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: 122   Bob Luman   Date Born: Thursday 15 April 1937   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: Born in Blackjack, east Texas to Joe and Lavine Luman. Raised in Nacogdoches he learnt country music from his father who played various string instruments in local amatuer bands. Clarence Satchell   Date Born: Monday 15 April 1940   Description: Saxophonist, Guitarist, USA   Summary: The Ohio Players are a funk and R&B band with Clarence "Satch" Satchell. David Mook   Date Born: Wednesday 15 April 1936   Description: Composer,Publisher , USA   Summary: Writer of themes songs such as ’Scooby Doo’ - ’The Dating Game’ etc. Eden Ahbez   Date Born: Wednesday 15 April 1908   Description: Composer of music, USA   Summary: Ahbez was discovered living under the Hollywood Sign and became the focus of a media frenzy when Cole's version of "Nature Boy" shot to #1 on the Billboard charts and remained there for eight consecutive weeks Elizabeth Montgomery   Date Born: Saturday 15 April 1933   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: In June 2005, a statue of Montgomery as Samantha Stephens was erected in Salem, Massachusetts. Lee Kernaghan   Date Born: Wednesday 15 April 1964   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist , Composer, Australian   Summary: Lee Kernaghan's father Ray and sister, Tania are also successful country musicians in Australia. Parents Ray and Pam Kernaghan and siblings Tania, Greg and Fiona. Lee Vincent   Date Born: Saturday 15 April 1916   Description: Bandleader, Bassist, USA   Summary: Lee Vincent was an American musician, disk jockey, orchestra leader and musical agent. NP Linda Perry   Date Born: Thursday 15 April 1965   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Linda Perry was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, the daughter of Portuguese-American Alfred Xavier Perry and Brazilian-born Marluce Perry. Marsha Hunt   Date Born: Monday 15 April 1946   Description: Singer and novelist, actress and model. US   Summary: Hunt was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1946 and lived in North Philadelphia. Marty Wilde   Date Born: Saturday 15 April 1939   Description: Vocalist, UK   Summary: He was among the first generation of British pop stars to emulate American rock and roll, and is the father of pop singers Ricky Wilde, Kim Wilde and Roxanne Wilde. Michael Ansara   Date Born: Saturday 15 April 1922   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Ansara also played in the Biblical epics The Robe (1953) as Judas Iscariot, The Ten Commandments (1956) as a taskmaster (uncredited), and The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) Michael Kamen   Date Born: Thursday 15 April 1948   Description: Composer, Film scores   Summary: One of Hollywood’s greatest composers with a listing of songs and arrangements to his credit. Richard Davis   Date Born: Tuesday 15 April 1930   Description: Bassist, USA   Summary: Richard Davis, a Chicago native, began his musical career as a singer with his brothers. Roy Clark   Date Born: Saturday 15 April 1933   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, Composer, USA   Summary: In 1969, Clark and Buck Owens were the hosts of Hee Haw. The show was dropped by CBS Television in 1971 but continued to run in syndication for twenty more years. During its tenure, Clark was a member of the Million Dollar Band. Samantha Fox   Date Born: Monday 15 April 1946   Description: Vocalist, Model, UK   Summary: Fox began a successful singing career, producing three albums in three years (1986-1988) Susan Ward   Date Born: Thursday 15 April 1976   Description: Actress, model   Summary: Ward began modeling at the age of 13, leaving school and moving to New York to do so, deciding to try her hand at acting several years later. Tommy Castro   Date Born: Friday 15 April 1955   Description: Guitarist, USA   Summary: In May 2010, The Blues Foundation awarded Tommy Castro multiple Blues Music Award honors for Blues Male Artist of the Year, Contemporary Blues Album of the Year, B.B. King Entertainer of the Year, and with his