1. oktobar

1644 - Alessandro Stradella, Italian violinist/composer
1644 - Jean Rousseau, composer
1724 - Giovanni Battista Cirri, composer
1735 - Johann Baptist Christoph Toeschi, composer
1771 - Pierre MF de Sales Baillot, French violinist/composer
1808 - Fryderyk Edward Sobolewski, composer
1820 - Gustav Adolf Heinze, composer
1832 - Henry Clay Work, composer
1841 - Anatol’ Vakhnyanyn, composer
1865 - Paul Dukas, French composer (d. 1935)
1881 - Leonid Leonidovich Sabaneyev, composer
1890 - Constantin Nottara, composer
1893 - Cliff Friend, American songwriter (d. 1974)
1894 - Ricardo Castillo, composer
1898 - Karl Ranki, composer
1899 - Lajos Bardos, composer
1904 - Vladimir Horowitz, Kiev Ukraine, pianist (Carmen)
1907 - Oedoen Partos, composer
1908 - Herman David Koppel, composer
1911 - Irwin Kostal, Chicago Ill, orchestra leader (Garry Moore Show)
1918 - Antonio Iglesias Alvares, composer
1922 - Hector Campos-Parsi, composer
1926 - Roger Williams, American pianist
1930 - Richard Harris, Ireland, actor (Man Called Horse)/singer (MacArthur Park)
1931 - Sylvano Bussotti, Italian composer
1932 - Albert Collins, Leona TX, blues guitarist (Frosty, Showdown)
1933 - Olga Pozzi Escot, composer
1935 - Julie Andrews, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, actress/singer (Sound of Music, Mary Poppins)
1936 - Edward Villella, Bayside Queens, ballet dancer (NYC Ballet)
1943 - Jerry Maitini, US saxophonist (Sly & Family Stone-Sex Machine)
1944 - Barbara Parritt, US soul singer (Toys-Lover’s Concerto)
1944 - Herbert "Tubo" Rhoad, US singer (Persuasions-Spread the Word)
1945 - Donny Hathaway, Chicago, singer/songwriter (Where is the Love)
1947 - Mariska Veres, Dutch singer (Shocking Blue)
1947 - Martin Turner, rocker (Wishbone)
1947 - Rob Davis, rocker
1948 - Cub Koda, rocker (Brownsville Station)
1948 - Ellen McIlwaine, Nashville, blues singer (Honky Tonky Angel)
1950 - Jeane Manson, American singer and actress
1951 - Brian Greenway, Montreal, rock guitarist/vocalist (April Wine)
1955 - Howard Hewett, Akron Oh, rock vocalist (Shalamar)
1955 - Phillip Oakey, rocker (Human League)
1958 - Masato Nakamura, Japanese musician
1959 - Youssou N’dour, Senegalese singer (Shaking the tree)
1969 - Ori Kaplan, Israeli jazz musician
1974 - Keith Duffy, Dublin Ireland, Irish singer (Boyzone)
1982 - Sandra Oxenryd, Swedish singer
1985 - Ryo Miyamori, Japanese singer
1986 - Sayaka, Japanese singer
1987 - Hiroki Aiba, Japanese actor, singer

2. oktobar

1646 - Guillaume Poitevin, composer
1704 - Frantisek Ignac Antonin Tuma, composer
1737 - Franz Schneider, composer
1756 - Josef Jawurek, composer
1792 - Philip Cipriani Hambley Potter, pianist/composer
1809 - Anton Emil Titl, composer
1817 - Gunnar Wennerberg, composer
1875 - Henry Fevrier, composer
1880 - George Alexander Russell, composer
1881 - Fred Barlow, composer
1893 - Leroy B Shield, US pianist/producer/composer (Laurel & Hardy)
1907 - William Marshall, producer/director/actor/singer (Blackmail)
1914 - Albe Vidakovic, composer
1914 - Bengt Viktor Johansson, composer
1914 - Bernarr Rainbow, historian of music education, organist, and choir master (d.1998)
1915 - Robert Russell "Chubby" Wise, musician
1917 - Francis Jackson, organist & master of Music/York minister
1922 - Otmar Macha, composer
1925 - Alois Pinos, composer
1929 - Kenneth Leighton, composer
1930 - Gunter Kochan, composer
1933 - Dimiter Khristov, composer
1933 - Phill Niblock, composer
1935 - Peter Frankl, pianist
1940 - Lord Davies, chairman (Welsh National Opera)
1941 - Ron Meagher, rocker
1945 - Don McLean, New Rochelle NY, singer/songwriter (American Pie, Vincent)
1946 - Jo-el Sonnier, Rayne La, country singer (Louisiana)
1948 - Chris LeDoux, Biloxi Miss, country singer (Ridin’ for a Fall)
1949 - Annie Leibovitz, Waterbury, Connecticut, photographer (Rolling Stones)
1949 - Richard Hell, [Richard Myers], Lexington Ky, rock bassist (Television)
1950 - Michael Rutherford, English pop bassist and rocker (Genesis-Against All Odds, Mike & Mechanics)
1951 - Sting, [Gordon Sumner], rock vocalist (Police-Roxanne)/actor (Dune)
1952 - John Otway, rocker
1952 - Wahed Wafa, Afghan singer
1954 - Greg Jennings, Oklahoma City Oklahoma, country singer (Restless Heart-Wheels)
1955 - Philip Oakey, Sheffield, rock vocalist (Human Leauge-Only Human)
1956 - Freddie Jackson, US R&B singer/songwriter (Rock Me Tonight)
1960 - Django Bates, jazz musician
1960 - Al Connelly, Canadian Musician/Songwriter
1961 - Robbie Nevil, rocker (A Place Like This)
1962 - Sigtryggur Baldursson, Icelandic drummer (The Sugarcubes)
1967 - Gillian Welch, New York, singer-songwriter (Time, Revival)
1967 - Bud Gaugh, American musician (Sublime)
1968 - Jeff Martin, Canadian singer/songwriter
1969 - Damon Gough, English singer
1971 - Tiffany [Renee Darwich], Norwalk California, rocker (I Think We’re Alone Now)
1971 - James Root, American guitarist (Slipknot)
1973 - Lene, Norwegian singer (Aqua)
1976 - Mandisa, American singer
1978 - Ayumi Hamasaki, Japanese singer
1979 - Maja Ivarsson, lead singer, The Sounds
1981 - Toro, Taiwanese singer
1982 - George Pettit, Canadian singer (Alexisonfire)
1991 - Beau Grayson, son of country singer Tanya Tucker

