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

01-01-1947 – Neil Munro – Musselburgh, Scotland – d. 7-13-2009

actor: Quentin Nickles “Investigations of Quentin Nickles”

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”

01-02-1920 – Richard Lewis – NYC – d. 5-25-2009

director, writer: “The Falcon”; “Suspense”

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

comedian: “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

01-03-1923 – Charles Tingwell – Coogee, Australia – d. 5-15-2009

actor: “The Clock”

01-03-1925 – Jill Balcom – London, England – d. 7-18-2009

actress: “Time for Verse”

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

01-04-1918 – Palmer Thompson – Patterson, NY – d. 12-15-1969

writer: “David Harding, Counterspy”

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

comedian: appeared 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”

01-05-1912 – Frances Blaisdell – d. 3-11-2009

flutist: “Phil Spitalny and His All Girl Orchestra”

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 – 10-22-2009

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

comedian, 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”

01-09-1916 – Vic Mizzy – Brooklyn, NY – d. 10-19-2009

songwriter: “Major Bowes Original Amateur Hour”; “The Fred Allen Show”

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 – Bombay, 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”

01-10-1918 – Alan Woods – The Bronx, NY – d. 11-27-2008

writer: “The Abbott and Costello Show”

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

comedian: “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 – Minsk, Russian Federation – 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”

01-14-1934 – Richard Briers – Raynes Park, England

actor: Bertie Wooster “Jeeves”

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 – d. 12-13-2009

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 – d. 4-18-2010

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”: “The Betty White Show”

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”

01-17-1933 – Shari Lewis – NYC – d. 8-2-1998

ventruloquist: “No School Today”

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 – d. 2-20-2008

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)

01-19-1928 – “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 – d. 8-8-2010

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”

01-21-1907 – Lydia Johnson – Ramseur, NC – d. 4-11-1979

singer: “The Johnson Family Singers”

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”

01-22-1859 – Sondra Gair – St. Louis, MO – d. 10-31-1977

actor: “Chicago Theatre On the Air”; “Meet Miss Sherlock”; “Suspense”

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

01-24-1917 – Ernest Borgnine – Hamden, CT

actor: “Midweek”

01-24-1918 – Oral Roberts – near Ada, OK – d. 12-15-2009

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 – Brooklyn, NY

singer: “Voices of Vista”

01-24-1949 – John Belushi – Chicago, IL – d. 3-5-1982

comedian: “The National Lampoon Radio Hour”

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”

01-25-1898 – Cecil Secrest – d. unknown

actor: Fred Kent “Home Sweet Home”

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

comedian: (Wife of Fred Allen) “Fred Allen Show”

01-25-1916 – Les Crutchfield – d. 10-6-1966

writer: “Escape”; “Fort Laramie”; “Gunsmoke”

01-25-1918 – Ernie Harwell – Washington, GA – d. 5-4-2010

baseball broadcaster for the Detroit Tigers

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”

01-27-1895 – 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”

01-27-1911 – 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 – Constance Crowder – Chicago, IL – d. 5-30-1994

actor: Jane Webster “Those Websters”; Gert Truitt “The Truitts”

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 – d. 7-7-2003

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”

01-28-1933 – Myles Wilder – NYC – d. 4-20-2010

writer: “The Whistler”

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”

01-29-1914 – Bonnie Prudden – NYC

fitness expert: “House Party”

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 – d. 4-1-2010

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”

01-29-1927 – Peter Fernandez – NYC – d. 7-15-2010

actor: George Bigelow “The Aldrich Family”; Skip “Right to Happiness”

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: “Ida Bailey Allen and the Chef”

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 – Bob Steel – d. 10-9-1994

producer/director: “The Brighter Day”; “Big Town”; “Ellery Queen”

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 – London, England – d. 1-22-2010

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: Compositions used on many programs

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”

02-02-1903 – Larry Walker – Manning, SC – d. 3-xx-1986

accompanist: “The Johnson Family Singers”

02-02-1905 – Ayn Rand – St. Petersberg, Russia – d. 3-6-1982

author: “Lux Radio Theatre”

02-02-1905 – Jesse Johnson – Cumnock, NC – d. 5-16-1989

singer: “The Johnson Family Singers”

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”

02-03-1920 – 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. 10-16-1984

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: Kate Wakefield “Faces of Love”; “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”

02-04-1927 – Dolores Sutton – NYC – d. 5-11-2009

actor, writer: “The Author’s Studio”; “Radio City Playhouse”

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”

