16.-30. april

16. april

1673 - Francesco Feroci, composer
1697 - Johann Gottlieb Gorner, composer
1703 - Caffarelli, [Gaetano Majorano], Italian castra singer/duke
1800 - Jozef Stefani, composer
1838 - Karel Bendl, composer
1868 - Joel Angel, Russian musicologist/composer
1871 - Martin Lunssens, composer
1882 - Seth Bingham, composer
1885 - Leo Weiner, Hungary, composer (Fasching)
1886 - Jekabs Graubins, composer
1886 - Konstantin Mostras, composer
1893 - Federico Mompou, composer
1893 - Joseph Yasser, composer
1897 - Arthur Charles Ernest Hoeree, composer
1897 - Jaap Vranken, Dutch organist/composer (Stabat Mater)
1901 - Karel Albert, Flemish composer (Marieken van Nymeghen)
1913 - Constance Shacklock, opera singer
1922 - Eddie Bert, Yonkers, New York, bebopjazz trombonist, (d. 2012)
1924 - Henry Mancini, composer/conductor (Pink Panther), born in Cleveland, Ohio
1929 - Roy Hamilton, singer (You’ll Never Walk Alone)
1930 - Frank Page, British broadcaster/actor (Hudson Hawk, Dark Dancer)
1930 - Herbie Mann, Brooklyn NY, jazz flute/sax (Just Wallin’)
1932 - Vince Hill, singer (Roses of Picardy, La Vie en Rose)
1933 - Perry Botkin Jr, orchestra leader (Bert Convy Show), born in NYC, New York
1935 - Bobby Vinton, Pitts Pa, singer (Roses are Red, Blue on Blue)
1935 - Haskell "Cool Papa" Sadler, blues singer/guitarist
1939 - Dusty Springfield, [Mary O’Brien], vocalist (Growing Pains), born in London, England
1939 - John DeLaFose, zydeco Musician
1940 - Stephen Lawrence Pruslin, composer
1943 - Dave Peverett, English rocker (Foghat, Savoy Brown), born in London, England
1944 - Dennis Russell Davies, composer
1945 - Stefan Grossman, country blues singer (Yazoo Basin Boogie), born in NYC, New York
1947 - Gerry Rafferty, Paisley Scotland, guitarist/vocalist (Baker Street)
1951 - John Bentley, rocker
1951 - Björgvin Halldórsson, Icelandic singer
1951 - Mordechai Ben David, Jewish singer
1961 - Doris Dragović, Croatian singer
1962 - Ian MacKaye, rocker (Cyrano de Bergerac)
1963 - Jimmy Osmond, Ogden Utah, singer (Donnie & Marie)
1964 - Dave Pirner, rocker (Soul Asylum)
1965 - Gerardo, rocker
1971 - Selena Texas [Quintanilla], tejano vocalist, spanish singer (Grammy-1994)
1971 - Max Beesley, English musician and actor
1973 - Bonnie Pink, Japanese singer
1974 - Mat Devine, American singer (Kill Hannah)
1974 - Xu Jinglei, Chinese actress, singer and director
1976 - Lukas Haas, actor (Music Box, Witness, Testament, Leap of Faith)
1983 - Marié Digby, American Singer
1985 - Benjamín Rojas, Argentine actor and singer
1987 - Milton J Cross, TV announcer (Met Opera Auditions of the Air), born in NYC, New York

17. april

1587 - Marco Ivan Lukacic, composer
1683 - Johann David Heinichen, composer
1715 - Johann Wolfgang Kleinknecht, composer
1719 - Christian Gottfried Krause, composer
1738 - Philip Hayes, composer
1741 - Johann Gottlieb Naumann, composer
1774 - Vaclav Jan Krtitel Tomasek, organist/pianist/composer
1797 - Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Tolbecque, Belgian composer/conductor
1811 - Ann Sheppard Mounsey, composer
1820 - Gottfried Conradi, composer
1833 - Jean-Baptiste Accolay, Belgian composer (d. 1900)
1863 - Johannes P Boskaljon, Curacao composer/conductor
1882 - Artur Schnabel, Lipnik Austria, pianist (Beethoven Piano Sonatas)
1883 - Hermann Darewsky, composer
1885 - Cecil Burleigh, composer
1886 - Otto Lederer, Czechoslovakia, actor (Jazz Singer)
1897 - Harald Saeverud, Bergen Norway, composer (Saline) [NS]
1902 - Anton Beuving, lyricist (Ketelbinkie)
1903 - Gregor Piatigorsky, Ekaterinoslav Russia, cellist (or 4/20)
1903 - Nicolas Nabokov, Near Lubcha Minsk Russia, composer (Holy Devil)
1919 - Chavela Vargas, Costa Rican-Mexican singer
1927 - Christopher Whelen, composer
1929 - James Last, orchestra leader/composer/arranger
1930 - Chris Barber, jazz trombonist
1930 - Genevieve, Paris France, singer (Jack Paar Show, Scruples)
1932 - Graziella Sciutti, Italian opera singer
1934 - Don Kirshner, rock & roll producer (invented bubblegum music)
1936 - Pete Graves, rocker (Moonglows)
1940 - Anja Silja, German soprano
1941 - Adolphus Hailstork, composer
1941 - Billy Fury, singer/guitarist (When Will You Say I Love You), born in Liverpool, England
1943 - Roy Estrada, rocker (Morthers Of Invention)
1944 - John Lill, professor/pianist
1947 - Linda Martin, Irish singer
1948 - Jan Hammer, composer (Escape from TV, Miami Vice)
1954 - Michael Sembello, American musician
1955 - Rob Bolland, Dutch singer/guitarist (Bolland & Bolland)
1959 - Stephen Singleton, Sheffield, rocker (ABC)
1964 - Maynard James Keenan, American singer (Tool and A Perfect Circle)
1967 - Liz Phair, American musician/songwriter
1970 - Redman, American rapper
1974 - Victoria Beckham [Adams], Harlow, Essex, English singer (Posh Spice-Spice Girls)
1974 - Mikael Åkerfeldt, Swedish guitarist and singer (Opeth)
1976 - Monet Mazur, American actress and musician
1977 - Sizzla, Jamaican dancehall artist
1977 - Phil Jamieson, Australian singer (Grinspoon)
1978 - Bilal Abdul-samad, rocker (Boys)
1981 - Hanna Pakarinen, Finnish singer

