•
January 25 –
William Strickland, American conductor and organist (d. 1991) •
February 10 –
Larry Adler, harmonica virtuoso (d.
2001) •
February 12 –
Tex Beneke, American bandleader (d.
2000) •
February 18 –
Pee Wee King, country musician (d. 2000) •
March 5 –
Philip Farkas, horn player (d. 1992) •
March 6 –
Kirill Kondrashin, conductor (d.
1981) •
March 10 –
Pilar Manalo Danao, Filipino songwriter (d.
1987) •
March 21 –
Paul Tortelier, cellist and composer (d.
1990) •
March 28 –
Clara Petrella, Italian operatic soprano (d. 1987) •
March 30 –
Sonny Boy Williamson, blues musician (d.
1948) •
April 4 –
Frances Langford, American singer and actress (d. 2005) •
April 25 –
John Sebastian, harmonica virtuoso (d. 1980) •
April 26 –
Wilfrid Mellers, musicologist and composer (d. 2008) •
May 9 •
Carlo Maria Giulini, conductor (d.
2005) •
Hank Snow, country singer (d.
1999) •
May 13 –
Johnnie Wright, American country music singer-songwriter (d.
2011) •
May 18 •
Cacilda Borges Barbosa, Brazilian pianist, conductor and composer (d.
2010) •
Alla Bayanova, Russian singer (d.
2011) •
Boris Christoff, operatic bass (d.
1993) •
May 22 –
Sun Ra, American musician (d.
1993) •
May 26 –
Ziggy Elman, American trumpet player (d. 1968) •
May 31 –
Akira Ifukube, composer (d. 2006) •
June 6 –
Iris du Pré, pianist, mother of
Jacqueline du Pré and
Hilary du Pré (d. 1985) •
June 16 •
Colette Maze, French pianist (d.
2023) •
Eleanor Sokoloff, American pianist and teacher (d. 2020) •
June 28 –
Lester Flatt, bluegrass musician (d. 1979) •
June 29 –
Rafael Kubelík, Czech-born conductor (d.
1996) •
July 2 –
Frederick Fennell, conductor (d. 2004) •
July 5 –
Gerda Gilboe, Danish actress and singer (d.
2009) •
July 7 –
Serafim Tulikov, Russian and Soviet composer (d.
2004) •
July 8 –
Billy Eckstine, jazz musician and singer (d.
1993) •
July 14 –
Fred Fox, American French horn player and brass instrument teacher (d. 1949) •
July 24 –
Riccardo Malipiero, Italian composer, pianist and music educator (d. 2003) •
July 26 •
Ralph Blane, American composer and singer (d. 1995) •
Erskine Hawkins, American jazz trumpeter and bandleader (d. 1993) •
August 5 –
Stjepan Šulek, Croatian composer (d. 1986) •
August 10 –
Witold Małcużyński, Polish pianist (d. 1977) •
August 11 –
Hugh Martin, American composer (d.
2011) •
August 12 –
Ruth Lowe, Canadian pianist and songwriter (d. 1981) •
August 18 –
Irmgard Österwall, Swedish jazz singer (d. 1980) •
August 28 –
Glenn Osser, American conductor and arranger (d. 2014) •
September 5 –
Minuetta Kessler, née Shumiatcher, concert pianist, classical composer and music educator (d. 2002) •
September 12 –
Eddy Howard, singer (d. 1963) •
September 24 –
Andrzej Panufnik, composer (d.
1991) •
September 25 –
Robert Wright, American composer (d. 2005) •
October 7 –
Alfred Drake, American singer and actor (d. 1992) •
October 10 –
Ivory Joe Hunter, R&B singer, songwriter and pianist (d. 1974) •
November 15 –
Jorge Bolet, pianist and conductor (d. 1990) •
December 3 –
Irving Fine, composer (d. 1962) •
December 7 –
Alberto Castillo, Argentine tango singer and actor (d.
2002) •
December 14 –
Rosalyn Tureck, pianist (d.
2003) •
December 23 –
Dezider Kardoš, composer (d. 1991) •
December 29 –
Billy Tipton, jazz musician (d. 1989) •
December 30 •
Bert Parks, American singer and actor (
Miss America Pageant) (d.
1992) •
Nicolai Shutorev, American singer (d.
1948) •
date unknown –
Rita Abatzi, rebetiko singer (d. 1969) ==Deaths==