Birthdays in Music on August 6

1619 Barbara Strozzi, composer
1651 Johann Michael Zacher, composer
1664 Johann Christoph Schmidt, composer
1665 Jean-Baptiste Lully fils, French musician and son of Jean-Baptiste Lully, born in Paris, France (d. 1743)
1748 Bernhard Haltenberger, composer
1858 Albert Fuchs, composer
1873 Mary Carr Moore, composer
1875 Marcel Labey, composer
1883 Francesco Santoliquido, composer
1886 Edward Ballantine, composer
1888 Heinrich Schlusnus, German baritone (d. 1952)
1896 Cyril Mockridge, composer
1902 Michal Vilec, composer
1906 Vic Dickenson, American trombonist (d. 1984)
1908 George Singer, composer
1908 Svend Erik Tarp, composer
1910 Friedrich Schroder, composer
1918 Norman Granz, American record producer (d. 2001)
1923 Jack Parnell, orchestra leader (Englebert Humperdick Show), born in London, England
1925 Leland Smith, composer
1929 Mike Elliott, saxophonist, born in Jamaica, West Indies
1930 Abbey Lincoln, actress/singer (Nothing But a Man), born in Chicago, Illinois
1937 Baden Powell de Aquino, Brazilian guitarist (d. 2000)
1937 Paul Griffin, American session musician and pianist, born in Harlem, New York
1937 Charlie [Charles Edward] Haden, American jazz double-bassist (Liberation Music Orchestra), born in Shenandoah, Iowa (d. 2014)
1939 William "Sonny" Sanders, US singer (Rayber Voices)
1941 Doris Ernestine Hays, composer
1946 Allan Holdsworth, British guitarist, born in Bradford (d. 2017)
1952 Ton Scherpenzeel, Dutch rock keyboardist (Kayak, Earth & Fire), born in Hilversum, The Netherlands
1952 Vinnie Vincent, heavy metal rocker (Solo-Ashes to Ashes)
1953 Pat MacDonald, rocker (Timbuk 3)
1954 Elma Miller, Canadian composer, born in Toronto
1958 Randy DeBarge, rock vocalist/bassist (Debarge), born in Grand Rapids Michigan
1958 Simon Francken, Dutch bassist (Ivy Green)
1959 Joyce Sims, rocker (All & All)
1965 Yuki Kajiura, Japanese composer
1969 Elliott Smith, American musician (d. 2003)