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| Date Born: | Monday 14 October 1907 | | | | Description: | Vocalist , USA | | | | Summary: | He was married to actress Irene Hervey; their son is American pop singer Jack Jones.
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| Date Born: | Thursday 14 October 1926 | | | | Description: | Trumpeter, Saxophonist, Composer, Arranger, USA | | | | Summary: | Raunchy was the first Rock and Roll hit in America, England and Australia. |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 14 October 1896 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, UK | | | | Summary: | English music hall and vaudeville entertainer from the 1930s until the 1960s. Flanagan was famous as a wartime entertainer. |
| Date Born: | Friday 14 October 1949 | | | | Description: | Drummer, Australia | | | | Summary: | He was a member of the Harry Stoneham group who did the Michael Parkinson shows on BBC TV accompanying many great artists. |
| Date Born: | Monday 14 October 1940 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actor, UK | | | | Summary: | With his backing band The Shadows, Richard dominated the British popular music scene in the late 1950s and early 1960s, before and during the The Beatles' first year in the charts. |
| Date Born: | Monday 14 October 1940 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actor, UK | | | | Summary: | Cliff Richard should be classed as one of the best entertainers in the world if not the best. This may be disputed by many but all of his stage performances are treated equally and faultless. |
| Date Born: | Monday 14 October 1940 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actor, UK | | | | Summary: | He created Cliff Richard and has lived his character to a quality no
one has come close in doing. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 14 October 1922 | | | | Description: | Guitarist, US | | | | Summary: | Jimmy Liggins started his own recording career as a singer, guitarist, and leader of the 'Drops of Joy' |
| Date Born: | Monday 14 October 1946 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, UK | | | | Summary: | Hayward joined the Moody Blues in 1966, replacing the departing vocalist / guitarist, Denny Laine. Bassist John Lodge replaced Clint Warwick at the same time.
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| Date Born: | Friday 14 October 1966 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | | Summary: | White was born in Los Angeles, the youngest of five children. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 14 October 1937 | | | | Description: | Record producer, USA | | | | Summary: | Mansfield has been associated with an array of notable performers including The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Waylon Jennings, James Taylor, etc. |
| Date Born: | Friday 14 October 1927 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | | Summary: | He was a member of "The Down Homers" with Bill Haley.
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| Date Born: | Wednesday 14 October 1896 | | | | Description: | Actress, Director, USA | | | | Summary: | Lillian Gish was born the elder sister of actress Dorothy Gish. The sisters' mother, Mary Robinson McConnell, began acting in order to support the family after her husband, James Leigh Gish abandoned them. |
| Date Born: | Monday 14 October 1974 | | | | Description: | Vocalist , Guitarist, Composer, USA | | | | Summary: | With Maines as lead vocalist, the band earned ten Country Music Association Awards and thirteen Grammy Awards for their work between 1998 and 2007. Born in Lubbock, Texas, Maines considers herself a rebel who "loved not thinking in the way I knew the majority of people thought." |
| Date Born: | Saturday 14 October 1978 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actor, USA | | | | Summary: | At age 11, Usher joined an R&B local quintet called the NuBeginnings, which was organized by local music svengali, Darryl Wheeler. Usher recorded 10 songs with the group in 1991, and the ensuing album
Nubeginning Featuring Usher Raymond IV, was only made available regionally and by mail order. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 14 October 1930 | | | | Description: | Saxophonist, USA | | | | Summary: | Parker also appeared on sessions for Irma Thomas, Ernie K-Doe and Joe Tex. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 14 October 1928 | | | | Description: | Actor. UK | | | | Summary: | The young Moore first appeared in films during the mid to late-1940s, as an extra. Moore's film idol as a child was Stewart Granger. As a 17 year old, Moore appeared as an extra in the film Caesar and Cleopatra 1945. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 14 October 1975 | | | | Description: | Vocalist ,UK | | | | Summary: | Lewis has also appeared in several films. In Bend it like Beckham (2002) she played Mel. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 14 October 1958 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Keyboardist, Record Producer,UK | | | | Summary: | Dolby's musical talents have also been put to use recently creating hundreds of digital polyphonic ringtones now found on mobile phones |
