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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 Interval: THIS MONTH Click on an Entertainer's name in the list to view more information about that Entertainer. Click on a date in the list to view a list of other Entertainers with the same birthdate.   Number of Records Matching Query: 580   Andy Johns   Date Born: Tuesday 1 January 1952   Description: British sound engineer and record producer, UK   Summary: Johns, the younger brother of Olympic Studios engineer Glyn Johns, attended The King's School, Gloucester, England in the mid to late 1960s. Before his nineteenth birthday, he was working as Eddie Kramer's second engineer on recordings by Jimi Hendrix. Art Gillham   Date Born: Tuesday 1 January 1895   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: An American songwriter, who was among the first crooners as a pioneer radio artist and a recording artist for Columbia Records. Art Pepper   Date Born: Thursday 1 January 1925   Description: Saxophonist, USA   Summary: Pepper’s writing in his book,’ Straight Life’ accounts the struggle of the musician and one of the great reads written about jazz. Chip Taylor   Date Born: Saturday 1 January 1944   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: Taylor's best known songs are "Wild Thing," which, though originally recorded in 1965 by Jordan Christopher & The Wild Ones, became best known as both a 1966 hit single for The Troggs. Country Joe Mcdonald   Date Born: Thursday 1 January 1942   Description: Vocalist, Actor, Composer, USA   Summary: His mother, Florence McDonald, served for many years on the Berkeley city council. As of 2007, Country Joe still lives in Berkeley. Dana Andrews   Date Born: Friday 1 January 1909   Description: Actor, Singer, USA   Summary: Born in Mississippi, the third of nine children of the Rev. Charles Forrest Andrews, a Baptist minister and his wife Annis. He is the brother of actor Steve Forrest.Dana Andrews was trained as a singer before he began his movie career, but the only time he sang in a movie, State Fair (1945), and then his voice was dubbed. Jean Stafford   Date Born: Sunday 1 January 1950   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, Australia   Summary: From the rural district of Meander in Northern Tasmania to Nashville Tennessee - the Country Music Capital of the World Jean Stafford triumphed on a remarkable journey. Joe Pass   Date Born: Tuesday 1 January 1929   Description: Guitarist, USA   Summary: Epiphone has produced an edition of the Emperor line of semi-acoustic Guitar in his honour. Previously Ibanez had a Joe Pass model jazz guitar, as they continue to for influential jazz guitarists George Benson and Pat Metheny. Karen Young - Uk   Date Born: Tuesday 1 January 1946   Description: Vocalist, UK   Summary: On 27 August 2010, she appeared on the BBC daytime programme "Cash in the Attic" Milt Jackson   Date Born: Monday 1 January 1923   Description: Vibraphone, USA   Summary: One of the most influential musicians of the be bop period. Morgan Fisher   Date Born: Sunday 1 January 1950   Description: Organ, UK   Summary: Fisher played the organ with the soul / pop band, The Soul Survivors, who in 1967 were renamed The Love Affair. They had a number one hit in 1968 with "Everlasting Love". Roman Totenberg   Date Born: Sunday 1 January 1911   Description: Violinist, USA   Summary: He was also awarded the gold medal at the Chopin Conservatory/Warsaw and continued his studies with Carl Flesch in Berlin, where he won the International Mendelssohn Prize in 1931. Tim Dao   Date Born: Sunday 1 January 1967   Description: Vocalist, US Xavier Cugat   Date Born: Monday 1 January 1900   Description: Violinist, Cuba   Summary: Cugat was born in Girona, in Catalonia (Spain). With his family, he immigrated to Cuba when he was five. Arthur Prysock   Date Born: Wednesday 2 January 1929   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Prysock received a Pioneer Award from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation in 1995. NP Carter Beauford   Date Born: Wednesday 2 January 1957   Description: Drummer, USA   Summary: Beauford was exposed to drumming at the age of three. At the time, his father had bought tickets to a Buddy Rich concert. Carter was mesmerized by Buddy Rich on stage. Chick Churchill   Date Born: Friday 2 January 1942   Description: Keyboardist, UK   Summary: Churchill began playing the piano at the age of six and studied classical music until he was fifteen. He became interested in blues and rock music. Chris Cheney   Date Born: Thursday 2 January 1975   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, Australia   Summary: Cheney attended Jells Park Primary School in Wheelers Hill between 1981–1987 and Wheelers Hill Secondary College. Chris Cheney   Date Born: Thursday 2 January 1975   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, Ausstralia   Summary: Cheney began his career with double bassist Scott Owen in the early 1990s, in a Melbourne cover band, The Runaway Boys, who took their name from a Stray Cats song of the same name. Clare Moore   Date Born: Saturday 2 January 1960   Description: Vocalist, UK   Summary: She played the role of Christine Daaé in the original cast of The Phantom of the Opera, as alternate Christine to Sarah Brightman Cuba Gooding Jr   Date Born: Tuesday 2 January 1968   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Gooding was born in The Bronx, New York, the son of Shirley, a singer with the Sweethearts, and Cuba Gooding, Sr., a lead vocalist of soul group The Main Ingredient. He has a brother, fellow actor Omar Gooding. His family moved to Los Angeles after Gooding, Sr's music group had a hit single with "Everybody Plays the Fool" in 1972 Graeme Strachan   Date Born: Wednesday 2 January 1952   Description: Vocalist, Australian   Summary: Graeme "Shirley" Strachan Born 2 January 1952. Died 29 August 2001. Was the lead singer of Australian 1970s rock group Skyhooks. Grantley Dee   Date Born: Wednesday 2 January 1946   Description: Vocalist, Disc Jockey, Radio, Australia   Summary: He made his name in the 1960s as a popular presenter of Melbourne radio station 3AK. TV-radio station manager Nigel Dick recruited him as a 16-year-old in 1963 in an effort to score publicity for the station that had just been taken over by GTV-9. Roger Miller   Date Born: Thursday 2 January 1936   Description: Vocalist , Guitarist, Composer, USA   Summary: Roger Miller, the youngest of three boys, was born in Fort Worth, Texas, to Laudene Holt Miller (mother) and father Jean Miller. Jean died when Roger was only a year old, and he was subsequently sent to live with his aunt and uncle, Elmer and Armelia Miller, in Erick, Oklahoma. Tia Carrere   Date Born: Monday 2 January 1967   Description: Vocalist, Actress, Model, USA   Summary: Her first major break though was in the daytime soap opera General Hospital. Bernard Greenhouse   Date Born: Monday 3 January 1916   Description: Cellist, USA   Summary: Bernard Greenhouse has won a reputation as one of the major interpreters of his instrument. Bud Tingwell   Date Born: Wednesday 3 January 1923   Description: Actor, Australia   Summary: After the success of The Castle, Tingwell's career has undergone a revival during the late 1990s and early 2000s. Dabney Coleman   Date Born: Sunday 3 January 1932   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Coleman has been married twice.He has four children: Meghan, Kelly, Randy, and Quincy. Danny Overbea   Date Born: Sunday 3 January 1926   Description: Guitarist, USA   Summary: Danny Overbea was based in Chicago, but in Cleveland got started in music in a big way when he formed a vocal-instrumental trio called the Three Earls. Dave Dobbyn   Date Born: Thursday 3 January 1957   Description: Vocalist, Composer, Producer, New Zealand   Summary: In the late seventies success came with the band "The Dudes" that formed in school charting with "Be Mine Tonight". Gene Summers   Date Born: Tuesday 3 January 1939   Description: Vocalist , Composers, USA   Summary: His first record was released on February 1, 1958, under the name of Gene Summers & His Rebels. George Martin   Date Born: Sunday 3 January 1926   Description: Record Producer, Conductor, UK   Summary: Martin's family acquired a piano that sparked his interest in music. At eight-years-old, Martin persuaded his parents that he should take piano lessons, but those ended after only eight lessons because of a disagreement between his mother and the teacher. Guy Pratt   Date Born: Wednesday 3 January 1962   Description: Bassist, Composer, UK   Summary: He recently was a guest contestant on Australian music game show Spicks and Specks. John Paul Jones   Date Born: Thursday 3 January 1946   Description: Bassist UK   Summary: Jones was born in Sidcup, Kent, now part of Greater London. The name John Paul Jones was suggested to him by a friend, Andrew Loog Oldham, after seeing a movie poster for the film of that name in France. Leon Mcauliffe   Date Born: Wednesday 3 January 1917   Description: Steel Guitarist   Summary: He in more noted, however, for his most famous composition, "Steel Guitar Rag", and his playing, along with that of "Bob Dunn Light Crust Doughboys". Maxene Andrews   Date Born: Monday 3 January 1916   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: The Andrews Sisters became the best-selling female vocal group in the history of popular music, setting records that remain unsurpassed to this day Mel Gibson   Date Born: Tuesday 3 January 1956   Description: Actor, Director, Australia-American   Summary: Gibson was born in Peekskill, New York, the sixth of eleven children. He is the 15th son of Hutton Gibson and Irish-born Anne Reilly Gibson. Ray Milland   Date Born: Tuesday 3 January 1905   Description: Actor, Welsh   Summary: An actor and director who worked primarily in the United States. His screen career ran from 1929 to 1985. Rudy Wiedoeft   Date Born: Tuesday 3 January 1893   Description: Saxophonist, Composer, USA   Summary: Before 1920, the Holton Instrument Company took features from existing production model saxophones and marketed them as the "Rudy Wiedoeft Model". However, it is doubtful Wiedoeft actually performed on such instruments. Stephen Stills   Date Born: Wednesday 3 January 1945   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, Composer, USA   Summary: Stills was born in Dallas to a military family. Moving around as a child, he developed an interest in blues and folk music. He was also influenced by Latin music after spending his youth in Gainesville and Tampa, Florida, Costa Rica and the Panama Canal Zone, where he graduated from high school. Van Dyke Parks   Date Born: Sunday 3 January 1943   Description: Pianist, USA   Summary: As a child, Parks attended the American Boychoir School. He began his career as a child actor. Between 1953 and 1958 he worked steadily in films and television, including the 1956 movie The Swan (which starred Grace Kelly). Victor Borge   Date Born: Sunday 3 January 1909   Description: Pianist, Comedian, Danish   Summary: His parents, Bernhard and Frederikke Rosenbaum, were both musicians his father was a violinist in the Royal Danish Chapel, and his mother played piano. Victoria Principal   Date Born: Thursday 3 January 1946   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: She is the elder of two daughters born to Victor Principal and Bertha Ree Veal. Her father was a sergeant in the Air Force, Principal moved often, growing up in London, Florida, Puerto Rico, Massachusetts, and Georgia . She studied at the Royal Academy of Ballet while in England. Barbara Rush   Date Born: Tuesday 4 January 1927   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: She began working on television in the 1950s. She later became a regular performer in TV movies, miniseries, and a variety of other shows including Peyton Place and the soap opera All My Children. Brian Ray   Date Born: Tuesday 4 January 1955   Description: Guitarist, USA   Summary: An American session musician, musical director, guitarist and singer–songwriter. Doc Neeson   Date Born: Saturday 4 January 1947   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, Composer, Australia   Summary: On New Year's Eve, 1999, Neeson announced his departure from The Angels at the MGM Grand Darwin Millennium Concert after a major car accident Don Arden   Date Born: Monday 4 January 1926   Description: Businessman, music manager, agent, impresario, publicist and author   Summary: He was the father of Sharon Osbourne (father-in-law of Ozzy Osbourne) and David Levy, by his wife, Hope Shaw. Dyan Cannon   Date Born: Wednesday 4 January 1939   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: She has become a born-again Christian, although she still considers herself to be of Jewish descent. Eugene Chadbourne   Date Born: Monday 4 January 1954   Description: Guitarist and banjoist.   Summary: Influenced early on by the experimental stylings of Captain Beefheart and the Mothers of Invention. Frank Wess   Date Born: Wednesday 4 January 1922   Description: Saxophonist, Composer, Clarinetist, USA   Summary: From 1953 he joined Count Basie's band, playing flute and tenor sax. He reverted to alto sax in the late '50s, and left Basie's band in 1964. Jane Wyman   Date Born: Sunday 4 January 1914   Description: Actress, Singer Dancer, USA   Summary: Wyman started in show business as a radio singer and dancer, then broke into movies in the early 1930s as a Goldwyn Girl. She appeared in more than 80 films from 1932 to 1969, plus two documentaries in the 1990s. Joe E Lewis - Guitarist   Date Born: Monday 4 January 1937   Description: Guitarist, Producer, USA   Summary: He was mainly known for being a guitarist and a harmony singer for country artist Conway Twitty and his bands. John Gorman   Date Born: Saturday 4 January 1936   Description: Vocalist, Comedian, Actor, UK   Summary: Gorman worked as a telecommunications engineer. He was a member of The Scaffold, best known for their 1968 hit single Lily the Pink. John Mclaughlin   Date Born: Sunday 4 January 1942   Description: Guitarist, Composer, UK   Summary: He played with Miles Davis on his landmark albums In A Silent Way, Bitches Brew. Patty Loveless   Date Born: Friday 4 January 1957   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: After graduation from High School in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1975 Loveless chose to travel in a small band with Terry Lovelace, whom she married in 1976. (When she began performing professionally, she changed her name from Patty Lovelace to Loveless. Peter Steele   Date Born: Thursday 4 January 1962   Description: Singer-songwriter, guitarist   Summary: As the frontman for Type O Negative, Steele was known for his vampiric looks, rich bass-baritone vocals, and a dark, often self-deprecating sense of humor. Sterling Holloway   Date Born: Wednesday 4 January 1905   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: In 1991 Holloway, along with singer and actress Julie Andrews and others, was honored as a Disney legend for his contributions to the studio's creations. Alvin Ailey   Date Born: Monday 5 January 1931   Description: Dancer, choreographer, USA   Summary: Ailey is credited with popularizing modern dance and revolutionizing African-American participation in 20th century concert dance. Athol Guy   Date Born: Friday 5 January 1940   Description: Bassist, Australia   Summary: Athol Guy is one of the members of the Australian pop folk music group The Seekers. He was characterized by his wearing of black horn-rimmed glasses. Bob Keane   Date Born: Thursday 5 January 1922   Description: Clarinetist, USA   Summary: MCA billed him as "The World's Youngest Bandleader". Bradley Cooper   Date Born: Sunday 5 January 1975   Description: Actor. USA   Summary: Cooper began his professional acting career on the television series Sex and the City in 1999. Diane Keaton   Date Born: Saturday 5 January 1946   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: Keaton is the oldest of seven children. Her mother, Dorothy was a homemaker and amateur photographer, and her father, Jack Hall 1921–1990, was a real estate broker and civil engineer. Don Hartman   Date Born: Saturday 5 January 1946   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, Composer, USA   Summary: Member of U.S. group "The Frost" in the late sixties. He Was Rhythm Guitarist. George Reeves   Date Born: Monday 5 January 1914   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Reeves was born George Keefer Brewer in Woolstock, Iowa, the son of Don Brewer and Helen Lescher. His death certificate erroneously lists his birthplace as Kentucky. George was born five months into their marriage. Iris Dement   Date Born: Thursday 5 January 1961   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: The youngest child of Pat DeMent and his second wife, Flora Mae. Jack Brokensha   Date Born: Tuesday 5 January 1926   Description: Vibraphonist   Summary: Fluent with vibes and drums as well as arranging and composing, Australian. Jo Ann Kelly   Date Born: Wednesday 5 January 1944   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, UK   Summary: After establishing a musical partnership with the British blues musician Tony McPhee, Kelly appeared on two McPhee compiled albums for Liberty Records. Johnny Adams   Date Born: Tuesday 5 January 1932   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Adams was a member of "The Soul Revelers" also "Bessie Griffin & The Soul Consolatory". Marilyn Manson   Date Born: Sunday 5 January 1969   Description: Vocalist, Actor, USA   Summary: The son of Barb and Hugh Warner. His father was a Catholic and his mother Episcopalian. According to his autobiography The Long Hard Road Out of Hell, Warner is of German and Polish ancestry on his father's side. Phil Ramone   Date Born: Sunday 5 January 1941   Description: Violinist, composer, recording engineer, and record producer.   