Birthdays for Big Bands Forever group

January

Xavier Cugat 1-1-1900
Johnny Hess 1-1-1916
Bobby Capo 1-1-1922
Jane Green 1-2-1897
Julius La Rosa 1-2-1930
Arthur Prysock 1-2-1929
Maxine Andrews(Andrews Sisters) 1-3-1916
Slim Gaillard 1-4-1916
Joe Marsala 1-4-1907
Noro Morales 1-4-1911
Dizzy Reece 1-5-1931
Henry "Red" Allen 1-7-1906
Al Bowlly 1-7-1899
Emilio Pericoli 1-7-1928
Dick Jurgens 1-9-1910
Buddy Johnson 1-10-1915
Johnnie Ray 1-10-1927
Tab Smith 1-11-1909
Don Cherry 1-11-1924
Tommy Duncan 1-11-1911
Harry Roy 1-12-1900
Jay McShann 1-12-1916
Sophie Tucker 1-13-1884
Russ Columbo 1-14-1908
Maxwell Davis 1-14-1916
Caterina Valente 1-14-1931
Allen Toussaint 1-14-1938
Gene Krupa 1-15-1909
Ivor Novello 1-15-1893
Thelma Carpenter 1-15-1922
Irving Mills 1-16-1894
Ethel Merman 1-16-1908
Charley Straight 1-16-1891
Irene Daye 1-17-1918
Albert Brunies 1-19-1900
Ray Eberle 1-19-1919
Joan Regan 1-19-1928
Connie Haines 1-20-1921
Smith Ballew 1-21-1902
Placido Domingo 1-21-1941
Blind Willie Johnson 1-22-1897
Leadbelly 1-23-1889
Django Reinhardt 1-23-1910
Jimmy Forrest 1-24-1920
Etta James 1-25-1938
Stephane Grapelli 1-26-1908
Jerome Kern 1-27-1885
Hot Lips Page 1-27-1908
Harry Ruby 1-27-1895
Elsie Carlisle 1-28-1896
Paul Misraki 1-28-1908
Acker Bilk 1-28-1929
Beverly Kenney 1-29-1932
Roy Eldridge 1-30-1911
Jose Basso 1-30-1919
Eddie Cantor 1-31-1892
Isham Jones 1-31-1894
Mario Lanza 1-31-1921
Freddie Rich 1-31-1898

February

Lys Gauty 2-2-1900
Red Prysock 2-2-1926
Stan Getz 2-2-1927
Reda Caire 2-4-1905
Manny Klein 2-4-1908
Jussi Bjorling 2-5-1911
Joe Graydon ‎2-6-1919
Irène de Trébert ‎2-6-1921
Irving Aaronson 2-7-1895
Eubie Blake 2-7-1887
George Guetary 2-8-1915
Greta Keller 2-8-1903
Ray Starita 2-8-1904
Buddy Morrow 2-8-1919
Irving Kaufman 2-8-1890
Blanche Calloway 2-9-1904
Carmen Miranda 2-9-1909
Chick Webb 2-10-1905
Don Azpiazu 2-11-1893
Josh White 2-11-1914
Tex Beneke 2-12-1914
Mel Powell 2-12-1923
Wardell Gray 2-13-1921
Wingy Manone 2-13-1900
Harold Arlen 2-15-1905
Jimmy Wakely 2-16-1914
Patty Andrews(Andrews Sisters) 2-16-1918
Buddy DeFranco 2-17-1923
Orville "Hoppy" Jones (Ink Spots) 2-17-1902
Enric Madriguera 2-17-1904
Charlie Spivak 2-17-1905 or 1907
Jack Jackson 2-20-1906
Richard Himber 2-20-1900
Nancy Wilson 2-20-1937
Harry Archer 2-21-1888
Jeanne Aubert 2-21-1906
Sonny Stitt 2-24-1924
Betty Hutton 2-26-1921
Mildred Bailey 2-27-1907
Dexter Gordon 2-27-1923
Guy Mitchell 2-27-1927
Jimmy Dorsey 2-29-1904
Dinah Shore 2-29-1916

