1. mart

1607 - Giovanni Francesco Milanta, composer
1690 - Conrad Johann Conrad Beissel, composer
1703 - Dieudonne Raick, composer
1709 - Josef Antonin Gurecky, composer
1711 - Peregrinus Pogl, composer
1771 - Armand-Emmanuel Trial, composer
1779 - Jacob Gottfried Weber, composer
1799 - Alexey Nikolayevich Verstovsky, composer
1810 - Frederic Chopin, Zelazowa Wola, (baptismal records 22nd Feb) Polish/French pianist/composer (Concert in F Minor)
1820 - Richard Redhead, composer
1826 - John Thomas, composer
1832 - Friedrich Grutzmacher, composer
1841 - Romualdo Marenco, composer
1871 - Ben Harney, American composer and ragtime pianist (d. 1938)
1878 - Gabriel Edouard Xavier Dupont, composer
1882 - Ida Moore, Altoona Ks, actress (Mr Music, Ma & Pa Kettle at Waikiki)
1896 - Dimitri Mitropoulos, Athens Greece, conductor/composer
1900 - Donald Keith Falkner, singer
1904 - Glenn Miller, bandleader (Glenn Miller Orchestra-In the Mood)
1909 - Richard de Guide, composer
1917 - Dinah Shore, Winchester Tenn, singer (See the USA in a Chevrolet)
1920 - Alfred Grant Goodman, composer
1927 - Harry Belafonte, Harlem calypso singer (Buck & the Preacher), born in NYC, New York
1927 - Lusine Amara, opera/concert singer
1929 - Sonny James, singer (Young Love, Running Bear)
1930 - Pierre Max Dubois, composer
1932 - Jacques Leduc, composer
1933 - Istvan Lang, composer
1934 - Jim "Ed" Brown, Sparkman Ark, country singer (Nashville on the Road)
1939 - Leo Brouwer, composer
1939 - Warren Davis, rocker (Monotones)
1940 - Ralph Towner, rocker (Oregon)
1942 - Jerry Fischer, rocker (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
1942 - Peter Guber, producer (Flashdance)
1943 - Piet Veerman, Dutch rock vocalist/guitarist (Cats-Sailin’ Home)
1944 - Mike D’Abo, rock vocalist (Manfred Mann-Mighty Quinn)
1944 - Roger Daltrey, English rocker/actor/producer (The Who-Tommy)
1946 - Tony Ashton, Blackburn England, rocker (Ashton, Gardner & Dyke)
1946 - Gerry Boulet, French-Canadian singer (d. 1990)
1948 - Burning Spear, [Winston Rodney], Jamaican reggae singer
1948 - Norman Connors, singer (You Are My Starship)
1949 - Sido Martens, Dutch guitarist/singer/mandolin player (Fungus)
1954 - Janis Gill, Torrance Cal, singer (Sweethearts of Rodeo-Midnight Girl)
1955 - Jimmy Fortune, Newport News Va, singer (Statler Bros-Class of ’57)
1957 - Jon Carroll, Wash DC, vocalist (Starland Vocal Band-Afternoon Delight)
1958 - Nik Kershaw, singer/songwriter (Wouldn’t it be Good)
1958 - Chosei Komatsu, Japanese conductor
1961 - Davis Daniel, Arlington Heights Ill, country singer
1962 - Bill Leen, rocker (Gin Blossoms)
1963 - Robert James Affuso, Newburgh NY, rock drummer (Skid Row-Psycho Love)
1963 - Thomas Anders, German singer (Modern Talking)
1963 - Dan Michaels, American musician and record producer
1964 - Jennifer McCarters, Sevierville Tn, singer (McCarters-The Gift)
1964 - Clinton Gregory, Martinsville, Virginia, American country and bluegrass singer-songwriter (Play, Ruby, Play)
1969 - Dafydd Ieuan, Welsh drummer (Super Furry Animals)
1983 - Elan Sara DeFan, Mexican singer-songwriter
1987 - Sammie Bush, Boyton Beach Florida, American R&B singer ("I Like It")
1989 - Sonya Kitchell, American singer
1994 - Justin Bieber, London Ontario, Canadian pop singer (Baby, One Time)

2. mart

1555 - Ludovico Spontoni, composer
1755 - Antoine-Frederic Gresnick, composer
1759 - Johann Christian Friedrich Haeffner, composer
1813 - George Alexander Macfarren, composer
1815 - Antonio Buzzolla, composer
1824 - Bedrich Friedrich Smetana, Bohemian composer (Bartered Bride, Moldau)
1838 - David Duffle Wood, composer
1884 - Leon Jongen, composer
1893 - Maxime Dumoulin, composer
1894 - Renaat Veremans, Flemish composer/conductor
1900 - Kurt J Weill, Dessau Germany, composer/Brecht collaborator (Mahogany)
1905 - Marc Blitzstein, Phila Pa, composer (Cradle Will Rock)
1909 - Hanoch Jacoby, composer
1913 - Celedonio Romero, Spanish guitarist (d. 1996)
1916 - Bernard George Stevens, composer
1917 - John Gardner, composer
1919 - Tamara Toumanova, dancer
1920 - Enrique Franco, composer
1921 - Robert Wilfred Levick Simpson, composer
1922 - Eric Feldbush, composer
1922 - Mario Zafred, composer
1927 - Siegfried Kohler, composer
1927 - Witold Szalonec, composer
1934 - Bernard Rands, Sheffield England, composer (Wildtrack)
1939 - Gerard van Tongeren, Dutch singer (Buffoons)
1940 - Tony Croatto, Italian-born composer (d. 2005)
1942 - Lou Reed, New York City, American rock vocalist and guitarist (Velvet Underground), (d. 2013)
1942 - Luc Plamondon, French Canadian lyricist
1943 - Tony Meehan [Daniel Meehan], English rocker (Drifters, Vipers), born in London, England
1943 - Stephen Dickman, composer
1944 - Leif Segerstam, composer
1948 - Larry Carlton, rock composer (Against All Odds, Who’s the Boss)
1948 - Rory Gallagher, Donegal, Irish rock guitarist and songwriter (See Here)
1949 - Alain Chamfort, French singer
1950 - Karen Carpenter, New Haven Ct, vocalist/drummer (We Only Just Begun)
1953 - William Simmons, sax/keyboardist (Midnight Star-No Parking)
1955 - Dale Bozzio, vocalist (Missing Persons-Destination Unknown), born in Boston, Massachusetts
1955 - Jay Osmond, Ogden Utah, singer (Osmond Brothers, Donnie & Marie)
1956 - John Cowsill, Newport RI, rock drummer (Cowsills-We Can Fly)
1956 - Mark Evans, Australian rock bassist (AC/DC), born in Melbourne, Victoria
1959 - Andrew Farriss, Australia, rock keyboardist (Inxs-Kiss the Dirt)
1959 - Larry Stewart, Paducah KY, country singer (Restless Heart-Wheels)
1961 - Simone Young, Australian conductor
1962 - Jon Bon Jovi, Sayreville NJ, rocker (Bon Jovi-Give Love a Bad Name)
1966 - Stevie Rachelle, rock vocalist (Tuff-What Comes Around Goes Around)
1977 - Chris Martin, English musician (Coldplay)
1985 - Luke Pritchard, British singer (The Kooks)
1988 - Keith Jack, British singer and actor

