Louis Prima

Louis Leo Prima was an American trumpeter, singer, entertainer, and bandleader. While rooted in New Orleans jazz, swing music, and jump blues, Prima touched on various genres throughout his career: he formed a seven-piece New Orleans-style jazz band in the late 1920s, fronted a swing combo in the 1930s and a big band group in the 1940s, helped to popularize jump blues in the late 1940s and early to mid 1950s, and performed frequently as a Vegas lounge act beginning in the 1950s.

7 December 1910

Born on the same birth date (7 December 1910): Duncan McNaughton

Born on the same birth day (7 December): Aaron Carter • Abraham Jacob van der Aa • Angelina Gabueva • Claude-Victor Perrin • Gerard Kuiper • Helen Watts • Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley • Jack Huston • Johnny Bench • Kersti Merilaas • Leopold Kronecker • Pavol Regenda • Rick Rude • Sara Bareilles • Tammy Lynn Sytch • Thad Cochran • Theo Snelders • Tim Butler • Tom Winsor

Born in the same month (December 1910): Abe Burrows • Carl Dudley • Charles Olson • Duncan McNaughton • Eknath Easwaran • Ellen Braumüller • Enrique Maier • Eric Tindill • Freddie Brown (cricketer) • Fritz Leiber • Imperio Argentina • Jean Genet • John Hammond (record producer) • Kurt Meyer • Marguerite Churchill • Max Miedinger • Mildred Cleghorn • Russell Lynes • Vere Bird