Months in Year 1927: January February March April May June July August September October November December
Birthdays 1 - 139 of 139
Jan 10th - Gisele MacKenzie,
Winnipeg Manitoba, singer/actress (Your Hit Parade)
Jan 10th - Johnnie Ray, Dallas OR, pop singer (Cry)
Jan 11th - Wilton "Bogey" Gaynair,
saxophonist
Jan 12th - Salvatore Martirano,
composer
Jan 14th - Zuzana Ruzickova,
Czech harpsichordist
Jan 17th - Donald Erb,
Youngstown, Ohio, composer
Jan 17th - Eartha Kitt, singer/actress (Catwoman-Batman)
Jan 25th - Antonio Carlos Jobim,
composer
Jan 28th - Ronnie Scott,
jazz musician/club-owner
Feb 2nd - Richard Vance Maxfield,
composer
Feb 2nd - Stan Getz, Phila, jazz tenor saxophonist (Benny Goodman, Jimmy Dorsey)
Feb 3rd - Val Doonican,
Irish singer and entertainer
Feb 10th - Leontyne Mary Violet Price,
Laurel Miss, opera soprano (Porgy & Bess)
Feb 18th - Tabe Bas,
actor/opera vocalist (Leiser Wolf in Anatevka)
Opera Soprano Leontyne Mary Violet Price (Feb 10th)
Feb 25th - Ralph Stanley, country singer
Feb 27th - Guy Mitchell,
[Albert George Cernik], Detroit, Michigan, American singer and actor (Red Garters, 3 Redheads from Seattle) (d. 1999)
Mar 1st - Harry Belafonte,
Harlem NYC, calypso singer (Buck & the Preacher)
Mar 1st - Lusine Amara, opera/concert singer
Mar 2nd - Siegfried Kohler,
composer
Mar 2nd - Witold Szalonec, composer
Mar 4th - Robert Di Domenica,
composer
Mar 8th - Jaromir Podesva,
composer
Mar 8th - Joseph Berg, composer
Mar 9th - Hans Ludwig Schilling,
composer
Mar 9th - John Beckwith, composer
Mar 10th - Donn Trenner,
New Haven Ct, orchestra leader (ABC's Nightlife)
Mar 12th - Mstislav Rostropovich,
Baku Russia, cellist (Cello Concerto) [3/22 NS]
Mar 15th - Carl Smith,
Maynardville Tn, country singer (Grand Ole Opry)
Mar 17th - Kenneth S Goldstein,
folklorist/enthomusicologist
Mar 17th - Maurice Ingvar Karkoff, composer
Mar 17th - Sulkhan Ivanovich Nasidze, composer
Mar 18th - John Harold Kander,
composer (Cabaret, Funny Lady, Kramer vs Kramer)
Mar 20th - John Pierre Herman Joubert,
composer (Chamber Music for brass quintet)
Mar 22nd - Mstislav Rostropovich,
composer [3/12 OS]
Mar 27th - Mstislav Leopold Rostropovich,
Baku USSR, cellist/conductor
Apr 6th - Gerry Mulligan,
British saxophonist/orchestra leader (Jazz on a Summer Day)
Apr 7th - Babatunde Olatunji,
Nigerian drummer (d. 2003)
Apr 19th - Don Barbour,
Greencastle Ind, singer (4 Freshmen)
Apr 22nd - Laurel Aitken, Jamaican singer (d. 2005)
Apr 30th - Johnny Horton,
Los Angeles Ca, rocker
May 1st - William Mitchell Byers,
musician
May 5th - Charles Rosen,
NYC, pianist/musicologist (Sonata Forms)
May 7th - Jim Lowe,
American singer
May 20th - David Frederick Barlow,
composer
May 20th - Walter Aschaffenburg, composer
May 28th - Bernhard Lewkovitch,
composer
May 28th - Gyorgy Ligeti, composer
Jun 2nd - Andre Vandernoot,
Flemish conductor (Royal Flemish Opera)
Jun 3rd - Boots Randolph,
Paducah KY, saxophonist (Yakety Sax)
Jun 9th - Franco Donatoni,
composer
Jun 17th - Martin Böttcher,
German conductor
Jun 20th - John M Dengler,
jazz bass sax/trumpet/trombone
