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2009 Ellie Greenwich, record producer, singer, songwriter, rock and roll, pop music genres, co-wrote 'Da Doo Ron Ron', dies in Manhattan, New York, at age 68

2004 Terry Melcher, record producer, Kokomo, dies at 62

2004 Alan King, comic/producer, Friar's Club roasters, dies at 76

2003 Jenifer Estess, activist/producer, founded Project A.L.S, dies at 40

2003 John Hawkesworth, producer/writer, ", Upstairs, Downstairs, ", dies at 82

2002 Bruce Paltrow, American Producer

2002 Bruce Paltrow, producer, Saint Elsewhere, dies at 60

2002 Lew Wasserman, American Producer

2002 Julia Phillips, producer, The Sting, dies at 57

2001 Fred De Cordova, producer/director, Tonight Show, dies at 90

2001 David Angell, producer, Frasier, dies at 55 - a 9/11 terrorist murder

2001 "Jack Haley, Jr", documentary producer, That's Entertainment!, dies at 67

2001 Howard Koch, producer, The Manchurian Candidate, dies at 84

2000 Thomas Yohe, TV producer/innovator, Schoolhouse Rock, dies at 63

2000 Robert Northshield, TV news producer, Sunday Morning, dies at 78

1999 Allan Carr, "Producer, manager", Grease, dies at 62

1999 Gary Morton, producer/actor, dies at 74

1998 Lord Lew Grade, producer, The Muppet Show, dies at 91

1998 Alan J. Pakula, "director, producer", All the President's Men, dies at 70

1997 Anthea Joseph, music producer, dies at 57

1997 James Komack, producer (Courtship of Eddie's Father), dies at 67

1997 Alan Mouncer, film director/producer, dies at 68

1997 French court orders producer Jacques Charrier, ex-husband of Brigitte Bardot, to pay the former screen star $8,300 in damages