02-04-1955 – Michael Gow – Sydney, Australia

writer: “The Astronaut’s Wife”

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 – Milwaukee, WI – 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 – Aleen Leslie – Pittsburgh, PA – d. 2-2-2010

created “A Date with Judy”

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 – George Brunis – New Orleans, LA – d. 11-17-1984

trombonist: “This Is Jazz”; “Tennessee Ernie Show”

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”

02-06-1919 – Joe Graydon – Washington, D.C. – d. 5-19-2001

singer: “Your Hit Parade”

02-06-1926 – Bob Trow – Pittsburgh, PA – d. 11-2-1998

wrote and produced commercials for radio

02-06-1926 – Nancy Overton – NYC – d. 4-5-2009

singer: (The Chordettes)”Stars for Defense”; “Guest Star”

02-06-1927 – Smoky Burgess – Caroleen, NC – d. 9-15-1991

sportscaster: “Sports Report”

02-06-1929 – Keith Waterhouse – Leeds, Yorkshire, England – d. 9-4-2009

author: his book “Billy Liar” adapted for radio

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 – Brooklyn, NY – d. 11-1-1996

actor: Lamont Cranston/Shadow “The Shadow”; Sam Young “Pepper Young’s Family”

02-07-1908 – Larry “Buster” Crabbe – Oakland, CA – d. 4-23-1983

actor: “George Jessel Show”; “Hollywood Showcase”

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 – d. 9-4-2009

announcer: teamed with Dizzy Dean on St. Louis Browns radio

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 – Newton, 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 – d. 2-17-2010

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”

02-11-1928 – Kenneth Johnson – Randolph County, NC

singer: “The Johnson Family Singers”

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 – d. 6-19-2009

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”

02-14-1900 – Jessica Dragonette – Calcutta, India – d. 3-18-1980

singer: (Queen of Radio) “Philco Hour Theatre of Memories”

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

02-14-1905 – 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 – d. 7-5-2010

opera singer: “Voice of Firestone”; “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”

02-14-1941 – Billy Goodman – d. 2-10-2009

disk jockey: “The Billy Goodman Happening”

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

02-15-1918 – Jean Hatton – Denver, CO – d. 5-2-2009

assistant to Fulton Lewis, Jr.

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

comedian: “The Jerry Lester Show”; “Kraft Music Hall”

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”

02-17-1908 – Staats Cotsworth – Oak Park, IL – d. 4-9-1979

actor: Casey “Casey, Crime Photographer”; David Farrell “Front Page Farrell”

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”

02-18-1893 – Bruce Kammen – Cincinnati, OH – 10-xx-1969

actor: August Kaltenmeyer “Kaltenmeyer’s Kindergarten”

02-18-1894 – Andres Segovia – Linares, Spain – d. 6-2-1987

classical guitarist: “The Magic Key”; “Theatre U.S.A.”; “Concert Hall”

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 Program”; “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 – d. 12-1-2009

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”

02-21-1920 – Shirley Bell – Chicago, IL – d. 1-12-2010

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”

02-22-1732 – George Washington – Pope’s Creek Estate, VA – d. 12-14-1799

u.s. president: Many works on radio dedicated to his life

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”

02-22-1917 – Tom Braden – Greene, IA – d. 4-3-2009

commentator: “Confrontation”

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 – d. 8-25-2009

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 – David Soyer – Philadelphia, PA – d. 2-25-2010

cellist: “NBC Symphony Orchestra”; “Guauner Quartet”

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”

02-25-1909 – Berkley Mather – Gloucester, North Wales – d. 4-7-1996

author: “Bird’s Eye View”; “Southern Channel”

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 – John Arlott – Basingstoke, England – d. 12-14-1991

BBC radio cricket commentator

02-25-1914 – Mamie Delzell – Georgetown County, SC – d. 3-16-2010

host: Town Crier “Hello Ladies”

02-25-1915 – Brenda Joyce – Excelsior Springs, MO – d. 7-13-2009

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 – d. 9-11-2009

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”

02-27-1954 – Douglas Campbell – Glasgow, Scotland – d. 10-6-2009

actor/director: Saturday Night “Appointment with Venus”

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 – Shenandoah, 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-xx-1881 – Edith Spencer – Omaha, NE – d. 7-10-1952

actor: Aunt Jenny “Aunt Jenny”; Sarah “Main Street Sketches”

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 – Aaron Ruben – Chicago, IL – d. 1-30-2010

writer: “The Milton Berle Show”

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

03-01-1931 – Larry Keith – Brooklyn, NY – d. 7-17-2010

actor: “The Man and His Music”

