The Premier International Online Directory of Musicians & Entertainers   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: THIS MONTH 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: 534   Bette Midler   Date Born: Saturday 1 December 1945   Description: Vocalist, Actress, USA   Summary: Midler was born the daughter of Ruth, a seamstress and housewife, and Fred Midler, a house painter who worked at a Navy base in Hawaii. Her parents were from Paterson, New Jersey and moved to Honolulu shortly before Midler was born. Billy Paul   Date Born: Saturday 1 December 1934   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: "Me and Mrs. Jones" was a No. 1 hit for the last three weeks of 1972, selling two million copies, and went on to win Paul a Grammy Award. Charlene Tilton   Date Born: Monday 1 December 1958   Description: Vocalist, Actress, USA   Summary: Tilton is also a singer, singing her own vocals on a 1978 episode of Dallas. Dodo Marmarosa   Date Born: Tuesday 1 December 1925   Description: Pianist, Composer, USA   Summary: Marmarosa joined Artie Shaw's combo, known as the Gramercy Five, that also featured guitarist Barney Kessel and fellow Pittsburgher, trumpet player Roy Eldridge. Doug Mulray   Date Born: Saturday 1 December 1951   Description: Radio host   Summary: Mulray often referred to himself as Uncle Doug, Doctor Dougie, or the Reverend Doctor Doug and typically signed off with the punning catchphrase "Cop ya later". Gilbert Osullivan   Date Born: Sunday 1 December 1946   Description: Vocalist, Pianist, Composer, UK   Summary: Early in his life O'Sullivan's family moved to Swindon Wiltshire England and here O'Sullivan began to develop an interest in music and art. Jaco Pastorius   Date Born: Saturday 1 December 1951   Description: Bassist, USA   Summary: Jaco pastorius may well have been the last jazz musician of the 20th century to have made a major impact on the musical world at large. John Bunch   Date Born: Thursday 1 December 1921   Description: Pianist, US   Summary: 1966 he joined Tony Bennett as pianist and musical director, and stayed in the employ of the singer until 1972. John Densmore   Date Born: Friday 1 December 1944   Description: Drummer, Actor, USA   Summary: Densmore wrote his best-selling autobiography, Riders On The Storm about his life and the time he spent with Morrison and The Doors. Julee Cruise   Date Born: Saturday 1 December 1956   Description: Occupations Singer, songwriter, actress , USA   Summary: With a distinctive airy voice, Cruise has recorded four albums, but is probably best known for "Falling", the theme song for the cult U.S. television series Twin Peaks. Lou Rawls   Date Born: Sunday 1 December 1935   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Rawls who learned of gospel music through his grandmother in Chicago was a hugely successful singer, primarily from the 1950s through the 1980s. Frank Sinatra once said that Rawls had "the classiest singing and silkiest chops in the singing game". Malanchi Thrown   Date Born: Saturday 1 December 1928   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: An American stage and television actor, noted for his guest-starring roles on Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The Next Generation Mary Martin   Date Born: Monday 1 December 1913   Description: Vocalist, Actress, USA   Summary: She also received Tony Awards for South Pacific, and, in 1959, for The Sound of Music. The mother of actor Larry Hagman. Matt Monro   Date Born: Monday 1 December 1930   Description: Vocalist, UK   Summary: An important influence on his early career was the pianist Winifred Atwell, who became his mentor, provided him with his stage name, and helped him sign with Decca Records. Mel Smith   Date Born: Monday 1 December 1952   Description: Comedian, writer, film director, producer and actor.   Summary: Smith was born and brought up in Chiswick. He was educated at Hogarth Primary School, Chiswick and at Latymer Upper School, an independent school in Hammersmith. He went on to study experimental psychology at New College, Oxford Ray Henderson   Date Born: Tuesday 1 December 1896   Description: Composer, USA   Summary: Henderson worked as an accompanist to song and dance acts in Vaudeville. His last Broadway show was a resuscitation of the Ziegfeld Follies, one of several put on after Ziegfeld's death. Richard Pryor   Date Born: Sunday 1 December 1940   Description: Actor, comedian, social critic, writer, and MC.USA   Summary: Pryor grew up in his grandmother's brothel, where his mother, Gertrude L. Thomas, practiced prostitution. His father, LeRoy Pryor was a former bartender, boxer and World War II veteran who worked as his wife's pimp. After his mother deserted him when he was 10, he was raised primarily by his grandmother, Marie Carter. Ross Hannaford   Date Born: Friday 1 December 1950   Description: Guitarist, Australia   Summary: While as a teenager Hannaford and Ross Wilson formed their first band in Melbourne, Australia called 'Tha Pink Finks'. Sandy Nelson   Date Born: Thursday 1 December 1938   Description: Drummer, USA   Summary: Nelson attended high school with Jan Berry, Dean Torrence who became Jan and Dean. Vesta Williams   Date Born: Sunday 1 December 1957   Description: Vocalist, Actress, USA   Summary: Former Fifth Dimension member Ron Townson put Williams in his band Wild Honey. Following her stint with the Fifth Dimension, Williams found work as a backup singer, working with artists such as Chaka Khan, Gladys Knight. Britney Spears   Date Born: Wednesday 2 December 1981   Description: Vocalist, Actress, Dancer, USA   Summary: She performed in local dance revues and her local Baptist church choir. At age eight she auditioned for the Disney Channel. Cathy Lee Crosby   Date Born: Saturday 2 December 1944   Description: Actress, TV Host, USA   Summary: In 1974, she starred as Wonder Woman in a made-for-TV adaptation of the comic book a year before Lynda Carter would popularize the role in a weekly series Charles Ringling   Date Born: Wednesday 2 December 1863   Description: Promoter, USA   Summary: The circus suffered during the 1930s because of the Great Depression, but managed to stay in business. Charlie Ventura   Date Born: Saturday 2 December 1916   Description: Saxophonist, USA   Summary: After the 1950s he did few recordings, but did club work in Las Vegas. Daniel Motto   Date Born: Saturday 2 December 1978   Description: Vocalist, Composer, Australia   Summary: Matto performed throughout eastern Australia in clubs and festivals in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, and in New Zealand. Daniele Alexander   Date Born: Thursday 2 December 1954   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: Initially she sang jazz numbers but after including rock and country in her repertoire, she moved to Las Vegas and worked in casinos. Eddie Sauter   Date Born: Wednesday 2 December 1914   Description: Pianist, Composer, Arranger, USA   Summary: He went on to arrange and compose for Artie Shaw, Tommy Dorsey, Woody Herman, and especially Benny Goodman. Fate Marable   Date Born: Tuesday 2 December 1890   Description: Pianist, Band Leader, USA   Summary: Marable was born in Paducah, Kentucky and learned piano from his mother. Julie Harris   Date Born: Wednesday 2 December 1925   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: Harris has received more Tony Award nominations (ten) than any other performer. Lucy Liu   Date Born: Monday 2 December 1968   Description: Actress, USA Maria Callas   Date Born: Sunday 2 December 1923   Description: Vocalist   Summary: Her dramatic life and personal tragedy have often overshadowed Callas the artist in the popular press. Mark Reynolds   Date Born: Friday 2 December 1955   Description: Violinist, AU   Summary: Now a prominent IT adviser in South Australai where he now resides. Michael Mcdonald   Date Born: Tuesday 2 December 1952   Description: Keyboards, Vocalst, USA   Summary: Michael McDonald first gained wide attention as an adjunct member of the group Steely Dan. Mik Kaminski   Date Born: Sunday 2 December 1951   Description: Violinist, UK   Summary: Kaminski was one of the three remaining string players for the group when Lynne decided to remove them. Nelly Furtado   Date Born: Monday 2 December 1974   Description: Vocals, Composer, Canadian   Summary: Furtado first gained fame with her debut album, Whoa, Nelly!, and its single "I'm like a Bird", which won a 2001 Juno Award for Single of the Year and a 2002 Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Pop Staples   Date Born: Thursday 2 December 1915   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Mavis Staples also recorded solo as did Pop Staples. Their biggest hit in Australia was "Respect Yourself". Razzle   Date Born: Monday 2 December 1968   Description: Drummer, UK   Summary: He was reputed for having a strong influence upon Hanoi Rocks' style. Tom Mcginess   Date Born: Tuesday 2 December 1941   Description: Guitarist, Bassist, UK   Summary: McGuinness is also the author of So You Want To Be a Rock and Roll Star (1986). Andy Williams   Date Born: Monday 3 December 1928   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Williams first performed in a children's choir at the local Presbyterian church. Williams and his three older brothers Dick, Don, and Bob, formed a quartet, the Williams Brothers, in the late 1930s. Connee Boswell   Date Born: Tuesday 3 December 1907   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Connee Boswell was also an arranger (the legendary Boswell Sisters harmony arrangements are hers) and a composer. Connee sang from a wheelchair - or seated position - during her entire career, due to either a childhood bout with polio or a childhood accident Daryl Hannah   Date Born: Saturday 3 December 1960   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: Hannah became interested in movies at a young age, partly due to insomnia. Ferlin Husky   Date Born: Thursday 3 December 1925   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: He became a DJ after serving in the secound World War and later went on to to recording. Jaye P Morgan   Date Born: Thursday 3 December 1931   Description: Vocalist, Actress, USA   Summary: In 1956, she had her own The Jaye P. Morgan Show and made guest appearances on a number of other variety shows. Jody Reynolds   Date Born: Saturday 3 December 1932   Description: Vocalist , Composer, USA   Summary: Jody Reyolds was given a star December, 1999 on the sidewalk in his home town of Palm Springs, Calif. John Wilson   Date Born: Sunday 3 December 1944   Description: Drummer, UK   Summary: In 1970 Taste split leaving frontman Rory Gallagher to pursue his solo career. It was revealed that John Wilson has made Taste active once again. Julianne Moore   Date Born: Saturday 3 December 1960   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: American actress and a children's book author. Throughout her career, she has been nominated for four Oscars. Mickey Thomas   Date Born: Saturday 3 December 1949   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: He has also appeared in the 1989 film Dream a Little Dream as well as having recorded the film's titled theme song and its duet version with Mel Tormé for the soundtrack. Mike Stock   Date Born: Monday 3 December 1951   Description: Composer of songs, UK   Summary: Stock wrote a book titled The Hit Factory: The Stock Aitken Waterman Story (ISBN 1-84330-729-4), which was published in September 2004. Nik Venet   Date Born: Thursday 3 December 1936   Description: Record producer,   Summary: At 21 he joined Capitol, giving them their first hits in a decade with The Lettermen. Ozzy Osbourne   Date Born: Friday 3 December 1948   Description: Vocalist   Summary: Though known as the lead singer of "Black Sabbath", he now is mainly known for the popular reality show "The Osbournes". Ralph Mctell   Date Born: Sunday 3 December 1944   Description: Vocalist , Guitarist, Composer, UK   Summary: By the age of 15, McTell was very anxious to leave grammar school and the British Army looked like a way out, so in 1959 he enlisted in the Junior Leaders Battalion of The Queen's Surrey Regiment. Army life proved far worse than school. Steve Hoffman   Date Born: Monday 3 December 1951   Description: Record Mastering, USA   Summary: Hoffman joined MCA Records as catalog research and development coordinator. For the next decade, he was responsible for compiling hundreds of budget cassette releases for MCA's Special Products division. Ted Nugent   Date Born: Friday 3 December 1948   Description: Vocalist , Guitarist, Composer, USA   Summary: Performing professionally since 1958, Nugent has been touring annually since 1967, averaging more than 300 shows per year Barry Blue   Date Born: Monday 4 December 1950   Description: Singer, producer, songwriter   Summary: He is best known for his hit songs, "Dancin' (on a Saturday Night)" Billy Vaughn   Date Born: Thursday 4 December 1919   Description: Band Leader, Producer, Arranger, Conductor   Summary: He was born in Glasgow, Kentucky, where his father was a barber who loved music and inspired Billy to teach himself to play the mandolin at age 3, while suffering a case of the measles. He went on to learn a number of other instruments. Billy Vaughn   Date Born: Thursday 4 December 1919   Description: Band Leader, Producer, Arranger, Conductor   Summary: He was born in Glasgow, Kentucky, where his father was a barber who loved music and inspired Billy to teach himself to play the mandolin at age 3, while suffering a case of the measles. He went on to learn a number of other instruments. Chris Hillman   Date Born: Friday 4 December 1942   Description: Bassist, Composer, USA   Summary: Along with frequent collaborator Gram Parsons, Chris Hillman was a key figure in the development of country rock, virtually defining the genre through his seminal work in The Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers, and later became the leader of the country act Desert Rose Band. Deanna Durbin   Date Born: Sunday 4 December 1921   Description: Vocalist, Actress, Canada   Summary: Durbin signed a contract with MGM in 1935 and made her first film appearance in a short subject, Every Sunday (1936), with another young contract player, Judy Garland. Dennis Wilson   Date Born: Monday 4 December 1944   Description: Drummer, Vocalist, Producer, USA   Summary: Late member and drummer of The Beach Boys. Freddie Cannon   Date Born: Wednesday 4 December 1940   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: During the early sixties Freddie Cannon charted with two major hits world wide. Jeff Bridges   Date Born: Sunday 4 December 1949   Description: Actor,USA   Summary: He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Otis "Bad" Blake in the 2009 movie Crazy Heart. Marisa Tomei   Date Born: Friday 4 December 1964   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: An Italian American,was born the daughter of Patricia "Addie," an English teacher, and Gary A. Tomei, a trial lawyer. Tyra Banks   Date Born: Tuesday 4 December 1973   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Banks is one of four African Americans and seven women to have repeatedly ranked among the world's most influential people by Time magazine Wink Martindale   Date Born: Tuesday 4 December 1934   Description: Television host, DJ, USA   Summary: An American disc jockey and television game show host. Alvin Tyler   Date Born: Saturday 5 December 1925   Description: Saxophonist, USA   Summary: Baritone saxophonist, worked with Dave Bartholomew and also sessions sax player for Fats Domino etc in the sixties. Andy Kim   Date Born: Friday 5 December 1952   Description: Vocalist , Guitarist, Canada   Summary: He also co wrote 'Sugar Sugar' by The Archies reaching no #1 in the U.S Charts. Denise Drysdale   Date Born: Sunday 5 December 1948   Description: Vocalist, TV host, Australia   Summary: In 1974, she became Ernie Sigley's barrel girl on The Ernie Sigley Show. It was here she gained the nickname Ding-Dong. In 1975, Drysdale won the TV Week Gold Logie for the Most Popular Female Personality on Australian TV. She won her second Gold Logie the following year. In the same period, she also won consecutive Silver Logies. Frank Wilson   Date Born: Thursday 5 December 1940   Description: Composer of song, USA   Summary: In 1965, Berry Gordy asked the producers Hal Davis and Marc Gordon to set up an office of Motown in Los Angeles. Wilson accepted an offer to join the team. Gary Allan   Date Born: Tuesday 5 December 1967   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: An American country singer. Geoff Emerick   Date Born: Wednesday 5 December 1945   Description: Recording studio audio engineer   Summary: In 2003, he received his fourth Grammy, this time for lifetime Technical Achievement. Jim Messina   Date Born: Friday 5 December 1947   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist   Summary: Messina and Richie Furay, another Buffalo Springfield member, formed Poco after Buffalo Springfield broke up. Messina played lead guitar and supplied vocals and some songwriting to the band. After recording two studio albums and one live album, he left Poco. Jj Cale   Date Born: Monday 5 December 1938   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: A Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and musician. Cale is one of the originators of the Tulsa Sound. John Altman   Date Born: Monday 5 December 1949   Description: Composer, Arranger, Conductor.   Summary: For the latter he arranged the song Always Look on the Bright Side of Life for their 1979 film The Life of Brian. John Cale   Date Born: Thursday 5 December 1940   Description: Bassist, UK   Summary: He is best known for his work in rock music, particularly as a founding member of The Velvet Underground Jose Carreras   Date Born: Thursday 5 December 1946   Description: Vocalist, Spain   Summary: He showed an early talent for music and particularly singing, which intensified at the age of 6 when he saw Mario Lanza in The Great Caruso. Little Richard   Date Born: Monday 5 December 1932   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: Penniman was born the son of Leva Mae and Charles "Bud" Penniman, who was a bootlegger. Patricia Travers   Date Born: Monday 5 December 1927   Description: Violinist, USA   Summary: An American violin child prodigy and actress who withdrew from public performances at age 23. Ricky Fataar   Date Born: Friday 5 December 1952   Description: Drummer, South Africa   Summary: Fataar emigrated to Australia in 1978 where he recorded with and co-produced albums for Tim Finn, Crowded House, Jenny Morris, Peter Blakeley, and Wendy Matthews as well as various other artists. Sonny Boy Williamson - Ii   Date Born: Thursday 5 December 1889   Description: Composer, Vocalist, USA   Summary: Sonny Boy Williamson II was born on the Sara Jones Plantation near Glendora, Mississippi in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi. The date may be disputed. Ty England   Date Born: Thursday 5 December 1963   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: In 1995, Ty released his own eponymous solo album on RCA Nashville to some success. Walt Disney   Date Born: Thursday 5 December 1901   Description: Cartoonist, USA   Summary: Walt Disney was born to Elias Disney an Irish-Canadian, and his mother, Flora Call Disney, who was of German-American descent. Agnes Moorehead   Date Born: Thursday 6 December 1906   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: During the 1940s and 1950s, Moorehead was one of the most in demand actresses for radio dramas, especially on the CBS show Suspense. Dave Brubeck   Date Born: Monday 6 December 1920   Description: Pianist, Composer, USA   Summary: Mainly known for 'TAKE FIVE'. in a 5/4 timing must be one of the most outstanding songs that stand up to any others. David Kersh   Date Born: Thursday 6 December 1979   Description: Vocalist   Summary: A contemporary singer who worked mainly in the Tevas dance cicuit's and ended up recording his first somg 'Goodnight Sweet Heart' and released in 1996. Helen Cornelius   Date Born: Saturday 6 December 1941   Description: Vocalist , Composer, USA   Summary: Cornelius opened Nashville South in Gatlinburg, Tennessee in the 1990s. Hugo Peretti   Date Born: Wednesday 6 December 1916   Description: Composer, Arranger, Record producer, USA   Summary: Writer of one of the most performed and recorded songs of all time Can’t Help Falling In Love’ (Elvis Presley). Ira Gershwin   Date Born: Sunday 6 December 1896   Description: Pianist, Composer, USA   Summary: While his younger brother began composing and "plugging" in Tin Pan Alley from the age of eighteen, Ira worked as a cashier in his father's Turkish baths. Jobeth Williams   Date Born: Monday 6 December 1948   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: American film and television actress and director, and current President of the Screen Actors Guild Foundation. Johnathan Melvoin   Date Born: Wednesday 6 December 1961   Description: Pianist, USA   Summary: A Jazz pianist and sessions player performing and playing on ’Princes’ album ’Around The World in a Day’. Jonathan King   Date Born: Wednesday 6 December 1944   Description: Vocalist, UK   Summary: He ran Decca Records twice and created his own record label, UK Records, reported as the most successful independent label in the business, and worked with 10cc Keith West   Date Born: Monday 6 December 1943   Description: Vocalist, Composer, UK   Summary: An English lead singer of Tomorrow, a 1960s psychedelic rock band. Len Barry   Date Born: Sunday 6 December 1942   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: One time lead singer of the ’Dovells’and during the mid sixties charted with ’Like a Baby’. Mike Smith - (dave Clark Five)   Date Born: Monday 6 December 1943   Description: Vocalist, Keyboardist, UK   Summary: Sessions player and member of ’THE DAVE CLARK FIVE’ formed in 1962 in Tottenham, England. Peter Buck   Date Born: Thursday 6 December 1956   Description: Guitarist, USA   Summary: The co founder of R.E.M. Buck spent time in Los Angeles and San Francisco but with his family he moved to Atlanta, Georgia. Randy Rhoads   Date Born: Thursday 6 December 1956   Description: Guitarist, USA   Summary: A classical guitarist as well as hard rock and membere of the group ’Quiet Riot’. Rick Buckler   Date Born: Tuesday 6 December 1955   Description: Drummer, Vocalist   Summary: The former drummer of The Jam, an English rock band that enjoyed considerable success in the United Kingdom from 1977 until disbanding in 1982. Steve Alaimo   Date Born: Wednesday 6 December 1939   Description: Vocalist , Guitarist, TV Host, USA   Summary: The multi-talented Steve Alaimo has been involved in literally every phase of the music business. Wally Cox   Date Born: Saturday 6 December 1924   Description: Actor, Comedian, USA   Summary: He became the roommate of Marlon Brando, who encouraged him to study acting with Stella Adler. Aaron Carter   Date Born: Monday 7 December 1987   Description: Vocalist, Actor, USA   Summary: Carter was born in Tampa, Florida, where his parents ran the Garden Villa Retirement Home, the family was originally from upstate New York. Armando Manzanero   Date Born: Saturday 7 December 1935   Description: Composer, Mexico   Summary: Manzanero has composed more than four hundred songs, fifty of which have given him international fame. Bent Fabric   Date Born: Monday 7 December 1942   Description: Pianist, Composer, Denmark   Summary: ALLEY CAT - The song was re-released worldwide under the name "Alley Cat" on Atco Records the following year, and went to #1 in Australia and #49 in Germany. Carlos Vega   Date Born: Saturday 7 December 1957   Description: Drummer, Cuban   Summary: Sessions drummer for Olivia Newton John - George Benson etc. Cathy Wayne   Date Born: Wednesday 7 December 1949   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, Dancer, Australia   Summary: Cathy Wayne was born as Catherine Anne Warnes on 7 December 1949 in Arncliffe, New South Wales, Australia. Edmundo Ros   Date Born: Wednesday 7 December 1910   Description: Vocalist and band leader, USA   Summary: A musician, vocalist, arranger and bandleader who made his career in Britain. He directed a highly popular Latin-American orchestra, had an extensive recording career Eli Wallach   Date Born: Tuesday 7 December 1915   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: