhn - NYC - d. 12-30-1995
commentator: “Irene Kuhn’s Feature Page”
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 - John S. Wilson - Elizabeth, NJ - d. 8-27-2002
commentator: “The World of Jazz”
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”
01-06-1927 - Jack Voorhies - Sheffield, AL - d. 3-4-2008
radio personality: (Voice of the Shoals) Created Luther Appleby and his mule Chilton
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. 11-15-1954
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. 7-25-1976
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”
01-08-1915 - Guy Mauffette - Montreal, Canada - d. 6-29-2005
announcer: Worked with CBC radio, Canada’s French network
01-08-1920 - Robert Gordon Bollard - Buffalo, NY - d. 11-2-1964
coordinaator of radio stations services
01-08-1921 - Guy Bagli - d. 2-21-1971
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: “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
01-09-1939 - Jimmy Boyd - McComb, MS - d.3-7-2009
singer: (I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus) “The Bing Crosby Show”
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”
01-10-1917 - Jerry Wexler - The Bronx, NY - d. 8-15-2008
record producer: “Sound Stage”
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”
01-11-1890 - Finney Briggs - Castlewood, SD - d. 9-25-1978
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 - d. 8-26-2001
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
01-11-1937 - Chiemi Eri - Tokyo, Japan - d. 2-13-1982
enka singer: “Kohaku Uta Gassen”
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: Several of his compositions used as theme music
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”; “Grand Ole Opry”
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: “Grand Ole Opry”; “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 - d. 11-17-2008
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 - d. 12-25-2008
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: “Ruth Lyons Show”
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”
01-20-1921 - Connie Haines - Savannah, GA - d. 9-22-2008
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
01-21-1937 - Paul Greenberg - Shreveport, LA
commentary: “Sunday Weekend Edition”
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. 11-14-1982
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. 6-6-1985
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 - d. 12-18-2008
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 - Danville, KY - 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”; “Grand Slam”
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
01-28-1929 - Bill Gilliand - Memphis, TN - d. 5-9-2008
announcer: “Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar”
01-28-1931 - Ezio Flagello - NYC - d. 3-19-2009
opera singer: “The Metropolitan Opera”
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”
01-30-1915 - Michael Guido - Lorain, OH - d. 2-21-2009
evangelist: “Seeds from the Sower”
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. 11-29-1985
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. 3-20-1993
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 Lomax - 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
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”
02-02-1922 - Norman Marrgraff - Wisconsin - d. 4-30-2006
disk jockey: “Fritz the Plumber”
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 - 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”
02-03-1922 - 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. 1-23-1981
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”
02-06-1911 - John Allen Wolfe - Louisville, KY - d. 6-6-1996
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”; “Renfro Valley 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”
02-06-1951 - Kevin Whatley - Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England
actor: “Sherlock Holmes”
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: Several of his works adapted for radio
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. 2-3-1970
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”
02-12-1809 - Abraham Lincoln - Hardin County, KY - d. 4-15-1865
u.s. president: Many works on radio dedicated to his life
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 Brendler - d. 7-29-1965
music director: “The Navy Hour”
02-12-1898 - Curt Peterson - Albert Lea, MN - d. 4-23-1980
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 - Janet Logan - Eldon, MO - d. 10-23-1965
actor: Stella Moore “Girl Alone”; Clara Blake “Romance of Helen Trent”
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”
02-14-1925 - Grant Krueger - d. 9-14-2008
musician: “Heinie and His Grenadiers”; “GK and the Executives”
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”
02-15-1918 - Hank Locklin - Mc Lellan, FL - d. 3-8-2009
played guitar and sang on radio stations across the South as a teenager
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”
02-16-1910 - 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. 1-16-1993
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 - d. 12-1-1988
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 - Frances Rickett - Covington, KY - d. 8-6-2008
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
02-17-1889 - H. L. Hunt - near Vandalia, IL - d. 11-29-1974
established Facts Forum which produced radio programs
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 - Virginia Mansfield - Covington, KY - d. 2-16-2001
singer: “Andy and Virginia”; “Turn Back the Clock”
02-17-1907 - Charlie Spivak - Kiev, Ukraine - d. 3-1-1982
orchestra leader: “Bill Stern Colgate Sports Newsreel”; Million Dollar Band”
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. 10-26-1973
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 - d. 5-8-2008
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 Detroit Red Wings”
02-22-1920 - Giulietta Masina - San Girogio di Piano, Italy - d. 3-23-1994
actor: Pallina “Terzoglio”
02-22-1922 - Newt Arnold - Palo Alto, CA - d. 2-12-2000
actor: “Railroad Hour”; “This Is Your FBI”
02-22-1925 - Stratford Johns - Pietermaritzburg, South Africa - d. 1-29-2002
actor: Pennington “Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile”
02-22-1926 - Dorothy McGuire - Kansas City, KS
singer: (The McGuire Sisters) “Arthur Godfrey Time”
02-22-1926 - Kenneth Williams - Islington, England - d. 4-15-1988
actor: the Snide “Hancock’s Half Hour”
02-22-1929 - James Hong - Minneapolis, MN
actor: “We Hold These Truths”
02-22-1932 - Ted Kennedy - Brookline, MA
u.s. senator: “Meet the Press”
02-22-1948 - Miyako Harumi - Kyoto, Japan
enka singer: “Kohaku Uta Gassen”
02-23-1851 - Frederick Warde - Deddingnton, England - d. 2-7-1935
actor, lecturer: WMC Memphis, Tennessee
02-23-1883 - Victor Fleming - Pasasena, CA - d. 1-6-1949
film director: “Gulf Screen Theatre”
02-23-1886 - Rae Eleanor Ball - d. 3-6-1967
violinist: CBS Network
02-23-1892 - Kathleen Harrison - Blackburn, England - d. 12-6-1995
actor: “”Meet the Huggetts”
02-23-1899 - Norman Taurog - Chicago, IL - d. 4-7-1981
film director: “Biography in Sound”; “Bud’s Bandwagon”
02-23-1904 - William L. Shirer - Chicago, IL - d. 12-28-1993
news analyst: “CBS European News”; “W.L. Shirer: News and Comments”
02-23-1905 - Emil Buffa - d. 11-12-1973
conducted his orchestra for NBC
02-23-1909 - Anthony Ross - NYC - d. 10-26-1955
actor: Danny Clover “Broadway Is My Beat”; Broadway Columnist “Mr. Broadway”
02-23-1912 - Thomas L. Thomas - Maesteg, South Wales - d. 4-17-1983
singer: “Manhattan Merry-Go-Round”; “Voice of Firestone”
02-23-1913 - Jon Hall - Fresno, CA - d. 12-13-1979
actor: “Texaco Star Theatre”; “Silver Theatre”; “Screen Guild Theatre”
02-23-1914 - Pat Flower - Kent, England - d. 9-2-1977
writer: “Love Returns to Umbrizi”
02-23-1915 - Paul Tibbets - Quincy, IL - d. 11-1-2007
on 8-6-1945 dropped Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, Japan: “Morning Edition”
02-23-1917 - John Brooks - Houlton, ME - d. 11-13-1999
composer, arranger, pianist: “Chicago Theatre of the Air”
02-23-1918 - Linwood McCarthy - Norfolk, VA - d. 11-23-2002
actor: “Son of Erin”
02-23-1925 - Niels Robinson - d. 1-18-1994
actor: “Coast-to-Coast on a Bus”
02-23-1926 - Isabel Bigley - The Bronx, NY - d. 9-30-2006
singer: “Music for America”; “Heartbeat of Broadway”; “Let Freedom Sing”
02-23-1927 - Régine Crespin - Marseille, France - d. 7-5-2007
operatic soprano: “Voices”
02-23-1935 - Gerrianne Raphael - NYC
actor: “Let’s Pretend”
02-23-1943 - Jada Rowland - NYC
actor: “CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”
02-24-1876 - Victor Moore - Hammonton, NJ - d. 7-23-1962
comedian: (The Lothario of the Lumbago Set) “Jimmy Durante Show”
02-24-1885 - Bert Lytell - NYC - d. 9-28-1954
actor: Jimmy Valentine “Alias Jimmy Valentine”; Jeb Stuart “Roses and Drums”
02-24-1885 - Chester Nimitz - Fredericksburg, TX - d. 2-20-1966
admiral of the navy: “Navy Day Program”; “We the People”; “This is the Navy”
02-24-1889 - Boyd Bunch - Chamois, MO - d. 2-8-1969
pianist, arranger: “Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians”
02-24-1890 - Marjorie Main - Acton, IN - d. 4-10-1975
actor: “Columbia Presents Corwin”
02-24-1891 - Joe Laurie, Jr. - Moscow, Russia - d. 4-29-1954
comedian: “Can You Top This”
02-24-1895 - May Singhi Breen - NYC - d. 12-19-1970
singer: (The Ukulele Lady) “Sweethearts of the Air”
02-24-1904 - Tim Graham - Kansas - d. 1-14-1979
actor: “Plays for Americans”
02-24-1914 - Zachary Scott - Austin, TX - d. 10-3-1965
actor: “Suspense”; “Encore Theatre”; “U.S. Steel Hour”; “Screen Guild Theatre”
02-24-1916 - Willie Gilbert - Cleveland, OH - d. 12-2-1980
writer: “Tom Corbett, Space Cadet”
02-24-1917 - Peggy Wall - Spokane, WA
actor: Blue Howard “Betty and Bob”; Lois Colton “Romance of Helen Trent”
02-24-1919 - Betty Marsden - Liverpool, England - d. 7-19-1998
actor: Daphne Whitehigh, Buttercup Gruntfuttock, et al “Round the Horne”
02-24-1921 - Abe Vigoda - NYC
actor: “You Are There”
02-24-1922 - Steven Hill - Seattle, WA
actor: “Treasury Salute”; “Up For Parole”
02-24-1923 - Fred Steiner - NYC
music: “On Stage”; “This Is Yor FBI”
02-24-1924 - Talat Mahmood - Lucknow, India - d. 5-9-1998
singer: “The Frank Sinatra of India) “All India Radio”
02-24-1931 - Barry Oakley - Melbourne, Australia
writer: “Eugene Flockhart’s Desk”; “The Great God Mogadon”
02-24-1943 - George Harrison - Liverpool, England - d. 11-29-2001
singer: (The Beatles) “Here We Go Again”
02-24-1943 - Richard Carleton - Bowral, Australia - d. 5-7-2006
correspondent for 2GB radio
02-24-1946 - Barry Bostwick - San Mateo, CA
actor: “CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”
02-25-1879 - Frank McIntyre - Ann Arbor, MI - d. 6-8-1949
actor: Captain Barney “Maxwell House Showboat”; Captain Henry “Showboat”
02-25-1895 - George Schuyler - Providence, RI - d. 8-31-1977
host: “The Negro World”
02-25-1896 - John Parrish - Lindenhurst, NY - d. 4-18-1988
actor: “Alias Jimmy Valentine”; “Life Can Be Beautiful”
02-25-1896 - Victor Bay - Lodz, Poland - d. 10-12-1988
orchestra leader on the CBS network
02-25-1899 - Wini Shaw - San Francisco, CA - d. 5-2-1982
actor: Air Trailers “Good News of 1935 and In Caliente”
02-25-1901 - Zeppo Marx - NYC - d. 11-30-1979
comedian: (Marx Brothers) “American Review”
02-25-1904 - Adelle Davis - Lizton, IN - d. 5-31-1974
nutritionist, author: “Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy”
02-25-1904 - Marion Claire - Chicago, IL - d. 2-24-1988
singer: “Chicago Theatre of the Air”
02-25-1904 - Warren Parker - Alton, IL - d. 7-31-1976
actor: Jesus Christ “The Greatest Story Ever Told”
02-25-1906 - Warren Hymer - NYC - d. 3-25-1948
actor: “Screen Guild Theatre”
02-25-1908 - George Duning - Richmond, IN - d. 2-27-2000
composer: “Bud’s Bandwagon”
02-25-1912 - David Roberts - Jacksonville, FL - d. 12-24-1996
NBC staff announcer
02-25-1912 - Richard Wattis - Wednesbury, England - d. 2-1-1975
actor: “Brothers In Law”
02-25-1912 - Wally Ausley - d. 12-19-1994
play-by-play for the North Carolina State Wolfpack
02-25-1913 - Jim Backus - Cleveland, OH - d. 7-3-1989
comedian: Hubert Updike “Alan Young Show”; Chester Fenwick “Sad Sack”
02-25-1914 - Berkley Mather - Gloucester, North Wales - d. 4-7-1996
author: “Bird’s Eye View”
02-25-1914 - John Arlott - Basingstoke, England - d. 12-14-1991
BBC radio cricket commentator
02-25-1915 - Brenda Joyce - Excelsior Springs, MO
actor: “Good News of 1940”; “Stars Over Hollywood”; “AmericanShowcase”
02-25-1917 - Michael Morris - Russia - d. 6-20-2003
writer: “Mr. and Mrs. North”; “Hollywood Story”
02-25-1918 - Bobby Riggs - Los Angeles, CA - d. 10-25-1995
overbearing tennis player: “National Guard Show”
02-25-1921 - Andy Pafko - Boyceville, WI
baseball player: “Quiz Kids”
02-25-1921 - John Wainwright - d. 9-xx-1995
writer: “Death in a Sleeping City”
02-25-1921 - Patricia Ryan - London, England - d. 2-15-1949
actor: Amy March “Little Women”; Claudia Naughton “Claudia and David”
02-25-1925 - Lisa Kirk - Charleroi, PA - d. 11-11-1990
vocalist: “The Henry Morgan Show”
02-25-1927 - Dickie Jones - Snyder, TX
actor: Henry Aldrich “The Aldrich Family”
02-25-1928 - Larry Gelbart - Chicago, IL
writer: “Bob Hope Show”; “Duffy’s Tavern”; “Jack Parr Show”
02-25-1932 - Faron Young - Shreveport, LA - d. 12-10-1996
country singer: “Grand Ole Opry”; “Country Style U.S.A.”
02-25-1937 - Bob Schieffer - Austin, TX
news correspondent: “CBS News Twentieth Century Roundup”
02-25-1938 - Diane Baker - Hollywood, CA
actor: “CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”
02-25-1951 - Don Poier - d. 1-21-2005
sports announcer
02-26-1875 - Emma Dunn - Cheshire, England - d. 12-14-1966
actor: “The Eveready Hour”
02-26-1887 - William Frawley - Burlington, IA - d. 3-3-1966
comedian: Fred Mertz “I Love Lucy”, “Hallmark Playhouse”; “Hollywood Hotel”
02-26-1888 - William Lynn - Providence, RI - d. 1-5-1952
actor: Casper Milquestoast “The Timid Soul”; Mac “Tillie the Toiler”
02-26-1891 - Alan Bridge - Pennsylvania - d. 12-27-1957
actor: “The Eddie Bracken Show”
02-26-1891 - Josef Bonime - Vilna, Poland - d. 11-8-1959
conductor: “Death Valley Days”; “Echoes of New York”
02-26-1898 - Fiddlin’ Sid Harkreader - Wilson County, TN - d. 3-19-1988
fiddler: “Grand Ole Opry”
02-26-1900 - Jean Negulesco - Craiova, Rumaina - d. 7-18-1993
film director, screenwriter: “Screen Director’s Playhouse”; “Lux Radio Theatre”
02-26-1903 - Donald Baker - Ontario, Canada - d. 6-26-1989
organist: WOR Newark, New Jersey
02-26-1906 - Madeleine Carroll - West Bromwich, England - d. 10-2-1987
actor: “The Circle”; “NBC Radio Theatre”; “Stage Door Canteen”
02-26-1907 - Hal Fimberg - d. 4-6-1974
writer, director, producer: “Abbott and Costello”; “Spike Jones”
02-26-1911 - Warren M. Lewis - d. 3-28-1997
producer: “Silver Theatre”; “Stars Over Hollywood”
02-26-1912 - Dane Clark - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-11-1998
actor: Perry ‘Quiz’ Quisinberry “Passport for Adams
02-26-1914 - Robert Alda - NYC - d. 5-3-1986
singer: “Rudy Vallee Presents the Drene Show”
02-26-1914 - Roy Maypole - d. 7-4-1976
creator, writer: “Heart’s Desire”; “Stepmother”
02-26-1915 - Eddie Gallaher - Washington, D.C. - d. 11-26-2003
disc jockey: “Moon Dial”; “On a Sunday Afternoon”
02-26-1916 - Dick Dunham - NYC - d. 11-24-1989
announcer: “Strange Romance of Evelyn Winters”
02-26-1916 - Jackie Gleason - Brooklyn, NY - d. 6-24-1987
comedian: “Jackie Gleason-Les Tremayne Show”
02-26-1916 - Peter Brough - West London, England - d. 6-3-1999
ventriloquist: “Educating Archie”; “Navy Mixture”
02-26-1918 - Theodore Sturgeon - Staten Island, NY - d. 5-12-1985
science fiction writer: “Beyond Tomorrow”; “X Minus One”; “Future Tense”
02-26-1919 - Mason Adams - NYC - d. 4-26-2005
actor: Larry ‘Pepper’ Young “Pepper Young’s Family” Ned Scott “Jones and I”
02-26-1920 - Antony Kearey - London, England - d. 9-16-1997
producer: “The Shetland Wildcat”
02-26-1920 - Michael Pate - Sydney, Australia - d. 9-1-2008
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”
02-26-1920 - Tony Randall - Tulsa, OK - d. 5-17-2004
actor: Reggie York “I Love A Mystery”
02-26-1921 - Betty Hutton - Battle Creek, MI - d. 3-11-2007
singer: “Radio Almanac”; “Radio Hall of Fame”; “U.S. Steel Hour”
02-26-1921 - Clarice Blackburn - San Francisco, CA - d. 8-5-1995
actor: “CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”
02-26-1922 - Margaret Leighton - Barnt Green, England - d. 1-13-1976
actor: “Variety Playhouse”; “Pocket Theatre”
02-26-1926 - David Frankham - Kent, England
actor: Andy Barbour “One Man’s Family”
02-26-1928 - Fats Domino - New Orleans, LA
singer: “Guest Star”
02-26-1928 - John Ewart - Melbourne, Australia - d. 3-8-1994
actor: “Snow White”
02-26-1932 - Johnny Cash - Kingsland, AR - d. 9-12-2003
singer: “Grand Ole Opry”; “Louisiana Hayride”
02-26-1933 - Godfrey Cambridge - NYC - d. 11-29-1976
actor: “Voices of Vista”
02-27-1873 - Enrico Caruso - Naples, Italy - d. 8-2-1921
tenor: On 12-13-1910 made experimental broadcast with Lee DeForest
02-27-1880 - Georgia Burke - Atlanta, GA - d. 11-28-1985
actor: Lily “When A Girl Marries”
02-27-1888 - Lotte Lehmann - Perleberg, Prussia, Germany - d. 10-24-1976
soprano: “Command Performance”; “Concert Hall”; “Here’s to Veterans”
02-27-1891 - David Sarnoff - Minsk, Russia - d. 12-12-1971
executive: National Broadcasting Company”
02-27-1891 - Rubey Cowan - Brooklyn, NY - d. 7-28-1957
head of radio talent for NBC
02-27-1892 - William Demarest - St. Paul, MN - d. 12-28-1983
actor: Mr. Cobb “Cobbs”; “Eddie Bracken Show”
02-27-1893 - Maurice Spitalny - Tetieff, Russia - d. 10-28-1986
conductor: Music director for KDKA Pittsburgh
02-27-1894 - Frank Munn - The Bronx, NY - d. 10-1-1953
singer (The Golden Voice of Radio) Paul Oliver “Palmolive Hour”
02-27-1894 - Upton Close - Kelso, WA - d. 11-14-1960
commentator: “Events and Trends of the Week”; “Close-Ups of the :News”
02-27-1897 - Marian Anderson - South Philadelphia, PA - d. 4-8-1993
singer: “Ford Evening Sunday Hour”; “Telephone Hour”; “New World A’ Coming”
02-27-1899 - Ian Keith - Boston, MA - d. 3-26-1960
actor “The O’Neill Cycle”
02-27-1902 - Gene Sarazen - Harrison, NY - d. 5-13-1999
golf legend: “Tops in Sports”
02-27-1902 - Joe Tarto - d. 8-24-1976
musician: “The Ipana Troubadors”
02-27-1902 - John Steinbeck - Salinas, CA - d. 12-20-1968
novelist: “Radio Hall of Fame”; “Lux Radio Theatre”; “Screen Director’s Playhouse”
02-27-1903 - Reginald Gardiner - Wimbledon, Surrey, England - d. 7-7-1980
actor: “Document A/777”
02-27-1904 - Elisabeth Welch - NYC - d. 7-15-2003
actress, singer: “Soft Lights and Sweet Music”
02-27-1905 - Franchot Tone - Niagara Falls, NY - d. 9-18-1968
actor: “Arch Oboler Plays”; “Free Company”; “Knickerbocker Playhouse”
02-27-1907 - Kenneth Horne - England - d. 2-14-1969
comedian: “Round the Horne”; “Ack Ack Beer Beer”; “Beyond Our Ken”
02-27-1907 - Mildred Bailey - Tekoa, WA - d. 12-12-1951
singer: (Rockin’ Chair Lady) “Mildred Bailey Show”; “Camel Caravan”
02-27-1909 - Carl Frank - Weehawken, NJ - d. 9-23-1972
actor: Jerry Malone “Young Dr. Malone”; Bob Drake “Betty and Bob”
02-27-1910 - Joan Bennett - Palisades, NJ - d. 12-7-1990
actor: “Ford Theatre”; “MGM Theatre of the Air”; “Skippy Hollywood Theatre”
02-27-1912 - Ralph Camargo - Glendale, CA - d. 1-15-1992
actor: “X-Minus One”; “Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar”
02-27-1913 - Irwin Shaw - NYC - d. 5-16-1984
author: “Columbia Workshop”;”Studio One”; “The Gumps”
02-27-1914 - S. Carl Mark - NYC - d. 7-4-2000
host: “Mutual Goes Calling”
02-27-1915 - Donald Curtis - Cheney, WA - d. 5-22-1997
actor: Michael Shayne “Michael Shayne”
02-27-1917 - George Mitchell - Falkirk, Scotland - d. 8-27-2002
gospel music: “Cabin in the Cotton”
02-27-1920 - Jose Melis - Havana, Cuba - d. 4-7-2005
bandleader: “Arthur Godfrey”s Talent Scouts”; “Arthur Godfrey Time”
02-27-1921 - E. Jack Neuman - Ohio - d. 1-15-1998
writer: “Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar”; “Advs. of Sam Spade”; “Escape”
02-27-1923 - Dexter Gordon - Los Angeles, Ca - d. 4-25-1990
saxophonist: “Newport Jazz Festival”;”White House Jazz Festival”
02-27-1927 - Guy Mitchell - Detroit, MI - d. 7-1-1999
singer: “Stars On Parade”; “1957 March of Dimes Galaxy of Stars”
02-27-1927 - Ralph Stanley - Big Spraddle Creek, VA
bluegrass singer: (The Stanley Brothers) “Farm and Fun Program”
02-27-1928 - Jimmie Maddin - d. 9-1-2006
host: “The Nighthawk Bandstand”
02-27-1932 - Dame Elizabeth Taylor - London, England
actor: “Theatre Guild On the Air”; “Lux Radio Theatre”
02-27-1934 - Ralph Nader - Winsted, CT
consumer advocate: “Meet the Press”
02-28-1879 - Julian Noa - d. 11-26-1958
actor: Perry White “Advs. of Superman”; Judge Scott “The O’Neills”
02-28-1882 - Geraldine Farrar - Melrose, MA - d. 3-11-1967
opera singer: “Packard Hour”; “Metropolitan Opera”
02-28-1893 - Ben Hecht - NYC - d. 4-18-1964
panelist, writer: “Information, Please”; “Jumbo Fire Chief Program”
02-28-1907 - Milton Caniff - Hillsboro, OH - d. 4-3-1988
Creator of “Terry and the Pirates”
02-28-1911 - Gene O’Donnell - Iowa - d. 11-22-1993
actor: “ I Want A Divorce”; “Lux Radio Theatre”
02-28-1914 - Jim Boles - Lubbock, TX - d. 5-26-1977
actor: Doc Long “I Love A Mystery”; Fulmer Green “King’s Row”
02-28-1915 - Zero Mostel - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-8-1977
comedian: “Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street”
02-28-1919 - David Marshall Cox - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 11-16-1998
producer for WNAC Boston Massachusetts
02-28-1922 - Joyce Howard - London, England
actor: Meg March “Little Women”; Vi Waters “Backstage Wife”
02-28-1924 - Patti Clayton - Detroit, MI
vocalist: “Bouquet for You”; “Waitin’ for Clayton”
02-28-1925 - Jean Carson - Charleston, WV - d. 11-2-2005
actor: “Broadway Is My Beat”; “Frontier Gentleman”
02-28-1928 - Louise Erickson - Oakland, CA
actor: Marjorie Forrester “Great Gildersleeve”; Judy Foster “A Date with Judy”
02-28-1932 - Don Franck - Vancouver, Canada
actor: Archie “Advs. of Nero Wolfe”
02-28-1940 - Gordon Parker - Newcastle, England
writer: “Seance”
02-29-1888 - Tess Sheehan - Ann Arbor, MI - d. 10-29-1972
actor: Dorrie Warren “Wendy Warren and the News”
02-29-1896 - William A. Wellman - Brookline, MA - d. 12-9-1975
film director: “Screen Director’s Playhouse”
02-29-1904 - Jimmy Dorsey - Mahanoy, PA, - d. 6-12-1957
bandleader: “Kraft Music Hall”; “Your Happy Birthday”
02-29-1916 - Dinah Shore - Winchester, TN - d. 2-24-1994
singer: “Eddie Cantor Show”; “Dinah Shore Show”
02-29-1920 - Arthur Franz - Perth Amboy, NJ - d. 6-16-2006
actor: In radio following WWII
02-29-1932 - Malcolm J. Ross-Macdonald - Chipping Sodbury, England
writer: “Kristina’s Winter”; “World from Rough Stones”
02-4-1955 - Michael Gow - Sydney, Australia
writer: “The Astronaut’s Wife”
03-01-1869 - Edward Bell - near Terre Haute, IN - d. 9-23-1943
commentator WMAQ during the 1920s
03-01-1878 - Dr. Louis K. Anspacher - d. 5-10-1947
lecturer, host: “True Ghost Stories”
03-01-1885 - Lionel Atwill - Croydon, England - d. 4-22-1946
singer: “Eveready Hour”
03-01-1896 - Dimitri Mitropoulos - Athens, Greece - d. 11-2-1960
conductor: “The NBC Symphony Orchestra”
03-01-1896 - George Frame Brown - d. 11-19-1979
actor: Gus “Tony and Gus”
03-01-1902 - Parker Bailey - d. xx-xx-1982
pianist: WTAM Cleveland, Ohio
03-01-1903 - Charlie Lyon - Detroit, MI - d. 5-11-1985
announcer: “Gene Autry’s Melody Ranch”; “Lum and Abner”
03-01-1904 - Glenn Miller - Clarinda, IA - d. 12-15-1944
bandleader: “Moonlight Serenade”; “USO Matinee”
03-01-1904 - Paul Hartman - d. 10-2-1973
actor: “Tony Awards”
03-01-1905 - Doris Hare - Bargoed, Monmouthshire, Wales - d. 5-30-2000
actor, host: “Navy Mixture”
03-01-1906 - Lester Grffith - Illinois - d. 11-20-1991
announcer: “Dan Harding’s Wife”; “Candid Microphone”
03-01-1910 - David Niven - Kirriemuir, Scotland - d. 7-29-1983
actor, panelist: “NBC Radio Theatre”; “Transatlantic Quiz”
03-01-1914 - Barrett Deems - Springfield, IL - d. 9-15-1998
jazz drummer: “Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra”; “Louis Armstrong’s All Stars”
03-01-1914 - Gil Doud - Minnesota - d. 12-17-1957
writer, director: “Sam Spade”; “Escape”; “One out of Seven”; “Pat Novak for Hire”
03-01-1915 - Cy Harrice - Chicago, IL - d. 2-14-2007
announcer: “Big Story”; “Cavalcade of America”
03-01-1917 - Cliffie Stone - Stockton, CA - d. 1-19-1998
host: “Hollywood Barn Dance”; “The Cliffie Stone Show”
03-01-1917 - David Dunhill - England - d. 3-20-2005
announcer: “BBC Light Programme”; “Take It From Here”
03-01-1920 - Antony Ellis - England - d. 9-26-1967
creator, writer, director: “Frontier Gentleman”
03-01-1921 - Kenny Baker - Yorkshire, England - d. 12-7-1999
trumpeter: “Let’s Settle for Music”
03-01-1923 - Andrew Faulds - Tanzania, East Africa - d. 5-31-2000
actor: Jet Morgan “Journey Into Space”
03-01-1923 - Peggy Chantier Dick - Philadelphia, PA - d. 11-20-2001
writer: “Edgar Bergen Comedy Hour”
03-01-1927 - Harry Belafonte - NYC
singer, actor: “Imaage Minorities”; “Stagestruck”
03-01-1929 - Eddie Jones - New Jersey - d. 5-31-1997
jazz bassist in the Count Basie band
03-01-1933 - Mary Linn Beller - d. 4-13-2000
actor: Barbara (Babby) “The Brighter Day”
03-01-1946 - Jim Crace - England
writer: “Salateen”; “The Bird Has Flown”
03-02-1890 - Paul De Kruif - Zeeland, MI - d. 2-28-1971
writer: “Men Against Death” based on De Kruif’s book
03-02-1900 - Kurt Weill - Dessau, Germany - d. 4-3-1950
composer: “Der Lindergflug”; “This Is War”
03-02-1902 - Flora Robson - Brighton, England - d. 7-7-1984
actor: BBC Radio “Streets of Pompeii”
03-02-1902 - Moe Berg - NYC - d. 5-29-1972
major league baseball player, world war 2 spy: “Information, Please”
03-02-1904 - Leonard Levinson - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 1-30-1974
writer: “Fibber McGee and Molly”; “Great Gildersleeve”; “Jack Carson Show”
03-02-1904 - Theodor “Dr. Suess” Geisel - Springfield, MA - d. 9-24-1991
children’s book author: “American School On the Air”; “Columbia Workshop”
03-02-1905 - Marc Blitzstein - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-22-1964
author: “Mercury Theatre On the Air”
03-02-1909 - Mel Ott - Gretna, LA - d. 11-21-1958
sportscaster: Play-by-Play Detroit Tigers; “Babe Ruth Show”
03-02-1909 - Narvin Kimball - d. 3-17-2006
vocal, banjo: (Preservation Hall Jazz Band) “Newport Jazz Festival”
03-02-1913 - Marjorie Weaver - Crossville, TN - d. 10-1-1994
actor: “Sally, Irene and Mary”
03-02-1914 - Martin Ritt - NYC - d. 12-8-1990
film director, teacher: “Coming Home”
03-02-1915 - Cliff Carpenter - San Francisco, CA
actor: Terry Lee “Terry and the Pirates”; Jerry “County Seat”
03-02-1917 - Desi Arnaz - Santiago, Cuba - d. 12-2-1986
actor, bandleader: Ricky Ricardo “I Love Lucy”; “Bob Hope Show”
03-02-1918 - Elmira Roessler - St. Louis, MO - d. 4-30-1975
actor, singer: Jennifer Davis “Backstage Wife”; Tweetsie Herringbone “Ma Perkins”
03-02-1919 - Jennifer Jones - Tulsa, OK
actor: “Radio Hall of Fame”
03-02-1919 - Lawrence Eisler - NYC
monologist: “Major Bowes Amateur Hour”
03-02-1921 - John Millett - Woollahra, Australia
writer: “The World Faces Johnny Tripod”
03-02-1923 - Jean Metcalfe - Reigate, England - d. 1-28-2000
announcer, presenter: “Two-Way Family Favourites”
03-02-1933 - Anthea Askey - Golders Green, London, England - d. 2-28-1999
actor: Violet Elizabeth Bott “Just William”
03-02-1949 - Randy Paar - Los Angeles, CA
disc jockey: (Daughter of Jack Paar) “The Jack Paar Show”
03-03-1885 - Marshall Bartholomew - Belleville, IL - d. 4-16-1978
tenor on nbc, connected with the Yale Glee Club
03-03-1890 - Edmund Lowe - San Jose, CA - d. 4-21-1971
actor: Sergeant Quirt “Captain Flagg and Sergeant Quirt”
03-03-1896 - Willie Fung - Canton, China - d. 4-16-1945
actor: “Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show”
03-03-1900 - Edna Best - Hove, East Sussex, England - d. 9-18-1974
director: “Sherlock Holmes”; “Silver Theatre”
03-03-1902 - Ruby Dandridge - Memphis, TN - d. 10-17-1987
actor: Mammy Brown “Gallant Heart”; Geranium “Judy Canova Show”
03-03-1906 - Kenny Sargent - Centralia, IL - d. 12-20-1969
vocalist/saxophonist: “The Camel Caravan”
03-03-1907 - Canada Lee - NYC - d. 5-9-1952
actor: “New World A’ Coming”; “Lest We Forget”; “The Free Company”
03-03-1907 - Donald Novis - Hastings, England - d. 7-23-1966
actor: Matt Mulligan “Jumbo Fire Chief Program”
03-03-1911 - Henry Gladstone - Boston, MA - d. 1-22-1995
announcer: “White Owl Reporter”
03-03-1911 - Jean Harlow - Kansas City, MO - d. 6-7-1937
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”
03-03-1913 - Margaret Bonds - Chicago, IL - d. 4-26-1972
composer: “Chicago Women’s Orchestra”
03-03-1914 - Donald Gray - Fort Beaufort, South Africa - d. 4-7-1978
BBC actor from 1947 to 1951
03-03-1915 - John Nelson - Spokane, WA - d. 11-3-1976
emcee: “Bride and Groom”; “Know Your NBC’s”; “Live Like a Millionaire”
03-03-1919 - Enzo Stuarti - Rome, Italy - d. 12-16-2005
operatic singer: “Stars for Defense”
03-03-1920 - James Doohan - Vancouver, Canada - d. 7-20-2005
actor: “You Never Had It So Good”; “The Investigator”
03-03-1920 - Jimmy Edwards - Barns, Surrey, England - d. 7-7-1988
actor: Pa Glum “Take It from Here”
03-03-1921 - Diana Barrymore - NYC - d. 1-25-1960
actor: “Crime Does Not Pay”
03-03-1924 - Barbara Jean Wong - Los Angeles, CA - d. 11-13-1999
actor: Judy Barton “Cinnamon Bear”
03-03-1924 - Cathy Downs - Port Jefferson, Long Island, NY - d. 12-8-1976
actor: “Your Movietown Radio Theatre”; “Lux Radio Theatre”; “Mail Call”
03-03-1937 - Bobby Driscoll - Cedar Rapids, IA - d. 3-20-1968 (body found)
actor: “A Day in the Life of Dennis Day”; “Family Theatre”
03-03-1939 - Sam Chu Lin - Mississippi - d. 3-5-2006
newscaster, actor: “Empire of the Air”
03-03-1948 - Byron MacGregor - Alberta, Canada - d. 1-3-1995
CKLW radio newsman, recorded narrative “The Americans”
03-03-1959 - Ira Glass - Baltimore, MD
host: “This American Life”
03-03-1970 - Christopher Cyrill - Melbourne, Australia
writer: “What Withers and What Remains”
03-04-1880 - Channing Pollack - Washington D.C. - d. 8-17-1946
lecturer, author: “America’s Town Mettking of the Air”; “Wake Up America”
03-04-1888 - David Frederick Smith - Clarksburg, IN - d. 8-14-1976
early radio broadcaster: Creator of “March of Time”
03-04-1888 - Fred Smith - Clarksburg, IN - d. 8-15-1976
announcer: (America’s first Ambassador of the Radio) “Newsacting”
03-04-1888 - Knute Rockne - Voss, Norway - d. 3-31-1931
football coach: “Biography in Sound”
03-04-1892 - Helen Van Tuyl - Iowa - d. 8-22-1964
actor: Ellen Collins “Bachelor’s Children”
03-04-1896 - George Shelton - NYC - d. 2-12-1972
comedian: “Sunday Night Party”; “It Pays to Be Ignorant”
03-04-1903 - Harold Berens - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 5-10-1995
actor: “Ignorance Is Bliss”
03-04-1904 - Dorothy Page - Northampton, PA - d. 3-26-1961
vocalist: “Paducah Plantation”
03-04-1904 - Joseph Schmidt - Davideny, Bukovina, Austria-Hungary - d. 11-16-1942
singer: “General Motors Concerts”
03-04-1907 - Edgar Barrier - NYC - d. 6-20-1964
actor: Simon Templar “The Saint”
03-04-1907 - Pat McGeehan - Steelton, PA - d. 1-3-1988
announcer, actor: “Abbott and Costello”; “The Red Skelton Show”
03-04-1908 - Lee Allman - d. 10-8-1989
actor: (Sister of James Jewell) Lenore ‘Casey’ Case “The Green Hornet”
03-04-1909 - Harry Elders - d. 11-25-1993
actor: Dr. Bill Evans “Road of Life”; David Houseman “Stepmother”
03-04-1910 - Margaret Wood - Great Yarmouth, England - d. 2-xx-2002
scripwriter for BBC radio schools
03-04-1910 - Miriam Kressyn - Poland - d. 10-28-1996
Was the most popular Yiddish artist on radio of her day
03-04-1913 - John Garfield - NYC - d. 5-21-1952
actor: “Cresta Blanca Hollywood Players”; “Free Company”; “Treasury Star Parade”
03-04-1914 - Ward Kimball - Minneapolis, MN - d. 7-8-2002
disney animator: “Here’s to Veterans”
03-04-1916 - William Alland - Delmare, DE - d. 11-10-1997
actor: “Mercury Theatre”; “Doorway to Life”; “Frontier Gentleman”
03-04-1920 - Alan MacNaughtan - Bearsden, Scotland - d. 8-29-2002
actor: “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”
03-04-1921 - Harry Besse - d. 1-29-1994
disk jockey: KSWI Council Bluffs,Iowa
03-04-1921 - Joan Greenwood - London, England - d. 2-28-1987
actor: “Stagestruck”
03-04-1922 - Martha O’Driscoll - Tulsa, OK - d. 11-3-1998
actor: “Your Blind Date”
03-04-1932 - Miriam Makeba - Johannesburg, South Africa - d. 11-10-2008
click singer: “The World of Folk Music”
03-04-1934 - Barbara McNair - Racine, WI - d. 2-4-2007
singer/actor: “America Swings”
03-04-1934 - John Dunn - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 11-28-2004
announcer, newsreader: “Roundabout”; “Housewive’s Choice”; “Breadfast Special”
03-04-1944 - Edwin Drake - Grand Rapids, MI
composer: “Back to God Hour”
03-05-1881 - Toby Gremmer - Bainbridge, GA - d. 9-6-1981
actor: Hermit “The Hermit’s Cave”
03-05-1882 - Eustace Wyatt - Bath, Somerset, England - d. 10-25-1944
actor: Lord Percy “Our Gal Sunday”
03-05-1891 - Chic Johnson - Chicago, IL - d. 2-28-1962
comedian: “Olsen and Johnson”; “Rudy Vallee Show”
03-05-1892 - Paul Wing - Sandwich, MA - d. 5-29-1957
actor/emcee: “The Story Man”; “Uncle Toddy”; “Youth vs. Age”
03-05-1893 - Dorothy Sands - Cambridge, MA - d. 9-11-1980
actor: Mary Ann Clarke “Barry Cameron”; Margot “Backstage Wife”
03-05-1894 - Henry Daniell - London, England - d. 10-31-1963
actor: “Theatre Guild of the Air”
03-05-1898 - Bud Selvin - d. 7-15-1980
bandleader: “Devoe Redskins”; “Kolster Radio Hour”
03-05-1900 - Martin Magner - Stettin, Germany - d. 1-25-2002
director: “Under Arrest”; “Wooden Fish”
03-05-1900 - Sam Hearn - Jersey City, NJ - d. 10-27-1964
comedian: Schlepperman “Jack Benny Program, Glamour Manor”
03-05-1903 - Minerva Pious - Odessa, Russia - d. 3-16-1979
commedienne: Mrs. Pansy Nussbaum “Fred Allen Show”
03-05-1906 - Aileen Carlyle - San Francisco, CA - d. 5-3-1984
vocalist: “Spike Jones and His City Slickers”
03-05-1906 - Harry Lubin - d. 7-21-1977
music: “Glamour Manor”; “Burns and Allen”; “Blondie”
03-05-1908 - Rex Harrison - Huyton, England - d. 6-2-1990
actor: Rex Saunders “Private Files of Rex Saunders”
03-05-1911 - Joseph Tometty - Ireland - d. 6-7-1995
writer: “The McCooeys”
03-05-1913 - Dick Whittinghill - Montana - d. 1-24-2001
disk jockey: “Did you Whittinghill This Morning?”
03-05-1920 - Virginia Christine - Stanton, IA - d. 7-24-1996
actor: “Confession”; “Gunsmoke”
03-05-1921 - Milt Kamen - Hurleyville, NY - d. 2-24-1977
satirist: “Voices of Vista”; “Here’s to Veterans”
03-05-1922 - Robert Burr - Jersey City, NJ - d. 5-13-2000
actor: “CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”
03-05-1925 - Lucy Gilman - Chicago, IL - d. 11-23-2006
actor: “(Sister of Toni Gilman) “I Love A Mystery”; Welcome Valley”
03-05-1925 - Nora Dugon - Northern Ireland
writer: “Can’t You Hear Me Talking to You?”
03-05-1927 - Jack Cassidy - NYC - d. 12-12-1976
singer, actor: “Stars for Defense”; “Cue Magazine Salutes ASCAP”
03-05-1927 - Rachel Gurney - Eton, England - d. 11-24-2001
actor: BBC Home Service; Emma Woodhouse “Emma”
03-05-1936 - Dean Stockwell - North Hollywood, CA
actor: “Hallmark Hall of Fame”
03-06-1882 - Guy Kibbee - El Paso, TX - d. 5-24-1956
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”
03-06-1885 - Ring Lardner - Niles, MI - d. 9-27-1933
writer: “Hallmark Hall of Fame”; “NBC Presents: Short Story”
03-06-1900 - Jay C. Flippen - Little Rock, AR - d. 2-3-1971
actor: Sergeant “Rookies”
03-06-1904 - Hugh Williams - Bexhill-on-Sea, England - d. 12-7-1969
actor: “Theatre Guild On the Air”
03-06-1905 - Adelaide Hawley - d. 12-21-1998
consultant on women’s issues: “Adelaide Hawley Show”
03-06-1905 - Bob Wills - Limestone County, TX - d. 5-13-1975
western singer: (Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys) “Rexall Rhythm Round-Up”
03-06-1906 - Lou Costello - Paterson, NJ - d. 3-3-1959
comedian: “Chase & Sanborn Hour”; “Abbott and Costello Show”
03-06-1909 - Floyd Holmes - Glasgow, KY - d. 1-1-1970
singer: (Prairie Ramblers) “Smile-a-While”
03-06-1913 - Ella Logan - Glasgow, Scotlans - d. 5-1-1969
singer: “The Chase and Sanborn Hour”; “Kraft Music Hall”
03-06-1914 - Kiril Kondrashin - Moscow, Russia - d. 3-7-1981
conductor: “Van Cliburn Concert”
03-06-1916 - Red Callender - Richmond, VA - d. 3-8-1992
jazz bass player: “Jubilee”; “One Night Stand”
03-06-1916 - Rochelle Hudson - Oklahoma City, OK - d. 1-17-1972
actor: “Hollywood Hotel”
03-06-1916 - Virginia Gregg - Harrisburg, IL - d. 9-15-1986
actor: Helen Asher “Richard Diamond, Private Detective”
03-06-1917 - Frankie Howerd - York, England - d. 4-19-1992
comedian: “Frankie Howerd Show”
03-06-1918 - Roger Price - Charleston, WV - d. 10-31-1990
writer, actor: “The Comedy Writers Show”
03-06-1923 - Ed McMahon - Detroit, MI
actor-announcer: Monitor”
03-06-1927 - William J. Bell - Chicago, IL - d. 4-29-2005
writer: “The Guiding Light”
03-06-1930 - Lorin Maazel - Paris, France
conductor: “NBC Summer Symphony”
03-06-1934 - Art Blaske - d. 8-25-1997
disk jockey: KFAM St. Cloud, Minnesota
03-06-1935 - Leonard Radic - Melbourne, Australia
writer: “A Clean Sweep”; “Ground Rules”
03-06-1942 - David Cleve - England - d. 9-16-2005
actor: “Out of School”
03-07-1878 - Percy Hemus - Auckland, New Zealand - d. 12-22-1943
actor: Dr. Winslow “Road of Life”; Old Wrangler “Tom Mix”
03-07-1880 - Sidney Scott Booth - Birmingham, England - d. 3-5-1946
radio performer
03-07-1882 - J. W. Fincher - Arkansas - d. 8-xx-1951
country music: “Crazy Water Crystals Barn Dance”
03-07-1886 - Ray Largay - Wisconsin - d. 9-28-1974
actor: Mr. Farnum “Ma Perkins”; Frederick Nelson “Young Widder Brown”
03-07-1889 - Lula Vollmer - Keyser, NC - d. 5-2-1955
writer: “Moonshine and Honeysuckle”
03-07-1890 - George H. Shackley - Quincy, MA - d. 10-25-1959
conductor/composer: “Ava Maria Hour”; “Homemaker’s Exchange”
03-07-1905 - Ruth Freed Akst - Vancouver, Canada - d. 8-7-1989
composer/violinist lead singing and instrumental trio on radio
03-07-1906 - Edward Mabley - Binghampton, NY - d. 12-16-1984
writer: “The American School of the Air”
03-07-1906 - Louis Pelletier - NYC - d. 2-11-2000
writer: “The FBI in Peace and War”
03-07-1907 - George Beck - NYC - d. 10-6-1999
screenwriter: “Good News of 1939”; “Harold Lloyd Comedy Theatre”
03-07-1913 - Smokey Montgomery - Rinard, IA - d. 6-6-2001
banjo picker: (Member of the Light Crust Dough Boys) “Columbia’s Country Caravan”
03-07-1916 - Vivian Smolen - d. 6-11-2006
actor: Laurel Grosvenor “Stella Dallas”; Sunday Brinthrope “Our Gal Sunday”
03-07-1917 - Hubert Bisping - d. 7-26-1992
newscaster: KUTA Salt Lake City, Utah
03-07-1921 - Elanor Summerfield - London, England - d. 7-13-2001
actor: “Many a Slip”
03-07-1923 - Arthur Julian - Memphis, TN - d. 1-30-1995
writer: “The Beulah Show”
03-07-1925 - Rene Gagnon - Manchester, NH - d. 10-12-1979
raiser of second flag on Iwo Jima:: “Interview programs”
03-07-1925 - Richard Vernon - Reading, England - d. 12-4-1997
actor: Slartibartfast “Hitch-hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”
03-07-1929 - Marion Marlowe - St. Louis, MO
singer: “Arthur Godfrey Time”
03-07-1934 - Willard Scott - Alexandria, VA
disc jockey: (The Joy Boys)
03-07-1937 - Anne Kristen - Scotland - d. 8-7-1996
actor: “Carver”
03-08-1841 - Oliver Wendell Holmes - Boston, MA - d. 3-6-1935
On his 90th birthday he delivered a short radio speech
03-08-1889 - Rosario Bourdon - Montreal, Canada - d. 4-24-1961
conductor: “Cities Service Concert”; “Great Personalities”
03-08-1891 - Sam Jaffe - NYC - d. 3-24-1984
actor: “Fannie Hurst Presents”; “New World A-Coming”; “Cavalcade of America”
03-08-1893 - Victor Arden - Wenona, IL - d. 7-31-1962
pianist and orchestra director with various radio appearances
03-08-1899 - Gladys Thornton - Madison. Fl - d. 9-2-1964
actor: Aunt Addie “My Son and I”; Mrs. Tasek “The O’Neills”
03-08-1902 - Louise Beavers - Cincinnati, OH - d. 10-26-1962
actor: Beulah “Beulah”; “Screen Guild Theatre”
03-08-1906 - Franklyn MacCormack - Waterloo, IA - d. 6-12-1971
announcer: “Caroline’s Golden Store”; “Jack Armstrong”
03-08-1909 - Anthony Donato - Prague, NE - d. 10-29-1990
composer: “Surprise Serenade”
03-08-1909 - Claire Trevor - NYC - d. 4-8-2000
actor: Lorelei Kilbourne “ Big Town”, Theresa Travers “Results, Inc.”