band, Band of the Year. Bennie Green   Date Born: Monday 16 April 1923   Description: Trombonist, USA   Summary: His full tone looked backwards to the swing era yet was open to the influence of R&B. Bob Marley   Date Born: Monday 16 April 1945   Description: Vocalist, Gutarist, Composer, Jamaica   Summary: Marley was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994. Bobby Robinson   Date Born: Monday 16 April 1917   Description: Record producer, USA   Summary: Robinson produced numerous million-selling records by such notable performers as Wilbert Harrison, The Shirelles, Lee Dorsey, and Dave "Baby" Cortez. Bobby Robinson   Date Born: Monday 16 April 1917   Description: Record producer, USA   Summary: Robinson produced numerous million-selling records by such notable performers as Wilbert Harrison, The Shirelles, Lee Dorsey, and Dave "Baby" Cortez. Bobby Vinton   Date Born: Tuesday 16 April 1935   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: He was the only child of a locally popular bandleader, Stan Vinton -Stanley Vintula, Sr. Charlie Chaplin   Date Born: Tuesday 16 April 1889   Description: Actor, Comedian, Composer, UK   Summary: He is considered one of the finest mimes and clowns ever captured on film. He greatly influenced other performers. Colleen Hewett   Date Born: Sunday 16 April 1950   Description: Vocalist, Actress, Australia Dave Peverett   Date Born: Friday 16 April 1943   Description: Vocalist , Guitarist, UK   Summary: He is best known as the original singer and rhythm guitarist of Foghat, which he founded following his tenure in Savoy Brown. Dusty Springfield   Date Born: Sunday 16 April 1939   Description: Vocalist, UK   Summary: Springfield began her solo career in 1963 with the Phil Spector-influenced pop/rock song "I Only Want To Be With You". Ed Townsend   Date Born: Saturday 16 April 1955   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: In the R&B world, he is best remembered for his work with Dee Dee Warwick on "I Wanna Be With You","Foolish Fool" and "That's Not Love" Edie Adams   Date Born: Saturday 16 April 1927   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: Adams, a Tony Award winner, "both embodied and winked at the stereotypes of fetching chanteuse and sexpot blonde."[ Ellen Barkin   Date Born: Saturday 16 April 1955   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: Emmy Award Wins include. Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie: Before Women Had Wings 1997. Gerry Rafferty   Date Born: Wednesday 16 April 1947   Description: Vocalist, Composer, UK   Summary: In 1978, Gerry Rafferty cut a solo album, City to City, which included the song with which he remains most identified, "Baker Street". Henry Mancini   Date Born: Wednesday 16 April 1924   Description: Composer   Summary: Mancini was born Enrico Nicola Mancini in the Little Italy neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, and grew up near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the steel town of West Aliquippa, Pennsylvania. Herbie Mann   Date Born: Wednesday 16 April 1930   Description: Saxophonist, Composer. US   Summary: Mann had a number of songs cross over to the pop charts — rather rare for a jazz musician. A 1998 interview reported that "At least 25 Herbie Mann albums have made the top 200 pop charts, success denied most of his jazz peers." Jason Scheff   Date Born: Monday 16 April 1962   Description: Bassist, US   Summary: American bassist, singer and songwriter. Since 1985 he has been the bassist and singer for the veteran pop-rock band Chicago. Jimmy Osmond   Date Born: Tuesday 16 April 1963   Description: Vocalist , Actor   Summary: He hit the charts world wide wit the song 'Long Haired Lover From Liverpool' in 1972. Johnny Little   Date Born: Thursday 16 April 1931   Description: Guitarist, USA   Summary: One of the masters of the slide guitar born in the USA. Kurt Maloo   Date Born: Thursday 16 April 1953   Description: Singer-songwriter, composer, arranger, record producer   Summary: Swiss singer-songwriter, composer, and record producer. He first achieved international success in 1986, as the singer and front man of