Musicians Born in 1932

John Williams

Feb 8 John Williams, American composer responsible for some of the most recognizable film scores (Jaws, Star Wars, Harry Potter, India Jones, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial), born in NYC, New York

Feb 10 Rockin Dopsie Sr [Alton Jay Rubin], American Jazz-Fusion singer (Zydeco), born in Carencro, Louisiana (d. 1993)
Feb 11 Jerome Lowenthal, American concert pianist, and educator (Julliard; Jerusalem Academy of Music), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Feb 16 Gretchen Wyler, American actress, dancer (Silk Stockings), and animal rights activist, born in Bartlesville, Oklahoma (d. 2007)
Feb 16 Otis Blackwell, American songwriter ("Fever"; "Don't Be Cruel"; "Great Balls Of Fire"; All Shook Up"), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2002)
Feb 16 Harry Goz, American musical theatre actor and voice actor, born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 2003)
Feb 17 Charles "Buck" Trent, American banjoist and singer (Hee Haw), born in Spartanburg, South Carolina
Feb 19 Jean-Pierre Ponnele, French opera director (Carmina Burana), born in Paris, France
Feb 24 Michel Legrand, French composer and jazz musician (Summer of '42, Windmills of Your Mind), born in Paris, France (d. 2019)
Feb 25 Faron Young, American country singer ("Hello Walls"; "It's Four in the Morning"), and actor (Hidden Guns; Daniel Boone, Trailblazer), born in Shreveport, Louisiana (d. 1996)
Feb 25 Martin William Karlins, American contemporary classical composer, born in North Brook, Illinois (d. 2005)
Feb 25 Åke Persson, Swedish bebop jazz trombonist (Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band, 1963–71), born in Hässleholm Sweden (d. 1975)

Johnny Cash

Feb 26 Johnny Cash, American country singer ("I Walk the Line"; "Ring of Fire": "A Boy Named Sue"), born in Kingsland, Arkansas (d. 2003)

Feb 28 Donald "Don" Francks, Canadian actor, singer and musician (Terminal Choice; Finian's Rainbow), born in Vancouver, British Columbia (d. 2016)
Feb 29 Reri Grist, African-American coloratura soprano
Mar 1 Jacques Leduc, Belgian composer, born in Jette (d. 2016)
Mar 4 Guido Baggiani, Italian composer, born in Naples, Italy
Mar 4 Miriam Makeba, South African singer and civil rights activist (Grammy for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording, 1965), born in Johannesburg, South Africa (d. 2008) [1]
Mar 5 Robert Lombardo, American composer and composition teacher (The Music Conservatory of Chicago College. 1964-99), born in Hartford, Connecticut
Mar 7 Ed Thrasher, American Grammy Award-winning art director (Warner Brothers Records, 1964-79), and photographer (album art for Frank Sinatra; Jimi Hendrix, Grateful Dead), born in Glendale, California (d. 2006)
Mar 11 Leroy Jenkins, American composer and violinist (d. 2007)
Mar 15 Arif Mardin, Turkish-American music producer (Atlantic Records: Aretha Franklin; Bee Gees), born in Istanbul, Turkey (d. 2006)
Mar 17 Dick Curless, American country music singer-songwriter (A Tombstone Every Mile), born in Fort Fairfield, Maine (d. 1995)
Mar 20 Tod Dockstader, composer
Mar 21 Joseph Silverstein, American violinist, concertmaster and conductor (Boston Symphony Orchestra, 1955-84), born in Detroit, Michigan
Mar 22 Leo "Bud" Welch, American gospel and Delta blues singer-songwriter and guitarist ("You Can't Hurry God"; "Cadillac Baby"), born in Sabougla, Mississippi (d. 2017)
Mar 23 Louisiana Red [Iverson Minter], American blues guitarist, and singer-songwriter ("Sweet Blood Call"), born in Bessemer, Alabama (d. 2012)
Mar 27 [Herman] Junior Parker, American blues singer and musician ("Mystery Train"), born in Bobo, Mississippi (d. 1971)
Apr 1 (Mary Frances) "Debbie" Reynolds, American actress and singer (Singin' In The Rain -"Kathy Selden"; The Unsinkable Molly Brown), born in El Paso, Texas (d. 2016)
Apr 1 Jiri Smutny, Czech composer, born in Prague

Anthony Perkins

Apr 4 Anthony Perkins, American actor (Psycho; Friendly Persuasion;, Fear Strikes Out; Pretty Poison), and singer, born in NYC, New York (d. 1992)

