20th-century American violinists

The list 20th-century American violinists includes Charles Treger and Victor Young. The list consists of 363 members and 1 sublist.

20th-century American classical violinists
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1.

Gretchen Carlson

American broadcast journalist (born 1966)

Overview: Gretchen Elizabeth Carlson (born June 21, 1966) is an American journalist, author, and former television commentator.

Date of birth: 21 June 1966

Age: 58

Nationality: American

Occupation: TV Personality

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 3" (160 cm)

Partner: Casey Close (Married)

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Anoka High School alumni 22T

20th-century American women musicians 931T

Women classical violinists 400T
2.

Jack Benny

American comedic entertainer (1894–1974)

Overview: Jack Benny (born Benjamin Kubelsky; February 14, 1894 – December 26, 1974) was an American entertainer, who evolved from a modest success playing violin on the vaudeville circuit to a highly popular comedic ...

Date of birth: 14 February 1894

Date of death: 26 December 1974

Age: 80 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Comic

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)

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20th-century American male musicians 6,873T

20th-century male musicians 12,801T

American male violinists 412T
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Aladdin

American musician

Overview: Aladdin Abdullah Achmed Anthony Pallante (September 12, 1912 – June 9, 1970) was an actor and musician better known to fans as Aladdin who appeared on The Lawrence Welk Show from 1955 to 1967.

Date of birth: 20 September 1912

Date of death: 9 June 1970

Age: 57 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Violinist

Gender: Male

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20th-century American male musicians 7,896T

American male violinists 432T

Male violinists 1,653T
4.

Woody Guthrie

Singer-songwriter

Overview: Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie (July 14, 1912 – October 3, 1967) was an American singer-songwriter, who is considered to be one of the most significant figures in American western folk music. His music ...

Date of birth: 14 July 1912

Date of death: 4 October 1967

Age: 55 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)

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Folkways Records artists 23T

Political music artists 50T

Anti-fascist music 24T
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Bob Wills

American singer

Overview: James Robert Wills (March 6, 1905 – May 13, 1975) was an American Western swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader. Considered by music authorities as the co-founder of Western swing, he was known widely ...

Date of birth: 6 March 1905

Date of death: 13 May 1975

Age: 70 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Country Musician

Gender: Male

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Longhorn Records artists 3T

People from Kosse, Texas 5T

20th-century male singers 5,297T
6.

Russ Columbo

American singer, violinist, and actor

Overview: Ruggiero Eugenio di Rodolfo Colombo (January 14, 1908 – September 2, 1934), known as Russ Columbo, was an American baritone, songwriter, violinist and actor. He is famous for romantic ballads such ...

Date of birth: 14 January 1908

Date of death: 2 September 1934

Age: 26 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Male

Height: 6' (183 cm)

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American male jazz musicians 3,118T

20th-century male singers 5,317T

American male violinists 412T
7.

Don Rich

American musician

Overview: Donald Eugene Ulrich (August 15, 1941 – July 17, 1974), best known by the stage name Don Rich, was an American country musician who helped develop the Bakersfield sound in the early 1960s. He was a noted ...

Date of birth: 5 August 1941

Date of death: 17 July 1974

Age: 32 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Male

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Singer-songwriters from Washington (state) 112T

Singer-songwriters from California 964T

20th-century American male musicians 7,796T
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Jascha Heifetz

Russian-American violinist (1901–1987)

Overview: Jascha Heifetz (February 2 [O.S. January 20] 1901 – December 10, 1987) was a Russian-American violinist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest violinists of all time. Born in Vilnius ...

Date of birth: 2 February 1901

Date of death: 11 December 1987

Age: 86 (age at death)

Nationality: Russian

Occupation: Violinist

Gender: Male

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20th-century American Jews 5,072T

Male classical violinists 1,083T

20th-century Russian male musicians 427T
9.

Joshua Bell

American violinist (born 1967)

Overview: Joshua David Bell (born December 9, 1967) is an American violinist and conductor. He plays the Gibson Stradivarius.

Date of birth: 9 December 1967

Age: 56

Nationality: American

Occupation: Violinist

Gender: Male

Height: 6' (183 cm)

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Classical musicians from Indiana 5T

Male classical violinists 1,044T

20th-century American male musicians 6,873T
10.

Itzhak Perlman

Israeli-born American violinist

Overview: Itzhak Perlman (Hebrew: יצחק פרלמן‎; born 31 August 1945) is an Israeli-American violinist, conductor, and music teacher. Over the course of his career Perlman has performed worldwide, and throughout ...

