Months in Year 1915: January February March April May June July August September October November December
Birthdays 1 - 107 of 107
Jan 10th - Dean Dixon,
Zug Switzerland, conductor
Jan 18th - Vassilis Tsitsanis,
Greek singer and songwriter (d. 1984)
Jan 19th - Alvy West,
Bkln NY, orchestra leader (Andy Williams Show)
Jan 24th - Vitezslava Kapralova,
composer
Jan 29th - John Serry,
Sr., American musician and arranger (d. 2003)
Jan 30th - Pierre Wissmer,
Swiss composer/theory (Capitaine Bruno)
Jan 31st - Bobby Hackett,
Providence RI, trumpeteer/orchestra leader (Air Time '57)
Jan 31st - Alan Lomax, American musicologist (d. 2002)
Feb 4th - Ray Evans,
American songwriter with Jay Livingston (d. 2007)
Feb 8th - Lambros Georges Guetary Worloou,
singer
Mar 4th - Carlos Surinach,
Barcelona Spain, composer (Monte Carlo) [OS]
Mar 4th - Eunice Catunda, composer
Mar 8th - Tapio Rautavaara,
Finnish athlete, actor, and singer (d. 1979)
Mar 10th - Sir Charles Groves,
English conductor(d. 1992)
Mar 14th - Carlos Surinach, Barcelona Spain, composer (Monte Carlo) [NS]
Mar 20th - Sviatosiav Richter,
Zhitomir Ukraine, pianist (Stalin Prize-1945)
Mar 28th - Jay Livingston,
composer (Buttons & Bows, Mona Lisa, Tammy)
Mar 29th - George Chisholm,
Scottish jazz trombonist
Mar 31st - Eliseo Morales Pajaro,
composer
Apr 1st - Art Lund,
Salt Lake City Utah, singer (Ken Murray Show)
Apr 7th - Billie Holiday,
[Eleanora Fagan], Balt, singer (Aint Nobodys Business)
Apr 15th - Ernest Borneman,
sexual researcher psychotherapist writer/musicologist
Apr 19th - Dorian Le Gallienne,
composer
Apr 29th - Donald Mills,
singer (Mills Brothers)
May 2nd - Van Alexander, NYC, orchestra leader (Gordon MacRae Show)
May 2nd - Doris Fisher, American songwriter (d. 2003)
May 3rd - Evencio Castellanos,
composer
May 6th - George Perle,
Bayonne NJ, composer (12 Tone Tonality)
May 10th - Bert van Dongen,
[Abraham J Cohen], singer/impressionist/actor
May 14th - Harry Joseph Chick Daugherty,
trombonist (Spike Jones & City Slickers)
May 27th - Mario del Monaco,
Italian opera singer (Verdi/Puccini)
May 28th - Wolfgang Schneiderhan,
violinist
May 29th - Igor Buketoff,
Hartford Conn, conductor (Iceland Symph 1964-65)
May 29th - Karl Münchinger, German conductor (d. 1990)
Jun 2nd - Robert Moffat Palmer,
composer
Jun 6th - Vincent Persichetti,
Phila Pennsylvania, composer (Sibyl)
Jun 9th - Les Paul,
Waukesha Wi, guitarist/inventor (Les Paul guitar)
Jun 10th - Oscar Comras,
Bronx, drummer (namesake of Comras Mall in Bronx Park)
Jun 17th - Stringbean,
[David Akeman], Ky, banjoist/comedian (Hee Haw)
Jun 25th - Peter Lind Hayes,
SF California, comedian/singer (Peter Lind Hayes Show)
Jun 27th - Hendrik W van Leeuwen,
musician
Jul 1st - Willie Dixon,
Vicksburg Missisipi, blues artist (Walkin' the Blues, Mellow Down Easy)
Jul 4th - Jimmie Rogers,
Detroit Mich, singer (Sugar Hill Time)
Jul 6th - Dorothy Kirsten,
Montclair NJ, soprano (Time to Sing, Chevy Show)
Jul 6th - Laverne Andrews, Minneapolis MN, singer (Andrews Sisters)
Jul 6th - Marcel Quinet, Belgian pianist/composer (Vague et Sillon)
Jul 9th - David Leo Diamond,
Rochester NY, composer (Paderewski Prize-1943)
Jul 17th - Esther Williamson Ballou,
composer
Jul 21st - Floyd McDaniel,
blues singer/guitarist
Aug 4th - Irving Fields,
NYC, pianist (Ilona Massey Show)
Aug 16th - Al Hibbler,
singer (Unchained Melody)
Aug 21st - Raquel Rastenni,
Danish singer (d. 1998)
Aug 30th - Robert Strassburg,
American composer (d. 2003)
Sep 2nd - Hans Joachim Koellreutter, composer
Sep 3rd - Knut Nystedt, composer
Sep 4th - Rudolf Schock,
German opera/operette singer
Sep 11th - Jack Fascinato,
Bevier Mo, pianist/orchestra leader (Kukla Fran & Ollie)
Sep 12th - Billy Daniels,
Jacksonville Fla, singer (Billy Daniels Show)
Sep 16th - Cy Walter,
Minneapolis Mn, pianist (3's Company)
Sep 19th - Germán Valdés,
Mexican actor, singer and comedian (d. 1973)
Oct 2nd - Robert Russell "Chubby" Wise,
musician
Oct 7th - Roman Padlewski,
composer
Oct 19th - Farid al-Atrash,
Syrian composer, musician, and actor (d. 1974)
Oct 26th - Golfredo Corradetti,
conductor
Oct 30th - Pierre Wissmer,
Swiss composer (Capitaine Bruno)
Nov 2nd - Douglas Gordon Lilburn,
composer
Nov 2nd - Beryl McBurnie, Trinidadian dancer (d. 2000)
Nov 26th - Earl Wild,
Pitts Pa, composer/pianist (Caesar's Hour, NBC Symph 1942)
Nov 29th - Billy Strayhorn,
American musician and composer (d. 1967)
Nov 30th - Walter Brown "Brownie" McGhee,
Knoxville Tennessee, American blues singer/guitarist
Dec 2nd - Adolph Green,
songwriter (married to Phyllis Newman)
Dec 2nd - Nico Richter, composer
Dec 5th - Carl Donnell "Kansas" Fields,
drummer
Dec 9th - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf,
Jarotschin Germ, soprano (Der Rosenkavalier)
Singer/Actor Frank Sinatra (Dec 12th)
Dec 12th - Frank Sinatra,
Hoboken, vocalist/actor (old blue eyes), (d. 1998)
Dec 14th - Clay Warnick,
Tacoma Wash, choral director (Jimmie Rodgers Show)
Dec 16th - Georgy Vasilevich Svirdov, composer
Dec 16th - Turk Murphy, American trombonist (d. 1987)
Dec 17th - André Claveau,
French singer (d. 2003)
Dec 21st - Werner von Trapp,
member of the Trapp Family Singers (d. 2007)
Dec 25th - Noelle de Mosa,
Neth/British dancer/teacher (Brigadoon)
Dec 25th - Pete Rugolo, bandleader/arranger (Fugitive)
Dec 26th - Una Mae Carlisle,
US pianist/vocalist (Walkin' at the River)
Dec 28th - Roebuck "Pops" Staples,
US gospel/singer (Staple Singers)
