Before 1925 in television

This is a list of television-related events that occurred prior to 1925.

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Global television events

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| 1873 || Willoughby Smith discovers the photoconductivity of the element selenium. This results in the invention of the photoelectric cell.

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| 1877 || George R. Carey of Boston creates a selenium telectroscope—a camera that could project a moving image to a distant point. The telectroscope is the first television prototype.

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| 1880 || Proposals to transmit images by rapidly scanning them in succession are made independently by William E. Sawyer of the United States and Maurice Leblanc of France.

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| 1884 || Paul Nipkow invents the Nipkow disk, a means of scanning an image mechanically. This method is later used for mechanical television experiments.

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| 1890 || Henry Sutton Telephane 1885 (mechanical television) designs published.

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| 1895 || Noah S. Amstutz demonstrates the transmission of photographic halftone images by electric telegraphy.

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| 1897 || Karl Ferdinand Braun invents the cathode-ray tube, using it as an oscilloscope.

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| 1900 || The word "television" is coined by Constantin Perskyi on August 18 at the First International Electricity Congress in Paris.

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| 1907 || Boris Rosing transmits silhouette images of geometric shapes, using a Nipkow disc, mirror-drum and a cathode-ray tube receiver.

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| 1908 || In his letter to Nature, Alan Campbell-Swinton describes the modern electronic camera and display system which others are to develop throughout the 1920s.

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| 1921 || Charles Francis Jenkins with a group of friends incorporates Jenkins Laboratories in Washington, D.C., with the purpose of "developing radio movies to be broadcast for entertainment in the home".

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| 1922 || Charles Jenkins' first public demonstration of television principles. A set of static photographic pictures is transmitted from Washington, D.C., to the Navy station NOF in Anacostia by telephone wire, and then wirelessly back to Washington.

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| 1922 || Philo Farnsworth first describes an image dissector tube, which uses caesium to produce images electronically, but will not produce a working model until 1927.

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| 1923 || Charles Jenkins first demonstrates "true" television with moving images. This time 48-line moving silhouette images are transmitted at 16 frames per second from Washington to Anacostia Navy station.

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| 1923 || Vladimir Zworykin applies for patent for an all-electronic television system, the first ancestor of the electric scanning television camera. The patent is not granted until 1938 after significant revisions and patent interference actions.

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| 1924 || John Logie Baird demonstrates a semi-mechanical television system with the transmission of moving silhouette images in England.

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| 1924 || Vladimir Zworykin files a patent application for the kinescope, a television picture receiver tube.

Births

Births (before 1900)

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| September 4, 1855 || Henry Sutton || Australian designer of mechanical scanning television (died 1912)

| August 22, 1867 || Charles Francis Jenkins || American inventor and promoter of mechanical scanning television (died 1934)

| April 23, 1869 || Boris Rosing || Russian pioneer of television technology (died 1933)

| November 22, 1874 || Elizabeth Patterson || American actress (I Love Lucy) (died 1966)

| July 21, 1882 || Dr. Herbert Ives || American television researcher, leader of the AT&T television research during the 1920s–1930s (died 1953)

| February 8, 1884 || Burt Mustin || American actor (All in the Family) (died 1977)

| November 9, 1886 || Ed Wynn || American actor and comedian (The Ed Wynn Show) (died 1966)

| January 16, 1887 || John Hamilton || American actor (Adventures of Superman) (died 1958)

| February 26, 1887 || William Frawley || American actor (I Love Lucy, My Three Sons) (died 1966)

| August 14, 1888 || John Logie Baird || British pioneer of television technology (d. 1946)

| January 7, 1889 || H. R. Baukhage || American journalist and broadcaster (d. 1976)

| July 20, 1889 || John Reith, 1st Baron Reith || First Director-General of the BBC (d. 1971)

| July 30, 1889 || Vladimir Zworykin || American pioneer of television technology (died 1982)

| August 28, 1891 || Stanley Andrews || American actor (Death Valley Days) (died 1969)

| January 26, 1892 || Zara Cully || American actress (The Jeffersons) (died 1978)

| February 14, 1894 || Jack Benny || American actor (The Jack Benny Program) (died 1974)

| March 6, 1894 || Clifford Roberts || American dealer (died 1977)

| August 21, 1895 || Blossom Rock || American actress (The Addams Family) (died 1978)

| January 7, 1896 || Arnold Ridley || British actor and playwright (Dad's Army) (died 1984)

| November 4, 1896 || Ian Wolfe || Actor (died 1992)

| May 25, 1898 || Bennett Cerf || American publisher and game show panelist (What's My Line?) (died 1971)

| August 30, 1898 || Shirley Booth || American actress (Hazel) (died 1992)

| September 1, 1898 || Violet Carson || British actress and radio performer (Coronation Street) (died 1983)

Births (1900–1909)

