your challenge, if you chose to accept...

Identify the mystery person!

Here are the stipulations:
-No GOOGLING, NO BINGING, NO looking up the facts.
-Give me your honest-to-goodness guesses of who my mystery person is.

Here are 10 clues:
1) He was one of the original owners of the Seattle Mariners baseball team

2) He would have been 97 on his birthday, which is this week

3) He is a talented singer, actor, pilot and chef

4) He is one of my favorite people, although I've never met him

5) He was married to his wife for 47 years and had one child

6) He was told early in his career that his nose was too big and he'd NEED to have plastic surgery.  He refused so to take the focus off of his nose, his hair was always dyed lighter.  He has blonde/redish hair in all of his roles.

7) The musical "The Kid From Brooklyn" chronicles his life

8) He served as a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF and is known for his charity work

9) He conducted the Philharmonic Orchestra with his FEET at Carnegie Hall

10) He never used understudies

(Here's a bonus hint...his birthname is David Daniel Kaminski)

Okay...can you guess it? I'll reveal the mystery guest tomorrow...GOOD LUCK! And please, NO PEEKING! Give it your BEST shot!!