18. april

1605 - Giacomo Carissimi, composer
1729 - Gaetano B Vestris, Italian/French ballet dancer
1759 - Jacques-Christian-Michel Widerkehr, composer
1764 - Bernhard Anselm Weber, pianist/conductor/composer
1777 - Ignac Ruzitska, composer
1786 - Franz Xaver Schnyder von Wartensee, composer
1806 - Ludwig Schuberth, composer
1819 - Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer (d. 1895)
1839 - Frantz Jehin-Prume, composer
1845 - Wilhelm Gericke, composer
1855 - Josef Gruber, composer
1863 - Felix Blumenfeld, composer
1873 - Jean Roger-Ducasse, composer
1881 - Hermann KJ Zilcher, German pianist/composer (Dr Eisenbart)
1882 - Leopold Stokowski, conductor (Cincinnati Symphony), born in London, England
1901 - Al Lewis, American lyricist (d. 1967)
1903 - Yury Sergeyevich Milyutin, composer
1907 - Miklos Rozsa, Budapest Hungary, movie composer (Atomic Cafe, Fedora)
1908 - Joseph Keilberth, German conductor (Bayreuther Festspiele)
1908 - Eric Spear, British film and TV composer (Coronation Street theme)
1910 - Sylvia Fisher, soprano (Albert Herring Opera)
1913 - Kent Wheeler Kennan, composer
1913 - Milos Sokola, composer
1918 - Tony Mottola, Kearney NJ, guitarist/host (Melody Street)
1919 - Virginia O’Brien, American singer and actress (d. 2001)
1924 - Buxton Daeblite Orr, composer
1924 - Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Vinton La, blues singer (Mary is Fine)
1925 - Lionel Edmund "Sonny" Taylor, musician
1925 - Robert Caldwell Crawford, composer
1928 - Jean-Francois Pailliard, Vitry-le-Francois France, conductor
1934 - Jan Klusak, composer
1939 - Glen Hardin, rocker
1941 - Mike Vickers, rock guitarist (Manfred Mann-Mighty Quinn)
1944 - Rudy Shackelford, composer
1946 - Alexander "Skip" Spence, Canada, guitarist/vocalist (Moby Grape-Omaha)
1946 - Anne Boyd, composer
1946 - Harvey Kagan, rocker
1946 - Lenny Baker, rocker (Sha Na Na)
1948 - Catherine Malfitano, soprano (Metropolitan Opera), born in NYC, New York
1952 - Jim Scholten, Midland Mich, country singer (Betty’s Bein’ Bad)
1954 - Kim Stone, bassist (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance)
1958 - Lee Pattinson, rock bassist (Echo & Bunnymen-Heaven Up Here)
1960 - Ocl Sweda, rocker (Bulletboys)
1961 - Kelly Hansen, heavy metal rocker (Hurricane-I’m on to You)
1962 - Mick Sweda, heavy metal (Bulletboys, King Kobra-Ready to Strike)
1962 - Shirlie Hollman, rocker (Pepsi & Shirley-All Right Now)
1964 - Jim Ellison, musician
1964 - Mark Berry, aka Bez, Dancer in Happy Mondays
1965 - Diana Villegas, rocker (Triplets)
1965 - Sylvia Villegas, rocker (Triplets)
1965 - Vicky Villegas, rocker (Triplets)
1967 - Jayce Fincher Jr, heavy metal bassist (Southgang-Tainted Angel)
1970 - Greg Eklund, American musician
1974 - Mark Tremonti, American musician
1974 - Millie Corretjer, Puerto Rican singer
1976 - Fayray, Japanese singer
1979 - Nuria Fergó, Spanish singer
1982 - Marie-Élaine Thibert, Canadian singer
1985 - Elena Temnikova, Russian singer (Serebro)
1987 - Sandra Lyng Haugen, Norwegian singer
1996 - Alexey Zhigalkovich, Belarusian Singer

