1. decembar

1605 - Juan de Padilla, composer
1709 - Franz Xaver Richter, composer
1712 - Bernhard Christian Weber, composer
1724 - Dismas Hatas, composer
1729 - Giuseppe Sarti, composer
1779 - Pyotr Ivanovich Turchaninov, composer
1781 - Charles Philippe Lafont, composer
1784 - Francois Henri Joseph Castil-Blaze, composer
1787 - Pavel Ivanovich Dulgorukov, composer
1810 - Joseph Gungl, composer
1814 - August Rockel, composer
1823 - Ernest Reyer, composer
1844 - Alfred Cellier, composer
1847 - Agathe Grondahl, composer
1850 - Peter Erasmus Lange-Muller, composer
1874 - Dominicus Johner, composer
1883 - Romanos Hovakimi Melik’yan, composer
1885 - Guy de Lioncourt, composer
1896 - Petko Staynov, composer
1901 - Dorothy James, composer
1901 - Ilona Feher, Hungarian-Jewish violinist (d. 1988)
1905 - Ida Carroll, musician
1906 - Jean Cartan, composer
1908 - Georgios Kasassoglou, Greek musician (d. 1984)
1912 - Terence Beckles, pianist/teacher
1914 - Johnny Johnston, St Louis Mo, singer (Make that Spare)
1919 - Ike Isaacs, guitarist
1925 - Jaime Mendoza-Nava, composer
1927 - Grant Beglarian, composer
1929 - Leon Biriotti, composer
1931 - Jimmy Lyons, American musician (d. 1986)
1931 - Jim Nesbitt, singer (d. 2007)
1932 - Matt Monro, English singer (d. 1985)
1933 - Lou Rawls, Chicago Illinois, vocalist (Dean Martin’s Golddigers, Natural Man), (d. 2006)
1934 - Billy Paul, Phila, singer (Me & Mrs Jones)
1937 - Gordon Crosse, Bury Lancashire England, composer (Grace of Todd)
1938 - Sandy Nelson, Santa Monica, 50s rocker (Teen Beat, All Night Long)
1939 - Dianne Lennon, Los Angeles California, singer (Lennon Sisters)
1940 - Richard Pryor, Ill, comedian/actor (Lady Sings the Blues, Stir Crazy)
1944 - Eric Bloom, American rock vocalist/guitarist (Blue Öyster Cult)
1945 - John Densmore, LA, drummer (Doors-C’mon Light My Fire)
1945 - Bette Midler, Honolulu, Hawaii, actress and singer (Beaches, Wind Beneath my Wings)
1946 - Gilbert O’Sullivan, Ireland, singer (Alone Again Naturally)
1947 - Alain Bashung, French singer
1950 - Keith Thibodeaux, American actor and drummer
1951 - Jaco Pastorius, US jazz guitarist (Weather Report-Word of Mouth)
1956 - Stuart Kimball, rock guitarist (Face To Face)
1956 - Julee Cruise, American singer and actress
1959 - Billy Childish, English painter, writer and musician
1973 - Jon Theodore, American musician
1974 - David Ludwig, American composer
1977 - Brad Delson, American guitarist (Linkin Park)
1978 - Mat Kearney, American singer and songwriter

2. decembar

1578 - Agostino Agazzari, composer
1760 - Joseph Graetz, composer
1813 - Jacob Rosenhaim, composer
1856 - Robert Kajanus, composer
1863 - Gustav Wohlgemuth, composer
1866 - Henry Thacker Burleigh, Erie Pa, black composer (Springarn Medal)
1870 - Francis Louis Casadesus, French violinist/composer/conductor
1892 - Leo Ornstein, composer
1893 - Louis Freeman, band leader
1895 - Harriet Cohen, British pianist (d. 1967)
1899 - John Barbirolli, English conductor (NY Philharmonic Orchestra)
1901 - Staf Gustaf Frans Nees, Belgian composer
1901 - Staff Nees, Flemish organist/composer (Simon Peter)
1902 - Miroslav Ponc, composer
1905 - Osvaldo Pugliese, musician/composer
1914 - Eddie Sauter, Bkln, musician (Sauter-Finegan Band, Sat Night Revue)
1915 - Adolph Green, songwriter (married to Phyllis Newman)
1915 - Nico Richter, composer
1917 - Sylvia Syms, American jazz singer (Hello Dolly, Dream Girl, Them There Eyes). Died 1992.
1918 - Milton Delugg, Los Angeles California, orchestra leader (Tonight Show)
1920 - Robert Moevs, composer
1923 - Maria M Callas, NYC, soprano (Carmen)
1929 - Harvey Phillips, Aurora Missouri, tubist (NYC Ballet Orch)
1935 - Jurg Wyttenbach, composer
1936 - Peter Michael Braun, composer
1941 - Tom McGuiness, rocker (McGuiness-Flint)
1942 - Ted Bluechel, San Pedro Ca, rock vocalist/drummer (Association)
1943 - David Munden, rocker
1953 - Myung-Whan Chung, Seoul Korea, pianist (Chung Trio)
1954 - Danielle Alexander, Fort Worth Tx, country music pianist
1960 - Nicholas Dingley alias Razzle, British Drummer (Hanoi Rocks)
1968 - Nate Mendel, American bassist (Foo Fighters)
1978 - Nelly Furtado, Canadian singer and songwriter
1978 - Chris Wolstenholme, British bassist (Muse)
1978 - Jarron Collins, American basketball player for Utah Jazz
1979 - Yvonne Catterfeld, German singer and actress
1981 - Britney Spears, Kentwood, Louisiana, singer and popstar ("Baby One More Time," "Oops! ...I did it again" and "I’m A Slave 4 U")
1982 - Pizon, American rapper/producer
1987 - Teairra Mari, American R&B singer

