16. oktobar

1605 - Charles C Dassoucy, French writer/singer
1679 - Jan Dismas Zelenka, composer
1723 - Johann Andreas Joseph Giulini, composer
1729 - Pierre van Maldere, composer
1765 - Frederic Nicolas Duvernoy, composer
1811 - Gaetano Capocci, composer
1821 - Albert Franz Doppler, composer
1826 - Piotr Studzinski, composer
1837 - John Francis Barnett, composer
1849 - Arnold Krug, composer
1849 - Charles Harford Lloyd, composer
1878 - Carlos Pedrell, composer
1897 - Harrison Kerr, composer
1903 - Mario Pilati, composer
1904 - Reginald Dixon, Sheffield, Britain, theatre organist, (d. 1985)
1910 - William Leonard Reed, composer
1913 - Cesar Bresgen, Austrian composer/organist
1923 - Bert Kaempfert, rocker
1927 - Peter Brinson, dance educationalist
1932 - Henry Jay Lewis, Los Angeles California, conductor/bass (LA Philharmonic 1955-59)
1935 - Sugar Pie DeSanto, US singer (Soulful dress)
1936 - Gerardo Gandini, composer
1937 - Emile Ford, rocker
1938 - Nico (born Christa Päffgen; singer-songwriter, fashion model, actress) (d. 1988)
1941 - Derek David Bourgeois, composer
1941 - Erkki Jokinen, composer
1942 - Dave Lovelady, rocker
1943 - C Fred Turner, rock bassist/vocalist (Bachman-Turner Overdrive)
1947 - Bob Weir, SF California, guitarist (Grateful Dead-Uncle Joe’s Band)
1952 - Boogie Mosson, American musician (P Funk)
1953 - Tony Carey, Fresno Ca, rocker
1958 - Eleftheria Arvanitaki, Greek singer
1959 - Gary Kemp, London, rock guitarist (Spandau Ballet-True)
1959 - Erkki-Sven Tüür, Estonian composer
1960 - Bob Mould, American musician
1962 - Flea, [Michael Balzary], bassist (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
1969 - Wendy Wilson, Los Angeles Ca, rock vocalist (Wilson Phillips-Hold On)
1969 - Roy Hargrove, American jazz trumpeter
1971 - Chad Gray, American singer
1974 - Deo Grech, Maltese television presenter, songwriter
1977 - John Mayer, American musician
1978 - Abel Talamantez, Texas, singer (Menudo-Cannonball)
1978 - Ethan Luck, American musician (The O.C. Supertones, Demon Hunter, Relient K)
1982 - Vincy Chan, Hong Kong singer
1984 - Shayne Ward, UK singer, winner of The X Factor, series 2005

17. oktobar

1688 - Domenico Zipoli, composer
1720 - Maria Teresa Agnesi, composer
1729 - Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, composer
1730 - Ernestus Weinrauch, composer
1844 - Miguel Nieto, composer
1860 - Dionyssios Lavrangas, composer
1878 - Andrei N Rimski-Korssakov, Russian musicologist/son of Nikolai
1878 - Henri Mulet, composer
1892 - Herbert Norman Howells, composer
1892 - Otakar Jeremias, composer
1893 - Jean Binet, composer
1895 - Doris Humphrey, Oak Park Ill, dancer (Dances of Women)
1898 - Shinichi Suzuki, Nagoya, Japanese music teacher (Suzuki Method)
1909 - Crozy [William] Cole, US jazz drummer
1914 - Albert Markos, composer
1916 - Tadeusz Paciorkiewicz, composer
1922 - Luiz Bonfá, Brazilian composer (d. 2001)
1923 - Barney Kessel, American musician (d. 2004)
1928 - Ivan Marinov, composer
1929 - Ram Da-Oz, composer
1930 - Angelo Paccignini, composer
1932 - Gundaris Pone, composer
1941 - Alan Howard, rock bassist (Brian Poole & The Tremeloes)
1941 - Earl Thomas Conley, Portsmouth Oh, country singer (Too Many Times)
1941 - James Seals, Sidney Tx, singer (Seals & Crofts-Summer Breeze)
1942 - Gary Puckett, vocalist (& Union Gap-Woman Woman, Young Girl)
1943 - Susan Davenny Wyner, New Haven Ct, soprano (Walter Naumberg Prize)
1946 - James Ray Tucker, Los Angeles California, rock guitarist (Turtles-Eleanor)
1949 - Maurice Willis Wright, composer
1950 - Sandra Reemer, Dutch singer (As Love Goes)
1958 - Alan Jackson, Newnan Ga, country singer (Here in the Real World)
1967 - Allen West, US metal guitarist (Obituary, Cause of Death)
1967 - René Dif, Danish musician (Aqua)
1968 - Ziggy Marley, reggae performer and son of Bob Marley
1971 - Chris Kirkpatrick, American singer (’N Sync)
1972 - Eminem [Marshall Bruce Mathers III], Saint Joseph Missouri, rapper and movie star (’The Real Slim Shady’, ’Stan’ and ’8 Mile’)
1972 - Tarkan, Turkish singer
1972 - Wyclef Jean, Haitian-born singer
1974 - John Rocker, American baseball player
1979 - Marcela Bovio, Mexican singer and violinist (Stream of Passion)

