- Born
- Died
- Irna Phillips was born on July 1, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was a writer and producer, known for The Brighter Day (1954), Days of Our Lives (1965) and Love Is a Many Splendored Thing (1967). She died on December 23, 1973 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
- Invented daytime radio soap operas followed by television.
- Received a Masters Degree from the University of Wisconsin.
- The first radio program she sold, to WGN in Chicago, was a ten-minute program "A Thought For Today".
- The third soap opera she created, this time for NBC, was her breakout hit "The Guiding Light".
- Her fourth, fifth & sixth radio soap operas were "The Road To Life", "The Right To Happiness" and "Woman In White". By the 1940s her annual salary was $300,000 per year ($4 million in 2020 dollars).
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