| Date Born: | Monday 15 October 1951 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, Scotland | | | | Summary: | Hulett discovered traditional music as an early teen and began playing the folk circuit in New Zealand in 1968, after immigrating with his family. |
| Date Born: | Friday 15 October 1982 | | | | Description: | Tin Pan Alley lyricist. | | | | Summary: | 1924 brought him his most notable musical collaborator in George Gershwin; MacDonald and Buddy DeSylva co-wrote the lyrics to Gershwin's "Somebody Loves Me," featured in the musical George White's Scandals
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| Date Born: | Tuesday 15 October 1935 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, USA | | | | Summary: | McGuire's LP, The Eve of Destruction, reached its peak of #37 on the Billboard Hot 200 chart during the week ending 25 September 1965. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 15 October 1942 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, UK | | | | Summary: | An English singer-songwriter, whose musical career started in the 1960s. |
| Date Born: | Friday 15 October 1948 | | | | Description: | Vocalist , Guitarist, Composer, Argentina | | | | Summary: | His début, Far Beyond These Castle Walls, was a folk-tinged stab at fantasy in the tradition of the Moody Blues that failed to chart upon its release in February 1975. |
| Date Born: | Friday 15 October 1920 | | | | Description: | American flutist and conductor. USA | | | | Summary: | He appeared in concert and in recordings with orchestras throughout the world, including the London Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the NBC Symphony Orchestra |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 15 October 1913 | | | | Description: | Band Leader, Arranger, Producer, Director | | | | Summary: | The writer of many songs of his own. |
| Date Born: | Friday 15 October 1926 | | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | | Summary: | American actress, known as a star of 20th Century Fox in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and as the second (or possibly third) wife of Howard Hughes. |
| Date Born: | Friday 15 October 1943 | | | | Description: | Drummer - USA | | | | Summary: | Londin also backed Rodney Crowell in the 1980s as a member of Crowell's backing band, The Cherry Bombs. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 15 October 1931 | | | | Description: | Vocalist,USA | | | | Summary: | He took the place of Duane West when West became ill. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 15 October 1938 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, USA | | | | Summary: | Marv enjoyed many hits in Australia where he racked up a total of 8 Top 40 hits, including 3 number 1's, and several Top Tenners. "Come To Me" was released in Australia on EMI'sLondon Records (as was most of his releases in Oz) (HL-1522) and reached number 16 on the 2UE Top 40 in Sydney. "You Got What It Takes" was his biggest Australian hit. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 15 October 1925 | | | | Description: | Guitarist, USA | | | | Summary: | He is widely held to be a critical force in the bridging of rhythm and blues and rock and roll, along with Bo Diddley, Ike Turner, and Chuck Berry. |
| Date Born: | Monday 15 October 1917 | | | | Description: | Trombonist, USA | | | | Summary: | Tanner developed and played the electrotheremin. The electrotheremin is featured in several songs by The Beach Boys |
| Date Born: | Friday 15 October 1982 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actress, Australia | | | | Summary: | Born in Fiji in 1982, Pauline Curuenavuli moved to Sydney with her family when she was four years old. At six years of age, she was already singing in her local choir. |
| Date Born: | Friday 15 October 1943 | | | | Description: | Actress, Director | | | | Summary: | One of her first jobs was for a TV commercial for a beautifying shampoo. She was hired to play a girl with stringy, unattractive hair, and Farrah Fawcett was hired to play a girl with thick, bouncy hair. |
| Date Born: | Monday 15 October 1945 | | | | Description: | Piano, Arranger, USA | | | | Summary: | Richard helped in the productions of the documentaries "Close to You: Remembering the Carpenters" (1997) and "Only Yesterday: The Carpenters Story" (2007). |
| Date Born: | Saturday 15 October 1938 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, USA | | | | Summary: | He is known for founding the "Ohio Untouchables", the band that later would become the Ohio Players. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 15 October 1940 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | | Summary: | The Ballad sold two million copies in five weeks. The media was all over Barry. Stories appeared in Life, Time, Newsweek, Variety, Billboard and Cash Box magazines while Barry appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, The Jimmy Dean Show, NBC’s Home Front and Martha Raye’s ABC-TV Hollywood Palace program. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 15 October 1953 | | | | Description: | Singer, songwriter, USA | | | | Summary: | Tito was portrayed by Gerrick Winston in the 2004 film Man in the Mirror: The Michael Jackson Story, the biopic of Michael Jackson which was aired on VH1.