18. oktobar

1611 - Valentin Strobel, composer
1706 - Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (opera’s buffa)
1789 - Giovanni Tadolini, composer
1794 - Ferdinand Lukas Schubert, composer
1833 - Johannes Habert, composer
1844 - Emille-Louis-Victor Mathieu, composer
1850 - Francis Thome, composer
1879 - Grzegorz Fitelberg, Polish composer
1891 - Vaclav Kalik, composer
1898 - Lotte Lenya [Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer], Austrian singer and actress (The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, From Russia with Love)
1901 - Vladimir Grigor’yevich Zakharov, composer
1903 - Emile Enthoven, composer
1910 - Vojislav Vuckovic, composer
1918 - Bobby Troup, Harrisburg Pa, pianist/actor (Emergency, Acapulco)
1919 - Anita O’Day (born Anita Belle Colton), Chicago, jazz singer
1922 - Camillo Togni, composer
1924 - Allyn Ferguson, San Jose California, orchestra leader (Andy Williams Show)
1924 - Egil Hovland, composer
1924 - Hugh Allan "Buddy" MacMaster, Canadian musician
1925 - Wim van Gennep, Dutch singer/keyboardist (Heikrekels)
1926 - Chuck Berry, St Louis, rocker (Roll over Beethoven)
1935 - Jorge Cervello, composer
1938 - Ronnie Bright, rocker (Coasters)
1940 - Cynthia Weil, New York NY, American songwriter
1943 - Russ Giguere, Portsmouth NH, rock guitarist/vocalist (Association)
1946 - Howard Shore, Canadian film composer
1947 - Laura Nyro, Bronx, singer/songwriter (Eli’s Coming, Stoney End)
1949 - Gary Richrath, Peoria IL, rock guitarist (REO Speedwagon)
1949 - Joe Egan, British musician (Stealers Wheel)
1961 - Wynton Marsalis, New Orleans La, jazz trumpeter (Grammy 1983)
1965 - Curtis Stigers, American jazz vocalist and saxophonist
1974 - Peter Svensson, Swedish musician (The Cardigans)
1974 - Zhou Xun, Quzhou, Zhejiang, Chinese actress and singer (Suzhou River, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress)
1979 - Ne-Yo [Shaffer Chimere Smith, Jr], Camden, Arkansas, American pop and R&B singer and songwriter

19. oktobar

1545 - Giovanale Ancina, composer
1652 - Louis Le Quointe, composer
1684 - Johann Christoph Fravenholtz, composer
1690 - Giuseppi Maria Carretti, composer
1824 - Frantisek Pivoda, composer
1828 - Adolfo Fumagalli, composer
1866 - Clarence Lucas, composer
1889 - Uncle Art Satherly, entertainer (1968 Acad of Country Music Award)
1892 - Ilmari Hannikainen, composer
1900 - Theodoro Valcarcel, composer
1900 - Erna Berger, German soprano (d. 1990)
1903 - Vittorio Giannini, composer
1907 - Roger Wolfe Kahn, American bandleader (d. 1962)
1908 - Nils Geirr Tveitt, composer
1908 - Patrick Cairns "Spike" Hughes, British jazz musician/composer (Elegy)
1911 - George Cates, NYC, orchestra leader (Lawrence Welk Show)
1913 - Vinicius de Moraes, Brazilian poet and songwriter (d. 1980)
1915 - Farid al-Atrash, Syrian composer, musician, and actor (d. 1974)
1916 - Emil Gilels, Odessa Russia, pianist (Brussels Competition-1938)
1916 - Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Sweden, opera composer (Herr von Hancken)
1926 - Arne Bendiksen, Norwegian singer and songwriter
1929 - Dumitru Capoianu, composer
1931 - Laszlo Kalmar, composer
1934 - David Guard, rocker (Kingston Trio)
1935 - Jim Reeves, rocker
1943 - Robert Morris, composer
1943 - Robin Greville Holloway, composer
1944 - George McCrae, US singer (Lead Me On, Rock Your Baby)
1944 - Peter Tosh [Winston Hubert McIntosh], Jamaica, reggae musician (Mystic Man, Mama Africa)
1945 - Keith Reid, rocker (Procol Harum) [or 10/10/46]
1947 - Wilbert Hart, US singer (Four Gents, Delfonics-Didn’t I)
1948 - Chester Biscardi, composer
1948 - Patrick Simmons, guitarist/vocal (Doobie Brothers-Minute by Minute)
1952 - Veronica Judith Sainz Castro, Mexico, spanish singer/actress (Nana)
1956 - Nino DeFranco, rocker (DeFranco Family)
1957 - Karl Wallingher, Prestatyn Wales, rocker (World Party)
1958 - Antoine Trousers, rock drummer/singer (Dike-Bleeding Heart)
1958 - Lou Briel, Puerto Rican singer and actor
1960 - Dan Woodgate, London, England, rock drummer (Madness, Voice of Beehive)
1960 - Jennifer Holliday, Houston Texas, singer/actress (Dream Girls)
1960 - Jonathan FeBland, English musician and artist
1967 - Yoko Shimomura, Japanese composer
1968 - Sinitta, Seattle, Washington, British-American singer (So Macho, Toy Boy)
1972 - Pras, American musician
1978 - Chris Sellers, Cleve Ohio, rapper (Another Bad Creation)
1978 - Henri Sorvali, Finnish musician
1979 - Brian Robertson, American trombonist