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 – d. 12-17-2009

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 – Miriam Kressyn – Poland – d. 10-28-1996

Was the most popular Yiddish artist on radio of her day

03-04-1911 – Margaret Wood – Great Yarmouth, England – d. 2-9-2002

scripwriter for BBC radio schools

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”

03-05-1893 – 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 – d. 6-23-2009

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”

03-08-1928 – Judy Johnson – Norfolk, VA

singer: “Stars for Defense”; “Broadway in Review”

03-08-1929 – Betty Carter – d. 9-26-1998

jazz vocalist: “Jazz Alive”

03-08-1943 – Lynn Redgrave – London, England – d. 5-2-2010

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. 1-22-1982

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 Braun – 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”

03-10-1924 – Wally Stott (Angela Morley) – Leeds, England – d. 1-14-2009

conductor, composer, arranger: “The Goon Show”

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 – Phil Leslie – St. Louis, MO – d. 9-23-1988

writer: “Fibber McGee and Molly”

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”

03-11-1923 – Terence Alexander – London England – d. 5-28-2009

actor: The Toff “John Creasey Novels”

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 – 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 – Jeanette Eymann

secretary, sometime actor: “The Jack Benny Program”

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”

03-13-1907 – Grady Cole – d. 7-xx-1979

announcer: “The Johnson Family Singers”

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”

03-13-1913 – Rolf McPherson – Providence, RI – d. 5-21-2009

preacher: KFSG Los Angeles

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

03-14-1869 – 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”

03-14-1948 – Billy Crystal – Long Island, NY

comedian: “The National Lampoon Radio Hour”

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 – Frank Coghlan, Jr. – New Haven, CT – d. 9-7-2009

actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”; “Doctor Christian”

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 – d. 1-16-2010

country singer: “Grand Ole Opry”; “Cas Walker’s Radio Show”

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”

03-16-1893 – 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”

03-16-1929 – Betty Johnson – Chatham County, NC

singer: “The Johnson Family Singers”

03-16-1929 – Betty Johnson – Guilford County, NC

singer: “The Johnson Family Singers”

03-16-1931 – Betty Johnson – Guilford County, NC

singer: “Arthur Godfrey Time”

03-16-1936 – Harry Kalas – Naperville, IL – d. 4-13-2009

sportscaster: Philadelphia Phillies

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”

03-17-1920 – Bob “Shamrock” Shannon – West Allis, WI – d. 8-15-2000

announcer, host: “Mayor of the Town”; “The Man Says Yes”

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 – Betty Allen – Campbell, OH – d. 6-22-2009

singer: “National Music League”; “Tin Pan Alley”

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 – d. 12-13-2009

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 – d. 3-14-2010

actor: “Arthur Hopkins Presents”

03-18-1930 – Peter Kenna – Balmain, Australia – d. 11-29-1987

writer: “A Hard God”

03-18-1932 – Frank Nagai – Tokyo, Japan – d. 10-27-2008

singer: “Kohaku Uta Gassen”

03-18-1940 – Phil Harper – Raised in Chicago, IL – d. 10-11-2004

actor: Harry Nile “The Adventures of Harry Nile”

03-18-1953 – Milwaukee Braves – Boston, MA – d. 10-1-1965

Only franchise in the history of sport never to have had a losing season

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. 6-11-1974

“The Maddox Brothers and Rose”

03-19-1930 – Joan Fox – Ottawa, Canada – d. 3-5-2009

film reviewer: “The Arts This Week”

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. 3-18-2009

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”

03-20-1933 – Pasquale Borgomeo – Naples, Italy – d. 7-2-2009

Director of Vatican Radio

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”

03-21-1922 – Bonnie Papple – St. Paul, MN – d. 2-11-2010

singer: “The Gateway to Hollywood”

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 Program”; “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 – d. 7-1-2009

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 Program”; “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”

03-26-1925 – Barry Letts – Leicester, England – d. 10-11-2009

actor/director: “The Paradise of Death”; “The Ghosts of N-Space”

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

03-27-1899 – 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 – d. 8-5-2009

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”

03-27-1919 – Robert Homme – Stoughton, WI – d. 5-2-2000

created “Friendly Giant” for radio in Madison, Wisconsin

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”

03-28-1904 – Jon Dodson – Richland, MO – d. 11-28-1963

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”

03-29-1943 – Mike Handley – Norfolk VA – d. 4-10-2009

announcer: “The Larry King Show”

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 Dixie Clodhoppers” 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”

