Months in Year 1930: January February March April May June July August September October November December
Birthdays 1 - 150 of 152
Jan 2nd - Julius LaRosa,
Bkln NY, singer (fired by Arthur Godfrey on the air)
Jan 5th - Frederick Charles Tillis,
composer
Jan 5th - Richard Hayes, Passaic NJ, singer/emcee (Name That Tune)
Jan 10th - Byron "Wild Child" Gipson,
blues singer
Jan 12th - Glenn Yarborough,
singer (Limeliters-Honey & Wine, Jubilee)
Jan 14th - Edgar Sergeyi Hovhanesyan,
composer
Jan 23rd - Ken Errair,
rocker (Four Freshmen)
Jan 26th - A N Solomons,
chairman (Singer & Friedlander)
Jan 27th - Bobby "Blue" Bland,
Rosemark TN, blues singer (Call on the Drummer)
Feb 8th - Manuel Castillo,
composer
Feb 10th - Peter Phillips,
composer [or Jun 18]
Feb 13th - Dotty McGuire,
Middletown Oh, vocalist (McGuire Sisters)
Feb 16th - Peggy King,
Greensburg Pa, vocalist/actress (George Gobel Show)
Feb 26th - Lazar Berman,
Leningrad Russia, pianist (Budapest 3rd place-1956)
Mar 1st - Pierre Max Dubois,
composer
Mar 6th - Lorin Maazel,
Neuilly France, conductor (NBC Symphony Orch 1941)
Mar 9th - Thomas Schippers,
Kalamazoo Mich, conductor (Amahl & Night Visitors)
Jazz Composer Ornette Coleman (Mar 9th)
Mar 9th - Ornette Coleman, Fort Worth, Texas, American jazz composer (Downbeat Musician of Year 1966)
Mar 10th - Raymond Rasberry,
pianist/singer
Mar 14th - Dieter Schnebel,
German vicar/composer
Mar 18th - Maurice Peress,
NYC, conductor (KC Philharmonic 1974-80)
Mar 18th - Pat Halcox, British musician, (d. 2013)
Mar 19th - Bill Henderson,
Chic Ill, jazz singer (Torpedo-Dreams)
Mar 22nd - Stephen Sondheim,
NYC, lyricist (West Side Story, Company)
Mar 25th - David Russell Burge,
composer
Mar 27th - Richard Hayman,
Cambridge Mass, orchestra leader (Vaughn Monroe Show)
Mar 28th - Elizabeth Bainbridge, English opera singer
Mar 29th - Donny Conn,
rocker (Playmates)
Apr 1st - Joan Franks-Williams,
composer
Apr 2nd - Girolamo Arriego,
composer
Apr 12th - Betty Clooney,
Maysville Ky, singer (Jack Paar Show)
Apr 16th - Frank Page,
British broadcaster/actor (Hudson Hawk, Dark Dancer)
Apr 16th - Herbie Mann, Brooklyn NY, jazz flute/sax (Just Wallin')
Apr 17th - Chris Barber,
jazz trombonist
Apr 17th - Genevieve, Paris France, singer (Jack Paar Show, Scruples)
Apr 24th - Jerome Callet,
American musician
Apr 28th - Christopher John Magenis Headington,
composer
May 1st - Little Walter,
[Marion Walter Jacobs], rocker
May 3rd - David Evatt Tunley,
composer
May 4th - Roberta Peters,
NYC, operatic soprano (NY Met)
May 8th - Gary Snyder,
[Japhy Ryder], beat poet (Rip Rap & Cold Mountain Poems)
May 8th - Heather Harper, soprano
May 16th - Friedrich Gulda,
Austrian pianist/composer (Hangman's Songs)
May 22nd - Kenny Ball,
rocker, (d. 2013)
May 28th - Julian Penkivil Slade,
composer
May 29th - Eleanor Fazan,
opera/show choreographer (Lassiter, Ruling Class)
Jun 3rd - Dakota Staton,
American jazz singer (d. 2007)
Jun 4th - Morgana King,
jazz singer/actress (Godfather)
Jun 4th - Pentti Raitio, composer
Jun 5th - Nikolay Nikolayevich Sidel'nikov,
composer
Jun 8th - Yannis Ioannidis,
composer
Jun 9th - Barbara,
French singer (d. 1997)
Jun 25th - Mary Beth Peil,
American singer
Jun 26th - Willem G Statius Muller,
Neth Antilles, conductor/pianist/composer
Jun 28th - Nikolay Nikolayevich Karetnikov,
composer
Jun 30th - June Valli,
Bronx NY, singer (Your Hit Parade)
Jun 30th - Nikolai Karetnikov, composer
Jul 3rd - Carlos Kleiber,
Berlin Germany, conductor (Bavarian State Orch 1968)
Jul 3rd - Pete Fountain, New Orleans, jazz clarinetist (Lawrence Welk 1957-59)
Jul 7th - Hank Mobley,
US jazz saxophonist
Jul 9th - Buddy Bregman,
Chicago, orchestra leader (Eddie Fisher Show)
Jul 10th - Jacques Klein,
Brazilian pianist
Jul 21st - Anand Bakshi,
Indian lyricist (d. 2002)
Jul 25th - Annie Ross,
British jazz singer
Jul 28th - Junior Kimbrough,
American bluesman (d. 1998)
Jul 29th - Paul Taylor,
dancer/choreographer (Paul Taylor Dance Company) [or 6/5]
Aug 1st - Geoffrey Holder,
Trinidad, dancer/actor (Annie, The Wiz)
Aug 1st - Lionel Bart, [Begleiter], English composer (Oliver!)