3. mart

1705 - Michael Schevenstuhl, composer
1814 - Charles Kensington Salaman, composer
1857 - Alfred Bruneau, composer
1865 - Alexander Gustav Adolfovich Winkler, composer
1867 - Gustav Strube, composer
1869 - Henry J Wood, English conductor (Gentle Art of Singing, Proms)
1886 - James Friskin, composer
1886 - Reginald Owen Morris, composer
1889 - Fritz Behrend, composer
1891 - Federico Moreno Torroba, composer
1892 - Rui Coelho, composer
1895 - Alexander Nicolaas Voormolen, Dutch composer (d. 1980)
1897 - Jose Moreno Gans, composer
1908 - Riccardo Nielsen, composer
1911 - Francesco Siciliani, opera composer
1913 - Margaret AR Bonds, US pianist/composer/arranger
1918 - Frank Wigglesworth, composer
1922 - Kazimierz Serocki, composer
1923 - Doc Watson, American bluegrass musician, (d. 2012)
1925 - Enzo Stuarti, Italy, singer (Yesterday)
1926 - Lys Assia, Swiss singer
1928 - Dave Dudley, singer (Six Days on the Road)
1929 - Nicos Mamangakis, composer
1933 - Marco Antonio Munoz, Mexico, spanish singer (Murmullos)
1938 - Douglas Leedy, composer
1938 - Willie Chambers, guitarist/vocalist (Chambers Brothers)
1942 - Mike Pender, vocalist/guitarist (Searchers-Needles & Pins), born in Liverpool, England
1944 - Janice Garfat, rocker (Dr Hook)
1947 - Dave Mount, rocker
1950 - Ed Marinaro, actor (Hill Street Blues)
1950 - Re Styles, rock vocalist (Tubes)
1951 - Lindsay Cooper, English musician and composer (Henry Cow, News from Babel)
1952 - Robyn Hitchcock, rocker (Moss Elixir)
1953 - Dave Amato, rocker (REO Speedwagon-Can’t Fight this Feeling)
1954 - Chris Hughes, English record producer and rock drummer (Adam & The Ants), born in London, England
1964 - Duncan Phillips, Australian drummer (Newsboys)
1966 - Tone-Loc, [Anthony Terrell Smith], rocker (Let’s Do It), born in Los Angeles, California
1966 - Timo Tolkki, Finnish musician (Stratovarius)
1973 - Matthew Marsden, English actor and singer
1975 - Albert Fields, Gary Indiana, rocker (Party-Rodeo, That’s Why)
1977 - Ronan Keating, Bayside Irish singer (Boyzone), born in Dublin, Ireland
1978 - Douglas Osmond, Provo Utah, vocalist (Osmond Boys)
1978 - Seomoon Tak, Korean singer
1981 - Kim Yoo-Jin (Eugene), South Korean singer and actress
1981 - Sung Yu Ri, South Korean singer and actress
1986 - Stacie Orrico, American singer

