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Table of years in radio

Before 1920
1874 June 14 - Edward Bowes, American radio personality

1882 Henry Burr (d. 1941), singer, early radio performer and producer.

1885 July 8 - John R. Brinkley (d. 1942, controversial medical doctor who experimented with goat glands as a means of curing male impotence and was a radio pioneer who created the age of Mexican border blasters.

1885 August 7 – Billie Burke (d. 1970), American film, stage, radio and television actress.

1890 February 2 - Charles Correll, (d. 1972), American radio comedian, best known for his work on the Amos 'n' Andy show with Freeman Gosden.

1890 August 2 – Bob Burns (d. 1956), popular American radio and film comedian during the 1930s and 1940s.

1891 May 30 - Ben Bernie, American jazz violinist and radio personality,

1891 October 25 - Charles Coughlin (d. 1979), Canadian-born Roman Catholic priest who used radio to reach a mass audience during the 1930s. This radio program included praises of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.

1891 M. R. DeHaan (d. 1965), American Bible teacher, pastor, author. physician and the founder of Radio Bible Class.

1894 February 14 - Jack Benny, comedian, vaudeville performer, and radio, television, and film actor.

1896 August 26 - Phil Baker, American comedian, radio announcer, vaudeville actor, composer, songwriter, accordionist and author.

1898 August 30 – Shirley Booth, award-winning American actress and radio personality

1899 September 28 – Boake Carter (d. 1944), American news commentator in the 1930s and early 1940s.

1901 June 18 - Tom Breneman (d.1948), radio talk show host from 1941-1948, best known for the radio program, Breakfast in Hollywood.

1901 Martin Block, considered the first "disc jockey" as host of Make Believe Ballroom

1903 May 2 - Bing Crosby, (d. 1977), American singer, actor and early radio personality.

1906 January 14 – William Bendix, actor and radio personality.

1908 August 20 - André Baruch, film narrator, radio announcer, news commentator, talk show host, disc jockey and sportscaster.

1909 Connie Desmond (d. 1983)), [[Major League Baseball broadcaster, primarily for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

1910 January 5 - Hugh Brannum, television and radio performer and musician. Best known for his role as "Mr. Green Jeans" on the children's television show "Captain Kangaroo."

1910 May 3 - Norman Corwin, American writer, screenwriter, producer, essayist, teacher, writer and director of radio drama during the 1930s and 1940s.

1911 Jim Bannon (d. 1984), actor in radio and Hollywood western films during the 1940s and 1950s.

1912 May 18 - Perry Como (d. 2001), American crooner and radio show host.

1916 Jerry Doggett (d. 1997), Major League Baseball broadcaster for the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers from 1956 to 1987.

1918 February 4 - Porky Chedwick, early rhythm and blues/rock and roll disc jockey

1918 Bill Ballance (d. 2004), American radio talk show host.

1919 Al "Jazzbo" Collins, (d. 1997), disc jockey, radio personality and recording artist, briefly the host of NBC television's Tonight show in 1957.

1920
1924.

1927.

1928.

1930
1930

1939
1939

1941

 * DEAD Henry Burr, 59, singer, early radio performer and producer.

1943

 * DEAD

1944

 * DEAD -

1955
1955 DEBUT

1956
1956 DEAD Bob Burns (b. 1890, popular American radio and film comedian during the 1930s and 1940s.

1960
1960

1962
1962 EVENT

1963
1963 DEAD Phil Baker, American comedian, vaudeville actor, composer, songwriter, accordionist, author and radio personality.

1964
1964 DEAD

1965
1965 DEAD

1967
1967

1967 DEAD

1968
1968

1969
1969

1970
1970

1970 DEAD.

1971
1971 EVENT

1979
1979 DEAD

1980
1980.

1983
1983 EVENT

1988
1988 DEAD

1992
1992 DEAD

2002
2002 EVENT

2002 DEBUT

2002 DEAD

2003
2003 DEAD

2003 CLOSING.

2004
2004 CLOSING.

2004 DEAD. 2004 DEAD.

2005
2005 DEBUT

2005 DEAD 2005 DEAD

2006
2006 DEBUT

2006 CLOSING.

2006 DEAD 2006 DEAD.

2007
2007 CLOSING