1997 Antony Kearey, television producer, dies at 77

1997 Brenda Carlin, TV producer and wife of comedian George Carlin, dies at 57

1997 Alvy Moore, actor and producer, Mr. Kimball on Green Acres, dies at 75

1997 Tomoyuki Tanaka, film maker and producer, Godzilla, dies of a stroke at 86

1997 Alexander Salkind, producer (Superman), dies at 75

1997 Alexander Salkind, producer, Superman, dies at 75

1997 Dennis Main Wilson, TV and radio producer, dies at 72

1997 Duncan Wood, television director and producer, dies at 71

1997 Sheldon Leonard, producer and director, I Spy - Dick Van Dyke, dies at 89

1996 Euphemia MacDonald May Moxon, dance producer, dies at 91

1996 Leonard Katzman, TV producer, dies at 69

1996 Humphrey Fisher, TV Producer, dies at 72

1996 Pandro S Berman, film producer, dies at 91

1996 Cubby Alberto Romolo Broccoli, movie producer, dies at 87

1996 Michael Leander Farr, record producer, dies at 55

1996 Manuel A "Manny" Greenhill, record producer, dies at 80

1996 Jay D. Miller, record producer, dies at 73

1996 Ross Hunter, U.S. producer (Airport, Madame X, Pillow Talk), dies at 75

1996 Michael Herford Wooller, TV/film producer, dies at 69

1996 Gerald Savory, actor playwright/TV producer (3 Weeks), dies at 86

1996 Bob Thiele, record producer, dies at 73

1996 Donald Simpson, film producer, dies at 52

1995 David Briggs, record producer, dies at 51

1995 Peter John Welding, record producer, dies at 60

1995 Kristian Lundin, record producer, dies at 22

1995 Jerome Berger, lawyer/Film producer, dies at 64

1995 Danny Arnold, British TV producer, dies at 70

1995 Wilbur Stark, tV/film producer, dies at 83

1995 David Begelman, film producer, dies at 73

1995 Ronald Farrow, radio producer/priest, dies at 49

1995 Anthony Joly de Lotbiniere, television producer, dies at 69

1995 Nicholas Palmer, TV writer/producer, dies at 57

1995 Cheryl Waltz, author/film producer, dies at 50

1995 Paul A Rothchild, record producer, dies at 59

1995 Norman Schwartz, record Producer, dies at 66

1995 Donald Baverstock, television Producer, dies at 71

1995 Carel Birnie, ballet producer, dies at 69

1995 George Abbott, playwright/actor/producer (Damn Yankees), dies at 105

1995 Philip H Burton, Welsh producer/Richard Burton's teacher, dies at 80

1995 Onat Kutlar, Turkish screenplay/producer (Hazal), murdered at 59

1994 Shauna McDonald Brown, British TV producer, dies at 37

1994 Jan Wiegel, director/producer (Uninhabitable Country), dies at 64

1994 Joseph H Hazen, U.S. producer/Vice President (Warner Bros), dies at 96

1994 Lester Sill, pioneer music publisher/record producer, dies at 76

1994 Jimmy Miller, pop drummer/singer/producer (Motorhead), dies at 52

1994 WIlliam Faure, producer, dies at 45

1994 Harry Saltzman, producer (Dr. No, Nijinski), dies at 78

1994 Jessie Kesson, author, novelist, radio producer, and playwright, dies at 77

1994 Major Bill Smith, record producer, dies at 72

1994 Eric John Crozier, producer/librettist, dies at 79

1994 Joan Harrison, English producer/Alfred Hitchcock's sect, dies at 83

1994 Amy Sacks, producer (ABC sports, Disney), dies of Lupus at 39

1994 Gottfried Reinhardt, theatre Producer, dies at 81

1994 Joseph Janni, producer, dies at 78

1994 Andrew Brown, film Producer, dies at 55

1994 Harry la Fontaine, Danish/US resistance fighter/producer, dies at 81

1994 Marlon Riggs, U.S. writer/director/producer (Ethnic notions), dies at 37

1994 Gary "BB" Coleman, blues vocal/guitarist/producer, dies at 47

1994 Ken Hall, Australian director/producer (Kokoda front line), dies at 92

1994 Harold Schneider, U.S. producer (5 Easy Pieces, War Games), dies at 55

1994 Samuel Bronston, Romanian/US producer (El Cid), dies at 85

1994 Jim Booth, New Zealand producer (Heavenly Creatures), dies at 48

1993 Arthur Dreifuss, director/producer (Murder in Amsterdam), dies at 85

1993 Andre Cerf, French actor/producer (Nana), dies at 93

1993 Ely A Landau, producer (Long Day's Journey), dies of stroke at 73

1993 William Cort, actor/producer (Ghost, Dear Heart), dies of cancer at 53

1993 Piet Wielinga, TV producer (Dutch Glory), dies at 56

1993 Robert J Glass, film producer (ET), is killed at 53

1993 Donald Alexander, System director/producer (East Valley), dies at 79

1993 John Beck, U.S. producer (Harvey, Singing Nun), dies at 83

1993 Marvin Young, producer/child actor (Player), dies at 90

1993 Mick Ronson, English guitarist/producer (Mott the Hoople), dies at 46

1993 Henny Budie, Dutch director/producer (Sterrenslag), dies

1993 Alexander Mnouchkine, French movie producer (Professional), dies at 83

1993 Ishiro Honda, Japanese director/producer (Godzilla), dies at 81

1993 Leslie Norman, English director/producer (Dunkirk), dies at 82

1993 George L George, Russian/US journalist/director/producer, dies at 85

1992 Mark Goodson, TV game show producer (Goodson-Toddman), dies at 77

1992 John Foreman, producer (Prizzi's Honor), dies at 67 of heart attack

1992 Robert Reese, producer, dies of natural causes at 66

1992 Hal Roach, producer (Keystone Kops), dies of pneumonia at 100

1992 Edgardo Pallero, Argentina producer (Los hijos de fierro), dies

1992 Franco Cristaldi, Italian producer/Claudia Cardinale's husband, dies

1992 Franco Cristaldi, Italian producer (Amarcord), dies

1992 Luigi De Laurentiis, Italian producer (Toto, Macaroni), dies

1992 Record producer Lou Adler weds Paige Hannah (Daryl's sister)

1992 Mike Frankovich, U.S. producer (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner), dies

1991 Byron Q Griffith, producer/actor, dies at 73

1991 Joseph Papp, U.S. theater producer (Chorus Line, Hair), dies at 70

1991 Joseph Papp, Broadway producer (Chorus Line), dies of cancer at 70

1991 Ken Hardin, producer, dies at 62

1991 Peter Willes, British actor/producer (Way We Live), dies

1991 Joe Pasternak, producer (Spinout, Big City), dies of Parkinson's at 73

1991 Richard Wilson, producer/writer/actor (Pay or Die), dies at 75

1991 Prudence Nesbitt, British actress/TV producer, dies

1991 Actress Sharon Gless and producer Barney Rosenzeig wed

1989 Singer Natalie Cole marries record producer Andre Fisher

1989 Entertainment Tonight's Mary Hart marries producer Burt Sugarman

1988 Joshua Logan, Broadway producer, dies at 79 of palsy

1985 Sam Spiegel, Academy Award winning producer (Betrayal), dies at 84

1984 Frederick Brisson, producer, dies at 71 after a stroke

1984 Arthur Schwartz, producer (Inside USA with Chevrolet), dies at 83

1984 Carl Foreman, producer, dies of cancer at 69

1983 Robert Aldrich, dir/producer (Last Sunset), dies at 65

1983 Bo Gentry, songwriter/producer, dies

1983 Sydney Box, academy award producer, dies at 76

1983 Harriet Parsons, producer (Susan Slept Here), dies at 76 of cancer

1982 Sol C Siegel, U.S. film producer (High Society), dies at 79

1982 Valeer van Kerkhove, Flemish writer/producer (De Weerlozen), dies

1982 Randy Rhoads, rocker, guitarist, songwriter, producer, studied classical guitar, member of Quiet Riot, played with Ozzy Ozbourne, dies in an air crash at 25