4. mart

1492 - Francesco de Layolle, composer
1678 - Antonio Vivaldi, Venice, Baroque violin virtuoso/composer (4 Seasons)
1742 - Johann Heinrich Egli, composer
1745 - Charles Dibdin, English composer (d. 1814)
1754 - Dieudonne-Pascal Pieltain, composer
1757 - Ignaz Malzat, composer
1765 - Charles Dibdin, England, composer/author (Sea Songs)/actor (baptized)
1773 - Pierre-Louis Hus-Desforges, composer
1819 - Charles Oberthur, composer
1834 - Peter Nicolai von Wilm, composer
1838 - Paul Lacome, composer
1877 - Alexander Fyodorovich Gedike, composer
1878 - Egbert Van Alstyne, American songwriter and pianist (d. 1951)
1886 - Paul Bazelaire, French cellist (d. 1958)
1913 - Taos Amrouche, Algerian writer and singer (d. 1976)
1913 - Willie Johnson (guitarist), American guitarist (d. 1995)
1915 - Carlos Surinach, Barcelona Spain, composer (Monte Carlo) [OS]
1915 - Eunice Catunda, composer
1921 - Halim El-Dabh, composer
1925 - Paul Mauriat, French musician (d. 2006)
1926 - Don Rendell, English jazz musician and arranger
1926 - Fran Warren, American singer, (d. 2013)
1927 - Robert Di Domenica, composer
1928 - Samuel Adler, composer
1929 - Bernard Haitink, Amsterdam Neth, conductor (London Phil Orch 1969-78)
1929 - Josep Mestres-Quadreny, composer
1932 - Guido Baggiani, composer
1932 - Miriam Makeba, Johannesburg South Africa, singer (Grammy 1965)
1933 - Ann Burton, [Anna Rafalowicz], singer
1934 - Barbara McNair, Racine Wisc, singer/actress (Barbara McNair Show)
1934 - John Duffey, bluegrass musician
1934 - Mario Davidovsky, Buenos Aires Argentinia, composer (Synchronisms)
1935 - Nancy Whiskey, Scottish folk singer (d. 2003)
1936 - Aribert Reimann, composer
1936 - Eric Allandale, rocker (Foundations)
1937 - [Bernard Barney Jean] Wilen, musician
1943 - Zoltan Jeney, composer
1944 - Bobby Womack, American R&B singer/guitarist (Woman’s Got to Have It), born in Cleveland, OH, (d. 2014)
1945 - Dieter Meier, Swiss singer/children book writer (Yello)
1946 - Ralph Kirshbaum, Denton TX, cellist (RNCM Manchester Intl Festival)
1946 - Robert Raymond, rocker
1947 - Jan Garbarek, Norwegian musician
1948 - Chris Squire, rock bassist (Yes-Fish Out of Water), born in London, England
1948 - Shakin’ Stevens, [Mike Barrett], Wales, rocker (You Drive Me Crazy)
1949 - Carroll Baker, Canadian country singer and songwriter
1950 - Emilio Estefan, Cuba, rocker (Miami Sound Machine-1 2 3)
1951 - Chris Rea, English rock guitarist (Fool If You Think It Is Over)
1951 - Linda Yamamoto, Japanese singer
1952 - Umberto Tozzi, Italian singer
1956 - Kermit Driscoll, American jazz bassist
1963 - Jason Newsted, US heavy-metal bassist (Metallica-Nothing Else Matters), born in Battle Creek, Michigan
1963 - MDV, [Michiel de Vos], Dutch pop bassist (Burma Shave-Stash)
1963 - Janey Lee Grace, English singer, author, television presenter and radio disc jockey
1965 - WestBam (Maximillian Lenz), German rave techno DJ
1966 - Patrick Hannan, English pop drummer (Sundays-Can’t Be Sure)
1966 - Grand Puba, American rapper
1968 - Evan Dando, rocker (Lemonheads)
1972 - Ivy Queen, American composer and singer
1974 - ICS Vortex (Simen Hestnæs), Norwegian vocalist (Arcturus)
1975 - Hawksley Workman, Canadian rock singer-songwriter
1976 - Scott Sturgeon (Stza Crack), American musician (Choking Victim and Leftover Crack)
1977 - Jason Marsalis, American musician
1979 - Jon Fratelli, Scottish singer (The Fratellis)
1981 - Carol Banawa, Filipino singer and celebrity
1981 - Donny Tourette, English punk rock singer (Towers of London)
1991 - Diandra Newlin, American actress, singer, and fashion model
1993 - Bobbi Kristina Brown, daughter of Whitney Houston & Bobby Brown

5. mart

1668 - Francesco Gasparini, composer
1733 - Vincenzo Galeotti, [Tomazelli], Italian dancer/choreographer
1748 - William Shield, composer
1751 - Jan Krtitel Kuchar, composer
1756 - Thomas Linley, composer
1774 - Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, composer
1805 - Theodore Labarre, composer
1828 - Johann Gungl, composer
1843 - William F Sudds, composer
1845 - Alfonse Hasselmans, composer
1850 - Daniel Brink Towner, composer
1853 - Arthur W Foote, Salem Mass, organist/composer (Suite for Strings in E)
1887 - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Rio de Janeiro Brazil, composer (Salon Waltz)
1895 - Fritz Usinger, German writer (Eternal Struggle)
1899 - Patrick Hadley, composer
1903 - Lowell Peters, Cleveland Tn, vocalist (Southernaires)
1913 - Yulian Grigor’yevich Kreyn, composer
1916 - Horace Ian Parrott, composer
1929 - J. B. Lenoir, Monticello, Mississippi, African American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter, active in the 1950s
1931 - Anthony Headges, composer
1933 - Norbert Linke, composer
1938 - Paul Evans, singer/pedal guitarist (Damascus Road)
1944 - Lucio Battisti, Italian singer (d. 1998)
1946 - Michael Warren, Indiana, actor (Bobby Hill-Hill Street Blues)
1946 - Murray Head, singer
1947 - Eddie Hodges, Miss, actor/singer (High Hopes, Adv of Huckleberry Finn)
1947 - Clodagh Rodgers, Irish singer
1948 - Eddy Grant, Guyana, reggae performer (Electric Avenue)
1948 - Jacques Kloes, singer (Dizzy Man’s Band)
1948 - Richard Hickox, English musical conductor
1948 - Elaine Paige, English singer and actress
1950 - Eugene Fodor, Turkey Creek CO, violinist (1974 Tchaikovsky Award)
1952 - Alan Clark, keyboardist (Dire Straits-Sultans of Swing)
1956 - Teena Marie, American singer
1957 - Mark E Smith, English rock vocalist (Fall-Fall in a Hole)
1958 - Andy Gibb, Manchester England, singer/TV host (Solid Gold)
1960 - David Tibet, English musician (Current 93)
1961 - Dan Stuart, US singer/songwriter (Green on Red)
1962 - Charlie and Craig Reid, Scottish musicians (The Proclaimers)
1969 - MC Solaar, French rapper
1970 - John Frusciante, American musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
1971 - Evil Jared Hasselhoff, American musician (Bloodhound Gang)
1972 - Luca Turilli, Italian musician (Rhapsody)
1978 - Papoose, American rapper

