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): Brenda Russell • Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma • Fred Ebb • Grigori Kuzmin • Hirsch Jacobs • John Gavin • John Schneider (screen actor) • John Thomas Campbell • Mary W. Gray • Princess Lalla Amina of Morocco • Raoul Jobin • Winifred Asprey

Born in the same month (April 1902): Andrew Irvine (mountaineer) • Fernando Pessa • Halldór Laxness • Johan Borgen • Louis Beel • Marguerite Henry • Maria Polydouri • Mary Miles Minter • Menachem Mendel Schneerson • Menachem Mendel Schneerson • Stanley G. Weinbaum • Sylvio Mantha • Tiemoko Garan Kouyaté • Veniamin Kaverin