In 2005, Wallach released his autobiography The Good, the Bad and Me: In My Anecdotage. In this tome, Wallach talked about his most famous role as Tuco in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Ellen Burstyn   Date Born: Wednesday 7 December 1932   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: Ellen spent her early years as a model and actress, appearing regularly on the "The Jackie Gleason Show," "The Doctors," "Ben Casey", etc. Gary Morris   Date Born: Tuesday 7 December 1948   Description: Vocalist, Actor, USA   Summary: While in the third grade, Morris and his sister won a talent show after singing their rendition of the pop hit "This Old House," originally popularized by Rosemary Clooney. Harry Chapin   Date Born: Monday 7 December 1942   Description: Vocalist,Composer, US   Summary: Chapin's first formal introduction to music was while singing in the Brooklyn Boys Choir. Hurd Hatfield   Date Born: Friday 7 December 1917   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: William Rukard Hurd Hatfield was an American actor.Nominations: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor - Comedy Series. James Reese   Date Born: Sunday 7 December 1941   Description: Guitarist, USA Johnny Lockwood   Date Born: Tuesday 7 December 1920   Description: Theatre, television and film   Summary: He was known as the bumbling Jewish delicatessen proprietor Aldo Godolfus and was one of Number 96 most well-known and recognised figures. Louis Prima   Date Born: Wednesday 7 December 1910   Description: Trumpeter, USA   Summary: A trumpeter and vocalist during the Swing era through to the during the sixties composing and arranging Mike Nolan   Date Born: Wednesday 7 December 1955   Description: Vocalist, Ireland   Summary: Bucks Fizz scored their last hit in 1988 and Nolan continued with the group (now in an altered line-up) until 1995. Patrice Oneal   Date Born: Sunday 7 December 1969   Description: Comedian, Comic Actor, USA   Summary: He was known for his cutting, often confrontational crowd work during which he often played couples against each other. Spade Cooley   Date Born: Wednesday 7 December 1910   Description: Fiddle, Actor, USA   Summary: He was nicknamed with the name Spade from a card game. Tom Waits   Date Born: Wednesday 7 December 1949   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Waits was born at Park Avenue hospital in Pomona, California to Jesse Frank Waits and Alma Johnson McMurray, both schoolteachers. Barbara Buchholz   Date Born: Tuesday 8 December 1959   Description: Flute, Vocalist, Germany   Summary: She produced e.g. Tap It Deep - „midified“ Steppdance and music, Human Interactivity and Theremin: Berlin-Moscow. Bertie Higgins   Date Born: Friday 8 December 1944   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: Higgins is of Irish, German and Portuguese descent. Bobby Elliott   Date Born: Monday 8 December 1941   Description: Drummer, UK   Summary: Bobby Elliott joined The Hollies in 1963. He and Tony Hicks are the only original members playing with The Hollies today. Documented 2009. David Carradine   Date Born: Tuesday 8 December 1936   Description: Actor, US   Summary: He made his feature film debut in 1964 in Taggart, a western based on a novel by Louis L'Amour. He is the son of actor John Carradine. Flip Wilson   Date Born: Friday 8 December 1933   Description: Comedian, USA   Summary: In January 1972, Time magazine featured Wilson's image on their cover and named him "TV's first black superstar". George Baker   Date Born: Friday 8 December 1944   Description: Vocalist , Composer, Netherlands   Summary: "Little Green Bag" was used in the film Reservoir Dogs. Graham Knight   Date Born: Sunday 8 December 1946   Description: Bassist, UK   Summary: A successful Scottish pop rock group, from the east end of Glasgow, originally formed in 1961 as "The Gaylords", later "Dean Ford and The Gaylords". Gregg Allman   Date Born: Monday 8 December 1947   Description: Vocals, Keyboards, Guitar,USA   Summary: Allman has been married at least six times, most famously to singer/actress Cher from 1975 to 1979. Jean Sibelius   Date Born: Friday 8 December 1865   Description: Composer, Finland   Summary: Sibelius was born into a Swedish-speaking family in Hämeenlinna in the Russian Grand Duchy of Finland, the son of Christian Gustaf Sibelius and Maria Charlotta Sibelius. Jerry Butler   Date Born: Friday 8 December 1939   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: American soul singer and songwriter. He is also noted as being the original lead singer of the R&B vocal group, The Impressions, as well as a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee. Jim Morrison   Date Born: Wednesday 8 December 1943   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Morrison was born in Melbourne, Florida, to future Admiral George Stephen Morrison and Clara Clarke Morrison. Morrison had a sister, Anne Robin. Jimmy Smith   Date Born: Tuesday 8 December 1925   Description: Pianist, Oganist, USA   Summary: Smith played in the mid fifties on the electric organ introducing it to jazz. Johnny Gentle   Date Born: Tuesday 8 December 1936   Description: Vocalist, UK   Summary: A British pop singer who is now best remembered for having briefly toured Scotland with the Silver Beetles Johnny Otis   Date Born: Thursday 8 December 1921   Description: Vocalist, Composer. USA   Summary: Otis produced the original recording of "Hound Dog" written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller with vocal by Big Mama Thornton Kim Basinger   Date Born: Tuesday 8 December 1953   Description: Actress, US   Summary: She did a nude pictorial for Playboy to promote her role in the Bond film in 1983. She appeared in such mid-1970s staples as The Six Million Dollar Man, McMillan and Wife, and the original Charlie's Angels. Lee J Cobb   Date Born: Friday 8 December 1911   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Born Leo Jacoby to a Jewish family in New York City, Cobb studied at New York University before making his film debut. Nathan East   Date Born: Thursday 8 December 1955   Description: Vocalist, Bassist, USA   Summary: He has recorded, performed and co-written songs with performers such as Eric Clapton, Joe Satriani, etc. Ray Shulman   Date Born: Thursday 8 December 1949   Description: Guitarist, USA   Summary: Shulman was in Gentle Giant from the beginning in 1970 to the last tour in 1980. He would go on to become a record producer in the late 1980s and 1990s. Sam Kinison   Date Born: Tuesday 8 December 1953   Description: Comedian, USA   Summary: A comic, taking known songs in a completely different direction with songs such as ’Wild Thing’ etc Sammy Davis Jr   Date Born: Tuesday 8 December 1925   Description: Vocalist, Actor, Dancer, Vibraphone, Trumpet, Drums), Impressionist,Comedian   Summary: Davis, Jr. was born to Elvera Sanchez (1905-2000), a Puerto Rican dancer, and Sammy Davis, Sr. (1900-1988), an African-American entertainer. The couple were both dancers in vaudeville. Sinead Oconnor   Date Born: Thursday 8 December 1966   Description: Vocalist, Composer, Ireland   Summary: Sinéad O'Connor was born in Dublin and was named after Sinéad de Valera, wife of Irish President Éamon de Valera Sir James Galway   Date Born: Friday 8 December 1939   Description: Flautist, Ireland   Summary: Galway's nephew, Martin Galway, is a musician famous for his work on Commodore 64 computer game music in the 1980s. Teri Hatcher   Date Born: Tuesday 8 December 1964   Description: Actress, presenter, writer, USA   Summary: Her father is a nuclear physicist and her mother is a computer programmer. The Howie Brothers   Date Born: Friday 8 December 1950   Description: Piano Accordian, Gutar, Vocals   Summary: John and Graeme brothers born in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. Warren Cuccurullo   Date Born: Saturday 8 December 1956   Description: Guitarist, Electric Sitarist, USA   Summary: Cuccurullo was largely responsible for Duran Duran's change of image. The band had once been regarded solely as a pop band; however, Cuccurullo helped to move them into a more serious image. 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. Barry Mckenna   Date Born: Thursday 16 December 1993   Description: Banjoist, Ireland   Summary: Barney McKenna is mentioned several times in the song 'O'Donoghue's' by Andy Irvine, which describes the Dublin traditional music scene of the early-mid 1960s Benny Anderson   Date Born: Monday 16 December 1946   Description: Pianist, Composer, Sweden   Summary: Pianist, Vocalist and composer mainly noted for good reasons as being a quarter of the famed group ’ABBA’. Billy Gibbons   Date Born: Friday 16 December 1949   Description: Guitarist, USA   Summary: The founder of a goup in Texas "Moving Sidewalks" which recorded many singles. Denise Mccann   Date Born: Thursday 16 December 1948   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Growing up in a musical family, (her grandfather Albert Hews McCann, Sr. was a professional cornet player. Edward Barnes   Date Born: Tuesday 16 December 1958   Description: Composer of music, lyricist, USA   Summary: In recent years, Barnes has begun working as a producer of theatrical and concert events in New York City. Jason Molina   Date Born: Sunday 16 December 1973   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, USA   Summary: Molina was born in Oberlin, Ohio but grew up in Lorain, Ohio[1] and attended Oberlin College. After playing bass guitar in various heavy metal bands in and around Cleveland, Molina made the decision to become a solo artist under an assumed band name, recruiting other musicians for each individual project as needed. Jeff Carson   Date Born: Monday 16 December 1963   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, USA John Abercrombie   Date Born: Saturday 16 December 1944   Description: Guitarist, USA   Summary: Aside from his solo work he is known for his work with Billy Cobham, Jack DeJohnette, Michael Brecker and Randy Brecker. Karl Denver   Date Born: Wednesday 16 December 1931   Description: Vocalist, Scotland   Summary: A Scottish singer, who, with his trio had a series of UK hit singles in the early 1960s. Most famous of these was a 1961 version of "Wimoweh" Lizzy Mercier Descloux   Date Born: Sunday 16 December 1956   Description: Vocalist, French   Summary: A French singer and musician, a pioneer in the worldbeat genre, as well as a writer and painter. Noel Coward   Date Born: Saturday 16 December 1899   Description: Actor,Singer,Playwrite,Composer   Summary: Noel Coward was one England’s most popular actors of his time. Writer of many books including autobiographical Philip Langridge   Date Born: Saturday 16 December 1939   Description: Vocalist, UK   Summary: He recorded many of his famous roles, including Peter Grimes and the Prologue / Quint in The Turn of the Screw, as well as all the orchestral song cycles for tenor voice. Shelby Singleton   Date Born: Thursday 16 December 1937   Description: American record producer and record label owner.   