March

Glenn Miller 3-1-1904
Donald Novis 3-3-1906
Barney Bigard 3-3-1906
Dave Cavanaugh 3-3-1919
Barnabas von Geczy 3-4-1887
Ben Selvin 3-5-1898
Howard McGhee 3-6-1918
Bob Wills 3-6-1905
Emile Prud'homme 3-6-1913
Nat Gonella 3-7-1908
Leslie "Hutch" Hutchinson 3-7-1900
Maurice Ravel 3-7-1875
Victor Arden 3-8-1893
Keeley Smith 3-9-1932
Bix Beiderbecke 3-10-1903
Enrique Campos 3-10-1913
Marion Hutton 3-10-1919
Ramona Davies 3-11-1909
Jessie Matthews 3-11-1907
Miff Mole 3-11-1898
Gordon MacRae 3-12-1921
Paul Weston 3-12-1912
Ina Ray Hutton 3-13-1916
Sammy Kaye 3-13-1910
Frank Teschemacher 3-13-1906
Jimmy McPartland 3-15-1907
Nat King Cole 3-17-1917
Jimmy Grier 3-17-1902
Sam Donahue 3-18-1918
Jean Goldkette 3-18-1893
George Olsen 3-18-1893
Nancy Evans 3-19-1915
Lennie Tristano 3-19-1919
Bob Chester 3-20-1908
Larry Elgart 3-20-1922
Vera Lynn 3-20-1917
Marian McPartland 3-20-1918
Ozzie Nelson 3-20-1906
Sister Rosetta Tharpe 3-20-1915
Malcolm Vaughan 3-22-1929
Paul Tremaine 3-23-1909
Johnny Guarnieri 3-23-1917
Frankie Carle 3-25-1903
Pete Johnson 3-25-1904
Jean Sablon 3-25-1906
Dorothy Squires 3-25-1915
Ferde Grofe 3-27-1892
Sarah Vaughan 3-27-1924
Hal Kemp 3-27-1904
Paul Godwin 3-28-1902
Paul Whiteman 3-28-1890
Albert Von Tilzer 3-29-1878
Moon Mullican 3-29-1909
Camille Howard 3-29-1914
Frankie Laine 3-30-1913
Raul Beron 3-30-1920
Tony Alamo 3-31-1910
Red Norvo 3-31-1908

April

Eddy Duchin 4-1-1909 or 4-10-1910
Amos Milburn 4-1-1927
Jane Powell 4-1-1929
Jack Buchanan 4-2-1891
Herbert Mills (Mills Brothers) 4-2-1912
Lou Monte 4-2-1917
Doris Day 4-3-1922
Henri Garat 4-3-1902
Marion Harris 4-4-1896
Paula Kelly 4-6-1919
Gerry Mulligan 4-6-1927
Percy Faith 4-7-1908
Ralph Flanagan 4-7-1914
Billie Holiday 4-7-1915
Stanley "Fess" Williams 4-10-1894
Edith Day 4-10-1896
Debroy Somers 4-11-1890
Helen Forrest 4-12-1917
Ray Ventura 4-16-1908
Lucienne Delyle 4-16-1917
Chris Barber 4-17-1930
Leo Parker 4-18-1925
Ken Colyer 4-18-1928
Sylvia Froos 4-19-1014
Lionel Hampton 4-20-1908
Don Cornell 4-21-1919
Shirley Temple 4-23-
Jimmie Noone 4-23-1895
Earl Bostic 4-25-1913
Cliff Bruner 4-25-1915
Ella Fitzgerald 4-25-1917
Jimmy Giuffre 4-26-1921
Matty Matlock 4-27-1907
Blossom Dearie 4-28-1924
Willie Colon 4-28-1950
Duke Ellington 4-29-1899
Donald Mills (Mills Brothers) 4-29-1915
Russ Morgan 4-29-1904
Tino Rossi 4-29-1907
Bea Wain 4-30-1917