Date of birth: 31 August 1945

Age: 79

Nationality: Israeli

Occupation: Violinist

Gender: Male

Partner: Toby Friedlander (Married)

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Male classical violinists 1,044T

People with synesthesia 33T

21st-century American male musicians 4,997T
11.

Efrem Zimbalist Sr.

Russian violinist, composer, and conductor (1889–1985)

Overview: Efrem Zimbalist Sr. (21 April [O.S. 9 April] 1889 – February 22, 1985) was a concert violinist, composer, conductor and director of the Curtis Institute of Music.

Date of birth: 9 April 1890

Date of death: 22 February 1985

Age: 94 (age at death)

Nationality: Russian

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Male

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20th-century American Jews 3,237T

Male classical violinists 1,075T

20th-century American male musicians 7,796T
12.

Hazel Dawn

American actor

Overview: Hazel Dawn (born Henrietta Hazel Tout; March 23, 1890 – August 28, 1988) was an American stage, film and television actress, and violinist. She was born to a Mormon family in Utah, and studied music in ...

Date of birth: 23 March 1891

Date of death: 28 August 1988

Age: 97 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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20th-century American women singers 2,001T

Latter Day Saints from New York (state) 153T

Latter Day Saints from Utah 1,275T
13.

Karen Briggs

Violinist

Overview: Karen Briggs (born August 12, 1963), also known as the "Lady in Red", is an American violinist. Born in Manhattan to a family of musicians, Briggs took up the violin at age 12 and committed to playing ...

Date of birth: 1963

Age: 61

Nationality: American

Occupation: Jazz Musician

Gender: Female

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Vertú members 5T

Jazz musicians from New York 580T

Woodrow Wilson High School (Portsmouth, Virginia) alumni 18T
14.

Leon Belasco

American musician

Overview: Leon Belasco (11 October 1902 – 1 June 1988), born Leonid Simeonovich Berladsky, was a Russian-American musician and actor who had a 60-year career in film and television from the 1920s to the 1980s ...

Date of birth: 11 October 1902

Date of death: 1 June 1988

Age: 85 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

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Musicians from Odessa 65T

20th-century American male musicians 6,873T

Musicians from Yokohama 19T
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Roscoe Ates

American actor (1895–1962)

Overview: Roscoe Ates (January 20, 1895 – March 1, 1962) was an American vaudeville performer, actor of stage and screen, comedian and musician who primarily featured in western films and television. He was best ...

Date of birth: 20 January 1895

Date of death: 1 March 1962

Age: 67 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)

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20th-century male singers 5,297T

American male violinists 412T

Musicians from Hattiesburg, Mississippi 12T
16.

Ornette Coleman

American jazz musician and composer (1930–2015)

Overview: Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman (March 9, 1930 – June 11, 2015) was an American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer known as a principal founder of the free jazz genre, a term derived ...

Date of birth: 19 March 1930

Date of death: 11 June 2015

Age: 85 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Jazz Musician

Gender: Male

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21st-century American saxophonists 498T

20th-century American saxophonists 553T

21st-century African-American musicians 1,403T
17.

Victor Young

American composer and conductor (1899–1956)

Overview: Albert Victor Young (August 8, 1899– November 10, 1956) was an American composer, arranger, violinist and conductor.

Date of birth: 8 August 1900

Date of death: 10 November 1956

Age: 56 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Conductor

Gender: Male

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American male film score composers 623T

20th-century American Jews 3,240T

Jewish American film score composers 64T
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Isaac Stern

American musician

Overview: Isaac Stern (July 21, 1920 – September 22, 2001) was an American violinist.

Date of birth: 21 July 1920

Date of death: 22 September 2001

Age: 81 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

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Male classical violinists 1,044T

20th-century American male musicians 6,873T

Jewish Ukrainian musicians 35T
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Amy Farris

American fiddler, singer and songwriter

Overview: Amy Farris (October 20, 1968 – September 26, 2009) was an American fiddler and singer-songwriter. She toured or recorded with artists such as Dave Alvin, Exene Cervenka, Ray Price, Bruce Robison, Kelly ...

Date of birth: 20 October 1968

Date of death: 26 September 2009

Age: 40 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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2009 suicides 70T

Yep Roc Records artists 68T

20th-century American women singers 2,001T
20.

Susan Voelz

American musician

Overview: Susan Voelz (born Susana Maria Voelz) is an American musician. A Grammy Award-nominated vocalist, violinist, and composer. She is a member of the alternative rock band, Poi Dog Pondering. She has also ...

Nationality: American

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Female

Partner: Brian Baker (Long-Term)

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20th-century women composers 1,221T

21st-century women composers 620T

21st-century American women singers 2,630T