American trumpet player and actor (born 1916)

Harry James

Harry Haag James was an American musician who is best known as a trumpet-playing band leader who led a big band to great commercial success from 1939 to 1946. He broke up his band for a short period in 1947, but shortly after he reorganized and was active again with his band from then until his death in 1983. He was especially known among musicians for his technical proficiency as well as his tone, and was influential on new trumpet players from the late 1930s into the 1940s. He was also an actor in a number of films that usually featured his band.

Born

1916

March 15

Died

1983

Era

1910s

Country

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Key dates

1916 Born
1983 Died

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What else happened on this day, through history

-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 1916

When Harry arrived

april 18 World War I: During a mine warfare in high altitude on the Dolomites, the Italian troops conquer the Col di Lana held by the Austrian army.
april 24 Easter Rising: Irish rebels, led by Patrick Pearse and James Connolly, launch an uprising in Dublin against British rule and proclaim an Irish Republic.
april 24 Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organise a rescue for the crew of the sunken Endurance.
april 25 Anzac Day is commemorated for the first time on the first anniversary of the landing at ANZAC Cove.

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Benjamin R. Jacobs 1879–1963 American biochemist (born 1879) Bob Wilber 1928– American clarinetist and saxophonist (died 2019) 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 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 1916

Ahmad Abd al-Ghafur Attar 1916–1991 Saudi Arabian writer and journalist (born 1916) Bill Durnan 1916–1972 Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 1972) Billy Hitchcock 1916–2006 American baseball player, coach, manager (born 1916) C. Wright Mills American sociologist and author (died 1962) 1916– Chick Hearn 1916–2002 American sportscaster (born 1916) Colin McCool 1916– Australian cricketer (died 1986) Deendayal Upadhyaya 1916– Indian economist, sociologist, and journalist (died 1968) Dom Mintoff 1916–2012 Maltese journalist and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Malta (born 1916) Don Tallon 1916–1984 Australian cricketer (died 1984)

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