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 Interval: LAST WEEK 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: 111   Al Dubin   Date Born: Wednesday 10 June 1891   Description: Composers of songs,Lyricist, USA   Summary: He is perhaps most famous for the 1933 musical film 42nd Street to the music of Harry Warren. Altiyan Childs   Date Born: Tuesday 10 June 1975   Description: Vocalist , Composer, Australia   Summary: His debut single, "Somewhere in the World", was made available for download, following his win on the show on 22 November 2010. Bruno Bartoletti   Date Born: Thursday 10 June 1926   Description: Conductor, pianist, Italy   Summary: Bruno Bartoletti was an Italian operatic conductor who had an active international career from 1953-2007. Elizabeth Hurley   Date Born: Thursday 10 June 1965   Description: Actress, Model, UK   Summary: Hurley was born as a middle child in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England, the daughter of Angela and Reg Hurley. Her father was a major in the British Army, while her mother was a schoolteacher at Kempshott Infant School. Frederick Loewe   Date Born: Monday 10 June 1901   Description: Composer, USA   Summary: Loewe was born in Berlin to Viennese parents Edmond and Rosa Loewe. His father Edmond was a noted Jewish operetta star who traveled considerably. Howlin Wolf   Date Born: Friday 10 June 1910   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, Composer, USA   Summary: Born near West Point, Mississippi, and named after Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States. His nick name Big Foot Chester and Bull Cow as he was known in his early years because of his great size. Janet Vogel   Date Born: Wednesday 10 June 1942   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Janet Vogel was a member of "The Skyliners". Kate Upton   Date Born: Wednesday 10 June 1992   Description: Model, Actress   Summary: As a young equestrian, Upton showed at the American Paint Horse Association and competed at a national level. Martin Wesley-smith   Date Born: Sunday 10 June 1945   Description: Keyboards, Australia   Summary: Most musicians especially from Adelaide remember his work with "The Wesley Three" during his early days in South Australia. Mickey Jones   Date Born: Tuesday 10 June 1941   Description: Drummer, USA   Summary: Jones joined the band The First Edition with Kenny Rogers and recorded several international hits. Punch Miller   Date Born: Sunday 10 June 1894   Description: Trumpeter, USA   Summary: Punch Miller was one of the closest to Louis Armstrong in style than anyone else and his sound was so much the same. Shirley Owens   Date Born: Tuesday 10 June 1941   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Shirley Owens from North Carolina was a member of the hit group, the Shirelles. Will Shatner   Date Born: Sunday 10 June 1956   Description: Bassist, USA   Summary: Co leader of punk group, a quartet named "Flipper" and "Negative Trend" Barry Adamson   Date Born: Wednesday 11 June 1958   Description: Vocalist, UK   Summary: Worked with rock bands such as Magazine, Visage, The Birthday Party, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Chad Everett   Date Born: Thursday 11 June 1936   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: He appeared in numerous films and television series including Centennial, Hagen, Airplane II: The Sequel, Star Command, and Mulholland Drive. Clarence Pine Top Smith   Date Born: Saturday 11 June 1904   Description: Pianist, Comedian, USA   Summary: Smith was born in Troy, Alabama and raised in Birmingham, Alabama. Frank Beard   Date Born: Saturday 11 June 1949   Description: Drummer, USA   Summary: Beard was formerly with the bands The Cellar Dwellars, who originally were a three-piece band, The Hustlers, The Warlocks, and American Blues. Gene Wilder   Date Born: Tuesday 11 June 1935   Description: Actor, comedian, director, screenwriter, author and activist. USA   Summary: Wilder, born to Chicago born Jeanne and William J. Silberman, a Russian Jewish immigrant. Wilder first became interested in acting when at age 8, his mother was diagnosed with rheumatic fever. Harry James Angus   Date Born: Friday 11 June 1982   Description: Singer-songwriter, trumpet player and guitarist. Australia   Summary: In 2012 Angus wrote the club song for the newest franchise in the AFL, the Greater Western Sydney Giants. Hugh Laurie   