Months in Year 1947: January February March April May June July August September October November December
Birthdays 1 - 150 of 270
Jan 1st - Gary "BB" Coleman,
blues vocal/guitarist/producer
Jan 1st - Paula Tsui, Hong Kong singer
Jan 4th - Chris Cutler,
English musician and composer (Henry Cow, Art Bears)
Jan 7th - David Porcelijn,
Dutch composer/conductor
Jan 8th - David Bowie,
[Jones], London, singer/actor (Major Tom, Ziggy Stardust)
Jan 8th - Terry Sylvester, rocker (Hollies-You are the Air that I Breathe)
Jan 13th - John Lees,
England, rock guitarist/vocalist (Medicine Man)
Jan 15th - Pete Waterman,
rocker (Stock Aitken & Waterman-Road Block)
Jan 17th - Ulysses Dove,
dancer/choreographer
Jan 20th - George Grantham,
rocker (Poco-Crazy Eyes)
Jan 20th - Ronald Townson, rock singer (5th Dimension-We Can Fly)
Jan 21st - Jimmy Ibbotson,
Penn, country singer (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
Jan 21st - Pye Hastings, English singer and musician (Caravan)
Jan 21st - Michel Jonasz, French singer and composer
Jan 24th - Warren Zevon,
Chicago, rocker (Excitable Boy)
Jan 27th - Nedra Telley,
NYC, vocalist (Ronettes-Be My Little Baby)
Jan 27th - Björn Afzelius, Swedish singer (d. 1999)
Jan 29th - David Byron,
vocalist (Uriah Heep)
Jan 29th - Marián Varga, Slovak musician
Jan 30th - Martin Christoph Redel,
composer
Jan 30th - Steve Marriott, rock guitarist/vocalist (Humble Pie-Eat It, Faces)
Feb 1st - Mike Brant,
Israeli pop singer (d. 1975)
Feb 1st - Normie Rowe, Australian singer
Feb 2nd - Peter Lucia, rock drummer (Tommy James & Shondells-Crystal Blue)
Feb 3rd - Chose Alberts,
[Krommenhoek], vocalist (Yet Many Years)
Feb 3rd - Dave Davies, London, rock vocalist/guitarist (Kinks-Lola)
Feb 3rd - Koos Alberts, [Krommenhoek], Dutch vocalist (Many More Years to Come)
Feb 3rd - Melanie, [Safka], Astoria, vocalist/songwriter (Candles in Rain)
Feb 9th - Joe Ely,
Amarillo Tx, country vocalist (Honky Tonk Masquerade)
Feb 9th - Major Harris, US R&B-singer (Love won't Let me wait)
Feb 10th - Butch Morris,
American jazz cornetist and composer
Feb 12th - Guus Willemse,
Dutch bassist/singer (Solution)
Feb 13th - Tony Butler,
rock bassist (Big Country-It's a Big Country, Wonderland)
Feb 15th - John Adams,
Worcester Mass, composer (Nixon in China)
Feb 17th - Ben Cramer,
Dutch vocalist (Clown)
Feb 18th - Dennis De Young,
Chicago Il, vocalist (Styx-Its Raining Again)
Feb 24th - Lonnie Turner,
bassist/vocalist (Steve Miller Band-Abracadabra)
Feb 24th - Rupert Holmes, English musician
Feb 26th - Sandie Shaw [Sandra Goodrich],
Dagenham, Essex, English rocker (Girl Don't Come)
Feb 27th - Gidon Kremer,
Riga Latvia, violinist (Tchaikovsky Prize 1970)
Mar 4th - Jan Garbarek,
Norwegian musician
Mar 5th - Eddie Hodges,
Miss, actor/singer (High Hopes, Adv of Huckleberry Finn)
Mar 5th - Clodagh Rodgers, Irish singer
Mar 6th - Kiki Dee,