3. oktobar

1631 - Sebastian Anton Scherer, composer
1713 - Antoine Dauvergne, composer
1733 - Francois Krafft, composer
1792 - Cipriani Potter, composer
1807 - Heinrich Panofka, composer
1828 - Woldemar Bargiel, composer
1834 - Vilem Blodek, composer
1866 - Learmont Drysdale, composer
1872 - Edward Faber Schneider, composer
1880 - Warner Oland, Umea Sweden, actor (Jazz Singer, Charlie Chan)
1881 - Ludomir Michal Rogowski, composer
1888 - Roy Webb, composer
1893 - Frantisek Picha, composer
1901 - Masao Oki, composer
1912 - Gabriel Julian, original pianist of Bobby Byrne Orchestra, arranger for Glenn Miller and founder Alabama Cavaliers Jazz Ens
1914 - Nel Rose, Dutch dance teacher
1919 - Walter Gieseler, composer
1922 - Marcel van Thienen, composer
1928 - Erik Bruhn, Copenhagen Denmark, dancer (Natl Ballet of Canada)
1930 - David Mayer Epstein, composer
1934 - Benjamin Boretz, composer
1936 - Steve Reich, NYC, composer (My Name is)
1937 - Boldizsar Csiky, composer
1937 - Ton de Kruyf, composer
1938 - Eddie Cochran, Oklahoma City, rock vocalist/guitarist (C’Mon Everybody)
1938 - Tereza Kesovija, Croatian singer
1940 - Alan O’Day, Hollywood Ca, rocker, (d. 2013)
1941 - Chubby Checker [Ernest Evans], Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, American singer-songwriter (The Twist, Limbo Rock)
1945 - Rik Kenton, rocker
1946 - Tristan Keuris, composer
1949 - Lindsey Buckingham, Palo Alto, California, American guitarist/lead singer (Fleetwood Mac)
1950 - Ronnie Laws, US saxophonist/guitarist (Earth, Wind & Fire)
1951 - Jack Grondin, rock drummer (.38 Special)
1951 - Keb’ Mo’, American singer
1954 - Stevie Ray Vaughan, Dallas TX, guitarist (Sky is Crying, Texas Flood)
1959 - Jack Wagner, rocker/actor (General Hospital, Melrose Place)
1962 - Tommy Lee, American musician (Mötley Crüe)
1966 - Frank Hannon, rock guitarist (Tesla-Psychotic Supper)
1969 - Gwen Stefani, Fullerton, California, singer (No Doubt)
1969 - Tetsu, Japanese bassist (L’Arc~en~Ciel)
1971 - Kevin Richardson, American singer (Backstreet Boys)
1972 - Denny Vaughn, orchestra leader (Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour)
1972 - Garrett Dutton, American musician (G. Love and Special Sauce)
1972 - Lajon Witherspoon, American singer (Sevendust)
1975 - India.Arie, American singer
1975 - Talib Kweli, American rapper
1978 - Jake Shears, singer (Scissor Sisters)
1984 - Ashlee Simpson, American singer

4. oktobar

1659 - Franz Weichlein, composer
1744 - Domenico Corri, composer
1749 - Jean-Louis Duport, composer
1762 - Tommaso Sogner, composer
1772 - Francois-Louis Perne, composer
1840 - Charles Ferdinand Lenepveu, composer
1841 - Stephen Albert Emery, composer
1857 - Henry Schoenfeld, composer
1859 - Henryk Pachulski, composer
1861 - Joao Marcellino Arroyo, composer
1904 - Harris Rhoad, rocker
1905 - Leon Orthel, composer
1905 - Rene Defossez, composer
1909 - Noel Chiboust, trumpeter/Sax
1912 - Alfonso Letelier-Llonas, composer
1917 - Albert de Klerk, Dutch composer/conductor
1928 - Torben Ulrich, Danish musician, writer, filmmaker and tennis player
1929 - Leroy Van Dyke, Spring Fork Mo, country singer (Walk on By)
1930 - Jozsef Soproni, composer
1932 - Dottie West, country singer
1944 - Rocío Dúrcal, Spanish singer and actress (d. 2006)
1945 - Clifton Davis, Chicago Ill, actor/singer (That’s My Mama, Amen)
1947 - James Fielder, Denton TX, rocker (Blood Sweat & Tears)
1947 - Julien Clerc, French singer
1952 - Jody Stephens, rock drummer (Big Star)
1952 - Nina Carter, London England, vocalist (Blonde on Blonde)
1958 - Barbara MacDonald, rocker (Timbuk 3)
1960 - Gregg "Hobie" Hubbard, Apopka Fla, country singer (Betty’s Bein’ Bad)
1961 - John Secada, singer
1962 - Aldo Sprenger, Dutch pop guitarist (Kong-Phlegm)
1965 - Skip Heller, American musician
1967 - Ekin Cheng Yee-Kin, Hong Kong actor and Cantopop singer
1971 - Friderika Bayer, Hungarian singer
1981 - Juka, Japanese singer
1984 - Lena Katina, Russian singer (t.A.T.u.)
1986 - Yuridia, Mexican singer
1989 - Lil Mama, American rapper

