music minder The Premier Online Music & Entertainment Directory Search For:    In Table: Albums Birthdates Businesses Entertainers Hits Lyrics Memorials 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: 1920 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: 61   Henry Corden - (fred Flintstone)   Date Born: Tuesday 6 January 1920   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Corden gave his voice to a number of other Hanna-Barbara productions, including The Jetsons, The Atom Ant Show, The New Tom & Jerry Show. Clive Dunn   Date Born: Monday 19 January 1920   Description: Actor, Author, UK   Summary: Dunn was one of the younger members of the Dad's Army cast when, at 48, he took on the role of the elderly butcher whose military service in earlier wars made him the most experienced member Federico Fellini   Date Born: Tuesday 20 January 1920   Description: Director of film   Summary: In 1950 Fellini co-produced and co-directed with Alberto Lattuada, Variety Lights (Luci del varietŕ), his first feature film. Helmut Zacharias   Date Born: Tuesday 27 January 1920   Description: Violinist, Germany   Summary: In the 1950s he was considered to be one of the best jazz violinists of Europe. Russell Arms   Date Born: Tuesday 3 February 1920   Description: Actor, Singer, USA   Summary: From 1952-57, he was best known as a vocalist on Your Hit Parade, an NBC television series that reviewed the popular songs of the day Bob Shad   Date Born: Thursday 12 February 1920   Description: Producer, USA   Summary: Shad supervised several major blues, pop, rock and R&B dates. Eileen Farrell   Date Born: Friday 13 February 1920   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: In 1942 she made her concert debut on CBS radio where she soon presented her own radio program. Patty Andrews   Date Born: Monday 16 February 1920   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Patty, the youngest and the lead singer of the group. NPA Del Wood   Date Born: Sunday 22 February 1920   Description: Vocalist, Pianist, USA   Summary: A native and lifetime resident of Nashville, Polly was surrounded by the influences of early country music and the remaining vestiges of ragtime, particularly through the guitar pickers. Michael Pate   Date Born: Thursday 26 February 1920   Description: Actor, Writer, Australian   Summary: He enjoyed brief success as an author of short stories, publishing works in Australia and the United States. Tony Randall   Date Born: Thursday 26 February 1920   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: He was born to a Jewish family in Oklahoma, the son of Mogscha Rosenberg, an art and antiques dealer, and his wife, Julia Finston. Jerry Byrd   Date Born: Tuesday 9 March 1920   Description: Guitarist, USA   Summary: His 1950's records can be found in used vinyl stores, on eBay, on cassette from the Steel Guitar Forum, or from Scotty's Music. John Addison   Date Born: Tuesday 16 March 1920   Description: Composer of songs, UK   Summary: He composed the theme music for the television series Murder, She Wrote,for which he won an Emmy. He won an Academy Award and a Grammy Award in the Best Original Score from a Motion Picture or Television Show category for the music to the 1963 film, Tom Jones. YOUTUBE:1963's Oscar-winning Best Picture, TOM JONES, featuring John Addison's Academy Award-winning film score. Miriam Mcpartland   Date Born: Saturday 20 March 1920   Description: Pianist, Composer, USA   Summary: She pursued classical studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. Much to the dismay of her family, she developed a love for American jazz and musicians such as Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Teddy Wilson, Mary Lou Williams, and many others. Werner Klemperer   Date Born: Monday 22 March 1920   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: He also conducted on occasion: the Melbourne Symphony, the California Jr. Symphony, the Los Angeles Young Musicians Foundation, and the Kansas City youth orchestra, among others. Jack Webb   Date Born: Friday 2 April 1920   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Webb grew up poor in the Bunker Hill slum section of Los Angeles to a Jewish father and a Roman Catholic mother; he was reared Roman Catholic. Ravi Shankar   Date Born: Wednesday 7 April 1920   Description: Sitar, India   Summary: Shankar was made an Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Elizabeth II for his "services to music". Ravi Shankar   Date Born: Wednesday 7 April 1920   Description: Sitar, Teacher   Summary: Shankar is best known as the teach er of the Sitar to ex Beatle, George Harrison during Harrions career. Carmen Mcrae   Date Born: Thursday 8 April 1920   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: McRae was born in Harlem, New