Nicolas Slonimsky
Nicolas Slonimsky, born Nikolai Leonidovich Slonimskiy, was a Russian-born American musicologist, conductor, pianist, and composer. Best known for his writing and musical reference work, he wrote the Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns and the Lexicon of Musical Invective, and edited Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians.
27 April 1894
Born on the same birth date (27 April 1894): George Petty
Born on the same birth day (27 April): Cuba Gooding Sr. • Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus • Dilip Kumar Chakrabarti • Dinara Safina • Edward Whymper • Florence La Badie • Friedrich von Flotow • George Petty • Herm Edwards • Jacques de Bourbon-Busset • Lara Gut-Behrami • Lee Roy Jordan • Otto, King of Bavaria • Rogers Hornsby • Ruth Glick • Sandy Dennis • Seppo Räty • Sven Bender • Theodor Kittelsen • Tommy Smith (saxophonist) • Vladimir Kozlov
Born in the same month (April 1894): Arthur Fadden • Ben Nicholson • Bessie Smith • Carl Rudolf Florin • Dorothy Cumming • Elizabeth Dilling • Francisco Craveiro Lopes • George Petty • Joie Ray (runner) • Marietta Blau • Nikita Khrushchev • Rudolf Hess