20. oktobar

1788 - Philip Knapton, composer
1792 - Anton Bernhard Furstenau, composer
1819 - Karol Mikuli, composer
1874 - Charles Edward Ives, Danbury Ct, composer (Holiday Quick Step)
1877 - Josephine McGill, composer
1890 - Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton, New Orleans, jazz pianist/composer
1900 - Rodolfo Halffter, composer
1901 - Hans-Otto Borgmann, composer
1909 - Monique Hare, French pianist
1913 - Angelo Ephrikian, composer
1913 - Grandpa [Louis M] Jones, Niagra KY, country musician (Hee-Haw)
1915 - Giora Schuster, composer
1923 - Robert Craft, Kingston, NY, conductor, Stravinsky-follower
1925 - Herman Roelstraete, composer
1934 - Eddie Harris, saxophonist/composer
1937 - Wanda Jackson, Maud Oklahoma, country singer (Let’s Have a Party)
1939 - Jay Siegel, Bkln, rock bassist (Tokens-Lion Sleeps Tonight)
1939 - Raymond Jones, rocker
1940 - Kathy Kirby, British singer
1943 - Dunja Vejzovic, Croatian soprano
1944 - William Hugh Albright, composer
1945 - Ric Lee, rock drummer (Ten Years After-Cannock, Staffs)
1945 - Thomas Pasatieri, composer
1950 - Tom Petty, Gainesville Florida, American classic rock singer (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers)
1951 - Al Greenwood, keyboardist (Foreigner-Feels Like the First Time)
1955 - Thomas Newman, American composer
1957 - Susanna Haavisto, Finnish actress and singer
1958 - Ivo Pogorelich, Belgrade Yugoslavia, pianist (1978 Casagrande winner)
1958 - Mark King, bass/vocalist (Level 42-Standing in the Light, Love Games)
1958 - Ricky Byrd, rocker (Joan Jett & Blackhearts)
1962 - Steven R "Randy" Jackson, US percussionist/singer (Enjoy Yourself)
1965 - Norman Blake, Scottish musician
1966 - Fred Coury, Johnston NY, rocker (Cinderella-Heartbreak Station)
1967 - Luck Mervil, Québécois actor and singer
1971 - Dannii Minogue, Melbourne Australia, singer, sister of Kylie Minogue
1971 - Snoop Dogg [Calvin Broadus], Long Beach, California, rapper (What’s My Name, Gin & Juice)
1976 - Tom Wisniewski, American guitarist (MxPx)
1977 - Leila Josefowicz, Canadian classical violinist
1980 - Gary Jarman, English musician
1983 - Alex Nackman, musician
1988 - Risa Niigaki, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)

21. oktobar

1570 - Wolfgang Schonsleder, composer
1574 - Nicolo Rubini, composer
1680 - Francisco Jose Coutinho, composer
1751 - David Moritz Michael, composer
1767 - Francesco Ruggi, composer
1775 - Guiseppi Baini, composer
1807 - Hanri Reber, composer
1807 - Miguel Hilarion Eslava y Elizondo, composer
1823 - Pasqual Juan Emilio Arrieta y Corera, composer
1847 - Guiseppe Giacosa, Italian songwriter (libretti opera Puccini)
1879 - Marie Joseph Canteloube de Malaret, composer
1885 - Egon Joseph Wellesz, Austria, composer/musicologist
1891 - Ted Shawn, US dancer/choreographer (Dance We Must)
1895 - Shukichi Mitsukuri, composer
1902 - Hilarion Rubio, composer
1908 - Alexander Schneider, Vilna Lith, violinist (Budapest String Quartet)
1908 - Howard Ferguson, composer
1911 - Vladimir Ussachevsky, Manchurian/US composer (Creation) [NS=Nov 3]
1912 - Carlos Don Byas, US jazz saxophonist
1912 - Georg Solti, Budapest Hungary, conductor (Fidelio)
1916 - Tomojiro Ikenouchi, composer
1917 - Dizzy Gillespie, [John B], jazz trumpeter, a creator of modern jazz
1921 - Jarmil Burghauser, composer
1921 - Malcolm Arnold, Northampton England, composer (Bridge over River Kwai)
1924 - Celia Cruz, Cuban singer, Queen of Salsa. (d. 2003)
1926 - Marga Richter, composer
1937 - Norman Wright, rocker (Del-Vikings)
1940 - Manfred Mann, [Michael Lubowitz], South Africa, rocker (Mighty Quinn)
1941 - Steve Cropper, TN, guitarist/songwriter (Booker T & MGs)
1942 - Elvin Bishop, Tulsa OK, rock guitarist (Fooled Around & Fell in Love)
1943 - Paula Kelly, Jacksonville Fla, American dancer and actress (Liz-Night Court)
1943 - Ron Elliott, rocker
1945 - Kathy Young, rocker (Thousand Stars in the Sky)
1946 - Lee Loughnane, rocker (Chicago)
1946 - Lux Interior, American singer (The Cramps)
1949 - Shulamit Ran, composer
1952 - Brent Mydland, Munich Germany, rock keyboardist/vocalist (Grass Roots)
1952 - Patti Davis [Patricia Ann Reagan], singer/actress/writer, Ronald and Nancy’s daughter
1953 - Charlotte Caffey, rock guitarist/keyboardist/vocalist (Go-Go’s)
1953 - Keith Green, American musician (d. 1982)
1955 - Eric Faulkner, Edinburgh Scotland, rock guitarist (Bay City Rollers)
1955 - Rich Mullins, American musician (d. 1997)
1957 - Julian Cope, [Kevin Stapleton], Welsh pop musician (Eve’s Volcano)
1957 - Steve Lukather, US rock singer/guitarist (Toto-Africa)
1964 - Jon Carin, American musician (Pink Floyd, The Who)
1971 - Astrella Leitch, Celeste rocker, Donovan’s daughter
1971 - Nick Oliveri, American musician
1972 - Matthew Friedberger, American musician (The Fiery Furnaces)
1973 - Lera Auerbach, Russian composer
1973 - Charlie Lowell, American Musician
1976 - Josh Ritter, American musician
1980 - Brian Pittman, American musician (Relient K)
1983 - Ninette Tayeb, Israeli singer
1986 - Christopher Uckermann, Actor, and singer in the Latin pop group RBD