York City on April 8, 1920, to West Indian (Jamaican) parents, Osmond and Evadne McRae. Art Van Damm   Date Born: Friday 9 April 1920   Description: Accordionist, USA   Summary: He adapted Benny Goodman's music to the accordion. Earl Phillips   Date Born: Sunday 25 April 1920   Description: Drummer, USA   Summary: Sessions drummer for Chess Records and Vee - Jay Records Lucia Mannucci   Date Born: Tuesday 18 May 1920   Description: Vocalist, Italy   Summary: Born at Bologna, Mannucci relocated to Milan at a young age. Forrest White   Date Born: Friday 21 May 1920   Description: American musical instruments industry executive, USA   Summary: White began working at Fender on 20 May 1954 Peggy Lee   Date Born: Wednesday 26 May 1920   Description: Vocalist, Actress, USA   Summary: The youngest child of seven, Lee found music to provide an escape from the abusive rampages of her cruel stepmother, Min, who tormented and beat young Norma. Lafayette Leake   Date Born: Tuesday 1 June 1920   Description: Pianist, USA   Summary: Leake played piano on One Dozen Berrys, Chuck Berry's second album, released in 1958 under Chess Records. Kurt Edelhagen   Date Born: Saturday 5 June 1920   Description: Band Leader, USA   Summary: His Radio Orchestra played at the opening ceremony of the 1972 Munich Olympics. Shelley Manne   Date Born: Friday 11 June 1920   Description: Drummer, US   Summary: Manne's father and uncles were drummers. In his youth he admired many of the leading swing drummers of the day, especially Jo Jones and Dave Tough. Sam Sniderman   Date Born: Tuesday 15 June 1920   Description: Canadian record store chain   Summary: Sniderman was inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame in 1997. Alfred John Ellory   Date Born: Friday 18 June 1920   Description: Flautist, UK   Summary: A member of the Philharmonia Orchestra playing flute which provided music for the EMI record label including backing for the original Ealing comedies. Danny Cedrone   Date Born: Sunday 20 June 1920   Description: Guitarist, USA Leonid Hambro   Date Born: Saturday 26 June 1920   Description: Pianist and composer. USA   Summary: The son of immigrant Russian Jews, his father was a pianist accompanying silent films. Smiley Lewis   Date Born: Monday 5 July 1920   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: Lewis was born to Jeffrey and Lillie Mae Lemons, as the second of three sons. Yul Brynner   Date Born: Sunday 11 July 1920   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: He was born in Vladivostok, Russia. His mother, Marusya Blagovidova, Russian: was the daughter of a Russian Jewish doctor and his father, Boris Brynner also Russian. Isaac Stern   Date Born: Wednesday 21 July 1920   Description: Violinist, USA   Summary: Among his many recordings, Stern recorded concertos by Johannes Brahms, Johann Sebastian Bach, Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn and Antonio Vivaldi and modern works. Charlie Shavers   Date Born: Tuesday 3 August 1920   Description: Trumpeter, USA   Summary: He was also an arranger and composer, and one of his compositions, "Undecided", is a jazz standard. June Hutton   Date Born: Wednesday 11 August 1920   Description: Vocalist   Summary: In the late 1930s, she joined the band of her older half-sister, Ina Ray Hutton, singing under the name of Elaine Merritt. Percy Mayfield   Date Born: Thursday 12 August 1920   Description: Pianist, Composer, USA   Summary: Mayfield was one of the most creative and distinctive poets of rhythm and blues. Maureen Ohara   Date Born: Tuesday 17 August 1920   Description: Actor, Singer, USA   Summary: Maureen O'Hara is an Irish film actress and singer. The famously red-headed O'Hara has been noted for playing fiercely passionate heroines Don Lamond   Date Born: Wednesday 18 August 1920   Description: Drummer, USA   Summary: He took over Dave Tough's spot in Woody Herman's big band First Herd in 1945, where he remained until the group disbanded at the end of 1946. Charlie Parker   Date Born: Sunday 29 August 1920   Description: Saxophonist, Composer, Instrumentalists, USA   Summary: Charlie Parker was born the only child of Charles and Addie Parker. Parkers styles are free melodic ideas, Be Bop founder, melodic imagination etc. Richard Farnsworth   Date Born: Wednesday 1 September 1920   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Farnsworth was born in Los Angeles, California to a housewife mother and an engineer father. He was raised during the Great Depression. He lived with his aunt, mother and two sisters in downtown Los Angeles after his father died when he was seven years old. Al Caiola   Date Born: Tuesday 7 September 1920   Description: Guitarist, US   Summary: Came through the big band era and later would chart with the theme from ’Bonanza’. And ’The