Airto Moreira

Airto Guimorvan Moreira is a Brazilian jazz drummer and percussionist. He is married to jazz singer Flora Purim, and their daughter Diana Moreira is also a singer. Coming to prominence in the late 1960s as a member of the Brazilian ensemble Quarteto Novo, he moved to the United States and worked in jazz fusion with Miles Davis, Return to Forever, Weather Report and Santana.

5 August 1941

Born on the same birth date (5 August 1941): Bob Clark • Leonid Kizim

Born on the same birth day (5 August): Athula Samarasekera • Carl Crawford • Christopher Gunning • Colin McRae • Conrad Aiken • Eric Hinske • Gay Byrne • Harel Levy • Harold Holt • Herminio Masantonio • Ivar Aasen • Jack Cogger • John Huston • John Saxon • Jonathan Silverman • Leonardo Leo • Otis Thorpe • Roger Clark • Shirley Ann Jackson • Theodore Whitmore • Tobias Regner • Ulla Salzgeber

Born in the same month (August 1941): Andy Smillie • Anita Lonsbrough • Anne Evans (soprano) • Ben Jones (American actor and politician) • Bob Clark • Cesária Évora • Don Rich • François Weyergans • Jane Merrow • Jo Ramírez • John Ellison • John McNally (musician) • Marshall Brickman • Martin Jarvis (actor) • Onora O'Neill • Slobodan Milošević • Sue MacGregor • Susan Dorothea White • The Shirelles