Summary: With 33 Grammy nominations, 14 Grammy Awards, including a Technical Grammy for his lifetime of innovative contributions to the recording industry, an Emmy, and numerous honors and accolades to his credit. Robert Duval   Date Born: Monday 5 January 1931   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Duvall was born the son of Mildred Virginia, an amateur actress and relative of American Civil War General Robert E. Lee, and William Howard Duvall, a Virginia-born U.S. Robert Duvall   Date Born: Monday 5 January 1931   Description: Acting, USA   Summary: A veteran actor, Duvall has starred in some of the most acclaimed and popular films and TV shows of all time, among them The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, To Kill a Mockingbird, THX 1138, Joe Kidd, The Godfather, The Godfather Part II Sam Phillips   Date Born: Friday 5 January 1923   Description: Record producer   Summary: In the 1940s, Phillips worked as a DJ for Muscle Shoals, Alabama radio station WLAY (AM). According to Phillips, this radio station's "open format" of broadcasting music from both white and black musicians. would later inspire his work in Memphis. Thom Mooney   Date Born: Monday 5 January 1948   Description: Drummer, USA   Summary: Tom Mooney the drummer for early psychedelic garage rock band from the 1960s. Tyler James   Date Born: Tuesday 5 January 1982   Description: Singer, Sonwriter, UK   Summary: After guesting on the underground R&B track "Wilder" by Stargate in 2001, which became a nightclub favourite in London, James got his first taste of celebrity. Aleksandra Scriabin   Date Born: Saturday 6 January 1872   Description: Pianist, Composer, Russian   Summary: Scriabin stands as one of the most innovative and most controversial of composers. No one was more famous during his lifetime, and few were more quickly ignored after his death. Bob Jackson   Date Born: Tuesday 6 January 1948   Description: keyboardist/guitarist, UK   Summary: Jackson formed his first professional rock group in 1969, called Indian Summer. Bobby Lord   Date Born: Saturday 6 January 1934   Description: Vocalist , Guitarist, USA   Summary: In the early 1950s, he won a talent show which led to an appearance on Paul Whiteman's television show in New York. Soon after, in 1953, Boudleaux Bryant heard one of Lord's demo tapes and passed it on to Columbia Records, who signed him. Bonnie Franklin   Date Born: Thursday 6 January 1944   Description: Actress, UK   Summary: Bonnie Franklin was best known as Ann Romano, the divorced mother on One Day at a Time, a long-running comedy-drama of the 1970s and 80s. Mackenzie Phillips and Valerie Bertinelli played her teenaged daughters, and the series dealt with "real life" issues so often, almost every episode seemed to be a "very special episode". In One Day's nine-year run. Danny Thomas   Date Born: Saturday 6 January 1912   Description: Actor, Vocalist, Producer, Comedian, USA   Summary: Danny Thomas to Charles and Margaret Jacobs. He was of Lebanese descent. He first performed under his Anglicized birth name, Amos Jacobs, before settling on the stage name, Danny Thomas, which were the first names of two of his brothers. He lived in various cities as a child, including Toledo, Ohio, and Rochester New York. Dean Turner   Date Born: Thursday 6 January 1972   Description: Bassist, Australia   Summary: He was best known as a founding member of, and bass player for, Australian rock band, Magic Dirt. Doris Troy   Date Born: Wednesday 6 January 1937   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: One of the most talented one-hit wonders of the rock era, Doris Troy hit the Top Ten with "Just One Look" in 1963. Earl Scruggs   Date Born: Sunday 6 January 1924   Description: Vocalist, Banjoist, USA   Summary: Scruggs was born to Georgia Lula Ruppe and George Elam Scruggs. Scruggs joined Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys in late 1945 and his syncopated, three-finger picking style quickly became a sensation. Harry M. Miller   Date Born: Saturday 6 January 1934   Description: Promoter and Publicist.   Summary: Miller gives advice and manages all communication, negotiations and media attention surrounding an individual or company that finds themselves under intense public spotlight for example. Henry Corden - (fred Flintstone)   Date Born: Tuesday 6 January 1920   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Corden gave his voice to a number of other Hanna-Barbara productions, including The Jetsons, The Atom Ant Show, The New Tom & Jerry Show. Jack Jones - Australia   Date Born: Wednesday 6 January 1971   Description: Vocalist , Australia   Summary: Irwin Thomas was formerly known as Jack Jones, and was the lead singer in the 1990s Australian band Southern Sons. Jane Harvey   Date Born: Tuesday 6 January 1925   Description: Vocalist, USA Keith Christie   Date Born: Tuesday 6 January 1931   Description: Trombonist, UK   Summary: In 1970-71 he joined Benny Goodman on a tour of Europe. Loretta Young   Date Born: Monday 6 January 1913   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: She was born in Salt Lake City, Utah as Gretchen Young she took the name Michaela at confirmation she moved with her family to Hollywood when she was three years old. Loretta and her sisters Polly Ann Young and Elizabeth Jane Young screen name Sally Blane worked as child actresses, of whom Loretta was the most successful. Nicole Dehuff   Date Born: Monday 6 January 1975   Description: Actress, Singer, USA   Summary: She had a regular role in the 2002 TV series The Court and appeared in CSI: Miami, Without a Trace, Dragnet, The Practice, and Monk. Paul Hester   Date Born: Tuesday 6 January 1959   Description: Drummer, Australia   Summary: An Australian musician and television personality; he was the drummer for the related bands, Split Enz and Crowded House. Paul Wilson   Date Born: Sunday 6 January 1935   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Paul Wison was a founding member of "The Flamingos" a doo wop group from the United States, most popular in the mid to late 1950s. Rowan Atkinson   Date Born: Thursday 6 January 1955   Description: Actor, comedian, UK   Summary: Atkinson was born in County Durham in 1955. His parents were Eric Atkinson, a farmer and company director, and his wife Ella May, who had married on 29 June 1945. Sandy Denny   Date Born: Monday 6 January 1947   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Alexandra Elene Maclean Denny, known as Sandy, was born at Nelson Hospital, Kingston Road, Merton Park, and studied classical piano as a child. Her Scottish grandmother was a singer of traditional songs. In 1968, Denny became the lead vocalist for Fairport Convention (replacing Judy Dyble), Syd Barrett   Date Born: Sunday 6 January 1946   Description: Guitarist, UK   Summary: Barrett was born to a middle-class family. His father, Arthur Max Barrett, was a prominent pathologist, and both he and his wife, Winifred, encouraged the young Roger in his music. Tom Mix   Date Born: Tuesday 6 January 1880   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Mix was born into a relatively poor logging family in Mix Run, Pennsylvania, about 40 miles north of State College, Pennsylvania. He spent his childhood growing up in nearby Dubois, Pennsylvania learning to ride horses. Van Mccoy   Date Born: Saturday 6 January 1940   Description: Vocalist, Pianist, USA   Summary: Van's musical career started when his brother, Norman, Jr. and a few high school buddies formed a street corner singing group called the Starlighters. Van became the lead singer, writer, and music director for the group. Al Bowlly   Date Born: Friday 7 January 1898   Description: Vocalist, UK   Summary: A popular Jazz guitarist, singer, and crooner in the United Kingdom and later in the United States. Andrew Brown   Date Born: Monday 7 January 1946   Description: Drummer, UK   Summary: Member of English group The Fortunes. Danny Williams   Date Born: Wednesday 7 January 1942   Description: Vocalist, UK   Summary: In the early 1990s he recorded for the Prestige record label and subsequently starred in a Nat "King" Cole tribute show which made several British tours. Irene Petrie   Date Born: Friday 7 January 1944   Description: Vocalist, Australia   Summary: Irene Petrie began her career over 35 years ago with her erliest recordings in early begining in the mid sixties. Jann Wenner   Date Born: Monday 7 January 1946   Description: Co- founder and publisher of the music magazine - "Rolling Stone"   Summary: Wenner has been involved in conducting and writing of many of the magazine's famous Rolling Stone Interviews. Jean-pierre Rampal   Date Born: Saturday 7 January 1922   Description: Flautist, French   Summary: Rampal is best known for popularising the flute in the post–World War II years, recovering a vast number of flute compositions from the Baroque era. Kathy Valentine   Date Born: Wednesday 7 January 1959   Description: Vocalist, Bassist, USA   Summary: Kathy Valentine, born Austin, Texas is the bassist for the all-girl punk-pop band, The Go-Go's. Katie Couric   Date Born: Monday 7 January 1957   Description: Talk show host, Actress, Television journalist, USA   Summary: The Today Show Anchor and Co-Host (1991–2006) CBS Evening News Anchor (2006–present) Kenny Davern   Date Born: Monday 7 January 1935   Description: Clarinetist, US   Summary: In the late 1980s, the New York Times hailed him as "the finest jazz clarinetist playing today". Kenny Loggins   Date Born: Wednesday 7 January 1948   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist,Composer, USA   Summary: His early 20s found him in the band Gator Creek with Mike Deasy. An early version of "Danny's Song" (later recorded by Loggins and Messina) was included on an effort on Mercury Records. Marshall Chapman   Date Born: Friday 7 January 1949   Description: Vocalist, Composer , USA   Summary: Her memoir, published in 2003, titled "Goodbye, Little Rock and Roller", has received critical acclaim in the music press. Megan Washington   Date Born: Tuesday 7 January 1986   Description: Keyboardist, Vocalist, Australia   Summary: Megan Washington is an Australian musician and songwriter who records and performs under the single moniker Washington. She sings and plays piano and guitar. Mike Mccartney   Date Born: Friday 7 January 1944   Description: Vocalist, Composer, Photographer, UK   Summary: Amember of the group "Scaffold" and also Paul McCartney's younger brother. Nicolas Cage   Date Born: Tuesday 7 January 1964   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: His father, August Floyd Coppola, is a writer and comparative literature professor, while his mother, Joy Vogelsang, is a choreographer and ballet dancer. Red Allen   Date Born: Sunday 7 January 1906   Description: Trumpeter, USA   Summary: A jazz trumpeter whose style has been claimed to be the first to fully incorporate the innovations of Louis Armstrong. Andrew Wood   Date Born: Saturday 8 January 1966   Description: Vocalist, Bassist, USA   Summary: The lead singer of the band Mother Love Bone, and earlier of Malfunkshun. Bill Goodwin - Drums   Date Born: Thursday 8 January 1942   Description: Drummer, USA   Summary: Grammy Award winning albums "More Live" (Adelphi), "At The Vanguard" (Antilles) Chris Marion   Date Born: Monday 8 January 1962   Description: Keyboardist , USA   Summary: Better known as a member of the Australian band, Little River Band David Bowie   Date Born: Wednesday 8 January 1947   Description: Vocalist,Actor, Composer, UK   Summary: In 1992 he performed his hit "Heroes" and "Under Pressure" (with Annie Lennox) at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert. Elvis Presley   Date Born: Tuesday 8 January 1935   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: In 1946, for his eleventh birthday, Presley received his first guitar. Elvis Presley Movies   Date Born: Tuesday 8 January 1935   Description: Actor, Vocalist, USA   Summary: Elvis Presley made 31 films as an actor. Elvis Presley Official   Date Born: Tuesday 8 January 1935   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: In 1973, Presley staged the first concert broadcast globally via satellite, Aloha from Hawaii, seen by approximately 1.5 billion viewers. Evelyn Dall   Date Born: Tuesday 8 January 1918   Description: Vocalist, Actress, USA   Summary: Born in The Bronx, New York City Dall began her career in short films and in supporting roles on Broadway. Evelyn Lear   Date Born: Friday 8 January 1926   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: From 1957 until his retirement in 1996, McBeth taught at Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. Graham Chapman   Date Born: Wednesday 8 January 1941   Description: Actor ,comedian, writer   Summary: After reuniting with the Pythons in 1983 for Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, Chapman began a lengthy series of U.S. college tours where he would tell the audience anecdotes about Monty Python, the Dangerous Sports Club. Ian Bargh   Date Born: Tuesday 8 January 2019   Description: Pianist, UK   Summary: Born in Prestwick, Scotland, Bargh established himself by the age of 17 as a classical pianist that played with jazz ensembles in the U.K. James Blundell   Date Born: Wednesday 8 January 1964   Description: Vocalist , Guitarist, Composer, Australia   Summary: An Australian country music singer. Blundell's first album, in 1989, was a self-titled effort, followed up by "Hand It Down", which was released in the United States in 1990. Jenny Lewis   Date Born: Thursday 8 January 1976   Description: Vocalist , Composer, Actress, USA   Summary: Lewis went on to appear in over a dozen teen-themed movies, such as Troop Beverly Hills, in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Jerry Garcia   Date Born: Friday 8 January 1943   Description: Guitarist, USA   Summary: Jerry Garcia's ancestry was Galician Spanish, Irish, and Swedish. Jose Ferrer   Date Born: Friday 8 January 1909   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Ferrer, who was born in the Santurce district of San Juan, Puerto Rico. In 1933 he graduated from Princeton University. Keith Norris   Date Born: Monday 8 January 1968   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist , Composer, USA   Summary: Shares his birthdate with Elvis Presley. Larry Storch   Date Born: Monday 8 January 1923   Description: Actor, Comedian, USA   Summary: He played a recurring role as Charlie, a drunk, on Car 54, Where Are You. Lee Jackson   Date Born: Friday 8 January 1943   Description: Bassist, UK   Summary: Jackson came to prominence in the 1960s in the progressive rock group The Nice with keyboardist Keith Emerson and drummer Brian Davison. Little Anthony   Date Born: Wednesday 8 January 1941   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame on October 15, 2006. The Rhythm And Blues Foundation's Pioneer Award in 1993. Luther Perkins   Date Born: Sunday 8 January 1928   Description: Guitarist, USA   Summary: He recorded on most of the Johnny Cash records from the mid fifties. Max C Freedman   Date Born: Sunday 8 January 1893   Description: American songwriter and lyricist   Summary: One of his first successes as a writer, credited as Ray Freedman, was "Sioux City Sue", a hit record for the song's co-writer Dick Thomas in 1945 Robby Krieger   Date Born: Tuesday 8 January 1946   Description: Guitarist, USA   Summary: He was the