Yorkshire England, singer (Don't Go Breaking My Heart)
Mar 7th - Donna Loren,
Boston Mass, singer/actress (Beach Blanket Bingo)
Mar 8th - Mike Allsup,
Modesto Ca, rock guitarist (Three Dog Night)
Mar 8th - Carole Bayer Sager, American composer
Mar 10th - Tom Scholz,
rock guitarist/keyboardist (Boston-More Than a Feeling)
Mar 11th - Mark Stein,
singer/organist/keyboardist (Vanilla Fudge)
Mar 13th - Lesley Collier,
British ballet dancer
Mar 13th - Beat Richner, Swiss physician and cellist
Mar 15th - Ry[land] Cooder,
LA, blues guitarist (Crossroads)
Mar 15th - Stomu Yamash'ta, composer
Mar 17th - Yury Chernavsky, Russian-born Composer and Producer
Mar 18th - Barry Wilson,
Engld, rock drummer (Procol Harum-Whiter Shade of Pale)
Mar 20th - Carl Palmer,
drummer (Asia-Heat of the Moment, Emerson Lake & Palmer)
Mar 22nd - Harry Vanda,
[Vandenberg], Hague Neth, rock guitarist (Easybeats)
Mar 24th - Mike Kellie,
rock drummer (Spooky Tooth-It's All About)
Mar 24th - Paul McCandless, rocker (Torches on the Lake)
Mar 24th - Meiko Kaji, Japanese singer and actress
Singer Elton John (Mar 25th)
Mar 25th - Elton John,
[Reginald Kenneth Dwight], England, singer (Rocketman)
Mar 26th - Carmen Krolis,
Suriname/Neth singer
Mar 29th - Bobby Kimball,
[Robert Toteaux], Vinton LA, rocker (Toto-Roseann)
Mar 31st - Al Goodman,
rock vocalist (Ray, Goodman, Brown)
Mar 31st - Jon-Jon Poulos, Chicago Ill, rocker (Buckinghams)
Apr 2nd - Emmylou Harris,
Birmingham Alabama, country singer (Together Again)
Apr 4th - Salvatore Sciarrino,
composer
Apr 6th - Tony Cooner,
Essex, drummer (Hot Chocolate-You Sexy Thing)
Apr 7th - Patricia Bennett,
US singer (He's So Fine)
Apr 7th - Florian Schneider, German musician (Kraftwerk)
Apr 7th - Charles 'skip' Pitts, Washington D.C., soul and blues guitarist (Shaft), (d. 2012)
Apr 8th - Steve Howe,
London, rock guitarist (Asia, Yes-Roundabout)
Apr 10th - Bunny Waller,
vocalist/percussionist (Bob Marley & Wailers)
Apr 10th - Karl Russell, rocker
Apr 10th - Bunny Wailer, Jamaican musician
Apr 13th - Thanos Mikroutsikos,
Greek composer & former minister
Apr 15th - Bojoura,
[Raina GB van Melzen], Dutch singer/wife of Hans Cleuver
Apr 15th - Michael DeBello, singer (Maniac)
Apr 15th - Mike Chapman, Australian songwriter/producer (Chinn & Chapman)
Apr 15th - Wooly Wolstenholme, keyboardist/vocalist (Barclay James Harvest)
Apr 16th - Gerry Rafferty,
Paisley Scotland, guitarist/vocalist (Baker Street)
Apr 19th - Murray Perahia,
NYC, pianist (Avery Fischer Prize-1975, Grammy 1988)
Apr 20th - Björn Skifs,
Swedish singer (Blue Swede)
Apr 21st - Alan Warner,
rocker (Foundations)
Rocker Iggy Pop (Apr 21st)
Apr 21st - Iggy Pop, [James Osterberg], Mich, rocker (Zombie Birdhouse)
Apr 21st - John Weider, bassist (Family-Family Entertainment)
Apr 23rd - Saskia,
[Trudy van den Berg], singer (S & Serge, Spinning Wheel)
Apr 23rd - Glenn Cornick, rock bassist (Jethro Tull-Thick as a Brick)