3. decembar

1576 - Marsilio Casentini, composer
1668 - Casimir Schweizelsperg, composer
1729 - Padre Antonio Francisco J Jose Soler, Olot Spain, composer (Fandango)
1750 - Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel, composer
1752 - Georg-Friederich Fuchs, composer
1758 - Josef Gelinek, composer
1826 - Edmond van der Straeten, Belgian lawyer/musicologist
1883 - Anton (Friedrich Wilhelm) von Webern, Vienna, Austrian 12-tone composer
1888 - Ion Nonna Otescu, composer
1896 - Boleslaw Szabelski, composer
1898 - Lev Konstantinovich Knipper, composer
1902 - Willem Arnold de Vries Robbe, composer
1907 - Connee Boswell, New Orleans La, singer (Pete Kelly’s Blue)
1908 - Halsey Stevens, Scott NY, composer (Triskelion)
1911 - Dana Suesse, songwriter (You Ought to be in Pictures)
1911 - Nino Rota, Milan Italy, composer (Torquemada)
1914 - Irving Fine, Boston Mass, composer (Toccata)
1919 - Charles Craig, opera singer
1921 - Phyllis Curtin, American soprano
1925 - Ferlin Husky, American country singer (Born to Lose, Gone)
1926 - Hans Otte, German composer/pianist (The Book of Sounds, Book of Hours)
1927 - Isabelle Harriet Lucas, actress/singer (Outland, Comics)
1927 - Andy Williams, Wall Lake Iowa, singer (Moon River, Andy Williams Show) (d. 2012)
1929 - Paul Harris Turok, composer
1929 - Werner Rackwitz, German musicologist (Handel-Renaissance)
1930 - Phyllis Curtin, Clarksburg WV, soprano (NYC Opera)
1931 - Jaye P Morgan, Mancos Colo, singer/actress (Gong Show, Night Patrol)
1932 - Corry Brokken, Dutch singer
1938 - Jose Serebrier, Montevideo Uruguay, conductor/composer (Star Wagon)
1945 - Laura Dean, Staten Island NYC, composer/choreographer (Drumming)
1948 - Diane Kurys, [Emir Kusturica], Sarajevo, bass guitarist
1948 - Ozzy Osbourne, Aston, Birmingham, rock vocalist (Black Sabbath-Bark at the Moon)
1949 - Mickey Thomas, rock vocalist (Jefferson Airplane, Starship)
1951 - Mike Stock, rocker (Stock, Aitken & Waterman-Road Block)
1951 - Nicky Stevens, British singer (Brotherhood of Man)
1952 - Don Barnes, rock guitarist (38 Special)
1952 - Duane Roland, rock guitarist (Molly Hatchet)
1954 - Paul Gregg, country singer (Restless Heart-Wheels)
1963 - Joe Lally, American musician (Fugazi)
1968 - Montell Jordan, American singer and record producer
1969 - Bill Steer, British guitarist
1975 - Mickey Avalon, American rapper
1975 - Csaba Czébely, Hungarian drummer (Pokolgép)
1978 - Trina, American rapper
1979 - Daniel Bedingfield, English singer
1982 - Jaycee Chan, Hong Kong singer and actor
1983 - Sherri DuPree, American vocalist

4. decembar

1660 - Andre Campra, composer
1667 - Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, composer
1708 - Marianus Konigsperger, composer
1720 - Jean-Jacques Robson, composer
1791 - Johann Gottlob Topfer, composer
1825 - Hynek Ignac Frantisek Vojacek, composer
1838 - Melesio Morales, composer
1861 - Lillian Russell, [Helen Leonard], US, singer/actress (Great Mogul)
1879 - Herbert Hamilton Harty, composer
1910 - Alex North, Chester Penn, composer (Spartacus, Viva Zapata)
1921 - Deanna Durbin, Winnipeg Manitoba, actress/vocalist (100 Men & a Girl), (d. 2013)
1926 - Lee Doraey, rocker
1930 - Paul-Heinz Dittrich, composer
1930 - Roman Semyonovich Ledenyou, composer
1930 - Jim Hall, American jazz guitarist, (d. 2013)
1932 - Edgar Valcarcel, composer
1936 - Larry Davis, blues singer/guitarist
1938 - Yvonne Minton, Australian soprano
1940 - Freddy Cannon, [Picariello], Lynn Ma, rocker (Palisades Park)
1942 - Bob Mosley, Paradise Valley CA, rock bassist (Moby Grape)
1944 - Chris Hillman, San Diego Caliafornia, singer (Byrds-Turn Turn Turn)
1944 - Dennis Wilson, Hawthorne CA, drummer/vocalist (Beach Boys-My Room)
1947 - Terry Woods, Irish musician (The Pogues, Steeleye Span)
1948 - Southside Johnny Lyon, NJ, rocker (Asbury Jukes-Don’t Want Go Home)
1951 - Gary Rossington, rocker (Lynyrd Skynyrd, Rossington-Collins Band)
1955 - Brian Prout, Troy NY, singer (Diamond Rio-Meet in the Middle)
1955 - Cassandra Wilson, jazz singer
1956 - Herbert Groenemeyer, Germany, rocker (OE, Luxus, Chaos, Spruenge)
1964 - Sertab Erener, Turkish singer
1965 - Rob Smits, pop drummer (Kong/Phlegm)
1966 - Fred Armisen, American actor and musician
1966 - Masta Ace, American rapper
1969 - Jay-Z, Brooklyn, New York City, American rapper (Reasonable Doubt, The Blueprint)
1973 - Racci Shay, American Musician
1973 - Ferry Corsten, Dutch musician and DJ
1973 - Kate Rusby, English folk singer
1976 - Amie Comeaux, American singer (d. 1997)
1977 - Big Pokey, American rapper
1978 - Jaclyn Victor, Malaysian singer
1998 - Olawoyin Olufemi, Nigerian Musician

