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): Antiochos Evangelatos • Bob James (musician) • Dorothy Wordsworth • Emmanuel Agassi • Françoise Dürr • Ian Bostridge • Jacqui McShee • Jairzinho • Joãozinho (footballer, born 1988) • Kenneth Anderson (British Army officer) • Mac Powell • Mansoor Akhtar • Mary Rose Tuitt • René Girard • Sadiq al-Mahdi • Shane MacGowan • Tuomas Holopainen

Born in the same month (December 1926): Adetoun Ogunsheye • Allyn Ann McLerie • Antonia Brenner • Colin Tennant, 3rd Baron Glenconner • Donald Carr • Earle Brown • Fikret Otyam • Geoffrey Howe • Guitar Slim • Harold Dorman • James McCracken • Joe Paterno • Keith Michell • Robert Bly • Robert Symonds • Valerie Pearl • William John McNaughton