Name Birthday Deathday Year Date Place Year Date Place Adolphe Sax 1814 11.06 Dinant, Belgium 1894 2.07 Paris, France Victor Herbert 1859 2.01 Dublin, Ireland 1924 5.26 New York, NY Scott Joplin 1868 11.24 Bowie City, TX 1917 4.01 New York, NY Otto Harbach 1873 8.18 Salt LakeCity, UT 1963 1.24 New York, NY William C. Handy 1873 11.16 Muscle Shoals, AL 1958 3.28 New York, NY Fred Fisher 1875 9.3 Cologne, Germany 1942 1.14 New York, NY Buddy Bolden 1877 9.06 New Orleans, LA 1931 11.04 Jackson, LA Mamie Smith 1883 5.26 Cincinnati, OH 1946 8.16 New York, NY Isham Jones 1884 1.31 Coalton, OH 1956 10.19 Hollywood, FL Jerome Kern 1885 1.27 New York, NY 1945 11.11 New York, NY King Oliver 1885 5.11 New Orleans, LA 1938 4.08 Savannah, GA Art Hickman 1886 6.13 Oakland, CA 1930 1.16 San Francisco, CA Gus Kahn 1886 11.06 Coblentz, Germany 1941 10.08 Beverly Hills, CA Kid Ory 1886 12.25 La Place, LA 1973 1.23 Honolulu, HI Ma Rainey 1886 4.26 Columbus, GA 1939 12.22 Columbus, GA Luckey Roberts 1887 8.07 Philadelphia, PA 1968 2.05 New York, NY Irving Berlin 1888 5.11 Tumen, Russia 1989 9.22 New York, NY Tom "Red" Brown 1888 6.03 New Orleans, LA 1958 3.25 New Orleans, LA Freddie Keppard 1889 2.27 New Orleans, LA 1933 12.21 Chicago, IL Nick LaRocca 1889 4.11 New Orleans, LA 1961 2.22 New Orleans, LA Jelly Roll Morton 1890 10.2 New Orleans, LA 1941 7.1 Los Angeles, CA Paul Whiteman 1890 4.28 Denver, CO 1967 12.29 New Hope, PA Cole Porter 1891 6.09 Peru, IN 1964 10.15 Santa Monica, CA Fred E. Ahlert 1892 9.19 New York, NY 1953 10.2 New York, NY Harry Warren 1893 12.24 Blooklyn, NY 1981 9.22 Los Angeles, CA Jimmy Durante 1893 2.1 New York, NY 1980 1.29 Santa Monica, CA Walter Donaldson 1893 2.15 Brooklyn, NY 1947 7.15 Santa Monica, CA Bennie Moten 1894 11.13 Kansas City, MO 1935 4.02 Kansas City, MO Bessie Smith 1894 4.15 Chattanooga, TN 1937 9.26 Clarksdale, MS Dimitri Tiomkin 1894 5.1 Ukraine 1979 11.11 London, England Herman Hupfeld 1894 2.11 Montclair, NJ 1951 6.08 Montclair, NJ Irving Mills 1894 1.16 New York, NY 1985 4.21 Palm Springs, CA Jack Strachey 1894 9.25 London, England 1972 5.27 London, England James Price Johnson 1894 2.01 New Brunswick, NJ 1955 11.17 New York, NY Jimmy McHugh 1894 10.1 Boston, MA 1969 5.23 Bevery Hills, CA Lorenz Hart 1894 5.02 New York, NY 1943 11.22 New york, NY Oscar Hammerstein II 1895 7.25 New York, NY 1960 8.23 Doylestown, PA Ethel Waters 1896 10.31 Chester, PA 1977 9.01 Chatsworth, CA Ira Gershwin 1896 12.06 New York, NY 1983 8.17 Beverly Hills, CA Fletcher Henderson 1897 12.18 Cuthbert, GA 1952 12.29 New York, NY Sidney Bechet 1897 5.14 New Orleans, LA 1959 5.14 Paris, France Willie "The Lion" Smith 1897 11.25 Goshen, NY 1973 4.18 New York, NY George Gershwin 1898 9.26 New York, NY 1937 7.11 Beverly Hills, CA Lil Hardin Armstrong 1898 2.03 Memphis, TN 