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1582 - Marco da Gagliano, Italian opera composer
1764 - Gottfried Rieger, composer
1771 - George Guest, composer
1775 - Jacob-Joseph-Balthasar Martinn, composer
1858 - Anthony Johnson Showalter, composer
1859 - Bohuslav Jeremias, composer
1884 - Felipe Boero, composer
1892 - Howard Barlow, Plain City Ohio, conductor (Voice of Firestone)
1895 - Leo Sowerby, Grand Rapids Michigan, composer (Pulitzer 1946)
1901 - Heinz Eric Roemheld, American film composer (d. 1985)
1907 - Kate Smith, American singer (d. 1986)
1909 - George Melachrino, composer
1912 - Anna Pollak, mezzo-soprano
1912 - Felipe Padilla de Leon, composer
1913 - Walter Susskind, Praha (Prague) Czechoslovakia, conductor
1924 - Earl George, composer
1924 - Enrico Josif, composer
1927 - William Mitchell Byers, musician
1929 - Sonny James, [James Loden], Hackelburg AL, rocker (Young Love)
1930 - Little Walter, [Marion Walter Jacobs], rocker
1937 - Bo Nilsson, Swedish composer (Doppelspiel)
1939 - Judy Collins, singer (Send in the Clowns, Clouds), born in Seattle, Washington
1941 - Juraj Hatrick, composer
1944 - Rita Coolidge, Nashville Tn, singer (Higher & Higher, We’re All Alone)
1946 - Jerry Weiss, rocker (Blood Sweat & Tears), born in NYC, New York
1946 - Nick Fortune, [Nicholas Fortuna], rock bassist (Buckinghams Chicago)
1946 - Tony Ashton, rocker
1947 - Carlos Ward, rocker (B T Express)
1948 - James Wise, US soul singer (Archie Bell & the Drells)
1949 - Tim Hodgkinson, English composer and musician (Henry Cow)
1953 - Felix Hanemann, rocker (Zebra)
1953 - Glen Ballard, American songwriter and record producer
1954 - Ray Parker Jr, rock guitarist/vocalist (Ghostbusters), born in Detroit, Michigan
1955 - Nick Feldman, English musician
1957 - Steve Farris, rock guitarist (Mr Mister)
1957 - Ko Otani, Japanese composer
1959 - Paul Smith, rock saxophonist (Haircut 100)
1966 - Johnny Colt, Cherry Point NC, rock bassist (Black Crowes)
1967 - Tim McGraw, American musician
1968 - Mark Scott, Paramus NJ, rock drummer (Trixter-Give It To Me Good)
1968 - D’arcy Wretzky, American musician (The Smashing Pumpkins)
1977 - Dan Regan, American musician (Reel Big Fish)
1984 - Keiichiro Koyama, Japanese musician (NEWS)

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1660 - Pietro Alessandro Gaspare Scarlatti, Palermo Italy, composer (Tigrane)
1729 - Florian Johann Deller, composer
1752 - Ludwig August Lebrun, composer
1754 - Vicente Martin y Soler, composer
1810 - Hans Christian Lumbye, composer
1817 - Zikmund Michal Kolesovsky, composer
1843 - Carl Michael Ziehrer, composer
1846 - Zygmunt Noskowski, composer
1855 - Theodore Moses Tobani, composer
1857 - Frederic Cliffe, composer
1859 - Eugene D’Harcourt, composer
1862 - Marie F M Emmanuel, French composer/musicologist (Salamine)
1887 - Vernon Castle, English dancer (d. 1918)
1893 - Assen Karastoyanov, composer
1895 - Lorenz Hart, American lyricist (d. 1943)
1897 - J. Fred Coots, American songwriter (d. 1985)
1900 - Helen Morgan, singer/actress (Applause, Frankie & Johnny)
1903 - Oivin Fjeldstad, composer
1904 - Georgi Dimitrov, composer
1906 - Maurice Thiriet, composer
1911 - Lillian Rambach, teacher violinist
1915 - Jan Hanus, composer
1915 - Van Alexander, orchestra leader (Gordon MacRae Show), born in NYC, New York
1915 - Doris Fisher, American songwriter (d. 2003)
1919 - Than Wyenn, actor (Pete Kelly’s Blues), born in NYC, New York
1920 - Jacob Gilboa, composer
1920 - Jean-Marie Auberson, Swiss conductor (d. 2004)
1923 - Christina Spierenburg, Dutch singer
1924 - Aafje Heynis, Dutch singer
1924 - Theodore Bikel, Austrian/US folk singer/actor (Russians Are Coming)
1925 - Svatopluk Havelka, composer
1929 - Edward Levy Irving, composer
1929 - Luc Ferrari, composer
1929 - Link Wray, American rock guitarist (d. 2005)
1932 - Malcolm Leyland Lipkin, composer
1933 - Bunk Gardner, rocker (Mothers Of Invention)
1936 - Michael Rabin, violinist (In Memorium), born in NYC, New York
1936 - Engelbert Humperdinck, [Arnold George Dorsey], Madras India, singer (EH Show)
1937 - Lorenzo Music, Brooklyn New York, American writer/actor/voice (Carlton-Rhoda, Garfield)
1944 - John Verity, rocker (Argent)
1945 - Bob Henrit, English pop drummer (Kinks-Waterloo Sunset)
1945 - Goldy McJohn, rocker (Steppenwolf)
1945 - Randy Cain, US soul singer (4 Gents/Delfonics)
1945 - Robert Henrit, England, rocker (Argent)
1945 - Judge Dread, English musician (d. 1998)
1946 - Lesley Gore, American singer (It’s My Party, You Don’t Own Me), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2015)
1948 - Larry Gatlin, Seminole Tx, country singer (Gatlin Bros-Broken Lady)
1950 - Lou Gramm, rocker (Foreigner-Want to Know What Love Is), born in Rochester, New York
1952 - Mari Natsuki, Japanese singer, dancer and actress
1955 - Jay Osmond, rocker (Osmond Brothers)
1955 - Joe Callis, rocker
1956 - David Rhodes, English guitarist
1961 - Doctor Robert, [Bruce R Howard], rocker (Blow Monkeys-Wicked Ways)
1968 - Ziana Zain, Malaysian singer and actress
1978 - Steve Bays, Canadian musician
1982 - Lorie, French singer
1985 - Lily Allen, English singer and songwriter
1987 - Nana Kitade, Japanese singer
1988 - Lara Liang, Taiwanese-American Singer

