George Shearing
Sir George Albert Shearing was a British jazz pianist who for many years led a popular jazz group that recorded for Discovery Records, MGM Records and Capitol Records. Shearing was the composer of over 300 songs, including the jazz standards "Lullaby of Birdland" and "Conception", and had multiple albums on the Billboard charts during the 1950s, 1960s, 1980s and 1990s.
13 August 1919
Born on the same birth date (13 August 1919): Rex Humbard
Born on the same birth day (13 August): Basil Spence • Felix Adler (professor) • Hayato Matsuo • John Ireland (composer) • Seana Kofoed • Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk • Tony Jarrett • Wilfried Hilker
Born in the same month (August 1919): Adamantios Androutsopoulos • George Wallace • J. Gordon Edwards (entomologist) • John David Wilson • Luis Olmo • Malcolm Forbes • Margaret Burbidge • Michel Déon • Nehemiah Persoff • Pauline Betz • Pee Wee Butts • Ralph Houk • Wally Hickel • Walter Bernstein • William P. Foster • Wolfgang Wagner