19. april

1605 - Orazio Benevoli, composer
1660 - Sebastian Duron, composer
1700 - Georg Abraham Schneider, composer
1715 - James Nares, composer
1771 - Giuseppe Cartufo, composer
1785 - Alexandre Pierre Francois Boely, composer
1798 - Franz Joseph Glaser, composer
1858 - Siegfried Ochs, composer
1863 - Felix Blumenfeld, composer
1868 - Max Von Schillings, German composer/conductor (Der Pfeifertag)
1888 - William L Axt, composer
1892 - Germaine Tailleferre, [Les Six], Pau-St-Maur France, composer
1905 - Tommy Benford, jazz drummer
1907 - Gino Contilli, composer
1911 - Francesco Maria Saraceni, composer
1915 - Dorian Le Gallienne, composer
1917 - Johnny Hoes, Dutch musician/producer (Wished I’d stayed with my Mom)
1921 - Will Ogdon, composer
1927 - Don Barbour, Greencastle Ind, singer (4 Freshmen)
1928 - Alexis Korner, Paris, musician (Blues Inc-Bootleg Him)
1934 - Dickie Goodman, parody singer (Flying Saucer)
1934 - Jan Helge Guttorm Bark, composer
1936 - Csaba Szabo, composer
1936 - Ruby Johnson, US singer (I’ll Run Your Hurt Away)
1938 - Jonathan Tunick, composer
1940 - Genya Ravan, American vocalist (Goldie & the Gingerbreads, Ten Wheel Drive)
1941 - Roberto Carlos, Brazilian singer
1942 - Alan Price, England, rock keyboardist (Animals-House of the Rising Sun)
1943 - Mike Kelly, rocker (Duprees)
1944 - Bernard Worrell, US keyboardist (Funkadelic-Cosmic Slop)
1944 - Mark "Flo" Volman, rocker (Flo & Eddie, Turtles-Eleanor)/DJ (WKRK)
1947 - Murray Perahia, pianist (Avery Fischer Prize-1975, Grammy 1988), born in NYC, New York
1952 - Adny Shernoff, rocker
1953 - Rod Morgenstein, American musician (Winger)
1957 - Belinda Lipscomb, vocalist (Midnight Star-No Parking)
1957 - Bo[as] Watson, vocalist (Midnight Star-No Parking)
1957 - Rod Morgenstern, rocker (Winger)
1965 - Natalie Dessay, French soprano
1966 - Véronique Gens, French soprano
1967 - Dar Williams, American musician and songwriter
1968 - Pascal Kleiman, Spanish DJ, producer, musician
1970 - Luis Miguel, Vera Cruz Mexico, spanish singer
1976 - Ruud Jolie, Dutch guitarist (Within Temptation)

20. april

1594 - Matthaus Apelles von Lowenstern, composer
1705 - Balthasar Schmid, composer
1725 - Johann Friedrich Kloffler, composer
1748 - Georg Michael Telemann, composer
1748 - Guillaume Albert Teniers, composer
1761 - Johann Gottlieb Karl Spazier, composer
1858 - Auguste Chapuis, composer
1866 - Victor Hollaender, composer
1870 - Simeon Roncal, composer
1881 - Nikolai Miaskovsky, Novogeorievsk Poland, composer (Kirov is With Us)
1881 - Sem Dresden, composer/conductor
1895 - Emile Christian, American musician (d. 1973)
1900 - Fred Raymond, composer
1902 - Vesselin Stoyanov, composer
1907 - William Dollar, St Louis, ballet dancer/choreographer
1908 - Lionel Hampton, orchestra leader/vibraphone improviser (Depths Below)
1923 - Tito Puente, Puerto Rico, bandleader (Dance Mania)
1924 - Gerhard Samuel, composer
1925 - Richard Hoffmann, composer
1929 - Bob Braun, Ludlow Ky, singer (Dotty Mack Show)
1938 - Johnny Tillotson, Jacksonville Fla, singer (Gidget, Poetry in Motion)
1943 - John Eliot Gardiner, English conductor
1945 - Jimmy Winston, organist (Samll Facres-Itchycoo Park), born in London, England
1947 - Björn Skifs, Swedish singer (Blue Swede)
1948 - Craig Frost, keyboardist (Grand Funk Railroad-Some Kind of Wonderful)
1949 - Michal, rocker
1951 - Luther Vandross, rock vocalist (Dance with my Father), born in NYC, New York (d. 2005)
1957 - Richenel, [Hubertus R Baars], singer/performer (Turn My Page)
1963 - Brett Edward Garsed, Victoria Australia, heavy metal artist (Nelson)
1963 - Kal Swan, heavy metal rocker
1967 - Mike Portnoy, American drummer (Dream Theater)
1971 - Tina Cousins, English singer
1972 - Stephen Marley, Jamaican musician
1980 - Jasmin Wagner, German singer

21. april

1546 - Arcangelo Crivelli, composer
1672 - Johann Philipp Kafer, composer
1730 - Antonin Kammel, composer
1749 - Johann Michael Malzat, composer
1779 - William Knyvett, composer
1814 - Beni Egressy, composer
1824 - Anselmo Clave, composer
1840 - Franz Xaver Haberl, German priest/musicologist (Magister choralis)
1853 - Charles-Theodore Malherbe, composer
1854 - Wladyslaw Rzepko, composer
1871 - Leo Blech, composer
1871 - Vojtech Rihovsky, composer
1892 - Jaroslav Kvapil, composer
1899 - Clement D’Hooghe, composer
1899 - Randall Thompson, composer (Trip to Nahant), born in NYC, New York
1901 - Julian Bautista, composer
1907 - Antoni Szalowski, composer
1907 - Beatrice Kay, singer/actress, Sister Sue-Calvin & Col), born in NYC, New York
1912 - Feike P Asma, Dutch organist
1915 - Andor Kovach, composer
1919 - Don Cornell, American singer (d. 2004)
1920 - Bruno Maderna, Venice Italy, conductor/composer, Hyperion) [or Mar 21]
1924 - Ira Louvin, Rainsville Ala, country singer, Louvin Brothers)
1936 - Anthony Joseph Gnazzo, composer
1939 - John McCabe, British composer and pianist, born in Liverpool, Merseyside
1942 - Bobby McClure, US gospel singer (Don’t Mess Up a Good Thing)
1945 - Diana Darvey, British actress, singer and dancer (d. 2000)
1947 - Alan Warner, rocker (Foundations)
1947 - Iggy Pop, [James Osterberg], Mich, rocker (Zombie Birdhouse)
1947 - John Weider, bassist (Family-Family Entertainment)
1948 - Paul Davis, Meridian Mi, country/rock vocalist (I Go Crazy)
1949 - Patti LuPone, Northport NY, actress/singer (Evita, Life Goes On)
1951 - Nicoel Barclay, rocker
1951 - Robert Gotobed, English drummer (Wire)
1954 - Ebiet G. Ade, Indonesian singer
1958 - Mike Barson, rock keyboardist (Madness)
1959 - Robert Smith, Sussex, rock guitarist/vocalist (Cure-Hell’s Kitchen)
1959 - Jerry Only, American musician (The Misfits)
1959 - Michael Timmins, Canadian musician (Cowboy Junkies)
1966 - Michael Franti, American musician
1970 - Glen Hansard, Irish songwriter and actor
1972 - Gwendal Peizerat, French ice dancer
1972 - Severina Vučković, Croatian singer
1977 - Doseone, American rapper
1978 - Jukka Nevalainen, Finnish drummer (Nightwish)
1978 - Branden Steineckert, American drummer (Rancid), (The Used)

