Months in Year 1924: January February March April May June July August September October November December
Birthdays 1 - 150 of 150
Jan 3rd - Nell Rankin,
American singer (d. 2005)
Jan 6th - Earl Scruggs,
NC, bluegrass musician (& Flat-Ballad of Jed Clampett), (d. 2012)
Jan 8th - Benjamin Lees, [Lysniansky], Harbin Manchuria, composer
Jan 8th - Robert Starer, Vienna Austria, composer
Jan 10th - Ludmilla Chiraeff,
ballet dancer
Jan 11th - Don Cherry,
Wichita Texas, singer (Dean Martin Summer Show)
Jan 11th - Slim Harpo [James Moore], Lobdell, Louisiana, American blues musician
Jan 20th - Yvonne Loriod,
Houilles France, pianist
Jan 20th - Slim Whitman, American singer
Jan 22nd - J J Johnson,
composer/jazz trombonist
Jan 22nd - Margaret Whiting, big band singer
Jan 24th - Klaus George Roy, composer
Jan 26th - Warren Frank Benson,
composer
Jan 26th - Alice Babs, Swedish singer
Jan 27th - Alexander Georgiyevich Chugayev,
composer
Jan 29th - Luigi Nono,
Venice Italy, composer (Canonic Variations)
Feb 2nd - Elfi von Dassanowsky,
Austrian-American producer and musician
Feb 7th - Johnny Jordaan,
[Jan van Musscher], Amsterdam folk vocalist
Feb 9th - George Guest,
British organist
Feb 10th - Randy Van Horne,
El Paso Tx, vocalist (Nat King Cole Show)
Feb 17th - Margaret Truman,
Mo, pres daughter/writer (Murder at FBI)/pianist
Feb 24th - Lionel Dakers,
director (Royal School of Church Music)
Feb 26th - Mark Bucci,
NYC, composer (1959 Arts & Letters Award)
Mar 6th - Sarah Caldwell,
Maryville Mo, conductor/opera director (Flagstaff)
Mar 9th - Konstantin Iliev,
composer
Mar 25th - Julia A Perry,
US composer (Cask of Amontillado)
Mar 25th - Julia Perry, Lexington Kentucky, composer (Selfish Giant)
Mar 27th - Sarah L Vaughan,
Newark NJ, jazz scat singer (Broken Hearted Melody)
Mar 29th - Jules de Corte,
blind Dutch ballad singer
Apr 3rd - Murray Dickie,
opera singer/director
Apr 7th - Nick Perito, Denver Colo, orchestra leader (Don Knotts Show, Big Show)
Apr 9th - Harald Heilmann,
composer
Apr 14th - Shorty Rogers,
[Milton M Rajonsky], composer
Apr 15th - Neville Marriner,
Lincoln England, conductor (Minn Orch 1978)
Apr 16th - Henry Mancini,
Cleveland, composer/conductor (Pink Panther)
Apr 18th - Buxton Daeblite Orr,
composer
Apr 18th - Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Vinton La, blues singer (Mary is Fine)
Apr 21st - Ira Louvin,
Rainsville Ala, country singer, Louvin Brothers)
Apr 23rd - Arthur Frackenpohl,
Irving NJ, composer (Natural Superiority of Music)
Apr 24th - Ruth Kobart, American actor and singer (d. 2002)
Apr 25th - Franco Mannino, composer
Apr 26th - Russell Nype,
Zion Ill, singer/actor (Burton Farley-Dorothy)
Apr 29th - Renée Jeanmaire,
Paris France, dancer (Hans Christian Anderson)
Apr 30th - Sheldon Harnick,
Chicago, lyricist (Fiorello, Fiddler on the Roof)
May 1st - Enrico Josif, composer
May 2nd - Aafje Heynis,
Dutch singer
May 2nd - Theodore Bikel, Austrian/US folk singer/actor (Russians Are Coming)
May 4th - Tat'yana Petrovna Nikolayeva,
composer
May 5th - Theo Olof,
German/Neth violinist/prodigy/concert master
May 6th - Mimi Benzell,
Bridgeport Ct, operatic soprano (Gilda-Rigoletto)
May 6th - Denny Wright, British guitarist (d. 1992)
May 9th - Connie Russell,
NYC, singer (Club Embassy, Garroway at Large)
May 17th - Frantisek Kovaricek,
composer
May 19th - Sandy Galbraith Wilson,
composer
May 21st - Robert Parris,
Philadelphia, composer (Book of Imaginery Beings)
May 22nd - Charles Aznavour,
Armenia, French singer (Monsieur Carnavel, Tin Drum)
May 22nd - Claude Andre Francois Ballif, composer
Jun 3rd - Jimmy Rogers,
Ruleville, Mississippi, Blues musician (Muddy Waters' Band), (d. 1997)
