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April 11, 1890 ~ William Henry Somers, commonly known as big band bandleader Debroy Somers, born in Dublin, Ireland ~ Popular from the 1920s through the 1940s. Noted for conducting the first British performance of George Gershwin's Rhapsody In Blue in 1925, featuring the Savoy Orpheans with Gershwin himself on the piano ~ Somers passed away in 1952