the pop-jazz duo Double, with the hit single “The Captain of Her Heart”. Lee Kerslake   Date Born: Wednesday 16 April 1947   Description: Drummer, UK   Summary: Kerslake joined Uriah Heep in November 1971, left the band in October 1979, and rejoined them in April 1982. Martin Lawrence   Date Born: Friday 16 April 1965   Description: Actor   Summary: American actor, film director, film producer, screenwriter, and stand up comedian. Peter Garrett   Date Born: Thursday 16 April 1953   Description: Vocalist, Australia,   Summary: Garrett attended Barker College in Hornsby, before studying Arts at the Australian National University and later Law at the University of New South Wales. About the same time he became a rock singer with the Australian rock band Midnight Oil in 1973. Peter Ustinov   Date Born: Saturday 16 April 1921   Description: Actor, UK   Summary: Ustinov won Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor for his roles in Spartacus (1960) and Topkapi (1964). Robert Stigwood   Date Born: Monday 16 April 1934   Description: Impresario, Management, Australia Roy Hamilton   Date Born: Tuesday 16 April 1929   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: The song ’You Can Have Her’ was his most noted hit in Australia. Rudi Pompilli   Date Born: Wednesday 16 April 1924   Description: Saxophonist, USA   Summary: "The Sax That Rocked the World", Now Dig This Issue 275, February 2006. By Chris Gardner. Selena   Date Born: Friday 16 April 1971   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Selena has achieved critical and commercial success, winning numerous awards before and after her death, and selling over 65 million records worldwide.Grammy winner in 1993. Spike Milligan   Date Born: Tuesday 16 April 1918   Description: Vocalist, Trumpeter, UK   Summary: The headstone of Spike Milligan's grave, formerly in the grounds of St Thomas's Winchelsea, East Sussex. his grave here remains unmarked. The epitaph reads Duirt mé leat go raibh mé breoite, Irish for "I told you I was ill."[edit] DeathEven late in life, Milligan's black humour had not deserted him. After the death of Harry Secombe from cancer, he said, "I'm glad he died before me, because I didn't want him to sing at my funeral." A recording of Secombe singing was played at Milligan's memorial service. He also wrote his own obituary, in which he stated repeatedly that he "wrote the Goon show and died".[citation needed] Milligan died from liver disease, at the age of 83, on 27 February 2002, at his home in Rye, East Sussex. On the day of his funeral, 8 March 2002, his coffin was carried to St Thomas's Church in Winchelsea, East Sussex and was draped in the flag of the Republic of Ireland. He had once quipped that he wanted his headstone to bear the words "I told you I was ill." He was buried at St Thomas's cemetery but the Chichester diocese refused to allow this epitaph. Stefan Grossman   Date Born: Monday 16 April 1945   Description: Guitarist, USA   Summary: Born in Brooklyn, New York, to Herbert and Ruth Grossman. Grossman described his upbringing, in Queens, New York. T Lavitz   Date Born: Monday 16 April 1956   Description: Keyboardist, Composer and Producer, USA   Summary: An American jazz-rock/fusion keyboardist, composer and producer. He is best known for his work with the Dixie Dregs and Jazz Is Dead. Vince Hill   Date Born: Friday 16 April 1937   Description: Vocalist, UK   Summary: "Edelweiss" was to become his signature tune for the rest of his career, that saw him top the bill at the London Palladium and Talk of the Town. Vince Hill   Date Born: Friday 16 April 1937   Description: Vocalist, UK   Summary: "Edelweiss" was to become his signature tune for the rest of his career, that saw him top the bill at the London Palladium and Talk of the Town. Billy Fury   Date Born: Thursday 17 April 1941   Description: Vocalist, UK   Summary: Fury concentrated less on Rock 'n' Roll and more on mainstream ballads. Chris Barber   Date Born: Thursday 17 April 1930   Description: Trombonist, UK   Summary: Barber played trombone with Ken Colyer in 1949 and began leading his own bands in which he played trombone and double