5. oktobar

1626 - Johann Schop, composer
1684 - Johann Jacob de Neufville, composer
1722 - Gregorio Sciroli, composer
1743 - Giuseppi Gazzaniga, composer
1758 - Thomas Greatorex, composer
1817 - Eduard Franck, composer
1822 - Hans Hampel, composer
1823 - Feliks Jaronski, composer
1840 - Fran Gerbic, composer
1875 - Cyril Rootham, composer
1879 - Halfdan Cleve, composer
1879 - John Erskine, US, poet/pianist (Private Life of Helen of Troy)
1883 - Charles Maduro, Antillean composer
1899 - Boleslaw Woytowicz, composer
1902 - Michael Kondracki, composer
1906 - Louise Brown, dancer/teacher
1907 - Mrs. Miller, American singer (d. 1997)
1926 - Gottfried Michael Koenig, composer
1927 - John Downey, composer
1935 - Arlene Saunders, American soprano
1936 - Annerose Schmidt, East German pianist
1938 - Carlo Mastrangelo, Bronx NY, rocker (Dion & The Belmonts)
1939 - Marie Laforêt, French singer and actress
1942 - Richard Street, Detroit Mi, rocker (Temptations)
1943 - Steve Miller, Milwaukee, rocker (Abracadabra, Space Cowboy)
1945 - Brian Connolly, Scottish singer (Sweet) (d. 1997)
1945 - Geoff Leigh, English musician (Henry Cow)
1946 - Richard Kermode, rocker
1947 - Brian Johnson, Dunston, English rocker (AC/DC)
1948 - Brian Connolly, Scotland, rocker (Sweet)
1948 - Delroy George Wilson, singer
1948 - Lucius Ross, US pop guitarist (Funkadelic-One Nation Under a Groove)
1948 - Tawl Ross, American musician (P Funk)
1949 - Brian McManus Connolly, musician
1949 - B. W. Stevenson, American singer (d. 1988)
1951 - Bob Geldof, Irish singer (The Boomtown Rats) and activist
1953 - Russell Mael, [Dwight Russel Day], California, rock vocalist (Sparks)
1953 - Sandra "Puma" Jones, Kingston Jamaica, rocker (Black Uhuru)
1954 - Bob Geldof, rocker
1955 - Leo Barnes, Irish saxophonist (Hothouse Flowers-I’m Sorry, Don’t Go)
1957 - Lee "Kix" Thompson, saxophonist (Madness-Baggy Trousers)
1959 - Troy Luccketta, rock drummer (Tesla-Psychotic Supper)
1961 - Sharon Cheslow, American musician, composer and artist
1962 - Ken Noda, NYC, pianist (Rivalry)
1970 - Audie Pitre, bass guitarist (d. 1996)
1970 - South Park Mexican, American rapper
1974 - Heather Headley, Trinidadian singer
1974 - Colin Meloy, American singer (The Decemberists)
1978 - James Valentine, American musician (Maroon 5)
1980 - Paul Thomas, American bassist (Good Charlotte)
1981 - Kelvin Tan Wei Lian, Singaporean singer
1985 - Nicola Roberts, English singer (Girls Aloud)
1988 - Bahar Kızıl, German Singer (Monrose)

6. oktobar

1618 - Miguel Gomez Camargo, composer
1777 - William Russell, composer
1806 - Andreas Randel, composer
1816 - William Batchelder Bradbury, composer
1818 - Joseph Rummel, composer
1820 - Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano (d. 1887)
1827 - Cark Reidel, composer
1866 - Reginald Aubrey Fessenden, broadcast 1st program of voice & music
1873 - Oscar George Theodore Sonneck, composer
1880 - Julia Culp, mezzo-soprano
1882 - Karol Maciej Szymanowski, Timoshovka Ukraine, composer (Stabatmater)
1886 - Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor (d. 1960)
1887 - Maria Jeritza, [Jedlicka], Austria, singer (Vienna Opera)
1888 - Max Butting, composer
1896 - Otto Siegl, composer
1902 - Mihovil Logar, composer
1915 - Edgardo Martin, composer
1926 - Alan Copeland, Los Angeles California, orchestra leader/singer (Your Hit Parade)
1926 - Cyril Reuben, violinist
1927 - Paul Badura-Skoda, Vienna Austria, pianist (Mozart Interpretation)
1942 - Millie Small, Jamaican singer
1943 - Cees Veerman, pop guitarist/singer (Cats-Sure He’s a Cat)
1943 - Udo Zimmermann, composer
1948 - Glenn Branca, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, avant-garde composer and guitarist
1949 - Bobby Farrell, Jamaica, rock vocalist
1950 - Thomas McClary, US soul guitarist (Commodores-Still)
1951 - Kevin Cronin, Champaign Ill, rock vocalist (REO Speedwagon)
1954 - David Hidalgo, American musician (Los Lobos, Latin Playboys)
1960 - Richard Jobson, British TV person/rocker (Skids-Scared to Dance)
1961 - Tim Burgess, rocker
1970 - Amy Jo Johnson, American actress and singer
1972 - Ryu Shi-won, Korean actor and singer
1976 - Barbie Hsu, Taiwanese actress and singer
1982 - William Butler, Musician and member of Arcade Fire
1984 - Joanna Pacitti, American actress and singer
1998 - Mia-Sophie Wellenbrink, German actress and singer

