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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Fred Allen
Comic
31-May-1894 17-Mar-1956 Town Hall Tonight
Mel Allen
Sports Figure
13-Feb-1913 16-Jun-1996 Sportscaster, Voice of the Yankees
Don Ameche
Actor
31-May-1904 6-Dec-1993 Trading Places
Eddie Anderson
Actor
18-Sep-1905 28-Feb-1977 Rochester on The Jack Benny Show
Eve Arden
Actor
30-Apr-1908 12-Nov-1990 The Eve Arden Show
Gene Autry
Country Musician
29-Sep-1907 2-Oct-1998 Singing cowboy
Red Barber
Sports Figure
17-Feb-1908 22-Oct-1992 The Voice of the Dodgers
Jack Benny
Actor
14-Feb-1894 26-Dec-1974 The Jack Benny Show
Gertrude Berg
Radio Personality
3-Oct-1899 14-Sep-1966 The Goldbergs
Edgar Bergen
Actor
16-Feb-1903 30-Sep-1978 Radio's greatest ventriloquist
Jim Bohannon
Radio Personality
c. 1946   The Jim Bohannon Show
Amar Bose
Inventor
2-Nov-1929   Inventor of Bose speakers
Eddie Cantor
Singer
31-Jan-1892 10-Oct-1964 Banjo Eyes
Dick Clark
TV Personality
30-Nov-1929 18-Apr-2012 American Bandstand
William Conrad
Actor
27-Sep-1920 11-Feb-1994 Jake and the Fatman
Charles J. Correll
Actor
2-Feb-1890 26-Sep-1972 Andy of Amos & Andy
Bing Crosby
Singer
3-May-1903 14-Oct-1977 White Christmas
Rick Dees
Radio Personality
14-Aug-1950   Disco Duck
Tommy Dorsey
Musician
19-Nov-1905 26-Nov-1956 Popular bandleader
Ralph Edwards
Game Show Host
13-Jun-1913 16-Nov-2005 This Is Your Life
Lee De Forest
Inventor
26-Aug-1873 30-Jun-1961 Inventor of the Audion vacuum tube
Stan Freberg
Comic
7-Aug-1926   Radio's The Stan Freberg Show
Alan Freed
Disc Jockey
15-Dec-1922 20-Jan-1965 Legendary rock-and-roll DJ
Christopher Glenn
Journalist
23-Mar-1938 17-Oct-2006 Longtime CBS radio correspondent
Arthur Godfrey
Actor
31-Aug-1903 16-Mar-1983 Arthur Godfrey and His Friends
Benny Goodman
Jazz Musician
30-May-1909 13-Jun-1986 Bespectacled jazz clarinetist
Gale Gordon
Actor
20-Feb-1906 30-Jun-1995 The Lucy Show
Freeman F. Gosden
Actor
5-May-1899 10-Dec-1982 Amos of Amos & Andy
Ray Goulding
Comic
20-Mar-1922 24-Mar-1990 Half of Bob & Ray
Paul Harvey
Radio Personality
4-Sep-1918 28-Feb-2009 The Paul Harvey Show
Ernie Harwell
Baseball
25-Jan-1918 4-May-2010 Voice of the Detroit Tigers
Bob Hope
Comic
29-May-1903 27-Jul-2003 Centenarian comic
Don Imus
Radio Personality
23-Jul-1940   Imus in the Morning
Wolfman Jack
Radio Personality
21-Jan-1939 1-Jul-1995 Crusty-throated disc jockey
Jim Jordan
Actor
16-Nov-1896 1-Apr-1988 Fibber McGee
Marian Jordan
Actor
15-Apr-1898 7-Apr-1961 Molly of Fibber McGee and Molly
Tom Joyner
Radio Personality
23-Nov-1949   The Tom Joyner Morning Show
Mel Karmazin
Business
24-Aug-1943   President and COO of Viacom, 2000-04
Casey Kasem
Radio Personality
27-Apr-1932   American Top 40
Garrison Keillor
Radio Personality
7-Aug-1942   A Prairie Home Companion
Larry King
Talk Show Host
19-Nov-1933   Larry King Live
Kay Kyser
Musician
18-Jun-1897 23-Jul-1985 The Ol' Professor, eleven #1 records
Rush Limbaugh
Radio Personality
12-Jan-1951   Conservative talk show host
Guglielmo Marconi
Scientist
25-Apr-1874 20-Jul-1937 Inventor of radio
Groucho Marx
Comic
2-Oct-1890 19-Aug-1977 You Bet Your Life
Edward R. Murrow
Journalist
25-Apr-1908 27-Apr-1965 The epitome of broadcast journalism
Charles Osgood
Journalist
8-Jan-1933   CBS News Sunday Morning
Gary Owens
Radio Personality
10-May-1936   Radio DJ, announcer for Laugh-In
William S. Paley
Business
28-Sep-1901 26-Oct-1990 Chairman of CBS, 1946-83
James Quello
Government
21-Apr-1914 24-Jan-2010 FCC Commissioner, 1974-97
David Sarnoff
Business
27-Feb-1891 12-Dec-1971 CEO of RCA, founder of NBC
Vin Scully
Baseball
29-Nov-1927   Voice of the Dodgers
Jean Shepherd
Radio Personality
26-Jul-1921 16-Oct-1999 A Christmas Story
Red Skelton
Comic
18-Jul-1913 17-Sep-1997 The Red Skelton Show
Kate Smith
Singer
1-May-1907 17-Jun-1986 God Bless America
Susan Stamberg
Radio Personality
7-Sep-1938   NPR
Lowell Thomas
Journalist
6-Apr-1892 29-Aug-1981 With Lawrence in Arabia
Les Tremayne
Radio Personality
16-Apr-1913 19-Dec-2003 Veteran of 30,000 radio broadcasts
Bob Uecker
Baseball
26-Jan-1935   Mr. Baseball
Orson Welles
Actor
6-May-1915 10-Oct-1985 Citizen Kane


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