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1649 - Johann Valentin Meder, composer
1708 - Johann Adolph Scheibe, German music theroist/composer
1729 - Florian Leopold Gassmann, composer
1737 - Friedrich Schwindl, composer
1742 - Jean-Baptiste Krumphultz, composer
1744 - Freidrich Wilhelm Weis, composer
1752 - Braz Francisco de Lima, composer
1819 - Nicola De Giosa, composer
1844 - Richard D’Oyly Carte, England, opera impresario (Ivanhoe)
1873 - Nikolay N Tcherepnin, St Petersburg, composer of ballets, songs [OS]
1886 - Marcel Dupré, French organist and composer (d. 1971)
1902 - Hugo Friedhofer, composer
1903 - Bing Crosby, Tacoma Wash, actor and singer (White Christmas, Going My Way)
1910 - Alceo Galliera, composer
1911 - John Rhea "Yank" Lawson, trumpeter
1912 - Virgil Fox, American organist (d. 1980)
1915 - Evencio Castellanos, composer
1917 - James Penberthy, composer
1917 - Betty Comden, American lyricist, (d. 2006)
1919 - Pete Seeger, folk singer (Weaver, Goodnight Irene), born in NYC, New York
1921 - Joe Ames, American singer (d. 2007)
1923 - George Hadjinikos, Greek pianist and conductor
1930 - David Evatt Tunley, composer
1931 - Joseph Lichtman Layton, dancer
1933 - James Brown, Barnwell, South Carolina, American soul singer (Hot Pants, Living in America) and originator of funk music (d. 2006)
1934 - Georg Kroll, composer
1934 - Frankie Valli, American singer (The Four Seasons)
1937 - Frankie Valli, [Castelluccio], Newark NJ, singer (Four Seasons-Sherry)
1939 - Jonathan David Harvey, English composer (Bhakti, Music of Stockhausen)
1940 - Konrad "Conny" Plank, German record producer and musician
1944 - Peter Staples, rocker (Troggs-Wild Thing)
1950 - Mary Hopkin, South Wales, singer (Those Were the Days)
1951 - Christopher Cross, [Geppert], Texas, singer (Sailing, Arthur’s Theme)
1951 - Chris Cross, American singer-songwriter ("Arthur’s Theme"), born in San Antonio, Texas
1953 - Bruce Hall, Champaign Ill, rock bassist (Reo Speedwagon)
1953 - Van McLain, rocker (Shooting Star)
1954 - Gary Young, American drummer (Pavement)
1955 - Timmy Cappello, rock & sax player (played with Tina Turner, Ringo Starr & The Lost Boys)
1957 - Cactus Moser, Montrose Co, country singer (Highway 101-Cry Cry Cry)
1959 - David Ball, Blackpool, rock keyboardist (Soft Cell)
1968 - Jay Darlington, keyboardist (Kula Shaker), born in London, England
1968 - Shane Minor, American singer
1971 - Josey Scott, American singer (Saliva)
1975 - Maksim Mrvica, Croatian pianist
1978 - Paul Banks, American vocalist (Interpol)
1981 - Farrah Franklin, American singer (former member of Destiny’s Child)
1983 - Myriam Fares, Lebanese singer
1984 - Cheryl Burke, American professional dancer
1985 - Greg Raposo, American pop/rock singer

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1611 - Carlo Rainaldi, composer
1738 - Josef Kohaut, composer
1744 - Marianne von Martinez, composer
1763 - Franz Stanislaus Spindler, composer
1767 - Tyagaraja, Composer of Indian classical Carnatic music (d. 1847)
1769 - Charles Hague, composer
1777 - Charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens, composer
1835 - Edmund Hart Turpin, composer
1860 - Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek, composer (Donna Diana), born in Vienna, Austria
1867 - Dynam-Victor Fumet, composer
1891 - Frederick Jacobi, composer
1902 - Cvjetko Rihtman, composer
1904 - Umm Kulthum, Egyptian singer (official Date of Birth) (d. 1975)
1905 - Mátyás Seiber, Budapest Hungary, composer (Scherzando)
1912 - Lou Brown, Bkln, orchestra leader (Jerry Lewis Show)
1915 - Pedro Saenz, composer
1916 - Maurice "Moe" Purtill, jazz drummer
1917 - Edward Toner Cone, composer
1919 - Dimiter Petkov, composer
1919 - Mary Ann McCall, singer
1923 - Ed Cassidy, American musician (Spirit)
1923 - Assi Rahbani, Lebanese composer and author
1924 - Tat’yana Petrovna Nikolayeva, composer
1928 - Maynard Ferguson, Verdun Quebec, jazz trumpeter (Roulette)
1930 - Roberta Peters, operatic soprano (NY Met), born in NYC, New York
1931 - Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Russian conductor
1931 - Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, Moscow Russia, conductor (USSR State Radio)
1932 - Fausto Razzi, composer
1937 - Ron Carter, jazz bassist (Ron Carter Meets Bach)
1937 - Hans Ulrich Lehmann, composer
1937 - Dick Dale, American guitarist
1938 - Tyrone Davis, US R&B singer (Are you serious)
1941 - David LaFlamme, Utah, electric violinist (It’s a Beautiful Day)
1942 - Ronnie Bond, drummer (Troggs-Wild Thing)
1943 - Nickolas Ashford, SC, singer (Ashford & Simpson-Solid as a Rock)
1943 - Stella Parton, sister of Dolly Parton/singer (A Woman’s Touch)
1944 - Peggy Santiglia, Belleville, New Jersey, American singer-songwriter (Angels)
1945 - George Wadenius, rocker (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
1949 - Zal Cleminson, rocker (Alex Harvey Band)
1950 - Darryl Hunt, English pop bassist (Pogues-Pair of Brown Eyes)
1951 - Jackie Jackson, [Sigmund], rocker (Jackson 5-ABC), born in Gary, Indiana
1951 - Colin Bass, British bassist (Camel)
1951 - Mick Mars, American guitarist (Mötley Crüe)
1951 - Tirso Cruz III, Filipino actor and singer.
1954 - Julie Budd, Bkln, singer (Child of Plenty)
1955 - Robert Ellis Orrall, American singer
1956 - Sharon Jones, Augusta Georgia, soul/funk singer (Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings)
1959 - Randy Travis, Marshville NC, country singer (Diggin’ Up Bones)
1961 - Jay Aston, rocker
1962 - Oleta Adams, American singer
1968 - Julian Barratt, English comedian and musician, one half of The Mighty Boosh
1970 - Gregg Alexander, American musician (New Radicals)
1972 - Mike Dirnt [Michael Ryan Pritchard], Berkeley, California, American musician (Green Day)
1975 - Pablo Ruiz, Buenos Aires Arg, spanish singer
1979 - Lance Bass, American singer (*NSYNC)
1982 - Hector King, Mexican singer-songwriter
1982 - Rasheeda, American hiphop singer
1985 - Anthony Fedorov, American singer
1987 - Anjeza Shahini, Albanian singer