6. mart

1616 - Malachias Siebenhaar, composer
1710 - Giuseppi Antonio Paganelli, composer
1763 - Jean Xavier Lefevre, composer
1779 - Philipp Roth, composer
1785 - Karol Kazimierz Kurpinski, composer
1793 - Bernhard Joseph Klein, composer
1835 - Ludwik Grossman, composer
1843 - Artur Napoleao dos Santos, composer
1844 - Nicolai Rimski-Korsakov, composer (Flight of the Bumble Bee) (NS 3/18)
1852 - Joseph Bayer, composer
1870 - Oscar Straus, composer (Ein Walzertraum), born in Vienna, Austria
1887 - Henri Gagnon, composer
1893 - [Walter] Furry Lewis, father of the blues
1898 - Jo[hanne M Bos-]Vincent, Dutch soprano (Mattheus Passion)
1909 - Dave Clark, music promoter/songwriter
1911 - Roland Jacobi Leich, composer
1914 - Kirill P Kondrashin, Moscow Russia, conductor (Hollywood Bowl 1981)
1921 - Julius Rudel, conductor (NYC Opera 1957), born in Vienna, Austria
1923 - Erhard Karkoschka, composer
1924 - Sarah Caldwell, Maryville Mo, conductor/opera director (Flagstaff)
1925 - Wes Montgomery, American musician (d. 1968)
1926 - Jon Nordal, composer
1926 - Miroslav Klega, composer
1928 - Ronald Stevenson, composer
1930 - Lorin Maazel, French conductor (NBC Symphony Orch 1941), born in Neuilly France, (d. 2014)
1931 - Carmen Delavallade, US dancer/singer/actress (Aida)
1933 - Dorothy "Dolly" Ann Collins, folk musician/composer
1937 - Paul Mefano, composer
1938 - Lovelace Watkins, singer
1939 - Jerry Naylor, Stephenville Tx, rock vocalist (Crickets)
1944 - Kiri Te Kanawa, Gisborne NZ, operatic soprano (Don Giovanni)
1944 - Mary Wilson, vocalist (Supremes-Where Did Our Love Go), born in Detroit, Michigan
1945 - Hugh Grundy, Winchester England, drummer (Zombies-She’s Not There)
1946 - David Jon Gilmour, Grantchester Cambridgeshire, English rock guitarist (Pink Floyd-Brick in the Wall)
1946 - Tony Klatka, rocker (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
1947 - Kiki Dee, Yorkshire England, singer (Don’t Go Breaking My Heart)
1949 - Donald York, rocker (Sha Na Na)
1963 - Suzanne Crough, rocker (Partridge Family)
1964 - Reniet Vrieze, rock singer/guitarist (Pilgrims-White Men)
1964 - Madonna Wayne Gacy, American musician
1967 - Julio Bocca, Argentinean Ballet Dancer
1968 - Michael Romeo, American musician (Symphony X)
1975 - Aracely Arambula, Mexican actress and singer
1992 - Momoko Tsugunaga, Japanese singer

7. mart

1574 - John Wilbye, composer
1621 - Georg Neumark, composer
1663 - Tomaso Antonio Vitali, composer
1731 - Jean-Louis Laruette, composer
1769 - Josef Alois Ladurner, composer
1773 - Tommaso Marchesi, composer
1797 - Karl Schwencke, composer
1807 - Franz Grave von Pocci, German poet/composer (Der Alchemist)
1811 - Christian Heinrich Hohmann, composer
1820 - Gustav Heinrich Graben-Hoffman, composer
1822 - Victor Masse, composer
1858 - Nikolai Artzibushev, composer
1872 - Vasily Andreyevich Zolotaryov, composer
1875 - Maurice Ravel, French composer (d. 1937)
1883 - Carl Deis, composer
1887 - Heino Eller, composer
1895 - Juan Jose Castro, composer
1896 - Erwin Bodky, composer
1906 - Alejandro Garcia Caturla, composer
1906 - Hans Lachman, composer
1907 - Juan Francisco Giacobbe, composer
1908 - Tomas de Manzarraga, composer
1911 - Stefan Kisielewski, composer
1914 - Morton DaCosta, Phila, director (Island of Love, Music Man)
1917 - Robert Erickson, composer
1931 - C W Stubblefield, music promoter
1934 - Giorgos Katsaros, Greek musician and composer
1939 - Marion Marlowe, St Louis Mo, singer (Arthur Godfrey & Friends)
1942 - Tammy Faye Bakker, gospel singer/wife of Jim Baker (PTL)
1943 - Chris White, rock bassist (Zombies-Never Even Thought)
1943 - Leon Frank Sylvers, rocker
1944 - Townes Van Zandt, Texas, singer/songwriter (Kathleen, Loretta), (d. 1997)
1945 - Arthur Lee, rocker (Vindicator)
1946 - Matthew Fisher, rock keyboardist (Procol Harum), born in London, England
1946 - Peter Wolf, rock singer (J Giels Band-Centerfold, Freeze Frame)
1947 - Donna Loren, singer/actress (Beach Blanket Bingo), born in Boston, Massachusetts
1950 - Iris Chacon, Puerto Rican singer and dancer
1951 - Francis Rocco Prestia, American musician (Tower of Power)
1952 - Ernie Isley, US vocalist/guitarist (It’s Your Thing, Heat is On)
1953 - Jules Shear, rock musician
1954 - Matt Frenette, rock drummer (Loverboy)
1962 - Taylor Dayne, [Leslie Wunderman], NY, vocalist (I’ll Always Love You)
1963 - Denyce Graves, American singer
1969 - Warrel Dane, American singer (Nevermore)
1972 - Jang Dong-gun, South Korean actor and musician
1973 - Sébastien Izambard, operatic pop singer (Il Divo)
1974 - Larry Bagby, American actor and musician
1985 - Thomas Erak, American guitarist