1982 Edith Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand detective writer/producer, dies at 82

1981 Ray J, born in Carson, California, singer, record producer, actor, son of gospel singer William Norwood

1980 Dore Schary, American Producer

1980 Actress Susan Dey (LA Law) weds producer Bernard Sofronski

1979 Darryl F Zanuck, film producer (20th Century Fox), dies at 77

1979 Herb Polesie, producer/playwright (20 Questions), dies at 79

1978 Josh Hartnett, born in St. Paul, Minnesota, film producer, actor, movies include 'Black Hawk Down', 'Pearl Harbor', People magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People 2002

1977 Michael Balcon, producer, dies at 81

1977 Lou Reizner, rock vocalist/producer (Rod Stewart, Tommy), dies at 43

1977 Shakira, born in Barranquilla, Columbia, singer-songwriter, record producer, dancer, Latin American musical prodigy

1976 Josh Schwartz, American Producer

1976 Adolph Zukor, Hungarian/U.S. fur trader/movie producer, dies at 103

1976 Phil Ochs, rock producer (Joe Hill), dies at 35

1975 Don Robey, U.S. gospel/impresario/producer, dies at 71

1973 Heidi Klum, born in Bergisch Gladbach, Germany, model, Victoria's Secret 'Angel', television host, fashion designer, television producer 'Project Runway'

1973 Kristian Lundin, record producer

1972 Jude Law, born in Lewisham, England, actor, producer, director, Academy Award nominee for movie 'Cold Mountain'

1971 Matt Stone, American Producer

1971 Matthew Vaughn, American Producer

1971 Mary J. Blige, born in The Bronx, New York City, New York, also known as Brook-Lynn, singer, songwriter, record producer, rhythm and blues, soul, hip hop genres, 26-time Grammy Award nominee, has sold over 48 million albums worldwide

1970 Jay Mohr, born in Verona, New Jersey, actor, stand-up comedian, executive producer, NBC's Last Comic Standing reality television program

1969 Harry Williams Millard, producer, dies of cancer at 41

1969 Jennifer Lopez, born in The Bronx, New York, nickname, J. Lo, musician, rhythm and blues genre, actress, fashion designer, television producer

1968 Walter Wanger, U.S. producer (Cleopatria), dies at 74

1968 Phil Anselmo, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, musician, focuses on heavy metal, sludge metal, hardcore punk, thrash metal genres, lead for Pantera, producer, owner Housecore Records

1968 Charles K Feldman, Gould, producer (Casino Royale), dies at 63

1968 Toby Halicki, car-crash film producer 48, killed shooting stunt

1967 Bert Berns, U.S. songwriter/producer (Twist and Shout), dies at about 38

1967 Douglas MacLean, silent film comedian turned producer, dies at 77

1967 Joe Meek, rocker (Tornados)/producer (Telstar), commits suicide

1966 Michael Garrison, producer (Crowded Sky), dies after a fall at 43

1966 Billy Rose, U.S. theater producer (Diamond Horse Show), dies at 66

1965 David O Selznick, producer (Gone With the Wind), dies at 63

1965 David O. Selznick, American Producer

1965 Suge Knight, American Producer

1964 Tony Terry, rock producer, Tony Terry

1963 Susan Gautier-Smith, TV producer

1963 Mike Myers, born in Scarborough, Canada, comedian, voice actor, screenwriter, film producer, movies include 'Wayne's World', 'Austin Powers', 'Shrek'

1962 Josh Silver, born in America, keyboardist, producer for band Type O Negative, viewed as a gothic metal band, played with Peter Steele, founding member of rock group Fallout

1962 Mike Judge, American Producer

1962 Beatles meet their producer George Martin for 1st time, they record "Besame Mucho" with Peter Best on drums

1962 Paul Webb, born in Essex, England, musician, producer, bass player, member of reggae band Eskalator, joined band TalkTalk in 1981, produced album 'The Year of the Leopard' with James Jorkston in 1996

1961 Sunny Deol, born in New Delhi, India, actor, action movie star, director, producer, winner, two National Film Awards, hit film 'Gadar: Ek Prem Katha'

1961 Andy Lau, born in Hong Kong, China, singer, film actor, producer, Cantopop genre, appeared in over 100 films, 300 TVB television mini-series

1961 David Huff, born in America, David Lyndon Huff, drummer, songwriter, producer, session musician, founder, Giant, 1980's hard rock band, member of White Heart, a Christian rock band

