Rebecca Clarke (composer)

Rebecca Helferich Clarke was a British classical composer and violist. Internationally renowned as a viola virtuoso, she also became one of the first female professional orchestral players in London.

27 August 1886

Born on the same birth day (27 August): Amanda Fuller • Ann Murray • Brian Peckford • Cor Brom • Daniela Romo • David Rowbotham • Don Bradman • Edmund Weiner • Edward Patten • Fernest Arceneaux • George, Duke of Saxony • Giorgio Mitrovich • Gloria Guinness • Jaap-Derk Buma • Jeanette Winterson • Jeff Grubb • John Mehler • Juan Fernando Cobo • Lester Young • Paul Reubens • Romain Amalfitano • Sarah Neufeld • Sgt. Slaughter • Sonny Sharrock • Tom Ford

Born in the same month (August 1886): Arthur Jeffrey Dempster • Bill Whitty • Edward Ballantine • John Alexander Douglas McCurdy • Maithili Sharan Gupt • Paul Tillich • Ruth Manning-Sanders