Summary: He was hired by the Shreveport, Louisiana branch of Mercury Records doing promotional work. Tony Hicks   Date Born: Thursday 16 December 1943   Description: Vocalist , Guitarist   Summary: A guitarist and singer who has been a member of the British pop group The Hollies since 1963. Art Neville   Date Born: Friday 17 December 1937   Description: Vocalist , Composer, USA   Summary: A session musician, he has played on recordings by many notable artists. Bill Pullman   Date Born: Thursday 17 December 1953   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: His first prominent movie role was in the film Ruthless People (which starred Danny DeVito and Bette Midler). Bob Stinson   Date Born: Thursday 17 December 1959   Description: Guitarist, USA   Summary: The punk rock group recorded firstly for ’Twin Tone Records’. Chris Brown - Australia   Date Born: Thursday 17 December 1981   Description: Drummer, Guitarist, Pianist   Summary: Koritni is an Australian rock and roll band from Sydney, Australia born out of the ashes of the band Green Dollar Colour. Dave Dee   Date Born: Friday 17 December 1943   Description: Vocalist, UK   Summary: An English singer-songwriter, musician, A&R manager, fundraiser and businessman. He was the frontman for 1960s pop band Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Dave Madden   Date Born: Thursday 17 December 1931   Description: Actor, Film, television and voice actor   Summary: He became better known for his role as Reuben Kincaid, the harried agent for The Partridge Family (1970-74). Eddie Kendricks   Date Born: Sunday 17 December 1939   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Original member of ’The Temptations’ one of the most enduring vocal groups. James Booker   Date Born: Sunday 17 December 1939   Description: Vocalist, pianist, USA   Summary: During 1976, Booker played and toured with the Jerry Garcia Band. Jim Bonfanti   Date Born: Sunday 17 December 1939   Description: Drummer, USA   Summary: Bonfanti's music career began in 1965 when he saw The Beatles on Ed Sullivan. Jimmy Hodder   Date Born: Wednesday 17 December 1947   Description: Drummer, USA   Summary: Hodder left the group in 1974 and was replaced by Jeff Porcarro. Kerry Packer   Date Born: Friday 17 December 1937   Description: Nine television network, and Australian Consolidated Press   Summary: The son of Sir Frank Packer and Gretel Bullmore, the Packer family company owned controlling interest in both the Nine television network and leading Australian publishing company Australian Consolidated Press Ludwig Van Beethoven   Date Born: Monday 17 December 1770   Description: Composer, Pianist, Germany   Summary: One of the worlds most famous composers mainly known for his "Fifth Symphony" became deaf at the age of 28. Noel Watson   Date Born: Thursday 17 December 1942   Description: Vocalist, Composer, Australia   Summary: Noel Watson is a character in himself who seems to enjoy his life to the hilt. His songs can be described as straight from the heart. Patrice Wymore   Date Born: Friday 17 December 1926   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Wymore's first film appearance was in the 1950 film Tea for Two, starring Doris Day and Gordon MacRae. Paul Butterfield   Date Born: Thursday 17 December 1942   Description: Harmonica, Vocalist   Summary: Paul Butterfield was the first white harmonica player to develop a style original and powerful enough to place him in the pantheon of true blues greats. Sara Dallin   Date Born: Sunday 17 December 1961   Description: Vocalist, UK   Summary: She is related to Stephen Merchant, co-creator of the TV show The Office. Sarah Paulson   Date Born: Tuesday 17 December 1974   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: Paulson struck a chord with many in the television film "The Long Way Home" with the late Jack Lemmon. A touching film of friendship and understanding. Tommy Steele   Date Born: Thursday 17 December 1936   Description: Vocalist , Guitarist, Actor, UK   Summary: Discovered by New Zealand entrepreneur in Soho. Tracy Byrd   Date Born: Saturday 17 December 1966   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: His career began in night clubs in Texas singing with country singer Mark Chestnut. Allen Klein   Date Born: Friday 18 December 1931   Description: Businessman and record label executive. USA   Summary: "After Brian died we collapsed. Paul took over and supposedly led us." John Lennon, Lennon Remembers: The Rolling Stone Interviews, Jann Wenner, Popular Library 1971 - paperback, pg. 51 Betty Grable   Date Born: Monday 18 December 1916   Description: Actress, Singer, Dancer   Summary: Grable has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6525 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood. She also has a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame. Bobby Keyes   Date Born: Saturday 18 December 1943   Description: Saxophonist, USA   Summary: Keys came into the Rolling Stones around 1969. Keys, with the addition of Mick Taylor, changed the sound of the Rolling Stones. Brad Pitt   Date Born: Wednesday 18 December 1963   Description: Actor, Film Producer   Summary: Pitt was nominated for an Academy Award and won a Golden Globe Award, both of which were for his role in Twelve Monkeys (1996). Chas Chandler   Date Born: Saturday 18 December 1948   Description: Bassist, Manager, UK   Summary: He discovered Jimi Hendrix and would manage Hendrix well after leaving ’The Animals’in 1966. Christina Aguilera   Date Born: Thursday 18 December 1980   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: Aguilera was born to Fausto Wagner Xavier Aguilera, a Sergeant in the U.S. Army at the time and Shelly Loraine Fidler, a teacher of Spanish language. David Day   Date Born: Wednesday 18 December 1957   Description: Disc Jockey, Australia   Summary: A member of "The Board of Support Act Limited" (SAL). A South Australian branch (SALSA), headed by industry veteran, David Day. Greg Dangelo   Date Born: Wednesday 18 December 1963   Description: Drummer, USA   Summary: In 1985 he joined Jack Starr’s band Burning Starr issuing LP 'Rock The American Way'/Passport Records. James West (guitarist)   Date Born: Friday 18 December 1953   Description: Guitarist, Canada   Summary: Born in Toronto, West grew up in Tampa, Florida. He started playing guitar at age, and by age 16 he was playing professionally in various Florida rock bands, including at least one with Steve Jay. Josh Pyke   Date Born: Sunday 18 December 1977   Description: Vocalist , Composer, Australia   Summary: Josh Pyke was in his first band by age 12 and played his first performance in front of 650 parents and students at his primary school graduation. Keith Richards   Date Born: Saturday 18 December 1943   Description: Guitarist, Composer. UK   Summary: A founding member of The Rolling Stones with songwriting partner and Stones lead vocalist Mick Jagger. Norman Brown   Date Born: Friday 18 December 1970   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, USA   Summary: Discovered in the early nineties by drummer Norman Conners. Randy Castillo   Date Born: Monday 18 December 1950   Description: Drummer, Composer, New Mexico   Summary: His first band experience was at West Mesa High School, Playing in the jazz band, orchestra and marching band. Roseanne "Rosie" Vela   Date Born: Thursday 18 December 1952   Description: Vocalist, Model, Actress, USA   Summary: Rosie Vela is featured on the ELO album and CD, "ZOOM". Sam Andrew   Date Born: Thursday 18 December 1941   Description: Guitarist, Vocalst,Composer , USA   Summary: Sam developed a skill for music at a very early age. By the time he was fifteen he already had his own band, called the "Cool Notes". Sam Andrew   Date Born: Thursday 18 December 1941   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: Her introduction to music started in the Baptist church. Her father was a minister and her mother was a church singer. Sia Furler   Date Born: Thursday 18 December 1975   Description: Vocalist, Australia   Summary: Sia Furler, born in Adelaide, South Australia, was part of the Australian acid jazz formation, Crisp. Steven Spielberg   Date Born: Wednesday 18 December 1946   Description: Film Producer, Director, US   Summary: At the end of the twentieth century, Life named him the most influential person of his generation. Alvin Lee   Date Born: Tuesday 19 December 1944   Description: Guiarist, singer and composer. UK   Summary: During the sixties he joined bands where he worked with John Lee Hooker at the Marquee Club one of the most prominent gigs in London during the sixties. Alyce Platt   Date Born: Thursday 19 December 1963   Description: Actress, singer, presenter and hostess, Australia   Summary: She launched her debut album Beautiful Death on 4 April 2004 Bill Carlisle   Date Born: Saturday 19 December 1908   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, USA   Summary: Carlisle was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in September 2002. Bob Brookmeyer   Date Born: Thursday 19 December 1929   Description: Trombonist, pianist, arranger, and composer. USA   Summary: Played during the fifties and was influenced by Count Basie. Eddie Vinson   Date Born: Wednesday 19 December 1917   Description: Saxophonist, USA   Summary: Singer and Saxophonist and member of Bill Broonzy’s band in the forties also Count Basie - Cootie Williams etc. Edith Piaf   Date Born: Sunday 19 December 1915   Description: Vocalist   Summary: A French singer and cultural icon who became widely regarded as France's greatest popular singer. Janie Fricke   Date Born: Friday 19 December 1947   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist , USA   Summary: Fricke learned guitar and piano as a child following folk singer such as Judy Collins and Joan Baez. Joe King Oliver   Date Born: Saturday 19 December 1885   Description: Band Leader, Cornetist, USA   Summary: Joe Olliver began playing in New Orleans in 1908. John Mceuen   Date Born: Wednesday 19 December 1945   Description: Vocalist,, Guitarist, Banjoist, USA   Summary: A broad spectrum of music Americana, with a bit of "the old country" music thrown in for good measure, has made John McEuen known as America's instrumental poet. Little Jimmy Dickens   Date Born: Saturday 19 December 1925   Description: Vocalist, Composer, US   Summary: In 1948, Dickens was heard performing on a radio station in Saginaw, Michigan by Roy Acuff. Mercury Nelson   Date Born: Saturday 19 December 1964   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: A member of The Force M.D.s is a doo wop vocal group that was formed in 1981 in Staten Island, New York. Moose Charlap   Date Born: Wednesday 19 December 1928   Description: Composer , USA   Summary: Charlap was married to singer Sandy Stewart, whose biggest hit was My Coloring Book in 1962. Phil Ochs   Date Born: Thursday 19 December 1940   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: He eventually succumbed to a number of problems including bipolar disorder and alcoholism, and took his own life in 1976. Professor Longhair   Date Born: Thursday 19 December 1918   Description: Vocalist, Pianist, USA   Summary: Professor Longhair is noteworthy for having been active in two distinct periods, both in the heyday of early rhythm and blues, and in the resurgence of interest in traditional jazz' Robert B Sherman   Date Born: Saturday 19 December 1925   Description: Composer of songs, USA   Summary: Robert Bernard Sherman was born on December 19, 1925 in New York City to Russian-Jewish immigrants. Tracy Pew   Date Born: Thursday 19 December 1957   Description: Vocalist, Australia   Summary: Leather dressed Hard drinking Pew was from Melbourne, Australia. Alan Parsons   Date Born: Monday 20 December 1948   Description: Recording-engineer, composer, musician, producer, director   Summary: Parsons went to work as an assistant engineer at Abbey Road Studios, where he earned his first credit on the LP, Abbey Road. Audrey Totter   Date Born: Thursday 20 December 1917   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: She began her acting career in radio in the late 1930s, and, following success in Chicago and New York, was signed to a seven-year film contract with MGM. She made her film debut in Main Street After Dark (1945) Audrey Totter   Date Born: Thursday 20 December 1917   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: She began her acting career in radio in the late 1930s, and, following success in Chicago and New York, was signed to a seven-year film contract with MGM. She made her film debut in Main Street After Dark (1945) Billy Bragg   Date Born: Friday 20 December 1957   Description: Vocalist , Guitarist, Composer, UK   Summary: Bragg began constantly performing concerts and busking around London, playing solo with an electric guitar. Bobby Colomby   Date Born: Wednesday 20 December 1944   Description: Drummer, USA   Summary: For a few years in the late 1980's Bobby Colomby was a reporter for the television program Entertainment Tonight. Dennis Morgan   Date Born: Sunday 20 December 1908   Description: Vocalist, Actor, USA   Summary: He has a star on Hollywood Blvd but today remains a distant figure from the Golden Age of Film. His charm and good looks belied a solid actor who never gave a bad performance Geoff Mack   Date Born: Wednesday 20 December 1922   Summary: Albert Geoffrey McElhinney, better known as Geoff Mack, was a country singer-songwriter who wrote "I've Been Everywhere", an Australian hit, for Lucky Starr in April 1962, and which became popular in North America when adapted for Hank Snow in November. Gia Allemand   Date Born: Tuesday 20 December 1983   Description: Actress, Model, USA   Summary: Gia Marie Allemand[3] was born to parents Eugene and Donna Allemand in the Howard Beach neighborhood of Queens, New York City. Irene Dunne   Date Born: Tuesday 20 December 1898   Description: Actress, Singer, USA   Summary: She took piano and voice lessons, sang in local churches and high school plays before her graduation in 1916. Kathryn Joosten   Date Born: Wednesday 20 December 1939   Description: Actress, USA Noel Ferrier   Date Born: Saturday 20 December 1930   Description: Actor, Australia   Summary: To ease the workload on Graham Kennedy, he was invited by GTV9 to host a Friday night version of In Melbourne Tonight from 1963 to 1965. Pat Hare   Date Born: Saturday 20 December 1930   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, USA   Summary: An American blues and rockabilly - Guitarist and singer. Paul Francis Webster   Date Born: Friday 20 December 1907   Description: Composer of lyrics, USA   Summary: Outside of films, Webster’s songs achieved popular recognition with the help from recording artists such as Peggy Lee and her 1950 hit recording of “Black Coffee”. Tony Bennett Ray Martin   Date Born: Wednesday 20 December 1944   Description: Journalist Television presenter   Summary: Logie Awards include. He received his first at the Logie Awards of 1987 as host of Midday, then he received 4 in a row at the Logie Awards of 1993, 1994, 1995 and 1996. Stevie Wright   Date Born: Monday 20 December 1948   Description: Vocalist, Composer, Australia.   