Harold Battiste

Harold Raymond Battiste Jr. was an American music composer, arranger, performer, and teacher. A native of, and later community leader in, New Orleans, he is best known for his work as an arranger on records by Barbara George, Sam Cooke, Joe Jones, Lee Dorsey, Sonny and Cher, Dr. John, and others.

28 October 1931

Born on the same birth day (28 October): Annie Potts • Camille Muffat • Don Iverson • Glenn Robert Davis • Jawed Karim • Joaquin Phoenix • Juliette Béliveau • Matt Smith • Stephen Morris (musician) • Taylor Fritz • Velimir Khlebnikov • Walt Hansgen

Born in the same month (October 1931): Alan Wagner • Anatoly Pristavkin • Charles Colson • Ernst Hinterberger • Jim Bunning • Jim Parks (cricketer, born 1931) • Jimmy McIlroy • Ole-Johan Dahl • P. W. Underwood • R. Sivagurunathan • Rosalie Gower • Shammi Kapoor • Sofia Gubaidulina • Terence Conran • Tommy Lewis (American football) • Valery Klimov (violinist)