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| Date Born: | Monday 15 October 1906 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Pianist, USA | | | | Summary: | In March 1962, Bob Dylan contributed harmonica and back-up vocals, accompanying Victoria Spivey and Big Joe Williams on a recording for Spivey Records. |
| Date Born: | Friday 16 October 1942 | | | | Description: | Rhythm guitarist, Vocals, Australia | | | | Summary: | South Australian rhythm guitarist of "The Drifters". NOTE NAME: Some use the wording "THE DRIFTORS" so as not to be confused with the USA DRIFTERS. This may be disputed. |
| Date Born: | Friday 16 October 1925 | | | | Description: | Actress, UK | | | | Summary: | Born the daughter of Belfast-born actress Moyna MacGill and Edgar Lansbury, a prominent businessman, and the granddaughter of the former Labour Party leader George Lansbury. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 16 October 1923 | | | | Description: | Trumpeter, Band Leader, Composer, Germany | | | | Summary: | The Bert Kaempfert composed song "Strangers in the Night" became a hit for Frank Sinatra. It is said that Sinatra despised the song, and called it "a piece of shit", and "the worst song I ever fucking heard". Sinatra's recording won him the Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance and the Grammy Award for Record of the Year. |
| Date Born: | Monday 16 October 1899 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, USA | | | | Summary: | Delta bluesman, the singer worked in the thirties playing a nine string guitar. One of Williams' 9-string guitars can be found under the counter of the Jazz Record Mart in Chicago, which is owned by Bob Koester, the founder of Delmark Records.
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| Date Born: | Sunday 16 October 1960 | | | | Description: | Guitarist, Composer, Producer, USA | | | | Summary: | A member of After Hüsker Dü who broke upin 1988, Mould sequestered himself in a remote farmhouse in Pine City, Minnesota, quit drinking and drugs, and wrote the songs that would make up his first solo album. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 16 October 1947 | | | | Description: | Guitarist, USA | | | | Summary: | Weir played rhythm guitar and sang a portion of the lead vocals through most of the Grateful Dead's 30-year career. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 16 October 1952 | | | | Description: | Bassist, USA | | | | Summary: | Mosson was a prominent contributor to albums by both Funkadelic and Parliament from 1972 until the dissolution of the two groups in the early 1980s |
| Date Born: | Friday 16 October 1942 | | | | Description: | Drummer, UK | | | | Summary: | In the summer of 1963, the group - now called The Fourmost - signed a management contract with Brian Epstein. This led to their being auditioned by George Martin and signed to EMI's Parlophone record label. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 16 October 1937 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Recording engineer, UK | | | | Summary: | First non white to get to the top of the English Charts with "What do you want to make those eyes at me for" in 1959. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 16 October 1943 | | | | Description: | Bassist, songwriter, actor | | | | Summary: | Turner is the only member of Bachman-Turner Overdrive to be on every album the band released. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 16 October 1952 | | | | Description: | Entertainer, Comedian, Actor, Writer | | | | Summary: | In the 70's and early 80's, Glynn won a number of international busking competitions and was voted Australia's busking champion in 1986. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 16 October 1943 | | | | Description: | Vocalsit, Composer, Ireland | | | | Summary: | He was very popular in Ireland and among Irish emigrants from 1964 into the 1980s. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 16 October 1977 | | | | Description: | Vocalist , Guitarist, USA | | | | Summary: | Mayer began his career performing mainly acoustic rock, but gradually began a transition towards the blues genre in 2005 by collaborating with renowned blues artists such as B. B. King, Buddy Guy, and Eric Clapton. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 16 October 1923 | | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | | Summary: | She failed to receive recognition from the industry and its critics, and disappeared from the screen in the 1950s. Darnell died from burns sustained in a house fire. |