Summary: During his time with The Easybeats he was popularly and affectionately known as "Little Stevie". Adam Harvey   Date Born: Saturday 21 December 1974   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, Composer, Australia   Summary: At age 10 he performed his first ever gig at a Tamworth On Parade competition, for which the crowd demanded an encore. Albert Lee   Date Born: Tuesday 21 December 1943   Description: Guitarist, Sessions Musician, Singer UK   Summary: Earning a great reputation working with the likes of Jackson Brown - Joan Armatrading Dave Edmunds and many other great artists, he has proven to be one of the stayers in rock music. Carl Wilson   Date Born: Saturday 21 December 1946   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: He sat down most of the time and needed oxygen after every song, but he still had his unique voice. The only time he stood during concerts was when he sang "God Only Knows" to his fans. Carla Thomas   Date Born: Monday 21 December 1942   Description: Vocalist, Actress, USA   Summary: In 1993, Thomas was awarded the prestigious Pioneer Award, along with such musical heavyweights as James Brown and Solomon Burke, from the Rhythm & Blues Foundation in honor of her career achievements. David "panama" Francis   Date Born: Saturday 21 December 1918   Description: Drummer, USA   Summary: As rhythm and blues and rock and roll went mainstream Francis became even more sought after. He drummed on the Elvis Presley demos, and he is featured on hits by the Four Seasons "Big Girls Don't Cry" ets. Frank Zappa   Date Born: Saturday 21 December 1940   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Frank Zappa was born to Francis Zappa who was of Greek-Arab descent, and Rose Marie Colimore who was of Italian and one quarter French descent.He was the oldest of four children Freddie Hart   Date Born: Thursday 21 December 1933   Description: Vocalist , Guitarist, USA   Summary: Worked with Lifty Frizzell in the fifties and would later win CMA song of the year in both 1971 and 1972. A karate expert and teacher in the fifties. George Treadwell   Date Born: Saturday 21 December 1918   Description: Trumpeter, USA   Summary: Treadwell played in the house band at Monroe's in Harlem in 1941-42, then worked with Benny Carter later in 1942 in Florida. Jackson Rathbone   Date Born: Friday 21 December 1984   Description: Vocalist, Actor, USA   Summary: His great-grandfather, Monroe Jackson Rathbone II, was the chairman of Standard Oil of New Jersey, which later became Exxon.Because of his father's job at Mobil Oil, Rathbone has lived in places ranging from Indonesia to Midland, Texas. Jane Fonda   Date Born: Tuesday 21 December 1937   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: Born in New York City to legendary screen star Henry Fonda and New York socialite Frances Seymour Brokaw, Jane Seymour Fonda was destined early to an uncommon and influential life in the limelight. Kevin Peek   Date Born: Saturday 21 December 1946   Description: Guitarist, Instrumentalists   Summary: Peek worked with Manfred Mann, Lulu, Tom Jones, Jeff Wayne and Shirley Bassey, among others. Kiefer Sutherland   Date Born: Wednesday 21 December 1966   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Sutherland is a well known collector of many guitars, a majority of which are Gibson Les Pauls. Recently, the Gibson Custom shop has released a guitar (signed by Sutherland himself), the KS-336, as part of their 'Inspired By' series. Lee Roy Parnell   Date Born: Friday 21 December 1956   Description: Vocalist, Drummer, Guitarist,   Summary: Parnell was born in 1956.His parents were friends of country superstar Bob Wills, and Parnell began his music career on Wills's local radio show at the age of six. Luigi Creator   Date Born: Wednesday 21 December 1921   Description: Songwriter and record producer. USA   Summary: From a musical family, Creatore began his career as a writer. After serving with the United States military during World War II, in the 1950s he became a writer then partnered with his cousin Hugo Peretti Nick Gilder   Date Born: Friday 21 December 1951   Description: Vocalist   Summary: Nick Gilder, born in London, England first came to prominence as frontman for the Canadian glam rock band Sweeney Todd. Peetie Wheatstraw   Date Born: Sunday 21 December 1902   Description: Pianist,Guitarist, USA   Summary: On his records Wheatstraw is occasionally heard playing guitar, but he usually took to the piano and required a guitarist to play with him—among his collaborators were Kokomo Arnold, Lonnie Johnson, Charley Jordan, Papa Charlie McCoy and Teddy Bunn, in addition to pianist Champion Jack Dupree. Rita Reys   Date Born: Sunday 21 December 1924   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Reys was born in Rotterdam in 1924 into an artistic family. Her father was a violin player and conductor, her mother a dancer. Samuel L. Jackson   Date Born: Sunday 21 December 1941   Description: Actor, film producer. USA   Summary: Jackson was born in Washington, D.C.[2] He grew up as an only child in Chattanooga, Tennessee with his mother, Elizabeth Jackson (née Montgomery). His father lived away from the family, in Kansas City, Missouri, and later died from alcoholism; Jackson had only met his father twice during his life. Toby Rand   Date Born: Wednesday 21 December 1977   Description: Vocalist, Composer, Australia   Summary: Rand's mother is from north Wales and is fluent in the Welsh language; his father is from England. Rand's mother has been playing and teaching music for most of her life. She is a very accomplished piano player and singer. Tony Rivers   Date Born: Saturday 21 December 1940   Description: Vocal quartet, UK   Summary: An English singer, best known for singing with the groups Tony Rivers and the Castaways and Harmony Grass Alvin Robinson   Date Born: Wednesday 22 December 1937   Description: Vocalist, Actor, USA   Summary: The name Alvin Robinson made his hit making period lasted for a few short years in the mid-60's, the records he made of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller's. Andre Kostelanetz   Date Born: Sunday 22 December 1901   Description: Conductor and arranger, USA   Summary: Orchestra Conductor, Arranger. He escaped Russia after the Revolution in the early 1920s. Barbara Billingley   Date Born: Wednesday 22 December 1915   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Billingsley signed a contract with Universal Studios in 1957, she made her mark on TV as everyday mother June Cleaver on Leave It to Beaver, alongside other 1950s family sitcoms such as Father Knows Best, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, Make Room For Daddy and The Donna Reed Show. It debuted on CBS in 1957, to mediocre ratings and was soon cancelled. However, the show moved to ABC the following year and stayed there for the next five seasons. Bob Howe   Date Born: Saturday 22 December 1956   Description: Guitarist, Composer, Australia   Summary: As a musical director he has conducted for international singers such as Frank Ifield, Guy Mitchell, and Judy Stone,etc. Brian Locking   Date Born: Sunday 22 December 1940   Description: Bassist, UK   Summary: Locking also played several other instruments, including clarinet nicknamed the which earned Locking the nickname "Liquorice". Dan Terry   Date Born: Monday 22 December 1924   Description: Trumpeter, Flugelhornist, USA   Summary: Big band leader and musician. In the 1960s, Terry wrote music for and performed in the films The Hustler and The Manchurian Candidate. Dave Ellefson   Date Born: Tuesday 22 December 1964   Description: Bassist, US   Summary: After rejoining Megadeth in early 2010, Ellefson started using his old Jackson bass and Hartke amps again. Diane Sawyer   Date Born: Saturday 22 December 1945   Description: Actress, TV host, US   Summary: She attended one semester of law school at the University of Louisville before turning to journalism. Giacomo Puccini   Date Born: Wednesday 22 December 1858   Description: Pianist, Composer, Italy   Summary: Puccini was born in Lucca in Tuscany, into a family with five generations of musical history behind them. Maurice Gibb   Date Born: Thursday 22 December 1949   Description: Vocalist, Composer, UK   Summary: Gibb grew up with his family in Manchester, England. In 1958 he and his family moved to Brisbane, Australia, settling in one of the city's poorest suburbs, Cribb Island, which was later demolished to make way for Brisbane Airport. Robin Gibb   Date Born: Thursday 22 December 1949   Description: Vocalist, UK   Summary: In 1994, Robin Gibb was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and in 1997 the Bee Gees were inducted as a group into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Buddy Harman   Date Born: Sunday 23 December 1928   Description: Drummer, USA   Summary: Harman has played on several European Tours with various artists including The Nashville Superpicker Band and Jerry Lee Lewis. Carla Bruni   Date Born: Saturday 23 December 1967   Description: Songwriter, Singer, Actress   Summary: An Italo-French songwriter, singer, actress, and former model. Since February 2008, she has been married to the President of the French Republic, Nicolas Sarkozy. Chet Baker   Date Born: Monday 23 December 1929   Description: Trumpeter, USA   Summary: Nick named the James Dean of cool jazz. Corey Haim   Date Born: Thursday 23 December 1971   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: He starred in a number of films, such as Lucas, Silver Bullet, Murphy's Romance, License to Drive and Dream a Little Dream. Doug Stegmeyer   Date Born: Tuesday 23 December 1952   Description: Bassist, Band leader, USA   Summary: He performed on most of Billy Joel’s hits although released from the band in the late eighties. Eddie Vedder   Date Born: Wednesday 23 December 1964   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist. USA   Summary: Vedder began incorporating social commentary and political criticism into his lyrics and performances early in his career with Pearl Jam. Grace Knight   Date Born: Friday 23 December 1955   Description: Vocalist, Australia   Summary: Grace Knight was born in 1955 in the UK, and performed as a cabaret singer in folk clubs from 1976. Graham Bonnet   Date Born: Tuesday 23 December 1947   Description: Vocalist,UK   Summary: He appeared in the Countdown Spectacular concert series in Australia between August and September 2007. Joan Severance   Date Born: Tuesday 