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| Date Born: | Saturday 1 October 1932 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, US | | | | Summary: | Collins will be remembered not only for the quantity of quality blues music that he put out throughout his career that has inspired so many other blues musicians, but also for his live performances, where he would frequently come down from the stage and mingle with the audience whilst still playing. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 1 October 1949 | | | | Description: | Conductor, violinist | | | | Summary: | He was raised in a musical family (six children) and his father was also a musical Conductor. From an early age he developed a fascination with the Orchestra form. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 1 October 1944 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | | Summary: | Known for the hit song "A LOVERS CONCERT" - "A Lover's Concerto." The melody soaring adaptation of Bach's Minuet in G |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 1 October 1929 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | | Summary: | Bonnie Owens herself became a popular singer and songwriter in the fifties. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 1 October 1989 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actress, USA | | | | Summary: | Brie Larson was born in Sacramento, California.She decided to be an actress when she was seven years old and was one of the youngest students of the American Conservatory Theater. She moved to Los Angeles in 1998. |
| Date Born: | Monday 1 October 1945 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, songwriter, producer, USA | | | | Summary: | At first, Hathaway worked as songwriter, session musician and producer. He is mainly known for the hit duet song ’Where Is The Love’ with Roberta Flack. |
| Date Born: | Monday 1 October 1928 | | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | | Summary: | George Peppard, Jr. was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of building contractor George Peppard, Sr. and opera singer Vernelle Rohrer. |
| Date Born: | Monday 1 October 1900 | | | | Description: | Composer of songs, USA | | | | Summary: | The success of his song "All of Me" led him to become a member of ASCAP, and he remained active in the organization for decades, serving on its board of directors from 1970 to 1981. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 1 October 1944 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | | Summary: | The Persuasions have also enjoyed recognition from outside the doo-wop, gospel, and a cappella communities. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 1 October 1921 | | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | | Summary: | Whitmore did extensive theatre work. He won a Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Newcomer" in the Broadway production of Command Decision (1948). |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 1 October 1935 | | | | Description: | Actress, UK | | | | Summary: | Julie Andrews is a one in a million singer and actress with a perfect voice, perfect speach and qualities over and above most singers and of her time and an honest look of her seemingly good way of life. |
| Date Born: | Monday 1 October 1928 | | | | Description: | Acting, Lithuania | | | | Summary: | Born Laruschka Mischa Skikne in Lithuania, he made his cinema debut in the British film "House of Darkness" in 1948. |
| Date Born: | Friday 1 October 1937 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | | Summary: | None exemplified the creativity of the music like singer/percussionist Leon Thomas. The vocalist and co-author with Pharoah Sanders of "The Creator Has A Master Plan". |
| Date Born: | Friday 1 October 1948 | | | | Description: | Composer of music, lyricist, USA | | | | Summary: | Ahrens and Flaherty also collaborated on songs for the animated movie Anastasia, receiving two Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for Best Song and Best Score. |
| Date Born: | Monday 1 October 1956 | | | | Description: | Singer-songwriter, record producer, musician | | | | Summary: | Michael Saxell composed the Lithuanian Grammy winning song of year "Yra kaip yra" for the artist Mia in 2007 along with co-writers Christian Svensson and Sandra diAmante. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 1 October 1978 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | | Summary: | Atkins was born in Neptune, New Jersey. She grew up in Shark River Hills, a middle class enclave within Neptune overlooking the Shark River. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 1 October 1865 | | | | Description: | Composer, French | | | | Summary: | Dukas found work as a music critic and orchestrator, he was unusually gifted in orchestration and was one of the most sensitive and insightful critics of the era.
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| Date Born: | Sunday 1 October 1950 | | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | | Summary: | Quaid was born the son of Juanita Bonniedale "Nita", a real estate agent, and William Rudy Quaid. He is the elder brother of fellow actor Dennis Quaid. |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 1 October 1930 | | | | Description: | Actor, Iriish | | | | Summary: | He recorded several albums, one (A Tramp Shining) included the seven-minute hit song "MacArthur Park" (which Harris mispronounced as "MacArthur's Park"); that song written by Jimmy Webb, reached #2 on the United States Billboard magazine pop chart |
| Date Born: | Thursday 1 October 1925 | | | | Description: | Pianist, USA | | | | Summary: | His Steinway & Sons "Gold Steinway" grand piano has been on tour for public display and entertainment during 2007–2008. |
| Date Born: | Friday 1 October 1915 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actor, Composer | | | | Summary: | Mainly known for his appearances on 'Town Hall Party' during the fifties. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 1 October 1939 | | | | Description: | Actress, Director, Producer, USA | | | | Summary: | Stevens was in the 100 sexiest stars of the 20th Century. During the 1960s, she was one of the ten most photographed women in the world. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 1 October 1927 | | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | | Summary: | Mainly came to fame in the TV series Happy Days playing the part of Richard Cunningham’s Father along side the Fonze. |
| Date Born: | Friday 1 October 1920 | | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | | Summary: | He appeared in many movies after this as a villain such as the 1958 King Creole (where he is beaten up by Elvis Presley). |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 2 October 1895 | | | | Description: | Actor, Comedian, USA | | | | Summary: | The team's first known radio appearance was on The Kate Smith Hour in February, 1938. "Who's on First?" was first performed for a national radio audience the following month. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 2 October 1948 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist | | | | Summary: | By 1982 he had sold over 250,000 copies of his albums, with little or no marketing. By the end of the decade he had self-released twenty-two albums. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 2 October 1945 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, USA | | | | Summary: | In 2001 "American Pie" was voted No. 5 in a poll of the 365 Songs of the Century compiled by the Recording Industry Association of America and the National Endowment for the Arts. |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 2 October 1946 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, UK | | | | Summary: | In mid-1966, Donovan became the first high-profile British pop star to be arrested for possession of marijuana. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 2 October 1956 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Producer, Composer | | | | Summary: | Among his well-known hits are "Rock Me Tonight (For Old Times Sake)", "Jam Tonight", "Do Me Again," and "You Are My Lady". |
| Date Born: | Thursday 2 October 1890 | | | | Description: | Actor, Comedian, USA | | | | Summary: | Groucho Marx made a total of 26 movies; of them, fifteen were with his brothers Chico and Harpo. |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 2 October 1946 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Songwriter, USA | | | | Summary: | By age six, Sonnier had performed on the radio; at age eleven, he made his first recordings. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 2 October 1952 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Comedy, UK | | | | Summary: | Specialist in the bizarre and very humorous songs. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 2 October 1917 | | | | Description: | Guitarist, Band Leader, Brazilian | | | | Summary: | Laurindo Almeida was a Brazilian virtuoso guitarist and composer who made many recordings of enduring impact in classical, jazz and Latin genres. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 2 October 1932 | | | | Description: | Actress, Singer, Australia | | | | Summary: | She was a performer at heart even as a child. Before she left her hometown to try her hand at entertaining, she began training as a hairdresser |
| Date Born: | Saturday 2 October 1954 | | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | | Summary: | Dr. Jennifer Melfi on the HBO series The Sopranos and as Karen Hill in the 1990 Martin Scorsese film Goodfellas. |
| Date Born: | Monday 2 October 1950 | | | | Description: | Bassist, UK | | | | Summary: | Rutherford's bass lines are well known for being tastefully constructed as well as showing a great deal of technical innovation and skill. His bass lines from early Genesis were especially impressive in the rising progressive rock movement. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 2 October 1955 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, songwriter and producer. UK | | | | Summary: | Oakey has been a key figure in the music business and has been lead singer of The Human League for over 30 years, with whom he has sold an estimated 20 million records. |
| Date Born: | Monday 2 October 1933 | | | | Description: | Saxophonist, UK | | | | Summary: | Ross was a saxophone tutor for a young David Bowie, and years later was the soloist on the Lou Reed song "Walk on the Wild Side". |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 2 October 1951 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, UK | | | | Summary: | Sting appeared on the television sitcom Ally McBeal as himself, being sued for appearing to sing to a fan by the fan's husband.
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| Date Born: | Saturday 2 October 1971 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | | Summary: | Tiffany was singing at a Los Angeles club named El Palomino when she was discovered by Hoyt Axton and his mother Mae Axton. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 3 October 1946 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | | Summary: | She recorded the original version of “Please Dont Talk to the Lifeguard”. |
| Date Born: | Monday 3 October 1955 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, Australia | | | | Summary: | Her most recent success was to have two of her songs accepted to be on a compilation Album, by Selection Records to be released in 2007. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 3 October 1944 | | | | Description: | TV Host, Vocalist, Australia | | | | Summary: | One of the most popular female television personalities to appear on South Australaian television. |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 3 October 1984 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actress, USA | | | | Summary: | Simpson began studying classical ballet at the age of three, and was admitted to the School of American Ballet in New York City at the age of eleven.
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| Date Born: | Friday 3 October 1941 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, US | | | | Summary: | Chubby Checker was the first to make a hit out of the song THE TWIST staing a new dance craze in the sixties. Hank Ballard was the writer of ’The Twist’. |
| Date Born: | Monday 3 October 1938 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, USA | | | | Summary: | He was also a heavy influence on the nascent rockabilly guitar legend Brian Setzer from Stray Cats who plays a 6120 just like his hero, whom he portrayed in the film La Bamba.