8. mart

1560 - Don Carlo Gesualdo, Italian composer (d. 1613)
1607 - Johann Rist, composer
1714 - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German composer, son of JS Bach
1743 - Bendix Friedrich Zinck, composer
1778 - Friedrich August Kanne, composer
1783 - Gottfied Wilhelm Fink, composer
1825 - George William Martin, composer
1840 - Franco Faccio, Italian composer/conductor
1843 - Per Jonas Fredrik Vilhelm Svedbom, composer
1853 - Edward Hubertus Joannes Keurvels, Flemish composer (Parisina)
1859 - Otto Taubmann, composer
1872 - Paul Juon, Russian/Swiss violinist/composer
1872 - Anna Held, Polish-born actress and singer (d. 1918)
1876 - Franco Alfano, Italian opera composer (Il dottore Antonio)
1883 - Manuel Gomez Carillo, composer
1909 - Anthony Donato, composer
1911 - Alan Hovhaness, Somerville Mass, composer (Lousadzak, Ukiyo)
1915 - Tapio Rautavaara, Finnish athlete, actor, and singer (d. 1979)
1919 - Ivor Keys, musician/teacher
1920 - James Daniel "Danny" Turner, saxophonist
1921 - Cyd Charisse, [Tula Finklea], Amarillo Tx, dancer/actress (Singing in the Rain)
1921 - Egbert George "Pete" Pitterson, trumpeter
1925 - Darwin Horacio Vargas-Wallis, composer
1927 - Jaromir Podesva, composer
1927 - Joseph Berg, composer
1928 - Frank Michael Beyer, composer
1928 - Judy Johnson, Norfolk Va, singer (Your Show of Shows)
1933 - Johnny Dollar, singer
1934 - Christian Wolff, composer
1936 - Gabor Szabo, Hungarian jazz pianist (Perfect Circle)
1937 - Raynoma Gordy, [Mayberry], US orchestra leader (Rayber Voices)
1937 - Richard Farina, American writer and folk rocker (Reflections in a Crystal Wind)
1938 - Lew DeWitt, Va, country singer (Statler Brothers-Flowers on the Wall)
1939 - Robert Tear, Barry Wales, tenor (Welsh Natl Opera 1970)
1939 - Yannis Vlachopoulos, composer
1941 - Ivana Loudova, composer
1941 - Yvar Emilian Mikhashoff, composer
1944 - Carole Bayer Sager, NY, aka Mrs Burt Bachrach, singer (Arthur)
1944 - Sergey Nikitin, Russian composer
1944 - Palito Ortega, Argentine singer and actor
1945 - Micky Dolenz, actor (Circus Boy)/singer (Monkees), born in Los Angeles, California
1945 - Bruce Broughton, American composer
1946 - Randy Meisner, rock bassist/vocalist (Poco, Eagles-Take it Easy)
1947 - Mike Allsup, Modesto Ca, rock guitarist (Three Dog Night)
1947 - Carole Bayer Sager, American composer
1948 - Little Peggy March, [Margaret Battavio], vocalist (I Will Follow Him)
1953 - Bob Brozman, American musician
1954 - Cheryl Baker, rock vocalist (Bucks Fizz-My Camera Never Lies)
1957 - Billy Childs, composer/pianist
1957 - Clive Burr, East Ham, London, drummer (Iron Maiden 1979-82), (d. 2013)
1958 - Gary Numan, [Gary Webb], Hammersmith England, vocalist (Replicas)
1964 - Cheryl "Salt" James, singer (Salt-N-Pepa)
1964 - Peter Ged Gill, drummer (Frankie Goes to Hollywood-2 Tribes) [or 1/8]
1968 - Shawn Mullins, American musician
1972 - Angie Hart, Australian pop singer
1973 - Anneke van Giersbergen, Dutch singer (The Gathering)
1975 - Peggy Zina, Greek singer
1979 - Tom Chaplin, English singer (Keane)
1979 - Andy Ross, American guitarist (OK Go)
1984 - Dave Moffatt, Canadian musician
1985 - Ewa Sonnet, Polish model and pop singer

9. mart

1735 - August Bernhard Valentin Herbing, composer
1737 - Josef Myslivecek, composer
1810 - Jean-Georges Kastner, composer
1812 - Jakob Eduard Schmolzer, composer
1826 - Jean Joseph Bott, German violinist/composer
1848 - Martin Pierre Joseph Marsick, composer
1850 - Alexandre Luigini, composer
1856 - Eddie Foy, American singer and dancer (d. 1928)
1874 - Johann Richard Ohlsson, composer
1875 - Martin Fallas Shaw, composer
1893 - Hans Munch, composer
1907 - Henry Leland Clarke, composer
1908 - Luiz Cosme, composer
1910 - Samuel Barber, West Chester Pa, composer (Pulitz, School for Scandal)
1911 - Ramon Campbell Batista, composer
1924 - Konstantin Iliev, composer
1926 - Celso Garrido Lecca, composer
1927 - Hans Ludwig Schilling, composer
1927 - John Beckwith, composer
1930 - Thomas Schippers, Kalamazoo Mich, conductor (Amahl & Night Visitors)
1930 - Ornette Coleman, Fort Worth, Texas, American jazz composer (Downbeat Musician of Year 1966)
1932 - Keely Smith, Norfolk Virginia, American singer (Mrs Louie Prima)
1933 - Lloyd Price, Kenner La, singer (Just Because)
1933 - William Francis McBeth, composer
1933 - William McBeth, Ropesville, Texas, composer, (d. 2012)
1936 - Mickey Gilley, Ferriday La, country singer (Urban Cowboy)
1938 - Lill-Babs, Swedish singer
1942 - John Cale, Garnant, Welsh musician, composer and singer-songwriter (Velvet Underground)
1942 - Mark Lindsay, Eugene Or, rock vocalist/sax (Paul Revers & Raiders)
1944 - Trevor Burton, rocker (Move)
1945 - Laura Lee, [Rundless], singer (Dirty Man, Women’s Love Rights)
1945 - Robin Trower, guitarist (Procol Harum-Whiter Shade of Pale), born in London, England
1946 - Jim Cregan, British rock musician
1948 - Jeffrey Osborne, Providence RI, rock vocalist (On the Wings of Love)
1948 - Jimmy Fadden, singer (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band), born in Long Beach, California
1949 - Kalevi Aho, composer
1949 - Tapani Kansa, Finnish singer
1954 - Charmain Elaine Sylvers, rocker
1955 - Fernando Bujones, ballet dancer, born in Miami, Florida
1957 - Mark Mancina, American composer
1958 - Martin Fry, English pop singer and rock vocalist (ABC-All of My Heart)
1963 - David Pogue, Technology columnist and musician
1966 - Brendan Canty, American musician (Fugazi)
1968 - Johnny Kelly, American drummer (Type O Negative)
1971 - Diego Torres, Argentine singer
1979 - Chingy, American rapper
1983 - Maite Perroni, singer in the Latin pop group RBD
1987 - Bow Wow, American rapper and actor