1961 Aaron Sorkin, American Producer

1961 Robert Griffith, producer of Pajama Game, dies

1961 Gary Dell'Abate, producer, Howard Stern Show

1960 Rick de Leeuw, Dutch singer, Trockener Kecks, songwriter/producer

1960 Mack Sennett, director/producer (Keystone Cops), dies

1959 Peter Greene, born in Brooklyn, New York, producer, After Midnight

1959 Cecil B[lount] de Mille, producer (10 Commandments), dies at 77

1959 Cecil B. DeMille, American Producer

1958 Michael Todd, producer (Around the World in 80 Days), dies at 56

1957 John "Jellybean" Benitez, music producer

1957 Louis B Mayer, MGM producer, dies at 71

1957 Ethan Coen, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, producer, Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink

1957 2 male attorneys "stand in" as actress Sophia Loren and producer Carlo Ponti wed by proxy in Juarez, Mexico

1957 Shauna McDonald Brown, TV producer

1957 Ian Stanley, born in High Wycombe, England, Ian Christopher Stanley, keyboardist, musician, songwriter, record producer, member of Tears for Fears band, made multi-platinum selling album 'Songs from the Big Chair'

1956 Randy Rhoads, born in Santa Monica, California, rocker, guitarist, songwriter, producer, studied classical guitar, member of Quiet Riot, played with Ozzy Ozbourne

1956 David E. Kelley, American Producer

1956 Alexander Korda, English movie producer (Henry VIII), dies at 62

1955 Arthur Baker, rock producer, Afrika Banbaataa-Planet Rock

1954 Alex Cox, born in Bebington, Mereyside, England, screenwriter, film director, independent film producer, actor, author, directed film 'Repo Man', wrote book '10,000 Ways to Die'

1954 Chris Stamey, born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, musician, rocker, songwriter, record producer, formed the dB's, founded Car Records indie record label, founded recording studio called Modern Recording where he recorded and mixed Whiskeytown

1954 Tom Blomberg, Dutch radio host/producer, Evening Rush Hour

1954 Michael Shermer, born in Glendale, California, science writer, historian, television producer of Fox series 'Exploring the Unknown', founder, The Skeptics Society

1954 J. Michael Straczynski, American Producer

1954 Jeff Apple, born in Miami, Florida, producer, In the Line of Fire

1954 Chris Hughes, born in London, England, drummer, musician, record producer, played drums for Dalek I Love You, The Blitz Brothers, member, Adam and the Ants, produced Tears for Fears, The Hurting, Songs from the Big Chair, co-produced Peter Gabriel's 'Red Rain'

1952 Clive Barker, producer, Hell Raiser

1952 David Pack, born in Los Angeles, California, musician, producer, Grammy-Award winning record producer for Wynnona, Aretha Franklin, Kenny Loggins, Phil Collins, Music Director for President Bill Clinton's Inaugurations, 1992 and 1996, cofounder, lead vocalist for band, Ambrosia

1952 Joel Silver, South Orange, New Jersey, producer, Warriors, Xanadu, Die Hard

1952 Harvey Weinstein, American Producer

1951 Dan Duva, boxing promoter/producer, Howard Stern New Years Party

1951 Ned Sublette, born in Lubbock, Texas, composer, musician, musicologist, producer, guitarist, studied classical guitar with Emilio Pujol, composition with Kenneth Gaburo, Cuban music scholar, known for mixing country-western, afro-Caribbean salsa, cumbia, rumba music styles

1950 Jeffrey Katzenberg, American Producer

1950 Dan Hartman, born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, singer, songwriter, record producer, known for "I Can Dream About You"

1950 Kid Creole, born in the Bronx, New York, born Thomas August Darnell Browder, singer, lyricist, composer, arranger, producer, founder of Kid Creole and the Coconuts

1950 Tom Werner, owner for the San Diego Padres/producer, Roseanne, Cosby Show

1949 Ray Shulman, born in Portsmouth, England, born Raymond Schulman, musician, record producer, member of Gentle Giant, British progressive rock band, produced records for The Sugarcubes

1949 Martin Duiser, pop producer, Vanessa, Lee Towers

1949 Trevor Horn, rock producer, Buggles-Video Killed, Yes, Frankie

1949 Leslie Joan Corn, theatre producer, director and writer

1949 Richard de Bois, Dutch drummer and producer

1949 Mike Batt, born in Southampton, England, singer, composer, arranger, producer, helped created ecologically sensitive fictional creatures, The Wombles, wrote hit 'Bright Eyes'

1948 D[avid] W[ark] Griffith, U.S. director/producer, dies

1947 Michael Green, English TV/video producer

1947 Richard Northcott, producer, 9 Weeks

1947 Alan Greisman, Sally Field's husband/producer, Fletch, Surrender

1947 Tommy James, born in Dayton, Ohio, born Thomas Gregory Jackson, musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, led rock band Tommy James and the Shondells

