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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: 500 | Date Born: | Thursday 1 February 1934 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | Shane attended Menlo College in Menlo Park, California while Guard matriculated at nearby Stanford University. | | Date Born: | Monday 1 February 1965 | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | Summary: | He was the son of the late legendary martial arts film star Bruce Lee and Linda Lee Cadwell and the brother of actress Shannon Lee.
| | Date Born: | Friday 1 February 1901 | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | Summary: | Born to William Henry "Bill" Gable, an oil-well driller, and Adeline Hershelman, both of German descent. | | Date Born: | Friday 1 February 1957 | | | Description: | Vocalist , Composer, USA | | | Summary: | Bob Marley cited Brown as his favourite singer, dubbing him "The Crown Prince of Reggae". | | Date Born: | Monday 1 February 1937 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guiarist, USA | | | Summary: | Guitarist Ike Everly had an Iowa radio show in the 1940s. Singing appearances on their father's show gave the brothers their first exposure. The Everly Brothers recorded their own first single, "Keep A' Lovin' Me," in 1956. | | Date Born: | Sunday 1 February 1948 | | | Description: | Actress, UK | | | Summary: | An English actress best known for her role as Sarah Jane Smith in the British television series Doctor Who and its spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures.
| | Date Born: | Monday 1 February 1909 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Canada | | | Summary: | According to the Guinness Book of Records, Shea holds the world record for singing in person to the most people ever, with an estimated cumulative live audience of 220 million people. Died 16th April 2013 aged 104. | | Date Born: | Thursday 1 February 1894 | | | Description: | Pianist, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | Pianist, Composer, Johnson was responsible for some really great
recordings during the twenties. | | Date Born: | Saturday 1 February 1964 | | | Description: | Vocalist , Composer, USA | | | Summary: | As lead vocalist with Warrant, Lane wrote three Top 40 hit singles. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 1 February 1938 | | | Description: | Vocalsit, Drummer, USA | | | Summary: | He also worked as a guest vocalist with Muffin Men, a Frank Zappa tribute band based in Liverpool, England. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 1 February 1927 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, Composer, Australia | | | Summary: | Johnny Ashcroft’s great, great maternal grandfather, Marine Corporal John Gowan, arrived in Australia aboard the First Fleet’s Flagship, HMS Sirius.
In 1814 his other great, great grandfather and namesake, John Ashcroft, arrived in chains aboard the notorious convict ship Surrey.
| | Date Born: | Monday 1 February 1869 | | | Description: | Composer, USA | | | Summary: | He trained as a violinist and was working as head of the Violin Department of the University of Michigan School of Music when he began composing | | Date Born: | Wednesday 1 February 1984 | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | Summary: | He was known for his teenage role as the title character on the Disney Channel television series The Famous Jett Jackson and as Chris Comer in the movie Friday Night Lights. | | Date Born: | Monday 1 February 1932 | | | Description: | Rock Historian, Australian | | | Summary: | In 1959 she moved permanently to New York, becoming the first Australian female overseas correspondent and the first Australian journalist to establish a high profile in America. | | Date Born: | Thursday 1 February 1968 | | | Description: | Vocalist , USA | | | Summary: | She attended the 10th grade at an alternative boarding school in Ojai, California, called Happy Valley School.
| | Date Born: | Saturday 1 February 1947 | | | Description: | Guitarist, Australia | | | Summary: | In 2000, Mick released his debut solo album, appropriately titled Alone At Last.
| | Date Born: | Wednesday 1 February 1950 | | | Description: | Guitarist, USA | | | Summary: | He produced four songs on Roy Orbison's Mystery Girl album | | Date Born: | Saturday 1 February 1947 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, Australia | | | Summary: | Between 1965 and 1967 Normie was Australia's most popular male star but his career was cut short when he was drafted for compulsory military service in late 1967. | | Date Born: | Saturday 1 February 1969 | | | Description: | Drummer, Vocals, USA | | | Summary: | Prior to the formation of Weezer, Wilson appeared in several bands, including Bush. The Dum Dums and United Dirt, all of which featured members who would go on to be in Wax. He later joined a band called Sixty Wrong Sausages that featured members of Weezer. | | Date Born: | Monday 1 February 1937 | | | Description: | Vocalist , Guitarist | | | Summary: | As a youth, he idolized Hank Williams, and at 14 he was playing with a local country band, eventually leading the house band at Al Cottrill's club in Mobile. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 1 February 1922 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Italy | | | Summary: | Her major breakthrough came in 1946, when Acclaimed as one of the most beloved opera singers of all time,[1] she primarily focused on the verismo roles of the lyric and dramatic repertoires.
| | Date Born: | Sunday 1 February 1948 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Keyboardist, USA | | | Summary: | Born in Buffalo, New York, James was the third of eight children. His father was an autoworker who abandoned the family, and his mother was a former dancer. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 1 February 1938 | | | Description: | Actor, Voice Over Artist, USA | | | Summary: | While Hemsley was on Broadway with Purlie, Norman Lear called him in 1971 to play the role of George Jefferson in his new sitcom, All in the Family. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 1 February 1938 | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | Summary: | In 1989, Hemsley, who had previously been a jazz keyboardist, released a single titled "Ain't That a Kick in the Head". This was followed in 1992 with Dance, an album of rhythm and blues music. In 1999, Hemsley collaborated with Yes lead singer Jon Anderson on an album titled Festival of Dreams which was not released. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 1 February 1944 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Australia | | | Summary: | There is no more information in regards to this performer.Please send details of band and persons identified to th e music minder address at contact. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 1 February 1859 | | | Description: | Conductor, Composer, Publisher - Ireland | | | Summary: | Herbert was born in Ireland. His parents were Edward Herbert and Fanny Lover. | | Date Born: | Saturday 2 February 1929 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | From 1947 to 1949, Tibbs originally recorded for Aristocrat Records. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 2 February 1932 | | | Description: | Pianist, USA | | | Summary: | Arthur Lyman was born on the island of Kauai in the U.S. territory of Hawaii, on 2 February 1934. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 2 February 1954 | | | Description: | Actress, Model, USA | | | Summary: | The song, "Uptown Girl", was written about her by her then-husband, Billy Joel.P/E | | Date Born: | Tuesday 2 February 1937 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | An original member of "The Del Vikings" during the fifties. | | Date Born: | Monday 2 February 1959 | | | Description: | Guitarist, Composer, Australia | | | Summary: | He was awarded 'Best Male Vocalist' at the ARIA Music Awards of 1996 | | Date Born: | Sunday 2 February 1947 | | | Description: | Multi-instrumentalist, UK | | | Summary: | He was the lead vocalist for the band, Gentle Giant.
| | Date Born: | Sunday 2 February 1947 | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | Summary: | Fawcett, the younger of two daughters, was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the daughter of Pauline Alice, a homemaker, and James William Fawcett, an oil field contractor.She attended John J. Pershing Middle School in Houston, Texas. She also attended the University of Texas at Austin and was a member of the Delta Delta Delta sorority.
| | Date Born: | Friday 2 February 1906 | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | Summary: | The son of British actress Gloria Gordon and her vaudevillian husband Charles Aldrich. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 2 February 1944 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, UK | | | Summary: | Nash was born during World War II. His mother was evacuated from the Nashes' hometown of Salford, where Graham grew up. In the early 1960s he was a leading member of The Hollies, one of the UK's most successful pop groups ever. | | Date Born: | Thursday 2 February 1928 | | | Description: | Guitarist, Australia | | | Summary: | John was a highly regarded South Australian musician for some 50 years or more. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 2 February 1932 | | | Description: | Pianist, USA | | | Summary: | Christian was one of the co-founders of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians | | Date Born: | Friday 2 February 1940 | | | Description: | Organist, USA | | | Summary: | An American jazz organist. Brown was born in Louisville, Kentucky.
| | Date Born: | Tuesday 2 February 1943 | | | Description: | Bassist, UK | | | Summary: | Peter was bought up in west London and finished his education at Watford Technical College. St Albans Art College. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 2 February 1926 | | | Description: | Saxophonist, USA | | | Summary: | Remembered king of the tenor sax.He played on several hit records by his brother, the singer Arthur Prysock, in the 1960s. NP
| | Date Born: | Wednesday 2 February 1966 | | | Description: | Author, columnist | | | Summary: | He is currently a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, writing music reviews. | | Date Born: | Friday 2 February 1934 | | | Description: | Bassist, USA | | | Summary: | A member of folk rock group "Evergreen Blueshoes". | | Date Born: | Wednesday 2 February 1927 | | | Description: | Saxophonist, USA | | | Summary: | In 1941, he was accepted into the All City High School Orchestra of New York City. This gave Stan chance to receive a private, free tutor from the New York Philharmonic, Simon Kovar - a bassoon player. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 2 February 1937 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | He and his brother graduated from Redondo Union High School in Redondo Beach, California, Los Angeles, CA. They attended San José State University.
| | Date Born: | Saturday 3 February 1940 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | The Belmonts first recorded in 1957 with Teenage Clementine and Santa Margherita for Mohawk Records. | | Date Born: | Thursday 3 February 1949 | | | Description: | Bassist, USA | | | Summary: | Arthur Kane was a musician and librarian best known as the bassist for the pioneering glam punk band the New York Dolls. | | Date Born: | Monday 3 February 1947 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarst, UK | | | Summary: | David Russell Gordon Davies, born 3 February 1947, in Fortis Green, London, England. P/E | | Date Born: | Wednesday 3 February 1943 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | Dennis Edwards, born February 3, 1943 in Birmingham, Alabama is an American soul and R&B singer. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 3 February 1942 | | | Description: | Bassist, UK | | | Summary: | Eric Haydock born 3 February 1942, Burnley, Lancashire, was the original bass guitarist with The Hollies.
| | Date Born: | Friday 3 February 1928 | | | Description: | Vocalist, UK | | | Summary: | Frankie Vaughan, CBE (3 February 1928 - 17 September 1999) was a singer of traditional pop music in the United Kingdom.
| | Date Born: | Tuesday 3 February 1976 | | | Description: | Actress, Australia | | | Summary: | Isla Fisher was born to Scottish parents in the Middle Eastern country of Oman. Her family moved to Australia in the early 1980s. | | Date Born: | Sunday 3 February 1918 | | | Description: | Comedian, Actor, USA | | | Summary: | Bishop was the last living member of The Rat Pack and was also the longest-lived member.
| | Date Born: | Saturday 3 February 1945 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | In 1963, with his smash hit "Mr. Bass Man" all over the top of the charts from the United States to Asia. | | Date Born: | Sunday 3 February 1935 | | | Description: | Gutarist, USA | | | Summary: | Johnny "Guitar" Watson, February 3, 1935 - May 17, 1996. His father John Sr. was a pianist, and taught his son the instrument. | | Date Born: | Thursday 3 February 1898 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | Hardin Armstrong, born February 3, 1898 – August 27, 1971, Memphis, Tennessee. | | Date Born: | Friday 3 February 1961 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actress, USA | | | Summary: | Linda Eder (born February 3, 1961) is an American singer and actress. Parents are Georg from Austria and Leila from Norway. Raised in Brainerd, Minnesota.
| | Date Born: | Thursday 3 February 1949 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, US | | | Summary: | In the mid-'70s, she was one of the first Nashville artists to blend country sounds with a modern pop/rock. | | Date Born: | Monday 3 February 1964 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, USA | | | Summary: | Matraca Berg grew up surrounded by country music. Her mother, Icie Berg, moved from Harlan County, KY, to Nashville, TN, in the 1960s to seek her fortune as a singer and songwriter shortly before Matraca was born. Her Aunt Sudie Callaway was a successful Music Row backup singer. "Aunt" Lois Johnson was a recording artist, singing regularly with Hank Williams, Jr. | | Date Born: | Monday 3 February 1947 | | | Description: | Vocalist , Guitarist | | | Summary: | She was a student at New York's American Academy of Dramatic Arts when she began singing in the folk clubs of Greenwich Village and signed her first recording contract.
| | Date Born: | Friday 3 February 1950 | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | Summary: | Born Patsy to Martha Jane a high school English teacher, and Edward Milton McClenny. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 3 February 1920 | | | Description: | Actor, Singer, USA | | | Summary: | From 1952-57, he was best known as a vocalist on Your Hit Parade, an NBC television series that reviewed the popular songs of the day | | Date Born: | Wednesday 3 February 1926 | | | Description: | Actor, Comedian, Comedy | | | Summary: | Sheldon Berman (born February 3, 1926) is an American comedian, writer, teacher, and actor.