7. oktobar

1698 - Henri Madin, composer
1746 - William Billings, Boston Mass, hymn composer (Rose of Sharon)
1758 - Paul Anton Wineberger, composer
1774 - Ferdinando Orlandi, composer
1801 - Adolf Muller, composer
1802 - Bernhard Molique, German violinist and composer
1835 - Felix Draeseke, composer
1879 - Joe Hill, Jevla Sweden, organizer (IWW)/songwriter (Union Scab)/martyr
1879 - Joseph Bovet, composer
1880 - Jaime Pahissa, composer
1898 - Alfred Wallenstein, Chicago Illinois, conductor (Chic Symph 1922-29)
1901 - Ralph Rainger, composer
1902 - Willemina J H "Mascha" ter Weene, dancer/ballerina
1909 - Shura Cherkassky, pianist
1911 - Joe Jones, Chicago IL, drummer
1911 - Vaughn Monroe, Akron Oh, singer/orchestra leader (Vaughn Monroe Show)
1911 - Shura Cherkassky, Ukrainian classical pianist (d. 1995)
1913 - Irina Nijinska, Russian/US dancer
1914 - Alfred Drake, [Capurro], Brooklyn NY, singer/actor (Kiss Me Kate)
1915 - Roman Padlewski, composer
1922 - Martha Stewart, Bardwell Ky, singer/actress (Daisy Kenyon, Doll Face)
1926 - Ivan Jirko, composer
1926 - Marcello Abbado, composer
1927 - Al Martino, Phila, singer (Here in My Heart)/actor (Godfather)
1934 - [Everett] LeRoi Jones, [Amiri Baraka], US writer (Black Music)
1936 - Charles Dutoit, Swiss conductor
1939 - Colin Cooper, rocker (Climax Blues Band)
1940 - Dino Valenti, rock guitarist/vocalist (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
1941 - Martin Murray, London England, rocker (Honeycombs)
1941 - Tony Sylvester, rocker (Main Ingredient)
1944 - Judee Sill, American musician (d. 1979)
1945 - Kevin Godley, Manchester England, rock vocalist (10cc)
1946 - Bernard Lavilliers, French singer
1949 - Dave Hope, rock bassist (Kansas)
1949 - Kieran Kane, Queens NY, singer (O’Kanes-Daddies Need to Grow Up Too)
1951 - Carmen R "Tata" Vega, US soul singer (Color Purple soundtrack)
1951 - John Cougar Mellencamp, Seymour Indiana, rocker (Jack & Diane)
1953 - Tico Torres, rock drummer (Bon Jovi-Always)
1954 - Kenneth Atchley, American composer
1955 - Yo-Yo Ma, Paris, France, world famous cellist (2001 National Medal of Arts, 2011 Presidential Medal of Freedom)
1960 - Kyosuke Himuro, Japanese singer
1960 - Viktor Lazlo, Belgian singer
1961 - Brian Mannix, Australian singer and actor
1964 - Sam Brown, English singer/songwriter (Stop!)
1966 - Marco Beltrami, Italian-American film composer
1967 - Toni Braxton, American singer
1967 - Luke Haines, English musician (The Auteurs, Black Box Recorder)
1968 - Thom Yorke, British pop musician and lead singer of Radiohead (’Creep’, ’Paranoid Android’ and ’Pyramid Song’)
1969 - Javier Álvarez, Spanish singer-songwriter
1971 - Daniel Boucher, Québécois musician
1974 - Charlotte Nilsson, Swedish singer
1975 - Damian Kulash, American musician (OK Go)
1975 - Tim Minchin, Australian comedian and musician
1976 - Taylor Hicks, American musician
1978 - Alesha Dixon, British pop singer (Mis-Teeq)
1982 - Li Yundi, Chinese classical pianist
1984 - Ikuta Toma, Japanese Singer/Actor
1988 - Stacy DuPree, American musician (Eisley)

