Yip Harburg

Edgar Yipsel Harburg was an American popular song lyricist and librettist who worked with many well-known composers. He wrote the lyrics to the standards "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?", "April in Paris", and "It's Only a Paper Moon", as well as all of the songs for the film The Wizard of Oz, including "Over the Rainbow". He was known for the social commentary of his lyrics, as well as his leftist leanings. He championed racial and gender equality and union politics. He also was an ardent critic of religion.

8 April 1896

Born on the same birth day (8 April): David Rittenhouse • David Wu • Franco Corelli • John Arbuthnott (microbiologist) • Khaled Badra • Trina Schart Hyman

Born in the same month (April 1896): Frits Peutz • Hans List • Léo-Paul Desrosiers • Na Hye-sŏk • Nikolay Semyonov • Reverend Gary Davis • Rogers Hornsby • Ruut Tarmo • Señor Wences • Wallace Carothers • William Hudson (engineer)