(NBC). 23 September – Brownstone Theater ends its run on network radio (Mutual). 13 October – America in the Air ends its run on network radio (CBS). 11 November – The Army Hour ends its run on network radio (NBC). 30 November – The Amazing Nero Wolfe ends its run on network radio (Don Lee Network). Births 2 January – Baxter Black, American cowboy, poet, philosopher, large-animal veterinarian and radio commentator. 9 January – Bill Heine, American-born British radio presenter and cinema owner (died 2019). 12 February – Luiz Carlos Alborghetti, Italian-Brazilian radio commenter, showman and political figure (died 2009). 8 March – Micky Dolenz, American actor, musician, television and theatre director and radio personality, best known as drummer/vocalist in the 1960s made-for-television band, The Monkees. 30 March – Johnnie Walker, born Peter Dingley, British DJ. 2 May – Gene Deckerhoff, radio play-by-play announcer of the NFL's Tampa Bay Buccaneers. 25 May – Dave Lee Travis, born David Griffin, British DJ. 6 April – Neal Boortz, American talk radio host and commentator. 12 April – Glenn Hauser, American radio host. 17 June – Art Bell, American broadcaster, talk show host and author, known primarily as the founder and longtime host of the paranormal-themed radio program Coast to Coast AM (died 2018). 22 August – Pete Atkin, English singer-songwriter and radio producer. 23 August – Peter Donaldson, Egyptian-born British newsreader (died 2015). 24 September – Lou Dobbs, CNN news anchor and managing editor for Lou Dobbs Tonight, host of Lou Dobbs Minute on radio. 28 October – Simon Brett, English radio producer and scriptwriter and detective fiction writer. 13 December Herman Cain, African-American conservative newspaper columnist, businessman, political candidate, radio talk-show host and chairman and CEO of Godfather's Pizza (died 2020). Kathy Garver, American actress, author and online radio hostess. Ernie Rea, Northern Irish religious broadcaster. Deaths 12 April – Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd POTUS who gave radio addresses known as Fireside chats. 18 September – C. H. Middleton, English gardening broadcaster (born 1886). References Radio Radio stations established in 1945 Radio by year