22. oktobar

1686 - Georg Balthasar Schott, composer
1698 - Nicola Bonifacio Logroscino, composer
1737 - Vincenzo Manfredini, composer
1752 - Ambrogio Minoja, composer
1761 - Johann Christian Gottlob Eidenbenz, composer
1765 - Daniel Steibelt, composer
1809 - Federico Ricci, composer
1811 - Franz Liszt, Raiding Hungary, romantic composer/virtuoso pianist (Faust Symphony), (d. 1886)
1826 - Guglielmo Quarenghi, composer
1832 - August Labitzky, composer
1832 - Leopold Damrosch, composer
1838 - Carl Fuchs, composer
1883 - Viktor Jacobi, composer
1885 - Giovanni Martinelli, Montagnana Italy, opera singer (NY Met)
1885 - Lothar Windsperger, composer
1891 - Fidelio Friedrich Finke, composer
1894 - Méi Lánfāng, Chinese opera performer (d. 1961)
1898 - Marcel Mihalovici, composer
1904 - Paul Arma, composer
1905 - Joseph Kosma, composer
1906 - Cornelis L "Kees" van Baaren, Dutch composer (Willem Pijper)
1913 - Patricia "Boots" Mallory, US dancer/actress (Handle With Care)
1921 - Georges Brassens, French poet/cabaret singer
1925 - Dory Previn [Dorothy Veronica Langan], Rahway, New Jersey, singer-songwriter (Mythical Kings, Iguanas), (d. 2012)
1929 - Dory Previn, Rahway NJ, pop singer (Love Be My Cover)
1929 - Giorgio Gaslini, composer
1931 - Hikaru Hayashi, composer
1937 - Tadeas Salva, composer
1937 - Manos Loïzos, Greek composer (d. 1982)
1939 - Ray Jones, rock bassist (Billy J Kramer & The Dakotas)
1942 - Robin John Maconie, composer
1942 - Bobby Fuller, Baytown, Texas, American rock vocalist/guitarist (Bobby Fuller Four)
1943 - Paul Zukofsky, Brooklyn NY, violinist (Cappricio)
1943 - Robert Long, [Leverman], Dutch singer/actor (Vroeger Kon je Lachen)
1945 - Leslie West, [Weinstein] rocker (Mountain-Mississippi Queen)
1946 - Eddie Brigati, Garfield NJ, rock vocalist (Rascals)
1947 - Neil Burton Rolnick, composer
1949 - Stiv Bators, American musician (The Dead Boys) (d. 1990)
1958 - Bobby Blotzner, rock drummer (Ratt-Round & Round)
1959 - Marc Shaiman, American composer
1960 - Darryl Jenifer, American bassist (Bad Brains)
1964 - Toby Mac, American singer and songwriter
1965 - John Wesley Harding, American musician
1967 - Rita Guerra, Portuguese singer
1968 - Shelby Lynne, Quantico Va, country singer (If I Could Bottle This Up)
1968 - Shaggy [Orville Richard Burrell], Kingston, Jamaica, reggae rapper (Boombastic)
1969 - Helmut Lotti, Belgian singer
1974 - Tim Kinsella, American musician
1976 - Jon Foreman, American musician (Switchfoot)
1980 - Garrett Tierney, American musician (Brand New)
1982 - Daniel M. Johnson "The Untouchable DJ Drastic", American DJ, music industry professional, and radio presenter
1985 - Zac Hanson, Tulsa OK, singer (Hansons-MMMMbop)

23. oktobar

1654 - Johann Bernhard Staudt, composer
1773 - Pietro Generali, composer
1794 - Joseph Panny, composer
1801 - Gustav Albert Lortzing, composer
1819 - Isac Baker Woodbury, composer
1846 - Alexander Andreyevich Archangel’sky, composer
1851 - Guillaume Couture, composer
1869 - Jacobus H "Koos" Speenhoff, Dutch singer
1893 - Jean Absil, Belgian composer (Peau d’Ane)
1902 - Otmar Nussio, composer
1902 - Otto J Gombosi, Hungarian/US musicologist
1903 - Milford Dolliole, pioneer jazz drummer
1905 - Alexander Shamil’yevich Melik-Pashayev, composer
1906 - Miriam Gideon, composer
1923 - Ned Rorem, Richmond Indiana, composer/author (Sky Music)
1925 - Manos Hadjidakis, Greek composer/conductor (Never on Sunday)
1928 - Alexander Tanev, composer
1928 - Patrick Peter Sacco, composer
1935 - Zbigniew Rudzinski, composer
1939 - Charlie Foxx, US songwriter/soul singer (Mockingbird)
1939 - Ellie Greenwich, rocker
1940 - Freddie Marsden, Liverpool, rock drummer (Gerry & The Pacemakers)
1945 - Kim Larsen, Danish singer
1946 - Gerda Lenten-Havertong, Surinam, Dutch singer/actress (Sesame St)
1947 - Greg Ridley, rocker
1949 - Michael ’Wurzel’ Burston, British musician (Motörhead)
1950 - Harry Sacksioni, Dutch guitarist (Around the Corner)
1951 - Charly García, Argentine singer
1952 - Pierre Moerlen, French drummer and percussionist (d. 2005)
1956 - Dwight Yoakam, Pikeville Ky, country singer (Honky Tonk Man)
1959 - Weird Al Yankovic [Alfred Matthew], California, parody singer (Eat It, UHF, Naked Gun)
1967 - Dale Crover, American musician (Melvins, The Men of Porn, Altamont)
1987 - Faye Hamlin, Swedish singer (Play)
1990 - Stevie Brock, American singer