May

Kate Smith 5-1-1907
Leslie Douglas 5-1-1914
Danielle Darrieux 5-1-1917
Henry Hall 5-2-1898
Lorenz Hart 5-2-1895
Teddy Stauffer 5-2-1909
Bing Crosby 5-3-1903
Al Dexter 5-4-1905
Maynard Ferguson 5-4-1928
Carmen Cavallaro 5-6-1913
Billy Cotton 5-6-1899
Teresa Brewer 5-7-1931
Red Nichols 5-8-1905
Mary Lou Williams 5-8-1910
Irving Berlin 5-11-1888
Joe "King" Oliver 5-11-1885
Gordon Jenkins 5-12-1910
Scrappy Lambert 5-12-1901
Maxine Sullivan 5-13-1911
Sidney Bechet 5-14-1897
Bobby Darin 5-14-1936
Edmond Hall 5-15-1901
Ellis Larkins 5-15-1923
Woody Herman 5-16-1913
Hank Williams Sr. 5-17-1923
Big Joe Turner 5-18-1911
Perry Como 5-18-1912
Charles Trenet 5-18-1913
Henry Busse 5-19-1894
Georgie Auld 5-19-1919
Felix Arndt 5-20-1889
Helvetia Boswell (Boswell Sisters) 5-20-1911
Fats Waller 5-21-1904
Melville Gideon 5-21-1884
Horace Heidt 5-21-1901
Heinz Wehner 5-21-1908
Binnie Hale 5-22-1899
Raymond Legrand 5-23-1908
Rosemary Clooney 5-23-1928
Artie Shaw 5-23-1910
Frank Signorelli 5-24-1901
Kitty Kallen 5-25-1922
Billy Murray 5-25-1877
Pha Terrell 5-25-1910
Ginny Simms 5-25-1915
George Formby 5-26-1904
Miles Davis 5-26-1926
Ziggy Elman 5-26-1914
Al Jolson 5-26-1886
Peggy Lee 5-26-1920
Bud Shank 5-27-1926
Andy Kirk 5-28-1898
Bob Hope 5-29-1903
Zelma O'Neal 5-29-1903
Dick Stabile 5-29-1909
Harry Macdonough 5-30-1871
Benny Goodman 5-30-1909
Little Jack Little 5-30-1899
Bobby Sherwood 5-30-1914
Frankie Trumbauer 5-30-1901
Dick Garcia 5-31-1931

June

Nelson Riddle 6-1-1921
Ada Jones 6-1-1873
Sidney Kyte 6-1-1896
Josephine Baker 6-3-1906
Bert Lown 6-6-1903
Jimmie Lunceford 6-6-1902
Carlos Jose Perez de la Riestra 6-6-1907
Glen Gray 6-7-1900
Dean Martin 6-7-1917
Beryl Booker 6-7-1922
Martha Boswell (Boswell Sisters) 6-9-1905
Oscar Joost 6-9-1898
Les Paul 6-9-1915
Cole Porter 6-9-1891
Fred Waring 6-9-1900
Al Dubin 6-10-1891
Dicky Wells 6-10-1907
Judy Garland 6-10-1922
Joao Gilberto 6-10-1931
Pinetop Smith 6-11-1904
Lennie Niehaus 6-11-1929
Vic Damone 6-12-1928
Gene Kardos 6-12-1899
Cliff Edwards 6-14-1895
John McCormack 6-14-1884
John Scott Trotter 6-14-1908
Alix Combelle 6-15-1912
Erroll Garner 6-15-1921
David Rose 6-15-1910
Sammy Fain 6-17-1902
Sammy Cahn 6-18-1913
Kay Kyser 6-18-1905
Vanessa Lee 6-18-1920
Ray McKinley 6-18-1910
Sue Raney 6-18-1940
Emil Coleman 6-19-1892
Guy Lombardo 6-19-1902
Chico Buorque 6-19-1944
Mack Gordon 6-21-1904
Nélson Gonçalves 6-21-1919
Ella Johnson 6-22-1919
Joe Loss 6-22-1909
Willy Berking 6-22-1910
Ben Pollack 6-22-1903
Helen Humes 6-23-1913
Gene Austin 6-24-1900
Phil Harris 6-24-1904
Richard Rodgers 6-28-1902
Adrian Rollini 6-28-1903
Flo Sandon's 6-29-1924
Lena Horne 6-30-1917

