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Irving Berlin & Ellin MacKayMarried: January 4 1926 - Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States
Irving Berlin was a Russian-born American composer and lyricist widely regarded as one of the greatest songwriters in history. Born Israel Beilin in Imperial Russia, he immigrated to New York's Lower East Side as a child and rose from poverty to become one of the most prolific composers of the twentieth century. Without ever learning to read a single note of sheet music, he composed prolifically and obsessively, producing an estimated 1,500 songs across a career that stretched from the ragtime era to the Cold War. His personal life mirrored the audacity of his art, as his marriage to Ellin Mackay, a wealthy Catholic socialite, defied both her father's fierce opposition and the social conventions of 1920s America, a union that endured for 62 years until her death in 1988. His 1911 sensation "Alexander's Ragtime Band" announced his arrival to the world, while later works such as "White Christmas" and "God Bless America" transcended entertainment to become embedded in the cultural DNA of a nation. He died in 1989 at the age of 101, leaving behind a body of work that continues to define what American popular music sounds like at its most enduring.