Birthdays in Music
Ornette Coleman
Mar 9 Ornette Coleman, American jazz saxophonist and composer (Downbeat Musician of Year 1966), born in Fort Worth, Texas (d. 2015)
Ornette Coleman
- Mar 10 Raymond Rasberry, pianist/singer
- Mar 12 Stanko Horvat, composer
- Mar 13 Liz Anderson, American country music singer-songwriter (Mama Spank, The Game of Triangles), born in Roseau, Minnesota (d. 2011)
- Mar 13 Jan Howard [Lula Grace Johnson], American country music singer, born in West Plains, Missouri
- Mar 13 Blue [Richard Allen] Mitchell, American jazz musician (Riverside, Blue Note), born in Miami, Florida (d. 1979)
- Mar 14 Dieter Schnebel, German vicar/composer
- Mar 16 Minoru Miky, Japanese composer for traditional Japanese instruments, born in Tokushima (d. 2011)
- Mar 18 Maurice Peress, American conductor (KC Philharmonic 1974-80), born in NYC, New York
- Mar 18 Pat Halcox, British musician, (d. 2013)
- Mar 19 Bill Henderson, American jazz singer (Torpedo-Dreams), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2016)
- Mar 20 Michel Magne, composer
- Mar 21 James Coco, American character actor and singer (Only When I Laugh, Man of La Mancha, Murder by Death), born in The Bronx, New York (d. 1987)
- Mar 22 Stephen Sondheim, American lyricist (West Side Story, Company), born in NYC, New York
- Mar 25 David Russell Burge, composer
- Mar 26 Cristobal Halffter, composer
- Mar 28 Robert Ashley, American composer, born in Ann Arbor, Michigan (d. 2014)
- Mar 28 Elizabeth Bainbridge, English opera singer, born in Rawtenstall, Lancashire
- Mar 29 Donny Conn, American musician (The Playmates), born in Waterbury, Connecticut (d. 2015)
About March 1930
How Old? 89 years old
Generation: Traditionalist or Silent Generation
Leap Year: No