Apr 24th - Hubert Ann Kelly,
US singer (Hues Corporation/Rock the boat)
Apr 27th - Ann Peebles,
Missouri, singer (I Can't Stand the Rain)
Apr 27th - Herbie Murrell, US singer (Stylistics-You are My Everything)
Apr 27th - Pete Ham, Swansea Wales, rock vocalist (Badfinger-Come & Get It)
Apr 27th - Peter Gena, composer
Apr 28th - Steve Khan,
jazz musician (Christmas Waltz)
Apr 29th - Tommy James,
singer (cri-im-son & clo-o-ver o-o-ver & o-o-ver)
May 1st - Carlos Ward,
rocker (B T Express)
May 6th - Dennis Cowan,
London, rocker (Bonzo Dog Band)
May 8th - Felicity Lott,
English soprano (We come to the river)
May 8th - Phil Sawyer, rocker (Spencer Davis Group)
May 8th - Rick Zehringer, Ohio, rocker (McCoys)
May 10th - Jay Ferguson,
Burbank California, rocker (Spirit-I Got A Line on You)
May 11th - Claude "Butch" Hudson Trucks,
drummer (Allman Brothers)
May 13th - Pete "Overend" Watts,
rock bassist (Mott The Hoople-All Young Dudes)
May 14th - Al Ciner,
Chicago Ill, rock guitarist (American Breed)
May 15th - Graham Goble,
Adelaide,Australia, rock guitarist (Little River Band)
May 16th - Barbara Lee,
US singer (Chiffons, He's So Fine)
May 19th - Jerry Hyman,
Bkln, rock singer/trombonist (Blood Sweat & Tears)
May 21st - Bill Champlin,
Oakland Ca, rocker
May 24th - Mike Reid,
Altoona Penn, country singer (Walk on Faith)
May 25th - Jessi Colter,
[Miriam Johnson], Phoenix, country singer (I'm Not Lisa)
May 25th - Mitch Margo, Bkln, rocker (Tokens-Lion Sleeps Tonight)
May 31st - William H Campbell Jr,
rocker
Jun 1st - Ron Wood,
rock guitarist (Faces, Jeff Beck Group, Rolling Stones)
Jun 2nd - Mark Elder,
British opera and symphony conductor
Jun 3rd - Mickey Finn,
British guitarist and percussionist (T. Rex) (d. 2003)
Jun 5th - Tom Evans,
Liverpool, rock bassist/vocalist (Badfinger)
Jun 6th - Terry Williams,
rocker (First Edition)
Jun 8th - Joan La Barbara,
composer
Jun 8th - Julie Driscoll, rocker/actress (33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee)
Jun 8th - Mick Box, rock guitarist (Uriah Heep)
Jun 11th - Glenn Leonard,
R&B singer (Temptations)
Jun 14th - Barry Melton,
American guitarist (Country Joe and the Fish)
Jun 17th - George S. Clinton,
American composer and musician
Jun 17th - Paul Young, English singer and percussionist (d. 2000)
Jun 19th - Paula Koivuniemi,
Finnish singer
Jun 20th - Dolores Brooks,
American singer (the Crystals)
Jun 22nd - Don Henley,
drummer/singer (Eagles, Boys of Summer)
Rocker Mick Fleetwood (Jun 24th)
Jun 24th - Mick Fleetwood,
London, rock drummer (Fleetwood Mac-Go Your Own Way)
Jun 24th - Marianne Delgorge, singer/actress (Ice Cream Soda)
Jun 30th - Jasper van 't Hof,
Dutch jazz pianist (Live in Montreux)
Jul 7th - Rob Townsend,
rock drummer (Family Leicester)
Jul 9th - Mitch Mitchell,
drummer (Jimi Hendrix Experience)
Jul 9th - Jerney Kaagman, Dutch singer (Earth & Fire)
Jul 9th - Haruomi Hosono, Japanese musician