24. oktobar

1789 - Ramon Carnicer y Batlle, composer
1808 - Ernst Friedrich Richter, composer
1811 - Ferdinand Hiller, German pianist/composer/conductor
1842 - Josef Nesvera, composer
1863 - Manuel Manrique de Lara y Berry, composer
1867 - Franco Leoni, composer
1877 - Pavel Grigor’yevich, composer
1890 - Kathleen Lockhart Manning, composer
1897 - Lazar Weiner, composer
1900 - Karl Otto Runolfsson, composer
1901 - Gilda Gray, Polish-born American actress and dancer (d. 1959)
1905 - Elizabeth Poston, composer
1911 - Sonny Terry, rocker
1915 - Jean Vallerand, composer
1924 - Jose Casanovas, composer
1925 - Luciano Berio, Oneglia Italy, composer (Chemins)
1927 - Renato de Grandis, composer
1927 - Gilbert Bécaud, French composer and actor (d. 2001)
1929 - George H Crumb, Charleston WV, composer (Pulitzer 1968-Echoes of Time)
1930 - Big Bopper, [JP Richardson], Sabine Pass Tx, vocalist (Chantiily Lace)
1931 - Sofia Gubaidulina, Russian composer (Stimmen Verstummen)
1936 - Bill Wyman, England, rocker (Rolling Stones-Under My Thumb)
1936 - Rainer Kunad, composer
1937 - Miguel Angel Coria, composer
1938 - Fred E Finn, SF California, pianist (Mickie Finn’s)
1939 - Uri Sharvit, composer
1944 - Ted Templeman, rocker
1946 - Jerry Edmonton, Canada, rock drummer (Steppenwolf)
1947 - Edgar Broughton, rocker
1948 - Dale "Buffin" Griffin, rock drummer (Mott The Hoople)
1948 - Paul and Barry Ryan, British composers-singers
1950 - Terry Buffin, rock drummer (British Lions)
1950 - Steven Greenberg, American composer
1953 - Billy Thomas, Ft Meyers Fla, singer (McBride & Ride-I Count on You)
1954 - Perry Lee "Tiny" Tavares, rocker
1954 - Jozef Ráž, Slovak musician
1958 - Mathilde Santing, Dutch rock singer (Breast & Brow)
1960 - Carolien de Windt, Suriname/Dutch singer (Mai Tai)
1970 - Alonza Bevan, London, bassist/tabla (Kula Shaker)
1972 - Louis Michael Anthony Sassin, Boston, rocker (4 Fun-Unbelievable Fun)
1978 - Justin Lee Brannan, American musician
1979 - Ben Gillies, Australian musician (Silverchair)
1980 - Monica, American singer
1983 - Adrienne Bailon, American actress and singer
1984 - Kaela Kimura, Japanese model and singer
1986 - Aubrey Graham, Canadian actor and rapper
1987 - Charlie White, American ice dancer

25. oktobar

1576 - Thomas Weelkes, composer
1709 - Georg Gebel, composer
1716 - Petronio Maria Pio Sgabazzi, composer
1721 - Pierre Talon, composer
1772 - Corneille Vander Planken, composer
1815 - Ernesto Camillo Sivori, composer
1815 - Philipp Fahrbach, composer
1825 - Johann Baptist Strauss, (the younger), Austria, composer (Waltz King)
1838 - Georges Alexandre-Cesar-Leopold Bizet, France, composer (Carmen)
1864 - Alexander Gretchaninov, Russian composer (d. 1956)
1866 - Georg Alfred Schumann, composer
1869 - August Otto Halm, composer
1879 - Jean Rogister, composer
1879 - Mayhew Lake, composer
1881 - Pablo Picasso, Malaga Spain, artist (3 Dancers, Guernica), (d. 1973)
1882 - Heinrich Max Ludwig, composer
1887 - Willem CN Andriessen, Dutch composer/pianist (Beethoven)
1902 - Eddie Lang, American jazz guitarist (d. 1933)
1913 - Horace Grant Fletcher, composer
1926 - Galina Vishnevskaya, Leningrad, USSR, soprano opera singer, (d. 2012)
1927 - Barbara Cook, Atlanta Ga, stage singer/actress (Music Man)
1935 - Zdenek Pololanik, composer
1941 - Helen Reddy, Melbourne Australia, rock vocalist (I Am Woman)
1943 - Roy Lynes, England, rock organist (Status Quo)
1944 - Jon Anderson, English rock singer for Yes
1944 - Kathy "Taffy" Danoff, Wash DC, vocalist (Starland Vocal Band)
1946 - Peter Lieberson, composer
1947 - Glenn Tipton, rock guitarist (Judas Priest-Breakin’ the Law)
1947 - John Hall, rocker
1948 - Rob Halford, Engl metal singer (Judas Priest-Sin After Sin) [or 8/25]
1949 - Walter Hyatt, Musician
1951 - Ransom Wilson, Tuscaloosa Alabama, flutist (Soliste NY)
1951 - Richard Lloyd, American guitarist (Television)
1955 - Robin Eubanks, American jazz trombonist
1956 - Matthias Jabs, rock guitarist (Scorpions-Wind of Change)
1957 - Robbie Macintosh, rock guitarist/vocalist (Pretenders)
1964 - Nick Thorp, rocker
1964 - Nicole, German singer
1965 - Nick Thorpe, rocker (Curiosity Killed the Cat-Keep Your Distance)
1970 - Ed Robertson, Canadian musician (Barenaked Ladies)
1971 - Midori, violinist
1971 - Athena Chu, Hong Kong actress and singer
1975 - Eirik Glambek Bøe, Norwegian musician
1981 - Jerome Isaac Jones, American singer
1981 - Austin Winkler, American lead vocalist (Hinder)
1982 - Eman Lam, Hong Kong singer
1984 - Sara Helena Lumholdt, Swedish musician (A-Teens)
1984 - Katy Perry [Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson], pop singer (I Kissed A Girl, Waking Up In Vegas)
1985 - Ciara Harris, American singer