guitarist in The Doors, and wrote some of the band's best known songs, including "Light My Fire", "Love Me Two Times". Shirley Bassey   Date Born: Friday 8 January 1937   Description: Vocalist, Welsh   Summary: She is the only singer to have recorded more than one James Bond theme song. She performed the theme songs to the James Bond films Goldfinger 1964, Diamonds Are Forever 1971, Moonraker 1979. Soupy Sales   Date Born: Friday 8 January 1926   Description: Actor, US   Summary: One of the fans of the Soupy Sales show was Frank Sinatra. When Sinatra started his own record label, Reprise Records, he signed Sales to a recording contract. Two albums were produced with Reprise. Terry Sylvester   Date Born: Monday 8 January 1945   Description: Vocal, Guitarist, UK   Summary: Sylvester grew up in the Allerton, Liverpool, only a few hundred yards from his older contemporary, Paul McCartney. Yvette Mimieux   Date Born: Wednesday 8 January 1941   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: An American actress,and now retired from movies and television. A J. Mclean   Date Born: Monday 9 January 1978   Description: Singer, songwriter, actor, USA   Summary: McLean was born in West Palm Beach, Florida to Bob and Denise (née Fernandez) McLean. He is of Latino and German ancestry on his mother's side and Scottish, Irish and English on his father's side. Adriana Xaenidez   Date Born: Monday 9 January 1956   Description: TV co host, Australia   Summary: She holds the distinct record as being the longest-running game show host/co-host for her 18-year run on Wheel of Fortune in Australia. Al Silver   Date Born: Friday 9 January 1914   Description: Management, USA   Summary: Al silver was the owner of Herald and Ember Records during th fifies. Bill Cowsill   Date Born: Friday 9 January 1948   Description: Vocalist , Guitarist, Composer, USA Bob Denver   Date Born: Wednesday 9 January 1935   Description: Actor, Comedian, USA   Summary: He costarred with Dwayne Hickman on "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis" in 1959. Bunney Brooke   Date Born: Sunday 9 January 1921   Description: Actress, Australia   Summary: Brooke was adopted at an early age and had an unhappy early life. As a young adult, she saw marriage as a means of escape, marrying Leonard Brooks in 1946. The union produced two children but ended after four years, with Brooke reporting that they were "wrong for marriage". Crystal Gayle   Date Born: Tuesday 9 January 1951   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: She accumulated 18 No. 1 country hits during the 1970s and 1980s.P/E Curtis Young   Date Born: Saturday 9 January 1943   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: The Jordanaires are members of the "Gospel Hall of Fame" Dave Matthews   Date Born: Monday 9 January 1967   Description: Vocalist, Composer, Guitarist, Pianist, South Africa   Summary: A South African, now naturalized American, Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter and musician. Domenico Modugno   Date Born: Monday 9 January 1928   Description: Vocalist, Actor, Italy   Summary: From a young age he wanted to become an actor and in 1951, after his military service, he enrolled in an acting school. Ed Shaughnessy   Date Born: Wednesday 9 January 1929   Description: Drummer, USA   Summary: A swing music and bebop drummer best known for his long association with Doc Severinsen and The Tonight Show Band on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Gary Shearston   Date Born: Monday 9 January 1939   Description: Vocalist, Composer, Australia   Summary: He is notable as a performer of Australian traditional folk songs in an authentic style. He scored a Top 10 hit in the United Kingdom in 1974 with his cover version of the Cole Porter song, "I Get a Kick out of You". Gracie Fields   Date Born: Sunday 9 January 1898   Description: Vocalist, Actress , Comedian   Summary: In 1956, Fields played Miss Jane Marple in a US TV production of Agatha Christie's A Murder is Announced. The production featured Jessica Tandy and Roger Moore, and predates the Margaret Rutherford films by some five years. Jimmy Boyd   Date Born: Monday 9 January 1939   Description: Singer, Actor, USA   Summary: He recorded the song I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus for Columbia Records, when he was 12 years and 11 months old. Jimmy Page   Date Born: Sunday 9 January 1944   Description: Guitarist, Songwriter, Producer, UK   Summary: Page was born in the suburb of Heston, which today forms part of the London Borough of Hounslow. His father was an industrial personnel manager and his mother was a doctor's secretary. In 1952 they moved to Miles Road, Epsom. Joan Baez   Date Born: Thursday 9 January 1941   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: Baez was born on Staten Island to Mexican and Scottish parents. Jose Jimenez   Date Born: Saturday 9 January 1926   Description: Vocalist, Composer, Mexico   Summary: He had no musical training, Jiménez didn't play an instrument and didn't even know the Spanish terms for "waltz" and "key". Keith Lamb   Date Born: Wednesday 9 January 1952   Description: Vocalist, Songwriter, Producer, Australia   Summary: He was arguably Australia's best front man of the 1970s, along with Bon Scott and Doc Neeson. Kenny Clark   Date Born: Friday 9 January 1914   Description: Drummer, USA   Summary: Played with many greats that included Thelonious Monk and Dizzy Gillespiein the Be bop field. Les Paul   Date Born: Saturday 9 January 1915   Description: Guitarist, USA   Summary: He was born to George and Evelyn Polfus. His birth name was first simplified by his mother to Polfus before he took his stage name of Les Paul. Marcus Doubleday   Date Born: Saturday 9 January 1943   Description: Trumpeter, USA   Summary: Born in Tacoma, Washington. Phil Lewis   Date Born: Wednesday 9 January 1957   Description: Guitarist, UK   Summary: Phil was engaged to model and actress Britt Ekland in the late 70's and early 80's. Scott Walker   Date Born: Sunday 9 January 1944   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Scott Walker's early solo career was successful in Britain. Susannah York   Date Born: Thursday 9 January 1941   Description: Actress, UK   Summary: In 1972 she won the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival for her role in Images. An Academy Award-nominated English film and television actress. Barbara Orbison   Date Born: Tuesday 10 January 1950   Description: Entrepreneur, Music Producer, Publisher   Summary: She produced Damien Leith's album, Roy: A Tribute To Roy Orbison, which was released by Sony BMG in Australia on April 15, 2011 to coincide with what would have been Roy Orbison's 75th birthday. Buddy Johnson   Date Born: Sunday 10 January 1915   Description: Band leader, Pianist, Composer, USA   Summary: In 1946 Johnson composed a Blues Concerto, which he performed at Carnegie Hall in 1948. Donald Fagen   Date Born: Saturday 10 January 1948   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Fagen and Walter Becker founded Steely Dan in August 1972. Gizele Mackenzie   Date Born: Monday 10 January 1927   Description: Vocalist , Canadian - American   Summary: In 1953 she reached #6 in the UK Singles Chart, with her rendition of "Seven Lonely Days". Jerry Wexler   Date Born: Wednesday 10 January 1917   Description: Record producer, USA   Summary: In Ray, the biopic of Ray Charles, Jerry Wexler is portrayed by Richard Schiff. Jim Croce   Date Born: Sunday 10 January 1943   Description: Vocalist, Composer   Summary: Croce is paid tribute to in The Righteous Brothers song Rock And Roll Heaven. Johnnie Ray   Date Born: Monday 10 January 1927   Description: Vocalist, Actor, Songwriter, USA   Summary: Ray was born in Oregon, eventually moving to Portland, Oregon. His great-grandmother was a full-blooded Indian and his great-grandfather was Oregon pioneer George Kirby Gay of Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England. Les Gilbert   Date Born: Thursday 10 January 1946   Description: Keyboardist, Bass, Australia   Summary: Les was a founding member of "The Wild Cherries" during the sixties. Martin Turner   Date Born: Friday 10 January 1947   Description: Bassist, Vocalist. USA   Summary: The bass guitarist, lead vocalist and a founder member of the the rock band, Wishbone Ash. Max Roach   Date Born: Thursday 10 January 1924   Description: Drummer, Composer, USA   Summary: Roach was born in the Township of Newland Pasquotank County, North Carolina, which borders the southern edge of the Great Dismal Swamp, to Alphonse and Cressie Roach. Pat Benatar   Date Born: Saturday 10 January 1953   Description: Vocalist,Composer, USA   Summary: She was discovered at an amateur-night contest in the New York City comedy club Catch a Rising Star in 1977. Paul Henreid   Date Born: Friday 10 January 1908   Description: Actor   Summary: Known professionally as Paul Henreid, was an Austrian actor and film director. Ray Bolger   Date Born: Sunday 10 January 1904   Description: Actor, Dancer, USA   Summary: He like Gene Kelly was a song and dance man as well as a comedian. Rod Stewart   Date Born: Wednesday 10 January 1945   Description: Vocalist, Composer, UK   Summary: It has been estimated that Stewart's album and single sales total more than 250 million,earning him a place on the list of best-selling music artists. Ronnie Hawkins   Date Born: Thursday 10 January 1935   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Hawkins was inducted into the Canadian Music Industry Hall of Fame at the Canadian Music Industry Awards on 4 March 2004. His pioneering contribution to the genre has also been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. Sal Mineo   Date Born: Tuesday 10 January 1939   Description: Actor, Vocalist, Drummer , USA   Summary: An Academy Award-nominated performance opposite James Dean in the film Rebel Without a Cause. Scott Mckenzie   Date Born: Monday 10 January 1944   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: An American singer, best known for his 1967 hit single and anthem, "San Francisco, Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair". Scott Thurston   Date Born: Thursday 10 January 1952   Description: American guitarist, keyboardist, songwriter, and session musician.   Summary: Thurston later became a professional songwriter, penning tunes for (and sometimes with) Jackson Browne, Iggy Pop, and The Motels Axella Johannesson   Date Born: Saturday 11 January 1958   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, Composer, Australia   Summary: Johannesson's family moved to Selden, New York in 1963, as part of the great exodus to the suburbs. She later moved to the Smithtown area with her mother and sister, when her parents divorced. Axella Johannesson   Date Born: Saturday 11 January 1958   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, Composer, Australia   Summary: Johannesson's family moved to Selden, New York in 1963, as part of the great exodus to the suburbs. She later moved to the Smithtown area with her mother and sister, when her parents divorced. Bille Brown   Date Born: Friday 11 January 1952   Description: Stage, film and television actor and acclaimed playwright. Australia   Summary: He began his career in the early 1970s at Queensland Theatre Company, working alongside Geoffrey Rush. Clarence Clemons   Date Born: Sunday 11 January 1942   Description: Saxophonist, USA   Summary: He released several solo albums and in 1985 had a hit single with "You're a Friend of Mine", a duet with Jackson Browne. Daryl Braithwaite   Date Born: Tuesday 11 January 1949   Description: Vocalist, Australia   Summary: Mainly known as the lead vocalist of Sherbet, with many hit singles with the band include,"How's That".He was crowned Australia's King of Pop by TV Week over three consecutive years from 1975 to 1977. As a child, he attended Punt Road Primary School in South Yarra, Victoria and then Christ Church Grammar, also in Punt Road, where he sung in the school choir, and for a time was in the same class as Olivia Newton-John. Dennis Greene   Date Born: Tuesday 11 January 1949   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Greene sang lead in the song "Tears on My Pillow". Don Cherry - Singer   Date Born: Friday 11 January 1924   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Not to be confused with the jazz trumpeter of the same name. Jody Payne   Date Born: Saturday 11 January 1936   Description: Vocalist, singer. USA   Summary: Jody Payne was an American country musician and singer. He is best known as a longtime guitarist in Willie Nelson's band, The Family. Katie Webster   Date Born: Saturday 11 January 1936   Description: Pianist, Composer, USA   Summary: An American boogie-woogie pianist. Mary J. Blige   Date Born: Monday 11 January 1971   Description: Vocalist , Composer, USA   Summary: She was ranked number 100 in the list of 100 greatest singers of all time by Rolling Stone magazine. As of 2010, Blige has sold over 50 million albums and 15 million singles. Mick Cocks   Date Born: Tuesday 11 January 1955   Description: Guitarist, Australia   Summary: One of the founding members of Australian rock band Rose Tattoo, guitarist Mick Cocks. Mickey Finn - Musician   Date Born: Saturday 11 January 1947   Description: Percussionint. UK   Summary: After Bolan and T.Rex's demise, he played sessions for The Blow Monkeys and The Soup Dragons. Naomi Judd   Date Born: Friday 11 January 1946   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: Having passed life’s worst tests in such an elegant, yet down-to earth way has made Naomi one of the entertainment world’s most admired women. Newton Faulkner   Date Born: Friday 11 January 1985   Description: Singer, Songwriter   Summary: He then spent time recording and playing gigs under the name Newton Battenberg Faulkner, including the Lapagestock festival in 2005. Rod Taylor   Date Born: Saturday 11 January 1930   Description: Actor, Australia   Summary: His middle name comes from his great-great grand uncle, Captain Charles Sturt, a famous British explorer of Australia. He has homes in southern California and in his native Australia. Slim Harpo   Date Born: Friday 11 January 1924   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: The album The Best of Slim Harpo was first released by Rhino Records in 1989 and re-released by Excello Records in 1997. Susan Reed   Date Born: Monday 11 January 1926   Description: Vocalist, harpist and zitherist, USA   Summary: A regular on the New York folk scene. Terry Williams - (drummer)   Date Born: Sunday 11 January 1948   Description: Drummer, Wales   Summary: Between 1981 and 1982, he was part of the Neverland Express band, backing Meat Loaf, and in 1982 joined Dire Straits, with whom he played until 1988. Tommy Duncan   Date Born: Wednesday 11 January 1911   Description: Vocalist, Composer , USA   Summary: When bandleader Bob Wills decided to form a more independent band, he and Duncan became the creative core of The Texas Playboys. Tony Kaye   Date Born: Friday 11 January 1946   Description: Organ, keyboards, UK Vicki Peterson   Date Born: Saturday 11 January 1958   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, USA   Summary: In 1981 she founded The Bangs, later renamed The Bangles, with her sister Debbi Peterson, and Susanna Hoffs. Amerie   Date Born: Saturday 12 January 1980   Description: Vocalist, Actress, Composer, Model, USA   Summary: Rogers was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts to an African-American father and a Korean mother. Blixa Bargeld   Date Born: Monday 12 January 1959   Description: Vocalist, Composer, Guitarist, Germany   Summary: A member of groups, Einstürzende Neubauten and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Brian Culbertson   Date Born: Friday 12 January 1973   Description: Trumpeter, Keyboards, USA   Summary: Brian Culbertson also works with many other musicians in the smooth jazz arena, often as a composer and arranger. Charlie Gracie   Date Born: Sunday 12 January 1936   Description: Vocalist, Guiarist, USA   Summary: A pioneer of Rockabilly during the early fifties. Des Oconnor   Date Born: Tuesday 12 January 1932   Description: Vocalist, UK   Summary: He is one of only a handful of British entertainers to be acclaimed internationally on stage and television. Felipe Rose   Date Born: Tuesday 12 January 1954   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Rose is a founding member of "The Vilage People" Frankie Davidson   Date Born: Friday 12 January 1934   Description: Vocalist, Composer, Australia.   