5. decembar

1666 - Francesco Antonio Nicola Scarlotti, composer
1687 - Francesco Xaverio Geminiani, composer
1697 - Carlo Arrigoni, composer
1697 - Giuseppe de Majo, composer
1724 - Joseph Friebert, composer
1844 - John Frederick Bridge, composer
1852 - Thomas Linnemann Laub, composer
1870 - Vítězslav Novák, Czech composer (d. 1949)
1878 - Arrigo Pedrollo, composer
1880 - Alexander Schmuller, Russian/Neth violinist/conductor
1884 - Evert Cornelis, Dutch conductor/pianist
1888 - Askell Snorrason, composer
1895 - Henriette H Bosmans, Dutch cellist/pianist/composer
1898 - Grace Moore, Slabtown, Tennessee, American soprano (One Night of Love)
1899 - Sonny Boy Williamson, [Aleck Miller], blues player
1901 - Hanns Jelinek, composer
1911 - Władysław Szpilman, Polish pianist (d. 2000)
1915 - Carl Donnell "Kansas" Fields, drummer
1932 - Little Richard [Wayne Penniman], Macon, Georgia, American singer-songwriter (Tutti Frutti)
1933 - Bernard van Beurden, Dutch composer/music educator
1938 - John J Cale, Oklahoma City, rock guitarist (After Midnight), (d. 2013)
1939 - Frederik van Rossum, composer
1946 - Andy Kim, [Andrew Joachim], rocker
1946 - Jose Carreras, Barcelona Spain opera tenor (I Lombardi, Three Tenors)
1947 - Jim Messina, rocker (Loggins & Messina-Your Mamma Don’t Dance)
1950 - Camarón de la Isla, Spanish flamenco singer (d. 1992)
1950 - Osvaldo Golijov, Argentine-born composer
1952 - Bobby Barth, rocker vocalist/guitarist (Axe)
1953 - Jonathan Lewis, trombonist (Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover)
1956 - Krystian Zimerman, Polish pianist
1960 - Jack Russell, rocker (Great White-Twice Shy)
1960 - Les Nemes, rock bassist (Haircut 100)
1965 - Johnny Rzeznik, American singer, songwriter and guitarist (Goo Goo Dolls)
1965 - Wayne Smith, Jamaican reggae musician
1966 - Patricia Kaas, French pop singer (Mademoiselle Chant)
1967 - René Shuman, [Shumans], rockabilly-bandleader/singer
1967 - Gary Allan, American country musician
1979 - Evonne Hsu, Taiwanese singer
1980 - Ibrahim Maalouf, Lebanese-born French trumpeter

6. decembar

1550 - Orazio Tiberio Vecchi, composer
1642 - Johann Christoph Bach, German composer (d. 1703)
1743 - Franz Nikolaus Novotny, composer
1768 - Johann Baptist Henneberg, composer
1775 - Nicolas Isouard, composer
1776 - Paul Friedrich Struck, composer
1806 - Louis-Gilbert Duprez, composer
1808 - Johann Christian Gebauer, composer
1846 - Henryk Jarecki, composer
1872 - Mikulas Moyzes, composer
1887 - Joseph Lamb, composer
1896 - Arnold Foster, composer
1896 - Ira Gershwin, lyricist (’S Wonderful, I Got Rhythm)
1897 - John Axel Fernstrom, composer
1902 - Virgilio Mortari, composer
1904 - Eve Denise Curie, French pianist/author/daughter of Madame Curie
1916 - Hugo Peretti, American songwriter and record producer (d. 1986)
1920 - Dave Brubeck, Concord CA, jazz pianist/composer (Gates of Justice), (d. 2012)
1921 - Piero Piccioni, Italian musician and composer (d. 2004)
1927 - Jacques Bondon, composer
1928 - Bobby Van, American singer (d. 1980)
1929 - Mark Kopytman, composer
1929 - Nikolaus Harnoncourt, German conductor
1931 - Zeki Müren, Turkish actor, singer, and composer (d. 1996)
1933 - Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki, composer
1935 - Jean Lapointe, Quebec comedian, singer and senator
1939 - Tomés Svoboda, Paris France, Czech composer (Etude)
1940 - Steve Alaimo, Rochester NY, rocker (Mashed Potatoes)
1941 - Helen Cornelius, Hannibal Mo, country singer (Nashville on the Road)
1941 - John Nelson, San Jose Costa Rica, conductor (Les Troyens of Berlioz)
1943 - Mike Smith, London England, rocker/pianist (Dave Clark 5-Glad All Over)
1944 - Jonathan King, rocker
1947 - Miroslav Vitous, rocker
1948 - Jonathan King, London, singer (Everyone’s Gone to the Moon)
1948 - Marius Mueller-Westernhagen, Duesseldorf Germany, rocker (Stinker)
1949 - Linda Creed, American songwriter (d. 1986)
1950 - Daniel Sahuleka, Moluks/Dutch singer/guitarist (Viva la Libertad)
1950 - Joe Hisaishi, Japanese composer
1954 - Chris Stamey, rocker
1955 - Bill Lloyd, Bowling Green Ky, singer (Foster & Lloyd-Crazy Over You)
1955 - Rick Buckler, [Paul Richard Buckler], rock drummer (Jam)
1955 - Tish Hinojosa, San Antonia Tx, country singer (Something in the Rain)
1956 - Peter Buck, US pop guitarist (REM-Murmur)
1956 - Randy Rhoads, rocker
1961 - David Lovering, American drummer (Pixies)
1962 - Ben Watt, rocker (Everything but the Girls-Sir Idlewood)
1967 - Hacken Lee, Hong Kong singer
1970 - Ulf Ekberg, Swedish musician (Ace of Base)
1985 - Dulce María, Mexican actress and singer
1995 - Joy Gruttmann, German singer