| | Date Born: | Monday 3 February 1919 | | | Description: | Trumpeter, USA | | | Summary: | His longest engagement was with NBC, where, as a studio trumpeter. | | Date Born: | Thursday 3 February 1944 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actress, Australia | | | Summary: | Noble rose to fame as a teenage singing star in the 1960s under the name Patsy Ann Noble. Her singing career was founded by Brian Henderson, the compere of the Australian version of Bandstand | | Date Born: | Thursday 3 February 1927 | | | Description: | Vocalist, UK | | | Summary: | From 1965 to 1986 he was a regular fixture on the BBC Television's schedule with The Val Doonican Show. | | Date Born: | Saturday 4 February 1911 | | | Description: | Band Leader, Producer, Arranger, Conductor, USA | | | Summary: | Mooney's name, as well as his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, was prominently featured in the motion picture The Adventures of Ford Fairlane. | | Date Born: | Thursday 4 February 1943 | | | Description: | Keyboardist, Record Producer, USA | | | Summary: | He was involved in the "Muscle Shoals Sound", being a member of the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, and in 1969, one of the founders of the Muscle Shoals Sound Studio. | | Date Born: | Monday 4 February 1924 | | | Description: | Pianist, singer, songwriter, USA | | | Summary: | An American East Coast blues and rhythm and blues pianist, singer and songwriter. | | Date Born: | Sunday 4 February 1962 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist , Composer, USA | | | Summary: | Black was born in Long Branch, New Jersey and grew up in Katy, Texas, the youngest of four brothers. | | Date Born: | Sunday 4 February 1923 | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | Summary: | Conrad Bain was born in Lethbridge, Alberta, the son of Jean Agnes (née Young) and Stafford Harrison Bain, who was a wholesaler. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 4 February 1947 | | | Description: | Vocalist. Composer, Guitarist, USA | | | Summary: | Emmylou Harris (born April 2, 1947, Birmingham, Alabama) is a country, folk, alternative rock, and alternative country musician. | | Date Born: | Saturday 4 February 1928 | | | Description: | Accordionist, Australia | | | Summary: | He was born on February 14, 1928, in Broken Hill, the youngest of six children of Italian farmers Leonardo Toppano and his wife, Katerina (D'Appolonia). | | Date Born: | Wednesday 4 February 1942 | | | Description: | Saxophonist, USA | | | Summary: | Bey was known for his work with Griot Galaxy, which played distinct compositions, often by Bey. | | Date Born: | Monday 4 February 1918 | | | Description: | Actress, UK | | | Summary: | The daughter of actress Connie O'Shea and music hall entertainer, Stanley Lupino, one of the Lupino family.
| | Date Born: | Monday 4 February 1952 | | | Description: | Drummer | | | Summary: | Jerry Shirley (born 4 February 1952, Waltham Cross, London) An English rock drummer, best known for his work with the bands, Humble Pie.
| | Date Born: | Thursday 4 February 1943 | | | Description: | Record producer or guitarist. | | | Summary: | He has performed with Wilson Pickett and Aretha Franklin, and engineered The Rolling Stones' album, Sticky Fingers. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 4 February 1941 | | | Description: | Drummer, UK | | | Summary: | John Steel, born 4 February 1941, Gateshead, England, was the original drummer of the band, The Animals.
| | Date Born: | Tuesday 4 February 1908 | | | Description: | Trumpeter, USA | | | Summary: | He began with Paul Whiteman in 1928 and was active throughout the 1930s playing with several major bands of the era including the Dorseys and Benny Goodman. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 4 February 1975 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, Actress, Australia. | | | Summary: | Born as second of the four daughters to an Italian father and an Australian mother, Imbruglia grew up on the Central Coast, north of Sydney.
| | Date Born: | Thursday 4 February 1943 | | | Description: | Vocalist, UK | | | Summary: | In the early 1960s Jimmy Page was asked to join The Crusaders. Page toured with Christian for approximately two years. | | Date Born: | Thursday 4 February 1915 | | | Description: | Composer, singer, songwriter | | | Summary: | A West End star within two years, he made his TV debut the same year and was soon commanding enormous audiences. Charlie Chaplin called Wisdom his "favourite clown". | | Date Born: | Sunday 4 February 1945 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Australia, | | | Summary: | Newton has been married to fellow Australian entertainer Bert Newton since 9 November 1974, and often appears with him. | | Date Born: | Saturday 5 February 1944 | | | Description: | Vocalist , Guitarist, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | In 1960, he joined the songwriting team of Bob Brass and Irwin Levine, who wrote the hit, "This Diamond Ring", for Gary Lewis and the Playboys. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 5 February 1935 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Scotland | | | Summary: | A biography of Harvey by John Neil Munro was published: The Sensational Alex Harvey.
| | Date Born: | Tuesday 5 February 1935 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Scotland | | | Summary: | A biography of Harvey by John Neil Munro was published: The Sensational Alex Harvey.
| | Date Born: | Thursday 5 February 1959 | | | Description: | Reporter, journalist, writer | | | Summary: | A former Australian newsreader and current affairs host who was born in South Australia's Riverland. | | Date Born: | Thursday 5 February 1959 | | | Description: | Reporter, journalist, writer | | | Summary: | A former Australian newsreader and current affairs host who was born in South Australia's Riverland. | | Date Born: | Thursday 5 February 1948 | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | Summary: | Born to an Irish American mother and a Jewish American father who was a horse-racing columnist.Hershey attended Hollywood High School. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 5 February 1941 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | Barrett Strong (born February 5, 1941, West Point, Mississippi[1]) is an American singer and songwriter. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 5 February 1969 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Singer, Songwrite, USA | | | Summary: | An American R&B singer, songwriter, and dancer. He began his solo career in 1986 and had a string of Top 10 Billboard hits. | | Date Born: | Friday 5 February 1943 | | | Description: | Trumpeter, USA | | | Summary: | An American jazz musician (trumpet, flugelhorn). | | Date Born: | Sunday 5 February 1933 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guiarist, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | An American country music singer and songwriter best known for his million selling 1962 hit, "Wolverton Mountain". In 1981 King and his big 1962 hit was declared on August 7th "Wolverton Mountain Day". | | Date Born: | Thursday 5 February 1942 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | Wells, who was born Emil Lowendowski, came from a musical family and began playing in Buffalo-area bands in his teens. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 5 February 1929 | | | Description: | Drummer, USA | | | Summary: | Blaine played on numerous hits by popular groups, including Elvis Presley, John Denver, the Ronettes, Simon & Garfunkel, the Carpenters, the Beach Boys, Nancy Sinatra, and the 5th Dimension. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 5 February 1941 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | In the year of 1967 his fortune came with the song ’SKIP A ROPE’ a very meaningful song giving him a million seller world wide.
| | Date Born: | Wednesday 5 February 1964 | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | Summary: | In 2000, Linney was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the film You Can Count on Me. | | Date Born: | Saturday 5 February 1949 | | | Description: | Drummer, UK | | | Summary: | In 1971, Olsson produced and released the solo album "Nigel Olsson's Drum Orchestra and Chorus".
| | Date Born: | Saturday 5 February 1949 | | | Description: | Vocalist, UK | | | Summary: | Barratt's band were one of the first fully professional Christian rock (CR) bands in the United Kingdom, all members having worked as professional musicians in mainstream rock and pop.
| | Date Born: | Wednesday 5 February 1919 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actor , Comedian, USA | | | Summary: | Red Buttons was born Aaron Chwatt on February 5, 1919 in New York City to Jewish immigrants. | | Date Born: | Sunday 5 February 1933 | | | Description: | Percussion | | | Summary: | Originally "Joy of Cooking" was an American folk-rock band, formed in 1967 in Berkeley, California. | | Date Born: | Friday 5 February 1971 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | Of English and Irish descent. She was raised on a farm, and was the eldest girl of seven children. | | Date Born: | Monday 6 February 1967 | | | Description: | Vocalist , Guitarist, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | Anita was born into a family that enjoyed listening to country music. She began to play guitar at an early age, and later learned to play banjo, mandolin and Dobro as well. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 6 February 1962 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | An American musician, best known as the frontman of American hard rock band Guns N' Roses. P/E
| | Date Born: | Thursday 6 February 1941 | | | Description: | Vocalist, UK | | | Summary: | The Geoff Stephens penned song, "The Crying Game", brought Berry's voice to his biggest international audience ever in 1992, when it was used as the theme song for one of that year's most successful films. NPA | | Date Born: | Thursday 6 February 1936 | | | Description: | Singer, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | "Mission Bell" on Era Records demonstrated a quality voice in an upbeat song that peaked at #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. | | Date Born: | Saturday 6 February 1943 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actor, USA | | | Summary: | Fabian was discovered in 1957 by Bob Marcucci and Peter DeAngelis, owners of Chancellor Records. | | Date Born: | Saturday 6 February 1943 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | The all girl vocal group were best known for their hit Beachwood 4 - 5789 in the early sixties. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 6 February 1951 | | | Description: | Guitarist, UK | | | Summary: | He played guitar for Leo Sayer during the 1970s, then rejoined Hawkwind in 1979, appearing on the Live Seventy Nine album release from that year and the subsequent Levitation album. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 6 February 1940 | | | Description: | Comedians, Variety, Film, UK | | | Summary: | His first television show was It's Tarbuck 65! on ITV in 1964.
| | Date Born: | Wednesday 6 February 1946 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Accordionist, Guitarist, Pianist | | | Summary: | She was the mother of singers Rufus Wainwright and Martha Wainwright from her marriage to American singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright II | | Date Born: | Thursday 6 February 1902 | | | Description: | Pianist, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | Born in Covington, Louisiana he is perhaps best known for his hit song song "When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano." 1940. | | Date Born: | Monday 6 February 1950 | | | Description: | Producer, Singer, Composer, UK | | | Summary: | Batt began his career in pop music at the age of eighteen as a signed artist with Liberty Records, having answered the same advertisement as Elton John and Bernie Taupin placed by Ray Williams in the New Musical Express. PNA | | Date Born: | Monday 6 February 1939 | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | Summary: | Farrell's big break came in 1975 when Wayne Rogers unexpectedly departed M*A*S*H at the end of the third season. | | Date Born: | Saturday 6 February 1926 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | In the early 1990s, The Chordettes regrouped with Overton, Doris Alberti, and original members Lynn Evans and Jean Swain, doing shows ranging from a doo wop concert to touring with Eddy Arnold. | | Date Born: | Monday 6 February 1950 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | Natalie Cole is the daughter of noted crooner Nat King Cole. In several interviews, Cole talked about her upbringing. she was raised in an affluent area of Los Angeles, and her family, which she has referred to as "the black Kennedys," lived just a few doors down from the California governor. This became a problem with the white neibourhood as Nat King Cole revealed in many interviews. | | Date Born: | Sunday 6 February 1966 | | | Description: | Vocalist, UK | | | Summary: | His first single was the little-known "When You Gonna" released as a collaboration with Lisa Carter, but his first solo outing was "Never Gonna Give You Up," released in 1987. It became an immediate success, spending five weeks at the top of the British charts and becoming the year's highest-selling single. | | Date Born: | Monday 6 February 1911 | | | Description: | Actor, U.S President, USA | | | Summary: | After graduating from Eureka in 1932, Reagan worked at radio stations WOC in Davenport, Iowa, and WHO in Des Moines as an announcer for Chicago Cubs baseball games. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 6 February 1957 | | | Description: | Drummer, UK | | | Summary: | He was the drummer for The Who in their 1989 American reunion tour. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 6 February 1917 | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | Summary: | Gabor's mother was born Jewish and was related to Annette Tillemann, the wife of politician Tom Lantos. | | Date Born: | Monday 7 February 1949 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, Bassist, UK | | | Summary: | Bass player, singer/songwriter. | | Date Born: | Monday 7 February 1949 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | Singer and Actor, Starred in the Broadway show ’Hair’, also sang ’We’re All Playing In The Same Band’ charting in the seventies. | | Date Born: | Monday 7 February 1966 | | | Description: | Comedian, Actor, USA | | | Summary: | An Emmy Award winning American comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer, film producer and director. | | Date Born: | Monday 7 February 1898 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Banjoist, USA | | | Summary: | Dock Boggs an old time banjo player and musician, former bootlegger. Recorded twelve tracks during the late twenties. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 7 February 1934 | | | Description: | Guitarist, USA | | | Summary: | A singer, guitarist, and songwriter, most active in blues music. | | Date Born: | Sunday 7 February 1915 | | | Description: | Actor, Singer, Dancer USA | | | Summary: | Eddie Bracken has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1651 Vine Street and a second star at 6751 Hollywood Blvd.PNA | | Date Born: | Wednesday 7 February 1883 | | | Description: | Composer, lyricist, and pianist | | | Summary: | He was a frequent guest of The Johnny Carson Show and Merv Griffin. Blake was featured by leading conductors such as Leonard Bernstein and Arthur Fiedler. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 7 February 1962 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | Born to Troyal Brooks, who worked as a draftsman for an oil company, while his mother, Colleen Carroll, was a country music singer on the Capitol Records label in the 1950's and also a regular on the Red Foley Show. | | Date Born: | Saturday 7 February 1914 | | | Description: | Composer, USA | | | Summary: | Between 1931-1934 he arranged for dance orchestras, and then for Andre Kostelanetz and CBS between 1934-1936 | | Date Born: | Sunday 7 February 1960 | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | Summary: | From 2004 to 2008, Spader starred as the lead character Alan Shore in the TV series Boston Legal, which he reprised his role from the TV series The Practice. | | Date Born: | Monday 7 February 1949 | | | Description: | Drummer, USA | | | Summary: | A native of Rochester, New York, Joe English was a member of Jam Factory. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 7 February 1934 | | | Description: | Saxophonist, bandleader, USA | | | Summary: | Curtis is mentioned in the film "The Buddy Holly Story" wher Holly and the Crickets play at the Apollo Theater. | | Date Born: | Thursday 7 February 1946 | | | Description: | Keyboardist, UK | | | Summary: | Isotope was a British jazz-rock band based around guitarist Gary Boyle.
