Months in Year 1931: January February March April May June July August September October November December
Birthdays 1 - 131 of 131
Jan 5th - Alfred Brendel,
Wiesenberg Moravia, Austrian pianist
Jan 5th - Alvin Ailey, choreographer (American Dance Theater)
Jan 17th - Frederick Alfred Fox,
composer
Jan 20th - Hachidai Nakamura,
Japanese songwriter and pianist (d. 1992)
Jan 22nd - Sam Cooke,
American singer (d. 1964)
Jan 25th - Stikkan,
Stig Anderson, music entrepreneur
Jan 27th - Rudi Maugeri,
rocker (Crew Cuts)
Jan 29th - Leslie Bricuse,
English/US composer (Stop the world I want to get off)
Feb 4th - Isabel Peron,
[Maria Martinez], dancer/president Argentina
Feb 9th - Xavier Benguerel,
composer
Feb 10th - Makoto Shinohara, composer
Feb 14th - Phyllis McGuire,
Middletown Oh, vocalist (McGuire Sisters)
Mar 4th - Gennady Rozhdestvensky,
composer
Mar 5th - Anthony Headges,
composer
Mar 6th - Carmen Delavallade,
US dancer/singer/actress (Aida)
Mar 7th - C W Stubblefield,
music promoter
Mar 10th - Georges Dor,
Quebec author, playwright, singer and songwriter (d. 2001)
Mar 13th - Rosalind Elias,
Lowell Mass, mezzo-soprano (Grimgerde-Die Walkuere)
Mar 14th - Phil Phillips [Baptiste],
rock vocalist (Sea Of Love)
Mar 16th - Betty Johnson,
Guilford County NC, singer (Jack Paar Show, I Dreamed)
Mar 25th - Paul Motian,
American jazz drummer and composer
Mar 27th - Yoriaki Matsudaira, composer
Mar 30th - Harold Burrage,
US singer/pianist (Hi Yo Silver)
Mar 30th - Sandor Szokolay, composer
Apr 6th - Joan Carlyle,
British soprano
Apr 11th - Koichi Sugiyama,
Japanese composer
Apr 12th - Billy Vaughn,
Glasgow Ky, singer (Chapel by the Sea)
Apr 12th - Martin Boykan, composer
Apr 12th - Leonid Derbenyov, Russian poet-songwriter (d. 1995)
Apr 27th - Igor Oistrach,
Russian violinist/son of David Oistrach
Apr 27th - Krzystzof Komeda, composer
Apr 29th - Anthony "Lonnie" Donegan,
Scotish skiffle vocalist/guitarist
Apr 29th - Lonnie Donegan, Glasgow Scotland, vocalist
May 3rd - Joseph Lichtman Layton,
dancer
May 4th - Gennadi Rozhdestvensky,
Moscow Russia, conductor (USSR State Radio)
May 7th - Teresa Brewer,
Toledo Ohio, singer (Put Another Nickel In)
May 8th - Charles M Wilson,
composer
May 14th - Alvin Augustus Lucier Jr,
composer
May 16th - Donald James Martino,
Plainfield NJ, composer (Noturnno-Pulitzer 1974)
May 27th - Kenny Price,
Florence Ky, country singer (Midwestern Hayride, Hee Haw)
May 27th - Veroslav Neumann, composer
May 28th - Peter Talbot Westergaard, composer
May 31st - Shirley Verrett,
New Orleans, mezzo-soprano (Cassandra-Les Troyens)
Jun 3rd - Francoise Arnoul,
actress/composer (French Cancan, Jacko & Lise)
Jun 10th - João Gilberto,
Brazilian singer and guitarist
Jun 11th - Audrey Schuh,
American soprano
Jun 20th - Arne Nordheim,
Larvik Norway, conductor/composer (Aftonland)
Jun 27th - Ryszard Kwiatkowski, composer
