Danny Kaye, a famous American actor, singer, and comedian, was born on January 18, 1911, and passed away on March 3, 1987. His real name was David Daniel Kaminsky. He was born in Brooklyn to Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire, Yakov and Clara Kaminsky. In his performances, Kaye often used Russian motifs. He gained particular fame for his a cappella piece "Tchaikovsky," in which he rapidly listed the names of Russian composers: Witold Maliszewski, Anton Rubinstein, Anton Arensky, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Vasily Sapelnikov, Nikolai Dmitriev-Svechin, Alexander Cherepnin, Ivan Kryzhanovsky, Leopold Godowsky, Nikolai Artsybushyev, Stanislav Moniuszko, Fyodor Akimenko, Nikolai Solovyev, Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitri Tiomkin, Arseny Koreshchenko, Mikhail Glinka, Alexander Winkler, Dmitri Bortnyansky, Vladimir Rebikov, Alexander Ilyinsky, Nikolai Medtner, Mily Balakirev, Vasily Kalinnikov, Pyotr Abramovich Khvoshchinsky, Nikolai Sokolov, Alexander Kopylov, Vernon Duke (born Dukelsky), Nikolai Klenovsky, Dmitri Shostakovich, Alexander Borodin, Reinhold Glière, David Novakovsky, Anatoly Lyadov, Genari Karganov, Igor Markevich, Semyon Panchenko, Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Vladimir Shcherbachyov, Alexander Scriabin, Sergei Vasilenko, Igor Stravinsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Modest Mussorgsky, Alexander Grechaninov, Alexander Glazunov, Caesar Cui, Vasily Kalinnikov, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Joseph Rumshinsky.