| | Date Born: | Monday 7 February 1983 | | | Description: | Vocalist, UK | | | Summary: | The oldest child to Ronald Fenty, her Barbadian father of Irish and African ancestry and Monica Fenty, her mother who is of Guyanese descent. | | Date Born: | Sunday 7 February 1932 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, USA | | | Summary: | Smith had been raised in Louise, MS with his grandparents following the divorce of his parents. | | Date Born: | Saturday 7 February 1981 | | | Description: | Clarinetist, Band leader, USA | | | Summary: | Sweatman enjoyed popularity with both White and Black audiences in New York, and started issuing recordings in 1916 for Emerson Records etc.
| | Date Born: | Monday 8 February 1926 | | | Description: | Actress | | | Summary: | Audrey Meadows was born to Episcopal missionaries Rev. James Cotter and his wife, Ida.
| | Date Born: | Saturday 8 February 1919 | | | Description: | Trombonist, USA | | | Summary: | In 2009, Morrow was awarded the International Trombone Association's Lifetime Achievement Award, an award that is given to a person who has significantly changed trombone playing around the world. | | Date Born: | Sunday 8 February 1948 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | Dan Wayland Seals (born February 8, 1948 in McCamey, Texas) is an American musician.
| | Date Born: | Monday 8 February 1932 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | A member of fifties group, "The Four Tunes" | | Date Born: | Friday 8 February 1924 | | | Description: | Vocalist , Guitarist, Composer, Australia | | | Summary: | Born in Birchip, Victoria, on January 8, 1924, Dusty made his first recordings for Regal Zonophone in August, 1948. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 8 February 1928 | | | Description: | Musician, guitarist, harmonicist, singer, songwriter, USA | | | Summary: | Burns was deemed second only in stature to John Lee Hooker.
| | Date Born: | Friday 8 February 1929 | | | Description: | Pianist, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | Floyd Dixon, Born 8 February 1929 – Died July 26, 2006) was an American rhythm and blues pianist.
| | Date Born: | Thursday 8 February 1968 | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | Summary: | Gary Wayne Coleman was an American actor known for his role as Arnold Jackson in the American sitcom Diff'rent Strokes (1978–1986) | | Date Born: | Wednesday 8 February 1928 | | | Description: | Canadian music critic, Lyracist, Canada | | | Summary: | As a freelance writer, Lees wrote for the American high fidelity magazines Stereo Review and High Fidelity (often using his column to defend jazz and older popular music while blasting "that rock junk"). | | Date Born: | Friday 8 February 1907 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Announcer, Australia | | | Summary: | The Colgate-Palmolive production unit leased a theatre there, and played on Sunday nights to capacity houses. | | Date Born: | Sunday 8 February 1925 | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | Summary: | John Uhler Lemmon III Born, February 8, 1925 – Died, June 27, 2001). Better known as Jack Lemmon, was a two-time Academy Award winning American actor. | | Date Born: | Sunday 8 February 1931 | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | Summary: | He was the first actor to receive a posthumous Academy Award nomination for Best Actor and remains the only person to have two posthumous acting nominations although other people had more than one posthumous nomination in other Oscar categories.
| | Date Born: | Tuesday 8 February 1944 | | | Description: | Drummer, Composer, UK | | | Summary: | He drummed with several famous singers and musicians, including Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, and George Harrison.
| | Date Born: | Monday 8 February 1932 | | | Description: | Composer, Pianist, USA | | | Summary: | John Towner Williams Born February 8, 1932) is an American composer, conductor and pianist. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 8 February 1921 | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | Summary: | Born Julia Jean Mildred Frances Turner in Wallace, Idaho, she was the daughter of John Virgil Turner, a miner from Hohenwald, Tennessee, and Mildred Frances Cowan. | | Date Born: | Friday 8 February 1889 | | | Description: | Guitarist, Vocalist, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | Alonzo "Lonnie" Johnson Born, February 8, 1899 – Died June 16, 1970. He was an American blues and jazz singer,guitarist and songwriter. | | Date Born: | Sunday 8 February 1953 | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | Summary: | In Back to the Future Part III (1990), Steenburgen played Clara Clayton, a school teacher who falls in love with Doc Brown, played by Christopher Lloyd. Steenburgen received the 2,395th star on Hollywood Walk of Fame on December 16, 2009. | | Date Born: | Saturday 8 February 1941 | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | Summary: | Nicholas King Nolte (born February 8, 1941) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor, model, and producer.
| | Date Born: | Wednesday 8 February 1950 | | | Description: | Guitarist, UK | | | Summary: | Ted Turner, born 2 August 1950, Yardley, Birmingham. guitarist and vocalist with the rock band, Wishbone Ash. | | Date Born: | Sunday 8 February 1942 | | | Description: | Record producer, USA | | | Summary: | Terry Melcher, Born, February 8, 1942 – Died, November 19, 2004) was an American musician and record producer.The son of actress singer Doris Day.
| | Date Born: | Saturday 8 February 1941 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, Record producer | | | Summary: | His father was a teacher at St. Paul's School, in Concord, New Hampshire. Tom himself began performing in 1961 while studying at Harvard University. | | Date Born: | Friday 9 February 1968 | | | Description: | Vocalist , Actress, USA | | | Summary: | A Latin Grammy Award–winning Mexican rock singer and actress.
| | Date Born: | Tuesday 9 February 1943 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | In 1995, Lewis' "Baby I'm Yours" was featured on the "The Bridges of Madison County" soundtrack. | | Date Born: | Thursday 9 February 1939 | | | Description: | Vocalist, songwriter, USA | | | Summary: | His first hit single as a writer was "She Say (Oom Dooby Doom)," which was a top twenty song for The Diamonds in 1959. | | Date Born: | Monday 9 February 1925 | | | Description: | Guitarist, Steel GuitarIst, USA | | | Summary: | The steel guitar player for Bill Haley and His Saddlemen and its successor group Bill Haley & His Comets from 1949 to 1963. | | Date Born: | Sunday 9 February 1941 | | | Description: | Drummer, Composer, Music Director, UK | | | Summary: | Educated at Hazlewood School, Palmers Green and Winchmore Hill School, he left at the age of sixteen to play drums in a skiffle group for holiday makers in Ramsgate. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 9 February 1909 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actress,Dancer, USA | | | Summary: | She was nicknamed Carmen by her father, because of his love of the opera Carmen by Georges Bizet. She was the second daughter of José Maria Pinto Cunha (1887 - 1938) and Maria Emília Miranda (1886 - 1971). | | Date Born: | Monday 9 February 1942 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | Born to a Jewish household, King started out playing the piano and then moved on to singing, forming a vocal quartet called "The Co-Sines". | | Date Born: | Tuesday 9 February 1954 | | | Description: | Singer-Songwriter, USA | | | Summary: | He was born to Matthew Oberst, Sr., an information manager for Mutual of Omaha, and Nancy Oberst, an inner-city elementary school principal. He grew up with two older brothers, Justin Oberst, a lawyer, and Matthew Oberst, Jr., a musician best known for his band Sorry About Dresden. | | Date Born: | Monday 9 February 1914 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer , USA | | | Summary: | His father was a sharecropper, so Tubb spent his youth working on farms throughout the state. | | Date Born: | Sunday 9 February 1947 | | | Description: | Vocalist , Composer, Guitarist, USA | | | Summary: | In the late 1990s Ely was asked to write songs for the soundtrack of Robert Redford's movie The Horse Whisperer, which led to re-forming The Flatlanders. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 9 February 1943 | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | Summary: | Pesci started out working as a barber in the 1960s, following in his mother's footsteps. He released an album entitled Little Joe Sure Can Sing under the pseudonym Joseph Richie, accompanied by a band that included good friend and future fellow actor Frank Vincent. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 9 February 1937 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Session musician, USA | | | Summary: | Sales joined "Soul Invaders" during the eighties. | | Date Born: | Thursday 9 February 1922 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actress, USA | | | Summary: | Kathryn Grayson was discovered singing on the empty stage of the St. Louis Municipal Opera House by a janitor, who introduced her to Frances Marshall of the Chicago Civic Opera, who gave the twelve-year-old girl voice lessons.
| | Date Born: | Sunday 9 February 1947 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | Signing with Atlantic Records, Harris scored a string of R&B hits in the United States, including the Top Ten single "Love Won't Let Me Wait" | | Date Born: | Friday 9 February 1945 | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | Summary: | Farrow screen-tested for the role of Liesl Von Trapp in The Sound of Music. | | Date Born: | Monday 9 February 1891 | | | Description: | Actor, UK | | | Summary: | The son of Charles Colman and his wife Marjory Read Fraser, he was educated in Littlehampton, where he discovered his enjoyment in acting. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 9 February 1949 | | | Description: | Singer, Songwriter, USA | | | Summary: | Known mainly folk songs including "Old Time Feeling" that Johnny Cash would make famous. | | Date Born: | Saturday 9 February 1963 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist,Composer, Actor USA | | | Summary: | His mother, Alexandra, was a Russian woman of partial French ancestry and the second of Ilya's three wives. | | Date Born: | Friday 9 February 1900 | | | Description: | Bassist, USA | | | Summary: | An African American jazz bassist and leader of the Oklahoma City Blue Devils jazz orchestra | | Date Born: | Sunday 10 February 1884 | | | Description: | Composer, Lyrist, USA | | | Summary: | Lyricist Bert Kalmar, one half of the legendary Kalmar and Ruby songwriting team. As a child growing up in Manhattan, Kalmar performed as a magician in tent shows and then as a comedian in vaudeville acts. | | Date Born: | Friday 10 February 1905 | | | Description: | Drummer, USA | | | Summary: | The small drummers life was much too short but he had the power to perform as any other drummer would even though he was crippled.
| | Date Born: | Saturday 10 February 1962 | | | Description: | Bassist, Sweden | | | Summary: | Known as a member of "Metallica" replacing Ron McGovin.
| | Date Born: | Sunday 10 February 1929 | | | Description: | Composer and Conductor, USA | | | Summary: | In 1997, he composed a new theme for the Universal Studios opening logo, first heard in The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997.
| | Date Born: | Friday 10 February 1893 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actor, Comedian, pianist, USA | | | Summary: | Durante became a vaudeville star and radio attraction by the mid-1920s, with a music and comedy trio called Clayton, Jackson and Durante. | | Date Born: | Thursday 10 February 1898 | | | Description: | Actress, Australian, USA | | | Summary: | Anderson loved the city of Santa Barbara, California and spent the remainder of her life there, dying of pneumonia in 1992, aged 94. She was survived by several nieces and nephews, both in America and Australia.
| | Date Born: | Saturday 10 February 1940 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | An American pop and jazz singer and songwriter from the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 10 February 1960 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | The multi talented Lionel Cartwight's career started during the early eighties. | | Date Born: | Monday 10 February 1919 | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | Summary: | She appeared often in theatre and on television.
| | Date Born: | Thursday 10 February 1944 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, Dancer, Australia | | | Summary: | He started his career in hotels in Queensland playing and singing
and later joining Chris Bell to form The Allen Brothers. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 10 February 1943 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | One of the most successful singers to sound like Elvis Presley but only to chart a couple of times.