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1657 - Jacques Danican Philidor, composer
1680 - Giuseppe Porsile, composer
1715 - Daniel Dal Barba, composer
1749 - Jean-Frederic Edelmann, composer
1819 - Stanislaw Moniuszko, Polish composer
1842 - Johann Nepomuk Fuchs, composer
1846 - Federico Chueca, composer
1848 - Adalbert von Goldschmidt, composer
1854 - Antonio Smareglia, composer
1865 - Felicjan Szopski, composer
1867 - Thomas Tertius Noble, composer
1869 - Hans Pfitzner, Russian-born composer (d. 1949)
1871 - Alberto Cametti, composer
1883 - Leopold Samuel, composer
1883 - Petar Konjovic, composer
1886 - Manuel Borguno, composer
1900 - Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, German composer/conductor (Hassan gewinnt)
1901 - Blind Willie McTell, American ragtime singer and guitarist (d. 1959)
1907 - Yoritsune Matsudaira, composer
1916 - Mutal’ Burkhanov, composer
1918 - Erbie Bowser, pianist
1921 - Sonja Oosterman, Dutch singer (Marketensters)
1922 - Phil Gordon, Meridian Miss, singer/actor (Jasper-Bev Hillbillies)
1924 - Theo Olof, German/Neth violinist/prodigy/concert master
1927 - Charles Rosen, pianist/musicologist (Sonata Forms), born in NYC, New York
1932 - Aurel Stroe, composer
1934 - Ace Cannon, American saxophonist
1936 - Patrick Gowers, British composer
1938 - Johnnie Taylor, Crawfordsville, Arkansas, R&B and multi-genre singer (Disco Lady, I Believe in You), (d. 2000)
1942 - Tammy Wynette [Virginia Pugh], Redbay Alabama, country singer (Stand by your Man), (d. 1998)
1943 - Raphael, Spanish singer
1945 - Jiri Svoboda, composer (Accumulator 1)
1945 - Raphael, Spain, spanish singer (When the Sun Sets, Lo Meyur de Ano)
1948 - Bill Ward, heavy metal drummer (Black Sabbath), born in Birmingham, England
1948 - Frank Esier-Smith, rocker
1950 - Maggie MacNeal, Dutch singer (Mouth & MacNeal, I See a Star)
1950 - Googoosh, Faegheh Atashin (فائقه آتشین), Iranian, Persian Singer & actress
1951 - Rex Goh, rock guitarist (Air Supply)
1952 - Louis Cortelezzi, rock saxophonist (Mink DeVille)
1954 - Angelo Kimball, rock guitarist (Face To Face), born in Boston, Massachusetts
1956 - Dick Kemper, Amsterdam Neth, rock vocalist/bassist (Vandenberg)
1957 - Thereza Bazaar, rocker (Dollar-Love’s Gotta Hold on Me)
1959 - Ian McCullough, rock vocalist (Echo & Bunnymen-Heaven Up Here)
1962 - Jenifer McKitrick, American songwriter
1963 - James LaBrie, Canadian singer (Dream Theater)
1964 - Lorraine McIntosh, British pop singer (Deacon Blue-Fellow Hoodlums)
1966 - Shawn Drover, Canadian drummer (Megadeth)
1971 - David Reilly, American singer (God Lives Underwater) (d. 2005)
1981 - Craig David, Southhampton England, English singer (7 Days, Insomnia)
1982 - Edyta Sliwinska, Polish ballroom dancer
1984 - Wade MacNeil, Canadian guitarist (Alexisonfire)
1984 - Eve Torres, American dancer and model
1985 - Shoko Nakagawa, Japanese actress, illustrator and singer
1987 - Marija Šestić, Bosnian singer
1988 - Brooke Hogan, American singer
1988 - Skye Sweetnam, Canadian singer and songwriter
1988 - Adele [Adele Laurie Blue Adkins], Tottenham, London, English singer (Rolling in the Deep, Someone Like You)
1989 - Chris Brown, American R&B singer, born in Tappahannock, Virginia