8. oktobar

1585 - Heinrich Schutz, composer
1690 - Jaime de Casellas, composer
1692 - Antonio Palella, composer
1740 - Michel-Julien Mathieu, composer
1747 - Johann Wilhelm Stadler, composer
1748 - Franz Seydelmann, composer
1790 - Waldemar Thrane, composer
1813 - Carl Ludwig Amand Mangold, composer
1820 - Stanislaw Katski, composer
1831 - Michal Jelski, composer
1834 - Walter Kittredge, American musician (d. 1905)
1837 - Otto Winter-Hjelm, composer
1860 - Felix Woyrsch, composer
1870 - Louis Vierne, composer
1883 - Dick Burnett, American musician (d. 1977)
1885 - William Henry Bennett Vodery, composer
1898 - Clarence Williams, composer
1900 - Zeno Octavian Vancea, composer
1901 - Eivind Groven, composer
1908 - Paul Van Buskirk Yoder, composer
1913 - Walter Schumann, NYC, choral director (Ford Show)/composer (Rhenish)
1917 - Hans Poser, composer
1922 - Svend Westergaard, composer
1927 - Al Duncan, drummer
1927 - Gigi Durston, Balt Md, singer (Sonny Kendis Show)
1930 - Toru Takemitsu, Tokyo Japan, composer (Ki No Kyoko)
1934 - Doc Green, rocker (Drifters)
1936 - Carman Moore, composer
1939 - Armando Gentilucci, composer
1940 - Fred Cash, Chattanooga Tn, rocker (Impressions)
1941 - George Bellamy, rocker (Tornados)
1943 - James Edward Sellars, composer
1944 - Susan Raye, American singer
1945 - Roy Royer, rock guitarist (Procol Harum)
1946 - Aleksandr Gorshlov, ice dancer (holds 6 titles)
1947 - Tony Wilson, Trinidad, rock vocalist (Hot Chocolate)
1948 - Johnny Ramone [Cummings], Long Island, New York, American rock guitarist (Ramones)
1949 - Hamish Stuart, Scotland, guitarist/singer (Average White Band)
1949 - Michael Rose, rocker (Average White Band)
1950 - Robert "Kool" Bell, Youngstown Oh, rocker (Kool & the Gang-Joanna)
1952 - Cliff Adams, rocker
1953 - Ricky Lee Phelps, Paragould Ar, singer (Ky Headhunters-Davy Crockett)
1955 - Lonnie Pitchford, American blues musician
1959 - Gavin Friday, [Fionan Hanvey], Irish singer (Virgin Prunes)
1961 - Ted Kooshian, American jazz pianist
1964 - CeCe Winans, American singer
1965 - C-Jay Ramone, American musician (The Ramones)
1974 - DJ Q-Ball, American musician (Bloodhound Gang)
1977 - Erna Siikavirta, Finnish musician (Deathlike Silence)
1979 - [Gregory] Chad Petree, Shawne Oklahoma, rocker (PC Quest-Can You See)
1981 - Ruby (Egyptian Singer), Egyptian singer

9. oktobar

1626 - John Ferrabosco, composer
1727 - Johann Wilhelm Hertel, composer
1760 - Pierre Gaveaux, composer
1766 - Bedrich Divis Weber, composer
1835 - Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (d. 1921)
1863 - Alexander Siloti, Kharkov Russia, pianist/prof (Moscow Cons 1888-91)
1869 - Harry Lawrence Freeman, composer
1873 - Carl Flesch, Hungarian violinist (d. 1944)
1890 - Alfred Julius Swan, composer
1890 - Janis Medins, composer
1904 - Carl Parrish, composer
1905 - Euphemia MacDonald, dance producer
1906 - Janis Ivanovs, composer
1908 - Lee Wiley, American jazz singer (d. 1975)
1910 - Phil Hanna, River Forest Ill, singer (Once Upon a Tune)
1914 - Roger Goeb, composer
1919 - Rezso Sugar, composer
1920 - Yusef Lateef, jazz composer, (d. 2013)
1922 - Raymond Wilding-White, composer
1923 - Ronald Tremain, composer
1928 - Einojuhani Rautavaara, Helsinki Finland, composer (Kaivos)
1930 - Fjolnir Stefansson, composer
1937 - Pat Burke, rocker (Foundations)
1939 - O V Wright, rocker
1940 - Hans Ulrich Humpert, composer
1940 - John Winston Ono Lennon, Liverpool UK, musician and member of The Beatles (Imagine), (d. 1980)
1941 - Chucho Valdés, Cuban musician
1944 - John Entwistle, London, rock guitarist/vocalist (Who-Baba O’Riley)
1944 - Nona Hendryx, R & B singer (Patti LaBelle & Blue Belles)
1945 - Jeannie C Riley, Texas, singer (Harper Valley PTA, Hee Haw)
1945 - Taiguara, Brazilian musician (d. 1996)
1947 - France Gall, French singer
1948 - Dave Samuels, vibraphonist (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance)
1952 - Sharon Osbourne, Brixton, South London, music manager, TV personality and wife of Ozzy Osbourne (X-Factor, America’s Got Talent)
1958 - Al Jourgensen, American musician (Ministry)
1969 - P.J. Harvey, English musician
1973 - Terry Balsamo, American guitarist
1973 - Fabio Lione, Italian musician (Rhapsody)
1978 - Nicky Byrne, Irish musician (Westlife)
1979 - Alex Greenwald, American musician(Phantom Planet), actor, model
1981 - Peter Hill, British Music Photographer
1984 - Ghetto, British musician