22. april

1658 - Giuseppe Torelli, Verona, Italy, composer (Concerti Grossi)
1781 - Christian Friedrich Hermann Uber, composer
1828 - Guilherme Antonio Cossoul, composer
1858 - Ethel Mary Smyth, composer
1868 - Jose Vianna da Motta, composer
1884 - Armas Emmanuel Launis, composer
1892 - Nikolai Obouhov, composer
1906 - Eric William Fenby, composer/president (Delius Society)
1912 - Gavalda Miguel Querol, composer
1916 - Yehudi Menuhin, violinist/conductor (Bartok’s Sonata), born in NYC, New York
1922 - Charles Mingus, Arizona, jazz bassist (Pithecanthropus Erectus)
1922 - Lou Stein, Phila Pa, pianist (Tonight! America After Dark)
1926 - Bob Flannigan, Greencastle Ind, singer (4 Freshmen)
1927 - Pascal Bentoiu, composer
1927 - Laurel Aitken, Jamaican singer (d. 2005)
1932 - Michael Colgrass, composer (Best Wishes), born in Chicago, Illinois
1935 - Paul Chambers, American jazz bassist (d. 1969)
1936 - Glen Campbell, Delight Ark, actor/singer (Time I Get to Phoenix)
1936 - Pierre Hétu, French Canadian conductor and pianist (d. 1998)
1937 - Jack Nitzsche, composer/songwriter (An Officer & a Gentleman)
1943 - Mel Carter, singer (Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me)
1944 - Joshua Rifkin, composer
1947 - Barry Guy, composer
1950 - Peter Frampton, Kent England, guitarist/vocalist (Frampton Comes Alive)
1951 - Paul Carrack, Sheffield England, rock vocalist (Squeeze/Ace-How Long)
1953 - Juhani Komulainen, Finnish composer
1955 - Arthur Baker, rock producer (Afrika Banbaataa-Planet Rock)
1969 - Craig Logan, Scotland, rock bassist (Bros Front, Bon Jovi-New Jersey)
1970 - Regine Velasquez, Filipino singer and actress
1974 - Shavo Odadjian, Armenian-born bassist (System of a Down)
1977 - Aaron Fink, American guitarist (Breaking Benjamin)
1978 - Jason Stollsteimer, American singer (The Von Bondies)
1979 - Daniel Johns, Australian musician (Silverchair)
1984 - Amelle Berrabah, British singer (Sugababes)

23. april

1464 - Robert Fayrfax, composer
1623 - Jan Adam Reincken, composer
1649 - Andreas Kneller, composer
1715 - Johann Friedrich Doles, composer
1735 - Ildephons Haas, composer
1747 - Alexandre-Auguste Robineau, composer
1756 - Alexander Reinagle, composer
1809 - Eugene-Prosper Prevost, composer
1812 - Louis-Antoine Julien, conductor
1821 - Pierre Dupont, song writer
1857 - Ruggero Leoncavallo, Italian composer (I pagliacci/Zaza)
1872 - Violet Gordon-Woodhouse, British musician (d. 1951)
1877 - Arthur Farwell, composer
1881 - Otakar Sini, composer
1882 - Albert Coates, St Petersburg Russia, conductor/composer (Eagle)
1890 - Donald Nichols Tweedy, composer
1891 - Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev, Sontsovka, Ukraine, composer (Peter and the Wolf)
1894 - Cow Cow Davenport, American pianist (d. 1955)
1900 - Ary Verhaar, composer
1900 - Henry Barraud, composer
1904 - Leslie French, actor/singer (More than a Miracle)
1908 - Frederick Hawkins, dancer
1913 - Jan Meyerowitz, composer
1919 - Talivaldis Kenins, composer
1920 - Louis Barron, composer
1923 - Nathan "Dambuza" Mdledle, singer
1924 - Arthur Frackenpohl, Irving NJ, composer (Natural Superiority of Music)
1927 - Russell Smith, composer
1935 - Bunky Green, American musician
1936 - Roy Orbison, Vernon Tx, rocker (Pretty Woman)
1939 - Ray Peterson, Denton Tx, singer (Tell Laura I Love Her)
1941 - Jacqueline Boyer, French singer
1943 - Hugh Davies, composer
1947 - Saskia, [Trudy van den Berg], singer (S & Serge, Spinning Wheel)
1947 - Glenn Cornick, English rock bassist (Jethro Tull-Thick as a Brick), born in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, (d. 2014)
1952 - Narada, [Michael Walden], Mich, rocker (Don’t Want Nobody Else)
1955 - Captain Sensible, [Ray Burns], UK, rock bassist (Women & Capts 1st)
1957 - Kenji Kawai, Japanese composer
1958 - Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, Icelandic music composer
1960 - Steve Clark, Hillsborough England, rock guitarist (Def Leppard)
1964 - Gen, [Simon Matthews], English pop drummer (Jesus Jones-Zeroes & Ones)
1967 - Brent Muscat, rocker (Faster Pussycat-Wake Me When It’s Over)
1970 - Dennis Bayne Culp, American singer/songwriter
1972 - Patricia Manterola, Mexican singer
1974 - Carlos Dengler, American musician (Interpol)
1975 - Jón Þór Birgisson, Icelandic musician and singer (Sigur Rós)
1979 - Barry Fratelli, Scottish bassist (The Fratellis)
1979 - Lauri Ylönen, Finnish singer (The Rasmus)
1982 - Taio Cruz, London/English R&B, Pop, Hip Hop singer