Date Born: Thursday 11 June 1959   Description: Actor, Comedian, Musician, Singer   Summary: From the age of six, Laurie took piano lessons with a Mrs. Hare. He plays the piano, guitar, drums, harmonica and saxophone. He is a vocalist and keyboard player for the Los Angeles charity rock group Band From TV. On 26 July 2010, it was announced that Laurie would be releasing a blues album after signing a contract with Warner Bros. The album, called Let Them Talk, was released in France on 18 April 2011 and in Germany on 29 April. The album features collaborations from well known artists such as Tom Jones, Irma Thomas, and Dr. John. Joey Dee   Date Born: Tuesday 11 June 1940   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Joey Dee and the group tours and plays at various venues from Connecticut to New Jersey to Florida to Las Vegas, doing well over a hundred concerts per year. Jud Strunk   Date Born: Thursday 11 June 1936   Description: Vocalist, Composer, Comedian, USA   Summary: Strunk's recording of "Daisy a Day" was one of the recordings chosen to accompany the Apollo astronauts on their missions to the moon. Kevin Wilkinson   Date Born: Wednesday 11 June 1958   Description: Drummer, UK   Summary: He is not related to Squeeze's bass player, Keith Wilkinson. Lynsey De Paul   Date Born: Sunday 11 June 1950   Description: Vocalist, songwriter, UK   Summary: She was the first woman to be awarded an Ivor Novello Award for this ballad, which provided her with another UK Top 20 hit. Pat Wilson   Date Born: Friday 11 June 1948   Description: Vocalist, Australia   Summary: Wilson was married to musician Ross Wilson for twenty years according to her brief account on ABC-TV's Talking Heads on 9 July 2007, where Peter Thompson interviewed Ross Wilson. Richard Strauss   Date Born: Saturday 11 June 1864   Description: Composer, Pianist   Summary: Strauss was born the son of Franz Strauss, who was the principal horn player at the Court Opera in Munich. Shelley Manne   Date Born: Friday 11 June 1920   Description: Drummer, US   Summary: Manne's father and uncles were drummers. In his youth he admired many of the leading swing drummers of the day, especially Jo Jones and Dave Tough. Wayne Horsburgh   Date Born: Saturday 11 June 1955   Description: Vocalist, Yodeller, Australia   Summary: His influences include Slim Whitman, Frank Ifield, Jim Reeves and Marty Robbins. Archie Bleyer   Date Born: Sunday 12 June 1949   Description: Composer, Pianist, Arranger, USA   Summary: He was born in the Corona section of the New York City borough of Queens. Brad Delp   Date Born: Tuesday 12 June 1951   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, USA   Summary: Delp was born in Danvers, Massachusetts[1] to Canadian immigrants. While his father played fiddle at home, Brad was inspired after seeing The Beatles perform on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964. Charlie Feathers   Date Born: Sunday 12 June 1932   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist,Composer, USA   Summary: One of many singers and vocalists to come out of the Sun Recording Studios and one the very first. A Rockabilly Original. Chick Corea   Date Born: Thursday 12 June 1941   Description: Pianist, Composer, USA   Summary: Corea was born in Massachusetts. He is of Italian and Spanish descent. His father Armando, a jazz trumpet player who had led a Dixieland band in the Boston area in the 1930s and 1940s, introduced him to the piano at the age of four. Corinne Grant   Date Born: Tuesday 12 June 1973   Description: Comedian, Actor, Writer.   Summary: The very likeable Grant co-hosted the comedy show The Glass House (ABC-TV), with Wil Anderson and Dave Hughes. Eddie Williams   Date Born: Wednesday 12 June 1912   Description: Bassist, Composer, USA   Summary: An American Bassist and member of "The Three Blazers" in the early forties. Issi Dye   Date Born: Saturday 12 June 1948   Description: Vocalist, Australia   Summary: Izzi Dye has been known appearing on television shows that include Bandstand, Komotion, The Go Show, Happening 70's Shows. Now he still remains one of Australia's top entertainers. Jak Housden   Date Born: Thursday 12 June 1969   Description: Guitarist, Producer, Australia   Summary: Jak was the guitarist for The Badloves before becoming a full-time guitarist for "The Whitlams". Jim Nabors   Date Born: Sunday 12 June 1932   Description: Actor, Vocalist, USA   Summary: Born