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1790 - Vaclav Vilem Wurfel, composer
1797 - Joseph Brackett, American religious leader and composer (d. 1882)
1800 - Ferdinand Marcucci, composer
1809 - William Walker, composer
1814 - Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, violinist/composer
1838 - Alfred Humphreys Pease, composer
1858 - Georges Adolphe Hue, composer
1861 - Rabindranath Tagore, Hindu poet/mystic/composer (Nobel 1913)
1871 - August Reusner, composer
1879 - Johan H T Norlind, Swedish musicologist
1894 - Filip Lazar, composer
1898 - Jascha Horenstein, Kiev Russian Empire, Russian-born American conductor
1905 - Norman De Tar, composer
1908 - Necil Kazim Akses, composer
1913 - Gyula David, composer
1915 - George Perle, Bayonne NJ, composer (12 Tone Tonality)
1917 - Kal Mann, American lyricist (d. 2001)
1918 - Godfrey Ridout, composer
1921 - Freddy Randall, jazz trumpeteer
1924 - Mimi Benzell, Bridgeport Ct, operatic soprano (Gilda-Rigoletto)
1924 - Denny Wright, British guitarist (d. 1992)
1926 - Marguerite Piazza, operatic soprano (Young Broadway), born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 2012)
1932 - Gunther Hauk, composer
1936 - Sylvia Robinson, rocker (Mickey & Sylvia-Love is Strange)
1939 - Herbie Cox, rocker (Cleftones)
1940 - Murray Sidlin, American conductor (National Symphony 1973-77), born in Baltimore, Maryland
1942 - Colin Earl, rocker
1945 - Bob Seger, Dearborn Mich, rock & Roll artist (Silver Bullet Band-Shake Down)
1945 - Victoria Bond, composer
1947 - Dennis Cowan, rocker (Bonzo Dog Band), born in London, England
1950 - Robbie McIntosh, drummer (Avg White Band-Show your Hand)
1958 - Lolita Flores, Spanish singer and actress
1960 - Bart de Boer, Dutch guitarist (Ivy Green)
1960 - Larry Steinbachek, rock synthesizer (Bronski Beat-Smalltown Boy)
1960 - John Flansburgh, American musician
1960 - Phyllis Treigle, American soprano
1968 - Lætitia Sadier, French singer (Stereolab)
1971 - Chris Shiflett, Guitarist for Foo Fighters
1980 - Taebin, Korean singer (1TYM)
1981 - Matthew Leone, bassist of Madina Lake
1981 - Nathan Leone, lead singer of Madina Lake
1981 - Edyta Sliwinska, Polish professional dancer
1981 - Mark O’Connell, American drummer (Taking Back Sunday)
1986 - Cindy Daniel, Quebec singer

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1704 - Carl Heinrich Graun, composer
1769 - Giuseppe Farinelli, composer
1803 - Johan Peter Cronhamm, composer
1833 - Johannes Brahms, Hamburg Germany, composer
1840 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Votkinsk, Russia, composer (1812 Overture, Swan Lake), (d. 1893) [NS]
1873 - Clarence Dickinson, composer
1883 - Gino Roncaglia, composer
1901 - Marcel Poot, Belgian baron/composer
1907 - Jef van Durme, composer
1908 - Wouter Paap, composer
1918 - Argeliers Leon, composer
1922 - Lew Anderson, American actor and bandleader (d. 2006)
1927 - Jim Lowe, American singer
1931 - Teresa Brewer, Toledo Ohio, singer (Put Another Nickel In)
1933 - Nexhmije Pagarusha, Albanian singer
1934 - Donald Russell Holler, composer
1934 - Heinz Marti, composer
1936 - Cornelius Cardew, composer
1936 - Jimmy Ruffin, American soul singer (What Becomes of the Brokenhearted), born in Collinsville, Mississippi
1939 - Jimmy Ruffin, vocalist (What Becomes of Broken Hearted)
1939 - Johnny Maestro, NY rock vocalist (Crests-16 Candles, Brooklyn Bridge)
1940 - Armando Krieger, composer
1943 - Christopher Taylor White, rocker
1943 - Rick West, [Richard Westwood], rocker (Brian Poole & Tremeloes)
1944 - Alison Margaret Bauld, composer
1946 - Bill Danoff, vocalist (Starland Vocal Band), born in Springfield, Massachusetts
1946 - Bill Kreutzmann, Palo Alto CA, American rock drummer (Grateful Dead)
1948 - Peter Wingfield, Wales, rocker/actor (Methos-Highlander)
1950 - Prairie Prince, rocker (Tubes)
1952 - Derek Taylor, rocker (Let it Be, Beatles Anthology)
1956 - Anne Dudley, British composer
1960 - Adam Bernstein, American music video/television director
1961 - Phil Campbell, British musician (Motörhead)
1963 - Johnny Lee Middleton, American musician (Savatage & Trans-Siberian Orchestra)
1969 - Eagle Eye Cherry, Swedish musician
1971 - Horgh, (Reidar Horghagen) Norwegian drummer (Immortal/Hypocrisy)
1978 - Stian Arnesen (Nagash/Lex Icon), Norwegian Black Metal musician
1986 - Matt Helders, English musician, drummer for Arctic Monkeys
1988 - Natalie Mejia, member of the American R&B/Pop group Girlicious

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1527 - Johann Walter, composer
1673 - Johann Valentin Eckelt, composer
1703 - Gottlob Harrer, composer
1742 - Johann Baptist Krumpholtz, composer
1745 - Carl Philipp Stamitz, composer
1750 - Elias Mann, composer
1778 - Johann Gansbacher, composer
1803 - Joseph Napoleon Ney Moskova, composer
1806 - Jan Bedrich Kittl, composer
1815 - Jean Delphin Alard, French violinist/composer
1829 - Louis Moreau Gottschalk, 1st internationally recognized US pianist
1839 - Adolphe-Basile Routhier, French Canadian lyricist (O Canada) (d. 1920)
1844 - Hermann Gradener, composer
1846 - Oscar Hammerstein, Germany, opera/playwright (Kohinoor)
1853 - Charles Lee Williams, composer
1886 - Jef van Hoof, composer
1892 - Ezio Pinza, Rome Italy, bass singer (South Pacific, RCA Victor Show)
1905 - Inglis Gundry, Wimbledon, British composer
1905 - Red Nichols, American musician (d. 1965)
1906 - David Van Vactor, Plymouth Indiana, composer (Chaconne)
1910 - Mary Lou Williams, US jazz pianist/composer (Zodiac Suite)
1911 - Robert Johnson, blues singer (King of Delta Blues Singer)
1919 - Sultan Ismail Hajibeyov, composer
1928 - William Jay Sydeman, composer
1930 - Gary Snyder, [Japhy Ryder], beat poet (Rip Rap & Cold Mountain Poems)
1930 - Heather Harper, soprano
1931 - Charles M Wilson, composer
1940 - Ricky Nelson, NJ, rock star (Hello Mary Lou, It’s Late, Garden Party)
1940 - Toni Tennille, American singer
1941 - John Fred, rocker
1941 - Mahmoud Ahmed, Ethiopian singer
1942 - Euclid "Motorhead" Sherwood, rocker (Mothers Of Invention)
1943 - Paul Samwell-Smith, Richmond, Surrey, English bassist (The Yardbirds-For Your Love)
1944 - Gary Glitter, [Paul Gadd], England, rocker (Rock & Roll Part II)
1945 - Keith Jarrett, jazz musician/film composer (Nachtfahrer)
1947 - Felicity Lott, English soprano (We come to the river)
1947 - Phil Sawyer, rocker (Spencer Davis Group)
1947 - Rick Zehringer, Ohio, rocker (McCoys)
1951 - Chris Frantz, Ky, rock drummer (Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club)
1951 - Philip Bailey, rocker (Earth Wind & Fire-Shining Star, Easy Lover)
1953 - Billy Burnette, rock guitarist (Fleetwood Mac), born in Memphis, Tennessee
1953 - Alex Van Halen, Amsterdam The Netherlands, Dutch drummer (Van Halen)
1960 - Eric Brittingham, American bassist
1964 - Eric Brittingham, rocker (Cinderella-Heartbreak Station)
1964 - Peter Gill, rocker (Frankie Goes to Hollywood-Relax) [or Mar/Jan 8]
1964 - Dave Rowntree, British musician (Blur)
1966 - Marta Sánchez, Spanish singer
1971 - Chris Wolf, actor/musician (Guys Next Door)
1975 - Enrique Iglesias, Spanish singer-songwriter and King of Latin Pop (Bailamos, Hero), born in Madrid, Spain
1976 - Martha Wainwright, Canadian musician and songwriter
1976 - Ian "H" Watkins, pop singer (Steps)
1978 - Jang Woo Hyuk, Korean singer
1980 - Michelle McManus, Scottish singer
1981 - Björn Dixgård, Swedish guitarist
1983 - Matt Willis, British singer