03-08-1910 - Victor Wolfson - NYC - d. 5-23-1990
author of radio plays
03-08-1911 - Eunice Hanger - Mount Chalmers, Australia - d. 10-16-1972
writer: “From the Diary of a Bush Schoolmaster”
03-08-1911 - Heinie Beau - Calvary, WI - d. 4-19-1987
composer/arranger: composed for radio, televison and movies
03-08-1912 - David Friedkin - d. 10-15-1976
writer: “Bold Venture”; “Broadway Is My Beat”; “The Front Page”
03-08-1918 - Alan Hale, Jr. - Los Angeles, CA - d. 1-2-1990
actor: “Smiths of Hollywood”
03-08-1918 - Sam Donahue - Detroit, MI - d. 3-22-1974
saxaphonist, bandleader: dance band remotes
03-08-1919 - Mavor Moore - Toronto, Canada - d. 12-18-2006
actor: Nero Wolfe “Advs. of Nero Wolfe”; “The Crusoe Boys”
03-08-1921 - Cyd Charisse - Amarillo, TX - d. 6-17-2008
actor, dancer: Guest: “Spike Jones Show”
03-08-1922 - Al Gionfriddo - Dysart, PA - d. 3-14-2003
sportscaster: KONG Visalia, CA
03-08-1924 - Sean McClory - Dublin, Ireland - d. 12-10-2003
actor: “Favorite Story”; “NBC University Theatre”
03-08-1929 - Betty Carter - d. 9-26-1998
jazz vocalist: “Jazz Alive”
03-08-1943 - Lynn Redgrave - London, England
actor: “Artist Descending a Staircase”; “Vile Bodies”
03-09-1893 - Ara Gerald - Sydney, Australia - d. 4-2-1957
actor: Countess Florenza “Our Gal Sunday”
03-09-1901 - Oscar Race - d. 10-xx-1981
pianist: (Race and Ballin) WOR Newark, New Jersey
03-09-1902 - Robert St. John - Chicago, IL - d. 2-6-2003
newscaster: 1943-46, NBC, weekdays at 10 a.m.
03-09-1902 - Will Geer - Franfort, IN - d. 4-22-1978
actor: Penny “Bright Horizon”
03-09-1909 - Victor Seydel - d. 8-xx-1973
director: “Counterspy”
03-09-1911 - Leopold Proser - d. 2-xx-1981
writer: “The Columbia Workshop”
03-09-1912 - Ned Le Fevre - Indiana - d. 6-10-1966
actor: Ned Holden “The Guiding Light”; Jonathan Kegg “A Life in Your Hands”
03-09-1912 - Ray Darby - Edmonton, Canada - d. 1-xx-1982
radio script writer: “American School of the Air”
03-09-1914 - Fred Clark - Lincoln, CA - d. 12-5-1968
actor: “This Is Your FBI”; “Amos ‘n’ Andy Show”
03-09-1918 - Marguerite Chapman - Chatham, NY - d. 8-30-1999
actor: “Family Theatre”; “Silver Theatre”; “Screen Guild Theatre”
03-09-1918 - Mickey Spillane - Brooklyn NY - d. 7-17-2006
writer: “That Hammer Guy” based on his novels
03-09-1920 - Jerry Byrd - Lima, OH - d. 4-11-2005
steel guitarist: “Country Music Time”; “March of Dimes”
03-09-1921 - Carl Betz - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 1-18-1978
disk jockey: WCAE Pittsburgh
03-09-1926 - Joe Franklin - NYC
disc jockey: “Joe Franklin’s Memory Lane”; “Main Street Memories”
03-09-1932 - Keely Smith - Norfolk, VA
singer: “Guard Session”; “Here’s to Veterans”
03-09-1934 - Joyce Van Patten - Queens, NY
actor: Daisy “Reg’lar Fellers”
03-10-1882 - Lewis J. Valentine - Brooklyn, NY - d. 12-16-1946
nyc police commissioner: “Gangbusters”
03-10-1886 - Clarence Adler - d. 12-24-1969
pianist: Member of the New York Trio
03-10-1888 - Barry Fitzgerald - Dublin, Ireland - d. 1-4-1961
actor: Bernard Fitz “His Honor, the Barber”
03-10-1898 - Bert Bacharach - Philadelphia, PA - d. 9-15-1983
columnist: “Letters to Your Serviceman”; “Men’s Corner”
03-10-1898 - Cy Kendall - St. Louis, MO - d. 7-22-1953
actor: Captain Tracy “Tarzan”; Fred Thompson “One Man’s Family”; “Escape”
03-10-1900 - Peter de Rose - NYC - d. 4-23-1953
pianist, singer: “Sweethearts of the Air”
03-10-1900 - Sherman Billingsley - Enid, Oklahoma Territory - d. 10-4-1966
owner stork club: “Bing Crosby Show”
03-10-1903 - Claire Boothe Luce - NYC - d. 10-9-1987
correspondent: “University of Chicago Round Table”; “Wake Up America”
03-10-1903 - Leon Bismark “Bix” Beiderbecke - Davenport, IA - d. 8-7-1931
jazz musician: “Band Remotes”
03-10-1905 - Richard Haydn - London, England - d. 4-25-1985
actor: Professor Lemuel Carp “Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show”
03-10-1909 - Bob Taplinger - Philadelphia, PA - d. 11-24-1975
head of publicity CBS: Credited with idea of Gracie Allen”s lost brother
03-10-1911 - Warner Anderson - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-26-1976
actor: Patrick Ryan “Terry and the Pirates”
03-10-1915 - Ranald MacDougall - Schenectady, NY - d. 12-12-1973
writer: “The Man Behind the Gun”; “Passport for Adams”; “There Was a Woman”
03-10-1917 - Elizabeth Gourlay - Toronto, Canada - d. xx-xx-1996
writer: “Narrow Is the Margin”
03-10-1918 - Gloria Stewart - d. 2-16-1994
actor: (Wife of James Stewart) “Lux Radio Theatre”
03-10-1918 - Heywood Hale Broun - NYC - d. 9-5-2001
cbs sports commentator: “Biography In Sound”
03-10-1918 - Laddie Seaman - Reading, PA - d. 1-19-1942
actor: Scoop Ward “News of Youth”; Biff Bradley “Pepper Young’s Family”
03-10-1918 - Pamela Mason - Westgate-on-Sea, Kent, England - d. 6-29-1996
actor: “James Mason and Pamela Mason Show”
03-10-1919 - Lorna Thayer - Boston, MA - d. 6-4-2005
actor: “The Hallmark Hall of Fame”
03-10-1919 - Marion Hutton - Battle Creek, MI - d. 1-10-1987
singer: (Sister of Betty), (Glenn Miller Orchestra) “Moonlight Serenade”
03-10-1920 - Kenneth C. Burns (Jethro) - Georgia - d. 2-4-1989
comedic singer: (Homer and Jethro) “WLS National Barn Dance”
03-10-1923 - Kenny Bowers - Jersey City, NJ
actor: “The Silver Summer Revue”
03-10-1927 - Dick Alarie - d. 3-24-2000
sortscaster: WPCT Putnam, Connecticut
03-11-1862 - Frank Burt - NYC - d. 4-3-1964
writer: “The Six Shooter”; “The Unexpected”; “Hollywood Star Playhouse”
03-11-1887 - Raoul Walsh - NYC - d. 12-31-1980
film director: “Jack Benny Program”
03-11-1897 - Florence Belshaw - d. 4-xx-1976
pianist: KFAB Lincoln, Nebraska
03-11-1898 - Dorothy Gish - Massillon, OH - d. 6-4-1968
actor: Texaco Star Playhouse”; “U.S. Steel Hour”; “Lux Radio Theatre”
03-11-1900 - Andy Sannella - Brooklyn, NY - d. 12-10-1962
bandleader: “Campbell Soup Orchestra”; “Gillette Community Sing”
03-11-1903 - Dorothy Schiff - NYC- d. 8-30-1989
owner of several radio stations in Brooklyn, Los Angeles and San Francisco
03-11-1903 - Lawrence Welk - Strasburg, ND - d. 5-17-1992
bandleader: “Lawrence Welk Orchestra”
03-11-1907 - Jessie Matthews - London, England - d. 8-19-1981
actor: Mrs. Mary Dale “The Dale’s”
03-11-1907 - Walter Alden Richards - Springfield, IL - d. 5-23-1988
editor, writer: “Cavalcade of America”; “Lux Radio Theatre”
03-11-1909 - Karl Tunberg - Spokane, WA - d. 4-4-1992
film writer: “Lux Radio Theatre”
03-11-1909 - Ramona - Lockland, OH - d. 12-14-1972
singer, pianist: “Kraft Music Hall”; “Paul Whiteman’s Musical Varities”
03-11-1912 - Jerry Seelen - d. 9-12-1981
songwriter: “Drene Time”
03-11-1915 - Dan Donaldson - St. Louis, MO - d. 12-1-1991
announcer: “Kitty Keene, Inc.”; “Ma Perkins”
03-11-1918 - Grace McTernan - d. 11-6-1995
soprano: “Your America”
03-11-1919 - Mercer Ellington - Washington, D.C. - d. 2-8-1996
bandleader: (Son of Duke Ellington) “Genius of Duke”
03-11-1921 - Eloise McElhone - d. 7-1-1974
panelist: “Leave It to the Girls”
03-11-1922 - Vinnette Carroll - NYC - d. 11-5-2002
actor: “CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”
03-11-1930 - Lana Morris - Ruislip, England - d. 5-27-1998
actor: “The Forces Show”
03-11-1934 - Dilys Laye - London, England - d. 2-13-2009
actor: “One Corpse Too Many”
03-11-1934 - Sam Donaldson - El Paso, TX
talk show host: “Live in America”
03-11-1952 - Douglas Adams - Cambridge, England - d. 5-11-2001
writer: “Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy”
03-12-1888 - Hall Johnson - Athens, GA - d. 4-30-1970
choral director: (Hall Johnson Choir) “Paducah Plantation”; “Show Boat”
03-12-1890 - Lou Clayton - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-12-1950
partner: “The Jimmy Durante Show”
03-12-1893 - Gene Morgan - Racine, WI - d. 8-13-1940
actor: Rex Marvin “Myrt and Marge”; Bill Taylor “All My Children”
03-12-1899 - Amparo Iturbi - Valencia, Spain - d. 4-22-1969
concert Pianist: (Jose’s sister) “Concert Hall”
03-12-1900 - Harlow Wilcox - Omaha, NE - d. 9-24-1960
announcer: “Fibber McGee and Molly Show”; “Suspense”; “Amos ‘n’ Andy”
03-12-1900 - Zora Layman - Hutchinson, KS - d. 11-2-1981
singer: “Luther-Layman Singer”
03-12-1905 - Milton Merlin - California - d. 10-29-1996
writer: “The Halls of Ivy”; “The Man Called X”; “Presenting Charles Boyer”
03-12-1908 - Eugene Conley - Lynn, MA - d. 12-18-1981
operatic tenor: “NBC Presents Gene Conley”; “Voice of Firestone”
03-12-1908 - William Lally - New York - d. 8-20-1956
actor: “The NBC University Theatre”
03-12-1910 - R. Dale Butts - Lamasco, KY - d. 1-30-1990
staff arranger for NBC Chicago
03-12-1910 - Robert Denton - d. 1-30-1990
announcer: “Dimension X”; “The Robert Merrill Show”
03-12-1910 - Tony Galento - Orange, NJ - d. 7-22-1979
boxer, actor: “Edgar Bergan/Charlie McCarthy Show”
03-12-1912 - Henry Gibson - NYC - d. 5-29-2003
writer: “Junior Miss”
03-12-1912 - Paul Weston - Springfield, MA - d. 9-20-1996
conductor: “Chesterfield Supper Club”; “Paul Weston Orchestra”
03-12-1913 - Agathe von Trapp - Pola, Istria, Austria
singer: (Trapp Family Singers) “Christmas Seal Sale”
03-12-1914 - Loretta Poynton - Jackson, MI - d. 12-7-1991
actor: Betty Fairfield “Jack Armstrong”; Ruth Morrow “Flying Time”
03-12-1914 - Shuichi Fujikura - Tokyo, Japan - d. 1-11-2008
emcee: “Niju-no-Tobira”
03-12-1916 - Mandel Kramer - Cleveland, OH - d. 1-29-1989
actor: Johnny Dollar “Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar”
03-12-1917 - Georgia Ellis - d. 3-30-1988
actor: Miss Kitty Russell “Gunsmoke”
03-12-1917 - Googie Withers - Karachi, British India
actor: “Theatre Royale”
03-12-1917 - Millard Kaufman - Baltimore, MD - d. 3-14-2009
writer: “Escape”; “Romance”; “Suspense”
03-12-1919 - Frank Campanella - NYC - d. 12-20-2006
actor: “21st Precinct”; “Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar”
03-12-1921 - Earl Nightingale - d. 3-25-1989
actor, announcer: Sky King “Sky King”
03-12-1921 - Gordon MacRae - East Orange, NJ - d. 1-24-1986
singer: “Texaco Star Theatre”; “Railroad Hour”
03-12-1923 - Walter Schirra - Hackensack, NJ - d. 5-3-2007
astronaut: “Meet the Press”
03-12-1924 - Betty Barclay - Macon, GA
singer: (Sammy Kaye Band) “So You Want to Lead a Band”
03-12-1926 - Gwen Cherrell - Leicester, England
actor, writer: “The Primal Scene, as it were...”
03-12-1928 - Edward Albee - Washington D.C.
writer: “Earplay”
03-13-1873 - Nellie Revell - Springfield, IL - d. 8-12-1958
commentator: “Neighbor Nell”; “Meet the Artist”
03-13-1878 - Katherine Emmett - San Francisco, CA - d. 6-6-1960
actor: Agatha Anthone “The Romance of Helen Trent”
03-13-1892 - Janet Flanner - Indianapolis, IN - d. 11-7-1978
reporter: “Listen, The Women”
03-13-1896 - Leona Powers - Salida, CO - d. 1-7-1970
actor: Mrs. Bixby “My Son Jeep”; Mr.s. Brown “Aldrich Family”
03-13-1898 - Donald MacDonald - Denison, TX - d. 12-9-1959
actor: Willie the Weep “Big Town”
03-13-1898 - Henry Hathaway - Sacramento, CA - d. 2-11-1985
film director: “Screen Director’s Playhouse”
03-13-1900 - George Kondolf - d. 12-25-1985
producer: “Theatre Guild on the Air”
03-13-1900 - Harry W. Flannery - Greensburg, PA - d. 3-10-1975
newscaster: Foreign correspondent in Berlin for CBS during WWII
03-13-1903 - Charles D. Livingstone - d. 7-28-1986
producer, director: “Lone Ranger”; “Green Hornet”; “Challenge of the Yukon”
03-13-1905 - Dick Wells - d. 2-28-1968
announcer: “Ma Perkins”; “Painted Dreams”; “Right to Happiness”
03-13-1905 - Louis Roen - Marengo, WI - d. 2-15-1993
announcer: “Today’s Children”; “The Breakfast Club”
03-13-1907 - Frank Wilcox - DeSoto, MO - d. 3-3-1974
actor: Father “Central City”
03-13-1908 - Paul Stewart - NYC - d. 2-17-1986
actor: Gyp Mendoza “Life Can Be Beautiful”; Richard Rogue “Rogue’s Gallery”
03-13-1909 - Herbert Kline - Davenport, IA - d. 2-5-1999
worked for a loyalist radio station in Madrid during the Spanish revolution
03-13-1910 - Frank Gabrielson - New York - d. 1-24-1980
writer: “The Cavalcade of America”
03-13-1910 - Sammy Kaye - Lakewood, OH - d. 6-2-1987
bandleader: (Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye) “Sunday Serenade”
03-13-1911 - James T. Quirk - d. 1-18-1969
announcer, station program director Philadelphia, PA
03-13-1911 - L. Ron Hubbard - Tilden, NE - d. 1-24-1986
science fiction writer: “Dimension X”
03-13-1913 - Harold J. Stone - NYC - d. 11-18-2005
actor: Sergeant Waters “21st Precinct”
03-13-1914 - Bob Haggart - NYC - d. 12-3-1998
bass: “The Bob Crosby Show”; “Eddie Condon’s Jaxx Concerts”
03-13-1914 - Bob Weiskopf - Chicago, IL - d. 2-20-2001
writer: “The Fred Allen Show”
03-13-1914 - Glen Gordon - NYC - d. 9-16-1977
actor: Dr. Fu Manchu “The Shadow of Fu Manchu”
03-13-1918 - Ina Ray Hutton - Chicago, IL - d. 2-19-1984
bandleader: “Spotlight Bands”
03-13-1919 - William Ormond Mitchell - Weyburn, Canada - d. 2-25-1998
radio dramatist: “Jake and the Kid”
03-13-1920 - Bill Allbaugh - d. 4-xx-1985
sportscaster: KASI Ames, Iowa
03-13-1953 - Milwaukee Braves - Boston, MA - d. 10-1-1965
Only franchise in the history of sport never to have had a losing season
03-14-1869 - Algernon Blackwood - d. 12-10-1951
author: “Escape”
03-14-1879 - Albert Einstein - Ulm, Germany - d. 4-18-1955
physicist: “The Quick and the Dead”
03-14-1886 - Harvey Hays - d. 6-xx-1964
actor: “Tom Mix”
03-14-1891 - Dr. Dolphe Martin - Poland - d. 10-3-1974
conductor: “Tydol Jubilee (Music on the Air)
03-14-1900 - Bernie Cummins - Akron, OH - d. 9-22-1986
bandleader: “Coca-Cola Spotlight Bands Program”; “Fitch Bandwagon”
03-14-1912 - Les Brown - Reinerton, PA - d. 1-4-2001
bandleader: (Les Brown and His Band of Renown) “Bob Hope Show”
03-14-1913 - Jay Barney - Chicago, IL - d. 5-19-1985
actor: Bugsy O’Toole “The Romance of Helen Trent”
03-14-1918 - Dennis Patrick - Philadelphia, PA - d. 10-13-2002
actor: “Shakespeare Festival”
03-14-1919 - Harry Caray - St. Louis, MO - d. 2-18-1998
baseball announcer: St. Louis Cardinals; Chicago Cubs
03-14-1919 - Luther Henderson - Kansas City, MO - d. 7-29-2003
arranger: “Cue Magazine Salutes ASCAP”
03-14-1922 - Les Baxter - Mexia, TX - d. 1-15-1996
arranger/conductor: “Bob Hope Show”; “California Melodies”; “Swingtime”
03-14-1925 - Sonny Cohn - Chicago, IL - d. 11-7-2006
trumpeter: Count Basie Orchestra
03-14-1933 - Sir Michael Caine - London, England
actor: “Wednesday Night” CBC
03-14-1934 - Eugene Cernan - Chicago, IL
astronaut: “The Space Story”; “NASA Special Report”
03-14-1940 - Rita Tushingham - Liverpool, England
actor: “Mistress of Novices”
03-15-1874 - Harold Ickes - Frankstown, PA - d. 2-3-1952
secretary of interior: “Information Please”
03-15-1877 - Montague Love - Portsmouth, England - d. 5-17-1943
actor: “Screen Guild Theatre”; “Suspense”
03-15-1883 - Ernie Hare - Norfolk, VA - d. 3-9-1939
singer: (The Happiness Boys)
03-15-1887 - Billy Jones - NYC - d. 11-23-1940
singer: (The Happiness Boys)
03-15-1898 - Everett Mitchell - Austin, IL - d. 11-9-1990
annnouncer, host: “National Farm and Home Hour”; “Voice of the Farm”
03-15-1901 - Madeleine Pierce - Philadelphia, PA - d. 10-8-1983
actor: Wiki “Just Plain Bill”; Rudy Cameron “When A Girl Marries”
03-15-1904 - George Brent - Dublin, Ireland - d. 5-26-1979
actor, moderator: “Doctor Fights”; “Leave It to the Girls”; “Lux Radio Theatre”
03-15-1904 - Pat O’Malley - Burnley, Lancashire, England - d. 3-1-1985
actor: “Cavalcade of America”;”Lux Radio Theatre”
03-15-1904 - Verree Teasdale - Spokane, WA - d. 2-17-1987
actor: (Wife of Adolph Menjou) “Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show”
03-15-1905 - Margaret Webster - NYC - d. 11-13-1972
stage actor, director: “Information Please”
03-15-1905 - Nat Perrin - New York - d. 5-9-1998
writer: “The Marx Brothers”
03-15-1907 - Jimmy McPartland - Chicago, IL - d. 3-13-1991
jazz artist: “Doctor Jazz”; “Town Hall Concert”
03-15-1908 - Roland Varno (Varnoux) - Utrecht, Netherlands - d. 5-24-1996
character actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”; “You Were There”
03-15-1909 - John Roeburt - d. 5-22-1972
writer: “Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator”; “Inner Sanctum Mysteries”
03-15-1910 - Nick Stewart - NYC - d. 12-18-2000
actor: “Hollywood Newsreel of the Air”
03-15-1911 - Abraham A. Albayalde - d. 2-23-1994
newscaster: KTOH Lihue, Hawaii
03-15-1913 - Macdonald Carey - Sioux City, IA - d. 3-21-1994
actor: Jonathan Hillary “Just Plain Bill “; Lee Markham “Woman in White”
03-15-1915 - David Schoenbrun - NYC - d. 5-23-1988
news correspondent: CBS News, Paris; “CBS Radio Workshop”
03-15-1915 - Johnny Frazer - Los Angeles, CA - d. 5-11-1945 Died in WWII
announcer: “Brenthouse”; “The Bob Hope Show”; “The Kool Show”
03-15-1916 - Harry James - Albany, GA - d. 7-5-1983
bandleader: “Spotlight Bands”; “Call for Music”
03-15-1919 - Lawrence Tierney - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-26-2002
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”
03-15-1919 - Merv Baldrica - d. 4-25-2006
sportscaster: WMIQ Iron Mountain, Michigan
03-15-1927 - Carl Smith - Maynardville, TN
country singer: “Grand Ole Opry”
03-15-1932 - Ray Aparicio - d. 1-12-2006
disk jockey: KBUC Corona, California
03-15-1939 - Robert (Thomas) Nye - London, England
writer: “Sisters”
03-16-1859 - Alexander Popov - Turinsk District, Russia - d. 1-13-1906
One of three claimants for inventor of radio (along with Marconi and de Forest)
03-16-1885 - Rev. Dr. William L. Stidger - Moundsville, WV - d. 8-7-1949
pastor: “Getting the Most Out of Life”
03-16-1886 - Howard Pierce - d. 1-4-1973
Owned a piece of the Lone Ranger
03-16-1889 - Elsie Janis - Columbus, OH - d. 2-27-1956
First female announcer on network radio
03-16-1891 - Phil M. Donnelly - Lebanon, MO - d. 9-12-1961
governor missouri: “Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show”
03-16-1892 - James C. Petrillo - Chicago, IL - d. 10-23-1984
union leader” Head of the American Federation of Musicians
03-16-1893 - Isobel Elson - Cambridge, England - d. 1-12-1981
actor: Jessie Hughes “Young Dr. Malone”
03-16-1894 - Elizabeth Lennox - Ionia, MI - d. 5-3-1992
singer: “Lucky Strike Dance Orchestra”; “American Album of Familiar Music”
03-16-1896 - Arthur Hale - d. 10-17-1971
announcer, newscaster: “Confidentially Yours”; “The Richfield Reporter”
03-16-1897 - Conrad Nagel - Keokuk, IA - d. 2-24-1970
actor, emcee: “Silver Theatre”; “Passing Parade”
03-16-1897 - M. Barnard Eldershaw - Darlington, Australia - d. 9-20-1956
writer: “The Watch on the Headland”
03-16-1901 - Edward Pawley - Kansas City, KS - d. 1-27-1988
actor: Steve Wilson “Big Town”
03-16-1906 - Arch Presby - Canada - d. 3-8-1987
announcer, emcee: “Smilin’ Ed and His Buster Brown Gang”
03-16-1906 - Henny Youngman - London, England - d. 2-24-1998
comedian: (Take my wife, please) “Kate Smith Hour”; “Radio Hall of Fame”
03-16-1908 - Robert Rossen - NYC - d. 2-18-1966
film director: “Lux Radio Theatre”; “Screen Director’s Playhouse”
03-16-1916 - Mercedes McCambridge - Joliet, IL - d. 3-2-2004
actor: Sunny Richards “I Love A Mystery”; Martha Ellis Bryant “Defense Attorney”
03-16-1916 - Walter Reed - Fort Ward, Bainbridge Island, WA - d. 8-20-2001
actor: “The Bombadier”; “Lux Radio Theatre”
03-16-1920 - Leo McKern - Sydney, Australia - d. 7-23-2002
actor: Horace Rumpole “Rumpole of the Bailey”
03-16-1920 - Wolf Rilla - Berlin, Germany - d. 10-19-2005
writer for the BBC
03-16-1924 - Beryl Davis Plymouth, England
vocalist: “Your Hit Parade”; “Jubilee”
03-16-1925 - Lane Nakano - Los Angeles, CA - d. 4-28-2005
actor: “The Big Show”
03-16-1926 - Jerry Lewis - Newark, NJ
comedian: “Martin and Lewis Show”
03-16-1927 - Dick Beals - Detroit, MI
actor: Dan Reid “Lone Ranger”
03-16-1927 - Olga San Juan - Brooklyn, NY
actor: “Frank Morgan Show”; “G.I. Journal”; “Lux Radio Theatre”å
03-16-1927 - Ruby Braff - Boston, MA - d. 2-9-2003
performer: “Jazz from Storyville”
03-16-1931 - Betty Johnson - Guilford County, NC
singer: “Arthur Godfrey Time”
03-17-1877 - Edwin M. Whitney - Parma Center, NY - d. 6-5-1957
actor: Captain Jimmy Norton “Harbor Lights”; Judge Whipple “Real Folks”
03-17-1879 - Sid Grauman - Indianapolis, IN - d. 3-5-1950
theatre owner: Intermission Guest “Lux Radio Theatre”
03-17-1884 - Frank Buck - Gainesville, TX - d. 2-25-1950
wild animal hunter: “Bring ‘em Back Alive”
03-17-1891 - Tim Healy - Sydney, Australia - d. 10-12-1947
commentator: “Calling All Stamp Collectors”; “Captain Tim Helay Spy Stories”
03-17-1901 - Alfred Newman - New Haven, CT - d. 2-17-1970
composer, conductor: “Hollywood Star Time”; “Radio Hall of Fame”; “Silver Theatre”
03-17-1902 - Bobby Jones - d. 12-18-1971
renowned golfer, did a 15 minute show on golf
03-17-1902 - Jimmy Grier - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 6-4-1959
orchestra leader: “Woodbury Soap Show”
03-17-1905 - Lisa Sergio - Florence, Italy - d. 6-22-1989
news and music commentator: “Let’s Talk it Over”; “One Woman’s Opinion”
03-17-1905 - Meredith C. Beckman - d. 4-28-1980
tenor: KMOX St. Louis, Missouri
03-17-1906 - Michael O’Shea - Hartford, CT - d. 12-3-1973
actor: “Textron Theatre”; “Radio Reader’s Digest”; “Philip Morris Playhouse”
03-17-1910 - Molly Weir - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 12-1-2004
actor: Tattie McIntosh “It’s That Man Again”; Aggie “Life with the Lyons”
03-17-1910 - Pat McVey - Fort Wayne, IN - d. 7-6-1973
actor: “Cavalcade of America”
03-17-1914 - Sammy Baugh - Temple, TX - d. 12-17-2008
football great: “Bill Stern Colgate Sports Newsreel”
03-17-1915 - Joel Cranston - Iowa - d. 9-21-1977
actor: “Fort Laramie”; “Gunsmoke”; “Escape”; “Have Gun, Will Travel”
03-17-1916 - Karl Weber - Columbus Junction, IA - d. 7-30-1990
actor: Ray Matson “Dr. Six Gun”; Phil Stanley “When a Girl Marries”
03-17-1916 - Mollie Hardwick - Manchester, England - d. 12-13-2003
author: “Madam, Will You Walk”; “Casting the Ruins”
03-17-1917 - Lily May Ledford - Kentucky - d. 7-14-1985
fiddle, banjo, singer: (Coon Creek Girls) “WLS National Barn Dance”
03-17-1918 - Bill Felton - Greenland, MI - d. 1-20-2005
newscaster, disc jockey: “Valley Varieties”; “Recreation Room”
03-17-1919 - Marx B. Loeb - d. 8-9-1991
director: “Suspense”; “Romance”
03-17-1919 - Nat “King” Cole - Montgomery, AL - d. 2-15-1965
singer: “King Cole Trio Time”
03-17-1922 - Irene Buri-Nelson - d. 7-7-2006
host: WLIP Kenosha, Wisconsin “Around Town”
03-17-1926 - Pat Connell - Great Falls, MT
announcer: “Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar”
03-17-1927 - Patrick Allen - Nyasaland - d. 7-28-2006
narrator: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
03-17-1930 - Grover C. Mitchell - Whatley, AL - d. 8-6-2003
trombonist: “Count Basie and His Orchestra”; “Bring Back the Bands”
03-17-1938 - Zola Taylor - Los Angeles, CA - d. 4-30-2007
singer: (The Platters) “Camel Rock and Roll Dance Party”
03-17-1946 - Budge Threlkeld - Pueblo, CO - d. 6-11-2005
actor: “High Street”
03-18-1860 - William Jennings Bryan - Salem, IL - d. 7-26-1925
lawyer: Scopes Monkey trial
03-18-1869 - Neville Chamberlain - Birmingham, England - d. 11-9-1940
inept british prime minister: “peace for our time”
03-18-1884 - Bernard Cronin - London, England p d. 6-9-1968
writer: “Stampede”
03-18-1886 - Edward Everett Horton - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-30-1970
actor, host: “Shell Chateau”; “Kraft Music Hall”
03-18-1889 - Gene Byrnes - NYC - d. 7-26-1974
comic strip cartoonist: “Reg’lar Fellers” based on his comic strip
03-18-1893 - George Olsen - Portland, OR - d. 3-18-1971
bandleader: “Jack Benny Program”; “Royal Gelatin Revue”
03-18-1893 - Jean Goldkette - Patras, Greece - d. 3-24-1962
bandleader: “The Studebaker Champion Program”
03-18-1894 - Stuart Buchanan - d. 2-4-1974
actor, producer, director: “Goofy “Mickey Mouse Theatre of the Air”
03-18-1902 - Doris Dalton - Sharon, MA - d. 9-16-1984
actor: Voice of Romance “Romance”; “One Foot in Heaven”
03-18-1905 - Robert Donat - Manchester, England - d. 6-9-1958
actor, poetry reader: “Justice”; “Monte Carlo”; “Reader of Poetry”; U.S. Steel Hour”
03-18-1909 - Samson De Brier - China - d. 4-1-1995
host: “Gangplank”
03-18-1911 - Audrey Marsh - NYC
actor: Esther “ Harve and Esther”
03-18-1911 - Deane Kincaide - Houston, TX - d. 8-14-1992
saxophonist: “The Bob Crosby Show”
03-18-1911 - Rex Koury - London, England - d. 5-29-2006
orgainst, composere: “Gunsmoke”; “Abbott and Costello’s Kid Show”
03-18-1911 - Smiley Burnette - Summum, IL - d. 2-16-1967
host, comedian: “Smiley Burnette Show”; “Hollywood Hotel”
03-18-1912 - Art Gilmore - Tacoma, WA
announcer: “Dr. Christian”; “Amos ‘n’ Andy”
03-18-1914 - Ben Gage - Chicago, IL - d. 4-28-1978
actor: Jimmy Gale “Modern Cinderella”
03-18-1916 - Jody Gilbert - Fort Worth, TX - d. 2-3-1979
actor: Rosa “Life with Luigi”
03-18-1926 - Margery Manners - Coventry, England - d. 4-27-1997
singer: “Big Bill Campbell and His Rocky Mountain Rhythm”; “Worker’s Playtime”
03-18-1926 - Peter Graves -Minneapolis, MN
actor: “Arthur Hopkins Presents”
03-18-1930 - Peter Kenna - Balmain, Australia - d. 11-29-1987
writer: “A Hard God”
03-18-1940 - Phil Harper - Raised in Chicago, IL - d. 10-11-2004
actor: Harry Nile “The Adventures of Harry Nile”
03-19-1883 - Louis Hector - d. 10-xx-1968
actor: Sherlock Holmes “Advs. of Sherlock Holmes”
03-19-1889 - George L. “Doc” Rockwell - Providence, RI - d. 3-3-1978
comedian: “Camel Pleasure Hour”
03-19-1890 - Gayne Whitman - Chicago, IL - d. 8-31-1958
actor, announcer: Frank Chandler “Chandu the Magician”; “Cavalcade of America”
03-19-1891 - Earl Warren - Los Angeles, CA - d. 7-9-1974
governor, supreme court justice: “Edgar bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show”
03-19-1892 - James Van Fleet - Coytesville, NJ - d. 9-24-1992
4 star army general: “A Tribute to Jack Benny”
03-19-1900 - Frank Chapman - d. 7-26-1966
singer: “The Voice of Firestone”
03-19-1906 - Pat Adelman - d. 12-9-1982
sportscaster: Austin, Texas
03-19-1907 - Kent Smith - NYC - d. 4-23-1985
actor: “NBC University Theatre of the Air”;”Radio Reader’s Digest”
03-19-1909 - Louis Hayward - Johannesburg, South Africa - d. 2-21-1985
actor: “Screen Guild Theatre”; “Harold Lloyd Comedy Theatre”; “This Is My Best”
03-19-1912 - Russ Case - Hamburg, IA - d. 10-10-1964
orchestra leader: “On a Sunday Afternoon”; “Peggy Lee Show”; “Your Hit Parade”
03-19-1915 - Patricia Morison - NYC
actor: “Family Theatre”; “Railroad Hour”
03-19-1916 - Eric Christmas - London, England - d. 7-22-2000
actor: “CBC Wednesday Night”
03-19-1916 - Irving Wallace - Chicago, IL - d. 6-29-1990
writer: “Have Gun, Will Travel”
03-19-1919 - Alfred Apaka - Honolulu, HI - d. 1-30-1960
vocalist: “Hawaii Calls”
03-19-1920 - Tige Andrews - Brooklyn, NY - d. 1-27-2007
actor: “Hollywood Radio Theatre”
03-19-1923 - Gordon Connell - Berkeley, CA
actor: Billy Sherwood “Hawthorne House”
03-19-1923 - Pamela Britton - Milwaukee, WI - d. 6-18-1974
actor: “Luncheon at Sardi’s”; “Lux Radio Theatre”
03-19-1927 - Richie Ashburn - Tilden, NE - d. 9-9-1997
sportscaster: “Philadelphia Phillies Play by Play”
03-19-1928 - Henry Maddox - Boaz, AL - d. 6-xx-1974
“Maddox Family Band”
03-19-1933 - Phyllis Newman - Jersey City, NJ
actor: “NBC Radio Theatre”; “Tonight at 9:30”
03-20-1828 - Henrik Ibsen - Skien, Norway - d. 5-23-1906
playwright: Many of his works adapted for radio
03-20-1890 - Gigli Beniamino - Recanti, Italy - d. 11-30-1957
operatic tenor: “Atwater Kent Hour”
03-20-1890 - Lauritz Melchior - Copenhagen, Denmark - d. 3-18-1973
singer: “Magic Key”; “Metropolitan Opera”; “Voice of Firestone”
03-20-1903 - Edgar Buchanan - Humansville, MO - d. 4-4-1979
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”
03-20-1903 - Sarah Burton - London, England - d. 12-24-1994
actor: Mrs. Bixby “Mrs. Miniver”; Lisa “Against the Storm”
03-20-1904 - Bob Chester - Detroit, MI - d. 11-5-1975
bandleader: “Bob Chester and His Orchestra”
03-20-1906 - Ozzie Nelson - Jersey City, NJ - d. 6-3-1975
actor: “Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet”
03-20-1908 - Frank Stanton - Muskegon, MI - d. 12-24-2006
president of cbs 1946-1971
03-20-1908 - Kermit Murdock - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 2-11-1981
actor: Rod Buchanan “Whisper Men”
03-20-1908 - Michael Redgrave - Bristol, England - d. 3-21-1985
actor: Horatio Hornblower “Horatio Hornblower”
03-20-1908 - Stuart Metz - Buffalo, NY - d. 1-5-1994
announcer: “Pepper Young’s Family”; “Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons”
03-20-1909 - Doris C. Frankel - Manhattan, NY - d. 2-3-1994
writer: “Ma Perkins”; “Romance of Helen Trent”
03-20-1913 - Judith Evelyn - Seneca, SD - d. 5-7-1967
actor: Grace Marshall “Helpmate”; Kay Miniver “Mrs. Miniver”
03-20-1913 - Kenny Gardner - Lakeview, IA - d. 7-26-2002
singer: “Guy Lombardo Show”; “Lombardoland U.S.A.”; “Your Hit Parade”
03-20-1914 - Lawson Zerbe - Portland, OR - d. 8-18-1992
actor: Frank Merriwell “Advs. of Frank Merriwell” Pepper Young “Pepper Young’s Family”
03-20-1914 - Wendell Corey - Dracut, MA - d. 11-8-1968
actor: Detective Dan McGarry “McGarry and His Mouse”
03-20-1915 - Sviatoslav Richter - Zhitomir,Russia - d. 8-1-1997
classical pianist: “Boston Symphony Orchestra”
03-20-1918 - Jack Barry - Lindenhurst, NY - d. 5-2-1984
actor: “It’s the Barrys”
03-20-1918 - Marian McPartland - Stough, England
jazz pianist: “Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz”
03-20-1918 - Mort Lachman - Seattle, WA - d. 3-17-2009
gag writer” “The Bob Hope Show”
03-20-1921 - Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Cotton Plant, AR - d. 10-9-1973
singer: “Jubilee”
03-20-1922 - Carl Reiner - The Bronx, NY
comedian: “The Curse”; “Sounds of Freedom”; “Here’s to Veterans”
03-20-1922 - Jack Kruschen - Winnipeg, Canada - d. 4-2-2002
actor: Sergeant Muggowen “ Broadway is My Beat”
03-20-1922 - Ray Goulding - Lowell, MA - d. 3-24-1990
comedian: “Bob and Ray Show”
03-20-1924 - Philip Abbott - Lincoln, NE - d. 2-23-1998
actor: “Family Theatre”
03-20-1937 - Izumi Yukimura - Tokyo, Japan
enka singer: “Kohaku Uta Gassen”
03-20-1950 - Linda Aronson - London, England
worter: “Reginka’s Lesson”
03-21-1867 - Florenz Ziegfeld - Chicago, IL - d. 7-22-1932
showman: “Ed Sullivan Show”; “Ziegfeld Follies of the Air”
03-21-1869 - Vivia Ogden - Ohio - d. 12-22-1952
actor: Mrs. Manners “John’s Other Wife”; Annie “Orphans of Divorce”
03-21-1893 - Aileen Stanley - d. 3-24-1982
vocalist: (The Victrola Girl) “RCA Thesaurus Music Hall Varieties”
03-21-1893 - Sidney Franklin - San Francisco, CA - d. 5-18-1972
film producer, director: “Academy Awards Program”; “Screen Guild Theatre”
03-21-1903 - Mark Hellinger - NYC - d. 12-21-1947
broadway, hollywood producer: “Jack Benny Program”; “Post Toasties Time”
03-21-1903 - Nan Boardman - NYC - d. 9-9-1984
actor: “The Modern Adventures of Casanova”
03-21-1906 - Helen Deutsch - NYC - d. 3-15-1992
writer: “Forecast”: “Gulf Screen Guild Theatre”, “Lux Radio Theatre”
03-21-1908 - Vincent Pelletier - Minneapolis, MN - d. 2-25-1994
actor: Victor Powell “This is Life”; Robin “Calling All Detectives”
03-21-1911 - Henny Backus - Philadelphia, PA - d. 12-9-2004
actor: “Romance”
03-21-1912 - Henry Gibson - NYC - d. 5-29-2003
director, writer: “Burns and Allen”; “Junior Miss”
03-21-1912 - Suzanne Kaaren - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-27-2004
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”
03-21-1915 - Hank D’Amico - Rochester, NY - d. 12-3-1965
clairinetist: “Rumpus Room”; “Saturday Senior Swing”
03-21-1918 - Cliff Norton - Chicago, IL - d. 1-25-2003
actor: Connie the coolie “Terry and the Pirates”; “American Novels”
03-21-1919 - Lois Collier - Salley, SC - d. 10-27-1999
actor: Carol Chandler “Dear John”
03-21-1926 - Virginia Weidler - Eagle Rock, CA - d. 7-1-1968
actor: “Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show”
03-21-1932 - Tommy Bernard - Los Angeles, CA
actor: David Nelson “Ozzie and Harriet Show”
03-21-1943 - Vivian Stanshall - Shillingford, England - d. 3-5-1995
pop musician: “Viv Stanshall’s Radio Flashes”
03-21-1959 - Tobsha Learner - England
writer: “Lionheart”
03-22-1886 - Chico Marx - NYC - d. 10-11-1961
comedian: Emmanuel Revelli “Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel”
03-22-1886 - Thomas J. Cowan - Newark, NJ - d. 11-11-1969
announcer: First voice heard over WJZ
03-22-1887 - William Royale - Rochester, NY - d. 8-9-1940
actor: “Jack Benny Show”; “Eddie Cantor Show”
03-22-1892 - Charlie Poole - Randolph County, NC - d. 5-21-1931
country music: “Charlie Poole and his North Carolina Ramblers”
03-22-1893 - Tito Vuolo - Italy - d. 9-14-1962
actor: Uncle Carlo “The Goldbergs”
03-22-1895 - Joseph Schildkraut - Vienna, Austria - d. 1-21-1964
actor: “Intrigue”; “Best Plays”; “Columbia Workshop”; “Hollywood Hotel”
03-22-1899 - Douglas Stanbury - Canada - d. 12-6-1980
baritone: “Roxy’s Gang”; “Kraft Music Hall”
03-22-1904 - Bob Elson - Chicago, IL - d. 3-10-1981
sportscaster, interviewer: White Sox, “Bob Elson Aboard the 20th Century”
03-22-1905 - Don Dowd - Philadelphia, PA - d. 2-21-1977
annoouncer: “Moon River”; “Don McNeill’s Breakfast Club”
03-22-1906 - Miff Campbell - Indianapolis, IN - d. 4-2-1995
singer: (The Ink Spots) “Four Ink Spots”; “Jubilee”; “Ink Spots”
03-22-1907 - Bernice Claire - Oakland, CA - d. 1-17-2003
vocalist: “Waltz Time”
03-22-1910 - Bob Kendrick - d. 5-11-1998
fiddle, clarinet, sax, mandolin: “Bob Skyles and His Skyrockets”
03-22-1912 - Karl Malden - Chicago, IL
actor: “Theatre Guild On the Air”; “Our Gal Sunday”; “Aldrich Family”
03-22-1913 - James Westerfield - Nashville, TN - d. 9-20-1971
actor: “Mystery Theatre”; “Gunsmoke”, “Have Gun,Will Travel”
03-22-1914 - Antonio Alfonso - d. 1-xx-1987
sportscaster: WIAC San Jose, Puerto Rico
03-22-1916 - George Wyle - NYC - d. 5-3-2003
songwriter: “Alan Young”
03-22-1917 - Virginia Grey - Los Angeles, CA - d. 7-31-2004
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”
03-22-1918 - Fred Crane - New Orleans, LA - d. 8-21-2008
actor: “Doctor Christian”
03-22-1920 - Ross Martin - Grodek, Poland - d. 7-3-1981
actor: Soap Opera “Janice Grey”
03-22-1924 - Bill Wendell - NYC - d. 4-14-1999
announcer: “Ten Troubled Years”; “Biography In Sound”
03-22-1927 - Karl Hardman - Pittsuburgh, PA - d. 9-22-2007
actor: Louie the Garbage Man, Roquefort O. Lafarge “Cordie and Company”
03-22-1931 - William Shatner - Montreal, Canada
actor: “The Curse”; “No Love Lost”; “The Secretariat”
03-22-1933 - J.P. McCarthy - NYC - d. 8-16-1995
One of the Great Voices of the Great Lakes at WJR Detroit
03-22-1937 - Andy Badale - Brooklyn, NY
composer of radio commercials
03-22-1946 - Jonathan James-Moore - d. 11-20-2005
produced comedy series for BBC radio
03-22-1955 - Veleka Gray - New Orleans, LA
actor: “CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”
03-22-1962 - Trish Cooke - Bradford, West Yorkshire, England
writer: “We Expect Respect”
03-23-1874 - Fiddlin’ John Carson - Cobb County, GA - d. 12-11-1949
fiddler: Made debut on station WSB Atlanta, Georgia
03-23-1891 - Dr. M.R. DeHaan - Zeeland, MI - d. 12-13-1965
evengelist: “Radio Bible Class”
03-23-1892 - Nadea Dragonette Loftus - d. 10-23-1982
Sister and business manager of Jessica Dragonette
03-23-1893 - Arnold Johnson - Chicago, IL - d. 7-25-1975
bandleader: “The Majestic Theatre Hour”; “True Story Time”
03-23-1898 - David Newell - Chicago, IL - d. 9-26-1986
outdoorsman: “Fishing and Hunting Club of the Air”
03-23-1899 - Peggy Paige - Ashville, NC - d. 8-26-1974
actor: Sassy “Grits and Gravy”; Nancy “Main Street Sketches”
03-23-1905 - Joan Crawford - San Antonio, TX - d. 5-10-1977
actor: “Arch Oboler’s Plays”; “Everyman’s Theatre”; “Screen Guild Theatre”
03-23-1905 - Sidney Walton - Mississippi - d. 1-16-1958
announcer: “Arthur Tracy, Street Singer”; “Changing Times”
03-23-1906 - Richard L. Evans - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 11-1-1971
announcer: “Music and the Spoken Word” (Mormon Tabernacle Choir)
03-23-1910 - Akira Kurosawa, Tokyo, Japan - d. 9-6-1998
film director: NHK Tokyo, Japan
03-23-1910 - Paula Winslowe - Grafton, ND - d. 3-7-1996
actor: Peg Riley “Life of Riley”; Jill “Joe E. Brown Show”
03-23-1911 - Herbert Rudley - Philadelphia, PA - d. 9-9-2006
actor: “Helen Hayes Theatre”; “Great Plays”; “Hollywood Radio Theatre”
03-23-1912 - Francis DeSales - Philadelphia, PA - d. 9-25-1988
actor: Bill Weigand “Mr. and Mrs. North”; Parris Mitchell “King’s Row”
03-23-1915 - Louis Quinn - Chicago, IL - d. 9-15-1988
actor: “Studio One”
03-23-1917 - Josef Locke - Londonderry, Northern Ireland - d. 10-15-1999
actor: “Variety Fanfare”
03-23-1917 - Oscar Shumsky - Philadelphia, PA - d. 7-24-2000
violinist: “Voice of Firestone”
03-23-1920 - Alfred Palca - Manhattan, NY - d. 6-18-1998
writer: Wrote for NBC radio while still in college
03-23-1920 - Maurice Marsac - La Croix, France - d. 5-6-2007
actor: French Teacher “Our Miss Brooks”
03-23-1926 - Martha Wright - Seattle, WA
actor: “Stars for Defense”
03-23-1938 - Christopher Glenn - NYC - d. 10-17-2006
news correspondent: “World News Roundup”; “The World Tonight”
03-23-1957 - Amanda Plummer - NYC
actor: “CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”
03-24-1867 - Harry Neville - Launceston, Tasmania - d. 1-25-1945
actor: “Sherlock Holmes”; “John’s Other Wife”
03-24-1885 - Joseph Granby - Boston, MA - d. 9-22-1965
actor: Mead Connors “We Are Always Young”
03-24-1892 - Roy Harvey - Monroe County, WV - d. 7-11-1958
guitarist: “Charlie Poole and his North Carolina Ramblers”
03-24-1893 - Jane Seymour - Hamilton, Canada - d. 1-30-1956
actor: Mrs. Brown “Claudia and David”
03-24-1895 - Paul Specht - d. 4-11-1954
bandleader: Made very first broadcast of dance Music 9-20-1920 WWJ Detroit
03-24-1902 - Sir Lancelot - Cumuto, Trinidad, West Indies - d. 3-12-2001
calypso singer: “Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy”
03-24-1902 - Thomas E. Dewey - Owosso, MI - d. 3-16-1971
presidential candidate: “Jack Benny Show”; “Racketbusters Roundtable”
03-24-1906 - Julian Funt - d. 4-8-1980
writer: “Young Doctor Malone”
03-24-1907 - Martin Kosleck - Barkotzen, Germany - d. 1-16-1994
actor: “Treasury Star Parade”
03-24-1910 - John V. Ambrose - d. 11-7-1995
sportscaster: WTAG Worcester, Massachusetts
03-24-1910 - Richard Conte - Jersey City, NJ - d. 4-15-1975
actor: “Theatre Guild On the Air”; “Hallmark Playhouse”; “Hollywood Star Playhouse”
03-24-1911 - Enrique Jorda - San Sebastian, Spain - d-.3-22-1996
conductor: “San Francisco Symphony Orchestra”
03-24-1915 - Bill Bivens - Wadesboro, NC - d. 1-15-1984
