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January 1 –
Fulgencio Aquino, Venezuelan harpist and composer (d. 1994) •
January 6 –
Bob Copper, English folk singer (d. 2004) •
January 25 –
Ewan MacColl, English folk singer and songwriter (d.
1989) •
January 27 –
Jack Brymer, English clarinettist (d. 2003) •
January 29 –
John Serry, Sr., US concert accordionist, composer & arranger (d. 2003) •
January 30 –
Dorothy Dell, actress and singer (d. 1934) •
January 31 –
Alan Lomax, US folklorist and musicologist (d. 2002) •
February 4 –
Ray Evans, US songwriter (d. 2007) •
February 18 –
Marcel Landowski, French composer, biographer and arts administrator (d. 1999) •
March 4 –
Carlos Surinach, Spanish composer (d. 1997) •
March 10 –
Charles Groves, English conductor (d. 1992) •
March 14 –
Alexander Brott, Canadian conductor and composer (d.
2005) •
March 20 •
Sviatoslav Richter, pianist (d. 1997) •
Sister Rosetta Tharpe, gospel singer (d. 1973) •
March 25 –
Dorothy Squires, Welsh singer (d. 1998) •
March 27 –
Robert Lockwood, Jr., US
Delta blues guitarist (d. 2006) •
March 28 –
Jay Livingston, songwriter (d. 2001) •
March 29 –
George Chisholm, Scottish-born jazz trombonist and comedian (d. 1997) •
April 4 –
Muddy Waters (born McKinley Morganfield), African American blues musician (d. 1983) •
April 7 –
Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan), African American blues singer (d. 1959) •
April 12 –
Hound Dog Taylor, African American blues guitarist (d. 1975) •
April 29 –
Donald Mills, US singer of the
Mills Brothers (d. 1999) •
May 5 –
Alice Faye, US actress and singer (d. 1998) •
May 8 –
Nan Wynn, US singer (d. 1971) •
May 25 –
Ginny Simms, US singer (d. 1994) •
May 27 •
Esther Soré, Chilean musician (d. 1996) •
Midge Williams, African American jazz singer (d. 1952) •
June 1 –
Bart Howard, composer and pianist (d. 2004) •
June 9 –
Les Paul, US musician, inventor of the solid body
electric guitar (d. 2009) •
June 12 –
Priscilla Lane, US singer and actress (d. 1995) •
June 17 –
David "Stringbean" Akeman, US country musician (d. 1973) •
June 18 –
Vic Legley, Dutch composer (d. 1994) •
June 22 –
Randolph Henning Hokanson, pianist (died 2018) •
June 28 –
David Honeyboy Edwards, US blues musician (d. 2011) •
July 1 –
Willie Dixon, US blues musician (d. 1992) •
July 9 –
David Diamond, classical composer (d. 2005) •
July 15 –
Frankie Yankovic, polka musician (d. 1998) •
July 22 –
Armando Renzi (it), composer (died 1985) •
July 23 –
Emmett Berry, jazz trumpeter (d. 1993) •
July 28 –
Frankie Yankovic, accordionist and polka musician (d. 1998) •
July 31 –
George Forrest, musical theatre writer (d. 1999) •
August 6 –
Jacques Abram, pianist (d. 1998) •
August 9 –
Haim Alexander, Israeli composer (d. 2012) •
August 24 –
Wynonie Harris, US singer (d. 1969) •
August 26 –
Humphrey Searle, English composer (d. 1982) •
August 30 –
Robert Strassburg, US classical composer (d. 2003) •
September 3 •
Knut Nystedt, Norwegian classical composer (d. 2014) •
Memphis Slim (born John Chatman), African American blues musician (d. 1988) •
September 5 –
Florencio Morales Ramos, singer, trovador and composer (d. 1989) •
September 12 –
Billy Daniels, US singer (d. 1988) •
September 23 –
Julius Baker, flautist (d. 2003) •
September 24 –
Ettore Gracis, conductor (d. 1992) •
October 10 –
Sweets Edison, jazz trumpeter (d. 1999) •
October 31 –
Jane Jarvis, jazz pianist and composer (d. 2010) •
November 5 –
Myron Floren, accordionist (d. 2005) •
November 9 –
Hanka Bielicka, Polish singer and actress (d. 2006) •
November 14 –
Billy Bauer, cool jazz guitarist (d. 2005) •
November 26 –
Earl Wild, pianist (d. 2010) •
November 29 –
Billy Strayhorn, jazz composer, pianist, arranger, lyricist and collaborator with Duke Ellington (d. 1967) •
November 30 –
Brownie McGhee, US
Piedmont blues musician (d. 1996) •
December 12 –
Frank Sinatra, US singer and actor (d. 1998) •
December 14 –
Dan Dailey, US singer and actor (d. 1978) •
December 16 –
Georgy Sviridov, Russian/Soviet composer (d. 1998) •
December 17 –
André Claveau, singer (d. 2003) •
December 19 –
Édith Piaf, French singer (d. 1963) •
December 25 –
Pete Rugolo, Italian-born US pianist and bandleader (d 2011) ==Deaths==