7. decembar

1557 - Girolamo Trombeti, composer
1604 - Ambrosius Reiner, composer
1637 - Barnardo Pasquini, composer
1648 - Giovanni Maria Capelli, composer
1772 - Joseph Franz Maximilian Lobkowitz, composer
1835 - Dom Joseph Pothier, French monk/musicologist
1840 - Hermann Goetz, composer
1857 - Nicola van Westerhout, composer
1863 - John Ebenezer West, composer
1863 - Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer/fascist (Cavalleria Rusticana)
1876 - Ludwig Schiedermair, German musicologist (Beethoven-Archiv)
1879 - Rudolf Friml, Czech/US composer (Bohemian suite)
1887 - Ernst Toch, Vienna Austria, composer (Melodie Lehre)
1889 - Heathcote Dicken Statham, composer
1896 - Juan Maria Thomas Sabater, composer
1904 - Konstantin Sokolsky, Russian singer (d. 1991)
1906 - George Richard James, saxophonist
1910 - Edmundo Ros, English orchestra leader
1910 - Richard Franko Goldman, composer
1910 - Louis Prima, New Orleans Luisiana, American musician (That Old Black Magic)
1912 - Daniel Jones, composer
1918 - Jorunn Vidar, composer
1921 - Arne Dorumsgaard, composer
1926 - Wolfgang Ludewig, composer
1927 - Vlastimir Pericic, composer
1928 - Raymond Henry Charles Warren, composer
1930 - Richard Felciano, composer
1935 - Jean-Claude Casadesus, composer
1942 - Harry Chapin, NYC, American rock vocalist (Taxi, Cat’s in the Cradle)
1942 - Jonathan D Kramer, composer
1944 - Daniel Chorzempa, American organist
1945 - Marion Rung, Finnish singer
1948 - Gary Morris, Fort Worth Tx, country singer/actor (Colbys)
1948 - Mads Vinding, Danish bassist
1949 - Tom Waits, California, rocker/song writer (Blue Valentine)
1951 - Henk Temming, Dutch vocalist/keyboardist (Good Cause)
1954 - Mike Nolan, rocker
1960 - Craig Scanlon, English guitarist (The Fall)
1961 - Lisa Fischer, American R&B singer
1963 - Barbara Weathers, vocalist (Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover)
1964 - Duncan Miller, rocker (Blue Mercedes-Rich & Famous)
1964 - Mike Nolan, rocker (Bucks Fizz-My Camera Never Lies)
1974 - Nicole Appleton, Canadian-born singer
1977 - Dominic Howard, English drummer (Muse)
1978 - Frankie J, Mexican-born American singer
1979 - Sara Bareilles, American singer
1987 - Aaron Carter, American singer and actor

8. decembar

1731 - Frantisek Xaver Dusek, composer
1737 - Robert Kimmerling, composer
1741 - Maximilian JLP Gardel, French dancer/choreographer (Menuet Reine)
1744 - Pierre Joseph Candielle, composer
1789 - John Fawcett, composer
1795 - Jacques Francois Gallay, composer
1811 - Louis Alexander Balthasar Schindelmeisser, composer
1865 - Jean Sibelius, Tavastehus Finland, composer (Valse Triste, Finlandia)
1877 - Paul Emile Ladmirault, composer
1882 - Manuel Maria Ponce, Fresnillo Mexico, composer (Estrellita)
1887 - Vicente Emilio Sojo, composer
1890 - Bohuslav Jan Martinu, Policka Czechoslovakia, composer (Hry o Marti)
1897 - Leslie Heward, composer
1899 - James "Pigmeat" Jarrett, pianist
1903 - Cleo Brown, pianist
1903 - Irene Eisinger, singer
1903 - Zoltan Szekely, composer
1905 - Charles Cushing, composer
1905 - Ernst Hermann Meyer, composer
1907 - Tony Aubin, composer
1911 - Nikos Gatsos, Greek poet and lyricist (d. 1992)
1917 - Rufo I Wever, Aruban pianist/composer (Ca’i Organ)
1919 - Hans-Dieter Hosalla, composer
1919 - Moyssey Samuilovich Vaynberg, composer
1921 - Terence Weil, cellist/teacher
1922 - Jean Ritchie, rocker
1925 - James E "Jimmy" Smith, US jazz/organist (Walk on the Wild Side)
1925 - Sammy Davis Jr, NYC, singer/dancer/actor (Ocean’s 11, Candy Man)
1930 - Alain Weber, composer
1931 - Rudolf Komorous, composer
1939 - James Galway, Belfast Ireland, flutist (18k gold flute, Royal Phil)
1939 - Jerry Butler, Sunflower Miss, rock vocalist (Never Give You Up)
1940 - Graham Knight, rocker
1942 - Bobby Elliot, rock drummer (Hollies)
1943 - Jim Morrison, American poet, singer (The Doors) (d. 1971)
1946 - Graham Knight, rocker (Marmalade)
1946 - John Rubinstein, Los Angeles California, actor/composer (Family, Boys from Brazil)
1947 - Geoff Daking, rocker
1947 - Gregg Allman, Nashville, guitarist/vocalist (Allman Brothers Band)
1949 - Ray Shulman, rocker
1950 - Dan Hartman, Harrisburg Pennsylvania, American musician (Edgar Winter Group)
1951 - Jan Eggum, Norwegian singer-songwriter
1952 - Richie Morales, drummer (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance)
1953 - Kim Basinger, American actress
1956 - Warren Cuccurullo, rock guitarist (Missing Persons)
1957 - Phil Collen, London UK, English heavy-metal guitarist (Def Leppard - Love Bites)
1958 - Bird McIntyre, Thai pop singer, musician
1959 - Marty Raybon, Sanford Fla, singer (Shenandoah-Sunday in the South)
1959 - Paul Rutherford, vocalist (Frankie Goes to Hollywood-Relax)
1962 - Marty Friedman, American guitarist
1964 - James Blundell, Australian country singer
1966 - Sinéad O’Connor, Irish musician
1973 - Corey Taylor, American singer (Slipknot, Stone Sour)
1974 - Cristian Castro, Mexican singer
1974 - Nick Zinner, American guitarist (Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
1976 - Naimee Coleman, Irish singer and songwriter
1986 - Kate Voegele, American musician
1993 - AnnaSophia Robb, American actress and singer

