Norman Granz

Norman Granz was an American jazz record producer and concert promoter. He founded the record labels Clef, Norgran, Down Home, Verve, and Pablo. Granz was acknowledged as "the most successful impresario in the history of jazz". He was also a champion of racial equality, insisting, for example, on integrating audiences at concerts he promoted.

6 August 1918

Born on the same birth day (6 August): Barbara Strozzi • Bill Emmott • Byard Lancaster • Charles Ingram • Daniel O'Connell • Dom Mintoff • Garrett Weber-Gale • George Kenney • Geri Halliwell • Michael Deeley • Nicolas Malebranche • Norman Wexler • Octavio Getino • Ray Culp • William Hyde Wollaston

Born in the same month (August 1918): Alan Jay Lerner • Betty Oliphant • Billy Reay • Eddie Jefferson • Evelyn Ankers • Giles Cooper (playwright) • Jacqueline Susann • James MacGregor Burns • Jelle Zijlstra • Katherine Johnson • L. B. Cole • Larry Haines • Michael John Wise • Noor Hassanali