Brass Musician Birthday Calendar
- January
- 1 – Papa Celestin | Peter Moore
- 3 – Preston Jackson
- 5 – Wild Bill Davison | Oscar Klein
- 6 – Bobby Stark | Maurice “Mobetta” Brown
- 7 – Henry James “Red” Allen
- 8 – Wendell Culley
- 9 – Roger Guérin
- 10 – Waymon Reed
- 11 – Wilbur de Paris
- 12 – Olu Dara | Trummy Young | Rich Matteson | Ingrid Jensen
- 13 – Melba Liston | Percy Humphrey | Quentin “Butter” Jackson
- 14 – Kenny Wheeler | Billy Butterfield
- 15 – Baikida Carroll | Dick Lammi
- 16 – Aubrey Logan
- 19 – R. Winston Morris | Phil Wilson
- 22 – J.J. Johnson | Juan Tizol
- 24 – Betty Glover
- 25 – Constance Weldon
- 26 – Talib Dawud
- 27 – Hot Lips Page
- 28 – Dick Griffin
- 30 – Roy Eldridge
- 31 – Bobby Hackett
- February
- 3 – Snooky Young | Bob Stewart
- 6 – Simone Mantia
- 8 – Buddy Morrow
- 10 – Butch Morris
- 11 – Claude Jones
- 13 – Wingy Manone
- 14 – Chris Pyne
- 15 – Christian Lindberg
- 20 – Leroy Jones | Lew Soloff
- 22 – Rex Stewart
- 23 – Sarah Willis | Johnny Carisi | Money Johnson
- 24 – Richard Boone
- 26 – Steven Mead
- 28 – Jean-Baptiste Arban
- March
- 1 – Glenn Miller | Benny Powell
- 4 – Bobby Shew
- 5 – Barry Tuckwell | Philip Farkas
- 6 – Howard McGhee | Jiver Hutchinson
- 7 – Nat Gonella | Zue Robertson | David Childs | August Helleberg
- 8 – Carol Jantsch | Charles Vernon
- 10 – Bix Beiderbecke
- 11 – Miff Mole
- 13 – Terence Blanchard | Blue Mitchell
- 14 – Quincy Jones
- 15 – Jimmy McPartland | Harry James
- 16 – Ruby Braff
- 17 – Grover Mitchell
- 20 – Sonny Russo
- 21 – Santo Pecora | Farnell Newton | Harold Betters
- 22 – George Roberts
- 23 – Al Aarons
- 24 – June Clark | Vincent Bach
- 25 – Lonnie Hillyer
- 28 – Thad Jones | Bill Hughes
- 29 – George Chisholm | Abe Lincoln
- 31 – Herb Alpert
- April
- 2 – Booker Little | Roy Palmer | Marty Marsala | Cag Cagnolatti
- 3 – Julie Landsman | Bubber Miley
- 4 – Hugh Masekela
- 5 – Leonard Falcone | Claude Gordon | Herb Flemming
- 6 – Bill Hardman
- 7 – Freddie Hubbard | Isaiah Morgan
- 8 – George Dixon
- 9 – Sharkey Bonano
- 11 – Jay Friedman | Nick LaRocca
- 13 – Mike Daniels
- 14 – Steve Davis | Shorty Rogers
- 15 – Herb Pomeroy
- 16 – Bennie Green
- 21 – Slide Hampton | Sonny Berman | Ian Carr
- 22 – Tommy Turrentine
- 23 – Benny Harris
- 24 – Bart Varsalona
- 29 – Ward Pinkett
- May
- 1 – Ira Sullivan | Ambrose Akinmusire
- 3 – Jimmy Cleveland
- 4 – Maynard Ferguson
- 6 – Till Bronner
- 7 – Gunhild Carling
- 8 – Red Nichols
- 9 – Andrew Motis
- 10 – Ahmed Abdullah | Philip Harper
- 11 – King Oliver | J.C. Higginbotham
- 12 – Jack Jenney
- 15 – Gene Pokorny | Joe Gordon
- 16 – Eddie Bert
- 17 – Dennis Brain | Ryan Anthony
- 18 – Kai Winding
- 19 – John Fletcher | Bobby Bryant
- 20 – Louis Smith
- 21 – Maurice André
- 23 – William Vacchiano
- 25 – Wallace Roney
- 26 – Miles Davis
- 29 – Wycliffe Gordon | Sean Jones
- 30 – Clora Bryant
- June
