Chou Wen-chung

Chou Wen-chung was a Chinese American composer of contemporary classical music. He emigrated in 1946 to the United States and received his music training at the New England Conservatory and Columbia University. Chou is credited by Nicolas Slonimsky as one of the first Chinese composers who attempted to translate authentic East Asian melo-rhythms into the terms of modern Western music.

29 June 1923

Born on the same birth day (29 June): Aarre Merikanto • Alan Connolly (cricketer) • Celia Thaxter • Charles J. Precourt • David Snellgrove • George Ellery Hale • Harry Frazee • Ian Bannen • Juan Blanco • Rafael Kubelík • Ruth Warrick • Terry Wyatt

Born in the same month (June 1923): Adolfo Schwelm Cruz • Bob Hank • Doris Johnson • Dorothy Gilman • Elmo Hope • Elroy Hirsch • Gerald Götting • Giuseppina Tuissi • Jacques Hébert (Canadian politician) • Jamshid Amouzegar • Jerry Rullo • José Giovanni • Jules Deschênes • Lloyd Conover