9. decembar

1715 - Georg Gottfried Petri, composer
1728 - Pietro Alessandro Guglieli, composer
1754 - Etienne Ozi, composer
1791 - Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner, composer
1796 - Prudent-Louis Aubery du Boulley, composer
1837 - Émile Waldteufel, French composer (d. 1915)
1850 - Emma Abbott, American soprano (d. 1891)
1854 - Pekka Hannikainen, composer
1859 - Algernon Ashton, composer
1862 - Karel Kovarovic, composer
1864 - Sidney Homer, composer
1882 - Joaquín Turina, Seville Spain, composer (Rima)
1895 - Conchita Supervía, Spanish opera singer (d. 1936)
1897 - Hermione Gingold, London England, actress (Gigi, Music Man)
1899 - Frans van Amelsvoort, Dutch choir conductor
1906 - Freddy Martin, Cleve Oh, orchestra leader (started Merv Griffin)
1906 - Greet Koeman, Dutch singer
1915 - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Jarotschin Germ, soprano (Der Rosenkavalier)
1916 - Wolfgang Hildesheimer, German/Swiss architect/writer (Mozart biog)
1927 - Pierre Henry, composer
1929 - Michel Fano, composer
1932 - Jessie "Ooh Poo Pah Doo" Hill, jazz musician
1934 - Alan Ridout, composer
1934 - [Amos] Junior Wells, Memphis Tn, blues singer (In My Younger Days)
1938 - David Houston, rocker
1938 - William Thomas McKinley, composer
1940 - Sammy Strain, US singer (Imperials-Hurt So Bad)
1941 - Dan Hicks, American rocker
1943 - Kenny Vance, rocker
1944 - George Baker, [Hans Bouwens], Dutch vocalist (G B Selection)
1945 - Michael Nouri, Wash DC, actor (Beacon Hill, Bay City Blues)
1948 - Dennis Dunaway, rocker
1950 - Joan Armatrading, St Kitts, singer (Back to the Night)
1955 - Chamras Saewataporn, Thai composer and musician
1956 - Sylvia, Kokomo Indiana, country singer (Nobody)
1957 - Donny Osmond, Ogden Utah, singer (Osmond Brothers, Donnie & Marie)
1958 - Rikk Agnew, American guitarist (The Adolescents)
1964 - Paul Landers, German guitarist (Rammstein)
1968 - Michael Foster, Richmond Va, drummer (Firehouse-Love of a Lifetime)
1970 - Kara DioGuardi, American songwriter, record producer, and singer
1972 - Tre Cool, German-born American drummer (Green Day)
1974 - Canibus, American rapper
1977 - Imogen Heap, English singer-songwriter
1979 - Olivia Lufkin, Japanese singer
1982 - Vincent Accardi, American guitarist Brand New
1990 - LaFee, German singer

10. decembar

1764 - Louis-Sebastien Lebrun, composer
1813 - Errico Petrella, composer
1822 - César Franck, Belgian composer and organist (d. 1890)
1823 - Theodore Furchtegott Kirchner, Neukirchen, German composer
1823 - Wilhelm Kuhe, composer
1855 - Marios Varvoglis, Greek Composer (d. 1967)
1868 - Louis Victor Saar, composer
1872 - Johann Babtist Thaller, composer
1885 - Janos Hammerschlag, composer
1885 - Mario Varvoglis, composer
1893 - Walter Rein, composer
1894 - Paul Dessau, composer
1908 - Olivier Messiaen, Avignon France, composer (L’Ame en Bourgeon)
1913 - Morton Gould, Richmond Hill NY, prolific composer (Verdun)
1919 - Sven-Eric Emanuel Johanson, composer
1919 - Alexander Courage, American composer (d. 2008)
1922 - Allen Dwight Sapp, composer
1923 - Abelardo Quinteros, composer
1926 - Dag Schjelderup-Ebbe, composer
1926 - Eddie Jones, "Guitar Slim" rocker
1937 - Don Sebesky, Perth Amboy NJ, orchestra leader (Jimmy Dean Show)
1938 - Yuri Temirkanov, Nalchik Russia, conductor (Kirov)
1941 - Chad Stuart, Windermere Cumberland, UK rock vocalist/guitarist (Chad & Jeremy)
1941 - Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer and actor
1942 - Bear Bossu, [Berend F Gertenbach], actor/vocalist (Pub Chantant)
1943 - Jessica Cleaves, rocker
1945 - Eric Boom, Dutch guitarist/producer
1946 - Chris Kefford, rocker
1946 - Gloria Loring, NYC, actress/singer (Days of our Life)
1946 - Walter "Clyde" Orange, Florida, rocker (Commodores-Too Hot to Trot)
1948 - Brendan Harkin, rocker
1948 - Ralph Tavares, rocker
1951 - Ellen Nikolaysen, Norwegian singer
1954 - Jack Hues, English musician
1958 - Paul Hardcastle, keyboardist (Don’t Waste My Time, Just for Money)
1961 - Nia Peeples, [Vernia], Hollywood, dancer/host (Fame, Party Machine)
1965 - J Mascis, American musician (Dinosaur Jr.)
1968 - Joey Burns, singer and multi-instrumentalist, the frontman of Calexico
1972 - Brian Molko, Belgian-born singer and songwriter (Placebo)
1974 - Meg White, American drummer (The White Stripes)
1980 - Sarah Chang, American violinist
1980 - Massari, Lebanese-born Canadian singer
1981 - Taufik Batisah, Singaporean singer
1982 - Tim Deegan, Canadian MuchMusic VJ
1983 - Katrin Siska, Estonian singer
1985 - Raven-Symoné, American actress and singer

