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Robert T. Smith (aka Piano Slim) born 1 August 1928
Robert T. Smith (aka Piano Slim)* (1 August 1928 – 30 December 2011) was a Texas blues singer. He was born in LaGrange, Texas to Elvina Thompson and George Smith, a family of sharecroppers in the...
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Joe Harnell born 2 August 1924
Joseph Harnell (August 2, 1924 – July 14, 2005) was an American composer, musician, and music arranger. His father was a vaudeville performer who also played in jazz and klezmer ensembles. Harnell...
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Lawrence Brown born 3 August 1907
Lawrence Brown (August 3, 1907 – September 5, 1988) was a jazz trombonist from California best remembered for his work with the Duke Ellington orchestra. He was a session musician throughout his...
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Irving Fields born 4 August 1915
Irving Fields (August 4, 1915 – August 20, 2016) was an American pianist, composer, arranger and bandleader. Fields was born  Yitzhak Schwartz on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the youngest of six...
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Pat Kelly born 6 August 1944
Horatious Adolphus "Pat" Kelly (6 August 1944* – 16 July 2019) was a Jamaican rocksteady and reggae singer with a distinctive and utterly beautiful falsetto voice,.whose career began in the mid-1960s....
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Victor Young born 8 August 1899
Albert Victor Young (August 8, 1899– November 10, 1956) was an American composer, arranger, violinist and conductor.Young is commonly said to have been born in Chicago on August 8, 1900, but according...
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Jimmy Martin born 10 August 1927
James Henry Martin (August 10, 1927 – May 14, 2005) was an American bluegrass musician, known as the "King of Bluegrass". Martin was born in Sneedville, Tennessee, United States, and was raised in the...
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Jess Stacy born 11 August 1904
Jesse Stacy (August 11, 1904 – January 1, 1995) was an American jazz pianist who gained prominence during the swing era. He is perhaps best known for his years with the Benny Goodman band during the...
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Rex Griffin born 12 August 1912
Alsie "Rex" Griffin (August 12, 1912 – October 11, 1959) was an American country musician and songwriter. Griffin was born in Gadsden, Alabama as the second of seven children to Marion and Selma...
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Baby Boy Warren born 13 August 1919
Baby Boy Warren (August 13, 1919 – July 1, 1977) was an American blues singer and guitarist who was a leading figure on the Detroit blues scene in the 1950s. The denizens of Detroit's post-war blues...
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Norma Waterson born 15 August 1939
Norma Christine Waterson MBE (15 August 1939 – 30 January 2022) was an English singer and songwriter, best known as one of the original members of The Watersons, a celebrated English traditional folk...
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Kevin Ayers born 16 August 1944
Kevin Ayers (16 August 1944 – 18 February 2013) was an English singer-songwriter who was founder member of Soft Machine and a key figure in British psychedelic rock. He produced some outstanding...
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Sam Butera born 17 August 1927
Sam Butera (August 17, 1927 – June 3, 2009) was an American tenor saxophonist best noted for his collaborations with Louis Prima and Keely Smith. Butera is frequently regarded as a crossover artist who...
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Curtis Jones born 18 August 1906
Curtis Jones (August 18, 1906 – September 11, 1971) was a melodic, Texas Blues pianist with a distinctive light touch, who enjoyed a successful recording career in Chicago before WWII, and then had a...
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Don Fardon born 19 August 1940
Don Fardon (born 19 August 1940, Coventry, Warwickshire, England) is an English pop singer, best known for his cover of the song "Indian Reservation" (1968), a UK number 3 hit and global million...
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Tom Clay born 20 August 1922
Tom Clay (born Thomas Clague; August 20, 1929 – November 22, 1995) was a controversial American radio personality and disc jockey. Thomas Clague was born in New York, and in the 1950s he was popular in...
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Christiane Legrand born 21 August 1930
Christiane Legrand (21 August 1930 – 1 November 2011) was a French soprano and sister of Michel Legrand. Legrand was born in in Aix-les-Bains, Savoie, France. Her father Raymond Legrand was a conductor...
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John Lee Hooker born 22 August 1917
John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1912 – June 21, 2001) was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Hooker's date of birth is a subject of debate; the years 1912, 1915, 1917, 1920, and 1923 have...
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Barbara Eden born 23 August 1931
Barbara Eden (born, August 23, 1931) is an American actress, singer, and producer.Barbara Eden, born Barbara Jean Morehead in Tucson, Arizona, became one of America's most endearing and enduring...
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Buster Smith born 24 August 1904
Henry Franklin "Buster" Smith (August 24, 1904 – August 10, 1991), also known as Professor Smith, was an American jazz alto saxophonist and mentor to Charlie Parker. Smith was instrumental in...
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