announcer: “Fred Waring Show”; “Vox Pox”
03-24-1916 - David M. Bohme - Poland - d. 1-6-2004
on staff of WLS and WGN radio
03-24-1918 - Bill Aya - d. 10-28-1985
sportscaster: KEVE Seattle, Washington
03-24-1925 - Duncan Wood - Bristol, England - d. 1-11-1997
producer: “Hancock’s Half Hour”
03-24-1928 - Sue Bennett - Indianapolis, IN - d. 5-8-2001
vocalist: “Your Hit Parade”
03-24-1928 - Vanessa Brown - Vienna, Austria - d. 5-21-1999
panelist: “Quiz Kids”
03-25-1867 - Arturo Toscanini - Parma, Italy - d. 1-16-1957
conductor: “NBC Symphony Orchestra”
03-25-1887 - Raymond Gram Swing - Cortland, NY - d. 12-22-1968
commentator: “Voice of America”
03-25-1892 - Andy Clyde - Blaingowrie, Scotland - d. 5-18-1967
actor: California Carlson “Hopalong Cassidy”
03-25-1897 - John Laurie - Dumfries, Scotland - d. 6-23-1980
actor: James Fraser “Dad’s Army”
03-25-1899 - Bella Spewack - Bucharest, Romania - d. 4-27-1990
writer: “The Radio Guild”
03-25-1901 - Ed Begley - Hartford, CT - d. 4-28-1970
actor: Walt Levinson “Richard Diamond, Private Detective”
03-25-1901 - John Earl Fetzer - Decatur, IN - d. 2-21-1991
broadcast pioneer: “WKZO Fiftieth Anniversary Broadcast”
03-25-1903 - Binnie Barnes - London, England - d. 7-27-1998
panelist: “Leave It to the Girls”; “Breakfast with Binnie and Mike”
03-25-1903 - Frankie Carle - Providence, RI - d. 3-7-2001
bandleader, pianist: “Pot o’ Gold”; “Treasure Chest”
03-25-1905 - George Burt Cole - South Portland, ME - d. 12-xx-1980
composer, arranger for CBS 1941-1956
03-25-1906 - Jean Sablon - Nogent-sur-Marne, France - d. 2-24-1994
baritone/composer: (French Troubadour) “Shell Chateau”; Magic Key of RCA”
03-25-1906 - Margaret Daum - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 2-23-1977
singer: “American Album of Familiar Music”
03-25-1908 - David Lean - Croydon, Surrey, England - d. 4-16-1991
screenwriter, film director: “Lux Radio Theatre”
03-25-1908 - Philip Reed - NYC - d. 12-21-1996
actor: Ross Barrington “Society Girl”; Brian Wells “David Harum”
03-25-1909 - Frank James Damico - Jersey City, NJ
aranger: “Texaco Radio”
03-25-1909 - Jay Blackton - NYC - d. 1-8-1994
composer, conductor, pianist: “Stu Erwin Show”; “Broadway Showtime”
03-25-1910 - Jack Carlton - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-17-1991
staff singer, actor, announcer: WCAU Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
03-25-1913 - Prescott Robinson - Montreal, Canada - d. 5-19-1999
newscaster: “Eight O’Clock Morning News on Mutual”
03-25-1914 - Forrest Bartlett - d. 7-3-2006
newscaster: KGER Long Beach, California
03-25-1914 - Robert Rounseville - Attleboro, MA - d. 8-6-1974
singer: “The Voice of Firestone”
03-25-1916 - Jean Rogers - Belmont, MA - d. 2-24-1991
actor: Elaine Dascomb “Those We Love”
03-25-1917 - Don Gibson - Waynesburg, PA - d. 10-xx-1987
actor: “New World A’ Coming”
03-25-1919 - Jeanne Cagney - NYC - d. 12-7-1984
actor: (Sister of James Cagney) “Movietone Radio Theatre”; “Suspense”
03-25-1920 - Howard Cosell - Winston-Salem, NC - d. 3-23-1995
sportscaster: “Speaking of Sports”
03-25-1921 - Nancy Kelly - Lowell, MA - d. 1-15-1995
actor: “Cavalcade of America”; “Free Company”; “Suspense”
03-25-1924 - Harold Neal - Michigan - d. 2-27-1980
announcer: “Challenge of the Yukon”; “Green Hornet”; “Lone Ranger”
03-25-1925 - Len Dressler - d. 10-16-2005
voice of the Jolly Green Giant
03-25-1926 - Paul Leder - Springfield, MA - d. 4-8-1996
singer: “Molly Goldberg Show”
03-25-1940 - Anita Bryant - Barnsdall, OK
singer: “Guard Session”; “Let’s Go To Town”
03-25-1948 - Bonnie Bedelia - New York, NY
actor: “Empire of the Air”
03-25-1964 - Greg Smith - Bay Springs, MS
talk show host: “On a Roll”
03-25-1965 - Sarah Jessica Parker - Nelsonville, OH
actor: “CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”
03-26-1894 - Will Wright - San Francisco, CA - d. 6-19-1962
actor: Ed Kremer “Fibber McGee and Molly”; George Honeywell “My Little Margie”
03-26-1900 - Creighton Allen - Macon, MS - d. 7-18-1969
pianist for NBC in 1935
03-26-1907 - Clarence Stroud - Kaufman, TX - d. 8-15-1973
actor: “Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show”
03-26-1907 - Claude Stroud - Kaufman, TX - d. 10-16-1985
actor: “Edgar Bergen/Chaarlie McCarthy Show”
03-26-1907 - Leigh Harline - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 12-10-1969
music: “Eddie Bracken Show”; “Ford Festival of American Music”
03-26-1907 - Phil Rapp - d. 1-23-1996
creator, writer, director: “The Bickersons”; “Baby Snooks”; “Old Gold Time”
03-26-1908 - Hank Sylvern - Brooklyn, NY - d. 7-4-1964
orchestra leader: “Beyond Tomorrow”
03-26-1911 - Hank Booream - St. Paul, MN - d. 6-9-2006
director: “March of Time”; “Burns and Allen”; “Screen Guild Theatre”
03-26-1911 - Tennessee Williams - Columbus, TN - d. 2-25-1983
author: “Drama Critics Award”; “Lux Radio Theatre”
03-26-1912 - Al Sloey - d. 12-15-1975
singer: (Riders of the Purple Sage) “Roy Rogers Show”; “Hollywood Barn Dance”
03-26-1915 - Flip Phillips - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-17-2001
jazz saxophonist: “Woody Herman Show”; “Saturday Night Swing Session”
03-26-1916 - Sterling Hayden - Montclair, NJ - d. 5-23-1986
actor: “We the People”
03-26-1916 - Vic Schoen - Brooklyn, NY - d. 1-5-2000
music: “The Andrews Sisters”
03-26-1918 - William Hardcastle - Newcastle, England - d. 11-10-1975
newscaster: “The World At One”
03-26-1920 - Junior Blizzard - d. 2-2-2005
disk jockey: WMJM Cordele, Georgia
03-26-1923 - Bob Elliott - Boston, MA
comedian: “Bob and Ray Show”; “Back Bay Matinee”
03-26-1923 - Charles Wheeler Bremen, Germany - d-. 7-4-2008
news correspondent: “Transatlantic Call”; “A Tribute to Alistair”
03-26-1924 - Jean M. Brooks - Brighton, England - d. 1-3-2003
writer: “Gregory of the Outback”; “Opal Witch”
03-26-1924 - Marcia Van Dyck - Grants Pass, OR
actor: Marcia Barry “It’s the Barrys”
03-26-1928 - Carole Carr - London, England - d. 1-8-1997
singer, actress: “Calling All Forces”
03-26-1928 - Patsy Lee - Alameda, CA
singer: “Don McNeill’s Breakfast Club”
03-26-1931 - Leonard Nimoy - Boston, MA
actor: L.A. Theatre Works “War of the Worlds”
03-27-1892 - Ferde Grofé - NYC - d. 4-3-1972
conductor, composer: (The Grand Canyon Suite) “Florsheim Frolic”
03-27-1892 - Thorne Smith - Annapolis, MD - d. 6-21-1934
writer: “Advs. of Topper” based on his book
03-27-1895 - William W. Chaplin - NYC - d. 8-18-1978
newsman: White House correspondent for NBC
03-27-1898 - Gloria Swanson - Chicago, IL - d. 4-4-1983
panelist: “Hollywood Byline”; “Suspense”
03-27-1902 - Sidney Buchman - Duluth, MN - d. 8-23-1975
movie writer: “Lux Radio Theatre”
03-27-1904 - Hal Kemp - Marion, AL - d. 12-21-1940
bandleader: “Phil Baker Show”; “Lady Esther Serenade”; “Gulf Gas Program”
03-27-1906 - Pee Wee Russell - Maple Wood, MO - d. 2-15-1969
clarinet: “Eddie Condon’s Jazz Concerts”
03-27-1907 - Mary Treen - St. Louis, MO - d. 7-20-1989
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”
03-27-1914 - Budd Schulberg - NYC
writer: “Free World Theatre”; “The New Theatre”
03-27-1914 - Richard Denning - Poughkeepsie, NY - d. 10-11-1998
actor: George Cooper “My Favorite Husband”; Jerry North “Mr. and Mrs. North”
03-27-1914 - Snooky Lanson - Memphis, TN - d. 7-2-1990
singer: “Snooky Lanson Show”; “Your Hit Parade”
03-27-1915 - Hugh Conover - Washington, D.C. - d. 9-27-1992
announcer: “Amanda of Honeymoon Hill”; “Big Sister”; “Right to Happiness”
03-27-1915 - Robert Lockwood, Jr. - Turkey Scratch, AR - d. 11-21-2006
guiatrist: “KFFA King Biscuit Time”
03-27-1916 - Howard Merrill - NYC - d. 4-20-2002
writer: “Advs. of Leonidas Witherall”; “Leave It to Mike”; “Secret Missions”
03-27-1920 - Richard Hayman - Cambridge, MA
arranger, harmonica player: “Stop the Music”; “Steve Lawrence Show”
03-27-1921 - Fletcher Markle - Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada - d. 5-22-1991
actor, director, producer: “Columbia Workshop”; “Studio One”
03-27-1921 - Fred Foy - Detroit, MI
announcer, narrator: “The Lone Ranger”
03-27-1921 - Harold Nicholas - Winston-Salem, NC - d. 7-3-2000
dancer: (The Nicholas Brothers) “Big Broadcast of 1936”; “Ben Bernie Show”
03-27-1924 - Sarah Vaughn - Newark, NJ - d. 4-3-1990
singer: “Guest Star”; “Your Rhythm Revue”
03-27-1930 - Bob Larson - Los Angeles, CA - d. 5-1-2002
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”
03-27-1930 - Jack Adams - Hobart, OK - d. 6-14-2003
singer in nightclubs and radio
03-27-1940 - Janis Martin - Sutherlin, VA - d. 9-3-2007
rockabilly singer: “Army of Stars”; “Reflections By Starlight”
03-28-1871 - Willem Mengelberg - Utrecht, Netherlands - d. 3-21-1951
composer, conductor: “The New York Philharmonic Orchestra”
03-28-1888 - Jim Harkins - d. 10-24-1970
emcee: “Song Writing Machine Series”
03-28-1890 - Paul Whiteman - Denver, CO - d. 12-29-1967
conductor: “Kraft Music Hall”; “George Burns and Gracie Allen Show”
03-28-1892 - Philip Loeb - Philadelphia, PA - d. 9-1-1955
actor: Jake Goldberg “The Goldbergs”
03-28-1896 - Abram E. Borodkin - Russia - d. 8-25-1978
cellist: NBC and CBS networks
03-28-1896 - Virginia Rea - Louisville, KY - d. xx-xx-1941
singer: Olive Palmer “Palmolive Hour”; “Rubinoff and His Orchestra”
03-28-1897 - Frank Hawks - Marshalltown, IA - d. 8-23-1938
flying ace: “Roads of the Sky”; “Time Flies”
03-28-1902 - Gordon Clifford - Providence, RI - d. 6-11-1968
songwriter: “The Rhythm Boys”
03-28-1903 - Rudolf Serkin - Eger, Bohemia - d. 5-8-1991
pianist: “Concert Hall”; “New York Philharmonic”
03-28-1904 - Day Keene - Illinois - d. 1-9-1969
writer: “Kitty Keene, Incorporated”; “Little Orphan Annie”
03-28-1907 - Jon Dodson - Richland, MO - d. xx-xx-1963
singer: (Member of the King’s Men) “Fibber McGee and Molly”; “King’s Men”
03-28-1910 - Jimmy Dodd - Cincinnati, OH - d. 11-10-1964
singer, songwriter: “Lifebuoy Show”; “Command Performance”; “CBS Radio Workshop”
03-28-1912 - Frank Lovejoy - The Bronx, NY - d. 10-2-1962
actor: Randy ‘Lucky’ Stone “Nightbeat”; Bill Weigand “Mr. and Mrs. North”
03-28-1913 - Lucille Fletcher - NYC - d. 8-31-2000
dramatist: “Columbia Workshop”; “Suspense”; “Screen Guild Theatre”
03-28-1915 - Jay Livingston - McDonald, PA - d. 10-17-2001
composer: “Hollywood Calling-George Fisher Interviews”
03-28-1915 - Joel Murcott - d. 2-26-1978
writer, director: “Tales of the Texas Rangers”; “Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar”
03-28-1917 - Randy Brooks - Sandford, ME - d. 3-21-1967
bandleader: “One Night Stand”; “The Kate Smith Hour”
03-28-1918 - John Heath - Seattle, WA
actor: “Sherlock Holmes”; “Murder is My Hobby”
03-28-1919 - Vic Raschi - West Springfield, MA - d. 10-14-1988
baseball pitcher: “National Guard Show”
03-28-1921 - Dirk Bogarde - London, England - d. 5-8-1999
actor: “A Christmas Carol”
03-28-1922 - Lutrelle F. Palmer - Newport News, VA - d. 9-12-2004
news analyst: “Lu’s Notebook”
03-28-1922 - Paul Bartell - Milwaukee, WI - d. 2-19-2006
announcer, disk jockey: “Blue Baron Show”; “Fox Club”
03-28-1924 - Freddie Bartholomew - London, England - d. 1-23-1992
guest: “Anchors Aweigh”
03-28-1925 - Jerry Walter - Illinois - d. 2-11-1979
actor: Gil Perry “Island Adventure”
03-28-1927 - Marguerite Campbell - Winnipeg, Canada - d. 3-19-2003
singer: “Kay Kyser’s Kollege of Musical Knowledge”
03-29-1867 - Cy Young - Gilmore, OH - d. 11-4-1955
baseball pitching great: “Feature Project: This Game of Baseball”
03-29-1878 - Frank Tinney - Philadelphia, PA - d. 11-28-1940
comedian, monologist: WWJ and WJR Detroit, Michigan
03-29-1888 - Earle Ross - Illinois - d. 5-21-1961
actor: Judge Horace Hooker “Great Gildersleeve”; J. R. Boone, Sr. “Meet Millie”
03-29-1889 - Howard Lindsay - Waterford, NY - d. 2-11-1968
writer, host: “The Ford Theatre”
03-29-1890 - Joe Cook - Evansville, IN - d. 5-16-1959
comedian: “House Party”; “Shell Chateau”
03-29-1891 - Warner Baxter - Columbus, OH - d. 5-7-1951
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”
03-29-1898 - Cecil Lewis - Birkenhead, England - d. 1-27-1997
pioneer in British broadcasting instrumental in creation of the BBC
03-29-1899 - Clifford Goldsmith - Aurora, NY - d. 7-11-1971
writer: Created “The Aldrich Family”
03-29-1902 - Onslow Stevens - Los Angeles, CA - d. 1-5-1977
actor: “Great Plays”
03-29-1905 - Philip Ahn - Los Angeles, CA - d. 2-28-1978
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”
03-29-1906 - E. Power Biggs - West Cliff, England - d. 3-10-1977
organist: “Organ Program”
03-29-1907 - Abe Lincoln - Lancaster, PA - d. 6-8-2000
trombonist: “Guest Star”
03-29-1908 - Dennis O’Keefe - Fort Madison, IA - d. 8-31-1968
actor: Treasure Agent Larsen “T-Man”
03-29-1912 - Fred Brady - NYC - d. 11-11-1961
actor: Himself “The Fred Brady Show”
03-29-1912 - Nancy Douglass - Bloomington, IL
actor: “My True Story”; “Brave Tomorrow”
03-29-1914 - Phil Foster - NYC - d. 7-8-1985
actor: “What’s With Hubert”; “Baseball Round Table”; “Big Show”
03-29-1916 - Eugene McCarthy - Watkins, MN - d. 12-10-2005
u.s. senator: “Meet the Press”
03-29-1918 - Pearl Bailey - Newport News, VA - d. 8-17-1990
singer: “Kraft Music Hall “; “Tribute to Glenn Miller”
03-29-1919 - Eileen Heckart - Columbus, OH - d. 12-31-2001
actor: “Cloak and Dagger”; “CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”
03-29-1919 - Robert Enders - Pennsylvania - d. 9-7-2007
producer: “Our Land Be Right”
03-29-1923 - Bob Stanton - White Plains, NY - d. 1-28-1989
vocalist: (Brother of Dick Haymes) “The Sealtest Village Store”
03-29-1923 - Remo Palmieri - The Bronx, NY - d. 2-2-2002
guitartist: “Music ‘Til Midnight”; “Arthur Godfrey Show”
03-29-1924 - Ginger Dinning - Braman, KY
singer: (Dinning Sisters) “Dinning Sisters-Songs”; “WLS National Barn Dance”
03-29-1924 - Jackie Vernon - NYC - d. 11-10-1987
comedian: “Bill Stern Show”
03-29-1924 - Jean Dinning - Braman, KY
singer: (Dinning Sisters) “Dinning Sisters-Songs”; “WLS National Barn Dance”
03-29-1962 - Earl Root - Raised Edina, MN - d. 5-23-2008
disk jockey: “Root of All Evil”
03-30-1858 - DeWolf Hopper - NYC - d. 9-23-1935
host-narrator: (Husband of Hedda Hopper) “Roses and Drums”
03-30-1883 - Jo Davidson - NYC - d. 1-2-1952
sculptor: “Information Please”
03-30-1889 - Herman Bing - Frankfurt, Germany - d. 1-9-1947
tenor: “Gulf Screen Theatre”
03-30-1892 - Ethel Owen, Racine WI - d. 12-28-1990
actor: Siri Allen “Against the Storm”; Clara Noble “Backstage Wife”
03-30-1892 - Floyd Odlum - Union City, MI - d. 6-17-1976
owner of rko studios: “Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy”
03-30-1893 - Dennis Hoey - London, England - d. 7-25-1960
actor: Edward Welby “Pretty Kitty Kelly”
03-30-1895 - Amos Binkley - d. 10-6-1985
banjoist: (Binkley Brothers Barn Dance Orchestra” WSM Nashville, TN
03-30-1896 - Samson Raphaelson - NYC - d. 7-16-1983
playwright: “Lux Radio Theatre”
03-30-1902 - Ted Heath - Wandsworth, London, England - d. 11-18-1969
bandleader: “Ted Heath and His Orchestra”
03-30-1905 - Don Hollenbeck - Lincoln, NE - d. 6-22-1954
news commentator: “CBS Views the Press”; “You Are There”
03-30-1913 - Frankie Laine - Chicago, IL - d. 2-6-2007
singer: “Big Show”; “Philco Radio Time”; “Spotlight Revue”
03-30-1914 - Stu Novins - Boston, MA - d. 11-7-1989
writer: “The City”
03-30-1916 - Will Hare - Elkins, WV - d. 8-31-1997
actor: “Words at War”; “New World A’ Coming”; “Mysterious Traveler”
03-30-1922 - Anne Pitoniak - Westfield, MA - d. 4-22-2007
actor: “Radio City Playhouse”; “Cavalcade of America”; “Magnificent Montague”
03-30-1922 - Turhan Bey - Vienna, Austria
actor: Francois Tarique “Notorious Tarique”
03-30-1926 - Bill Farrell - Cleveland, OH - d. 6-30-2007
singer: “Bob Hope Show”
03-30-1929 - Richard Dysart - Augusta, ME
actor: “We Hold These Truths”
03-30-1930 - John Astin - Baltimore, MD
actor: “Zero Hour”; “Empire of the Air”
03-30-1930 - Pepper Barker - d. 3-15-1998
disk jockey: WCMB Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
03-30-1930 - Peter Marshall - Clarksburg, WV
actor: “Hollywood Radio Theatre”
03-30-1958 - Maurice LaMarche - Toronto, Canada
actor: “Empire of the Air”
03-31-1870 - James Cox - Jacksonburg, OH - d. 7-15-1957
radio station owner, Cox Broadcasting
03-31-1895 - Josef Cherniavsky - Russia - d. 11-3-1959
composer, conductor: “Musical Camera”
03-31-1896 - Eddie Dunn - Brooklyn, NY - d. 5-5-1951
quizmaster: “True or False”
03-31-1903 - Ralph Atlass - d. 6-20-1979
Chicaco radio pioneer
03-31-1907 - James L. Saphier - d. 4-9-1974
producer: “The Saint”; “Somebody Knows”
03-31-1907 - Ray Arvin - d. 12-28-1977
sportscaster: KORN Fremont, Nebraska; WREN Topeka, Kansas
03-31-1908 - Les Damon - Providence, RI - d. 7-20-1962
actor: Nick Charles “Advs. of the Thin Man”; Michael Waring “The Falcon”
03-31-1908 - Red Norvo - Beardstown, IL - d. 4-6-1999
jazz vibraphonist: “Mildred Bailey Show”; “Woody Herman Show”
03-31-1909 - Earle Graser - Kitchener, Canada - d. 4-9-1941
actor: Lone Ranger “Lone Ranger”
03-31-1915 - Henry Morgan - NYC - d. 5-19-1994
comedian: “Here’s Morgan”; “Henry Morgan Show”
03-31-1918 - Charles Russell - NYC - d. 1-18-1985
actor: Johnny Dollar “Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar”
03-31-1921 - Peggy Rea - Los Angles, CA
actor: “Gunsmoke”
03-31-1922 - Richard Kiley - Chicago, IL - d. 3-5-1999
actor: “CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”
03-31-1923 - Thomas Arim - d. 1-28-2003
disk jockey: “Birthday Party”
03-31-1928 - Lefty Frizzell - Corsicana, TX - d. 7-19-1975
singer: “Grand Ole Opry”; “Louisana Hayride”; “Big D Jamboree”
03-31-1933 - Anita Carter - Maces Springs, VA - d. 7-29-1999
singer: (Carter Sisters) “Country Music Time”; “Grand Ole Opry”
03-31-1934 - Shirley Jones - Clarleroi, PA
singer-actor: “Calling All Hearts”; “Stars for Defense”
03-31-1945 - Myfanwy Talog - Caerwys, Clwyd, Wales - d. 3-11-1995
actor: “Dark Encounter”
03-xx-1896 - Billy Artzt - Philadelphia, PA - d. 10-29-1949
orchestra leader: “Blondie”; “Myrt and Marge”; “Shirley Temple Time”
03-xx-1919 - Robert Homme - Stoughton, WI - d. 5-2-2000
created “Friendly Giant” for radio in Madison, Wisconsin
04-01-1883 - Jules Verne Allen - Ellis, TX - d. 3-19-1942
cowboy singer: Known as “Lonsome Luke”
04-01-1884 - Laurette Taylor - NYC - d. 12-7-1946
actor: “The Everedy Hour”
04-01-1886 - Wallace Beery - Kansas City, MO - d. 4-15-1949
host: “Shell Chateau”
04-01-1889 - Rev. Dr. Leslie Moss - Minneapolis, MN - d. 4-2-1949
preacher: “At Home in the World”; “This World of Ours”
04-01-1891 - Harold True - Hornell, NY - d. 2-15-1973
announcer/narrator: “The Lone Ranger”
04-01-1893 - Linton Wells - Louisville, KY - d. 1-31-1976
writer: “The Magic Key”
04-01-1895 - Alberta Hunter - Memphis, Tn - d. 10-17-1984
blues singer: “Jazz at the Simthsonian”
04-01-1895 - Franklin Babcock - d. 1-xx-1963
newscaster: KTRH Houston, Texas
04-01-1904 - Sid Field - Birmingham, England - d. 2-3-1950
comedian: Freelance
04-01-1907 - Stanley Joseloff - d. 10-1-1989
writer: “The Eddie Cantor Show”
04-01-1908 - Bob Nolan - New Brunswick, Canada - d. 6-16-1980
singer: (Sons of the Pioneers) “The Roy Rogers Show”
04-01-1909 - Eddy Duchin - Cambridge, MA - d. 2-9-1951
bandleader: (The Ten Magic Fingers of Radio) “Lasalle Style Show”
04-01-1909 - Fiddlin’ Hank Warren - Mount Airy, NC
country, bluegrass: “Briarhoppers”
04-01-1911 - Maurice Tarplin - Boston, MA - d. 5-12-1975
actor: Mysterious Traveler “Mysterious Traveler”; Inspector Faraday “Boston Blackie”
04-01-1912 - Lou Merrill - Canada - d. 4-7-1963
actor: Thomas Hyland “Crime Classics”; Aaron Saul “Point Sublime”
04-01-1914 - Philip Yordan - Chicago, IL - d. 3-24-2003
screenwriter: “Lux Radio Theatre”
04-01-1915 - Bob Dwan - San Francisco, CA - d. 1-21-2005
director: “You Bet Your Life”
04-01-1917 - Leon Janney - Ogden, UT - d. 10-28-1980
actor: Danny Stratford “Life of Mary Sothern”; Richard Parker “Parker Family”
04-01-1917 - Mel Shavelson - NYC - d. 8-8-2007
writer: “The Bob Hope Show”
04-01-1917 - “Wee” Bonnie Baker - Orange, TX - d. 8-11-1990
singer: “Your Hit Parade”
04-01-1920 - Art Lund - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 5-31-1990
singer, actor: “Benny Goodman and His Orchestra”; “Land’s Best Bands”; “Jubilee”
04-01-1921 - Charles Peck - d. 7-23-1996
screenwriter: “Lux Radio Theatre”
04-01-1922 - Sonny King - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-3-2006
singer: “Arthur Godrey’s Talent Scouts”
04-01-1922 - William Manchester - Attleboro, MA - d. 6-1-2004
author, historian: “Meet the Press”; “Biography in Sound”
04-01-1923 - Bobby Jordan - NYC - d. 9-10-1965
actor: (The Dead End Kids) “Texaco Star Playhouse”; “Wheatenaville Sketches”
04-01-1925 - Ernest Kinoy
nbc staff writer
04-01-1926 - Jack Grimes - NYC
actor: Archie Andrews “Archie Andrews”; Homer Brown “Aldrich Family”
04-01-1927 - Bob Arbogast - Bellingham, WA - d. 3-21-2009
host: “Same Time, Same Station”
04-01-1929 - Jane Powell - Portland, OR
singer: Judy Foster “A Date with Judy”; “Chase & Sanborn Hour”; “Stars of Tomorrow”
04-01-1932 - Debbie Reynolds - El Paso, TX
actor: “Stars Over Hollywood”; “Lux Radio Theatre”
04-01-1934 - Don Hastings - Brooklyn, NY
actor: “Theatre Guild On the Air”; “Studio One”; “Radio City Playhouse”
04-01-1937 - Jordan Charney
actor: “CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”
04-02-1840 - Emile Zola - Paris, France - d. 9-28-1902
author: Several of his works were adapted for radio
04-02-1864 - Dr. Frank H. Vizetelly - d. 12-20-1938
etymologist: Education talks on words; coach for CBS announcers
04-02-1878 - Leo Curley - NYC - d. 4-11-1960
actor: Ed Jackson “Backstage Wife”; Mike Shaw “Tom Mix”
04-02-1884 - Charles M. Courboin - Antwerp, Belgium - d. 4-13-1973
organ virtuoso: weekly half hour concert broadcast on NBC Red in 1940
04-02-1892 - Marjorie Child Husted - d. 12-23-1986
First radio voice of Betty Crocker
04-02-1907 - Luke Appling - High Point, NC - d. 1-3-1991
baseball great: “Tops in Sport”
04-02-1908 - Buddy Ebsen - Belleville, IL - d. 7-6-2003
actor: “Hollywood Hotel”
04-02-1911 - Bill Days - St. Louis, MO - d. 5-6-2002
singer: (Member Sportsmen Quartet) “Jack Benny Program”
04-02-1913 - Fran Carlon - Indianapolis, IN - d. 10-4-1993
actor: Lorelei Kilbourne “Big Town”; Bunny Mitchell “Story of Mary Marlin”
04-02-1914 - Alec Guinness - London, England - d. 8-5-2000
actor: “Kaleidoscope”
04-02-1917 - Gertrude Warner - Hartford, CT - d. 1-26-1986
actor: Margo Lane “The Shadow”; Christy Allen “Against the Storm”
04-02-1919 - Tom Hubbard - d. 6-4-1974
actor: Sergeant Cadet Stripes “Starr of Space
04-02-1920 - Jack Webb - Santa Monica, CA - d. 12-23-1982
actor: Joe Friday “Dragnet”; Pete Kelly “Pete Kelly’s Blues”
04-02-1923 - Gloria Henry - New Orleans, LA
actor: “CBS Radio Workshop”
04-02-1928 - Rita Gam - Pittsburgh, PA
actor: “CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”
04-02-1934 - Brian Glover - Sheffield, England - d. 7-24-1997
actor: George Hackett “An American Werewolf in London”; “Quote...Unquote”
04-02-1950 - Rob George - Mannum, Australia
writer: Mainly for Australian radio
04-02-1954 - Bonnie Erbe - NYC
lawyer and legal affairs corresposdent for Mutual and NBC
04-03-1783 - Washington Irving - NYC - d. 11-28-1859
author: Several of his works adapted for radio
04-03-1892 - Lt. Gen. Hubert R. Harmon - Chester, PA - d. 2-22-1957
u.s. air force general: “Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show”
04-03-1893 - Leslie Howard - London, England - d. 6-1-1943
actor: “Leslie Howard Theatre”; “Streamlined Shakespeare”
04-03-1894 - Dooley Wilson - Tyler, TX - d. 5-30-1953
actor: “Theatre of Romance”; “New World A-Coming”; “Jubilee”
04-03-1895 - Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco - Florence, Italy - d. 3-16-1968
composer: “Fourteen August”; God and Uranium Were On Our Side”
04-03-1895 - Zez Confrey - Peru, IL - d. 11-22-1971
pianist, composer: “The Hour Of St. Francis”
04-03-1898 - Bob Barron - Shell, WY - d. unknown
actor: “Tom Mix”; “Mary Marlin”; “Little Orphan Annie”
04-03-1898 - George Jessel - NYC - d. 5-24-1981
comedian, emcee: (Toastmaster General of the U.S.A.) “Hollywood Calling”
04-03-1904 - Peter Van Steeden - Amsterdam, The Netherlands - d. 1-3-1990
bandleader: “Town Hall Tonight”; “Mr. District Attorney”
04-03-1906 - Iron Eyes Cody - Oklahoma Territory - d. 1-4-1999
actor: “Straight Arrow Pow-Wow
04-03-1909 - Jerry Cooper - Bay Minette, AL
singer: “Krueger’s Musical Toast”; “Vocal Varieties”
04-03-1913 - Mel Tolkin - Odessa, Russia - d. 11-26-2007
comedy writer: wrote jokes for Bob Hope
04-03-1914 - George Sopkin - Chicago, IL - d. 10-18-2008
cellist: Fine Arts Quartet
04-03-1918 - Sixten Ehrling - Malmo Skane Ian, Sweden - d. 2-13-2005
conductor: “Metropolitan Opera”
04-03-1920 - Stan Freeman - Waterbury, CT - d. 1-13-2001
pianist, composer: “Piano Playhouse”; “All Night on NBC”
04-03-1921 - George Bauer - d. 6-16-2004
announcer, newscaster: “Chicago Theatre of the Air”
04-03-1921 - Jan Sterling - NYC - d. 3-26-2004
actor: “Screen Director’s Playhouse”; “U.S. Steel Hour”
04-03-1921 - Leonard Sues - El Paso, TX - d. 10-24-1971
music: “The Eddie Cantor Show”
04-03-1923 - Elon Packard - d. 12-18-1977
writer: “The Bing Crosby Show”
04-03-1924 - Doris Day - Cincinnati, OH
singer, actor: “Your Hit Parade”; “Bob Hope Show”; “Doris Day Show”
04-03-1924 - Marlon Brando - Omaha, NE - d. 7-1-2004
actor: “Streetcar Named Desire”; “As Easy as A.B.C.”
04-03-1924 - Peter Hawkins - London, England - d. 7-8-2006
actor: Frankie Mouse “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”
04-03-1925 - Jan Merlin - NYC
actor: Roger Manning “Tom Corbett, Space Cadet”
04-03-1926 - Andrew Keir - Shotts, Lanarkshire, Scotland - d. 10-5-1997
actor: title role in “The Quartermass Memoirs”
04-03-1938 - Jeff Barry - Brooklyn, NY
actor: Himself “It’s the Barrys”
04-03-1943 - Patricia Johnson - Sydney, Australia
writer: “Cat’s Whisker to Transister”
04-04-1859 - Willfred Moore - d. 7-14-1939
writer: “Air Advs. of Jimmy Allen”; “Howie Wing”; “Captain Midnight”
04-04-1875 - Pierre Monteux - d. 7-1-1964
conductor: “The NBC Symphony Orchestra”
04-04-1889 - Dorothy Gordon - Odessa, Russia - d. 5-11-1970
moderator: “Dorothy Gordon’s Youth Forum”
04-04-1892 - Walter T. Butterworth - Wallingford, PA - d. 3-10-1962
emcee: “Molle Merry Minstrels”; “Vox Pox”; “Take a Card”
04-04-1894 - Ed East - Bloomington, IN - d. 1-18-1952
actor, writer, pianist, composer: “The Ed East and Polly Show”
04-04-1895 - Arthur Murray - NYC - d. 3-3-1991
dance master: “Natural Bridge Dancing Class”
04-04-1896 - Robert Sherwood - New Rochelle, NY - d. 11-14-1955
playwright: “Free Company”; “Cavalcade of America”; “Screen Guild Theatre”
04-04-1897 - Albert Bagdasarian - d. 8-15-1968
newscaster: WNBZ Saranac Lake, New York
04-04-1897 - Erno Balogh - Budapest, Hungary - d. 6-2-1989
pianist: WEAF New York City
04-04-1900 - Chester Renier - d. 7-13-1965
producer, director: “Mother and Dad”
04-04-1901 - Gay Seabrook - Seattle, WA - d. 4-18-1970
actor: Susabelle “Joe Penner Show”
04-04-1902 - Bernice Berwin - Bay Area, CA - d. 5-22-2002
actor: Hazel Barbour “One Man’s Family”
04-04-1904 - John Brown - Hull, England - d. 5-16-1957
actor: Digby “Digger” O’Dell “Life of Riley”; Melvyn Foster “A Date with Judy”
04-04-1904 - Martin Wolfson - NYC - d. 9-12-1973
actor: Second Brother “Into the Light”
04-04-1906 - Bea Benaderet - NYC - d. 10-13-1968
comedienne: Gertrude Gearshift “Jack Benny Program”
04-04-1906 - John Cameron Swayze - Wichita, KS - d. 8-15-1995
host. panelist: “Monitor”; “Who Said That?”
04-04-1906 - Johnnie Athaide - d. 5-10-1988
tenor: KGB San Diego, California
04-04-1907 - Bob Venables - Woodstock, IL - d. 7-30-1985
announcer: “The Whistler”
04-04-1908 - Ernestine Gilbreth Carey - NYC - d. 11-4-2006
writer: (Cheaper By the Dozen) “Lux Radio Theatre”
04-04-1908 - Ted McMichael - Marshalltown, IA - d. 2-27-2001
singer: (The Merry Macs) “Bing Crosby Show”; “Fred Allen Show”
04-04-1912 - Charles Cliff - Asheville, NC - d. 4-30-2000
orchestra leader: NBC, CBS and MBS
04-04-1914 - Frances Langford - Lakeland, FL - d. 7-11-2005
singer, actor: Blanche Bickerson “Bickersons”; “Bob Hope Show”
04-04-1914 - Richard Coogan - Short Hills, NJ
actor: Robbie Hughes “Young Dr. Malone”; Abie Levy “Abie’s Irish Rose”
04-04-1914 - Rosemary Lane - Indianola, IA - d. 11-25-1974
singer: (The Lane Sisters) “Fred Waring Show”; “Your Hollywood Parade”
04-04-1922 - Elmer Bernstein - NYC - d. 8-18-2004
composer: “Coming Home”; “Memos to a New Millenium”
04-04-1932 - Anthony Perkins - NYC - d. 9-12-1992
actor: “Guest Star”; “Listening to Music with Tony Perkins”
04-04-1938 - Susan Luckey
actor: Elizabeth Barbour/Jane Barbour “One Man’s Family”
04-04-1943 - Paulette Jiles - Salem, MO
author: “My Mother’s Quilt”; “Money and Blankets”
04-05-1898 - Everett Crosby - Roslyn, WA - d. 7-13-1966
brother and manager of Bing Crosby
04-05-1900 - Spencer Tracy - Milwaukee, WI - d. 6-10-1967
actor: “Good News of 1938”; “Lux Radio Theatre”
04-05-1901 - Melvyn Douglas - Macon, GA - d. 8-4-1981
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”
04-05-1905 - William Andrews - Oakland, CA - d. 5-2-1985
announcer: “One Man’s Family”
04-05-1908 - Bette Davis - Lowell, MA - d. 10-6-1989
actor: “Cresta Blanca Hollywood Players”; “Prudential Family Hour of Stars”
04-05-1910 - Jim Alderman - d. 12-5-1992
newscaster: Dallas, Texas
04-05-1911 - Gordon Jones - Alden, IA - d. 6-20-1963
actor: Pete Thompson “Meet Mr. McNutley”
04-05-1911 - Martin Denny - NYC - d. 3-2-2005
orchestra leader: Live radio show for Alaskan Air Force Command Radio
04-05-1912 - John Le Mesurier - Bedford, England - d. 11-15-1983
actor: Sergeant Arthur Wilson “Dad’s Army”
04-05-1914 - Eric Roberts - Winchmore Hill, England
author: “The Manadrins Cat”
04-05-1916 - Gregory Peck - Lo Jolla, CA - d. 6-12-2003
actor: “Doctor Fights”; “Sealtest Variety Hour”
04-05-1917 - Robert Bloch - Chicago, IL - d. 9-23-1994
writer: “Stay Tuned for Terror”
04-05-1919 - Ted Liss - d. 3-3-1992
actor: “Destination Freedom”
04-05-1921 - Barney Beck - d. 1-30-2007
sound effects: “The Shadow”; “I Love A Mystery”; “Bob and Ray”
04-05-1922 - Gale Storm - McDade, TX
actor: Margie Albright “My Little Margie”
04-05-1924 - Lee Stevens - Baltimore, MD
announcer: “Big Sister”
04-05-1926 - Stan Levy - d. 4-19-2005
jazz drummer: “Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra”
04-05-1928 - Michael Bryant - London, England - d. 4-25-2002
character actor: “Bequest to the Nation”
04-05-1929 - Nigel Hawthorne - Coventry, England - d. 12-26-2001
actor: Acted for his college radio station at the University of Cape Town
04-06-1883 - Vernon Dalhart - Jefferson, TX - d. 9-14-1948
singer, composer: “Barbasol Ben”
04-06-1884 - Walter Huston - Toronto, Canada - d. 4-7-1950
actor: “Theatre Guild On the Air”; “Cavalcade of America”
04-06-1887 - Max Montesole - London, England - d. 9-17-1942
author of several radio plays
04-06-1892 - Lowell Thomas - Woodington, OH - d. 8-29-1981
newscaster, commentator: “Lowell Thomas and the News”; “Man with a Question”
04-06-1895 - Dudley Nichols - Wapakoneta, OH - d. 1-4-1960
screenwiriter: “Cavalcade of America”; “Lux Radio Theatre”
04-06-1903 - Charles R. Jackson - d. 9-21-1968
writer: “The Columbia Workshop”; “Sweet River”
04-06-1903 - Mickey Cochrane - Bridgewater, MA - d. 6-28-1962
sportscaster: (Member Baseball Hall of Fame) “Mickey Cochrane”
04-06-1908 - Bernard Dougall - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 9-24-1972
writer: “The Falcon”; “Mr. President”; “Show Boat”
04-06-1909 - Denver Darling - Cumberland County, IL - d. 4-27-1981
country music artist: “Right to Happiness, as commercial spokesman”
04-06-1913 - Don Fedderson - Beresford, SD - d. 12-18-1994
a vice president of palo alto radio station
04-06-1913 - Martha Lipton - NYC - d. 11-28-2006
opera singer: “Music from the House of Squibb”; “Great Days We Honor”
04-06-1913 - Todd Russell - Middleborough, England - d. 4-xx-1974
host: “Double or Nothing”; “Strike It Rich”
04-06-1919 - Paula Kelly - d. 4-12-1992
vocalist: (Modernaires) “Club Fifteen”
04-06-1921 - Arnold Marquis - Dortmund, Germany - d. 11-24-1990
producer, writer: “Pacific Story”; “Unlimited Horizons”
04-06-1922 - Dorothy Donegan - Chicago, IL - d. 5-19-1998
jazz pianist: “Jubilee”; “Radio Hall of Fame”
04-06-1924 - Mimi Benzell - Bridgeport, CT - d. 12-23-1970
singer: “Jack Pearl and Mimi Benzell”; “Railroad Hour”
04-06-1927 - Gerry Mulligan - NYC - d. 1-20-1996
jazz saxophonist: “Sound of Jazz”; “White House Jazz Festival”; “Voice of Vista”
04-06-1929 - Andre Previn - Berlin, Germany
pianist: “Songs by Sinatra”
04-06-1934 - David Doyle - Wisconsin - d. 9-29-2008
program host: “Growing Older, A New Perspective”
04-06-1938 - Roy Thinnes - Chicago, IL
actor: “CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”
04-07-1878 - Bert Swor - Paris, TN - d. 11-30-1943
comedian: “Modern Mistrels”; “Bicycle Party”
04-07-1893 - Irene Castle - New Rochelle, NY - d. 1-25-1969
actor: Best Dressed Woman “Life of Irene Castle”; “Twenty Questions”
04-07-1895 - Bert Wheeler - Paterson, NJ - d. 1-18-1968
comedian: “Frank Sinatra Show”; “New Old Gold Show”
04-07-1897 - Royal Foster - d. 10-1-1971
writer: “Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy”; “Ken Murray”
04-07-1897 - Walter Winchell - NYC - d. 2-20-1972
news-gossip caster: “Lucky Strike Dance Hour”; “Jergens Journal”
04-07-1899 - Robert Casadesus - Paris, France - d. 9-19-1972
pianist: “Telephone Hour”; “Oklahoma City Symphony Orchestra”
04-07-1900 - Maria “Gamby” Gambarelli - La Spezia, Italy - d. 2-4-1990
ballerina, singer: “Roxy’s Gang”; “Dance with Gamby”
04-07-1901 - Gavin Gordon - Chicora, MS - d. 4-7-1983
actor: Doctor Norfolk “Brenthouse”
04-07-1905 - Murray Bolen - Minnesota - d. 10-22-1995
producer, director: “Father Knows Best”; “Mayor of the Town”; “Railroad Hour”
04-07-1908 - Percy Faith - Toronto, Canada - d. 2-9-1976
conductor: “Carnation Contented Hour”; “Pause That Refreshes on the Air”
04-07-1908 - Walt Framer - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 6-21-1988
producer, director: “Break the Bank”; “Strike It Rich”
04-07-1915 - Billie Holliday - Baltimore, MD - d. 7-17-1959
singer: “Artie Shaw Band”
04-07-1915 - Fred B. Cole - Hingham, MA - d. 12-6-2007
voice of the big bands
04-07-1915 - Stanley Adams - NYC - d. 4-27-1977
writer: “My Friend Irma”
04-07-1916 - Anthony Caruso - Frankfort, IN - d. 4-4-2003
actor: “This Is Your FBI”
04-07-1916 - Roy “Whitey” Grant - Shelby, NC
country, bluegrass: “Briarhoppers”
04-07-1918 - Peanuts Hucko - Syracuse, NY - d. 6-19-2003
jazz clarinetist: “Swing Shift”; “I Sustain These Wings”; “Doctor Jazz”
04-07-1919 - Ralph Flanagan - Lorain, OH - d. 12-30-1995
bandleader: “Chesterfield’s ABC of Music”; “Let’s Go Show”
04-07-1928 - James Garner - Norman, OK
spokesman: Financial Freedom
04-07-1934 - Ian Richardson - Edinburgh, Scotland - d. 2-9-2007
actor: Richard II and Bolingbroke “Richard II”
04-07-1942 - Joel Dorn - Yeadon, PA - d. 12-17-2007
disk jockey: WHAT-FM Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
04-07-1943 - Frank Gallacher - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 2-23-2009
actor: “Antarctic Journey”
04-08-1881 - Arthur B. Allen - Gowanda, NY - d. 8-25-1947
actor: “Snow Village Sketches”; “Kate Smith Show”; Stebbens Boys”
04-08-1882 - Lulu McConnell - Kansas City, MO - d. 10-9-1962
comedienne: “It Pays to Be Ignorant”
04-08-1887 - Walter Connolly - Cincinnati, OH - d. 5-28-1940
actor: Charlie Chan “Charlie Chan”
04-08-1888 - Thornton Fisher - Cincinnati, OH - d. 8-13-1975
sports reporter: “The Briggs Sports Review”
04-08-1889 - Adrian Boult - Chester, England - d. 2-23-1983
writer: “Advs. of Ellery Queen”; “Casebook of Gregory Hood”; “Sherlock Holmes”
04-08-1896 - Yip Harburg - NYC - d. 3-5-1981
lyricist: “Columbia Presents Corwin”
04-08-1900 - Bert “Mad Russian” Gordon - NYC - d. 11-30-1974
comedian: “Eddie Cantor Show”; Yasha “Duffy’s Tavern”
04-08-1905 - Ilka Chase - NYC - d. 2-15-1978
panelist, hostess, actor: “Leave It to the Girls”; “Luncheon at the Waldorf”
04-08-1906 - Max Afford - Parkside, Australia - d. 11-2-1954
writer: “Murder’s Not for Middle Age”
04-08-1908 - Tito Guizar - Guadalajara, Mexico - d. 12-25-1999
vocalist: (Isham Jones Band) “Duffy’s Tavern”; “Hollywood Showcase”
04-08-1911 - Ichiro Fujiyama - Tokyo, Japan - d. 7-21-1993
enka singer: “Kohaku Uta Gassen”
04-08-1912 - Sonja Henie - Kristiania, Norway - d. 10-12-1969
skater, actor: “Hollywood Hotel”; “Bill Ster’s Colgate Sports Newsreel”; “Shell Show”
04-08-1915 - Carlyle Austin - d. 10-30-1985
sportscaster: KEVR Seattle, Washington
04-08-1915 - Fred Flowerday - d. 4-6-1989
director: “The Lone Ranger”; “The Green Hornet”; “Challenge of the Yukon”
04-08-1915 - R. Norwood Smith - San Francisco, CA - d. 8-24-1999
singer: “Norwood Smith Sings”
04-08-1916 - Carl Cotner - Indiana - d. 11-14-1986
steel guitar: “Gene Aurty’s Melody Ranch”
04-08-1919 - Virginia O’Brien - Los Angles, CA - d. 1-23-2001
actor: “Blue Ribbon Town”
04-08-1921 - Franco Corelli - Ancona, Italy - d. 10-29-2003
operatic tenor: “Gala Performance”
04-08-1922 - Carmen McRae - NYC - d. 11-10-1994
jazz singer: “Woolworth Hour”; “Newport Jazz Festival”
04-08-1923 - Jimmie Osborne - Winchester, KY - d. 12-26-1958
singer: “WLS Barn Dance”; “WLW Midwestern Hayride”
04-08-1928 - Eric Porter - London, England - d. 5-15-1995
actor: “Landscape”
04-08-1930 - Dorothy Tutin - London, England - d. 8-6-2001
actor: “Before the Party”
04-08-1931 - John Bartholomew Tucker
host (communicator) “Monitor”
04-08-1937 - Bernelda Wheeler - Saskatchewan, Canada - d. 9-11-2005
worked as a disc jockey in Churchill, Manitoba
04-08-1941 - Peggy Lennon - Los Angeles, CA
singer: (The Lennon Sisters) “Music on Deck”; “Voices of Vista”; “Guest Star”
04-09-1883 - Frank King - Cashton, WI - d. 6-24-1969
cartoonist: Created Gasoline Alley comic strip
04-09-1889 - Efrem Zimbalist, Sr. - Rostov-on-Don, Russia - d. 2-22-1985
violinist: “The Magic Key”
04-09-1892 - Mary Pickford - Toronto, Canada - d. 5-29-1979
actor: “Mary Pickford Dramas”; “Parties at Pickfair”
04-09-1895 - Frank H. Anderson, Jr. - Minneapolis, MN - d. 1-4-1952
pianist/singer: had his own program for 8 years
04-09-1897 - John B. Gambling - Norwich, England - d. 11-21-1974
host: “Your Personal Program”; “John B. Gambling Club”; “Rambling with Gambling”
04-09-1898 - Paul Robeson - Princeton, NJ - d. 1-23-1976
