* 1925 – Jimmy Smith, American jazz organist ( d. 2005 )

* 1969 – Jimmy Smith, American football player

However, by the 1950s, jazz musicians such as Jimmy Smith began to use the organ's distinctive sound.

* 1987 – Jimmy Smith, English footballer

The inaugural season featured many of the players who would lead Jacksonville into the playoffs in the team's next four seasons, including quarterback Mark Brunell ( acquired in a draft day trade from Green Bay ), offensive lineman Tony Boselli ( drafted with the 2nd pick overall in the 1995 NFL Draft ) running back James Stewart ( also drafted in 1995 ), and wide receiver Jimmy Smith ( signed as a free agent ).

The credit for this midseason turnaround probably lies in the demotion of wide receiver Andre Rison in favor of Jimmy Smith after a game against the St. Louis Rams in which Brunell threw 5 interceptions.

Byron Leftwich enjoyed a solid year in 2004, helped by strong performances from holdovers Fred Taylor and Jimmy Smith.

This season was also the first year the team played without their standout wide receiver Jimmy Smith as he decided to retire.

His main influences are Pink Floyd, Traffic, Jimmy Smith, Eastern Mediterranean music, Levantine, and Central Asian cultures and music.

Among the irregular contributors with just a single Mad byline to their credit are Charles M. Schulz, Chevy Chase, " Weird Al " Yankovic, Andy Griffith, Will Eisner, Kevin Smith, J. Fred Muggs, Boris Vallejo, Sir John Tenniel, Jean Shepherd, Winona Ryder, Jimmy Kimmel, Jason Alexander, Walt Kelly, Rep. Barney Frank, Tom Wolfe, Steve Allen, Jim Lee, Jules Feiffer, Donald Knuth and Richard Nixon, who remains the only President credited with " writing " a Mad article.

" Memorable Colts Jimmy Orr, Billy Ray Smith, Bubba Smith, Willie Richardson, Dick Szymanski and Lou Michaels contribute to the poetry.

The Cowboys finished 7-9, but Smith won the NFL Rookie of the Year Award and Jimmy Johnson was selected as NFL Coach of the Year.

The trumpeters Roy Eldridge and Dizzy Gillespie, the guitarist Herb Ellis, and the pianists Tommy Flanagan, Oscar Peterson, Lou Levy, Paul Smith, Jimmy Rowles, and Ellis Larkins all worked with Ella mostly in live, small group settings.

Many of the finest jazz singers, including Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Jimmy Rushing, and Dinah Washington, have avoided scat entirely.

Dave Brubeck, Bix Beiderbecke, Bing Crosby, Jo Stafford, Erroll Garner, Oscar Peterson, Charlie Shavers, Jimmy Smith, Joe Venuti, Ray Barretto, and Shelly Manne also have recorded the song.

Among the notables who died either without a valid will or no will at all are Ross Alexander, Fatty Arbuckle, Anura Bandaranaike, Madhav Prasad Birla, Sonny Bono, George Brent, Lenny Bruce, Jacob A. Cantor, Kurt Cobain, Russ Columbo, Sam Cooke, James Dean, Sandy Dennis, John Denver, Divine, Duke Ellington, Cass Elliot, Chris Farley, Bobby Fischer, Redd Foxx, Mary Frann, James A. Garfield, Marvin Gaye, Ulysses S. Grant, Billie Holiday, Buddy Holly, Shemp Howard, Howard Hughes, Andrew Johnson, Florence Griffith-Joyner, Martin Luther King, Jr., Ernie Kovacs, Harry Langdon, Bruce Lee, Abraham Lincoln, Peter Lorre, Jayne Mansfield, Rocky Marciano, Karl Marx, Steve McNair, Sal Mineo, Carmen Miranda, Keith Moon, Rosa Parks, Pablo Picasso, Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin, Tupac Shakur, Don Simpson, Anna Nicole Smith, William Desmond Taylor, Sharon Tate, Tiny Tim, Ritchie Valens, Hervé Villechaize, Barry White, and Jimmy Witherspoon.

Horace Silver, Jimmy Smith, Freddie Hubbard, Lee Morgan, Art Blakey, Lou Donaldson, Donald Byrd and Grant Green were among the label's leading artists.

" Organist Jimmy Smith was signed in 1956, and performed on the label's first 12 " LP album of new recordings.

Aside from the obvious influence on artists that Taylor has worked with over the years, numerous notable people have named Taylor and DA as musical heroes over the years including artists like U2, The Ocean Blue, Randy Stonehill, The 77s, Phil Keaggy, Steve Taylor, Jimmy Abegg, Phil Madeira, Crystal Lewis, This Train, Carolyn Arends ( Arends actually used to perform DA songs in one of her early bands ), Ventriloquist Terry Fator, Brian Healy, The Throes, The Choir, Mortal, Larry Norman, Animator and Musician Doug TenNapel, Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith, Isaac Air Freight, Deliverance, Starflyer59, Jonathan Coulton ,< ref >

In 1993, Mullins assembled a group of Nashville musicians ( including Jimmy Abegg, Beaker, Billy Crockett, Phil Madeira, Rick Elias, and Aaron Smith ) to form A Ragamuffin Band, whose name was inspired by the Christian book The Ragamuffin Gospel by Brennan Manning.