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| October 4, 1900 || Robert Shayne || American actor (Adventures of Superman) (died 1992)

| November 13, 1900 || Worthington Miner || American actor (died 1982)

| December 6, 1900 || Agnes Moorehead || American actress (Bewitched) (died 1974)

| March 27, 1901 || Carl Barks || American animator (creator of Scrooge McDuck) (died 2000)

| July 1, 1901 || Irna Phillips || American writer (creator of early soap opera) (died 1973)

| July 14, 1901 || George Tobias || American actor (Bewitched) (died 1980)

| rowspan="2" | September 28, 1901 || Ed Sullivan || American television host (The Ed Sullivan Show) (died 1974)

| William S. Paley || American businessman (died 1990)

| December 5, 1901 || Walt Disney || American animator (died 1966)

| March 17, 1902 || Bobby Jones || American golfer (died 1971)

| April 27, 1902 || Harry Stockwell || American actor (died 1984)

| October 10, 1902 || Charles Lloyd-Pack || English actor (died 1983)

| October 17, 1902 || Irene Ryan || American actress (The Beverly Hillbillies) (died 1973)

| December 14, 1902 || Frances Bavier || American actress (Aunt Bee on The Andy Griffith Show) (died 1989)

| December 25, 1902 || Barton MacLane || American actor (I Dream of Jeannie) (died 1969)

| May 29, 1903 || Bob Hope || British-American movie, television, radio and vaudeville actor, writer and producer (Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre) (died 2003)

| September 17, 1903 || Dolores Costello || American actress (died 1979)

| March 1, 1904 || Paul Hartman || American dancer and actor (The Andy Griffith Show, Mayberry R.F.D.) (died 1973)

| June 17, 1904 || Ralph Bellamy || American stage, movie and television actor (Man Against Crime) (died 1991)

| July 5, 1904 || Don Goddard || Radio and television announcer (died 1994)

| January 26, 1905 || Charles Lane || American actor (Petticoat Junction) (died 2007)

| January 27, 1905 || Howard McNear || American actor (Floyd Lawson on The Andy Griffith Show) (died 1969)

| May 16, 1905 || Henry Fonda || American actor (died 1982)

| September 18, 1905 || Eddie Anderson || American actor (The Jack Benny Program) (died 1977)

| October 4, 1905 || Leslie Mitchell || British announcer (died 1985)

| February 6, 1906 || John Carradine || American actor (died 1988)

| February 20, 1906 || Gale Gordon || American actor (The Lucy Show) (died 1995)

| March 29, 1906 || Anthony W. Marshall || American television producer (died 1999)

| rowspan="2" | April 4, 1906 || Bea Benaderet || American actress (The Flintstones) (died 1968)

| John Cameron Swayze || American anchorman (Camel News Caravan) (died 1995)

| April 22, 1906 || Eddie Albert || American actor (Green Acres, Switch) (died 2005)

| August 19, 1906 || Philo Farnsworth || American inventor credited with the invention of the cathode-ray tube television (died 1971)

| December 25, 1906 || Lew Grade || Ukrainian-born British media proprietor and impresario (died 1998)

| January 6, 1907 || Helen Kleeb|| American actress (The Waltons) (died 2003)

| February 12, 1907 || Joseph Kearns || American actor (Dennis the Menace) (died 1962)

| February 26, 1907 || Dub Taylor || American actor (died 1994)

| March 16, 1907 || Frances Fuller || American actress (died 1980)

| May 22, 1907 || Cecil McGivern || British broadcasting executive; controller of BBC Television from 1950 to 1957 (died 1963)

| August 7, 1907 || Joe Besser || American actor (died 1988)

| August 20, 1907 || Alan Reed || American actor (voice of Fred Flintstone on The Flintstones) (died 1977)

| September 29, 1907 || Gene Autry || American music performer (The Gene Autry Show), and founder of the Los Angeles Angels MLB franchise (died 1998)

| October 20, 1907 || Arlene Francis || American actress and game show panelist (What's My Line?) (died 2001)

| January 8, 1908 || William Hartnell || British actor; the original Doctor Who in the 1960s (died 1975)

| January 30, 1908 || Richard Hearne || British comic performer ("Mr Pastry") (died 1979)

| February 13, 1908 || Pauline Frederick || American journalist (died 1990)

| February 14, 1908 || Lennie Hayton || American composer (died 1971)

| February 28, 1908 || Billie Bird || American radio, film, television and vaudeville actress (Dear John) (died 2002)

| April 2, 1908 || Buddy Ebsen || American actor (The Beverly Hillbillies) (died 2003)

| April 30, 1908 || Eve Arden || American actress (Our Miss Brooks) (died 1990)

| May 10, 1908 || Neva Carr Glyn || Actress (died 1975)

| June 18, 1908 || Bud Collyer || American radio actor and announcer and game show host (died 1969)

| July 12, 1908 || Milton Berle || American actor (Texaco Star Theater) (died 2002)

| July 31, 1908 || Bill Shadel || American news anchor (died 2005)

| August 27, 1908 || Lyndon B. Johnson || American president (died 1973)

| October 6, 1908 || Carole Lombard || American actress (died 1942)

| December 14, 1908 || Morey Amsterdam || American actor (The Dick Van Dyke Show) (died 1996)

| December 21, 1908 || Pat Weaver || American broadcasting executive (died 2002)

| February 2, 1909 || Frank Albertson || American actor (died 1964)

| February 16, 1909 || Hugh Beaumont || American actor (Leave it to Beaver) (died 1982)

| March 18, 1909 || Henry Longhurst || Golf writer (died 1978)

| May 1, 1909 || Elmer Balaban || American theater owner and early cable television provider (died 2001)

| May 13, 1909 || Mae Laborde || American actress (died 2012)

| July 26, 1909 || Vivian Vance || American actress (I Love Lucy) (died 1979)

| November 11, 1909 || Paul Shannon || Pittsburgh radio and television announcer (died 1990)

