Months in Year 1900: January February March April May June July August September October November December
Birthdays 1 - 102 of 102
Jan 1st - Xavier Cugat,
Barcelona Spain, bandleader (married Abbe Lane, Charo)
Jan 3rd - Maurice Jaubert,
composer
Jan 6th - Pierre-Octave Ferroud,
French composer (Sarabande, Jeunesse)
Jan 9th - Joseph Frederick Wagner,
composer
Jan 20th - Boris Semyonovich Shekhter,
composer
Jan 23rd - William Ifor Jones,
Welsh conductor and organist (d. 1988)
Jan 26th - Karl Ristenpart,
German conductor (d. 1967)
Jan 30th - Isaak Iosifovich Dunayevsky,
composer
Feb 3rd - Mabel Mercer,
English cabaret vocalist (Fly Me to the Moon)
Feb 6th - Roy Smeck,
guitarist/banjoist
Feb 8th - Guy Douglas Hamilton Warrack,
composer
Feb 23rd - Elinor Remick Warren,
composer
Mar 1st - Donald Keith Falkner,
singer
Mar 2nd - Kurt J Weill,
Dessau Germany, composer/Brecht collaborator (Mahogany)
Mar 17th - Alfred Newman,
New Haven, composer (Love is a Many Splendored Thing)
Mar 21st - Paul Klecki/Kletzki,
Polish violinist/composer/conductor
Mar 23rd - Jose Antonio Calcano,
composer
Mar 24th - June [Algeria Junius] Clark,
musician trumpet
Apr 2nd - Heinrich Besseler,
German musicologist
Apr 23rd - Henry Barraud, composer
May 2nd - Helen Morgan,
singer/actress (Applause, Frankie & Johnny)
May 5th - Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt,
German composer/conductor (Hassan gewinnt)
May 28th - Tommy Ladnier,
American musician (d. 1939)
Jun 9th - Fred Waring,
Tyrone Penn, musician/conductor/inventor (Waring Blender)
Jun 15th - Otto Clarence Luening,
Milwaukee Wisconsin, composer (Sonority Canon)
Jun 15th - Paul J Mares, US, jazz trumpetist/composer (Farewell blues)
Jun 22nd - Jennie Tourel,
St Petersburg Russia, mezzo-soprano (Met Opera 1943-47)
Jul 8th - George Antheil,
Trenton NJ, composer (Airplane Sonata)
Jul 9th - Robert Oboussier,
composer
Jul 10th - Elsie Evelyn Laye,
English singer/actress (Bitter Sweet, Merry Widow)
Jul 10th - Mitchell Parish, American lyricist (d. 1993)
Jul 13th - George Lewis,
American musician (d. 1969)
Jul 29th - Alexander Vasil'yevich Mosolov,
composer [OS]
Jul 29th - Don Redman, Piedmont WV, orchestra leader (Sugar Hill Times)
Jul 29th - Don Redman, American musician (d. 1964)
Aug 2nd - Helen Morgan,
[Riggins], US, singer/actress (Applause)
Aug 2nd - Marinus Adam, Dutch conductor/composer
Aug 5th - Bodi Rapp,
[Johanna PAC Goetmakers], Dutch mezzo-soprano/teacher
Aug 8th - Victor Young,
Chic Ill, orchestra leader (Milton Berle Show, In Old California)
Aug 11th - Alexander Mosolov,
Kiev Russia, composer (Zavod) [NS]
Aug 12th - Jose Ignacio Prieto Arrizubieta,
composer
Aug 14th - Shalva Mikhailovich Taktakishvili,
composer
Aug 18th - Walter O'Keefe,
Hartford Ct, songwriter/TV host (Mayor of Hollywood)
Aug 23rd - Ernst Krenek,
Vienna Austria, composer (Johnny Spielt Auf)
Aug 23rd - Malvina Reynolds, American folk singer/songwriter (d. 1978)
Sep 1st - Kazimierz Wilkomirski,
composer
Sep 12th - Eric Harding Thiman,
composer
Sep 20th - Wilhelm Weismann, composer
Oct 8th - Zeno Octavian Vancea,
composer
Oct 13th - Marius-Francois Gaillard,
composer
Oct 13th - Gerald Marks, American songwriter (All of Me) (d. 1997)
Oct 18th - Lotte Lenya,
Austrian singer and actress (d. 1981)
Oct 19th - Erna Berger, German soprano (d. 1990)
Oct 24th - Karl Otto Runolfsson,
composer
Nov 4th - Luigi Lucioni,
Italian, landscape painter (opera stars)
Nov 7th - Efrem Kurtz,
St Petersburg Russia, conductor (Houston Symph 1948-54)
Nov 8th - Mihailo Vukdragovic, composer
Nov 14th - Aaron Copland,
American composer (Billy the Kid, Appalachian Spring) (d. 1990)
Nov 25th - Arthur Schwartz,
composer (Girl from Paris, Excuse my Dust)
Nov 27th - Leon Barzin,
Brussels Belgium, conductor (NY City Ballet 1948-58)
Nov 27th - Robert Blum, composer
Nov 28th - Lester Vail,
actor (Dance Fools Dance, Consolation Marriage)
Dec 12th - Sammy Davis,
Sr., American dancer (d. 1988)
Dec 14th - Boyan Georgiev Ikonomov,
composer
Dec 17th - Lucijan Marija Skerjanc,
Yugoslavia, composer/conductor
Dec 22nd - Alan Dudley Bush,
composer pianist/teacher
Dec 25th - Gladys Swarthout,
Deepwater Missouri, mezzo-soprano (La Gioconda)
Dec 29th - Willie Humphrey,
jazz Clarinetist