1971 8.27 Chicago, IL Vicent Youmans 1898 2.27 New York, NY 1946 4.05 Denver, CO Duke Ellington 1899 4.29 Washington, D.C. 1974 5.24 New York, NY Fred Astaire 1899 5.1 Omaha, NE 1987 6.22 Los Angeles, CA Hoagy Carmichael 1899 11.11 Bloomington, IN 1981 12.27 Palm Springs, CA Victor Young 1899 8.08 Chicago, IL 1956 11.1 Palm Springs, CA Arthur Schwartz 1900 11.25 New York, NY 1984 9.03 Kintnersville, PA Kurt Weill 1900 3.02 Dessau, Germany 1950 4.03 New York, NY Mitchell Parish 1900 7.1 Lithuania 1993 3.31 New York, NY Frederick Loewe 1901 6.1 Berlin, Germany 1988 2.14 Palm Springs, CA Louis Armstrong 1901 8.04 New Orleans, LA 1971 7.06 New York, NY Ned Washington 1901 8.15 Scranton, PA 1976 12.2 Los Angeles, CA Richard Rodgers 1902 6.28 Long Island, NY 1979 12.3 New York, NY Rube Bloom 1902 4.24 New York, NY 1976 3.3 New York, NY Sammy Fain 1902 6.17 New York, NY 1989 12.06 Los Angeles, CA Bing Crosby 1903 5.03 Tacoma, WA 1977 10.14 Madrid, Spain Bob Hope 1903 5.29 Eltham, England 2003 7.27 Los Angeles, CA Earl Hines 1903 12.28 Dusquesne, PA 1983 4.22 Oakland, CA Vernon Duke 1903 10.1 Parafianovo, Belarus 1969 1.16 Santa Monica, CA Bix Beiderbecke 1904 5.1 Davenport, IA 1931 8.06 New York, NY Coleman Hawkins 1904 11.21 St.Joseph, MO 1969 5.19 New York, NY Count Basie 1904 8.21 Red Bank, NJ 1984 4.26 Hollywood, CA Fats Waller 1904 5.21 New York, NY 1943 12.15 Kansas City, MO Glenn Miller 1904 3.01 Clarinda, IA 1944 12.15 English Channel Mildred Bailey 1904 2.27 Tekoma, WA 1951 12.12 Poughkeepsie, NY Seger Ellis 1904 7.04 Houston, TX 1995 9.29 Houston, TX Chick Webb 1905 2.1 Baltimore, MD 1939 6.16 Baltimore, MD Harold Arlen 1905 2.15 Buffalo, NY 1986 4.23 New York, NY Harry Barris 1905 11.25 New York, NY 1962 12.13 Burbank, CA Jack Teagarden 1905 8.29 Vernon, TX 1964 1.15 New Orleans, LA Jule Styne 1905 12.31 London, UK 1994 9.2 New York, NY Red Nichols 1905 5.08 Ogden, UT 1965 6.28 Las Vegas, NV Tommy Dorsey 1905 11.19 Shenandoah, PA 1956 11.26 Greenwich, CT Josephine Baker 1906 6.03 St. Louis, MO 1975 4.12 Psris, France Pee Wee Russell 1906 3.27 Maplewood, MO 1969 2.15 Alexandria, VA Al Rinker 1907 12.2 Takoma, WA 1982 6.11 Burbank, CA Alec Wilder 1907 2.16 Rochester, NY 1980 12.24 Gainesville, FL Benny Carter 1907 8.08 New York, NY 2003 7.12 Los Angeles, CA Paul Francis Webster 1907 12.2 New York, NY 1984 3.18 Beverly Hills, CA Herbert von Karajan 1908 4.05 Salzburg Austria 1989 7.15 Anif, Austria Johnny Burke 1908 10.03 Antioch, CA 1964 2.25 New York, NY Johnny Green 1908 10.1 New York, NY 1989 5.15 Beverly Hills, CA Lee Wiley 1908 10.09 Fort Gibson, OK 1975 12.11 New York, NY Stephane Grappelli 1908 1.26 Paris, France 1997 12.01 Paris, France Art Tatum 1909 10.13 Toledo, OH 1956 11.05 Los Angeles, CA Benny Goodman 1909 5.3 Chicago, IL 1986 6.13 New York, NY Dolores Hope 