Births (1910–1919)

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| January 23, 1910 || Django Reinhardt || Composer (died 1953)

| May 15, 1910 || Michael Barry || British television producer and executive; Head of Drama at BBC television from 1952 to 1962 (died 1988)

| May 22, 1910 || Johnny Olson || American radio and television announcer (The New Price Is Right) (died 1985)

| May 28, 1910 || Thora Hird || English comic actress (Last of the Summer Wine, Talking Heads) (died 2003)

| June 10, 1910 || Red Foley || American singer (died 1968)

| June 13, 1910 || Mary Wickes || American actress (Father Dowling Mysteries) (died 1995)

| August 22, 1910 || Lesley Woods || American actress (died 2003)

| October 23, 1910 || Hayden Rorke || American actor (I Dream of Jeannie) (died 1987)

| February 6, 1911 || Ronald Reagan || American actor and president (General Electric Theater) (died 2004)

| February 13, 1911 || Jean Muir || American actress (died 1996)

| March 5, 1911 || Joseph Tomelty || Irish actor (died 1995)

| March 13, 1911 || Marie Rudisill || American television personality (The Fruitcake Lady from The Tonight Show with Jay Leno) (died 2006)

| May 6, 1911 || Frank Nelson || American actor (died 1986)

| July 7, 1911 || Gretchen Franklin || British actress (EastEnders) (died 2005)

| August 6, 1911 || Lucille Ball || American comic actress (I Love Lucy) (died 1989)

| October 23, 1911 || Martha Rountree || American broadcast journalist (Meet the Press) (died 1999)

| November 5, 1911 || Roy Rogers || American singer and actor (The Roy Rogers Show) (died 1998)

| December 10, 1911 || Chet Huntley || American anchorman (The Huntley-Brinkley Report) (died 1974)

| January 5, 1912 || Gilbert Ralston || British-born American screenwriter (died 1999)

| January 7, 1912 || Charles Addams || American cartoonist (created The Addams Family) (died 1988)

| January 8, 1912 || José Ferrer || American actor (died 1992)

| February 4, 1912 || Byron Nelson || American golfer (died 2006)

| March 14, 1912 || Les Brown || American jazz musician (died 2001)

| March 16, 1912 || Pat Nixon || 37th first lady of the United States (died 1993)

| March 18, 1912 || Art Gilmore || American actor (Dragnet, Adam-12) (died 2010)

| April 5, 1912 || John Le Mesurier || British actor (Dad's Army) (died 1983)

| July 23, 1912 || Michael Wilding || Actor (died 1979)

| September 8, 1912 || Leo Cherne || American economist (died 1999)

| September 20, 1912 || Ron Cochran || American television news journalist (died 1994)

| September 29, 1912 || Lukas Ammann || Swiss actor (Graf Yoster) (died 2017)

| October 31, 1912 || Dale Evans || American singer and actress (The Roy Rogers Show) (died 2001)

| November 23, 1912 || George O'Hanlon || American film and voice actor (voice of George Jetson on The Jetsons) (died 1989)

| November 26, 1912 || Eric Sevareid || American CBS news journalist (died 1992)

| November 27, 1912 || Connie Sawyer || American actress (died 2018)

| December 22, 1912 || Lady Bird Johnson || 36th first lady of the United States (died 2007)

| January 9, 1913 || Richard Nixon || American president (died 1994)

| January 28, 1913 || Maurice Gosfield || American actor (The Phil Silvers Show) (died 1964)

| February 25, 1913 || Jim Backus || American actor (Gilligan's Island, Mr. Magoo) (died 1989)

| April 3, 1913 || David Markham || Actor (died 1983)

| April 10, 1913 || Bill Burns || Anchor (died 1997)

| May 13, 1913 || Jasmine Bligh || British presenter; one of the first BBC Television Service presenters of the 1930s (died 1991)

| May 25, 1913 || Richard Dimbleby || British journalist (BBC), commentator on state events, and presenter of current affairs programmes such as Panorama (died 1965)

| June 13, 1913 || Ralph Edwards || American host (died 2005)

| July 3, 1913 || Dorothy Kilgallen || American journalist and game show panelist (What's My Line?) (died 1965)

| July 13, 1913 || Dave Garroway || American journalist (The Today Show) (died 1982)

| July 14, 1913 || Gerald Ford || American president (died 2006)

| August 18, 1913 || Bryson Rash || American journalist (died 1992)

| August 25, 1913 || Don DeFore || American actor (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, Hazel) (died 1993)

| January 5, 1914 || George Reeves || American actor (Adventures of Superman) (died 1959)

| February 20, 1914 || John Charles Daly || American news journalist and game show host (What's My Line?) (died 1991)

| March 13, 1914 || Olaf Pooley || Actor (died 2015)

| March 15, 1914 || Joe E. Ross || American actor (The Phil Silvers Show, Car 54, Where Are You?) (died 1982)

| March 27, 1914 || Budd Schulberg || American screenwriter (died 2009)

| March 30, 1914 || Stuart Novins || American journalist (died 1989)

| April 1, 1914 || Pete Carpenter || American arranger (died 1987)

| April 14, 1914 || Richard S. Salant || CBS executive (died 1993)

| April 23, 1914 || Harry Crane || Writer (died 1999)

| May 12, 1914 || Howard K. Smith || American anchorman (ABC Evening News) (died 2002)

