Birthdays in Music
- Apr 3 George Barati, American cellist, composer, and conductor (Honolulu Symphony, 1950-67), born in Győr, Hungary (d. 1996)
Muddy Waters (1913-1983)
Apr 4 American blues guitarist ("Hoochie Coochie Man"), born in Jug's Corner (Issaquena County) or Rolling Fork, Mississippi
- Apr 11 John Lee Granderson, American Chicago-style blues guitarist, born in Ellendale, Tennessee (d. 1979)
- Apr 12 Gabor Jodal, Romanian composer, born in Székelyudvarhely (d. 1989)
- Apr 14 Jean Fournet, French conductor, born in Rouen, France (d. 2008)
- Apr 16 Constance Shacklock, English opera singer, born in Sherwood, Nottinghamshire (d. 1999)
- Apr 18 Kent Kennan, American composer, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (d. 2003)
- Apr 18 Miloš Sokola, Czech violinist and composer, born in Bučovice (d. 1976)
- Apr 23 Jan Meyerowitz, German-American composer, born in Breslau, Germany (d. 1998)
- Apr 24 Violet Archer [Balestreri], Canadian percussionist, composer, teacher, and organist, born in Montréal Quebec (d. 2000)
- Apr 25 Earl Bostic, American jazz alto saxophonist (Flamingo, Temptation), born in Tulsa, Oklahoma (d. 1965)
- Apr 29 Jack Bently, English big band trombonist (Ted Heath), and journalist (Sunday Mirror), born in Manchester (d. 1994)
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