19th-century American singers

The list 19th-century American singers includes Martha Mansfield, Adele Ritchie, Trixie Friganza, Nora Bayes and Dustin Farnum. The list consists of 186 members and 4 sublists.

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19th-century American opera singers
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19th-century American women singers
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19th-century American male singers
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19th-century African-American singers
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1.

Martha Mansfield

American, Actress

Overview: Martha Mansfield (born Martha Ehrlich; July 14, 1899 – November 30, 1923) was an American actress in silent films and vaudeville stage plays.

Date of birth: 14 July 1899

Date of death: 30 November 1923

Age: 24 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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American vaudeville performers 1,289T

19th-century American women musicians 215T

Actresses from the Golden Age of Hollywood 492T
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George M. Cohan

American, Writer

Overview: George Michael Cohan (July 3, 1878 – November 5, 1942) was an American entertainer, playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer and theatrical producer.

Date of birth: 3 July 1878

Date of death: 5 December 1942

Age: 64 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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Male actors from Providence, Rhode Island 38T

Members of The Lambs Club 91T

Male musical theatre composers 105T
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Adele Ritchie

American prima donna of comic opera

Overview: Adele Ritchie (December 21, 1874 – April 24, 1930) was an American prima donna of comic opera and star of Edwardian musical comedies and vaudeville. Her career began in the early 1890s and continued for ...

Date of birth: 21 December 1874

Date of death: 24 April 1930

Age: 55 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

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1930 suicides 31T

20th-century American women singers 2,001T

Murder–suicides in California 23T
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Trixie Friganza

Actor

Overview: Trixie Friganza (born Delia O'Callaghan; November 29, 1870 – February 27, 1955) was an American actress. She began her career as an operetta soubrette, working her way from the chorus to starring in musical ...

Date of birth: 29 November 1870

Date of death: 27 February 1955

Age: 84 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)

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Actresses of Irish descent 598T

19th-century American women singers 105T

19th-century American women 488T
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Nora Bayes

American singer

Overview: Nora Bayes (born Rachel Eleonora "Dora" Goldberg; October 3, 1880 – March 19, 1928) was an American singer and vaudeville performer who was popular internationally between the 1900s and 1920s. She ...

Date of birth: 3 October 1880

Date of death: 19 June 1928

Age: 47 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Performance Artist

Gender: Female

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Jewish American female comedians 72T

19th-century American women singers 25T

20th-century American women singers 2,001T
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Florence Mills

African American entertainer (1896–1927)

Overview: Florence Mills (born Florence Winfrey; January 25, 1896 – November 1, 1927), billed as the "Queen of Happiness", was an American cabaret singer, dancer, and comedian known for her effervescent stage p ...

Date of birth: 25 January 1896

Date of death: 1 November 1927

Age: 31 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

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20th-century African-American women singers 832T

20th-century African-American women 3,954T

19th-century American women musicians 210T
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Emily Stevens

Actress

Overview: Emily Stevens (February 27, 1883 – January 2, 1928) was a stage and screen actress in Broadway plays in the first three decades of the 20th century and later in silent movies.

Date of birth: 27 February 1882

Date of death: 2 January 1928

Age: 45 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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Drug-related deaths in New York City 71T

Doane Academy alumni 14T

19th-century American actresses 351T
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Nella Bergen

Actress

Overview: Nella Bergen (December 2, 1873 – April 24, 1919) was an American stage actress and singer who performed in operettas on Broadway and in London at the turn into the 20th century.

Date of birth: 2 December 1873

Date of death: 24 April 1919

Age: 45 (age at death)

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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Dustin Farnum

American actor, singer and dancer

Overview: Dustin Lancy Farnum (May 27, 1874 – July 3, 1929) was an American singer, dancer, and actor on the stage and in silent films. Although he played a wide variety of roles, he tended toward westerns and became ...

Date of birth: 27 May 1874

Date of death: 3 July 1929

Age: 55 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 11" (180 cm)

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19th-century male singers 496T

Singers from New Hampshire 23T

Male actors from New Hampshire 37T
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Bert Williams

American comedian and actor (1874–1922)

Overview: Bert Williams (November 12, 1874 – March 4, 1922) was a Bahamian-born American entertainer, one of the pre-eminent entertainers of the Vaudeville era and one of the most popular comedians for all audiences ...

