Enrique Jorrín

Enrique Jorrín was a Cuban charanga violinist, composer and music director. He is considered the inventor of the cha-cha-chá, a popular style of ballroom music derived from danzón.

25 December 1926

Born on the same birth day (25 December): Ali Tandoğan • Francis Aveling • Jacqui McShee • Jim Dowd (ice hockey) • Louis Lane • Martin Mathathi • Mary Rose Tuitt • Michael P. Anderson • Ramdas Athawale • Ravish Malhotra • Stephen F. Chadwick

Born in the same month (December 1926): A. N. R. Robinson • Alcides Ghiggia • Allyn Ann McLerie • Antonia Brenner • Big Mama Thornton • Billy Snedden • Colin Tennant, 3rd Baron Glenconner • Donald Carr • Fikret Otyam • Geoffrey Howe • Harold Dorman • Jan Křesadlo • Jeffrey Stone • Jerome Courtland • Joe Paterno • John Hans Krebs • Otto Graf Lambsdorff • Robert Symonds • Roberta Leigh • William John McNaughton