11. decembar

1566 - Manuel Cardoso, composer
1676 - Johann Georg Weichenberger, composer
1757 - Charles Wesley, composer
1758 - Carl Friedrich Zelter, composer
1793 - Pietro Coppola, composer
1803 - Hector Berlioz, French composer (d. 1869)
1823 - Yury Nikolayevich Golitsin, composer
1838 - Whitney Eugene Thayer, composer
1855 - Julian Edwards, composer
1868 - Ernst Henrik Ellberg, composer
1876 - Mieczyslaw Karlowicz, composer
1890 - Carlos Gardel, Buenos Aires, Argentine singer and the most prominent figure in the history of tango (d. 1935)
1892 - Leo Ornstein, Kremenchug Russia, composer (Bio in Sonata Form)
1905 - Koos van de Griend, composer
1907 - Norbert Rosseau, composer
1908 - Elliott Cook Carter Jr, NYC, composer (Tom & Lily), (d. 2012)
1910 - Noel Rosa, Brazilian songwriter (d. 1937)
1916 - Dámaso Pérez Prado, Cuban-born bandleader (d. 1989)
1922 - Grigoris Bithikotsis, Greek singer (d. 2005)
1926 - Big Mama Thornton, blues singer (Ball & Chain, Stronger than Dirt)
1930 - Leonard Friedman, violinist
1931 - Rita Moreno, [Rosita Dolores Alverío], Humacao, Puerto Rico, singer, dancer and actress (West Side Story)
1938 - Enrico Macias, Algerian-born French singer
1938 - McCoy Tyner, American jazz pianist
1939 - David Gates, Tulsa Ok, rock vocalist (Bread-Baby I’m A Want You)
1941 - Rogier van Otterloo, Dutch composer/conductor
1944 - Brenda Lee, [Brenda Mae Tarpley], Lithonia Ga, singer (I’m Sorry)
1944 - David Ashley White, composer
1945 - Robert Pickett, rocker
1948 - Stamatis Spanoudakis, Greek composer
1954 - Jermaine Jackson, Gary Indiana, singer (Jackson 5-ABC)
1958 - Nikki Sixx, American musician (Mötley Crüe)
1960 - Rachel Portman, English film composer
1962 - Curtis Williams, rocker
1962 - Paul Haslinger, Austrian-born composer
1962 - Nele Karajlić, Bosnian singer
1963 - Jon Brion, American musician/record producer
1964 - Justin Currie, Scottish rock vocalist/bassist (Del Amitri)
1964 - David Schools, American musician (Widespread Panic)
1964 - Cosy Sheridan, American singer
1966 - Terry Sharpe, rocker (The Adventures, Starjets-Starjets)
1966 - Leon Lai, Hong Kong Cantonese singer/actor
1967 - DJ Yella, American DJ and music producer (N.W.A)
1981 - Zacky Vengeance, American musician (Avenged Sevenfold)
1983 - Yoh Miyamori, Japanese musician (Orange Range)
1987 - Natalia Gordienko, Moldovan singer and dancer
1993 - Gina Miele, American singer and actress