24. april

1538 - Gugliemo Gonzaga, composer
1594 - Benedikt Lechler, composer
1670 - Christian Ludwig Boxberg, composer
1706 - Giovanni Battista Martini, composer
1721 - Johann Philipp Kirnberger, German composer, baptised
1742 - Roman Hoffstetter, composer
1875 - Jeno Huszka, composer
1877 - Charles Cuvillier, composer
1897 - Gyorgy Kosa, composer
1907 - Vaclav Trojan, composer
1911 - Sigursveinn David Kristinsson, composer
1921 - Laci Boldemann, composer
1924 - Yehoshua Lakner, composer
1924 - Ruth Kobart, American actor and singer (d. 2002)
1928 - Gustav Krivinka, composer
1929 - Ferit Tuzun, composer
1930 - Jerome Callet, American musician
1933 - Freddie Scott, US songwriter/singer (Cry to Me)
1937 - Joe Henderson, American jazz saxophonist (d. 2001)
1941 - John Williams, Australian guitarist (Acad Award), born in Melbourne, Victoria
1942 - Barbra Streisand, Brooklyn New York, American singer/actress/award winner (People)
1943 - Richard Sterban, Camden NJ, country singer (Oak Ridge Boys-Elvira)
1944 - [Bernard] St Clair Lee [Calhoun], US singer (Rock the Boat)
1945 - Doug Clifford, rock drummer (Creedence Clearwater Revival-Proud Mary)
1945 - Eugene O’Brien, composer
1945 - Robert Knight, rocker
1945 - Doug Riley, Canadian musician (d. 2007)
1946 - Bruce Stuart Saylor, composer
1946 - Dick Rivers, French singer and actor
1947 - Hubert Ann Kelly, US singer (Hues Corporation/Rock the boat)
1949 - Véronique Sanson, French singer and songwriter
1953 - Porter Carroll Jr, drummer (Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover)
1954 - Jack Blades, rock bassist (Damn Yankees-Coming of Age, Night Ranger)
1957 - David J, British musician
1957 - Boris Williams, British musician
1958 - Valery Lantratov, Russian ballet dancer
1960 - Paula Yates, Mrs Bob Geldof/rocker/writer (Blondes), born in London, England
1963 - Billy Gould, rock bassist (Faith No More), born in Los Angeles, California
1963 - Joey Vera, heavy metal rocker (Armored Saint-Aftermath)
1963 - Mano Solo, French singer
1963 - Tõnu Trubetsky, Estonian musician
1968 - Aaron Comes, rocker (Spin Doctors)
1971 - Mauro Pawlowski, Belgian guitarist and singer
1974 - Joseph Bruce, American rapper
1974 - Brian Marshall, American bassist
1982 - Kelly Clarkson, Fort Worth, Texas, American singer and winner of the inaugural season of TV series American Idol
1984 - Tyson Ritter, American musician

25. april

1567 - Aurelio Signoretti, composer
1614 - Marc’Antonio Pasqualini, composer
1666 - Johann Heinrich Buttstett, composer
1690 - Gottlieb Theophil Muffat, composer
1723 - Giovanni Marco Rutini, composer
1730 - Fedele Fenaroli, composer
1818 - Marek Konrad Sokolowski, composer
1837 - William Charles Levey, composer
1841 - Pauline Lucca, soprano
1869 - Karl Prohaska, composer
1876 - Ruben Marcos Campos, composer
1897 - Haro Levoni Step’anyan, composer
1901 - Ernst Gernot Klussmann, composer
1903 - Carl Gustav Sparre Olsen, composer
1906 - Zoltan Gardonyi, composer
1907 - Vasily Pavlovich Solov’yov-Sedoy, composer
1909 - Jaroslav Doubrava, composer
1917 - Ella Fitzgerald, Newport News VA, jazz singer (Is it live or Memorex)
1918 - Astrid Varnay, Stockholm Sweden, soprano (Met Opera 1941-56)
1919 - Heinz Wunderlich, composer
1923 - Albert King, Indianola, Mississippi, American blues singer/guitarist (Bad Look Blues)
1924 - Erzsebet Szonyi, composer
1924 - Franco Mannino, composer
1926 - Paul Walter Furst, composer
1927 - Ernst Widmer, composer
1933 - Jerry Leiber, songwriter (Leiber & Stoller)
1940 - O B McClinton, [Burnett], country singer (Keep your arms around me)
1941 - Chris Augustine, rocker (Every Mother’s Son)
1942 - John Martin Dalby, composer
1945 - Bjorn Ulvaeus, rock vocalist/guitarist (ABBA-Waterloo, Dancing Queen)
1945 - Michael Kogel, rocker
1945 - Stu Cook, rock bassist (Creedence Clearwater Revival-Proud Mary)
1946 - Digby Fairweather, jazz trumpeter
1946 - Ronnie Gilbert, rocker (Lifeline, Harp)
1947 - Bill Fontana, composer
1949 - Michael Brown, keyboardist (Left Bank-Don’t Walk Away Renee), born in NYC, New York
1950 - Steve Ferrone, Sussex, rock drummer (Average White Band)
1952 - Cory Day, Bronx NY, rock vocalist
1952 - Ketil Bjørnstad, Norwegian pianist
1954 - Rob Crosby, Sumter SC, country singer (She’s a Natural)
1958 - Fish, [Derek William Dick], Scottish vocalist (Marillion-Sugar Mice)
1958 - Flab, rocker
1959 - Billy Rankin, Glasgow, Scotland, rocker
1964 - Andy Bell, rocker (Erasure-Oh L’Amour)
1965 - Eric Avery, American musician (Jane’s Addiction, Deconstruction, Polar Bear)
1970 - Tionne Watkins, American singer
1973 - Fredrik Larzon, Swedish drummer (Millencolin)
1975 - Ruben Gomez, rocker (Menudo-Cannonball)
1977 - Paavo Siljamäki, Finnish musician
1977 - Constantinos Christoforou, Cypriot singer
1977 - Matthew West, American Christian singer

