Maria Maksakova Sr.

Maria Petrovna Maksakova was a Soviet opera singer, mezzo-soprano, a leading soloist in the Bolshoi Theatre (1923–1953), who enjoyed great success in the 1920s and 1930s, in the times often referred to as the golden age of Soviet opera. Maria Maksakova, the three times laureate of the Stalin Prize, was designated as a People's Artist of the USSR in 1971. The actress Lyudmila Maksakova is her daughter; singer and TV presenter Maria Maksakova Jr. her granddaughter.

8 April 1902

Born on the same birth date (8 April 1902): Andrew Irvine (mountaineer)

Born on the same birth day (8 April): Christine Boisson • Dalton Grant • David Rittenhouse • Glendon Swarthout • Jenni Asserholt • Manolis Angelopoulos • Nnedi Okorafor • Viktor Arvidsson

Born in the same month (April 1902): Andrew Irvine (mountaineer) • Eduard Eelma • Giuseppe Pella • Jan Tschichold • Johan Borgen • Louis Beel • Louise Lévêque de Vilmorin • Maria Polydouri • Mary Miles Minter • Menachem Mendel Schneerson • Stanley G. Weinbaum • Veniamin Kaverin • Waldemar Hammenhög