12. decembar

1579 - Heinrich Steuccius, composer
1630 - Olof Rudbeck, composer
1685 - Lodovico Giustini, composer
1715 - Gennaro Manna, composer
1835 - Georges Jean Pfeiffer, composer
1879 - Percy Fletcher, composer
1887 - Kurt Magnus Atterberg, composer
1889 - Vaclav Stepan, composer
1900 - Sammy Davis, Sr., American dancer (d. 1988)
1907 - Fred Elizalde, composer
1907 - Roy Douglas, English composer and arranger (Tomorrow We Live-At Dawn We Die)
1911 - Anna Russell, composer
1913 - Eve Lister, actress/singer (No Limit, Hyde Park)
1913 - Hal Dickinson, singer (Modernaires)
1913 - Stanley Bate, composer
1915 - Frank Sinatra, Hoboken New Jersey, American singer/actor (old blue eyes), (d. 1998)
1918 - Joe Williams [Joseph Goreed], Cordele, Georgia, American jazz singer (Everyday I have the Blues)
1924 - Francis Miroglio, composer
1924 - Nevit Kodali, composer
1925 - Vladimir Shainsky, Soviet and Russian composer
1928 - Lonesome Sundown, blues singer/guitarist
1929 - Toshiko Akiyoshi, Japanese musician
1930 - Friedrich Voss, composer
1934 - Habib Hassan Touma, composer
1936 - Bengt Emil Johnson, composer
1938 - Connie Francis, Newark NJ, singer/actress (Where the Boys Are)
1938 - Joel Chadabe, composer
1940 - Dionne Warwick, East Orange NJ, singer (Solid Gold, Way to San Jose)
1941 - Liesbeth List, Dutch actress/vocalist (Theodorakis)
1941 - Robert Covington, drummer/singer
1941 - Terry Kirkman, Salina Ks, rock vocalist/keyboardist (Association)
1941 - Tim Hauser, jazz singer (Manhattan Transfer-Tuxedo Junction)
1942 - Peter Sarstedt, British musician (Where do you go to my lovely?)
1943 - Dave Munden, rock drummer (Brian Poole & The Tremeloes)
1943 - Dickey Betts, West Palm Beach Fl, guitarist (Allman Bros-Ramblin’ Man)
1943 - Grover Washington Jr, jazz artist (Mr Magic)
1943 - Mike Smith, rock musician
1945 - Alan Ward, rock musician
1945 - Tony Williams, jazz musician
1946 - Clive Bunker, rock drummer (Jethro Tull)
1947 - Ralph Scala, rock musician
1948 - Ray Jackson, rock musician
1953 - Bruce Kulick, rock guitarist/singer (KISS)
1957 - Cy Curnin, Londo, England, rock vocalist (Fixx-Sign of Fire)
1957 - Sheila E.[scovedo], Oakland, California, American singer, drummer and percussionist (Krush Grove, Holly Rock)
1959 - Belouis Some, rock musician (Neville Keighley-Some People)
1960 - Jaap van Sweden, Dutch violinist/concert master
1961 - Daniel O’Donnell, Donegal, Ireland, singer/Television presented
1963 - Ai Orikasa, Japanese voice actress and singer
1964 - Rockin’ Jeff, rock musician (The Pasadenas-Riding on a Train)
1967 - Yuzo Koshiro, Japanese composer
1967 - Takenobu Mitsuyoshi, Japanese composer
1968 - Tatianna, Phila Pa, spanish singer (Baile Commigo, Chicad de Hoy)
1972 - Kevin Parent, French Canadian singer and songwriter
1976 - Dan Hawkins, English guitarist (The Darkness)
1978 - Evren Genis, Turkish composer
1978 - Louis (artist), Korean singer ("Jung Hwa Ban Jum")
1979 - Sharin Foo, Danish singer and bassist
1983 - Katrina Elam, American singer

13. decembar

1732 - Jean-Claude Trial, composer
1740 - Franz Xaver Schnitzer, composer
1770 - John Clarke-Whitfeld, composer
1797 - Heinrich Heine, Germany, poet/lyricist (Schubert, Liszt)
1819 - Edwin George Monk, composer
1835 - Phillips Brooks, Episcopal bishop/composer (Little Town of Bethlehem)
1838 - Marie-Alexis Castillon de Saint-Victor, composer
1843 - George Stephanescu, composer
1850 - Iver Paul Fredrik Holter, composer
1853 - Joseph Sickman Corsen, Curacao, musician/composer/screenwriter
1858 - Jakab Gyula Major, composer
1865 - Gustav Luders, composer
1877 - Mykola Dmytrovich Leontovych, composer
1889 - Clarence Loomis, composer
1898 - Daniel Lazarus, composer
1899 - Yusef Greiss, composer
1900 - Jonel Perlea, composer
1901 - Georg M Rimski-Korssakov, Russian musicologist/theory [OS]
1902 - Paul Kurzbach, composer
1903 - Carlos Montoya, Madrid Spain, guitarist (Suite Flamenco 1966)
1906 - Ingemar Liljefors, composer
1908 - Victor Babin, composer
1910 - Lillian Roth, [Rutstein], singer/actress (Animal Crackers)
1913 - Jimmy Carroll, NYC, pianist (Most Important People)
1914 - George "Tiger" Haynes, guitarist/actor (Land Without Music, Guv’nor)
1917 - Dave Street, Los Angeles California, actor/singer (Broadway Open House)
1920 - Frits Noske, Dutch musicologist (Signifier & the Signified
1929 - Christopher Plummer, Toronto Ontario, Canadian actor (Sound of Music, Doll’s House)
1938 - Alvin Curran, composer
1938 - Tony Gomez, rocker (Foundations)
1948 - Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, guitarist (The Doobie Brothers, Steely Dan-Deacon Blues)
1948 - Ted Nugent, Detroit, guitarist (Cat Scratch Fever, Damn Yankees)
1949 - Randy Owen, Fort Payne Ala, country music star (Alabama-Mt Music)
1949 - Tom Verlaine, [Miller], Mt Morris NJ, rock vocalist (Television)
1949 - Walter "Clyde" Owen, rocker
1950 - Davey O’List, rocker (Roxy Music)
1954 - John Anderson, Apopka Fla, country singer/actor (Lone Wolf McQuade)
1954 - Steve Forbert, rocker
1956 - Majida El Roumi, Lebanese singer
1957 - Morris Day, American singer (The Time)
1958 - Dana Strum, Wash DC, rock bassist (Slaughter-Stick it Live)
1961 - Harry Gregson-Williams, English composer
1969 - Murat Nasyrov, Russian singer (d. 2007)
1974 - Nicholas McCarthy, English guitarist (Franz Ferdinand)
1975 - Tom DeLonge, American guitarist (blink-182, Angels & Airwaves)
1978 - Ryo Kawakita, Japanese guitarist (Maximum the Hormone)
1981 - Amy Lee, American singer/songwriter (Evanescence)
1982 - Anthony Callea, Australian singer/songwriter
1983 - Matt Deis, American bassist
1989 - Taylor Swift, Reading, Pennsylvania, American singer/songwriter (Our Song)
1991 - Jay Greenberg, American composer

