Born on this day – Nino Rota:

Nino Rota

Composer

Pianist

Conductor

December 3, 1911 – April 10, 1979

Born on this day – Ray Patterson:

Ray Patterson

Animator

Producer

Director

November 23, 1911 – December 30, 2001

Born on this day – Dorothy Granger:

Dorothy Granger

Actress

November 21, 1911 – January 4, 1995

Born on this day – Roy Rogers:

Roy Rogers

Singer

Actor

Television host

November 5, 1911 – July 6, 1998

Born on this day – Victoria Horne:

Victoria Horne

Actress

November 1, 1911 – October 10, 2003

Born on this day – Ruth Hussey:

Ruth Hussey

Actress

October 30, 1911 – April 19, 2005

Credits:

AFI Life Achievement Award (1980); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1956); All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan (1985); Amazing World of Radio (2018); And God Created Woman (1988); Another Thin Man (1939); Bedside Manner (1945); Big City (1937); Blackmail (1939); Celanese Theatre (1951); Climax! (1955–1957); Family Theatre (1951–1952); Fast and Furious (1939); Flight Command (1940); Footlights Theater (1953); Free and Easy (1941); General Electric Theater (1953–1954); H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941); Here's Hollywood (1962); Hold That Kiss (1938); Honolulu (1939); I, Jane Doe (1948); Insight (1961); Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre (1955); Joyful Hour (1960); Judge Hardy's Children (1938); Louisa (1950); Lux Video Theatre (1950–1957); Madame X (1937); Maisie (1939); Man-Proof (1938); Marcus Welby, M.D. (1971); Marie Antoinette (1938); Marine Raiders (1944); Married Bachelor (1941); MGM Parade (1955); Mr. Music (1950); My Darling Daughters' Anniversary (1973); Nash Airflyte Theatre (1950); Northwest Passage (1940); Our Wife (1941); Pierre of the Plains (1942); Playwrights '56 (1956); Producers' Showcase (1955); Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1950); Rich Man, Poor Girl (1938); Science Fiction Theatre (1955–1956); Shower of Stars (1955); Showtime, U.S.A. (1951); Soaring Stars (1942); Spring Madness (1938); Stars and Stripes Forever (1952); Studio 57 (1956 / 1957); Studio One (1954); Susan and God (1940); Tender Comrade (1943); Tennessee Johnson (1942); That's My Boy (1951); The Christophers (1955–1960); The Easter Seal Teleparade of Stars (1955); The Elgin Hour (1954); The Eyes Have It (1949); The Facts of Life (1960); The Ford Television Theatre (1953); The Great Gatsby (1949); The Jimmy Stewart Show (1972); The Lady Wants Mink (1953); The Miracle of Sound (1940); The New Perry Mason (1973); The Philadelphia Story (1940); The Red Skelton Hour (1956–1958); The Resurrection of Broncho Billy (1970); The Revlon Mirror Theater (1953); The Uninvited (1944); The Women (1939); Time Out for Murder (1938); Vacation Playhouse (1963); Valentine's Day (1965); Within the Law (1939); Woman of the North Country (1952); Your Play Time (1954).

Born on this day – Sonny Terry:

Sonny Terry

Blues singer

Musician

Harmonicist

October 24, 1911 – March 11, 1986

Credits:

Albums:

At Sugar Hill (1961); Back Country Blues (2014); Blind Sonny Terry (1965); Blowing Our Blues (2021); Blues Bash (1973); Blues Hoot (1963); Blues In My Soul (1961); Blues with Big Bill Broonzy, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee (1959); Down South Summit Meetin' (1960); East Coast Harmonica Blues (2015); Folk Blues (2008); Four Classic Albums (Sing / Down Home Blues / Folk Songs of Sonny Terry & Mc Ghee / At Sugar Hill) (Digitally Remastered) (2020); Get on Board (1952); Gotham Record Sessions (1990); Harmonica and Vocal Solos (Mono Version) (1952); Harmonica Hop (2011); His Golden Years (2020); Hootin' and Hollerin' (1973); I Couldn't Believe My Eyes (1973); Jazz Giants: Sonny Terry (2012); Jump, Little Children: Brownie McGhee Classics (2019); Last Night Blues (1961); Leave This Town (Live Chicago '70) (2022); Lightnin' Hopkins & The Blues Summit (2001); Live From The Ash Grove (2024); Live With Studs Terkel, WFMT Studios, Chicago, IL. Jan 28th 1970 WFMT-FM Broadcast (2019); London 1958 (2014); Nothin' but the Blues (2015); Numero Uno Blues (2020); On the Road (1959); Presenting Sonny Terry (1940); Robbin' The Grave (2014); Rock Me Momma (2010); Shakedown Blues (2000); Sing and Play (1965); Sonny & Brownie (1973); Sonny & Brownies Blues Live in London (2021); Sonny Is King (1963); Sonny Terry (2008); Sonny Terry and His Harmonica. Wailin' the Blues (1995); Sonny Terry and His Mouth-Harp (1958); Sonny Terry's New Sound: Jawharp in Blues and Folk Music: With Brownie McGhee and J. C. Burris (1961); Sonny Terry's Washboard Band (1955); Sonny's Story (1960); The Essential (2013); True Blues (2015); USA (2012); Washboard Band - Country Dance Music (1956); When He Shines, Vol. 3 (2008); Whoopin' (1984); Working Man Blues (2021).

Movies and television:

A Matter of Degrees (1990); A Roomful of Music (1965); American Horror Story (2013); American Inventory (1954); Arena (1988); Austin City Limits (2006); Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009); Bandstand (1966); Blues and Gospel Train (1964); Blues Like Showers of Rain / Legends of Country Blues Guitar (1994); Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music (1993); Book of Numbers (1973); Born to Be Blue (2015); Buck and the Preacher (1972); Cisco Pike (1971); Color Cry (1952); Crossroads (1986); Dave's Place (1965); Deadwood (2004); Dogfight (1991); Eldon Rathburn: They Shoot... He Scores (1995); En remontant le Mississippi (1973); Festival (1967); Folk America (2009); Folk Britannia (2006); Freedom Highway: Songs that Shaped a Century (2001); Freedom on My Mind (1994); From the Vaults (2018); Gangs of New York (2002); Ghost Bird (2009); Good Hair (2009); Highway 61 (1991); House at the End of the Street (2012); House of Lies (2013); Leadbelly (1976); Library of Congress (1945); Loving (2016); Manhattan (2014); Physical Graffiti: A Classic Album Under Review (2008); Quest (1962); Shoutin' the Blues (1979); Showbiz Today (1986); Stroszek (1977); Superbad (2007); The Big Something (2011); The Blues (1966 / 2003); The Blues Under the Skin (1973); The Candid Eye (1959); The Color Purple (1985); The Hart & Lorne Terrific Hour (1970); The Jerk (1979); The Midnight Special (1973); The Mike Douglas Show (1973); The Old Grey Whistle Test (1973); The Revlon Revue (1959); The Rosey Grier Show (1970); The Soul of a Man (2003); The Sunday Break (1958); The Virginia Graham Show (1971); To Hear Your Banjo Play (1947); True Blood (2009); Whoopin' the Blues (1969); Woody Guthrie: Hard Travelin' (1984).

Born on this day – Frank De Vol:

Frank De Vol

Composer

Actor

September 20, 1911 – October 27, 1999

Born on this day – William Golding:

William Golding.

Writer.