July

Jack Hylton 7-2-1892
Ken Curtis 7-2-1916
George M. Cohan 7-3-1878
Jerry Gray 7-3-1915
Pete Fountain 7-3-1930
Dick Robertson 7-3-1903
Stephen Foster 7-4-1826
Gertrude Lawrence 7-4-1898
LaVerne Andrews (Andrews Sisters) 7-6-1911
Hank Mobley 7-7-1930
Walter Barnes 7-8-1905
Billy Eckstine 7-8-1914
Louis Jordan 7-8-1908
Jerry Vale 7-8-1932
Harry Von Tilzer 7-8-1872
Joe Liggins 7-9-1915
Noble Sissle 7-10-1889
Ivie Anderson 7-10-1905
Oscar Hammerstein II 7-12-1895
Will Bradley 7-12-1912
Paul Gonsalves 7-12-1920
George Lewis 7-13-1900
Paul "Hucklebuck" Williams 7-13-1915
Johnny Hartman 7-13-1923
Noel Gay 7-15-1898
Blossom Seeley 7-16-1886
Ginger Rogers 7-16-1911
Hannah Williams 7-16-1911
Mary Osborne 7-17-1921
Jimmy Scott 7-17-1925
Henri Salvador 7-18-1917
Ivory "Deek" Watson (Ink Spots) 7-18-1909
Art Jarrett 7-20-1907
Omer Simeon's 7-21-1902
Helen Merrill 7-21-1930
Kay Starr 7-21-1922
Margaret Whiting 7-22-1924
Emmett Berry 7-23-1915
Claude Luter 7-23-1923
Bob Eberly 7-24-1916
Buddy Clark 7-26-1911
Erskine Hawkins 7-26-1914
Rudy Vallee 7-28-1901
Don Redman 7-29-1900
Roy Milton 7-31-1907

August

Eva Tanguay 8-1-1879
Helen Morgan 8-2-1900
Tony Bennett 8-3-1926
Les Elgart 8-3-1917
Louis Armstrong 8-4-1901
Helen Kane 8-4-190
Frank Luther 8-4-1905
Abe Lyman 8-4-1897
Arthur Fields 8-6-1888
Luis Russell 8-6-1902
Freddie Slack 8-7-1910
Jens Dennow 8-7-1910
Victor Young 8-8-1899
Benny Carter 8-8-1907
Lucky Millinder 8-8-1910
Al Alberts (The Four Aces) 8-10-1922
Claude Thornhill 8-10-1908
June Hutton 8-11-1920
Al Goodman 8-12-1890
Charles "Buddy" Rogers 8-13-1904
Skinnay Ennis 8-13-1907
George Shearing 8-13-1919
Oscar Peterson 8-15-1925
Edythe Wright 8-16-1914
Al Hibbler  8-16-1915
Bill Evans  8-16-1929
Larry Clinton 8-17-1909
Ike Quebec 8-17-1918
Duke Pearson 8-17-1932
Charlie Kunz 8-18-1896
Lucienne Boyer 8-18-1903
Harry Mills 8-19-1913
Francisco Alves 8-19-1898
Jack Teagarden 8-20-1905
Count Basie 8-21-1904
Art Farmer 8-21-1928
Claude Debussy 8-22-1862
Jack Payne 8-22-1899
Bob Crosby 8-23-1913
Tex Williams 8-23-1917
Claude Hopkins 8-24-1903
Ricardo Malerba 8-24-1905
Benny Moré 8-24-1919
Lester Lanin 8-26-1907
Jimmy Rushing 8-26-1901
Léo Marjane 8-27-1912
Lester Young 8-27-1909
Jacques Metehen 8-28-1903
Charlie Parker 8-29-1920
Kenny Dorham 8-30-1924