| Date Born: | Monday 16 October 1944 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Pianist, USA | | | | Summary: | Over the course of her 32 years as a jingle singer, November sang approximately 22,000 jingles which were played on the television and radio. |
| Date Born: | Monday 16 October 1922 | | | | Description: | Comedian, singer, actor and variety performer, UK | | | | Summary: | In 1951 he appeared at the London Palladium. Comedian Eric Sykes became his scriptwriter. He got the part of the tutor in the BBC radio comedy show Educating Archie, where Archie was a ventriloquist's dummy. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 16 October 1938 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actress, Fashion model, Spain | | | | Summary: | Nico was an original member of the Velvet Underground. The group formed in 1965 in New York. She left the group in 1967. |
| Date Born: | Monday 16 October 1854 | | | | Description: | Playwright, Short Story Writer, Poet, Victorian era, Ireland | | | | Summary: | Oscar Wilde was the second son born into an Anglo Irish family, at 21 Westland Row, Dublin, to Sir William Wilde and his wife Jane Francesca Wilde. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 16 October 1969 | | | | Description: | Trumpeter, USA | | | | Summary: | Hargrove won a Grammy Award in 1998 for the album Habana with the Afro-Cuban band he founded: "Crisol". |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 16 October 1984 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, UK | | | | Summary: | Immediately after his victory on The X Factor, Ward signed a recording contract with Syco Music and his first single, "That's My Goal", was released in the UK on Wednesday, 21 December 2005. After selling 742,000 copies in the first week. |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 16 October 1918 | | | | Description: | Fidler, Guitarist, Composer, USA | | | | Summary: | An American country musician from Harman, West Virginia. He played the fiddle and guitar. |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 16 October 1946 | | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | | Summary: | Born to Frank and Marion Mahoney's Irish Catholic household in San Bruno, California. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 16 October 1958 | | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | | Summary: | Robbins is a prominent spokesperson for anti-globalisation, a frequent critic of U.S. President George W. Bush, and a vocal opponent of the war in Iraq. |
| Date Born: | Friday 17 October 1958 | | | | Description: | Vocalist , Guitarist, USA | | | | Summary: | Jackson was born to Eugene Jackson and Ruth Musick in Newnan, Georgia and has four older sisters. Jackson started a band after high school. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 17 October 1915 | | | | Description: | Playwright, essayist | | | | Summary: | He was a prominent figure in American theatre, writing dramas that include plays such as All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953) and A View from the Bridge (one-act, 1955; revised two-act, 1956), as well as the film The Misfits (1961). |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 17 October 1923 | | | | Description: | Guitarist | | | | Summary: | Kessel worked with many top greats but his time with Oscar Peterson
was his longest stay with anyone band. |
| Date Born: | Monday 17 October 1960 | | | | Description: | Actress, singer, entertainer,UK | | | | Summary: | Before the Nolan sisters became well-known, Bernie and her sisters, parents, and brothers performed in clubs and pubs in Blackpool. As a group of five sisters they had hits that including "I'm in the Mood for Dancing" |
| Date Born: | Sunday 17 October 1926 | | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | | Summary: | In the 1964-1965 television season, Garland co-starred in the role of Ellie Collins with Bing Crosby as husband Bing Collins in the ABC sitcom The Bing Crosby Show. |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 17 October 1928 | | | | Description: | Drummer, USA | | | | Summary: | Cole appeared in music-related films, including a brief cameo in Don't Knock the Rock. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s Cole continued to perform in a variety of settings. Cole and Gene Krupa often played duets at the Metropole in New York City during the 1950s and 60s.