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| Date Born: | Monday 3 October 1927 | | | | Description: | Rock journalist, Model, America | | | | Summary: | Stavers is credited with being one of the first women rock and roll journalists. |
| Date Born: | Friday 3 October 1969 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actress, Songwriter | | | | Summary: | Gwen Renée Stefani was born in Fullerton, California and raised in Anaheim, California, and grew up in a Roman Catholic household. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 3 October 1948 | | | | Description: | British music critic and author, UK | | | | Summary: | In his 1994 Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties, MacDonald carefully anatomised each recording by The Beatles, examining the broad themes and sources. |
| Date Born: | Friday 3 October 1924 | | | | Description: | Composer, DJ, USA | | | | Summary: | A founding member of the Country Music Association. |
| Date Born: | Friday 3 October 1941 | | | | Description: | Record producer for Warner Bros. Records | | | | Summary: | As a producer, Lenny Waronker has worked with such acts as Arlo Guthrie, Rickie Lee Jones, Randy Newman, and the Doobie Brothers. |
| Date Born: | Monday 3 October 1949 | | | | Description: | Guitarist, Composer, USA | | | | Summary: | In 1981, Buckingham released his first solo album Law and Order playing nearly every instrument and featuring guest appearances by bandmates Mick Fleetwood and Christine McVie. |
| Date Born: | Friday 3 October 1930 | | | | Description: | Saxophonist, USA | | | | Summary: | Higgins served as a producer on several of Blood, Sweat, and Tears' albums. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 3 October 1946 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | | Summary: | An offer with Maxine and her friend Gloria Scott had managed to arrange an audition for three girls to replace the original Ikettes, the dancer/singer troupe that provided vocal and dance accompaniment for the Ike and Tina Turner Revue. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 3 October 1954 | | | | Description: | Guitarist, USA | | | | Summary: | He found a battered 1963 Fender Stratocaster at a music store in Austin. It would remain as his favorite guitar for the rest of his life.
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| Date Born: | Wednesday 3 October 1923 | | | | Description: | Saxophonist, US | | | | Summary: | American hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist. He was the father of jazz saxophonist Chico Freeman |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 3 October 1923 | | | | Description: | Saxophonist, US | | | | Summary: | American hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist. He was the father of jazz saxophonist Chico Freeman |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 3 October 1923 | | | | Description: | Saxophonist, US | | | | Summary: | American hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist. He was the father of jazz saxophonist Chico Freeman |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 3 October 1923 | | | | Description: | Saxophonist, US | | | | Summary: | American hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist. He was the father of jazz saxophonist Chico Freeman |
| Date Born: | Friday 4 October 1895 | | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | | Summary: | Keaton was born into a vaudeville family. His father was Joseph Hallie Keaton, a native of Vigo County, Indiana, known in the show business world as Joe Keaton. Joe Keaton owned a traveling show with Harry Houdini |
| Date Born: | Saturday 4 October 1924 | | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | | Summary: | Heston was born the son of Lilla and Russell Whitford Carter, a mill operator. Heston has stated that he was part Native American and a "blood-initiated brother of the Miniconjou Sioux." When he was ten, his parents divorced. |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 4 October 1939 | | | | Description: | Pianist, Sao Paulo | | | | Summary: | Gil Carli, Brazilian pianist, plays with perfection all the characteristics of that pianist Carmen Cavallaro. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 4 October 1941 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actor, Composer, Australia | | | | Summary: | Helen Reddy was born into a well-known Australian show business family. Her parents, performers on the Australian vaudeville circuit, were actress and singer Stella Lamond and writer-actor-comedian Max Reddy. Her sister, Toni Lamond is also an actress and singer. |
| Date Born: | Monday 4 October 1937 | | | | Description: | Novelist | | | | Summary: | To date, she has written 27 novels, all of which have appeared on the New York Times bestsellers list. In total, her books have sold over 400 million copies. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 4 October 1947 | | | | Description: | Bassist, USA | | | | Summary: | He played in "The Mothers of Invention" and "Buffalo Springfield" etc. |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 4 October 1944 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist,Composer, USA | | | | Summary: | Larry and Lorrie Collins were among the most influential rockabilly acts of the 1950s. |
| Date Born: | Friday 4 October 1929 | | | | Description: | Singer, songwriter, USA | | | | Summary: | American country music singer best known for his hits "The Auctioneer" (1956) and "Walk On By" (1961). |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 4 October 1944 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | | Summary: | LaBelle was born the daughter of Henry Holte, a railroad worker.The fourth of five children, including three sisters and a brother.
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| Date Born: | Tuesday 4 October 1938 | | | | Description: | Actor, director and writer. | | | | Summary: | He was the founder of the Round Earth Company and advocate for the understanding of the Macquarie Harbour Penal Station on Sarah Island on the West Coast of Tasmania. |
| Date Born: | Friday 4 October 1946 | | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | | Summary: | Sarandon, the eldest of nine children, the daughter of Lenora Marie and Phillip Leslie Tomalin, who worked as an advertising executive, television producer, and nightclub singer during the big band era. |
| Date Born: | Friday 4 October 1957 | | | | Description: | Bassist, Norway | | | | Summary: | A Norwegian bass guitarist, known from a number of album releases as a session musician, and most notably as a founding member of Dance with a Stranger. |
| Date Born: | Monday 5 October 1925 | | | | Description: | Trumpeter, Composer, visual artist, USA | | | | Summary: | He co-led some releases with Archie Shepp and appeared on Cecil Taylor's Blue Note record Conquistador! in 1966. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 5 October 1933 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | | Summary: | Born the son of a sharecropper, Riley learned to play guitar from black farm workers. After 4 years in the Army. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 5 October 1954 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Humanitarian, UK | | | | Summary: | The group charted with’ I DON’T LIKE MONDAYS. Geldof has been awarded Knight of the British Empire. He was instrumental with the Live Aid Concert for Africa. |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 5 October 1988 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actor, USA | | | | Summary: | Edner has also become proficient in singing, dancing, and even songwriting.
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| Date Born: | Monday 5 October 1959 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, Composer, Canada | | | | Summary: | Adams was born in Canada, to English parents. |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 5 October 1949 | | | | Description: | Vocalist,Composer, USA | | | | Summary: | He later turned to the composing of songs during the late eighties in Nashville. Recorded for RCA records in the seventies. |
| Date Born: | Monday 5 October 1970 | | | | Description: | Comedien, NZ | | | | Summary: | After attending high school in Christchurch, Wilson completed a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Canterbury. |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 5 October 1938 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | | Summary: | An original member and the baritone voice of the quartet. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 5 October 1933 | | | | Description: | Actress, Australia | | | | Summary: | Cilento was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Tom Jones in 1963. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 5 October 1919 | | | | Description: | Actor, UK | | | | Summary: | The son of Alice and Thomas Stanley Pleasence, a stationmaster.He was brought up in the small village of Grimoldby, Lincolnshire, England, and attended Ecclesfield Grammar School in south west Yorkshire. |
| Date Born: | Monday 5 October 1936 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | | Summary: | George Jones Sr was known for singing the lead on "Lama Rama Ding Dong" with The Edsels. |
| Date Born: | Friday 5 October 1923 | | | | Description: | Actress, South Africa | | | | Summary: | In 1944, she appeared with her father in Halfway House, and in 1948 starred as a mermaid in Miranda (Johns later reprised the role in a 1954 sequel, Mad About Men). |
| Date Born: | Saturday 5 October 1957 | | | | Description: | Actor, Australian | | | | Summary: | In 2010 he appeared as playboy David, the Prince of Wales, who became King Edward VIII, in the award-winning film The King's Speech. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 5 October 1952 | | | | Description: | Musician, composer, producer | | | | Summary: | He is recognized as one of the composers/producers who best captured the zeitgeist of 1980s synthpop in film scores.
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| Date Born: | Thursday 5 October 1950 | | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | | Summary: | An American actor, best known for his roles in the movie Grease, and the US TV series Taxi and Babylon 5. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 5 October 1918 | | | | Description: | Bassist, USA | | | | Summary: | Jimmy Blanton played in the Duke Ellington Orchestra.
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| Date Born: | Wednesday 5 October 1938 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | | Summary: | Johnny was born into a musical family. He is very proud of his talented and famous cousins, including Eddie Seals, Jimmy Seals of Seals & Croft, and country singer Dan Seals. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 5 October 1975 | | | | Description: | Actress, UK | | | | Summary: | At the age of 22, Winslet became the youngest actress to receive two Oscar nominations; at age 33, she was the youngest actor to receive six nominations. |
| Date Born: | Monday 5 October 1908 | | | | Description: | Actress, Singer, USA | | | | Summary: | Born Katherine Moran in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, Crawford had a somewhat tumultuous childhood. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 5 October 1935 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, USA | | | | Summary: | Margie Singleton was a popular duet and solo recording artist, working with legendary Country stars George Jones and Faron Young.
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| Date Born: | Sunday 5 October 1980 | | | | Description: | Bassist, USA | | | | Summary: | His first instrument was guitar, but he later switched to bass |
| Date Born: | Saturday 5 October 1946 | | | | Description: | Keyboardist, USA | | | | Summary: | Worked also with "Janis Joplin with the Butterfield Blues Band" -"Santana plus" a member of "The Kosmic Blues Band". |
| Date Born: | Monday 5 October 1942 | | | | Description: | Singer, dancer, songwriter, USA | | | | Summary: | An American soul and R&B singer, most notable as a member of Motown vocal group The Temptations from 1971 to 1993. Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, Street was the first member of the Temptations to actually be a native of the city which served as Motown's namesake and hometown. |
| Date Born: | Monday 5 October 1925 | | | | Description: | Violinist and conductor, USA | | | | Summary: | In 1957 Harth became the first American to receive the Laureate Prize in the Wieniawski Violin Competition held in Poland.
