Months in Year 1939: January February March April May June July August September October November December
Birthdays 1 - 150 of 184
Jan 7th - David Buchan,
ethno-musicologist
Jan 10th - Scott McKenzie,
American singer, (d. 2012)
Jan 15th - Charles Christopher Steel,
composer
Jan 21st - Mary Ellen McAnally,
Illinois, poet (Dance of the Zygotes)
Jan 24th - Ray Stevens,
Clarksdale Ga, singer (Ahab the Arab, Streak)
Jan 26th - Marshall Lieb,
rocker (Teddy Bears)
Jan 27th - Tigran Yegiayi Mansuryan,
composer
Jan 31st - Claude Gauthier,
Canadian singer and songwriter
Feb 1st - Del McCoury,
bluegrass singer/musician
Feb 1st - Claude François, French singer (d. 1978)
Feb 9th - Barry Mann,
R&B singer (Who Put the Bomp in the Bomp Bomp Bomp)
Feb 10th - Barbara Kolb,
Hartford Ct, composer (Trobar Jus)
Feb 10th - Boris Pickett, vocalist (Monster Mash)
Feb 10th - Roberta Flack, NC, vocalist (If Ever I Saw Your Face)
Feb 11th - Gerry Goffin,
Queens NY, rock lyricist (married Carole King)
Feb 12th - Ray Manzarek,
American keyboardist (Doors-Light My Fire, Unknown Soldier)
Feb 18th - Marek Janowski, Polish-born conductor
Feb 20th - Barbara Ellis,
Olympia Wa, rocker (Fleetwoods)
Feb 20th - Roy George Elroy Josephs, jazz dance teacher
Feb 28th - John Fahey,
singer (Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death)
Feb 28th - Tommy Tune, Wichita Falls Tx, dancer/choreographer (Boyfriend)
Mar 1st - Warren Davis, rocker (Monotones)
Mar 2nd - Gerard van Tongeren,
Dutch singer (Buffoons)
Mar 6th - Jerry Naylor,
Stephenville Tx, rock vocalist (Crickets)
Mar 7th - Marion Marlowe,
St Louis Mo, singer (Arthur Godfrey & Friends)
Mar 8th - Robert Tear,
Barry Wales, tenor (Welsh Natl Opera 1970)
Mar 8th - Yannis Vlachopoulos, composer
Mar 11th - Flaco Jiménez,
American musician
Mar 13th - Neil Sedaka,
Bkln NY, singer/songwriter (Breaking Up is Hard to Do)
Mar 14th - Stavros Xarhakos,
Greek composer
Mar 18th - Travis Pritchett,
rocker (Travis & Bob)
Mar 18th - Giannis Markopoulos, Greek composer
Mar 23rd - Boris Ivanovich Tischenko,
composer
Mar 23rd - Pepe Lienhard, Swiss band leader and entertainer
Apr 1st - Rudolph Isley,
Cincinnati Ohio, rocker (Isley Brothers-Shout)
Apr 2nd - Marvin P Gaye Jr,
Wash DC, singer (Sexual Healing)
Apr 3rd - François de Roubaix,
French film score composer (d. 1975)
Apr 4th - Hugh Masekela,
Wilbank South Africa, trumpeter (I Am Not Afraid)
Apr 4th - Major Lance, American singer (d. 1994)
Apr 5th - Lonnie White,
vocalist (Smokey Robinson & Miracles-Shop Around)
Apr 5th - Crispian St. Peters, British singer
Apr 15th - Marti Wilder,
father of rocker Kim Wilde
Apr 15th - Marty Wilde, British singer
Apr 16th - Dusty Springfield,
[Mary O'Brien], London, vocalist (Growing Pains)
Apr 16th - John DeLaFose, zydeco Musician
Apr 21st - Ernie Maresca,
singer/songwriter (Runaround Sue, Wanderer)
Apr 21st - John McCabe, composer
Apr 23rd - Ray Peterson,
Denton Tx, singer (Tell Laura I Love Her)
Apr 27th - Jerry Mercer,
Montreal Canada, rock drummer (April Wine)
Apr 30th - Ellen Taafe Zwilich,
Miami Florida, (1st woman composer Pulitzer 1982)
May 1st - Judy Collins,
Seattle Wash, singer (Send in the Clowns, Clouds)
May 3rd - Jonathan David Harvey,
English composer (Bhakti, Music of Stockhausen)
May 6th - Herbie Cox,
rocker (Cleftones)
May 7th - Jimmy Ruffin,
vocalist (What Becomes of Broken Hearted)
May 7th - Johnny Maestro, NY rock vocalist (Crests-16 Candles, Brooklyn Bridge)
May 11th - Carlos Lyra,
Brazilian musician
May 18th - Glen Hardin,
Texas, rocker (Crickets)
May 19th - Richard Lowe Teitelbaum,
composer
May 19th - Tomasz Sikorski, composer
May 23rd - Michel Colombier,
French composer and songwriter (d. 2004)
May 27th - Don Williams,
Floydada Texas, country singer (I Believe in You)
May 27th - Jerry Mercer, rock drummer (April Wine Montreal Montreal)
Jun 2nd - Charles Miller,
rock flutist/saxophonist (War)
Jun 3rd - David Frederick Stock,
composer
Jun 6th - Gary "US" Bonds,
