Benny Carter

Bennett Lester Carter was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader. With Johnny Hodges, he was a pioneer on the alto saxophone. From the beginning of his career in the 1920s, he worked as an arranger including written charts for Fletcher Henderson's big band that shaped the swing style. He had an unusually long career that lasted into the 1990s. During the 1980s and 1990s, he was nominated for eight Grammy Awards, which included receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award.

8 August 1907

Born on the same birth date (8 August 1907): Jimmy Steele (Irish republican)

Born on the same birth day (8 August): André Jolivet • Axel Merckx • Dilip Sardesai • Dino De Laurentiis • Jimmy Witherspoon • John David Wilson • Jumbo Elliott (coach) • Ladislas Starevich • Nicolas Vogondy • Richard Harwood • Robin Quivers • Rosetta LeNoire

Born in the same month (August 1907): Altiero Spinelli • Augustus Hawkins • Benjamin Sheares • Bertha Parker Pallan • Boy Charlton • Bruno Giacometti • Ernesto Geisel • Gladys Bentley • Jimmy Steele (Irish republican) • John Mauchly • Lawrence Brown (jazz trombonist) • Leonor Fini • Mary Hamman • P. Jeevanandham • Su Yu • Ted à Beckett • William Shawn