03-31-1916 – Lucille Bliss – NYC

actor: “Candy Matson”

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”

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 – d. 3-10-2009

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”

04-02-1915 – Frederick Cole – Hingham, MA – d. 12-20-1964

announcer: “Double or Nothing”; “Ethel and Albert”

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

comedian: 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”

04-05-1913 – Anne Scott-James – London, England – d. 5-13-2009

journalist: “My Word”

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 – d. 6-27-2009

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

comedian: “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 – New Orleans, 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 – d. 2-15-2010

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”

04-10-1890 – Grace Wilson – Owosso, MI – d. 6-8-1962

singer: (The Girl with a Million Friends) “National Barn Dance”

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”

04-10-1913 – Henry “Butch” Stone – NYC – d. 5-19-2009

vocalist: (Les Brown and His Band of Renown) “One Night Stand”

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. 5-27-2002

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”

04-16-1911 – Frank Vass – Greenville, SC – d. 4-5-1988

singer: (The Vass Family) “The Lady Next Door”; “Kraft Phoenix Program”

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 – John Hodiak – Pittsburgh, PA – d. 10-19-1955

actor: L’il Abner “L’il Abner”; Butch Cavendish “Lone Ranger”

04-16-1915 – Joan Alexander – St. Paul, MN – d. 5-21-2009

actor: Lois Lane “Advs. of Superman”; Ellen Deering “Philo Vance”

04-16-1917 – Jean Holloway – d. 11-11-1989

writer: “Hallmark Playhouse”; “Mayor of the Town”; “Mr. President”

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”

04-16-1939 – Donald MacCormick – Scotland – d. 7-12-2009

host: “London News Direct”

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. 2-28-1956

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 – Oconto, WI – 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”

04-21-1923 – 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

comedian: “Mike Nicholes and Elaine May”; “Monitor”

04-21-1933 – Jim Harmon – Mount Carmel, IL – d. 2-16-2010

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 – Arthur Winograd – NYC – d. 4-22-2010

Founding member of the Julliard String Quartet

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”

04-23-1924 – Norman Painting – Leamington Spa, England – d. 10-29-2009

actor: Phil Archer “The Archers”

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”

04-24-1924 – Clement Freud – Berlin, Germany – d. 4-15-2009

panelist: “(Grandson of Sigmund) Just a Minute”

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”

04-25-1904 – Huey Long – Sealy Austin County, TX – d. 6-10-2009

jazz guitarist: The Ink Spots

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”

04-26-1933 – Carol Burnett – San Antonio, TX

singer, comedian: “The Carol Burnett-Richard Hayes Show”

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”

04-27-1914 – Lou Crosby – Lawton, OK – d. 1-27-1984

announcer: “Rise Stevens Show”; “Gene Autry’s Melody Ranch”; “Lum and Abner”

04-27-1918 – Robert Mitchell – Casper, WY – d. 10-13-1992

writer: “The Advs. of Philip Marlowe”

04-27-1919 – Les Kreiter – Seattle, WA – d. 4-14-2009

sportscaster: “Big Five Basketball”

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”

04-28-1923 – Adele Mara – Highland Park, MI – d. 5-7-2010

actor: “George Fisher Interviews the Stars”

04-28-1924 – Blossom Dearie – East Durham, NY – d. 2-7-2009

singer: “Woody Herman Orchestra”

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”

04-30-1894 – Vernon Bartlett – Westbury, Wiltshire, England – d. 1-18-1983

lecturer on foreign affairs

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 – Chicago, IL – 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

comedian: “The Sealtest Village Store”

05-04-1918 – Joel Cohen – NYC – d. 3-13-2009

writer: “Mr. and Mrs. Music”

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”

05-05-1929 – Ilene Woods – Portsmouth, NH – d. 7-1-2010

singer: “The Ilene Woods Show”

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, Russia – 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 Dixie Clodhoppers” 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”

05-09-1909 – Don Messer – Tweedside, New Brunswick, Canada – d. 7-16-1972

fiddle: “Don Messer and His Islanders”

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”

05-09-1920 – William Tenn (Phil Klass) – London, England – d. 2-7-2010

science fiction writer: Works adapted for “X Minus One”; “Dimension X”

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. xx-xx-1958

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”

05-10-1947 – George Taylor Morris – King City, CA – d. 8-1-2009

disk jockey: “Deep Tracks”

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”

05-11-1915 – Nathan Scott – Salinas, CA – d. 2-27-2010

composer: “The Log of the Black Parrot”; “Mail Call”