1947 Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, TV producer, Designing Women, Murphy Brown

1947 Mike Chapman, Australian songwriter/producer, Chinn and Chapman

1947 Bruce Gilbert, producer, China Syndrome, 9 to 5, On Golden Pond

1947 Gary "BB" Coleman, blues vocal/guitarist/producer

1946 Dick Wolf, American Producer

1946 Ivan Reitman, director/producer, Private Parts, Ghostbusters, Dave

1946 Russ Thacker, born in Washington D.C., producer, Golden Seal

1946 Cher, born in El Centro, California, born Cherilyn Sarkisian, singer, songwriter, director, record producer, won Academy Award, sold over 100 million records

1946 Ronald Farrow, radio producer and priest

1946 Tony Ashton, born in Blackburn, England, singer, composer, rock pianist, producer, artist

1946 David Green, English TV/video producer

1945 Eric Boom, Dutch guitarist/producer

1945 Jerry Bruckheimer, American Producer

1945 Cheryl Waltz, author/film producer

1945 Nicky Chinn, English songwriter/producer, Chinn and Chapman

1945 Don Ohlmeyer, American Producer

1944 Rick Berman, Richard, producer, Star Trek Generations

1944 Jonathan King, born in London, England, Kenneth George King, singer, songwriter, pop music producer, wrote song 'Everyone's Gone to the Moon', successful writer, producer for other musical artists

1944 Marcia "Marcy" Carsey, TV executive/producer

1944 Ted Templeman, born in Santa Cruz, musician, record producer, guitarist, vocalist, drummer, produced 'The Doobie Brothers' for Warner Brothers, 'Montrose', Carly Simon's 'Another Passenger', Van Halen's first album

1944 Bill Boggs, born in Philadelphia, TV host/producer, Midday, Morton Downey, Jr. Show

1944 Bruce Johnston, born in Peoria, Illinois, born Benjamin Baldwin, rocker, musician, singer, record producer, Grammy-Award winning songwriter, member of The Beach Boys, composed I Write The Songs

1944 Jon Hiseman, born in Woolwich, London, musician, drummer, record producer and music publisher, formed bands Colosseum, Coloseeum II with Don Airey, Gary Moore and Tempest with Alan Holdsworth

1944 Albert Hammond, born in London, England, rocker, musician, songwriter, producer, collaborated with Mike Hazelwood on The Air That I Breathe for the Hollies, wrote hits for Tina Turner

1944 Roger Daltrey, English rocker, actor, producer, The Who, Tommy

1944 David Briggs, record producer

1943 Kenny Vance, born in New York City, New York, musician, singer, producer, member of Jay and the Americans, guest singer on Saturday Night Live, supervised music for film Animal House

1943 Mike Smith, born in Edmonston, England, born Michael George Smith, singer, songwriter, keyboardist, music producer, played for The Dave Clark Five

1943 Chas Hodges, born in Edmonton, London, rocker, pianist, guitarist, vocalist, member of English duo Chas & Dave, worked with producer Joe Meek, backed Jerry Lee Lewis

1943 Bruce Paltrow, American Producer

1943 Donald Simpson, film producer

1943 Yoran Ben Ami, born in Israel, producer/president, Triumph Pictures

1943 Harve Brosten, comedy writer/producer/director, All in the Family

1943 David Geffin, born in Brooklyn, New York, record producer, Geffin, Asylum

1942 Gus Dudgeon, British pop producer, Joan Armatrading, David Bowie

1942 Robbe de Deer, Flemish director/producer, Fugitive Cinema, Bomb

1942 Isaac Hayes, born in Memphis, Tennessee, singer, songwriter, musician, producer, actor, Academy-Award winner

1942 Kim Fowley, Philippines/US rock vocalist/producer/songwriter

1942 Peter Guber, producer, Flashdance

1942 Tony Colton, rock producer, On the Boards

1941 Maurice White, born in Memphis, Tennessee, nicknamed Reese, rocker, singer, songwriter, record producer, founded band Earth, Wind and Fire

1941 Dan Penn, U.S. songwriter/producer/gospel singer, Out in Left Field

1941 Martha Stewart, publisher, producer and celebrity

1941 Jack Jersey, de Nijs, Indonesian/Dutch singer/producer

1941 Mike Leander Farr, record producer

1941 David Puttnam, London, film producer/CEO, Columbia Pictures

1941 Brian Holland, U.S. pianist/producer, Holland/Dozier/Holland

1941 Stephen J Cannell, producer, Rockford Files

1940 James Burrows, TV producer/director, Mary Tyler Moore Show, Cheers

1940 Pete Brown, born in Ashtead, England, poet, lyricist, musical producer, worked with The Battered Ornaments, created Pete Brown & Piblokto!

