The Premier Online Music & Entertainment Directory   music minder 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 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: 114   Beau Bridges   Date Born: Tuesday 9 December 1941   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: He also starred in "Elvis And The Colonel" as Colonel Tom Parker. David Houston   Date Born: Friday 9 December 1938   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Houston was one of the earliest artists with National Recording Corporation in Atlanta. Charted with Grammy winning 'Almost Persuaded' in 1966. Dina Merrill   Date Born: Wednesday 9 December 1925   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: In April 2005 she received a lifetime achievement award from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Donald Byrd   Date Born: Friday 9 December 1932   Description: Trumpeter, USA   Summary: In the seventies his music included jazz fusion, jazz funk, soul jazz etc. Donny Osmond   Date Born: Monday 9 December 1957   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: After seeing the Osmond Brothers (Alan, Wayne, Merrill & Jay) perform at Disneyland as a barbershop quartet, Andy Williams asked the boys to audition for The Andy Williams Show. They soon became regulars on the show and gained popularity quickly. Donny made his debut on the show at the age of 5 singing "You Are My Sunshine". Douglas Fairbanks Jr   Date Born: Thursday 9 December 1909   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Fairbanks has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for motion pictures at 6318 Hollywood Boulevard and one for television at 6665 Hollywood Boulevard. Jessie Hill   Date Born: Friday 9 December 1932   Description: Vocalist, Composer of song, USA   Summary: Hill is mainly known as the writer of the rock song ’OOH BOOP PAH DOO’ in which he himself charted with in the year of 1960. Joan Armatrading   Date Born: Saturday 9 December 1950   Description: Vocalist, Songwriter,Pianist and Guitarist.   Summary: In the early 1970s, Armatrading moved to London to perform in a repertory production of Hair. John Cassavetes   Date Born: Monday 9 December 1929   Description: Actor, Director, USA   Summary: He appeared in many Hollywood films. He is most notable as an influential pioneer of independent film. Junior Wells   Date Born: Sunday 9 December 1934   Description: Vocalist   Summary: Wells career began around the mid fifties working with other greats such as Buddy Guy,Little Walter etc. Kirk Douglas   Date Born: Saturday 9 December 1916   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: One of the great actors of his time during the fifties through to the turn of the century. Sammy Strain   Date Born: Tuesday 9 December 1941   Description: Saxophonist   Summary: Strain joined the band in 1964 replacing Tracy Lord The O'Jays had their first hit with "Lonely Drifter", in 1963. Chad Stuart   Date Born: Friday 10 December 1943   Description: Vocalist. UK   Summary: In the fall of 1967, they released the album, Of Cabbages and Kings. This psychedelic album sold poorly, as did the 1968 follow-up, The Ark. Dan Blocker   Date Born: Monday 10 December 1928   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Actor mainly remembered for his role as Hoss Cartwright in the TV series ’BONANZA’. Dorothy Lamour   Date Born: Thursday 10 December 1914   Description: Actress, Vocalist, USA   Summary: Lamour was born the daughter of Carmen Louise and John Watson Slaton, both of whom were waiters. Greg Giraldo   Date Born: Friday 10 December 1965   Description: Stand-up, television, USA   Summary: In 2009, he released his first (and ultimately his last) one hour special for Comedy Central entitled, Midlife Vices. Guitar Slim   Date Born: Friday 10 December 1926   Description: Vocalist , Guitarist, UK   Summary: A New Orleans blues guitarist, from the 1940s and 1950s Harold Adamson   Date Born: Monday 10 December 1906   Description: Composer. USA   Summary: He was nominated for five Academy Award Nominations for lyrics to several original movie scores. John Bywaters   Date Born: Sunday 10 December 1944   Description: Bassist, Australia   Summary: An original member