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| Date Born: | Tuesday 5 October 1943 | | | | Description: | Guitarist, Vocalst,Composer , USA | | | | Summary: | Miller was born to Dr George "Sonny" Miller, a pathologist, jazz enthusiast, hat salesman and amateur recording engineer, and Bertha, a jazz-influenced singer.P/E |
| Date Born: | Monday 6 October 1947 | | | | Description: | Trumpeter, Composer, Arranger, USA | | | | Summary: | He is the sole survivor of the 1967 plane crash that claimed the lives of soul singer Otis Redding and four members of the Bar-Kays.
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| Date Born: | Thursday 6 October 1949 | | | | Description: | Violinist, USA | | | | Summary: | He appeared as a dancer in late 2005 in the Roger Sanchez videoclip of Turn on the Music.
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| Date Born: | Tuesday 6 October 1942 | | | | Description: | Actress, Sweden | | | | Summary: | Ekland published a beauty and fitness book in 1984, followed by a fitness video in 1992. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 6 October 1908 | | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | | Summary: | In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Lombard 23rd on its list of the 50 greatest American female screen legends. |
| Date Born: | Friday 6 October 1922 | | | | Description: | Guitarist, USA | | | | Summary: | He also played guitar with ’The Mills Brothers’. |
| Date Born: | Friday 6 October 1854 | | | | Description: | Composer, Marching songs, USA | | | | Summary: | Sousa was born in Washington, D.C., to John António de Sousa and Maria Elisabeth Trinkhaus. His parents were of Portuguese, Spanish and Bavarian (German) descent; his grandparents were Portuguese refugees. |
| Date Born: | Friday 6 October 1922 | | | | Description: | Actress, vocalist, US | | | | Summary: | In 1997 Garland was posthumously awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and several of her recordings have been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. In 1999, the American Film Institute placed her among the ten greatest female stars in the history of American cinema. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 6 October 1951 | | | | Description: | Vocalist , Guitarist, Actor, Composer, Piano, USA | | | | Summary: | He is also widely known for his performance on Time Life's Ultimate Rock Ballads infomercial. |
| Date Born: | Monday 6 October 1947 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Jamaica | | | | Summary: | "My Boy Lollipop" was doubly significant in British pop music history. It was the first major hit for Island Records. |
| Date Born: | Friday 6 October 1893 | | | | Description: | Composer, Lyricist, Pianist. USA | | | | Summary: | He taught himself to play the piano and embarked on a career as a musician. |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 6 October 1937 | | | | Description: | Producer, Lyricist, Screenwriter, USA | | | | Summary: | The son of Richard Maltby, Sr., a well known orchestra leader. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 6 October 1946 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Keyboardist Guitarist, Australia | | | | Summary: | One of Adelaide's most prominant performers over the years. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 6 October 1949 | | | | Description: | Guitarist, USA | | | | Summary: | He is the only member of the CBS orchestra who wears headphones during each performance. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 6 October 1966 | | | | Description: | Guitarist, Bassist, USA | | | | Summary: | Tommy Stinson was only 12 years old when he joined the band in 1979. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 6 October 1946 | | | | Description: | England Test cricketer turned commentator. | | | | Summary: | He helped Kerry Packer start World Series Cricket by signing up many of his English colleagues as well as West Indian and Pakistani cricketers, a move which cost him the England captaincy. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 6 October 1938 | | | | Description: | Saxophonist, USA | | | | Summary: | He also worked with Ray Charles - Bobby "Blue" Bland. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 6 October 1938 | | | | Description: | Saxophonist, USA | | | | Summary: | He also worked with Ray Charles - Bobby "Blue" Bland. |
| Date Born: | Friday 7 October 1927 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actor, USA | | | | Summary: | Apart from singing, Martino played the role of Johnny Fontane in the 1972 film The Godfather. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 7 October 1978 | | | | Description: | Singer-songwriter, dancer, model and television personality. | | | | Summary: | Alesha Anjanette Dixon was born in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, on 7 October 1978, to an English mother, Beverly Harris, and Jamaican father, Melvin Dixon. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 7 October 1905 | | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | | Summary: | He appeared in more than 400 films and shared with Walter Brennan. A larger than life character in mainly western films. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 7 October 1961 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actor, Australia | | | | Summary: | Mannix is also a regular on the TV show Spicks and Specks. |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 7 October 1942 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, USA | | | | Summary: | The band's gimmicks was that the members often performed dressed in Civil War era Union Army uniforms.
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| Date Born: | Wednesday 7 October 1992 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Australia | | | | Summary: | Australia’s greatest operatic discovery, 19 year old, Grace Bawden, launched her Debut single, “Man of Colours”, from her first album Gifts of Grace, under the independent label, Hype33.
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| Date Born: | Saturday 7 October 1916 | | | | Description: | Alto saxophone | | | | Summary: | Born in Pensacola, Florida, he was active between 1939 and 1965(aged 97) |
| Date Born: | Sunday 7 October 1951 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Songwriter, Guitarist, USA | | | | Summary: | He has sold over 40 million albums worldwide and has amassed 22 Top 40 hits in the United States. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 7 October 1917 | | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | | Summary: | In 1925, when she was eight, a dead tree branch fell on her while she was bicycling. Several bones were broken, and doctors said she would never walk again. She underwent months of swimming exercises, however, and ultimately regained her health. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 7 October 1945 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Drums, UK | | | | Summary: | He has recently reunited with another former 10cc member, Graham Gouldman to form the band, GG/06 |
| Date Born: | Thursday 7 October 1971 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Australia | | | | Summary: | Born in Sydney, Australia. The daughter of the famous Mary Schneider of "The Schneider Sisters". |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 7 October 1964 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, UK | | | | Summary: | In late 2006 she undertook an extensive UK tour as special guest of her father Joe Brown. |
| Date Born: | Friday 7 October 1988 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, USA | | | | Summary: | DuPree was born at her home in The Woodlands, Texas to Boyd Weston DuPree and Kimberly Kay DuPree. She grew up surrounded by music. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 7 October 1975 | | | | Description: | Comedian, actor, and musician. Australia | | | | Summary: | Minchin's background is in theatre and he has appeared in various stage productions. His most recent dramatic theatrical performance was in the title role for the 2006 Perth Theatre Company production of Amadeus |
| Date Born: | Monday 7 October 1968 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, Actress, USA | | | | Summary: | Toni's father was a clergyman, and the Braxton children were raised in a strict religious household.Braxton's first performing experience was singing in her church choir. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 7 October 1941 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | | Summary: | They changed their name once again in 1966, this time permanently to the Main Ingredient, taking the name from a Coke bottle. An original member When they formed in 1961 in New York |
| Date Born: | Friday 7 October 1870 | | | | Description: | Banjoist, USA | | | | Summary: | He was inducted posthumously into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1966. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 7 October 1911 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | | Summary: | He turned down the chance to record "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer". |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 8 October 1919 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actress, USA | | | | Summary: | O'Day left home at age 12 and began her career two years later in 1934, touring the Midwestern United States as a marathon dance contestant and singing "The Lady in Red" for tips. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 8 October 1985 | | | | Description: | Singer, Songwriter, USA | | | | Summary: | Bruno Mars, is an American singer-songwriter and record producer. Raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, by a family of musicians. |
| Date Born: | Friday 8 October 1943 | | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | | Summary: | He has hosted the Academy Awards twice (1987 and 1988) |
| Date Born: | Saturday 8 October 1898 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Pianist, Composer, USA | | | | Summary: | In 1970, Clarence Williams was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. |
| Date Born: | Friday 8 October 1937 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, Australia | | | | Summary: | Appearing on South Australian television, the trio became very popular over the years. |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 8 October 1941 | | | | Description: | Guitarist, UK | | | | Summary: | Bellamy left the Tornados 1963 when it was necessary to cease touring because of health problems. |
| Date Born: | Monday 8 October 1917 | | | | Description: | Pianist, UK | | | | Summary: | His band, George Webb's Dixielanders, he played regularly and famously at The Red Barn public house at, Kent. |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 8 October 1919 | | | | Description: | Saxophonist, USA | | | | Summary: | Singer appears on the 1981 live recording Rocket 88 with the UK-based boogie-woogie band Rocket 88. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 8 October 1949 | | | | Description: | Guitarist, Composer. UK | | | | Summary: | A member of the Average White Band from 1972 to 1982. |
| Date Born: | Friday 8 October 1948 | | | | Description: | Guitarist | | | | Summary: | The Rolling Stone magazine ranked Johnny Ramone 16 on their list of the Greatest Guitarist of all Time.
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| Date Born: | Sunday 8 October 1961 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actor, Australia | | | | Summary: | Stevens moved to Australia after success as a pop star in New Zealand in the 1970s (his best-known songs from this era are "Jezebel" and a cover version of "Montego Bay"); he subsequently became an Australian citizen. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 8 October 1955 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, USA | | | | Summary: | He was a protégé of Robert Lockwood, Jr., from whom he learned the style of Robert Johnson.