September 19, 1911 – June 19, 1993

Born on this day – Joseph Pevney:

Joseph Pevney

Director

September 15, 1911 – May 18, 2008

Born on this day – Floyd Council:

Floyd Council

Blues singer

Guitarist

Mandolin player

September 2, 1911 – May 9, 1976

Born on this day – Otto Binder:

Otto Binder

Writer

August 26, 1911 – October 13, 1974

Credits:

Books and comic books:

Action Comics (1948–1969); Adam Link—Robot (1965); Adventure Comics (1948–1967); All Winners Comics (1947); America's Greatest Comics (1942–1943); Anton York, Immortal (1965); Bulletman (1942–1946); Captain America Comics (1941–1947); Captain Marvel Adventures (1942–1953); Captain Marvel Jr. (1942–1951); Destination Moon (1950); Detective Comics (1948–1955); Doctor Solar, Man of the Atom (1964); Doll Man (1943); Enslaved Brains (1965); House of Mystery (1954–1978); Ibis the Invincible (1942–1943); Kid Komics (1943–1944); Lords of Creation (1949); Marvel Classics Comics (1976); Marvel Family (1945–1950); Marvel Mystery Comics (1943–1946); Mary Marvel (1945–1948); Master Comics (1941–1943); Metal Men (1968); Mystery in Space (1954–1966); National Comics (1942); Showcase / Lois Lane (1957); Star-Spangled Comics (1948–1949); Strange Adventures (1954–1967); Superboy (1954–1968); Superman (1955–1969); Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane (1958–1967); Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen (1954–1969); The Avengers Battle the Earth-Wrecker (1967); What We Really Know about Flying Saucers (1967); Whiz Comics (1941–1943); World's Finest Comics (1948–1960); Young Allies (1944–1946).

Movies and television:

Batman & Bill (2017); Black Adam (2022); Confessions of a Teenage Supergirl (2006); DC League of Super-Pets (2022); Death Battle (2022); Justice League (2001–2004); MultiVersus (2024); Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023); Skids (2016); Supergirl (1973); Supergirl IV: The Submerged Tangled Web (2014); Supergirl V: Deadly Seduction (2015); Supergirl: Endurance (2013); Supergirl: Stranger in a Strange Land (2013); Superman/Batman: Apocalypse (2010); Superman: The Animated Series (1997); Superman: Unbound (2013); The Flash (2023); The Outer Limits (1964 / 1995).

Born on this day – Ann Dvorak:

Ann Dvorak

Actress

August 2, 1911 – December 10, 1979

Born on this day – Ann Doran, Actress:

Ann Doran

Actress

July 28, 1911 – September 19, 2000

Born on this day – Ginger Rogers:

Ginger Rogers

Actress

Dancer

Singer

July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995

Born on this day – Ruth Ford:

Ruth Ford

Actress

July 7, 1911 – August 12, 2009

Credits:

7254 (1971); Across the Pacific (1942); Act One (1963); Adventure in Iraq (1943); Air Force (1943); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1950–1953); Cameo Theatre (1950); Camera Three (1977); Campbell Summer Soundstage (1954); Chloe, Love Is Calling You (1934); Circumstantial Evidence (1945); Divide and Conquer (1942); Dragonwyck (1946); Escape from Crime (1942); Hallmark Hall of Fame (1952); In This Our Life (1942); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1954–1961); Lady Gangster (1942); Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles (2014); Marlon Brando Screentest for Rebel Without a Cause (1947); Men of the Sky (1942); Murder in the Big House (1942); Murder on the Waterfront (1943); Musical Comedy Time (1951); Naked City (1962); Orson Welles: What Went Wrong? (1992); Play It As It Lays (1972); Play of the Week (1960); Princess O'Rourke (1943); Requiem for a Nun (1975); Roaring Frontiers (1941); Sanctuary (1961); Secret Enemies (1942); Secrets of the Lone Wolf (1941); Sorry, Wrong Number (1946); Star Stage (1955); Star Tonight (1955); Strange Impersonation (1946); Studio One (1949–1953); Suspense (1950–1951); The Adventures of Ellery Queen (1951); The Arthur Murray Party (1959); The Chevy Mystery Show (1960); The Defenders (1965); The Devil's Trail (1942); The Doctors and the Nurses (1964); The Eyes of the Amaryllis (1982); The Gorilla Man (1943); The Hidden Hand (1942); The Keys of the Kingdom (1944); The Lady Is Willing (1942); The Man Who Returned to Life (1942); The Tree (1969); Theatre of Romance (1949); Too Much Johnson (1938); Too Scared to Scream (1984); Truck Busters (1943); What's My Line? (1966); Wilson (1944); Woman Who Came Back (1945).