| | Date Born: | Monday 10 February 1930 | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | Summary: | The son of a steel executive, Wagner moved with his family to Los Angeles, California, when he was seven. Wagner became an aspiring actor and was successfully employed in a variety of jobs, most prominently as a caddy for actor Clark Gable. | | Date Born: | Friday 10 February 1939 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" won the 1973 Grammy Record of the Year and "Killing Me Softly with His Song" won the same award at the Grammy Awards of 1974.
| | Date Born: | Thursday 10 February 1944 | | | Description: | Bassist, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | Raised in Sacramento, California where he played the trumpet in junior high and high school. | | Date Born: | Sunday 11 February 1940 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | On record he was able to use his voice sounding like Boris Karlof.
| | Date Born: | Sunday 11 February 1979 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actress, USA | | | Summary: | Following a major success with "The Boy Is Mine," a duet with singer Monica for which she won a Grammy Award, and her second album Never Say Never in 1998. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 11 February 1936 | | | Description: | Actor. USA | | | Summary: | Burt Reynolds is an Oscar nominated Emmy Award-winning American actor. | | Date Born: | Saturday 11 February 1933 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Comedian, Australia | | | Summary: | He was dubbed the clown prince of comedy by Slim Dusty. | | Date Born: | Friday 11 February 1921 | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | Summary: | Éva was the first in her family to emigrate to America. She moved with her first husband, Swedish physician Eric Drimmer. Her first movie role was a bit part in Forced Landing (1941)
| | Date Born: | Monday 11 February 1935 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | Born to Ezekiah Jackson and Mary Louise Craddock, were shop owners in Norfolk, Virginia. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 11 February 1969 | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | Summary: | She is the daughter of the Greek-American actor John Aniston and actress Nancy Dow. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 11 February 1914 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, USA | | | Summary: | Born to Reverend Dennis and Daisy Elizabeth White in the black section of Greenville, South Carolina. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 11 February 1981 | | | Description: | Singer, songwriter, dancer, actress | | | Summary: | Rowland was born in Atlanta, Georgia, the daughter of Doris Rowland Garrison and Christopher Lovett, who were married after Kelly was born. | | Date Born: | Monday 11 February 1929 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | She began singing in Chicago clubs around 1946, often billed as "Little Miss Sharecropper", | | Date Born: | Thursday 11 February 1926 | | | Description: | Actor, Canadian | | | Summary: | Nielsen was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, the son of Maybelle and Ingvard Nielsen. Nielsen's mother was Welsh and his father Danish. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 11 February 1976 | | | Description: | Guitarist, USA | | | Summary: | Peter Hayes is a founding and current member of the Alternative rock trio, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 11 February 1941 | | | Description: | Pianist, band leader,arranger, composer, producer, Brazilian | | | Summary: | Mendes attended the local conservatory with hopes of becoming a classical pianist. | | Date Born: | Monday 11 February 1963 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist,Composer, USA | | | Summary: | Born to parents Wendell, a trumpet player and lawyer, and Bernice Crow, a piano teacher. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 11 February 1942 | | | Description: | Keyboardist, USA | | | Summary: | Piano/keyboard player Stan Szelest from Buffalo, a well-respected and professional musician that everyone refers to as "the great Stan Szelest", was only seventeen years old when, in early 1960, Ronnie Hawkins hired him. | | Date Born: | Sunday 11 February 1934 | | | Description: | Vocalist , Actor, USA | | | Summary: | Louise made her Hollywood film debut in 1958 in God's Little Acre. | | Date Born: | Monday 11 February 1918 | | | Description: | American music industry executive and record producer. | | | Summary: | Wesley Rose was a very important part of the development of the country music industry. | | Date Born: | Saturday 12 February 1881 | | | Description: | Dancer, Ballerina, Russia | | | Summary: | Pavlova's passion for the art of ballet was ignited when her mother took her to a performance of Marius Petipa's original production of The Sleeping Beauty at the Imperial Maryinsky Theater. | | Date Born: | Saturday 12 February 1955 | | | Description: | Bassist, Producer, Arranger, USA | | | Summary: | Laswell ranks among the most prolific of musicians, being involved in hundreds of recordings with many musicians from all over the world. | | Date Born: | Thursday 12 February 1920 | | | Description: | Producer, USA | | | Summary: | Shad supervised several major blues, pop, rock and R&B dates. | | Date Born: | Monday 12 February 1940 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Australia | | | Summary: | An Australian rock pioneer during the early days of television. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 12 February 1941 | | | Description: | Actor, Drums | | | Summary: | In the 1970s, Lawrence founded Blerta ("Bruno Lawrence's Electric Revelation and Travelling Apparition"), a musical and theatrical co-operative active.
| | Date Born: | Monday 12 February 1968 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actress, USA | | | Summary: | Known for being a member of Wilson Phillips and for being the daughter of The Mamas & the Papas' band members John and Michelle Phillips | | Date Born: | Tuesday 12 February 1935 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | McDaniels had six Top 40 hits. The two that went into the top five were 1961's "Tower of Strength" and "A Hundred Pounds of Clay".
| | Date Born: | Wednesday 12 February 1958 | | | Description: | Vocalist , Composer, Arranger, Australia | | | Summary: | McLennan, who grew up in Far North Queensland, and Forster formed the Go-Betweens at university in Brisbane in 1977, recording their first single the following year and releasing their debut album in 1981.
| | Date Born: | Monday 12 February 1968 | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | Summary: | Brolin was born in California, the son of Jane Cameron Agee, a wildlife activist who was a native of Corpus Christi, Texas, and actor James Brolin. | | Date Born: | Friday 12 February 1932 | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | Summary: | He appeared in more than 40 movies including "A Raisin in the Sun," and "Blues for Mr. Charlie," "The Slave" and "The Black." | | Date Born: | Friday 12 February 1915 | | | Description: | Actor, Canadian | | | Summary: | Born to Russian Jewish immigrants, Daniel and Dora Green. | | Date Born: | Saturday 12 February 1944 | | | Description: | Vocalist , Guitarist, USA | | | Summary: | Marion Bandy was nicknamed Moe by his father when a child in the home-town of the legendary Jimmie Rodgers, so it is perhaps not surprising that he grew up to be a country singer. His Mother played the piano and also sang. He was taught the guitar by his father. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 12 February 1935 | | | Description: | Keyboardist, USA | | | Summary: | Ray Manzarek is of Polish descent and is a Catholic. Manzarek attended and graduated from St. Rita High School in Chicago and majored in economics at DePaul University. | | Date Born: | Friday 12 February 1943 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | Sammi Smith was born in Orange County, California, in 1943 but spent her childhood in the Southwest. She dropped out of school at the age of eleven and began to sing professionally in nightclubs. | | Date Born: | Saturday 12 February 1949 | | | Description: | Guitarist, USA | | | Summary: | Stanley Knight - lead guitar, steel guitar, organ, vocals 1965-1976 for The Black Oak Arkansas".
| | Date Born: | Sunday 12 February 1950 | | | Description: | Guitarist, UK | | | Summary: | His first recording work came in 1970, as a member of Quiet World, a band that included younger brother John Hackett on flute. | | Date Born: | Sunday 12 February 1911 | | | Description: | Saxophone, clarinet | | | Summary: | In 1945, he became head of the country division in Nashville, Tennessee and was responsible for recruiting such talent as Chet Atkins for RCA Victor. When he left Nashville, Atkins took over as head of the country music division. | | Date Born: | Thursday 12 February 1914 | | | Description: | Saxophonist, Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | Glenn Miller went missing on December 15, 1944 while flying to France from England. The Miller estate authorized an official Glenn Miller "ghost band" in 1946. This band was led by Tex Beneke who as time went on had more prominence in the band's identity. | | Date Born: | Monday 13 February 1928 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | Dorothy was the middle of three sisters Christine (oldest) and Phyllis (youngest), their mother was an ordained minister, they were born and raised in Middletown, Ohio, a Northern suburb of Cincinnati. | | Date Born: | Friday 13 February 1920 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | In 1942 she made her concert debut on CBS radio where she soon presented her own radio program. | | Date Born: | Friday 13 February 1976 | | | Description: | Singer-songwriter | | | Summary: | A Canadian singer-songwriter, both as a solo artist and as a member of the indie rock group Broken Social Scene. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 13 February 1923 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | Parents, David and Sarah Urick, were Russian Jewish immigrants from the Ukraine. No photo available. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 13 February 1934 | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | Summary: | Films that standout are many that include "A Touch Of Class" - 1973 and "Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Wolf" - 1966. | | Date Born: | Sunday 13 February 1944 | | | Description: | Talk show host | | | Summary: | A former Democratic mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio; musician; television personality | | Date Born: | Thursday 13 February 1947 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, Comedian | | | Summary: | His songs such as 'LIVING NEXT DOOR TO ALAN' is a clever song written
to the tune of 'Living Next Door To Alice' with Alan Bond in mind. | | Date Born: | Saturday 13 February 1937 | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | Summary: | Her father was a railroad clerk and former teacher; her mother also was a former teacher. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 13 February 1945 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | Floyd was born in New Orleans in 1945. His musical career started as a singer at the Sho-Bar in Bourbon Street. No photo available. | | Date Born: | Monday 13 February 1911 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | The last song that she ever recorded in concert was the same as her first record, "Loch Lomond." | | Date Born: | Sunday 13 February 1938 | | | Description: | Actor,UK | | | Summary: | His final role was the elderly slave dealer Proximo in Gladiator, in which he played alongside Richard Harris, an actor whom Reed admired greatly both on and off the screen. | | Date Born: | Friday 13 February 1942 | | | Description: | Guitarist, Actor, USA | | | Summary: | He was born in Washington, D.C. and began studying piano at the age of nine. | | Date Born: | Sunday 13 February 1944 | | | Description: | Percussionist, Ghanaian | | | Summary: | Reebop is not to be confused with Nigerian drummer Remi Kabaka. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 13 February 1974 | | | Description: | Vocalist, UK | | | Summary: | His first appearance was with Take That on Now 22 and his most recent appearance was on Now 66 with "She's Madonna". | | Date Born: | Saturday 13 February 1892 | | | Description: | Comedian, Actor, Vaudeville, Australia | | | Summary: | Rene was one of the most well known and successful Australian comedians of the 20th Century. Rene was the fourth of seven children of a Dutch Jew and an Anglo-Jewish wife. Named Henry Vande .
| | Date Born: | Friday 13 February 1981 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | The band name was taken from the famous children's author Shel Silverstein.