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| Date Born: | Friday 17 October 1941 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, USA | | | | Summary: | In 1983, he was nominated for multiple Grammy Awards for his song "Holdin' Her and Lovin' You". He has composed songs with Earl Scruggs and Randy Scruggs. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 17 October 1974 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, USA | | | | Summary: | Oscar winner for Best Song 2003 for 8 MILE. |
| Date Born: | Monday 17 October 1938 | | | | Description: | Motor cycle stunt rider | | | | Summary: | Robert Craig "Evel" Knievel was born in Butte, Montana, in 1938, the first of two children born to Robert E. and Ann Kehoe "Zippy" Knievel. |
| Date Born: | Monday 17 October 1960 | | | | Description: | Actor, musician, guitarist, songwriter, UK | | | | Summary: | Brother of Martin Kemp and both original members of the band SPANDAU BALLET in the Eighties. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 17 October 1905 | | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | | Summary: | Arthur was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1944 for her performance in The More the Merrier (1943).
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| Date Born: | Thursday 17 October 1901 | | | | Description: | Trumpeter, USA | | | | Summary: | Collins was a star trumpeter of old New Orleans who later led many dance bands, Dixieland groups and combos during his 50 year career. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 17 October 1948 | | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | | Summary: | Kidder played in all Superman movies along with Christopher Reed. |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 17 October 1917 | | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | | Summary: | Marsha Hunt attended the Theodore Irving School of Dramatics during her high school years. She was a singer and a model before Paramount Pictures signed her to a contract in 1934. |
| Date Born: | Friday 17 October 1947 | | | | Description: | Drummer, USA | | | | Summary: | Known as to his former band members, started playing drums in the Little Falls Cadets |
| Date Born: | Sunday 17 October 1920 | | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | | Summary: | Clift was born in Omaha, Nebraska, USA the son of Ethel Anderson Fogg Blair and William Brooks Clift, a banker with roots in the South. Clift had a twin sister, Roberta, and an elder brother, Brooks. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 17 October 1918 | | | | Description: | Actor, Singer, USA | | | | Summary: | At Columbia Rita Cansino was renamed Rita Hayworth, adding a Y to her mother's maiden name of Haworth. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 17 October 1936 | | | | Description: | Singer, Songwriter, South Africa | | | | Summary: | She was born in Cape Town in 1936. By the early 1960’s, Benjamin had made a name for herself in the music and theatre scene.
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| Date Born: | Sunday 17 October 1886 | | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | | Summary: | Her career included a seven-year run on radio and television as the star of December Bride. She was a key MGM contract player appearing in films from the 1930s through the 1960s. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 17 October 1933 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Belgium | | | | Summary: | She gave concerts and appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show on 5 January 1964. As of July 2009, "Dominique" is the only Belgian number one hit single in the United States. |
| Date Born: | Monday 17 October 1921 | | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | | Summary: | Mel Brooks submitted his idea for the television show Get Smart to the ABC network, ABC wanted Poston for the lead role of Maxwell Smart |
| Date Born: | Thursday 17 October 1968 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, Jamaica | | | | Summary: | He sang a cover of Drive by The Cars which featured in the Adam Sandler movie 50 First Dates.
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| Date Born: | Monday 18 October 1926 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, Guitarist, USA | | | | Summary: | Singer, guitarist, composer and prolific writer of words that
seem to roll out. Berry was the third child in a family of six. He grew up in the north St. Louis. |
| Date Born: | Friday 18 October 1940 | | | | Description: | Composer | | | | Summary: | Weil and Mann must be said to be one of the most popular song writers
of the modern day. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 18 October 1927 | | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | | Summary: | Scott's most famous early role was in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, where he played the part of General "Buck" Turgidson. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 18 October 1960 | | | | Description: | Actor, Martial Artist, Belgian | | | | Summary: | Van Damme was born the son of Eliana and Eugčne Van Varenberg, who was an accountant and owned a flower shop. |
| Date Born: | Friday 18 October 1946 | | | | Description: | Vocalist , Composer, UK | | | | Summary: | In the 1960s Egan, together with former St Mirin's Academy school mate Gerry Rafferty, played in various smaller British bands. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 18 October 1947 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, USA | | | | Summary: | Mogull negotiated her a recording contract, and she recorded her debut album, More Than a New Discovery, for the Verve Folkways label. The album provided material for other artists, notably the 5th Dimension.
