Ola Kvernberg

Ola Kvernberg is a Norwegian jazz musician known for his virtuosic string swing violin playing and his international performances. He is the son of traditional musicians Liv Rypdal Kvernberg and Torbjørn Kvernberg, and the brother of traditional musicians Kari Kvernberg Dajani and fiddler Jorun Marie Kvernberg, and grandson of the fiddler and traditional music composer Peter L. Rypdal. Kvernberg studied classical violin from the age of nine, and won 3rd prize in a great classical violin competition in Italy when he was fourteen.

16 June 1981

Born on the same birth date (16 June 1981): Alexandre Giroux • Benjamin Becker • Kevin Bieksa • Miguel Villalta

Born on the same birth day (16 June): Armend Dallku • Arthur Arz von Straußenburg • Bianca Andreescu • Brandon Armstrong • Can Dündar • Germanos Karavangelis • Gino Vannelli • Helen Traubel • Jean de Thévenot • John Tukey • Katharine Graham • Max Delbrück (chemist) • May Andersen • Per Ciljan Skjelbred • Peter Stoner • Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah • Yang Jisheng (Ming dynasty) • Younus AlGohar

Born in the same month (June 1981): Aleksei Uvarov (footballer) • Alexandre Giroux • Anna Kournikova • Aquivaldo Mosquera • Brad Walker (pole vaulter) • Brandi Carlile • Chin-Hui Tsao • Clint Newton • Emiliano Moretti • Gary Taylor-Fletcher • John Paintsil • Miguel Villalta • Mohammed Al-Khuwalidi • Moss Burmester • Parinya Charoenphol • Rolf Wacha • Shane Watson