•
January 10 –
Ray Bolger, singer and dancer (d. 1987) •
January 13 –
Richard Addinsell, composer (d. 1977) •
January 15 •
Eddie DeLange, bandleader and lyricist (d. 1949) •
Leonid Jacobson, Russian dancer, choreographer and ballet master (d. 1975) •
January 18 –
Anthony Galla-Rini, accordionist, composer and conductor (d. 2006) •
January 22 –
George Balanchine, Russian choreographer (d. 1983) •
February 3 –
Luigi Dallapiccola, composer (d. 1975) •
February 23 –
Allan Gray, film composer (d. 1973) •
February 29 –
Jimmy Dorsey, bandleader (d. 1957) •
March 1 –
Glenn Miller, trombonist and bandleader (m. 1944) •
March 4 –
Joseph Schmidt, Austrian-Hungarian tenor and actor (d. 1942) •
March 8 –
Nikos Skalkottas Greek composer (d.1949) •
April 9 –
Sharkey Bonano, jazz musician (d. 1972) •
April 16 –
Fifi D'Orsay, actress and singer (d. 1983) •
April 18 –
Pigmeat Markham, all-round entertainer (d. 1981) •
April 29 •
Russ Morgan, orchestra leader (d. 1969) •
Pedro Vargas, Mexican singer and actor (d. 1989) •
May 21 –
Fats Waller, American pianist and comedian (d. 1943) •
May 23 –
Libby Holman, US singer and actress (d. 1971) •
May 25 –
Kurt Thomas, German choral conductor (d.1973) •
May 26 •
George Formby, English
music hall performer, singer, actor and songwriter (d. 1961) •
Vlado Perlemuter, Lithuanian-born French pianist (d. 2002) •
May 28 –
Margaret Harris, opera costume and set designer (d. 2000) •
May 29 –
León Zuckert, conductor, composer and arranger (d. 1992) •
June 3 –
Jan Peerce, American tenor (d. 1984) •
June 6 –
Raymond Burke, clarinettist (d. 1986) •
June 7 –
Don Murray, clarinettist (d. 1929) •
June 11 –
Pinetop Smith, jazz pianist (d. 1929) •
June 15 –
Anna Mahler, musician and sculptor (d. 1988) •
June 21 –
Mack Gordon, Polish-born US lyricist (d. 1959) •
June 24 •
Phil Harris, jazz musician (d. 1995) •
Olga Olgina, Polish opera singer and teacher (d. 1979) •
July 9 –
Robert Whitney, British conductor (d. 1986) •
July 14 –
Nadia Reisenberg, Litvian pianist (d. 1983) •
July 15 •
Dorothy Fields, librettist and lyricist (d. 1974) •
Vladimir Bourmeister, Russian dancer and choreographer (d.1971) •
July 16 •
Goffredo Petrassi, composer (d. 2003) •
Mabel Wayne – US composer (d. 1978) •
July 18 –
Harold Spivacke, music librarian and administrator (d. 1977) •
July 24 •
Leo Arnaud – film composer (d. 1991) •
Anton Dolin – English dancer and choreographer (d.1983) •
July 26 –
Jack Westrup, musicologist (d. 1975) •
August 13 –
Charles "Buddy" Rogers, actor and singer (d. 1989) •
August 17 –
Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist (d. 1991) •
August 21 –
Count Basie, pianist and bandleader (d. 1984) •
September 2 –
Set Svanholm, Swedish operatic tenor (d.1964) •
September 7 –
Ernst Glaser, Norwegian violinist, orchestra conductor, and music teacher (died
1979). •
September 17 – Sir
Frederick Ashton, dancer and choreographer (d. 1988) •
October 11 –
Tita Merello, tango singer, dancer and actress (d. 2002) •
October 20 –
Anna Neagle, actress and singer (d. 1986) •
October 24 –
Moss Hart, musical theatre director (d. 1961) •
October 26 •
Boris Khaykin, Russian conductor (died
1978) •
Torbjørn Knutsen, Norwegian composer and violinist (died
1987) •
October 29 –
Vivian Ellis, English composer (d. 1996) •
November 1 or
November 14 –
Aleksey Zhivotov, composer (d. 1964) •
November 11 –
Joseph Lockwood, record company executive (d. 1991) •
November 14 –
Dick Powell, actor and singer (d. 1963) •
November 18 –
Masao Koga, Japanese composer (d. 1978) •
November 20 –
Alexandra Danilova, Russian dancer and teacher (d.1997) •
November 21 –
Coleman Hawkins, saxophonist (d. 1969) •
November 25 –
Toni Ortelli, Italian composer and alpinist (d. 2000) •
December 9 –
Elsie Randolph, English actress, dancer and singer (d. 1982) •
December 18 –
Wilf Carter, country singer (d. 1966) •
December 26 –
Alejo Carpentier, musicologist (d. 1980) •
December 30 –
Dmitry Kabalevsky, Soviet pianist and composer (d.1987) •
December 31 •
Umm Kulthum, Egyptian singer and actress (d. 1975) •
Nathan Milstein, Russian violinist (d.1992) ==Deaths==