| June 25, 1914 || Mavis Pugh || British character actress (You Rang, M'Lord?) (died 2006)

| July 6, 1914 || Vincent J. McMahon || American professional wrestling promoter (died 1984)

| August 31, 1914 || Richard Basehart || American actor (died 1984)

| September 18, 1914 || Harry Townes || American actor (The Fugitive) (died 2001)

| October 26, 1914 || Jackie Coogan || American actor (The Addams Family) (died 1984)

| October 30, 1914 || Anna Wing || British actress (EastEnders) (died 2013)

| November 8, 1914 || Norman Lloyd || American actor, director, and producer (Alfred Hitchcock Presents, St. Elsewhere) (died 2021)

| December 2, 1914 || Ray Walston || American actor (My Favorite Martian, Fast Times) (died 2001)

| December 26, 1914 || Geoffrey Lumsden || British character actor (Dad's Army) (died 1984)

| January 5, 1915 || John Tate || Australian actor (died 1979)

| January 12, 1915 || Martin Agronsky || American journalist (died 1999)

| January 14, 1915 || Mark Goodson || American television producer (died 1992)

| January 19, 1915 || Babette Henry || American television director (died 1980)

| January 31, 1915 || Garry Moore || American game series host and television personality (I've Got a Secret) (died 1993)

| February 1, 1915 || Art Balinger || American actor (Dragnet 1967, Adam-12) (died 2011)

| February 12, 1915 || Lorne Greene || American actor (Bonanza) (died 1987)

| February 19, 1915 || Dick Emery || English comic actor (The Dick Emery Show) (died 1983)

| April 10, 1915 || Harry Morgan || American actor (Dragnet, M*A*S*H) (died 2011)

| May 30, 1915 || Frank Blair || American journalist (died 1995)

| September 14, 1915 || Roy Wood Sr. || American host (died 1995)

| September 22, 1915 || Arthur Lowe || British actor (Coronation Street, Dad's Army) (died 1982)

| October 9, 1915 || James Underwood Crockett || American author, gardener, and television host (Crockett's Victory Garden) (died 1979)

| October 30, 1915 || Fred W. Friendly || American president of CBS News (died 1998)

| November 2, 1915 || Sidney Luft || American actor (died 2005)

| December 22, 1915 || Barbara Billingsley || American actress (Leave it to Beaver, Muppet Babies) (died 2010)

| January 27, 1916 || Merrill Mueller || American journalist (died 1980)

| January 29, 1916 || Bill Lawrence || American journalist (died 1972)

| February 14, 1916 || Edward Platt || American actor (Get Smart) (died 1974)

| February 26, 1916 || Jackie Gleason || American actor (The Honeymooners, The Jackie Gleason Show) (died 1987)

| February 29, 1916 || Dinah Shore || American actress (died 1994)

| March 6, 1916 || Virginia Gregg || American actress (Calvin and the Colonel, Dragnet) (died 1986)

| March 17, 1916 || Patricia Kennedy || Australian actress (died 2012)

| March 31, 1916 || Lucille Bliss || American actress (The Smurfs, Invader Zim) (died 2012)

| April 4, 1916 || David White || American actor (Bewitched) (died 1990)

| April 26, 1916 || Vic Perrin || American voice actor (The Outer Limits, Hanna-Barbera cartoons) (died 1989)

| May 14, 1916 || Del Moore || American actor (Life with Elizabeth, Bachelor Father, Dragnet 1967) (died 1970)

| July 11, 1916 || Reg Varney || English comedy actor (The Rag Trade, On the Buses) (died 2008)

| July 23, 1916 || Sandra Gould || American actress (Bewitched) (died 1999)

| July 31, 1916 || Bill Todman || American television producer (died 1979)

| August 24, 1916 || Hal Smith || American actor (The Andy Griffith Show) (died 1994)

| October 13, 1916 || Johnny Stearns || American actor and producer (Mary Kay and Johnny, The Tonight Show) (died 2001)

| November 4, 1916 || Walter Cronkite || American anchorman (CBS Evening News) (died 2009)

| February 6, 1917 || Zsa Zsa Gabor || Actress (died 2016)

| February 8, 1917 || Jack Drees || Sportscaster (died 1988)

| March 2, 1917 || Desi Arnaz || Cuban-born performer (I Love Lucy) (died 1986)

| March 30, 1917 || Herbert Anderson || American actor (Dennis the Menace) (died 1994)

| April 2, 1917 || Dabbs Greer || American actor (The Fugitive, Little House on the Prairie) (died 2007)

| April 16, 1917 || Barry Nelson || American actor (Climax!) (died 2007)

| May 16, 1917 || George Gaynes || Finnish-born American actor (Punky Brewster, The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd) (died 2016)

| May 21, 1917 || Raymond Burr || Canadian actor (Perry Mason, Ironside) (died 1993)

| May 29, 1917 || John F. Kennedy || American president (died 1963); his performance in the first presidential debates and assassination are among the most important events in television history.