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| Date Born: | Thursday 8 October 1970 | | | | Description: | Actor, screenwriter, producer, USA | | | | Summary: | Matt Damon was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the son of Kent Telfer Damon, a stockbroker, and Nancy Carlsson-Paige, an early childhood education professor at Lesley University. Damon is of Scottish, English, Finnish, and Swedish ancestry. |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 8 October 1958 | | | | Description: | Composer of music, Switzerland | | | | Summary: | Born in Geneva, he studied at the Conservatoire there, and later with Klaus Huber in Freiburg.
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| Date Born: | Friday 8 October 1880 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actress, Comedienne, USA | | | | Summary: | She was portrayed by Ann Sheridan in the 1944 musical biopic Shine On, Harvest Moon, which focused on her relationship with Norworth, played by Dennis Morgan, and ignored her other husbands.
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| Date Born: | Sunday 8 October 1939 | | | | Description: | Comedian, Actor, Australian | | | | Summary: | Paul Hogan became ’Australian of the Year’ in 1985. |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 8 October 1930 | | | | Description: | Saxophonist, Composer, USA | | | | Summary: | He played on the album Dakar by John Coltrane, played with Lee Morgan on The Cooker, and briefly worked with Benny Goodman's band in 1958. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 8 October 1933 | | | | Description: | Guitarist, Record Producer, USA | | | | Summary: | Drake was born the son of a Pentecostal preacher, in 1932. Rated as one of the best steel guitar players. |
| Date Born: | Monday 8 October 1945 | | | | Description: | Guitarist, UK | | | | Summary: | The group would have many personnel changes. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 8 October 1949 | | | | Description: | Actress | | | | Summary: | She began using the name "Sigourney Weaver" in 1963, aged fourteen, after a minor character (Sigourney Howard) in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby. |
| Date Born: | Monday 8 October 1956 | | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | | Summary: | Born in New York, Zimbalist comes from a highly successful and renowned family. Her father is Efrem Zimbalist, Jr, the actor, her grandfather Efrem Zimbalist was a concert violinist. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 8 October 1944 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, USA | | | | Summary: | A regular on the American hit TV show ’HEE HAW’. 1968, and soon after she cut her first recordings. One of these songs, "Put a Little Love in Your Heart," made the Top 30 in 1970. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 8 October 1967 | | | | Description: | Singer, songwriter, USA | | | | Summary: | The acknowledged "King of New Jack Swing," producer/songwriter Teddy Riley's enviable list of platinum-laced credits |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 8 October 1913 | | | | Description: | Composer, USA | | | | Summary: | Schumann worked within the music industry, working with Eddie Cantor on Cantor's radio show, and recording with Andre Kostelanetz. |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 8 October 1913 | | | | Description: | Composer, USA | | | | Summary: | Schumann worked within the music industry, working with Eddie Cantor on Cantor's radio show, and recording with Andre Kostelanetz. |
| Date Born: | Monday 9 October 1978 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Australia | | | | Summary: | Her first role as Sonia came in 1989, then in 1991 she played Sarah Livingston, this was followed by Nicole Cahill in 1995. |
| Date Born: | Friday 9 October 1925 | | | | Description: | Guitarist, Composer, USA | | | | Summary: | B. B. King is a licensed pilot, a known gambler, a vegetarian, non-drinker, and non-smoker. King has lived with Type II Diabetes for over twenty years and is a visible spokesman in the fight against the disease, appearing in advertisements for diabetes-management products.
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| Date Born: | Tuesday 9 October 1945 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | | Summary: | She had a brief career resurgence during the disco era and hit the charts again with her version of 10 CC's "I'm Not In Love." She also joined Lou Rawls, Billy Paul, Teddy Pendergrass, The O'Jays and Archie Bell) as a member of the Philadelphia International All Stars |
| Date Born: | Saturday 9 October 1813 | | | | Description: | Composer, Italian | | | | Summary: | Verdi's predecessors who influenced his music were Rossini, Bellini, Giacomo Meyerbeer and, most notably, Gaetano Donizetti and Saverio Mercadante. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 9 October 1948 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, guitarist, pianist, Producer, Composer, USA | | | | Summary: | Browne was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame during 2004. In his induction speech, Bruce Springsteen noted that while the Eagles got to the Hall first, "You Browne wrote the songs they wished they had written". |
| Date Born: | Monday 9 October 1944 | | | | Description: | Bassist, UK | | | | Summary: | He joined THE DETOURS with Roger Daltrey and would later be joined by Townshend changing their name to THE WHO. |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 9 October 1940 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist , Composer, UK | | | | Summary: | John Lennon was born to Julia Lennon and Alfred Lennon, during the course of a German air raid in World War II. He was named after his paternal grandfather, John 'Jack' Lennon, and Winston Churchill. Alf was a merchant seaman during World War II, and was often away from home. Alf went AWOL in 1943. When Alf eventually came home in 1944, he offered to look after Julia and Lennon, but Julia rejected the idea. After considerable pressure from her sister, Mary "Mimi" Smith, Julia handed the care of Lennon over to Mimi. |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 9 October 1935 | | | | Description: | Guitarist, singer, songwriter, USA | | | | Summary: | In the 1960s, Bassett moved to Seattle, where he backed up Tina Turner, Little Willie John, and others. Jimi Hendrix was a frequent guest at the bluesman's club gigs around Seattle. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 9 October 1958 | | | | Description: | Cellist and conductor | | | | Summary: | His orchestras have performed in England, Scotland, Australia, throughout Austria, and in major Italian venues including Milan, Fiesole, and at the Academy of Music at Santa Cecelia. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 9 October 1932 | | | | Description: | Actress, Dancer, USA | | | | Summary: | She became a chorus girl but then went on to star in a major role in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, Pipe Dream. |
| Date Born: | Monday 9 October 1939 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | | Summary: | The soul singer from Memphis could be likened to Otis Redding and many more at the time but never seemed to get the recognition he deserved. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 9 October 1975 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | | Summary: | Lennon has said that Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys are major influences in his music and he interviewed Wilson on a limited edition CD entitled Words and Music. During the release of Into The Sun. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 9 October 1960 | | | | Description: | Television host, author, music manager, businesswoman, promoter | | | | Summary: | Osbourne was born Sharon Rachel Arden in Brixton, London, the daughter of music promoter and rock and roll entrepreneur Don Arden (born Harry Levy), and his wife Hope Shaw. |
| Date Born: | Friday 9 October 1925 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist , Composer, Australia | | | | Summary: | Shorty's early country music career mirrored that of his singing mate David Gordon Kirkpatrick (Slim Dusty). After success in such quests as Australia's Amateur Hour, Shorty concentrated on songwriting.
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| Date Born: | Sunday 9 October 1966 | | | | Description: | Guitarist,Singer, Songwriter, Guitarist, Producer, Australia | | | | Summary: | The founding member of "Frente", a band he formed in Melbourne. |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 9 October 1929 | | | | Description: | Vocalist , Guitarist, Australia | | | | Summary: | Thel a fair dinkum farm girl from Glossodia near Windsor. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 9 October 1920 | | | | Description: | Saxophonist, Flautist, USA | | | | Summary: | His 1987 album Yusef Lateef's Little Symphony won the Grammy award for Best New Age Album. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 10 October 1954 | | | | Description: | Saxophonist, USA | | | | Summary: | Al Dean was sax player for the Tyrones, a popular Philadelphia rock and roll group. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 10 October 1946 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actor, Dancer, USA | | | | Summary: | He was nominated for a Tony Award for Jesus Christ Superstar in 1972 and won a Tony for his appearance in Pippin in 1973. |
| Date Born: | Monday 10 October 1955 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | | Summary: | Van Halen achieved their greatest commercial success, including their first Billboard #1 single, for the song "Jump", in 1984.
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| Date Born: | Monday 10 October 1927 | | | | Description: | Drummer, USA | | | | Summary: | Blackwell took over from Billy Higgins in the Ornette Coleman Band.
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| Date Born: | Thursday 10 October 1991 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, Australia | | | | Summary: | Cilmi was born in the Melbourne suburb of Dandenong. Of Italian descent. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 10 October 1939 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | | Summary: | The powerful voice of slick made the band and outstanding unit also Slick is noted for her wit and provocative lyrics. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 10 October 1950 | | | | Description: | Guitarist, Bass, Vocalist, Australia | | | | Summary: | Graham began guitar at the age of nine, He was Weaned on the hit's of the day which were mainly rockabilly etc. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 10 October 1915 | | | | Description: | Trumpeter, USA | | | | Summary: | A member of "The Bassie band" with the nick name of "SWEETS"
for his love of candy. |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 10 October 1900 | | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | | Summary: | Her father, Frank Van Arnum Brown, worked at a number of jobs, including as a clerk at the Washington Patent Office and as a manager and salesman for a wholesale butcher. Her mother, Catherine Estella Hayes, was an aspiring actress. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 10 October 1914 | | | | Description: | Vocalist,Pianist, USA | | | | Summary: | Billed as The Baron of the Boogie, he was also known as The Happiest Man Alive. He is sometimes confused with Motown producer-songwriter Joe Hunter.