26. oktobar

1483 - Hans Buchner, composer
1685 - Domenico Scarlatti, Naples Italy, composer/harpsichordist
1694 - Johan Helmich Roman, Finnish/Swedish composer/conductor/violinist
1719 - Joaquin de Oxinaga, composer
1740 - Ernest Louis Muller, composer
1758 - Louis-Charles-Joseph Rey, composer
1789 - Joseph Mayseder, composer
1795 - Nicolaos Mantzaros, composer
1813 - Henry Thomas Smart, composer
1818 - Stefano Golinelli, composer
1830 - Polibo Fumagalli, composer
1845 - Hendrick Waelput, Flemish composer/conductor (Forest, Stella)
1859 - Arthur Friedheim, composer
1864 - Joseph Moorat, composer
1871 - Hermann Lohr, composer
1886 - Gustav Hermann Unger, composer
1898 - Beryl Rubinstein, composer
1907 - Giovanni Salviucci, composer
1911 - Mahalia Jackson, New Orleans, gospel singer (Whole World in his Hands)
1915 - Golfredo Corradetti, conductor
1929 - Hans Peter Haller, composer
1929 - Neal Matthews, Jr., American singer (The Jordanaires) (d. 2000)
1934 - Hans-Joachim Rödelius, German composer and musician (Cluster, Harmonia)
1936 - Bruce Belland, Chicago, singer (Tim Conway Hour)
1942 - Dietmar Polaczek, composer
1944 - Mike Piano, rocker (Sandpipers)
1946 - Keith Hopwood, rock guitarist (Herman’s Hermits)
1951 - Bootsy Collins, Cin, rocker (Parliaments-We Got the Funk)
1951 - Maggie Roche, rocker (Roches)
1951 - William "Bootsy" Collins, US bassist (Psychotic bump school)
1953 - Julian Keith Strickland, Athens Ga, drummer (B-52’s-Rock Lobster)
1963 - Natalie Merchant, US singer/songwriter (10,000 Maniacs)
1965 - Aaron Kwok Fu-Shing, Hong Kong singer
1966 - Masaharu Iwata, Japanese composer
1967 - Keith Urban, New Zealand singer
1971 - Anthony Rapp, American singer and actor
1974 - LISA, Japanese musician
1978 - Mark Barry, English musician (BBMak)
1981 - Guy Sebastian, Australian singer
1984 - Amanda Overmyer, American Singer, American Idol (season 7)

27. oktobar

1739 - Franz Ignaz Kaa, composer
1746 - Georg Anton Kreusser, composer
1775 - Traugott Maximilian Eberwein, composer
1782 - Niccolo Paganini, Genoa Italy, composer/violin virtuoso (Princess Lucca)
1811 - Issac Merrit Singer, inventor (1st practical home sewing machine)
1817 - Antoni Katski, composer
1873 - Henry Tate, composer
1893 - Johan G Dancer, Dutch poet (Meetings)
1894 - Antonius "Toon" Verhey, violin cellist/conductor (Residence-orch)
1895 - John Boles, Greenville TX, singer/actor (Babes in Baghdad)
1907 - Helmut Walcha, German organist (church music)
1912 - Conlon Nancarrow, Texarkana Arkansas, composer (Soundings 4)
1921 - Anestis Logothetis, composer
1927 - Dominick Argento, York Penn, composer (Colonel Jonathan the Saint)
1933 - Floyd Cramer, La, hall of fame pianist (Last Date, On the Rebound)
1940 - Anthea Joseph, music producer
1942 - Lee Greenwood, Los Angeles, California, American country singer (God Bless the USA)
1942 - Phillip Catherine, rocker
1945 - Peter Martins, Copenhagen, dancer-choreographer
1948 - Byron Allred, Logan Ut, rocker (Steve Miller Band)
1949 - Garry W Tallent, rocker (E Street Band)
1949 - Jack Daniels, Choctaw Oklahoma, country singer (Highway 101-Cry Cry Cry)
1951 - K K Downing, rock guitarist (Judas Priest-Breakin’ the Law)
1958 - Hazell Dean, rocker (Always Doesn’t Mean Forever)
1958 - Simon Le Bon, rock vocalist (Duran, Duran-Hungry Like the Wolf)
1967 - Scott Weiland, American singer (Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver)
1969 - Annie Patterson, composer
1970 - Adrian Erlandsson, Swedish drummer (Cradle of Filth)
1972 - Elissa (singer), Lebanese singer
1972 - Marika Krook, Finnish singer (Edea)
1978 - Vanessa-Mae, Singapore musician
1980 - Tanel Padar, Estonian singer
1982 - Keri Hilson, American singer, songwriter