Summary: Arguably Australia's greatest entertainer, his motto "If you ain’t laughin’ you ain’t livin’ ". Fred Mcdowell   Date Born: Tuesday 12 January 1904   Description: Guitarist, USA   Summary: He started playing guitar at the age of 14 and played at dances around Rossville. George Duke   Date Born: Saturday 12 January 1946   Description: Keyboardist, USA   Summary: He is known for his solo work as well as for his collaborations with other musicians, particularly Frank Zappa. Glenn Yarbrough   Date Born: Sunday 12 January 1930   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, USA   Summary: The first singers to record the traditional "The House of the Rising Sun" Howard Stern   Date Born: Tuesday 12 January 1954   Description: Disc Jockey, Radio Personality   Summary: American radio and TV personality, media mogul, humorist, actor, and author. Joe E Lewis   Date Born: Sunday 12 January 1902   Description: Vocalist, Comedian, USA   Summary: He appeared frequently on The Ed Sullivan Show, was the "Mystery Guest" three different times on What's My Line, and was interviewed on Person to Person in 1956. Kirstie Alley   Date Born: Friday 12 January 1951   Description: Actress, Comedy, USA   Summary: Kirstie Alley has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7000 Hollywood Blvd. Larry Hoppen   Date Born: Friday 12 January 1951   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, Songwriter. USA   Summary: Larry sang lead on two of Orleans' biggest hits, "Still the One" and "Dance with Me." Long John Baldry   Date Born: Wednesday 12 January 1944   Description: Vocalist, UK   Summary: The nick name Long John came about because of his Height. Maggie Bell   Date Born: Friday 12 January 1945   Description: Vocalist, Scotland   Summary: Her song "No Mean City", written by Mike Moran, is the theme music to the TV crime drama Taggart. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi   Date Born: Saturday 12 January 1918   Description: In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Maharishi achieved fame as the guru to The Beatles   Summary: He began to be known as Maharishi Mahesh Yogi around the year 1955. His devotees referred to him as His Holiness, and because he often laughed in TV interviews he was sometimes referred to as the "giggling guru". Maude Nugent   Date Born: Friday 12 January 1877   Description: Composers, Actress, Author,USA   Summary: She was the wife of William Jerome. Songwriter ("Sweet Rosie O'Grady")composer, actress and author. Melanie Chisholm   Date Born: Saturday 12 January 1974   Description: Vocalist, Actress, UK   Summary: She is also third after Lennon and McCartney for the most UK number-one singles by a British co-writer and is the only female to reach the UK number-one as part of a quintet, quartet, duo and as a solo artist. Mort Shuman   Date Born: Wednesday 12 January 1938   Description: Composer, Pianist, USA   Summary: While playing piano on some of Doc Pomus's recordings. In 1958 he and Pomus formed a partnership that lasted until 1965. Ray Price   Date Born: Tuesday 12 January 1926   Description: Vocalist Composer   Summary: Country music hall of fame - 1996. Began his recording career in the fifties with a song ’JEALOUS LIES’ Ricky Van Shelton   Date Born: Saturday 12 January 1952   Description: Vocalist , Guitarist, Composer, USA   Summary: Ricky got the love for country music at the age of fourteen and also rock and roll. Shirley Thoms   Date Born: Monday 12 January 1925   Description: Vocalist, Yodeller, Guitarist, Australia   Summary: Shirley is was mainly known for her Yodelling. Tex Ritter   Date Born: Thursday 12 January 1905   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: He is the father of Thomas Ritter and the late American actor of films and television star John Ritter who starred in "Three's Company". Tom Ardolino   Date Born: Wednesday 12 January 1955   Description: Drummer, USA   Summary: A rock drummer best known as a member of NRBQ (New Rhythm and Blues Quartet). Trummy Young   Date Born: Friday 12 January 1912   Description: Trombonist, USA   Summary: With Sy Oliver, he wrote "T'ain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It)", a hit for both Lunceford and Ella Fitzgerald in 1939. Billy Gray   Date Born: Thursday 13 January 1938   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Gray still resides at the house in Topanga, located between Malibu and Santa Monica, California, which he purchased in 1957 at the height of his Father Knows Best popularity. The house has over the years become something of a "motorcycle museum". Bobby Lester   Date Born: Wednesday 13 January 1932   Description: Vocalist, US   Summary: Originally formed in their native Louisville, Kentucky as the Crazy Sounds Boris Gardiner   Date Born: Wednesday 13 January 1943   Description: Vocalist, Bassist, USA   Summary: Gardiner was a member of 'The Upsetters' in Jamaica. He also had a hit with the song 'Elizebeth Reggae' in 1970. Brad Hawkins   Date Born: Sunday 13 January 1974   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, USA   Summary: Born in Dallas, Texas. He with his mother moved to Summerville, South Carolina. Carl Dobkins Jr   Date Born: Monday 13 January 1941   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: He started singing at local dance parties and record hops and in a short time landed a contract with Cincinnati based Fraternity Records. Daevid Allen   Date Born: Thursday 13 January 1938   Description: Guitarist, Australia   Summary: In 1960, inspired by the Beat Generation writers he had discovered whilst working in a Melbourne bookshop. Danny Barker   Date Born: Wednesday 13 January 1909   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, Banjo, Ukelele, USA   Summary: He was a rhythm guitarist for some of the best bands of the day, including Cab Calloway, Lucky Millinder and Benny Carter throughout the 1930s. David Platz   Date Born: Sunday 13 January 1929   Description: Manager and music founder Essex Music, USA   Summary: He also founded two record labels, Fly and Cube, and, from 1973 to 1986, served as a publisher director of the Performing Rights Society James Lomenzo   Date Born: Tuesday 13 January 1959   Description: Bassist, US   Summary: He played bass with White Lion from 1984 to 1991, and later with Zakk Wylde's side-project Lynyrd Skynhead who evolved into Pride & Glory and released one 1994 album. Jason James   Date Born: Tuesday 13 January 1981   Description: Bassist, UK   Summary: The band released its second album, Scream Aim Fire, in 2008. John Lees   Date Born: Monday 13 January 1947   Description: Guitarist, UK   Summary: Educated at Robin Hill Secondary Modern and Breeze Hill Comprehensive, John went on to study at Oldham School Of Art, where he met Woolly Wolstenholme in 1964. Julia Louis-dreyfus   Date Born: Friday 13 January 1961   Description: Actress, Comedian. USA   Summary: Louis-Dreyfus subsequently became one of the cast members on NBC's Saturday Night Live from 1982 to 1985, tying with current cast member Abby Elliot as the youngest female cast member in the history of the program. Lester Sill   Date Born: Sunday 13 January 1918   Description: Management, Producer, USA   Summary: He worked with Leiber and Stoller co founder of Phillies Records. Melba Liston   Date Born: Monday 13 January 1936   Description: Trombonist, compositions, musical arrangementsUSA   Summary: Melba Liston’s musical style reflects bebop and post-bop sensibilities, not surprising given her stints working with such major bop figures as Dexter Gordon, Dizzy Gillespie, and Art Blakey. Paul Kelly   Date Born: Thursday 13 January 1955   Description: Vocalist, Composer, Guitarist, Australia   Summary: Paul Kelly’s inroads on Australian music has been very significant in towards,completely being original. Richard Addinsell   Date Born: Wednesday 13 January 1904   Description: Composer of songs, UK   Summary: A British composer, best known for film music, primarily his Warsaw Concerto, composed for the 1941 film Dangerous Moonlight (also known under the later title Suicide Squadron). Robert Stack   Date Born: Monday 13 January 1919   Description: Actor, US   Summary: He credits Lombard with giving him many tips on acting and with being his mentor. Lombard was killed in a plane crash. Sophie Tucker   Date Born: Sunday 13 January 1884   Description: Vocalist, Comedian, USA   Summary: She was born Sonia Kalish to a Jewish family in Tsarist Russia. Her family emigrated to the United States when she was an infant. Tim Kelly   Date Born: Sunday 13 January 1963   Description: Guitarist, USA   Summary: Kelly was a self-taught guitar player and began his music career around the sixth grade. He was inspired by other guitarists such as Rick Derringer and Peter Frampton. Trace Adkins   Date Born: Saturday 13 January 1962   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, USA   Summary: Adkins musical interest came at an early age, when his father taught him to play the guitar. In high school, he joined a gospel music group called the New Commitments. Later, Adkins went on to study at Louisiana Tech University; after graduation, he took up work at an oil rig. William Duckworth   Date Born: Wednesday 13 January 1943   Description: Pianist,   Summary: His other notable compositions include Thirty-One Days (1987), for alto saxophone, and Southern Harmony (1980-1981) Alain Toussaint   Date Born: Friday 14 January 1938   Description: Composer. Pianist, USA   Summary: Toussaint collaborated with Paul McCartney and Wings for their hit album Venus and Mars. Two years later, Glen Campbell covered Toussaint's "Southern Nights" and carried the song to Number One on the Pop, Country and Adult-Contemporary Charts. Bebe Daniels   Date Born: Monday 14 January 1901   Description: Actress, singer, USA   Summary: One of her earliest roles was that of Dorothy in the oldest known surviving screen version of L. Frank Baum's well-known novel 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.' Billie Jo Spears   Date Born: Thursday 14 January 1937   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: She reached the top-10 of the Country music charts five times between 1969 and 1977, her biggest hit being "Blanket on the Ground", which, in 1975, became her only number one. Billy Walker   Date Born: Monday 14 January 1929   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, USA   Summary: Nicknamed The Tall Texan, Walker had six number one hits, 32 top ten hits and more than 100 charted records during a nearly 60-year career; and was a longtime member of the Grand Ole Opry. Busta Cherry Jones   Date Born: Sunday 14 January 1951   Description: Bassist, US   Summary: Busta Jones can be heard on Bombers' "(Everybody) Get Dancin'" single and LP Caterina Valente   Date Born: Wednesday 14 January 1931   Description: Vocalist , Actress, Dancer, Italy   Summary: Caterina has worked with many stars that include Benny Goodman, Ella Fitzgerald, Tommy Dorsey, Buddy Rich and so on. Charlie Tumahai   Date Born: Friday 14 January 1949   Description: Vocalist, Bass, Composer, New Zealand   Summary: An acclaimed bass player and singer originally from New Zealand. Clarence Carter   Date Born: Tuesday 14 January 1936   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Married Candy Staton.He and Staton divorced in the eighties. Col Edmonds   Date Born: Friday 14 January 1938   Description: Vocalist , Guitarist, Composer, AU   Summary: One of the well known country performers throughout Australia. Faye Dunaway   Date Born: Tuesday 14 January 1941   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: Dunaway has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7021 Hollywood Boulevard which was awarded on October 2, 1996. Hubert Johnson   Date Born: Tuesday 14 January 1941   Description: Vocalist, US   Summary: Cousin of Jackie Wilson, the group recorded for Motown with their first hit ’Do You Love Me’ Jack Jones   Date Born: Friday 14 January 1938   Description: Vocalist, Actor, USA   Summary: Son of singer Alan Jones who mainly appeared in the ’Marx Brothers Films’. Joe Seneca   Date Born: Tuesday 14 January 1919   Description: Vocalists, Composer, Actor   Summary: He was also a songwriter and had big hits with Talk to Me which was sung by Little Willie John and "Break It to Me Gently". Joy Mckean   Date Born: Tuesday 14 January 1930   Description: Singer, Composer of music, Australian   Summary: Known as the "grand lady" of Australian country music, McKean is recognised as one of Australia's leading song writers and bush balladeers and wrote several of Dusty's most popular songs.[ Kenny Wheeler   Date Born: Tuesday 14 January 1930   Description: Trombonist, Canada   Summary: Wheeler has written over one hundred compositions and is a skilled arranger for small groups and larger ensembles. Lamar Williams   Date Born: Friday 14 January 1949   Description: Bassist, USA   Summary: He played for "The Allman Brothers Band" in late 1972 after the death of original bassist Berry Oakley. Larry Golder   Date Born: Sunday 14 January 1951   Description: Guitarist, Arranger, Musical Director. Australia   Summary: Larry regularly taught master classes in guitar, for the University of Adelaide. Mike Tramp   Date Born: Saturday 14 January 1961   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, USA, Australia   Summary: In 2006 Tramp's White Lion toured Europe in November and December of 2006 and toured the USA & two European festivals in Europe in the summer of 2007. Richard Briers   Date Born: Sunday 14 January 1934   Description: Actor, UK   Summary: He played Tom Good in the BBC sitcom The Good Life (1975–78), that he became a household name. In the 1980s he starred in Ever Decreasing Circles (1984–89), and he had a leading role in Monarch of the Glen (2000–02). Russ Columbo   Date Born: Tuesday 14 January 1908   Description: Actor, Singer, Violinist, USA   Summary: He started playing the violin while still very young, and debuted professionally at the age of 13. Slick Rick   Date Born: Thursday 14 January 1965   Description: Vocalist, UK   Summary: Born Jamaica moving to England then to the USA. T-bone Burnett   Date Born: Wednesday 14 January 1948   Description: Singer-songwriter, Producer   Summary: In 1987, Burnett produced Roy Orbison's two-record album, In Dreams: The Greatest Hits. After that, Burnett was the musical director and a guitarist for Orbison's HBO television special, Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night. Tim Harris   Date Born: Wednesday 14 January 1948   Description: Drummer, UK   Summary: They charted with ’Build Me Up Buttercup’ Zakk Wylde   Date Born: Saturday 14 January 1967   Description: Guitarist, Vocals, USA   Summary: He was the lead guitarist and vocalist in Pride & Glory, who released one self-titled album in 1994 before disbanding. As a solo artist he released Book of Shadows in 1996. Belinda Chapple   Date Born: Wednesday 15 January 1975   Description: Vocalist, Australia   Summary: Belinda started her dance career at the age of 13, and spent the next four years at the Johnny Young Talent School. Captain Beefheart   Date Born: Wednesday 15 January 1941   Description: Voice, Saxophonist, Keyboards, USA   Summary: A group formed by Van Vliet under his adopted name Captain Beefheart in 1964, California. Charo   Date Born: Thursday 15 January 1942   Description: Vocalist, Dancer, Comedienne, USA   Summary: Taught guitar by the famous Adres Segovia. Earl Hooker   Date Born: Wednesday 15 January 1930   Description: Guitarist, USA   Summary: Hooker made his first recordings mainly 78 rpm and 45 rpm records in 1952 Frank Thornton   Date Born: Saturday 15 January 1921   Description: Actor, UK   Summary: He appeared alongside Benny Hill, Frankie Howerd, Harry Worth, Reg Varney and Spike Milligan in their comedy shows. He appeared in five episodes of Steptoe and Son during its original run from 1962 to 1965, and in 1973 appeared in the film Steptoe and Son Ride Again. Gene Krupa   Date Born: Friday 15 January 1909   Description: Drummer, USA   Summary: Many consider Krupa to be one of the most influential drummers of his time in with regard to the development of the drum kit. He used Slingerland drums. But he had already made history in 1927 as the first kit drummer ever to record using a bass drum pedal. Johnny Grande   Date Born: Wednesday 15 January 1930   Description: Pianist, Composer, Arranger, USA   Summary: Mainly known as a member of Bill Haley's backing band 'The Comets'. Lloyd Bridges   Date Born: Wednesday 15 January 1913   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Bridges gained wide recognition as Mike Nelson, the main character in the television series Sea Hunt, which ran from 1958-1961. Margaret Obrien   Date Born: Friday 15 January 1937   Description: Actress. USA   