Les Elgart

Lester Elliott Elgart was an American swing jazz bandleader and trumpeter.

3 August 1917

Born on the same birth day (3 August): Aaron Chorin • Aljon Mariano • Ana Kokkinos • Brent Butt • Derwin James • Dominic Moore • Frederick William III of Prussia • Gizz Butt • Habib Bourguiba • Harry Heilmann • Ivan Zajc • Jay North • Kate Wilkinson (politician) • Koichi Tanaka • P. D. James • Pat Crawford • Sunil Chhetri • The Shirelles • Thomas Francis Meagher • Tom Brady

Born in the same month (August 1917): Ebba Haslund • Isabel Sanford • Jack Kirby • Jack Lynch • John Fitch (racing driver) • Leonid Hurwicz • Mel Ferrer • Oliver Crawford • Robert Mitchum • Roque Cordero • Sid Gordon