26. april

1567 - Nicolas Forme, composer
1603 - Francesco Nigetti, composer
1796 - Auguste-Matthieu Panseron, composer
1806 - Ludwig Friedrich Hetsch, composer
1822 - Jan Albert van Eyken, composer/organist
1834 - Horatio Richmond Palmer, composer
1880 - Mikhail Fokine, Russia, choreographer/founder of modern dance
1886 - Ma Rainey, [Gertrude Pridgett], "Mother of the Blues" American singer (d. 1939)
1906 - Leopold Spinner, composer
1910 - Erland von Koch, composer
1910 - Ernst Tittel, composer
1914 - Wilfred Howard Mellers, composer
1916 - Arnoldus Christian Vlok van Wyk, composer
1920 - Juan C Lampe, Aruba, pianist/composer
1921 - Jimmy Giuffre, jazz musician
1922 - Paul-Andre Gaillard, composer
1924 - Russell Nype, Zion Ill, singer/actor (Burton Farley-Dorothy)
1925 - Jørgen Ingmann, Danish musician
1926 - Oldrich Frantisek Korte, composer
1932 - Francis Lai, French film music composer
1938 - Duane Eddy, Phoenix, Az, country singer (Peter Gunn, Cannonball)
1938 - Maurice Williams, rocker
1940 - Giorgio Moroder, composer/producer/singer/songwriter (Let it Ride, Cat People, Top Gun, 150 gold discs)
1941 - John Mitchell, American composer
1942 - Bobby Rydell, Phila Pa, rock singer (Wild One, Bye Bye Birdie)
1943 - Gary Wright, singer, dream weaver (Spooky Tooth-It’s All About)
1949 - Jimmy Hall, rocker (Wet Willie)
1950 - Howard "Leon" Reeder, rock guitarist (Champaign)
1950 - Peter Schaufuss, director of ballet (Deutsche Opera Berlin)
1959 - John Corabi, American Musician
1960 - Roger Taylor, rock drummer (Duran Duran-Hungry Like the Wolf)
1962 - Graham "Skin" Skinner, rocker (Hipsway)
1962 - Michael Damian, singer (Rock on)/actor (Young & Restless), born in San Diego, California
1963 - Michael Damian, actor/singer (Joseph & Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat)
1970 - Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins, American singer (TLC)
1971 - Jay DeMarcus, American bassist (Rascal Flatts)
1975 - Nathan "Joey" Jordison, American musician (Slipknot)
1975 - Nerina Pallot, British singer
1978 - Avant, American singer
1979 - Janne Wirman, Finnish musician (Children of Bodom)
1979 - Ariane Moffatt, Quebec singer and songwriter
1981 - Ms. Dynamite, English musician
1982 - Jon Lee, British singer (S Club)
1984 - Mija Martina, Bosnian singer
1985 - Nam Gyu-Ri, Korean singer, member of See Ya