Jun 30th - James Goldman,
Chicago, Illinois, American screenwriter/playwright (The Lion in Winter, They Might Be Giants)
Jul 2nd - Brock Peters,
NYC, actor/singer (Carmen Jones, To Kill a Mockingbird)
Jul 4th - Neil Simon,
Bronx, playwright (Odd Couple, Plaza Suite, Biloxi Blues)
Jul 6th - Charles Whittenberg,
composer
Jul 6th - Nilo Soruco, Bolivian songwriter (d. 2004)
Jul 7th - Charlie Louvin,
Rainsville Ala, country singer (Louvin Brothers)
Jul 7th - Doc Severinson, [Carl], Arlington Oregon, bandleader/trumpeter on the Tonight Show
Jul 11th - Herbert Blomstedt,
Springfield Mass, conductor (Oslo Phil 1954-61)
Jul 20th - Michael Gielen,
Austrian conductor/composer
Jul 25th - Stanley Dancer,
harness racer (4 Hambletonians, 3 Trot Triple Crown)
Aug 3rd - Enrique Pinella,
composer
Aug 11th - Raymond Leppard,
London England, conductor (St Louis Symphony Orch)
Aug 12th - Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich,
cellist/conductor
Aug 12th - Porter Wagoner, country singer, discovered Dolly Parton (Y'All Come), (d. 2007)
Aug 21st - Wilhelm Jr Killmayer,
composer
Aug 22nd - Aleksandar Obradovic,
composer
Aug 29th - Marion Williams,
US gospel singers (Stars of Faith)
Sep 1st - Tommy Evans,
rocker (Drifters)
Sep 7th - Graham Dudley Whettam,
composer
Sep 8th - Harlan Howard,
American country music songwriter (d. 2002)
Sep 20th - Johnny Dankworth,
English musician and composer
Sep 25th - Colin Rex Davis,
Weybridge England, conductor (NY Met 1967-71)
Sep 27th - Red Robert Chudnick Rodney, jazz trumpeter
Oct 6th - Paul Badura-Skoda,
Vienna Austria, pianist (Mozart Interpretation)
Oct 7th - Al Martino,
Phila, singer (Here in My Heart)/actor (Godfather)
Oct 8th - Gigi Durston, Balt Md, singer (Sonny Kendis Show)
Oct 10th - Thomas Brendon Wilson,
composer
Oct 13th - Anita Kerr,
Memphis TN, singer (Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour)
Oct 16th - Peter Brinson,
dance educationalist
Oct 24th - Gilbert Bécaud, French composer and actor (d. 2001)
Oct 25th - Barbara Cook,
Atlanta Ga, stage singer/actress (Music Man)
Oct 27th - Dominick Argento,
York Penn, composer (Colonel Jonathan the Saint)
Oct 28th - Cleo Laine,
Middlesex England, actress/singer (Flesh to a Tiger)
Nov 3rd - Andy Williams,
Wall Lake, Iowa, singer/actor (Andy Williams Show, "Butterfly"), (d. 2012)
Nov 4th - Vittorio Fellegara,
composer
Nov 7th - Ivor Emmanuel,
Welsh singer and actor (d. 2007)
Singer Patti Page (Nov 8th)
Nov 8th - Patti Page,
[Clara Ann Fowler], Claremont Ok, singer (Tennessee Waltz), (d. 2012)
Nov 11th - Mose Allison,
Tippo Mississippi, jazz artist (Black Country Suite)
Nov 14th - Narciso Yepes,
Lorca Spain, guitarist (Orquesta Nacionale 1947)
Nov 18th - Lawrence Kenneth Moss,
composer
Nov 18th - Hank Ballard, American musician (d. 2003)
Dec 1st - Grant Beglarian,
composer
Dec 3rd - Isabelle Harriet Lucas,
actress/singer (Outland, Comics)
Dec 3rd - Andy Williams, Wall Lake Iowa, singer (Moon River, Andy Williams Show)
Dec 7th - Vlastimir Pericic,
composer
Dec 24th - Teresa Stich-Randall,
US soprano (Vienna State Opera)