Summary: In 2006, she was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the SunDeis Film Festival at Brandeis University. Melvin Gale   Date Born: Tuesday 15 January 1952   Description: Celloist, UK   Summary: He was a Cellist for the Electric Light Orchestra from 1975 replacing Mike Edwards. He had also played with the London Youth Symphony Orchestra and the Glyndebourne Opera Company. Obo Addy   Date Born: Wednesday 15 January 1936   Description: Drummer, Ghanaian   Summary: Obo Addy, one of the key originators of the seminal musical movement now known as "Worldbeat," is a prominent member of the first generation of African musicians Pete Waterman   Date Born: Wednesday 15 January 1947   Description: Composer of songs, UK   Summary: To date, Waterman has scored a total of twenty two UK number one singles with his various acts and he claims upwards of 500 million sales worldwide. Documented 2009. Ray Simpson   Date Born: Friday 15 January 1954   Description: Vocalist, USA Ronnie Van Zant   Date Born: Saturday 15 January 1949   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: He was the lead vocalist, primary lyricist, and a founding member of the Southern Rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. Barbara Lynn   Date Born: Friday 16 January 1942   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: She appeared at the Apollo Theatre, twice on American Bandstand, and even had her song "Oh Baby (We've Got A Good Thing Goin')" recorded by The Rolling Stones. Bob Bogle   Date Born: Tuesday 16 January 1934   Description: Guitarist, Bassist, US   Summary: Bogle was the lead guitarist and later bassist of the group. Bob Kulick   Date Born: Monday 16 January 1950   Description: Producer, Guitarist, USA   Summary: Bob Kulick has been a member of the Neverland Express, Meat Loaf's touring band, on and off for years, and has appeared on several Meat Loaf albums, most notably on 1984's "Bad Attitude". Damo Suzuki   Date Born: Monday 16 January 1950   Description: Vocalist. Japan   Summary: A German Based Rock Group. George "smitty" Smith   Date Born: Saturday 16 January 1943   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: The Manhattans, originally from Jersey City, New Jersey, formed in 1962 with members: Irving Mills   Date Born: Tuesday 16 January 1894   Description: Vocalist, Music Publisher, Film Producer, USA   Summary: Mills was one of the first to record black and white musicians together, using twelve white musicians and the Duke Ellington Orchestra on a 12" 78 rpm disc performing St. Louis Blues. Jim Stafford   Date Born: Sunday 16 January 1944   Description: Vocalist, Comedian, USA   Summary: He co-hosted “Those Amazing Animals” with Burgess Meredith and Priscilla Presley, and also hosted 56 episodes of “Nashville on the Road” Mac Curtis   Date Born: Monday 16 January 1939   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, Songwriter. USA   Summary: Rockabilly legend Mac Curtis was born in Fort Worth, TX, on January 16, 1939. He grew up with his grandparents and started playing the guitar in 1951 at the age of 12. Mac Curtis   Date Born: Monday 16 January 1939   Description: Guiarist, USA   Summary: An American rockabilly musician. Nick Valensi   Date Born: Friday 16 January 1981   Description: Guitariist, USA   Summary: The Strokes released their debut album Is This It in the US in October 2001 on RCA. Paul Raven   Date Born: Monday 16 January 1961   Description: Bassist, USA   Summary: Raven's replaced original Killing Joke bassist Youth in mid 1982, just in time for the North American tour documented on the Ha! live EP. Raymond Philips   Date Born: Sunday 16 January 1944   Description: Vocalist, UK   Summary: The group charted with the Mickie Most produced ’TOBACCO ROAD’ 1964. Richard Elliot   Date Born: Saturday 16 January 1960   Description: Saxophonist   Summary: Elliot is known for his zebra-striped tenor saxophone. Ronnie Milsap   Date Born: Sunday 16 January 1944   Description: Vocalist   Summary: Voted CMA country vocalst of the year in 1974. Roy Lanham   Date Born: Tuesday 16 January 1923   Description: Gutarist, USA   Summary: Roy saw his creative peak with his own band The Whipperwhills during the 1940s and unbelievably his work with this amazing band was never released until two years ago when the Bloodshot label made the recordings available on Hard Life Blues. Sade   Date Born: Friday 16 January 1959   Description: Vocalist, Composer, Nigeria   Summary: Debut album Diamond Life, in 1984, and have subsequently sold over 50 million albums. Betty White   Date Born: Tuesday 17 January 1922   Description: Actress, Singer, USA   Summary: White has won seven Emmy Awards, three American Comedy Awards (including a Lifetime Achievement Award in 1990), and two Viewers For Quality Television Awards. Cedar Walton   Date Born: Friday 17 January 1936   Description: Pianist, Composer, USA   Summary: Walton grew up in Dallas, Texas. His mother was an aspiring concert pianist, and was Walton's initial teacher. She also took him to jazz performances around Dallas. Chris Montez   Date Born: Sunday 17 January 1943   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, USA   Summary: Montez grew up in Hawthorne, California, influenced by the Latino flavored music of his community and the success of Ritchie Valens. Eartha Kitt   Date Born: Monday 17 January 1927   Description: Vocalist, Actress, USA Francoise Hardy   Date Born: Monday 17 January 1944   Description: Vocalist, Actress, French   Summary: Hardy is mentioned in a poem by Bob Dylan "Some other kinds of songs" on the cover of his LP "Another Side of Bob Dylan". Grady Martin   Date Born: Thursday 17 January 1929   Description: Guitarist, USA   Summary: In 1951, he signed with Decca Records with own country-jazz band, Grady Martin and the Slew Foot Five. Ita Butrose   Date Born: Saturday 17 January 1942   Description: Magazine editor, fashion journalist   Summary: She was the founding editor of Cleo, a high-circulation magazine aimed at women aged 20 to 40. James Earl Jones   Date Born: Saturday 17 January 1931   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: His first film role was as a young and trim B-52 crewman in Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb in 1964 which was more famous for the work of Peter Sellers and Slim Pickens. Jim Carrey   Date Born: Wednesday 17 January 1962   Description: Actor, Comedian, USA   Summary: His first working job and getting paid was support act for singer Linda Ronstadt. He later dated Ronstadt for some time. P/E Mack Sennett   Date Born: Saturday 17 January 1880   Description: Film producer, Singer, Dancer, Canada   Summary: Sennett has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6712 Hollywood Blvd. Also in 2004, he was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame. Mick Taylor   Date Born: Saturday 17 January 1948   Description: Guitarist, Vocalist, Songwriter, UK   Summary: An English musician best known as the former guitarist for The Rolling Stones. Muhammad Ali   Date Born: Saturday 17 January 1942   Description: Boxer, USA   Summary: Muhammad Ali defeated every top heavyweight in his era, which has been called the golden age of heavyweight boxing. Paul Young   Date Born: Tuesday 17 January 1956   Description: Vocalist,UK   Summary: Paul was born in Luton, England. He has an older brother Mark and a younger sister Joanne. Sid Catlett   Date Born: Wednesday 17 January 1917   Description: Drummer, USA   Summary: A jazz drummer often referred to as "Big Sid Catlett" because of his large frame. Steve Earle   Date Born: Monday 17 January 1955   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist , Composer, USA   Summary: He was the eldest son of Jack Earle, an air traffic controller, and Barbara Earle. Susanna Hoffs   Date Born: Saturday 17 January 1959   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, USA   Summary: Hoffs attended Palisades High School in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles. In 1980, she graduated from University of California, Berkeley with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art. Zooey Deschanel   Date Born: Thursday 17 January 1980   Description: Actress, model, singer-songwriter, musician   Summary: American actress, musician, and singer-songwriter. In 1999, Deschanel made her film debut in Mumford, followed by her breakout role as young protagonist William Miller's rebellious older sister Anita in Cameron Crowe's 2000 semi-autobiographical film Almost Famous. Al Perkins   Date Born: Tuesday 18 January 1944   Description: Guitarist, USA   Summary: The Gibson guitar company called Perkins "the world's most influential Dobro player", and even began producing an "Al Perkins Signature" Dobro in 2001 - designed and autographed by Perkins. Bobby Goldsboro   Date Born: Saturday 18 January 1941   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: "Honey" was a Number One hit in 1968 in the Billboard Hot 100. Bobby Herne   Date Born: Tuesday 18 January 1938   Description: Guitarist, Producer, USA Carl Mccoy   Date Born: Friday 18 January 1963   Description: Vocalist, UK   Summary: McCoy is well known for his mystical and occult-based lyrics and beliefs. Cary Grant   Date Born: Monday 18 January 1904   Description: Actor, USA, UK   Summary: In 2001 a statue of Grant was erected in Millennium Square, a regenerated area next to the harbour in his city of birth, Bristol, England. Damien Leith   Date Born: Sunday 18 January 1976   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, Composer, Ireland   Summary: As a teenager he formed a family band, "Leaf", with his sister Áine and brothers Paul and Darren. Danny Kaye   Date Born: Saturday 18 January 1913   Description: Actor, Vocalist. Comedian, Dancer, USA   Summary: A celebrated American actor, singer, dancer, and comedian. His best known performances featured physical comedy, idiosyncratic pantomimes, and rapid-fire nonsense songs. Kaye starred in 17 movies, notably The Kid from Brooklyn (1946), The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947), The Inspector General (1949), Hans Christian Andersen (1952), White Christmas (1954), and – perhaps his most accomplished performance – The Court Jester (1956). David Greenslade   Date Born: Monday 18 January 1943   Description: Keyboardist, UK   Summary: Mystic has also released Greenslade Live (1973-75) and Dave Greenslade's solo album, "Going South" (1999). David Ruffin   Date Born: Saturday 18 January 1941   Description: Vocalist, Drummer, Composer, USA   Summary: In the late 1950s, Ruffin sang with The Voice Masters, which included future Motown producer Lamont Dozier and members of the singing group The Originals. Joanna Newsom   Date Born: Monday 18 January 1982   Description: Harpist, USA   Summary: Newsom was first taught to play the Celtic harp by a local teacher in Nevada City. Kevin Costner   Date Born: Tuesday 18 January 1955   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Costner was honored on September 6, 2006, when his hand and foot prints were set in concrete in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre along side other great actors and entertainers. Oliver Hardy   Date Born: Monday 18 January 1892   Description: Actor, Comedian, Composer, USA   Summary: Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy appear on the Beatles "Sgt Pepper" cover. Ray Dolby   Date Born: Wednesday 18 January 1933   Description: American engineer   Summary: Dolby was born in Portland, Oregon. He was raised in San Francisco, California and attended Sequoia High School in Redwood City, California. Rodgers Grant   Date Born: Saturday 18 January 1936   Description: Pianist. Composer, USA   Summary: He composed the title track on Hubert Laws's Grammy-nominated album Morning Star (1973). Bob Wooler   Date Born: Tuesday 19 January 1926   Description: Management, DJ, UK   Summary: His voice was captured on the only live footage of the Beatles ever filmed at the Cavern, performing "Some Other Guy". Wooler became one of the major figures on the Mersey Scene and did much to help the various groups, remaining at the Cavern until 1967. Bobby Bland   Date Born: Sunday 19 January 1930   Description: Vocalist, musician, songwriter, USA   Summary: Bobby Bland began his career in around 1954. Clive Dunn   Date Born: Monday 19 January 1920   Description: Actor, Author, UK   Summary: Dunn was one of the younger members of the Dad's Army cast when, at 48, he took on the role of the elderly butcher whose military service in earlier wars made him the most experienced member Desi Arnaz Jr   Date Born: Monday 19 January 1953   Description: Actor, Drummer, USA   Summary: He was born at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Hollywood, California, the son of famous acting team Desi Arnaz (Cuban) and Lucille Ball. His older sister is actress Lucie Arnaz. Dolly Parton   Date Born: Saturday 19 January 1946   Description: Vocalist, Actress, Composer USA   Summary: Parton was born in Tennessee, the fourth of 12 children born to Robert Lee Parton and Avie Lee Owens.Her family was, as she described them, "dirt poor", and lived in a rustic, dilapidated one-room cabin in the Great Smoky Mountains, in Locust Ridge, Tennessee. Don Lang   Date Born: Monday 19 January 1925   Description: Vocalist, Tromboniat, UK   Summary: English trombone player and singer, who led his own band, Don Lang & his Frantic Five. They appeared on the first BBC Television show for teenagers called Six-Five Special Ian Samwell   Date Born: Tuesday 19 January 1937   Description: Composer, Producer, UK Janis Joplin   Date Born: Tuesday 19 January 1943   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Janis Joplin was born to Seth and Dorothy (East) Joplin, her father was an engineer at Texaco, her mother, registrar at a business college. She had two younger siblings, Michael and Laura. Jean Stapleton   Date Born: Friday 19 January 1923   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Often mistaken for being the sister of Maureen Stapleton but not at all related. Joan Regan   Date Born: Thursday 19 January 1928   Description: Vocalist, Actress, UK Johnny Okeefe   Date Born: Saturday 19 January 1935   Description: Vocalist, Pianist, Australia   Summary: Often referred to by his initials, "J.O.K." or by his nickname, "The Wild One", O'Keefe was the first Australian rock'n'roll performer to tour the United States, and the first Australian artist to make the local Top 40 charts, and he remains Australia's most successful chart performer, with twenty-nine Top 40 hits to his credit in Australia. Laurie London   Date Born: Wednesday 19 January 1944   Description: Vocalis , UK   Summary: At the age of thirteen he made an up-tempo version of the spiritual song "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands" with the Geoff Love Orchestra Michael Crawford   Date Born: Monday 19 January 1942   Description: Actor, Vocalist   Summary: Michael Crawford was invited to attend the Gala Performance of the stage version of The Phantom of the Opera on Broadway at the Majestic Theater to celebrate the show becoming the longest running musical in Broadway history (supplanting Cats). Milt Trenier   Date Born: Sunday 19 January 1930   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Milt joined the group in 1951 along with his brother Buddy. Nicholas Colasanto   Date Born: Saturday 19 January 1924   Description: Actor / Director   Summary: He directed the 1972 Columbo episode "Étude in Black". He also appeared in feature films, including Fat City and Family Plot. Phil Everly   Date Born: Thursday 19 January 1939   Description: Vocalist,Gutaist, compser, USA 1960   Summary: Younger brother to Don Everly of 'The Everly Brothers'. Shelley Fabares   Date Born: Wednesday 19 January 1944   Description: Actress, Vocalist,USA   Summary: Mainly known for "The Donna Reed Show" from 1958 to 1966. She was also Elvis Presley's costar in three films. Tippi Hendron   Date Born: Sunday 19 January 1930   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: An American actress, former fashion model and an animal rights activist. She is known for her roles in the Alfred Hitchcock films The Birds and Marnie Alan Bowles   Date Born: Wednesday 20 January 1954   Description: Vocalist, Pianist. Australia   Summary: His career in the late seventies included an anti drug album named 'On The Slide'. Andrew Bisset   Date Born: Tuesday 20 January 1953   Description: Vocalist, Author,   Summary: Andrew was mainly known as a prominent author, Music Educator, Singer. Arte Johnson   Date Born: Saturday 20 January 1934   Description: Comedian, Actor, USA   Summary: He is best known for his work