| June 7, 1917 || Dean Martin || American actor, singer (The Dean Martin Show) (died 1995)

| June 9, 1917 || McDonald Hobley || British continuity announcer (BBC Television) (died 1987)

| June 10, 1917 || Lena Horne || Actress (died 2010)

| July 10, 1917 || Don Herbert || American television host (Watch Mr. Wizard) (died 2007)

| July 14, 1917 || Douglas Edwards || American anchorman (CBS Evening News) (died 1990)

| August 24, 1917 || Dennis James || Game show host (died 1997)

| August 29, 1917 || Isabel Sanford || Actress (died 2004)

| September 4, 1917 || Hilary Mason || British actress (Maid Marian and her Merry Men) (died 2006)

| September 29, 1917 || Chandler Cowles || Actor (died 1997)

| October 16, 1917 || Alice Pearce || American actress (Bewitched) (died 1966)

| October 28, 1917 || Jack Soo || Japanese-American actor (Barney Miller) (died 1979)

| December 17, 1917 || Elyse Knox || American actress (died 2012)

| December 22, 1917 || Gene Rayburn || American television personality (Match Game, The Tonight Show) (died 1999)

| February 15, 1918 || Allan Arbus || American actor (M*A*S*H) (died 2013)

| February 22, 1918 || Don Pardo || American television announcer (Saturday Night Live) (died 2014)

| March 12, 1918 || Frank Overton || Actor (died 1967)

| March 21, 1918 || Arturo Castro || Actor (died 1975)

| March 25, 1918 || Howard Cosell || American television personality (The Tonight Show) (died 1995)

| April 7, 1918 || William Eythe || American actor (died 1957)

| April 8, 1918 || |Betty Ford || 38th first lady of the United States (died 2011)

| May 1, 1918 || Jack Paar || American television personality (The Tonight Show) (died 2004)

| May 9, 1918 || Mike Wallace || American anchorman (60 Minutes) (died 2012)

| June 30, 1918 || Isobel Barnett || British broadcast personality (What's My Line?) (suicide 1980)

| July 26, 1918 || Stacy Harris || American actor (Dragnet, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp) (died 1973)

| August 7, 1918 || Jane Adams || American actress (died 2014)

| August 7, 1918 || Hutton Gibson || American writer (died 2020)

| September 14, 1918 || Bill Hanrahan || American announcer (died 1996)

| November 4, 1918 || Art Carney || American actor (The Honeymooners) (died 2003)

| November 7, 1918 || Billy Graham || American televangelist (died 2018)

| December 2, 1918 || Milton DeLugg || American bandleader and composer (Broadway Open House, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade) (died 2015)

| December 19, 1918 || Lee Rich || American film and television producer (died 1976)

| December 27, 1918 || Paul Gilbert || American actor (died 1976)

| January 1, 1919 || Carole Landis || American actress (died 1948)

| January 13, 1919 || Robert Stack || American actor (The Untouchables, Unsolved Mysteries) (died 2003)

| January 14, 1919 || Andy Rooney || American writer (died 2011)

| February 11, 1919 || Eva Gabor || Hungarian actress (Green Acres) (died 1995)

| March 12, 1919 || Frank Campanella || Actor (died 2006)

| March 19, 1919 || Nat King Cole || Actor (died 1965)

| May 4, 1919 || John Hope || American meteorologist (The Weather Channel), named Hurricane Camille for his daughter (died 2002)

| June 12, 1919 || Uta Hagen || American actress (died 2004)

| June 17, 1919 || Ray Scott || American sportcaster (died 1998)

| June 18, 1919 || Mel Brandt || American actor (died 2008)

| August 19, 1919 || Philip Perlman || American actor (died 2015)

| September 4, 1919 || Howard Morris || American actor (Your Show of Shows, The Flintstones, The Jetsons, The Andy Griffith Show, The Magilla Gorilla Show, The Archie Show, DuckTales, Garfield and Friends, Cow and Chicken, I Am Weasel) (died 2005)

| September 28, 1919 || Tom Harmon || American actor (died 1990)

| October 14, 1919 || Shaun Sutton || British writer, director, and producer; longest-serving Head of Drama at BBC Television (died 2004)

| November 4, 1919 || Shirley Mitchell || American actress (died 2013)

| November 15, 1919 || Joseph Wapner || American judge (died 2017)

| November 15, 1919 || Martin Balsam || American actor (died 1996)

| November 19, 1919 || Alan Young || English-born American actor (Mister Ed, DuckTales) (died 2016)

| December 11, 1919 || Cliff Michelmore || English broadcast presenter (died 2016)

| December 19, 1919 || Bill Morey || Actor (died 2003)

Births (1920–1924)

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| January 9, 1920 || Bunney Brooke || Australian actress and casting agent (Number 96) (died 2000)

| January 14, 1920 || George Herman || CBS journalist (died 2005)

| January 30, 1920 || Michael Anderson || English director (died 2018)

| February 18, 1920 || Bill Cullen || American game series host (The Price Is Right, I've Got a Secret) (died 1990)

| February 26, 1920 || Tony Randall || American actor (The Odd Couple) (died 2004)

| rowspan="2" | February 29, 1920 || Arthur Franz || American actor (died 2006)

| James Mitchell || American actor (died 2010)

| March 16, 1920 || John Addison || English screen composer (died 1998)

| March 25, 1920 || Bill MacPhail || American television sports executive (died 1996)

| April 17, 1920 || Arnold Yarrow || English actor (EastEnders) and screenwriter (died 2024)

| June 18, 1920 || Ian Carmichael || English actor (The World of Wooster) (died 2010)

| July 10, 1920 || David Brinkley || American anchorman (The Huntley-Brinkley Report) (died 2003)

