musicminder The Premier Online Music & Entertainment Resource Directory Search For: In Table: Albums Businesses Entertainers Hits On This Day Home About Us Contact Us Businesses Entertainers Albums Birthdates Hits Instruments Lyrics Memorials On This Day Home > Birthdates Menu > List Birthdates BIRTHDATES Search Results for Year: 1910 Click on an Entertainer's name in the list below to view more information about that Entertainer. Click on a date in the list to view a list of other Entertainers with the same birthdate.   Number of Records Matching Query: 29   DJANGO REINHARDT   Date Born: Monday 24 January 1910   Description: Guitarist, Belgium   Summary: Django's only acoustic guitar was given to Les Paul. Les Paul keeps Django's acoustic guitar in his garage and it is his most prized possession. STANLEY VANN   Date Born: Tuesday 15 February 1910   Description: Composer, Organist, Choral Conductor, UK   Summary: In 1971 he was awarded a Lambeth doctorate by the then Archbishop of Canterbury in recognition of his "eminent services to church music". AL SEARS   Date Born: Tuesday 22 February 1910   Description: Saxophonist, USA   Summary: Player of Jazz in the fifties - Joined Chick Web’s band plus Johnny Hodges’, Duke Ellington’s and many others. DAVID NIVEN   Date Born: Tuesday 1 March 1910   Description: Actor, UK   Summary: Born the son of William Edward Graham Niven and the French, British Henrietta Julia Degacher who, born in Wales. Youtube: David Niven interviewed by David Frost 1972. SAMMY KAYE   Date Born: Sunday 13 March 1910   Description: Band leader, Saxophonist, Clarinetist, USA   Summary: Kaye was known for his use of "singing of song titles", which was emulated by Kay Kyser and Blue Barron. T BONE WALKER   Date Born: Monday 28 March 1910   Description: Guitarist, Composer, USA   Summary: He was influenced by Dallas's Blind Lemon Jefferson, the local string bands that his stepfather played with and the classic blues sound of blues/gospel singers, such as, Ida Cox and Ma Rainey. In 2003, Rolling Stone ranked him at #47 on their list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". On the 2011 list of Rolling Stone magazine's "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" Walker had dropped to #67. AL LEWIS   Date Born: Saturday 30 April 1910   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: He attended Thomas Jefferson High School, from which he left in his junior year. He later attended Oswego State Teachers College. MARY LOU WILLIAMS   Date Born: Sunday 8 May 1910   Description: Vocalist, Pianist, Arranger, USA   Summary: Noted as the leading female of jazz instrumentalist. GORDON JENKINS   Date Born: Thursday 12 May 1910   Description: Band Leader, Arranger, Composer   Summary: He started his career doing arrangements for a St Louis radio station. ARTIE SHAW   Date Born: Monday 23 May 1910   Description: Clarinetist, USA   Summary: Shaw made several musical shorts in 1939 for Vitaphone and Paramount Pictures, and he portrayed himself in the Fred Astaire film Second Chorus (1940), WAXIE MAXIE SILVERMAN   Date Born: Wednesday 25 May 1910   Description: Promoter, Manager, USA   Summary: Max Silverman was a DJ in Washington and also the manager of ’The Clovers’ RED FOLEY   Date Born: Tuesday 7 June 1910   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: In 1941,Foley signed a lifetime contract with Decca Records. He also released "Old Shep" in 1941, a song he wrote with Arthur Willis in 1933 about a dog he owned as a boy (in reality, his German shepherd, poisoned by a neighbor, was named Hoover). HOWLIN WOLF   Date Born: Friday 10 June 1910   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, Composer, USA   Summary: Born near West Point, Mississippi, and named after Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States. His nick name Big Foot Chester and Bull Cow as he was known in his early years because of his great size. WILLIAM HANNA   Date Born: Tuesday 14 June 1910   Description: Animator, Cartoonist   Summary: William Hanna was born the son of Irish born William J. Hanna and Avice Hanna. DAVID ROSE   Date Born: Wednesday 15 June 1910   Description: Band Leader, Arranger, Composer, Conductor   Summary: Recipient of four Emmy awards, David Rose was born in London to Jewish parents and raised in Chicago, Illinois. FRANK LOESSER   Date Born: Wednesday 29 June 1910   Description: Composer, Lyricist, USA   Summary: Loesser was the lyricist of over 700 songs. MARTHA MEARS   Date Born: Monday 18 July 1910   Description: Vocalist , USA   Summary: The voice of the song "White Christmas" in the movie Holiday Inn (1942). BILL GOODWIN   Date Born: Thursday 28 July 1910   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Goodwin was known for frequently promoting the item sold by the sponsor of the show (Swan Soap or Maxwell House Coffee, among others FREDDIE SLACK   Date Born: Sunday 7 August 1910   Description: Pianist, USA   Summary: Originally a drummer, he switched to piano soon after moving to Chicago in 1927. RUBY KEELER   Date Born: Friday 26 August 1910   Description: Actress,Singer, Dancer, USA   Summary: From 1928 to 1940, she was married to legendary singer "Al Jolson". Keeler was born in Canada, in 1909, to a Irish Catholic family. Her father was a truck driver, and when she was three years old, her family packed up and moved to New York City where he knew he could get better pay. RALPH BERKOWITZ   Date Born: Monday 5 September 1910   Description: Composer of music, USA   Summary: Berkowitz has been widely published as an arranger and composer. BILL BOYD   Date Born: Wednesday 7 September 1910   Description: Singer and guitarist. USA   Summary: The Cowboy Ramblers became major stars on radio and were offered work in Hollywood BILL BOYD - (musician)   Date Born: Thursday 29 September 1910   Description: Vocalist, Actor, USA   Summary: His brother played in other bands while Bill had his radio show in Dallas where he appeared in films as well. His career stopped in the very late fifties. JACK CARSON   Date Born: Thursday 27 October 1910   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Carson sought work in Hollywood, initially landing bit roles at RKO. Radio also proved to be a source of employment for the team following a 1938 appearance on the Bing Crosby Kraft Music Hall program. EDMUNDO ROS   Date Born: Wednesday 7 December 1910   Description: Vocalist and band leader, USA   Summary: A musician, vocalist, arranger and bandleader who made his career in Britain. He directed a highly popular Latin-American orchestra, had an extensive recording career LOUIS PRIMA   Date Born: Wednesday 7 December 1910   Description: Trumpeter, USA   Summary: A trumpeter and vocalist during the Swing era through to the during the sixties composing and arranging SPADE COOLEY   Date Born: Wednesday 7 December 1910   Description: Fiddle, Actor, USA   Summary: He was nicknamed with the name Spade from a card game. JOHN H. HAMMOND   Date Born: Thursday 15 December 1910   Description: Record producer, Talent scout   Summary: He discovered Aretha Franklin, then an eighteen-year-old gospel singer. In 1961, he heard folk singer Bob Dylan playing harmonica. HAROLD RHODES   Date Born: Wednesday 28 December 1910   Description: Inventor, Pianist, USA   Summary: Harlod Rhodes was the inventor of the most successful electric piano of it's day.           Disclaimer:   Music Minder takes as much care as possible to check the accuracy of the information provided. However, we can not guarantee the absolute accuracy of any material provided. If you have any information different to or in addition to that provided by our site, we encourage you to contact us.   Please direct all enquiries to enquiries@musicminder.com       Copyrights:   Concept & Content © Music Minder Promotions Web Site Design © Mark Reynolds IT Consulting Technical Concepts, Database Development, & Programming © Mark Reynolds IT Consulting   All rights reserved: Prosecution rights will be exercised for any breaches of copyright.