10. mart

1698 - Gaetano Maria Schiassi, composer
1713 - Christian Friedrich Schale, composer
1713 - Raphael Weiss, composer
1755 - Philipp Christoph Kayser, composer
1780 - Juan Jose Landaeta, composer
1839 - Dudley Buck, Hartford, Ct, organist/church composer
1844 - Pablo Martin M de Sarasate y Navascuez, composer (Spanish Dancing)
1870 - Alfred Kastner, composer
1872 - Felix Borowski, composer
1875 - Alexander Borisovich Goldenweiser, composer
1888 - Krsto Odak, composer
1892 - Arthur Honegger, Le Havre, France, composer (King David, Pacific 231)
1892 - Eva Turner, British soprano
1899 - Finn Hoffding, composer
1903 - Leon Bismarck "Bix" Beiderbecke, Davenport, Iowa, American jazz cornetist, considered one of the most influential jazz soloists of the 1920s
1905 - Rene Bernier, composer
1907 - Robert de Roos, composer
1915 - Sir Charles Groves, English conductor(d. 1992)
1919 - Marion Hutton, American singer (d. 1987)
1920 - Kenneth "Jethro" Burns, US country singer (Homer & Jethro)
1920 - Boris Vian, French writer and musician (d. 1959)
1927 - Donn Trenner, New Haven Ct, orchestra leader (ABC’s Nightlife)
1928 - Sara Montiel, Spanish actress and singer
1930 - Raymond Rasberry, pianist/singer
1931 - Georges Dor, Quebec author, playwright, singer and songwriter (d. 2001)
1933 - Bernadetta Matuszczak, composer
1934 - Judith Jamison, artistic director (Alvin Ailey Dance Theater)
1940 - Dean Torrence, LA Cal, surf music singer (Jan & Dean-Little Old Lady)
1940 - Francis Schwartz, composer
1941 - Daniel Kirkland Lentz, composer
1941 - Piotr Warzecha, composer
1943 - Alfred Whitford Lerdahl, composer
1943 - Stephen Montague, composer
1946 - Gaylord Birch, drummer (Reconstruction, Honey Dripper)
1947 - Tom Scholz, rock guitarist/keyboardist (Boston-More Than a Feeling)
1948 - Eddie Grundy, rocker
1950 - Ted McKenna, rocker (Alex Harvey Band)
1955 - Bunny DeBarge, Grand Rapids Mich, rocker (Debarge)
1955 - Youssra, Egyptian actress and singer
1962 - Gary Clark, rocker (Danny Wilson-Mary’s Prayer)
1962 - Seiko Matsuda, Japanese pop singer
1963 - Jeff Ament, American musician (Pearl Jam)
1964 - Neneh Cherry, Stockholm Sweden, Swedish singer-songwriter and rapper (Money Love)
1966 - Edie Brickell, Mrs Paul Simon/rocker (& New Bohemians)
1966 - Gráinne Mulvey, Irish composer
1969 - Ricky Seagall, rocker (Partridge Family)
1970 - Matt Barlow, American singer (Iced Earth)
1973 - John LeCompt, American guitarist
1974 - Hugo Ferreira, American rock musician
1976 - Kisaki, Japanese musician
1976 - Haifa Wehbe, Lebanese actress, model and singer
1977 - Bree Turner, American dancer and actress
1977 - Matt Rubano, American musician (Taking Back Sunday)
1977 - Robin Thicke, American singer
1978 - Ben Burnley, American musician (Breaking Benjamin)
1983 - Carrie Underwood, American country singer
1983 - Che’Nelle, Malaysian Australian Singer
1985 - Casey Dienel, American singer-songwriter
1992 - Emily Osment, American actress and singer

11. mart

1654 - Heinrich Georg Neuss, composer
1683 - Giovanni Veneziano, composer
1781 - Anthony Philip Heinrich, composer
1812 - William Vincent Wallace, composer
1819 - Marius Petipa, French ballet dancer/choreographer (Don Quiotte)
1827 - Septimus Winner, composer
1876 - Carl Ruggles, Marion Mass, composer (Evocations)
1879 - Justus Hermann Wetzel, composer
1897 - Henry Dixon Cowell, Menlo Park California, composer (New Musical Resources)
1903 - Lawrence Welk, Strasburg ND, orchestra leader (Lawrence Welk Show)
1906 - Aasan Ferit Alnar, composer
1909 - Ljubica Maric, composer
1912 - Xavier Montsalvatge, Spanish composer (El gato con botas)
1913 - John Jacob Weinzweig, Toronto Canada, composer (Enchanted Hill)
1919 - Mercer Ellington, son of Duke Ellington/bandleader
1921 - Astor Piazzolla, Argentina composer (Tango Nuevo)
1922 - Thom Kelling, Dutch singer/guitarist (Programa de Manha)
1926 - Ilhan Mimaroglu, composer
1929 - Francisco Bernardo Pulgar Vidal, composer
1932 - Leroy Jenkins, American composer and violinist (d. 2007)
1934 - Joep Straesser, composer (Blossom songs, Ramasasiri)
1939 - Flaco Jiménez, American musician
1940 - Alberto Cortez, Argentinian singer
1944 - Ric Rothwell, drummer (Mindbenders-Games of Love)
1945 - Harvey Mandel, rock guitarist (Drei Amerikanische LP’s)
1947 - Mark Stein, singer/organist/keyboardist (Vanilla Fudge)
1948 - George Kooymans, Dutch guitarist/singer (Golden Earring)
1949 - Richard de Bois, Dutch drummer/producer
1950 - Bobby McFerrin, singer (Don’t Worry Be Happy-Grammy 1989)
1953 - Bernie LaBarge, Canadian musician
1957 - Cheryl Lynn, American singer
1961 - Bruce Watson, Ontario Canada, rock guitarist (Big Country-Wonderland)
1961 - Mike Percy, rocker (Dead or Alive-Spin Me Round)
1969 - Soraya, Colombian-American singer (d. 2006)
1977 - Andre Nickatina, American rapper
1979 - Benji Madden, American guitarist (Good Charlotte)
1979 - Joel Madden, American singer (Good Charlotte)
1981 - Russell Lissack, English musician (Bloc Party)
1981 - LeToya Luckett, American singer (ex-Destiny’s Child)
1981 - Paul Wall, American rapper
1984 - Anna Tsuchiya, Japanese model, actress and singer
1987 - Tomethy Furse, British bassist (The Horrors)