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| Date Born: | Wednesday 10 October 1945 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | | Summary: | "Harper Valley PTA" was released in 1968. The song immediately became a gigantic hit for Riley and went to number one on both the Billboard Pop and Country charts. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 10 October 1946 | | | | Description: | Lyricist, Composer, UK | | | | Summary: | Lyricist Reid was a pivotal element to the long-term success of Procol Harum, teaming with vocalist/composer Gary Brooker. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 10 October 1959 | | | | Description: | Singer, Songwriter, UK | | | | Summary: | In the United States, MacColl was probably most recognisable as the writer of "They Don't Know". Tracey Ullman's version, helped by a video guest-starring Paul McCartney, reached Number 2 in the UK in 1983 |
| Date Born: | Friday 10 October 1947 | | | | Description: | Violinist, Netherlands | | | | Summary: | Veres was born in The Hague. Her father was the Hungarian Romani violinist Lajos Veres; her mother was born in Germany of French and Russian parents. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 10 October 1961 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Bassist, Actor, UK | | | | Summary: | Spandau Ballet went on to have a great deal of success in the New Romantic Era, with four of their albums reaching the UK album chart top ten. The group had a massive hit with ’TRUE’ - 1983 |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 10 October 1978 | | | | Description: | Vocalist , Guitarist, UK | | | | Summary: | Jay began song writing in earnest aged 15, and at this time his primary influences included The Beatles, Queen, David Bowie and The Beach Boys.
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| Date Born: | Wednesday 10 October 1923 | | | | Description: | Commentator, Journalist, UK | | | | Summary: | He has a distinctive, enthusiastic commentary style. Since 1978, British television commentary of the Formula 1 seasons has been used by other broadcasters right around the world, including Australia and Japan |
| Date Born: | Sunday 10 October 1926 | | | | Description: | Singer, Composer, USA | | | | Summary: | Brown's lyrics and original compositions have been performed by a variety of other artists. Nina Simone popularized Brown's lyrics to "Work Song" and "Afro Blue," as well as his song "Bid 'Em In." |
| Date Born: | Sunday 10 October 1915 | | | | Description: | Producer, USA | | | | Summary: | Musician and producer and has had a lot to do with the now known
Nashville sound. A band leader and Pianist in his early years in Nashville and also in Radio. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 10 October 1948 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Australia | | | | Summary: | Signed to Clarion Records, he had a #1 in Perth 1966 with a version of Dion's The Wanderer. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 10 October 1948 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, French | | | | Summary: | Séverine won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1971 for Monaco |
| Date Born: | Saturday 10 October 1959 | | | | Description: | Composer, UK | | | | Summary: | Martland was born in Liverpool, and studied composition at Liverpool University and in the Netherlands with Louis Andriessen. He worked almost exclusively with artists outside classical institutions |
| Date Born: | Friday 10 October 1958 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | | Summary: | Tucker was the youngest of three children. Tanya's early childhood was spent primarily in Wilcox, Arizona, where the only radio station in town played country music. |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 10 October 1917 | | | | Description: | Pianist, Composer, USA | | | | Summary: | One of the greats of jazz,Thelonious Monk, pianist of with a completely
recognizable sound with harmonies seemingly to be odd at times. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 10 October 1911 | | | | Description: | Fiddle, USA | | | | Summary: | Manners was born in San Francisco but raised in Los Angeles, where he attended Fairfax High School and learned to play fiddle.
YOUTUBE: Curley Gribbs (with the Zeke Manners Band) - Sioux City Sue. |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 11 October 1950 | | | | Description: | Flautist, Percussionist, Saxophonist | | | | Summary: | Known for his work with the 1970s funk/soul group, Earth, Wind & Fire. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 11 October 1919 | | | | Description: | Drummer, USA | | | | Summary: | Blakey went on to record dozens of albums with a constantly changing group of Jazz Messengers — he had a policy of encouraging young musicians. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 11 October 1977 | | | | Description: | Actor, Singer, USA | | | | Summary: | Murphy landed her first job in Hollywood when she was fourteen, starring as Brenda Drexell in the television series Drexell's Class. |
| Date Born: | Friday 11 October 1946 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, keyboardist, guitarist, songwriter and producer USA | | | | Summary: | Daryl Franklin Hohl was born in Pottstown, a Pennsylvania borough 40 miles from Philadelphia. |
| Date Born: | Friday 11 October 1957 | | | | Description: | Comedian, actressr, director, producer, and writer. | | | | Summary: | Dawn French is one half of the U.K.'s top female comedy duo, French and Saunders, as well as a highly successful writer, comedian and actress in her own right. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 11 October 1932 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | | Summary: | West earned her first Top 40 hit in 1963 with "Let Me Off at the Corner," followed a year later by the Top Ten "Love Is No Excuse," a duet with Jim Reeves. Also in 1964, she auditioned for producer Chet Atkins. |
| Date Born: | Friday 11 October 1946 | | | | Description: | Drummer, USA | | | | Summary: | Mallaber joined the Steve Miller band in 1976 replacing John King. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 11 October 1949 | | | | Description: | Guitarist, USA | | | | Summary: | Douglass also worked with blues harmonica great Paul Butterfield, Country Joe MacDonald, ex-Byrd Gene Clark, country/bluegrass giant Peter Rowan, ex-Creedence guitarist/singer Tom Fogerty.
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| Date Born: | Friday 11 October 1929 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | | Summary: | He joined the group in 1954 and left the group in 1958.
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| Date Born: | Wednesday 11 October 1911 | | | | Description: | Drummer - USA | | | | Summary: | In 1985 Jones (later known as Papa Jo Jones) was the recipient of an American Jazz Masters fellowship awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts.
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| Date Born: | Thursday 11 October 1962 | | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | | Summary: | Cusack was born in New York City to an Irish American Catholic family. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 11 October 1927 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | | Summary: | She was the best-selling female artist of the 1950s, and has sold over 100 million records to date. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 11 October 1952 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, USA | | | | Summary: | At the 1992 ACM Awards, Carlson was nominated in the New Female Vocalist category. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 11 October 1951 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | | Summary: | An American Grammy-,Dove and Stellar Award winning gospel singer.
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| Date Born: | Wednesday 12 October 1938 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Ireland | | | | Summary: | Brendan Boyer has always had a pleasent and refreshing voice giving the cover songs in his early days a better sound than the original, This may be disputed by many. |
| Date Born: | Friday 12 October 1962 | | | | Description: | Trumpeter,Arranger, Band Leader, Conductor, USA | | | | Summary: | Chris Botti. He raised in Corvallis, Oregon, he spent two years of his childhood growing up in Italy. His earliest musical influence was his mother, a classically trained pianist and part-time piano teacher. |
| Date Born: | Monday 12 October 1942 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actor, Israele | | | | Summary: | Fluent in several languages, she has also been in German-, French-, Italian-, Spanish- and English-language films.
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| Date Born: | Friday 12 October 1951 | | | | Description: | Guitarist, Composer, USA | | | | Summary: | He's noted for his work with Stephen Stills in the early '70s, and a controversial stint with the jazz-rock group Chicago. He also had a fling with acting, starring in Hair in 1979. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 12 October 1948 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer USA | | | | Summary: | The daughter of a minister and she studied claccical piano. Gloria also sang gospel music in church. |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 12 October 1949 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Australia | | | | Summary: | Greg began singing at the age of ten and in his teens was a performing on the Melbourne scene in the sixties. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 12 October 1968 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Dancer, Actor, Australian | | | | Summary: | Jackman was born the youngest of five children of English-born parents Chris Jackman and Grace Watson.His mother left the family when he was eight years old, and he remained behind with his father. |
| Date Born: | Friday 12 October 1934 | | | | Description: | Singer, Songwriter, USA | | | | Summary: | New Orleans R&B legend James "Sugar Boy" Crawford was born in the Crescent City on October 12, 1934. |
| Date Born: | Monday 12 October 1970 | | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | | Summary: | He became famous after being cast as "Michael Seaver" in the 1985 television series Growing Pains. In the series, Seaver's girlfriend was Kate MacDonald, who was played by Chelsea Noble. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 12 October 1935 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Italy | | | | Summary: | His career has been outstanding and now is mainly known as one of
the 'Three Tenors'. He became the first opera singer to appear on the TV show 'Saturday Night Live' with Venessa L. Williams.1998. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 12 October 1969 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Violinist, Composer, USA | | | | Summary: | Maguire became famous for her ability in vocal harmony, and mastery of the fiddle. She won awards in national fiddle championships while still a teenager. Maguire is accomplished on several other instruments, including the mandolin, viola, acoustic bass, and guitar. |
| Date Born: | Monday 12 October 1936 | | | | Description: | Organist, USA | | | | Summary: | An American jazz organist best known for his work with Wes Montgomery.
In 1959 when he was asked to join fellow Indianapolis musician Wes Montgomery's newly formed trio.
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| Date Born: | Tuesday 12 October 1948 | | | | Description: | Guitarist,UK | | | | Summary: | Rick Parfitt England and is best known for being a singer and the rhythm guitarist in the English rock band Status Quo.
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| Date Born: | Saturday 12 October 1935 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | | Summary: | Sam & Dave met in The King of Hearts Club in Miami in December 1961, where Moore was the MC and Prater was performing on amateur night. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 12 October 1950 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actress, USA | | | | Summary: | She first experienced fame by winning the Miss California contest in 1969. She was second runner-up in the Miss America pageant that year.