[Anderson], Fla, singer/songwriter (New Orleans)
Jun 6th - Louis Andriessen, Dutch composer (Reconstruction)
Jun 9th - Ileana Cotrubaş,
Romanian soprano
Jun 11th - Wilma Burgess,
country-pop singer
Jun 11th - Bernard Purdie, American session drummer
Jun 13th - Don "Sugarcane" Harris,
rocker/actor (Soup for 1, Greeased Lightning)
Jun 17th - Dickey Do,
[Gerry Granahan], rocker (Dickey Doo & The Dont's)
Jun 19th - Al Wilson,
American singer (d. 2008)
Jun 27th - Rahul Dev Burman,
Indian composer and actor (d. 1994)
Jun 30th - Lindembergue Cardoso,
composer
Jul 1st - Delaney Bramlett,
Oklahoma, rocker (Shindogs, Delaney & Bonnie)
Jul 2nd - Paul Williams,
rocker (Temptations-My Girl)
Jul 6th - Jet Harris,
[Terence Harris], London, rock bassist (Drifters)
Jul 6th - Jet Harris, English bass guitarist
Jul 15th - William David Hellerman,
composer
Jul 16th - William Bell,
[Yarborough], US singer (Tryin' to Love Two)
Jul 17th - Spencer Davis,
Wales, vocalist (Spencer Davis Group-Gimme Some Lovin)
Jul 18th - Brian Auger,
London, fusion keyboardist (Befour, Genesis)
Jul 18th - Dion DiMucci, Bronx, rocker (Dion & Belmonts-Teenager in Love)
Jul 25th - Richard Akre Trythall,
composer
Jul 28th - Clem Cattini,
rock drummer (Tornados London)
Jul 31st - John R West,
rock guitarist (Gary Lewis & Playboys-This Diamond Ring)
Aug 2nd - Edward Pattern,
Atlanta Ga, singer (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
Aug 4th - Frankie Ford,
[Frank Guzzo], Gretna La, rock vocalist (Sea Cruise)
Aug 6th - William "Sonny" Sanders,
US singer (Rayber Voices)
Aug 8th - Philip E Baisley,
Augusta Va, singer (Statler Bros-Class of '57)
Aug 8th - William Alden Hibbard, composer
Aug 9th - Billy Henderson,
rocker (Spinners-That's What Girls Are Made For)
Aug 9th - Max Neuhaus, composer
Aug 15th - Herman van Keeken,
Dutch singer (Daddy don't run so fast)
Aug 17th - Luther Allison,
Mayflower Ark, rock guitarist (Bad News is Coming)
Aug 18th - Johnny Preston singer (Running Bear,
Cradle of Love)
Aug 19th - Ginger [Peter] Baker,
England, drummer (Cream-White Room)
Aug 21st - Harold W Reid,
Augusta County Va, singer (Statler Bros-Class of '57)
Aug 21st - James Burton, American guitarist
Aug 22nd - Fred Milano, Bronx NY, rocker (Dion & The Belmonts) [or 8/26/40]
Aug 28th - Edward Patten, US soul singer (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
Aug 31st - Jerry Allison,
Hillsboro Tx, rock drummer (Buddy Holly & Crickets)
Sep 1st - Katie Webster,
[Swamp-Boogie Queen]/US R&B pianist/singer
Sep 2nd - Robert Lee Dickey, US singer (I'm your puppet)
Sep 2nd - Sam Gooden, Chattanooga Tenn, rock vocalist (Impressions-Gypsy Woman)
Sep 5th - John Stewart,
San Diego Ca, rocker (Kingston Trio-Fire in the Wind)
Sep 6th - David Allan Coe,
country musician (Mysterious Rhinestone Cowboy)
Sep 7th - [Benjamin] Latimore,
US singer (Let's Straighten It Out)
Sep 8th - Guitar Shorty,
American musician
Sep 10th - Artie Tripp,
rocker (Mothers Of Invention)
Sep 11th - Lola Falana,
Camden NJ, singer (Liberation of LB Jones)
Sep 17th - Joseph Mosikili,
South African actor/singer
Sep 17th - Lamonte McLemore, St Louis Mo, rock vocalist (5th Dimension)
Sep 17th - Shelby Flint, American singer
Sep 23rd - Roy Buchanan,
Ozark Ark, rocker
Sep 23rd - Roy Buchanan, American guitarist (d. 1988)
Sep 25th - Joseph "Jesse" Russell,
US singer (Slip Sliding Away)
Sep 29th - Tommy Boyce,
songwriter (Boyce & Hart)
Oct 5th - Marie Laforêt,
French singer and actress
Oct 7th - Colin Cooper,
rocker (Climax Blues Band)
Oct 8th - Armando Gentilucci,
composer
Oct 11th - Woiciech Wiesidlowski Lowski,
dancer
Oct 20th - Jay Siegel,
Bkln, rock bassist (Tokens-Lion Sleeps Tonight)
Oct 20th - Raymond Jones, rocker
Oct 22nd - Ray Jones,
rock bassist (Billy J Kramer & The Dakotas)
Oct 23rd - Charlie Foxx,
US songwriter/soul singer (Mockingbird)
Oct 23rd - Ellie Greenwich, rocker
Oct 30th - Eddie Holland,
US singer/songwriter (Jamie, Leaving Here)
