music minder The Premier Online Music & Entertainment Directory Search For: In Table: Albums Businesses Entertainers Hits On This Day Home Entertainers Businesses About Contact Albums Birthdates Hits Instruments Lyrics Memorials On This Day Home > Birthdates Menu > List Birthdates BIRTHDATES Search Results for Year: 1916 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: 38   BERNARD GREENHOUSE   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. MAXENE ANDREWS   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 HENRI DUTILLEUX   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. RONNIE ALDRICH   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 BILL DOGGETT   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 BOB HORN   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. JACKIE GLEASON   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. DINAH SHORE   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. HARRY JAMES   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. HAROLD ROBBINS   Date Born: Tuesday 21 March 1916   Description: Author   Summary: Robbins has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6743 Hollywood Boulevard. GEORGE WYLE   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. STERLING HAYDEN   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. GREGORY PECK   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. CARL COTNER   Date Born: Saturday 8 April 1916   Description: Fiddle, USA   Summary: "The Gene Autry Show" [Musical Director] PHIL MEDLEY   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. LEE VINCENT   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 ROBERT SHAW - (conductor)   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. GLENN FORD   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. LYDIA MENDOZA   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. DOROTHY McGUIRE   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. OLIVIA de HAVILLAND   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. TEX MORTON   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. REG VARNEY   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 CHARLIE CHRISTIAN   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 SONNY THOMPSON   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 VAN JOHNSON   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. JOE EVANS   Date Born: Saturday 7 October 1916   Description: Alto saxophone   Summary: Born in Pensacola, Florida, he was active between 1939 and 1965(aged 97) WALTER CRONKITE   Date Born: Saturday 4 November 1916   Summary: For many years, Cronkite was considered one of the most trusted figures in the United States. RAY CONNIFF   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. JOE BUSHKIN   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. BILLY MAY   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. JUDY CANOVA   Date Born: Monday 20 November 1916   Description: Comedienne , Actress, Singer, Guitarist, USA   Summary: Judy Canova sang, yodeled and played guitar. CHARLIE VENTURA   Date Born: Saturday 2 December 1916   Description: Saxophonist, USA   Summary: After the 1950s he did few recordings, but did club work in Las Vegas. HUGO PERETTI   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). KIRK DOUGLAS   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. PEREZ PRADO   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'. BETTY GRABLE   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. JOHNNY FRIGO   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.           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:   © Music Minder & Mark Reynolds IT Consulting   All rights reserved: Prosecution rights will be exercised for any breaches of copyright.