12. mart

1515 - Caspar Othmayr, composer
1710 - Thomas Augustine Arne, English composer (Alfred, Rule Britannia)
1768 - Carolus Antonius Fodor, composer
1793 - Augustin-Philippe Peellaert, composer
1826 - Robert Lowry, composer
1837 - Felix Alexandre Guilmant, composer
1848 - Cyrill Kistler, composer
1855 - John White, composer
1859 - Josef Cyril Sychra, composer
1860 - Salvatore Di Giacomo, composer
1874 - Edmund Eysler, Austrian composer
1875 - Julio Garreta, composer
1878 - Joseph Gustav Mraczek, composer
1883 - Judge Jackson, composer
1888 - Hall Johnson, composer
1890 - Vaslav Nijinsky, Ukrainian/US ballet dancer (Petroesjka) [OS=Feb 28]
1896 - Jesse "Lone Cat" Fuller, San Francisco Blues Great
1900 - Zoltan Vasarhelyi, composer
1912 - Paul Weston, orchestra leader (Jim Nabors Hour), born in Springfield, Massachusetts
1914 - Jan Kapr, composer
1921 - Gordon MacRae, East Orange NJ, singer/actor (Oklahoma, Carousel)
1921 - Ralph Shapey, Phila, composer (Fantasy, Rituals)
1922 - Thomas Hugh Eastwood, composer
1923 - Norbert Brainin, violinist
1925 - Georges Delerue, composer
1926 - Rolv Berger Yttrehus, composer
1928 - Phil Jones, principal (Trinity College of Music)
1928 - Aldemaro Romero, Venezuelan musician (d. 2007)
1930 - Stanko Horvat, composer
1935 - Helga Pilarczyk, German soprano (Salome, Lulu)
1937 - Elizabeth Vaughan, opera soprano (Victor-Victoria)
1938 - Lew De Witt, American country singer and composer (Statler Brothers-Flowers on the Wall)
1938 - Dimitri Terzakis, composer
1938 - Tona Scherchen-Hsiao, composer
1940 - Al Jarreau, Milwaukee WI, jazz singer (Moonlighting)
1940 - M.A. Numminen, Finnish singer and writer
1942 - Brian O’Hara, rocker
1945 - Hans van Emden, Dutch guitarist (Les Baroques)
1946 - Liza Minnelli, Hollywood CA, singer/actress (Sterile Cuckoo, Cabaret)
1948 - Dana Walden, rock keyboardist (Champaign)
1948 - James Taylor, vocalist/guitarist (Up on the Roof), born in Boston, Massachusetts
1948 - Les Holroyd, Oldham England, rocker (Barclay James Harvest)
1949 - Bill Payne, Waco TX, rock keyboardist (Little Feat-Time Loves a Hero)
1949 - Mike Gibbons, Swansea Wales, rock drummer (Badfinger)
1951 - Jack Green, rocker
1952 - Naomi Shihab Nye, American poet, songwriter, and novelist
1953 - Labamba, [Richard Rosenberg], rocker (Asbury Jukes)
1957 - Marlon D Jackson, Gary IN, singer (Jackson 5-Maybe Tomorrow)
1957 - Steve Harris, hard rock bassist (Iron Maiden-Gypsy’s Kiss), born in London, England
1960 - Kipp Lennon, American singer
1960 - Minoru Niihara, Japanese singer
1960 - Maki Nomiya, Japanese singer (Pizzicato Five)
1965 - Liza Umarova, Chechen torch singer
1969 - Graham Coxon, singer (Blur)
1970 - Roy Khan, Norwegian singer (Kamelot)
1975 - Herman Li, Cantonese guitarist
1975 - Kelle Bryan, English singer
1976 - Simon Young, English music journalist
1978 - Claudio Sanchez, American musician (Coheed and Cambria)
1979 - Pete Doherty, English musician
1984 - Shareefa [Faradah Cooper], Newark New Jersey, American R&B singer
1984 - Shreya Ghoshal, Indian singer
1986 - Danny Jones, English singer (McFly)

13. mart

1700 - James Kent, composer
1700 - Michel Blavet, composer
1712 - Isfrid Kayser, composer
1746 - Maurus Haberhauer, composer
1767 - Heinrich Domnich, composer
1779 - Oliver Shaw, composer
1832 - Alberto Randegger, composer
1850 - Emilio Serrano y Ruiz, composer
1860 - Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer (d. 1903)
1862 - Vasily Mikhaylovich Metallov, composer
1883 - Enrico Toselli, composer
1886 - Henri D Gagnebin, Swiss organist
1887 - Carlos Isamitt, composer
1890 - Michael Taube, composer
1890 - Fritz Busch, German conductor (d. 1951)
1892 - Alec Rowley, composer
1899 - Pancho Vladigerov, composer
1908 - Helen Sinclair Glatz, musician
1910 - Sammy Kaye, Rocky River Ohio, orchestra leader (Sammy Kaye Show)
1911 - Jose Ardevol, composer
1912 - Ernst Hess, composer
1912 - Igor Youskevitch, dancer
1913 - Sammy Kaye, saxophonist (Swing & Sway with Sammy Kaye)
1914 - Carl-Olof Anderberg, composer
1917 - Ina Ray Hutton, orchestra leader (Ina Ray Hutton Show), born in Chicago, Illinois
1925 - Anthony Milner, composer
1925 - Roy Haynes, US jazz drummer (Trio Music with Chick Corea)
1929 - Will Eisma, composer
1930 - Jan Howard, American singer
1931 - Rosalind Elias, Lowell Mass, mezzo-soprano (Grimgerde-Die Walkuere)
1933 - Mike Stoller, composer (Lieber & Stoller-Hound Dog, Charlie Brown)
1938 - Hans-Joachim Hespos, composer
1938 - Jean-Claude Risset, composer
1938 - Erma Franklin, American singer (d. 2002)
1939 - Neil Sedaka, Brooklyn New York, American singer/songwriter (Breaking Up is Hard to Do)
1947 - Lesley Collier, British ballet dancer
1947 - Beat Richner, Swiss physician and cellist
1949 - Julia Migenes, American soprano
1950 - Steve Hill, country vocalist (A Winning Hand)
1952 - Wolfgang Hihm, composer
1959 - Ronnie Rogers, guitarist (T’Pau-Heart & Soul)
1960 - Adam Clayton, Oxfordshire, rock bassist (U2-I Will Follow)
1973 - David Draiman, American musician and songwriter (Disturbed)
1976 - James Dewees, musician
1977 - Ed Sloan, American musician (Crossfade)
1978 - Karina Smirnoff, Ukrainian dancer
1979 - Spanky G, American musician (Bloodhound Gang)
1980 - Lee Jung-hyun, South Korean pop singer and actress