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1740 - Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (Barber of Seville)
1814 - Adolph von Henselt, composer
1829 - Ciro Pinsuti, pianist/composer
1833 - Boleslaw Dembinski, composer
1846 - Nikolay Feopemptovich Solov’yov, composer
1855 - Julius Rontgen, composer
1865 - August de Boeck, composer
1892 - Eric Westberg, composer
1909 - Don Messer, Canadian country musician (d. 1973)
1914 - Carlo Maria Giulini, conductor
1914 - Frank Chacksfield, arranger/orchestra leader
1914 - Hank Snow, Nova Scotia Canada, country singer (I Went to Your Wedding)
1916 - Bernard William George Rose, composer/organist
1916 - Douglas Guest, organist
1924 - Connie Russell, singer (Club Embassy, Garroway at Large), born in NYC, New York
1928 - Pall Pampichier Palsson, composer
1935 - Nokie Edwards, Lahoma, Oklahoma, American guitarist (The Ventures)
1937 - Dave Prater, Ocilla Ga, rock vocalist (Sam & Dave)
1937 - Sonny Curtis, Texas, guitarist (Crickets)
1939 - Bruce Mather, composer
1940 - Dick Morrissey, saxophonist
1941 - Pete Birrell, rock bassist (Freddie & The Dreamers)
1942 - Mike Millward, rocker
1942 - Tommy Roe, rocker (Hooray for Hazel), born in Atlanta, Georgia
1943 - Bruce Milner, rocker (Every Mother’s Son)
1944 - Don Dannemann, rocker (Cyrkle)
1944 - Richard Furay, Ohio, rock vocalist (Buffalo Springfield, Poco)
1945 - Steve Katz, rock guitarist/vocalist (Blood, Sweat & Tears), born in NYC, New York
1949 - Billy Joel, Bronx, rock vocalist (Pianoman, Capt Jack, Bridge)
1950 - Tom Petersson, Rockford Il, rock bassist (Cheap Trick)
1955 - Anne-Sofie von Otter, Swedish mezzo-soprano
1962 - Dave Gahan, Essex, rock vocalist (Depeche Mode-Dreaming of Me)
1962 - John Corbett, actor/singer (Chris-Northern Exposure)
1962 - Paul Heaton, rocker (Housemartins-Happy Hour, Over There)
1963 - Sanja Doležal, Croatian singer (Novi fosili)
1964 - Kevin Saunderson, American music producer and disc jockey
1965 - Ben Volpeliere-Pierrot, rocker (Curiosity Killed Cat-Keep Distance)
1969 - Amber, Dutch musician
1971 - Paul McGuigan, English bassist (Oasis)
1975 - Tamia, Canadian singer
1979 - Pierre Bouvier, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
1979 - Andrew W.K., American musician

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1697 - Jean Marie I’aine Leclair, composer
1705 - Gallus Zeiler, composer
1741 - Johann Michael Schmidt, composer
1760 - Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle, soldier/author/composer (Marseillaise)
1776 - George Thomas Smart, composer
1780 - Peter Lichtenthal, composer
1783 - Niccola Benvenuti, composer
1800 - Nikolay Alexeyevich Titov, composer
1825 - Rudolf Viole, composer
1855 - Anatoli Liadov, St Petersburg, Russia, composer (Enchanted Lake) [NS]
1858 - Frederick Zech Jr, composer
1877 - Roderich Mojsisovics-Mojsvar, composer
1888 - Max[imilian Raoul Walter] Steiner, composer (Gone With Wind), born in Vienna, Austria
1894 - Dimitri Tiomkin, Russia, composer (Acad Award 1954-High & Mighty)
1898 - Herbert Elwell, Minneapolis Minnesota, composer (Happy Hypocrite)
1899 - Fred Astaire, tap dancer/actor (Easter Parade, Swingtime), born in Omaha, Nebraska
1899 - Dimitri Tiomkin, Ukrainian-born composer (d. 1979)
1905 - Markos Vamvakaris, Greek rebetiko musician and songwriter (d. 1972)
1907 - Harilaos Perpessas, composer
1909 - Maybelle Carter, Nickelsville Va, country singer (Johnny Cash Show)
1912 - Erik Jorgensen, composer
1915 - Bert van Dongen, [Abraham J Cohen], singer/impressionist/actor
1916 - Milton Babbitt, US mathematician/composer (Widow’s Lament)
1919 - Tibor Sarai, composer
1921 - Bert Weedon, rocker
1934 - Jeanine Basinger, American film scholar
1935 - Henry Fambrough, US singer (Spinners)
1935 - Larry Williams, rocker
1938 - Maxim Shostakovich, Leningrad Russia, conductor (Atlanta Symph)
1938 - Philip Gordon Winsor, composer
1940 - Arthur Alexander, US singer/songwriter (Lonely Just Like Me)
1940 - Taurean Blacque, Newark New Jersey, actor (Neal Washington-Hill Street Blues)
1941 - Danny Rapp, Phila, rocker (Danny & Juniors)
1942 - Bill Coday, US singer (You’re Gonna Then Me)
1942 - Ingram Douglas Marshall, composer
1944 - Jackie Lomax, rocker (Is This What You Want), born in Liverpool, England
1945 - Pamelo Mounk’a, musician
1946 - Graham Gouldman, Manchester England, bassist (10cc-No Milk Today)
1946 - Dave Mason, Worcester England, singer/songwriter (We Just Disagree)
1946 - Donovan, Scottish musician
1947 - Jay Ferguson, Burbank California, rocker (Spirit-I Got A Line on You)
1951 - Ron Banks, US R&B singer (Dramatics-Whatcha See is Whatcha Get)
1952 - Lee Brilleaux, Durban South Africa, British musician (Dr Feelgood)
1952 - Sly Dunbar, Kingston Jamaica, reggae drummer (Sly & Robbie)
1952 - Kikki Danielsson, Swedish singer
1953 - Steve Thomas, rocker (Shooting Star)
1957 - Sid Vicious, [John Simon Ritchie], bassist (Sex Pistols), born in London, England
1960 - Bono [Paul Hewson], rocker (U2-Joshua Tree), born in Dublin, Ireland
1967 - Young MC, American rapper
1970 - Perry Blake, Irish singer/songwriter
1970 - Gabriela Montero, Caracas Venezuela, Venezuelan-American pianist
1976 - Stuart Braithwaite, Scottish musician (Mogwai)
1976 - Udo Mechels, Belgian singer
1979 - Lee Hyori, South Korean singer
1993 - Charice Pempengco, Filipino singer