Born on this day – Bernard Herrmann:

Bernard Herrmann

Composer

June 29, 1911 – December 24, 1975

Born on this day – Gail Patrick:

Gail Patrick

Actress

Producer

June 20, 1911 – July 6, 1980

Credits:

A Dream Comes True (1935); Artist and Models (1937); Bicentennial Minutes (1975); Brewster's Millions (1945); Calendar Girl (1947); Claudia and David (1946); Cool and Lam (1958); Cradle Song (1933); Dangerous to Know (1938); Death Takes a Holiday (1934); Disbarred (1939); Doubting Thomas (1935); Early to Bed (1936); Gallant Sons (1940); Gambling Ship (1933); Grand Jury Secrets (1939); Hit Parade of 1943 (1943); If I Had a Million (1932); John Meade's Woman (1937); Kathleen (1941); King of Alcatraz (1938); King of the Wild Horses (1947); Land of Liberty (1939); Love Crazy (1941); Mad About Music (1938); Mama Loves Papa (1933); Man of Conquest (1939); Meet the Stars #3: Variety Reel #1 (1941); Meet the Stars #6: Stars at Play (1941); Mississippi (1935); Murder at the Vanities (1934); Murder with Pictures (1936); Murders in the Zoo (1933); My Favorite Wife (1940); My Man Godfrey (1936); No More Ladies (1935); One Hour Late (1934); Perry Mason (1957–1966); Pick-up (1933); Picture People No. 2: Hollywood Sports (1941); Plainsman and the Lady (1946); Quiet Please: Murder (1942); Rendezvous with Annie (1946); Reno (1939); Rumba (1935); Screen Actors (1950); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1936); Screen Snapshots Series 19, No 6: Hollywood Recreations (1940); Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 7: Wardrobe Designers (1940); Smart Girl (1935); Soaring Stars (1942); Stage Door (1937); Svengoolie (2016); Take the Stand (1934); Tales of Manhattan (1942); The Big Broadcast of 1936 (1935); The Big Parade of Comedy (1964); The Crime of Helen Stanley (1934); The Doctor Takes a Wife (1940); The Fashion Side of Hollywood (1935); The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939); The Inside Story (1948); The Lone Wolf Returns (1935); The Madonna's Secret (1946); The Merv Griffin Show (1972); The Mike Douglas Show (1970); The Mysterious Rider (1933); The New Perry Mason (1973–1974); The Phantom Broadcast (1933); The Preview Murder Mystery (1936); Threesome (2019); To the Last Man (1933); Twice Blessed (1945); Two Fisted (1935); Two in the Dark (1936); Unusual Occupations (1947); Up in Mabel's Room (1944); Voices in the Labyrinth (2019); Wagon Wheels (1934 / 1953); Wanderer of the Wasteland (1935); We Were Dancing (1942); White Hunter (1936); Wives Under Suspicion (1938); Women in Bondage (1943).

Born on this day – Martin Gabel:

Martin Gabel

Actor

Director

Producer

June 19, 1911 – May 22, 1986

Credits:

5th Annual Celebrity Parade for Cerebral Palsy (1955); ABC's Nightlife (1965); Bicentennial Minutes (1976); Cain's Hundred (1961); Chronicle (1963); Contract on Cherry Street (1977); Deadline - U.S.A. (1952); Divorce American Style (1967); Fourteen Hours (1951); General Electric Theater (1962); Get the Message (1964); Goodbye Charlie (1964); Harvey (1972); Have Gun - Will Travel (1960–1961); He Said, She Said (1970); Hollywood Screen Test (1952); Jungle Terror (1949); Lady in Cement (1968); Lights Out (1951); Lord Love a Duck (1966); M (1951); Marnie (1964); Naked City (1962); Omnibus / Segments: Mr. Lincoln / Lincoln Part V: Ann Rutledge (1952–1955); Password (1962); Pictura (1951); Play of the Week (1960); Playhouse 90 (1959); Profiles in Courage (1965); Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman (1947); Smile Jenny, You're Dead (1974); Startime (1960); Tarzan (1967); The 15th Annual Tony Awards (1961); The 17th Annual Tony Awards (1963); The American Dreadnought (1968); The Americans (1961); The Comeback Story (1954); The Crimebusters (1962); The DuPont Show of the Week (1961); The Ed Sullivan Show (1954); The First Deadly Sin (1980); The Front Page (1974); The Game Show Show (2023); The James Dean Story (1957); The Lost Moment (1947); The Making of a President: 1964 (1966); The Making of the President 1960 (1963); The Picture of Dorian Gray (1962); The Power and the Glory (1961); The Right Man (1960); The Thief (1952); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1958–1961); The Trouble with Marnie (2000); There Was a Crooked Man... (1970); Thriller (1960); Tip on a Dead Jockey (1957); To Tell the Truth (1957–1963); Vincent Van Gogh: A Self-Portrait (1961); What's My Line? (1956–1967).

Born on this day – Sidney Salkow:

Sidney Salkow

Director

Writer

June 16, 1911 – October 18, 2000

Credits:

77 Sunset Strip (1958); Along the Mohawk Trail (1957); Ang Vengador (1948); Behind the Mike (1937); Blood on the Arrow (1964); Bronco (1962); Bulldog Drummond at Bay (1947); Cafe Hostess (1940); Casey Jones (1957); Cavalcade of America (1953–1954); Chicago Confidential (1957); City Without Men (1943); Come on, Leathernecks! (1938); Crusader (1956); Death Valley Days (1962–1964); Durango (1957); Ernestine (1962); Exclusive (1937); Faithful in My Fashion (1946); Fighting Thoroughbreds (1939); Flight at Midnight (1939); Flight Lieutenant (1942); Flirtation (1934); Four Days Wonder (1936); From Hell to Heaven (1933); Fury (1956–1958); General Electric Theater (1953); Girl from God's Country (1940); Girl Overboard (1937); Gun Brothers (1956); Hawaiian Eye (1961); Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans (1957); Jack McCall, Desperado (1953); Karen (1964); La rivale dell'imperatrice (1951); La strada buia (1950); Lady Be Careful (1936); Las Vegas Shakedown (1955); Lassie (1954–1955); Maverick (1962); Michael Shayne (1961); Mike Hammer (1959); Millie's Daughter (1947); Murder with Pictures (1936); Overland Trail (1960); Prince of Pirates (1953); Prison Nurse (1938); Raiders of the Seven Seas (1953); Rhythm on the Range (1936); Robbers' Roost (1955); Scarlet Angel (1952); Shadow of the Eagle (1950); She Married a Cop (1939); Shotgun Slade (1959–1960); Simon Lash: The Black Book (1960); Sitting Bull (1954); Soldiers of Fortune (1955–1956); State Trooper (1957–1959); Storm Over Bengal (1938); Street of Missing Men (1939); Supernatural (1933); Surfside 6 (1961–1962); Sword of the Avenger (1948); Tales of Wells Fargo (1957–1960); That's My Story! (1937); The Addams Family (1965–1966); The Admiral Was a Lady (1950); The Adventures of Martin Eden (1942); The Big Night (1960); The Boy from Stalingrad (1943); The Comedy Spot (1962); The Count of Monte Cristo (1956); The Golden Hawk (1952); The Great Sioux Massacre (1965); The Iron Sheriff (1957); The Jim Backus Show (1961); The Last Man on Earth (1964); The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1960–1961); The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady (1940); The Lone Wolf Strikes (1940); The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance (1941); The Long Rifle and the Tomahawk (1964); The Murder Game (1965); The Night Hawk (1938); The Pathfinder (1952); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1955); The Quick Gun (1964); The Roaring 20's (1961); The Toughest Man Alive (1955); The Zero Hour (1939); This Is Alice (1958); Tillie the Toiler (1941); Time Out for Rhythm (1941); Twice-Told Tales (1963); Woman Doctor (1939); Your Jeweler's Showcase (1952–1953).