to Fred and Mavis Nabors.He is best known for his portrayal of the good-hearted but naïve Gomer Pyle on two highly successful 1960s. John Wetton   Date Born: Thursday 12 June 1947   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, UK   Summary: Wetton has achieved an original bass guitar sound utilising a 1961 Fender Precision Bass amplified through tubes. Ken Richards   Date Born: Monday 12 June 1944   Description: Drummer, Australia   Summary: In 1962 Ken joined his first Rock ’n’ Roll group, The Vibrants. Kenny Wayne Shepherd   Date Born: Sunday 12 June 1977   Description: Guitarist ,USA   Summary: Shepherd married actor Mel Gibson's only daughter, Hannah, on 16 September 2006. Reg Presley   Date Born: Thursday 12 June 1941   Description: Vocalist, Composer, UK   Summary: He is best known as the lead singer with prominent 1960s rock and roll band The Troggs, whose biggest hit was "Wild Thing". Roy Harper   Date Born: Thursday 12 June 1941   Description: Vocalist, Songwriter, Guitarist   Summary: Harper was born in Manchester, England. After the death of his mother during childbirth, he was raised in Blackpool by his father. Vic Damone   Date Born: Tuesday 12 June 1928   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: He inherited his musical interests from his parents: His father, an electrician by trade, sang and played the guitar; his mother taught piano. At an early age he decided to imitate his favorite singer, Frank Sinatra, and began taking voice lessons. Attila Zoller   Date Born: Monday 13 June 1927   Description: Guitarist, Hungari   Summary: The first guitarist to discover free jazz, innovator of modern jazz guitar Austin Scaggs   Date Born: Monday 13 June 1927   Description: Music journalist   Summary: Scaggs was born to Boz and Carmella Scaggs. Bob Mcgrath   Date Born: Monday 13 June 1932   Description: Vocalist , Composer, USA   Summary: Along with Susan, played by Loretta Long, Bob has been one of the two longest lasting human characters on the series. Bobby Freeman   Date Born: Wednesday 13 June 1934   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: He was born in San Francisco in 1940 and began singing with a group he formed called the Romancers. Bobby Freeman   Date Born: Wednesday 13 June 1934   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: He was born in San Francisco in 1940 and began singing with a group he formed called the Romancers. Bobby Freeman   Date Born: Wednesday 13 June 1934   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: He was born in San Francisco in 1940 and began singing with a group he formed called the Romancers. Dennis Locorriere   Date Born: Monday 13 June 1949   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Dennis Locorriere was a founding member of Dr Hook. Doc Cheatham   Date Born: Tuesday 13 June 1905   Description: Vocalist, Trumpeter, USA   Summary: In 1996 the two trumpeters and pianist Butch Thompson recorded a CD for Verve Records, Doc Cheatham and Nicholas Payton, which won them a Grammy Award. Esther Ofarim   Date Born: Thursday 13 June 1968   Description: Vocalist, Israeli   Summary: Esther Ofarim is an Israeli entertainer, formerly well-known for her partnership with her husband Abi Ofarim. John Kahn   Date Born: Friday 13 June 1947   Description: Bassist, USA   Summary: For a period of about twenty five years Kahn was Jerry Garcia's principal collaborator outside of the Grateful Dead. Kat Denning   Date Born: Friday 13 June 1986   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: Dennings began her career in commercials at the age of 10. Her first acting job was an ad for potato chips.[8] Dennings made her professional debut with an appearance on HBO's Sex and the City in 2000. Marv Tarplin   Date Born: Friday 13 June 1941   Description: Guitarist, songwriter   Summary: He was one of The Miracles original members and co-wrote several of their hits, including "The Tracks of My Tears". Rocky Burnette   Date Born: Saturday 13 June 1953   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist , USA   Summary: Rocky Burnette born the son of rock and roll pioneer, Johnny Burnette. He is best known for his 1980 hit single "Tired of Toein' the Line." Slim Dusty   Date Born: Monday 13 June 1927   Description: Vocalist, Australia   Summary: His earliest musical influences included Jimmie Rodgers. Slim released his first record in 1945 at the age of eighteen. In 1946 he signed his first recording contract with Columbia Graphophone for the Regal. Zonophone label.