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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 WEEK 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: 123   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 Galeăo - 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 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 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. 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.     © Music Minder All rights reserved: Prosecution rights will be exercised for any breaches of copyright.