September

Art Pepper 9-1-1925
Phil Napoleon 9-2-1901
Horace Silver 9-2-1928
Gus Arnheim 9-4-1897
Sam Lanin 9-4-1891
Jan Savitt is 9-4-1907
Boots Douglas 9-7-1908
Jean Omer 9-7-1912
Sonny Rollins 9-7-1930
Patsy Cline 9-8-1932
Pinky Tomlin 9-9-1907
André Dassary 9-10-1912
Charles Harrison 9-11-1878
Maurice Chevalier 9-12-1888
Shep Fields 9-12-1910
Eddie Howard 9-12-1914
Johnny Long 9-12-1914
Ella Mae Morse 9-12-1924
Dick Haymes 9-13-1918
May Questal 9-13-1908
Mel Tormé 9-13-1925
Bert Ambrose 9-15-1896
Roger "Ram" Ramirez 9-15-1913
Joe Venuti 9-16-1903
Chick Bullock 9-16-1908
William McKinney 9-17-1895
Liane Augustin 9-18-1928
Lovie Austin 9-19-1887
Helen Ward 9-19-1913
Jelly Roll Morton 9-20-1885
Joni James 9-22-1930
Don Bestor 9-23-1889
Albert Ammon 9-23-1907
John Coltrane 9-23-1926
Ray Charles 9-23-1930
Fats Navarro 9-24-1923
Jaroslav Jezek 9-25-1906
Orlando Verri 9-25-1923
George Gershwin 9-26-1898
Julie London 9-26-1926
Ted Weems 9-26-1901
Vincent Youmans 9-27-1898
Johnny Mathis 9-30-1935
Oscar Pettiford 9-30-1922
Buddy Rich 9-30-1917
Hector Lavoe 9-30-1946

October

Julio Jaramillo 10-1-1935
Brother Bones 10-4-1902
Vaughn Monroe 10-7-1911
Phil Ohman 10-7-1896
Nora Bayes 10-8-1880
Clarence Williams 10-8-1898
Lee Wiley 10-9-1908
Thelonious Monk 10-10-1917
Leo Reisman 10-11-1897
Art Blakey 10-11-1919
Guy Paquinet 10-13-1903
Art Tatum 10-13-1909
Ray Brown 10-13-1926
Allan Jones 10-14-1907
Pat Flowers 10-16-1917
Tona la Negra 10-17-1912
Barney Kassel 10-17-1923
Annette Hanshaw 10-18-1901
Anita O'Day 10-18-1919
Esther Walker 10-18-1894
Roger Wolfe Khan 10-19- 1907
John Mill, Jr. (Mills Brothers) 10-19- 1910
Charlie Fuqua (Ink Spots) 10-20-1910
Don Byas 10-21-1912
Dizzy Gillespie 10-21-1917
Marek Weber 10-25-1888
Roy Fox 10-25-1901
Eddie Lang 10-25-1902
Charlie Barnet 10-26-1913
Tony Pastor 10-26-1907
Eddie South 10-27-1904
Boyd Raeburn 10-27-1913
Miguel Caló 10-28-1907
Bill Harris 10-28-1916
Fanny Brice 10-29-1891
Zoot Sims 10-29-1925
Clifford Brown 10-30-1930
Ted Shapiro 10-31-1899
Booker Ervin 10-31-1930

November

Harry Babbitt 11-2-1913
Bunny Berrigan 11-2-1908
Joe Sullivan 11-4-1906
Francisco Rotundo 11-4-1919
Jan Garber 11-5-1894
Phil Spitalny 11-7-1890
Patti Page 11-8-1927
Chris Connor 11-8-1927
Muggsy Spanier 11-9-1906
Anne Shelton 11-10-1928
Ernestine Anderson 11-11-1928
Jo Stafford 11-12-1917
Richard Whiting 11-12-1891
Bennie Moten 11-13-1894
Johnny Desmond 11-14-1919
Art Hodes 11-14-1904
Dick Powell 11-14-1904
Martha Tilton 11-14-1915
Billy Bauer 11-14-1915
Eddie Condon 11-16-1905
Georgia Carroll 11-18-1919
Dorothy Collins 11-18-1926
Johnny Mercer 11-18-1909
Tommy Dorsey 11-19-1905
June Christy 11-20-1925
Coleman Hawkins 11-21-1904
Sal Salvador 11-21-1925
Herb Wiedoeft 11-22-1886
Hoagy Carmichael 11-22-1899
Ruth Etting 11-23-1897
Harry Barris 11-24-1905
Teddy Wilson 11-24-1912
Francisco Canaro 11-26-1888
Roberto Chanel 11-26-1914
Gigi Gryce 11-28-1925
Hal McIntyre 11-29-1914
Billy Strayhorn 11-29-1915

