1895 in Music - Births

Births

• January 7 – Clara Haskil, pianist (died 1960)
• January 27 – Buddy De Sylva, songwriter (died 1950)
• February 7 – Irving Aaronson, jazz pianist and big band leader (died 1963)
• February 28 – Guiomar Novaes, Brazilian pianist (died 1979)
• March 4 – Bjarne Brustad, Norwegian composer and violinist (died 1978)
• March 23 – Dane Rudhyar, composer (died 1985)
• March 31 – Lizzie Miles, singer (died 1963)
• April 1 – Alberta Hunter, singer (died 1984)
• April 3
  • Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, composer (died 1968)
  • Zez Confrey, pianist and composer (died 1971)
• April 9 – Mance Lipscomb, popular singer (died 1976)
• April 23 – Jimmie Noone, jazz musician
• April 29 – Sir Malcolm Sargent, conductor (died 1967)
• May 1 – Leo Sowerby, composer (died 1968)
• May 2 – Lorenz Hart, US lyricist (died 1943)
• May 6 – Rudolph Valentino, dancer and actor (died 1926)
• May 11 – William Grant Still, composer (died 1978)
• June 10 – Hattie McDaniel, singer and actress (died 1952)
• June 16 – Lew Pollack, US composer (died 1946)
• July 4 – Irving Caesar, US lyricist and librettist (died 1996)
• July 5 – Gordon Jacob, English composer (died 1984)
• July 10 – Carl Orff, German composer (died 1982)
• July 12 – Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist (died 1960)
• July 13 – Bradley Kincaid, folk singer (died 1989)
• July 25 – Yvonne Printemps, singer and actress (died 1977)
• August 6 – Ernesto Lecuona, Cuban composer (died 1963)
• August 10 – Harry Richman, US singer, actor and composer (died 1972)
• August 13 – Bert Lahr, vaudeville performer (died 1967)
• September 9 – Harry Tobias, US lyric writer (died 1994)
• September 16 – Karol Rathaus, Austrian (Ukrainian) composer (died 1954)
• September 22 – Herbert Janssen, German baritone (died 1965)
• September 26 – George Raft, Hollywood actor and Broadway entertainer
• October 11 – Jakov Gotovac, Croatian composer and conductor (died 1982)
• October 12 – Tubby Hall, jazz drummer (died 1945)
• October 17 – Doris Humphrey, dancer (died 1958)
• October 29 – Harry Ruby, songwriter (died 1974)
• November 5 – Walter Gieseking, German pianist and composer
• November 16 – Paul Hindemith, German composer (died 1963)
• November 28 – José Iturbi, pianist (died 1980)
• November 29 – Busby Berkeley, film director, choreographer (died 1976)
• November 30 – Johann Nepomuk David, composer (died 1977)
• December 2 – Harriet Cohen, pianist (died 1967)
• December 16 – Andy Razaf, composer, poet and lyricist (died 1973)