Aug 6th - Abbey Lincoln,
Chicago IL, actress/singer (Nothing But a Man)
Aug 11th - Heinz Werner Zimmermann,
composer
Aug 13th - Don Ho, American musician (d. 2007)
Aug 18th - Johnny Preston,
Port Arthur, Tx, rocker (Feel So Fine)
Aug 20th - Mario Bernardi,
Canadian conductor
Aug 31st - Tiny Little Jr,
Worthington Minn, pianist (Lawrence Welk Show)
Sep 2nd - Andrey Pavlovich Petrov,
composer
Sep 4th - Jerry Ragavoy,
US songwriter/producer (Wonderful Dream)
Sep 7th - Sonny Rollins,
NYC, jazz saxophonist (Blue Room)
Sep 17th - Dorothy Loudon,
Cambridge Mass, actress/singer (Garry Moore Show)
Sep 17th - Lalgudi Jayaraman, Indian violinist
Sep 19th - Muhal Richard Abrams,
composer
Sep 22nd - Roger Durham Hannay,
composer
Musician Ray Charles (Sep 23rd)
Sep 23rd - Ray Charles [Robinson],
Albany Ga, singer/pianist (Georgia), (Georgia on My Mind, Mess Around) (d. 2004)
Sep 27th - Igor Kipnis,
Berlin Germany, harpsichordist/professor (Fairfield)
Sep 28th - Tommy Collins,
[Leonard Sipes], country singer (Don't Growl)
Sep 29th - Richard Bonynge,
Sydney Australia, conductor (Aust Orch Sydney-1976)
Sep 29th - Billy Strange [William], Long Beach, California, singer-songwriter (A Little Less Conversation), (d. 2012)
Oct 1st - Richard Harris,
Ireland, actor (Man Called Horse)/singer (MacArthur Park)
Oct 3rd - David Mayer Epstein,
composer
Oct 8th - Toru Takemitsu,
Tokyo Japan, composer (Ki No Kyoko)
Oct 9th - Fjolnir Stefansson,
composer
Oct 14th - Robert Parker,
US saxophonist/soul singer (Barefootin')
Oct 15th - Fela Ransome/Anikulapo Kuti,
Nigerian singer/saxophonist
Actor/Singer Richard Harris (Oct 1st)
Oct 24th - Big Bopper,
[JP Richardson], Sabine Pass Tx, vocalist (Chantiily Lace)
Oct 28th - Harry Gilbert Trythall,
composer
Oct 28th - John Henry Mayer, composer
Oct 29th - Natalie Sleeth, American composer (d. 1992)
Oct 29th - Omara Portuondo, Cuban singer
Oct 30th - Clifford Brown,
[Brownie], US jazz trumpeter/composer
Nov 6th - Raymond Baervoets,
Belgian composer (Metamorphoses)
Nov 11th - Vernon Handley,
English conductor
Nov 17th - David Werner Amram,
Philadelphia Pa, composer (Splendor in the Grass)
Nov 22nd - Peter Hall,
British stage/film/opera director (Pedestrian)
Dec 3rd - Phyllis Curtin,
Clarksburg WV, soprano (NYC Opera)
Dec 4th - Paul-Heinz Dittrich,
composer
Dec 4th - Roman Semyonovich Ledenyou, composer
Dec 4th - Jim Hall, American jazz guitarist
Dec 7th - Richard Felciano,
composer
Dec 24th - Robert Joffrey,
[Abdullah Jaffa Anver Bey Khan], US, dancer
Dec 27th - Jacqueline Fontijn,
Flemish composer