bass in 1950. Don Kirshner   Date Born: Tuesday 17 April 1934   Description: Publisher and rock producer   Summary: Kirshner wrote his first song, and while carrying bags for Frankie Laine, tried to sell it to the popular star. James Last   Date Born: Wednesday 17 April 1929   Description: Bandleader, Pianist,USA   Summary: Over the course of his career, he has sold well over 100 million albums. James Last has survived the ever changing times since the inception of his music. Keith Barber   Date Born: Thursday 17 April 1947   Description: Drummer, Australia   Summary: Drummer Keith Barber was born in Kilburn, North West London, England, moved to Melbourne when he was 10 years old Liz Phair   Date Born: Monday 17 April 1967   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist,Composer, USA   Summary: Phair was born in New Haven, Connecticut, but was raised in Winnetka, Illinois, by wealthy adoptive parents. She graduated from New Trier High School in 1985. Michael Sembello   Date Born: Saturday 17 April 1954   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: His contribution to that soundtrack was rewarded with a Grammy Award in 1983 for Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special. Phil Jamieson   Date Born: Sunday 17 April 1977   Description: Vocalist, Australia   Summary: Phil Jamieson was born in Hornsby, New South Wales whilst his parents were on the road. Alexander Spence   Date Born: Thursday 18 April 1946   Description: Vocalist , Composer   Summary: A Candadian singer, songwriter, guitarist, drummer. Conan Obrien   Date Born: Thursday 18 April 1963   Description: Television writer, Actor, USA   Summary: O'Brien was born the son of Ruth (née Reardon), an attorney, and Thomas Francis O'Brien, a physician and professor of medicine, both of Irish Catholic descent. Glen Hardin   Date Born: Tuesday 18 April 1939   Description: Pianist, USA Hayley Mills   Date Born: Thursday 18 April 1946   Description: Actress, UK   Summary: She made her stage debut in a 1966 West End revival of Peter Pan. Jane Leeves   Date Born: Tuesday 18 April 1961   Description: Actress,Dancer, UK   Summary: Leeves made her screen debut with a small role in the 1983 popular British comedy television show The Benny Hill Show. Larry Cassidy   Date Born: Saturday 18 April 1953   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, Composer, UK   Summary: An English musician, known for being the singer and bassist of post-punk and electronic band Section 25. Lennie Baker   Date Born: Thursday 18 April 1946   Description: Saxophonist, USA   Summary: Baker went on to become a member of the musical group Sha Na Na, doing vocals and playing sax. Ned Liben   Date Born: Saturday 18 April 1953   Description: Keyboards, US   Summary: Ned Liben was a 1980s duo, composed of Ned "EBN" Liben (synthesizer) and Robert "OZN" Rosen (organ, vocals). Paul A Rothchild   Date Born: Thursday 18 April 1935   Description: American producer of the late 1960s and 1970s, USA   Summary: Associated acts The Doors, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Janis Joplin, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, The Lovin' Spoonful, others Paul Rothchild   Date Born: Thursday 18 April 1935   Description: Record producer   Summary: Producer,mainly known for his work with ’The Doors’. He also worked with many other artists including Paul Butterfield. Polly Brown   Date Born: Friday 18 April 1947   Description: Vocalist, UK   Summary: Polly Brown is an English singer. A member of Pickettywitch and Sweet Dreams - and with each group lead singer on a Top Ten hit, respectively "That Same Old Feeling" Robert Christgau   Date Born: Saturday 18 April 1942   Description: Music journalist, USA   Summary: One of the earliest professional rock critics, Christgau is known for his terse capsule reviews, published since 1969 in his Consumer Guide columns. Samantha Jade   Date Born: Saturday 18 April 1987   Description: Vocalist, Australia   Summary: Australian singer-songwriter and former child model from Perth, Western Australia. Skip Spence   Date Born: Thursday 18 April 1946   Description: Drummer, Canada Tommy