10. oktobar

1713 - Johann Ludwig Krebs, composer
1790 - George Gerson, composer
1804 - Albin Masek, composer
1813 - Giuseppe Verdi, Busseto, First French Empire, Italian composer (La donna è mobile - Rigoletto), (d. 1901)
1847 - Gheorghe Dima, composer
1854 - Jeronimo Gimenez y Bellido, composer
1862 - Arthur De Greef, composer
1868 - Guillermo M Tomas, composer
1876 - Walter Niemann, composer
1897 - Lamar Stringfield, composer
1903 - Vernon Duke, composer
1906 - Paul Creston, [Giuseppe Guttoveggio], NY, composer (Creative Harmony)
1908 - John Waldo Green, NYC, composer (Body & Soul, Guy Lombardo’s arranger)
1910 - Alan Frank, music publisher
1910 - Milton "Tippy" Larkin, band leader
1914 - Ivory Joe Hunter, rocker
1916 - Scott Huston, composer
1917 - Thelonious Monk, Rocky Mount North Carolina, American jazz pianist and composer
1918 - Bobby Byrne, Columbus Ohio, orchestra leader (Club Seven)
1923 - Louis Gottlieb, musician
1924 - Huey "Piano" Smith, rocker (Rockin’ Pneumonia & Boogie Woogie Flu)
1924 - Ludmilla Tcherina, French actress/ballet dancer (Sins of Rome)
1926 - Oscar Brown Jr, US songwriter (Brown Baby, Forbidden Fruit)
1927 - Thomas Brendon Wilson, composer
1935 - Paolo Renosto, composer
1943 - Denis D’Ell, [Dennis Dalziel], rocker
1944 - Stephen Scott, composer
1945 - Alan Cartwright, rocker (Procul Harum)
1946 - Ben Vereen, Miami Fla, actor/dancer (Pippin, Roots, Webster)
1946 - John Prine, Maywood Ill, country singer (Hello in There)
1948 - Séverine, French singer
1948 - Ed Volker, American musician
1953 - Midge Ure, Glasgow Scot, rocker (Dear God, Ultravox-We Came to Dance)
1954 - David Lee Roth, Bloomington Indiana, rock singer (Van Halen-Jump)
1954 - Mohamed Mounir, Egyptian singer and actor
1958 - Tanya Tucker, Seminole Tx, country singer/actress (Follow that Car)
1959 - Chris Lowe, English rock keyboardist (Pet Shop Boys-It’s a Sin)
1959 - Kirsty MacColl, English singer (d. 2000)
1960 - Eric Martin, rocker (Mr Big)
1961 - Martin Kemp, London, rock bassist (Spandau Ballet)
1965 - Toshi, Japanese singer (X Japan)
1966 - Kevin Paige, vocalist (Don’t Shut Me Out)
1970 - Corinna May, German singer
1971 - Evgeny Kissin, Russian pianist
1979 - Mya Harrison, American singer
1979 - Ahn Chil Hyun (Kangta), lead singer of the former South Korean group H.O.T.
1980 - Tim Maurer, American singer (Suburban Legends)
1980 - Sherine, Egyptian singer
1984 - Stephanie Cheng, Hong Kong singer
1991 - Gabriella Cilmi, Australian singer
1991 - Mariana Espósito, Argentine actress, singer and model

11. oktobar

1747 - Marian Paradeiser, composer
1788 - Simon Sechter, composer
1821 - Angelo Maurizio Gaspare Mariani, composer
1841 - Freidrich Hegar, composer
1863 - Xavier Henry Napoleon Leroux, composer
1869 - Gordon Frederic Norton, composer
1877 - John Parsons Beach, composer
1882 - Robert Nathaniel Dett, composer
1883 - Archibald T Davison, composer
1884 - Robert Muller-Hartmann, composer
1888 - Piero Coppola, composer
1894 - Albert Stoessel, composer
1897 - Arvo Hannikainen, composer
1901 - Emil Hlobil, composer
1908 - Armen Carapetyan, composer
1910 - Eugene John Weigel, composer
1917 - Franz Alphons Wolpert, composer
1919 - Art Blakey, Pitts PA, drummer (Billy Eckstine Band, Jazz Messengers)
1932 - Dottie West, Nashville Tenn, country singer (Here Comes My Baby)
1935 - Jan van Vlijmen, composer
1936 - Billy Higgins, American jazz drummer (d. 2001)
1939 - Woiciech Wiesidlowski Lowski, dancer
1941 - Lester Bowie, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1999)
1943 - Frank Muyser, Dutch guitarist/saxophonist (Les Baroques)
1943 - Gene Watson, Palestine Tx, country singer (Heartaches, Love & Stuff)
1943 - Per-Gunnar Alldahl, composer
1946 - Gary Mallaber, Buffalo NY, rocker (Steve Miller Band-Abracadbra)
1947 - Al Atkins, West Bromwich UK, English musician (Judas Priest)
1948 - Daryl Hall, [Hohl], Penn, rocker/songwriter (Hall & Oates-Sara Smile)
1949 - Greg Douglas, Oakland California, American rock guitarist/vocalist (Steve Miller Band-Abracadabra)
1950 - Andrew Woolfolk, US pop musician (Earth, Wind & Fire-Shining Star)
1951 - Wesley Magoogan, rocker
1957 - Blair Cunningham, Memphis Tn, rock drummer (Haircut 100)
1957 - Jon Moss, rock drummer (Culture Club)
1961 - Amr Diab, Egyptian singer
1965 - Alexander Hacke, German musician (Einstürzende Neubauten)
1971 - Petra Haden, American musician (The Rentals)
1973 - Mike Smith, American guitarist (Snot, Limp Bizkit)
1979 - Gabe Saporta, Uruguayan-born American musician (Cobra Starship, Midtown)
1991 - Chauncey Matthews, American Juniors singer
1992 - Sarah Cannon, daughter of singer Amy Grant