| July 18, 1920 || Dolph Sweet || American actor (Gimme a Break!, Another World) (died 1985)

| August 6, 1920 || Selma Diamond || Canadian-born American actress (Night Court) (died 1985)

| August 18, 1920 || Shelley Winters || American actress (Roseanne) (died 2006)

| August 19, 1920 || Joseph Wershba || American journalist (died 2011)

| rowspan="2" | October 27, 1920 || Nanette Fabray || American actress (One Day at a Time) (died 2018)

| Phyllis Hill || American actress (died 1993)

| November 1, 1920 || James J. Kilpatrick || American journalist (died 2010)

| November 20, 1920 || Lee Guber || American theater impresario (died 1988)

| November 25, 1920 || Noel Neill || American actress (Adventures of Superman) (died 2016)

|November 25, 1920

|Ricardo Montalbán

|Actor (Fantasy Island, Freakazoid!, Kim Possible) (died 2009)

| December 7, 1920 || Reuven Frank || American broadcast news executive (died 2006)

| January 6, 1921 || Cary Middlecoff || Golfer (died 1998)

| rowspan"2"| January 15, 1921 || Frank Thornton || English actor (Are You Being Served?) (died 2013)

| January 15, 1921 || Dehl Berti || Actor (died 1991)

| February 1, 1921 || Peter Sallis || English actor (Last of the Summer Wine, Wallace and Gromit) (died 2017)

| February 14, 1921 || Hugh Downs || American radio and television broadcaster (died 2020)

| February 24, 1921 || Abe Vigoda || American actor (Barney Miller) (died 2016)

| March 22, 1921 || Caryl Ledner || American writer (died 1984)

| April 5, 1921 || Christopher Hewett || British actor (Mr. Belvedere) (died 2001)

| April 22, 1921 || Charlotte Lawrence || actress (died 1993)

| May 14, 1921 || Richard Deacon || American actor (The Dick Van Dyke Show, Leave It to Beaver) (died 1984)

| May 21, 1921 || Howard Reig || American announcer (died 2008)

| June 15, 1921 || Erroll Garner || American composer (died 1977)

| July 6, 1921 || Nancy Reagan || Actress and 40th first lady of the United States (died 2016)

| July 15, 1921 || Jean Heywood || British actress (Boys from the Blackstuff, Leave it to Charlie) (died 2019)

| July 23, 1921 || Calvert DeForest || American actor (died 2007)

| July 24, 1921 || Billy Taylor || American jazz pianist (died 2010)

| August 8, 1921 || William Asher || American producer, director and writer (Bewitched) (died 2012)

| August 9, 1921 || Ernest Angley || American Christian evangelist (died 2021)

| August 21, 1921 || John Osteen || Pastor (died 1999)

| August 25, 1921 || Monty Hall || Canadian TV host (died 2017)

| August 27, 1921 || Leo Penn || Actor (died 1998)

| August 31, 1921 || Madeline Amgott || American television news producer (died 2014)

| September 12, 1921 || Frank McGee || Journalist (died 1974)

| September 14, 1921 || Bud Palmer || Basketball player (died 2013)

| rowspan="2" | September 24, 1921 || Sheila MacRae || English-born American actress (The Honeymooners, General Hospital) (died 2014)

| Jim McKay || American television sports journalist (died 2008)

| October 1, 1921 || James Whitmore || American actor (died 2009)

| October 17, 1921 || Tom Poston || American actor (Newhart) (died 2007)

| November 14, 1921 || Brian Keith || American actor (Family Affair) (died 1997)

| November 22, 1921 || Rodney Dangerfield || American comedian and actor (The Dean Martin Show) (died 2004)

| December 11, 1921 || Liz Smith || English character actress (The Royle Family) (died 2016)

| December 26, 1921 || Steve Allen || American television personality (The Tonight Show) (died 2000)

| January 17, 1922 || Betty White || American actress (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Golden Girls, Hot in Cleveland) (died 2021)

| January 21, 1922 || Telly Savalas || American actor (Kojak) (died 1994)

| January 30, 1922 || Dick Martin || American comedian (Laugh-In) (died 2008)

| February 8, 1922 || Audrey Meadows || American actress (The Honeymooners) (died 1996)

| February 9, 1922 || Kathryn Grayson || American actress (Murder, She Wrote) (died 2010)

| February 18, 1922 || Allan Melvin || American actor (Magilla Gorilla, The Brady Bunch, All in the Family) (died 2008)

| February 24, 1922 || Steven Hill || American actor (Law & Order, Mission: Impossible) (died 2016)

| March 5, 1922 || James Noble || American actor (Benson) (died 2016)

| March 6, 1922 || Burt Balaban || American film producer and director (died 1965)

| March 11, 1922 || Paul Alter || American director (died 2011)

| March 20, 1922 || Carl Reiner || American actor, writer, director and producer (Your Show of Shows, The Dick Van Dyke Show) (died 2020)

| March 23, 1922 || Marty Allen || American comedian and actor, "The Darling of Daytime TV" (died 2018)

| April 3, 1922 || Doris Day || American actress and singer (The Doris Day Show) (died 2019)

| April 5, 1922 || Gale Storm || American actress (My Little Margie) (died 2009)

|April 15, 1922

|Michael Ansara

|Syrian-American actor (Law of the Plainsman, Broken Arrow, Star Trek, Batman: The Animated Series) (d. 2013)