Shannon   Date Born: Thursday 18 April 1946   Description: Bassist, US   Summary: His primary bass was a battered Arctic White 1964 Fender Jazz Bass with a red tortoise shell pickguard. Tony Mattola   Date Born: Thursday 18 April 1918   Description: Guitarist, USA   Summary: Mottola was one of the most sought after and respected studio musicians in the recording and music industry. He worked extensively with Frank Sinatra and Perry Como. Alan Price   Date Born: Sunday 19 April 1942   Description: Vocalist, Keyboadist, UK   Summary: He participated in three re-unions of the The Animals in 1968, 1977 also 1983 and in July 1983 The Animals started their sold-out world-tour playing over 20 songs at each concert. Albert Hammond Jr   Date Born: Tuesday 19 April 1988   Description: Vocalist,Guitarist, Composer, UK   Summary: An American musician and member of the garage rock band The Strokes in which he mostly plays rhythm guitar. Alexis Korner   Date Born: Thursday 19 April 1928   Description: Pianist, France   Summary: A major influence on the sound of the British music scene in the 1960s Amber Lawrence   Date Born: Wednesday 19 April 1978   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, Australia   Summary: After graduating from the University of New South Wales with a commerce degree and working for six years as a chartered accountant for Qantas Ashley Judd   Date Born: Friday 19 April 1968   Description: Actress   Summary: Judd was born the daughter of Naomi Judd, a well-known country music singer and motivational speaker, and Michael Ciminella, Jr. a marketing analyst for the horseracing industry. Judd has a half-sister, Wynonna Judd, who is also a country music singer. Bobby Russell   Date Born: Friday 19 April 1940   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: The writer of the hit "Honey" for Bobby Goldsboro. Dudley Moore   Date Born: Friday 19 April 1935   Description: Actor, UK   Summary: His fame as a comedic actor was later heightened by his success in Hollywood movies such as 10 with Bo Derek and Arthur in the late 1970s and early 1980s Elinor Donahue   Date Born: Monday 19 April 1937   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: Tap dancing at the age of 16 months, pert and pretty Elinor Donahue has been entertaining audiences for six decades. Born Mary Eleanor Donahue in Tacoma, Washington in 1937, she appeared as a radio singer and vaudeville dancer while still a mere toddler, then was picked up by Universal Studios at the age of 5. Genya Ravan   Date Born: Sunday 19 April 1942   Description: Vocalist, UK   Summary: Singer, producer and leader of all girl group rock bands such as TEN WHEEL DRIVE. Hugh Obrian   Date Born: Sunday 19 April 1925   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: O'Brian was born in Rochester, New York, the son of Hugh John Krampe, a career United States Marine Corps officer, and his wife Edith Krampe. Jayne Mansfield   Date Born: Wednesday 19 April 1933   Description: Actress, Violinist, USA   Summary: Mansfield, of German and English ancestry, was the only child of Herbert William and Vera Palmer. When she was three years old, her father, a lawyer who was in practice with future New Jersey governor Robert B. Meyner, died of a heart attack while driving in a car with his wife and daughter. Kate Hudson   Date Born: Thursday 19 April 1979   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: Hudson was born in Los Angeles, the daughter of Academy Award-winning actress Goldie Hawn and Bill Hudson, an actor, comedian, and musician. Mark Volman   Date Born: Wednesday 19 April 1944   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: The sixties band was most popular world wide with songs uch as ’HAPPY TOGETHER’ and ’ELEANOR’ Volman grew up in Westchester, Los Angeles, California, where he graduated in 1965. At the age of 45 he started his bachelor's degree at Loyola Marymount University. He graduated with a bachelor's of arts in 1997. Michael Stewart   Date Born: Thursday 19 April 1945   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, Bonjoist, Producer, USA   Summary: Stewart eventually became a successful record