of The Twilights rock music group of the mid to late 1960s formed in Adelaide, South Australia. Johnny Rawls   Date Born: Monday 10 December 1951   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, Composer, NZ   Summary: 2006 album Heart & Soul, was nominated for a Blues Music Award Johnny Rodriguez   Date Born: Wednesday 10 December 1952   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: After signing with Mercury, Rodriguez was soon on the way to becoming famous. Kyu Sakamoto   Date Born: Wednesday 10 December 1941   Description: Vocalist, Japan   Summary: Kyu Sakamoto was probably one of the very few Japanese artists to chartworld wide. Lew Brown   Date Born: Sunday 10 December 1893   Description: Composer, Lyicist, USA   Summary: In 1922, Brown met Ray Henderson, a pianist and composer, and they quickly started writing songs together. Their first hit was "Georgette", introduced in the Greenwich Village Follies of 1922. Michael Clarke Duncan   Date Born: Tuesday 10 December 1957   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Raised by his single mother on Chicago's South Side, Duncan grew up resisting drugs and alcohol, instead concentrating on school. Morton Gould   Date Born: Wednesday 10 December 1913   Description: Pianist, Composer, Arranger, Conductor, USA   Summary: Gould composed Broadway scores, such as Billion Dollar Baby, Arms and the Girl, and film music; for films such as Delightfully Dangerous, Cinerama Holiday, and Windjammer. Oliver Messiaen   Date Born: Thursday 10 December 1908   Description: Composer, Organist, France   Summary: Messiaen was appointed professor of harmony soon after his release in 1941, and professor of composition in 1966 at the Paris Conservatoire, positions he held until his retirement in 1978. Peter Sarstedt   Date Born: Wednesday 10 December 1941   Description: Vocalist, Composer   Summary: Peter is mainly known for the hit 'Where Do You Go To (My Lovely) that charted world wide in 1969. Puff Johnson   Date Born: Sunday 10 December 1972   Description: Singer, Songwriter, USA   Summary: Better known as Puff Johnson, was an American singer-songwriter. Born in Detroit. Ray Nance   Date Born: Wednesday 10 December 1913   Description: Violinist, Trumpeter, Vocalist, USA   Summary: He worked with Duke Ellington from 1940 to the early sixties. Susan Dey   Date Born: Wednesday 10 December 1952   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: Born to Robert Smith a newspaper editor and Gail Dey a nurse, Susan was a model before starring as Laurie Partridge in the television series The Partridge Family from 1970–1974. Big Mama Thornton   Date Born: Saturday 11 December 1926   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: She was nicked named ’Big Mama Thornton’ mainly because of her weight. Composer of "Ball and Chain" Made famous by Janis Joplin Brenda Lee   Date Born: Monday 11 December 1944   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: She enjoys one distinction unique among successful American singers: Her opening act on a UK tour in 1960 was a struggling foursome from Liverpool, England, The Beatles. Cousin Jody   Date Born: Friday 11 December 1914   Description: Guitar, USA   Summary: He was famous for wearing unusual clothes and playing a dobro guitar. David Gates   Date Born: Monday 11 December 1939   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist , Composer, USA   Summary: The talented singer,songwriter and founder of the group "BREAD". Donna Mills   Date Born: Friday 11 December 1942   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: It has been said that "Sandy" in the film "Grease" was based on Mills life when growing up in Baltimore. Elliott Carter   Date Born: Friday 11 December 1908   Description: Composer, USA   Summary: His compositions are known and performed throughout the world; they include orchestral, chamber music, solo instrumental, and vocal works. Hamish Blake   Date Born: Friday 11 December 1981   Description: Stand-up, television, radio   Summary: Blake has appeared on various Australian television series, including Spicks and Specks, Thank God You're Here, Australia's Brainiest Comedian, The Panel, Rove Live. Hank Garland   Date Born: Thursday 11 December 1930   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, Composer, USA   Summary: At age 19, Garland recorded his million-selling hit "Sugarfoot Rag". J Frank Wilson   Date Born: Thursday 11 December 1941   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Wilson joined the Cavaliers after his discharge from Goodfellow Air Force Base in San Angelo, Texas in 1962. Jermaine Jackson   Date Born: Saturday 11 December 1954   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Memberof the talented ’Jackson 5’ later changing their name to ’The Jacksons’. Maggie Tabberer   Date Born: Friday 11 December 1936   Description: Television host, Model, editor, writer, fashion designer, Australia   Summary: Maggie's first modelling job was a one-off assignment at the age of 14, after a photographer spotted her at her sister's wedding. Mccoy Tyner   Date Born: Sunday 11 December 1938   Description: Pianist, USA   Summary: Tyner was born in Philadelphia as the oldest of three children. He was encouraged to study piano by his mother. He finally began studying the piano at age 13 and within two years, music had become the focal point in his life. Nikki Sixx   Date Born: Thursday 11 December 1958   Description: Bassist, USA   Summary: Nikki formed "Motley Crew" with Tommy Lee and Mick Mars.Vince Neil was on vocals. Perez Prado   Date Born: Monday 11 December 1916   Description: Arranger, bandleader, composer singer, organist and pianist   Summary: He is often referred to as the 'King of the Mambo'. Reg Livermore   Date Born: Sunday 11 December 1938   Description: Actor, Vocalist, Television Presenter, Australia   Summary: Livermore became interested in the performing arts an an early age with regular outings to see pantomimes at the famous Tivoli Theatre in Sydney. Slim Clark   Date Born: Tuesday 11 December 1917   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: He has recorded well over 20 albums recording first in 1946. Teri Garr   Date Born: Sunday 11 December 1949   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: Born into a theatrical family, her father Eddie Garr was a Comic and Actor and her mother Phyllis Lind was a ’Rockette’. Tom Brumley   Date Born: Wednesday 11 December 1935   Description: Guitar, USA   Summary: He was part of Rick Nelsons ’Stone Canyon Band’ in 1969 playing on the groups major albums. Tony Brown (record Producer)   Date Born: Wednesday 11 December 1946   Description: Record Producer, USA   Summary: Brown had played piano for Elvis Presley. He toured for much of Elvis's final two years of touring. Bruce Kulick   Date Born: Saturday 12 December 1953   Description: Guitarst, SongwriterUSA   Summary: Kulick is best known as lead guitarist for the rock band Kiss from September 1984 to August 1996. Clive Bunker   Date Born: Thursday 12 December 1946   Description: Drummer, UK   Summary: Debut solo album, Awakening, was released in 1998. Connie Francis   Date Born: Monday 12 December 1938   Description: Vocalist, Actress, USA   Summary: She is considered the most prolific and popular female rock 'n' roll hit-maker of the early rock era.P/E Dan Baird   Date Born: Saturday 12 December 1953   Description: Producer,USA   Summary: He is mainly known for his work with "The Geogia Satellites. Dan Hawkins   Date Born: Sunday 12 December 1976   Description: Musician, Guitarist, Producer. Songwriter, UK   Summary: An English rock guitarist, noted for his strong revival of 1970s classic rock and 1980s metal. Dick James   Date Born: Sunday 12 December 1920   Description: Publisher, Vocalist, Band Leader   Summary: James sang with North London dance bands in his early teens, and was a regular vocalist at the Cricklewood Palais by the age of seventeen. Dickey Betts   Date Born: Sunday 12 December 1943   Description: Guitarist, USA   Summary: Betts would later for DICKIE BETTS AND THE GREAT SOUTHERN in 1977 whic h was a copy of The Allman Brothers Band. Dionne Warwick   Date Born: Friday 12 December 1941   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: One of the most gifted singers of the twentieth century. Warwick won her second Grammy Award for the 1970 album "I'll Never Fall In Love Again." Edward G Robinson   Date Born: Tuesday 12 December 1893   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Born to a Yiddish-speaking Jewish family in Bucharest, he emigrated with his family to New York City in 1903. Frank Sinatra   Date Born: Sunday 12 December 1915   Description: Vocalist, Actor, USA   Summary: Sinatra was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, the son of Natalie Della and Anthony Martin Sinatra. Frazier Mohawk   Date Born: Friday 12 December 1941   Description: American record producer and sometime photographer, publicist   Summary: Friedman was driving the car with Stills and Richie Furay which passed on Sunset Boulevard the hearse carrying Neil Young and Bruce Palmer from Canada, a meeting which led to the formation of the band. Gloria Loring   Date Born: Thursday 12 December 1946   Description: Vocalist, Actress   Summary: Loring joined NBC daytime soap Days of Our Lives as chanteuse Liz Chandler. The show was going through a dry spell at the time, with many veterans shown the door and many new faces alienating longtime fans. Grover Washington Jr   Date Born: Sunday 12 December 1943   Description: Saxophonist, USA   Summary: He grew up with the great jazzmen and big band leaders like Benny Goodman, Fletcher Henderson, and others like them. Joe Williams   Date Born: Thursday 12 December 1918   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Joe Williams joined the Count Basie replacing Jimmy Rushing.Sang with big bands such as Andy Kirk, Coleman Hawkins etc. Katrina Elam   Date Born: Monday 12 December 1983   Description: Vocalist , Composer, USA   Summary: In 1998 she was named female vocalist of the year by the Oklahoma Country Music Association and the Oklahoma Opry. Keith Drage   Date Born: Sunday 12 December 1943   Description: Drummer, Australia   Summary: An Adelaide drummer born in from South Australia. Paul Rodgers   Date Born: Monday 12 December 1949   Description: Vocalist   Summary: His Grammy-nominated solo CD, Muddy Water Blues: A Tribute to Muddy Waters was released in 1993. Philip Ledger   Date Born: Sunday 12 December 1937   Description: Music Director, Organist, UK   Summary: A British classical musician and academic, best known for his tenure as director of the Choir of King's College, Cambridge between 1974 and 1982 and as director of Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama from 1982 until his retirement in 2001. He was also a composer of choral music and an organist Rob Tyner   Date Born: Tuesday 12 December 1944   Description: Bassist, USA   Summary: The lead singer for the American proto-punk rock band MC5 Sheila E   Date Born: Saturday 12 December 1959   Description: Drummer, Singer, Actress   Summary: Sheila Escovedo is the daughter of percussionist Pete Escovedo, with whom she frequently performs. Tony Williams - Drummer   Date Born: Wednesday 12 December 1945   Description: Drummer, USA   Summary: An American jazz drummer. Anthony Callea   Date Born: Monday 13 December 1982   Description: Vocalist, Actor, Composer, Australia   Summary: Callea began entering talent contests as a child and trained with the Johnny Young Talent School. Berton Averre   Date Born: Saturday 13 December 1952   Description: Guitariist, USA   Summary: He has toured with the likes of Robbie Krieger, Bette Midler, the Cowsills and Sarah Brightman. Christopher Plumber   Date Born: Friday 13 December 1929   Description: Actor, Pianist, Canada   Summary: Plummer was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the son of Isabella Mary and John Plummer, who was secretary to the Dean of Sciences at McGill University. Dana Strum   Date Born: Saturday 13 December 1958   Description: Vocalist, Bassist, Songwriter, Producer, USA   Summary: He was raised in Southern California's San Fernando Valley and began his performing career in the band "Badaxe". Davey O’list   Date Born: Wednesday 13 December 1950   Description: Guitarist, UK   Summary: Musician who has worked with ’ROXY MUSIC’ and ’ATTACK’ and ’NICE’ Dick Van Dyke   Date Born: Sunday 13 December 1925   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Van Dyke received a Grammy Award for his performance on the soundtrack to Mary Poppins. Irving Azoff   Date Born: Saturday 13 