Kathleen Ferrier
Kathleen Mary Ferrier was an English contralto singer who achieved an international reputation as a stage, concert and recording artist, with a repertoire extending from folksong and popular ballads to the classical works of Bach, Brahms, Mahler and Elgar. Her death from cancer, at the height of her fame, was a shock to the musical world and particularly to the general public, which was kept in ignorance of the nature of her illness until after her death.
22 April 1912
Born on the same birth date (22 April 1912): Kaneto Shindo
Born on the same birth day (22 April): Ethel Smyth • Harald Bohr • Immanuel Kant • Issey Miyake • Jan de Hartog • Jancis Robinson • John Johnson (architect, born 1732) • Mart Laar • Vladimir Lenin • William Jay Smith
Born in the same month (April 1912): Antonio Ferri • Georg Siimenson • Glenn T. Seaborg • Hound Dog Taylor • Kaneto Shindo • Kaneto Shindo • Kim Il Sung • Odette Hallowes • Sonja Henie