28. oktobar

1689 - Michel Mathieu, composer
1733 - Ignaz Franz von Beecke, composer
1789 - Johann Schneider, composer
1798 - Henri-Jerome Bertini, composer
1801 - Karl Georg Lickl, composer
1805 - John Thomson, composer
1856 - Franz Xavier Arens, composer
1879 - Conrado del Campo y Zabaleta, composer
1884 - Miloje Milojevic, composer
1890 - Andres Isasi, composer
1892 - Dink Johnson, American musician (d. 1954)
1896 - Howard Hanson, Wahoo Nebraska, composer/conductor (Nordic)
1904 - Louis de Meester, composer
1909 - Adolfs Skulte, composer
1910 - Arthur Altman, songwriter
1922 - Gershon Kingsley, German composer
1924 - Alfonso Montalva Montecino, composer
1927 - Cleo Laine, Middlesex England, actress/singer (Flesh to a Tiger)
1930 - Harry Gilbert Trythall, composer
1930 - John Henry Mayer, composer
1935 - Folke Rabe, composer
1936 - Charlie Daniels, Wilmington NC, singer (Devil Went Down to Georgia)
1936 - Ted Hawkins, singer/guitarist
1936 - Carl Davis, American-born musical conductor and composer
1941 - Curtis Lee, rocker
1941 - Glenn Moore, rocker
1941 - Hank Marvin, England, [Brian Rankin], rocker
1943 - Conny Froboess, German singer
1944 - Dennis Franz, Maywood Ill, actor (Buntz-Hill Street Blues, NYPD Blue)
1945 - Wayne Fontana, Manchester England, rocker (Groovy Kind of Love)
1948 - Ricki Lee Reynolds, country singer (Black Oak Arkansas)
1948 - Telma Hopkins, Louisville, singer (Tony Orlando, Family Matters)
1952 - Tommy Dobeck, rock drummer (Michael Stanley Band)
1956 - Dave Wyndorf, American singer (Monster Magnet)
1957 - Stephen Morris, English pop drummer (Joy Division-Atmosphere)
1959 - Neville Henry, rocker (Blow Monkeys-Wicked Ways)
1963 - Eros Ramazotti, Italian pop musician/songwriter (Adesso Te)
1969 - Ben Harper, American musician
1972 - Brad Paisley, American musician
1976 - Karl Tremblay, Canadian singer (Les Cowboys Fringants)
1978 - Justin Guarini, American singer
1979 - Aki Hakala, Finnish drummer (The Rasmus)
1982 - Mai Kuraki, Japanese singer

29. oktobar

1815 - Daniel Emmett, American composer (d. 1904)
1898 - Emmanuel Bondeville, composer
1901 - Daniele Amfiteatrov, composer
1903 - Vivian Ellis, composer
1922 - Neal Hefti, Hastings Neb, orchestra leader (Kate Smith Show)
1923 - Dietrich Manicke, composer
1925 - Zoot Sims, Inglewood California, jazz saxophonist
1930 - Peter Stampfel, rocker
1930 - Natalie Sleeth, American composer (d. 1992)
1930 - Omara Portuondo, Cuban singer
1934 - Pim Jacobs, jazz pianist/Dutch TV host/actor (Gilas)
1934 - Ramon Sender, composer
1934 - Robert E Hughes, NYC, orchestra leader (Rich Little Show)
1937 - Michael Ponti, Freiburg Germany, pianist (Boston Competition 1964)
1940 - Frida Boccara, French singer (d. 1996)
1944 - Denny Laine, [Brian Hines], rock guitarist (Moody Blues, Wings)
1944 - Robbie van Leeuwen, Dutch guitarist (Shocking Blue)
1945 - Melba Moore, [Beatrice], NYC, singer/actress (Ellis Island)
1946 - Peter Green, [Peter Greenbaum], London, rocker (Fleetwood Mac)
1948 - Ricky Reynolds, rocker
1949 - James Williamson, American guitarist
1951 - Guy Gelso, rock drummer (Zebra)
1951 - Rick Bordia, rock guitarist (Mink Deville)
1952 - Arnell Carmichael, rock keyboardist (Raydio)
1954 - Anita Meijer, Dutch singer (Just a Disillusion)
1955 - Kevin DuBrow, rocker
1955 - Roger O’Donnell, English musician (The Cure)
1961 - Randy Jackson, Gary In, rocker (Jackson 5-ABC)
1965 - Steven Sweet, Wadsworth Ohio, heavy metal artist (Warrant-Cherry Pie)
1968 - Tsunku, Japanese music producer
1982 - Ariel Lin, Taiwanese actress and singer
1987 - Makoto Ogawa, Japanese singer