on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, an American television show (1968–1973), Connie Haines   Date Born: Thursday 20 January 1921   Description: Vocalist , USA   Summary: Her 200 recordings were frequently up-tempo big band songs with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and Frank Sinatra. David Linch   Date Born: Sunday 20 January 1946   Description: Film director, screenwriter, producer, painter, musician, USA   Summary: Born to a middle-class family in Missoula, Montana, Lynch spent his childhood traveling around the United States, before going on to study painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Dawn Lake   Date Born: Thursday 20 January 1927   Description: Vocalist, Comedian, Actress, Australia   Summary: Her most enduring character was Ethel, who first appeared in the early 1960s in The Mobil Limb Show. "You tell 'em luv!" was Ethel's catchcry. Dorothy Provine   Date Born: Wednesday 20 January 1937   Description: Actress, Singer, USA   Summary: In Washington she handed out prizes for a local television station's quiz show, until she was hired by Warner Bros. at $500 per week. Earl Grant   Date Born: Friday 20 January 1933   Description: Vocalist , Actor , Keyboardist   Summary: A multi talents such as playing, drums, trumpet but most of all he was known for playing a Hammond organ and his rich voice. Eric Stewart   Date Born: Saturday 20 January 1945   Description: Guitarist, Composer, UK   Summary: He Appeared in the following films: Give My Regards to Broad Street (23-Oct-1984) To Sir, With Love (14-Jun-1967 Federico Fellini   Date Born: Tuesday 20 January 1920   Description: Director of film   Summary: In 1950 Fellini co-produced and co-directed with Alberto Lattuada, Variety Lights (Luci del varietà), his first feature film. Gary Barlow   Date Born: Wednesday 20 January 1971   Description: Singer-songwriter, pianist, record producer   Summary: He has been voted as the greatest British songwriter of all time, ahead of Paul McCartney and John Lennon of The Beatles. George Burns   Date Born: Monday 20 January 1896   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Burns appeared in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the film based on the Beatles' album of the same name. George Grantham   Date Born: Monday 20 January 1947   Description: Drummer, USA   Summary: Drummer/singer George Grantham is best known as one of the founding members of the band Poco. Glen Moffatt   Date Born: Wednesday 20 January 1971   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, USA   Summary: Glen Moffatt is a New Zealand country music singer-songwriter who relocated to Brisbane, Australia, in 2002. Heather Small   Date Born: Wednesday 20 January 1965   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: On 26 May 2008 Small performed alongside Stereophonics and Feeder at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, as part of the celebrations of Wales success at the 2008 Grand Slam. Jimmy Cobb   Date Born: Sunday 20 January 1929   Description: Drummer, USA   Summary: Cobb is one of the most sought-after jazz musicians today. He leads his own band (Jimmy Cobb's Mob) in New York City. John Michael Montgomery   Date Born: Wednesday 20 January 1965   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Montgomery has sold over sixteen million albums and numerous awards during his seemingly short career. Juan Garcia Esquivel   Date Born: Sunday 20 January 1918   Description: Pianist, and composer, Mexican   Summary: His concerts also featured elaborate light shows years before effects like that became popular in live music. He performed in Las Vegas on several occasions, often as the opening act for Frank Sinatra. King Coleman   Date Born: Wednesday 20 January 1932   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: An American rhythm and blues singer and musician, known for providing the vocals for the 1959. Lead Belly   Date Born: Friday 20 January 1899   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, Composer, USA   Summary: He was incarcerated in Sugar Land, Texas and it is there that he got the inspiration for the song Midnight Special. Lee Pockriss   Date Born: Sunday 20 January 1924   Description: Composer of music, USA   Summary: He wrote Anita Bryant's "My Little Corner of the World", Shelley Fabares' "Johnny Angel", and the Clint Holmes song "Playground In My Mind." Lew Soloff   Date Born: Thursday 20 January 1944   Description: Trumpeter, USA   Summary: Lew Soloff was born in New York City on January 20th, 1944, was raised in Lakewood, New Jersey. P/A Luther Tucker   Date Born: Monday 20 January 1936   Description: Guitarist, USA   Summary: In 1952 he began playing with his uncle, J.T. "Boogie" Brown, saxophonist, studio musician, and sideman to slide guitarist, Elmore James. Melvin Pritchard   Date Born: Tuesday 20 January 1948   Description: Drummer, UK   Summary: He played with Barclay James Harvest throughout their career. Michael Hutchence   Date Born: Wednesday 20 January 1960   Description: Vocalist, Australia   Summary: Michael Hutchence was the lead singer of the famed "INXS". Patricia Neal   Date Born: Wednesday 20 January 1926   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: In 1963, Neal won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Hud, co-starring Paul Newman. Paul Stanley   Date Born: Sunday 20 January 1952   Description: Bassist, USA   Summary: Kiss were formed in 1972 in New York. The group were very theatrical with loads of make up etc. Ray Anthony   Date Born: Friday 20 January 1922   Description: Band leader, Actor, Trumpeter, USA   Summary: Anthony was considered one of the most modern of the big band leaders. In the lyrics to "Opus One", which imagine a number of players performing the song, he is cited along with Les Brown and his Band of Renown: Rusty Anderson   Date Born: Tuesday 20 January 1959   Description: Guitarist, USA   Summary: Rusty Anderson grew up in La Habra, California. At age 8, his father gave him his first electric guitar. Rusty Anderson   Date Born: Tuesday 20 January 1959   Description: Singer-songwriter, guitarist and artist USA   Summary: Rusty is an Rusty Anderson (born January 20, 1959) is an American guitarister. Slim Whitman   Date Born: Sunday 20 January 1924   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: Slim Whitman was, for the majority of his career, more famous in Europe than in the United States. Tracii Guns   Date Born: Thursday 20 January 1966   Description: Guitarist, USA   Summary: In the mid-1980s, Axl Rose started Guns N' Roses with Tracii. Benny Hill   Date Born: Wednesday 21 January 1925   Description: Comedian, Actor, UK   Summary: Hill was a distant relative of the Australian actress and singer Holly Valance (Hill's cousin being Valance's grandfather). Billy Ocean   Date Born: Saturday 21 January 1950   Description: Vocalist,UK   Summary: A Grammy Award winning popular music performer who had a string of rhythm and blues international pop hits in the 1970s and 1980s. Brian Naylor   Date Born: Wednesday 21 January 1931   Description: Radio, Australia   Summary: He became Seven's chief newsreader in 1970 replacing Geoff Raymond. Naylor switched to GTV-9 in 1978. He Cat Power   Date Born: Friday 21 January 1972   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: The daughter of divorced parents, Chan (pronounced "Shawn") Marshall was born in Georgia. Marshall's father, Charlie, is a blues musician and itinerant pianist. Her childhood involved much upheaval, with Marshall living throughout the Southern United States (Greensboro, North Carolina; Bartlett, Tennessee; and Georgia and South Carolina), back and forth between parents and her grandmother. Chris Britton   Date Born: Sunday 21 January 1945   Description: Guitarist, UK   Summary: They recorded on Page's Page One Records, and Page also leased them to CBS for debut single "Lost Girl". Their most famous hit was the single "Wild Thing" (written by Chip Taylor). Edwin Starr   Date Born: Wednesday 21 January 1942   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: In 1957 Starr formed a doo-wop group The Future Tones and began his singing career. Emma Bunton   Date Born: Wednesday 21 January 1976   Description: Vocalist, UK   Summary: Emma was called Baby Spice because she was the youngest of the group, wore her long blonde hair in pigtails, wore babydoll dresses. Geena Davis   Date Born: Saturday 21 January 1956   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: She was working as a model when director Sydney Pollack spotted her and cast her in Tootsie (1982) as a soap opera actress. Jill Eikenberry   Date Born: Tuesday 21 January 1947   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: An Obie Award, been nominated five times for an Emmy Award and four Golden Globes, winning one, and was nominated for a Drama Desk Award in 2011. Jimmy Ibbotson   Date Born: Tuesday 21 January 1947   Description: Keyboardist, USA   Summary: Jimmy Ibbotson - guitar, bass, mandolin, piano, accordion, drums, flute and vocals (1968-1975 & 1982-2004) John Macaluso   Date Born: Sunday 21 January 1968   Description: Dancer, USA   Summary: John started playing drums at age 11. Now having recorded on more than 200 records and playing on multiple world tours. John Walter Bratton   Date Born: Monday 21 January 1867   Description: Composer and theatrical producer. USA   Summary: He is best remembered for his 1907 composition "Teddy Bears' Picnic" the only one of his songs to be a lasting hit. Mac Davis   Date Born: Wednesday 21 January 1942   Description: Vocalist, Composer, Actor, USA   Summary: Mac Davis was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2000. For his contribution to the recording industry, he has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7080 Hollywood Blvd. Nella Martinetti   Date Born: Monday 21 January 1946   Description: Vocalist, and songwriter. Switzerland   Summary: Martinetti approached young singer Celine Dion, asking her to represent Switzerland in the 1988 for Eurovision Song Contest. Paul Scoffield   Date Born: Saturday 21 January 1922   Description: Actor, UK   Summary: He is considered by many to have been one of the best British actors of the 20th century. Placido Domingo   Date Born: Tuesday 21 January 1941   Description: Vocalist, Pianist, Spanish-Mexican   Summary: Perhaps the most versatile of all living tenors. Richie Havens   Date Born: Tuesday 21 January 1941   Description: Vocalist, Composer, Actor, USA   Summary: Richard P. Havens was born in Brooklyn, the eldest of nine children, and first started singing street corner doo-wop and performed with The McCrea Gospel Singers at 16. Ripley Ingram   Date Born: Tuesday 21 January 1930   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: The group was inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2002. Rove Mcmanus   Date Born: Monday 21 January 1974   Description: Television presenter, Comedian, Producer, Australia   Summary: Born John McManus II in Perth, Western Australia to John and Coralie McManus. Smith Ballew   Date Born: Tuesday 21 January 1902   Description: Band Leader, Guitarist, USA   Summary: Orchestra Leader at the Astor Hotel in New York. Telly Savalas   Date Born: Monday 21 January 1924   Description: Actor   Summary: Prior to his movie career, Savalas was a character actor on TV shows during the late 1950s and the 1960s. Wolfman Jack   Date Born: Friday 21 January 1938   Description: American DJ, USA Addie Harris Mcpherson   Date Born: Monday 22 January 1940   Description: Vocalist, US   Summary: Beginning in 1958 as schoolgirls in Passaic, New Jersey, The Shirelles quickly became rock & roll's first female supergroup and were the inspirations for a legion of female groups that followed. Andre Hodier   Date Born: Saturday 22 January 1921   Description: Violinist, composer, arranger and musicologist. France   Summary: Hodeir was a founder, in 1954, and director of Jazz Groupe de Paris. Ann Sothern   Date Born: Friday 22 January 1909   Description: Actress, Comedienne, USA   Summary: Named Harriet, the first of three daughters born to Annette Yde and Walter Lake. She was raised by her mother, an opera singer and diction coach. Harriet's maternal grandfather was Danish violinist Hans Nilson. P/A Bill Bixby   Date Born: Monday 22 January 1934   Description: Actor, Director, USA   Summary: He attended Lowell High School where he perfected his oratory and dramatic skills as a member of the Lowell Forensic Society. PNA Blind Willie Johnson   Date Born: Wednesday 22 January 1896   Description: Guitarist, USA   Summary: Johnson made 30 commercial recording studio record sides in five separate sessions for Columbia Records from 1927–1930. Bobby Flynn   Date Born: Thursday 22 January 1981   Description: Vocalist, Australia.   Summary: In the fourth season of Australian Idol, he placed seventh. In the fourth season of Australian Idol, he placed seventh. Flynn in the fourth season of Australian Idol, he was placed seventh. Diane Lane   Date Born: Friday 22 January 1965   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: The Perfect Storm started Lane on a long-overdue career upswing, which peaked with 2002's Unfaithful and her first Oscar nomination. Ed Lewis   Date Born: Friday 22 January 1909   Description: Trumpeter, USA   Summary: Lewis played early in his career in Kansas City. Henri Dutilleux   Date Born: Saturday 22 January 1916   Description: Composer, France   Summary: In addition to his activities as a composer, Dutilleux worked as the Head of Music Production for Radio France for 18 years. John Hurt   Date Born: Monday 22 January 1940   Description: Actor, UK   Summary: John Hurt is an Academy Award nominated actor and BAFTA Award winning British actor. Linda Blair   Date Born: Thursday 22 January 1959   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: She dated Australian rock singer Rick Springfield with the age difference of 10 years, plus at the time she was a minor. Malcolm Mcclaren   Date Born: Tuesday 22 January 1946   Description: Vocalist, Musician, band manager, entrepreneur, songwriter, UK   Summary: By 1976, McLaren had started to manage The Strand, the band who would later become the Sex Pistols. Mike Westhues   Date Born: Saturday 22 January 1949   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, USA   Summary: Westhues set off to see the world, ending up in Finland, where he was extremely active Nolan Strong   Date Born: Sunday 22 January 1922   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Nolan Strong's smooth tenor, influenced mainly by Clyde McPhatter. Piper Laurie   Date Born: Friday 22 January 1932   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: She appeared in the Australian film Tim (1979) opposite a very young Mel Gibson. Sam Cooke   Date Born: Tuesday 22 January 1935   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: He added an "e" onto the end of his name because he thought it added a touch of class. Steve Perry   Date Born: Saturday 22 January 1949   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: Also a member in his early days with 'Alien Project'.During his tenure with Journey, Perry sang backing vocals on several Sammy Hagar songs, including the 1980 track "Run For Your Life," and duetting with Kenny Loggins on the 1982 #17 hit single "Don't Fight It." Perry also worked with other musicians such as Sheena Easton, Clannad and Jon Bon Jovi during the height of his career. Steve Riley   Date Born: Sunday 22 January 1956   Description: Drummer, USA   Summary: He is currently the drummer of the version of L.A. Guns. Barry Stanton   Date Born: Thursday 23 January 1941   Description: Vocalist , Guitarist, Australia   Summary: Barry has appeared on 'BANDSTAND' (Australia) 'SIX O'CLOCK ROCK' - 'THE BRYAN DAVIES SHOW' - 'THE BOBBY LIMB SHOW' and many more. Bill Cunningham   Date Born: Monday 23 January 1950   Description: Bassist, keyboardist, USA   Summary: Bill remained a member of the Box Tops until September of 1969, when he decided to return to school to get a music degree in performance of the upright bass. Cyril Davies   Date Born: Saturday 23 January 1932   Description: Banjoist, USA David Rockola   Date Born: Saturday 23 January 1897   Description: Founder Juke Boxes, Canada Ernie Kovaks   Date Born: Thursday 23 January 1919   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Born to parents of Hungarian descent, Kovacs was influenced deeply by his Trenton Central High School drama teacher, Harold Van Kirk, and thus went to acting school after his 1937 graduation. Frances Bay   Date Born: Thursday 23 January 1919   Description: Actress, CA   Summary: She