| | Date Born: | Saturday 13 February 1971 | | | Description: | Vocalist, UK | | | Summary: | Evans has also acted during her career, having been an extra in Brookside and in the television comedy Bread as the girlfriend of the youngest Boswell child, Billy. | | Date Born: | Sunday 13 February 1944 | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | Summary: | The daughter of Mary Alice, who came from a large Brooklyn-based Irish Catholic family, and Lester Napier Stockard, a shipping magnate and business executive. No photo available. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 13 February 1968 | | | Description: | Vocalist , Composer, Guitarist, Harmanica, USA | | | Summary: | Grammy for Best Country Instrumental Performance, 2003, for co-writing the Dixie Chicks song "Lil' Jack Slade. | | Date Born: | Friday 14 February 1941 | | | Description: | Guitarist, UK | | | Summary: | Jack Good introduced Sullivan to session work when he met him on the set of the television series Oh, Boy! | | Date Born: | Sunday 14 February 1943 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | Born in Pittsburgh, Eric Andersen belonged in the early sixties together with Phil Ochs and Bob Dylan to the Greenwich Village folkscene in New York. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 14 February 1934 | | | Description: | Actress, Singer, Dancer, USA | | | Summary: | Born to Elizabeth a homemaker, and Joseph Henderson, a tobacco sharecropper. | | Date Born: | Thursday 14 February 1985 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Australian | | | Summary: | Before Brown started to DJ, she was signed to a record label in the United Kingdom with a group called Fishbowl. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 14 February 1894 | | | Description: | Comedian, Actor, USA | | | Summary: | He was the son of Meyer Kubelsky, a Jewish haberdasher and Emma Sachs Kubelsky, both of whom had emigrated to America from Lithuania. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 14 February 1882 | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | Summary: | Barrymore was born into an illustrious theatrical family. His parents were Maurice Barrymore and Georgiana Drew. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 14 February 1968 | | | Description: | Television personality, writer, and former fashion model. USA | | | Summary: | Jules was an entertainment reporter for Good Morning England, HCTV, Reuters Television, The Entertainment Show, and Extra. | | Date Born: | Sunday 14 February 1937 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | Like so many Blues performers before him who found their fame in Chicago, Magic Sam was originally from the Mississippi Delta. He was born Samuel Maghett near Grenada, Mississippi, on February 14, 1937 into a sharecropping household. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 14 February 1934 | | | Description: | Pianist, Composer, Arranger, USA | | | Summary: | Starting in the 1960s, Saunders collaborated on and off with Jerry Garcia, and the Grateful Dead. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 14 February 1922 | | | Description: | Actor, Disc Jockey, USA | | | Summary: | Kaufman came from a show business family: his mother, Jean, played piano in vaudeville and wrote music and his aunt was a character actress on the stage and in film. He was a child actor - an extra - in several Hollywood 1930s films. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 14 February 1939 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | He was born February 14, 1939 in Hugley, Alabama and raised on a farm in Lafayette, Alabama. | | Date Born: | Thursday 14 February 1935 | | | Description: | Trombonist, composer, arranger, Canadian | | | Summary: | Over the years, Rob McConnell & The Boss Brass became one of Canada's most popular jazz ensembles. | | Date Born: | Monday 14 February 1972 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, USA | | | Summary: | American rock recording artist and songwriter. He is the primary songwriter and lead singer of the band Matchbox Twenty. Thomas also records and performs as a solo artist. | | Date Born: | Friday 14 February 1964 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, Australia. | | | Summary: | DeMarchi was born to Walter and Shirley DeMarchi and has three older siblings. One sister, Denise, is also a singer. | | Date Born: | Friday 14 February 1947 | | | Description: | Vocalist,Composer, USA | | | Summary: | Born in Washington DC, Buckley lived for 10 years in Amsterdam, New York before moving to southern California. | | Date Born: | Sunday 14 February 1892 | | | Description: | Producer and Theatrical Impresario, UK | | | Summary: | He auditioned and signed a young Julie Andrews for her first professional performance. | | Date Born: | Sunday 14 February 1943 | | | Description: | Guitarist, UK | | | Summary: | Victor Harvey Briggs (Born 14 Feb 1943 in Twickenham, London, England) is a former blues musician. NPA
| | Date Born: | Sunday 14 February 1932 | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | Summary: | He had a key role in the 1976 comedy The Bad News Bears.
| | Date Born: | Saturday 15 February 1941 | | | Description: | Composer, USA | | | Summary: | In 1963, Brian and Eddie Holland and Lamont Dozier teamed up as a songwriting-production unit.. Between 1963 and the end of 1967 H-D-H wrote majority of Motown's hit singles, with Brian writing the music, Eddie writing the lyrics, and Lamont doing both. NPA | | Date Born: | Saturday 15 February 1941 | | | Description: | Composer, USA | | | Summary: | In 1963, Brian and Eddie Holland and Lamont Dozier teamed up as a songwriting-production unit.. Between 1963 and the end of 1967 H-D-H wrote majority of Motown's hit singles, with Brian writing the music, Eddie writing the lyrics, and Lamont doing both. NPA | | Date Born: | Friday 15 February 1946 | | | Description: | Composer, Guitarist, Vocalist, Australia | | | Summary: | South Australian born musician and member of "The Garden" during the late sixties. | | Date Born: | Sunday 15 February 1942 | | | Description: | Record Producer, Enginee, UK | | | Summary: | Glyn Johns, born in Epsom, Surrey, England) is a musician, recording engineer and record producer.
| | Date Born: | Thursday 15 February 1934 | | | Description: | TV Host, Actor, Comedian, Australia | | | Summary: | Born in Camden Street, East St Kilda to Cyril William Kennedy and Mary Austen Kennedy. | | Date Born: | Friday 15 February 1918 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer , USA | | | Summary: | Locklin 1918, in McLellan, Florida is an American country music singer songwriter. NPA
| | Date Born: | Wednesday 15 February 1905 | | | Description: | Composer, Pianist, USA | | | Summary: | Born in Buffalo, New York, the child of a Jewish cantor. | | Date Born: | Thursday 15 February 1951 | | | Description: | Actress, UK | | | Summary: | Born to John Frankenberg, an English Jewish obstetrician of Polish and German origin, and his Dutch wife, Mieke Frankenberg. | | Date Born: | Saturday 15 February 1947 | | | Description: | Composer, USA | | | Summary: | Adams began composing at the age of ten and first heard his music performed around the age of 13 or 14. | | Date Born: | Friday 15 February 1901 | | | Description: | Guitarist, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | A cousin, John Wiggs, taught him the basics of the guitar. Arnold worked as a farmhand in New York State and a steelworker in Pittsburgh before moving to Chicago in 1929. | | Date Born: | Thursday 15 February 1951 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actress, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | Manchester was born in the Bronx area of New York city to a musical family of Jewish descent. Her father was a bassoonist for the New York Metropolitan Opera. | | Date Born: | Thursday 15 February 1951 | | | Description: | Harmonica, ukulele, saw, tenor guitar, washboard, jug | | | Summary: | Associated acts.The Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band, Conway Brothers Hiccups, The National Junk Band, Mic Conway and Robbie Long, guest and songwriting with The Wiggles | | Date Born: | Tuesday 15 February 1944 | | | Description: | Drummer, UK | | | Summary: | He is mostly noted as an expert back up performer, fluid jazz drumming and efficientness.NPA
| | Date Born: | Monday 15 February 1960 | | | Description: | Bassist, UK | | | Summary: | He became the bassist with Culture Club, one of the most popular bands of the 1980s. | | Date Born: | Monday 15 February 1960 | | | Description: | DJ, UK | | | Summary: | A former DJ, best known as a bassist of the 1980s pop group Culture Club. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 15 February 1916 | | | Description: | Band Leader, Arranger, UK | | | Summary: | Member of the famed World War II big band ’The Squadronaires’
becoming one of England’s best known bands during the war years
| | Date Born: | Tuesday 15 February 1910 | | | Description: | Composer, Organist, Choral Conductor, UK | | | Summary: | In 1971 he was awarded a Lambeth doctorate by the then Archbishop of Canterbury in recognition of his "eminent services to church music". | | Date Born: | Tuesday 16 February 1971 | | | Description: | Actress, presenter | | | Summary: | Television, Kiss Me Kate, The Grimleys, Hearts and Bones, Cutting It, Mad About Alice, Wild at Heart, Britain's Got Talent, Big Top, Superstar | | Date Born: | Thursday 16 February 1961 | | | Description: | Guitarist, UK | | | Summary: | He was born and raised in Cullercoats, Tyne and Wear, North East England, and attended Marden High School. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 16 February 1916 | | | Description: | Pianist. Arranger, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | He used a Hammond organ during the fifties. He also arranged for many bandleaders and performers, including Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, and Lionel Hampton. NPA | | Date Born: | Friday 16 February 1934 | | | Description: | Vocal Duo, USA | | | Summary: | The Kalin Twins were a pop music recording duo, comprising Herbert and Harold Kalin.
| | Date Born: | Thursday 16 February 1956 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Producer, Composer, Pianist, USA | | | Summary: | An American soul musician. Most famous for his vocal performance, he is also a self-taught musician who plays piano, guitar, bass, drums and keyboards. Additionally, he is a producer and songwriter.P/E
| | Date Born: | Monday 16 February 1914 | | | Description: | Vocalist , Composer, USA | | | Summary: | During the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, he released records, appeared in several B-Western movies with most of the major studios, appeared on radio and television and even had his own series of comic books.
| | Date Born: | Friday 16 February 1962 | | | Description: | Vocalist , Guitarist, UK | | | Summary: | Born in Mansfield, England, was the founder of the experimental music group Coil, along with his partner Peter Christopherson. | | Date Born: | Sunday 16 February 1947 | | | Description: | Vocalist and actor. | | | Summary: | John was the lead singer in Doc Severinsen's band, "Today's Children". He was managed by Bud Robinson, also Doc's manager. They parted ways in early 1974. O'Banion said that Johnny Carson was a big fan and supporter of his career. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 16 February 1949 | | | Description: | Vocalist, UK | | | Summary: | Lyn began her career in show business as a child actress with a small part in the television drama Coronation Street in 1960 which led her to be in the first ever episode.NPA | | Date Born: | Monday 16 February 1920 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | Patty, the youngest and the lead singer of the group. NPA | | Date Born: | Friday 16 February 1945 | | | Description: | Drummer, Producer, Teacher, Australia | | | Summary: | One of Adelaide's most popular drummers during the late sixties etc. | | Date Born: | Saturday 16 February 1935 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Producer, Producer, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | Born to Italian immigrants Jean and Santo, Bono began his music career working for the legendary record producer Phil Spector. | | Date Born: | Friday 16 February 1934 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | A member of "The Cadets" and "The Jacks" were Aaron Collins, Willie Davis, Austin "Ted" Taylor. Ted Taylor, who left the group in early 1956 | | Date Born: | Thursday 16 February 1939 | | | Description: | Vocal Duo, USA | | | Summary: | Harold and Herbert were the first set of twins to reach number one in the UK. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 16 February 1921 | | | Description: | Actress, Dancer, USA | | | Summary: | She was born to Martin Rohe and Alma Catherine Westmeier, both descended from German immigrants. She became one of the youngest Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall.
| | Date Born: | Saturday 17 February 1917 | | | Description: | Saxophonist, Trumpeter, Australia | | | Summary: | Born in Melbourne, Monsbourgh played mouth organ as a child and took piano lessons from the age of eight. His upper middle-class family lived in Kew. | | Date Born: | Saturday 17 February 1934 | | | Description: | Actor, UK | | | Summary: | Bates was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1996, and was knighted in 2003. He was an Associate Member of RADA and was a patron of The Actors Centre, Covent Garden, London from 1994 until his death in 2003.
| | Date Born: | Thursday 17 February 1994 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | An American singer from Beverly, Massachusetts. She is currently a Top 6 finalist on the twelfth season of American Idol. | | Date Born: | Saturday 17 February 1934 | | | Description: | Actor, Producer, Writer, Comedian, Australia | | | Summary: | Barry Humphries was born in the Melbourne suburb of Camberwell in Victoria, Australia. His grandfather was an immigrant to Australia from Manchester, England. His father was a well-to-do construction manager and Barry grew up in a clean, tasteful and modern home in Camberwell, then one of Melbourne’s new garden suburbs. | | Date Born: | Sunday 17 February 1946 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Canada | | | Summary: | The Toronto-born Bob McBride attended North Toronto Collegiate Institute in his youth. | | Date Born: | Friday 17 February 1933 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | "Tossin' And Turnin'" is on the CD "The Golden Age Of American Rock 'n'
Roll, Vol. 1".
| | Date Born: | Thursday 17 February 1938 | | | Description: | Banjoist, USA | | | Summary: | He was a member of Porter Wagoner's "Wagon Masters" from 1962 to 1973, and also appeared on the Roy Clark Show and Hee Haw. | | Date Born: | Saturday 17 February 1923 | | | Description: | Clarinetist, USA | | | Summary: | DeFranco was perhaps the only major jazz clarinet player to adapt to this change, and until the 1980's, he was the only notable jazz musician who played clarinet exclusively. | | Date Born: | Friday 17 February 1905 | | | Description: | Trumpeter and bandleader, USA | | | Summary: | He played with Paul Specht's band for most of 1924 to 1930, then spent time with Ben Pollack (1931–1934), the Dorsey brothers (1934–1935), and Ray Noble (1935– 1936). He played on "Solo Hop" in 1935 by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra. | | Date Born: | Saturday 17 February 1962 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, Australia. | | | Summary: | David McComb was born in Perth, the youngest of four boys. Both their parents were doctors, their father, Dr Harold McComb, a prominent plastic surgeon and their mother, Dr Athel Hockey. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 17 February 1971 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actress, USA | | | Summary: | Richards was born in Downers Grove, Illinois, the daughter of Joni, a coffee shop owner, and Irv Richards, a telephone engineer. She has one sister, Michelle. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 17 February 1953 | | | Description: | Drummer, Australia | | | Summary: | Pellicci played drums on John Farnham's adult contemporary album Uncovered. | | Date Born: | Sunday 17 February 1946 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | "Pink Shoe Laces" reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and it sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc.
