Abbey Lincoln
Anna Marie Wooldridge, known professionally as Abbey Lincoln, was an American jazz vocalist. She was a civil rights activist beginning in the 1960s. Lincoln made a career out of delivering deeply felt presentations of standards as well as writing and singing her own material.
6 August 1930
Born on the same birth day (6 August): Adoniran Barbosa • Alfred, Lord Tennyson • Dom Mintoff • Egil Kapstad • Gordon Freeth • Herb Moford • Jason Crump • Jean-Baptiste Bessières • John Middleton Murry • Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues • Maja Ognjenović • Marvel Smith • Michelle Yeoh • Norman Wexler • Stéphane Peterhansel • Yuki Kajiura
Born in the same month (August 1930): Flor Silvestre • George Soros • Harve Bennett • Jackie Brenston • Jacques Tits • Leslie Manigat • Mario Bernardi • Michal Kováč • Ted Hughes