1895 - Born in New York City on the 13th of August.
1927 - He debuted in on Broadway in Harry Delmar's Revels.
1928-1929 - Lahr had his first major success in a stage musical playing the prize fighter hero of Hold Everything.
1930 - "Flying High".
1932 - Florenz Ziegfeld's Hot-Cha!
1936 - The Show Is On.
1939 - He co-starred with Ethel Merman in DuBarry Was a Lady.
1950 - Lahr supplied the voice of an animated bloodhound in "Old Whiff".
1954 - Lahr occasionally appeared on television, including NBC's live version of the Cole Porter musical "Let's Face It" and an appearance as the mystery guest on "What's My Line?"
1956 - He costarred in a much-praised version of Waiting for Godot at the Coconut Grove Playhouse in Miami, Florida in which he played Estragon to Tom Ewell's Vladimir.
1967 - Lahr died on the 4th of December of pneumonia in New York City.