Thomas Quasthoff

Thomas Quasthoff is a German bass-baritone. Quasthoff has a range of musical interest from Bach cantatas, to lieder, and solo jazz improvisations. Born with severe birth defects caused by thalidomide, Quasthoff is 1.34 m, and has phocomelia.

9 November 1959

Born on the same birth day (9 November): Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg • Benny Mardones • Bill Guerin • Demetra Plakas • Erika Mann • Eyedea • Heiti Talvik • Jane Humphries • Naomi Shindō • Nazzareno Carusi • Omar Trujillo • Paul Cameron • Philippa of Guelders • Ronald George Wreyford Norrish • Sherrod Brown • Stanford White • Velimir Khlebnikov • Viktor Chukarin

Born in the same month (November 1959): Carl Williams (boxer) • Charlie Burchill • Hal Hartley • Jamie Rose • Jimmy Quinn (footballer, born 1959) • Michael Schröder • Miroslav Janů • Richard Rowe (horse racing) • Robert Barron • Sean Young • Terry Fenwick • Todd Brooker