[ Tim Allen   Date Born: Saturday 13 June 1953   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Allen was born the son of Martha Katherine, a community-service worker, and Gerald M. Dick, a real estate agent. His father died in a car accident, colliding with a drunk driver, when Allen was eleven. Alan White - Yes   Date Born: Tuesday 14 June 1949   Description: Drummer, UK   Summary: For the song "Owner of a Lonely Heart", White played the first recording only with the bass drum and snare, because all the other drums were being packed up as the group played. Barry Thornton   Date Born: Thursday 14 June 1934   Description: Guitarist, Australia   Summary: New bust of legendary Australian guitarist to be unveiled in January The fifth bronze bust of an Australian country music pioneer, Barry Thornton, will be unveiled in Tamworth’s Bicentennial Park on Monday, January 21, 2008. YOUTUBE:Lindsay Butler, Barry Thornton and Charley Boyter recorded the Slim Dusty hit"Camooweal" on The Legends of Country Guitar Album for Selection Records. Boy George   Date Born: Wednesday 14 June 1961   Description: Vocalist, UK   Summary: Boy George's style caught the attention of music executive Malcolm McLaren of Sex Pistols fame, who arranged for O'Dowd to perform with the group Bow Wow Wow, featuring Annabella Lwin. Burl Ives   Date Born: Monday 14 June 1909   Description: Vocalist, Actor, Composer   Summary: Burl Ives the son of Levi Frank Ives 1880-1947 and Cordelia "Dellie" White (882-1954. He had six siblings. His father was at first a farmer and then a contractor who did work for the county and others. Cliff Edwards   Date Born: Friday 14 June 1895   Description: Ukelele, Vocalist, Actor,USA   Summary: In 2002, Edwards' 1940 recording on Victor, Victor 26477, "When You Wish Upon a Star", was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. Cy Coleman   Date Born: Friday 14 June 1929   Description: Composer of music, lyricist, USA   Summary: Coleman's film scores include Father Goose, The Art of Love, Garbo Talks, Power, and Family Business. Dorothy Mcguire   Date Born: Wednesday 14 June 1916   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: She founded the La Jolla Playhouse along with Gregory Peck and Mel Ferrer in 1947. Jim Lea   Date Born: Saturday 14 June 1952   Description: Bassist, Keyboardist, Guitarist, UK   Summary: He first played guitar, and then bass, in the schoolboy group 'Nick and The Axemen', then went for auditions for a local band, 'The N'Betweens'. John Mccormack   Date Born: Friday 14 June 1844   Description: Vocalist, Ireland   Summary: McCormack was the first artist to record the World War I hit song It's a Long Way to Tipperary, in 1914. He toured Australia after Dame Nellie Melba engaged him, then at the height of his operatic career aged 27, as a star tenor for the Melba Grand Opera Season. John Simmons   Date Born: Friday 14 June 1918   Description: Bassist, US   Summary: John Simmons was a valuable bassist on many sessions in the 1940s and '50s. He grew up in Tulsa and in California. Julie Felix   Date Born: Monday 14 June 1937   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: She graduated in 1956 from the original high school in Westchester, Los Angeles, California. In 1966 Felix became the resident singer on the popular BBC TV programme The Frost Report, presented by David Frost. Junior Walker   Date Born: Sunday 14 June 1931   Description: Saxophonist, US   Summary: Born Autry DeWalt Mixon in Blythesville, Arkansas on June 14, 1931 grew up in South Bend, Indiana. Kenny Drew Jr   Date Born: Saturday 14 June 1958   Description: Pianist, USA   Summary: His music is known for its hard-swinging bluesy sound and large, two-handed rooty chords contrasting with fast runs. His style is said to be similar to that of his father and Oscar Peterson. Lang Lang   Date Born: Monday 14 June 1982   Description: Pianist, China   Summary: Lang Lang featured in the opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing on the 8th August 2008. Muff Winwood   Date Born: Monday 14 June 1943   Description: Bassist, Composer, Producer, UK   Summary: Winwood produced the first Dire Straits Album titled Dire Straits, in 1978. Renaldo "obie" Benson   Date Born: Sunday 14 June 1936   Description: Singer-Songwriter, USA   Summary: A founding member of the