27. april

1623 - Johann Adam Reincken, composer
1724 - Ferdinand Philipp Joseph Lobkowitz, composer
1767 - Andreas Jakob Romberg, German violinist/composer (Song of the Clock)
1802 - Abraham Louis Niedermeyer, composer
1803 - Alfred Julius Becher, composer
1812 - Friedrich von Flotow, composer
1824 - William Richard Bexfield, composer
1861 - Georgy L’vovich Catoire, composer
1869 - William Victor Harris, composer
1871 - Arthur Finlay Nevin, composer
1894 - Nicolas Slonimsky, composer
1905 - Philip Radcliffe, composer
1916 - Jan Rychlik, composer
1918 - Kirby Stone, jazz combo leader (Baubles Bangles & Beads), born in NYC, New York
1918 - Willem N "Pim" Koot, pianist of Concert building (Oh, Lady! Lady!)
1920 - Guido Cantelli, Italian conductor (d. 1956)
1922 - Daphne Anderson, actress (Beggar’s Opera, Hobson’s Choice), born in London, England
1927 - Connie Kay, jazz drummer
1931 - Igor Oistrach, Russian violinist/son of David Oistrach
1931 - Krzystzof Komeda, composer
1932 - Francois Bayle, composer
1932 - Maxine Brown, rocker (Browns)
1932 - Petar Ozgijan, composer
1936 - Geoffrey Shovelton, English opera singer
1939 - Jerry Mercer, Montreal Canada, rock drummer (April Wine)
1941 - Friedrich Goldmann, composer
1941 - Judith Blegen, Missoula Mont, opera singer (Papagena-Magic Flute)
1943 - Eugene Polyakov, dancer
1944 - Cuba Gooding, US singer (Everybody Plays the Fool)
1944 - Herb Pedersen, Berkley Ca, singer (Desert Rose Band-Love Reunited)
1947 - Ann Peebles, Missouri, singer (I Can’t Stand the Rain)
1947 - Herbie Murrell, US singer (Stylistics-You are My Everything)
1947 - Pete Ham, Swansea Wales, rock vocalist (Badfinger-Come & Get It)
1947 - Peter Gena, composer
1948 - Katie Pierson, NJ, vocals/guitarist (B-52’s-Rock Lobster, Love Shack)
1951 - Ace Frehley, Bronx NY, heavy metal rocker (Kiss-Beth, Frehley’s Comet)
1951 - Boris Kinberg, rock percussionist (Mink Deville)
1953 - Arielle Dombasle, French singer and actress
1956 - Bryan Harvey, American musician
1958 - Keith Denunzio, rocker
1959 - Marco Pirroni, rock guitarist (Adam & The Ants), born in London, England
1959 - Sheena Easton, [Shirley Orr], Glasgow Scotland, singer (Sugar Walls)
1959 - Louis Lortie, French Canadian concert pianist
1963 - Arther van Dijk, drummer (Ivy Green)
1967 - Tommy Smith, Scottish jazz musician
1969 - Mica Paris, rocker (So Good)
1976 - Isobel Campbell, Scottish singer and composer
1979 - Will Boyd, American musician
1981 - Fabrizio Faniello, Maltese singer
1984 - Patrick Stump, American musician (Fall Out Boy)
1984 - Frank Carter, British musician (Gallows) and tattooist
1986 - Elena Risteska, Macedonian singer
1992 - James Duke Mason, son of singer Belinda Carlisle & Morgan Mason

28. april

1715 - Franz Sparry, composer
1748 - Lorenz Justinian Ott, composer
1750 - Paul Ignaz Kurzinger, composer
1757 - Claus Nielsen Schali, composer
1826 - Alexander Stadtfeld, composer
1848 - Ludvig Schytte, composer
1870 - Hermann Suter, composer
1873 - Harold Bauer, English/US pianist (Beethoven-Association)
1892 - Georges Antoine, composer
1892 - John Jacob Niles, composer
1906 - Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor (d. 1999)
1911 - Frans Vroons, actor/tenor/director (Neth Opera)
1914 - Skuli Halldorsson, composer
1920 - Nan Merriman, US/Neth singer (Arturo Toscanini NBC Orch)
1923 - Adele Mara, Dearborn Mich, actress/singer (Cool Million, Wheels)
1923 - Wolfgang Steffen, composer
1926 - Blossom Dearie, American jazz singer
1930 - Christopher John Magenis Headington, composer
1932 - Marek Kopelent, composer
1933 - Karl Heinz Wahren, composer
1933 - Oliver "Bops Junior" Jackson, drummer
1936 - John Martin Tchicai, composer, (d. 2012)
1943 - Fantastic Johnny C[orley], US singer (Boogaloo down Broadway)
1943 - Jacques Dutronc, French singer and actor
1946 - Ginette Reno, French Canadian singer, songwriter and actress
1947 - Steve Khan, jazz musician (Christmas Waltz)
1948 - Dorothée Berryman, French Canadian actress and singer
1953 - Kim Gordon, American musician (Sonic Youth)
1955 - Eddie Jobson, rock violinist (Zappa, UK, Roxy Music-For Your Pleasure)
1957 - Wilma Landkroon, Dutch singer
1960 - Wally Langdon, bassist (Bob Color)
1964 - Noriyuki Iwadare, Japanese composer
1966 - Too Short, American rapper
1968 - Howard Donald, British musician
1972 - Joseph Bruce, American musician
1978 - Lauren Laverne, Disc jockey, television presenter and former singer
1986 - George Nozuka, Canadian Singer/Songwriter