producer, with one of his biggest successes being Billy Joel's Piano Man. Rai Thistlethwayte   Date Born: Saturday 19 April 1980   Description: Piano, Guitar, Voice   Summary: He grew up in the suburb of West Pymble. He has two brothers Tim Curry   Date Born: Friday 19 April 1946   Description: Vocalist, Actor, UK   Summary: Aside from his performances on various soundtrack records, Curry has had some success as a solo musical artist. In 1976, he recorded a 9-song album for Lou Adler's Ode Records which was unreleased in its entirely until February 2010 Carmen Electra   Date Born: Thursday 20 April 1972   Description: Vocalist, Actress, Model, USA   Summary: Electra started her professional career in 1990 as a dancer at Kings Island theme park in Mason, Ohio in the show "It’s Magic", one of more popular shows in the park's history. Craig Frost   Date Born: Tuesday 20 April 1948   Description: Keyboardist, USA   Summary: Best known as keyboardist for 1970s hard rock band Grand Funk Railroad. YOUTUBE: Grand Funk Railroad: Mark Farner (vocals, guitar, keyboards); Don Bewer (vocals, drums); Mel Schacher (bass). Craig Frost (Keyboards) Recorded live at Madison Square Garden on December 23rd 1972. Harold Lloyd   Date Born: Thursday 20 April 1893   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Lloyd was born in Burchard, Nebraska to James Darsie Lloyd and Elizabeth Fraser; his paternal great-grandparents were from Wales. James Chance   Date Born: Monday 20 April 1953   Description: Saxophonist, Composer. US   Summary: His music is frequently described as combining the freeform playing of Ornette Coleman with the solid funk rhythm of James Brown, though filtered through a punk rock lens. Jessica Lange   Date Born: Wednesday 20 April 1949   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: Known for the role of the late country singer Patsy Cline in the film ’SWEAT DREAMS’ - 1985 Johnny Tillotson   Date Born: Thursday 20 April 1939   Description: Vocalist, Actor, USA   Summary: Early in 1962, Tillotson recorded a song he had written himself, "It Keeps Right On A-Hurtin'," inspired by the terminal illness of his father. Johnny Wyatt   Date Born: Thursday 20 April 1939   Description: Vocalist Leslie Phillips   Date Born: Sunday 20 April 1924   Description: Actor, UK   Summary: Phillips made his first film appearances as a child in the 1930s. He is the only actor still alive who performed at Pinewood Studios during the week it opened in 1936. Lionel Hampton   Date Born: Monday 20 April 1908   Description: Vibes, Composer, USA   Summary: Known to all as the most famous of all vibraphone players.Known mainly for his outstanding playing, he is also known for his hit - FLYING HOME. Luther Vandross   Date Born: Friday 20 April 1951   Description: Vocalist , USA   Summary: His first recording credit was as producer of the album Soul Christmas in 1968. Mickey Welsh   Date Born: Tuesday 20 April 1971   Description: Bassist, USA   Summary: Welsh was born April 20, 1971 in Syracuse, New York. He began his career as a Boston-area musician, playing in bands such as Heretix, Chevy Heston, Jocobono, Left Nut, and Slower. Miranda Kerr   Date Born: Wednesday 20 April 1983   Description: Model, Australian   Summary: She is the first Australian to participate in the Victoria's Secret campaign and also represents Australian fashion chain David Jones. Richard Delvy   Date Born: Monday 20 April 1942   Description: Drummer, USA   Summary: He was known for being one of the first pioneers of surf music.Delvy helped produce many known and unknown artists and was involved in all aspects of the music business. Tony Barber - Bassist   Date Born: Saturday 20 April 1963   Description: Bassist, UK   Summary: A former bassist of the British pop-punk band Buzzcocks. Wade Hayes   Date Born: Sunday 20 April 1969   Description: Vocalist Alan Warner   Date Born: Monday 21 April 1947   Description: Guitarist, UK   Summary: English guitarist and member of "The Foundations" during the sixties. Andie Macdowell   Date Born: Monday 21 April 1958   Description: Actress, Model, USA   Summary: In the 1990s, she achieved stardom due to the