December 1947   Description: An agent, personal manager, concert promoter, movie producer, independent record label owner   Summary: From 1983 to 1989, Azoff headed MCA Records and is credited for saving the company from bankruptcy. Jamie Foxx   Date Born: Wednesday 13 December 1967   Description: Actor, Singer, USA   Summary: Foxx began piano lessons at age three, and later took classical piano lessons while attending college. In 1994, Foxx released an album (on the FOX record label) entitled Peep This. Larry Parks   Date Born: Sunday 13 December 1914   Description: Actor, Singer, USA   Summary: The voice of Al Jolson,the looks of Larry Parks, great songs,orchestration. But serously, I never get tired of watching The Jolson Story & Jolson Sings Again, even though I have both films on DVD, if they are shown again on TV, I have to sit down and watch - my two most favourite films - EVER! Al Jolson and Larry Parks rehearsing "Ma Blushin' Rosie" for 'The Jolson Story'. Nicholas Mccathy   Date Born: Friday 13 December 1974   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, UK   Summary: He was trained classically as a pianist and double bassist at the Munich Conservatory. Ross Ryan   Date Born: Wednesday 13 December 1950   Description: Vocalist , Guitarist, Producer, Web Designer, USA   Summary: Ross made his first recording while in High school called 'Christine'. Taylor Swift   Date Born: Wednesday 13 December 1989   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Swift was cover girl of Seventeen in the June 2008 issue. She was also named number fifty-two on Maxim's sexiest women of '08. Tony Gomez   Date Born: Tuesday 13 December 1938   Description: Keyboardist, UK   Summary: The Foundations actually did come together in Bayswater, London in January 1967. An original member of the group when formed in 1967, London Vestal Goodman   Date Born: Friday 13 December 1929   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Her title of “Queen of Southern Gospel Music" was proclaimed in a wide array of magazines, from Rolling Stone, Billboard Magazine, Time, People, and The Singing News. Wesley Tuttle   Date Born: Thursday 13 December 1917   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, USA   Summary: Mainly remebered for his appearences on 'Town Hall Party'. Beth Orton   Date Born: Monday 14 December 1970   Description: Vocalist , Composer, UK   Summary: Annie Lennox joined forces with Beth Orton and 22 other female artists to raise awareness of mother-to-child transmission of HIV to unborn children in Africa. Charlie Hodge   Date Born: Friday 14 December 1934   Description: Vocalist , Guitarist, USA   Summary: Hodge was discovered by Presley while the former was performing with a band called The Foggy River Boys in Memphis, TN. Hodge had caught the singer's attention at the time partly because, at 5'3", the guitarist. Charlie Rich   Date Born: Wednesday 14 December 1932   Description: Vocalist, Composer,Pianist, UK   Summary: They named him ’The Silver Fox’.Another of the Sun stable of singers to become a star. Clark Terry   Date Born: Tuesday 14 December 1920   Description: Trumpeter, USA   Summary: He attended Vashon High School there and began his professional career in the early 1940s by playing in local clubs before joining a Navy band during World War II. Cynthia Gibb   Date Born: Saturday 14 December 1963   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: A ballet dancer and teacher. Gibb's early dance training lent grace to her fresh-faced beauty, qualities which won her a modeling contract with New York's Eileen Ford Agency at age 14. Within a year she was on the cover of "Vogue" and "Young Miss." Dan Dailey   Date Born: Tuesday 14 December 1915   Description: Actor, singer, dancer, USA   Summary: In 1940, he was signed by MGM to make movies and, although his past career had been in musicals Deford Bailey   Date Born: Thursday 14 December 1899   Description: Harmonicist Gary Usher   Date Born: Wednesday 14 December 1938   Description: Composer, Producer, USA   Summary: He released his own albums in the in the sixties with mainly all his original songs. Janette Scott   Date Born: Wednesday 14 December 1938   Description: Actress, UK Joyce