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| Date Born: | Thursday 18 October 1951 | | | | Description: | Bassist, composer | | | | Summary: | Nic Potter is probably best known for his work with the British rock band Van Der Graaf Generator. |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 18 October 1939 | | | | Description: | Vocalist , Guitarist, Irelannd | | | | Summary: | He is one of Ireland's most famous balladeers. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 18 October 1951 | | | | Description: | Actress, Vocalist, USA | | | | Summary: | Dawber got to use her four-octave soprano voice in a 1980s Los Angeles Civic Light Opera production of Gilbert & Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance, based on the Joseph Papp/New York Shakespeare Festival production. |
| Date Born: | Friday 18 October 1935 | | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | | Summary: | Boyle was born the son of Alice and Peter Boyle, Sr. His father was a Philadelphia TV personality from 1951-1963 who, among many other things. He hosted the afterschool children's program Uncle Pete Presents the Little Rascals. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 18 October 1938 | | | | Description: | Bassist, Vocalist, USA | | | | Summary: | His most recognizable vocals are from Johnny Cymbal's 1963 hit song "Mr. Bass Man."
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| Date Born: | Monday 18 October 1943 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | | Summary: | One of the most successful bands to come out of the 60’s, they have sold over 80 million records, tapes, Cds and DVDs. |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 18 October 1961 | | | | Description: | Trumpeter, USA | | | | Summary: | Wynton Marsalis has worked with the best including Sarah Vaughan, Herbie Hancock, Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, Sonny Rollins etc.
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| Date Born: | Friday 19 October 1934 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, USA | | | | Summary: | The group were very popular in the fifties and mainly known for their hit ’TOM DOOLEY. In late 1962 Guard moved with his family to Sydney, Australia. There he purchased a home overlooking the South Pacific Ocean at the upmarket North Sydney area of Whale Beach. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 19 October 1995 | | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | | Summary: | In the 1980s, Divine released several dance music records which were club music hits in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 19 October 1911 | | | | Description: | Composer, Arranger. Conductor, USA | | | | Summary: | He was the person responsible for integrating the two Songs MOONGLOW. and THEME FROM PICNIC. He married both pieces together cleverly for the film sequence in the dance scene in ’PICNIC’. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 19 October 1944 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | | Summary: | Richard Finch and Harry Wayne Casey of KC and the Sunshine Band invited him to sing the lyrics for a song that they had recorded. The extent that the song, "Rock Your Baby", became one of the first hits of the disco era in 1974. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 19 October 1940 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | | Summary: | Larry and company have placed many songs on the charts, including: Life Is But a Dream, Never, I Believe, and of course the classic Remember Then. They've recorded many other classics including: Looking For My Baby, Eyes, Kissin' and Cry, Cry, Cry, etc. . |
| Date Born: | Saturday 19 October 1940 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | | Summary: | He was born Larry Figueiredo in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 19 October 1944 | | | | Description: | Guitarist, Composer, Jamaica | | | | Summary: | Tosh's sarcastic outlook on the world carried over to his lyrics. He would merrily twist words around to better reflect his true feelings. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 19 October 1911 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Pianist, USA | | | | Summary: | In 1964, the Beatles recorded a cover of the flip side of "Doctor Feel-Good," titled "Mr. Moonlight" and written by Roy Lee Johnson. |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 19 October 1932 | | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | | Summary: | He won critical acclaim for his portrayal of a doctor who wants to undergo a sex-change operation in a two-part episode of Medical Center in 1975 |
| Date Born: | Thursday 19 October 1899 | | | | Description: | Harpist, UK | | | | Summary: | She was honoured with a MBE in 1974, and later an OBE in 1980. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 19 October 1968 | | | | Description: | Singer, Songwriter, UK | | | | Summary: | She is best known for her hit records in the 1980s including "So Macho", "Toy Boy", "Cross My Broken Heart" and "Right Back Where We Started From". She |