Apr 4 Clive Davis, American record producer and music industry executive (Columbia, Arista, Sony), born in Brooklyn, New York
Apr 5 Billy Bland, American singer and songwriter, born in Wilmington, North Carolina (d. 2017)
Apr 7 Louis "Mr Bo" Collins, American blues singer
Apr 9 Carl Perkins, American rockabilly singer and songwriter ("Blue Suede Shoes"; "Honey Don't"), born in Jackson, Tennessee (d. 1998)
Apr 9 Armin Jordan, Swiss conductor, born in Luzern, Switzerland (d. 2006)
Apr 9 Abdul Mati [Matias Klarwein], French artist known for his works used on music album covers (Santana's Abraxus; Miles Davis' Bitches Brew; Osibisa's Heads; Jon Hassel's Dream Theory), born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 2002)
Apr 10 Adrian Henri, British poet and founder of poetry-rock group (Liverpool Scene), born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England (d. 2000)
Apr 10 Nate Nelson, American singer (Flamingos - "I Only Have Eyes for You"), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1984)
Apr 10 Kishori Amonkar, Indian classical Hindustani singer, born in Bombay (d. 2017)
Apr 11 Joel Grey [Katz], American Tony, Grammy, and Academy Award-winning actor and singer (Cabaret; Remo Williams; 7% Solution), born in Cleveland, Ohio
Apr 11 Max Schubel, American composer (Opus One Records), born in New York (d. 2010)
Apr 12 Henri Lazarof, Bulgarian composer, born in Sofia, Bulgaria (d. 2013)
Apr 12 Tiny Tim [Herbert Khaury], American singer and ukulele player ("Tiptoe Through The Tulips"), born in Manhattan, New York (d. 1996)
Apr 13 Karl Kroeger, American composer, born in Louisville, Kentucky

Loretta Lynn

Apr 14 Loretta Lynn, American country singer-songwriter ("Coal Miner's Daughter"; "Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man"), born in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky

Apr 16 Vince Hill, English pop singer ("Roses of Picardy"; "La Vie en Rose"), born in Holbrooks, Coventry, England
Apr 17 Graziella Sciutti, Italian opera singer, born in Turin, Italy
Apr 17 Arthur "Art" Ellefson, Canadian jazz saxophonist, born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan
Apr 20 Gerry Granahan, American rocker (Dickey Doo & The Dont's), born in Pittston, Pennsylvania
Apr 21 Slide Hampton [Locksley Wellington Hampton], American jazz trombonist, composer and arranger, born in Jeanette, Pennsylvania (d. 2021)
Apr 22 Michael Colgrass, American-Canadian composer ("Déjà vu" - Pulitzer Prize for Music, 1978), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2019)
Apr 26 Francis Lai, French film music composer (Love Story), born in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France (d. 2018)
Apr 27 François Bayle, French electronic music composer, born in Toamasina, Madagascar
Apr 27 Petar Ozgijan, Yugoslav composer, born in Dubrovnik, Croatia (d. 1979)
Apr 28 Marek Kopelent, Czech composer, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia
Apr 30 Antón Larrauri, Spanish composer, born in Bilbao, Spain
May 2 Malcolm Lipkin, English composer, born in Liverpool, England (d. 2017)
May 4 Fausto Razzi, Italian composer, born in Rome
May 5 Aurel Stroe, Romanian composer, born in Bucharest (d. 2008)
May 6 Günther Hauk, German composer, born in Chemnitz, Germany (d. 1979)
May 6 Leon Hughes, American pop-rock singer (The Coasters - "Young Blood"), born in Dallas, Texas
May 6 Konrad Ragossnig, Austrian classical guitarist and lutenist, born in Klagenfurt, Austria. (d. 2018)
May 7 Derek Taylor, English publicist for the Beatles, born in Liverpool, Merseyside (d. 1997)
May 14 [Donald William] Bob Johnston, American music producer (Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Simon & Garfunkel), born in Hillsboro, Texas (d. 2015)
May 16 (Isaac) "Redd" Holt, American jazz and soul drummer (Ramsey Lewis Trio, 1956-66 - "The In Crowd"; Young-Holt Unlimited - "Soulful Strut"), born in Rosedale, Mississippi
May 19 Alma Cogan, British pop singer ("Dreamboat"; "I Can't Tell a Waltz from a Tango"), born in Whitechapel, London, England (d. 1966)
May 19 Claude Blanchard, French Canadian singer, comedian and actor, born in Joliette, Canada (d. 2006)
May 21 Robert Sherlaw Johnson, British composer and music scholar, born in Sunderland
May 24 Elaine Malbin, American opera singer, born in NYC, New York
May 26 Alvin Ing, American stage and screen singer and actor (Flower Drum Song), born in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaiʻi (d. 2021)
May 28 Henning Christiansen, Danish experimental composer, born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 2008)
May 30 Pauline Oliveros, composer (Sound Patterns), born in Houston, Texas (d. 2016)
May 30 Seppo Nummi, Finnish composer and music critic, born in Oulu, Finland (d. 1981)
Jun 2 Sammy Turner, American pop and R&B singer ("Lavender Blue"; "Always"), born in Patterson, New Jersey
Jun 4 Oliver Nelson, American jazz composer and arranger (The Blues and the Abstract Truth), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1975)
Jun 5 Pete Jolly [Ceragioli], American session and West Coast jazz pianist, and accordionist (Shorty Rogers; Pete Jolly Trio), born in New Haven, Connecticut (d. 2004)
Jun 7 (Harold) "Tina" Brooks, American hard-bop jazz saxophonist, and composer ("True Blue"), born in Fayetteville, North Carolina (d. 1974)
Jun 8 Hans G. Helms, German writer and composer, born in Teterow, Germany (d. 2012)
Jun 12 Charlie Feathers, American country music and rockabilly singer-songwriter, and musician ("Can't Hardly Stand It"), born in Holly Springs, Mississippi (d. 1998)
Jun 14 Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, American pianist, arranger, jazz and classical composer (For Bird, With Love), born in Manhattan, New York (d. 2004)
Jun 19 Ernest Ranglin, Jamaican guitarist (Studio One, Jimmy Cliff), born in Manchester, Jamaica
Jun 21 Jamil Nasser [George Joyner], American jazz double and electric bassist, and tuba player, born in Memphis, Tennessee (d. 2010)
Jun 21 (Boris) "Lalo" Schifrin, Argentine-American jazz pianist and composer (Mission Impossible; Caveman), born in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Jun 21 O. C Smith, American jazz singer ("Little Green Apples"), born in Mansfield, Louisiana (d. 2001)
Jun 22 Michael Horvit, American composer, born in New York City
Jun 27 Hugh Wood, British composer, born in Parbold, Lancashire
Jun 27 Anna Moffo, American soprano (Adventurers), born in Wayne, Pennsylvania (d. 2006)
Jun 27 Magali Noël [Guiffray], French actress and singer, born in Izmir, Turkey (d. 2015)
Jun 30 Martin Mailman, American composer, born in NYC, New York (d. 2000)
Jul 1 Bobby Day [Robert Byrd], American rock vocalist ("Rockin' Robin"), born in Fort Worth, Texas (d. 1990)
Jul 2 Sammy Turner, vocalist (Lavender Blue), born in Paterson, New Jersey
Jul 6 Della Reese [Delloreese Patricia Early], American singer and actress (Della Reese Show, Royal Family), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 2017)
Jul 7 [Josef] Joe Zawinul, Austrian-American jazz keyboardist, composer and bandleader (Weather Report - "Birdland"), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 2007)
Jul 11 Alex Hassilev, American actor and folk musician (The Limeliters), born in Paris, France
Jul 11 Bob McGrath, American musician, voice artist and actor (Sesame Street), born in Ottawa, Illinois
Jul 11 Billy Davis, American music producer and songwriter ("I'd Like To Buy The World A Coke"), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 2004)
Jul 13 Per Nørgård, Danish composer (Papalagi; Babette's Feast), born in Gentofte, Denmark
Jul 15 Nina Van Pallandt, Danish actress and singer (American Gigolo), born in Copenhagen Denmark
Jul 16 John Chilton, English jazz trumpeter (Feetwarmers), born in London (d. 2016)
Jul 17 Niccolo Castiglioni, Italian composer, born in Milan, Italy (1996)
Jul 17 Wojciech Kilar, Polish classical (Missa Pro Pace), and film score composer (Bram Stoker's Dracula; The Pianist), born in Lwów, Second Polish Republic (now Ukraine) (d. 2013)
Jul 19 Arley "Buster" Benton, American blues singer and guitarist, born in Texarkana, Arkansas (d. 1996)
Jul 20 Nam June Paik, Korean avant-garde composer, and video artist (Medium is the Medium; hommage à john cage), born in Seoul, Korea (d. 2006)
Jul 25 Gibson Kente, South African playwright and composer, born in Duncan Village, Eastern Cape (d. 2014)
Jul 28 Vinnie Bell [Gambella], American session guitarist, electric sitar player, and pioneer of electronic effects in pop music, born in Brooklyn, New York City (d. 2019)
Jul 31 Morey Carr, American singer (Playmates) (d. 1987)
Aug 2 Marvin David Levy, American composer (Mourning Becomes Electra), born in Passaic, New Jersey (d. 2015)
Aug 5 Tera de Marez Oyens, Dutch composer, born in Velsen, Netherlands (d.1996)
Aug 8 (Lonnie Melvin) "Mel" Tillis, American country singer ("Who's Julie"; "M-M-Mel"), born in Pahokee, Florida (d. 2017)
Aug 10 Alexander Goehr, composer
Aug 10 Trudy Pitts, American jazz Hammond B-3 organist, pianist, and vocalist, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 2010)
Aug 12 Sergey Mikhaylovich Slonimsky, composer