| April 18, 1922 || Barbara Hale|| American actress (Perry Mason) (died 2017)

| April 19, 1922 || Billy Joe Patton|| American golfer (died 2011)

| April 27, 1922 || Jack Klugman|| American actor (The Odd Couple, Quincy) (died 2012)

| May 7, 1922 || Darren McGavin|| American actor (Kolchak: The Night Stalker) (died 2006)

| May 10, 1922 || Nancy Walker|| American actress (Rhoda, Bounty paper towel commercials) (died 1992)

| May 13, 1922 || Beatrice Arthur|| American actress (Maude, The Golden Girls) (died 2009)

| May 18, 1922 || Bill Macy|| American actor (Maude) (died 2019)

| May 22, 1922 || Quinn Martin || American producer (The Fugitive, The F.B.I., The Streets of San Francisco) (died 1987)

| May 27, 1922 || Christopher Lee || Actor (died 2015)

| June 9, 1922 || George Axelrod || American screenwriter (died 2003)

| June 10, 1922 || Judy Garland || American actress (died 1969)

| June 24, 1922 || Jack Carter || American comedian, actor, and television presenter (died 2015)

| July 21, 1922 || Mollie Sugden || British actress (Are You Being Served?) (died 2009)

| July 22, 1922 || Dan Rowan || American comedian (Laugh-In) (died 1987)

| July 27, 1922 || Norman Lear || American producer (All in the Family, Sanford and Son and many others) (died 2023)

| August 1, 1922 || Arthur Hill || Canadian-born actor (died 2006)

| September 1, 1922 || Yvonne De Carlo || American actress (The Munsters) (died 2007)

| October 9, 1922 || Fyvush Finkel || American stage and television actor (Boston Public). (died 2016)

| October 22, 1922 || Neal Hefti || American composer (died 2008)

| October 31, 1922 || Barbara Bel Geddes || American actress (Dallas) (died 2005)

| rowspan="2" | November 13, 1922 || Jack Narz || American game show host and announcer (died 2008)

| Madeleine Sherwood || Canadian actress (The Flying Nun) (died 2016)

| December 9, 1922 || Redd Foxx || American comedian (Sanford and Son) (died 1991)

| December 14, 1922 || Don Hewitt || American television news producer (died 2009)

| December 20, 1922 || Charita Bauer || American actress (The Guiding Light) (died 1985)

| December 21, 1922 || Paul Winchell || American actor (died 2005)

| December 22, 1922 || Ruth Roman || American actress (Murder, She Wrote) (died 1999)

| January 3, 1923 || Hank Stram || American football coach and sportscaster (died 2005)

| January 6, 1923 || Charles "Red" Donley || American sports and news anchor (died 1998)

| January 8, 1923 || Larry Storch || American actor (F-Troop) (died 2022)

| January 19, 1923 || Jean Stapleton || American actress (All in the Family) (died 2013)

| January 20, 1923 || Diana Douglas || American actress (died 2015)

| January 23, 1923 || Florence Halop || American actress (St. Elsewhere, Night Court) (died 1986)

| February 4, 1923 || Conrad Bain || Canadian-American actor (Maude, Diff'rent Strokes) (died 2013)

| March 6, 1923 || Ed McMahon || American game show host and announcer (The Tonight Show, Star Search) (died 2009)

| March 11, 1923 || Terence Alexander || English actor (Bergerac) (died 2009)

| March 30, 1923 || Frank Field || American meteorologist (WNBC-TV, The Tonight Show) (died 2023)

| April 2, 1923 || Gloria Henry || American actress (Dennis the Menace) (died 2021)

| April 4, 1923 || Peter Vaughan || British character actor (Porridge, Game of Thrones) (died 2016)

| April 8, 1923 || Edward Mulhare || Actor (died 1997)

| April 10, 1923 || Jane Kean || American actress and singer (The Jackie Gleason Show, The Honeymooners) (died 2013)

| April 13, 1923 || Don Adams || American actor (Get Smart, Inspector Gadget) (died 2005)

| rowspan="2" | April 17, 1923 || Lon McCallister || American actor (died 2005)

| Harry Reasoner || American journalist (died 1991)

| April 22, 1923 || Aaron Spelling || American movie and television producer (Beverly Hills, 90210) (died 2006)

| April 30, 1923 || Al Lewis || American actor (The Munsters) (died 2006)

| May 21, 1923 || Evelyn Ward || American actor (died 2012)

| May 26, 1923 || James Arness || American actor (Gunsmoke) (died 2011)

| July 8, 1923 || Hal Scott || American sportcaster (died 2010)

| July 15, 1923 || Herb Sargent || American writer (died 2005)

| July 22, 1923 || Bob Dole || American politician (died 2021)

| July 25, 1923 || Estelle Getty || American actress (The Golden Girls) (died 2008)

| July 28, 1923 || Ray Ellis || American conductor (died 2008)

| July 29, 1923 || George Burditt || American writer (died 2013)

| August 15, 1923 || Rose Marie || American actress (The Dick Van Dyke Show) (died 2017)

| August 21, 1923 || Chris Schenkel || American sportscaster (died 2005)

| September 7, 1923 || Peter Lawford || American actor (died 1984)

| September 9, 1923 || Cliff Robertson || American actor (died 2011)

| September 17, 1923 || David Oreck || American salesman (died 2023)

