Roberta Dodd Crawford

Roberta Dodd Crawford was an African-American lyric soprano and voice instructor who performed throughout the United States and Paris in the 1920s and 1930s. Roberta was born in Bonham, Texas before studying singing in Nashville, Chicago, and Paris. While in Paris, she married Prince Kojo Tovalou Houénou of Dahomey. When Houénou died in a French prison, Roberta was left without access to their marriage funds and returned to Paris where she lived through the Nazi occupation from 1940 until 1944. After the war, she returned to Texas where she died in 1954 in Dallas. ^{Roberta Dodd Crawford, American soprano and educator (d. 1954)}

5 August 1897

Born on the same birth day (5 August): Anne Acheson • Athula Samarasekera • Erkan Zengin • Kajol • Loni Anderson • Michael Jamieson • Niels Henrik Abel • Ruth Sawyer • Takakeishō Takanobu • Wayne Bridge

Born in the same month (August 1897): Bill Woodfull • Enid Blyton • Fred Rose (songwriter) • Fredric March • Henry F. Pringle • Jack Haley • John W. Galbreath • Karl-Otto Koch • Louise Bogan • Maurice Fernandes • Max Weber (Swiss politician) • Tarjei Vesaas • Yun Po-sun