box office success of the 1993 comedy by Harold Ramis, Groundhog Day. Anthony Quinn   Date Born: Wednesday 21 April 1915   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: As a young man Quinn boxed professionally to earn money, then studied art and architecture. After a short time performing on the stage, Quinn launched his film career performing character roles in the 1936 films Parole. Bobby Mclure   Date Born: Tuesday 21 April 1942   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: McClure was raised in St. Louis and sang in church and gospel groups in his youth. Carl Belew   Date Born: Tuesday 21 April 1931   Description: Vocalist, Composer, US   Summary: Belew wrote "Am I That Easy to Forget," a Top 40 pop hit for actress Debbie Reynolds that was later recorded by Engelbert Humperdinck, Skeeter Davis, Don Gibson, Jim Reeves, and Leon Russell. Belew's own rendition hit the Top Ten in 1959. Carol Kaye   Date Born: Monday 21 April 1930   Description: Vocalist, Actress, UK   Summary: They were probably Britain's only serious rivals to the Beverley Sisters as a closely harmonising girl group. They had great popularity during the mid to late 1950s and were frequently seen on TV and in the charts. Charles Grodin   Date Born: Sunday 21 April 1935   Description: Actor, Talk show host   Summary: Grodin's career took a turn in 1992, when he played the nervous family man in the kids' comedy Beethoven, opposite Bonnie Hunt. Clara Ward (the Famous Ward Singers)   Date Born: Monday 21 April 1924   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Associated acts The Ward Singers, The Ward Trio, The Clara Ward Specials, Willa Ward Singers, Gertrude Ward Singers Deniese Morrison   Date Born: Saturday 21 April 1956   Description: Vocalist, Australia   Summary: Her first appearance was at the age of ten. Don Cornell   Date Born: Monday 21 April 1919   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Don Cornell, born Luigi Valero, was a big voiced baritone who was born in New York City. Ian Carr   Date Born: Friday 21 April 1933   Description: Trumpet, Composer of music, Scottish   Summary: Carr worked as a session musician in non-jazz contexts, with Nico, No-Man, Faultline, and others. He also doubled up on flugelhorn. Iggy Pop   Date Born: Monday 21 April 1947   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Though considered an innovator of punk rock, Pop's music has encompassed a number of styles over the years, including pop, metal, jazz and blues. Ira Louvin   Date Born: Monday 21 April 1924   Description: Singer, Songwriter   Summary: Known professionally as Ira Louvin, was an American country music singer, mandolinist and songwriter. Nicole Sullivan   Date Born: Tuesday 21 April 1970   Description: Actress, Vocalist, Comedian and Voice artist. USA   Summary: In 1995, she beat out several people for a starring role on the sketch comedy show, MADtv. Paul Davis   Date Born: Wednesday 21 April 1948   Description: Vocalist , Composer, Keyboardist, USA   Summary: Ilene Berns signed Davis to Bang Records in 1969. He was the last artist active on the Bang Records label when it folded in 1981. Slide Hampton   Date Born: Thursday 21 April 1932   Description: Trombonist, U.S.A.   Summary: He has worked with jazz greats such as Lionel Hampton, Maynard Ferguson, Woody Herman etc. A two time Grammy winner in 2005 for his arranging. Tony Danza   Date Born: Saturday 21 April 1951   Description: Actor, Singer, USA   Summary: American actor best known for TV series Taxi and Who's the Boss?, for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award and four Golden Globe Awards. In 1998, Danza won the People's Choice Award for Favorite Male Performer in a New Television Series for his work on the 1997 sitcom The Tony Danza Show. Tony Macaulay   Date Born: Friday 21 April 1944   Description: Comoser of music, UK   Summary: In the early 1960s he worked as a song plugger for Essex Publishing, then moved to Pye Records as a record producer.         Copyrights:   © Music Minder & Mark Reynolds IT Consulting   All rights reserved: Prosecution rights will be exercised for any breaches of copyright.