| | Date Born: | Sunday 17 February 1991 | | | Description: | Singer-songwriter, producer, musician, UK | | | Summary: | In 2012, Sheeran began to rise to fame in the United States. He made a guest appearance on Taylor Swift's fourth album Red and wrote songs for the boyband One Direction. | | Date Born: | Monday 17 February 1941 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guiarist, USA | | | Summary: | Through the mid-1960s, he enjoyed considerable success on both sides of the Atlantic, and charted more than 20 Top 40 hit singles. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 17 February 1925 | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | Summary: | Holbrook was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Aileen a vaudeville dancer, and Harold Rowe Holbrook, Sr.P/A | | Date Born: | Saturday 17 February 1940 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actor, UK | | | Summary: | John Leyton was born on Feb. 17th 1939 at Frinton-On Sea, Essex, England, to parents of show business background. His father owned several cinemas and his mother acted under the name of 'Babs Walters' on the London stage. NPA | | Date Born: | Sunday 17 February 1935 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | Born in the blue-collar neighborhood of Kashmere Gardens in Houston, Texas, Bush listened to the western swing music of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys and the honky-tonk sounds of artists like Ernest Tubb, Lefty Frizzell and Hank Thompson. | | Date Born: | Monday 17 February 1964 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, Piano, UK | | | Summary: | Sanchez was born in London residing in the city. His family later moved to the Bewdley, Worcestershire area. As a teenager, Sanchez took up playing the guitar and soon formed a rockabilly trio, "The Rockets". | | Date Born: | Wednesday 17 February 1926 | | | Description: | Saxophonist, USA | | | Summary: | He appeared on American Bandstand with Johnny Mathis in 1957, and performed in the house band at a Harlem club owned by boxer Sugar Ray Robinson. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 17 February 1954 | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | Summary: | a Sicilian/Italian American, was born in Burbank, California, the daughter of Shirley (née Balocca), a factory worker and barmaid, and Nino Russo, a sculptor and car mechanic who left the family when Rene was two. | | Date Born: | Monday 17 February 1941 | | | Description: | Keyboardist , Composer, Arranger, Producer, Australia | | | Summary: | Born in South Australia in 1941, Tweed's first major musical venture was Adelaide band The Clefs, which later became Levi Smith's Clefs. | | Date Born: | Thursday 18 February 1943 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Australia | | | Summary: | He is mainly known for his years singing at the ’Palais’ in Adelaide fronting ’The Esquires’ where he stayed until the closure.
| | Date Born: | Monday 18 February 1935 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Irelannd | | | Summary: | Ciarán Bourke was born in Dublin on 18 February 1935, but lived most of his life in Tallaght, County Dublin. | | Date Born: | Saturday 18 February 1950 | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | Summary: | Star of The TV series ’Moonlighting’ with co star Bruce Willis.She dated Elvis Presley in the early 1970s and cared for him but could not handle his dependence on drugs and ultimately chose her boyfriend, film director Peter Bogdanovich, over Presley. P/A | | Date Born: | Tuesday 18 February 1941 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | She often headlined at her own club, which is now out of business due to the effects of Hurricane Katrina. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 18 February 1919 | | | Description: | Actor | | | Summary: | Palance, one of five children, born the son of Anna and Ivan John Palahniuk, who was an anthracite coal miner. | | Date Born: | Thursday 18 February 1954 | | | Description: | Actor, Singer, Dancer, USA | | | Summary: | An Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning American actor, dancer, and singer. | | Date Born: | Monday 18 February 1952 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | In 2005, Juice Newton appeared on the TV show "Hit Me Baby One More Time" on which she performed a well-received rendition of Ashlee Simpson's "Pieces Of Me" and a truncated version of "Queen of Hearts". | | Date Born: | Wednesday 18 February 1948 | | | Description: | Drummer, vocalist and songwriter. | | | Summary: | He became the drummer for the organist and vocalist Lee Michaels.
| | Date Born: | Tuesday 18 February 1964 | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | Summary: | Born to second-generation Irish American Catholic parents Paul Dillon a painter and sales manager, a packing material manufacturer and Mary Ellen. He has one sister and four brothers. P/A | | Date Born: | Sunday 18 February 1968 | | | Description: | Actress, Singer, Dancer, USA | | | Summary: | The daughter of Adele Edith, a housewife and chef, and Robert Scott "Bob" Ringwald, a blind jazz pianist. P/A | | Date Born: | Wednesday 18 February 1914 | | | Description: | Fiddle, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | He was born in Milwaukee to a Polish American family and lived in Abrams, Wisconsin.
| | Date Born: | Monday 18 February 1952 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | Crawford appeared at club gigs from Cincinnati to Saint-Tropez, and made her name in mid 1970s in New York, where she sang with jazzmen George Benson and Cannonball Adderley. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 18 February 1953 | | | Description: | Drummer, Canadian | | | Summary: | Robin "Robbie" Bachman is a drummer and the youngest brother of Canadian guitarist, singer, and songwriter, Randy Bachman. | | Date Born: | Friday 18 February 1977 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, Songwriter. USA | | | Summary: | Sean Watkins began his tenure with Nickel Creek playing mandolin, but later switched to guitar. The band has released three albums and a CD composed of their hits (called Reasons Why: | | Date Born: | Saturday 18 February 1950 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Canada | | | Summary: | Born in Ontario but later moved to Nova Scotia with her family.
| | Date Born: | Saturday 18 February 1933 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | Born to Georgianna Derico, Hunt started his life in Pittsburgh, where his school friends, nicknamed him Tommy and it has stayed with him throughout his entire life. | | Date Born: | Saturday 18 February 1933 | | | Description: | Vocalist, US | | | Summary: | Her mother was Isoko Ono, of the Yasuda banking family, and her father was Eisuke Ono, who worked for the Yokohama Specie Bank. Two weeks before she was born, her father was transferred to San Francisco. The rest of the family followed soon after. | | Date Born: | Sunday 19 February 1950 | | | Description: | Guitarist, UK | | | Summary: | Has appeared on recordings of both Ringo Starr and George Harrison. P/A
| | Date Born: | Sunday 19 February 1967 | | | Description: | Actor and film producer, Puerto Rico | | | Summary: | Benicio del Toro was born in San German, on the southwest side of the island of Puerto Rico, and grew up in Santurce, a district of San Juan. He is the son of Gustavo Adolfo del Toro Bermúdez and Fausta. Genoveva Sánchez Rivera, who were both lawyers.[ | | Date Born: | Monday 19 February 1940 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | An American soul singer and songwriter, notable as a member of Motown Records' first signed act and first million selling group The Miracles from 1956 until 2011. He was inducted along with the other members of the Miracles with the exception of Smokey Robinson in 2012 to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Rogers was the grandfather of R&B singer Brandi Williams from R&B girl group Blaque.
| | Date Born: | Sunday 19 February 1995 | | | Description: | Tenor saxophone and sometimes bass clarinet. | | | Summary: | Murray was a founding member of the World Saxophone Quartet with Oliver Lake, Julius Hemphill and Hamiet Bluiett. | | Date Born: | Saturday 19 February 1955 | | | Description: | Actor, Playwright, USA | | | Summary: | Daniels was born in Athens, Georgia and grew up in Chelsea, Michigan, where his father, Robert Lee Daniels, ran a local lumber yard. NPA | | Date Born: | Saturday 19 February 1966 | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | Summary: | Justine Bateman became interested in acting when her younger brother, Jason Bateman, joined the cast of Little House on the Prairie. She began working as a professional actress at the age of 11. P/A | | Date Born: | Monday 19 February 1923 | | | Description: | Lyricist, librettist, singer, songwriter and director. | | | Summary: | Marshall Barer began his career as a lyricist and song writer in the late 1940s while working as a very successful commercial artist/designer in New York. His most-heard song is the Mighty Mouse Theme (Here I Come to Save the Day) for the famous cartoons. | | Date Born: | Sunday 19 February 1911 | | | Description: | Actress, Bombay | | | Summary: | Merle Oberon has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (at 6250 Hollywood Boulevard) for her contributions to Motion Pictures.
| | Date Born: | Saturday 19 February 1944 | | | Description: | Double bassist, Scotland | | | Summary: | In 1962, Mathewson was in Germany playing professionally with a Scottish Dixieland band. | | Date Born: | Monday 19 February 1912 | | | Description: | Composer and musical director. | | | Summary: | He won Academy Awards for Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, An American in Paris and West Side Story as well as a nomination for High Society. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 19 February 1963 | | | Description: | Vocalist , Composer, Guitarist, UK | | | Summary: | Known professionally by his first name, Seal is known for his numerous international hits and his marriage to supermodel Heidi Klum. | | Date Born: | Monday 19 February 1940 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | In November 2007, Robinson toured Australia and performed with Australian band Human Nature. | | Date Born: | Monday 19 February 1912 | | | Description: | Pianist, Arranger, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | He attended Bell High School, in Bell, California, where he graduated in 1930. | | Date Born: | Thursday 19 February 1948 | | | Description: | Guitarist | | | Summary: | Black Sabbath were bigger in the USA than in England. P/A | | Date Born: | Tuesday 20 February 1945 | | | Description: | Guitarist, UK | | | Summary: | Hull took up the guitar as a boy and became a member of the band The Chosen Few. P/A | | Date Born: | Tuesday 20 February 1940 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | Member of The Fleetwoods' version of "Come Softly To Me" and "Mr Blue" which were major Australian hits in the fifties. NPA | | Date Born: | Sunday 20 February 1916 | | | Description: | TV host, USA | | | Summary: | Horn was the first compare of the show and was later to be replaced by Dick Clark.
| | Date Born: | Thursday 20 February 1975 | | | Description: | Singer-songwriter, actor, USA | | | Summary: | Brian Littrell was born in Lexington, Kentucky, United States. He has an older brother, and is the cousin of fellow Backstreet Boys member Kevin Richardson. He first started to sing in the choir of his Lexington Baptist church. | | Date Born: | Thursday 20 February 1941 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer , USA | | | Summary: | Buffy Sainte-Marie was born on the Piapot Cree reserve in the Qu'Appelle valley, Saskatchewan. She was orphaned and later adopted and grew up in Maine and Massachusetts with parents Albert and Winifred Sainte-Marie who were related to her biological parents. | | Date Born: | Sunday 20 February 1966 | | | Description: | Model, Actress, USA | | | Summary: | Born to John "Dan" Crawford and Jennifer Sue Walker Crawford in 1966.Crawford graduated from DeKalb High School in 1984, as valedictorian. | | Date Born: | Monday 20 February 1967 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, Guitarist,USA | | | Summary: | In the years following his death, Cobain is now often remembered as one of the most iconic rock musicians in the history of alternative music. | | Date Born: | Thursday 20 February 1936 | | | Description: | Actor, Singer, USA | | | Summary: | In 1965, Hovis was cast as "Sgt. Andrew Carter" in the television show Hogan's Heroes. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 20 February 1934 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Australia | | | Summary: | Lorraine has been the Entertainment Officer for the Adelaide Country Music Club for 15 years. | | Date Born: | Sunday 20 February 1949 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | A member of The Supremes who formed in 1960. Laurence replaced Cindy Birdsong in 1972. | | Date Born: | Saturday 20 February 1937 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA - Jazz | | | Summary: | An American singer with seventy plus albums, and three Grammy Awards so far in her career. She's been labeled a singer of blues, jazz, cabaret and pop; a "consummate actress"; and "the complete entertainer. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 20 February 1951 | | | Description: | Guitarist, Composer. USA | | | Summary: | Randy was born into a musical family in Los Angeles, and spent his early years studying varied styles at the family's Hollywood nightclub. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 20 February 1946 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actress, USA | | | Summary: | She was named one of the "most promising faces of tomorrow" by TIME magazine. In 1971, she starred in the television series Funny Face, later renamed The Sandy Duncan Show. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 20 February 1924 | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | Summary: | In 1963, Poitier became the first black man to win the Academy Award for Best Actor - for his role in Lilies of the Field. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 21 February 1893 | | | Description: | Guitarist, Spain | | | Summary: | Andrés Torres Segovia, 1st Marquess of Salobreña (21 February 1893–2 June 1987) was a Spanish classical guitarist born in Linares, Spain .
