Musicians Born in March 1927

Harry Belafonte (1927-2023)

Mar 1 Jamaican-American Grammy, Tony, and Emmy Award-winning calypso singer ("Banana Boat Song"), actor (Buck & the Preacher), and human rights activist, born in Harlem, New York

Mar 2 Siegfried Köhler, German composer (Tausend Sterne sind ein Dom), born in Meissen, Germany (d. 1984)
Mar 2 Witold Szalonek, Polish composer (Satire), educator, and musicologist, born in Czechowice-Dziedzice, Poland (d. 2001) [1]
Mar 4 Robert DiDomenica, American flautist, composer and educator, born in New York City (d. 2013)
Mar 5 Jack Cassidy, American stage and screen actor (Shangri-La; The Eiger Sanction: She Loves Me; Columbo), and Grammy Award-winning singer, born in Richmond Hill, Virginia (d. 1976)
Mar 6 (Adanelle) "Norman" Treigle, American operatic bass-baritone, born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 1975)
Mar 8 Dick Hyman, American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, conductor, and organist, born in New York City
Mar 8 Jaromir Podešva, Czech composer (Fragments of the Quinguennium), music theorist, and pedagogue, born in Brno, Czechoslovakia (d. 2000)
Mar 8 Josef Berg, Czech composer and musicologist, born in Brno, Czechoslovakia (d. 1971)
Mar 9 Hans Ludwig Schilling, German composer, born in Mayen, Germany (d. 2012)
Mar 9 John Beckwith, Canadian composer, pianist, educator, and musicologist, born in Victoria, British Columbia (d. 2022)
Mar 10 Donn Trenner, American jazz pianist, arranger, and orchestra leader (Steve Allen's Westinghouse Show), born in New Haven, Connecticut (d. 2020)
Mar 15 Carl Smith, American country singer ("Deep Water"; "Ten Thousand Drums"; "Why, Why"), born in Maynardville, Tennessee (d. 2010)
Mar 16 (Reuben) "Ruby" Braff, American jazz trumpeter and cornetist, born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 2003)
Mar 16 Olga San Juan, American actress, dancer and comedian (Variety Girl, 1 Touch of Venus), born in New York City (d. 2009)
Mar 17 Sulkhan Nasidze, Georgian composer, born in Tiflis, Transcaucasia, Soviet Union (now Tblisi, Georgia) (d. 1996)

John Kander (97 years old)

Mar 18 American musical theater and film composer, with Fred Ebb (Cabaret; Chicago; New York, New York; Funny Lady), born in Kansas City, Missouri

Mar 18 Lester "Big Daddy" Kinsey, American Chicago blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player, born near Pleasant Grove, Mississippi (d. 2001)
Mar 20 John Joubert, British South African composer (The Raising of Lazarus; An English Requiem), and educator, born in Cape Town, Union of South Africa (d. 2019)
Mar 23 Osvaldo Lacerda, Brazilian composer (Piratininga), and music professor, born in São Paulo, Brazil (d. 2011)
Mar 24 János Decsényi, Hungarian composer (Farewell to a Vanished Century), born in Budapest, Hungary

Mstislav Rostropovich (1927-2007)

Mar 27 Soviet-Russian cellist and conductor, born in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR

Mar 29 Bianco [Eugene Capobianco], American jazz, easy-listening, and session harpist, born in Hartford, Connecticut (d. 2007)
Mar 31 Dave Hassinger, American recording engineer and record producer, born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2007)