was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame on September 6, 2008, in large part thanks to Adam Sandler, Jerry Seinfeld, David Lynch, Henry Winkler, Monty Hall and other celebrities. Gary Burton   Date Born: Saturday 23 January 1943   Description: Vibraphonist, USA   Summary: Burton’s influence has been the likes of Stan Getz and others. Jerry Blake   Date Born: Thursday 23 January 1908   Description: Saxophonist, clarinetist. USA   Summary: He played violin before switching to reeds. Jerry Lawson   Date Born: Sunday 23 January 1944   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: A member of 'THE PERSUASIONS' and leader of the quintet a cappella group for nearly 40 years. Johnny Russell   Date Born: Tuesday 23 January 1940   Description: Vocalist, Composer, Comedian, USA   Summary: He wrote songs for most of the popular country singers that included Patsy Cline, Jim Reeves, Dolly Parton Linda Ronstadt. Percy Wenrich   Date Born: Friday 23 January 1880   Description: Composer, Lyricist, USA   Summary: His songs include "Wabash Avenue After Dark," the hit "Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet" (1909). Randolph Scott   Date Born: Sunday 23 January 1898   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Scott was born in Orange County, Virginia, the only son of six children born to George Scott, an administrative engineer in a textile firm, and Lucille Crane Scott, a member of a wealthy North Carolina family. Aaron Neville   Date Born: Friday 24 January 1941   Description: Vocalist, Actor, USA   Summary: An American soul and R&B singer. He made his debut in 1966 with the hit single "Tell It Like It Is", a Number One hit on the Billboard R&B charts. Amanda Jayne Halloran   Date Born:   Description: Vocalist, Australia   Summary: Amanda is a three time "TIME TOYOTA STAR MAKER" top twenty finalist & won the title "VOICE URBAN COUNTRY" 2008. Beth Hart   Date Born: Monday 24 January 1972   Description: Vocalist , Composer, USA   Summary: While playing the Los Angeles clubs, she enlisted bassist Tal Herzberg and guitarist Jimmy Khoury. Conrad Reeder   Date Born: Sunday 24 January 1954   Description: Vocalist, songwriter, writer, USA   Summary: Reeder sang for fifteen years with John Denver in live concerts, on television and recordings including Dreamland Express and It's About Time. Django Reinhardt   Date Born: Monday 24 January 1910   Description: Guitarist, Belgium   Summary: Django's only acoustic guitar was given to Les Paul. Les Paul keeps Django's acoustic guitar in his garage and it is his most prized possession. Doug Kershaw   Date Born: Friday 24 January 1936   Description: Fiddle, Composer, USA   Summary: Kershaw was the seventh child born to a family that eventually included five boys and four girls. Raised in a home where Cajun French was spoken, he didn't learn English until the age of eight. Ernest Borgnine   Date Born: Wednesday 24 January 1917   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Borgnine was born in Hamden, Connecticut, the son of Anna and Charles B. Borgnino,who immigrated to the U.S. from Modena, Italy. Ernest Borgnine has received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6324 Hollywood Blvd. Jack Scott   Date Born: Friday 24 January 1936   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: When Jack Scott first appeared on the rock scene in the late Fifties he immediately demonstrated a highly individual and powerful style, like Bo Diddley, Jerry Lee Lewis or any other well-known pioneer, there could be no mistaking a Jack Scott record. Jimeoin   Date Born: Monday 24 January 1966   Description: Comedian, Actor, Australia   Summary: Jimeoin McKeown is an English-born actor and stand up comedian who grew up in Portstewart, Northern Ireland. John Belushi   Date Born: Monday 24 January 1949   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Belushi was born in Chicago, Illinois to Agnes B. Samaras, a first-generation Albanian American,and Adam Belushi, an Albanian immigrant. Jools Holland   Date Born: Friday 24 January 1958   Description: Pianist, Band Leader, UK   Summary: His autobiography, Barefaced Lies and Boogie Woogie Boasts (Michael Joseph Ltd, October 2007) was BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week in the week. Neil Diamond   Date Born: Friday 24 January 1941   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist , Composer, USA   Summary: Diamond is a fan of the Australian Rules Football team the Brisbane Lions as his girlfriend is a native of Brisbane, Australia. Orianthi   Date Born: Thursday 24 January 1985   Description: Guitarist, Vocalist, Australia   Summary: She played and sang at Jackson's memorial, globally televised live on July 7, 2009. She appears in the film Michael Jackson's This Is It, which chronicles the rehearsals for the tour. Ray Stevens   Date Born: Tuesday 24 January 1939   Description: Vocalist, Pianist, Composer, USA   Summary: Stevens has won two Grammy Awards: one for "Everything Is Beautiful" and one for the arrangement of his country and western version of the jazz standard "Misty" (1975). Tuts Washington   Date Born: Thursday 24 January 1907   Description: Pianist, USA   Summary: Washington taught himself piano at age 10, and studied with New Orleans jazz pianist Joseph Louis "Red" Cayou. In the 1920s and 1930s, he was a leading player for New Orleans dance and Dixieland bands. Warren Zevon   Date Born: Friday 24 January 1947   Description: Vocalist. Composer, Pianist, Guitarist, USA   Summary: Zevon was born to William "Stumpy" Zevon and mother Beverly Cope Simmons, a Mormon from Salt Lake City, Utah. Alicia Keys   Date Born: Sunday 25 January 1981   Description: Vocalist, Actress, Composer, Pianist, Cellist, Arranger, USA   Summary: Keys was born in a Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, in New York City, New York, the daughter and only child of Teresa "Terri" Augello, a paralegal and part-time actress, and Craig Cook, a flight attendant. Andy Cox   Date Born: Wednesday 25 January 1956   Description: Guitarist, UK   Summary: In 1985 he joined Beat bassist David Steele and singer Roland Gift in Fine Young Cannibals. Antonio Carlos Jobim   Date Born: Tuesday 25 January 1927   Description: Guitarist, Composer, Brazilian   Summary: The Rio de Janeiro airport was renamed the Galeão - Antônio Carlos Jobim International Airport in his honour. Bobby Willis   Date Born: Sunday 25 January 1942   Description: Composer, Management, UK   Summary: He formed a beat group, Cliff Ward and the Cruisers, and this later became the Secrets. Craig Pike   Date Born: Friday 25 January 1963   Description: Bassist, USA   Summary: He formed own band in England - "Thee Hypnotics". Edmund Sylvers   Date Born: Friday 25 January 1957   Description: Vocalist , USA   Summary: Sylvers provided the voice of Marlon on the 1971–1973 ABC-TV cartoon series The Jackson 5ive. Etta James   Date Born: Tuesday 25 January 1938   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Etta James is the winner of four Grammys and seventeen Blues Music Awards. She was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1990, the Blues Hall of Fame in 2001, and the Grammy Hall of Fame both in 1999 and 2008. Ewan Maccoll   Date Born: Monday 25 January 1915   Description: Vocalist, Composer, UK   Summary: Born to Scottish parents, William and Betsy Miller in Broughton, Salford, Lancashire in England. Gary Tibbs   Date Born: Saturday 25 January 1958   Description: Bassist, UK   Summary: He played the part of Dave in the film "Breaking Glass". Jimmy Wyble   Date Born: Wednesday 25 January 1922   Description: Guitariist, USA   Summary: He played in the bands of Benny Goodman and Red Norvo; with Norvo he toured Australia backing Frank Sinatra. Norman Newell   Date Born: Saturday 25 January 1919   Description: Record producer, Composer, UK   Summary: In 1964 he produced Peter and Gordon's number 1 hit "A World Without Love".UK Singles Chart chart-topper. Sidney Manker   Date Born: Monday 25 January 1932   Description: Guitarist, USA   Summary: His claim to fame is he co wrote "Raunchy" in the fifties. Stig Andersson   Date Born: Sunday 25 January 1931   Description: Composer, Producer, Manager, Sweden   Summary: As well as being the manager of the Swedish supergroup, Anderson was also the founder of the Polar Music record label. Toni Halliday   Date Born: Monday 25 January 1965   Description: Bassist, UK   Summary: From 1978 to 1980, Halliday was the lead vocalist in a punk rock band initially named The Incest. Anita Baker   Date Born: Sunday 26 January 1958   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: An eight-time Grammy Award-winning, multi-Platinum rhythm and blues and soul singer and songwriter. Clement Dodd   Date Born: Tuesday 26 January 1932   Description: Record producer, Jamaica   Summary: Reggae music pioneer. Legendary music producer known as a highly influential figure in the development of Jamaican music and credited with launching the career of Bob Marley and the Wailers. Corky Laing   Date Born: Monday 26 January 1948   Description: Drummer, Canada   Summary: A Canadian rock drummer, best known as a longtime member of pioneering American hard rock band Mountain. Crawford Wethington   Date Born: Sunday 26 January 1908   Description: Saxophonist, Composer, USA   Summary: A graduate of the Chicago College of Music. An early jazz saxophonist, Crawford Wethington's most significant musical associations were with trumpeter Louis Armstrong, and a popular dance band of the '30s. David Briggs   Date Born: Friday 26 January 1951   Description: Guitariist, Australia   Summary: In 1976 he joined Little River Band. He wrote their hit single "Lonesome Loser", as well as "Happy Anniversary". Don Wood   Date Born: Wednesday 26 January 1938   Description: Vocalist, Australia   Summary: Born in Maryborough, Victoria, Auatralia. Doug Ford   Date Born: Saturday 26 January 1946   Description: Guitarist, Composer, Australia,   Summary: Born in Casino NSW Australia,He first came to prominence in the mid-1960s in Sydney as a member of the second incarnation of legendary Australian rock group The Missing Links (1965-66). Eddie Van Halen   Date Born: Wednesday 26 January 1955   Description: Guitarist,Pianist, USA   Summary: Edward Van Halen was born to Jan van Halen, a Dutch father, and Eugenia, a Javanese mother, in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The Van Halen family moved to Pasadena, California, United States, from the Netherlands in 1962. Ellen Degeneres   Date Born: Sunday 26 January 1958   Description: Actress, Television Host, USA   Summary: Born to Elliot DeGeneres, a salesman, and Elizabeth Jane Pfeffer.She is of French, English, German and Irish descent.P/E. She has won twelve Emmys and numerous other awards for her work and charitable efforts. Huey Smith   Date Born: Friday 26 January 1934   Description: Pianist, Composer, USA   Summary: Huey's influence on New Orleans music in the mid 1950s was profound, and it was often said Huey Piano Smith’s band was like a finishing school for Nola singers and musicians. Jimmy Van Heusen   Date Born: Sunday 26 January 1913   Description: Pianst, Composer, USA   Summary: He also worked as a part time test pilot for Lockheed Corporation in World War II. Kirk Franklin   Date Born: Monday 26 January 1970   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Kirk Franklin's 10th album, The Fight of My Life, was released in the United States on December 18, 2007 (2007-12-18). The album debuted on the Billboard 200 at No. 33 with 74,000 copies sold in the first week. Lucinda Williams   Date Born: Monday 26 January 1953   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist , Composer, USA   Summary: The daughter of poet and literature professor Miller Williams and an amateur pianist. Mary Murphy - Actress   Date Born: Monday 26 January 1931   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: Murphy first gained attention 1953, when she played a good-hearted girl who tries to reform Marlon Brando in The Wild One. Merrilee Rush   Date Born: Wednesday 26 January 1944   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: Rush's version of "Angel of the Morning" was recorded in Memphis, Tennessee, in early 1968, and was produced by Chips Moman and the late Tommy Cogbill. Released by the Bell Records company, in late June. 1968, the song climbed to #7 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart Paul Newman   Date Born: Monday 26 January 1925   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: The founder of Newman's Own, a food company from which Newman donates all profits and royalties to charity. As of May 2007, these donations have exceeded $220 million. P/E Ronnie Hilton   Date Born: Tuesday 26 January 1926   Description: Vocalist, UK   Summary: From a comparatively unknown Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, "Me and Juliet" written in 1953, Ronnie Hilton took the hit tune "No Other Love", and scored his one and only UK Number One hit in 1956. Ronnie Stephenson   Date Born: Tuesday 26 January 1937   Description: Drummer, UK   Summary: Stephenson had a close association with Ronnie Scott and the Club, spent two years in Ronnie Scott's Quartet. Shane Howard   Date Born: Wednesday 26 January 1955   Description: Singer, Songwriter, Composer   Summary: An Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist, he was the mainstay of folk rock group Goanna which had hits with "Solid Rock" Stephane Grappelli   Date Born: Sunday 26 January 1908   Description: Violinist, French   Summary: Grappelli is rated as one of the greatest jazz violinist of all time. Thom Bell   Date Born: Tuesday 26 January 1943   Description: Songwriter, record producer, and arranger, USA   Summary: One of the creators of the Philadelphia style of soul music in the 1970s. Nominated for a Grammy Award in 1970. Warren Benson   Date Born: Monday 26 January 1925   Description: Composer, USA   Summary: Composer of more than 100 works, his music has been performed in more than 40 countries, and many of his works have been recorded. Billy Barnes   Date Born: Thursday 27 January 1927   Description: Composer and lyricist, USA   Summary: Barnes started writing musical comedy sketches while still in high school, and continued while at UCLA. He started collaborating in college with Bob Rodgers, and their first professional revue, a Cabaret Concert Show, was staged in 1956 in Los Angeles. Bobby Hutcherson   Date Born: Monday 27 January 1941   Description: Vibraphone and marimba, USA   Summary: One of the most gifted and innovative jazz musicians of his generation, trumpeter Woody Shaw navigated the rapidly fluctuating jazz scene of the '70s and '80s Bridget Fonda   Date Born: Monday 27 January 1964   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: Fonda was born in California, into a family of actors, including her grandfather Henry Fonda, father Peter Fonda, and aunt Jane Fonda. Her mother, Susan Jane Brewer, is an artist. Buddy Desylva   Date Born: Sunday 27 January 1895   Description: Composer, USA   Summary: De Sylva was mainly successful with songs written for Al Jolson and Jolson's Broadway show 'Sinbad'. The show goes back to 1918. David Saville - Ross Bagdasarian, Sr.   