11. maj

1731 - Johann Gottfried Seyfert, composer
1772 - Henri-Jean Rigel, composer
1791 - Jan Vaclav Hugo Vorisek, composer
1817 - Fanny Cerrito, Italian ballet dancer (d. 1909)
1835 - Kārlis Baumanis, Latvian composer (d. 1905)
1840 - Filippo Capocci, composer
1855 - Anatol Konstantinovich Lyadov, Russian composer (Bewitched Lake)
1869 - Francisco Lacerda, composer
1881 - Jan van Gilse, composer/resistance fighter (Frau Helga von Staveren)
1881 - Pascual Rogatis, composer
1882 - Joseph Marx, Austrian composer/critic
1885 - Joe "King" Oliver, American jazz musician (d. 1938)
1888 - Irving Berlin, [Isadore Balin], Temum Siberia, composer (White Xmas)
1895 - William Grant Still, Woodville Mississippi, composer (Afro-American)
1896 - Josip Slavenski, composer
1909 - Herbert Murrill, composer
1910 - Jorge Croner de Vasconcelos, composer
1913 - Clare Grundman, composer
1913 - Tutti Camarata, Glen Ridge NJ, orchestra leader (Vic Damone Show)
1920 - Beryl Bryden, jazz singer
1938 - Carla Bley [Carla Borg], American musician (Escalator Over the Hill), born in Oakland, California
1938 - Harvey Sollberger, flutist/composer (2 Oboes Troping), born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa
1939 - Carlos Lyra, Brazilian musician
1940 - Ronald Anthony Pellegrino, composer
1941 - Eric Burdon, Walker-on-Tyne England, rock vocalist (Animals-House of the Rising Sun)
1943 - Arnie Satin, rocker
1943 - George Edwards, composer
1943 - Les Chadwick, bassist (Gerry & Pacemakers-Ferry Crossed the Mersy)
1946 - Plume Latraverse, Quebec singer and musician
1947 - Claude "Butch" Hudson Trucks, drummer (Allman Brothers)
1948 - Shigeru Izumiya, Japanese folk musician
1952 - Renaud Séchan, French composer
1953 - Đorđe Balašević (Novi Sad, 11. maj 1953 — Novi Sad, 19. februar 2021), jugoslovenski i srpski kantautor i pesnik
1954 - Edgar Riley Jr, rocker (Axe K)
1954 - Judith Weir, composer
1955 - Jos Haagmans, Dutch singer (Frank Boeijen Group)
1955 - Mark Herndon, country drummer (Alabama-Take Me Down), born in Springfield, Massachusetts
1961 - Cecile Licad, Manila Philippines, pianist (Leventritt Award-1981)
1965 - Greg Dulli, American musician
1966 - Christoph Schneider, German drummer (Rammstein)
1978 - Perttu Kivilaakso, Finnish Cellist from the band Apocalyptica
1979 - Erin Lang, Canadian musician
1982 - Cory Monteith, Calgary, Alberta, Canadian actor and musician (Glee, Monte Carlo)
1983 - Holly Valance, Australian actress (Felicity "Flick" Scully-Neighbours) and singer, born in Melbourne, Victoria
1985 - Sifow (Shiho Fujita), Japanese pop star and business woman
1989 - Ace Hood, American rapper