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 – Giuletta Simionato – Forli, Italy – d. 5-5-2010

mezzo-soprano:”Metropolitan Opera”

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 : Teamed up with Jack Burns on KDAY Los Angeles

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

05-13-1913 – Ruth Doering Reynolds – Chicago, IL – d. 3-18-1999

singer: (Doering Sisters) “Contented Hour”

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”

05-13-1928 – 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 – 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”

05-14-1945 – Francesca Annis – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

actor: “Saturay Night 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) “Grand Ole Opry”; “Eddy Arnold Show”

05-15-1918 – Joseph Wiseman – Montreal Canada – d. 10-19-2009

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”

05-16-1922 – Larry Glick – Roxbury, MA – d. 3-26-2009

talk show host: Boston, Massachusetts

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, actor: Cecil “Cecil and Sally”

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

05-17-1926 – Tenniel Evans – Nairobi, Kenya – d. 6-10-2009

actor: Leading Seaman Goldstein “The Navy Lark”

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 – Beverly Roberts – Brooklyn, NY – d. 7-13-2009

actor: “The John Barrymore Theatre”; “The Falcon”

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

05-20-1906 – Sandra Michael – Denmark – d. 8-22-2003

creator, writer: “Against the Storm”

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 – Herb Arrasmith – d. 6-22-1985

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”

05-26-1922 – Andrew (Fraser) Downie – Edingurgh, Scotland – d. 4-15-2009

actor: voice overs

05-26-1922 – William Froug – Brooklyn, NY

script writer: Jeff Regan

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 – Brooklyn, 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”

05-27-1920 – Portia Nelson – Brigham City, UT – d. 3-6-2001

jazz singer: “Sunday in New York”

05-27-1921 – Franklin Adams, Jr. – Chicago, IL – 8-9-2006

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 – 10-26-2008

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 – Covington, KY – d. 10-18-1991

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 – 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 – 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….”

05-30-1936 – 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”

05-31-1922 – Denholm Elliott – London, England – d. 10-6-1992

actor: ‘Michael and His Lost Angel”

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”

05-35-1935 – Hiroshi Wakasugi – NYC – d. 7-21-2009

orchestral conductor: “Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra”

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. 6-4-2005

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 – d. 11-16-2009

actor: “Price of Fear”

06-01-1934 – Pat Boone – Jacksonville, FL

singer: “Arthur Godfrey Time”; “Special Delivery: Vietnam”

06-01-1935 – Reverend Ike – Ridgeland, SC – d. 7-28-2009

His weekly radio sermons were carried by hundreds of stations across the U.S.

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 – d. 5-13-2010

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

06-02-1934 – John E. Carter – Chicago, IL – d. 8-21-2009

singer: (The Dells; The Flamingoes) “Camel Rock and Roll Dance Party”

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

06-05-1897 – Woods O. Dreyfus – Wisconsin – d. 10-xx-1965

singer, announcer, program director WISN Milwaukee, WI

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.

06-06-1920 – Jan Rubes – Volyne, Czechoslovakia – d. 6-29-2009

opera singer: “Songs of My People”

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

comedian: “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 – d. 8-13-2009

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”

06-10-1926 – Lionel Jeffries – London, England – d. 2-19-2010

actor: “The Box of Delights”

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”

06-11-1918 – Jane Bryan – Los Angeles, CA – d. 4-8-2009

actor: “Lux Radio Theatre”; “Silver Theatre”

06-11-1919 – Richard Todd – Dublin, Ireland – d. 12-3-2009

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”

06-12-1915 – Zeke Zarchy – NYC – d. 4-12-2009

lead trumpet: “Benny Goodman Band”; “Artie Show Band”

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 – d. 12-9-2009

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 – d. 7-21-2010

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: “Grand Ole Opry”; “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”

06-17-1924 – Sir Edward Downes – Birmingham, England – d. 7-10-2009

conductor: “BBC Philharmonic”; “Netherlands Radio Philharmonic”

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 – d. 3-14-2008

announcer: “Advs. of Frank Merriwell”

06-18-1920 – Ian Carmichael – Hull, Yorkshire, England – d. 2-5-2010

actor: Lord Peter Wimsey “Five Red Herrings” and other Sayers stories

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 – Brooklyn, 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 – d. 4-12-1989

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 – d. 9-30-2009

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”

06-21-1926 – Merle Harmon – Salem IL – d. 4-15-2009

sportscaster: Milwaukee Braves, Milwauke Brewers, Minnesota Twins

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”