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): Barbara Young, Baroness Young of Old Scone • Christine Boisson • Daigo (musician) • Edmund Husserl • James Lockhart (historian) • Jeff McNeil • John Schneider (screen actor) • Manolis Angelopoulos • Mark Blundell • Pascal Lamy • Roger Chapman • Ron Johnson • Saygrace • Toutai Kefu • Winifred Asprey

Born in the same month (April 1902): Andrew Irvine (mountaineer) • Halldór Laxness • Jan Tschichold • Johan Borgen • Louis Beel • Marguerite Henry • Maria Polydouri • Menachem Mendel Schneerson • Menachem Mendel Schneerson • Philippe de Rothschild • Stanley G. Weinbaum • Theodore Schultz • Tiemoko Garan Kouyaté • Veniamin Kaverin