Melvin Van Peebles

Aug 21 Melvin Van Peebles, American stage and screen actor, director (Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song; Sophisticated Gent), composer, and novelist, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2021)

Aug 23 Mark Russell, American political satirist and pianist (Real People), born in Buffalo, New York
Aug 24 Richard Graham Meale, Australian composer (Three Miró Pieces; Voss), born in Sydney, Australia (d. 2009)
Aug 27 François Glorieux, Flemish pianist and composer, born in Courtrai, Belgium
Aug 28 Carlene Polite, American dancer, activist and author (Sister X), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 2009)
Aug 31 Roy Castle, English dancer and television entertainer (Record Breakers), born in Scholes, Yorkshire (d. 1994)
Sep 2 Walter Davis Jr., American hard bop pianist (Davis Cup, Illumination), born in Richmond, Virginia (d. 1990)
Sep 2 Emil Richards [Radocchia], American session and touring vibraphonist and percussionist [George Shearing; Frank Sinatra; Lalo Schifrin; Frank Zappa; George Harrison; Harry Partch; Shadowfax), born in Hartford, Connecticut (d. 2019)
Sep 3 (Granville) "Mickey" Roker, American jazz drummer (Art Farmer; Milt Jackson; Dizzy Gillespie), born in Miami, Florida (d. 2017)
Sep 6 Gilles Tremblay, Canadian composer, born in Saguenay, Canada (d. 2017)

Patsy Cline

Sep 8 Patsy Cline [Virginia Henlsey], American country singer ("Crazy"; "I Fall To Pieces"; "Walkin' After Midnight"), born in Winchester, Virginia (d. 1963)