14. mart

1623 - Adam-Nicolas Gascon, composer
1681 - Georg Philipp Telemann, Magdeburg Germany, late baroque composer
1726 - Josef Antonin Stepan, composer
1727 - Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, composer
1755 - Pierre-Louis Couperin, composer
1795 - Rubert Lucas Pearsall, composer
1804 - Johann Strauss, the Elder, Viennese violinist and composer (Radetzky March) (d. 1849)
1815 - Josephine Lang, composer
1826 - William Fisk Sherwin, composer
1831 - Leon Leopold Lewandoski, composer
1835 - Manuel Fernandez Caballero, composer
1875 - Norman Houstoun O’Neill, composer
1883 - Juan Manen, composer
1884 - Winter Haynes Watts, composer
1887 - Lawrence Collingwood, composer
1894 - Josef Schelb, composer
1906 - Ulvi Cemal Erkin, composer
1908 - Nikolay Petrovich Rakov, composer
1912 - Les Brown, Reinerton Pa, American bandleader (d. 2001)
1913 - Witold Rudzinski, composer
1914 - Jiri Reinberger, composer
1914 - Lee Elhardt Hays, American folksinger (d. 1981)
1915 - Alexander Brott, composer
1915 - Carlos Surinach, Barcelona Spain, composer (Monte Carlo) [NS]
1919 - Luther Henderson Jr, KC Mo, orchestra leader (Polly Bergen Show)
1922 - Les Baxter, US, singer/orchestra leader/composer (Born Again)
1926 - Francois d’Assise Morel, composer
1930 - Dieter Schnebel, German vicar/composer
1931 - Phil Phillips [Baptiste], rock vocalist (Sea Of Love)
1933 - Quincy Jones Jr, composer/singer (We Are The World), born in Chicago, Illinois
1934 - Shirley Scott, swing/blues organist (with Stanley Turrentine)
1935 - Jo van den Booren, composer
1939 - Stavros Xarhakos, Greek composer
1943 - Jim Pons, bassist (Turtles, Mothers of Invention), born in Santa Monica, California
1945 - Herman[us J] van Veen, Neth, cabaretier/singer/composer/writer
1945 - Michael Martin Murphey, Dallas Tx, country singer (Wildfire)
1945 - Walt Parazaider, rock saxophonist (Chicago), born in Chicago, Illinois
1947 - Jimmy O’Rourke, rocker
1954 - Adrian Zmed, actor (TJ Hooker, Dance Fever), born in Chicago, Illinois
1954 - Jann Browne, country singer (Mexican Wind)
1955 - Boon Gould, rock guitarist (Level 42-Hot Water)
1959 - Patrick Dupond, Paris, dancer (La Bayadere)
1981 - Mei-Ting Sun, Chinese-born pianist
1983 - Jordan Taylor Hanson, Tulsa OK, singer (Hansons-MMMMbop)
1985 - Idaira, Spanish singer

15. mart

1754 - Silvestro Palma, composer
1790 - Nicola Vaccai, composer
1808 - Gaetano Gaspari, composer
1835 - Eduard Strauss, Austria, composer (318 Dance)
1836 - Henrique Alves de Mesquita, composer
1838 - Karl Davydov, Russian cellist (d. 1889)
1851 - Jozef Surzynski, composer
1864 - Johan Halvorsen, composer
1864 - Leslie Stuart, composer
1867 - Will Rossiter, composer
1873 - David Vaughan Thomas, composer
1884 - Rudolf Piskacek, composer
1894 - Slava Vorlova, composer
1901 - Colin McPhee, Montreal Canada, composer (H2O, Mechanical Princibles)
1901 - Theo Uden Marsman, Dutch orchestra leader
1907 - Jimmy McPartland, jazz trumpeteer/actor (Magic Horn)
1907 - Zarah Leander, Swedish actress and singer (d. 1981)
1912 - Lightnin’ [Sam] Hopkins, Texas, blues stylist (Ball of Twine)
1916 - Harry James, Albany Ga, trumpeter (married to Betty Grable)
1924 - Lockrem Johnson, composer
1926 - Benjamin Burwell Johnston, Jr. Macon Geeorgia, American composer
1927 - Carl Smith, Maynardville Tn, country singer (Grand Ole Opry)
1928 - Nicolas Flagello, composer
1929 - Tiezo Matsumura, composer
1933 - Cecil Perceval Taylor, composer/jazz pianist (U of Wisconsin)
1933 - Ronald Roseman, composer
1934 - Daniel George "Danny" Apolinar, composer/songwriter
1934 - Wolfgang Hufschmidt, composer
1938 - Dick Higgins, composer
1940 - Phil Lesh, [Chapman], California, rock bassist (Grass Roots, Grateful Dead)
1941 - Mike Love, California, rock saxophonist/vocalist (Beachboys-In My Room)
1942 - Hughie Flint, rock drummer (Bonzo Dog Band), born in London, England
1944 - David Costell, Pitts, rocker (Gary Lewis & the Playboys-Diamond Ring)
1944 - Sly Stone, Dallas, rocker (Sly & the Family Stone-Everyday People)
1946 - David Wall, English ballet dancers/director (Royal Academy of Dancing)
1946 - Howard Scott, San Pedro Cal, rock guitarist/vocalist (War, Cisco Kid)
1947 - Ry[land] Cooder, LA, blues guitarist (Crossroads)
1947 - Stomu Yamash’ta, composer
1950 - Jørgen Olsen, Danish singer
1962 - Steve Coy, rocker (Dead or Alive-Spin Me Round)
1962 - Terrence Trent D’Arby, rock vocalist (Wishing Well), born in NYC, New York
1963 - Bret Michaels, Harrisburg Pa, guitarist (Poison-Talk Dirty to Me)
1964 - Rockwell, [Kennedy Gordy], Det MI, rock vocalist (Someone Watching Me)
1968 - John Tardy, US heavy metalist (Obituary, Slowly We Rot)
1968 - Sabrina [Salerno], Genoa Italy, Miss Italy (1984)/singer (Boys)
1968 - Kahimi Karie, Japanese singer
1968 - Mark McGrath, American musician (Sugar Ray), born in Hartford, Connecticut
1968 - Jon Schaffer, American guitarist (Iced Earth)
1969 - Timo Kotipelto, Finnish musician
1972 - Mark Hoppus, American musician (+44 and blink-182)
1974 - John "Beatz" Holohan, American musician
1975 - Will.i.am, American musician
1977 - Joe Hahn, American musician
1978 - Sid Wilson, American musician (Slipknot)
1981 - Young Buck, American rapper
1982 - Jordan Hastings, Canadian drummer (Alexisonfire)