singer: “Pursuit of Happiness”
04-09-1900 - Allen Jenkins - NYC - d. 7-20-1974
actor: “Harold Lloyd Comedy Theatre”; “Hollywood Hotel”; “Lux Radio Theatre”
04-09-1903 - Ward Bond - Denver, CO - d. 11-5-1960
actor: “Screen Director’s Playhouse”
04-09-1904 - Joseph “Sharkey” Bonamo - Milneburg, LA - d. 3-27-1972
conductor: (Sharkey Bonamo and His Sharks of Rhythm) “Saturday Night Swing Club”
04-09-1904 - Mickey Alpert - d. 9-22-1965
orchestra leader: “Amalgamated Broadcasting System Inaugural Program”
04-09-1905 - Brewster Morgan - d. 12-26-1960
director: “Columbia Workshop”; “Men Against Death”; “Report to the Nation”
04-09-1905 - James Fulbright - Summer, MO - d. 2-9-1995
u.s. senator: “Information Please”
04-09-1906 - Antal Dorati - Budapest, Austria-Hungary - d. 11-13-1988
conductor”; “CBS Symphony Orchestra”
04-09-1910 - Alan Melville - Berwick-upon-Tweed, England - d. 12-24-1983
scriptwriter: “BBC Radio Newsreel”; “London Column”
04-09-1911 - Jim Bannon - Kansas City, MO - d. 7-28-1984
announcer, narrator: “Joe Penner Show”; “Eddie Bracken Show”
04-09-1913 - Fay Helm - Bakersfield, CA - d. 9-27-2003
actor: “Shell Chateau”; “Cavalcade of America”
04-09-1913 - George Lowther - NYC - d. 4-28-1975
narrator, writer: “Advs. of Superman”; “Terry and the Pirates”
04-09-1914 - Frank Bingham - Athens, OH - d. 8-21-1988
announcer: “Straight Arrow”; “Phantom Pilot”
04-09-1916 - Ann Morrison - Sioux City, IA - d. 4-18-1978
actor: “Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar”; “Escape”
04-09-1916 - Bill Leonard - NYC - d. 10-23-1994
interviewer: “This Is New York”; “In Town Today”
04-09-1916 - Julian Dash - Charleston, SC - d. 2-25-1974
saxophonist: “Erskine Hawkins and His Orchestra”
04-09-1920 - Art Van Damme - Norway, MI
jazz accordionist: (Art Van Damme Quintet) Dave Garroway Show
04-09-1921 - Frankie Thomas, Jr. - NYC - d. 5-11-2006
actor: Tom Corbett “Tom Corbett, Space Cadet”
04-09-xxxx - Louise Larabee - Bremerton, WA - d. 3-30-1988
actor: “Calvacade of America”; “CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”
04-10-1827 - Lew Wallace - Brookville, IN - d. 2-15-1905
author: Several of his works adapted for radio
04-10-1868 - George Arliss - London, England - d. 2-5-1946
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”
04-10-1885 - Sigmund Spaeth - Philadelphia, PA - d. 11-11-1965
commentator: “Tune Detective”; “Fun in Print”
04-10-1894 - Haven MacQuarrie - Boston, MA - d. 8-4-1953
emcee: “Do You Want to be an Actor”
04-10-1897 - Eric Knight - Menston, England - d. 1-13-1943
writer: “Everyman’s Theatre”
04-10-1897 - Fred Hall - NYC - d. 10-8-1964
composer, performer: (Hall and Fields) “Old Man of the Mountain”
04-10-1902 - Mark Warnow - Monastrischt, Russia - d. 10-17-1949
conductor: “We, the People”; “Your Hit Parade”
04-10-1905 - Paul “Hezzie” Trietsch - Muncie, IN - d. 4-27-1980
musician-singer: “National Barn Dance”; “Uncle Ezra”
04-10-1906 - Lilie Darvas - Budapest, Hungary - d. 7-23-1974
actor: Madame Sophie: We Love and Learn/As the Twig is Bent”
04-10-1910 - Peg La Centra - Boston, MA - d. 6-1-1996
singer, actor: “Court of Human Relations”; “For Men Only”; “Gulden Melodies”
04-10-1911 - Victor Lombardo - London, Canada - d. 1-22-1994
musician: (Guy Lombardo’s Orchestra) “Lady Esther Serenade”
04-10-1915 - Harry (Henry) Morgan - Detroit, MI
actor: “Mystery in the Air”
04-10-1917 - Morty Corb - San Antonio, TX - d. 1-11-1996
bass player: “Guest Star”
04-10-1919 - Bruce Buell - Santa Ana, CA - d. 4-23-1996
annoucer: “California Caravan”; “Mystery is My Hobby”
04-10-1921 - Chuck Connors - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-10-1992
actor: “Family Theatre”
04-10-1922 - Marian Richman - California - d. 2-24-1956
actor: “Tell It Again”
04-10-1927 - Sidney Appleman - Chicago, IL - d. 8-25-1994
string bassist: Clyde McCoy’s Band
04-10-1933 - Poncie Ponce - Maui, HI
singer, ukulele: Hawaiin radio
04-11-1880 - Bernardino Molinari - Rome, Italy - d. 12-25-1952
conductor: “NBC Symphony Orchestra”
04-11-1893 - Dean Acheson - Middletown, CT - d. 10-12-1971
u.s secretary of state: “Building the Peace”; “The United Nations Today”
04-11-1893 - Lou Holtz - San Francisco, CA - d. 9-22-1980
comedian: “Fleischmann Hour”; “Kraft Music Hall”
04-11-1893 - Pat Flanagan - Clinton, IA - d. 7-2-1963
sportscaster, announcer: CBS Network, WBBM in Chicago
04-11-1902 - Carroll Carroll - NYC - d. 2-5-1991
writer: “Over Here”; “Guest Star”
04-11-1902 - Quentin Reynolds - NYC - d. 3-17-1965
author: “Britain Speaks”; “Quentin Reynolds”; “Keep ‘Em Rolling”
04-11-1904 - Paul McGrath - Chicago, IL - d. 4-13-1978
actor, host: Host “Inner Sanctum Mysteries”; Robert Allison “My Son Jeep”
04-11-1907 - Paul Douglas - Philadelphia, PA - d. 9-11-1959
announcer, sportscaster, actor: Lawyer Feldman “Meyer the Buyer”
04-11-1908 - Leo Rosten - Lodz, Poland - d. 2-19-1997
writer: “Conversation”; “Lux Radio Theatre”; “Four Star Playhouse”
04-11-1909 - Sylvia Picker - NYC - d. 9-25-1981
actor: Suzy “Box 13”
04-11-1910 - Jim Britt - San Francisco, CA - d. 12-31-1980
sports commentator: “Dateline Boston”
04-11-1911 - Bob Dixon - Stamford, CT - d. 8-22-1998
announcer: Edward R. Murrow: created the phrase “Listen to Murrow tomorrow”
04-11-1911 - Robert Saudek - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 3-13-1997
television producer: Established the Museum of Television and Radio
04-11-1912 - John Larkin - Oakland, CA - d. 1-29-1965
actor: Perry Mason “Perry Mason”; “Dimension X; “ Ford Theatre”
04-11-1913 - Bob LeMond - Hale Center, TX - d. 1-13-2008
announcer: “Romance of the Ranchos”; “Sweeny and March Show”
04-11-1913 - Millie Good - Mt. Carmel, IL - d. 5-3-1993
singer: (Girls of the Golden West) “National Barn Dance”
04-11-1921 - Dorothy Shay - Jacksonville, FL - d. 10-22-1978
singer: (Park Avenue Hillbilly) “The Spike Jones Show”
04-11-1921 - Toni Darnay - Chicago, IL - d. 1-5-1983
actor: Evelyn Winters “Strange Romance of Evelyn Winters”
04-12-1898 - Lily Pons - Draguignan, France - d. 2-13-1976
singer: “Telephone Hour”; “Voice of Firestone”
04-12-1902 - John White - d. 11-26-1992
country/western singer: Lonesome Cowboy “Death Valley Days”
04-12-1904 - Berlyn Baylor - d. 7-6-1969
leader of the Troubadours for WLBN Little Rock, Arkansas
04-12-1904 - Frankie Masters - Saint Marys, WV - d. 1-29-1991
music: “Edgar A. Guest”
04-12-1905 - Audrey Call - Alton, IL - d. 6-3-2001
violinist: “Fibber McGee and Molly”
04-12-1907 - Hubert Fincher - Waldo, AR - d. 10-29-1979
country music: “Crazy Water Crystals Barn Dance”
04-12-1907 - Ivan Ditmars - Olympia, WA - d. 9-10-1997
music: “Advs. of Frank Race”; “Dr. Christian”; “Escape”
04-12-1908 - Robert L. Scott - Waynesboro, GA - d. 2-27-2006
wwII fighter pilot, author: “Mail Call”; “Hop Harrigan”
04-12-1911 - Joseph Blazak - d. 12-4-1993
newscaster: KGFJ Los Angeles, California
04-12-1912 - Herbert B. Mills - Picqua, OH - d. 4-12-1989
singer: (The Mills Brothers) “Mills Brothers Quartette”
04-12-1914 - Ken Williams - Canada - d. 2-16-1984
actor: Brian Wells “David Harum”
04-12-1918 - Helen Forrest - Atlantic City, NJ - d. 7-11-1999
singer: “Artie Shaw and His Orchestra”; “Harry James and His Orchestra”
04-12-1919 - Ann Miller - Chireno, TX - d. 1-22-2004
dancer, actor: “Forecast”; “Hollywood Hotel”
04-12-1919 - Cy Bahakel - Birmingham, AL - d. 4-20-2006
newscaster: WJRD Tuscaloosa, AL
04-12-1919 - Ivor Barry - South Wales, UK - d. 12-12-2006
actor: “Sears Radio Theatre”
04-12-1920 - Anita Ellis - Montreal, Canada
singer: “Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy”; “Jack Carson Show” “Red Skelton Show”
04-12-1921 - Peter R. Brooke - Berlin, Germany - d. 4-14-1999
writer: “Secret Mission”
04-12-1926 - Jane Withers - Atlanta, GA
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”
04-12-1930 - Bob Bartter - d. 10-xx-1976
disk jockey: KNEX McPherson, Kansas
04-12-1930 - Johnny Antonelli - Rochester, NY
baseball pitcher: “Bill Stern Sports News”
04-12-1931 - Betty Clooney - Maysville, KY - d. 8-6-1976
singer: (The Clooney Sisters) “Moon River”
04-12-1935 - Gene Weed - Dallas, TX - d. 8-5-1999
disk jockey: “Shivaree”
04-12-1940 - Jack Hibberd - Warracknabeal, Australia
writer: “A Stretch of the Imagination”
04-13-1886 - Willie Howard - Paramus, NY - d. 1-14-1949
comedian: (Howard Brothers) “Folies De Paris”; “The Royal Vagabonds”
04-13-1887 - Christian Rubb - Austria - d. 4-14-1956
actor: (Voice of Geppetto) “Lux Radio Theatre”
04-13-1889 - Herbert Yardley - Washington, IN - d. 8-7-1958
writer: “Stories of the Black Chambers”
04-13-1890 - Gene Rodemich - St. Louis, MO - d. 2-27-1934
orchestra leader/singer: “Manhattan Merry-Go-Round”
04-13-1899 - Larry Keating - St.Paul, MN - d. 8-26-1963
actor, emcee: “Murder Will Out”; “Scramby Amby”; “This Is Your FBI”
04-13-1902 - Bob Stanley - Lancut, Poland - d. unknown
orchestra leader: “Music Without Words”; “Benay Venura Program”
04-13-1902 - Godfrey Kenton - London, England - d. 4-27-1998
actor: “Waiting for Godot”; “Paradise Lost”
04-13-1905 - Eddie Dooley - Brooklyn, NY - d. 1-25-1982
sports commentary: “Dooley’s Football Forecast”
04-13-1906 - Bud Freeman - Chicago, IL - d. 3-15-1991
tenor sax player: “Camel Caravan”; “Fats Waller Jam School”; “Doctor Jazz”
04-13-1906 - Samuel Beckett - Dublin, Ireland - d. 12-22-1989
writer: “All That Fall”
04-13-1907 - Harold E. Stassen - West St. Paul, MN - d. 3-4-2001
presidential candidate: “Meet the Press”; “The People’s Platform”
04-13-1912 - Roy Winsor - Chicago, IL - d. 5-31-1987
director, writer: “Vic and Sade”; “Sky King”
04-13-1913 - Dave Albritton - d. 5-14-1994
disk jockey: Dayton, Ohio
04-13-1916 - Phyllis Fraser Cerf Wagner - Kansas City, MO - d. 11-25-2006
writer of radio soap operas
04-13-1918 - Brad Ansley - d. 1-23-1992
sportscaster: WIOD Miami Florida
04-13-1919 - Howard Keel - Gillespie, IL - d. 11-7-2004
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”
04-13-1919 - Phil Tonken - Hartford, CT - d. 2-4-2000
announcer/newscaster: “Your Supper”; “Radio Newsreel”
04-13-1923 - Don Adams - NYC - d. 9-25-2005
comedian: “Kraft Music Hall”; “A Salute to Humble Howard”
04-13-1932 - Jack Danon - St. Louis, MO - d. 8-12-1996
singer: “Fibber McGee and Molly”
04-13-1951 - Peter Davison - London, England
actor: Eric Brown “King Street Junior”; “Change at Oglethorpe”
04-14-1889 - Dick Richards - Detroit, MI - d. 5-28-1951
Owned radio stations WJR (Detroit), WGAR (Cleveland), KMPC (Los Angeles)
04-14-1898 - Lee Tracy - Atlanta, GA - d. 10-18-1968
actor: Martin Kane “Martin Kane, Private Detective”
04-14-1903 - Lloyd Amoo - d. 7-15-1973
newscaster: KRMC Jamestown, North Dakota
04-14-1904 - John Gielgud - London, England - d. 5-21-2000
actor: Sherlock Holmes “Sherlock Holmes”; “Theatre Guild On the Air”
04-14-1905 - Bob Stanton - Minneapolis, MN - d. 6-17-1977
nbc staff announcer: “Bob Stanton Sports”
04-14-1913 - John Howard - Cleveland, OH - d. 2-19-1995
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”; “Hollywood Hotel”
04-14-1914 - Arnold Perl - d. 12-11-1971
writer: “The Big Story”; “I Fly Anything”; “The Amazing Mr. Tutt”
04-14-1914 - John Hubbard - East Chicago, IN - d. 11-6-1988
actor: Willie Faye “Phil Harris/Alice Faye Show”
04-14-1915 - Richard Hart - Providence, RI - d. 1-2-1951
actor: “Family Theatre”
04-14-1916 - Emerson Buckley - NYC - d. 11-17-1989
conductor: “Two Thousand Plus”; “Murder By Experts”
04-14-1917 - Valerie Hobson - Larne, Ireland - d. 11-13-1998
actor: Guest Contestant “One Minute Please”
04-14-1918 - Mary Healy - New Orleans, LA
actor: Jack Benny Program”; “Texaco Town”; “Ford Show”; “Lum and Abner”
04-14-1919 - Dennis Ballant - d. 5-10-1970
disk jockey: WJAG Norfolk, Virginia
04-14-1924 - Shorty Rogers - Great Barrington, MA - d. 11-7-1994
jazz trumpeter: “Army Bandstand”; “Here’s to Veterans”
04-14-1926 - Gloria Jean - Buffalo, NY
singer: “The Bob Hope Show”
04-14-1929 - Ray Mathew - Leichhardt, Australia - d. 4-xx-2002
writer: “The Medea of Euripides”
04-14-1940 - Patsy Bruder - Brooklyn, NY
actor: “CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”
04-15-1900 - Eddie Garr - Philadelphia, PA - d. 9-3-1956
actor: (Father of Teri Garr) “Fleischmann’s Yeast Hour”
04-15-1907 - Casper Reardon - Little Falls, NY - d. 3-9-1941
jazz harpist: “Camel Caravan”; “Kraft Music Hall”
04-15-1907 - Theodore Granick - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-21-1970
moderator: “American Forum of the Air”
04-15-1909 - Dave Driscoll - Maplewood, NJ - d. 5-8-1981
news and sport commentator for the mutual network
04-15-1909 - Gordon Bambrick - d. 7-16-1977
announcer: “Reading Is Fun”
04-15-1910 - Eddie Mayo - Holyoke, MA - d. 11-27-2006
major league baseball player: “World Series Preview”
04-15-1915 - Hans Conried - Baltimore, MD - d. 1-5-1982
actor: Professor Kropotkin “My Friend Irma”; Schultz “Life with Luigi”
04-15-1918 - Hilda Simms - Minneapolis, MN - d. 2-6-1994
actor: “New World A’ Coming”
04-15-1918 - John Baragrey - Haleyville, AL - d. 8-4-1975
actor: “X Minus One”; “There Is No Night”; “CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”
04-15-1921 - Art Ford - NYC - d. 4-23-2006
emcee, disk jockey: “Monitor”
04-15-1928 - Jimmy Ogg - Los Angeles, CA - d. 7-1-1986
actor: “Smilin’ Ed’s Buster Brown Gang”
04-15-1931 - Florian Zabach - Chicago, IL - d. 2-25-2006
violinist: “Arthur Godfrey and His Talent Scouts”; “Here’s to Veterans”
04-15-1933 - Roy Clark - Meherrin, VA
country/western singer: “Town and Country Time”
04-16-1887 - Mark Smith - NYC - d. 5-9-1944
actor: Jiggs “Bringing Up Father”; “Uria Calwalder “Show Boat”
04-16-1889 - Charles Chaplin - London, England - d. 12-25-1977
actor: “Dodge Brothers Hour”
04-16-1895 - Mischa Mischakoff - Proskourov, Russia - d. 2-1-1981
violinist: “NBC Symphony Orchestra”; “NBC String Trio”
04-16-1897 - Milton J. Cross - NYC - d. 1-3-1975
announcer, commentator: (The Voice of the Met) “General Motors Concerts”
04-16-1898 - Marian Jordan - Peoria, IL - d. 4-7-1961
commedienne: “Fibber McGee and Molly”; “Kaltenmeyer’s Kindergarten”
04-16-1904 - Fifi D’Orsay - Montreal, Quebec, Canada - d. 12-2-1983
singer: “Folies De Paris”; “This Is Your Life”
04-16-1909 - Dick Wynn - d. 8-24-1996
announcer: “Count of Monte Cristo”; “The Lone Wolf”
04-16-1913 - Les Tremayne - London, England - d. 12-19-2003
actor: Nick Charles “Advs. of the Thin Man”; Michael Waring “The Falcon”
04-16-1914 - Frank Vass - Greenville, SC
singer: (The Vass Family) “The Lady Next Door”; “Kraft Phoenix Program”
04-16-1914 - John Hodiak - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 10-19-1955
actor: L’il Abner “L’il Abner”; Butch Cavendish “Lone Ranger”
04-16-1917 - Jean Holloway - d. 11-11-1989
writer: “Hallmark Playhouse”; “Mayor of the Town”; “Mr. President”
04-16-1918 - Joan Alexander - St. Paul, MN
actor: Lois Lane “Advs. of Superman”; Ellen Deering “Philo Vance”
04-16-1918 - Spike Milligan - Ahmednagar, India - d. 2-27-2002
comedian: Eccles the Idiot, Miss Minnie Bannister, Count Moriarty “Goon Show”
04-16-1920 - Barry Nelson - San Francisco, CA - d. 4-7-2007
actor: “Duffy’s Tavern”; “Treasury Salute”; “Monitor”
04-16-1921 - Peter Ustinov - London, England - d. 3-28-2004
actor: “Freedom Forum”; “Mitch Miller Show”; “In Any Direction”
04-16-1924 - Henry Mancini - Cleveland, OH - d. 6-14-1994
orchestra leader: “Family Theatre”; “Voices of Vista”
04-16-1927 - Edie Adams - Kingston, PA-d. 10-15-2008
singer, actor: “Stewart Foster Show”
04-16-1930 - Herbie Mann - NYC - d. 7-1-2003
jazz flutist: “Voices of Vista”; “Sounds of Freedom”
04-16-1933 - Ike Pappas - NYC - d. 8-31-2008
newscaster: “World News Roundup”; “CBS News”
04-16-1935 - Bobby Vinton - Canonsburg, PA
singer: “Christmas Seal Campaign”
04-17-1897 - Thornton Wilder - Madison, WI - d. 12-7-1975
writer: “This Is My Best”
04-17-1898 - Howard Claney - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 4-30-1980
announcer: “American Album of Familiar Music”; “NBC Symphony”
04-17-1901 - Marie Blizard - d. 10-20-1991
writer: Network radio
04-17-1903 - Gregor Piatigorsky - Yekaterinoslav, Russia - d. 8-6-1976
cellist: “Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra”; “The Pause that Refreshes . . On the Air”
04-17-1905 - Arthur Lake - Corbin, KY - d. 1-10-1987
actor: (Brother of Florence Lake) Dagwood Bumstead “Blondie”
04-17-1909 - Rex Rienits - Dubbo, Australia - d. 4-30-1971
author: “A Matter of Life or Else”
04-17-1910 - Ivan Goff - Perth, Australia - d. 9-23-1999
screenwriter: “Lux Radio Theatre”
04-17-1911 - Alvin C. W. Bahnsen - d. 12-xx-1985
newscaster: WWRL New York
04-17-1911 - George Seaton - South Bend, IN - d. 7-28-1979
actor, film director: Lone Ranger “The Lone Ranger”; “Screen Director’s Playhouse”
04-17-1913 - Harry Clark - Providence, RI - d. 4-xx-1985
newscaster, announcer: “CBS News”; “Backstage Wife”; “Columbia Workshop”
04-17-1913 - Richard Travis - Carlsbad, NM - d. 7-11-1989
announcer and sportscaster
04-17-1913 - Walter Ducloux - Lucerne, Switzerland - d. 1-25-1997
conductor: “NBC Symphony Orchestra”
04-17-1915 - Joe Foss - Sioux Falls, SD - d. 1-1-2003
south dakota governor: “Tops in Sports”
04-17-1918 - Anne Shirley - NYC - d. 7-4-1993
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”
04-17-1918 - John Hess - Chicago, IL - d. 4-15-2004
writer: “The Human Adventure”
04-17-1918 - William Holden - O’Fallon, IL - d. 11-16-1981
actor: “Hour of Mystery”; “Smiths of Hollywood”; “So Proudly We Hail”
04-17-1920 - Arnold Yarrow - London, England
author: “After Moscow
04-17-1923 - Harry Reasoner - Dakota City, IA - d. 8-6-1991
reporter: CBS News Washington
04-17-1923 - Lindsay Anderson - South India - d. 8-30-1994
film director: First person to udder the “F” word on the BBC
04-17-1923 - Lon McCallister - Los Angeles, CA - d. 6-11-2005
actor: “Screen Guild Theatre”; “Cavalcade of America”; “Family Theatre”
04-17-1925 - Blaine Walsh - d. 9-5-1985
sportscaster: Milwaukee Braves
04-17-1926 - Joan Loring (Dellie Ellis) - Hong Kong, China
actor: Judy Foster “A Date with Judy”
04-17-1927 - Graziella Sciutti - Turin, Italy - d. 4-9-2001
operatic soprano: “Meetropolitan Opera”
04-17-1928 - Don West - Fredonia, KS - d. 8-13-2004
announcer, writer, newsman: Clifton, Arizona
04-18-1857 - Clarence Darrow - Kinsman, OH - d. 3-13-1938
lawyer: “ Scopes “Monkey” trial, WGN Chicago”
04-18-1880 - Donald Crisp - Aberfeldy, Scotland - d. 5-25-1974
actor: Jonathan Trimble “Jonathan Trimble, Esquire”
04-18-1882 - Leopold Stokowski - London, England - d. 9-13-1977
conductor: “NBC Symphony/Symphony of the Air”
04-18-1887 - Bill Hay - Dumfires, Scotland - d. 10-12-1978
announcer: “Amos ‘n’ Andy”
04-18-1889 - Gene Carroll - Chicago, IL - d. 3-5-1972
comedian: Lena, the maid “Fibber McGee and Molly”
04-18-1902 - Harry Owens - O’Neil, NE - d. 12-12-1986
bandleader: “Hawaii Calls”; “Sweet Leilani Time”; Harry Owens and His Orchestra”
04-18-1904 - Pigmeat Markham - Durhan, N - d. 12-13-1981
comedian: (“order in the court ‘ cuz here come da judge) “Jubilee”
04-18-1907 - Miklos Rozsa - Budapest, Hungary - d. 7-27-1995
composer: “Lux Radio Theatre”
04-18-1907 - Stephen Longstreet - NYC - d. 2-20-2002
screenwriter: “Lux Radio Theatre”
04-18-1908 - Irra Petina - Petrograd, Russia - d. 1-19-2000
singer: “The Railroad Hour”
04-18-1911 - Louis Vittes - d. 4-21-1969
writer: “Advs. of The Thin Man”; “Affairs of Peter Salem”; “The Lone Wolf”
04-18-1912 - Al Hodge - Ravenna, OH - d. 3-19-1979
actor: Britt Reid/Green Hornet “Green Hornet”; “Columbia Workshop”
04-18-1912 - Fred De Denise - NYC
drummer: “Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra”
04-18-1912 - Wendy Barrie - Hong Kong, China - d. 2-2-1978
hostess, actor: “Detect and Collect”; “Jack Haley Show”; “Star for a Night”
04-18-1914 - Ben Bezoff - d. 12-30-1979
newscaster: WKY Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; KMYR Denver, Colorado
04-18-1918 - Page Gilman - San Francisco, CA - d. 6-1-2006
actor: Jack Barbour “One Man’s Family”; “Memory Lane”
04-18-1918 - Tony Mottola - Kearney, NJ - d. 8-9-2004
jazz guitarist: “Gordon MacRae Gulf Spray Show”; “Burl Ives Sings”
04-18-1921 - Barbara Hale - DeKalb, IL
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”; “Screen Guild Theatre”; “This Is Hollywood”
04-18-1921 - Jay L. McMullen - Minneapolis, MN - d. 3-18-1992
news commentator: “Babies: C.O.D.”
04-18-1924 - Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown - Vinton, LA - d. 9-10-2005
singer, guitarist: “Newport Jazz Festival”
04-18-1925 - Bob Hastings - Brooklyn, NY
actor: Archie Andrews “Archie Andrews”; Jerry “Sea Hound”
04-18-1929 - Walt Levinsky - New Jersey - d. 12-14-1999
clarinetist: Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra; Benny Goodman and His Orchestra
04-18-1937 - Robert Hooks - Washington, D.C.
actor: “We Hold These Truths”
04-18-1941 - John J. Jackson - d. 3-17-2004
rock-radio personality
04-18-1949 - Larry Albert - Souix Falls, SD
actor: Harry Nile “Advs. of Harry Nile”
04-19-1858 - May Robson - Melbourne, Australia - d. 10-20-1943
actor: Aunt May Webster “Lady of Millions”
04-19-1888 - William Axt - d. 2-12-1959
musical director: “Major Bowes Capitol Family Program”
04-19-1891 - Ralph Jewell - d. 5-xx-1964
Played cornet for various bands around Detroit and WXYZ
04-19-1897 - Vivienne Segal - Philadelphia, PA - d. 12-29-1992
actor: “Jantzen Radio Program”
04-19-1900 - George O’Brien - San Francisco, CA - d. 9-23-1985
actor: “Anchors Aweigh”
04-19-1907 - Lin Basquette - San Mateo, CA - d. 9-30-1994
actor: “Whatever Became of . . . “
04-19-1913 - Sylvia Froos - New York - d. 3-28-2004
singer: “Sylvia Froos Show”; “Fred Allen Show”
04-19-1915 - Albert Buhrman - Springfield, MO - d. 1-29-1999
organist: “Murder at Midnight”; “Advs. of Sherlock Holmes”
04-19-1915 - Betty Winkler - Berwick, PA - d. 6-4-2002
actor: Joyce Jordan “Joyce Jordan, M.D.”; Rosemary Levy “Abie’s Irish Rose”
04-19-1920 - Frank Fontaine - Cambridge, MA - d. 8-4-1978
comedian: John L. C. Sivoney “Jack Benny Program”
04-19-1937 - Elinor Donahue - Tacoma, WA
actor: “The Search”
04-19-1942 - Noah Adams - Ashland, KY
host: “All Things Considered”
04-19-1977 - Martin Grams. Jr. - Baltimore, MD
old time radio historian
04-20-1889 - Adolf Hitler - Braunau, Austria - d. 4-30-1945
dictator: Propaganda broadcasts
04-20-1893 - Harold Lloyd - Burchard, NE - d. 3-8-1971
comedian: “Comedy Theatre”
04-20-1897 - Gregory Ratoff - St. Petersburg, Russia - d. 12-14-1960
panelist: “Information, Please”
04-20-1898 - Sidney Lanfield - Chicago, IL - d. 6-20-1972
film director: “Screen Director’s Playhouse”
04-20-1900 - Reed Kennedy - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 8-12-1952
vocalist: “Gulf Headliners”; “The Song Shop”
04-20-1904 - Bruce Cabot - Carlsbad, NM - d. 5-3-1972
actor: “Hallmark Hall of Fame”; “Hollywood on the Air”
04-20-1904 - John Sanford - Harlem, NY - 3-6-2003
screenwriter: “Lux Radio Theatre”
04-20-1908 - Lionel Hampton - Louisville, KY - d. 8-31-2002
vibraphone artist: “Jubilee”; “One Night Stand”; “Lionel Hampton and His Orchestra”
04-20-1914 - Betty Lou Gerson - Chattanooga, TN - d. 1-12-1999
actor: Mary Marlin “Story of Mary Marlin”; Charlotte Wilson “The Guiding Light”
04-20-1915 - Evelyn Scott - Brockton, MA - d. 1-31-2002
actor: “Arch Oboler’s Plays”; “The Smiths of Hollywood”
04-20-1923 - Tito Puente - NYC - d. 5-31-2000
percussionist, bandleader: “Manhattan Melodies”
04-20-1924 - Nina Foch - Leyden, The Netherlands - d. 12-5-2008
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”; “Suspense”; “Cavalcade of America”
04-20-1924 - Patricia Peardon - Allendale, NJ - d. 4-22-1993
actor: Mary Aldrich “Aldrich Family”; Joan Worthington “Orphans of Divorce”
04-20-1926 - Elena Verdugo - Hollywood, CA
actor: Millie Bronson “Meet Millie”
04-21-1891 - Dr. Howard W. Haggard - d. 4-22-1959
alcoholism expert: “Devils, Drugs and Doctors”
04-21-1891 - Will Donaldson - Brooklyn, NY - d. 12-16-1954
composer, arranger, musician: “The Wonder Bakers Orchestra”
04-21-1895 - Max Jordan - San Remo, Italy - d. 11-28-1977
correspondent: “NBC News”
04-21-1898 - King Calder - Maryland - d. 6-28-1964
actor: James Anderson “Second Mrs. Burton”; Will Stevenson “Barry Cameron”
04-21-1905 - Ted Osborne - Grand Rapids, MI - d. 2-12-1987
actor: Dr. Carough “Dr. Kildare”; Professor Whiz the Owl “Cinnamon Bear”
04-21-1907 - Beatrice Kay - The Bronx, NY - d. 11-8-1986
singer: “Gaslight Gayeties”; “Beatrice Kay Show”
04-21-1907 - Wade Mainer - Weaversville, NC
country: (Mainer’s Crazy Mountaineers) “Crazy Water Crystals Barn Dance”
04-21-1911 - Leonard Warren - The Bronx, NY - d. 3-4-1960
singer: “Voice of Firestone”; “Telephone Hour”
04-21-1914 - Norman Panama - Chicago, IL - d. 1-13-2003
writer: “Pepsodent Show starring Bob Hope”; “Lux Radio Theatre”
04-21-1915 - Anthony Quinn - Chihauha, Mexico - d. 6-3-2001
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”; “Your Radio Theatre”
04-21-1916 - Hunter D. Hancock - Uvalde, TX - d. 8-4-2004
disk jockey: Early rhythm and blues rock ‘n’ roll platter spinner
04-21-1919 - Don Cornell - NYC - d. 2-23-2004
singer: “Sammy Kaye’s Sunday Serenade”; “One Night Stand”; “The Big Show”
04-21-1920 - Jim Nabbie - d. 9-12-1992
lead tenor: (Member of the Ink Spots) “The Four Ink Spots”; “Let’s Go Nightclubbing”
04-21-1921 - Betty Jane Rhodes - Rockford, IL
vocalist: “Meet Me at Parky’s”; “The Packard Hour”
04-21-1923 - John Mortimer - London, England - d. 1-16-2009
author: “Rumpole of the Bailey”
04-21-1923 - Tex Antoine - d. 1-12-1983
announcer: “The Eternal Light”; “Jane Pickens Show”
04-21-1927 - Jose Miguel Agrelot - San Juan, Puerto Rico - d. 1-28-2004
comedian: Torito “The College of Happiness”
04-21-1930 - Alec Gregonzi - London, England - d. 6-4-2006
actor: Fred “Hancock’s Half Hour”
04-21-1930 - Kirby Ayres - d. 11-16-2005
disk jockey: “Bob and Ray Present the CBS Radio Network”
04-21-1932 - Elaine May - Philadelphia, PA
comedienne: “Mike Nicholes and Elaine May”; “Monitor”
04-21-1933 - Jim Harmon - Mount Carmel, IL
author: “The Great Radio Heroes”
04-22-1865 - Hal Brown - d. 10-24-1942
harmonica: “Just Plain Bill”
04-22-1887 - James Norman Hall - Colfax, IA - d. 7-6-1951
writer: “Words at War”
04-22-1900 - Joan Blaine - Fort Dodge, IA - d. 4-19-1949
actor: Joan Houston “Tale of Today”; Mary Marlin “Story of Mary Marlin”
04-22-1902 - John W. Vandercook - London, England - d. 1-6-1963
commentator: “Newsroom of the Air/News of the World”
04-22-1905 - Ed Ludes - d. 7-21-1987
sound effects: “Fibber McGee and Molly” Created the closet effect
04-22-1906 - Eddie Albert - Rock Island, IL - d. 5-26-2005
actor: Walter Mitty “Secret Life of Walter Mitty”; “Eddie Albert Show”
04-22-1907 - Elmer H. Wavering - Quincy, IL - d. 11-20-1998
inventor: With Bill Lear, invented first commerial car radio (Motorola)
04-22-1909 - Bob Waldrop - Eureka, CA - d. 9-25-1963
announcer: “John’s Other Wife”; “Forever Tops”
04-22-1909 - Ralph Byrd - Dayton, OH - d. 8-18-1952
singer, actor: Local and Hollywood radio
04-22-1915 - Dick Dudley - Louisville, KY - d. 2-2-2000
announcer: “Archie Andrews”; “Believe It or Not”
04-22-1916 - Maurice Webster - Gibbon, NE - d. 6-20-2001
announcer: “Scattergood Baines”; “Meet the Missus”; “Surprise Party”
04-22-1916 - Yehudi Menuhin - NYC - d. 3-12-1999
classical violinist: “New York Philharmonic”; “Pause that Refreshes”
04-22-1917 - Glynn Croudace - England
author of about 100 radio plays
04-22-1918 - Mickey Vernon - Marcus Hook, PA - d. 9-24-2008
major league baseball player’ “ Play Ball”
04-22-1920 - Hal March - San Francisco, CA - d. 1-19-1970
comedian: Matt Henshaw “December Bride”; Mr. Cook “Too Many Cooks”
04-22-1921 - Candido Camero - Havana, Cuba
drummer: CMQ radio
04-22-1921 - Charlotte Lawrence - California - d. 10-20-1993
actor: Stacy McGill “Advs. of Christopher Wells”; Reba Britten “Just Plain Bill”
04-22-1921 - Vivian Dandridge - Cleveland, OH - d. 10-27-1991
writer: “The Beulah Show”
04-22-1922 - Charlie Mingus - Nogales, AZ - d. 1-5-1979
jazz bass player: “Here’s to Veterans”
04-22-1924 - Bill Simmons - d. 1-24-2005
southern gospel musician: (Light Crust Doughboys)
04-22-1932 - Bill Bircher - d. 12-1-1988
disk jockey: WTNJ Trenton, NJ; WBCB Levittown, PA
04-22-1939 - Jason Miller - NYC - d. 5-13-2001
playwright: “Earplay”
04-22-1942 - Andre Major - Montreal, Canada
author of radio plays
04-22-1949 - Rin-Rin-Tin - d. unknown
dog: Rin-Tin-Tin “Rin-Tin-Tin”
04-23-1564 - William Shakespeare - Stratford-upon-Avon, England - d. 4-23-1616
playwright, poet: Several of his works adapted for radio
04-23-1879 - Talbot Mundy - London, England - d. 8-5-1940
writer: “Jack Armstrong, The All-American Boy”
04-23-1884 - Edwin C. Hill - Aurora, IN - d. 2-12-1957
news commentator: “Human Side of the News”; “Your News Parade”
04-23-1893 - Frank Borzage - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 6-19-1962
film director: “Lux Radio Theatre”; “Screen Guild Theatre”
04-23-1895 - Ngaio Marsh - Christchurch, New Zealand - d. 2-18-1982
author: “Final Curtain”
04-23-1898 - Lee Vines - Texas - d. 12-28-1987
announcer: “CBS Radio Workshop”; “Burns and Allen”
04-23-1901 - George Harmon Coxe - Olean, NY - d. 1-30-1984
novelist: “Casey, Crime Photographer” based on his novels
04-23-1910 - Simone Simon - Béthune, Pas-de-Calais, France - d. 2-22-2005
actor: “Inner Sanctum”
04-23-1915 - James F. Fleming - Baraboo, WI - d. 8-10-1996
announcer: “Vic and Sade”; “Get John’s Other Wife”
04-23-1918 - Oliver Treyz - Willewemoe, NY - d. 6-14-1998
director of ABC radio
04-23-1919 - Clifford Kendrick - d. 9-17-1996
drums: “Bob Skyles and His Skyrockets”
04-23-1921 - Janet Blair - Altoona, PA - d. 2-19-2007
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”, “Abbott and Costello”
04-23-1921 - Warren Spahn - Buffalo, NY - d. 11-24-2003
hall of fame pitcher: “Tops in Sports”
04-23-1922 - Jack May - Henley-on-Thames, England - d. 9-19-1997
actor: “The Archers”; “Sherlock Holmes”
04-23-1925 - Elena DaVinci - d. 11-10-2006
host: “Magazine of the Air”
04-23-1928 - Shirley Temple - Santa Monica, CA
actor: Judy Graves “Junior Miss”
04-23-1931 - Tom Pettit - d. 12-22-1995
nbc reporter: “Meet the Press”
04-23-1932 - Ed Walker - Forrest, IL
co-host: “The Joy Boys of Radio”
04-24-1871 - Blanche Ring - Boston, MA - d. 1-13-1961
actor/singer: “Fight Camp”; “Jumbo”
04-24-1894 - Norman Sweetser - d. 8-28-1980
director: “Just Plain Bill”; “Stella Dallas”
04-24-1897 - Alfred Brown - d. 1-28-1978
actor: Og “Og, Son of Fire”
04-24-1905 - Robert Penn Warren - Guthrie, KY - d. 9-15-1989
author: (All the King’s Men) “NBC University Theatre”
04-24-1906 - William “Lord Haw Haw” Joyce - Brooklyn, NY - d. 1-3-1946
propagnadist for Nazi Germany during World War II: Hung for treason
04-24-1907 - John Frank Anders - Upward, NC - d. 12-18-1983
composer, singer: live radio program in Knoxville, Tennessee
04-24-1910 - Albert Zugsmith - Atlantic City, NJ - d. 10-26-1993
film producer/director: “Bud’s Bandwagon”
04-24-1911 - Arval Hogan - Robbinsville, NC - d. 9-12-2003
country, bluegrass: “Briarhoppers”
04-24-1916 - Eldon Shamblin - Weatherford, OK - d. 8-5-1998
guitarist: “Bob Wills and the Texax Playboys”
04-24-1922 - Aaron Bell - Muskogee, OK - d. 7-28-2003
singer: “Steve Lawrence Show”
04-24-1926 - Marilyn Erskine - Rochester, NY
actor: Gail Carver “Lora Lawton”; Janey Brown “Young Widder Brown”
04-24-1928 - Brian Clewer - London, England - d. 4-16-2008
host: “Cynic’s Choice”
04-24-1928 - Ted McKay - Raised in North Avondale, OH - d. 12-22-2005
talk show host: “Party Line”; Created first talk show on WKRC Cincinatti in 1955
04-25-1874 - Guglielmo Marconi - Bologna, Italy - d. 7-20-1937
responsible for the first transtlantic transmission of radio waves in 1901
04-25-1887 - Charles E. Fuller - Los Angeles, CA - d. 3-18-1968
preacher: “Old Fashioned Revival Hour”; “Heart to Heart”
04-25-1899 - Guinn (Big Boy) Williams - Decatur, TX - d. 6-6-1962
actor: “Biography In Sound”
04-25-1900 - Gloria Ann Simpson - Cleveland, OH - d. 10-21-1956
actor: “The NBC University Theatre”
04-25-1907 - Paula Trueman - NYC - d. 3-23-1994
actor: “Great Plays”; “CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”
04-25-1908 - Edward R. Murrow - Pole Cat Creek, NC - d. 4-27-1965
newscaster: (This is London) “Edward R. Murrow with the News”
04-25-1909 - Karl Farr - Rochelle, TX - d. 9-20-1961
singer: (Sons of the Pioneers) “The Roy Rogers Show)
04-25-1915 - Cliff Bruner - Houston, TX - d. 8-25-2000
fiddle: “The Musical Brownies”
04-25-1916 - Davy Kaye - London, England - d. 2-3-1998
british comic actor who worked in radio during the war
04-25-1916 - Irving Gaynor Neiman - d. 8-25-1996
began career by writing scripts for NBC
04-25-1918 - Astrid Varnay - Stockholm, Sweden - d. 9-4-2006
operatic soprano: “Metropolitan Opera”; “Operatic Excerpts”
04-25-1918 - Ella Fitzgerald - Newport News, VA - d. 6-15-1996
singer: “Flow Gently, Sweet Rhythm”; “Jubilee”
04-25-1919 - Albert Aley - NYC - d. 1-1-1986
actor: Hop Harrigan “Hop Harrigan”; Bob James “Stella Dallas”
04-25-1921 - Robert Q. Lewis - NYC - d. 12-11-1991
disc jockey, comedian, host: “Arthur Godrey Time”; “Robert Q. Lewis Show”
04-26-1883 - Harry Sothern - London, England - d. 2-22-1957
actor: “Counterspy”; “Kitty Foyle”; “True Story Hour”
04-26-1890 - Edgar Kennedy - Monterey, CA - d. 11-9-48
actor: “Screen Guild Theatre”; “Radio Reader’s Digest”
04-26-1891 - Paul Hoffmann - Western Springs, IL - d. 10-8-1974
foreign aid administrator: “Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy”
04-26-1893 - Anita Loos - Sisson (now Mt. Shasta), CA - d. 8-18-1981
screenwriter: “Lux Radio Theatre”
04-26-1898 - David Freedman - Botosani, Romania - d. 12-8-1936
gag writer for Eddie Cantor
04-26-1899 - Joseph Fuchs - NYC - d. 3-14-1997
violinist: “Longines Symphonette”
04-26-1905 - Cecilia Parker - Fort William, Ontario, Canada - d. 7-25-1993
actor: “Good News of 1939”; “Mail Call”; “Lux Radio Theatre”
04-26-1906 - A.L. “Albert” Alexander - Winthrop, MA - d. 2-24-1967
moderator: “Goodwill Court/Court of Human Relations”
04-26-1907 - Holland Engle - Wheeling, WV - d. 3-24-1988
announcer, emcee: “Ladies Fair”; “Variety Fair”
04-26-1910 - Grace Coppin - Murray, UT - d. 4-7-1993
actor: Maude “The Life of Riley”
04-26-1912 - John McGovern - d. 7-25-1985
actor: Mike Gallagher “Highway Patrol”; Harold Wilkinson “The O’Neills”
04-26-1914 - H. L. Gold - Montreal, Canada - d. 2-21-1996
writer: “Molle Mystery Theatre”; “X Minus One”
04-26-1914 - “Cheeky” Charlie Chester - Eastbourne, England - d. 6-26-1997
comedian: “Stand Easy”
04-26-1916 - Frances Robinson - Fort Wandsworth, NY - d. 8-16-1971
actor: Helen Asher “Richard Diamond”; Claire ‘Brooksie’ Brooks “Let George Do It”
04-26-1916 - Vic Perrin - Menomonee Falls, WI - d. 7-4-1989
actor: Ross Farnsworth “One Man’s Family”; Sergeant Gorce “Fort Laramie”
04-26-1918 - Helen Burgess - Portland, OR - d. 4-7-1937
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”
04-26-1920 - Frankie Scott - Georgia - d. 4-24-2004
performer: “Grand Ole Opry”
04-26-1922 - Eric Sinclair - Burkburnett, TX - d. 1-26-2004
actor: “Alias Jane Doe”
04-26-1922 - Mike Kellin - Hartford, CT - d. 8-26-1983
actor: “CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”
04-26-1923 - Berwyn Ableman - 2-4-2002
sportscaster and newscaster
04-26-1924 - Harold Jack Bloom - NYC - d. 8-27-1999
writer: “Richard Diamond, Private Detective”
04-26-1927 - Granny Hamner - Richmond, VA - d. 9-12-1993
sportscaster” “Sports Hilites”
04-27-1882 - Herman Bundesen - d. 8-25-1960
health official: “Adventures in Health”
04-27-1892 - Marjorie Mills - Waterville, ME - d. 4-5-1979
columnist: “The Girl from Maine”
04-27-1896 - Rogers Hornsby - Winters, TX - d. 1-5-1963
hall of fame baseball player: “Play Ball”; “Tops in Sports”
04-27-1898 - George McCall - Renton, Scotland - d. 11-28-1952
host: “Man About Hollywood”
04-27-1898 - Ludwig Behelmans - Meran, Austria-Hungary - d. 10-1-1962
author, panelist: “Author, Author”
04-27-1899 - Ned Wever - NYC - d. 5-6-1984
actor: Dick Tracy “Dick Tracy”; Anthony Loring “Young Widder Brown”
04-27-1902 - Harry Stockwell - Kansas City, MO - d. 7-19-1984
singer: “Broadway Matinee”
04-27-1907 - Matty Matlock - Paducah, KY - d. 6-14-1978
jazz musician: (Member of the Big 7 Band) “Pete Kelly’s Blues”
04-27-1918 - Robert Mitchell - Casper, WY - d. 10-13-1992
writer: “The Advs. of Philip Marlowe”
04-27-1923 - Peggy Knudsen - Duluth, MN - d. 7-11-1980
actor: Karen Adams “Woman in White”; Lois “Bill Goodwin Show”
04-27-1927 - Connie Kay - NYC - d. 11-30-1994
jazz drummer: “The Modern Jazz Quartet”; “Guest Star”
04-27-1931 - James Barrett - Detroit, MI - d. 6-4-2006
actor: Dan Reid “The Lone Ranger”; The Green Hornet”
04-27-1933 - Casey Kasem - Detroit, MI
actor: “CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”
04-27-1937 - Sandy Dennis - Hastings, NE - d. 3-1-1992
actor: “CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”
04-28-1874 - Sidney Toler - Warrensburg, MO - d. 2-12-1947
actor: “Southern California WPA Symphony Orchestra”; “It’s Time to Smile”
04-28-1878 - Lionel Barrymore - Philadelphia, PA - d. 11-15-1954
actor: Leonard Gillispie “Dr. Kildare”; Ebenezzer Scrooge “A Christmas Carol”
04-28-1882 - Henry Bellamann - Fulton, MO - d. 6-16-1945
author: “King’s Row” based on his novel
04-28-1892 - Joseph Dunninger - NYC - d. 3-9-1975
mentalist: (Master Mind of Mental Mystery) “Dunninger Show”
04-28-1896 - Edith Evanson - Tacoma, WA - d. 11-29-1980
actor: Helmi “Myrt and Marge”
04-28-1900 - Val Gielgud - London England - d. 11-30-1981
writer: (Brother of John Gielgud) “The Columbia Workshop”
04-28-1905 - Paul Rhymer - Fulton, IL - d. 10-26-1964
writer: “Vic and Sade”
04-28-1907 - Rudy Bundy - Quaker City, OH - d. 8-1-2000
orchestra leader: WHAS Louisville, Kentucky
04-28-1908 - Michael Fitzmaurice - Chicago, IL - d. 8-31-1967
actor: Clark Kent/Superman “Advs. of Superman”; Dick Grosvenor “Stella Dallas”
04-28-1911 - Lee Falk - St. Louis, MO - d. 3-13-1999
writer: “Mandrake the Magician”
04-28-1914 - Esther Allan - Suvalke, Poland - d. 7-21-1985
pianist/organist: All girl band on local radio in Michigan
04-28-1916 - Rena Craig Waxman - Denver, CO - d. 1-26-2003
actor: “School of Charm”
04-28-1917 - Robert Anderson - NYC - d. 2-9-2009
writer: “Cavalcade of America”; “Theatre Guild On the Air”
04-28-1917 - Robert Cornthwaite - St. Helens, OR - d. 7-20-2006
