Miles Davis
Miles Dewey Davis III was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. Davis adopted a variety of musical directions in a roughly five-decade career that kept him at the forefront of many major stylistic developments in jazz.
26 May 1926
Born on the same birth day (26 May): Al Jolson • Antonio Barrette • Fabio Firmani • Hans Freeman • Henriette Roosenburg • Imants Kalniņš • Inge Borkh • Jan Kinder • Lara Goodall • Maurice Baquet • Pope Clement VII • Simon Armitage • Sébastien Vaillant • W. Otto Miessner
Born in the same month (May 1926): Anthony Shaffer (writer) • Bill Sharman • David Hurst • David Wynne (sculptor) • Don Rickles • Halaevalu Mataʻaho ʻAhomeʻe • Hugo Banzer • Peter Shaffer • Peter Zadek