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The Premier International Online Directory of Musicians & Entertainers   music minder Search For:    In Table: Albums Birthdates Businesses Entertainers Hits Lyrics Memorials On This Day   Home Entertainers Businesses About Contact Albums Birthdates Hits Instruments Lyrics Memorials On This Day Home > Birthdates Menu > List Birthdates BIRTHDATES Search Results for Date: DECEMBER 31st 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: 20   Andy Summers   Date Born: Thursday 31 December 1942   Description: Guitarist, Composer, UK   Summary: Summers also was briefly a member in 1987 of the group Rush Hour, which became Animal Logic. Summers achieved international prominence as the guitarist for The Police, most notably on popular hits such as "Message in a Bottle", "Don't Stand So Close to Me", and "Every Breath You Take". Anthony Hopkins   Date Born: Friday 31 December 1937   Description: Actor, Wales   Summary: Starred in many movies including "All Creatures Great And Small" in 1977. Hopkins is a talented pianist. In 1986, he released a single called "Distant Star". Ben Kingsley   Date Born: Friday 31 December 1943   Description: Actor, UK   Summary: Kingsley of Indian and English decent has carved a career that would make anyone proud. Bob Bryar   Date Born: Monday 31 December 1979   Description: Drummer, USA   Summary: He is the only member of "My Chemical Romance" not to be an original member relpacing Matt Pelissier in 2004. Burton Cummings   Date Born: Wednesday 31 December 1947   Description: Vocalist, Composer, Keyboardist, USA   Summary: In 1970, the band - "The Guess Who" hit No. 1 in Canada with "American Woman." Catherine Britt   Date Born: Monday 31 December 1984   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, Australia   Summary: She was signed to ABC Country and recorded her first album, Dusty Smiles and Heartbreak Cures, in 2002. Donna Summer   Date Born: Friday 31 December 1948   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Member of a group called ’CROW’. Went solo after a stint in the German version of ’HAIR’ and also ’GODSPELL’ Hank Van Sickle   Date Born: Sunday 31 December 1961   Description: Bassist, Keyboardist, USA   Summary: According to John Mayall, his is the longest run of any bass player with the Bluesbreakers. Jaime Mendoza-nava   Date Born: Thursday 31 December 1925   Description: Composer and Conductor John Denver   Date Born: Friday 31 December 1943   Description: Vocalist , Guitarist, Actor, Composer, USA   Summary: In 2000, CBS presented the television movie Take Me Home: The John Denver Story loosely based on his memoirs, starring Chad Lowe. John Kirby   Date Born: Thursday 31 December 1908   Description: Bassist, USA   Summary: In 1993 Kirby was inducted into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame. Jonah Jones   Date Born: Thursday 31 December 1908   Description: Trumpeter, USA   Summary: His popularity during the fifties with his quartet helped modern Jazz become a popular item in music. Jule Styne   Date Born: Sunday 31 December 1905   Description: Composer of songs, USA   Summary: At the age of eight he moved with his family to Chicago, where at an early age he began taking piano lessons. He proved to be a prodigy and performed with the Chicago, St. Louis, and Detroit Symphonies before he was ten years old. June Tabor   Date Born: Wednesday 31 December 1947   Description: Vocalist, UK   Summary: June Tabor was inspired to sing by hearing Anne Briggs' EP Hazards of Love in 1965. Michael Hedges   Date Born: Thursday 31 December 1953   Description: Guitarist, Composer, USA   Summary: He saw himself as a composer who played guitar, rather than a guitarist who composed music. Odetta   Date Born: Wednesday 31 December 1930   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: On September 29, 1999, President Bill Clinton presented Odetta with the National Endowment for the Arts' National Medal of Arts. Peter Quaife   Date Born: Friday 31 December 1943   Description: Bassist, UK   Summary: Quaife left in 1969 replaced by John Dalton. The Kinks could be very much said to be underrated but there sound at the time was unique and some thought it would not last. Rex Allen   Date Born: Friday 31 December 1920   Description: Vocalist, Actor, USA   Summary: Actor after the Roy Rogers style played in 19 films including "The Phantom Stallion" - "Arizona Cowboy" - etc. Ross Balour   Date Born: Monday 31 December 1928   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: In 1950, The Four Freshmen got a break when band leader Stan Kenton heard the quartet in Dayton, Ohio, and arranged for an audition with his label, Capitol Records, which signed The Four later that year. Val Kilmer   Date Born: Thursday 31 December 1959   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Originally a stage actor, Kilmer became popular in the mid-1980s after a string of appearances in comedy films, starting with Top Secret! (1984)     © Music Minder All rights reserved: Prosecution rights will be exercised for any breaches of copyright.