23 December 1958   Description: Film and television actress, model   Summary: Severance was born in Houston, Texas to John and Martha Severance. Her father was an IBM Systems Manager that had to move frequently around the world. Johnny Contardo   Date Born: Sunday 23 December 1951   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: His song, "Those Magic Changes", was featured in the movie and on the soundtrack for Grease. Jorma Kaukonen   Date Born: Monday 23 December 1940   Description: Guitarist, USA   Summary: HOT TUNA as mentioned above formed by Kaukonen and also Jack Casady previous members of ’Jefferson Airplane’. Katie Underwood   Date Born: Tuesday 23 December 1975   Description: Vocalist, Actress, Australia   Summary: Born in Adelaide,South Australia. Underwood sang in a girls choir, and later studied Maths and Computer Science at University of Adelaide. Little Esther Phillips   Date Born: Monday 23 December 1935   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: In 1962, Kenny Rogers re-discovered her while singing at a Houston club and got her signed to his brother Lelan’s Lenox label. Luther Grosvenor   Date Born: Monday 23 December 1946   Description: Guitarist, UK   Summary: Luther first began playing in local bands in his hometown of Evesham. Tim Hardin   Date Born: Tuesday 23 December 1941   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: He was discovered by the record producer Erik Jacobsen, later the producer for The Lovin' Spoonful. Trevor Gordon   Date Born: Tuesday 23 December 1947   Description: Vocalist, UK   Summary: Gordon met the Gibbs growing up in Brisbane in 1964. He recorded other Barry Gibb songs before forming The Marbles. Yasmin Levy   Date Born: Tuesday 23 December 1975   Description: Vocalist, Israel   Summary: Born in Jerusalem, is an Israeli singer of Sephardic music. Ava Gardner   Date Born: Sunday 24 December 1922   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: The youngest of seven children (she had two brothers and four sisters) of poor cotton and tobacco farmers; her mother, Molly, was a Baptist of Scots-Irish and English descent, while her father, Jonas Bailey Gardner, was a Catholic of Irish American and Tuscarora Indian descent. Chris Finnen   Date Born: Wednesday 24 December 1952   Description: Band, Australia   Summary: Chris is one of the most respected guitarists in Adelaide and Australia. Dave Bartholomew   Date Born: Friday 24 December 1920   Description: Trumpet, Composer, USA Doyle Bramhall Ii   Date Born: Tuesday 24 December 1968   Description: Guitarist, Composer, USA   Summary: Guitarist and vocalist in his band Smokestack and is also the second guitarist in Eric Clapton's band. Franz Waxman   Date Born: Monday 24 December 1906   Description: Musician, Composer, German, American   Summary: Waxman was born Franz Wachsmann in Königshütte (Chorzów) in the German Empire's Prussian Province of Silesia. Gary Valentine Lachman   Date Born: Saturday 24 December 1955   Description: Writer and Musician.   Summary: Founding members of Blondie, having joined the band as bassist in 1975. Harry Warren   Date Born: Sunday 24 December 1893   Description: Composer, USA   Summary: Over a career spanning four decades, Warren wrote over 800 songs. One of America's most prolific film composers, Warren's songs have been featured in over 300 films. Herb Jeffries   Date Born: Wednesday 24 December 1913   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Jeffries, a deep baritone, sang with Duke Ellington in the 1940s. His most famous song, "Flamingo", sold over 50 million copies. Howard Hughes   Date Born: Sunday 24 December 1905   Description: Industrialist; Aviator; Engineer. Chairman, Hughes Aircraft;   Summary: Hughes sold the RKO theaters in 1953 as settlement of the United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. antitrust case. Ian Burden   Date Born: Tuesday 24 December 1957   Description: Vocalist, UK   Summary: Ian Burden was a session keyboard player for the group to cover on the keyboards. Jan Akkerman   Date Born: Tuesday 24 December 1946   Description: Guitarist, Netherlands   Summary: The progressive rock quartet charted with ’HOCUS POCUS’ in 1973. Katie Holmes   Date Born: Sunday 24 December 1978   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: An American actress who first achieved fame for her role as Joey Potter on The WB television teen drama Dawson's Creek from 1998 to 2003. Lee Dorsey   Date Born: Wednesday 24 December 1924   Description: Vocalist, Composer, US   Summary: In 1970 Dorsey and Toussaint collaborated on an album entitled Yes We Can; the title song was Dorsey's last entry in the singles chart. Lee Michaels   Date Born: Monday 24 December 1945   Description: Keyboardist, US   Summary: Michaels went into semi-retirement from the music business by the end of the decade, which was also influenced by his severe hearing loss. Lemmy   Date Born: Monday 24 December 1945   Description: Guitarist,UK   Summary: attended Ysgol Syr Thomas Jones school in Amlwch, where he was nick-named Lemmy, although he is unsure why, and it would later be claimed that it originated from the phrase "Lemmy a quid till Friday" Mitchell Ayres   Date Born: Friday 24 December 1909   Description: Conductor, Arranger, Composer, Violinist, USA   Summary: He began working for Columbia Records as a musical director, working with Benny Goodman, Frank Sinatra, Pearl Bailey, and others signed to the record label, including Dinah Shore. Ricky Martin   Date Born: Friday 24 December 1971   Description: Vocalist, Actor, USA   Summary: He played the romantic lead, Marius Pontmercy, in Les Miserables. Tom Wolk   Date Born: Monday 24 December 1951   Description: Bassist, US   Summary: Wolk also worked with Hall & Oates member Daryl Hall on some of his solo material, as well as with Carly Simon, Jellyfish, Squeeze, Elvis Costello, Shawn Colvin and Billy Joel over the course of his career. Warren Dodds   Date Born: Saturday 24 December 1898   Description: Drummer, USA   Summary: One of the first great jazz drummers playing with the greats such as Louis Armstrong, Pop Foster and his brother Johnny Dodd’s. Woody Shaw   Date Born: Sunday 24 December 1944   Description: Trumpeter, USA   Summary: One of the most gifted and innovative jazz musicians of his generation, trumpeter Woody Shaw navigated the rapidly fluctuating jazz scene of the '70s and '80s to create a lasting body of work that extends his influence well beyond his tragic death at age 44. Alannah Myles   Date Born: Thursday 25 December 1958   Description: Vocalist, Canada   Summary: Mainly a rock singer, composer from Canada, of Irish ancestry. Miles was nenver recognised in her native Canada until she moved to America and very popular. Alice Cooper   Date Born: Tuesday 25 December 1945   Description: Vocalist, Composer, Actor, US   Summary: Alice Cooper is known for his social and witty persona offstage, The Rolling Stone Album Guide going so far as to refer to him as the world's most "beloved heavy metal entertainer". Annie Lennox   Date Born: Saturday 25 December 1954   Description: Vocalist, Composer, UK   Summary: Lead singer of ’The Eurythmics’ with Dave Stewart. Lennox was born on Christmas Day, 1954, in Aberdeen. Barbara Mandrell   Date Born: Saturday 25 December 1948   Description: Vocalist, Steel Guitar   Summary: Member of 'The Mandrells'. Now one of America's most respected country singers. Billy Horton   Date Born: Saturday 25 December 1937   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: The Silhouettes were formed in Philadelphia Pennsylvania in 1956, at first using the name The Thunderbirds. Bob James   Date Born: Monday 25 December 1939   Description: Director, Composer, USA   Summary: Very influenced by pop and movie music, James has often featured soloists, who add a jazz touch to his sound (most notably Grover Washington, Jr.). Cab Calloway   Date Born: Wednesday 25 December 1907   Description: Bandleader, singer-songwriter   Summary: Calloway was born in Rochester, New York. His father, Cabell Calloway II, was a lawyer, and his mother, Martha Eulalia Reed, was a teacher and church organist. Colin Davis   Date Born: Sunday 25 December 1927   Description: Conductor, UK   Summary: Colin Davis became one of the world's best-known conductors during the last four decades of the 20th century. Edward Kid Ory   Date Born: Saturday 25 December 1886   Description: Trombonist, USA   Summary: One of the greatest players of the Trombone of his day in early Jazz. Emory Gordy Jr   Date Born: Monday 25 December 1944   Description: Bassist, USA   Summary: He toured with Elvis Presley, 1973; joined Emmylou Harris and her Hot Band, 1974–77; played with The Cherry Bombs, 1977. Henry Vestine   Date Born: Monday 25 December 1944   Description: Guitarist, US   Summary: Vestine toured with Canned Heat in Australia and Europe, where the band had a popularity that far surpassed the recognition they got in the United States. Humphrey Bogart   Date Born: Monday 25 December 1899   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Humphrey Bogart still remains a living legend decades after his death and still a Hollywood’s great. Jane Morgan   Date Born: Saturday 25 December 1920   Description: Vocalist , USA   Summary: In 1969, she appeared on Broadway in the musical Mame, taking over the title role from Angela Lansbury. Jimmy Buffett   Date Born: Wednesday 25 December 1946   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, Composer, USA   Summary: Born to James Delaney "J.D." Buffett Jr. and Mary Loraine "Peets" Buffett in Pascagoula, Mississippi, Buffett spent part of his childhood in Mobile, Alabama.P/E Kenny Everett   Date Born: Monday 25 December 1944   Description: Comedian, UK   Summary: Everett is often cited as having coined the term 'Beeb' to refer to the BBC,[citation needed] although the corporation was occasionally referred to as the "Beeb Beeb Ceeb" in the seminal 1950s radio comedy series The Goon Show. Kid Ory   Date Born: Saturday 25 December 1886   Description: Trombonist, USA   Summary: Ory started playing music with home-made instruments in his childhood, and by his teens was leading a well regarded band in South-East Louisiana. Mckinley Mitchell   Date Born: Tuesday 25 December 1934   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Blessed with an extraordinary set of soaring pipes, McKinley Mitchell waxed a series of superb Chicago soul platters during the 1960s Merry Clayton   Date Born: Monday 25 December 1950   Description: Vocalist, Actress, USA Noeleen Batley   Date Born: Saturday 25 December 1943   Description: Vocalist, Australia   Summary: Noelene Batley appeared on the Johny O'keefe hosted 'Six O'clock Rock' an 'Bandstand' in Australia.Noeleen Batley was a charting pioneer for female Australian artists and was affectionately known as 'Australia's Little Miss Sweetheart'. Okelly Isley   Date Born: Friday 25 December 1931   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: O'Kelly sometimes sang lead vocals on some of the Isley Brothers songs Oscar Moore   Date Born: Wednesday 25 December 1912   Description: Guitarist, USA   Summary: Member, guitarist for - The Three Blazers. Patrick Gilmore   Date Born: Friday 25 December 1829   Description: Composer and Bandmaster, US   Summary: He settled in Boston, Massachusetts in 1848, becoming leader of the Suffolk, Boston Brigade, and Salem bands in swift succession. Pete Brown   Date Born: Wednesday 25 December 1940   Description: Vocalist, poet and lyricist, UK   Summary: Best known for his collaborations with Jack Bruce, Brown also worked with The Battered Ornaments. Peter Brown   Date Born: Wednesday 25 December 1940   Description: Composer,   Summary: Brown formed Pete Brown and His Battered Ornaments in 1968 Sissy Spacek   Date Born: Sunday 25 December 1949   Description: Actress, Singer, USA   Summary: Spacek began the decade with an Oscar in 1980 for Coal Miner's Daughter, in which she played country music star Loretta Lynn. Film critic Roger Ebert credited the success that was Coal Miner's Daughter, "to the performance by Sissy Spacek as Loretta Lynn. Tampa Red   Date Born: Tuesday 25 December 1900   Description: Guitarist, USA   Summary: He was a close friend and associate of Big Bill Broonzy and Big Maceo Merriweather. The Veronicas   Date Born: Tuesday 25 December 1984   Description: Vocal Duo (Sisters), Australian   Summary: They grew up in Albany Creek, (suburb located to the northwest of Brisbane, Australia) Tony Martin   Date Born: Thursday 25 December 1913   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Martin was featured in the 1941 Marx Brothers film (their last for MGM), The Big Store. Martin was married to Cyd Charisse from 1948 until her death in 2008 – 60 years - one of the longest Hollywood marriages on record. Tony Romeo   Date Born: Monday 25 December 1939   Description: Composer, USA   Summary: He also wrote theme music for movies such as Rain Man, etc Trevor Lucas   Date Born: Tuesday 25 December 1945   Description: Guitarist, Vocalist, Australia   Summary: Trevor George Lucas (December 25, 1943 - February 4, 1989) was an influential folk artist, a member of Fairport Convention and one of the founders of Fotheringay. Zim Ngqawana   Date Born: Friday 25 December 1959   Description: Flautist and saxophonist.   