1940 Anthea Joseph, music producer

1940 Stanley Jaffe, producer, Fatal Attraction

1940 James L. Brooks, producer/director, Broadcast News, Taxi, Critic

1940 James L. Brooks, Producer

1939 [Harvey] Phil Spector, record producer, Wall of Sound

1939 Bob James, born in Marshall, Missouri, rocker, smooth jazz, fusion, arranger, producer, wrote "Nautilus" and "Take Me To Mardi Gras", two of the most sampled songs in hip hop history

1939 Ellie Greenwich, born in Brooklyn, New York, record producer, singer, songwriter, rock and roll, pop music genres, co-wrote 'Da Doo Ron Ron'

1939 Carl Laenmie, film producer, dies

1939 Peter Bogdanovich, born in Kingston, New York, director/producer, Last Picture Show

1939 Phillip Adams, born in Maryborough, Australia, Australian writer, producer, broadcaster, and satirist

1939 Robert Courtneidge, British theater producer, dies

1939 Ron Nagle, rock producer, Riding with the King

1939 Michael Rudman, English theater director/producer, Donkeys' Years

1938 Andrew Brown, film Producer

1938 Prince Buster, Jamaican reggae musician/producer, Madness

1937 Rob Houwer, Dutch director/producer/actor, OK, Professor Columbus

1937 Jimmy Bowen, born in Santa Rita, New Mexico, record producer, pop music performer, famous for 'I'm Stickin' With You', produced chart hits for Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr.

1937 Nicholas Palmer, television writer/producer

1937 David Behrman, born in Salzburg, Austria, composer, producer, Music of Our Time series, Columbia Records, founding member, Sonic Arts Union

1937 Bobby Scott, born in Mt. Pleasant, New York, jazz singer, producer, songwriter, instrumentalist, toured with Louis Prima, No. 13 Billboard hit 'Chain Gang' 1956

1936 Ismail Merchant, Bombay India, producer, Householder

1936 Irving Thalberg, U.S. producer (MGM), dies

1936 Wies Andersen, Alois de Bois, Belgian actor/producer, Maigret

1936 Michael White, theater/film producer, From Russia With Love

1935 Norma Rae Beatty Ashby, broadcaster/TV producer

1935 Verity A Lambert, film producer, Clockwise, Link, Sweeney

1935 Peter John Welding, record producer

1935 Michael Winner, producer/director, Big Sleep, Death Wish

1935 Barbara Brilliant, TV host/producer

1935 Paul A Rothchild, record producer.

1934 Richard Darryl Zanuck, film producer/executive

1934 Michael Wayne, producer, McQ, Chisum, Green Berets, McLintock

1934 Robert Towne, producer/screenwriter, Chinatown

1934 Garry Marshall, New York City, producer, Laverne and Shirley

1934 Sydney Pollack, born in Indiana, American film director, producer, actor in over 30 films

1934 Don Kirshner, rock and roll producer, invented bubblegum music

1934 Robert Stigwood, producer, Saturday Night Fever, Grease

1933 Garnett Mimms, born in Ashland, West Virginia, singer, songwriter, record producer, worked with Bert Berns, Jimi Hendrix, recorded on MGM, Verve Records, funk, rhythm and blues music

1933 Eric Salzman, born in America, author, composer, record producer, music critic, wrote for the New York Times, New York Herald Tribune

1933 John Gale, theatrical producer

1933 John Boorman, producer/dir, Exorcist II, Deliverance, Zardoz

1933 Elliot Kastner, New York City, producer, Bobo, Big Sleep, Ffolkes

1932 George Schlatter, TV producer, Laugh-in

1932 Florenz Ziegfeld, U.S. theatre producer (Ziegfeld Follies), dies

1932 Hans Boskamp, Johan HG Hoelscher, actor/producer, Oh My Papa

1931 John de Mol, Dutch vocalist/composer/producer

1931 Ike Turner, born in Mississippi, American musician, bandleader, record producer, talent scout, Grammy Award winner

1931 Peter Batty, TV/movie producer

1930 Jerry Ragavoy, U.S. songwriter/producer, Wonderful Dream

1930 Michael Codron, theatrical producer

1929 Jan Wiegel, director/producer, Classroom of Anne Frank, Myrada

1929 Alan Mouncer, film director/producer

1929 Lee Hazlewood, born in Oklahoma, singer, baritone, songwriter, record producer

1929 Chuck Barris, American Producer

1929 Gerrit den Braber, Dutch composer/producer

1928 Andrew Gordon Speedie-Pask, cybernetician stage producer/lyricist

1928 James Ivory, producer/director, Howard's End, Remains of the Day

1928 Aaron Spelling, TV executive producer, Charlie's Angels

1928 Larry Gelbart, writer/producer/actor, Oh God!, M*A*S*H

1928 Harold Prince, U.S. producer/director, West Side Story, Evita

1928 Mitch Leigh, born in Brooklyn, New York, Irwin Michnick, graduated from Yale, composer, musical theater composer, theatrical producer, known for show Man Of La Mancha, composed jingle 'Nobody Doesn't Like Sara Lee'