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| Date Born: | Wednesday 13 October 1909 | | | | Description: | Pianist, US | | | | Summary: | For a musician of such stature, there is very little published information available about Tatum's life. Only one full-length biography of Tatum has been published, Too Marvelous for Words, by James Lester. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 13 October 1968 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Spanish | | | | Summary: | In December 2003, he became a member of the international musical quartet Il Divo. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 13 October 1940 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, UK | | | | Summary: | Formed Chris Farlowe and The Thunderbirds early in his career in the sixties. |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 13 October 1915 | | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | | Summary: | For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Cornel Wilde has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1635 Vine Street. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 13 October 1946 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | | Summary: | Born to Mary Moore and Melvin Hendrex Snr., Dorothy was raised by her great grandmother. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 13 October 1946 | | | | Description: | Pianist, Organist, Management, Australia | | | | Summary: | An Australian musician mainly noted for leading Australia's band "The Vibrants. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 13 October 1957 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Lyricist, SA | | | | Summary: | South African born rock vocalist and lyricist. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 13 October 1962 | | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | | Summary: | While living in Australia, Preston was discovered at 16 by a fashion photographer who helped her get work in commercials and other small parts. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 13 October 1927 | | | | Description: | Saxophonist, Composer, USA | | | | Summary: | Konitz began his professional career in 1945 with the Teddy Powell band as a replacement for Charlie Ventura. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 13 October 1925 | | | | Summary: | Lenny Bruce was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, and satirist. He was renowned for his open, free-style and critical form of comedy which integrated satire, politics, religion, sex, and vulgarity. His 1964 conviction in an obscenity trial was followed by a posthumous pardon, the first in the history of New York state, by then-Governor George Pataki in 2003.
Bruce is renowned for paving the way for future outspoken counterculture-era comedians, and his trial for obscenity is seen as a landmark for freedom of speech in the United States. In 2017, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him third (behind disciples Richard Pryor and George Carlin) on its list of the 50 best stand-up comics of all time. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 13 October 1959 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | | Summary: | After the initial success of The Osmonds in 1970, Marie's older brother Donny Osmond was gaining success as a solo artist on the Pop Music charts and was becoming a teen idol. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 13 October 1934 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Greece | | | | Summary: | Mouskouri had displayed exceptional musical talent from the age of 6. Her TV series also was a major hit in Australia. Her trade mark are her specticals with black rims. |
| Date Born: | Monday 13 October 1941 | | | | Description: | Road manager, Personal assistant, Record producer, Executive | | | | Summary: | Aspinall gained a place at the Liverpool Institute in Mount Street, and was in the same class as Paul McCartney for English and Art lessons. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 13 October 1970 | | | | Description: | Vocalsit, UK | | | | Summary: | A British tenor who won the first series of ITV's Britain's Got Talent in 2007. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 13 October 1942 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | | Summary: | Paul Simon is a two-time inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist in 2001, and in 1990 as half of Simon and Garfunkel. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 13 October 1940 | | | | Description: | Saxophonist, USA | | | | Summary: | Born Ferrell Sanders in Little Rock, Arkansas, he began his professional career playing tenor saxophone in Oakland, California.
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| Date Born: | Monday 13 October 1969 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, Composer | | | | Summary: | Probably his best known and biggest hits was the song 'That Aint' My Truck' in 1995 and 'Don't Get Me Started' in 1996. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 13 October 1949 | | | | Description: | Guitar, vocals, bass guitar,keyboards, USA | | | | Summary: | Vito and Billy Burnette took over as guitarists after Lindsey Buckingham left Fleetwood Mac. |
| Date Born: | Friday 13 October 1944 | | | | Description: | Keyboardist,USA | | | | Summary: | Apart from his involvement with Chicago, Lamm has also recorded several solo albums. He also has guest lectured on music production at Stanford University.
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| Date Born: | Wednesday 13 October 1971 | | | | Description: | Comedian, Actor, UK | | | | Summary: | Baron Cohen has often been confused with the identity of one of his characters. |
| Date Born: | Monday 13 October 1947 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, USA | | | | Summary: | Hagar in his early days played with bands that included, 'Dustcloud' - 'Justice Brothers' - 'Manhole' - 'Sammy Hagar Band' etc. |
| Date Born: | Monday 13 October 1924 | | | | Description: | Vibraphonist, Band Leader. | | | | Summary: | He has performed and or recorded with Tommy Dorsey, Chubby Jackson, Buddy Rich, Woody Herman etc. |
| Date Born: | Monday 14 October 1907 | | | | Description: | Vocalist , USA | | | | Summary: | He was married to actress Irene Hervey; their son is American pop singer Jack Jones.
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| Date Born: | Thursday 14 October 1926 | | | | Description: | Trumpeter, Saxophonist, Composer, Arranger, USA | | | | Summary: | Raunchy was the first Rock and Roll hit in America, England and Australia. |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 14 October 1896 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, UK | | | | Summary: | English music hall and vaudeville entertainer from the 1930s until the 1960s. Flanagan was famous as a wartime entertainer. |
| Date Born: | Friday 14 October 1949 | | | | Description: | Drummer, Australia | | | | Summary: | He was a member of the Harry Stoneham group who did the Michael Parkinson shows on BBC TV accompanying many great artists. |
| Date Born: | Monday 14 October 1940 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actor, UK | | | | Summary: | With his backing band The Shadows, Richard dominated the British popular music scene in the late 1950s and early 1960s, before and during the The Beatles' first year in the charts. |
| Date Born: | Monday 14 October 1940 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actor, UK | | | | Summary: | Cliff Richard should be classed as one of the best entertainers in the world if not the best. This may be disputed by many but all of his stage performances are treated equally and faultless. |
| Date Born: | Monday 14 October 1940 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actor, UK | | | | Summary: | He created Cliff Richard and has lived his character to a quality no
one has come close in doing. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 14 October 1922 | | | | Description: | Guitarist, US | | | | Summary: | Jimmy Liggins started his own recording career as a singer, guitarist, and leader of the 'Drops of Joy' |
| Date Born: | Monday 14 October 1946 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, UK | | | | Summary: | Hayward joined the Moody Blues in 1966, replacing the departing vocalist / guitarist, Denny Laine. Bassist John Lodge replaced Clint Warwick at the same time.
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| Date Born: | Friday 14 October 1966 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | | Summary: | White was born in Los Angeles, the youngest of five children. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 14 October 1937 | | | | Description: | Record producer, USA | | | | Summary: | Mansfield has been associated with an array of notable performers including The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Waylon Jennings, James Taylor, etc. |
| Date Born: | Friday 14 October 1927 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | | Summary: | He was a member of "The Down Homers" with Bill Haley.