Motown group The Four Tops. Rodney Argent   Date Born: Thursday 14 June 1945   Description: Keyboardist, Composer, UK   Summary: While attending St Albans School, he met Paul Atkinson and Hugh Grundy. The three of them joined up with Colin Blunstone and Chris White to form The Zombies. Stanley Black   Date Born: Saturday 14 June 1913   Description: Conductor, Arranger, Pianist   Summary: Stanley Black. His parents were Polish and Romanian Jews. He began piano lessons at the age of seven. He was aged only 12 when his first composition was broadcast by the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Bernie Shaw   Date Born: Friday 15 June 1956   Description: Vocalist, Canada   Summary: Shaw dreamed of becoming a rock guitarist. He bought himself a Gibson SG Special and started practicing. Bernie Shaw   Date Born: Friday 15 June 1956   Description: Vocalist, Canada   Summary: Shaw dreamed of becoming a rock guitarist. He bought himself a Gibson SG Special and started practicing. Bernie Shaw   Date Born: Friday 15 June 1956   Description: Vocalist, Canada   Summary: Shaw dreamed of becoming a rock guitarist. He bought himself a Gibson SG Special and started practicing. Bill Porter   Date Born: Monday 15 June 1931   Description: Recording, Audio engineer   Summary: He recorded more than 579 records that charted—49 were top 10, 11 were number one, and 37 were certified gold records. Courteney Cox   Date Born: Monday 15 June 1964   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: Cox was born to a wealthy Southern family. Her mother, also named Courteney and her late father, Richard Lewis Cox, was a contractor. Cox has two older sisters,an older brother and nine half-brothers and half-sisters. David Rose   Date Born: Wednesday 15 June 1910   Description: Band Leader, Arranger, Composer, Conductor   Summary: Recipient of four Emmy awards, David Rose was born in London to Jewish parents and raised in Chicago, Illinois. Demis Roussos   Date Born: Sunday 15 June 1947   Description: Vocalist, Bass guitarist, Egypt   Summary: He was born in Egypt to ethnic Greek parents George and Olga, and raised in Alexandria. His parents lost everything and moved to Greece after the Suez Crisis. Eddie Hinton   Date Born: Thursday 15 June 1944   Description: Guitarist, USA   Summary: Sessions guitarist for many top artists including Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, Joe Tex etc. Erroll Garner   Date Born: Wednesday 15 June 1921   Description: Pianist, Composer, Arranger, USA   Summary: Garner refused to read music, and never did. Harry Nilsson   Date Born: Sunday 15 June 1941   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: Nilsson was born in Brooklyn, New York. His paternal grandparents were Swedish circus performers, especially known for their "aerial ballet" which is also the title of one of Nilsson's albums. His father, Harry Edward Nilsson, Jr., abandoned the family three years after his birth. Helen Hunt   Date Born: Saturday 15 June 1963   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: Hunt was born the daughter of Jane Elizabeth, a photographer, and Gordon Hunt, a film director and acting coach. James Belushi   Date Born: Tuesday 15 June 1954   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: James Belushi was born the son of Agnes B., a firs generation Albanian American who worked as a cashier, and Adam Belushi, an Albanian immigrant and restaurant operator who left his native village, Qytezë, in 1934 at the age of fifteen. Johnny Halliday   Date Born: Tuesday 15 June 1943   Description: Vocalist, France   Summary: Johnny Hallyday to a French mother, Huguette 1919-2007, and a Belgian father, Leon Smet. Laura Imbruglia   Date Born: Wednesday 15 June 1983   Description: Vocalist , Composer, Australia   Summary: Imbruglia has released a single, EP and album on Chatterbox Records/MGM. Leah Remini   Date Born: Monday 15 June 1970   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: Leah Remini was born in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York City, the daughter of Vicki Marshall, a private school teacher, and George Remini, who owned an asbestos removal company. Mike Rudd   Date Born: Friday 15 June 1945   Description: Guitarist, Songwriter, Producer   Summary: Spectrum released four LPs and several 7" singles, including their national #1 hit single "I'll Be Gone", which has remained one of the best-known songs