actor: worked in radio in Southern California
04-28-1920 - Nan Merriman - Pittsburgh, PA
singer: “Serenade to America”; “Music of the New World”
04-28-1922 - Phil Tate - Bramley, England - d. 12-9-2005
host: “Non-Stop Pop”
04-28-1928 - Richard Baer - NYC - d. 2-22-2008
actor: “Campbell Playhouse”
04-28-1929 - Carolyn Jones - Amarillo, TX - d. 8-3-1983
actor: “Dragnet”; “Survivors”
04-28-1938 - Connie Marshall - NYC - d. 5-22-2001
actor: “Hallmark Playhouse”
04-28-1939 - Morton Kondracke - Chicago, IL
commentator: “All Things Considered”
04-29-1863 - William Randolph Hearst - San Francisco, CA - d. 8-14-1951
publisher: Owner of several radio stations
04-29-1870 - Cosmo Hamilton - d. 10-14-1942
lecturer: “Unwritten History”
04-29-1879 - Sir Thomas Beecham - St. Helens, England - d. 3-8-1961
conductor: “Information Please”
04-29-1887 - Robert Cushman Murphy - Brooklyn, NY - d. 3-19-1973
ortinthologist: “Information Please”
04-29-1896 - Harry McNaughton - Surbiton, England - d. 2-26-1967
actor, panelist: Higgins “It’s Higgins. Sir”; “It Pays to Be Ignorant”
04-29-1897 - Charles Seel - NYC - d. 4-19-1980
actor: “Romance”; “Four-Star Playhouse”; “The Halls of Ivy”
04-29-1899 - Duke Ellington - Washington, D.C - d. 5-24-1974
bandleader: “Jubilee”; “Orson Welles Theatre”; “Story of Swing”
04-29-1901 - Emperor Hirohito (Showa) - Tokyo, Japan - d. 1-7-1989
emperor: End of war speech
04-29-1902 - William Stoess - Cincinnati, OH - d. 9-24-1953
conductor: “Greatest Story Ever Told”; “Radio’s Reader’s Digest”
04-29-1903 - Frank Parker - NYC - d. 1-10-1999
singer: “A & P Gypsies”; “Jack Benny Program”; “Frank Parker Show
04-29-1903 - Richard Leibert - Bethlehem, PA - d. 10-22-1976
organist: “Dick Leibert’s Musical Revue”; “Organ Rhapsody”
04-29-1904 - Russ Morgan - Scranton, PA - d. 8-8-1969
bandleader: (Music in the Morgan Manner) “Russ Morgan Orchestra”
04-29-1908 - Jack Williamson - Bisbee, Arizona Territory - d. 11-10-2006
writer: “Dimension X”; “Future Tense”
04-29-1912 - Ian Martin - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 7-25-1981
actor: Horace Sutton “Young Dr. Malone”; Harry Archer “Meet Corliss Archer”
04-29-1912 - John MacVane - Portland, ME - d. 1-28-1984
newscaster: “United or Not”
04-29-1912 - Richard Carlson - Albert Lea, MN - d. 11-25-1977
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”
04-29-1913 - Norman Felton - London, England
producer, director: “Author’s Playhouse”; “Grand Marquee”
04-29-1914 - Derek Guyler - Wallasey, Merseyside, England - d. 10-8-1999
actor: “It’s That Man Again”
04-29-1915 - Donald F. Mills - Piqua, OH - d. 11-13-1999
singer: (The Mills Brothers) “Mills Brothers Quartette”
04-29-1917 - Celeste Holm - NYC
actor: “House on Q Street”; “Great Scenes from Great Plays”
04-29-1918 - Tom Rogers - d. 6-25-2005
writer: Wrote for radio in the 1940s
04-29-1925 - Michael Wager - NYC
actor: “And Bravely Walk”; “CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”
04-29-1933 - Rod McKuen - Oakland, CA
composer: “We Hold These Truths”
04-29-1935 - Lennie Weinrib - NYC - d. 6-28-2006
actor: “Suspense”
04-29-1936 - Zubin Mehta - Bombay, India
conductor: New York Symphony Orchestra
04-29-1946 - Humphrey Carpenter - Oxford, England - d. 1-4-2005
writer, disc jockey: BBC radio
04-30-1870 - Franz Lehar - Romorn, Austria-Hungary - d. 10-24-1948
operetta composer: “Railroad Hour”; “Showtime”
04-30-1886 - Dick Elliott - Boston, MA - d. 12-22-1961
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”
04-30-1903 - Fulton Lewis, Jr. - Washington, D.C. - d. 8-21-1966
commentator: “News and Comments”
04-30-1907 - Sidney Harmon - Poughkeepsie, NY - d. 2-29-1988
writer, director: “The Life of Riley”; “Honest Abe”
04-30-1909 - Bud Linn - Indianapolis, IN - d. 7-31-1968
singer: (The King’s Men) “Kraft Music Hall”; “Fibber McGee and Molly”
04-30-1910 - Al Lewis - NYC - d. 2-3-2006
actor: hosted weekly radio program on WBAI-FM New York
04-30-1911 - Orin Tovrov - Boston, MA - d. 8-16-1980
writer: “The Brighter Day”; “Ma Perkins”; “Manhattan Mother”
04-30-1912 - Eve Arden - Mill Valley, CA - d. 11-12-1990
actor: Connie Brooks “Our Miss Brooks”; Libby Collins “Lux Radio Theatre”
04-30-1914 - Vermont Royster - Raleigh, NC - d. 7-22-1996
teacher of journalism: “Spectrum”
04-30-1916 - George Salverson - St. Catherines, Canada - d. 4-9-2005
script writer for the CBC
04-30-1916 - Phil Brown - Cambridge, MA - d. 2-9-2006
actor: “Arch Obolor’s Playes”
04-30-1916 - Robert Shaw - Red Bluff, CA - d. 1-25-1999
choral director: “Radio Hall of Fame”; “American School of the Air”
04-30-1917 - Bea Wain - The Bronx, NY
singer: (The Reverie Girl) “Your Hit Parade”; “Your All-Time Hit Parade”
04-30-1919 - Jack Haskell - Akron, OH - d. 9-26-1998
singer: “Dave Garroway Show”; “Music from the Heart of America”
04-30-1924 - Sonny Day - d. 2-7-2005
singer: (Smokey Mountain Boys) “Grand Ole Opry”
04-30-1925 - Corinne Calvert - Paris, France - d. 6-23-2001
actor: “Martin and Lewis Show”
04-30-1926 - Cloris Leachman - Des Moines, IA
actor: Local radio as a teenager
04-30-1926 - Lou Cioffi - d. 5-2-1998
news reporter: “The Warning Bell”; “Big News of 1957/58”
04-30-1926 - Ward Chase - Chicago, IL - d. 8-22-1996
newscaster: WOKY Milwaukee, Wisconsin
04-30-1948 - Perry King - Alliance, OH
actor: Han Solo “Star Wars”
05-01-1888 - Anna Appel - Bucharest, Romania - d. 11-19-1963
actor: Mrs. Cohen “Abie’s Irish Rose”
05-01-1888 - M.S. Armstrong - Waverley, Australia - d. 11-18-1973
writer: “Drought”
05-01-1892 - Howard Barlow - Plain City, OH - d. 1-31-1972
conductor: “March of Time”; “Voice of Firestone”
05-01-1906 - Rose Hobart - NYC - d. 8-29-2000
actor: “Nightbeat”
05-01-1906 - “Little” Jackie Heller - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 7-15-1988
singer: “Ben Bernie, The Old Maestro”
05-01-1907 - Kate Smith - Greenville, VA - d. 6-17-1986
singer, emcee: (Songbird of the South) “Kate Smith Revue”; Kate Smith Speaks”
05-01-1912 - Anna Pollak - Manchester, England - d. 11-28-1996
soprano: (English Opera Group) “BBC Third Programme”
05-01-1913 - Louis Nye - Hartford, CT - d. 10-9-2005
comedian: “Louis Nye Show”; “Official Detective”
05-01-1916 - Glenn Ford - Quebec, Canada - d. 8-30-2006
actor: Christopher London “Advs. of Christopher London”
05-01-1918 - Jack Paar - Canton, OH - d. 1-27-2004
comedian: “Jack Paar Show”; “Take It or Leave It”
05-01-1919 - Dan O’Herlihy - Wexford, Ireland - d. 2-17-2005
actor: Nicholas Lacey “One Man’s Family”
05-01-1919 - John Meredyth Lucas - d. 10-19-2002
film director, producer: “Bud’s Bandwagon”
05-01-1922 - Katy Abraham - Wayland, NY - d. 5-25-2005
gardening expert: “The Green Thumb”
05-01-1924 - Art Fleming - The Bronx, NY - d. 4-25-1995
host/announcer: “When Radio Was”
05-01-1924 - Dennis Main Wilson - Dulwich. London, England - d. 1-20-1997
producer: “Goon Show”; “Hancock’s Half Hour”; “Citizen Smith”
05-01-1927 - Bill Byers - Los Angeles, CA - d. 5-1-1996
trombone, arranger: “Count Basie Orchestra”
05-01-1933 - Joan Hackett - NYC - d. 10-8-1983
actor: “CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”
05-02-1878 - Roy Atwill - Syracuse, NY - d. 2-6-1962
actor, comedian, composer: “The Fred Allen Show”; “The Fred Waring Show”
05-02-1885 - Hedda Hopper - Hollidaysburg, PA - d. 2-1-1966
actor, columnist: Portia Brent “Brenthouse”; “Hedda Hopper Show”
05-02-1892 - Bruno Wick - Krefeld, Germany - d. 11-xx-1979
actor: Ming the Merciless “Flash Gordon”; Mr. Fowler “The Goldbergs”
05-02-1895 - Lorenz Hart - NYC - d. 11-22-1943
lyricist: “Jumbo Fire Chief Program”; “Chase and Sanborn Hour”; “Railroad Hour”
05-02-1897 - J. Fred Coots - Brooklyn, NY - d. 4-8-1985
composer, pianist: “Ray Shield’s Revue”
05-02-1898 - Edmund Barclay - Gosford, Australia - d. 8-26-1961
writer: “As Ye Sow”
05-02-1902 - Brian Aherne - King’s Norton, England - d. 2-10-1986
actor: Simon Templar “The Saint”
05-02-1902 - Erin O’Brien-Moore - Los Angeles, CA - d. 5-3-1979
actor: Elsa Banning “Big Sister”
05-02-1903 - Sylvan Levin - Baltimore, MD - d. 8-10-1996
conductor: “Sinfonietta”; “Brownstone Theatre”; “Let’s Go to the Opera”
05-02-1904 - J. Anthony Hughes - NYC - d. 2-11-1970
actor: Bob Drake “Betty and Bob”
05-02-1905 - Sidney Skolsky - NYC - d. 5-3-1983
newspaper columnist: “Songs by Arlen, Stories by Skolsky”; “Bromo Seltzer Program”
05-02-1907 - Pinky Lee - St. Paul, MN - d. 4-3-1993
comedian: “Hoagy Carmichel Show”; “Carefree Carnival”
05-02-1908 - William R. Carter - Philadelphia, PA - d. 3-14-1976
pianist and soloist
05-02-1908 - Wilms Herbert - d. 3-5-1951
actor: Sergeant Otis Ludlum “Richard Diamond, Private Detctive”
05-02-1911 - Myron Niesley - d. 11-28-1985
singer: “Carefree Carnival”
05-02-1912 - Arnold Auerebach - Manhattan, NY - d. 10-20-1998
comedy writer: “Fred Allen Show”; “Milton Berle Show”
05-02-1915 - Van Alexander - NYC
bandleader: “The Callihans”; “Fitch Bandwagon”
05-02-1916 - Robert Grapperhaus - d. 12-13-1966
sound effects: “One Man’s Family”; “Fitch Bandwagon”; “Duffy’s Tavern”
05-02-1916 - Two Ton Baker - Chicago, IL - d. 5-4-1975
singer, pianist: “Tip Top Lunch Program”
05-02-1917 - Herman Clebanoff - Chicago, IL - d. 1-13-2004
musician: (Herman Clebanoff and the Ensemble) “Big City Serenade”
05-02-1918 - Frank Milano - d. 12-15-1962
animal sounds: “Bobby Benson and the B-Bar-B Riders”
05-02-1924 - Theodore Bikel - Vienna, Austria
actor: “Eternal Light”; “CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”
05-02-1925 - Svatopluk Havelka - Vrbice, Czechoslovakia - d. 2-24-2009
composer: member music department Czechoslovakia in Ostrava
05-02-1945 - Leah Garchik - Brooklyn, NY
panelist: “Minds Over Matter”
05-02-1952 - Campbell McComas - Melbourne, Australia - d. 1-8-2005
regular performer on Australia’s ABC radio
05-02-1961 - Lisa Bellear - Melbourne, Australia - d. 7-6-2006
writer: “From a Tribute to Sir Ronald Wilson”
05-03-1874 - Louis Dean - Wilmington, DE - d. 4-8-1933
announcer: “Stoopnagle and Budd”
05-03-1880 - Horace Murphy - Finley, TN - d. 1-20-1975
actor: Buckskin Blodgett “Red Ryder”
05-03-1890 - Nick Dawson - Vineland, NJ - d. 12-28-1957
actor: “Dangerous Paradise”; “Follow the Man”
05-03-1892 - Beulah Bondi - Chicago, IL - d. 1-11-1981
actor: “Free World Theatre”; “NBC University Theatre”
05-03-1897 - Charlie Lung - England - d. 6-22-1974
actor: Paul Sycamore “You Can’t Take It with You”; “Wild Bill Hickok”; “Escape”
05-03-1897 - Larry Puck - d. 10-26-1969
producer: “Arthur Godfrey Time” Was one of Godfrey’s many firings
05-03-1898 - Golda Meir - Kiev, Russia - d. 12-8-1978
israeli prime minister: “Meet the Press”
05-03-1898 - John Roy - d. 5-31-1985
actor: Roy Calvert “Amanda of Honeymoon Hill”
05-03-1899 - George H. Combs - Lee’s Summit, MO - d. 11-29-1977
congressman, commentator: “Now You Decide”; “Spotlight, New York”
05-03-1902 - Jack Larue - NYC - d. 1-11-1984
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”
05-03-1902 - Walter Slezak - Vienna, Austria - d. 4-21-1983
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”; “Best Plays”; “Studio One”; “Columbia Workshop”
05-03-1903 - Bing Crosby - Tacoma, WA - d. 10-14-1977
singer: “Kraft Music Hall”; “Philco Radio Time”
05-03-1905 - James Nusser - Cleveland, OH - d. 6-8-1979
actor: “Gunsmoke”
05-03-1905 - Sebastian Shaw - Holt, England - d. 12-23-1994
actor: “For Elise”
05-03-1905 - William Brown Meloney - NYC - d. 5-4-1971
writer: “Claudia and David”
05-03-1906 - Anna Roosevelt - Hyde Park, NY - d. 12-1-1975
Daughter of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. On her mother’s programs
05-03-1906 - Mary Astor - Quincy, IL - d. 9-25-1987
actor: Mary Christmas “Merry Life of Mary Christmas”
05-03-1907 - Degar Lustgarten - Manchester, England - d. 12-15-1978
author: “The Burden Mystery”
05-03-1907 - Earl Wilson - Rockford, OH - d. 1-16-1987
columnist: “Earl Wilson’s Broadway Column”
05-03-1909 - Fort Pearson - d. 2-19-1989
announcer: “Beat the Band”; “Queen for a Day”; “Hoosier Hot Shots”
05-03-1910 - Curt Massey - Midland, TX - d. 10-21-1991
singer: “Show Boat”; “Curt Massey Show”
05-03-1910 - Norman Corwin - Boston, MA
writer, director: “Columbia Presents Corwin”; “Twenty-Six by Corwin”
05-03-1911 - Yank Lawson - Trenton, MO - d. 2-18-1995
trumpet: “The Bob Crosby Show”
05-03-1919 - Betty Comden - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-23-2006
writer, actor: “Revuers”
05-03-1919 - Doris Rich - Canada - d. 5-18-1971
actor: Hannah O’Leary” Houseboat Hannah”; Miss Daisey “Portia Faces Life”
05-03-1919 - Pete Seeger - NYC
folk singer, songwriter: “Off the Page”
05-03-1920 - John Lewis - LaGrange, IL - d. 3-29-2001
co-founder of “Modern Jazz Quartet”: :Modern Jazz Quartet”; “Listener’s Digest”
05-03-1920 - Nina Bara - Buenos Aires, Argentina - d. 8-15-1990
actor: Tonga “Space Patrol”
05-03-1921 - Joe Ames - Malden, MA - d. 12-22-2007
singer: (Ames Brothers) “Sing It Again”; “Robert Q. Lewis Show”
05-03-1921 - Sugar Ray Robinson - Detroit, MI - d. 4-12-1989
pugilist: “Destination Freedom”; “Heat It Now”
05-03-1922 - Elizabeth Lawrence - d. 6-11-2000
actor: Francie Brent “Road of Life”
05-03-1924 - Ken Bailey - East Cleveland, OH - d. 3-25-2008
producer: “Morning Midway”; “Breakfast With the Baileys”
05-03-1927 - Rosemary Rice - Montclair, NJ
actor: Betty Cooper “Archie Andrews”; Jill Malone “Young Doctor Malone”
05-03-1928 - Dave Dudley - Spencer, WI - d. 12-22-2003
country singer: “Dave Dudley Trio”
05-04-1874 - Frank Conrad - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 12-11-1941
“the father of radio broadcasting” Started radio station KDKA in his garage
05-04-1886 - Earl Lee - Topeka, KS - d. 6-2-1955
actor: Fred Thompson “One Man’s Family”
05-04-1886 - Shelton Brooks - Amesburg, Ontario - d. 9-6-1975
composer, author, pianist: “Cavalcade of Music”
05-04-1896 - Dr. Frank Baxter - Camden, NJ - d. 1-18-1982
actor: “Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show”
05-04-1902 - Al Dexter - Jacksonville, TX - d. 1-28-1984
singer, songwriter: (Pistol Packn’ Mama) “Command Performance”
05-04-1902 - Dudley Williamson - Above Discovery, AK - d. 5-2-1948
emcee: “What’s the Name of the Song?”; “Queen for a Day”
05-04-1903 - Elmer Leyden - Davenport, IA - d. 6-30-1973
football player: “One of the Four Horseman” “Information Please”
05-04-1903 - Luther Adler - NYC - d. 12-8-1984
actor: Peter Gentle “Mystery Without Murder”; “Greatest Story Ever Told (1938-39)”
05-04-1904 - Gray Gordon - d. 7-23-1976
bandleader: “The Magic Key of RCA”
05-04-1909 - Ed Max - Georgia - d. 10-17-1980
actor: Mr. Gallagher “Voyage of the Scarlet Queen”
05-04-1909 - Howard Da Silva - Cleveland, OH - d. 2-16-1986
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”; “Forecast”; “Suspense”
05-04-1912 - Louis Brown - Brooklyn, NY - d. 1-7-2007
composer/conductor: “The Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis Show”
05-04-1913 - Carroll Moore, Jr. - Somerville, MA - d. 2-5-1977
writer: “The Henry Morgan Show”
05-04-1913 - Joe Aleman - d. 1-2-1996
disk jockey: KPRL Paso Robles, California
05-04-1916 - Jean Carroll - Toledo, OH - d. 7-6-1990
comedienne: “The Sealtest Village Store”
05-04-1919 - Thomas Madigan - NYC - d. 7-8-2004
writer, director: “The Big Guy”
05-04-1921 - Patsy Garrett - Atlantic City, NJ
singer: “Broadway Matinee”; “Jackie Gleason-Les Tremayne Show”
05-04-1923 - Erik Sykes - Oldham, Lancashire, England
actor, writer: “Entertaining Archie”
05-04-1923 - Godfrey Quigley - Jerusalem - d. 9-7-1994
producer: “The Kennedys of Castleross”
05-04-1924 - Gene Klaven - Baltimore, MD - d. 4-8-2004
new york morning personalty: “Klaven and Finch”; “Klaven in the Morning”
05-04-1924 - Merrill Mael - d. 10-16-2000
actor: Uncle Fletcher “Vic and Sade”
05-04-1927 - Terry Scott - Watford, England - d. 7-26-1994
actor: “Junior Choice”; “Great Scott, It’s Maynard”; “Hugh and I”
05-04-1929 - Audrey Hepburn - Brussels, Belguim - d. 1-20-1993
actor: “U.N. Story”; “Stagestruck”
05-04-1930 - Gordon Gould - Chicago, IL
actor: “CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”; “CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”
05-04-1938 - Gillian Tindall - London, England
author: “A Little Touch of Death”
05-05-1879 - Max Marcin - Posen, Prussia, Germany - d. 3-30-1948
writer, producer, director: “Crime Doctor”; “The FBI in Peace and War”
05-05-1890 - Christopher Morley - Haverford, PA - d. 3-28-1957
author: “Information, Please”; “Hallmark Playhouse”; “Studio One”
05-05-1899 - Freeman F. Gosden - Richmond, VA - d. 12-10-1982
comedian: “Sam ‘n’ Henry”; Amos Jones “Amos ‘n’ Andy”
05-05-1907 - Benny Baker - St. Joseph, MO - d. 9-20-1994
character actor: “Jack Benny Program”; “Lux Radio Theatre”
05-05-1912 - Alice Faye - NYC - d. 5-9-1998
singer, actor: “Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show”
05-05-1912 - Bret Morrison - Chicago, IL - d. 9-25-1978
actor: Lamont Cranston/Shadow “The Shadow”
05-05-1914 - Tyrone Power - Cincinnati, OH - d. 11-15-1958
actor: Dean Edwards “Freedom U.S.A.”
05-05-1915 - Ben Wright - London, England - d. 7-2-1989
actor: Hey Boy “Have Gun, Will Travel”; Nicholas Lacey “One Man’s Family”
05-05-1915 - T. A. G. Hungerford - Perth, Australia
writer: “Help Me Cut Up the Cat”; “Looking After Bert”
05-05-1918 - Alden Aaroe - d. 7-7-1993
newscaster: Charlottesville, Virginia
05-05-1919 - George London - Montreal, Canada - d. 3-23-1985
singer: “The Voice of Firestone”
05-05-1919 - Seymour Kapetansky - Michigan - d. 2-9-2001
sriter: “Duffy’s Tavern”
05-05-1921 - Sydney Walker - Philadelphia, PA - d. 9-30-1994
actor: “CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”; “War of the Worlds 1988”
05-05-1921 - Ted Brown - Collingwood, NJ - d. 3-20-2005
announcer, emcee: “Bulldog Drummond”; “Lawrence Welk High Life Revue”
05-05-1925 - Monica Lewis - Chicago, IL
singer: “Jan August’s Revere Camera Show”
05-05-1927 - Pat Carroll - Shrevport, LA
actor: “We Hold These Truths”; “Fifty Years After Fourteen August”
05-05-1932 - Will Hutchins - Los Angeles, CA
actor: Instrumental in keeping OTR alive in these the latter days
05-06-1882 - William E. Scripps - Michigan - d. 6-12-1952
Founded WWJ in Detroit, Michigan
05-06-1899 - Billy Cotton - London, England - d. 3-25-1969
bandleader: “Wakey Wakey!!”
05-06-1900 - Dave Elman - Park River, ND - d. 12-5-1967
emcee: (The Dean of American Hobbyists) “Hobby Lobby”
05-06-1906 - Mathilde Ferror - d. 11-26-1990
writer: “Lorenzo Jones”
05-06-1908 - Parkyakarkus (Harry Einstein) - Boston, MA - d. 11-24-1958
comedian: “Eddie Cantor Show”; “Al Jolson Show”; “Meet Me at Parkys”
05-06-1910 - Alice Reinheart - San Francisco, CA - d. 6-10-1993
actor: Anne Williams “Casey, Crime Photographer”; Jean Abbott “Abbott Mysteries”
05-06-1911 - Artie Bland - d. 3-4-2002
disk jockey: KWBU Corpus Christi, Texas
05-06-1911 - Frank Nelson - Denver, CO - d. 9-12-1986
actor, comedian: Anthony J. Lyon “Jeff Regan”; nemisis “Jack Benny Program”
05-06-1912 - Bill Quinn - NYC - d. 4-29-1994
actor: Guy Aldis “Against the Storm”; Tom Davis “When a Girl Marries”
05-06-1913 - Carmen Cavallaro - NYC - d. 10-12-1989
bandleader: (The Poet of the Piano) “Schaeffer Revue”; “Tums Tune Time”
05-06-1913 - Douglas Stewart - Eltham, New Zealand - d. 2-14-1985
writer: “The Fire On the Snow”
05-06-1913 - Stewart Granger - London, England - d. 8-16-1993
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”; “Screen Guild Theatre”
05-06-1914 - Arline Blackburn - NYC - d. 12-17-1994
actor: Kitty Kelly “Pretty Kitty Kelly”; Eileen Turner “The O’Neills”
05-06-1914 - Ken Englund - Chicago, IL - d. 8-10-1993
writer: “Three Sheets to the Wind”
05-06-1915 - Orson Welles - Kenosha, WI - d. 10-10-1985
actor: Lamont Cranston/Shadow “The Shadow”; “Mercury Theatre on the Air”
05-06-1917 - Bob Murphy - Bismarck, ND - d. 10-25-1959
announcer: “The Breakfast Club”
05-06-1926 - Marguarite Piazza - New Orleans, LA
singer: “Encore”
05-06-1928 - Doreen Clarke - Middleton, England
writer: “Oh, The Apple Tree”; “The Name of Your Uncle”
05-06-1941 - Ghena Dimitrova - Sofia, Bulgaria - d. 7-11-2005
operatic soprano: “Metropolitan Opera”
05-06-1945 - Richard Eyer - Santa Monica, CA
actor: Bobby “My Friend Irma”
05-07-1840 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - St. Petersburg, Russis - d. 11-6-1893
composer: Many of his compositions were used as themes
05-07-1884 - Gloria Gordon - d. 11-21-1962
actor: (Mother of Gale Gordon) Mrs. O’Reilly “My Friend Irma”
05-07-1885 - George “Gabby” Hayes - Wellsville, NY - d. 2-9-1969
actor: “Andrews Sisters’ Eight-to-the-Bar Ranch”; “Roy Rogers Show”
05-07-1890 - Billy House - Mankato, MN - d. 9-23-1961
actor, comedian: “Al Pearce and His Gang”; “The Laugh Liner”
05-07-1892 - Archibald MacLeish - Glencoe, IL - d. 4-20-1982
writer: “Columbia Workshop”
05-07-1895 - Thomas Darcy, Jr. - Vancouver, WA - d. 5-19-1968
conducted the United States Army Band on CBS during the 1938 season
05-07-1896 - Gale Binkley - d. 4-24-1979
banjoist: (Binkley Brothers Barn Dance Orchestra” WSM Nashville, TN
05-07-1900 - Ralph Truman - London, England - d. 10-15-1977
actor: John H Watson “BBC Home Theatre”
05-07-1901 - Gary Cooper - Helena, MT - d. 5-14-1961
actor: “Family Theatre”; “Screen Guild Theatre”; ‘Lux Radio Theatre”
05-07-1903 - Samuel Herbert Herman - Bronxwood, NY - d. 4-23-1995
xylophone player: Staff musician for NBC
05-07-1905 - George E. Stoll - Minneapolis, MN - d. 1-18-1985
orchestra: “Jack Oakie’s College”; “Bing Crosby Show”; “Eddie Cantor Show”
05-07-1906 - Irving Reis - NYC - d. 7-3-1953
director: “The Free Company”; “Columbia Workshop”; “Brave New World”
05-07-1906 - Jack Johnstone - NYC - d. 11-16-1991
writer, producer, director: “Buck Rogers”; “CBS Radio Workshop”; “Six Shooter”
05-07-1908 - Edmund MacDonald - Massachusetts - d. 9-2-1951
actor: Tommy Hughes “Big Town”; Inspector Burke “Murder Will Out” s
05-07-1915 - Win Elliot - Chelsea, MA - d. 9-17-1998
sportscaster, emcee: “Fish Pond”; “County Fair”; “Quick as a Flash”
05-07-1919 - Eva Peron - Los Toldos, Argentina - d. 7-26-1952
actor, hostess: “Radio Argentina”; “Radio Belgrano”
05-07-1921 - Gale Robbins - Chicago, IL - d. 2-12-1980
singer: “Ben Bernie, the Old Maestro”; “The Hoagy Carmichael Show”
05-07-1923 - Anne Baxter - Michigan City, IN - d. 12-12-1985
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”
05-07-1927 - Jim Lowe - Springfield, MO
disc jockey, host: (King of Trivia) WNEW New York
05-07-1931 - Teresa Brewer - Toledo, OH - d. 10-17-2007
singer: “Steve Allen Show”; “Major Bowes Amatuer Hour”
05-08-1884 - Harry S Truman - Lamar, MO - d. 12-26-1972
u.s. president: “Milestones on the Road to Peace”; “World Food Crisis”
05-08-1895 - Bishop Fulton J. Sheen - El Paso, IL - d. 12-10-1979
preacher: “Catholic Hour”
05-08-1897 - Philip La Follette - Madison, WI - d. 8-18-1965
governor of wisconsin: “Wake Up America”
05-08-1899 - Arthur Q. Bryan - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-30-1959
actor: George ‘Doc’ Gamble “Fibber McGee and Molly”
05-08-1901 - Katherine Raht - Chattanooga, TN - d. 12-2-1983
actor: Alice Aldrich “Aldrich Family”; Margaret Allen “Against the Storm”
05-08-1905 - Red Nichols - Ogden, UT - d. 6-28-1965
music: (Red Nichols and His Five Pennies) “Bob Hope Show”; “Ipana Troubadors”
05-08-1908 - Cecil Broadhurst - Winnipeg, Canada - d. 12-16-1981
actor, singer, writer: “The Vanishing Island”
05-08-1908 - Ted Corday - d. 7-23-1966
director: “A Brighter Tomorrow”; “The Brighter Day”
05-08-1909 - Gustavo Agrait - d. 10-18-1998
sportscaster: WIPR San Juan, Puerto Rico
05-08-1910 - Mary Lou Williams - Atlanta, GA - d. 5-28-1981
jazz pianist, composer: “Mildred Bailey Show”; “Andy Kirk and His Clouds of Joy”
05-08-1910 - Nathan Van Cleave - Bayfield, WI - d. 7-2-1970
music: “The Man Behind the Gun”; “This Is Your FBI”
05-08-1913 - Sid James - Newcastle, Natal, South Africa - d. 4-26-1976
comedian: “Hancock’s Half Hour”
05-08-1914 - Carmen Matthews - Philadelphia, PA - d. 8-31-1995
actor: “There Is No Light”; “CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”
05-08-1915 - John Archer (Ralph Bowman) - Lincoln, NE - d. 12-5-1999
actor: Lamont Cranston/Shadow “The Shadow”; “Gateway to Hollywood”
05-08-1915 - Nan Wynn - Wheeling, WV - d. 3-21-1971
singer: “Ceiling Unlimited”
05-08-1919 - Lex Barker - Rye, NY - d. 5-11-1973
actor: “MGM Theatre of the Air”
05-08-1921 - Sy Shaffer - d. 12-1-2005
trombonist: “Arthur Godfrey time”
05-08-1922 - Lew Anderson - Kirkman, IA - d. 5-14-2006
musician: (The Honey Dreamers) “Airtime”; “The Bobby Doyle Show”
05-08-1926 - Don Rickles - NYC
announcer: “NBC University Theatre of the Air”
05-08-1928 - Benny Martin - Sparta, TN - d. 3-12-2001
country singer: “Country Music Time”
05-08-1928 - John Bennett - London, England - d. 4-11-2005
actor: “John Bennett Programme”
05-08-1929 - Miyoshi Umeki - Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan - d. 8-28-2007
singer: “Arthur Godfrey and His Friends”
05-08-1929 - Wendy Drew
actor: Ellen Brown “Young Widder Brown”
05-08-1934 - Ron Lackman - NYC
actor: Bud “Pepper Young’s Family”
05-08-1940 - Ricky Nelson - Teaneck, NJ - d. 12-31-1985
actor: “Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet”
05-09-1860 - James M. Barrie - Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland - d. 6-19-1937
author: Some of his works adapted for radio
05-09-1887 - William P. Adams - Tiffin, OH - d. 9-29-1972
actor, announcer: Uncle Henry “Collier’s Hour”; Uncle Bill “Let’s Pretend”
05-09-1895 - Richard Barthelmass - NYC - d. 8-17-1963
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”
05-09-1898 - Edith Meiser - Detroit, MI - d. 9-26-1993
writer: “Life and Love of Dr. Susan”; “The Shadow”; “Sherlock Holmes”
05-09-1901 - Fuzzy Knight - Fairmont, WV - d. 2-23-1976
actor: “Screen Guild Theatre”
05-09-1908 - Joan Kinmont - Port Lincoln, Australia - d. 8-17-1985
writer: “Firelight”
05-09-1908 - Leonard Sillman - Detroit, MI - d. 1-12-1982
producer: “New Faces of 1948”
05-09-1911 - Harry Simeone - Newark, NJ - d. 2-22-2005
arranger, choral director: “The Fred Waring Show”; “Columbia Presents Corwin”
05-09-1912 - George T. Simon - NYC - d. 2-13-2001
jazz critic
05-09-1912 - Rupert Pray - d. 2-5-1973
writer: “Forever Ernest”
05-09-1914 - Carlo Maria Giulini - Barletta, Italy - d. 6-14-2005
conductor, musical director: “Chicago Symphony”; “Los Angeles Symphony”
05-09-1914 - Hank Snow - Liverpool, Novia Scotia, Canada - d. 12-20-1999
country singer: “Grand Ole Opry”
05-09-1915 - Hal Goodman - d. 9-3-1997
comic writer: “Sweeney and March Show”; “Rochester Show”
05-09-1918 - Mike Wallace - Brookline, MA
announcer, actor: “Spike Jones Show”; Flamond “Crime Files of Flamond”
05-09-1919 - Arthur English - Aldershot, Hampshire, England - d. 4-16-1995
comedian: “Variety Bandbox”
05-09-1919 - Eddie Manson - d. 7-12-1996
harmonica player: “They Shall Be Heard”
05-09-1920 - Frank Perdue - d. 3-31-2005
commercial spokesperson for Perdue Farms
05-09-1920 - Paul D. Brown - North Vernon, IN
disk jockey: “Ports o’ Call”
05-09-1923 - Byron Kane - Vermont - d. 4-10-1984
actor: “Gunsmoke”; “Broadway is My Beat”; “Escape”
05-09-1923 - Connie Russell - NYC - d. 12-18-1990
vocalist: “The Dave Garroway Show”
05-09-1923 - Johnny Grant - Goldsboro, NC - d. 1-9-2008
emcee: (Honorary Mayor of Hollywood) “Jubilee”
05-09-1930 - Joan Sims - Laindon, Essex, England - d. 6-28-2001
actor: “Round the Horne”; “Stop Messing About”
05-09-1936 - Glenda Jackson - Cheshire, England
actor: Stevie Smith “Stevie”; Guest Panelist “Quote...Unquote”
05-09-1946 - Candice Bergen - Beverly Hills, CA
actor: (Daughter of Edgar Bergen) “Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show”
05-09-1948 - Tony Strachan - Sydney, Australia
writer: “Harlequin Shuffle”
05-09-1953 - Richard Vernon - Memphis, TN - d. 12-2-2006
opera singer: “The Metropolitan Opera”
05-10-1882 - Thurston Hall - Boston, MA - d. 2-20-1958
actor: Jim Hanvey “The Townsend Murder Mystery”
05-10-1883 - Helen Jerome - London, England - d. unknown
writer: “The Cricket on the Hearth”
05-10-1884 - Olga Petrova - Tur Brook, England - d. 11-30-1977
actor, writer: “Mary Margaret McBride”
05-10-1888 - Max Steiner - Vienna, Austria - d. 12-28-1971
composer: “Lux Radio Theatre”
05-10-1889 - Mae Murray - Portsmouth, VA - d. 3-23-1963
actor: “Your Unseen Friend”
05-10-1894 - Dimitri Tiomkin - St. Petersburg, Russia - d. 11-11-1979
composer, conductor: “Last Man Out”; “1947 March of Dimes Campaign”
05-10-1894 - Frank Knight - St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada - d. 10-18-1973
actor, announcer: Dr. Billbert “Arabesque”; “Literary Digest”
05-10-1899 - Fred Astaire - Omaha, NE - d. 6-22-1987
dancer, actor: “Fred Astaire Show”
05-10-1899 - Lois Holmes - Galion, OH - d. 3-12-1986
actor: Jane Waters “Second Mrs. Burton”
05-10-1902 - David O. Selznick - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 6-22-1965
film producer: “Lux Radio Theatre”; “Bud’s Bandwagon”
05-10-1907 - Pee Wee Hunt - Mount Healthy, OH - d. 6-22-1979
composer: “The Hoagy Carmichael Show”
05-10-1909 - Maybelle Carter - Nickelsville, VA - d. 10-23-1978
singer: (Queen of Country Music) “Grand Ole Opry”
05-10-1910 - Louis Buck - Bessemer, AL - d. 5-18-1971
announcer: “Grand Ole Opry”; “Sunday Down South”
05-10-1911 - Lee Sullivan - NYC - d. 5-29-1981
singer: “Vest Pocket Varieties”; “Serenade to America”
05-10-1911 - Paul Taubman - Winnipeg, Canada - d. 5-30-1994
organist/pianist: “Perry Mason”; “Mysterious Traveler”; “Family Doctor”
05-10-1911 - Tony LaFrano - NYC - d. 9-12-1961
announcer: “Family Theatre”; “Johnny Modero: Pier 23”
05-10-1914- Frank Martin - Oklahoma - d. 12-22-1994
actor: Hashknife Hartley “Hashknife Hartley”
05-10-1914 - Charles McGraw - NYC - d. 7-30-1980
actor: Ken Thurston “Man Called X”, “Dragnet”; “Suspense”
05-10-1917 - Margo - Mexico City, Mexico - d. 7-17-1985
actor: (Wife of Eddie Albert) “Suspense”; “Free Company”; “Texaco Star Theatre”
05-10-1921 - Nancy Walker - Philadelphia, PA - d. 3-25-1992
actor: “Mail Call”
05-10-1922 - Mary Small - Baltimore, MD
singer: (Little Miss Bab-O) “Little Miss Bab-O’s Surprise Party”
05-10-1922 - Ric Throssell - Greenmount, Western Australia - d. 4-20-1999
writer: “The Day Before Tomorrow”
05-10-1923 - Herb Carneal - Richmond, VA - d. 4-1-2007
voice of the Minnesota Twins
05-10-1930 - June Knox-Mawer - Wrexham, England - d. 4-19-2006
host: “The Women’s Hour”
05-10-1930 - Pat Summerall - Lake City, FL
cbs sportscaster: “Pat Summerall on Sports”
05-10-1930 - Scott Muni - Wichita, KS - d. 9-28-2004
disc jockey: “Scott Muni’s World of Rock”; “Ticket to Ride”
05-10-1936 - Gary Owens - Mitchell, SD
announcer: “Empire of the Air”
05-10-1937 - Arthur Kopit - NYC
writer: “Earplay”
05-10-1965 - Catherine Castellani - Solvay, NY
writer: “Girl Friday”
05-11-1884 - Alma Gluck - Lasil, Romania - d. 10-27-1938
opera singer: made one radio appearance in 1929
05-11-1888 - Irving Berlin - Temum, Russia - d. 9-22-1989
composer: “Ed Sullivan Show”; “People’s Platform”
05-11-1892 - Margaret Rutherford - London, England - d. 5-22-1972
actor: “Wisdon of Miss Marple”; “Theatre Guild On the Air”
05-11-1894 - Martha Graham - Allegheny, PA - d. 4-1-1991
choreographer: Miss Hush on “Truth or Consequences”
05-11-1895 - George Henninger - Binghamton, NY - d. 12-28-1953
musician: “Brenda Curtis”; “Ladies be Seated”; “Modern Romances”
05-11-1895 - Maurice Joachim - d. 11-19-1980
actor: Omar “Omar, the Mystic”; “Unseen Friend “Your Unseen Friend”
05-11-1899 - Forrest Lewis - Knightstown, IN - d. 6-2-1977
actor: Richard Q. Peavey “Great Gildersleeve”; Roy Delfeeno “Vic and Sade”
05-11-1900 - Georgia Fifield - d. 3-6-1985
actor: Mrs. Hipplewater “Frank Watanabe and Honorable Archie”
05-11-1902 - Bidu Sayao - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - d. 3-12-1999
sopranist opera singer: “The Metropolitan Opera”; “The Telephone Hour”
05-11-1907 - Kent Taylor - Nashua, IA - d. 4-11-1987
actor: “Hollywood Hotel”
05-11-1909 - Ocie Stockard - Crafton, TX - d. 4-23-1988
bango: “The Musical Brownies”
05-11-1909 - Pattie Chapin - Atlantic City, NJ
singer: “Ziegfeld Follies of the Air”
05-11-1910 - Johnnie ‘Skat’ Davis - Brazil, IN - d. 11-28-1983
trumpet: “The Fred Waring Show”
05-11-1911 - Doodles Weaver - Los Angeles, CA - d. 1-13-1983
comedian: (Brother of Pat Weaver) Professor Feedlebaum “Spike Jones Show”
05-11-1911 - Phil Silvers - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-1-1985
comedian: “Phil Silver’s Show”; “Screen Guild Theatre”; “Suspense”
05-11-1912 - Bob Trendler
pianist, conductor: “Bob Trendler Orchestra”
05-11-1912 - Foster Brooks - Louisville, KY - d. 12-20-2001
disc jockey: “Foster Brooks Show”; “Melody, Inc.”; “Million Dollar Ballroom”
05-11-1913 - John Weigel - Springfield, MO - d. 12-12-2002
announcer: “The Chicago Theatre of the Air”; “Meet the Meeks”
05-11-1913 - Tutti Camaratta - Glen Ridge, NJ - d. 4-13-2005
orchestra leader: “Double Feature”
05-11-1914 - Bob Atcher - Hardin County, KY - d. 10-30-1993
singer: “Faultless Starch Time”; “WLS Barn Dance”
05-11-1916 - Peg Lynch - Lincoln, NE
writer, actor: Ethel Arbuckle “Ethel and Albert”; “Couple Next Door”
05-11-1919 - John Michael Hayes - Worcester, MA - d. 11-19-2008
writer: “Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar”; “Twelve Players”; “Sam Spade”
05-11-1922 - Eve Boswell - Budapest, Hungary - d. 8-14-1998
singer: “The Eve Bosewell Show”
05-11-1927 - Mort Sahl - Montreal, Canada
comedian: “Mort Sahl Show”
05-11-1930 - Stanley Elkin - NYC - d. 5-31-1995
writer: “Earplay”
05-11-1931 - Marilyn King - Los Angeles, CA
singer: (The King Sisters) “Horace Heidt and His Brigadiers”
05-12-1881 - Achmed Abdullah - Russia - d. 5-12-1945
screenwriter: “Lux Radio Theatre”
05-12-1891 - Charles A. Bayha - NYC - d. 2-28-1957
composer: “The Radio Aces”
05-12-1892 - John Barclay - Blethingly, Surrey, England - d. 11-21-1978
singer, actor: “Palmolive Beauty Box Theatre”; “Richard Gaylord “The Guiding Light”
05-12-1894 - Leora Thatcher - Logan, UT - d. 3-5-1984
actor: Mrs. Kramer “Right to Happiness”
05-12-1896 - Milton Herman - NYC - d. 1-21-1951
actor: Gargoyle “The Bishop and the Gargoyle”; Italo “Today’s Children”
05-12-1900 - Mildred McAfee - Parkville, MO - d. 9-2-1994
navy’s first female line officer: “Information Please”
05-12-1901 - Harold “Scrappy” Lambert - New Brunswick, NJ - d. 11-30-1987
singer: Mark “Smith Brothers: Trade and Mark”; “Town Hall Tonight”
05-12-1901 - Whitey “Duke” Ford - De Soto, MO - d. 6-20-1986
comedian: (Duke of Paducah) “Grand Ole Opry”; “Plantation Party”
05-12-1902 - Philip Wylie - Beverly, MA - d. 10-25-1971
writer: “This Is War”; “Sportsman’s Club”; “Tomorrow”; “Lux Radio Theatre”
05-12-1903 - Wilfrid Hyde-White - Bourton-on-the-Water, England - d. 5-6-1991
actor: Roland Hamilton-Jones “Men of the Ministry”
05-12-1907 - Kathrine Hepburn - Hartford, CT - d. 6-29-2003
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”
05-12-1907 - Leslie Charteris - Singapore - d. 4-14-1993
mystery writer: “The Adventures of the Saint”
05-12-1909 - Margaret Harshaw - Philadelphia, PA - d. 11-7-1997
opera singer: “Radio Hall of Fame”; “Sylvan Opera Condert”
05-12-1910 - Gordon Jenkins - Webster Groves, MO - d. 5-1-1984
conductor, composer: “Everything for the Boys”; “Bob Burns Show”
05-12-1910 - Jack Jenney - Mason City, IA - d. 12-16-1945
trombonist: “The Saturday Night Swing Club”
05-12-1912 - Everett Clarke - d. 9-10-1980
actor: Flamond “Crime Files of Flamond”
05-12-1913 - Ken Peters - d. 1-12-1998
actor: Dan Murray “One Man’s Family”; Olsen “Life with Luigi”
05-12-1914 - Howard K. Smith - Ferriday, LA - d. 2-15-2002
newsman: “World News Today”; “News Roundup”; “Howard K. Smith News”
05-12-1924 - Tony Hancock - Birmingham, England - d. 6-25-1968
comedian: “Hancock’s Half Hour”
05-12-1925 - Yogi Berra - St. Louis, MO
baseball hall of famer: “Feature Project, This Game of Baseball”
05-12-1927 - Suzanne Dalbert - Paris, France - d. 12-31-1970
actor: “George Fisher Interviews the Stars”; “Command Performance”
05-12-1932 - Tom Aaker - d. 9-17-1999
newscaster: Rochester, Minnesota
05-12-1936 - Tom Snyder - Milwaukee, WI - d. 7-29-2007
talk show host: ABC Network
05-12-1937 - George Carlin - NYC - d. 6-22-2008
comedian : Was an announcer for WEZE Boston, Massachusetts
05-12-1946 - Michael (Charles) Carson - Wallasey, England
author: BBC Radio
05-13-1842 - Arthur Sullivan - London, England - d. 11-22-1900
composer: (Gilbert and Sullivan) Several of his works were adapted for radio
05-13-1899 - David Broekman - Leiden, The Netherlands- d. 4-1-1958
conductor: “Mobil Magazine”; “Texaco Star Theatre”
05-13-1907 - Daphne du Maurier - London, England - d. 4-19-1989
author: “Campbell Playhouse”; “Several of her works were adapted for radio
05-13-1907 - Warren Angell - Brooklyn, NY - d. 5-6-2006
singer: “Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians”
05-13-1909 - Ken Darby - Hebron, NE - d. 1-24-1992
singer, choral conductor: (The King’s Men) “Fibber McGee and Molly”
05-13-1911 - Maxine Sullivan - Homestead, PA - d. 4-7-1987
vocalist: “Night Life”
05-13-1912 - Helen Craig - San Antonio, TX - d. 7-20-1986
actor: “Crime Does Not Pay”
05-13-1912 - Phil Alampi - d. 11-4-1992
farm newscaster: ABC, WJZ New York, New York
05-13-1914 - Bill Rose - Fort Dodge, IA
actor: Chuck Ramsey “Captain Midnight”; Shamus “Houseboat Hannah”
05-13-1914 - Joe Louis (The Brown Bomber) - Lafayette, AL - d. 4-12-1981
heavyweight boxing champ: “Fred Allen Show”; “Freedom’s People”
05-13-1915 - Ruth Doering Reynolds - Chicago, IL
singer: (Doring Sisters) “Contented Hour”
05-13-1928 - Nils-Bertil Dahlander - Gothenburg, Sweden
composer, drummer: “Thore Ehrling Radio Band”
05-13-1938 - Anna Cropper - Brierfield, England - d. 1-22-2007
actor: “Sherlock Holmes”
05-14-1868 - “Big Bill” Thompson - Boston, MA - d. 3-19-1944
mayor of chicago: “The March of Time”
05-14-1874 - Marie Nelson - Detroit, MI - d. 5-12-1943
actor: Ellen Collins “Bachelor’s Children”
05-14-1885 - Otto Klemperer - Breslau, Germany - d. 7-6-1973
conductor: “George Gershwin Memorial Program”
05-14-1890 - Carlton Brickert - Martinsville, IN - d. 12-23-1943
actor: David Post “Story of Mary Marlin”; Howard Thurston “Thurston the Magician”
05-14-1895 - Edith Spenser - Omaha, NE - d. unknown
actor: Aunt Jenny “Aunt Jenny”; Sarah “Main Street Sketches”
05-14-1895 - Lew Lehr - Philadelphia, PA - d. 3-6-1950