1928 David L Wolper, producer, Devil's Brigade

1927 John Buller, born in England, composer, known for Proenca, written for electric guitar, mezzo-soprano and orchestra, one of his sons is Ed Buller, a record producer

1927 Leonard Katzman, TV producer

1927 Andy Warhol, born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, artist/producer, Frankenstein, Bad

1927 Michael Herford Wooller, TV/film producer

1926 Bryan Forbes, director/producer, Endless Games, King Rat

1926 David Attenborough, producer/TV host/scientist

1926 Roger Corman, born in Detroit, producer and director, Little Shop of Horrors

1926 Bud Yorkin, producer, All in the Family, 1959, 1960 Emmy

1926 George Martin, record producer, The Beatles

1925 Duncan Wood, TV director/producer

1925 Anthony Joly de Lotbiniere, TV producer

1924 Zelda Fichandler, Boston, theater director/producer, Raisin, K2

1924 Daniel Melnick, born in New York City, producer, Get Smart

1924 Stanley Donen, South Carolina, film director/producer, Bedazzled, Damn Yankees

1924 Donald Baverstock, TV producer

1923 Leonard Stern, New York City, producer/TV writer, Phil Silvers Show, Get Smart

1923 Humphrey Fisher, TV producer

1923 Mauritius H Binger, director/producer (Living Ladder), dies

1923 Stephen J Cannell, TV producer/writer

1922 Don Hewitt, New York City, CBS news executive producer, 60 Minutes

1922 Bob Thiele, record producer

1922 Norman Lear, TV writer/producer, All in The Family

1922 Jay D. Miller, record producer

1921 David Begelman, film producer

1921 Gene Roddenberry, El Paso Texas, executive producer, Star Trek

1921 Joseph Papp, born in Brooklyn, stage producer/director, Pirates of Penzance

1921 Alexander Salkind, producer, Superman

1921 Ross Hunter, born in Cleveland, Ohio, producer, Airport, Madame X, Pillow Talk

1920 Alexander H Cohen, New York City, Broadway producer, Beyond the Fringe

1920 Antony Kearey, TV producer

1919 Ernest H Martin, Markowitz, producer, Feuer and Martin-Chorus Line

1919 James Quinn, film producer/actor, Joey, Hammett, Overlord

1919 Dino De Laurentiis, Torre Annunziata Italy, producer, King Kong

1919 Valeer [Valerius V] van Kerkhove, Flemish writer/producer

1918 Robert Aldrich, U.S. director/producer, Dirty Dozen

1918 Ingmar Bergman, born in Sweden, director, writer, producer for stage, film and television, Academy Award winner

1918 Anthony Craxton, British TV producer

1918 Dwayne Andreas, born in Worthington, Minnesota, called the 'Soybean King', CEO of Archer Daniels Midland - ADM, largest producer of farm commodities in the U.S. for over 30 years

1918 Ida Lupino, actress screenwriter director/producer, Jennifer

1918 Lester Sill, pioneer music publisher/record producer

1917 Ezra Stone, U.S., actor/producer, Henry Aldrich

1917 Joe Pasternak, Transylvania Hungary, producer, Spinout, Big City

1917 Mel Ferrer, born in New Jersey, actor in television, film and theater, film director and film producer

1917 Johnny Hoes, Dutch musician/producer, Wished I'd stayed with my Mom

1917 Jerry Wexler, born in New York, music journalist, music producer, in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

