American clarinetist and saxophonist (died 2019)

Bob Wilber

Robert Sage Wilber was an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, and band leader. Although his scope covers a wide range of jazz, Wilber was a dedicated advocate of classic styles, working throughout his career to present traditional jazz pieces in a contemporary manner. He played with many distinguished jazz leaders in the 1950s and 1960s, including Bobby Hackett, Benny Goodman, Sidney Bechet, Jack Teagarden and Eddie Condon. In the late 1960s, he was an original member of the World's Greatest Jazz Band, and in the early '70s of Soprano Summit, a band which gained wide attention.

Born

1928

March 15

Died

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1920s

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1928 Born

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-474 Roman consul Aulus Manlius Vulso celebrates an ovation for concluding the war against Veii and securing a forty years' truce.
-200 The Roman Republic under its new consuls Publius Sulpicius Galba and Gaius Aurelius Cotta declares war on Philip V of Macedon, starting the Second Macedonian War.
-44 The assassination of Julius Caesar, the dictator of the Roman Republic, by a group of senators takes place on the Ides of March.
351 Constantius Gallus is elevated as Caesar and then sent to Antioch to govern the Roman East.

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The world in 1928

When Bob arrived

april 12 The Bremen, a German Junkers W 33 type aircraft, takes off for the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
august 27 The Kellogg–Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by fifteen nations. Ultimately sixty-one nations will sign it.
december 17 Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru assassinate British police officer James Saunders in Lahore, Punjab, to avenge the death of Lala Lajpat Rai at the hands of the police. The three were executed in 1931.
december 4 Cosmo Gordon Lang was enthroned as the Archbishop of Canterbury, the first bachelor to be appointed in 150 years.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on March 15

Benjamin R. Jacobs 1879–1963 American biochemist (born 1879) Emil von Behring 1854–1917 German physiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1917) Eva Longoria 1975– American actress Frances Conroy 1953– American actress Harold Baines 1959– American baseball player Harry James 1916–1983 American trumpet player and actor (born 1916) Jai Courtney 1986– Australian actor Jannik Hansen 1986– Danish ice hockey player Joaquim de Almeida 1957– Portuguese-American actor

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1928

Alan J. Pakula 1928–1998 American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1998) Alexander Grothendieck 1928–2014 German-French mathematician and theorist (died 2014) Andy Warhol 1928–1987 American painter, photographer and film director (died 1987) Anne Sexton 1928–1974 American poet and academic (died 1974) Anthony Franciosa 1928–2006 American actor (born 1928) Barbara Ann Scott 1928–2012 Canadian figure skater (died 2012) Billy Martin 1928–1989 American baseball player and manager (born 1928) Bob Cousy 1928– American basketball player and coach Carlos Fuentes 1928–2012 Mexican novelist and essayist (born 1928)

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