Aug 1
Marie Dixon
Aug 2
Big Walter Price
Pork Miller
Aug 3
Alex “Easy Baby” Randle
Aug 4
Louis Armstrong
Aug 6
Willie Lee Brown
Lem Johnson
Willie Nix
Aug 7
Magic Slim
Mose Vinson
Aug 8
Lucky Millinder
Joe Tex
Jimmy Witherspoon
Aug 9
Robert Shaw
Aug 11
Sam Collins
Aug 12
Percy Mayfield
Aug 13
Baby Bob Warren
Jimmy McCracklin
Son Seals
Aug 15
Buster Brown
Jackie Brenston
Bobby Byrd
Osee Anderson Sr.
Aug 16
Eddie Kirkland
Melvin “Lil’ Son” Jackson
Aug 17
Luther Allison
Albert Washington
Aug 18
Curtis Jones
Barkin Bill Smith
Aug 19
Little Johnny Christian
Earl Gaines
Aug 22
Roscoe Shelton
John Lee Hooker
Henry “Son” Sims
Addie "Sweet Pea" Spivey
Ruby Kate McTell
Aug 24
Ruby Smith
Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup
Wynonie Harris
Willie Seaberry (Po’ Monkey)
Aug 26
Jimmy Rushing
Aug 27
Odie Payne Jr.
Lenin "Doc" Pellegrino
Mary "Diamond Teeth Mary" McClain
Aug 29
Jimmie Bell
Dinah Washington
Aug 30
Olive Brown
Luther “Snake Boy” Johnson
Mercy Dee Walton
Aug 31
Bobby Parker
Todd Rhodes
Sept 2
Lawrence (Booker T.) Laury
Sept 3
Memphis Slim
Freddie King
Charlie Booker
Sept 4
Meade “Lux” Lewis
Archie L. Edwards
Sept 5
Sunnyland Slim
Sept 6
Charles Joseph "Buddy" Bolden
Jimmy Reed
Paul Orta
Ollie Nightingale
Fred Belows Jr.
Sept 7
Little Milton Campbell
Sept 8
Harmonica Fats
Sept 9
Otis Redding
Sept 10
Roy Brown
Sept 11
Barbeque Bob
Jazz Gillum
June 5
Robert "Washboard Slim" Young
June 6
S.P.Leary
Raful Neal
June 9
Skip James
Johnny Ace
CeDell Davis
June 10
Howlin' Wolf
June 11
Bonnie Lee
Clarence “Pinetop” Smith
June 12
Harmonica George Robinson
June 15
Aron Burton
June 18
Sara Martin
Don "Sugarcane" Harris
Jerry McCain
June 20
Lazy Lester
Louis “Kid Thomas” Watts
June 21
Johnny "Yard Dog" Jones
June 23
Helen Humes
Lucille Spann
June 24
Ransom Knowling
Lester Williams
Michael Coleman
June 25
Clifton Chenier
June 26
Big Bill Broonzy
St. Louis Jimmy Oden
June 27
Johnny "Big Moose" Walker
June 28
David “Honeyboy” Edwards
June 29
Frank Kirkland
June 30
Bo Carter
July 1
James Cotton
Willie Dixon
Thomas Andrew Dorsey
July 4
Champion Jack Dupree
July 5
Smiley Lewis
July 7
Pinetop Perkins
July 8
Louis Jordan
Johnnie Johnson
July 9
Joe Liggins
July 10
Barrelhouse Chuck
Blind Boy Fuller
Charlie Baty
July 12
Sammy Lawhorn
July 15
Washboard Sam
July 16
Denise LaSalle
July 17
Peppermint Harris
George Barnes
July 18
"Screamin' Jay" Hawkins
Lonnie Mack
July 19
Buster Benton
July 21
Floyd Jones
July 26
Alberta Adams
July 28
Mike Bloomfield
Junior Kimbrough
Isaac L. "Banjo Ikey" Robinson
July 29
Charles Henry Christian
July 30
Bobby Too Tuff (aka Edward Blanche)
July 31
Roy Milton
JUNE 4–SEPT 10
BLUES BIRTHDAY REMEMBRANCES