Date Born: Monday 27 January 1919   Description: Voca, Actor, Record Producer.USA   Summary: Bagdasarian's first musical composed success was the song he wrote with Saroyan, "Come on-a My House", sung by Rosemary Clooney. Don Shirley   Date Born: Thursday 27 January 1927   Description: Pianist, Jamaica   Summary: His first teacher was his mother. He began playing piano at age of about two and made his first public performance at the age of 3. Donna Reed   Date Born: Thursday 27 January 1921   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: Reed was the daughter of Hazel Jane (née Shives) and William Richard Mullenger.The trees that Reed's father planted still stand and the route to their home, southeast of Denison, is named Donna Reed Drive. This route is now paved to the north corner of the old Mullenger farm. Elmore James   Date Born: Sunday 27 January 1918   Description: Guitarist, USA   Summary: He was the illegitimate son of 15-year-old Leola Brooks, a field hand. His father was probably Joe Willie "Frost" James, who moved in with Leola, and so Elmore took this as his name. Helmut Zacharias   Date Born: Tuesday 27 January 1920   Description: Violinist, Germany   Summary: In the 1950s he was considered to be one of the best jazz violinists of Europe. Hot Lips Page   Date Born: Monday 27 January 1908   Description: Trumpeter, Vocals, USA   Summary: He has been largely neglected by historians since his death due to mysterious circumstances in November 1954, but is considered by many to be one of the giants of the Swing Era and one of the founders of what came to be known as rhythm and blues. Jean-michel Damase   Date Born: Friday 27 January 1928   Description: Pianist, conductor and composer   Summary: French pianist, conductor and composer of classical music. Jerome Kern   Date Born: Tuesday 27 January 1885   Description: Composer, Pianist, USA   Summary: Jerome Kern was born to Fanny and Henry Kern, both German Jews. They named him Jerome because they lived near Jerome Park, a favorite place of theirs. Kevin Coyne   Date Born: Thursday 27 January 1944   Description: Guitar, Vocalist, Harmonica, Composer, Singer, Artist, Writer, Poet, Filmmaker   Summary: Coyne is notable for his unorthodox and unforgettable style of blues-influenced guitar composition, the intense quality of his vocal delivery. Kim Gardner   Date Born: Sunday 27 January 1946   Description: Bassist, UK   Summary: He was part of the British invasion of the 1960s, and recorded more than thirty albums during his music career.Ashton and Dyke then joined forces with the bass guitar playing Kim Gardner Nedra Talley   Date Born: Monday 27 January 1947   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: The Ronettes were a girl group of the 1960s from New York City, best known for their work with producer Phil Spector. Nick Mason   Date Born: Saturday 27 January 1945   Description: Drums, UK   Summary: The son of the documentary film maker Bill Mason, he was born in Birmingham but brought up in Hampstead, London. P/E Skitch Henderson   Date Born: Sunday 27 January 1918   Description: Pianist, USA   Summary: Aunt Hattie, who raised him. She taught him piano, starting at the age of four Tracy Lawrence   Date Born: Saturday 27 January 1968   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Lawrence worked as an ironworker and in phone sales while he tried to break into the music business. Troy Donahue   Date Born: Monday 27 January 1936   Description: Actor,USA   Summary: An American actor of film and television considered a male sex symbol of the 1950s and 1960s. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - (1756 – 1791)   Date Born: Tuesday 27 January 1756   Description: Composer, Austria   Summary: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born to Leopold and Anna Maria Pertl Mozart in Getreidegasse 9 in Salzburg, the capital of the sovereign Archbishopric of Salzburg, in what is now Austria, then part of the Holy Roman Empire. P/E Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - (1756 – 1791)   Date Born: Tuesday 27 January 1756   Description: Composer, Austria   Summary: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born to Leopold and Anna Maria Pertl Mozart in Getreidegasse 9 in Salzburg, the capital of the sovereign Archbishopric of Salzburg, in what is now Austria, then part of the Holy Roman Empire. P/E Ainslie Henderson   Date Born: Sunday 28 January 1979   Description: Singer, Songwriter, Scotland   Summary: a Scottish singer-songwriter. He is best known for his appearance on the BBC's television programme, Fame Academy, and his subsequent Top 5 UK single, "Keep Me A Secret". In 2006, he independently released his debut album. Alan Alda   Date Born: Tuesday 28 January 1936   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: His father, Robert Alda (1914-1986) aka Alphonso Giovanni Giuseppe Roberto D'Abruzzo, was an actor and singer, and his mother, Joan Brown, was crowned Miss New York in a beauty pageant. P/E Anthony Hamilton   Date Born: Thursday 28 January 1971   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: Hamilton's career and was released in June 2005. Ain't Nobody Worryin', his gold-selling third studio album. Arthur Rubinstein   Date Born: Friday 28 January 1887   Description: Pianist, Poland   Summary: He retired from the stage in 1976, as his eyesight and hearing were rapidly deteriorating. He became almost blind in later life. he Aeolian Duo-Art system and the American Piano Company. Barbi Benton   Date Born: Saturday 28 January 1950   Description: Actress, Vocalist, USA   Summary: Benton a recording artist with some success. Her 1975 record, "Brass Buckles," was a top five hit on Billboard's country singles chart. Brian Keenan   Date Born: Sunday 28 January 1945   Description: Drummer, USA   Summary: Keenan was part of The Chambers Brothers from 1965 to 1971. Dan Spitz   Date Born: Monday 28 January 1963   Description: Guitarist, Vocalist, USA   Summary: The lead guitarist of the thrash metal band Anthrax from 1983-1995 and 2005 to 2007. He is the brother of former Black Sabbath bassist Dave Spitz. Michael Hastings   Date Born: Monday 28 January 1980   Description: Contributing editor to "Rolling Stone" - Journalist   Summary: Michael Mahon Hastings was an American journalist, author, contributing editor to Rolling Stone, and reporter for BuzzFeed. He was raised in New York, Canada, and Vermont, and attended New York University. Mr Acker Bilk   Date Born: Monday 28 January 1929   Description: Clarinetist, UK   Summary: He is known for his trademark goatee, bowler hat, striped waistcoat and his breathy, vibrato-rich, lower-register clarinet style.P/E Robert Wyatt   Date Born: Sunday 28 January 1945   Description: Vocalist, Composer, Drummer, UK   Summary: Founding member of the influential Canterbury scene band Soft Machine. Ronnie Scott   Date Born: Friday 28 January 1927   Description: Saxophonist, UK   Summary: Scott is best remembered for co-founding, with former tenor sax player Pete King, the Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, which opened in 1959 at 39 Gerrard Street in London's Soho Sacha Distel   Date Born: Sunday 28 January 1934   Description: Vocalist, French   Summary: He is mentioned in the Peter Sarstedt's song "Where Do You Go To, My Lovely". One of Sarstedt's bigest hits in the sixties. Sarah Mclachlan   Date Born: Monday 28 January 1963   Description: Vocalist, Multi- Instrumentalist, Painter, Executive Producer, CA   Summary: Known for her emotional ballads and mezzo-soprano vocal range, as of 2006, she has sold over 40 million albums worldwide Amii Stewart   Date Born: Sunday 29 January 1956   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Stewart is the aunt of actress/singer Sinitta who, in turn, is the daughter of actress/singer Miquel Brown. Bobby Scott   Date Born: Friday 29 January 1937   Description: Pianist, vibraphonist, Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: As a songwriter, he won a Grammy award for Best Instrumental Composition for the song "A Taste of Honey". Claudine Longet   Date Born: Thursday 29 January 1942   Description: Vocalist, Actress, France   Summary: Married Andy Williams on December 15, 1961. She and Williams separated in 1969 but did not formally divorce until 6 years later in 1975. David Byron   Date Born: Tuesday 29 January 1946   Description: Vocalist, UK   Summary: Mainly known as the frontman of the '70s arena rock outfit Uriah Heep, singer David Byron also performed as a solo artist. Eddie Taylor   Date Born: Monday 29 January 1923   Description: Guitarist, USA   Summary: Taylor's son Eddie Taylor Jr. is a blues guitarist in Chicago, and his stepson Larry Taylor is a blues drummer and vocalist. Frederick Delius   Date Born: Wednesday 29 January 1862   Description: Composer, UK   Summary: His parents were German born and moved to England which they worked a wollen business. Ian "molly" Meldrum   Date Born: Tuesday 29 January 1946   Description: Media, Personality, Journalsit, Australia   Summary: Music news presenter on the popular music program Countdown and widely recognised for his trademark Akubra hat. Isabel Lucas   Date Born: Tuesday 29 January 1985   Description: Actress, Australia   Summary: Known for her role as Tasha Andrews on the Australian television soap opera Home and Away (2003–2006) Ivo Robic   Date Born: Monday 29 January 1923   Description: Vocalist , Composer, Croatia   Summary: Robi¿ was nicknamed "Mister Morgen" following the success of his first international hit, "Morgen" (which means "tomorrow"), in 1959. James Jamerson   Date Born: Saturday 29 January 1938   Description: Bassist, USA   Summary: James Jamerson plays bass on countless Motown singles and album tracks, including classics by the Supremes, Marvin Gaye, the Four Tops, Martha and the Vandellas, the Miracles, the Marvelettes, the Temptations and others.P/A Jeanne Lee   Date Born: Sunday 29 January 1939   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Her influence is the black rootsand tradition and her love for classical. Jessica Marais   Date Born: Tuesday 29 January 1985   Description: Actress, Australia   Summary: Born in South Africa, Marais and her family lived in Canada and New Zealand before relocating to Perth, Western Australia, when she was nine. John Forsythe   Date Born: Tuesday 29 January 1918   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Forsythe, the oldest of three children, was born in New Jersey to a factory worker, and was raised in Brooklyn, New York where his father worked as a Wall Street businessman during the Great Depression of 1929.P/E Katharine Ross   Date Born: Monday 29 January 1940   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Ross was born in Hollywood, California, when her father was in the Navy. Her family later settled in Walnut Creek, California, east of San Francisco. She graduated from Las Lomas High School.P/E Mark Wynter   Date Born: Friday 29 January 1943   Description: Vocalist, UK   Summary: One of Britain’s most promising singers charting with songs such as "DREAM GIRL" and "VENUS IN BLUE JEANS" all covers but very good covers compared to the originals. Max Carl   Date Born: Sunday 29 January 1950   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, Composer, USA   Summary: In addition to performing, Carl also found time during the mid-80s to compose tunes for various movie soundtracks, performing on many of them as well. Films such as Police Academy (1984) and Doin' Time (1985) include his compositions. Max Richard   Date Born: Monday 29 January 1945   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist , Composer, Australian   Summary: An Australian country singer, songwriter. Noel Harrison   Date Born: Monday 29 January 1934   Description: Vocalist, Actor, UK   Summary: He is the son of British actor Sir Rex Harrison. Oprah Winfrey   Date Born: Friday 29 January 1954   Description: Talk show host, Actress, USA   Summary: She is also an influential book critic, an Academy Award-nominated actress, and a magazine publisher. She has been ranked the richest African American of the 20th century. Rodney Rude   Date Born: Friday 29 January 1943   Description: Comedian, Vocalist, Poet and Write, rAustralia   Summary: He began his career in a band, singing and playing guitar. His habit of altering the lyrics of songs to amuse himself and his audience prompted him to become a comedian. Tom Selleck   Date Born: Monday 29 January 1945   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Born in Detroit to a father from north eastern Slovakia Robert Selleck (died 2001) and Scottish-American mother Martha. Tony Blackburn   Date Born: Friday 29 January 1943   Description: Disc Jockey, Singer UK   Summary: An English disc jockey, who broadcast on the "pirate" stations Radio Caroline and Radio London in the 1960s Victor Mature   Date Born: Friday 29 January 1915   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Born to father, Marcellus George Mature, a cutler, and Swiss American mother, Clara Mature. Dick Martin   Date Born: Monday 30 January 1922   Description: Comedian, USA   Summary: Mainly known for the co host of "LAUGH IN" television series during the sixties with partner Dan Rowan.P/E Gene Hackman   Date Born: Thursday 30 January 1930   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Lyda and Eugene Ezra Hackman. He has a brother, Richard. Hackman's family moved from one place to another until finally settling in Illinois, living in the house of his maternal grandmother, Beatrice, and where Hackman's father operated the printing press for the Commercial-News, a local paper. Horst Jankowski   Date Born: Thursday 30 January 1936   Description: Pianist, Germany   Summary: A classically trained pianist most famous for his easy listening music. Jeanne Pruett   Date Born: Saturday 30 January 1937   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: She was one of ten children, and since a young age she listened to the Grand Ole Opry and also harmonized with her brothers and sisters. Jody Watley   Date Born: Friday 30 January 1959   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: She ranks as the #144 most successful R&B artist of all time according to Billboard magazine. Joe Terranova   Date Born: Thursday 30 January 1941   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Danny and The Juniors were inducted into The Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2003. Lizbeth Webb   Date Born: Saturday 30 January 1926   Description: Actress, Singer   Summary: She began her career as a teenage band vocalist under the name Betty Webb, singing to the troops during World War II and freelancing with British bands Marty Balin   Date Born: Tuesday 30 January 1945   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: Balin was the founder and featured vocalist for Jefferson Airplane from 1965 to 1971. Phil Collins   Date Born: Tuesday 30 January 1951   Description: Vocalist, Actor, Composer, UK   Summary: Collins was given a toy drum kit for Christmas when he was five. Later, his uncle made him a makeshift one that he used regularly. Roy Eldridge   Date Born: Monday 30 January 1911   Description: Saxophonist, USA   Summary: Eldridge was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and originally played drums, trumpet and tuba. Ruth Brown   Date Born: Monday 30 January 1928   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Ruth Brown's father was a dockhand who directed the local church choir. Ruth showed more of an interest in singing at nightclubs. She was inspired by Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday and Dinah Washington. Steve Marriott   Date Born: Thursday 30 January 1947   Description: Vocalist, UK   Summary: Steve Marriott was born to parents Kay and Bill Marriott who lived at Strone Road, Manor Park. Tubby Hayes   Date Born: Wednesday 30 January 1935   Description: Saxophonist, UK   Summary: From 1957 to 1959 he joined Ronnie Scott in co-leading a quintet, The Jazz Couriers, perhaps the most fondly remembered of British Modern Jazz groups. Vanessa Redgrave   Date Born: Saturday 30 January 1937   Description: Actress, UK   Summary: The daughter of actors Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson, Lady Redgrave. Alan Lomax   Date Born: Sunday 31 January 1915   Description: Vocalist , Guitarist, Composer, USA   Summary: He was one of the great field collectors of folk music of the 20th century, recording thousands of songs in the United States, Great Britain, Ireland, the Caribbean, Italy, and Spain. Bobby Hackett   Date Born: Sunday 31 January 1915   Description: Trumpeter, USA   Summary: He played with the Glenn Miller Orchestra during 1941-42. Carol Channing   Date Born: Wednesday 31 January 1923   Description: Actress, Comedienne, USA   Summary: Her father was George Channing, a journalist, whose newspaper career took the family to San Francisco when Channing was only two weeks old; her mother was the former Carol Glaser. Chuck Willis   Date Born: Tuesday 31 January 1928   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: Willis signed with Columbia Records. After one single, he began recording on a Columbia subsidiary, Okeh. During his stay at Okeh, he established himself as a popular R&B singer and songwriter. In 1956, he moved to Atlantic Records where he had immediate success with "It's Too Late", "Juanita", and "Love Me Cherry". His most successful recording was "C.C. Rider". Cyril Stapleton   Date Born: Saturday 31 January 1914   Description: Band Leader, UK   Summary: Stapleton was a leader in Britain and overseas, thanks to his regular BBC broadcasts and his many recordings. Earokin   Date Born: Friday 31 January 1947   Description: Vocalist, songwriter, musician and comedian, UK   Summary: He performs on TV in several countries, particularly in Brazil, Australia and Germany. Eddie Cantor   Date Born: Tuesday 31 January 1882   Description: Vocalist, Actor, USA   Summary: His eye rolling song and dance routines eventually led to his nickname, Banjo Eyes. In 1907, Cantor became a billed name in vaudeville. Frank Ricotti   Date Born: Monday 31 January 1949