Smith has recorded and toured with dozens of other artists over the years, including Jimmy Abegg, Michael W. Smith, Margaret Becker, Vector, dc Talk, Rick Elias, Mitch McVicker, Riki Michele, Cindy Morgan, Sixpence None the Richer, Engelbert Humperdinck, Charlie Peacock, Romeo Void, and Steve Scott.

The Delta Museum, which is now housed in the former post office building in downtown Ferriday, honors Mickey Gilley, Jerry Lee Lewis, journalist Howard K. Smith, evangelist Jimmy Swaggart, Hollywood socialite Ann Boyar Warner and jazz musician Pee Wee Whittaker.

Bass virtuoso Jaco Pastorius and keyboard legend Jimmy Smith were both born in Norristown.

Following the Leipzig premiere, the opera was presented in Berlin in December 1931 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm conducted by Alexander von Zemlinsky with Lotte Lenya as Jenny, Trude Hesterberg as Begbick, and Harald Paulsen as Jimmy.

* Booknotes interview ( December 29, 1991 ) with Jimmy Breslin on his book, Damon Runyon: A Life

* December 19 – Jimmy McLarnin, Irish-born boxer ( d. 2004 )

* December 14 – Jimmy Doolittle, American aviation pioneer and World War II United States Army Air Forces general ( d. 1993 )

* December 22 – Jimmy Wallington, American radio personality ( b. 1907 )

In December 1968, Hoffman returned to Broadway to appear in the title role of Murray Schisgal and John Sebastian's musical Jimmy Shine.

A shark conservationist, Jimmy Hall, reported and documented his personal encounter with a very large great white shark, nicknamed Schatzi, in December 2005 in waters off Hawaii.

Before entering politics, the young Jimmy Walker worked as a songwriter, his most popular composition being " Will You Love Me in December ( as You Do in May )?

However, in December 1978, U. S. President, Jimmy Carter announced that the United States would no longer recognize the ROC as the legitimate government of China.

Clark McAdams Clifford ( December 25, 1906 – October 10, 1998 ) was an American lawyer who served United States Presidents Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson and Jimmy Carter, serving as United States Secretary of Defense for Johnson.

On December 21, 1913, Lannin and a group of investors purchased 50 % of the Boston Red Sox baseball team from Jimmy McAleer and Robert B. McRoy.

President Jimmy Carter's signature enacted this change as Public Law 96-516 on December 12, 1980.

Maynard is also home to local Randolph County celebrity, James ( Jimmy ) Pritchett ( B. December 17, 1956 ).

* Wooley, J. T, and Peters, Gerhard, " The American Presidency ", December 1, 1978 Invitational White House Interview of President Jimmy Carter by Eldora Nuzum about the Appalachian Regional Commission, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, 1999-2009.

Jimmy Abegg aka Jimmy A, ( December 29, 1954, Alliance, Nebraska ) is an American guitarist, composer, director, photographer and artist, currently living in Nashville, Tennessee.

General James Harold " Jimmy " Doolittle, USAF ( December 14, 1896 – September 27, 1993 ) was an American aviation pioneer.

On December 4, 2011, Jimmy Pop announced that he " just narrowed 25-30 demos down to 10-12 to finish ".

* Hello, Daddy ( Music: Jimmy McHugh, Lyrics: Dorothy Fields, Book: Herbert Fields ) Broadway production opened at Lew Fields ' Mansfield Theatre on December 26, transferred to George M. Cohan's Theatre on January 21, 1929 and transferred to Erlanger's Theatre on May 6, 1929 for a total run of 198 performances

James William " Jimmy " Buffett ( born December 25, 1946 ) is an American singer – songwriter, author, and businessman.

On 8 December 2009, Jimmy Buffett released his 28th studio album entitled Buffet Hotel.

The group joined the Australian Made Tour in December 1986 – January 1987 with other local acts Mental as Anything, I'm Talking, The Triffids, Divinyls, Models, Jimmy Barnes and INXS.

* Jimmy Cliff ( December 1969 ) ( aka Wonderful World, Beautiful People )

Jack Teagarden's compositions included " I've Got ' It '" with David Rose, " Shake Your Hips ", " Big T Jump ", " Swingin ' on the Teagarden Gate ", " Blues After Hours ", " A Jam Session at Victor ", " It's So Good ", " Pickin ' For Patsy " with Allan Reuss, " Texas Tea Party " with Benny Goodman, " I'm Gonna Stomp Mr. Henry Lee " with Eddie Condon, " Big T Blues ", " Dirty Dog ", " Makin ' Friends " with Jimmy McPartland, " That's a Serious Thing ", and " Jack-Armstrong Blues " with Louis Armstrong, recorded on December 7, 1944 with the V-Disc All-Stars and released as V-Disc 384A.

* On 8 December 1942, the keel to the light cruiser designated CL-91, was laid down by the Cramp Shipbuilding Company of Philadelphia, PA. On 22 April 1943, Oklahomans were outraged, having just learned that the Japanese had executed the captured American pilots from Jimmy Doolittle's bombing raid over Tokyo.