1933 in music

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Births

• January 17 - Dalida
• January 18 - Ray Dolby, inventor of the Dolby System
• January 23 - Chita Rivera, Broadway star
• January 29 - Sacha Distel, singer
• February 17 - Bobby Lewis
• February 18 - Yoko Ono (Lennon)
• February 21 - Nina Simone
• February 22 - Katharine, Duchess of Kent, patron of music
• March 9 - Lloyd Price
• March 13 - Mike Stoller, songwriter
• March 14 - Quincy Jones
• March 15 - Roy Clark
• March 28 - Tete Montoliu, jazz pianist
• April 8 - Fred Ebb, lyricist
• April 12 - Montserrat Caballé, operatic soprano
• April 14 - Buddy Knox
• April 24 - Freddie Scott
• April 25 - Jerry Leiber
• April 29 - Rod McKuen, songwriter
• April 30 - Willie Nelson
• May 3 - James Brown
• May 21 - Maurice André, trumpeter
• May 22 - Don Estelle, actor and singer
• June 26 - Claudio Abbado, conductor
• July 10 - Jerry Herman, US composer
• July 10 - Eileen Rodgers, US singer
• July 23 - Bert Convy, entertainer
• July 27 - Nick Reynolds, The Kingston Trio
• July 29 - Anne Rogers, English actress, singer and dancer
• August 8 - Joe Tex
• August 15 - Bill Pinckney, The Drifters
• August 15 - Bobby Helms
• August 17 - Mark Dinning
• August 21 - Dame Janet Baker
• September 1 - Conway Twitty
• September 8 - Asha Bhosle, singer
• September 14 - Harve Presnell, actor and singer
• September 15 - Pat Barrett, The Crewcuts
• September 17 - Dorothy Loudon, US singer
• September 18 - Jimmie Rodgers, US pop singer
• September 25 - Ian Tyson, Ian & Sylvia
• October 10 - Daniel Massey, star of musical theatre
• October 17 - The Singing Nun
• October 21 - Georgia Brown, English actress and singer
• October 27 - Floyd Cramer
• November 3 - John Barry, film score composer
• November 6 - Joseph Pope, The Tams
• November 16 - Garnett Mimms
• November 23 - Krzysztof Penderecki, composer
• November 26 - Robert Goulet
• November 29 - John Mayall
• December 6 - Henryk Górecki, composer
• December 13 - Wayne Bennett, blues guitarist
• December 15 - Jesse Belvin