Magnificent Seven’. Kim Bonython   Date Born: Wednesday 15 September 1920   Description: Promoter of music, Drummer. Speedway promoter, Australia   Summary: As a promoter, he organised numerous concerts in Adelaide of many of the "jazz greats", but possibly his greatest achievement in this field was negotiating for The Beatles to add Adelaide to their Australian tour in 1964. Dinah Sheridan   Date Born: Friday 17 September 1920   Description: Actress, UK   Summary: Dinah Sheridan was considered the quintessential English rose. With an alertness, elegance and quiet beauty second to none. Mickey Rooney   Date Born: Thursday 23 September 1920   Description: Actor, Vocolist, Dancer, USA   Summary: Rooney was born to a vaudeville family. His father, Joseph Yule, was from Scotland, and his mother, Nellie W. Carter, was from Kansas City, Missouri. Both parents were in vaudeville, and appearing in a Brooklyn production of A Gaiety Girl when Joseph, Jr. was born. Walter Matthau   Date Born: Friday 1 October 1920   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: He appeared in many movies after this as a villain such as the 1958 King Creole (where he is beaten up by Elvis Presley). Yusef Lateef   Date Born: Saturday 9 October 1920   Description: Saxophonist, Flautist, USA   Summary: His 1987 album Yusef Lateef's Little Symphony won the Grammy award for Best New Age Album. Claude Monteux   Date Born: Friday 15 October 1920   Description: American flutist and conductor. USA   Summary: He appeared in concert and in recordings with orchestras throughout the world, including the London Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the NBC Symphony Orchestra Montgomery Clift   Date Born: Sunday 17 October 1920   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Clift was born in Omaha, Nebraska, USA the son of Ethel Anderson Fogg Blair and William Brooks Clift, a banker with roots in the South. Clift had a twin sister, Roberta, and an elder brother, Brooks. Timothy Leary   Date Born: Friday 22 October 1920   Description: Pioneer of the mind, USA   Summary: 1966, Leary founded the League for Spiritual Discovery, a religion declaring LSD as its holy sacrament, in part as an unsuccessful attempt to maintain legal status for the use of LSD and other psychedelics for the religion's adherents, based on a "freedom of religion" argument. Ernnesteen Allen   Date Born: Thursday 11 November 1920   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: She sang with Big John Greer, Wynonie Harris, and Lucky Millinder, and in 1951, Federal Records signed her to sing with Millinder's orchestra. Gene Tierney   Date Born: Saturday 20 November 1920   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: From the beginning of Gene Tierney's film career in 1940 through her last film project in 1964, Tierney appeared in 37 films. Ricardo Montalban   Date Born: Thursday 25 November 1920   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Montalbán first acted in a motion picture in 1943. He had stated that when he first arrived in Hollywood, studios wanted to change his name to Ricky Martin. Virginia Mayo   Date Born: Tuesday 30 November 1920   Description: Actress, USA Dave Brubeck   Date Born: Monday 6 December 1920   Description: Pianist, Composer, USA   Summary: Mainly known for 'TAKE FIVE'. in a 5/4 timing must be one of the most outstanding songs that stand up to any others. Johnny Lockwood   Date Born: Tuesday 7 December 1920   Description: Theatre, television and film   Summary: He was known as the bumbling Jewish delicatessen proprietor Aldo Godolfus and was one of Number 96 most well-known and recognised figures. Dick James   Date Born: Sunday 12 December 1920   Description: Publisher, Vocalist, Band Leader   Summary: James sang with North London dance bands in his early teens, and was a regular vocalist at the Cricklewood Palais by the age of seventeen. Clark Terry   Date Born: Tuesday 14 December 1920   Description: Trumpeter, USA   Summary: He attended Vashon High School there and began his professional career in the early 1940s by playing in local clubs before joining a Navy band during World War II. Dave Bartholomew   Date Born: Friday 24 December 1920   Description: Trumpet, Composer, USA Jane Morgan   Date Born: Saturday 25 December 1920   Description: Vocalist , USA   Summary: In 1969, she appeared on Broadway in the musical Mame, taking over the title role from Angela Lansbury. Rex Allen   Date Born: Friday 31 December 1920   Description: Vocalist, Actor, USA   Summary: Actor after the Roy Rogers style played in 19 films including "The Phantom Stallion" - "Arizona Cowboy" - etc.         Copyrights:   © Music Minder & Mark Reynolds IT Consulting   All rights reserved: Prosecution rights will be exercised for any breaches of copyright.