Norman Leyden
Norman Fowler Leyden was an American conductor, composer, arranger, and clarinetist. He worked in film and television and is perhaps best known as the conductor of the Oregon Symphony Pops orchestra. He co-wrote with Glenn Miller the theme "I Sustain the Wings" in 1943, which was used to introduce the World War II radio series.
17 October 1917
Born on the same birth date (17 October 1917): Adele Stimmel Chase • Aimo Koivunen • Alfred Benlloch Llorach • Marsha Hunt (actress, born 1917) • Martin Donnelly (sportsman) • Sumner Locke Elliott
Born on the same birth day (17 October): Adele Stimmel Chase • Alejandra Ávalos • Doris Humphrey • Hideto Takahashi • Ivo of Kermartin • Jericó Abramo Masso • Junichi Miyashita • Michelle Ang • Rhys Muldoon • Segundo de Chomón • Sergiy Gladyr • Tommy Kendall • Zhao Ziyang
Born in the same month (October 1917): Adele Stimmel Chase • Aimo Koivunen • Allen Ludden • Ants Kaljurand • Augustine Harris • Billy Conn • Christian de Duve • Dizzy Gillespie • Dmitry Polyansky • Jan Miner • Jean-Pierre Melville • Joan Fontaine • Magda Szabó • Maurice Trintignant • Minni Nurme • Nikolai Ogarkov • Reed Erickson • Sumner Locke Elliott • Thelonious Monk • William H. McNeill