George Burns parents: Meet Lippe Birnbaum & Dorah Birnbaum

George Burns was born Nathan Birnbaum on January 20, 1896, in New York City, USA. He was the son of Eliezer “Louis” Birnbaum (1855-1903), a coat presser who also served as a substitute cantor at a local synagogue in New York City, and Hadassah “Dorah” Bluth (1857-1927), a homemaker.

Eliezer “Louis” Birnbaum was also known as Louis or Lippa, Jewish immigrants who had come to the United States from Ropczyce, Galicia, now Poland. During the influenza epidemic of 1903, Lippe Birnbaum contracted the flu and died at the age of 47.

George Burns was an American comedian, actor, writer, and singer whose career successfully spanned vaudeville, radio, film, and television.  He is also known for his arched eyebrow and cigar-smoke punctuation.

George Burns was born Nathan Birnbaum on January 20, 1896, in New York, New York, United States of America. George Burns started his career at the age of seven, singing in the Pee Wee Quartet.

George Burns died on March 9, 1996, in Beverly Hills, California, United States of America. His funeral was held three days later at the Wee Kirk o’ the Heather church in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Glendale.