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| Date Born: | Wednesday 14 October 1896 | | | | Description: | Actress, Director, USA | | | | Summary: | Lillian Gish was born the elder sister of actress Dorothy Gish. The sisters' mother, Mary Robinson McConnell, began acting in order to support the family after her husband, James Leigh Gish abandoned them. |
| Date Born: | Monday 14 October 1974 | | | | Description: | Vocalist , Guitarist, Composer, USA | | | | Summary: | With Maines as lead vocalist, the band earned ten Country Music Association Awards and thirteen Grammy Awards for their work between 1998 and 2007. Born in Lubbock, Texas, Maines considers herself a rebel who "loved not thinking in the way I knew the majority of people thought." |
| Date Born: | Saturday 14 October 1978 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actor, USA | | | | Summary: | At age 11, Usher joined an R&B local quintet called the NuBeginnings, which was organized by local music svengali, Darryl Wheeler. Usher recorded 10 songs with the group in 1991, and the ensuing album
Nubeginning Featuring Usher Raymond IV, was only made available regionally and by mail order. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 14 October 1930 | | | | Description: | Saxophonist, USA | | | | Summary: | Parker also appeared on sessions for Irma Thomas, Ernie K-Doe and Joe Tex. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 14 October 1928 | | | | Description: | Actor. UK | | | | Summary: | The young Moore first appeared in films during the mid to late-1940s, as an extra. Moore's film idol as a child was Stewart Granger. As a 17 year old, Moore appeared as an extra in the film Caesar and Cleopatra 1945. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 14 October 1975 | | | | Description: | Vocalist ,UK | | | | Summary: | Lewis has also appeared in several films. In Bend it like Beckham (2002) she played Mel. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 14 October 1958 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Keyboardist, Record Producer,UK | | | | Summary: | Dolby's musical talents have also been put to use recently creating hundreds of digital polyphonic ringtones now found on mobile phones |
| Date Born: | Monday 15 October 1951 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, Scotland | | | | Summary: | Hulett discovered traditional music as an early teen and began playing the folk circuit in New Zealand in 1968, after immigrating with his family. |
| Date Born: | Friday 15 October 1982 | | | | Description: | Tin Pan Alley lyricist. | | | | Summary: | 1924 brought him his most notable musical collaborator in George Gershwin; MacDonald and Buddy DeSylva co-wrote the lyrics to Gershwin's "Somebody Loves Me," featured in the musical George White's Scandals
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| Date Born: | Tuesday 15 October 1935 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, USA | | | | Summary: | McGuire's LP, The Eve of Destruction, reached its peak of #37 on the Billboard Hot 200 chart during the week ending 25 September 1965. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 15 October 1942 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, UK | | | | Summary: | An English singer-songwriter, whose musical career started in the 1960s. |
| Date Born: | Friday 15 October 1948 | | | | Description: | Vocalist , Guitarist, Composer, Argentina | | | | Summary: | His début, Far Beyond These Castle Walls, was a folk-tinged stab at fantasy in the tradition of the Moody Blues that failed to chart upon its release in February 1975. |
| Date Born: | Friday 15 October 1920 | | | | Description: | American flutist and conductor. USA | | | | Summary: | He appeared in concert and in recordings with orchestras throughout the world, including the London Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the NBC Symphony Orchestra |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 15 October 1913 | | | | Description: | Band Leader, Arranger, Producer, Director | | | | Summary: | The writer of many songs of his own. |
| Date Born: | Friday 15 October 1926 | | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | | Summary: | American actress, known as a star of 20th Century Fox in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and as the second (or possibly third) wife of Howard Hughes. |
| Date Born: | Friday 15 October 1943 | | | | Description: | Drummer - USA | | | | Summary: | Londin also backed Rodney Crowell in the 1980s as a member of Crowell's backing band, The Cherry Bombs. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 15 October 1931 | | | | Description: | Vocalist,USA | | | | Summary: | He took the place of Duane West when West became ill. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 15 October 1938 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, USA | | | | Summary: | Marv enjoyed many hits in Australia where he racked up a total of 8 Top 40 hits, including 3 number 1's, and several Top Tenners. "Come To Me" was released in Australia on EMI'sLondon Records (as was most of his releases in Oz) (HL-1522) and reached number 16 on the 2UE Top 40 in Sydney. "You Got What It Takes" was his biggest Australian hit. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 15 October 1925 | | | | Description: | Guitarist, USA | | | | Summary: | He is widely held to be a critical force in the bridging of rhythm and blues and rock and roll, along with Bo Diddley, Ike Turner, and Chuck Berry. |
| Date Born: | Monday 15 October 1917 | | | | Description: | Trombonist, USA | | | | Summary: | Tanner developed and played the electrotheremin. The electrotheremin is featured in several songs by The Beach Boys |
| Date Born: | Friday 15 October 1982 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actress, Australia | | | | Summary: | Born in Fiji in 1982, Pauline Curuenavuli moved to Sydney with her family when she was four years old. At six years of age, she was already singing in her local choir. |
| Date Born: | Friday 15 October 1943 | | | | Description: | Actress, Director | | | | Summary: | One of her first jobs was for a TV commercial for a beautifying shampoo. She was hired to play a girl with stringy, unattractive hair, and Farrah Fawcett was hired to play a girl with thick, bouncy hair. |
| Date Born: | Monday 15 October 1945 | | | | Description: | Piano, Arranger, USA | | | | Summary: | Richard helped in the productions of the documentaries "Close to You: Remembering the Carpenters" (1997) and "Only Yesterday: The Carpenters Story" (2007). |
| Date Born: | Saturday 15 October 1938 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, USA | | | | Summary: | He is known for founding the "Ohio Untouchables", the band that later would become the Ohio Players. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 15 October 1940 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | | Summary: | The Ballad sold two million copies in five weeks. The media was all over Barry. Stories appeared in Life, Time, Newsweek, Variety, Billboard and Cash Box magazines while Barry appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, The Jimmy Dean Show, NBC’s Home Front and Martha Raye’s ABC-TV Hollywood Palace program. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 15 October 1953 | | | | Description: | Singer, songwriter, USA | | | | Summary: | Tito was portrayed by Gerrick Winston in the 2004 film Man in the Mirror: The Michael Jackson Story, the biopic of Michael Jackson which was aired on VH1.
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| Date Born: | Monday 15 October 1906 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Pianist, USA | | | | Summary: | In March 1962, Bob Dylan contributed harmonica and back-up vocals, accompanying Victoria Spivey and Big Joe Williams on a recording for Spivey Records. |
| Date Born: | Friday 16 October 1942 | | | | Description: | Rhythm guitarist, Vocals, Australia | | | | Summary: | South Australian rhythm guitarist of "The Drifters". NOTE NAME: Some use the wording "THE DRIFTORS" so as not to be confused with the USA DRIFTERS. This may be disputed. |
| Date Born: | Friday 16 October 1925 | | | | Description: | Actress, UK | | | | Summary: | Born the daughter of Belfast-born actress Moyna MacGill and Edgar Lansbury, a prominent businessman, and the granddaughter of the former Labour Party leader George Lansbury. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 16 October 1923 | | | | Description: | Trumpeter, Band Leader, Composer, Germany | | | | Summary: | The Bert Kaempfert composed song "Strangers in the Night" became a hit for Frank Sinatra. It is said that Sinatra despised the song, and called it "a piece of shit", and "the worst song I ever fucking heard". Sinatra's recording won him the Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance and the Grammy Award for Record of the Year. |
| Date Born: | Monday 16 October 1899 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, USA | | | | Summary: | Delta bluesman, the singer worked in the thirties playing a nine string guitar. One of Williams' 9-string guitars can be found under the counter of the Jazz Record Mart in Chicago, which is owned by Bob Koester, the founder of Delmark Records.
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| Date Born: | Sunday 16 October 1960 | | | | Description: | Guitarist, Composer, Producer, USA | | | | Summary: | A member of After Hüsker Dü who broke upin 1988, Mould sequestered himself in a remote farmhouse in Pine City, Minnesota, quit drinking and drugs, and wrote the songs that would make up his first solo album. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 16 October 1947 | | | | Description: | Guitarist, USA | | | | Summary: | Weir played rhythm guitar and sang a portion of the lead vocals through most of the Grateful Dead's 30-year career. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 16 October 1952 | | | | Description: | Bassist, USA | | | | Summary: | Mosson was a prominent contributor to albums by both Funkadelic and Parliament from 1972 until the dissolution of the two groups in the early 1980s |
| Date Born: | Friday 16 October 1942 | | | | Description: | Drummer, UK | | | | Summary: | In the summer of 1963, the group - now called The Fourmost - signed a management contract with Brian Epstein. This led to their being auditioned by George Martin and signed to EMI's Parlophone record label. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 16 October 1937 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Recording engineer, UK | | | | Summary: | First non white to get to the top of the English Charts with "What do you want to make those eyes at me for" in 1959. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 16 October 1943 | | | | Description: | Bassist, songwriter, actor | | | | Summary: | Turner is the only member of Bachman-Turner Overdrive to be on every album the band released. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 16 October 1952 | | | | Description: | Entertainer, Comedian, Actor, Writer | | | | Summary: | In the 70's and early 80's, Glynn won a number of international busking competitions and was voted Australia's busking champion in 1986. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 16 October 1943 | | | | Description: | Vocalsit, Composer, Ireland | | | | Summary: | He was very popular in Ireland and among Irish emigrants from 1964 into the 1980s. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 16 October 1977 | | | | Description: | Vocalist , Guitarist, USA | | | | Summary: | Mayer began his career performing mainly acoustic rock, but gradually began a transition towards the blues genre in 2005 by collaborating with renowned blues artists such as B. B. King, Buddy Guy, and Eric Clapton. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 16 October 1923 | | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | | Summary: | She failed to receive recognition from the industry and its critics, and disappeared from the screen in the 1950s. Darnell died from burns sustained in a house fire. |
| Date Born: | Monday 16 October 1944 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Pianist, USA | | | | Summary: | Over the course of her 32 years as a jingle singer, November sang approximately 22,000 jingles which were played on the television and radio. |
| Date Born: | Monday 16 October 1922 | | | | Description: | Comedian, singer, actor and variety performer, UK | | | | Summary: | In 1951 he appeared at the London Palladium. Comedian Eric Sykes became his scriptwriter. He got the part of the tutor in the BBC radio comedy show Educating Archie, where Archie was a ventriloquist's dummy. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 16 October 1938 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actress, Fashion model, Spain | | | | Summary: | Nico was an original member of the Velvet Underground. The group formed in 1965 in New York. She left the group in 1967. |
| Date Born: | Monday 16 October 1854 | | | | Description: | Playwright, Short Story Writer, Poet, Victorian era, Ireland | | | | Summary: | Oscar Wilde was the second son born into an Anglo Irish family, at 21 Westland Row, Dublin, to Sir William Wilde and his wife Jane Francesca Wilde. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 16 October 1969 | | | | Description: | Trumpeter, USA | | | | Summary: | Hargrove won a Grammy Award in 1998 for the album Habana with the Afro-Cuban band he founded: "Crisol". |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 16 October 1984 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, UK | | | | Summary: | Immediately after his victory on The X Factor, Ward signed a recording contract with Syco Music and his first single, "That's My Goal", was released in the UK on Wednesday, 21 December 2005. After selling 742,000 copies in the first week. |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 16 October 1918 | | | | Description: | Fidler, Guitarist, Composer, USA | | | | Summary: | An American country musician from Harman, West Virginia. He played the fiddle and guitar. |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 16 October 1946 | | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | | Summary: | Born to Frank and Marion Mahoney's Irish Catholic household in San Bruno, California. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 16 October 1958 | | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | | Summary: | Robbins is a prominent spokesperson for anti-globalisation, a frequent critic of U.S. President George W. Bush, and a vocal opponent of the war in Iraq. |
| Date Born: | Friday 17 October 1958 | | | | Description: | Vocalist , Guitarist, USA | | | | Summary: | Jackson was born to Eugene Jackson and Ruth Musick in Newnan, Georgia and has four older sisters. Jackson started a band after high school. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 17 October 1915 | | | | Description: | Playwright, essayist | | | | Summary: | He was a prominent figure in American theatre, writing dramas that include plays such as All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953) and A View from the Bridge (one-act, 1955; revised two-act, 1956), as well as the film The Misfits (1961). |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 17 October 1923 | | | | Description: | Guitarist | | | | Summary: | Kessel worked with many top greats but his time with Oscar Peterson
was his longest stay with anyone band. |
| Date Born: | Monday 17 October 1960 | | | | Description: | Actress, singer, entertainer,UK | | | | Summary: | Before the Nolan sisters became well-known, Bernie and her sisters, parents, and brothers performed in clubs and pubs in Blackpool. As a group of five sisters they had hits that including "I'm in the Mood for Dancing" |
| Date Born: | Sunday 17 October 1926 | | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | | Summary: | In the 1964-1965 television season, Garland co-starred in the role of Ellie Collins with Bing Crosby as husband Bing Collins in the ABC sitcom The Bing Crosby Show. |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 17 October 1928 | | | | Description: | Drummer, USA | | | | Summary: | Cole appeared in music-related films, including a brief cameo in Don't Knock the Rock. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s Cole continued to perform in a variety of settings. Cole and Gene Krupa often played duets at the Metropole in New York City during the 1950s and 60s.