Summary: The youngest of five children, Ngqawana started playing flute at the age of 21. Apache   Date Born: Saturday 26 December 1964   Description: Vocalist , USA   Summary: Apache signed to Tommy Boy Records and released his debut album, Apache Ain't Shit (1993) Bashful Brother Oswald   Date Born: Tuesday 26 December 1911   Description: Guitarist, USA   Summary: Beecher Ray Kirby was born in rural Sevier County, Tennessee in the Great Smoky Mountains. Jared Leto   Date Born: Sunday 26 December 1971   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, Songwriter. USA   Summary: Musician, composer, singer, songwriter, producer, actor, director, philanthropist; businessman, photographer and painter Johnny Chester   Date Born: Friday 26 December 1941   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist , Composer, Australia   Summary: Johnny Chester's career began in 1959 and he began recording in 1961. Noel Kelehan   Date Born: Thursday 26 December 1935   Description: Pianist, Conductor, Ireland   Summary: Kelehan had several records to his credit, most notably he wrote the string arrangements for U2's 1984 album The Unforgettable Fire. Phil Spector   Date Born: Tuesday 26 December 1939   Description: Record producer, Composer, USA   Summary: With three friends from high school, Marshall Lieb, Harvey Goldstein, and singer Annette Kleinbard, Spector formed a group, The Teddy Bears. Sean Mcguire (fiddler)   Date Born: Monday 26 December 1927   Description: Fiddle, Ireland   Summary: Over the years, McGuire's name has become synonymous in Irish traditional fiddling with excellent musicianship. Steve Allen   Date Born: Monday 26 December 1921   Description: TV Host, Author, Actor, Composer, USA   Summary: He played the part of Benny Goodman with Donna Reed in "The Benny Goodman Story" in the fifties. The Cate Brothers   Date Born: Saturday 26 December 1942   Description: Duo and Band, USA   Summary: The Cate Brothers are the singer-songwriter-musician duo of Earl and Ernie Cate, twin brothers from Fayetteville, Arkansas. Ugly Dave Gray   Date Born: Tuesday 26 December 1933   Description: Comedian, Actor, Australia   Summary: In 2011 Gray announced that he wished to be cryogenically frozen after death. Johnny Frigo   Date Born: Wednesday 27 December 1916   Description: Violinist, USA   Summary: Frigo was born in Chicago, Illinois, and studied violin for only three years beginning at age 7. Karla Bonoff   Date Born: Thursday 27 December 1951   Description: Vocalist, Composer. USA   Summary: She is a member of the group "Bryndle". Les Maguire   Date Born: Sunday 27 December 1942   Description: Keyboardist, UK   Summary: The group are remembered for many top hits such as HOW DO YOU DO IT. Marlene Dietrich   Date Born: Friday 27 December 1901   Description: Actress, Vocalist, Germany   Summary: In 1999 the American Film Institute named Dietrich the ninth greatest female star of all time. Mick Jones - (foreigner)   Date Born: Wednesday 27 December 1944   Description: Guitarist, Composer, UK   Summary: Jones released his only solo album titled Mick Jones on the Atlantic Records label. Jones is the only person to play on every Foreigner album. Mike Heron   Date Born: Sunday 27 December 1942   Description: Vocalist , Composer, UK   Summary: A Scottish singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, best known for his work in the Incredible String Band in the 1960s and 1970s. Mike Pinder   Date Born: Saturday 27 December 1941   Description: Keyboardist, UK   Summary: The group mainly remembered for their recordings of ’GO NOW’ and ’NIGHT’S IN WHITE SATIN’ in the sixties and seventies. Neil Merryweather   Date Born: Thursday 27 December 1945   Description: Vocalist, Bassist, Composer, Canada   Summary: Merryweather began his career in Toronto during the early ‘60s performing under the name Bobby Neilson. Ralph Fiennes   Date Born: Thursday 27 December 1962   Description: Actor, UK   Summary: In 2011, Fiennes made his directorial debut with his film adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy Coriolanus, in which he also played the titular character. Fiennes won a Tony Award for playing Hamlet on Broadway and has been nominated twice for the Academy Award. Sam Coslow - (song Writer)   Date Born: Saturday 27 December 1902   Description: Composers of songs. Film producer, USA   Summary: He formed a successful partnership with composer Arthur Johnston and together they provided the scores for a number of films including Bing Crosby vehicles. Scotty Moore   Date Born: Sunday 27 December 1931   Description: Guitarist, USA   Summary: The guitarist on most of Elvis Presley’s early recordings and also appeared in many early Presley films such as ’Loving You’ etc and many old film clips of Presley’s performances as well. He was also Presley’s Road manager. Sydney Greenstreet   Date Born: Saturday 27 December 1879   Description: Actor, UK   Summary: Greenstreet's stage debut was as a murderer in a 1902 production of a Sherlock Holmes story at the Marina Theatre, Ramsgate, Kent. He toured England with Ben Greet's Shakespearean company, and in 1905, he made his New York debut. Tracy Nelson   Date Born: Wednesday 27 December 1944   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Singer during the late sixties could be at times compared to Janis Joplin. Alex Chilton   Date Born: Thursday 28 December 1950   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, USA   Summary: Chilton grew up in a musical family; his father, Sidney Chilton, was a jazz musician. A local band recruited the teenager in 1966 as their lead singer. Bobby Comstock   Date Born: Tuesday 28 December 1943   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: When he was 7, he was doing a radio show in Ithaca. It was called ‘US Kids’. Dick Diamonde   Date Born: Sunday 28 December 1947   Description: Bassist, USA   Summary: Van Der Sluys had been in Australia since he was four years old. Donna Hightower   Date Born: Tuesday 28 December 1926   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: She is also known for her performance of the song "If You Hold My Hand" that was sampled for the hit U.K. single "Handsfree" by Sonny J. Dorsey Burnette   Date Born: Wednesday 28 December 1932   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: An electrician by trade he also formed ’The Daydreamers’ also with Johnny. Dorsey last appeared in public on August 18, 1979 at The Performing Arts Center in Oxnard, California. Earl Hines   Date Born: Monday 28 December 1903   Description: Pianist, USA   Summary: For 11 years his was "The Band" in Al Capone's Grand Terrace Cafe Edgar Winter   Date Born: Saturday 28 December 1946   Description: Vocalist, Keyboards, Saxophonist   Summary: Edgar was signed to his own Epic Records contract in 1970 and recorded two R&B flavored albums, Entrance and Edgar Winter's White Trash. In 1972 he formed The Edgar Winter Group which included Dan Hartman, Ronnie Montrose and Chuck Ruff. Harold Rhodes   Date Born: Wednesday 28 December 1910   Description: Inventor, Pianist, USA   Summary: Harlod Rhodes was the inventor of the most successful electric piano of it's day. Holly Throsby   Date Born: Thursday 28 December 1978   Description: Vovcalist,   Summary: Throsby's song "A Heart Divided" is featured on an international TV and cinema campaign for Tourism Victoria, filmed in Australia and Finland. Joe Diffie   Date Born: Sunday 28 December 1958   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, USA   Summary: He worked also as a demo singer and later released his first debut album 'A Tousand Winding Roads' in 1990. Martha Wash   Date Born: Monday 28 December 1953   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: Martha was a performer at the 2008 annual Big Gay Day in Brisbane, Australia on Sunday 9th of March, 2008. Matt Ellis   Date Born: Friday 28 December 1973   Description: Vocalist, Composer, Australia   Summary: Inspired by punk & rock bands of his high school era, Matt Ellis formed Sydney, heavy-rock band Sedgwick Pie. Robert Lunn   Date Born: Saturday 28 December 1912   Description: Comedian, Actor, Vaudeville, USA   Summary: Robert Lunn, an ex vaudeville artist from Tennessee, popularized Chris Bouchillon version of the song on WSM's "Grand Ole Opry." Tex Perkins   Date Born: Monday 28 December 1964   Description: Vocalist, Composer, Australia   Summary: Perkins started his musical career in Brisbane cowpunk outfit Tex Deadly & The Dum Dums. Bill Carroll   Date Born: Thursday 29 December 1966   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, Composer, Bassist, USA   Summary: As solo artist, he scored a Rate-A-Record appearance on Dick Clark's American Bandstand program on April 2, 1988. Cosey Powell   Date Born: Monday 29 December 1947   Description: Drummer, UK   Summary: Powell also played with swamp rocker Tony Joe White at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970. Powell then landed the then highly prestigious drumming job with guitar icon Jeff Beck's group in April 1970. Ed Bruce   Date Born: Friday 29 December 1939   Description: Vocalist   Summary: Country singer with a fairly short career as a rock singer singing under the name of Edwin Bruce he crossed over to country. Glen Phillips   Date Born: Tuesday 29 December 1970   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, Songwriter. USA   Summary: Associated acts - Toad the Wet Sprocket, Mutual Admiration Society, Works Progress Administration, Plover Jessica Andrews   Date Born: Thursday 29 December 1983   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: The song "Who I Am" also earned Andrews a Top New Female Vocalist award from the Academy of Country Music, while the album itself received RIAA gold certification for sales of 500,000 copies Jon Voight   Date Born: Thursday 29 December 1938   Description: Actor,USA   Summary: Winner of an Oscar for "Coming Home". His Brother Chip Taylor was the writer of the famed ’Wild Thing’ Jude Law   Date Born: Friday 29 December 1922   Description: Actor, UK   Summary: In 2003, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in another Minghella film, Cold Mountain. Lucky Starr   Date Born: Sunday 29 December 1940   Description: Vocalist , Guitarist, Australia   Summary: Lucky Starr is one of the founding members of the Australian Pop Music Industry. A regular on television shows such as Bandstand and also hosted Six O’clock. I've Been Everywhere by (Geoff Mack) Australia 1962.