Date of birth: 12 November 1874

Date of death: 4 March 1922

Age: 47 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

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20th-century American comedians 1,226T

Comedians from California 466T

American Theater Hall of Fame inductees 561T
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Lotta Faust

American actress, dancer, and vaudeville performer

Overview: Charlotte "Lotta" Faust (February 8, 1880 – January 25, 1910) was an American actress, dancer, and singer. She performed an interpretation of the Salome dance based on the play Salome (1893) by Oscar ...

Date of birth: 8 February 1880

Date of death: 26 January 1910

Age: 29 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Performance Artist

Gender: Female

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20th-century American women singers 2,001T

19th-century women singers 504T

Dancers from New York (state) 172T
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John Bunny

Actor

Overview: John Bunny (September 21, 1863 – April 26, 1915) was an American actor. Bunny began his career as a stage actor, but transitioned to a film career after joining Vitagraph Studios around 1910. At Vitagraph ...

Date of birth: 21 September 1863

Date of death: 26 April 1915

Age: 51 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

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American male comedy actors 146T

20th-century American comedians 1,226T

19th-century American male actors 196T
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Ada Jones

American singer

Overview: Ada Jane Jones (June 1, 1873 – May 2, 1922) was an English-American popular singer who made her first recordings in 1893 on Edison cylinders. She is among the earliest female singers to be recorded ...

Date of birth: 1870

Date of death: 1937

Age: 66 (age at death)

Nationality: English

Occupation: Spouse

Gender: Female

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19th-century women singers 504T

19th-century English singers 166T

Musicians from Lancashire 41T
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Frederick J. Loudin

American singer

Overview: Frederick Jeremiah Loudin (c.1836 – November 3, 1904) was the leader of the Loudin Jubilee Singers. His commanding presence and ambitious personality caused him to emerge as an unofficial spokesperson ...

Date of birth: 1 January 1836

Date of death: 3 November 1904

Age: 68 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Inventor

Gender: Male

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19th-century American inventors 564T

19th-century male singers 496T

African-Americans' civil rights activists 969T
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Jane Morgan (actress)

Actress

Overview: Jane Morgan (December 6, 1880 – January 1, 1972) was a British-born American actress and singer whose career encompassed concert halls, vaudeville, the legitimate stage, radio, television, and film, best ...

Date of birth: 6 December 1880

Date of death: 1 January 1972

Age: 91 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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People from Anaconda, Montana 39T

19th-century American actresses 351T

Actresses from Boston, Massachusetts 161T
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Della Fox

American comic actress and singer

Overview: Della May Fox (October 13, 1870 - June 15, 1913) was an American singing comedian, whose popularity peaked in the 1890s when the diminutive Fox appeared opposite the very tall DeWolf Hopper in several ...

Date of birth: 13 October 1870

Date of death: 15 June 1913

Age: 42 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Performance Artist

Gender: Female

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19th-century American women musicians 210T

19th-century American women singers 100T

Burials at Bellefontaine Cemetery 113T
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Edwin Pearce Christy

American entertainer

Overview: Edwin Pearce Christy (November 28, 1815 – May 21, 1862) was an American composer, singer, actor and stage producer. He is more commonly known as E. P. Christy, and was the founder of the blackface minstrel ...

Date of birth: 28 November 1815

Date of death: 21 May 1862

Age: 46 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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1860s suicides 47T

Suicides by jumping in New York City 57T

Suicides by defenestration 78T
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Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones

Singer

Overview: Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones, known as Sissieretta Jones, (January 5, 1868 or 1869 – June 24, 1933) was an American soprano. She sometimes was called "The Black Patti" in reference to Italian opera ...

Date of birth: 5 January 1868

Date of death: 24 June 1933

Age: 65 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Opera singer

Gender: Female

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African-American female opera singers 57T

20th-century women opera singers 1,242T

19th-century American opera singers 47T
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Lydia Yeamans Titus

American actress

Overview: Lydia Yeamans Titus (12 December 1857 – 30 December 1929) was an Australian–born American singer, dancer, comedienne, and actress who had a lengthy career in vaudeville and cinema. She was remembered on ...

Date of birth: 12 December 1857

Date of death: 29 December 1929

Age: 72 (age at death)

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

Height: 4' 9" (145 cm)

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19th-century American women singers 25T

19th-century Australian actresses 19T

19th-century Austrian actors 12T
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George Loane Tucker

American film director, actor and screenwriter

Overview: George Loane Tucker (June 12, 1872 – June 20, 1921) was an American actor, silent film director, screenwriter, producer, and editor.

Date of birth: 12 June 1880

Date of death: 20 June 1921

Age: 41 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Screenwriter

Gender: Male

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20th-century American screenwriters 1,746T

19th-century male singers 496T

Film producers from Illinois 140T