12. oktobar

1490 - Bernardo Pisano, composer
1686 - Silvius Leopold Weiss, composer
1759 - Frantisek Vaclav Tomes, composer
1763 - John Ross, composer
1808 - John Liptrot Hatton, composer
1845 - Amintore Galli, composer
1855 - Arthur Nikisch, Szent-Miklos Hungary, conductor (Berlin Philharmonic)
1872 - Ralph Vaughan Williams, Down Amp England, composer (Hugh the Drover)
1880 - Healey Willan, composer
1881 - Carlos Lopez Buchardo, composer
1882 - Hermann Wolfgang Sartorius Waltershausen, German musicologist/composer
1890 - Luis de Freitas Branco, composer
1892 - Gilda dalla Rizza, Italian soprano (d. 1975)
1893 - Pall Isolfsson, composer
1906 - Willy Hess, Swiss musicologist, composer and famous Beethoven scholar
1907 - Wolfgang Fortner, composer
1918 - Emil Cossetto, composer
1919 - Andre Casanova, composer
1925 - Guitar Gabriel Robert Lewis Jones, singer/guitarist
1930 - Jack S Gottlieb, composer
1931 - Raoul Pleskow, composer
1932 - Mayer Joel Mandelbaum, composer
1935 - Sam Moore, Miami Fl, rock vocalist (Sam & Dave-Soul Sister)
1942 - Melvin Franklin, Montgomery Alabama, rocker (Temptations)
1947 - George Lam, Hong Kong singer
1948 - Rick Parfitt, Surrey England, pop guitarist/singer (Status Quo-Wanderer)
1955 - Pat Dinizio, rock vocalist (Smithereens)
1955 - Jane Siberry, Canadian musician
1956 - David Vanian, British singer, (The Damned)
1958 - Jeff Keith, rock vocalist (Tesla-Psychotic Supper)
1958 - Bryn Merrick, British musician, (The Damned)
1962 - Chris Botti, American jazz musician
1966 - Brian Kennedy, Northern Irish musician and author
1968 - Hugh Jackman, Australian actor and singer (X-men, Real Steel)
1969 - Martie Maguire, American musician (Dixie Chicks)
1971 - Ahn Jae Wook, South Korean actor, composer and singer
1977 - Jay Jenkins, American rapper also known as "Young Jeezy"
1979 - Jordan Pundik, American singer (New Found Glory)
1982 - Molly Bennett, Irish singer
1992 - Taylor Horn, American singer and actress

13. oktobar

1652 - Johann Heinrich Kittel, composer
1783 - Frantiszek Soltyk, composer
1792 - Moritz Hauptmann, composer
1794 - Anselm Huttenbrenner, composer
1822 - Karl Reinthaler, composer
1823 - Immanuel Faisst, composer
1824 - Henry Stephen Cutler, composer
1879 - Peter Van Anrooy, Dutch conductor/composer (Piet Hein Rhapsodie)
1881 - George Bacovia, [Vasiliu], Romanian poet/composer/painter
1890 - Gosta Nystroem, composer
1891 - Ludwig Weber, composer
1899 - Marcelle de Manziarly, composer
1900 - Marius-Francois Gaillard, composer
1900 - Gerald Marks, American songwriter (All of Me) (d. 1997)
1903 - Jens Bjerre, composer
1910 - Art[hur] Tatum, US jazz pianist/composer
1910 - Otto Joachim, composer
1911 - Ticker Freeman, Paterson NJ, pianist (Dinah Shore Show)
1912 - Hugo David Weisgall, Ivancice Moravia, composer (4 Impressions)
1921 - Harper MacKay, Boston Mass, orchestra leader (NBC Follies)
1921 - Yves Montand, France, actor/singer (Z, Napoleon, Grand Prix)
1922 - Alan Scott, Haddonfield NJ, TV host/songwriter (Spin the Picture)
1922 - Gilberto Mendes, composer
1924 - Terry Gibbs, Brooklyn New York, American orchestra leader (Steve Allen Comedy Hour)
1925 - Gustav Winckler, Danish singer (d. 1979)
1926 - Ray Brown, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, American jazz double bassist
1933 - Adam Kaczynski, composer
1934 - Nana Mouskouri, Crete Greece, singer (Try to Remember) [or 10/10/36]
1940 - Chris Farlowe, rocker
1940 - Pharoah Sanders, American saxophonist
1941 - Paul Simon, Newark NJ, singer/actor (Kodachrome, 1 Trick Pony)
1944 - Robert Lamm, NYC, rocker (Chicago-If You Leave Me Now)
1945 - Karen Akers, NYC, singer (On Stage at Wolf Trap)
1945 - Christophe, French singer
1946 - Bram Vermeulen, Dutch singer (Neerlands Hoop)
1947 - Sammy Hagar, Monterey CA, rock vocalist (Van Halen-Jump)
1948 - Lacy J Dalton, Bloomsburg Pa, country singer (Crazy Blue Eyes)
1948 - John Ford Coley, American musician
1949 - Craig McGregor, rocker (Foghat)
1951 - John Ford Coley, rocker (England Dan & John Ford Coley)
1951 - Olympia-Ann Sylvers, rocker
1958 - Joseph Richard Sylvers, rocker
1958 - Jair-Rohm Parker Wells, American musician and composer
1959 - Marie Osmond, Ogden Ut, singer/actress (Paper Roses, Goin’ Coconuts)
1960 - Joey Belladonna, Oswego NY, heavy metal vocalist (Anthrax-Protest)
1965 - Cherelle, rocker (Affair-First Bite)
1970 - Mel Jackson, American actor and R&B musician
1970 - Paul Potts, British Opera singer and winner of Britain’s Got Talent
1974 - Hawick Lau, Chinese actor and singer
1974 - Joseph Utsler, American rapper (Insane Clown Posse)
1975 - David Kennedy, American musician (Box Car Racer, Angels & Airwaves)
1980 - Ashanti, American singer
1980 - Jon Micah Sumrall, American singer (Kutless)
1981 - Kele Okereke, lead singer of Bloc Party
1984 - Misono, Japanese singer (formerly Day After Tomorrow)