1916 Jessie Kesson, born in Scotland, Jessie Grant McDonald, author, novelist, radio producer, and playwright

1916 Ivan Tors, TV producer, Sea Hunt, Flipper

1916 Joseph Janni, producer

1916 Dugo D Schenker, Suriname/Antillian producer

1916 Howard Koch, producer/director, Frankenstein, Airplane II

1916 Mort Abrahams, producer, Dr. Doolittle, Planet Of Apes

1916 Manuel A "Manny" Greenhill, record producer

1915 Harry Saltzman, St. Johns NB Canada, producer, Goldfinger

1914 Eric John Crozier, producer/librettist

1913 Stanley E Kramer, New York City, producer/director, Inherit the Wind

1913 George H Brown, film producer

1913 Gottfried Reinhardt, theatre producer

1913 Max Youngstein, born in New York City, producer, United Artists

1913 Lew Wasserman, American Producer

1912 David Merrick, Hong Kong, Broadway producer, Hello Dolly

1912 Garson Kanin, born in Rochester, New York, playwright/producer, Double Life

1912 John de Mol, Dutch accordianist/producer, Baantjer, Pril Geluk

1912 Jerry Wald, New York City, producer, Mildred Pierce, Johnny Belinda

1912 Roy Winsor, born in Chicago, producer, Search for Tomorrow, Love of Life

1911 Peter Saunders, English theater producer, Legend of the Werewolf

1911 Gunther Rennert, born in Essen, Germany, opera director and producer

1911 Cy Feuer, New York City, Bdwy producer, Feuer and Martin-Chorus Line

1910 John Hammond Sr, New York City, rock/jazz producer, I Can Tell, So Many Roads

1910 Fred de Cordova, film/TV producer, Tonight Show

1910 Irene Mayer Selznick, producer, Street Car Named Desire

1910 Roger L. Stevens, producer, Giant

1909 Gerald Savory, actor playwright/TV producer, Heart of the Matter

1909 Alberto Romero "Cubby" Broccoli, born in New York City, film producer, James Bond

1908 Joshua Logan, Broadway producer, South Pacific

1908 Sidney Gilliat, producer

1908 Paula Wessely, Austrian actress/producer, Masquerade

1908 Akkineni LV Lakshmi Varaprasada Rao Prasad, producer

1907 Michael Blankfort, U.S., writer/producer/director

1907 William Marshall, producer/director/actor/singer, Blackmail

1906 Lew Grade, British TV mogul, ATV, movie producer, Boys from Brazil

1905 Otto Preminger, Austria, director/producer, Laura, Exodus

1905 Euphemia MacDonald, dance producer

1905 Michael Powell, English director/screen writer/producer, Red Shoes

1905 Dore Schary, producer/writer/director, Act 1, Boys Town, Big City

1905 Charles K. Feldman, Gould, New York City, producer, Casino Royale

1905 Pandro S. Berman, film producer

1904 Kermit Bloomgarden, producer, Diary of Anne Frank, Music Man

1904 George Balanchine, dancer/choreographer/ballet producer

1903 Michael Kalatozov, Russian producer, When the Cranes Fly

1903 Sol C Siegel, U.S., producer, High Society, Gentlemen prefer blondes

1902 Cheryl Crawford, producer, Touch of Venus, Brigadoon

1902 Leland Hayward, U.S. producer, Spirit of St. Louis

1902 David O Selznick, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, producer, Gone With the Wind

1902 David O. Selznick, American Producer

1901 Sam Spiegel, producer, On the Waterfront, Bridge over River Kwai

1901 Joseph Pasternak, film producer, Anchors Aweigh, Date With Judy

1901 Harold Clurman, producer/director, Deadline at Dawn

1901 Michael Todd, producer, Around the World in 80 Days

1900 Mervyn LeRoy, movie producer, Devil at 4 O'Clock

1900 Jed Harris, producer/director, Billy Rose Show, Operation Mad Ball

1899 Hal Wallis, movie producer, Maltese Falcon, Barefoot in the Park

1899 Billy Rose, theatrical producer, Diamond Horse Show

1899 George Cukor, producer/director, Adam's Rib, Philadelphia Story

1899 Irving Thalberg, U.S. producer, MGM

1896 Howard Hawks, Goshen, Indiana, director/producer, Rio Bravo, Scarface

1896 Michael Balcon, Birmingham England, producer/father of Jill Balcon

1895 Ken Maynard, born in Texas, cowboy/actor/producer, Bigfoot

1894 Arthur Freed, American Producer

1894 Walter Wanger, Feuchtwanger, U.S. producer, Stagecoach

1893 Leroy B Shield, U.S. pianist/producer/composer, Laurel and Hardy

1893 Alexander Korda, British movie producer, 3rd man

1893 Guthrie McClintic, born in Seattle, Washington Broadway producer/dir, Winterset

1892 Hal Roach, early film director/producer, 1 Million BC

1890 Douglas MacLean, Philadelphia, silent film comedian/producer, Going Up

1889 Wesley Ruggles, actor/producer/director, Keystone Kops

1888 Marie Rambert, Warsaw, English ballet producer/director/teacher

1887 George Abbott, born in Forestville, New York, producer, Damn Yankees, Pajama Game

1884 Albert Warner, U.S. producer, Warner Bros

1883 Tom Walls, Kingsthorpe England, actor/producer, Undercover

1882 Samuel Goldwyn, movie producer, MGM

1881 Cecil B. DeMille, American Producer

1877 Harley Granville-Barker, London, dramatist/producer/critic

1875 D. W. Griffith, movie producer/director, Birth of a Nation

1873 Lee Shubert, producer, theatres in New York and LA named after him

1873 Adolph Zukor, Hungary, movie producer/director/executive, Paramount

1869 Florenz Ziegfeld, producer, Ziegfield Follies

1819 Henry Tate, English sugar producer Tate Gallery

1779 Jean Coralli, Paris, ballet producer/choreographer

1717 David Garrick, actor/producer/writer, Aboan-Oroonoko


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