1909 5.27 New York, NY 2011 9.19 Los Angeles, CA Gene Krupa 1909 1.15 Chicago, IL 1973 10.16 Yonkers, NY Johnny Mercer 1909 11.18 Savannah, GA 1976 6.25 Los Angeles, CA Lester Young 1909 8.27 Woodville, MS 1959 3.15 New York, NY Lionel Hampton 1909 4.12 Louisville, KY 2002 8.31 New York, NY Artie Shaw 1910 5.23 New York, NY 2004 12.3 Thousand Oaks, CA Django Reinhaldt 1910 1.23 Liberchies, Belgium 1953 5.16 Fontainebleau, France Frank Loesser 1910 6.29 New York, NY 1969 3.28 New York, NY Gordon Jenkins 1910 5.12 Webster Groves, MO 1984 5.01 Los Angels, CA Louis Prima 1910 12.07 New Orleans, LA 1978 8.24 New Orleans, LA Milt Hinton 1910 1.23 Vicksburg, MS 2000 12.19 Queens, NY Sy Oliver 1910 12.17 Battle Creek, MI 1988 5.28 New York, NY Lionel Ferbos 1911 7.17 New Orleans, LA 2014 7.19 New Orleans, LA Mahalia Jackson 1911 10.26 New Orleans, LA 1972 1.27 Chicago, IL Maxine Sullivan 1911 5.13 Homestead, PA 1987 4.07 New York, NY Mitch Miller 1911 7.04 Rochester, NY 2010 7.31 New York, NY Stan Kenton 1911 12.15 Wichita, KS 1979 8.25 Los Angeles, CA Earle Hagen 1912 7.09 Chicago, IL 2008 5.26 Rancho Mirage, CA Gene Kelly 1912 8.23 Pittsburgh, PA 1996 2.02 Beverly Hills, CA Paul Weston 1912 3.12 Sprinfield, MA 1996 9.2 Santa Monica, CA Perry Como 1912 5.18 Canonsburg, PA 2001 5.12 Jupiter, FL Teddy Wilson 1912 11.24 Austin, TX 1986 7.31 New Britain, CT Danny Kaye 1913 1.18 Brooklyn, NY 1987 3.03 Los Angeles, CA Frankie Laine 1913 3.3 Chicago, IL 2007 2.06 San Diego, CA Helen Ward 1913 9.19 New York, NY 1998 4.21 Arlington, VA Jimmy Van Heusen 1913 1.26 Syracuse, NY 1990 2.06 Palm Spring, CA Sammy Cahn 1913 6.18 New York, NY 1993 1.15 Los Angeles, CA Woody Herman 1913 5.16 Milwaukee, WI 1987 10.29 Los Angeles, CA Billy Eckstine 1914 7.08 Pittsburgh, PA 1993 7.17 New York, NY Kenny Clarke 1914 1.09 Pittsburgh, PA 1985 1.26 Paris, France Leonard Feather 1914 9.13 London, England 1994 9.22 Sherman Oaks, CA Matt Dennis 1914 2.11 Seattle, WA 2002 6.21 Riverside, CA Ziggy Elman 1914 5.14 Philadelphia, PA 1968 6.26 Los Angeles, CA Billie Holiday 1915 4.07 Baltimore, MD 1959 9.15 New York, NY Billy Strayhorn 1915 11.29 Dayton, OH 1967 5.31 New York, NY Doris Fihser 1915 5.02 New York, NY 2003 1.15 Los Angeles, CA Frank Sinatra 1915 12.12 Hoboken, NJ 1998 5.14 Los Angeles, CA Fred Staton 1915 2.14 Pittsburgh, PA 2017 10.25 Bronx, NY Les Paul 1915 6.09 Waukesha, WI 2009 8.13 White Plane, NY Martha Tilton 1915 11.14 Corpus Christi, TX 2006 12.06 Los Angeles, CA Pete Rugolo 1915 12.25 San Piero, Sicily 2011 10.16 Sherman Oaks, CA Dinah Shore 1916 2.29 Winchester, TN 1994 2.24 Beverly Hills, CA Sam Taylor 1916 7.12 Lexington, TN 1990 10.05 Atlanta, GA Buddy Rich 1917 9.3 Brooklyn, NY 1987 4.02 Los Angeles, CA Charlie Shavers 1917 8.03 New York, NY 1971 7.08 New York, NY Dave Lambert 1917 6.19 St.