#1 Sydney #2 Melbourne #1 Brisbane #1 Adelaide Marianne Faithfull   Date Born: Sunday 29 December 1946   Description: Singer, Songwriter, Actress , UK   Summary: Faithfull was born to Major Robert Glynn Faithfull, was a British military officer and college professor. Her mother, Baroness Eva Erisso was originally from Vienna, with noble roots from the Habsburg Dynasty and Jewish ancestry on her maternal side. Mary Tyler Moore   Date Born: Tuesday 29 December 1936   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: Moore, eldest of three siblings, was born the daughter of Marjori and George Tyler Moore, a clerk. Ray Hoff And The Offbeats   Date Born: Tuesday 29 December 1942   Description: Vocalist, Australia   Summary: Australian rock'n'roll star of the late 1950s and throughout the beat and soul-funk era of the 1960s and beyond Ray Thomas   Date Born: Tuesday 29 December 1942   Description: Vocalist, songwriter, flautist   Summary: Although he most commonly plays flute, Thomas is actually a multi-instrumentalist, playing various other woodwind instruments, such as the oboe. Rick Danko   Date Born: Wednesday 29 December 1943   Description: Vocalist , Guitarist, Composer, Canadian   Summary: Growing up in front of the family radio as his future bandmates also did, he was exposed to country and R&B music at an early age. His musical heroes included Hank Williams and, later, Sam Cooke. Ted Danson   Date Born: Monday 29 December 1947   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: In 2002, TV Guide named Cheers the 18th Greatest Show of All Time. Yuk Harrison   Date Born: Tuesday 29 December 1942   Description: Bassist, Australia/NewZealand   Summary: A New Zealand born bass player who was mainly noted for playing with "Max Merritt and The Meteor's and Barry McAskill's Levi Smiths Clef's. Yvonne Elliman   Date Born: Saturday 29 December 1951   Description: Vocalist, Actress, USA   Summary: She sang the role of Mary Magdalene in the original album of Jesus Christ Superstar and in the subsequent Broadway and film versions, and achieved her first hit single with the ballad "I Don't Know How to Love Him". The song was her first entry on the U.S. charts, peaking at #28 pop in 1971, although a cover version by Helen Reddy. Andy Stewart   Date Born: Saturday 30 December 1933   Description: Vocalist, Scottish   Summary: He was born in Glasgow in 1933, the son of a teacher. He moved to Arbroath as a child, and then trained as an actor at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow. Bernard Coutaz   Date Born: Saturday 30 December 1922   Description: Musical publisher   Summary: In the 1950s he became a journalist with Groupe Bayard, then Témoignage chrétien. During this period Coutaz published four novels and was an editor at Éditions ouvrières. Bo Diddley   Date Born: Sunday 30 December 1928   Description: Vocalist , Guitarist, USA   Summary: Born as Ellas Otha Bates, he was adopted and raised by his mother's cousin, Gussie McDaniel, whose surname he assumed, becoming Ellas McDaniel. Bruce Fairbairn   Date Born: Tuesday 30 December 1947   Description: Record producer   Summary: In 1980 Fairbairn won his first of three Canadian music industry Producer of the Year Juno Awards for Prism's third album Armageddon. Bruce Fairbairn   Date Born: Tuesday 30 December 1947   Description: Record producer   Summary: In 1980 Fairbairn won his first of three Canadian music industry Producer of the Year Juno Awards for Prism's third album Armageddon. Bruce Fairbairn   Date Born: Tuesday 30 December 1947   Description: Record producer   Summary: In 1980 Fairbairn won his first of three Canadian music industry Producer of the Year Juno Awards for Prism's third album Armageddon. Dana Key   Date Born: Wednesday 30 December 1953   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, USA   Summary: Key was a direct descendant of Francis Scott Key, the author of The Star-Spangled Banner. Davy Jones   Date Born: Sunday 30 December 1945   Description: Vocalist, Actor, UK   Summary: Jones was born in Manchester, England on December 30, 1945, but is in the process of becoming a United States citizen. He lost his mother to a protracted illness by the time he was 14. Del Shannon   Date Born: Saturday 30 December 1939   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: Del Shannon, Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, December 30, 1934, Died February 8, 1990 in Santa Clarita, California. He was an American rock singer who launched into fame with the No. 1 hit "Runaway" in 1961. Felix Pappalardi   Date Born: Saturday 30 December 1939   Description: Bassist, Composer, Producer   Summary: Married song writing partner ’Gail Collins’. Hartley Peavey   Date Born: Tuesday 30 December 1941   Description: Manufaturer of Guitas, Amplification, Audio, USA   Summary: Peavey has been recognized by his alma mater as an Alumni Fellow and as the 2004 commencement speaker. Herb Cohen   Date Born: Friday 30 December 1932   Description: Management, USA   Summary: He began acting as manager for many artists, his eventual roster including Screamin' Jay Hawkins, George Duke, Alice Cooper, Tom Waits, etc. Jeff Lynne   Date Born: Tuesday 30 December 1947   Description: Vocalist, Producer, Composer, Guitarist, UK   Summary: Formed in 1971. Comprising of Ron Wood, Bev Bevan,Rick Price and Jeff Lynn with many changes with Lynn joining as well and later taking control. Jim Hermel   Date Born: Sunday 30 December 1945   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, Australia   Summary: Jim is a great vocalist and a brilliant musician. His stage act comprises the combination of vocals, lead guitar, and a wailing blues harmonica. Jimmy Jones - Pianist   Date Born: Monday 30 December 1918   Description: Pianist, USA   Summary: Jones recorded throughout the 1950s with many noted singers. John Hartford   Date Born: Thursday 30 December 1937   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: John Harford would change his name to Hartford later in life. Born on to parents Dr. Carl and Mary Harford. Kim Hill   Date Born: Monday 30 December 1963   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: An American Christian singer, songwriter and chastity advocate, active since the early 1990s. She has won several Dove Awards. Michael Nesmith   Date Born: Wednesday 30 December 1942   Description: Vocalist , Guitarist, Composer, USA   Summary: Nesmith was an only child, born to Warren Audrey Nesmith and Bette Nesmith Graham, separated when he was very young. Nesmith's mother worked as a secretary. Their fortunes changed when Bette invented typewriter correction fluid, later known commercially as Liquid Paper. Mike Auldridge   Date Born: Friday 30 December 1938   Description: Guitarist, USA   Summary: He played with The Seldom Scene for many years, creating a fusion of bluegrass with jazz, folk and rock. Patti Smith   Date Born: Monday 30 December 1946   Description: Vocalist, Composer, Poet, USA   Summary: Smith was born to Beverly, was a jazz singer, and father, Grant, worked at the Honeywell plant. She spent her entire childhood in Woodbury, New Jersey. Robert Quine   Date Born: Wednesday 30 December 1942   Description: Guitarist, USA   Summary: Quine is number 80 on Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" list. Sanne Salomonsen   Date Born: Friday 30 December 1955   Description: Vocalist, Denmark   Summary: She was a member of the Anne Linnet Band. Skeeter Davis   Date Born: Wednesday 30 December 1931   Description: Singer, Composer, USA   Summary: Skeeter was the first of seven children born to William and Punzie Penick. Because her grandfather thought that she had a lot of energy for a young child, he nicknamed Mary Frances "Skeeter" short for mosquito. Suzy Bogguss   Date Born: Sunday 30 December 1956   Description: Vocalist, Pianist, Guitarist, USA   Summary: Bogguss at the age of 5, she began singing in the Angel Choir of the College Avenue Presbyterian Church in her hometown. With the encouragement of her parents, she took lessons in piano and drums, and as a teenager picked up the guitar as well. Tracy Ullman   Date Born: Wednesday 30 December 1959   Description: Comedian, Actress, Singer, Dancer, UK   Summary: Tracey Ullman was born to Antony Ullman, her Polish Roman Catholic father, and Dorin Ullman, her British mother, who was of Roma heritage. Antony had been a Polish soldier who was evacuated from Dunkirk in 1940. Andy Summers   Date Born: Thursday 31 December 1942   Description: Guitarist, Composer, UK   Summary: Summers also was briefly a member in 1987 of the group Rush Hour, which became Animal Logic. Summers achieved international prominence as the guitarist for The Police, most notably on popular hits such as "Message in a Bottle", "Don't Stand So Close to Me", and "Every Breath You Take". Anthony Hopkins   Date Born: Friday 31 December 1937   Description: Actor, Wales   Summary: Starred in many movies including "All Creatures Great And Small" in 1977. Hopkins is a talented pianist. In 1986, he released a single called "Distant Star". Ben Kingsley   Date Born: Friday 31 December 1943   Description: Actor, UK   Summary: Kingsley of Indian and English decent has carved a career that would make anyone proud. Bob Bryar   Date Born: Monday 31 December 1979   Description: Drummer, USA   Summary: He is the only member of "My Chemical Romance" not to be an original member relpacing Matt Pelissier in 2004. Burton Cummings   Date Born: Wednesday 31 December 1947   Description: Vocalist, Composer, Keyboardist, USA   Summary: In 1970, the band - "The Guess Who" hit No. 1 in Canada with "American Woman." Catherine Britt   Date Born: Monday 31 December 1984   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, Australia   Summary: She was signed to ABC Country and recorded her first album, Dusty Smiles and Heartbreak Cures, in 2002. Donna Summer   Date Born: Friday 31 December 1948   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Member of a group called ’CROW’. Went solo after a stint in the German version of ’HAIR’ and also ’GODSPELL’ Hank Van Sickle   Date Born: Sunday 31 December 1961   Description: Bassist, Keyboardist, USA   Summary: According to John Mayall, his is the longest run of any bass player with the Bluesbreakers. Jaime Mendoza-nava   Date Born: Thursday 31 December 1925   Description: Composer and Conductor John Denver   Date Born: Friday 31 December 1943   Description: Vocalist , Guitarist, Actor, Composer, USA   Summary: In 2000, CBS presented the television movie Take Me Home: The John Denver Story loosely based on his memoirs, starring Chad Lowe. John Kirby   Date Born: Thursday 31 December 1908   Description: Bassist, USA   Summary: In 1993 Kirby was inducted into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame. Jonah Jones   Date Born: Thursday 31 December 1908   Description: Trumpeter, USA   Summary: His popularity during the fifties with his quartet helped modern Jazz become a popular item in music. Jule Styne   Date Born: Sunday 31 December 1905   Description: Composer of songs, USA   Summary: At the age of eight he moved with his family to Chicago, where at an early age he began taking piano lessons. He proved to be a prodigy and performed with the Chicago, St. Louis, and Detroit Symphonies before he was ten years old. June Tabor   Date Born: Wednesday 31 December 1947   Description: Vocalist, UK   Summary: June Tabor was inspired to sing by hearing Anne Briggs' EP Hazards of Love in 1965. Michael Hedges   Date Born: Thursday 31 December 1953   Description: Guitarist, Composer, USA   Summary: He saw himself as a composer who played guitar, rather than a guitarist who composed music. Odetta   Date Born: Wednesday 31 December 1930   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: On September 29, 1999, President Bill Clinton presented Odetta with the National Endowment for the Arts' National Medal of Arts. Peter Quaife   Date Born: Friday 31 December 1943   Description: Bassist, UK   Summary: Quaife left in 1969 replaced by John Dalton. The Kinks could be very much said to be underrated but there sound at the time was unique and some thought it would not last. Rex Allen   Date Born: Friday 31 December 1920   Description: Vocalist, Actor, USA   Summary: Actor after the Roy Rogers style played in 19 films including "The Phantom Stallion" - "Arizona Cowboy" - etc. Ross Balour   Date Born: Monday 31 December 1928   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: In 1950, The Four Freshmen got a break when band leader Stan Kenton heard the quartet in Dayton, Ohio, and arranged for an audition with his label, Capitol Records, which signed The Four later that year. Val Kilmer   Date Born: Thursday 31 December 1959   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Originally a stage actor, Kilmer became popular in the mid-1980s after a string of appearances in comedy films, starting with Top Secret! 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