14. decembar

1730 - Capel Bond, composer
1738 - Johann Antonin Kozeluch, composer
1779 - Mariano Rodriguiz de Ledesma, composer
1783 - Johann Christoph Kienlen, composer
1789 - Maria Agata Szymanowska, composer
1868 - Richard Batka, composer
1873 - Marie-Alphonse-Nicolas-Joseph Jongen, composer
1875 - Dobri Khristov, composer
1877 - Lieven Duvosel, Flemish music writer/composer (Leiecyclys)
1883 - Manolis Kalomiris, Greek opera composer
1894 - Joaquin Zamacois Soler, composer
1898 - Frederick Douglass Hall, composer
1900 - Boyan Georgiev Ikonomov, composer
1905 - Sydney Lipton, bandleader/violin
1906 - Helmut Bornefeld, composer
1911 - Spike Jones, Long Beach California, composer (In a Secluded Rendesvous)
1914 - Rosalyn Tureck, Chicago Illinois, pianist (Bach & Rock)
1915 - Dan Dailey, New York City, New York, American dancer and actor (Gov Drinkwater-Governor & JJ)
1915 - Clay Warnick, Tacoma Wash, choral director (Jimmie Rodgers Show)
1920 - Clark Terry, American trumpeter
1924 - Marion Morgan, singer (Stop the Music)
1929 - Ron Nelson, composer
1932 - Abbe Lane, Bkln, aka Mrs Xavier Cugat/singer (Xavier Cugat Show)
1932 - Charlie "Silver Fox" Rich, Colt Ark, vocalist (Behind Closed Doors)
1933 - Leo N Wright, US saxophonist (I left my heart in SF)
1943 - Frank Allen, rock vocalist (Searchers-Needles & Pins)
1946 - Jackie McCauley, North Ireland, rock pianist (Them Coleraine)
1946 - Joyce Vincent Wilson, Detroit Mich, singer (Tony Orlando & Dawn)
1947 - Christopher Parkening, Los Angeles California, guitarist (transcribed sacred music)
1949 - Cliff Williams, Sydney Australia, rock bassist (AC/DC-Highway to Hell)
1952 - Tamara Danz, singer
1953 - René Eespere, Soviet-born Estonian composer
1954 - Ib Anderson, Copenhagen, ballet dancer
1958 - Jan Dijksma, Dutch bassist (Weekend at Waikiki)
1958 - Mike Scott, Scottish rocker (Blues Inc, Waterboys-Rainbow Warrior)
1958 - Spider Tracy, English rock vocalist (The Pogues)
1959 - Franco Iglesia, Cuba, spanish singer
1964 - C[arl] J[eff] Snare, Wash DC, vocalist (Firehouse-Love of a Lifetime)
1966 - Tim Skold, Swedish/American musician
1970 - Anna Maria Jopek, Polish singer
1970 - Beth Orton, English singer-songwriter
1972 - Eric Anderson, American musical theatre actor
1973 - Tia Texada, American actress and singer
1975 - Justin Furstenfeld, American rock singer
1978 - Radu Sârbu, Moldovan singer (O-Zone)
1979 - Sophie Monk, Australian actress, singer, and model
1980 - Frankie J, American singer
1980 - Tata Young, Thai-American singer
1982 - Anthony Way, English singer and actor
1985 - Ren Yagami, Japanese actor and singer
1988 - Vanessa Hudgens, American singer and actress
1992 - Tori Kelly, American singer

15. decembar

1534 - Lucas Osiander, composer
1567 - Christoph Demantius, composer
1574 - Samuel Besler, composer
1657 - Michel-Richard Delalande, composer
1667 - Ludwig Ernst, composer
1765 - Philippe-Jacques Pfeffinger, composer
1803 - August Freyer, composer
1812 - Isidor Dannstrom, composer
1821 - Auguste Emmanuel Vaucorbeil, composer
1822 - Edward Stephen, composer
1823 - Friedrich Gottlieb Schwencke, composer
1830 - Francesco D’Arcais, composer
1842 - Henry Gadsby, composer
1857 - Eugeniusz Pankiewicz, composer
1873 - Pongrac Kacsoh, composer
1875 - Friedrich Niggli, composer
1879 - Rudolf von Laban, Czech/German choreographer (modern dance)
1891 - A. P. (Alvin) Carter, Virginia, American musician (Carter Family)
1892 - David Guion, composer
1892 - Jose Maria Castro, composer
1898 - Fernando Remacha, composer
1904 - Kermit Bloomgarden, producer (Diary of Anne Frank, Music Man)
1905 - Ferenc Farkas, composer
1910 - John H. Hammond, NYC, American rock/jazz musician (I Can Tell, So Many Roads)
1924 - Ida Haendel, Polish violinist/author (Woman with Violin)
1928 - Jerry Wallace, American singer
1932 - Elaine Barkin, composer
1932 - Igor Stuhec, composer
1933 - Jesse Belvin, Texarkana Arkansas, rock vocalist (Mr Easy)
1939 - Cindy Birdsong, Camden NJ, rock vocalist (Labelle-Rainbow, Supremes)
1939 - Nicolaus A Huber, composer
1942 - Dave Clark, London England, rock drummer (Dave Clark 5-Glad All Over)
1946 - Carmine Appice, NYC, musician (Have You Heard, Keep on Rolling)
1946 - Harry Ray, Hackensack NJ, rock vocalist (Ray, Goodman, Brown)
1951 - Ken Knox, rock vocalist (Chairmen of the Board)
1955 - Paul Simonon, English pop bassist (Clash-Havana 3 AM)
1957 - Tim Reynolds, Wiesbaden, Germany, guitarist (Dave Matthews Band)
1960 - Doug Phelps, Leachville Ar, singer (Ky Headhunters-Davy Crockett)
1960 - Walter Werzowa, Austrian composer
1978 - Mark Jansen, Dutch guitarist (Epica)
1980 - Sergio Pizzorno, English guitarist (Kasabian)
1981 - Najoua Belyzel, French singer
1983 - Ronnie Radke, American singer (Escape the Fate)
1984 - Joshua Third, British Guitarist in The Horrors