Musicians and Composers Birthdays
August 4 Louis Armstrong, 1901 8 Cecile Chaminade, 1857 12 Giovannie Gabrieli, 1612 13 Kathleen Battle, 1948 22 Claude Debussy, 1862 25 Leonard Bernstein, 1918 26 Branford Marsalis, 1960 31 Itzhak Perlman, 1945 September 1 Johann Pachelbel, 1653 Seiji Ozawa, 1935 Leonard Slatkin, 1944 4 Anton Bruckner, 1824 Darius Milhaud, 1892 5 John Cage, 1912 8 Anton Dvorak, 1841 Patsy Cline, 1932 10 Jose Feliciano, 1945 13 Clara Wieck Schumann, 1819 Arnold Schoenberg, 1874 15 Jessye Norman, 1945 16 Nadia Boulanger, 1887 21 Gustav Holst, 1874 23 John Coltrane, 1926 Ray Charles, 1930 25 Dimitri Shostakovich, 1906 Glenn Gould, 1932 26 George Gershwin, 1898 October 1 Vladimir Horowitz, 1904 7 William Billings, 1746 Yo Yo Ma, 1955 9 Camille Saint-Saens, 1835 10 Giuseppe Verdi, 1813 12 Ralph Vaughn Williams, 1872 Luciano Pavarotti, 1935 18 Wynton Marsalis, 1961 20 Charles Ives, 1874 21 J. B. “Dizzy” Gillespie, 1917 22 Franz Liszt, 1811 25 Johann Strauss, Jr., 1825 Georges Bizet, 1838 26 Domenico Scarlatti, 1685 27 Niccolo Paganini, 1782 November 5 Art Garfunkle, 1941
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6 John Philip Sousa, 1854 7 Joni Mitchell, 1943 10 Francois Couperin, 1668 13 Edward Hammond Boatner, 1898 14 Leopold Mozart, 1719 Aaron Copland, 1900 16 Paul Hindemith, 1895 18 Carl Maria von Weber, 1786 Ignace Jan Paderewski, 1860 Eugene Ormandy, 1899 Johnny Mercer, 1909 22 Benjamin Britten, 1913 23 Manuel de Falla, 1876 24 Scott Joplin, 1868 28 Jean-Baptiste Lully, 1632 December 2 H. T. Burleigh, 1866 4 Maria Callas, 1923 8 Jean Sibelius, 1865 James Galway, 1939 10 Cesar Franck, 1822 Morton Gould, 1913 11 Hector Berlioz, 1803 12 Frank Sinatra, 1915 14 Frances Ridley, Havergal, 1836 16 Ludwig van Beethoven, 1770 Zoltan Kodaly, 1882 18 Antonio Stradivari, 1644 Charles Wesley, 1707 Edward MacDowell, 1860 22 Giacomo Puccini, 1858 30 Dmitri Kabalevsky, 1904 31 John Denver, 1943 January 3 Victor Borge, 1909 7 Francis Poulenc, 1899 Jean-Pierre Rampal, 1922 8 Lowell Mason, 1792 Elvis Presley, 1935 9 Joan Baez, 1941 17 Eartha Kitt, 1927 19 Dolly Parton, 1946 21 Placido Domingo, 1941 23 Muzio Clementi, 1752 27 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 Jerome Kern, 1885 31 Franz Schubert, 1797 February 3 Felix Mendelssohn, 1809 7 Garth Brooks, 1962
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8 John Williams, 1932 10 Leontyne Price, 1927 15 Michael Praetorius, 1571 20 Carl Czerny, 1791 23 George Frideric Handel, 1685 27 Enrico Caruso, 1873 Marian Anderson, 1902 29 Rioacchino Rossini, 1792 Jimmy Dorsey, 1904 March 1 Frederic Chopin, 1810 Glenn Miller, 1904 2 Bedrich Smetana, 1824 4 Antonio Vivaldi, 1678 5 Heitor Villa-Lobos, 1887 6 Kiri Te Kanawa, 1944 7 Maurice Ravel, 1875 8 C.P.E. Bach, 1714 9 Samuel Barber, 1910 11 Bobby McFerrin, 1950 14 Georg Philipp Telemann, 1681 Johann Strauss, Sr., 1804 Annie Smith, 1828 17 Nat “King” Cole, 1917 18 Franklin Edson Beldon, 1858 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, 1844 21 Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 Modest Mussorgsky, 1839 22 Andrew Lloyd Webber, 1948 24 Fanny Crosby, 1820 25 Arturo Toscanini, 1867 Bela Bartok, 1881 26 Pierre Boulez, 1925 27 Ferde Grofe, 1892 31 Franz Joseph Haydn, 1732 April 1 Sergei Rachmaninoff, 1873 5 Herbert von Karajan, 1908 7 Billie Holiday, 1915 15 Bessie Smith, 1894 16 Henry Mancini, 1924 22 Sir Yehudi Manuhin, 1916 23 Sergei Prokofiev, 1891 24 Barbra Streisand, 1942 25 Ella Fitzgerald, 1917 29 Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington, 1899 30 Willie Nelson, 1933 Robert Shaw, 1916
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May 1 Kate Smith, 1909 2 Alessandro Scarlatti, 1660 Bing Crosby, 1903 3 Pete Seeger, 1919 7 Johannes Brahms, 1833 Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, 1833 8 Louis Gottschalk, 1829 11 Irving Berlin, 1888 12 Gabriel Faure, 1845 13 Sir Arthur Sullivan, 1842 17 Erik Satie, 1866 22 Richard Wagner, 1813 24 Bob Dylan, 1941 25 Beverly Sills, 1929 30 Benny Goodman, 1909 31 Peter Yarrow, 1938 June 2 Edward Elgar, 1857 6 Aram Khatchaturian, 1903 8 Robert Schumann, 1810 9 Cole Porter, 1891 10 Frederick Lowe, 1901 Judy Garland, 1922 11 Antonio Vivaldi, 1669 Richard Strauss, 1864 15 Edvard Grief, 1843 17 Igor Stravinsky, 1882 18 Paul McCartney, 1942 20 Jacques Offenbach, 1819 28 Richard Rodgers, 1902 29 Leroy Anderson, 1908 30 Lena Horne, 1917 July 1 Thomas A. Dorsey, 1899 2 Christoph W. von Gluck, 1714 Frederick Fennell, 1914 3 Ruth Crawford Seeger, 1901 4 Wayne H. Hooper, 1920 Stephen Collins Foster, 1826 7 Gustav Mahler, 1860 9 Ottorino Respighi, 1879 10 Carl Orff, 1895 13 Woody Guthrie, 1912 17 Isaac Watts, 1674 21 Isaac Stern, 1920 24 John Newton, 1725 28 James Edson White, 1849
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