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): Donald Tusk • Doug Jarrett • Ethel Smyth • Issey Miyake • Izidor Cankar • James Stirling (architect) • Jancis Robinson • John Foley (British Army officer) • John Waters • Kaneto Shindo • Mary Prior • Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford • Paul Davies • Paul Malakwen Kosgei • Peter Frampton • Rita Levi-Montalcini • Sacco and Vanzetti • Sam W. Heads • Shkëlzen Shala • Steven L. Bennett • Vladimir Lenin

Born in the same month (April 1912): A. E. van Vogt • Antonio Ferri • Boris Kidrič • Carlos Guastavino • Dorothy Eden • Earl Bostic • Frank Dilio • Georg Siimenson • Jacques de Bourbon-Busset • John Le Mesurier • Kaneto Shindo • Kim Il Sung • Lev Kopelev • Marcel Camus • Robert Doisneau • William Congdon