Born in Cleveland, Tennessee

David Edward Byrd was born April 4, 1941, in Cleveland, Tennessee — the verified first coordinate of his life history across Wikipedia, Playbill, Deadline, and The Hollywood Reporter.

Tennessee is the birthplace, not the childhood home. The chronology immediately opens into divorce, a Miami Beach household, and the coastal world that shaped his eye for glamour and instability.

Estate timeline practice treats this date as non-negotiable biography: every later Fillmore, Broadway, and Los Angeles chapter hangs from this Tennessee start.

Public sources agree on Cleveland, Tennessee; later memoir framing in Poster Child (Abrams, 2023) is cited as a book milestone elsewhere on this site, not scraped prose.

Read the full imported obituaries under Press for how trade papers condensed this origin into career remembrances after February 3, 2025.