Don Robertson (songwriter)
Donald Irwin Robertson was an American songwriter and pianist, mostly in the country and popular music genres. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972. As a performer, he hit the US Top 10 with "The Happy Whistler" in 1956. The track reached No. 8 in the UK Singles Chart the same year. It sold more than one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc.
5 December 1922
Born on the same birth date (5 December 1922): Casey Ribicoff
Born on the same birth day (5 December): Art Monk • Cam Fowler • Denise Drysdale • Eduard Seler • Eric Etebari • Frank Wilson (musician) • Gabriel Luna • Giuseppe Occhialini • Jeroen Krabbé • Józef Piłsudski • Kwon Yu-ri • Matteo Ferrari • Matthew Taylor (political strategist) • Nikolai Uglanov • René Cresté • Sachiko Kokubu • Strom Thurmond • Zhu Wen
Born in the same month (December 1922): Ava Gardner • Casey Ribicoff • Cy Leslie • Cécile DeWitt-Morette • Don Hewitt • Jane Langton • Jim Wright • Junior J. Spurrier • Luis Zuloaga • Richard Mayes • Ruth Roman • William Gaddis • William Soeryadjaya