12. maj

1679 - Giovanni Antonio Ricieri, composer
1739 - Johann Baptist (Jan Krtitel) Vanhal, composer
1751 - Gaetano Manna, composer
1754 - Franz Anton Hoffmeister, composer
1776 - Juan Bros y Bertomel, composer
1797 - Johann Hermann Kufferath, composer
1829 - Pavlos Carrer, Greek composer (d. 1896)
1842 - Jules Emile Fred Massenet, Montaud France, composer (Manon, Le Cid)
1845 - Gabriel Urbain Faure, Pamiers France, composer (Requiem, Ballade)
1863 - Charles Bordes, composer
1886 - Hermann Grabner, composer
1887 - Nandor Zsolt, composer
1901 - Hyam Greenbaum, composer
1903 - Lennox R F Berkeley, British composer (Castaway)
1910 - Gordon Jenkins, Webster Grove Mo, orchestra leader (NBC Comedy Hour)
1912 - Marshall Royal, jazz sax/clarinet
1916 - Ellis Bonoff Kohs, composer
1917 - Andre A Rieu, Dutch conductor
1921 - Edvard Mikcaeli Mirzoyan, composer
1921 - Joe (born Otis W.) Maphis, Suffolk, Virginia, American country music guitarist
1928 - Burt Bacharach, KC Mo, composer (I’ll Never Fall in Love Again)
1928 - Henry Cosby, African-American songwriter (d. 2002)
1941 - Anthony Newman, harpsichordist/organist (Bhajeb), born in Los Angeles, California
1941 - Little Jayotis Washington, US R&B singer (Persuasions)
1941 - Ruud de Wolff, singer/guitarist (Blue Diamonds)
1942 - Ian Dury, Upminster Essex, rocker (Blockheads)/actor (Judge Dredd)
1942 - Billy Swan, Cape Giradeau La, rocker (I Can Help)
1943 - David Walker, rock keyboardist (Gary Lewis & Playboys-Diamond Ring)
1944 - James Purify, US singer (I’m Your Puppet)
1945 - Jayotis Washington, rocker
1945 - Willie Parnell, US singer (Archie Bell & the Drells)
1945 - Ian McLagan, English rocker (Faces), born in Hounslow, Middlesex, (d. 2014)
1948 - Steve Winwood, England, musician (A Higher Love, Roll with it)
1950 - Billy Squier, Mass, heavy metal guitarist (Don’t Say No)
1950 - Jocko Marcellino, rocker (Sha Na Na)
1955 - Kix Brooks, Shreveport La, singer (Brooks & Dunn-Brand New Man)
1958 - Eric Singer, American drummer
1961 - Billy Duffy, rocker (Cult-Hell’s Kitchen)
1962 - Brett Gurewitz, American songwriter and record producer (Bad Religion) (Epitaph)
1963 - Charles Pettigrew, American singer (Charles and Eddie) (d. 2001)
1966 - Bebel Gilberto, Brazilian singer
1978 - Wilfred Le Bouthillier, Acadian singer
1978 - Aya Ishiguro, Japanese singer (formerly Morning Musume)
1981 - Kentaro Sato, Japanese composer

13. maj

1735 - Horace Coignet, composer
1746 - Oliver Brownson, composer
1756 - Wojciech Zywny, composer
1776 - Charles Ots, composer
1776 - Rodrigo Ferreira da Costa, composer
1842 - Arthur Seymour Sullivan, composer (Gilbert & Sullivan), born in London, England
1847 - Johannes Haarklou, composer
1854 - Paul Klengel, composer
1859 - Eugust Enna, composer
1866 - Ottokar Eugen Novacek, composer
1868 - Paolo Gallico, composer
1874 - Henry Clough-Leiter, composer
1876 - Raoul Laparra, composer
1881 - Ilona Durigo, Hungarian singer
1886 - Joseph Achron, Latvia/US violinist/composer (Golem suite)
1911 - Maxine Sullivan, [Marietta Williams], US singer/actress (Going Places)
1912 - Gil Evans, Canadian musician (d. 1988)
1918 - T. Balasaraswati, Bharatanatyam dancer (d. 1984)
1922 - Bea Arthur, comedian, singer and actress ("All in the Family", "The Golden Girls"), born in New York, NY.
1933 - Alden Ashforth, composer
1933 - Stig Gustav Schonberg, composer
1935 - Nigel Butterley, composer
1935 - Yizhak Sadai, composer
1937 - Judith Somogi, conductor (Frankfurt Opera-1982), born in NYC, New York
1940 - Richard Brooks, singer (Impressions)
1941 - Joe Brown, singer/guitarist
1941 - Ritchie Valens, singer (Donna, La Bamba)
1942 - Jim Douglas, jazz guitarist
1943 - Mary Wells, singer (My Guy), born in Detroit, Michigan
1944 - Carolyn Franklin, US singer/songwriter (Baby Baby Baby, Angel)
1946 - Danny Klein, rock bassist (J Geils Band-Centerfold), born in NYC, New York
1947 - Pete "Overend" Watts, rock bassist (Mott The Hoople-All Young Dudes)
1947 - Toy Caldwell, rock musician (Marshall Tucker Band), born in Spartanburg South Carolina (d. 1993)
1949 - Franklin Ajaye, Brooklyn New York, American comedian/actor (Jazz Singer, Car Wash)
1949 - John Glover, conductor
1949 - Overend Watts, rock bassist (Mott the Hoople-All the Young Dudes)
1950 - Danny Kirwan, rocker (Fleetwood Mac), born in London, England
1950 - John "Jocko" Marcellino, rocker/actor (Tagget, Hot to Trot, Rain Man)
1950 - Stevie Wonder, Saginaw, Michigan, American singer-songwriter (You are the Sunshine of My Love)
1951 - Paul Thompson, rock drummer (Roxy Music)
1954 - Johnny Logan, Irish singer and songwriter
1963 - Julian Brookhouse, rocker (Curiosity Killed Cat-Keep Your Distance)
1965 - Tasmin Little, English violinist
1965 - Lari White, American country music singer
1966 - Darius Rucker, American singer (Hootie & the Blowfish)
1967 - Chuck Schuldiner, American musician (Death, Control Denied) (d. 2001)
1967 - Melanie Thornton, African American German pop singer, former member of La Bouche. (d. 2001)
1968 - Alison Goldfrapp, English musician
1968 - Buckethead, Guitarist
1968 - PMD, American rapper
1969 - André Schmechta, German musician (X Marks the Pedwalk)
1974 - Tim McMahon, American hardcore singer (Mouthpiece, Hands Tied, Triple Threat)
1977 - Ilse DeLange, Dutch singer
1979 - Michael Madden, American musician (Maroon 5)
1980 - Mau Marcelo, Filipino singer
1983 - Casey Donovan, Australian singer
1983 - Grégory Lemarchal, French singer (d. 2007)