Vincent Wilson   Date Born: Saturday 14 December 1946   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Wilson continues singing to this day, usually with her sister, Pamela Vincent. Lee Remick   Date Born: Saturday 14 December 1935   Description: Actress, US   Summary: Remick made her film debut in Elia Kazan's A Face in the Crowd. Linda Jones   Date Born: Thursday 14 December 1944   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Her first recording was "Lonely Teardrops" under the name Linda Lane. Marilyn Cooper   Date Born: Friday 14 December 1934   Description: Actress, Vocalist, US   Summary: Cooper enjoyed a long and nearly unrivaled career in New York, appearing on Broadway in Hallelujah, Baby!; Golden Rainbow understudying and going on for Eydie Gorme. Patty Duke   Date Born: Saturday 14 December 1946   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: Duke received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. At 16, Duke was the youngest person at that time to receive an Academy Award in a competitive category. Rebecca Gibney   Date Born: Monday 14 December 1964   Description: Actress, New Zealand   Summary: Gibney was born the youngest of six children, and brought up in Wellington Sophie Monk   Date Born: Friday 14 December 1979   Description: Vocalist, Actress, Songwriter, Model   Summary: Monk was born in England. Her parents moved to Australia's Gold Coast, Queensland and she also spent time at Somerset College and Macgregor State High school. Warren Ryanes   Date Born: Tuesday 14 December 1937   Description: Vocalist, USA Alan Freed   Date Born: Friday 15 December 1922   Description: Disc Jockey, USA   Summary: In 1986, Freed was part of the first group inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which was built in Cleveland in recognition of Freed's involvement in the promotion of the genre. Ap Carter   Date Born: Tuesday 15 December 1891   Description: Vocalist, Songwriter, USA   Summary: A member of ’The Carter Family Singers and Pioneer of country music in the United States, many consider A.P. Carter a country music legend. Carmine Appice   Date Born: Sunday 15 December 1946   Description: Drummer, USA Cindy Birdsong   Date Born: Friday 15 December 1939   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Birdsong replaced the late Florence Ballard in 1967 through now, a much talked about item. Dave Clark   Date Born: Tuesday 15 December 1942   Description: Drummer, UK   Summary: Dave Clark is an English musician. He was the drummer and leader of the highly successful 1960s group, The Dave Clark Five. Don Johnson   Date Born: Thursday 15 December 1949   Description: Actor, Vocalist, USA   Summary: In addition to being an actor, he is also a singer, songwriter, producer, and director. Ernie Ashworth   Date Born: Saturday 15 December 1928   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Singing and playing on Radio stations in his teens he composed songs and released many records in the country field. Harry Ray   Date Born: Sunday 15 December 1946   Description: Vocalist, Composer of song, USA   Summary: Singer, Songwriter - Co wrote - ’Sexy Mama’ etc. Jessie Belvin   Date Born: Friday 15 December 1933   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: His composition "Earth Angel", eventually co-credited to Belvin and Hollywood Flames singers Curtis Williams and Gaynel Hodge after a legal dispute. John H. Hammond   Date Born: Thursday 15 December 1910   Description: Record producer, Talent scout   Summary: He discovered Aretha Franklin, then an eighteen-year-old gospel singer. In 1961, he heard folk singer Bob Dylan playing harmonica. Max Yasgur (woodstock)   Date Born: Monday 15 December 1919   Description: Land owner, USA   Summary: In 1971, looking back at all that happened, Yasgur remarked: "The worst thing about Woodstock was that there were just too many. Paul Simonon   Date Born: Thursday 15 December 1955   Description: Bassist, UK   Summary: An English musician and artist best known as the bass guitarist for punk rock band The Clash.         Copyrights:   © Music Minder & Mark Reynolds IT Consulting   All rights reserved: Prosecution rights will be exercised for any breaches of copyright.