Sep 11 Ian Hamer, British jazz trumpeter and session musician (Beatles - "Got To Get You Into My Life"; Top of the Pops studio band), born in Liverpool, England (d. 2006)
Sep 13 Bengt Hallberg, Swedish jazz pianist and composer, born in Gothenburg, Sweden (d. 2013)
Sep 13 Bronius Kutavičius, Lithuanian composer (The Gates of Jerusalem; Lokys) and teacher (Čiurlionis School of Art, 1975-2000), born in Molainiai, Lithuania (d. 2021)
Sep 21 Don Preston, American rock and jazz keyboard player (Mothers Of Invention/Frank Zappa, 1966-74), born in Flint, Michigan
Sep 24 Svetlana Beriosova, Lithuanian-British ballerina, born in Kaunas, Lithuania (d. 1998)
Sep 25 Glenn Gould, Canadian classical pianist (Bach's Goldberg Variations) and broadcaster (Solitude Trilogy), born in Toronto, Ontario (d. 1982)
Sep 26 Giacomo Manzoni, Italian composer, born in Milan, Italy
Sep 27 Mario Bertoncini, Italian composer, born in Rome, Italy (d. 2019)
Sep 28 Víctor Jara, Chilean folk singer and activist (d. 1973)
Sep 29 Jeremy Isaacs, Scottish TV executive (Channel 4) and director of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, born in Glasgow, Scotland
Sep 29 Mehmood [Ali], Indian actor, singer, director and producer (Do Phoo!, Vardaan), born in Bombay, British India (d. 2004)
Oct 1 Albert Collins, American blues guitarist (Ice Pickin'; Don't Lose Your Cool; Showdown!), born in Leona, Texas (d. 1993)
Oct 8 (Roddis) "Pete" Drake, American pedal steel guitarist and producer, born in Augusta, Georgia (d. 1988)
Oct 9 Alfons Kontarsky, German concert pianist (best known for duo-piano performance with his brother, Aloys) and educator, born in Iserlohn, Germany (d. 2010)
Oct 11 Dottie West, American country singer ("Here Comes My Baby"), born in Nashville, Tennessee (d. 1991)
Oct 12 Joel Mandelbaum, American composer, born in New York
Oct 13 Liliane Montevecchi, French-Italian actress, dancer, and singer (Nine; Grand Hotel), born in Paris, France (d. 2018)
Oct 13 Johnny Lytle, American jazz drummer and vibraphonist, known as "Fast Hands", born in Springfield, Ohio (d. 1995)
Oct 14 Enrico di Giuseppe, American tenor, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 2005)
Oct 15 Jaan Rääts, Estonian pianist, orchestral and film score composer, born in Tartu, Estonia (d. 2020)
Oct 16 Henry Jay Lewis, American double-bassist and conductor (Los Angeles Philharmonic 1948-65), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1996)
Oct 17 Gundaris Poné, Latvian-American violinist, composer, and educator (NYU-New Paltz, 1964-94), born in Riga, Latvia (d. 1994)
Nov 6 Stonewall Jackson, American country music musician ("Waterloo"; "A Wound Time Can't Erase"), born in Tabor City, North Carolina (d. 2021)
Nov 11 Al Levitt, American jazz drummer, born in NYC, New York (d. 1994)
Nov 14 Ramon Zupko, American composer, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Nov 15 Clyde McPhatter, American R&B and doo-wop tenor vocalist, arranger and songwriter (The Dominos, 1950-53 - "Sixty Minute Man"; The Drifters, 1953-55 -"Honey Love"; solo - "Treasure My Love"), born in Durham, North Carolina (d. 1972)
Nov 15 [Sally] Petula Clark, English singer-songwriter (Downtown, My Love), born in Epsom, England
Nov 20 John Barnes Chance, American composer, born in Beaumont, Texas (d. 1972)
Nov 21 Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, Danish composer (Symphony and Antiphony), born in Copenhagen; (d. 2016)
Nov 26 Alan Stout, American composer, born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 2018)
Nov 28 Ethel Ennis, American jazz singer (If Women Ruled The World), born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 2019)
Nov 28 Gato Barbieri, Latin jazz musician (Last Tango in Paris), born in Rosario, Argentina (d. 2016)
Nov 29 Antoine Tisné, French composer, born in Lourdes, France (d. 1998)
Nov 29 John Gary [Strader], American singer (Cold), born in Watertown, New York (d. 1998)
Nov 30 Bob Moore, American session double bassist (Patsy Cline; Elvis Presley; Roger Miller), and orchestra leader ("Mexico"), born in Nashville, Tennessee (d. 2021)
Dec 3 Corry Brokken, Dutch pop singer (1957 Eurovision), born in Breda, The Netherlands (d. 2016)
Dec 4 Édgar Valcárcel, Peruvian pianist and composer, born in Puno, Peru (d. 2010)

Little Richard

Dec 5 Little Richard [Wayne Penniman], American singer-songwriter and rock 'n' roll pioneer (Tutti Frutti), born in Macon, Georgia (d. 2020)

Dec 5 James Cleveland, American gospel singer, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1991)
Dec 9 Jessie Hill, American jazz musician (Ooh Poo Pah Doo), born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 1996)
Dec 9 Donald Byrd, American jazz trumpeter (Black Byrd), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 2013)
Dec 14 Abbe Lane, American singer and wife of Xavier Cugat (Xavier Cugat Show), born in Brooklyn, New York
Dec 14 Charlie Rich, American country vocalist (Behind Closed Doors), born in Colt, Arkansas (d. 1995)
Dec 15 Elaine Barkin, American composer, born in The Bronx, New York
Dec 15 Igor Stuhec, Slovenian composer, born in Kremberk
Dec 15 Curtis Fuller, American jazz trombonist (Yusef Lateef; John Coltrane; Farmer/Golson Jazztet), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 2021)
Dec 16 Rodion Konstantinovich Schedrin, Soviet-Russian pianist, organist, and composer (The Little Hump-backed Horse), born in Moscow, Russia
Dec 21 Ilja Zeljenka, Slovak composer (Oświęcim), born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia) (d. 2007)
Dec 28 Dorsey Burnette, rockabilly singer ("Tall Oak Tree"; "Hey Little One"), born in Memphis, Tennessee (d. 1979)
Dec 28 [Grace] Nichelle Nichols, American actress (Star Trek - "Lt. Uhura") and singer (Down To Earth; "Fly Me To The Moon"), born in Robbins, Illinois

About 1932

How Old? 89 or 90 years old
Generation: Silent Generation

Chinese Zodiac: Goat/Sheep (Jan 1 - Feb 5), Monkey (Feb 6 - Dec 31)

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