14. oktobar

1730 - Jean Joseph Rodolphe, composer
1738 - Giovanni Calisto Andrea Zanotti, composer
1753 - Franz Anton Dimmler, composer
1764 - Charles-Henri Plantade, composer
1796 - Adolf Ganz, composer
1853 - Ciprian Porumbescu, composer
1855 - George Edwardes, British composer (Gaiety Girl)
1859 - Camille Chevillard, composer
1861 - Bjarni Thorsteinsson, composer
1871 - Alexander von Zemlinsky, Vienna Austria, composer (Schneeman)
1873 - Jose Serrano Simeon, composer
1888 - Ernest Pingoud, composer
1904 - Karel Srom, composer
1907 - "Red" McKenzie, jazz singer (played comb-with-tissue-paper) [or 1899]
1907 - Allan Jones, Scranton PA, actor/singer (A Day at the Races, Showboat)
1909 - Kalervo Tuukkanen, composer
1926 - Bill Justis, rocker
1926 - Willy Alberti, [Carel Verbrugge], singer/actor (Riffin in Amsterdam)
1928 - Gary Graffman, NYC, pianist (Leventritt Award)
1929 - Alfredo Santos Buenaventura, composer
1930 - Robert Parker, US saxophonist/soul singer (Barefootin’)
1931 - Rafael Puyana, Bogota Colombia, baroque harpsichordist (NY debut 1957)
1931 - Nikhil Banerjee, Indian classical musician (d. 1986)
1935 - La Monte Young, Bern Idaho, composer (Composition in 1990)
1942 - Billy Harrison, Belfast Ireland, rock guitarist (Them)
1943 - Anthony Iannaccone, composer
1945 - Colin Hodgkinson, English musician (Whitesnake)
1946 - Justin Hayward, England, vocalist (Moody Blues-Nights in White Satin)
1946 - Dan McCafferty, Scottish musician (Nazareth)
1951 - Marcia Barrett, St Catherine’s Jamaica, rock vocalist (Boney M)
1952 - Daisy Eshuijs, singer/pianist/composer (Eye to Eye)
1952 - Margriet Eshuijs, Dutch singer/pianist
1953 - Shelley Ackerman, American astrologer, writer, singer
1958 - Thomas Dolby, Cairo Egypt, rock vocalist (She Blinded Me With Science)
1959 - A J Pero, Staten Is, drummer (Twisted Sister-Not Gonna Take It)
1963 - Yim Jae-beom, South Korean singer
1965 - Karyn White, singer
1965 - Constantine Koukias, Australian composer
1968 - Johnny Goudie, American musician
1974 - Natalie Maines, Lubbock, Texas, musician (Dixie Chicks)
1974 - Joseph Utsler, American musician
1975 - Shaznay Lewis, English singer (All Saints)
1977 - Tina Dico, Danish singer-songwriter
1978 - Justin Brannan, American musician, writer
1978 - Usher, American singer and actor
1992 - Savannah Outen, American singer/songwriter
1996 - Lourdes Marie Ciccone Leon, daughter of singer Madonna

15. oktobar

1761 - Peter Gronland, composer
1762 - Samuel Adams Holyoke, composer
1775 - Bernhard Henrik Crusell, composer
1784 - Thomas Hastings, composer
1799 - August Ferdinand Haeser, composer
1852 - Wilhelm Posse, composer
1858 - Frank Valentine Van der Stucken, composer
1874 - Otallo Morales, composer
1890 - Arcady Dubensky, composer
1898 - Gunther Ramin, composer
1902 - Andrey Yakolevich Shtogarenko, composer
1902 - William Edmundson, Spokane Wash, vocalist (Southernaires)
1905 - Alexey Kozlovsky, composer
1905 - Dag Ivar Wiren, composer
1905 - Edna Deanne Fuelling, dancer choreographer/drama teacher
1924 - Colin Romoff, NYC, orchestra leader (Andy Williams Show)
1925 - Mickey Baker, rocker
1926 - Karl Richter, composer
1932 - Jaan Raats, composer
1934 - N. Ramani, Indian flutist
1935 - Barry McGuire, American singer
1936 - Kari Rydman, composer
1937 - Barry McGuire, Oklahoma City, singer (Eve of Destruction)
1938 - Fela Ransome/Anikulapo Kuti, Nigerian singer/saxophonist (d. 1997)
1938 - Marvin E "Marv" Johnson, US gospel/R&B singer (Move 2 mountains)
1938 - Rafael Aponte-Ledee, composer
1942 - Don Stevenson, Seattle Wash, rock drummer (Moby Grape)
1946 - Richard Carpenter, New Haven Ct, vocalist (Carpenters-Close to You)
1950 - Chris De Burgh, [Davidson], Argent/Irish rock vocalist (Lady in Red)
1951 - Frank Dimino, Wash DC, rock vocalist (Angel)
1953 - [Toriano] Tito Jackson, singer (Jackson 5-ABC, Never Can Say Goodbye)
1966 - Douglas Vipond, British pop drummer (Deacon Blue-Raintown)
1968 - Jyrki 69, Finnish musician The 69 Eyes
1970 - Eric Benét, American singer
1973 - Dax Riggs, American musician
1975 - Ginuwine, American singer
1976 - Yoon Son-ha, South Korean actress and singer
1977 - Erin McKeown, American musician
1980 - Siiri Nordin, Finnish singer (Killer)
1981 - Keyshia Cole, African American R&B singer
1982 - Paulini Curuenavuli, Fijian singer
1983 - Stephy Tang, Hong Kong singer and actress
1986 - Lee Donghae, Korean singer (a member of super junior)