NPA | | Date Born: | Monday 21 February 1938 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | Leonard Chess of Chess records was to discover Bobby Charles in the fifties. | | Date Born: | Friday 21 February 1969 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | In 2008, Richardson became the new vocalist for San Francisco band Jefferson Starship and appears on the 2008 release Jefferson's Tree of Liberty. | | Date Born: | Friday 21 February 1986 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Wales | | | Summary: | Church was raised a Roman Catholic by her mother, Maria, who was separated from Church's biological father. Church was legally adopted by her mother's second husband, James Church in 1998. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 21 February 1979 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Compsoer, Actress - 2005 | | | Summary: | Hewitt was born to Patricia Mae a speech language pathologist, and Herbert Daniel Hewitt, a medical technician. | | Date Born: | Monday 21 February 1955 | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | Summary: | A six-time Emmy and a two-time Golden Globe-winning American actor best known for his two-decade portrayal of psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane in the NBC sitcoms Cheers (nine years) and Frasier. | | Date Born: | Thursday 21 February 1952 | | | Description: | Vocalist , Guitarist, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | As of 2005, she had sold more than 12 million records.
| | Date Born: | Saturday 21 February 1976 | | | Description: | Comedian, UK | | | Summary: | In addition to stand-up, he has hosted his own BBC One comedy programme Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow he has featured in three episodes of Live at the Apollo and in 2011, | | Date Born: | Tuesday 21 February 1933 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Pianist, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | Nina Simone's autobiography, I Put a Spell on You, was published in 1992 and she recorded her last album, A Single Woman in 1993.
| | Date Born: | Thursday 21 February 1946 | | | Description: | An Australian television presenter, Australia | | | Summary: | He has been chief newsreader for Melbourne's edition of Nine News since 1998, and prior to that was weekend newsreader.
| | Date Born: | Thursday 21 February 1946 | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | Summary: | Daly is the daughter of actor James Daly. Her younger brother is actor Timothy Daly. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 22 February 1910 | | | Description: | Saxophonist, USA | | | Summary: | Player of Jazz in the fifties - Joined Chick Web’s band plus Johnny Hodges’, Duke Ellington’s and many others. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 22 February 1938 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | From 1961, off and on, through 2008, Bobby Hendricks worked as lead singer with Bill Pinkney's original Drifters | | Date Born: | Thursday 22 February 1968 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | Raised in Long Beach, California, Nowell developed an interest in music at a young age. | | Date Born: | Sunday 22 February 1942 | | | Description: | Showgirls, UK | | | Summary: | Her involvement with a British government minister discredited the Conservative government of Harold Macmillan in 1963, in what is known as the Profumo Affair. | | Date Born: | Sunday 22 February 1920 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Pianist, USA | | | Summary: | A native and lifetime resident of Nashville, Polly was surrounded by the influences of early country music and the remaining vestiges of ragtime, particularly through the guitar pickers. | | Date Born: | Saturday 22 February 1975 | | | Description: | Actress, producer, director, model, USA | | | Summary: | American actress, film producer and film director. | | Date Born: | Saturday 22 February 1919 | | | Description: | Lyricist, USA | | | Summary: | Snyder won a Golden Globe for Best Original Song in a Film in 1966.
He studied piano at the Juilliard School before taking a job as a songwriter at the Brill Building. | | Date Born: | Sunday 22 February 1925 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actor, USA | | | Summary: | In 2007, he would have celebrated his 80th birthday anniversary. To commemorate his musical legacy and this landmark year the British division of Sonybmg release "The Essential Collection" CD.
| | Date Born: | Friday 22 February 1974 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist , Composer, UK | | | Summary: | James Blunt's debut single, by "soft release" in the UK was "High".
| | Date Born: | Tuesday 22 February 1881 | | | Description: | Pianist, Band Leader, USA | | | Summary: | Noted for pioneering big bands around 1914. Musical director for dance team Vernon and Irene Castle. | | Date Born: | Saturday 22 February 1908 | | | Description: | Actor, UK | | | Summary: | An Academy Award winning English actor, who made more than 120 films in a career spanning seven decades.
| | Date Born: | Saturday 22 February 1930 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | The credits for her many dubbing roles did not appear on the titles of any of the films. Nixon was credited only until the movies were released on Video yearslater.
| | Date Born: | Tuesday 22 February 1944 | | | Description: | Guitarist, UK | | | Summary: | He played his trademark Fender Telecaster on albums by the likes of Paul McCartney, Bryan Ferry and Van Morrison. | | Date Born: | Thursday 22 February 1945 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | In 1983, People magazine ran a feature article on Oliver, describing a happily married father who kept his distance from the music industry. | | Date Born: | Friday 22 February 1907 | | | Description: | Cornetist, USA | | | Summary: | He also toured Europe and Australia with Jazz at the Philharmonic from 1947 to 1951. | | Date Born: | Friday 22 February 1907 | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | Summary: | Best known for his role in the TV series ’FATHER KNOWS BEST’ - 1954 - 1960 and ’MARCUS WELBY, MD’ - 1969 - 1976 | | Date Born: | Wednesday 22 February 1928 | | | Description: | Guitarist, songwriter, singer | | | Summary: | Brown's professional music career started in a band called the Aladdin Chickenshackers, who regularly backed Amos Milburn | | Date Born: | Sunday 23 February 1958 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, UK | | | Summary: | His subsequent solo career has been influenced by a variety of musical styles and genres, including jazz, ambient, electronic, and progressive rock.
| | Date Born: | Thursday 23 February 1956 | | | Description: | Vocalist , Guitarist,Actor, Composer. USA | | | Summary: | Yoakam was born in Pikeville, Kentucky, the son of Ruth Ann, a key-punch operator, and David Yoakam, a gas-station owner. | | Date Born: | Saturday 23 February 1658 | | | Description: | Composer, Germany | | | Summary: | Handel was born in Halle in the Duchy of Magdeburg (province of Brandenburg-Prussia) to Georg and Dorothea Händel in 1685, the same year that both Johann Sebastian Bach and Domenico Scarlatti were born. | | Date Born: | Monday 23 February 1891 | | | Description: | Director | | | Summary: | Harry Cohn, sometimes nicknamed King Cohn, was president and production director of Columbia Pictures.
| | Date Born: | Monday 23 February 1948 | | | Description: | Guitarist, Australia | | | Summary: | Harry is one of Adelaide's finest guitarists and session musician. Harry is mainly known for his work with Adelaide's "Harts" during the mid sixties to the early seventies. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 23 February 1955 | | | Description: | Vocalist, keyboardists, UK | | | Summary: | He is the eldest of four boys (brothers Roy, Martin, and Paul). Born in Southampton, Hampshire, UK, he spent his early years in Stokenchurch, near High Wycombe. | | Date Born: | Friday 23 February 1962 | | | Description: | Guitarist, Composer, Norwegian | | | Summary: | John Norum is older brother of Swedish songstress Tone Norum.
| | Date Born: | Sunday 23 February 1941 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, USA | | | Summary: | In 1977, he produced the Muddy Waters album Hard Again, and in 1980, Muddy's final effort, King Bee. | | Date Born: | Thursday 23 February 1939 | | | Description: | Actor, Director, USA | | | Summary: | Fonda found work on Broadway where he achieved notice in Blood, Sweat and Stanley Poole, before going to Hollywood to make films. | | Date Born: | Saturday 23 February 1946 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Steel Guitar, USA | | | Summary: | Rolling Stone Magazine regarded Rusty Young as the "greatest slide guitarist in the world". | | Date Born: | Monday 23 February 1948 | | | Description: | Singer-songwriter, USA | | | Summary: | He has performed alongside performers ranging from Bob Hope to Chet Atkins to Gordon Lightfoot. | | Date Born: | Sunday 24 February 1946 | | | Description: | Drummer, USA | | | Summary: | The Aces came together in Memphis in 1972, first with bassist Jeff Davis and drummer Butch McDade?, who had recorded and toured with singer/songwriter Jesse Winchester. | | Date Born: | Saturday 24 February 1945 | | | Description: | Keyboardist, UK | | | Summary: | The band's merits include the million-selling 1975 hit single "Sky High", reaching top placing on both sides of the Atlantic as well as in Japan. | | Date Born: | Friday 24 February 1933 | | | Description: | Saxophonist, USA | | | Summary: | In Ray, the 2004 biographical film about Ray Charles, Newman was portrayed by Bokeem Woodbine | | Date Born: | Saturday 24 February 1923 | | | Description: | Cellist, USA | | | Summary: | He played with the NBC Radio Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Arturo Toscanini.
| | Date Born: | Tuesday 24 February 1948 | | | Description: | Actor, singer, voice-over artist, UK | | | Summary: | "I Could Be So Good For You", which was a top three UK hit in 1980 and a top 10 hit in Australia, and was written by his then-wife Patricia Waterman with Gerard Kenny. | | Date Born: | Friday 24 February 1922 | | | Description: | Composer of classical and electronic music, Australia | | | Summary: | His published and recorded music includes symphonies, chamber music for all combinations, solo concerti, choral works and operas/ | | Date Born: | Tuesday 24 February 1874 | | | Description: | Comoser of music, USA | | | Summary: | Botsford moved to New York City and became a Tin Pan Alley composer. | | Date Born: | Friday 24 February 1950 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist , Composer, USA | | | Summary: | The song 'Who Do You Love', another hit of the driving sound of Thorogood in 1979.
| | Date Born: | Monday 24 February 1941 | | | Description: | Vocalist , USA | | | Summary: | Sommers began singing in church choirs as a way to deal with "a difficult childhood", and in 1951 at age 10, appeared on a Buffalo television program singing Hank Williams' Your Cheating Heart. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 24 February 1965 | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | Summary: | An American actress, known for playing the role of Charlotte York Goldenblatt on HBO's Sex and the City.
| | Date Born: | Monday 24 February 1890 | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | Summary: | She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for the part, and portrayed the character in nine more Ma and Pa Kettle films. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 24 February 1932 | | | Description: | Pianist, Composer, Conductor, Arranger, (French) | | | Summary: | Legrand has composed more than two hundred film and television scores, several musicals, and made well over a hundred albums. | | Date Born: | Saturday 24 February 1917 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actress, USA | | | Summary: | An American jazz singer and songwriter. She began performing as a teen and continued performing into her nineties.
| | Date Born: | Thursday 24 February 1944 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, UK | | | Summary: | He is regarded as one of the most important session musicians in rock history, playing on countless hit recordings by leading British and American acts.
| | Date Born: | Monday 24 February 1947 | | | Description: | Composer, Producer, Sessions Musician, USA | | | Summary: | Holmes was born in England. His father, Leonard Goldstein, was a United States Army Warrant Officer and bandleader, his mother, Gwen, was English, and both were musical. | | Date Born: | Monday 24 February 1958 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | He established the Sammy Kershaw Foundation in his hometown of Kaplan, donating millions of dollars for the betterment of poverty-stricken children.
| | Date Born: | Saturday 24 February 1945 | | | Description: | Drummer, USA | | | Summary: | Steve Berrios was a jazz drummer and percussionist born in New York, New York. | | Date Born: | Thursday 24 February 1955 | | | Description: | Apple Inc. | | | Summary: | An American computer entrepreneur and inventor. He was co-founder,[6] chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. Jobs also previously served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in 2006. | | Date Born: | Saturday 24 February 1923 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, UK | | | Summary: | Composer and Singer. She wrote "Baby Lover" for Petula Clark, "Don't Take It Out on This World" for the Adam's Apples, and other hits for singers | | Date Born: | Saturday 24 February 1923 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, UK | | | Summary: | Composer and Singer. She wrote "Baby Lover" for Petula Clark, "Don't Take It Out on This World" for the Adam's Apples, and other hits for singers | | Date Born: | Saturday 24 February 1923 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, UK | | | Summary: | Composer and Singer. She wrote "Baby Lover" for Petula Clark, "Don't Take It Out on This World" for the Adam's Apples, and other hits for singers | | Date Born: | Sunday 25 February 1962 | | | Description: | Australian journalist, radio and television presenter, and media personality. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 25 February 1975 | | | Description: | Actress, Comedian, USA | | | Summary: | In July 2007, Handler began starring on her own half-hour, late-night comedy series on E! Entertainment Television titled Chelsea Lately. On the show's 100th episode, she revealed to viewers that the network had picked up Chelsea Lately for another 150 episodes. | | Date Born: | Thursday 25 February 1971 | | | Description: | Singer-songwriter, pianist, Canada | | | Summary: | He was named the best new artist at the Canadian Juno Awards.
| | Date Born: | Sunday 25 February 1945 | | | Description: | Vocalist, UK | | | Summary: | After she met husband Pete Gage she joined the short-lived fusioneers Dada before forming Vinegar Joe with Gage and Robert Palmer. After three albums, they split up in 1974, and Brooks and Palmer both went solo. | | Date Born: | Saturday 25 February 1950 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, Record Producer, Dancer, USA | | | Summary: | Considered by many as "the one man Beatles," his solo recordings of the early 1970s show a clear Paul McCartney influence in both vocals and musicianship. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 25 February 1873 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Italy | | | Summary: | Caruso was also the most popular singer in any genre of the first twenty years of the 20th century. | | Date Born: | Thursday 25 February 1932 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guiarist, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | Shreveport, Louisiana, was an American country music singer, predominantly in the honky tonk genre.
