music minder The Premier Online Music & Entertainment Directory Search For:    In Table: Albums Birthdates Businesses Entertainers Hits Lyrics Memorials On This Day   Home Entertainers Businesses About Contact Albums Birthdates Hits Instruments Lyrics Memorials On This Day Home > Birthdates Menu > List Birthdates BIRTHDATES Search Results for Date: AUGUST 12th Click on an Entertainer's name in the list below to view more information about that Entertainer. Click on a date in the list to view a list of other Entertainers with the same birthdate.   Number of Records Matching Query: 24   Amanda Redman   Date Born: Monday 12 August 1957   Description: Actress, UK   Summary: Beginning in 2003, Redman took the role of Sandra Pullman in the BBC's New Tricks. Buck Owens   Date Born: Monday 12 August 1929   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist,Composer, USA   Summary: Born on a farm in Texas to Maicie Azel Ellington and Alvis Edgar Owens, Sr. A shopping mall,located at 4800 Texoma Parkway, now sits where his farm used to be in Sherman. Cecile B Demille   Date Born: Friday 12 August 1881   Description: Film Director   Summary: DeMille was born to Henry Churchill deMille 1853–1893, a dramatist and lay reader in the Episcopal Church from Washington, North Carolina, and Matilda Beatrice Samuel 1853–1923. George Hamilton   Date Born: Saturday 12 August 1939   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: He was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and lived in Blytheville, Arkansas. He won many awards as a student at Palm Beach High School, West Palm Beach, Florida. Ian Rilen   Date Born: Tuesday 12 August 1947   Description: Bassist, Australia   Summary: Rilen worked with Ian Moss during recording of Petrolhead (1996), playing bass and co-writing songs for the album and later, also toured for a short time with Ian Moss. Jane Wyatt   Date Born: Saturday 12 August 1911   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: Jane Wyatt was born to Christopher Billopp Wyatt, Jr, a Wall Street investment banker, and mother the former Euphemia was a drama critic. Joe Besser   Date Born: Monday 12 August 1907   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: He is best known for his brief stint as a member of The Three Stooges in movie short subjects of 1957–59. Joe Jones   Date Born: Thursday 12 August 1926   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Joe Jones claimed to compose many songs including the song "Iko Iko". A federal jury and then Court of Appeals ruled that Jones did not write "Iko Iko" John Cazale   Date Born: Monday 12 August 1935   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: During his six-year film career, he appeared in five films, each of which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture: The Godfather, The Conversation, The Godfather Part II, Dog Day Afternoon and The Deer Hunter. John Derek   Date Born: Thursday 12 August 1926   Description: Actor, Director, Cinematographer, Screenwriter, Producer   Summary: Derek had a minor role as a film director. He directed his fourth wife, Bo Derek, in four movies. Katherine Lee Bates   Date Born: Friday 12 August 1859   Description: Composer of music, USA   Summary: She popularized "Mrs. Santa Claus" through her poem Goody Santa Claus on a Sleigh Ride (1889). Larry Troutman   Date Born: Saturday 12 August 1944   Description: Drummer, USA   Summary: Founding member of the funk/R&B band Zapp alongside his younger brother, Roger Troutman. Lesley Duncan   Date Born: Thursday 12 August 1943   Description: Vocalist, UK   Summary: After Elton John recorded "Love Song" this landed Lesley Duncan a recording contract with CBS / Columbia Records. Lou Martin   Date Born: Friday 12 August 1949   Description: Pianist, Ireland   Summary: Martin started learning the piano at the age of six, and joined his first professional band, Killing Floor, in April or May 1968. Marjorie Reynolds   Date Born: Sunday 12 August 1917   Description: Actress, Singer, USA   Summary: American motion picture and television actress of the 1920s through the 1970s. YOUTUBE: Academy Award for Best Original Song. In the film, Bing Crosby sings "White Christmas" as a duet with actress Marjorie Reynolds, though her voice was dubbed by Martha Mears. This now-familiar scene was not the moviemakers' initial plan; in the script as originally conceived, Reynolds, not Crosby, was to sing the song. Mark Knopfler   Date Born: Friday 12 August 1949   Description: Guitarist, Composer, UK   Summary: Mark Knopfler was born to an English mother and a Hungarian Jewish father, who was an architect whose communist sympathies forced him to flee his native Hungary. Merv Benton   Date Born: Wednesday 12 August 1942   Description: Vocalist, Australia   Summary: In the Melbourne dance circuit, Merv Benton gained national attention and quickly became one of the most popular male singers in the country appearing on all national television programes. Pat Metheny   Date Born: Thursday 12 August 1954   Description: Guitarist, Comoser, USA   Summary: Metheny has also named Ornette Coleman as a musical influence. He has recorded Coleman compositions on a number of his records. Percy Mayfield   Date Born: Thursday 12 August 1920   Description: Pianist, Composer, USA   Summary: Mayfield was one of the most creative and distinctive poets of rhythm and blues. Peter Frampton   Date Born: Saturday 12 August 1950   Description: Vocalist, Composer, Guitarist, UK   Summary: By the age of ten, Frampton played in a band called The Little Ravens. Both he and David Bowie were pupils at Bromley Technical School where Frampton's father, Owen Frampton, was an art teacher. Rod Bernard   Date Born: Monday 12 August 1940   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: His parents were French speaking Cajuns from working class backgrounds. Roy C. Bennett   Date Born: Monday 12 August 1918   Description: Composer of music, USA   Summary: Partnered with Sid Tepper, between 1945 and 1970 Bennett had close to three hundred musical compositions published. Roy Hay   Date Born: Saturday 12 August 1961   Description: Guitarist, Keyboardist, UK   Summary: Some of Hay's musical influences were Stevie Wonder , The Isley Brothers and Led Zeppelin. Before his involvement with Culture Club. Sid Bernstein   Date Born: Monday 12 August 1918   Description: Rock promoter, music producer   Summary: Bernstein helped start the British Invasion by bringing The Beatles over to the United States from Britain.         Copyrights:   © Music Minder & Mark Reynolds IT Consulting   All rights reserved: Prosecution rights will be exercised for any breaches of copyright.