Arsenio Rodríguez

Arsenio Rodríguez was a Cuban musician, composer and bandleader. He played the tres, as well as the tumbadora, and he specialized in son, rumba and other Afro-Cuban music styles. In the 1940s and 1950s Rodríguez established the conjunto format and contributed to the development of the son montuno, the basic template of modern-day salsa. He claimed to be the true creator of the mambo and was an important as well as a prolific composer who wrote nearly two hundred songs.

31 August 1911

Born on the same birth date (31 August 1911): Edward Brongersma

Born on the same birth day (31 August): DuBose Heyward • Edward Brongersma • G. Willow Wilson • Géza Révész • Jeongjong, 10th monarch of Goryeo • Magnus Ilmjärv • Sanford Meisner • Serge Blanco • Ted Ligety • Valdon Dowiyogo • Yumiko Ōshima

Born in the same month (August 1911): Amelia Boynton Robinson • Anna Terruwe • Betty Robinson • Cantinflas • Constance Heaven • E. F. Schumacher • Eddie Futch • Edward Brongersma • István Bibó • J. V. Cunningham • Leonidas Andrianopoulos • Martin Sandberger • Norman Gordon • Otto Binder • Robert Taylor (American actor) • Thanom Kittikachorn • William Alfred Fowler • William Bernbach