Gussie Davis

Gussie Lord Davis was an American songwriter born in Dayton, Ohio. Davis was one of America's earliest successful African-American music artists, the first black songwriter to become famous on Tin Pan Alley as a composer of popular music.

3 December 1863

Born on the same birth day (3 December): Bobby Allison • Brian Bonsall • Brian Robiskie • Ekaterine Gorgodze • Eli Mandel • George Leake • Heather Menzies • Irving Fine • Jan Gruter • Joseph Franklin Ada • Katarina Witt • Ludvig Holberg • Mark Boucher • Mike Randolph • Mildred Wiley • Paul Byrd • Paul J. Crutzen • Walther Stampfli

Born in the same month (December 1863): Annie Jump Cannon • Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria • Arthur Dehon Little • Charles Edward Ringling • Charles Lincoln Edwards • Charles Martin Hall • Charles Pathé • Edvard Munch • Felix Calonder • George Santayana • Louis Lincoln Emmerson • Paul Painlevé • Pietro Mascagni • Richard Warren Sears • Wallace Bryant (archer)