| September 20, 1923 || Jimmy Perry || English scriptwriter (Dad's Army) (died 2016)

| September 28, 1923 || William Windom || American actor (Murder, She Wrote) (died 2012)

| October 5, 1923 || Glynis Johns || British actress (died 2024)

| October 10, 1923 || Murray Walker || English motorsport commentator (died 2021)

| November 7, 1923 || Bob Young || American announcer (died 2011)

| November 12, 1923 || Ernie Anderson || American announcer (died 1997)

| November 20, 1923 || Danny Dayton || American actor (died 1999)

| November 29, 1923 || Frank Reynolds || American television journalist (died 1983)

| December 10, 1923 || Harold Gould || American actor (Rhoda, The Golden Girls) (died 2010)

| December 12, 1923 || Bob Barker || American game series presenter (The New Price Is Right) (died 2023)

| December 23, 1923 || Leonard B. Stern || Screenwriter (died 2011)

| December 29, 1923 || Dina Merrill || Actress (died 2017)

| January 14, 1924 || Carole Cook || American actress (died 2023)

| January 19, 1924 || Nicholas Colasanto || American actor and director (Cheers) (died 1985)

| January 21, 1924 || Benny Hill || English comedian (died 1992)

| rowspan="2" | January 29, 1924 || Enrico Simonetti || Italian musician and presenter (Simonetti Show) (died 1978)

| Dorothy Malone || American actress (Peyton Place) (died 2018)

| February 14, 1924 || Gabe Pressman || American journalist (died 2017)

| February 19, 1924 || Lee Marvin || American actor (died 1987)

| February 28, 1924 || Bettye Ackerman || American actress (died 2006)

| rowspan="2" | March 3, 1924 || John Woodnutt || English actor (died 2006)

| Lys Assia || Swiss singer, first winner of Eurovision Song Contest (died 2018)

| March 8, 1924 || Sean McClory || Irish actor (The Californians) (died 2003)

| March 22, 1924 || Bill Wendell || American announcer (died 1999)

| March 24, 1924 || Norman Fell || American actor (Three's Company) (died 1998)

| March 25, 1924 || Roberts Blossom || American actor (died 2011)

| April 15, 1924 || Rikki Fulton || Scottish comedian (Scotch and Wry) (died 2004)

| April 20, 1924 || Nina Foch || American actress (died 2008)

| rowspan="2" | May 1, 1924 || Art Fleming || American stage, radio and television personality (Jeopardy!) (died 1995)

| Terry Southern || American screenwriter (died 1995)

| May 2, 1924 || Theodore Bikel || Austrian actor (Babylon 5: In the Beginning) (died 2015)

| May 6, 1924 || Patricia Kennedy Lawford || American socialite (died 2006)

| May 12, 1924 || Tony Hancock || English comic performer (Hancock's Half Hour) (suicide 1968)

| May 18, 1924 || Jack Whitaker || Sportscaster (died 2019)

| June 3, 1924 || Colleen Dewhurst || Movie and television actress (died 1991)

| June 12, 1924 || George H. W. Bush || American president (died 2018)

| June 17, 1924 || Marie Torre || American television personality (died 1997)

| June 24, 1924 || Sidney Lumet || American screenwriter (died 2011)

| June 26, 1924 || Richard Bull || American movie and television actor (Little House on the Prairie) (died 2014)

| July 10, 1924 || Gloria Stroock || American actress (died 2024)

| July 11, 1924 || Brett Somers || Canadian-born American actress and comedian (The Odd Couple, Match Game '73) (died 2007)

| July 21, 1924 || Don Knotts || American actor (The Andy Griffith Show, Three's Company) (died 2006)

| July 29, 1924 || Joseph Cranston || American producer (died 2014)

| August 2, 1924 || Carroll O'Connor || American actor (All in the Family, In the Heat of the Night) (died 2001)

| August 15, 1924 || Werner Abrolat || German actor (Tatort) (died 1997)

| August 21, 1924 || Jack Buck || Sportscaster (died 2002)

| August 31, 1924 || Buddy Hackett || Actor (died 2003)

| September 10, 1924 || Georgiana Young || TV actress (died 2007)

| September 19, 1924 || Don Harron || Canadian comedian and actor (Hee Haw) (died 2015)

| September 20, 1924 || Paul K. Niven Jr. || TV journalist (died 1970)

| September 24, 1924 || Bob Herron || American stuntman and actor (died 2021)

| October 1, 1924 || Jimmy Carter || Former American president (died 2024)

| rowspan="2" | October 21, 1924 || Joyce Randolph || American actress (The Honeymooners) (died 2024)

| Julie Wilson || American actress (died 2015)

| November 18, 1924 || Les Lye || Canadian actor (You Can't Do That On Television) (died 2009)

| November 21, 1924 || Joseph Campanella || American actor (Mannix, The Guiding Light, Days of Our Lives) (died 2018)

| November 23, 1924 || Anita Linda || Filipina actress (Tayong Dalawa) (died 2020)

| December 12, 1924 || Ed Koch || American judge (died 2013)

| December 13, 1924 || Maria Riva || American actress (died 2025)

| December 14, 1924 || Marge Redmond || American actress (The Flying Nun, Matlock) (died 2020)

| December 23, 1924 || Floyd Kalber || American television journalist (died 2004)

References

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Births (1900–1909)

Births (1910–1919)

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See also

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