30. oktobar

1620 - Michael de Ronghe, composer
1735 - Edward Miller, composer
1787 - Karl Guhr, composer
1790 - Karol Joseph Lipinski, composer
1821 - Cenobio Paniagua y Vasques, composer
1840 - Carlotta Patti, Italian soprano
1845 - Gustav Weber, composer
1864 - Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, composer
1884 - Rudolf Forster, Grobming Austria, actor (Threepenny Opera)
1893 - Willi Apel, German/US musicologist (Harvard dictionary of music)
1894 - Peter Warlock, composer
1896 - Anatoly Grigor’yevich Novikov, composer
1900 - Augustin Lara, composer
1902 - Armin Kaufmann, composer
1903 - Konrad Friedrich Noetel, composer
1904 - Alfred Gradstein, composer
1905 - Christian Darnton, composer
1908 - Franco Margola, composer
1908 - Stuart Hamblen, Texas, singer/composer (This Old House)
1914 - Marius Hendrikus Flothuis, Dutch composer/author (Mozart biography)
1914 - Patsy Montana Ruby Blevins, singer
1914 - Richard E Holz, American composer
1915 - Pierre Wissmer, Swiss composer (Capitaine Bruno)
1919 - Jane Randolph, actress (Railroaded!)
1922 - Jane White, American actress and singer
1925 - Teo Macero, composer
1930 - Clifford Brown, [Brownie], US jazz trumpeter/composer
1934 - Frans Brüggen, Dutch musician
1939 - Eddie Holland, US singer/songwriter (Jamie, Leaving Here)
1939 - Grace Slick, Chicago, rock vocalist (Jefferson Airplane-White Rabbit)
1939 - Norman West, US singer (Soul Children, Hearsay, Give ’em Love)
1941 - Otis Williams, rocker (Temptations)
1942 - Sven-David Sandstrom, composer
1946 - Chris Slade, rocker (AC/DC)
1947 - Chris Komar, dancer
1947 - Timothy B Schmidt, Oakland CA, rocker (Eagles)
1949 - David Green, Melbourne Australia, rock bassist (Air Supply)
1949 - Otis Williams, [Otis Miles], TX, rock vocalist (Temptations)
1954 - T Graham Brown, Arabi Ga, country singer (Come as you Were)
1963 - Jerry de Borg, English pop guitarist (Jesus Jones-Real, Real, Real)
1965 - Gavin Rossdale, Kilburn, London, English heavy metal vocalist and actor (Bush)
1969 - Masanori Hikichi, Japanese composer
1970 - Maja Tatic, Bosnia singer
1971 - Ahn Jae Wook, South Korean actor and singer
1975 - Ian D’Sa, Guitarist/Vocalist for Canadian rock band Billy Talent

31. oktobar

1291 - Philippe de Vitry, French composer/poet
1757 - Ignaz Spangler, composer
1791 - Ferdinand Huber, composer
1888 - Harold Vincent Milligan, composer
1891 - Charlotte "Lotte" Bartschart, German/Dutch operetta singer
1896 - Ethel Waters, Chester Pa, actress (Beulah)/singer (Stormy Weather)
1906 - Louise Talma, Arcachon France, composer (Summer Sounds)
1917 - Erik Routley, composer
1920 - , seph Gelineau French composer (d. 2008)
1922 - Illinois Jacquet, American saxophonist (d. 2004)
1927 - Anita Kerr, Memphis TN, singer composer and producer (The Anita Kerr Singers)
1930 - Ray Crane, trumpeter
1931 - David Lumsdaine, composer
1934 - Walter Steffens, composer
1937 - Tom Paxton, Chicago, folk singer/songwriter (Forest Lawn)
1939 - Alui Farka Touré, Malian musician
1944 - Kinky Friedman, Palestine Tx, country rocker (Ride ’em Jewboy)
1947 - Russ Ballard, rocker (Argent)
1949 - Bob Selbenberg, rocker (Supertramp)
1949 - Odaline de la Martinez, composer
1952 - Bernard Edwards, Greenville NC, bassist (Chicago-Addicted to Love)
1957 - Robert Pollard, American rocker
1957 - Brian Stokes Mitchell, American singer and actor
1961 - Larry Mullen Jr, Dublin Ireland, rock drummer (U2-I Will Follow)
1961 - Kate Campbell, American musician
1963 - Johnny Marr, rocker (Smiths-Ask, Girl Afraid)
1963 - Mikkey Dee, Swedish musician, drummer for Motörhead
1964 - Colm Ó Cíosóig, Irish drummer (My Bloody Valentine, Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions)
1964 - Darryl Worley, American country singer
1965 - Annabella Lwin, [Myant Aye], Rangoon Burma, singer (I Want Candy)
1966 - Ad-Rock, [Adam Horowitz], rocker (Beastie Boys-You Gotta Fight)
1967 - Vanilla Ice, American rapper (Ice Ice Baby) and actor (Cool as Ice)
1970 - Linn Berggren, Swedish singer (Ace of Base)
1970 - Rogers Stevens, American guitarist (Blind Melon)
1970 - Mitch Harris, American guitarist (Napalm Death, among others)
1970 - Johnny Moeller, American blues guitarist
1974 - Natasja Saad, Danish hip hop and reggae artist (d. 2007)
1977 - Séverine Ferrer, French singer
1981 - Frank Iero, American musician (My Chemical Romance, Leathermouth, Pencey Prep; founder of Skeleton Crew)
1981 - Jon Crocker, American songwriter
1982 - The Cheeky Girls, British-Romanian singers
1990 - James Charles Lewis aka Lil’ JJ, American actor/singer