Harry Warren

Harry Warren was an American composer and the first major American songwriter to write primarily for film. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song eleven times and won three Oscars for composing "Lullaby of Broadway", "You'll Never Know" and "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe". He wrote the music for the first blockbuster film musical, 42nd Street, choreographed by Busby Berkeley, with whom he would collaborate on many musical films.

24 December 1893

Born on the same birth day (24 December): Alexey Dmitriev • Ali Salem Tamek • Amaury Nolasco • Ava Helen Pauling • John, King of England • Julie Bondeli • Klaus Schnellenkamp • Michael Raymond-James • Ryo Miyake • Sascha Fischer • Stan Bowles

Born in the same month (December 1893): Charles C. Banks • Edward G. Robinson • Erwin Piscator • Fay Bainter • Herbert Read • Hermann Balck • Homer N. Wallin • Leo Ornstein • Mao Zedong • Sylvia Townsend Warner