1900 in Music - Births

Births

• January 1 - Xavier Cugat, bandleader (d. 1990)
• January 6 - Pierre-Octave Ferroud, French composer (d. 1936)
• January 13 - Yasuji Kiyose, Japanese composer (d. 1981)
• February 13 - Wingy Manone, U.S. jazz musician (d. 1982)
• March 2 - Kurt Weill, German composer. (d. 1950)
• March 10 - Peter De Rose, US composer (d. 1953)
• April 2 - Anis Fuleihan, Cypriot-born US composer (d. 1970)
• April 8 - Gavriel Mullokandov, Bukharian Jewish singer and musician (died 1972)
• April 11 - Kai Normann Andersen, Danish composer (died 1967)
• April 23 - Henry Barraud, French composer (died 1997)
• May 17 - Nicolai Berezowsky, Russian composer (died 1953)
• My 27 - Leopold Godowsky, Jr., American violinist and chemist (died 1983)
• May 28 - Tommy Ladnier, jazz musician (died 1939)
• June 15 - Paul Mares, jazz musician (died 1949)
• June 24 - Gene Austin, US singer and composer (died 1972)
• July 8 - George Antheil, composer (died 1959)
• July 10
  • Evelyn Laye, English actress and singer (died 1996)
  • Mitchell Parish, US lyricist (died 1993)
• July 13 - George Lewis, jazz musician (died 1968)
• July 29 - Don Redman, US arranger, bandleader and saxophonist (died 1964)
• August 2 - Helen Morgan, US singer and actress (died 1941)
• August 8 - Lucius "Lucky" Millinder, US bandleader (died 1966)
• August 22 - Váša Příhoda, Czech violinist (died 1960)
• August 23 - Ernst Krenek, composer (died 1991)
• September 3 - Eduard van Beinum, Dutch conductor (died 1959)
• September 7 - Joan Cross, operatic soprano (died 1993)
• October 9 - Elmer Snowden, banjo player (died 1973)
• October 19 - Erna Berger, coloratura soprano (died 1990)
• November 14 - Aaron Copland, composer (died 1990)
• November 25 - Arthur Schwartz, US composer (died 1984)
• November 27 - Robert Blum, Swiss composer (died 1994)
• December 12 - Sammy Davis, Sr., vaudeville entertainer (died 1988)
• December 14 - Juan d'Arienzo, tango musician (died 1976)
• December 17 - Lucijan Marija Škerjanc, Slovene composer, pedagogue and conductor (died 1973)
• December 29 - B. H. Haggin, music critic (died 1987)