of the period. Noddy Holder   Date Born: Thursday 15 June 1950   Description: Guitarist, UK   Summary: The son of a window cleaner, Noddy Holder attended the T. P. Riley Comprehensive School and passed 6 GCE O-level exams. He left school at 17 half way through his A level course to work in the office of a local car components firm. Ray Coleman   Date Born: Tuesday 15 June 1937   Description: Author, Journalism   Summary: In 1962 he became the first music journalist that Brian Epstein introduced to the Beatles. Over the years, he traveled the world with them, becoming a respected friend of the band. Sam Sniderman   Date Born: Tuesday 15 June 1920   Description: Canadian record store chain   Summary: Sniderman was inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame in 1997. Tom Adair   Date Born: Sunday 15 June 1913   Description: Composer of songs. USA   Summary: An Oscar-nominated songwriter who penned lyrics for several popular standards of the forties, Tom and his wife Frances Jeffords wrote songs and teleplays for The Mickey Mouse Club, Zorro, Disneyland, and several Disney film features. Waylon Jennings   Date Born: Tuesday 15 June 1937   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, Composer, USA   Summary: Jennings was born to Lorene Beatrice Shipley and William Alvin Jennings. A self-taught guitar player, he rose to prominence as a bass player for Buddy Holly following the break-up of The Crickets. Ben Raleigh   Date Born: Monday 16 June 1913   Description: Composer   Summary: His songs include "Tell Laura I Love Her" - "Wonderful Wonderful" and co wrote the "Scooby Doo" Theme. Billy Crash Craddock   Date Born: Friday 16 June 1939   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: In mid 1960, "Boom Boom Baby" hit the top of the Sydney Top 40 charts, and stayed there for 11 weeks. His next hit, "Well, Don't You Know", also hit the top for about 7 weeks. Ethel Merman   Date Born: Wednesday 16 June 1909   Description: Vocalist Actress, USA   Summary: Merman was born to Edward Zimmermann, was an accountant, and her mother, Agnes, was a school teacher. Garry Roberts   Date Born: Friday 16 June 1950   Description: Guitarist, Ireland   Summary: Member and Guitarist of Irish band "The Boomtown Rats" Formed - 1975 in Ireland. An original member of the group. Gino Vannelli   Date Born: Monday 16 June 1952   Description: Drummer, Vocalist, Composer, Canada   Summary: Born one of three sons born to Russ and Delia Vannelli. Russ, his father, was a big band musician. Jane Henson   Date Born: Saturday 16 June 1934   Description: Puppeteer, USA   Summary: American puppeteer and the wife of puppeteer Jim Henson. They were married in 1959 and had five children. John Rostill   Date Born: Tuesday 16 June 1942   Description: Bassist, UK   Summary: He worked with several artists before joining The Shadows, including The Interns, The Flintstones? and a stint in the backing group of Zoot Money. Lamont Dozier   Date Born: Monday 16 June 1941   Description: Composer, Producer, USA Lucky Thompson   Date Born: Monday 16 June 1924   Description: Saxophonist, USA   Summary: He lived in Lausanne, Switzerland in the late 1960s and recorded several albums there including A Lucky Songbook in Europe. Matt Costa   Date Born: Wednesday 16 June 1982   Description: Vocalist , Guitarist, USA   Summary: Costa was born in Canada and raised in Dryden. Matt Costa, who is of Portuguese ancestry, states his father "worked in airlines" and his mother "was around the house a lot" Mel Atkey   Date Born: Monday 16 June 1958   Description: Composer, Theatre Writer, Canada   Summary: Mel Atkey has been writing musicals ever since he was in high school in his native Vancouver. Patrick Waite   Date Born: Sunday 16 June 1968   Description: Bassist, UK   Summary: A former member of Musical Youth are a British-Jamaican pop/reggae band. Stan Laurel   Date Born: Monday 16 June 1890   Description: Actor, Vocalist, UK   Summary: His parents, Arthur and Madge (Margaret) Jefferson, were both active in the theatre and Stan's home life was a happy one. Tupac Shakur   Date Born: Wednesday 16 June 1971   Description: Vocalist, Rapper, Actor, Dancer, USA   Summary: He is recognized in the Guinness Book of Records as the best selling Hip Hop Artist.         Copyrights:   © Music Minder & Mark Reynolds IT Consulting   All rights reserved: Prosecution rights will be exercised for any breaches of copyright.