14. maj

1652 - Johann Philipp Fortsch, composer
1707 - Antonio Teixeira, composer
1805 - Johann Peter Emilius Hartmann, composer
1816 - Gualtiero Sanelli, composer
1864 - Eleanor Everest Freer, composer
1870 - Zygmunt Denis Antoni Stojowski, composer
1885 - Otto Klemperer, Breslau Germany, conductor/composer (Das Ziel)
1891 - Egon Kornauth, composer
1892 - Arthur Vincent Lourie, composer
1892 - Felix Petyrek, composer
1893 - Ivan Alexandrovich Vishnegradsky, composer
1895 - Renato Lunelli, composer
1897 - Sidney Bechet, US, jazz clarinetist/saxophonist/band leader
1898 - Bonifacio Gil Garcia, composer
1898 - Zutty Singleton, US jazz drummer
1900 - Leo Smit, composer
1911 - Hans Vogt, composer
1915 - Harry Joseph Chick Daugherty, trombonist (Spike Jones & City Slickers)
1916 - Lance Dossor, British-born concert pianist (d. 2005)
1917 - Lou Harrison, Portland, Oregon, American composer (Rapunzel)
1924 - Joly Braga Santos, composer
1925 - Patrice Munsel, Spokane Wash, soprano (Patrice Munsel Show)
1925 - Tristram Ogilvie Cary, composer
1925 - Al Porcino, American jazz trumpet player
1926 - Cestmir Gregor, composer
1928 - Will "Dub Jones, American singer (The Coasters) (d. 2000)
1931 - Alvin Augustus Lucier Jr, composer
1933 - Frank Harte, Irish singer and song collector
1934 - Frederik von Pallandt, singer
1936 - Bobby Darin, [Walden Waldo Cassotto], Bronx, singer (Mack the Knife)
1937 - Peter Frederic Williams, composer
1940 - Troy Shondell, American singer
1942 - Gerald Mark Shapiro, composer
1943 - Dereck "Lek" Leckenby, guitarist
1943 - Jack Bruce, Lanarkshire Scotland, bassist (Cream-White Room)
1944 - Gene Cornish, Ottawa, rock bassist/vocalist (Fotomaker, Rascals)
1944 - Troy Shondell, rocker (Many Sides of Troy Shondell)
1946 - Alan David Marks, pianist/composer
1946 - Derek Lek Leckenby, rock guitarist (Herman’s Hermits-Kinda Hush)
1947 - Al Ciner, rock guitarist (American Breed), born in Chicago, Illinois
1951 - Jay Beckenstein, saxophonist (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance)
1952 - David Byrne, Dumbarton Scotland, rock guitarist/singer (Talking Heads-Burning Down the House)
1953 - Tom Cochrane, Toronto Canada, rock vocalist/guitarist (Red Rider)
1959 - Patrick Bruel, Algerian/French actor/rock vocalist (Coup of Sirocco)
1960 - Anne Clark, English singer
1962 - C C Deville, rocker (Poison-Talk Dirty to Me)
1962 - Ian Astbury, Merseyside, rock vocalist (Cult-Fire Woman)
1966 - Fab Morvan, French singer-songwriter (Milli Vanilli with Rob Pilatus)
1966 - Mike Inez, US rock bassist (Alice in Chains-Facelift)
1966 - Raphael Saadiq, American musician (Tony! Toni! Toné!)
1969 - David William Wood, rocker (New Kids-Lovin’ You Forever), born in Boston, Massachusetts
1971 - Raphael Wiggins, rapper (Lifelines), born in Oakland, California
1973 - Shanice, [Wilson], vocalist (Discovery, Loving You), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1973 - Natalie Appleton, Canadian-born singer
1976 - Hunter Burgan, American musician (AFI)
1981 - Sarbel, Greek-born singer
1983 - Anahí, Mexican actress and singer (RBD)
1983 - Tom Welham, British musician (Thirteen Senses)
1990 - Emily Samuelson, American ice dancer
1993 - Miranda Cosgrove, American actress and singer

15. maj

1567 - Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi, Cremona Italy, composer (L’Orfeo)
1754 - Pierre Dutillieu, composer
1759 - Maria Theresia von Paradis, composer
1764 - Johann Nepomuk Kalcher, composer
1795 - Adolf B Marx, German music theorist
1807 - Luigi Ferdinando Casamorata, composer
1808 - Gottfried Herrmann, composer
1808 - Michael William Balfe, composer
1813 - Stephen Heller, composer
1841 - Giovanni Bolzoni, composer
1873 - Nikolay N Tcherepnin, St Petersburg, composer of ballets, songs [NS]
1878 - Francisco Pujol, composer
1883 - Stanley Robert Marchant, composer
1893 - Michel Gusikoff, composer
1907 - Josef Alexander, composer
1908 - Lars-Eric Vilner Larsson, Akarp Sweden, composer (Linden)
1909 - Rodolfo Cornejo, composer
1912 - Arthur Victor Berger, composer (Ideas of Order), born in NYC, New York
1914 - Pierre Froidebise, composer
1918 - Eddy Arnold, Henderson TN, country singer (Cattle Call, Anytime)
1923 - John Lanchbery, English composer (d. 2003)
1925 - Andrey Yakoulevich Eshpay, composer
1925 - Emmanuel Ghent, composer
1926 - Clermont Pepin, composer
1936 - Anna Maria Alberghetti, Italy, singer/actress (Cinderfella)
1936 - Jean Balissat, composer
1937 - Trini Lopez, Trinidad, singer/guitarist (If I Had a Hammer)
1941 - K T Oslin, Crossett Ar, country singer (80’s Ladies)
1941 - Lainie Kazan, Brooklyn, singer/actress (Lust in the Dust, Beaches)
1941 - Richard Edward Wilson, composer
1944 - Tich, rocker
1945 - Lasse Berghagen, Swedish singer
1947 - Graham Goble, Adelaide, Australia, rock guitarist (Little River Band)
1948 - Brian Eno, Woodbridge England, rock keyboardist/singer (On Land)
1949 - Eric J Beekes, actor/singer (Hunk)
1951 - Dennis Frederiksen, rocker (Toto-Roseanna, Africa), (d. 2014)
1953 - Mike Oldfield, England, composer (Tubular Bells)
1959 - Andrew Eldritch, rocker (Sisters of Mercy-Walk Away, Black Planet)
1961 - Melle Mel, American musician
1968 - Seth Putnam, American musician
1969 - Asalah Nasri, Syrian singer
1970 - Prince Be, rapper (PM Dawn)
1970 - Martin Rossiter, Welsh Musician
1974 - Ahmet Rodan Zappa, son of Frank/rocker (Z, 2 Hip 4 TV)
1982 - Jessica Sutta, American dancer, singer and actress (The Pussycat Dolls)
1983 - Devin Bronson, American guitarist (Avril Lavigne)
1987 - Jennylyn Mercado, Filipina actress and singer
1995 - Ksenia Sitnik, Belarusian singer