comic: “Ben Bernie, The Old Maestro”; “Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One”
05-14-1897 - Sidney Bechet - New Orleans, LA - d. 5-14-1959
soprano sax, composer: “Eddie Condon’s Jazz Concerts”
05-14-1898 - Zutty Singleton - Bunkie, LA - d. 7-14-1975
jazz drummer: “Radio Almanac”;”Just Jazz”; “BBC Jazz Session”
05-14-1902 - Rush Hughes - d. 3-28-1979
host: Pot O’ Gold”
05-14-1905 - Herbert Morrison - d. 1-10-1989
announcer: Hindenburg Disaster; “Call to Arms”; “Good Old Days of Radio”
05-14-1907 - Dick Bentley - Melbourne, Australia - d. 8-27-1995
actor: “Gently, Bentley”; “Navy Mixture”
05-14-1910 - B. S. Pully - Newark, NJ - d. 1-6-1972
comedian: “Command Performance”; “Mail Call”
05-14-1910 - Bill Danch - Hammond, IN - d. 10-6-2004
writer: “Baby Snooks Show”; “Honest Harold”; “Tommy Riggs and Betty Lou”
05-14-1910 - Paul Sutton - Albuquerque, NM - d. 1-31-1970
actor: Sergeant William Preston “Challenge of the Yukon”
05-14-1914 - Foy Willing - Bosque County, TX - d. 7-24-1978
singer: (Foy Willing and the Riders of the Purple Sage) “Roy Rogers Show”
05-14-1917 - Norman Luboff - Chicago, IL - d. 9-22-1987
choir director: (The Norman Luboff Choir) “The Railroad Hour”
05-14-1918 - June Duprez - Teddington, England - d. 10-30-1918
actor: “Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show”
05-14-1922 - Jackie Rae - Winnipeg, Canada - d. 10-5-2006
singer: “Three Little Rays of Sunshine”
05-14-1925 - Patrice Munsel - Spokane, WA
singer: “Prudential Family Hour”; “Voice of Firestone”
05-14-1925 Tristram Cary - Oxford, England - d. 4-24-2008
musician: “Dr. Who”
05-14-1926 - Eric Morecambe - Lancashire, England - d. 5-28-1984
comedian: “The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Radio Show”
05-14-1936 - Bobby Darin - NYC - d. 12-20-1973
singer: “The Bobby Darin Show”; “Cancer Crusade”; “Vocies of Vista”
05-14-1937 - Lloyd Battista - Cleveland, OH
actor: “CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”
05-15-1890 - Katherine Anne Porter - Indian Creek, TX - d. 9-18-1980
author: “NBC University Theatre”
05-15-1890 - Menasha Skulnik - Warsaw, Poland - d. 6-4-1970
actor: Mr. Cohen “Abie’s Irish Rose”; Uncle David “The Goldbergs”
05-15-1897 - Jacques Renard - Kiev, Ukraine - d. 1-30-1973
bandleader: “Burns and Allen”; “The Joe Penner Show”; “Stoopnagle and Budd”
05-15-1904 - Clifton Fadiman - Brooklyn, NY - d. 6-20-1999
emcee: “Information, Please”; “Conversation”; “RCA Magic Key”
05-15-1905 - Joseph Cotten - Petersburg, VA - d. 2-6-1994
actor: Matthew Bell “Private Files of Matthew Bell”; “Mercury Theatre on the Air”
05-15-1909 - James Mason - Huddersfield, England - d. 7-27-1984
actor: “James and Pamela Mason Show”; “Studio One”
05-15-1909 - Thomas J. D’Andrea - Chicago, IL - d. 5-14-1887
script writer: Eddie Cantor”
05-15-1910 - Constance Cummings - Seattle, WA - d. 11-23-2005
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”
05-15-1910 - Walter Cassel - Council Bluffs, IA - d. 7-2-2000
baritone: “General Motors Concerts”; “Calling America”
05-15-1913 - James Baxter - Yucalpa, CA - d. 12-11-1964
writer of radio scripts
05-15-1915 - Harold Barlow - Boston, MA - d. 2-15-1993
Music plagiarism consultant for radio stations
05-15-1915 - Jack Watson - Thorney, England - d. 7-4-1999
actor: “Biggles”
05-15-1916 - Bill Williams - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-21-1992
actor: “Eternal Light”; “Screen Guild Theatre”; “Lux Radio Theatre”
05-15-1917 - Wade Barnes - Alliance, OH - d. 2-25-1999
announcer/pianist: WHBC Canton, Ohio
05-15-1918 - Eddy Arnold - Henderson, TN - d. 5-8-2008
singer: (Tennessee Plowboy) “Checkerboard Square”; “Eddy Arnold Show”
05-15-1918 - Joseph Wiseman - Montreal Canada
actor: “Crime Does Not Pay”
05-15-1921 - Margaret Lipper - Oliver, PA
actor: Hazel Toumey “Career of Ann Blair”; Patsy Curtis “Brenda Curtis”
05-15-1923 - Doris Dowling - Detroit, MI - d. 6-18-2004
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”
05-15-1926 - Regis J. “Rege” Cordic - Hazelwood, PA - d. 4-16-1999
Replaced Bob Crane on station KNX in Los Angeles, California
05-15-1929 - David Healy - NYC - d. 10-25-1995
actor: “Kismet”; “Finian’s Rainbow”; “The Music Man”
05-15-1936 - Anna Maria Alberghetti - Pesano, Italy
singer: “Here’s to Veterans”
05-16-1880 - Julius Tannen - Chicago, IL - d. 1-3-1965
comedian: (Human Chatterbox) “Goldenrod Revue”; “Seven Star Revue”
05-16-1881 - Henry Harlan Smith - Izard County, AR - d. 10-14-1931
emcee: “Hoss Hair Pullers”
05-16-1882 - Mary Gordon - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 8-23-1963
actor: Mrs. Emmett “Those We Love”; Mrs. Hudson “Sherlock Holmes”
05-16-1886 - Norman Ross - Portland, OR - d. 6-19-1953
05-16-1890 - Kenneth Perkins - d. 6-7-1951
writer: “Hawk Larabee”
05-16-1891 - Richard Tauber - Linz, Austria-Hungary - d. 1-8-1948
opera singer: “General Motors Concert”
05-16-1892 - Osgood Perkins - West Newton, MA - d. 9-21-1937
stage actor: “Flying Red Horse Tavern”
05-16-1904 - Ruth Coleman Bilchick - d. 2-11-1989
singer and pianist on radio
05-16-1905 - Henry Fonda - Grand Island, NE - d. 8-12-1982
actor: “Eyes Aloft”; “Romance”; “Suspense”
05-16-1905 - Sol Balsom - d. 10-xx-1968
newscaster: WCNW Brooklyn, New York
05-16-1908 - Ed Prough - d. 4-9-1993
announcer: WXYZ Detroit
05-16-1911 - Margaret Sullavan - Norfolk, VA - d. 1-1-1960
actor: “Electric Theatre”; “Hollywood Playhouse”
05-16-1912 - Studs Terkel - The Bronx, NY - d. 10-31-2008
journalist, sometimes actor: “Destination Freedom”; “Ma Perkins”
05-16-1913 - Woody Herman - Milwaukee, WI - d. 10-29-1987
bandleader: (The Thundering Herd) “Wildroot Show”
05-16-1915 - Chuck Cabot - d. 12-27-2007
bandleader: “The Fitch Bandwagon”
05-16-1916 - Adriana Caselotti - Bridgeport, CT - d. 1-19-1997
singer: “Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show”
05-16-1916 - Bernard Braden - Vancouver, Canada - d. 2-2-1993
actor: “The Gracie Fields Show”
05-16-1916 - Zeze Macedo - Rio de Janerio, Brazil - d. 10-8-1999
brazilian comic: “Home Sweet Home”
05-16-1919 - Liberace - West Allis, WI - d. 2-4-1987
pianist, singer: “Stars for Defense”
05-16-1924 - Frank Mankiewicz - NYC
president National Public Radio
05-16-1940 - Keith Miles - Cardiff, Wales
writer: “Just for the Day”; “Athlete”
05-16-1947 - Bob Edwards - Louisville, KY
newscaster: “All Things Considered”, “Morning Edition”; “Bob Edwards Show”
05-17-1878 - Conway Tearle - NYC - d. 10-1-1939
announcer: “Streamlined Shakespeare”
05-17-1883 - Ethel Intropidi - NYC - d. 12-18-1946
actor: Phyllis Welby “Pretty Kitty Kelly”
05-17-1889 - Harriett Gustin - d. 4-xx-1975
co-host of a children’s amateur hour on WEEI, Boston, Massachusetts
05-17-1890 - Harry Balogh - d. 8-16-1961
boxing ring announcer during the 1930s and 1940s
05-17-1890 - Philip James - Jersey City, NJ - d. 11-1-1975
conductor, composer: “Bamberger Little Symphony”; “Wellsprings of Music”
05-17-1895 - Gayelord Hauser - Tubingen, Germany - d. 12-26-1984
nutritionist: “Look Younger and Live Longer”
05-17-1896 - Ruth Donnelly - Trenton, NJ - d. 11-17-1982
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”
05-17-1897 - Fletcher Wiley - d. 1-26-1966
commentator: “Your Home Front Reporter”
05-17-1902 - Fausto Cleva - Trieste, Italy - d. 8-6-1971
conductor: “NBC Symphony Orchestra”; “Metropolitan Opera Auditions”
05-17-1903 - Artie Auerbach - NYC - d. 10-3-1957
actor: Mr. Kitzel “Jack Benny Program”
05-17-1905 - John Patrick - Louisville, KY - d. 11-7-1995
writer: “Theatre Guild On the Air”;”Lux Radio Theatre”
05-17-1906 - Carl McIntire - Ypsilanti, MI - d. 03-19-2002
evangelist: “Twentieth Century Reformation Hour”
05-17-1906 - John Cannon - Chicago, IL - d. 6-22-2001
announcer, actor: “City Hospital”; “Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy”
05-17-1907 - Horace McMahon - South Norwalk, CT - d. 8-17-1971
actor: “Crime Does Not Pay”
05-17-1907 - Jack Petruzzi - Cleveland, OH - d. 3-1-1967
actor: “Ann Worth, Housewife”; “The Lone Ranger”; “Joe Palooka”
05-17-1908 - Joe Grant - NYC - d. 5-6-2005
writer: “Lux Radio Theatre”
05-17-1911 - Maureen O’Sullivan - Boyle, Ireland - d. 6-23-1998
actor: “Dreft Star Playhouse”; “Family Theatre”
05-17-1912 - Grant Turner - Abilene, TX - d. 10-19-1991
announcer: “Grand Ole Opry”
05-17-1916 - Jameson Brewer - Sentinel Butte, ND - d. 9-11-2003
writer: “The Hardy Family”
05-17-1918 - Birgit Nilsson - Vastra Karup, Skane Ian, Sweden - d. 12-25-2005
singer: “The Metropolitan Opera”
05-17-1920 - Harriet Van Horne - Syracuse, NY - d. 1-15-1998
newspaper columnist: “Advs. of Ellery Queen”
05-17-1923 - Alice Backes - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 3-15-2007
actor: “This Is Your FBI”; “The Whistler”; “Family Theatre”
05-17-1925 - Ira Tucker - Spartanburg, SC - d. 6-24-2008
gospel singer: (The Dixie Hummingbirds) WCAU Philadelphia, PA
05-18-1892 - Ezio Pinza, Rome, Italy - d. 5-9-1957
singer: “Telephone Hour”; “Ezio Pinza’s Children Show”; “Stagestruck”
05-18-1894 - Raymond Paige - Wausau, WI - d. 8-7-1965
conductor: “Hollywood Hotel”; “Musical Americana”; “Stage Door Canteen”
05-18-1897 - Frank Capra - Bisacquino, Sicily - d. 9-3-1991
film director: “Gulf Screen Theatre”; “NBC Theatre”; “Lux Radio Theatre”
05-18-1900 - Joyce Barthelson - d. 12-1-1986
pianist: KGO Oakland, California
05-18-1900 - Lew White - Philadelphia, PA - d. 3-4-1955
organist: “Lucky Strike Dance Orchestra”; “Break the Bank”; “Betty Moore”
05-18-1902 - Meredith Willson - Mason City, IA - d. 6-15-1984
conductor, composer: “Maxwell House Coffee Time”; “Meredith Willson/Music Room”
05-18-1904 - Fred Shields - Kansas City, MO - d. 6-30-1974
actor: Bill Fraser “Tarzan”
05-18-1904 - Jacob K. Javits - NYC - d. 3-7-1986
u.s. senator new york: “Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show”
05-18-1907 - Clifford Curzon - London, England - d. 9-2-1982
pianist: “March of Dimes”
05-18-1908 - Alastair McBain - d. 12-xx-1980
author: “Cloak and Dagger”
05-18-1908 - Del King - Kansas City, KS - d. 8-22-1964
announcer: “Avalon Time”; “Tommy Dorsey’s Kool Show”
05-18-1908 - Lorene Scott - d. 4-19-1983
actor: Maria Hawkins “Young Widder Brown”
05-18-1908 - Ted Malone - Colorado Springs, CO - d. 10-20-1989
commentator: “Between the Bookends”; “Pilgrimage of Poetry”
05-18-1908 - Tommy Tucker - Souris, ND - d. 7-13-1989
bandleader: “Lucky Strike Show with Walter Winchell”; “George Jessel Show”
05-18-1912 - John Campbell Crosby - Milwaukee, WI - d. 9-7-1991
radio critic: New York Herald Tribune
05-18-1912 - Perry Como - Canonsburg, PA - d. 5-12-2001
singer: “Perry Como Program”; “Chesterfield Supper Club”
05-18-1913 - Charles Trenet - Creteil, France - d. 1-18-2001
singer: “Rudy Vallee Show”; “Discoparade”
05-18-1922 - Bill Macy - Revere, MA
actor: “Earplay”
05-18-1922 - Kai Winding - Aarhus, Denmark - d. 5-7-1983
musician: “Stan Kenton and His Orchestra”; “One Night Stand”; “Jubilee”
05-18-1924 - Jack Whitaker - Philadelphia, PA
disc jockey, sportscaster: “Jack the Bachelor”; “Sports Shots”
05-18-1931 - Robert Morse - Newton, MA
actor: “CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”
05-18-1932 - Walter Anglin - d. 9-8-2001
disk jockey: WJLD Birmingham, Alabama
05-18-1936 - Joel Kupperman - Chicago, IL
panelist: “Quiz Kids”
05-19-1870 - Wright Kramer - Somerville, MA - d. 11-14-1941
actor: Walter Jamison “Showboat”
05-19-1891 - Graham Harris - Haverhill, MA - d. 9-3-1946
orchestra leader: “There Was a Woman”; “WPA Federal Music Concerts”
05-19-1894 - Henry Busse - Magdeburg, Germany - d. 4-23-1953
orchestra leader: “Fitch Bandwagon”; “Spotlight Bands”
05-19-1895 - Harry Saxe - Montreal, Canada - d. 11-6-1947
actor: Daddy Warbucks “Little Orphan Annie”; Dr. Burr “Mryt and Marge
05-19-1906 - Bruce Bennett - Tacoma, WA - d. 2-24-2007
actor: “Proudly We Hail”
05-19-1910 - Wayne Nelson - d. 2-xx-1984
announcer: “The Camel Caravan”; “The Ted Lewis Show”
05-19-1913 - Warren Asher - d. 1-xx-1984
disk jockey: WFOR Hattiesburg, Mississippi
05-19-1919 - George Auld - Toronto, Canada - d. 1-8-1990
bandleader: “Saturday Night Swing Session”
05-19-1919 - Louisa Vass - Greenville, SC - d. 10-3-2000
singer: (The Vass Family) “The Lady Next Door”; “Kraft Phoenix Program”
05-19-1931 - Eric Davidson - d. 5-20-1996
writer: “Tommy Steele Radio Show”
05-20-1894 - Adela Rogers St. Johns - Los Angeles, CA - d. 8-10-1988
novelist: Commentator on NBC 1936-1937
05-20-1899 - Stan Lomax - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 6-26-1987
sportscaster: “Evening Journal Sports”
05-20-1899 - Virginia Sale - Urbana, IL - d. 8-23-1992
actor: Martha “Those We Love”
05-20-1903 - Bob White - Philadelphia, PA - d. 5-1-1984
actor: Eric Cunningham “Ma Perkins”; Dr. Petrie “Fu Manchu”
05-20-1906 - Lyda Roberti - Warsaw, Poland - d. 3-12-1938
actor, singer: Freelance; Sang with Al Jolson two days before her death
05-20-1908 - James Stewart - Indiana, PA - d. 7-2-1997
actor: Britt Ponset “Six Shooter”
05-20-1909 - Jerry Hausner - Cleveland, OH - d. 4-1-1993
actor: “Lum and Abner”; “Silver Theatre”
05-20-1911 - Patricia Dunlap - Bloomington, IL
actor: Betty Fairfield “Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy”
05-20-1911 - Vet Boswell - Birmingham, AL - d. 11-12-1988
singer: (The Boswell Sisters) “The Boswell Sisters”; “Woodbury Soap Show”
05-20-1912 - Julius Dixon - Barnwell, SC - d. 1-30-2004
host: “Variety Jive”
05-20-1916 - William D. Carey - Hollister, CA - d. 1-27-2004
actor and singer
05-20-1920 - Dorothy Howe (Virginia Vale) - Dallas, TX - d. 9-14-2006
actor: “Gateway to Hollywood”
05-20-1920 - George Gobel - Chicago, IL - d. 2-24-1991
comedian, actor, singer: (Lonesome George) Jimmy “Tom Mix”
05-20-1921 - Joel Kane - Los Angeles County, CA - d. 4-20-1993
writer: “Fibber McGee and Molly”
05-20-1921 - Sheldon Gross
announcer: WFIL Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
05-20-1923 - Edith Fellows - Boston, MA
actor: “Screen Guild Theatre”; “Lux Radio Theatre”
05-20-1925 - Vic Ames - Malden, MA - d. 1-23-1978
singer,: (Ames Brothers) “Sing It Again”; “Robert Q. Lewis Show”
05-20-1926 - John Lucarotti - England - d. 11-19-1994
writer: “Doctor Who”
05-20-1926 - Miles Davis - Alton, IL - d. 9-29-1991
sideman: “Billy Eckstien Orchestra”
05-20-1928 - David Hedison - Providence, RI
Worked as a radio announcer early in his career
05-20-1934 - Ken Boyer - Liberty, MO - d. 9-7-1982
baseball player: “Tops in Sports”
05-20-1936 - Anthony Zerbe - Long Beach, CA
actor: “Earplay”
05-20-1941 - Hal Ross - Montreal, Canada
announcer: CJQC Quebec City, Canada
05-21-1894 - Kenyon Nicholson - Crawfordsville, IN - d. 12-19-1986
writer: “Theatre Guild on the Air”
05-21-1901 - Fred Cole - Los Angeles, CA - d. 9-19-1964
writer: “Double or Nothing”
05-21-1901 - Horace Heidt - Alameda, CA - d. 12-1-1986
bandleader: “Horace Heidt Brigadiers”; “Pot o’ Gold”; “Treasure Chest”
05-21-1904 - Robert Montgomery - Beacon, NY - d. 9-27-1981
actor: “Doctor Fights”; “Suspense”; “This Is War”
05-21-1904 - Thomas “Fats” Waller - NYC - d. 12-15-1943
pianist, singer: “Columbia Variety Hour”; “Saturday Night Swing Club”
05-21-1906 - Marie Joan Callahan - Chicago, IL - d. 8-6-1984
assistant director, director, producer and creator
05-21-1912 - Lucille Manners - Newark, NJ
singer: “Cities Service Concert”
05-21-1912 - Stephen Estaban Kelen - Budapest, Hungary - d. 5-1-2003
writer: “Fifty Years from Farrer”
05-21-1915 - Kathleen Cordell - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-19-1997
actor: Marion Burton Sullivan “Second Mrs. Burton”; Monica Brewster “Valiant Lady”
05-21-1916 - Dennis Day - The Bronx, NY - d. 6-22-1988
singer, comedian: “Jack Benny Program”; “Day in the Life of Dennis Day”
05-21-1917 - Raymond Burr - New Westminster, Canada - d. 9-12-1993
actor: Lee Quince “Fort Laramie”; Ed Backstrand “Dragnet”
05-21-1918 - Anthony Alfred Ambrose - New Alexandria, PA - d. 3-16-2003
composer/singer: WHJB Greensburg, Pennsylvania
05-21-1918 - Jeanne Bates - Berkeley, CA - d. 11-28-2007
actor: Teddy Lawson “One Man’s Family”; “Gunsmoke”
05-21-1920 - Bill Barber - Hornell, NY - d. 6-18-2007
jazz tuba player: “Claude Thornhill and his Orchestra”
05-21-1920 - James Plunkett - Dublin, Ireland - d. 5-28-2003
writer: “Dublin Fusilier”
05-21-1923 - Dorothy Hewett - Perth, Western Australia - d. 8-25-2002
writer: “Frost at Midnight”
05-21-1923 - Rick Jason - NYC - d. 10-15-2000
actor: “Sears Radio Theatre”
05-22-1859 - Arthur Conan Doyle - Edingurgh, Scotland - d. 7-7-1930
author: Many of his works were adapted for radio
05-22-1879 - Alla Nazimova - Yalta in the Crimea - d. 7-13-1945
actor: “ I’m An American”; “Towards the Century of the Comman Man”
05-22-1891 - Parks Johnson - Sheffield, AL - d. 10-4-1970
emcee, interviewer: “Vox Pox”
05-22-1898 - Charles Borrelli - Philadelphia, PA - d. 8-26-1984
pianist: “Italian Sunday”
05-22-1903 - Ward Wilson -Trenton, NJ - d. 3-21-1966
actor, announcer: Mr. DeHaven “Aldrich Family”; Beetle “Phil Baker Show”
05-22-1906 - Harry Ritz - Newark, NJ - d. 3-29-1986
comedian: (The Ritz Brothers) “Hollywood Hotel”
05-22-1907 - Laurence Olivier - Dorking, England - d. 7-11-1989
actor: “Biography in Sound”; “Document A/777”; “Hour of Mystery”
05-22-1910 - Johnny Olson - Windom, MN - d. 10-12-1985
emcee, announcer: “Ladies Be Seated”; “Get Rich Quick”
05-22-1911 - John W. Neher - Shelbyville, IL - d. 3-16-1972
singer, actor: “Fibber McGee and Molly”; “Cavalcade of America”
05-22-1914 - Ken Powell - d. 3-11-1976
announcer: “Chick Carter, Boy Detective”; “Nick Carter, Master Detective”
05-22-1916 - Rupert Davies - Liverpool, England - d. 10-22-1976
actor: “Afternoon Theatre”
05-22-1918 - Herg Arrasmith - d. 6-xx-1985
disk jockey: KERN Bakersfield, California
05-22-1923 - Bill Andrick - d. 6-14-1981
disk jockey: WPAR Parkersburg, West Virginia
05-22-1925 - James King - d. 11-20-2005
operatic tenor: “Metropolitan Opera”
05-22-1934 - Peter Nero - Brooklyn, NY
socialite pianist: “Voices of Vista”
05-22-1938 - Susan Strasberg - NYC - d. 1-21-1999
actor: Emily Marriott “Marriage”
05-23-1882 - James Gleason - NYC - d. 4-12-1959
actor: “Jimmy Gleason’s Diner”
05-23-1883 - Douglas Fairbanks - Denver, CO - d. 12-12-1939
commentator: “KHJ Los Angeles 1921”
05-23-1890 - Herbert Marshall - London, England - d. 1-22-1966
actor: Ken Thurston “Man Called X”
05-23-1898 - Frank McHugh - Homestead, PA - d. 9-11-1981
actor: Fairchild Finnegan “Phone Again Finnegan”
05-23-1901 - Arch McDonald - Hot Spring, AR - d. 10-16-1960
sportscaster: Washington Senators and Washington Redskins
05-23-1907 - Carlyne Stevens - Parkhill, Canada - d. 10-1-1961
announcer: “Cavalcade of America”; “Roxy’s Gang”; “Atlantic Family”
05-23-1907 - Kenneth Griffin - Enid, Oklahoma Territory - d. 1-3-1951
actor: Larry Noble “Mary Noble, Backstage Wife”
05-23-1908 - Frederick Thwaites - Balmain, Australia - d. 8-13-1979
writer: “Beyond the Rainbow”
05-23-1910 - Artie Shaw - NYC - d. 12-30-2004
bandleader: “Melody and Madness”; “George Burns and Gracie Allen Show”
05-23-1910 - Benjamin “Scatman” Crothers - Terre Haute, IN - d. 11-26-1986
jazz musician: early radio into the 40s
05-23-1911 - Dorothy Lee - Los Angeles, CA - d. 6-24-1999
singer: “Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians”
05-23-1912 - Betty Astell - London, England - d. 7-27-2005
panelist: “Does the Team Think”
05-23-1912 - John Payne - Roanoke, VA - d. 12-6-1989
actor: “Hollywood Star Preview”; “Lux Radio Theatre”
05-23-1912 - Marius Goring - Newport, Isle of Wight, England - d. 9-30-1998
actor: Sir Percy Blakeney/Scarlet Pimpernel “Scarlet Pimpernel”
05-23-1917 - Murray McLean - Chicago, IL - d. 4-2-1995
actor: Jimmy Allen “Air Adventures of Jimmy Allen”
05-23-1919 - Betty Garrett - St. Joseph, MO
singer-actor: “Savings Bond Show”; “Guest Star”; “Showtime”
05-23-1921 - Helen O’Connell - Lima, OH - d. 9-9-1993
singer: (Jimmy Dorsey Band) “Kraft Music Hall”; “Fitch Bandwagon”
05-23-1921 - Humphrey Lyttelton - Windsor, England - d. 4-25-2008
host: “I’m Sorry, I Haven’t A Clue”
05-23-1921 - Ray Lawler - Footscray, Australia
writer: “Summer of the Seventeenth Doll”
05-23-1927 - Gerald Hiken - Milwaukee, WI
actor: “CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”
05-23-1928 - Rosemary Clooney - Maysville, KY - d. 6-29-2002
singer: “Rosemary Clooney Show”; “On the Sunny Side”
05-23-1953 - Ronald Frame - Glasgow, Scotland
author: “Winter Journey” adapted from his novel of the same name
05-24-1877 - Robert Hood Bowers - Chambersburg, PA - d. 12-29-1941
conductor: (The Home Harmonizers) “Home Harmony Time”
05-24-1878 - Harry Emerson Fosdick - Buffalo, NY - d. 10-5-1969
preacher: “National Vespers”
05-24-1880- Arthur “Doc” Bagley - d. 3-7-1952
father of radio excercise programs
05-24-1883 - Elsa Maxwell - Keokuk, IA - d. 11-1-1963
society mistress: Roma Wine spokesperson for Suspense; “Texaco Star Theatre”
05-24-1886 - Paul Paray - Treport, Normandy, France - d. 10-10-1979
conductor: “New York Philharmonic”
05-24-1896 - Jock MacGregor - d. 2-14-1984
director, actor: “Cisco Kid”; “Gangbusters”
05-24-1901 - Lucien Moraweck - d. 10-20-1973
music: “The City”; “Intrigue”; “Passpoet for Adams”; “Suspense”
05-24-1902 - Wilbur Hatch - Mokena, IL - d. 12-22-1969
conductor: “Our Miss Brooks”; “Gateway to Hollywood”; “Screen Guild Theatre”
05-24-1905 - Joe Lindwurm - d. 2-25-1992
musician: “The Ipana Troubadors”
05-24-1907 - Bill Bouchey - Clare, MI - d. 9-27-1977
actor: Red Albright/Captain Midnight “Captain Midnight”
05-24-1909 - Howard Snyder - d. 4-13-1963
writer: “Jack Benny Program”; “Lum and Abner”; “That’s My Pop”
05-24-1911 - Lilli Palmer - Posen, Germany - d. 1-28-1986
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”
05-24-1912 - Rachel Carlay - Brussels, Belgium
singer: “Rudy Vallee Show”; “Manhattan Merry-Go-Round”
05-24-1914 - Vernon (Vern) Carstensen - Clinton, IA - d. 4-23-1999
announcer, actor: “Box 13”; “Damon Runyon Theatre”
05-24-1915 - Harvey Bacal - Quebec, Canada - d. 11-14-1993
musical director and arranger
05-24-1916 - Tony Barrett - NYC - d. 11-16-1974
actor: Charlie Dyer “This Life is Mine”; Biff Bradley “Pepper Young’s Family”
05-24-1923 - Frank E. Amole - d. 5-12-2002
newscaster: KDEN Denver, Colorado
05-24-1928 - William Trevor (Cox) - Mitchelstown, Ireland
author of several BBC plays
05-24-1932 - Elaine Malbin - NYC
singer: “Serenade to America”; “Saturday Matinee with Elaine Malbin”
05-24-1941 - Bob Dylan - Duluth, MN
singer: “Folksinger’s Choice”; “Soundstage”
05-25-1877 - Billy Murray - Philadelphia, PA - d. 8-17-1954
singer: “The National Barn Dance”
05-25-1891 - William McNeary - d. 8-26-1934
juvenile radio programming pioneer: “Man in the Moon”
05-25-1892 - Bennett Cerf - NYC - d. 8-27-1971
narrator, panelist: “Biography in Sound”; “What’s My Line?”
05-25-1893 - Ernest V. Stoneman - Monorat, VA - d. 6-14-1968
actor: “Irma dn Ezra”
05-25-1898 - Gene Tunney - NYC - d. 11-7-1978
heavyweight boxing champion: “National Guard Show”; “The Navy is Fit to Fight”
05-25-1905 - Joseph C. Harsch - Toledo, OH - d. 6-3-1998
news commentator: “A Closer Look at the News”; “Emphasis”
05-25-1907 - Barbara Luddy - Helena, MT - d. 4-1-1979
actor: Carol Evans “Road of Life”; Janet Munson Adams “Woman in White”
05-25-1908 - Linda Watkins - Boston, MA - d. 10-31-1976
actor: Dot “Amanda of Honeymoon Hill”; “Big Guy”; “Fat Man”
05-25-1912 - Eddie Maxwell - Detroit. MI - d. 11-21-1999
writer: “The Spike Jones Show”
05-25-1913 - Richard Dimbleby - Richmond onThames, England - d. 12-22-1965
BBC’s first-ever radio news reporter: “Down Your Way”; “Twenty Questions”
05-25-1915 - Betty Ruth Smith - d. 2-1-2008
actor: Helen Trent “Romance of Helen Trent”; Catherine Monroe “Backstage Wife”
05-25-1916 - Ginny Simms - San Antonio, TX - d. 4-4-1994
singer: “Ginny Simms Show”; “Kay Kyser’s Kollege of Musical Knowledge”
05-25-1916 - Kevin O’Morrison - St. Louis, MO
actor: Charlie Wild “Charlie Wild, Private Detective”
05-25-1917 - Jimmy Hamilton - Dillon, SC - d. 9-20-1994
jazz clarinetist: “One Night Stand”; “A Date with the Duke”
05-25-1917 - Steve Cochran - Eureka, CA - d. 6-15-1965
actor: “Voice of the Army”; “Unexpected”; “Screen Director’s Playhouse”
05-25-1918 - Henry Calvin - Dallas, TX - d. 10-6-1975
actor: Joshua Sharpe “Big Guy”
05-25-1919 - Lindsey Nelson - Campbellsville, TN - d. 6-10-1995
sportscaster: “Monitor Preview”; “Biography In Sound”
05-25-1921 - Kitty Kallen - Philadelphia, PA
singer: “Kitty Kallen Calling”; “Harry James and His Music Makers”
05-25-1923 - Eddie Ryan - Brooklyn, NY
actor: “The Charlotte Greenwood Show”; “Let’s Pretend”
05-25-1925 - Jeanne Crain - Barstow, CA - d. 12-14-2003
actor: “Screen Guild Players”; ”Lux Radio Theatre”; “Hallmark Playhouse”
05-25-1926 - Milt Bernhart - Valpariso, IN - d. 1-22-2004
trombonist: “One Night Stand”
05-25-1927 - William “Rosko” Mercer - NYC - d. 8-1-2000
disc jockey, announcer: CBS Network
05-25-1929 - Beverly Sills - Brooklyn, NY - d. 7-2-2007
singer: “Major Bowes Capitol Family”; “Uncle Bob’s Rainbow House”
05-25-1937 - Mark Shields - Weymouth, MA
journalist; “Look at Today”
05-25-1943 - Leslie Uggams - NYC
singer: “The Peter Lind Hayes Show”
05-26-1884 - Charles Winninger - Athens, WI - d. 1-19-1969
actor: Captain Henry “Show Boat”; Uncle Charlie “Uncle Charlie’s Tent Show”
05-26-1886 - Al Jolson - Srednick, Lithuania, Russia - d. 10-23-1950
singer: (The Jazz Singer) “Shell Chateau”; “Kraft Music Hall”
05-26-1887 - Paul Lukas - Budapest, Austria-Hungary - d. 8-15-1971
actor: Albert Einstein “Quick and the Dead”
05-26-1893 - Edward MacHugh - Dundee, Scotland - d. 2-3-1957
singer: “Gospel Singer”
05-26-1893 - Eugene Goosens - London, England - d. 6-13-1962
conductor: New York Philharmonic
05-26-1895 - Norma Talmadge - Jersey City, NJ - d. 12-24-1957
actor: “Thirty Minutes in Hollywood”
05-26-1903 - Austin Armer - d. 2-11-1984
flutist: KTAB Oakland, California
05-26-1904 - George Formby - Lancashire, England - d. 3-6-1961
singer, actor: “Manitoba Flood Relief Show”
05-26-1905 - Fred MacKaye - Hackettstown, NJ - d. 9-10-1980
actor, director: Monk Rice “Point Sublime”; “Lux Radio Theatre”; “Romance”
05-26-1905 - Margaret Fuller - Butler, PA - d. 1-6-1952
actor: “Attorney At Law”; “Today’s Children”
05-26-1907 - John Wayne - Winterset, IA - d. 6-11-1979
actor: Dan O’Brien “Three Sheets to the Wind”
05-26-1908 - Robert Morley - Semley, England - d. 6-3-1992
actor: “U.S. Steel Hour”
05-26-1908 - Vera Van - Marion, OH - d. 4-16-1992
singer: “The George Jessel Show”; “The Vicks Open House”
05-26-1909 - Richard Maibaum - NYC - d. 1-4-1991
screen writer: “Lux Radio Theatre”
05-26-1910 - Larry Rhine - San Francisco, CA - d. 10-27-2000
writer: “Duffy’s Tavern”
05-26-1911 - Ben Alexander - Goldfield, NV - d. 7-5-1969
actor: Frank Smith “Dragnet”; Bashful Ben “Great Gildersleeve”
05-26-1912 - Barbara Lee - Denver, CO - d. 11-11-1986
actor: “Big Sister”; “Valiant Lady”; “Our Gal Sunday”
05-26-1913 - Peter Chushing - Kenley, England - d. 8-11-1994
actor: “Aliens in the Mind”
05-26-1914 - Ziggy Elman - Philadelphia, PA - d. 6-25-1968
trumpet: “Benny Goodman Orchestra”, “The Tommy Dorsey Show”
05-26-1915 - Martin Stone - d. 6-7-1998
producer: “Howdy Doody”; “Author Meets the Critic”
05-26-1915 - Ray Austin - NYC - d. 6-24-1998
composer/arranger for many big bands
05-26-1915 - Sam Edwards - Macon, GA - d. 7-28-2004
actor: Tracy Baker “One Man’s Family”; Dexter Franklin “Meet Corliss Archer”
05-26-1915 - Vernon Alley - d. 10-3-2004
musician, disk jockey: San Francisco area
05-26-1918 - John Dall - NYC - d. 1-15-1971
actor: “Cavalcade of America”; “Voice of the Army”
05-26-1920 - Peggy Lee - Jamestown, ND - d. 1-21-2002
singer: “Jimmy Durante Show”; “Chesterfield Supper Club”; “Peggy Lee Show”
05-26-1923 - James Arness - Minneapolis, MN
announcer for station WLOL Minneapolis, Minnesota
05-26-1923 - Roy Dotrice - Island of Guernsey, Channel Islands
actor: Sir Gregory Pitkin “Men from the Ministry”
05-26-1924 - Leonard Maguire - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 9-12-1997
actor: “Navigator in the 7th Circle”; “Evening of Scottish Horrors”
05-26-1928 - Eugene Dinovi - Brooklyn, NY
composer, pianist: “Morningside”
05-26-1931 - Chet Norris - B rooklyn, NY
actor: “Tomorrow Calling”; “Cisco Kid”; “ABC Radio Workshop”
05-27-1880 - Joseph C. Grew - Boston, MA - d. 5-25-1965
u.s. ambassador to japan: “Report from Tokyo”; “Cavalcade of America”
05-27-1894 - Dashiell Hammett - St. Mary’s County, MD - d. 1-10-1961
author: “Fat Man”; “Adventures of Sam Spade”
05-27-1902 - Cedric Adams - Magnolia, MN - d. 2-18-1961
commentator: In 1953 filled in for Arthur Godfrey for 13 weeks
05-27-1904 - Marlin Hurt - Du Quoin, IL - d. 3-21-1946
actor: Beulah “Fibber McGee and Molly”; Bill Jackson “Beulah”
05-27-1910 - Sidney Slon - Chicago, IL - d. 1-21-1995
actor: Solly “The Goldbergs”; Mr. Trent “Valiant Lady”
05-27-1911 - Evelyn Morin - Dunn, IN - d. 9-10-2000
singer: (Morin Sisters) “World of Music”; “Breakfast Club”
05-27-1911 - Herb Meadow - d. 3-1-1995
creator, writer: “Have Gun, Will Travel”
05-27-1911 - Hubert H. Humphrey - Wallace, SD - d. 1-13-1978
politician: “Meet the Press”; “University of Chicago Round Table”
05-27-1911 - Vincent Price - St. Louis, MO - d. 10-25-1993
actor: Simon Templar “The Saint”; “Lux Radio Theatre”
05-27-1912 - John Cheever - Quincy, MA - d. 6-18-1982
writer: “NBC Presents: Short Story”
05-27-1912 - Slammin’ Sammy Snead - Ashwood, VA - d. 5-23-2002
golf legend: “Kraft Music Hall”
05-27-1915 - Frank Crane - d. 7-25-1992
one time president of the Southern California Broadcasters Association
05-27-1915 - Herman Wouk - NYC
writer: “Town Hall Tonight”; “Fred Allen Show”; “Lux Radio Theatre”
05-27-1916 - Analee Whitmore - Price, UT - d. 2-5-2002
panelist: (Wife of Clifton Fadiman) “Information Please”
05-27-1919 - Ray Montgomery - d. 6-4-1998
actor: Noel Chandler “Dear John”
05-27-1921 - Franklin Adams, Jr. - Chicago, IL
actor: Skippy “Skippy”; Davy Jones “Davy Jones”
05-27-1921 - Redd Stewart - Ashland City, TN - d. 8-2-2003
lyricist: “Pee Wee King and His Golden West Cowboys”
05-27-1924 - Eric Lauder - Rugby, England - d. 10-28-1999
actor: “Violent Shore”
05-27-1925 - Tony Hillerman - Sacred Heart, OK
writer: “The Zero Hour”
05-27-1926 - Peter Ling - Croydon, Surrey, England - d. 9-14-2006
adapter: “Casebook of Sherlock Holmes”; “Return of Sherlock Holmes”
05-27-1928 - Jack Baker - d. 4-26-2002
disk jockey: “Sunday Sound Stage”
05-27-1934 - Harlan Ellison - Cleveland, OH
writer: “S.F. 68”
05-28-1888 - Jim Thorpe - Prague, Indian Territory - d. 3-28-1953
all around athelete: “Shell Chateau”; “Bill Stern Colgate Sports Newsreel”
05-28-1898 - Andy Kirk - Newport, KY - d. 12-11-1992
bandleader: (Clouds of Joy) “Andy Kirk and His Orchestra”
05-28-1899 - Richard Lane - Rice Lake, WI - d. 9-5-1982
actor: Inspector Faraday “Boston Blackie”
05-28-1902 - “Little” Jack Little - London, England - d. 4-9-1956
singer: (Cheerful Little Earful) “Little Jack Little Show”
05-28-1906 - Phil Regan - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-11-1996
singer: (The Singing Cop) “George Burns and Gracie Allen Show”
05-28-1907 - Don Becker - d. 10-xx-1991
script writer: “Life Can Be Beautiful”
05-28-1910 - Rachel Kempson - Dartmouth, Devon, England - d. 5-24-2003
actor: “The Archers”; “Tom’s Midnight Garden”
05-28-1911 - Lynn Biggler - d. 10-7-2003
newscaster: KWFT Witchita Falls, Texas
05-28-1912 - Dave Barbour - Flushing, NY - d. 12-11-1965
orchestra leader, composer, actor: “Electric Hour”; “Chesterfield Supper Club”
05-28-1912 - Tom Scott - d. 8-12-1961
folk singer, writer: “American School of the Air”; “Golden Gate Quartet Sings”
05-28-1912 - Violet Dunn - d. 11-14-1982
actor: Peggy O’Neill “The O’Neill’s”
05-28-1918 - Elizabeth Harrower - Alameda, CA - d. 12-10-2003
actor: “NBC University Theatre”
05-28-1918 - Johnny Wayne - Toronto, Canada - d. 7-18-1990
comedian: (Wayne and Shuster) “Army Show”; “March of Time”
05-28-1919 - Frank Middlemass - Stockton-on-Tees, England - d. 9-8-2006
actor: “Too the Manor Born”
05-28-1919 - Ola Masters - Pambula, Australia - d. 9-27-1986
writer: “The Penny Ha’penny Stamp”
05-28-1920 - Gene Levitt - NYC - d. 11-15-1999
writer: “Advs. of Philip Marlowe”
05-28-1922 - Scott McKay - Pleasantville, IA - d. 3-16-1987
actor: John Nelson “Barry Cameron”
05-28-1928 - Billy Roy - Detroit , MI - d. 9-2-2003
actor: “Smilin’ Ed’s Buster Brown Gang”
05-28-1928 - Maynard Ferguson - Montreal, Canada - d. 8-23-2006
trumpeter: “Bud’s Bandwagon”
05-29-1874 - G. K. Chesterton - London, England - d. 6-14-1936
creator: “Advs. of Father Brown”
05-29-1883 - Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe - Canada - d. 6-2-1943
doctor who attended Dionne quintuplets birth: “Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show”
05-29-1892 - Mario Chamlee - Los Angeles, CA - d. 11-13-1966
singer: Tony “Tony and Gus”; “Arco Birthday Party”; “Swift Garden Party”
05-29-1894 - Beatrice Lillie - Toronto, Canada - d. 1-20-1989
commedienne: “Beatrice Lillie Show”
05-29-1897 - Erich Wolfgang Korngold - Brno, Czechoslovakia - d. 11-29-1957
“composer: “Contemporary Composers Concerts”; “Railroad Hour”
05-29-1897 - F. Hugh Herbert - Vienna, Austria - d. 5-17-1958
writer: “Meet Corliss Archer”; “Lux Radio Theatre”
05-29-1899 - Don Brodie - Cincinnati, OH - d. 1-8-2001
grouch: “The Grouch Club”
05-29-1902 - Dr. Harry Hagen - New Haven, CT - d. 2-3-1986
emcee: “True or False”; “Bob Emery’s Show”
05-29-1903 - Bob Hope - Eltham, England - d. 7-27-2003
actor, comedian: Taxpayer “Quick and the Dead”; “Bob Hope Show”
05-29-1904 - Saxie Dowell - Raleigh, NC - d. 7-22-1974
saxophonist, vocalist: (Hal Kemp Orchestra) “Music from Hollywood”
05-29-1909 - Bruce Seton - Simla, India - d. 9-27-1969
actor: Flint “Flint of the Flying Squad”
05-29-1909 - Dick Stabile - Newark, NJ - d. 9-25-1980
bandleader: “Martin and Lewis Show”
05-29-1909 - Mary Jane Higby - St. Louis, MO - d. 2-1-1986
actor: Joan Davis “When a Girl Marries”; Nora Drake “This is Nora Drake”
05-29-1909 - Oliver Wakefield - Mahlabitini, South Africa - d. 6-30-1956
comedian: “The Chesterfield Program”; “Fox Fur Trappers”
05-29-1911 - Vivi Janiss - Nebraska - d. 9-7-1988
actor: (Married to John Larch) Kit Calvert “Aunt Mary”
05-29-1913 - Iris Adrian - Los Angeles, CA - d. 9-17-1994
actor: Abbott and Costello Show”
05-29-1914 - Grace McCarthy - Chapman, KS
singer: (Doring Sisters) “Contented Hour”
05-29-1914 - Stacy Keach, Sr. - Milwaukee, WI - d. 2-13-2003
producer-director: “Tales of the Texas Rangers”
05-29-1916 - Forrest Perrin - d. 5-27-2005
host: “Piano Playhouse”
05-29-1917 - John F. Kennedy - Brookline, MA - d. 11-22-1963
u.s. president: “Kennedy-Nixon Debates”; “American Forum of the Air”
05-29-1918 - Herb Shriner - Toledo, OH - d. 2-24-1970
comedian: “Camel Comedy Caravan”; “Herb Shriner Time”
05-29-1918 - Isabel Dean - Aldridge, England - d. 7-27-1997
actor: “The Long Shadow”; “No Name”; “Paul Temple and the Spencer Affair”
05-29-1918 - Kay Lorraine - St. Louis, MO
singer: “Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street”
05-29-1919 - Carol Batdorf - d. 2-7-1995
woman’s program on KVOS Bellingham, Washington
05-29-1923 - Winifred Wolfe - San Francisco, CA - d. 10-27-1981
writer: “Cloak and Dagger”
05-29-1924 - Bob Corley - Macon, GA - d. 11-18-1971
actor: Beulah “Beulah”
05-29-1932 - Marilyn Borden - Hartford, CT
singer: (Borden Twins) “The Kiddies Hour”
05-29-1932 - Rosalyn Borden - Hartford, CT - d. 1-23-2003
singer: (Borden Twins) “The Kiddies Hour”
05-29-1935 - Bryar Martin - Ulverston, Cumbrio, England - d. 3-4-2009
newsreader: BBC Radio 4
05-29-1936 - Arlene McQuade - NYC
actor: Rosalie Goldberg “The Goldbergs”
05-29-1937 - Misora Hibari - Yokohama, Japan - d. 6-24-1989
enka singer: “Kohaku Uta Gassen”
05-30-1888 - James Farley - Crassey Point, NY - d. 6-9-1976
post master general: “Information Please”
05-30-1891 - Ben Bernie - Bayonne, NJ - d. 10-20-1943
bandleader: (The Old Maestro) “Ben Bernie Orchestra”; “Musical Mock Trial”
05-30-1892 - Raymond Clapper - LaCygne, KS - d. 2-1-1944
commentator: (Killed During WWII) “News and Commentary for White Owl Cigars”
05-30-1892 - Russ Brown - Philadelphia, PA - d. 10-19-1964
singer: “Ben Bernie, The Old Maestro”; “The Joe Penner Show”
05-30-1896 - Whispering Jack Smith - The Bronx, NY - d. 5-13-1950
singer: “Whispering Jack Smith”
05-30-1899 - Ruth Perrott - d. 1-6-1996
actor: Prudence Rockbottom “Meet Me at Parky’s”; Dottie Brainfeeble “Vic and Sade”
05-30-1901 - Cornelia Otis Skinner - Chicago, IL - d. 7-9-1979
actor: Mary “Johnny Presents”
05-30-1902 - Stepin Fetchit - Key West, FL - d. 11-19-1985
comedian: “Hollywood Hotel”
05-30-1904 - Carol Goodner - Katonah, NY - d. 11-29-2001
actor: “Keep It Dark”; “Advs. of the Red Feather Man”
05-30-1906 - Norris Goff - Cove, AR - d. 6-7-1978
actor: Abner Peabody “Lum and Abner”
05-30-1908 - Mel Blanc - San Francisco, CA - d. 7-10-1989
actor: Professor Pierre La Blanc “Jack Benny Program”; August Moon “Point Sublime”
05-30-1909 - Benny Goodman - Chicago, IL - d. 6-13-1986
bandleader: (King of Swing) “Camel Caravan”; “Victor Borge Show”
05-30-1911 - Douglas Fowley - NYC - d. 5-21-1998
actor: “Hollywood Hotel”
05-30-1911 - Louise Campbell - Chicago, IL - d. 11-15-1997
actress: “The Star Maker”
05-30-1912 - Jerry D. Lewis - d. 8-7-1996
writer: “This Is Your FBI”
05-30-1912 - Julian Symons - London, England - d. 11-19-1994
crime writer: “Night Driver to Dover”; “Affection Unlimited”
05-30-1913 - Julian Blaustein - NYC - d. 6-20-1995
writer: “Cavalcade of America”
05-30-1913 - Kalman Bloch - NYC - d. 3-12-2009
principal clarinetist” Los Angeles Symphony
05-30-1914 - Bob Sherwood - Indianapolis, IN - d. 1-23-1981
music: “The Eddie Cantor Show”
05-30-1915 - Frank Blair - Yemasse, SC - d. 3-14-1995
newscaster, announcer: “America Looks Ahead”; “Fulton Lewis, Jr.”
05-30-1917 - Peter Leeds - Bayonne, NJ - d. 11-12-1996
actor: Eugor “Rogue’s Gallery”; “Bob Hope Show”; “Stan Freberg Show”
05-30-1920 - Franklin J. Schaffner - Tokyo, Japan - d. 7-2-1989
writer, director: “World Security Workshop”; “The March of Time”
05-30-1921 - Roy Neal - Philadelphia, PA - d. 8-15-2003
actor: “The Lost Continent”
05-30-1923 - Jimmy Lydon - Harrington Park, NJ
actor: Jimmy “Young Love”
05-30-1926 - Christine Jorgenson - The Bronx, NY - d. 5-3-1989
actor: “Whatever Became of....”