Jun 30th - James Loughran,
British conductor
Jul 6th - Joseph Daniel White,
singer/bandleader
Jul 8th - Jerry Vale,
[Genaro Louis Vitaliano], NYC, singer (Arriverderci Roma)
Jul 8th - Louis Ballard, composer
Jul 10th - Alice Munro,
author (Dance of the Happy Shades)
Jul 11th - Thurston Harris,
Indianapolis, vocalist (Little Bitty Pretty One)
Jul 12th - Andre Laporte,
Flemish composer
Jul 31st - Kenny Burrell,
American guitarist
Aug 1st - Ramblin' Jack Elliott,
rocker
Aug 1st - Sean O Riada, composer
Aug 2nd - Henryck Schiller,
composer
Aug 2nd - Philippa Duke Schuyler, composer
Aug 28th - John Perkins,
rocker (Crew Cuts)
Aug 29th - Stelios Kazantzidis,
Greek singer (d. 2001)
Sep 3rd - Mitzi Gaynor,
Chicago IL, actress/vocalist (Les Girls, South Pacific)
Sep 3rd - Rudolf Kelterborn, composer
Sep 7th - Charles Camilleri,
composer
Sep 12th - George Jones,
Saratoga Tx, singer (Golden Rings, Oh Lonesome Me)
Sep 19th - Brook Benton,
soul vocalist (Rainy Night in Georgia)
Sep 24th - Anthony Newley,
Engld, actor (Dr Doolitte, Garbage Pail Kids)/composer
Sep 26th - George Chambers,
MS, rock bassist/vocalist (Chambers Brothers)
Sep 27th - Freddy Quinn,
Austrian singer
Sep 28th - John E Gilmore,
tenor Saxophonist
Oct 1st - Sylvano Bussotti,
Italian composer
Oct 14th - Rafael Puyana,
Bogota Colombia, baroque harpsichordist (NY debut 1957)
Oct 14th - Nikhil Banerjee, Indian classical musician (d. 1986)
Oct 24th - Sofiya Asgatovna Gubaydulina,
composer
Oct 24th - Sofia Gubaidulina, Russian composer
Nov 4th - Darla Hood,
Leedey Oklahoma, singer/actress (Little Rascals)
Nov 5th - Ike Turner,
Miss, AKA Mr Tina Turner!, guitarist (A Fool in Love)
Nov 6th - Mike Nichols,
[Peschowsky], director (Catch 22, Biloxi Blues)
Nov 6th - Tsvetan Tsvetanov, composer
Nov 16th - Hubert Sumlin, American blues musician
Nov 23rd - Gloria Lynne,
American singer
Nov 30th - Gunther Herbig,
Usti-nad-Labem Czech, conductor (East Berlin Orch)
Dec 1st - Jimmy Lyons,
American musician (d. 1986)
Dec 1st - Jim Nesbitt, singer (d. 2007)
Dec 3rd - Jaye P Morgan,
Mancos Colo, singer/actress (Gong Show, Night Patrol)
Dec 6th - Zeki Müren,
Turkish actor, singer, and composer (d. 1996)
Dec 8th - Rudolf Komorous,
composer
Singer/Dancer/Actress Rita Moreno (Dec 11th)
Dec 11th - Rita Moreno,
[Rosita Dolores Alverío], Humacao, Puerto Rico, singer, dancer and actress (West Side Story)
Dec 18th - Allen Klein,
American rock and roll business manager
Dec 21st - Caroline Kaart,
[Paterson Raitt], Dutch alto singer
Dec 21st - David Baker, Indianapolis Indiana, composer (Reflections)
Dec 24th - Mauricio Kagel,
Argentina/German composer
Dec 26th - Thomas Eden Binkley,
musician
Dec 27th - Scotty Moore,
guitarist (for Elvis)
Dec 28th - John de Mol,
Dutch vocalist/composer/producer
Dec 30th - Skeeter Davis,
[Mary Penick], Dry Ridge Ky, singer (End of World)