Jun 7th - Dolores Gray,
Chic Ill, singer/actress (Designing Woman, Kismet)
Jun 20th - Chet Atkins,
Luttrell Tenn, guitarist (Me & My Guitar)
Jun 21st - Wally Fawkes,
cartoonist/jazz clarinettist
Jun 26th - Syd Lawrence,
bandleader (Syd Lawrence Orch)
Jun 29th - Ezra Laderman,
NYC, composer (Jacob & the Indians)
Jun 29th - Flo Sandon's, Italian singer (d. 2006)
Jul 5th - János Starker,
Hungarian cellist
Jul 7th - Mary Ford, [Colleen Summer], vocalist/actress (Queen of Outer Space)
Jul 8th - Johnnie Johnson,
American blues musician (d. 2005)
Jul 9th - Leonard Pennario,
Buffalo NY, pianist (LA Philharmonic)
Jul 9th - Pierre Cochereau, composer
Jul 13th - Carlo Bergonzi,
Italian singer
Jul 20th - Mort Garson,
Canadian composer
Jul 22nd - Margaret Whiting,
Detroit, singer (Kreisler Bandstand, Strauss Family)
Jul 26th - Louis Bellson,
Rock Falls Ill, orchestra leader (Pearl Bailey Show)
Jul 27th - Otar Vasil'yevich Taktakishvili,
composer
Aug 2nd - Joe Harnell,
American musician, composer and arranger (d. 2005)
Aug 8th - Thomas Beversdorf,
composer
Aug 14th - Georges Prêtre,
French conductor
Aug 17th - Laurence Richard Deniz,
jazz guitarist
Aug 20th - Jim Reeves,
US country singer/actor (Gun Fury, Kimberley Jim)
Aug 23rd - Edvard Fliflet Braein,
composer
Aug 24th - Louis Teicher,
pianist (Ferante & Teicher-Exodus)
Aug 29th - Dinah Washington,
Chicago, singer (What a Difference a Day Makes)
Aug 29th - Consuelo Velázquez, Mexican songwriter (d. 2005)
Aug 31st - Buddy [Leonard] Hackett,
Bkln, comedian (God's Little Acre, Music Man)
Aug 31st - Klaus Hashagen, composer
Sep 5th - Krystyna Moszumanska-Nazar,
composer
Sep 7th - Leonard Rosenman, Bkln NY, TV composer (Marcus Welby MD)
Sep 7th - Bridie Gallagher, Donegal, Ireland, singer (A Mother's Love's A Blessing, The Boys from County Armagh), (d. 2012)
Sep 13th - Maurice Jarre,
Lyons France, composer (Dr Zhivago-Acad Award 1966)
Sep 15th - Bobby Short,
Danville Ill, singer/pianist (Carlisle Hotel)
Sep 20th - Gogi Grant,
[Audrey Brown], rock vocalist
Sep 25th - Norman Ayrton,
opera director (Royal Shakespearean Acad - UK)
Sep 27th - Bud Powell,
US jazz pianist/composer
Sep 27th - Fred Singer, American scientist
Oct 10th - Huey "Piano" Smith,
rocker (Rockin' Pneumonia & Boogie Woogie Flu)
Oct 10th - Ludmilla Tcherina, French actress/ballet dancer (Sins of Rome)
Oct 13th - Terry Gibbs,
Bkln NY, orchestra leader (Steve Allen Comedy Hour)
Oct 15th - Colin Romoff,
NYC, orchestra leader (Andy Williams Show)
Oct 18th - Allyn Ferguson,
San Jose California, orchestra leader (Andy Williams Show)
Oct 18th - Egil Hovland, composer
Oct 18th - Hugh Allan "Buddy" MacMaster, Canadian musician
Oct 21st - Celia Cruz,
Cuban singer, Queen of Salsa. (d. 2003)
Oct 28th - Alfonso Montalva Montecino,
composer
Nov 12th - Sam Jones,
jazz bassist (d. 1981)
Nov 14th - Leonid B Kogan, Dnepropetrovsk Russia, violinist (Lenin Prize-1952)
Nov 22nd - Axel Borup-Jorgensen,
composer
Nov 25th - Paul Desmond,
US jazz saxophonist
Nov 25th - Tui St George Tucker, composer
Nov 28th - Kees [Gerrit C] Otten,
Dutch flutist
Nov 30th - Allan Sherman,
parody singer/songwriter (Hello Muddah, Hello Fardah)
Nov 30th - Klaus Huber, composer
Dec 12th - Nevit Kodali, composer
Dec 14th - Marion Morgan,
singer (Stop the Music)
Dec 15th - Ida Haendel,
Polish violinist/author (Woman with Violin)
Dec 21st - Rita Reys,
[Maria Reijs], Dutch jazz singer
Dec 22nd - Frank Corsaro,
NY harbor, opera director
Dec 24th - [Irving] Lee Dorsey,
New Orleans, vocalist (Working in the Coal Mines)
Dec 24th - Lee Dorsey, American singer (d. 1986)
Dec 28th - Johnny Otis,
[Veliotes], composer (Every Beat of My Heart)
