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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2009 : Issue 13
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
1-16 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
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Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:50:21 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 1-16 births/deaths
January 16th births
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
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
January 16th deaths
02-12-1888 - Victor Kolar - Budapest, Hungary - d. 1-16-1957
conductor: "Ford Sunday Evening Hour"
02-16-1911 - "Curly" Noland - Tennessee - d. 1-16-1911
bass: "The Swift Jewel Cowboys"
03-23-1905 - Sidney Walton - Mississippi - d. 1-16-1958
announcer: "Arthur Tracy, Street Singer"; "Changing Times"
03-24-1907 - Martin Kosleck - Barkotzen, Germany - d. 1-16-1994
actor: "Treasury Star Parade"
03-25-1867 - Arturo Toscanini - Parma, Italy - d. 1-16-1957
conductor: "NBC Symphony Orchestra"
05-03-1907 - Earl Wilson - Rockford, OH - d. 1-16-1987
columnist: "Earl Wilson's Broadway Column"
06-13-1908 - Carl Eastman - NYC - d. 1-16-1970
actor: "Mrs. Miniver"; "Renfrew of the Mounted"
06-26-1913 - Jack Moyles - San Francisco, CA - d. 1-16-1973
actor: Major Daggett "Fort Laramie"; Rocky Jordan "A Man Named Jordan/
Rocky Jordan"
07-03-1930 - Robert Robertson - St. Andrews, Scotland - d. 1-16-2001
actor: "Have Gun, Will Travel"
07-20-1911 - Bill Dillard - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-16-1995
jazz trumpeter: "Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts"; "Arthur Godfrey Time"
07-31-1892 - Herbert W. Armstrong - Des Moines, IA - d. 1-16-1986
preacher: "Plain Truth"; "The World Tomorrow"
09-01-1907 - Ray Barrett - NYC - d. 1-16-1973
announcer, newscaster: "Monitor"; "Talent Search, Country Style"
09-22-1875 - Guy Bates Post - Seattle, WA - d. 1-16-1968
actor: Ulysses S. Grant "Roses and Drums"
10-06-1908 - Carole Lombard - Fort Wayne, IN - d. 1-16-1942
actor: "The Circle"; "Hollywood Hotel"
10-10-1903 - Vernon Duke - Pskov, Russia - d. 1-16-1969
broadway composer: "Mildred Baily Show"; "Good News of 1940"; "March
of Time"
Ron
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