Dean Jagger

November 7, 1903 - Dean Jagger, star of “Twelve O’Clock High” who won both the Academy Award and an Emmy for his work, is born near Columbus Grove in Putnam County.

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Gorden Brisker

November 6, 1937 – The late Gorden Brisker is born in Cincinnati, attends the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, where he becomes one of the top tenor saxophonists in the nation and plays extensively with Bill Berry and Woody Herman.
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Leonard Franklin Slye

Nov. 5, 1911 – Leonard Franklin Slye is born in Cincinnati and grows up in a house demolished to make way for Riverfront Stadium and now Great American Ball Park. His family soon moved to Portsmouth and eventually wound up in California during the Great Depression. After four failed years as a singer, Rogers finally gets a hit: Tumbling Tumbleweeds and he becomes the justice-seeking singing cowboy Roy Rogers.
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John Mahon

November 4, 1997 – As Elton John’s Candle in the Wind tribute to Lady Di rolls through the charts, a new drummer joins the band – John Mahon from Canton.
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DAILY DOUBLE

DAILY DOUBLE November 3, 1865 – The nation’s 29th president, Warren G. Harding, is born in Marion. Harding's good looks led GOP bosses to believe he would appeal to women voters, who were voting for the first time in 1920. November 3, 1926 - Raised in poverty and a self-taught child sharp shooter to feed her siblings, Annie Oakley finds fortune and fame thanks to Buffalo Bill. She dies on this day and is buried in Greenville.
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Bobby Neuwirth

November 2 - Akronite Bobby Neuwirth now of Greenwich Village inspires Bob Dylan in 1961 with his banjo picking: “Like Kerouac immortalized Neal Cassady, somebody should have immortalized Neuwirth…You had to brace yourself when you talked to him.” Neuwirth tells Dylan he's headed home to put storm windows up for his parents. Dylan used to do that, too, but not this year. Destiny has other plans for Bob Dylan.
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The Afghan Whigs

Nov. 1, 1986 – The night after Halloween, University of Cincinnati student Greg Dulli and Ohio University student Rick McCollum, who met in a jail cell in Athens on Halloween night, agree to form a rock and roll band: The Afghan Whigs.
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