| Date Born: | Sunday 20 October 1901 | | | | Description: | Vocalist , USA | | | | Summary: | She began her career on Broadway in 1921 in the chorus line of the Broadway musical Shuffle Along. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 20 October 1874 | | | | Description: | Composer, USA | | | | Summary: | Regarded as one of Americas first true classical composers of great significance. In time Ives came to be regarded as an American originals. |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 20 October 1971 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Australia | | | | Summary: | Her father was born in Australia and is of Irish decent and her mother emigrated from Wales to Townsville, Queensland. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 20 October 1938 | | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | | Summary: | An American Roman Catholic nun and former actress. She made ten films in five years. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 20 October 1942 | | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | | Summary: | Hindman's most famous and enduring pre-Home Improvement role was as Bob Reid in Ryan's Hope. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 20 October 1934 | | | | Description: | Saxophonist, USA | | | | Summary: | He wrote the theme for "The Bill Cosby Show". Album The Reason Why Im Talkin Shit, which consisted mainly of stand up comedy. |
| Date Born: | Friday 20 October 1922 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Opera singer (bass) | | | | Summary: | Opera Singer. A basso, he performed in principal venues on both sides of the Atlantic for close to half a century. |
| Date Born: | Monday 20 October 1913 | | | | Description: | Vocalisit, Banjoist, USA | | | | Summary: | Bradley Kincaid who gave him the nickname "Grandpa" due to his off-stage grumpiness at early-morning radio shows. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 20 October 1938 | | | | Description: | Photographer, Scottish | | | | Summary: | The BBC used some of his photos in the series "The Rock and Roll Years". |
| Date Born: | Monday 20 October 1890 | | | | Description: | Pianist, Composer, USA | | | | Summary: | Morton had learned the drums when he was very young, harmonica and guitar but piano was to be his ultmate instrument. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 20 October 1906 | | | | Description: | Guitarist, USA | | | | Summary: | Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers were a successful and influential African-American vocal and instrumental group in the 1940s and 1950s.
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| Date Born: | Thursday 20 October 1927 | | | | Description: | American psychologist, television personality | | | | Summary: | In 1955, she became the only woman ever to win the top prize on the American game show The $64,000 Question, answering questions on the topic of boxing. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 20 October 1942 | | | | Description: | Judge Judy, American | | | | Summary: | Judy Sheindlin court room shows her popularity covering the Americas and loved in Australia. The show seemingly enters the relms of reality thought this may be disputed. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 20 October 1940 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, UK | | | | Summary: | In 1963, she won Top British Female Singer in the New Musical Express poll. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 20 October 1946 | | | | Description: | Comedian, Actor, USA | | | | Summary: | An American writer and humorist, known for his Southern demeanor and commentary on the American South. |
| Date Born: | Friday 20 October 1978 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Australia | | | | Summary: | Michael was born in Perth, Western Australia, to William Bill Lee and Janet Burke married to John Burke. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 20 October 1945 | | | | Description: | Drummer, UK | | | | Summary: | Lee was a founding member of his first band, The Falcons. He was also a drummer for Ricky Storm and The Mansfields. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 20 October 1927 | | | | Description: | Trumpeter, UK | | | | Summary: | An English musician and trumpet player, who performed with Joe Loss and his orchestra, and the father of singer Elvis Costello. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 20 October 1908 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | | Summary: | Hamblen was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970, was presented the ACM Pioneer Award 1972, received the Gene Autry Golden Boot Award 1988, and was inducted into Texas Country Music Hall of Fame 2001. |
| Date Born: | Friday 20 October 1950 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, USA | | | | Summary: | One of his first guitar teachers was Don Felder, a fellow Gainesville resident, who would later join The Eagles. |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 20 October 1937 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, USA | | | | Summary: | She was one of the first female rockabilly singers to come to popularity during the 1950s. |
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