05-30-1927 - Dick Noel - NYC
announcer, vocalist: “The Breakfast Clug”; “Ray Anthony and His Orchestra”
05-30-1936 - Keir Dullea - Cleveland, OH
actor: “CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”
05-30-1944 - Meredith MacCrea - Houston, TX - d. 7-14-2000
actor: (Daughter of Gordon and Shelia MacCrea) “Sears Radio Theatre”
05-30-1961 - Ralph Carter - NYC
actor: “CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”
05-31-1819 - Walt Whitman - Long Island, NY - d. 3-26-1892
writer: “Against the Storm”
05-31-1879 - Frances Alda - Christchurch, New Zealand - d. 9-18-1952
soprano: “Atwater Kent Hour”
05-31-1893 - Albert Mitchell - Elsberry, MO - d. 10-4-1954
host: “Answer Man”
05-31-1894 - Fred Allen - Cambridge, MA - d. 3-17-1956
comedian: “Linit Bath Club”; “Town Hall Tonight”; “Fred Allen Show”
05-31-1898 - Norman Vincent Peale - Bowersville, OH - d. 12-24-1993
preacher: “Art of Living”
05-31-1900 - Hugh Studebaker - Ridgeville, IN - d. 5-6-1978
actor: Ichabod Mudd “Captain Midnight”; Silly Watson “Fibber McGee and Molly”
05-31-1901 - Alfredo Antonini - Alessandra, Italy - d. 11-3-1983
conductor: “La Rosa Concerts”; “Treasure Hour of Song”
05-31-1901 - Joe Kelly - Crawfordsville, IN - d. 5-26-1959
emcee, quizmaster: “National Barn Dance”; “Quiz Kids”
05-31-1903 - Abo Hosiosky - Latvia - d. 2-xx-1976
NBC news in partnership with Alex Dreier
05-31-1903 - Blanche Stewart - Pennsylvania - d. 7-25-1952
actor: Brenda “Bob Hope Show”
05-31-1904 - Clifton Utley - Chicago, IL - d. 1-19-1978
newsman: (Father of Garrick) “Comments by Clifton Utley”
05-31-1904 - Jeanne Juvelier - NYC - d. 1-25-1981
actor: Madame Babette “Arnold Grimm’s Daughter”
05-31-1905 - Jeff Sparks - NYC - d. 9-30-1981
announcer: “Ben Bernie and all the Lads”; “Death Valley Days”
05-31-1908 - Don Ameche - Kenosha, WI - d. 12-6-1993
actor, singer: John Bickerson “Bickersons”; Captain Hughes “Jack Armstrong”
05-31-1908 - Jack Costello - Sauk Centre, MN - d. 9-xx-1983
announcer: “Stella Dallas”; “Words at War”
05-31-1912 - Henry M. Jackson - Everett, WA - d. 9-1-1983
u.s. senator washington: “Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show”
05-31-1918 - Bill Harrington- Indianapolis, IN
singer, songwriter: “Your Hit Parade”
05-31-1920 - Jeanne Wilson - London, England - d. 12-xx-1996
author, actor: “No Medicine for Murder”
05-31-1921 - Alida Valli - Pola, Istria, Italy - d. 4-22-2006
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”; “Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood”
05-31-1921 - Howard Reig - NYC - d. 11-10-2008
newscaster, announcer: “The Music Builders”; “The Falcon”
05-31-1925 - Bob Aro - d. 5-25-1996
disk jockey: WHLB Virginia, Minnesota
05-31-1931 - Barbara Whiting - Los Angeles, CA - d. 6-9-2004
actor: Judy Graves “Junior Miss”; Mildred “Meet Corliss Archer”
05-31-1938 - Johnny Paycheck - Greenfield, OH - d. 2-18-2003
country singer: “Country Sessions”
05-xx-1893 - Fanny May Baldridge - Weakley, TN - d. 9-1-1961
actor: “Miracles of Magnolia”; “Ellen Randolph”; “The Man I Married”
05-xx-1931 - Frankie Desmond - d. 7-4-2005
writer for the BBC
06-01-1870 - Frank Cooley - Natchez, MS - d. 7-6-1941
actor: Reverend McArthur/Fred Thompson “One Man’s Family”
06-01-1878 - John Masefield - Ledbury, England - d. 5-12-1967
writer: “Against the Storm”
06-01-1887 - Clive Brook - London, England - d. 11-17-1974
actor: Sherlock Holmes “Sherlock Holmes”
06-01-1888 - Louis Mason - Danville, KY - d. 11-12-1959
actor: Clem Betts “Moonshine and Honeysuckle”
06-01-1890 - Frank Morgan - NYC - d. 9-18-1949
actor: Thaddeus Q. Tweedy “Fabulous Dr. Tweedy”
06-01-1898 - Edward “Cookie” Fairchild - NYC - d. 2-20-1975
conductor: “Johnny Presents Ginny Simms”; “Eddie Cantor Show”
06-01-1898 - Molly Picon - NYC - d. 4-5-1992
actor: “I Give You My Life”; “Molly Picon’s Parade”
06-01-1900 - Werner Janssen - NYC - d. 9-19-1990
music: “Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show”
06-01-1901 - John Van Druten - London, England - d. 12-19-1957
writer: “Radio Guild”; “Chase and Sanborn Hour”; “Theatre Guild On the Air”
06-01-1905 - Robert Newton - Shaftesbury, England - d. 3-25-1956
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”
06-01-1908 - Percy Edwards - Suffolk, England - d. 6-7-1996
animal impersonator: a chicken “Ray’s a Laugh”; a dog “Life of Bliss”
06-01-1909 - Ray Heatherton - Jersey City, NJ - d. 8-15-1997
singer, host: “Old Gold Hour”; “Musical Cruise with Spearmint Crew”
06-01-1911 - Erik Rolf - Chicago, IL - d. 5-28-1957
actor: Hans Simon “Joyce Jordan, M.D.”; Thor Nielsen “Prairie Folks”
06-01-1915 - John Randolph - NYC - d. 2-24-2004
actor: “New World A’ Coming”; “A Date with Judy”
06-01-1915 - Johnny Bond - Enville, OK - d. 6-12-1978
singer, comedian: “Gene Autry’s Melody Ranch”; “Hollywood Barn Dance”
06-01-1917 - Donald Dame - Titusville, PA - d. 1-21-1952
singer: “Music for an Hour”; “American Album of Familiar Music”
06-01-1917 - Maggi McNellis - Chicago, IL - d. 5-24-1989
hostess: “Maggi’s Private Wire”; “Leave It to the Girls”
06-01-1917 - Norb Beckers - d. 4-17-1996
disk jockey: WDSG Dyersburg, Tennessee
06-01-1919 - Kathleen Norris - Newark, OH - d. 6-15-2005
writer, announcer: “By Kathleen Norris”; “Bright Horizon”
06-01-1920 - Elaine Kent - NYC
actor: Jo March “Little Women”; Iris Houston “Lora Lawton”
06-01-1920 - Robert Clarke - Oklahoma City, OK - d. 6-11-2005
actor: “Richard Diamond, Private Detective”; “Cavalcade of America”
06-01-1921 - Nelson Riddle - Oradell, NJ - d. 10-7-1985
composer, conductor: “On a Sunday Afternoon”; “Sears Radio Theatre”
06-01-1922 - Joan Caulfield - East Orange, NJ - d. 6-18-1991
actor: “Hallmark Playhouse”; “Great Scenes from Great Plays”
06-01-1922 - Joan Copeland - NYC
actor: “Cavalcade of America”; “Faces Of Love”; “CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”
06-01-1925 - Richard Erdman - Enid, OK
actor: “Empire of the Air”; “We Hold These Truths”
06-01-1926 - Andy Griffith - Mount Airy, NC
host comedy night: “Sears Radio Theatre”
06-01-1926 - Marilyn Monroe - Los Angeles, CA - d. 8-5-1962
actor: “Hollywood Star Playhouse”; “Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show”
06-01-1930 - Edward Woodward - Croydon, Surrey, England
actor: “Price of Fear”
06-01-1934 - Pat Boone - Jacksonville, FL
singer: “Arthur Godfrey Time”; “Special Delivery: Vietnam”
06-01-1940 - Rene Auberjonois - New York, NY
actor: “Empire of the Air”
06-02-1879 - Florence Edney - London, England - d. 11-24-1950
actor: Aunt Maizie “Amanda of Honeymoon Hill”
06-02-1884 - Frank Hummert - St. Louis, MO - d. 3-12-1966
producer: “Backstage Wife”; “American Album of Familiar Music”
06-02-1889 - Martha Wentworth - NYC - d. 3-8-1974
actor: Wintergreen Witch “Cinnamon Bear”; Nancy “Witch’s Tale”
06-02-1891 - Joe Schenck - Brooklyn, NY - d. 6-28-1930
singer, comedian, dancer: (Gus Van and Joe Schenck) “The Eveready Hour”
06-02-1896 - Katherine Bacon - Chesterfield, England - d. 1-30-1982
pianist: WOR New York
06-02-1900 - Charles Tazewell - d. 6-26-1972
writer: “The Columbia Workshop”; “Tom Mix”; “Mayor of the Town”
06-02-1901 - Lou Shoobe - d. 7-14-1989
bassist: “The Saturday Night Swing Club”
06-02-1902 - Jimmie Lunceford - Fulton, MO - d. 7-12-1947
bandeader: “Jimmie Lunceford and His Orchestra”
06-02-1902 - Rosa Rio - New Orleans, LA
organist: “Rosa Rio Rhythms”; “The Shadow”
06-02-1904 - Johnny Weissmuller - Windber, PA - d. 1-20-1984
actor: Movie Tarzan and Jungle Jim
06-02-1908 - Ben Grauer - Staten Island, NY - d. 5-31-1977
announcer, emcee: “Walter Winchell”; “Information, Please”; “Boston Symphony”
06-02-1909 - June MacCloy - Sturgis, MI - d. 5-5-2005
vocalist: “Griff Williams and Jimmy Walsh and Their Orchestra”
06-02-1909 - Martin Ashe - Bradford, IL - d. 4-15-1991
actor: “Grand Central Station”
06-02-1910 - Ward Bryon - NYC - d. 2-4-1996
announcer: “Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street”
06-02-1913 - Burt Farber - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-27-2005
orchestra leader: “Curtain Time”
06-02-1913 - Nicholas Saunders - Kiev, Russia - d. 8-16-2006
actor: Sergeant Ross “Martin Kane, Private Eye”
06-02-1915 - Lionel Murton - London, England - d. 9-26-2006
Began career in radio with Montreal Repertory Company
06-02-1915 - Walter Tetley - NYC - d. 9-4-1975
actor: Julius Abbruzio “Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show”; LeRoy Forrester “Great Gildersleeve”
06-02-1920 - Johnny Speight - London, England - d. 7-5-1998
comedy writer: “Frankie Howerd Show”
06-02-1920 - Toni Gilman - Chicago, IL
actor: (Sister of Lucy Gilman) “Young Widder Brown”
06-02-1921 - Awdrey Hewlett - Maidenhead, England - d. 9-3-1995
writer: “Clever Wife”
06-02-1921 - Bob Arthur - Kansas - d. 3-25-1997
newscaster: “Bob Arthur Show”
06-02-1922 - Gil Stratton, Jr. - Brooklyn, NY - d. 10-11-2008
actor: “Billy Webster “Those Websters”; Jimmy “Life with Luigi”; Freddie “My Little Margie”
06-02-1924 - Peter Hackes - NYC - d. 4-17-1994
newscaster: “News of the World”; “Meet the Press”
06-02-1928 - Bob Amsberry - Boring, OR - d. 11-27-1957
actor: KEX Portland, Oregon
06-02-1929 - Perry Beaumont - d. 6-26-2005
disk jockey: WLOK Lima, Ohio
06-02-1941 - Stacy Keach, Jr. - Savannah, GA
actor, narrator: “Twilight Zone”
06-02-1942 - Marie Cheatham - Oklahoma
actor” “CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”
06-03-1900 - Frank Dailey - Bloomfield, NJ - d. 2-27-1956
bandleader: “Matinee at Meadowbrook”
06-03-1901 - Maurice Evans - Dorchester, England - d. 3-12-1989
actor: “Keep ‘Em Rolling”; “Texaco Star Theatre”
06-03-1904 - Jan Peerce - NYC - d. 12-15-1984
singer: “Music Hall of the Air”; “A & P Gypsies”; “Golden Treasury of Song”
06-03-1905 - Paulette Goddard - Whitestone Landing, Long Island, NY - d. 3-23-1990
actor: “Cresta Blanca Players”
06-03-1906 - Brooke Temple - Niagra Falls, NY - d. 04-1982
actor: Red Ryder “Red Ryder”
06-03-1906 - Josephine Baker - St. Louis, MO - d. 4-12-1975
singer: “Fleischmann’s Yeast Hour”
06-03-1908 - Joey Nash - Brooklyn, NY
singer: “The Capitol Family”; “Notes of Love”
06-03-1911 - Ellen Corby - Racine, WI - d. 4-14-1999
actor: “Bud’s Bandwagon”
06-03-1911 - Jack McCarthy - Pernell, MI - d. 12-xx-1977
actor: Britt Reid/Green Hornet “Green Hornet”
06-03-1913 - Lucille Lund - Buckley, WA - d. 2-15-2002
actor: “First Nighter”
06-03-1914 - Roy Glenn - Pittsburg, KS - d. 3-12-1971
actor: “The Beulah Show”
06-03-1915 - Ralph Allinger - d. 10-xx-1971
sportscaster: White Plains and Utica, New York
06-03-1916 - Jack Manning - Cincinnati, OH
actor: David Crawford “Young Dr. Malone”
06-03-1917 - Leo Gorcey - NYC - d. 6-2-1969
actor: (The Dead End Kids) “Texaco Star Playhouse”; “Blue Ribbon Town”
06-03-1918 - Patrick Cargill - London, England - d. 5-23-1996
actor: “Brothers in Law”
06-03-1919 - Charles F. McCarthy - d. 7-4-1988
newscaster: “Charles F. McCarthy and the News”
06-03-1922 - Joy Shelton - London, England - d. 1-28-2000
actor: “PC 49”
06-03-1924 - Colleen Dewhurst - Montreal, Canada - d. 8-22-1991
actor: “Will Cather: A Look of Rememberance”
06-03-1924 - Jimmy Rogers - Ruleville, MS - d. 12-19-1997
blues singer: “Stars for Defense”; “Here’s to Veterans”; “Guest Star”
06-03-1924 - Ted Mallie - Brooklyn, NY - d. 1-25-1999
announcer: “I Love A Mystery”; “The Shadow”; “Bill Hickok”
06-03-1925 - Tony Curtis - NYC
actor: “Hollywood Star Playhouse”; “Stars in the Air”; “Suspense”
06-03-1927 - Boots Randolph - Paducah, KY - d. 7-2-2007
saxophonist: “Grand Ole Opry”
06-03-1933 - Lillian Briggs - Allentown, PA - d 4-11-1998
singer: “The Steve Lawrence Show”
06-03-1942 - Curtis Mayfield - Rosewell, GA - d. 12-26-1999
soul singer, songwriter: “Voices of Vista”
06-04-1881 - Clara Blandick - Hong Kong (on a ship in harbor) - d. 4-15-1962
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”; “Campbell Playhouse”
06-04-1888 - Ivy Litvinov - England - d. 4-14-1977
author: “Information Please”
06-04-1891 - Erno Rapee - Budapest, Hungary - d. 6-26-1945
conductor: “Roxy’s Gang”; “General Motors Concert”
06-04-1900 - Dan Golenpaul - NYC - d. 2-13-1974
producer: “Information, Please”
06-04-1901 - Carlton E. Morse - Jennings, LA - d. 5-24-1993
writer, producer, director: “One Man’s Family”; “I Love A Mystery”
06-04-1906 - Richard Whorf - Winthrop, MA - d. 12-14-1966
actor: “Cavalcade of America”; “Screen Guild Theatre”; “Jack Benny Program”
06-04-1906 - Vinton Haworth (Hayworth) - Washington, D.C. - d. 5-21-1970
actor: Fred Andrews “Archie Andrews”; Michael Shayne “Michael Shayne”
06-04-1907 - Rosalind Russell - Waterbury, CT - d. 11-28-1976
actor: “Four-Star Playhouse”; “Silver Theatre”
06-04-1912 - Jess Barker - Greenville, SC - d. 8-8-2000
announcer, actor: “Guest Star”; “Proudly We Hail”
06-04-1917 - Charles Collingwood - Three Rivers, MI - d. 10-3-1985
newscaster: CBS News UN Correspondent/White House Correspondent
06-04-1917 - Helen Wood - Clarksville, TN - d. 2-8-1988
actor: Elaine Dascomb “Those We Love”
06-04-1918 - Howard Culver - Colorado - d. 8-5-1984
actor: Steve Adams/Straight Arrow “Straight Arrow”; “Free lance”
06-04-1919 - Robert Merrill - Brooklyn, NY - d. 10-23-2004
singer: “An Evening with Romberg”; “Robert Merrill Show”
06-04-1920 - Fedoro Barbieri - Trieste, Italy - d. 3-4-2003
opera singer: “Metropolitan Opera”
06-04-1921 - Don Diamond - Brooklyn NY
actor: “Confession”; “Gunsmoke”; “Escape”; “NBC University Theatre”
06-04-1921 - Harvey Bullock - Oxford, NC - d. 4-24-2006
writer: “Breakfast with Burrows”
06-04-1921 - Tom Bigler - Terentum, PA - d. 3-2-2007
disk jockey: WILK Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
06-04-1923 - Elizabeth Jolley - Birmingham, England - d. 2-13-2007
writer: “Little Lewis Has Had a Lovely Sleep”
06-04-1924 - Dennis Weaver - Joplin, MO - d. 2-24-2006
actor: Look Magazine Commercial “Have Gun, Will Travel”
06-04-1927 - Phil Rammacher - d. 3-6-2003
drums: “The Hoagy Carmichael Show”
06-04-1940 - Lassie (Pal) - North Hollywood, CA - d. xx-xx-1958
actor: “Lassie Show”
06-05-1890 - George Briegel - Scranton, PA - d. 5-12-1968
wrote theme music for radio
06-05-1891 - Prosper Buranelli - d. 6-19-1960
writer: Assistant to Lowell Thomas
06-05-1898 - William Boyd - Hendrysburg, OH - d. 9-12-1972
actor: Hopalong Cassidy “Hopalong Cassidy”
06-05-1906 - Margaret Rawlings - Osaka, Japan - d. 5-19-1996
actor: “Gigi”
06-05-1907 - D’Artega - Silao, Mexico - d. 1-20-1998
conductor, composer: “Enna Jettick Melodies”
06-05-1908 - Craig Rice (Georgiana Ann Randolph) - Illinois - d. 8-28-1957
writer: “Murder and Mr. Malone”
06-05-1908 - Edward James - d. 3-6-1995
creator of “Father Knows Best”
06-05-1910 - Herb Vigran - Fort Wayne, IN - d. 11-29-1986
actor: Sad Sack “Sad Sack”; Hector Smith “Father Knows Best”
06-05-1912 - Dan Ocko - d. 8-29-1991
actor: Killer Kane “Buck Rogers of the 25th Century”; “Sergeant Muggin “Inspector Thorne”
06-05-1914 - J. Donald Wilson - d. 1-26-1984
creator, writer, producer: “The Whistler”; “Advs. of Nero Wolfe”; “Dark Venture”
06-05-1915 - Alfred Kazin - Brownsville, NY - d. 6-4-1998
author, teacher, literary critic: “Invitation to Learning”
06-05-1916 - John Raby - NYC - d. 3-xx-1957
actor: Jerry Forester “A Brighter Day”; Sinjun Harris “Our Gal Sunday”
06-05-1917 - Frances Burgio - Baltimore, MD
singer, pianist: “Girl with a Million Melodies”
06-05-1920 - Cornelius Ryan - Dublin, Ireland - d. 11-23-1974
d-dat war correspondent, novelist: “Hearing Highlights”
06-05-1922 - Gordon “Specs” Powell - NYC - d. 9-15-2007
jazz drummer: “Music ‘Til Midnight”; “All-Star Sextette”
06-05-1925 - Bill Hayes - Harvey, IL
singer, actor: “Arthur Godfrey Time”
06-05-1928 - Robert Lansing - San Diego, CA - d. 10-23-1994
actor: “CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”
06-05-1940 - David Brudnoy - Minneapolis, MN - d. 12-9-2004
radio personality WBZ Boston, Massachusetts
06-05-1945 - June Gable - NYC
actor: “CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”
06-05-1961 - Mary Kay Bergman - Los Angeles, CA - d. 11-11-1999
voice actor: commercials for radio
06-06-1872 - Arthur H. Adams - Lawrence, New Zealand - d. 3-4-1936
his stage play “Mrs. Pretty and the Premier” was adapted for radio
06-06-1875 - Thomas Mann - Lubeck, Germany - d. 8-12-1955
writer: Had works adapted for “Treasury Star Parade”
06-06-1891 - Ted Lewis - Circleville, OH - d. 8-25-1971
singer: “Texaco Star Theatre”; “Radio Hall of Fame”
06-06-1898 - Walter Abel - St. Paul, MN - d. 3-26-1987
actor: “Columbia Presents Shakespeare”; “Magic Key”; “Voice of the Army”
06-06-1900 - Arthur Askey - Liverpool, England - d. 11-16-1982
comedian: “Band Waggon”; “Music Hall”; “Does the Team Think”
06-06-1901 - Jan Struther - London, England - d. 7-20-1953
author: “Information Please”; “Mrs. Miniver”
06-06-1902 - Paul W. White - Pittsburg, KS - d. 7-9-1955
Organized CBS New Bureau; Vice president of CBS News
06-06-1903 - Bert Lown - d. 11-21-1962
CBS Network executive, also a songwriter
06-06-1905 - John Gart - Russia - d. 9-28-1989
orchestra leader, organ: “Lawyer Tucker”; “Cloak and Dagger”; “Big Town”
06-06-1906 - Asher Sizemore - Manchester, KY - d. 11-24-1975
singer with son Jimmie: “Grand Ole Opry”
06-06-1917 - Maria Montez - Barahona, Dominican Republic - d. 9-7-1951
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”
06-06-1918 - Martin Esslin - Budapest, Austria-Hungary - d. 2-24-2002
Head of radio drama for the BBC
06-06-1918 - Peter Donald - Bristol, England - d. 4-30-1979
actor, emcee: Ajax Cassidy “Fred Allen Show”; “Can You Top This?”
06-06-1918 - William Cayton - Chevy Chase, MD - d. 10-4-2003
copywriter: Radio and Television Packagers, Inc.
06-06-1922 - Carol Richards - Harvard, IL - d. 3-16-2007
singer: “New Edgar Bergen Hour”; “Bing Crosby Show”
06-06-1923 - Beverly Styles - Richmond, VA - d. 1-3-2005
violinist, pianist, drummer vocalist
06-06-1926 - Jame Dukas - Portsmouth, OH
actor: “CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”
06-06-1927 - Alan Seymour - Fremantle, Australia
writer: “Swamp Creature”
06-06-1928- Rodney D. Wingfield - London, England - d. 7-31-2007
author: “Frost at Christmas”
06-06-1931 - Lloyd Lindroth - d. 6-9-1994
harpist: “Unites States Army Band”
06-06-1932 - Billie Whitelaw - Coventry, Warwickshire, England
actor: Maddy Rooney “All That Fall”
06-06-1940 - Richard Paul - Los Angeles, CA - d. 12-25-1998
actor: “Empire of the Air”
06-07-1887 - Carmela Ponselle - Schenectady, NY - d. 6-13-1977
operatic mezzo-soprano: “The Metropolitan Opera”
06-07-1891 - Alois Havrilla - Pressov, Hungary - d. 12-7-1952
announcer: “Campbell Soup Orchestra”; “Jack Benny Program”
06-07-1893 - Lillian Althouse - d. 1-19-1979
saxophonist: KFI Los Angeles
06-07-1896 - Hope Summers - Mattoon, IL - d. 6-22-1979
actor: Clara “Girl Alone”
06-07-1897 - George Szell - Budapest, Austria-Hungary - d. 7-30-1970
orchestra leader: “NBC Symphony Orchestra”; “New York Philharmonic”
06-07-1897 - Mann Holiner - Brooklyn, NY - d. 10-29-1958
producer, director: “Baby Snooks Show”; “Frank Sinatra Show”; “Jubilee”
06-07-1903 - Glen Gray - Metamora, IL - d. 8-23-1963
bandleader: “Camel Caravan”
06-07-1903 - Joseph Kahn - NYC - d. 9-3-1998
pianist: “Voice of Firestone”; “Story of Mary Marlin”
06-07-1907 - Tom Slater - Parkersburg, WV - d. 11-18-1961
announcer: “Kitty Keen”; “Jack Berch Program”; “For Men Only”
06-07-1908 - Boris Goldovsky - Moscow, Russia - d. 2-15-2001
commentator: “Metropolitan Opera”
06-07-1908 - Clarence Straight - d. 6-21-1988
actor: Rags the Dog “Those We Love”
06-07-1909 - Jessica Tandy - London, England - d. 9-11-1994
actor: Liz Marriott “Marriage”; Mildred Rogers “Of Human Bondage”
06-07-1911 - Stanley Unwin - Pretoria, South Africa - d. 1-12-2002
sound engineer, commentator, actor: “Beyond Our Ken”
06-07-1913 - Tom Collins - Chicago, IL - d. 6-17-1973
actor: Chandu “Chandu the Magician”; Nicholas Lacey “One Man’s Family”
06-07-1917 - Dean Martin - Steubenville, OH - d. 12-25-1995
singer, comedian: “Martin and Lewis Show”
06-07-1917 - Kathleen Hite - d. 2-18-1989
writer: “Sam Spade”; “Escape”; “Gunsmoke”; “Rogers of the Gazette”; “Romamce”
06-07-1919 - Ray Scherer - Fort Wayne, IN - d. 7-1-2000
nbc white house correspondent: “News of the World”; “Army-McCarthy Hearings”
06-07-1924 - Dolores Gray - Chicago, IL - d. 6-26-2002
musical actor: “Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street”; “Jack Smith Show”
06-07-1926 - Dick Williams - Wall Lake, IA
singer: (The Williams Brothers) “Bing Crosby Show”
06-07-1933 - Herb Score - Rosedale, NY - d. 11-11-2008
baseball broadcaster: Cleveland Indians
06-08-1867 - Frank Lloyd Wright - Richland Center, WI - d. 4-9-1959
architect: “Bob Elson on Board the Century”
06-08-1894 - Charles Frederick Lindsley - Higginsport, OH - d. 10-31-1960
judge: “Noah Webster Says”
06-08-1902 - Elliott Jacoby - NYC - d. 3-28-1977
composer, conductor: “Rudy Vallee Show”; “Maude’s Diary”
06-08-1905 - Ruth Bailey - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 9-30-1989
actor: “First Nighter”; “Kitty Keene, Inc.”; “Guiding Light”
06-08-1907 - Craig McDonnell - Buffalo, NY - d. 11-24-1956
actor: Dinty Moore “Bringing Up Father”; Jolly Rogers “Valiant Lady”
06-08-1907 - Roy Lockwood - Bristol, England - d. 4-25-2002
director: “Valiant Lady”
06-08-1908 - June Meredith - Chicago, IL
actor: Dorothy Wallace Webb “Attorney-at-Law”
06-08-1909 - Leland Frederick Cooley - Oakland, CA - d. 10-27-1998
writer, emcee: “Andre Kostelanetz Program”; “The Shadow”
06-08-1910 - John Campbell, Jr. - Newark, NJ - d. 6-11-1971
writer, host: “Beyond Tomorrow”; “Exploring Tomorrow”
06-08-1913 - Ray Morgan - d. 1-5-1975
announcer: “Counterspy”; “Gangbusters”; “Murder at Midnight”
06-08-1918 - Robert Carroll - North Carolina - d. 11-12-1994
actor: Inspector Mark Sabre “Molle Mystery Theatre”
06-08-1918 - Robert Preston - Newton Highlands, MA - d. 3-21-1987
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”; “Eternal Light”; “Medicine USA”; “Silver Theatre”
06-08-1919 - Monte Hale - Ada, OK - d. 3-29-2009
singing cowboy: “All-Star Western Theatre”
06-08-1921 - Alexis Smith - Penticton, British Columbia, Canada - d. 6-9-1993
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”; “Stars in the Air”; “Screen Guild Theatre”
06-08-1921 - Gordon McLendon - Paris, TX - d. 9-14-1986
Founder of the Liberty Radio Network
06-08-1927 - Jerry Stiller - NYC
actor: “CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”
06-08-1931 - Dana Wynter - Berlin, Germany
actor: “Black Museum”; “Lives of Harry Lime”
06-08-1933 - Joan Rivers - Brooklyn, NY
comedienne: “Voices of Vista”
06-09-1890 - Leslie Banks - West Derby, England - d. 4-21-1952
actor: “Theatre of Romance”
06-09-1891 - Cole Porter - Peru, IN - d. 10-15-1964
composer: Theme for “My Friend Irma”
06-09-1896 - Tonio Selwart - Wartonberg, Bavaria - d. 11-2-2002
actor: “Secret Missions”
06-09-1900 - Fred Waring - Tyrone, PA - d. 7-29-1984
conductor: “Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians”; “Pleasure Time/Victory Tunes”
06-09-1903 - Marcia Davenport - NYC - d. 1-15-1996
auther: “Lux Radio Theatre”
06-09-1905 - Martha Boswell - Kansas City, MO - d. 7-2-1958
singer: (The Boswell Sisters) “The Boswell Sisters”; “Woodbury Soap Show”
06-09-1908 - Joe Biviano - d. 9-4-1992
accordionist: NBC Blue Network
06-09-1908 - Robert Cummings - Joplin, MO - d. 12-1-1990
actor: David Adair “Those We Love”; “Cavalcade of America”
06-09-1910 - George Bryan - NYC - d. 6-27-1969
announcer: “Helen Hayes Theatre”; “Arthur Godfrey Talent Scouts”
06-09-1910 - Joseph Julian - St. Marys, PA - d. 3-11-1982
actor: Sandy Matson “Lorenzo Jones”; Archie Goodwin “Advs. of Nero Wolfe”
06-09-1912 - Don Forbes - Camrose, Alberta, Canada - d. 11-28-1995
newscaster, announcer: “The Richfield Reporter”; Ten-Two-Four Ranch”
06-09-1912 - Ingolf Dahl - Hamburg, Germany - d. 8-7-1970
conductor, pianist
06-09-1915 - Les Paul - Waukesha, WI
guitarist: “Les Paul and Mary Ford Show”; “Rhubarb Red”
06-09-1922 - George Axelrod - NYC - d. 6-21-2003
writer: “Midnight in Manhattan”; “Grand Ole Opry”
06-09-1926 - Mona Freeman - Baltimore, MD
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”; “Suspense”
06-09-1929 - Louise Maheux-Forcier - Montreal, Canada
author: “Neiges et palmiers”
06-09-1929 - Nancy Ashbaugh - Rochester, NY
writer: “The Story of Bill Adams”
06-09-1934 - Dick Orkin - Williamsport, PA
comedian: “Chickenman”; “Tooth Fairy”
06-10-1889 - Sessue Hayakawa - Chiba, Japan - d. 11-23-1973
actor: Freelance NHK Tokyo, Japan
06-10-1891 - Al Dubin - Zurich, Switzerland - d. 2-11-1945
lyricist: “Mutual-Don Lee Dedicatory Program”
06-10-1895 - Hattie McDaniel - Wichita, KS - d. 10-26-1952
actor: Beulah “Beulah”; Mammy “Maxwell House Showboat”
06-10-1897 - Boris Kroyt - d. 11-15-1969
violinist: (Member of the Budapest String Quaratet) “Library of Congress Concert”
06-10-1898 - Dorothy Day - NYC - d. 7-24-1975
actor, writer: “The House Beside the Road”
06-10-1898 - Norman Brokenshire - Murcheson, Ontario, Canada - d. 5-4-1965
announcer: “Music That Satisfies”; “Theatre Guild On the Air”
06-10-1901 - Fritz Loewe - Vienna, Austria - d. 2-14-1988
composer: “Mitch Miller Show”
06-10-1903 - Clyde Beatty - Bainbridge, OH - d. 7-19-1965
big game hunter: “The Clyde Beatty Show”
06-10-1903 - Ernest Chappell - Syracuse, NY - d. 7-4-1983
announcer: “Fabulous Dr. Tweedy”; “Quiet Please”; “Big Story”
06-10-1909 - Larry LeSueur - NYC - d. 2-5-2003
CBS news correspondent: “This Week in Europe”; “The World Today”
06-10-1910 - Charles O’Connor - Cambridge, MA - d. 3-17-1942
announcer: “Johnny Presents”; “Breezing Along”
06-10-1910 - Julie Haydon - Oak Park, IL - d. 12-24-1994
actor: “Suspense”; “Cavalcade of America”; “Theatre Guild On the Air”
06-10-1911 - Denes Agay - Kiskunfelegyhaza, Hungary - d. 1-24-2007
composer/conductor: “Guest Star”
06-10-1911 - Mary Lansing - Louisiana - d. 9-30-1988
actor: Betty Crane “The Greatest of These”; Julie Collins “The Guiding Light”
06-10-1916 - Bill Waddington - Lancashire, England - d. 9-9-2000
actor: “Ack-Ack, Beer Beer”
06-10-1917 - Meredith Edwards - Denbighshire, Wales - d. 2-8-1999
actor: “The Cruel Sea”
06-10-1918 - Barry Morse - London, England - d. 2-2-2008
actor: “Odyssey of Honor”; “George Orwell: A Radio Biography”
06-10-1919 - Hal Simms - Boston, MA - d. 7-2-2002
announcer: “The Steve Allen Show”; “Stop the Music!”
06-10-1920 - Anne Burr - Boston, MA - d. 2-1-2003
actor: Regina Rawlings “Backstage Wife”; “Nona Marsh “Wendy Warren and the News”
06-10-1921 - Chuck Thompson - Palmer, MA - d. 3-6-2005
sportscaster: Baltimore Orioles, Baltimore Colts
06-10-1922 - Judy Garland - Grand Rapids, MN - d. 6-22-1969
singer, actor: Romantic Interest “The Hardy Family”; “Good News of 1938”
06-10-1926 - June Haver - Rock Island, IL - d. 7-4-2005
vocalist: (Fio Rito Orchestra) “Hollywood Hotel”
06-10-1931 - Hal “Harlan” Stone - Whitestone, Long Island, NY - d. 2-21-2007
actor, author: Jughead Jones “Archie Andrews”; “Aw...Relax, Archie! Re-laxx!
06-11-1889 - Wesley Ruggles - Los Angeles, CA - d. 1-8-1972
film director: (Brother of Charlie) “Screen Guild Theatre”
06-11-1899 - Henry Biagini - d. 4-xx-1970
orchestra leader: WXYZ Detroit, Michigan
06-11-1900 - Lawrence Spivak - Brooklyn, NY - d. 3-9-1994
moderator, panelist: “Meet the Press”
06-11-1904 - Allen Roth - St. Louis, MO - d. 10-30-1972
conductor: “Broadway Matinee”; “So You Think You Know Music”
06-11-1905 - Alex Beller - Chicago, IL - d. 4-13-1997
violinist: Ben Pollack , Artie Shaw, Tommy Dorsey, Nelson Riddle
06-11-1905 - Harry Marble - Brownville, ME - d. 8-1-1982
newscaster: “CBS News of the World”; “The World Today”
06-11-1906 - Frank Woodruff - Columbia, SC - d. 9-16-1983
director: “Lux Radio Theatre”
06-11-1908 - Katherine Carrington - South or East Orange, NJ - d. 5-2-1953
vocalist: “Evening in Paris”
06-11-1910 - Jacques-Yves Cousteau - Saint Andrew, France - d. 6-25-1997
oceanographer: “The Space Story”
06-11-1911 - Long John Nebel - Chicago, IL - d. 4-10-1978
host: All-night talk show in NYC
06-11-1913 - Rise Stevens - NYC
singer: “Rise Stevens Show”; “Palmolive Beauty Box Theatre”
06-11-1914 - Dudley Manlove - Oakland, CA - d. 4-17-1996
announcer: “Candy Matson, YU2-8209”
06-11-1914 - Gerald Mohr - NYC - d. 11-10-1968
actor: Philip Marlowe “Advs. of Philip Marlowe”; Jacque Monet “Our Miss Brooks”
06-11-1919 - Richard Todd - Dublin, Ireland
singer: “Rinso-Spry Vaudeville Theatre”; “Your Hit Parade”
06-11-1920 - Hazel Scott - Port of Spain, Trinidad - d. 10-2-1981
singer, pianist: “Free World Theatre”; “New World A-Coming”
06-11-1920 - Robert Hutton - Kingston, NY - d. 8-7-1994
actor: “Proudly We Hail”; “NBC University Theatre”
06-11-1932 - Ed Bishop - Brooklyn, NY - d. 6-8-2005
disk jockey on Armed Forces Radio
06-11-1941 - Mike McManus - Springfield, OH
commentator: “Family News in Focus”
06-11-1948 - John Pilkington - Lancashire, England
writer: “Hurdles”
06-12-1884 - William Austin - Georgetown, British Guiana - d. 6-15-1975
actor: Professor of the English Department “Jack Oakie’s College”
06-12-1890 - Junius Matthews - Chicago, IL - d. 1-18-1978
actor: Grandpa Eph “David Harum”; Ling Wee “Gasoline Alley”
06-12-1893 - Evelyn Varden - Adair, Oklahoma Territory - d. 7-11-1958
actor: Dorothy Stewart “This is Nora Drake”; Mother Malone “Young Dr. Malone”
06-12-1893 - Mal Hallett - Boston, MA - d. 11-20-1952
bandleader: “Spotlight Bands”
06-12-1898 - Dick Hartman - Burlington, WV - d. 4-15-1962
country: (Tennessee Ramblers) “Crazy Water Crystals Barn Dance”
06-12-1901 - Ben Welden - Toledo, OH - d. 10-17-1997
character actor: “Family Theatre”; “Railroad Hour”; “Roy Rogers Show”
06-12-1902 - Al Donahue - Dorchester, MA - d. 2-20-1983
bandleader: “Al Donahue and His Orchestra”; “Matinee at Meadbrook”
06-12-1903 - Drue Leyton - Somers, WI - d. 2-8-1997
broadcast from Paris during WWII on “Voice of America”
06-12-1909 - Archie Bleyer - Corona, NY - d. 3-20-1989
conductor: “Arthur Godfrey Time”; “Casey, Crime Photographer”
06-12-1910 - Leon Carr - Allentown, PA - d. 3-27-1976
composer: “Voices of Vista”
06-12-1912 - Janet Fox - Chicago, IL - d. 4-22-2002
actor: “Cavalcade of America”; “The Big Story”
06-12-1914 - Herbert C. Kenny - d. 7-11-1992
singer: (Member of the Ink Spots) “The Four Ink Spots”; “Let’s Go Nightclubbing”
06-12-1914 - Sydna Scott - Chicago, IL - d. 6-23-1996
actor: “Luke Slaughter of Tombstone”
06-12-1914 - William Lundigan - Syracuse, NY - d. 12-20-1975
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”; announcer in early radio
06-12-1915 - Priscilla Lane - Indianola, IA - d. 4-4-1995
singer: “Fred Waring Show”
06-12-1915 - Robert Forster - NYC - d. 11-15-2003
announcer: “CBS Radio Workshop”; Gangbusters”; Twenty-First Precinct”
06-12-1916 - Ivan Tors - Budapest, Hungary - d. 6-4-1983
producer: “Bud’s Bandwagon”
06-12-1917 - Constance Ernst Bessie - NYC - d. 3-19-1985
producer: “Theatre U.S.A.”; “Voice of America”
06-12-1917 - Wendell Barcroft - d. 3-25-1974
newscaster: KGGM Albuquerque, New Mexico
06-12-1919 - Uta Hagen - Gottingen, Germany - d. 1-14-2004
actor: “Big Show”
06-12-1920 - Peter Jones - Wem, Shropshire, England - d. 4-10-2000
actor: narrator “Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”; “In All Directions”
06-12-1924 - Dave Parker - Fresno, CA
actor: Young Good Guys “Lone Ranger”; “Green Hornet”; “Challenge of the Yukon”
06-12-1924 - George Herbert Walker Bush - Milton, MA
u.s. president: Saturday morning presidential broadcasts
06-12-1924 - Howard E. Goldfuss - The Bronx, NY - d. 11-7-2007
judge: “Tell It to the Judge”
06-12-1926 - Bob Pfeiffer - Iowa - d. 4-22-2003
announcer: “Answer Please”; “The Bickersons”
06-12-1927 - Henry Slesar - Brooklyn, NY - d. 4-2-2002
writer: “Voice of the Army”; “CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”
06-12-1928 - Vic Damone - Brooklyn, NY
singer: “Saturday Night Serenade”; “Stars in Khaki ‘n’ Blue”
06-12-1941 - Chick Corea - Chelsea, MA
keyboardist: “White House Jazz Festival”; “Jazz Alive”
06-13-1873 - Jean Adair - Hamilton, Ontario, Canada - d. 5-11-1953
actor: “Radio Guild”; “Theatre Guild On the Air”
06-13-1874 - Major Edward Bowes - San Francisco, CA - d. 6-13-1946
emcee: “Capitol Family”; “Original Amateur Hour”
06-13-1887 - Edward ‘Senator’ Ford - Brooklyn, NY - d. 1-27-1970
panelist: “Can You Top This”
06-13-1890 - Elmer Davis - Aurora, IN - d. 5-18-1958
newscaster: “Elmer Davis and the News”
06-13-1892 - Basil Rathbone - Johannesburg, South Africa - d. 7-21-1967
actor: Sherlock Holmes “Sherlock Holmes”; Inspector Burke “Scotland Yard’s Inspector Burke”
06-13-1893 - Dorothy L. Sayers - Oxford, England - d. 12-17-1957
writer: “He That Should Come: A Nativity Play”
06-13-1894 - Mark Van Doren - Hope, IL - d. 12-10-1972
pulitzer prize winning poet: “NBC University Theatre”; “Invitation to Learning”
06-13-1894 - Tay Garnett - Los Angeles, CA - d. 10-4-1977
film director: “Three Sheets to the Wind”; “Screen Director’s Playhouse”
06-13-1899 - Carlos Chavez - Mexico City, Mexico - d. 8-2-1978
composer, conductor: “Columbia Workshop”; “Sinfonia India”
06-13-1900 - Ian Hunter - Kenilworth, South Africa - d. 9-24-1975
actor: “Hollywood Hotel”; “U.S. Steel Hour”
06-13-1903 - Jack Fulton - Philipsburg, PA - d. 11-13-1993
singer: “Ben Bernie, The Old Maestro”; “The Kraft Music Hall”
06-13-1905 - Doc Cheatham - Nashville, TN - d. 6-2-1997
jazz trumpeter: “Benny Goodman and His Sextet/Orchestra”; “Benny Goodman Quintet”
06-13-1908 - Carl Eastman - NYC - d. 1-16-1970
actor: “Mrs. Miniver”; “Renfrew of the Mounted”
06-13-1909 - Anna Sosenko - NYC - d. 6-9-2000
friend and agent to Hildegard
06-13-1911 - Maurice Copeland - Rector, AR - d. 10-3-1985
actor: Augustus Pendelton “Ma Perkins”; “Curtain Time”; “Hall of Fantasy”
06-13-1912 - Sam Taylor - Chicago, IL - d. 5-26-2000
writer: “Tales ofWillie Piper”
06-13-1913 - Bob Bailey - Toeldo, OH - d. 8-13-1983
actor: Johnny Dollar “Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar”; George Valentine “Let George Do It”
06-13-1913 - Ralph Edwards - Merino, CO - d. 11-16-2005
host, announcer: “Truth or Consequences”; “This Is Your Life”; “Original Amateur Hour”
06-13-1916 - Mary Wickes - St. Louis, MO - d. 10-22-1995
actor: Louise “Meet Corliss Archer”; Irma Barker “Lorenzo Jones”
06-13-1917 - Elizabeth Reller - Richmond, IN - d. 9-29-1996
actor: Connie Barclay “Doc Barclay’s Daughters”
06-13-1917 - Si Zentner - NYC - d. 2-6-2000
bandleader, trombonist: “Si Zentner and His Orchestra”; “Guard Session”
06-13-1920 - Ben Johnson - Pawnee, OK - d. 4-8-1996
actor: “Francis Burke for Attorney General”
06-13-1923 - Eric Greer Earley - Ireland
writer: “The Custodians”
06-13-1924 - Lee Millar - Oakland, CA - d. 9-21-1980
actor: Bob Regent “Chandu the Magician”; “On Stage”; “NBC Presents: Short Story”
06-13-1934 - Marianne Means -Sioux City, IA
commentator: “Spectrum”
06-13-1939 - Tom Cheek - Pensacola, FL - d. 10-9-2005
sports announcer: Original Toronto Blue Jays play-by-play
06-14-1884 - John McCormack - Athone, Ireland - d. 9-16-1945
singer: “The Atwater-Kent Hour”; “The Vince Program”
06-14-1891 - Elaine Sterne Carrington - NYC - d. 5-4-1958
creator-writer: “Pepper Young’s Family”; “Rosemary”; “When a Girl Marries”
06-14-1893 - Joe Forte - England - d. 3-11-1967
actor: Osgood Conklin “Our Miss Brooks”; Horowitz “Life with Luigi”
06-14-1894 - Benny Fields - Milwaukee, WI - d. 8-16-1959
actor: “The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air”
06-14-1894 - George Hall - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-24-1959
orchestra leader: CBS network
06-14-1895 - Cliff “Ukulele Ike” Edwards - Hannibal, MO - d. 7-17-1971
singer: Jiminy Cricket “Fun and Fancy Free”; “Cliff Edwards, Ukulele Ike”
06-14-1900 - June Walker - Chicago, IL - d. 2-3-1966
actor: (Mother of actor John Kerr) “The Rudy Vallee Show”
06-14-1901 - May Hogan Cambern - Fort Worth, TX - d. 6-25-1988
harpist on radio
06-14-1902 - Carl Esmond - Vienna, Austria-Hungary - d. 12-4-2004
actor: “Mayor of the Town”
06-14-1904 - Karena Shields - d. 9-27-1972
actor: Helen Gregory “Tarzan”
06-14-1905 - Wallace Deuel - d. 5-10-1974
author: “Information Please”
06-14-1906 - Gil Lamb - Minneapolis, MN - d. 11-2-1995
actor: Homer Clinker “The Rudy Vallee Show”
06-14-1906 - Patricia Brox - Winchester, KY - d. 8-27-1988
singer: (Brox Sisters) “A Tribute to Irving Berlin
06-14-1907 - Nappy Lamare - New Orleans, LA - d. 5-19-1988
jazz guitarist: “The Bob Crosby Show”
06-14-1908 - John Scott Trotter - Charlotte, NC - d. 10-29-1975
conductor: “Kraft Music Hall”; “Philco Radio Time”
06-14-1909 - Burl Ives - Hunt Township, IL - d. 4-14-1995
singer: “Columbia County Journal”; “Radio Reader’s Digest”
06-14-1911 - Dan Pursuit - d. 12-25-1999
author: “Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy”
06-14-1912 - Peggy Ann Wood - Chiswick, England - d. 5-30-1998
actor: “The Cleverest Man at Oxford”
06-14-1913 - Stanley Black - London, England - d. 11-26-2002
conductor: BBC Dance Orchestra
06-14-1914 - Loretta Lee, New Orleans, LA
band vocalist: “Your Hit Parade”; “Hollywood Hotel”
06-14-1914 - Nat Polen - NYC - d. 5-3-1981
actor: Edward McCormick “Indictment” “CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”
06-14-1915 - Kay Sutton - Irvington, NJ - d. 3-1-1988
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”
06-14-1917 - Paul Monash - NYC - d. 1-14-2003
writer: “Molle Mystery Theatre”
06-14-1918 - Dorothy McGuire - Omaha, NE - d. 9-13-2001
actor: Sue Evans Miller “Big Sister”; “Joyce Jordan, M.D.”