| | Date Born: | Sunday 25 February 1968 | | | Description: | Stand-up, television, theatre, books, Australia | | | Summary: | An Australian comedian who is best known for his work alongside Colin Lane as part of the comedic duo, Lano and Woodley. | | Date Born: | Thursday 25 February 1943 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, Composer, UK | | | Summary: | Born in Liverpool, England, to Louise and Harold Harrison, parents of a Roman Catholic family with deep roots in Ireland. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 25 February 1913 | | | Description: | Actor,Comedian, USA | | | Summary: | Backus was a student at the Kentucky Military Institute, but was expelled for riding a horse through the mess hall. In 1952 he had a brief scene in Don't Bother To Knock with Marilyn Monroe. | | Date Born: | Friday 25 February 1927 | | | Description: | Banjoist, USA | | | Summary: | Ralph created a unique style of banjo playing, sometimes called "Stanley Style". It evolved from Scruggs style, which is a three finger technique. | | Date Born: | Friday 25 February 1966 | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | Summary: | In 1988, Leoni was cast as one of the stars of Angels 88, an updated version of the 1970s show Charlie's Angels. In May 1988, Life magazine ran a story on the casting of this new series. | | Date Born: | Thursday 25 February 1937 | | | Description: | Actor, UK | | | Summary: | The son of Anne Eliza and Thomas Henry Courtenay, a boat painter. He attended Kingston High School there. | | Date Born: | Saturday 26 February 1921 | | | Description: | Actress, vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | A daughter of railroad foreman Percy E. Thornburg and his wife, the former Mabel Lum. Her father abandoned the family for another woman and they did not hear from or see him again until 1939, informing them of his death from suicide. P/A | | Date Born: | Monday 26 February 1945 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | As a young man he acquired a job in a record store and collected a huge amount of old Blues records. | | Date Born: | Monday 26 February 1951 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, Australia | | | Summary: | He has also appeared on many national T.V. shows including the MIDDAY SHOW, DON LANE'S I.M.T. and COUNTDOWN.
| | Date Born: | Thursday 26 February 1846 | | | Description: | Entrepreneur, USA | | | Summary: | Cody got his nickname after he undertook a contract to supply Kansas Pacific Railroad workers with bison meat. P/A | | Date Born: | Monday 26 February 1979 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, UK | | | Summary: | Rae was named the number-one predicted breakthrough act of 2006 in an annual BBC poll of music critics. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 26 February 1946 | | | Description: | Singer, songwriter, USA | | | Summary: | An American singer and Brooklyn-born singer, songwriter and guitarist, whose career began as a young teenager in the mid-1960s. | | Date Born: | Sunday 26 February 1928 | | | Description: | Vocalist, pianist, Producer, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | Domino crossed into the pop mainstream with "Ain't That a Shame" (1955). P/A | | Date Born: | Saturday 26 February 1916 | | | Description: | Actor, Band Leader, USA | | | Summary: | The son of Mae, a subway change-booth attendant, and Herb Gleason, an insurance auditor.One of two sons of a father from Ireland who abandoned the family, his brother died when Jackie was a boy, Gleason was raised by a loving but troubled, overworked Irish mother who died when he was 19. | | Date Born: | Friday 26 February 1932 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | "The Man in Black" was born J. R. Cash in Kingsland, Arkansas to his parents both of Scottish descent, and raised in Dyess, Arkansas. By age five, he was working in the cotton fields, singing along with his family as they worked.
| | Date Born: | Sunday 26 February 1950 | | | Description: | Vocalist , Composer, Keyboardist, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | Cain released his first record as the Jonathan Cain Band, Windy City Breakdown, in 1976 on Bearsville Records. | | Date Born: | Friday 26 February 1971 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Songwriter, Record Producer, USA | | | Summary: | Martin worked on Spears' first three studio albums which were made in the style of teen-oriented pop. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 26 February 1964 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer , USA | | | Summary: | Bolton was born in 1953 to a Jewish family in New Haven, Connecticut. The youngest of three children, he received his first record label contract at the age of 15.
| | Date Born: | Thursday 26 February 1920 | | | Description: | Actor, Writer, Australian | | | Summary: | He enjoyed brief success as an author of short stories, publishing works in Australia and the United States.
| | Date Born: | Monday 26 February 1945 | | | Description: | Vocalist. USA | | | Summary: | In 1980, this sonic ruse had succeeded to such an extent that Orion was voted as none other than one of "Cashbox" Magazine's top three male country vocalists in the world | | Date Born: | Wednesday 26 February 1947 | | | Description: | Vocalist, UK | | | Summary: | At that time, many of the population of Dagenham worked at Ford, and although Shaw had gained a place at art college, she turned it down and decided to work at the plant until her singing career took off. | | Date Born: | Thursday 26 February 1920 | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | Summary: | He was born to a Jewish family in Oklahoma, the son of Mogscha Rosenberg, an art and antiques dealer, and his wife, Julia Finston. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 27 February 1940 | | | Description: | Actor, Australian | | | Summary: | An Australian actor of film, stage and television.
| | Date Born: | Sunday 27 February 1972 | | | Description: | Journalist/broadcaster, singer, actor | | | Summary: | Baron Cohen was named Best Newcomer at the 1999 British Comedy Awards for The 11 O'Clock Show, and since then, his work has been further recognised with two BAFTA Awards for Da Ali G Show | | Date Born: | Tuesday 27 February 1945 | | | Description: | Vocalist , Actor, USA | | | Summary: | In total, Anderson released nine jazz and Soul albums as a solo artist, including hits "How Deep Does It Go," "Pieces Of A Heart," "Hot Coffee," and the mega-hit from his self-titled 1986 album, "Friends and Lovers" (a duet with Gloria Loring) which reached the number-two spot on the charts that year and endeared Carl to soap opera fans. Anderson also appeared on albums with other leading artists.
| | Date Born: | Tuesday 27 February 1945 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actor, USA | | | Summary: | Anderson was one of 12 children of James and Alberta Anderson. During his junior year of high school, Carl enlisted in the U.S. Air Force, where he served as a communications technician for two years. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 27 February 1934 | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | Summary: | Jarman was ten years old and in the fifth grade in Nashville, Tenn. when he was discovered in a nationwide talent search by MGM Studios | | Date Born: | Saturday 27 February 1937 | | | Description: | Vocalist. Composer, Guitarist, USA | | | Summary: | Born into a musical family with in the show business arena. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 27 February 1923 | | | Description: | Saxophonist, US | | | Summary: | Gordon was born and grew up in Los Angeles, where his father was a doctor who counted Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton among his patients. | | Date Born: | Saturday 27 February 1932 | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | Summary: | Taylor was born in Hampstead, the second child of Francis Lenn Taylor and Sara Viola Warmbrodt who were Americans residing in England. P/E | | Date Born: | Monday 27 February 1905 | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | Summary: | In the early 1960s Tone appeared in character roles on TV dramas like Bonanza, Wagon Train, The Twilight Zone, and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.
| | Date Born: | Thursday 27 February 1890 | | | Description: | Cornetist, USA | | | Summary: | Keppard was born in the Creole of Color community of downtown New Orleans, Louisiana. His older brother Louis Keppard was also a professional musician. Freddie played violin, mandolin, and accordion before switching to cornet. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 27 February 1907 | | | Description: | Pianist, Teacher, USA | | | Summary: | Piano teacher of Fats Domino who would later join Domino
on tour etc when Domino was an established artist. | | Date Born: | Thursday 27 February 1930 | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | Summary: | She won two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or TV Movie, for See How She Runs (1978) | | Date Born: | Friday 27 February 1981 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | Born to a Jewish American father, a descendant of Polish and Russian immigrants and a Norwegian American mother. | | Date Born: | Thursday 27 February 1947 | | | Description: | Keyboardist, UK | | | Summary: | He was the conductor of the orchestra and choir hired to back Electric Light Orchestra's sound, introduced on their album Eldorado in 1974. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 27 February 1973 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actor, Australia. | | | Summary: | Born to Greek parents Savvas and Thea, André has four older brothers Andrew, Chris, Danny, Michael and one older sister Debbie. | | Date Born: | Monday 27 February 1928 | | | Description: | Guitarist, USA | | | Summary: | Roy Montrell was one of the busiest sessionmen, and one of the most influential guitarists in New Orleans for more than 20 years. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 27 February 1951 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | He suffered from polio as achild, spending four years in hospital up to his sixteenth birthday. It was in hospital he first heard Bob Dylan, inspiring him to a career of words and music. PNA | | Date Born: | Friday 27 February 1914 | | | Description: | Pianist, Australia | | | Summary: | Born in Trinidad. Her family owned a pharmacy, and she trained as a druggist, and was expected to join the family business, Winifred, had played the piano since a young age, and went on to achieved popularityworld wide. | | Date Born: | Thursday 28 February 1952 | | | Description: | Drummer, Australia | | | Summary: | Sherbet (aka Highway or The Sherbs) are one of the most prominent and successful Australian rock bands of the 1970s. | | Date Born: | Sunday 28 February 1943 | | | Description: | Vocalist,Composer, USA | | | Summary: | Born Barbara Jean Acklin the only child of Herman and Hazel Acklin. | | Date Born: | Sunday 28 February 1943 | | | Description: | Actress, vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | The youngest of three children. Her mother Marguerite started her in show business by putting her on the television show Juvenile Jury at the age of three. | | Date Born: | Saturday 28 February 1942 | | | Description: | Guitarist, UK | | | Summary: | His middle-class parents, Lewis Blount and Louisa Beatrice Jones, were of Welsh descent. Brian had two sisters: Pamela, who was born in 1943 and who died on 14 October 1945 of leukemia. And Barbara, born in 1946. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 28 February 1923 | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | Summary: | Durning's memorable roles include police officers in the Oscar-winning The Sting (1973) and crime drama Dog Day Afternoon (1975), along with the comedies Tootsie. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 28 February 1928 | | | Description: | Steel Guitar, Hawaiian Music, Australia | | | Summary: | Steel Guitar Legend & Band Member Australia’s ‘Hawking Bros’ George Xanthos Leaves Many Memories.
In 1952 he headed a group called "The Trailblazers" in Victoria. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 28 February 1911 | | | Description: | Manager, Management | | | Summary: | Born James Ray Denney. He changed his last name to Denny was a long-time manager of the Grand Ole Opry Artists Service who went on to become one of the most successful talent agents and song publishers in country music history. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 28 February 1939 | | | Description: | Guitaris,USA | | | Summary: | John Aloysius Fahey was born in Takoma Park, MD into a musical household--both his parents played the piano. | | Date Born: | Saturday 28 February 1931 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, UK | | | Summary: | Joseph had prayed for talented children before the girls were born, and wasted no time in developing their musical skills.
| | Date Born: | Sunday 28 February 1943 | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | Summary: | Jack Nicholson dedicated his Academy Award for As Good as It Gets to the memory of Walsh, with whom he had starred in A Few Good Men and Hoffa in 1992.
| | Date Born: | Thursday 28 February 1946 | | | Description: | Singer/songwriter and actor. Austrian | | | Summary: | In 1978 he launched his career as a singer-songwriter and became known for his critical, macabre, and morbid lyrics. | | Date Born: | Friday 28 February 1947 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, Composer, Australia,Victoria | | | Summary: | After playing in many groups. He started working as a jinglewriter and was very successful. He also started his own record company "Full Moon Records" and a publishing company "Remix Publishing
| | Date Born: | Tuesday 29 February 1944 | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | Summary: | Before becoming an actor, Farina served three years in the US Army and then 18 years in the Chicago Police Department's burglary division, from 1967 to 1985. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 29 February 1916 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actress, USA | | | Summary: | She was most popular during the Big Band era of the 1940s and 1950s. After failing singing auditions for the bands of Benny Goodman and both Jimmy Dorsey and his brother Tommy Dorsey. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 29 February 1792 | | | Description: | Composer, Italy | | | Summary: | His original scores were found in the Library of Congress in Washington DC after World War II, dated from 1804 when the composer was twelve. Youtube: Gioachino Rossini : The Barber Of Seville - Overture | | Date Born: | Thursday 29 February 1940 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | The Fleetwoods were a singing trio from Olympia, Washington, United States; formed in the late 1950s. | | Date Born: | Monday 29 February 1904 | | | Description: | Band Leader, Arranger, USA | | | Summary: | Jimmy Dorsey was born in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, the son of a music teacher and older brother of Tommy Dorsey who also became a prominent musician. P/E | | Date Born: | Thursday 29 February 1940 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | South was also a prominent sideman, recording the memorable guitar part on Aretha Franklin's "Chain of Fools", Tommy Roe's "Sheila". Youtube: Joe South - Games People Play |
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