29. april

1584 - Melchior Teschner, composer
1636 - Esaias Reusner, composer
1660 - Matthias Henriksen Schacht, composer
1727 - Jean-Georges Noverre, French dancer/choreographer (ballet d’action)
1771 - Matthaus Stegmayer, composer
1842 - Karl Millöcker, Dutch composer (d. 1899)
1855 - Anatol K Liadov, Russian composer (Bewitched Lake) [OS]
1855 - Edmund van der Straeten, composer
1857 - Frantisek Ondricek, composer
1862 - Vittorio Mario Vanzo, composer
1872 - Eyvind Alnaes, composer
1879 - Thomas Beecham, England, composer (found London Philharmonic)
1885 - Wallingford Riegger, Albany Georgia, composer (Bacchangle)
1895 - Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (Promenade Concerts)
1896 - Jacques Leon Wolfe, composer
1899 - Duke Ellington, Washington, District of Columbia, American bandleader, composer and pianist (Take the A Train)
1899 - Karl Yngve Skold, composer
1902 - Theodore Chanler, composer
1903 - Frank Parker, singer (Arthur Godfrey Show, Masquerade Party), born in NYC, New York
1904 - Russ Morgan, Scranton Pa, orchestra leader (Welcome Aboard)
1907 - Tino Rossi, Ajaccio France, singer (Deux Amours, Marlene)
1908 - Philippe Brun, jazz trumpeter
1913 - Jack Alexander Bently, trombonist
1915 - Donald Mills, singer (Mills Brothers)
1920 - Harold Samuel Shapero, Lynn Mass, composer (9 Minute Opera)
1922 - Toots [Jean] Thielemans, Belgian/US jazz musician/composer
1924 - Renée Jeanmaire, Paris France, dancer (Hans Christian Anderson)
1925 - Danny Davis, rocker (Nashville Brass
1928 - Big Jay McNeely, rocker
1928 - Carl Gardner, Tyler Tx, rock vocalist (Coasters-Searchin)
1929 - Peter Joshua Sculthorpe, composer
1929 - Vaclav Kucera, composer
1931 - Anthony "Lonnie" Donegan, Scotish skiffle vocalist/guitarist
1931 - Lonnie Donegan, Glasgow Scotland, vocalist
1933 - Darijan Bozic, composer
1933 - Raymond Earl Hill, saxophonist
1933 - Rod McKuen, American singer/composer (Alone, Beatsville), born in Oakland, California
1933 - Willie Nelson, Abbott Texas, American country singer (On the Road Again)
1934 - Otis Rush, American musician
1935 - Otto M Zykan, composer
1936 - April Stevens, Niagara Falls NY, rock vocalist (Deep Purple)
1936 - Zubin Mehta, Bombay India, conductor (NY Philharmonic)
1938 - Klaus Voormann, German musician, artist, and record producer
1942 - Klaus Voorman, rock bassist (Manfred Mann-Mighty Quinn)
1943 - Duane Allen, Taylortown Texas, country singer (Oak Ridge Boys-Elvira)
1945 - Tammi Terrell, soul singer (Ain’t No Mountain High Enough)
1945 - Hugh Hopper, rocker (Soft Machine)
1945 - [Thomasina] Tammi Terrell, [Montgomery], singer (Ain’t No Mt High)
1947 - Tommy James, singer (cri-im-son & clo-o-ver o-o-ver & o-o-ver)
1952 - Nora Dunn, comedienne (SNL, Miami Blues, Working Girl), born in Chicago, Illinois
1954 - Deborah Iyall, rocker (Romeo Void)
1956 - Ron Verlin, rocker (Shooting Star)
1956 - Ketil Stokkan, Norwegian singer
1957 - Richie C Robertson, rock bassist/vocalist (Fabulous Poodles)
1957 - Mark Kendall, American guitarist
1958 - Simon Edwards, rocker (Fairground Attraction-Find My Love)
1960 - Gerard Joling, Dutch singer (Love is in Your Eyes)
1960 - Phil King, English bassist
1967 - Master P, American rapper
1968 - Carnie Wilson, rock vocalist (Wilson Phillips-Hold On), born in Los Angeles, California
1970 - China Forbes, American singer and songwriter (Pink Martini)
1974 - Anggun, Indonesian singer
1974 - Jasper Wood, Canadian violinist
1976 - Jay Orpin, Swedish composer and producer
1979 - Jo O’Meara, British singer (S Club)
1979 - Matt Tong, English drummer (Bloc Party)
1980 - Kian Egan, Irish singer (Westlife)
1988 - Younha, Korean pop singer

30. april

1717 - Guillaume Gommaire Kennis, composer
1792 - Johann Friedrich Schwencke, composer
1837 - Alfred Gaul, composer
1870 - Franz Lehar, operetta composer (Naughty Marietta)
1883 - David John de Lloyd, composer
1884 - Albert Israel Elkus, composer
1885 - Luigi Russolo, composer
1886 - Frank Merrik, composer
1889 - Acario Cotapos, composer
1889 - Rudolph Hermann Simonsen, composer
1896 - Gary Davis, Laurens SC, blues/folk guitarist (A Little More Faith)
1902 - Andre-Francois Marescotti, composer
1902 - Rudolf Wittelsbach, composer
1903 - Gunther AR Raphael, German composer (Symphony Breve)
1911 - Hans Studer, composer
1914 - Sid Weiss, bassist
1916 - Robert Shaw, Red Bluff California, chorale conductor (Robert Shaw Chorale)
1917 - Bea Wain, US singer/radio host (Lucky Strike Hit Parade)
1920 - Leen ’t Hart, Dutch organist/composer
1924 - Sheldon Harnick, lyricist (Fiorello, Fiddler on the Roof), born in Chicago, Illinois
1925 - Johnny Horton, American musician (d. 1960)
1932 - Anton Larrauri, composer
1934 - Jerry Lordan, English composer and singer (d. 1995)
1939 - Ellen Taafe Zwilich, (1st woman composer Pulitzer 1982), born in Miami, Florida
1941 - Johnny Farina, rocker (Santo & Johnny)
1941 - Wilfried Jentzsh, composer
1944 - Richard Shoff, rocker (Sandpipers)
1945 - Mike Beacon, rocker (Ox)
1945 - Mimi Farina, rocker (Reflections in a Crystal Wind)
1948 - Wayne Kramer, guitarist (MC5, Dangerous Madness)
1953 - Merrill Osmond, Ogden Utah, singer (Osmond Brothers, Donnie & Marie)
1964 - Barrington Levy, Jamaican musician
1968 - Paulo Jr, Brazilian pop bassist (Sepultura, Morbid Visions)
1969 - Joey Restivo, Brooklyn, rocker (Linear-I Never Felt This Way, Lies)
1969 - Warren Defever, American musician, composer
1973 - Akon, American R&B Singer
1976 - Amanda Palmer, American musician (The Dresden Dolls)
1982 - Lloyd Banks, American rapper
1982 - Cleo Higgins, British singer and actress
1982 - Andrew Seeley, Canadian actor and singer
1983 - Yamini, Tamil Singer
1985 - Ashley Alexandra Dupré, American singer and call girl