06-14-1918 - Jon Arthur - New Kensington, PA - d. 2-23-1982
actor: “Big Jon and Sparkie”; “No School Today”
06-14-1919 - Gene Barry - NYC
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”
06-14-1919 - Sam Wanamaker - Chicago, IL - d. 12-18-1993
actor: Ellis Smith “The Guiding Light”; “Lone Journey”
06-14-1924 - Jack Jones - El Paso, TX
writer: “Jason and the Golden Fleece”
06-14-1925 - George Draper Lewis - d. 1-4-1998
writer: “The Camel Caravan”
06-14-1929 - Cy Coleman - NYC - d. 11-18-2004
jazz pianist, composer: “Cy Coleman at the Piano”; “Voices of Vista”
06-14-1930 - David Leeson - d. 2-25-1971
writer: “Young Doctor Malone”
06-15-1843 - Edvard Grieg - Bergen Norway - d. 9-4-1907
composer: Some of his compositions used as themes
06-15-1861 - Ernestine Schumann-Heink - Prague, Czechoslovkia - d. 11-17-1936
singer: “Enna Jettick Melodies”; “Hoover Sentinels Serenade”
06-15-1872 - Johanna Gadski - Anclam, Poland - d. 2-23-1932
operatic singer: WJZ New York City
06-15-1891 - Mento Everitt - Lakeview, MI - d. xx-xx-1952
actor: Jenny Peabody “Jenny Peabody”
06-15-1894 - Leo Cleary - Massachusetts - d. 4-11-1955
actor: Bailiff “His Honor, the Barber”
06-15-1894 - Robert Russell Bennett - Kansas City, MO - d. 8-19-1981
compser: “Symphony in D for the Dodgers”; “Project Twenty”
06-15-1895 - Morty Howard - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-15-1970
pianist: “The Moylan Sisters”; “Rocking Horse Rhythms”
06-15-1905 - James Robertson Justice - Wigtown, Scotland - d. 7-2-1975
actor: “Star Bill”
06-15-1909 - Joe DeSantis - NYC - d. 8-30-1989
actor: Jim Scott “Under Arrest”; “This Is Nora Drake”
06-15-1909 - Mickey Katz - Cleveland, OH - d. 4-30-1985
clarinetist: (Father of Joel Grey) “Here’s to Veterans”
06-15-1910 - David Rose - London, England - d. 8-23-1990
conductor: “Red Skelton Show”; “David Rose Show”; “Bold Venture”
06-15-1918 - Grace McDonald - Boston, MA - d. 10-30-1999
actor: “Treasury Star Parade”; “Hollywood Personals”
06-15-1918 - Hal Roach, Jr. - Los Angeles, CA - d. 3-29-1972
producer, director: “My Little Margie”
06-15-1918 - Michael Dunn - NYC
singer: “This Is Fort Dix”
06-15-1918 - Richard Derr - Norristown, PA - d. 5-8-1992
actor: “Crime Does Not Pay”
06-15-1919 - Alvin Boretz - NYC
writer: “American School of the Air”; “The Big Story”; “Treasury Salute”
06-15-1921 - Erroll Garner - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 1-2-1977
jazz muscian: “Jubilee”; “Command Performance”; “Arthur Godfrey Show”
06-15-1921 - Lucille Norman - Lincoln, NE - d. 4-1-1998
singer: “Time, the Place and the Tune”; “Railroad Hour”
06-15-1947 - Paul Walters - Wheathampstead., England - d. 10-21-2006
producer: “”Wake Up with Wogan”
06-16-1885 - Tom Howard - County Tyrone, Ireland - d. 2-27-1955
comedian: “It Pays to Be Ignorant”; “Sunday Night Party”
06-16-1890 - Bertha Brainard - South Orange, NJ - d. 6-11-1946
manager of the commercial program division of NBC in 1937
06-16-1890 - Stan Laurel - Ulverston, England - d. 2-23-1965
comedian: “Ruth Lyons Show”
06-16-1892 - Al Llewelyn - d. 4-6-1964
comedian, singer: (Brad and Al) Heard over CBS and NBC
06-16-1895 - Murray Leinster - Norfolk, VA - d. 6-8-1975
writer: “Dimension X”
06-16-1898 - Harold McClinton - d. 6-29-1977
producer: “This Is War”
06-16-1899 - Frank X. Capano - Philadelphia, PA - d. 2-10-1956
singer and program director
06-16-1899 - Helen Traubel - St. Louis, MO - d. 7-28-1972
singer: “Metropolitan Opera”; “Telephone Hour”; “Jimmy Durante Show”
06-16-1903 - Louis Raderman - d. 10-xx-1974
musician: “The Ipana Troubadors”
06-16-1903 - Ona Munson - Portland, OR - d. 2-11-1955
actor: Lorelei Kilbourne “Big Town”
06-16-1907 - Jack Albertson - Malden, MA - d. 11-25-1981
actor: “Milton Berle Show”; “Phil Harris/Alice Faye Show”; “Cavalcade of America”
06-16-1907 - Joan Winters - Dayton, OH - d. 1-1-2001
actor: Alice Ames “Girl Alone”; Sylvia Bertram “Road of Life”
06-16-1907 - Stuart Allen - NYC - d. 10-xx-1978
baritone: (Richard Himber Orchestra) “The Monday Night Show”
06-16-1908 - Grace Albert - d. 4-9-2003
singer: “The Honeymooners”; “Time Out”; “Cavalcade of America”
06-16-1912 - Ilona Massey - Budapest, Hungary - d. 8-20-1974
actor: Mata Hari-style operative in World War II “Top Secret”; “Screen Guild Theatre”
06-16-1914 - Edward Gruskin - d. 11-15-2005
writer: “Nick Carter, Master Detective”; “Rendezvous in Paris”
06-16-1916 - Stanley Niss - Illinois - d. 7-21-1969
writer, director: “Counterspy”; “Gang Busters”; “Twenty-First Precinct”
06-16-1919 - Al Viola - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-21-2007
guitarist: “Elgin Thanksgiving Day Greeting to America”
06-16-1919 - Mason Jones - Hamilton, NY - d. 2-18-2009
horn player: Philadelphia Orchestra
06-16-1920 - Amy Sedell - NYC
actor: “Pretty Kitty Kelly”; “Gangbusters”; “Big Sister”
06-16-1958 - Mark Lewisohn - London, England
radio news administrator: “The Beeb’s Lost Beetle Tapes”
06-17-1874 - Robert Boice Carson - Rossville, IN - d. 8-22-1941
director of the Apollo Orchestra on KVOO Tulsa, Oklahoma
06-17-1877 - Charles Coburn - Savannah, GA - d. 8-30-1961
actor: “Roses and Drums”; “Song of Liberty”
06-17-1882 - Igor Stravinsky - Oranienbaum, Russia - d. 4-6-1971
composer: “Columbia Work Shop”; “New York Philharmonic”
06-17-1894 - Harold Levey - NYC - d. 6-18-1967
composer, conductor: “Theatre Guild on the Air”
06-17-1897 - Vivian Duncan - Los Angeles, CA - d. 9-19-1986
singer: (Topsy and Eva) “Wireless Vaudeville”
06-17-1899 - Benny Krueger - Newark, NJ - d. 4-29-1967
bandleader: “The Rudy Vallee Show”; “Side Walk Cafe”
06-17-1904 - Ralph Bellamy - Chicago, IL - d. 11-29-1991
actor: “These Are Our Men”
06-17-1905 - Anne Teeman - New York - d. 8-18-1991
actor: Sally Gibson “The Gibson Family”; Joyce “The Goldbergs”
06-17-1905 - Frank Cunkle - Ft. Smith, AR - d. 2-4-1986
arranger: “The Fred Waring Show”
06-17-1910 - Red Foley - Blue Lick, KY - d. 9-19-1968
singer: “National Barn Dance”; “Grand Ole Opry”; “Red Foley Show”
06-17-1913 - Bob Allen - Allendale, OH - d. 4-24-1989
singer: (Hal Kemp Band) “Phil Baker Show”; “Calling America”
06-17-1914 - John Hersey - Tientsin, China - d. 3-24-1993
author: “Bell for Adano”; “Hiroshima”
06-17-1916 - Terry Gilkyson - Mont Clare, PA - d. 10-15-1999
singer, songwriter: “Solitary Singer”; “America Sings”; “Here’s to Veterans”
06-17-1919 - Beryl Reid - Hereford, England - d. 10-13-1996
actor: Monica “Educating Archie”
06-17-1919 - Gene De Paul - NYC - d. 2-27-1988
composer, arranger, pianist: “Bud’s Bandwagon”
06-17-1920 - Aaron “Red” Doff - Washington, D. C. - d. 6-13-1997
actor: “Uncle Whoa Bill”
06-17-1921 - Ben Morris - Oklahoma City, OK - d. 8-18-1982
actor: Pat Novak “Pat Novak for Hire”
06-17-1921 - Earl Hammond - NYC - d. 5-19-2002
actor: “Coounterspy”; “Martin Kane, Private Eye”
06-17-1921 - Tony Scott - Morristown, NJ - d. 3-28-2007
jazz clarinetist: American Armed Forces Radio
06-17-1922 - Jerry Fielding - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 2-17-1980
conductor: “Hardy Family”; “Jack Paar Show”; “You Bet Your Life”
06-17-1923 - Elroy “Crazylegs” Hirsch - Wausau, WI - d. 1-28-2004
pro football hall of fame, host: “Elroy Hirsch Sports Show”; “Touchdown Tips”
06-18-1885 - Ernie Adams - San Francisco, CA - d. 11-26-1947
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”
06-18-1893 - Gladys Gooding - Macon, MO - d. 11-18-1963
organist, singer: organist at Madison Square Garden
06-18-1895 - Castro Darazo - San Jose, Costa Rica - d. 12-28-1981
conductor: “Strand Theatre Concert Orchestra” WSMB New Orleans, Louisiana
06-18-1897 - Alan MacAteer - d. 6-26-1986
actor: Pop, the stage doorman “Backstage Wife”
06-18-1897 - Henry Wadsworth - Maysville, KY - d. 12-5-1974
actor: Alabama Randall “Jane Arden”
06-18-1898 - Carleton Hobbs - Farnborough, England - d. 7-31-1978
actor: Sherlock Holmes “Saturday Night Theatre, Children’s Hour”
06-18-1898 - Francis ‘Dink’ Trout - Beardstown, IL - d. 3-26-1950
actor: Waldo Binney “Life of Riley”; Mr. Anderson “A Day in the Life of Dennis Day”
06-18-1901 - Jimmy Dale - The Bronx, NY - d. 12-17-1982
pianist, arranger: “Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra”
06-18-1902 - Tom Breneman - Waynesboro, PA - d. 4-28-1948
emcee: “Breakfast at Sardi’s/in Hollywood”; “My Secret Ambition”
06-18-1903 - Jeanette MacDonald - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-14-1965
singer: “Nobody’s Children”; “Vicks Open House”; “Campbell Playhouse”
06-18-1904 - Keye Luke - Canton, China - d. 1-12-1991
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”; “Image Minorities”
06-18-1906 - Kay Kyser - Rocky Mt., NC - d. 7-23-1985
bandleader, emcee: (The Old Perfessor) “Kollege of Musical Knowledge”
06-18-1906 - Ray Bauduc - New Orleans, LA - d. 1-8-1988
drummer, composer: “The Bob Crosby Show”
06-18-1908 - Clayton “Bud” Collyer - NYC - d. 9-8-1969
actor, announcer: Clark Kent/Superman “Advs. of Superman”; “Cavalcade of America”
06-18-1908 - Elmore Vincent - Amarillo, X - d. 3-27-2000
actor: Phineas Peabody “Lum and Abner”
06-18-1910 - Betty Mandeville - Minneapolis, MN - d. 6-14-2001
producer, director: “The FBI in Peace and War”; “Take It or Leave It”
06-18-1910 - Dick Foran - Flemington, NJ - d. 8-10-1979
singer: (The Singing Cowboy) ”George Burns and Gracie Allen Show”
06-18-1910 - Ray McKinley - Fort Worth, TX - d. 5-7-1995
bandleader, vocalist: Co-leader of the Glen Miller Band
06-18-1910 - Russ Hodges - Dayton, TN - d. 4-19-1971
sportscaster: “Giants win the pennant, Giants win the pennant, Giants win the pennant”
06-18-1911 - Babe Russin - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 8-4-1984
tenor sax: “The Ipana Troubadors”
06-18-1913 - Harold Alberghini - d. 7-16-1993
disk jockey and newscaster: Maine
06-18-1913 - Johnnie Neblett - Mississippi - d. 9-15-1946
announcer: “Bargain Counter”; “Tin Pan Alley”
06-18-1913 - Sammy Cahn - NYC - d. 1-15-1993
lyricist: “You Bet Your Life”; “Cue Magazine Salutes ASCAP”; “Monitor”
06-18-1914 - E.G. Marshall - Owatonna, MN - d. 8-25-1998
narrator: “CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”
06-18-1917 - Richard Boone - Los Angeles, CA - d. 1-10-1981
actor: “Dragnet”
06-18-1917 - Ross Elliott - The Bronx, NY - d. 8-12-1999
actor: “Mercury Theatre”
06-18-1919 - Ed Simmons - d. 5-18-1998
writer, director: “The Martin and Lewis Show”; “The Quiz Kids”
06-18-1919 - Mel Brandt - Brooklyn, NY
announcer: “Advs. of Frank Merriwell”
06-18-1922 - Buck Page - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 8-21-2006
guitarist: (Riders of the Purple Sage) “The Roy Rogers Show”
06-18-1925 - Bob Arthur - Aberdeen, WA - d. 10-1-2008
actor: “The Bob Arthur Show”
06-18-1938 - Don “Sugarcane” Harris - Pasadena, CA - d. 11-27-1999
rock violinist: (Squires) “Stars for Defense”
06-18-1942 - Paul McCartney - Liverpool, England
singer: (The Beatles) “Here We Go Again”
06-19-1863 - William A. Brady - San Francisco, CA - d. 1-6-1950
theatrical producer: heard twice weekly on CBS during 1934-1935
06-19-1865 - May Whitty - Liverpool, England - d. 5-29-1948
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”
06-19-1892 - Mishel Piastro - Kertz, Russia - d. 4-10-1970
violinist, conductor: “Longines Symphonette”; “General Motors Concerts”
06-19-1893 - Frank Banyard - d. 6-xx-1971
baritone: WOR Newark, New Jersey
06-19-1894 - Emil Coleman - Odessa, Russia - d. 1-26-1965
orchestra leader: “Penthouse Party”; “Gulf Headliners”
06-19-1897 - Moe Howard - Bensonhurst, NY - d. 5-4-1975
original stooge: (Three Stooges) “Whatever Became of . . . .?”
06-19-1899 - Francis Drake “Pat” Ballard - d. 10-26-1960
writer of radio scripts in Troy, Pennsylvania
06-19-1901 - Frederic Tozere - d. 8-5-1972
actor: Stephen Dallas “Stella Dallas”
06-19-1902 - Ed Thorgerson - Elizabeth, NJ - d. 12-22-1997
announcer/sportscaster: “A&P Gypsies”; “The Elgin Football Revue”
06-19-1902 - Guy Lombardo - London, Canada - d. 11-5-1977
bandleader: (The Sweetest Music This Side of Heaven) “Lombardoland USA”
06-19-1903 - Lou Gehrig - NYC - d. 6-2-1941
baseball iron man: “Lux Radio Theatre”
06-19-1908 - Mildred Natwick - Baltimore, MD - d. 10-25-1994
actor: “Starring Boris Karloff”; “Best Plays”; “Campbell Playhouse”
06-19-1909 - Maurice Zimm - Waterloo, IA - d. 11-17-2005
writer: “The Man Who Sang”
06-19-1910 - Virginia Payne - Cincinnati, OH - d. 2-10-1977
actor: Ma Perkins “Ma Perkins”; Kerry Carter “Carters of Elm Street”
06-19-1912 - Jerry Jerome - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-17-2001
musician: “Eileen Barton Show”; “Mirth and Madness”
06-19-1912 - Martin Gabel - Philadelphia, PA - d. 5-22-1986
actor: John Wayne “Big Sister”; Gregory Hood “Casebook of Gregory Hood”
06-19-1915 - Pat Buttram - Addison, AL - d. 1-8-1994
actor: (Sage of Winston County) “National Barn Dance”
06-19-1917 - Robert Karnes - Kentucky - d. 12-4-1979
announcer: Started his career in his native Kentucky
06-19-1919 - E. S. Madden - Melbourne, Australia
author: Wrote for radio in his native Australia
06-19-1919 - Louis Jourdan - Marseilles, France
actor: “Hallmark Playhouse”; “Screen Guild Theatre”; “U. S. Steel Hour”
06-19-1919 - Pauline Kael - Sonoma County, CA - d. 9-3-2001
film critic: Broadcast for Pacifica radio station
06-19-1920 - Johnny Douglas - London, England - d. 4-20-2003
host: “In the Still of the Night”
06-19-1921 - Buddy Brees - NYC - d. 10-30-1994
singer: “Art Mooney and his Orchestra”; “Bob Chester and his Orchestra”
06-19-1921 - Vernon Jarrett - Saulsbury, TN - d. 5-23-2004
host: “The Vernon Jarrett Report”
06-19-1922 - Gwen Davies - NYC
actor: “Advs. of Helen and Mary”; “Let’s Pretend”
06-19-1923 - Estelle Levy - NYC
actor, singer: “Grand Central Station”; “Rudy Vallee Show”
06-19-1925 - Charlie Drake - South London, England - d. 12-24-2006
comedian: “Jigsaw”
06-19-1925 - Robert Barager - d. 4-17-2004
disk jockey: WNBZ Saranac Lake, New York
06-19-1928 - Barry Took - London, England - d. 3-31-2002
writer, comedian: “Round the Horne”; “We’re In Business”
06-19-1928 - Nancy Marchand - Buffalo, NY - d. 6-18-2000
actor: “Cavalcade of America”; “A Private Space”
06-19-1932 - Pier Angeli - Cagliaru, Saradinia - d. 9-10-1971
actor: “Louella Parsons Show”
06-20-1876 - Raymond Ditmars - New Jersey - d. 5-12-1942
curator bronx zoo: “Adventures in Reading”
06-20-1890 - Effie Palmer - Albany, NY - d. 8-19-1942
actor: Jean Evans “Lonely Woman”; Dodie Black “Scattergood Baines”
06-20-1892 - Katherin Prescott Bemis - d. 5-xx-1974
singer: KOA Denver, Colorado
06-20-1893 - Edwin Wolfe - d. 9-23-1983
actor: Curt Bradley “Pepper Young’s Family”
06-20-1897 - Bob Howard - W. Newton, MA - d. 12-4-1986
pianist-singer: “Calsodent Presents Bob Howard”; “Sing It Again”
06-20-1904 - Matt Crowley - New Haven, CT - d. 3-10-1983
actor: Mark Trail “Mark Trail”; Buck Rogers “Buck Rogers”
06-20-1905 - Lillian Hellman - New Orleans, LA - d. 6-30-1984
author: “Lux Radio Theatre”; “Screen Guild Theatre”
06-20-1909 - Errol Flynn - Hobart, Tasmania - d. 10-14-1959
actor: Christopher Casanova “Modern Adventures of Casanova”; “Lux Radio Theatre”
06-20-1911 - Edward Eager - Toledo, OH - d. 10-23-1964
writer: “Jane Pickens Show”
06-20-1911 - Gail Patrick - Birmingham, AL - d. 7-6-1980
actor: “The Dreft Star Playhouse”
06-20-1913 - Al Gallodoro - Birmingham, AL - d. 10-4-2008
jazz saxophonist: “The Paul Whiteman Show”; “The Henry Morgan Show”
06-20-1924 - Audie Murphy - Kingston, TX - d. 5-28-1971
world war II hero, actor: “Cavalcade of America”
06-20-1924 - Billie Lou Watt - St. Louis, MO - d. 9-7-2001
actor: “Land of the Free”; “CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”
06-20-1924 - Chet Atkins - Luttrell, TN - d. 6-30-2001
guitarist: “Boone County Neighbors”; “Grand Ole Opry”
06-20-1931 - Martin Landau - Brooklyn, NY
actor: “No Love Lost”
06-20-1948 - Tess Brady - Adelaide, Australia
writer: “Anthony”
06-21-1880 - Mary Young - d. 6-23-1971
actor: Lily “Arnold Grimm’s Daughter”
06-21-1882 - William Afsprung - d. 1-15-1976
reader: WLW Cincinnati, Ohio
06-21-1895 - Saul B. Arenson - Lincoln, NE - d. 6-11-1954
lecturer on scientific topics on WLW Cincinnati, Ohio
06-21-1900 - Jack Arthur - Brooklyn, NY - d. 10-1-1980
singer, emcee: “Echoes of New York”; “Family Time”; “Jack Arthur Show”
06-21-1907 - Charles ‘Bud’ Dant - Washington, IN - d. 10-31-1999
music: “A Day in the Life of Dennis Day”; “Glamour Manor”
06-21-1909 - Ted Sherdeman - d. 8-22-1987
producer, director, writer: “Latitude Zero”; “Sad Sack”; “Sears Radio Theatre”
06-21-1910 - Clive Sansom - London, England - d. 3-29-1981
writer: “The Pardoner’s Tale”
06-21-1910 - Montie Montana - Wolf Point, MT - d. 5-20-1998
actor, periennial Rose Parade participant: “All-Star Western Theatre”
06-21-1911 - Irving Fein - Brooklyn, NY
producer: “Jack Benny Program”
06-21-1911 - Wonderful Smith - Arkadelphia, AR - d. 8-28-2008
comedian: “Red Skelton Show”
06-21-1912 - Mary McCarthy - Seattle, WA - d. 10-25-1989
novelist: “Guest Star Time”
06-21-1916 - Al Brown
actor: Og “Og, Son of Fire”
06-21-1921 - Jane Russell - Bemidji, MN
actor: Guest Detective: “Adventures of Ellery Queen”
06-21-1921 - Joan Tetzel - NYC - d. 10-31-1977
actor: Sylvia Field “When a Girl Marries”; Jane Brown “The Goldbergs”
06-21-1921 - Judy Holliday - NYC - d. 6-7-1965
actor: “Big Show”
06-21-1921 - Owen Weingott - Sydney, Australia - d. 10-12-2002
actor: Hercule Poirot “Hercule Peroit”; “Portia Faces Life”
06-21-1922 - Wade Denning - Albermarle, NC - d. 9-17-2007
composer, arranger: “Let’s Go On With the Show”
06-21-1925 - Byron Palmer - Los Angeles, CA
actor: “Plays for Americans”
06-21-1925 - Desmond Briscoe - Birkenhead, England - d. 12-7-2006
sound technician and effects cooridinator for the BBC Radio
06-21-1925 - Maureen Stapleton - Troy, NY - d. 3-13-2006
actor: “Best Plays”
06-21-1926 - Margaret Potter - Harrow, England - d. 8-26-1998
writer: “Hindleford”; “The Waiting Game”
06-21-1928 - Rudy Wissler - d. 1-11-2007
actor,singer: “Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show”
06-21-1932 - O. C. Smith - Mansfield, LA - d. 11-23-2001
singer: “Voices of Vista”
06-21-1940 - Mariette Hartley - Weston, CT
actor: “CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”
06-22-1887 - Julian Huxley - London, England - d. 2-14-1975
film director: “Information Please”
06-22-1901 - Charlie Agnew - Illinois - d. 10-22-1978
bandleader: “Yeast Foam Program”; “Armandes Face Cream Program”
06-22-1901 - Jack Whiting - Philadelphia, PA - d. 2-15-1961
singer: “MGM Radio Club”
06-22-1901 - Phil Duey - Macy, IN - d. 4-7-1982
singer: “Lucky Strike Dance Orchestra”; “Leo Reisman Orchestra”; “Happy Bakers”
06-22-1903 - Ben Pollack - Chicago, IL - d. 6-7-1971
bandleader: Bib band remotes - became the Bob Crosby Orchestra
06-22-1903 - Glenhall Taylor - d. 12-28-1997
producer, director: “Blondie”; “Sherlock Holmes”; “Dinah Shore Show”; “Ozzie and Harriett”
06-22-1906 - Billy Wilder - Sucha, Austria-Hungary - d. 3-27-2002
screenwriter, film director: “Lady Esther Screen Guild Theatre”; “Lux Radio Theatre”
06-22-1907 - Mike Todd - Minneapolis, MN - d. 3-22-1958
film producer: “Closing the New York World’s Fair”
06-22-1909 - Milton Kaye - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-14-2006
pianist/arranger: “Roger Kilgore, Public Defender”; “Under Arrest”
06-22-1912 - June Carroll - Detroit, MI - d. 5-16-2004
composer: “New Faces of 1948”
06-22-1914 - Lem Davis - Tampa, FL - d. 1-5-2002
saxophonist, clarinetist: “Jubilee”
06-22-1915 - Robert Soderberg - Ohio - d. 4-9-1996
writer: “Junior Miss”
06-22-1916 - John Craven - NYC - d. 11-24-1995
actor: “Campbell Playhouse”; “Star Spangeled Theatre”
06-22-1916 - Johnny Jacobs - Milwaukee, WI - d. 2-8-1982
announcer: “Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar”; “Frontier Gentleman”; “Granby’s Green Acres”
06-22-1918 - Julian Anthony - d. 6-xx-1984
newscaster: “News of Tomorrow”
06-22-1919 - Gower Champion - Geneva, IL - d. 8-25-1980
choreographer: “Lux Radio Theatre”; “Guest Star”
06-22-1920 - Paul Frees - Chicago, IL - d. 11-1-1986
actor: Jethro Dumont/Green Lama “Green Lama”; Robert Aladdin “Mr. Aladdin”
06-22-1922 - Joe Siracuso - Cleveland, OH - d. 9-5-1997
drummer: “The Spike Jones Show”
06-22-1925 - Basil Beardsley - d. 12-3-1991
disk jockey: WJER Dover, Ohio
06-22-1930 - Roy Drusky - Atlanta, GA - d. 9-24-2004
singer: “Grand Ole Opry”
06-22-1932 - Prunella Scales - Sutton Abinger, Surrey, England
actor: Sybil Fawlty “Fawlty Towers”; Sarah France “After Henry”
06-22-1941 - Ed Bradley - Philadelphia, PA - d. 11-9-2006
newscaster: WBCS New York, New York
06-22-1949 - Meryl Streep - Summit, NJ
actor. “Earplay”
06-23-1876 - Irvin S. Cobb - Paducah, KY - d. 3-10-1944
humorist: “Gulf Show”; “Paducah Plantation”
06-23-1884 - Marley R. Sherris - Toronto, Canada - d. 7-2-1956
announcer: “Midweek Hymn Sing”; “National Vespers”
06-23-1889 - Kajetan Attl - d. 2-13-1976
harpist: KPO, San Francisco, California
06-23-1894 - King Edward VIII - Richmond Park, England - d. 5-28-1972
king, ex-king, duke: Abdication Speech for the “woman” he loved
06-23-1894 - Laurie York Erskine - England - d. 11-30-1976
author: “Renfrew of the Mounted”; “Adventure Story”; “National Children’s Week”
06-23-1895 - Pick Malone - nr. Dallas, TX - d. 1-22-1962
comedian: ”Show Boat”; “Chesterfield Supper Club”
06-23-1907 - Eddie Pola - NYC - d. 11-3-1995
director: “Blondie”
06-23-1908 - Erik Barnouw - The Netherlands - d. 7-19-2001
radio historian/author: “A Tower of Babel”; “The Golden Web”; “The Image Empire”
06-23-1908 - Mary Livingston - Vancouver, Canada - d. 6-30-1983
comedienne: (wife of Jack Benny) “Jack Benny Program”
06-23-1910 - Edward P. Morgan - Walla Walla, WA - d. 1-27-1993
newscaster: “News and Commentary”
06-23-1910 - Milt Hinton - Vicksburg, MS - d. 12-19-2000
jazz bassist: “Town Hall Concert”; “Monsanto Night: Benny Goodman”
06-23-1911 - Eddie Miller - New Orleans, LA - d. 4-1-1991
saxaphone: “The Bob Crosby Show”
06-23-1912 - John Milton Kennedy - Farrell, PA - d. 6-11-2006
announcer: “Lux Radio Theatre”; “Tidbit Revue”
06-23-1914 - Nat Hiken - Chicago, IL - d. 12-7-1968
creator, director, writer: “Magnificent Montague”; “Texaco Star Theatre”
06-23-1916 - Irene Worth - Fairbury, NE - d. 3-10-2002
actor: “Odyssey of Homer”
06-23-1917 - Norman Rose - Philadelphia, PA - d. 11-12-2004
narrator: “Dimension X”
06-23-1922 - Rusty Morris - Colorado - d. 5-14-1986
actor: “Halls of Ivy”; “Mayor of the Town”; “This Is Your FBI”
06-23-1925 - Larry Blyden - Houston, TX - d. 5-6-1975
actor: “Radio City Playhouse”; “Cavalcade of America”
06-23-1929 - June Carter Cash - Maces Spring, VA - d. 5-15-2003
singer: “Grand Ole Opry”
06-23-1943 - James Levine - Cincinnati, OH
conductor: “The Metropolitan Opera”
06-24-1891 - Irving Pichel - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 7-13-1954
actor, film director: “Gulf Screen Theatre”;”Screen Director’s Playhouse”
06-24-1893 - Arthur Hughes - Bloomington, IL - d. 12-28-1982
actor: Bill Davidson “Just Plain Bill”; Stephen Dallas “Stella Dallas”
06-24-1895 - Jack Dempsey - Manassa, CO - d. 5-31-1983
boxing champion: “Ben Bernie Show”; “Kemtone Hour”; “Saturday Night Bandwagon”
06-24-1900 - Gene Austin - Gainesville, TX - d. 1-24-1972
singer: “Gene Austin”; “Joe Penner Show”; “N.K. Musical Showroom”
06-24-1904 - Phil Harris - Linton, IN - d. 8-11-1995
bandleader, singer: “Jack Benny Program”; “Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show”
06-24-1909 - Milton Katims - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-27-2006
violist, conductor: “NBC Symphony”; “Eternal Light”
06-24-1910 - Cootie Williams - Mobile, AL - d. 9-14-1985
jazz trumpet player: “Jubilee”
06-24-1910 - Katherine Locke - Kalakenchu, Russia - d. 9-12-1995
actor: (Wife of Norman Corwin) “Columbia Presents Corwin”
06-24-1912 - Brian Johnston - Little Berkhamsted, England - d. 1-5-1994
entertainer-commentator: “In Town Tonight”; “Down Your Way”
06-24-1914 - Allan E. Sloane - d. 4-29-2001
writer: “Indictment”; “Bulldog Drummond”; “The Man Behind the Gun”
06-24-1915 - Jack Sterling - Baltimore, MD - d. 10-31-1991
announcer/emcee: “Make Up Your Mind”
06-24-1921 - Peggy DeCastro - On a Sugar Plantation, Dominican Republic - d. 3-6-2004
singer: (The DeCastro Sisters) “Steve Lawrence Show”; “Here’s to Veterans”
06-24-1923 - Jack Carter - NYC
comedian: “Philip Morris Playhouse on Broadway”
06-24-1924 - Mickey “Junior” O’Day - Newark, NJ
actor: Peter Pig “Children’s Hour”; Neddie Evans “Big Sister”
06-24-1924 - Thelma Rogers - Coventry, England - d. 1-13-2000
actor: “The Archers”
06-24-1925 - Louis Jean Brunelli - NYC
assistant conductor: “Longines Symphonette”
06-24-1929 - Barbara Franklin (Perkins) - Regina, Canada - d. 2-15-2009
actor/singer: “Opportunity Knocks”
06-25-1886 - Edna Wheeler Ballard - d. 2-10-1971
harpist: WBBM Chicago, Illinois
06-25-1887 - George Abbott - Forestville, NY - d. 1-31-1995
broadway producer: “Stagestruck”
06-25-1891 - Cliff Soubier - d. 9-xx-1984
host: Howard B. Thurston “Thurston the Magician”; Dwight Twentysixer “Vic and Sade”
06-25-1893 - Charlotte Greenwood - South Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-18-1978
comedienne: “Life with Charlotte Greenwood”; “Charlotte Greenwood Show”
06-25-1895 - Donald Gallagher - Quincy, IL - d. 8-14-1961
actor: P. Wallace Carver “Houseboat Hannah”; Humble Dickinson “Joan and Kermit”
06-25-1897 - Wilkie Mahoney - d. 7-1-1976
writer: “The Bob Hope Show:
06-25-1898 - Jack Roth - d. 2-12-1980
drummer: (Memphis Five) “The Jimmy Durante Show”
06-25-1899 - Arthur Tracy - Kaminetz-Podolski, Russia - d. 10-5-1997
singer: (The Street Singer) “Street Singer”; “Music That Satisfies”
06-25-1903 - Anne Revere - NYC - d. 12-18-1990
actor: “Cavalcade of America”
06-25-1903 - Earl Ebi - Hollister, CA - d. 1-24-1973
director: “Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show”; “Lux Radio Theatre”; “Vic and Sade”
06-25-1908 - Hawley Ward Ades - Bloomington, IL
arranger: “The Fred Waring Show”
06-25-1908 - Larry Berns - Philadelphia, PA
producer: “Jack Carson Show”; “Our Miss Brooks”; “Lum and Abner”
06-25-1911 - Martin Gosch - d. 10-20-1973
producer, creator, writer: “Abbott and Costello Show”; “Amazing Mr. Smith”
06-25-1911 - Reed Hadley - Petrolia, TX - d. 12-11-1974
actor: Red Ryder “Red Ryder”; Chad Remington “Frontier Town”
06-25-1913 - Cyril Fletcher - Watford, England - d. 1-1-2005
panelist: “Does the Team Think”
06-25-1913 - John Pickard - Lascossas, TN - d. 8-4-1993
actor: Grant Thursday “Pretty Kitty Kelly”; Bruce Barrett “My Son and I”
06-25-1915 - Peter Lind Hayes - San Francisco, CA - d. 4-21-1998
actor: “Jack Benny Program”; “Texaco Town”; “Ford Show”; “Lum and Abner”
06-25-1918 - Ken Mayer - California - d. 1-30-1985
actor: Robbie Robertson “Space Patrol”
06-25-1919 - Bill Manhoff - Newark, NJ - d. 6-18-1974
writer: “Duffy’s Tavern”; “Hollywood Showcase”
06-25-1920 - Frances Lafferty - New Jersey - d. 9-15-1999
actor: “Ladies Home Journal”; “Mr. District Attorney”; “Myrt and Marge”
06-25-1924 - Phil Nowlan - d. 4-20-2002
writer: Buck Rogers in the 25th Century based on Nowlan”s comic strip
06-25-1924 - Sidney Lumet - Philadelphia, PA
actor: “Let’s Pretend”
06-25-1925 - June Lockhart - NYC
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”; “Suspense”
06-25-1925 - Virginia Welles - Wausau, WI
actor: Cosette (Older) “Les Miserables”
06-25-1932 - Helen Batts - d. 4-22-2005
woman’s program on WPET Greensboro, North Carolins
06-25-1939 - Harold Melvin - Philadelphia, PA - d. 3-24-1997
lead singer: (Blue Notes) “Music On Deck”; “Join the Navy”
06-26-1877 - William Hiram Foulkes - d. 12-9-1961
presbyterian leader: mid-week inspirational talks
06-26-1891 - Octavus Roy Cohen - Charleston, SC - d. 1-6-1959
writer: “Amos ‘n’ Andy”; “The Personal Column of the Air”
06-26-1892 - Pearl S. Buck - Hillsboro, WV - d. 3-6-1973
author: “America’s Town Meeting of the Air”; “Pacific Story”
06-26-1893 - Dorothy Fuldheim - Passaic, NJ - d. 11-3-1989
newscaster: weekly news round-up on the ABC network
06-26-1894 - William Wirges - Buffalo, NY - d. 9-28-1971
conductor: “Club Valspar”; “Arabesque”; “Gold Dust Twins”
06-26-1897 - Warren Colston - Great Bend, PA - d. 5-24-1972
actor: “Young Widder Brown”; “Cavalcade of America”
06-26-1900 - Richard Crooks - Trenton, NJ - d. 9-29-1972
singer: “Voice of Firestone”; “Maxwell House Coffee Hour”
06-26-1902 - Bruce Evans - d. 2-9-1978
actor: Trapeze Artist “Circus Days”
06-26-1902 - William Powell Lear - Hannibal, MO - d. 5-14-1978
inventor: With Elmer Wavering, invented first commerial car radio (Motorola)
06-26-1904 - Peter Lorre - Rozsahegy, Hungary - d. 3-23-1964
actor: I.A. Moto “Mr. Moto”; “Creeps By Night”; “; “Mystery in the Air”
06-26-1907 - Ynez Seabury - Oregon - d. 4-11-1973
actor: Libby Collins “Lux Radio Theatre”
06-26-1908 - Robert J. Ross - d. 8-17-1970
writrer: “Amos ‘n’ Andy”
06-26-1913 - Jack Moyles - San Francisco, CA - d. 1-16-1973
actor: Major Daggett “Fort Laramie”; Rocky Jordan “A Man Named Jordan/Rocky Jordan”
06-26-1914 - Babe Didrikson Zaharias - Port Arthur, TX - d. 9-27-1956
all-around athlete: “Babe Didrikson Zaharia Sports Show”
06-26-1916 - Alex Dreier - Honolulu, Hawaii Territory - d. 3-12-2000
reporter: “Morning News Roundup”; “NBC D-Day Coverage”; “Weekly War Journal”
06-26-1920 - Leonid Hambro - Chicago, IL - d. 10-23-2006
pianist: “WQXR Halloween Party:
06-26-1922 - Eleanor Parker - Cedarville, OH
actor: “Screen Guild Theatre”; “Hollywood Sound Stage”
06-26-1923 - Syd Lawrence - Shutton, England - d. 5-5-1998
orchestra leader: “American Patrol”
06-26-1924 - Bob Maxwell - Custer, KY - d. 12-24-2002
actor: “The Lone Ranger”
06-26-1940 - Phoebe Dorin - NYC
actor: “CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”
06-26-1945 - Steven Keats - The Bronx - d. 5-8-1994
actor: “Sears Radio Theatre”
06-26-1957 - Martin Smith - England - d. 11-12-1994
vocalist: “Songs from the Shows”; “Friday Night is Music Night”
06-27-1862 - May Irwin - Whitby, Canada - d. 10-22-1938
actor: “The Eveready Hour”
06-27-1875 - Reginald Mason - San Francisco, CA - d. 7-10-1962
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”
06-27-1880 - Helen Keller - Tuscumbia, AL - d. 6-1-1968
deaf and blind lecturer: “Fleischmann’s Yeast Hour”; “Meet the Press”
06-27-1886 - Dr. Julius Klein - d. 6-15-1961
economist: “The World’s Business”
06-27-1892 - Robert Ellis - Brooklyn, NY - d. 12-29-1974
actor: Del Tremaine “Arnold Grimm’s Daughter”
06-27-1900 - Milt Mabie - d. 9-5-1973
singer: (The Westerners) “National Barn Dance”; “Plantation Party”; “Show Boat”
06-27-1900 - Rev. James G. Keller - Oakland, CA - d. 2-7-1977
priest: “The Christophers”
06-27-1905 - Sydney Mason - NYC - d. 4-11-1976
announcer, actor: “Famous Jury Trials”; “Johnny Presents”
06-27-1906 - Carroll Bratman - Baltimore, MD - d. 7-15-1984
staff percussionist for CBS radio
06-27-1906 - Catherine Cookson - Tyne Dock, England - d. 6-11-1998
novelist: Several of her works were transferred to radio
06-27-1907 - John McIntire - Spokane, WA - d. 1-30-1991
actor: Benjamin Ordway “Crime Doctor”; Lt. Dundy “Advs. of Sam Spade”
06-27-1907 - Valerie Cossart - London, England - d. 12-31-1994
actor: “Theatre Guild On the Air”
06-27-1908 - David Davis - near Malvern, England - d. 4-29-1996
piano accompanist: “Children’s Hour”
06-27-1911 - Collins Driggs - Manchester, CT - d. 8-29-1966
organist: Collins Driggs at the Hammond Organ”
06-27-1911 - Dr. Jay Morton - Hollywood, CA - d. 9-6-2003
Best know for the catchphrase “Look; up in the sky, etc.” on “Superman”
06-27-1912 - Audrey Christie - Chicago, IL - d. 12-19-1989
actor: Assistant to Peter Standish “Peter Standish, Medical Examiner”
06-27-1912 - Bill Kennedy - Cleveland Heights, OH - d. 1-27-1997
announcer: “Nobody’s Children”
06-27-1914 - Noboru Kirishima - Iwaki City, Japan - d. 4-24-1984
enka singer: “This Week’s Star”
06-27-1918 - Ed Fleming - Baraboo, WI
newscaster, announcer: “Ed Fleming and the News”, “Our Gal Sunday”
06-27-1918 - Michael Sheldon - London, England
writer for CBC Radio
06-27-1920 - Betty Bryant - Bristol, England - d. 10-3-2005
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”
06-27-1924 - Rosalie Allen - Old Forge, PA - d. 9-24-2003
yodeling cowgirl: “Prairie Stars”, “Grand Ole Opry”
06-27-1925 - Chuck Balding - d. 6-10-2000
sportscaster: WOAY Oak Hill, West Virginia
06-27-1927 - Peter Bayliss - Kingston-upon-Thames, England - d. 7-29-2002
actor: “A Trick to Catch the Old One”
06-27-1933 - Gary Crosby - Los Angeles, CA - d. 8-24-1995
singer: “Gary Crosby Show”; “Bing Crosby Show”
06-27-1934 - Anna Moffo - Wayne, PA - d. 3-10-2006
soprano: “Voice of Firestone”
06-27-1938 - Alan Coren - Paddington, London, England - d. 10-18-2007
panellist: “The News Quiz”
06-27-1938 - Kathryn Beaumont - London, England
actor: “Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show”
06-27-1938 - Ron Lyons - Asheville, NC - d. 8-3-2007
traffic anchor: KCBS San Francisco, California
06-28-1895 - George R. Holmes - Tippecanoe County, IN - d. 2-12-1939
news commentator: “Back of the News in Washington”
06-28-1895 - Kelvin Keech - Punachou, Hawaii Territory - d. 5-xx-1977
announcer: “Popeye the Sailor”; “Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing”
06-28-1902 - Richard Rodgers - Long Island, NY - d. 12-30-1979
composer: “ASCAP On Parade”; “Jumbo Fire Chief Program”; “Chase and Sanborn Hour”
06-28-1904 - Hector Chevigny - d. 4-20-1965
writer: “Portia Faces Life”; “The Second Mrs. Burton”
06-28-1906 - Ann Leaf - Omaha, NE - d. 4-3-1995
organist: (Little Organ Annie) “Ann Leaf at the Organ”; “Lorenzo Jones”
06-28-1908 - Alan Bunce - Westfield, NJ - d. 4-27-1965
actor: Albert Arbuckle “Ethel and Albert”; Jerry Malone “Young Dr. Malone”
06-28-1908 - John W. Harrington - NYC - d. 9-17-1974
announcer: “Just Plain Bill”
06-28-1909 - Eric Ambler - London, England - d. 10-22-1998
author: “Escape”; “Hour of Mystery”
06-28-1913 - Harry Cool - d. 6-xx-1979
vocalist, bandleader: “Fibber McGee and Molly”s
06-28-1914 - Dan Seymour - NYC - d. 7-27-1982
actor, narrator: Danny “Aunt Jenny’s Real Life Stories”; “War of the Worlds”
06-28-1914 - Lester Flatt - Overton County, TN - d. 5-10-1979
bluegrass guitarist: (Flatt and Scruggs) “Martha White Biscuit Time”; “Grand Ole Opry”
06-28-1914 - Zina Provendie - d. 5-15-2005
actor: Sylvia Bruno Wick “The Goldbergs”
06-28-1924 - Gene Thompson - San Francisco, CA - d. 4-14-2001
writer: “Duffy’s Tavern”
06-28-1926 - Mel Brooks - NYC
comedian: “Jean Shepherd Show”
06-28-1933 - Maurice Cloutier - Manchester, NH - d. 11-21-2006
disk jockey: KOTA Rapid City, South Dakota
06-29-1893 - Alma Kitchell - Superior, WI - d. 11-13-1996
singer, commentator: “Melody Hour”; “Brief Case/Streamline Journal”
06-29-1895 - Paul V. Galvin - Harvard, IL - d. 11-5-1959
co-founder of Galvin Manufacturing, merged with Motorola
06-29-1899 - Lester Vail - Denver, CO - d. 11-28-1959
director: “Aldrich Family”; “March of Time”; “World’s Most Honored Flights”
06-29-1901 - Ed Gardner - Astoria, NY - d. 8-17-1963
comedian: Archie “Duffy’s Tavern”
06-29-1901 - Nelson Eddy - Providence, RI - d. 3-6-1967
singer: “Voice of Firestone”; “Vicks Open House”; “Chase & Sanborn Hour”
06-29-1903 - Ellen Pollock - Heidelberg, Germany - d. 3-29-1997
actor: “The Lady of Lyons”
06-29-1903 - John Stanley - London, England - d. 12-2-1982
actor: Sherlock Holmes “Advs. of Sherlock Holmes” Jeff Brady “Romance of Helen Trent”
06-29-1905 - John Gibson - Oakland, CA - d. 9-xx-1971
actor: Red Pennington “Don Winslow of the Navy”
06-29-1907 - Joan Davis - St. Paul, MN - d. 5-22-1961
comedienne: “Sealtest Village Store”; “Joan Davis Show”
06-29-1908 - John Hench - Cedar Rapids, IA - d. 2-5-2004
actor: Stanley Gilman “Those Happy Gilmans”
06-29-1908 - Leroy Anderson - Cambridge, MA - d. 5-18-1975
composer, arranger: “ Contemporary Composers Concerts”; “Must for America”
06-29-1909 - Oscar Argumedo - d. 8-16-1986
disk jockey: KCOR San Antonio, Texas
06-29-1911 - Bernard Herrmann - NYC - d. 12-24-1975
conductor, composer: “Columbia Workshop”; “Mercury Theatre on the Air/Campbell Playhouse”
06-29-1911 - Milt Josefsberg - NYC - d. 12-14-1987
writer: “Jack Benny Program”; “Bob Hope Show”
06-29-1913 - Charles Gussman - Kansas City, MO - d. 10-18-2000
writer: “Road to Life”; “Right to Happiness”, Young Doctor Malone”
06-29-1913 - Hilliard Marks - d. 8-19-1982
producer: (Brother of Mary Livingston) “The Jack Benny Show”
06-29-1914 - Rafael Kubelik - Bychory, Czech Republic - d. 8-11-1996
conductor: “Musicians Off Stage”
06-29-1915 - Leo Diamond - NYC - d. 9-15-1966
harmonica player: “Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy”
06-29-1915 - Ruth Warrick - St. Joseph, MO - d. 1-15-2005
actor: “Joyce Jordan, M.D.”; “Myrt and Marge”
06-29-1920 - Bonnie Dunn - NYC
singer: “This Is Fort Dix”
06-29-1922 - Ralph Burns - Newton, MA - d. 11-21-2001
pianist, arranger: “Esquire Jazz Concert”; “Saturday Night Swing Session”
06-29-1922 - Tony Osborne - Cambridge, England - d. 3-1-2009
arranger: “The Goon Show”; “Take It From Here”
06-29-1924 - T. Tommy Cutrer - Tangipahoa Parish, LA - d. 10-11-1998
announcer: “Grand Ole Opry”
06-29-1925 - Cara Williams - Brooklyn, NY
actor: “Harold Lloyd Comedy Theatre”
06-29-1934 - Chuck Schaden - Chicago, IL
host: Those Were the Days”
06-29-1935 - Keith Walker - St. Louis, MO - d. 12-30-1996
writer: Hollywood Radio Theatre”
06-29-1937 - Ivan Cury - NYC
actor: Bobbie Benson “Bobby Benson and the B-Bar-B Riders”
06-30-1879 - Walter Hampden - Brooklyn, NY - d. 6-11-1955
actor: Leonidas Witherall “Leonidas Witherall”
06-30-1891 - Man Mountain Dean - NYC - d. 5-29-1953
professional wrestler: “Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show”
06-30-1893 - Virginia Beberus - Mercer, ME - d. 10-3-1964
composer/author: conducted a radio programå
06-30-1894 - Frank Davis - Brooklyn, NY - d. 10-9-1970
singer: “Fred Waring Show”
06-30-1894 - Phillips Carlin - NYC - d. 8-27-1971
announcer: “Palmolive Hour”; “Atwater Kent Hour”
06-30-1896 - Wilfred Pelletier - Montreal, Canada - d. 4-9-1982
conductor: “Roses and Drums”; “Metropolitan Opera Auditions of the Air”
06-30-1898 - Carl Pierce - Quincy, MA - d. 8-16-1962
announcer: “Breakfast at Sardi’s”; “The Right Thing to Do”
06-30-1898 - George Chandler - Waukegan, IL - d. 6-10-1985
actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”
06-30-1899 - Santos Ortega - NYC - d. 4-10-1976
actor: Nero Wolfe “Advs. of Nero Wolfe”; Richard Queen “Advs. of Ellery Queen”
06-30-1900 - Frank Gallop - Boston, MA - d. 5-17-1988
announcer: “Milton Berle Show”; “Gangbusters”; “Stella Dallas”
06-30-1904 - Glenda Farrell - Enid, Oklahoma Territory - d. 5-1-1971
opposing pitcher: “Quizzer’s Baseball”
06-30-1905 - Nestor Paiva - Fresno, CA - d. 9-9-1966
actor: “NBC Presents: Short Story”; “Escape”
06-30-1910 - Sundra Love - Chicago, IL - d. 12-6-1996
actor: Kay Fairchild “Stepmother”; Ethel Foster “Guiding Light”
06-30-1913 - Harry Wismer - Port Huron, MI - d. 12-3-1967
sportscaster: “Harry Wismer Sports Show”; “Champion Roll Call”
06-30-1917 - Buddy Rich - NYC - d. 4-2-1987
drummer: “Artie Shaw and His Orchestra”; “Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra”
06-30-1917 - Lena Horne - Brooklyn, NY
singer: “Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street”
06-30-1917 - Susan Hayward - Brooklyn, NY - d. 3-14-1975
actor: “Radio Almanac”; “Lux Radio Theatre”
06-30-1918 - Stewart Foster - Binghamton, NY - d. 2-7-1968
singer: “Stewart Foster Show”; “Galen Drake”; “On a Sunday Afternoon”
06-30-1920 - Dean Harens - South Bend, IN - d. 5-20-1996
actor: Arthur Anderson “We, the Abbotts”
06-30-1925 - Alice Wallace - Los Angeles, CA - d. 2-23-2002
actor: “Music for America”; “Let Freedom Sing”
06-30-1928 - Frank Marcus - Breslau, Germany - d. 8-5-1996
playwright: “The Hospital Visitor”
06-30-1957 - Carol Boettcher - Milwaukee, WI
actor: Billie “Billie the Brownie”
06-xx-1873 - Royal Arch Gunnison - d. 9-24-1946
newsman: twice weekly 15 minute broadcast on Mutual

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