December

Chantal Chamberland 12-1-1965
Mary Martin 12-1-1913
Matt Monro 12-1-1930
Jesse Crawford 12-2-1895
Osvaldo Pugliese  12-2-1905
Charlie Ventura 12-2-1916
Connee Boswell 12-3-1907
Deanna Durbin 12-4-1921
Eddie Heywood 12-4-1915
Ira Gershwin 12-6-1896
Bob Cooper 12-6-1925
Alberto Castillo 12-7-1914
Louis Prima 12-7-1910
Edmundo Ros 12-7-1910
Freddy Martin 12-9-1906
Donald Byrd 12-9-1932
Brenda Lee 12-11-1944
Carlos Gardel 12-11-1887
Julio De Caro 12-11-1899
Frank Sinatra 12-12-1915
Joe Williams 12-12-1918
Dodo Marmarosa 12-12-1925
Jerry Daniels (Ink Spots) 12-14-1915
Juan D'Arienzo 12-14-1900
Gerda Neumann 12-14-1915
Fred Adison 12-15-1908
Stan Kenton 12-15-1911
Noel Coward 12-16-1899
Lud Gluskin 12-16-1898
Turk Murphy 12-16-1915
Ray Noble 12-17-1903
André Claveau 12-17-1915
Fletcher Henderson 12-18-1897
Lu Watters 12-19-1911
Edith Piaf 12-19-1915
Al Rinker 12-20-1907
Danny Polo 12-22-1901
Andre Kostelanetz 12-22-1901
Giacomo Puccini 12-22-1858
 Lil Green 12-22-1919
Chet Baker 12-23-1929
Carl Brisson 12-24-1893
Ray Bryant 12-24-1931
Harry Warren 12-24-1893
Belle Baker 12-25-1893 or 1895
Cab Calloway 12-25-1907
Tony Martin 12-25-1912
Jane Morgan 12-25-1920
Nat Shilkret 12-25-1889
Jimmy Buffett 12-25-1946
Harry Choates 12-26-1922
Bunk Johnson 12-27-1889
Earl Hines 12-28-1903
Johnny Otis  12-28-1921
Clyde McCoy 12-29-1903
Vincent Lopez 12-30-1895
Evelyn Knight 12-31-1917

November Birthdays for Big Bands Forever group

Harry Babbitt 11-2-1913
Bunny Berrigan 11-2-1908
Joe Sullivan 11-4-1906
Jan Garber 11-5-1894
Phil Spitalny 11-7-1890
Patti Page 11-8-1927
Chris Connor 11-8-1927
Muggsy Spanier 11-9-1906
Anne Shelton 11-10-1928
Ernestine Anderson 11-11-1928
Jo Stafford 11-12-1917
Richard Whiting 11-12-1891
Bennie Moten 11-13-1894
Johnny Desmond 11-14-1919
Art Hodes 11-14-1904
Dick Powell 11-14-1904
Martha Tilton 11-14-1915
Eddie Condon 11-16-1905
Georgia Carroll 11-18-1919
Dorothy Collins 11-18-1926
Johnny Mercer 11-18-1909
Tommy Dorsey 11-19-1905
June Christy 11-20-1925
Coleman Hawkins 11-21-1904
Herb Wiedoeft 11-22-1886
Hoagy Carmichael 11-22-1899
Ruth Etting 11-23-1897
Harry Barris 11-24-1905
Teddy Wilson 11-24-1912
Gigi Gryce 11-28-1925
Hal McIntyre 11-29-1914
Billy Strayhorn 11-29-1915