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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: 37 | Date Born: | Monday 3 January 1916 | | | Description: | Cellist, USA | | | Summary: | Bernard Greenhouse has won a reputation as one of the major interpreters of his instrument. | | Date Born: | Monday 3 January 1916 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | The Andrews Sisters became the best-selling female vocal group in the history of popular music, setting records that remain unsurpassed to this day | | Date Born: | Saturday 22 January 1916 | | | Description: | Composer, France | | | Summary: | In addition to his activities as a composer, Dutilleux worked as the Head of Music Production for Radio France for 18 years. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 15 February 1916 | | | Description: | Band Leader, Arranger, UK | | | Summary: | Member of the famed World War II big band ’The Squadronaires’
becoming one of England’s best known bands during the war years
| | Date Born: | Wednesday 16 February 1916 | | | Description: | Pianist. Arranger, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | He used a Hammond organ during the fifties. He also arranged for many bandleaders and performers, including Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, and Lionel Hampton. NPA | | Date Born: | Sunday 20 February 1916 | | | Description: | TV host, USA | | | Summary: | Horn was the first compare of the show and was later to be replaced by Dick Clark.
| | Date Born: | Saturday 26 February 1916 | | | Description: | Actor, Band Leader, USA | | | Summary: | The son of Mae, a subway change-booth attendant, and Herb Gleason, an insurance auditor.One of two sons of a father from Ireland who abandoned the family, his brother died when Jackie was a boy, Gleason was raised by a loving but troubled, overworked Irish mother who died when he was 19. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 29 February 1916 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actress, USA | | | Summary: | She was most popular during the Big Band era of the 1940s and 1950s. After failing singing auditions for the bands of Benny Goodman and both Jimmy Dorsey and his brother Tommy Dorsey. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 15 March 1916 | | | Description: | Trumpeter, Band leader, USA | | | Summary: | Harry James.One of the greatest trumpeters of all time. Appeared in many film musicals and radio. He came to fame in the 30’s with the Benny Goodman Band.
Later formed his own band.
| | Date Born: | Tuesday 21 March 1916 | | | Description: | Author | | | Summary: | Robbins has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6743 Hollywood Boulevard. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 22 March 1916 | | | Description: | Composer of music, USA | | | Summary: | Wyle served as the musical director for The Flip Wilson Show during the early 1970s. | | Date Born: | Sunday 26 March 1916 | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | Summary: | Born in New Jersey, Hayden's parents were George and Frances Walter, who named him Sterling Relyea Walter. After his father died, he was adopted at the age of nine by James Hayden and renamed Sterling Walter Hayden. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 5 April 1916 | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | Summary: | Born to Bernice Mae "Bunny" and Gregory Pearl Peck, who was a chemist and pharmacist. Peck's father was of English and Irish heritage, and his mother was of Scots and English. | | Date Born: | Saturday 8 April 1916 | | | Description: | Fiddle, USA | | | Summary: | "The Gene Autry Show" [Musical Director]
| | Date Born: | Sunday 9 April 1916 | | | Description: | Composer, USA | | | Summary: | Twist and Shout would become one of the selling hits of all time
and one of the mast covered songs by any band.
| | Date Born: | Saturday 15 April 1916 | | | Description: | Bandleader, Bassist, USA | | | Summary: | Lee Vincent was an American musician, disk jockey, orchestra leader and musical agent. NP
| | Date Born: | Sunday 30 April 1916 | | | Description: | Condutor of music | | | Summary: | Shaw recorded for a variety of labels, beginning with a single record for American Decca and numerous releases on RCA Victor during the 78 rpm era. From the late 1970s, most of his recordings appeared on the Telarc label. | | Date Born: | Monday 1 May 1916 | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | Summary: | He was born to Hannah and Newton Ford, who was a railroad executive. He was a great nephew of Canada's first Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald. | | Date Born: | Sunday 21 May 1916 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, USA | | | Summary: | Mendoza was born into a musical family in Houston, Texas. She learned to sing and play stringed instruments from her mother and grandmother. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 14 June 1916 | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | Summary: | She founded the La Jolla Playhouse along with Gregory Peck and Mel Ferrer in 1947.
| | Date Born: | Saturday 1 July 1916 | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | Summary: | Both de Havilland and Fontaine were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1942. Fontaine won that year for her role in Alfred Hitchcock's Suspicion over de Havilland's performance in Hold Back the Dawn. | | Date Born: | Saturday 8 July 1916 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Songwriter, New Zealand | | | Summary: | He was named Tex by fellow New Zealander and radio personality 'Jack Davey' who also became one of Australia's best known showman. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 11 July 1916 | | | Description: | Actor, UK | | | Summary: | He toured Australia, New Zealand and Canada. In 1988, On the Buses went on to the stage and again Varney went to Australia to play Stan | | Date Born: | Saturday 29 July 1916 | | | Description: | Guitarist, USA | | | Summary: | Christian was born in Bonham, Texas, his family moving to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, when he was a small child. Both of his parents were musicians and he had two brothers | | Date Born: | Tuesday 22 August 1916 | | | Description: | Pianist, Band leader | | | Summary: | He also had success as a songwriter and many times co-writing with blues guitarist Freddie King. King he met Sonny Thompson in 1959.
YOUTUBE: Nick Jonas and Sonny Thompson - Last Time Around | | Date Born: | Saturday 26 August 1916 | | | Description: | Actor, Dancer, USA | | | Summary: | Johnson was born the son of Loretta, a homemaker, and Charles E. Johnson, a plumber and later real-estate salesman. | | Date Born: | Saturday 7 October 1916 | | | Description: | Alto saxophone | | | Summary: | Born in Pensacola, Florida, he was active between 1939 and 1965(aged 97) | | Date Born: | Monday 6 November 1916 | | | Description: | Band Leader, Arranger, USA | | | Summary: | He worked with several artists, including Rosemary Clooney, Marty Robbins, Frankie Laine, Johnny Mathis, Guy Mitchell and Johnnie Ray. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 7 November 1916 | | | Description: | Pianist, USA | | | Summary: | He co wrote 'Oh Look At Me Now' which was one of Frank Sinatra's first hit song. | | Date Born: | Friday 10 November 1916 | | | Description: | Trumpeter, Arranger, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | Billy May is probably most noted for his arrangements for the top
artists such as Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Bing Crosby etc. | | Date Born: | Monday 20 November 1916 | | | Description: | Comedienne , Actress, Singer, Guitarist, USA | | | Summary: | Judy Canova sang, yodeled and played guitar. | | Date Born: | Saturday 2 December 1916 | | | Description: | Saxophonist, USA | | | Summary: | After the 1950s he did few recordings, but did club work in Las Vegas.
| | Date Born: | Wednesday 6 December 1916 | | | Description: | Composer, Arranger, Record producer, USA | | | Summary: | Writer of one of the most performed and recorded songs of all time
Can’t Help Falling In Love’ (Elvis Presley). | | Date Born: | Saturday 9 December 1916 | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | Summary: | One of the great actors of his time during the fifties through to the turn of the century. | | Date Born: | Monday 11 December 1916 | | | Description: | Arranger, bandleader, composer singer, organist and pianist | | | Summary: | He is often referred to as the 'King of the Mambo'. | | Date Born: | Monday 18 December 1916 | | | Description: | Actress, Singer, Dancer | | | Summary: | Grable has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6525 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood. She also has a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame.
| | Date Born: | Wednesday 27 December 1916 | | | Description: | Violinist, USA | | | Summary: | Frigo was born in Chicago, Illinois, and studied violin for only three years beginning at age 7. |
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