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Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Fred Allen	Comic	31-May-1894	17-Mar-1956	Town Hall Tonight
Mel Allen	Sports Figure	13-Feb-1913	16-Jun-1996	Sportscaster, Voice of the Yankees
Don Ameche	Actor	31-May-1904	6-Dec-1993	Trading Places
Eddie Anderson	Actor	18-Sep-1905	28-Feb-1977	Rochester on The Jack Benny Show
Eve Arden	Actor	30-Apr-1908	12-Nov-1990	The Eve Arden Show
Gene Autry	Country Musician	29-Sep-1907	2-Oct-1998	Singing cowboy
Red Barber	Sports Figure	17-Feb-1908	22-Oct-1992	The Voice of the Dodgers
Jack Benny	Actor	14-Feb-1894	26-Dec-1974	The Jack Benny Show
Gertrude Berg	Radio Personality	3-Oct-1899	14-Sep-1966	The Goldbergs
Edgar Bergen	Actor	16-Feb-1903	30-Sep-1978	Radio's greatest ventriloquist
Jim Bohannon	Radio Personality	c. 1946		The Jim Bohannon Show
Amar Bose	Inventor	2-Nov-1929		Inventor of Bose speakers
Eddie Cantor	Singer	31-Jan-1892	10-Oct-1964	Banjo Eyes
Dick Clark	TV Personality	30-Nov-1929	18-Apr-2012	American Bandstand
William Conrad	Actor	27-Sep-1920	11-Feb-1994	Jake and the Fatman
Charles J. Correll	Actor	2-Feb-1890	26-Sep-1972	Andy of Amos & Andy
Bing Crosby	Singer	3-May-1903	14-Oct-1977	White Christmas
Rick Dees	Radio Personality	14-Aug-1950		Disco Duck
Tommy Dorsey	Musician	19-Nov-1905	26-Nov-1956	Popular bandleader
Ralph Edwards	Game Show Host	13-Jun-1913	16-Nov-2005	This Is Your Life
Lee De Forest	Inventor	26-Aug-1873	30-Jun-1961	Inventor of the Audion vacuum tube
Stan Freberg	Comic	7-Aug-1926		Radio's The Stan Freberg Show
Alan Freed	Disc Jockey	15-Dec-1922	20-Jan-1965	Legendary rock-and-roll DJ
Christopher Glenn	Journalist	23-Mar-1938	17-Oct-2006	Longtime CBS radio correspondent
Arthur Godfrey	Actor	31-Aug-1903	16-Mar-1983	Arthur Godfrey and His Friends
Benny Goodman	Jazz Musician	30-May-1909	13-Jun-1986	Bespectacled jazz clarinetist
Gale Gordon	Actor	20-Feb-1906	30-Jun-1995	The Lucy Show
Freeman F. Gosden	Actor	5-May-1899	10-Dec-1982	Amos of Amos & Andy
Ray Goulding	Comic	20-Mar-1922	24-Mar-1990	Half of Bob & Ray
Paul Harvey	Radio Personality	4-Sep-1918	28-Feb-2009	The Paul Harvey Show
Ernie Harwell	Baseball	25-Jan-1918	4-May-2010	Voice of the Detroit Tigers
Bob Hope	Comic	29-May-1903	27-Jul-2003	Centenarian comic
Don Imus	Radio Personality	23-Jul-1940		Imus in the Morning
Wolfman Jack	Radio Personality	21-Jan-1939	1-Jul-1995	Crusty-throated disc jockey
Jim Jordan	Actor	16-Nov-1896	1-Apr-1988	Fibber McGee
Marian Jordan	Actor	15-Apr-1898	7-Apr-1961	Molly of Fibber McGee and Molly
Tom Joyner	Radio Personality	23-Nov-1949		The Tom Joyner Morning Show
Mel Karmazin	Business	24-Aug-1943		President and COO of Viacom, 2000-04
Casey Kasem	Radio Personality	27-Apr-1932		American Top 40
Garrison Keillor	Radio Personality	7-Aug-1942		A Prairie Home Companion
Larry King	Talk Show Host	19-Nov-1933		Larry King Live
Kay Kyser	Musician	18-Jun-1897	23-Jul-1985	The Ol' Professor, eleven #1 records
Rush Limbaugh	Radio Personality	12-Jan-1951		Conservative talk show host
Guglielmo Marconi	Scientist	25-Apr-1874	20-Jul-1937	Inventor of radio
Groucho Marx	Comic	2-Oct-1890	19-Aug-1977	You Bet Your Life
Edward R. Murrow	Journalist	25-Apr-1908	27-Apr-1965	The epitome of broadcast journalism
Charles Osgood	Journalist	8-Jan-1933		CBS News Sunday Morning
Gary Owens	Radio Personality	10-May-1936		Radio DJ, announcer for Laugh-In
William S. Paley	Business	28-Sep-1901	26-Oct-1990	Chairman of CBS, 1946-83
James Quello	Government	21-Apr-1914	24-Jan-2010	FCC Commissioner, 1974-97
David Sarnoff	Business	27-Feb-1891	12-Dec-1971	CEO of RCA, founder of NBC
Vin Scully	Baseball	29-Nov-1927		Voice of the Dodgers
Jean Shepherd	Radio Personality	26-Jul-1921	16-Oct-1999	A Christmas Story
Red Skelton	Comic	18-Jul-1913	17-Sep-1997	The Red Skelton Show
Kate Smith	Singer	1-May-1907	17-Jun-1986	God Bless America
Susan Stamberg	Radio Personality	7-Sep-1938		NPR
Lowell Thomas	Journalist	6-Apr-1892	29-Aug-1981	With Lawrence in Arabia
Les Tremayne	Radio Personality	16-Apr-1913	19-Dec-2003	Veteran of 30,000 radio broadcasts
Bob Uecker	Baseball	26-Jan-1935		Mr. Baseball
Orson Welles	Actor	6-May-1915	10-Oct-1985	Citizen Kane

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