- 3 – Derrick Gardner | Grachan Moncur III | Lillian Briggs
- 5 – John Fumo | Jerry Gonzalez
- 6 – Al Grey
- 8 – Roger Bobo | Bill Watrous
- 10 – Misa Mead
- 11 – Arnold Jacobs
- 12 – Marcus Belgrave
- 13 – Doc Cheatham
- 16 – Tom Harrell
- 28 – Pete Candoli
- 29 – Julian Priester
- 30 – Renold Schilke
- July
- 2 – Dale Clevenger
- 4 – Fred Wesley
- 6 – Rick Braun
- 7 – Doc Severinsen
- 10 – Cootie Williams | Lee Morgan
- 12 – Charles Daellenbach | Conte Candoli | Will Bradley | Rusty Dedrick
- 14 – Reinhold Friedrich
- 17 – Ray Copeland
- 18 – Carl Fontana | Theo Croker
- 19 – Carmell Jones
- 20 – Dorothy Ziegler
- 22 – Brian Bowman
- 24 – Jon Faddis
- 25 – Adolph Herseth | Don Ellis
- 26 – Erskine Hawkins
- 28 – Delfeayo Marsalis
- 30 – Earle Louder
- August
- 1 – Elmer Crumbley
- 3 – Vladislav Blazhevich
- 4 – Louis Armstrong | Bill Coleman
- 7 – Howard Johnson | Idrees Sulieman
- 8 – Urbie Green | Laurie Frink
- 12 – Thurman Green
- 13 – Michael Davis| Benny Bailey
- 18 – Tine Thing Helseth
- 19 – Tim Hagans
- 20 – Jim Self | Frank Rosolino | Byron Stripling | Jack Teagarden | Jiggs Whigham | James Pankow
- 21 – Art Farmer
- 25 – Michael Dease
- 26 – Virgil Jones
- 27 – Vincent Cichowicz
- 30 – Kenny Dorham
- 31 – Edward Kleinhammer
- September
- 3 – Stefan Dohr
- 4 – Gerald Wilson
- 6 – “Buddy” Bolden
- 7 – Joe Newman
- 10 – Craig Harris
- 11 – Bob Enevoldsen
- 12 – Herbert Clarke | Steve Turre | “Cat” Anderson | Brian Lynch
- 18 – John Fedchock
- 20 – Joseph Alessi
- 21 – Jeff Anderson
- 22 – Arthur Pryor | Ray Wetzel
- 23 – Sterling Bose
- 24 – Arthur Lehman | Fats Navarro | Wayne Henderson
- 26 – Nicholas Payton
- 27 – Red Rodney
- 30 – Jon Eardley
- October
- 5 – Bill Dixon | Clifton Anderson | Vincent DeRosa
- 7 – Alison Balsom | Nicholas Childs
- 10 – Cecil Bridgewater | Harry “Sweets” Edison
- 11 – Lester Bowie
- 14 – Duško Gojković
- 16 – Ray Anderson | Roy Hargrove
- 18 – Wynton Marsalis
- 21 – Dizzy Gillespie
- 22 – Mark Lawrence
- 25 – Sam Pilafian | Robin Eubanks
- 26 – Eddie Henderson
- 27 – Håkan Hardenberger | Elmon Wright
- 30 – Clifford Brown
- November
- 1 – Bob Curnow | Conrad Herwig
- 2 – Carmine Caruso | “Bunny” Berigan
- 4 – Jeremy Pelt
- 5 – Johnny Windhurst
- 10 – Igor Krivokapič | Milton Stevens
- 12 – Lou Blackburn
- 17 – Wayne Andre
- 19 – Tommy Dorsey
- 22 – Jimmy Knepper | Gunther Schuller
- 25 – Nat Adderley
- 27 – Randy Brecker
- 29 – Chuck Mangione | Bria Skonberg
- December
- 2 – Harvey Phillips
- 3 – Brad Gowans | Corky Cornelius
- 9 – Donald Byrd
- 10 – Ray Nance
- 14 – Clark Terry | Dan Barrett | Allen Ostrander
- 15 – Curtis Fuller
- 16 – Turk Murphy
- 17 – Sy Oliver
- 18 – Wadada Leo Smith | Gail Williams
- 19 – Bob Brookmeyer | Lu Watters
- 21 – David Baker
- 22 – Emory Remington
- 23 – Chet Baker
- 24 – Woody Shaw
- 25 – William Bell
- 27 – Bunk Johnson
- 28 – Dick Sudhalter
- 29 – Snub Mosley
- 31 – Jonah Jones | Peter Herbolzheimer