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| Date Born: | Friday 17 October 1941 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, USA | | | | Summary: | In 1983, he was nominated for multiple Grammy Awards for his song "Holdin' Her and Lovin' You". He has composed songs with Earl Scruggs and Randy Scruggs. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 17 October 1974 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, USA | | | | Summary: | Oscar winner for Best Song 2003 for 8 MILE. |
| Date Born: | Monday 17 October 1938 | | | | Description: | Motor cycle stunt rider | | | | Summary: | Robert Craig "Evel" Knievel was born in Butte, Montana, in 1938, the first of two children born to Robert E. and Ann Kehoe "Zippy" Knievel. |
| Date Born: | Monday 17 October 1960 | | | | Description: | Actor, musician, guitarist, songwriter, UK | | | | Summary: | Brother of Martin Kemp and both original members of the band SPANDAU BALLET in the Eighties. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 17 October 1905 | | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | | Summary: | Arthur was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1944 for her performance in The More the Merrier (1943).
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| Date Born: | Thursday 17 October 1901 | | | | Description: | Trumpeter, USA | | | | Summary: | Collins was a star trumpeter of old New Orleans who later led many dance bands, Dixieland groups and combos during his 50 year career. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 17 October 1948 | | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | | Summary: | Kidder played in all Superman movies along with Christopher Reed. |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 17 October 1917 | | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | | Summary: | Marsha Hunt attended the Theodore Irving School of Dramatics during her high school years. She was a singer and a model before Paramount Pictures signed her to a contract in 1934. |
| Date Born: | Friday 17 October 1947 | | | | Description: | Drummer, USA | | | | Summary: | Known as to his former band members, started playing drums in the Little Falls Cadets |
| Date Born: | Sunday 17 October 1920 | | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | | Summary: | Clift was born in Omaha, Nebraska, USA the son of Ethel Anderson Fogg Blair and William Brooks Clift, a banker with roots in the South. Clift had a twin sister, Roberta, and an elder brother, Brooks. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 17 October 1918 | | | | Description: | Actor, Singer, USA | | | | Summary: | At Columbia Rita Cansino was renamed Rita Hayworth, adding a Y to her mother's maiden name of Haworth. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 17 October 1936 | | | | Description: | Singer, Songwriter, South Africa | | | | Summary: | She was born in Cape Town in 1936. By the early 1960’s, Benjamin had made a name for herself in the music and theatre scene.
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| Date Born: | Sunday 17 October 1886 | | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | | Summary: | Her career included a seven-year run on radio and television as the star of December Bride. She was a key MGM contract player appearing in films from the 1930s through the 1960s. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 17 October 1933 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Belgium | | | | Summary: | She gave concerts and appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show on 5 January 1964. As of July 2009, "Dominique" is the only Belgian number one hit single in the United States. |
| Date Born: | Monday 17 October 1921 | | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | | Summary: | Mel Brooks submitted his idea for the television show Get Smart to the ABC network, ABC wanted Poston for the lead role of Maxwell Smart |
| Date Born: | Thursday 17 October 1968 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, Jamaica | | | | Summary: | He sang a cover of Drive by The Cars which featured in the Adam Sandler movie 50 First Dates.
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| Date Born: | Monday 18 October 1926 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, Guitarist, USA | | | | Summary: | Singer, guitarist, composer and prolific writer of words that
seem to roll out. Berry was the third child in a family of six. He grew up in the north St. Louis. |
| Date Born: | Friday 18 October 1940 | | | | Description: | Composer | | | | Summary: | Weil and Mann must be said to be one of the most popular song writers
of the modern day. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 18 October 1927 | | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | | Summary: | Scott's most famous early role was in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, where he played the part of General "Buck" Turgidson. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 18 October 1960 | | | | Description: | Actor, Martial Artist, Belgian | | | | Summary: | Van Damme was born the son of Eliana and Eugène Van Varenberg, who was an accountant and owned a flower shop. |
| Date Born: | Friday 18 October 1946 | | | | Description: | Vocalist , Composer, UK | | | | Summary: | In the 1960s Egan, together with former St Mirin's Academy school mate Gerry Rafferty, played in various smaller British bands. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 18 October 1947 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, USA | | | | Summary: | Mogull negotiated her a recording contract, and she recorded her debut album, More Than a New Discovery, for the Verve Folkways label. The album provided material for other artists, notably the 5th Dimension.
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| Date Born: | Thursday 18 October 1951 | | | | Description: | Bassist, composer | | | | Summary: | Nic Potter is probably best known for his work with the British rock band Van Der Graaf Generator. |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 18 October 1939 | | | | Description: | Vocalist , Guitarist, Irelannd | | | | Summary: | He is one of Ireland's most famous balladeers. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 18 October 1951 | | | | Description: | Actress, Vocalist, USA | | | | Summary: | Dawber got to use her four-octave soprano voice in a 1980s Los Angeles Civic Light Opera production of Gilbert & Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance, based on the Joseph Papp/New York Shakespeare Festival production. |
| Date Born: | Friday 18 October 1935 | | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | | Summary: | Boyle was born the son of Alice and Peter Boyle, Sr. His father was a Philadelphia TV personality from 1951-1963 who, among many other things. He hosted the afterschool children's program Uncle Pete Presents the Little Rascals. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 18 October 1938 | | | | Description: | Bassist, Vocalist, USA | | | | Summary: | His most recognizable vocals are from Johnny Cymbal's 1963 hit song "Mr. Bass Man."
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| Date Born: | Monday 18 October 1943 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | | Summary: | One of the most successful bands to come out of the 60’s, they have sold over 80 million records, tapes, Cds and DVDs. |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 18 October 1961 | | | | Description: | Trumpeter, USA | | | | Summary: | Wynton Marsalis has worked with the best including Sarah Vaughan, Herbie Hancock, Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, Sonny Rollins etc.
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| Date Born: | Friday 19 October 1934 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, USA | | | | Summary: | The group were very popular in the fifties and mainly known for their hit ’TOM DOOLEY. In late 1962 Guard moved with his family to Sydney, Australia. There he purchased a home overlooking the South Pacific Ocean at the upmarket North Sydney area of Whale Beach. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 19 October 1995 | | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | | Summary: | In the 1980s, Divine released several dance music records which were club music hits in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 19 October 1911 | | | | Description: | Composer, Arranger. Conductor, USA | | | | Summary: | He was the person responsible for integrating the two Songs MOONGLOW. and THEME FROM PICNIC. He married both pieces together cleverly for the film sequence in the dance scene in ’PICNIC’. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 19 October 1944 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | | Summary: | Richard Finch and Harry Wayne Casey of KC and the Sunshine Band invited him to sing the lyrics for a song that they had recorded. The extent that the song, "Rock Your Baby", became one of the first hits of the disco era in 1974. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 19 October 1940 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | | Summary: | Larry and company have placed many songs on the charts, including: Life Is But a Dream, Never, I Believe, and of course the classic Remember Then. They've recorded many other classics including: Looking For My Baby, Eyes, Kissin' and Cry, Cry, Cry, etc. . |
| Date Born: | Saturday 19 October 1940 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | | Summary: | He was born Larry Figueiredo in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 19 October 1944 | | | | Description: | Guitarist, Composer, Jamaica | | | | Summary: | Tosh's sarcastic outlook on the world carried over to his lyrics. He would merrily twist words around to better reflect his true feelings. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 19 October 1911 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Pianist, USA | | | | Summary: | In 1964, the Beatles recorded a cover of the flip side of "Doctor Feel-Good," titled "Mr. Moonlight" and written by Roy Lee Johnson. |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 19 October 1932 | | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | | Summary: | He won critical acclaim for his portrayal of a doctor who wants to undergo a sex-change operation in a two-part episode of Medical Center in 1975 |
| Date Born: | Thursday 19 October 1899 | | | | Description: | Harpist, UK | | | | Summary: | She was honoured with a MBE in 1974, and later an OBE in 1980. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 19 October 1968 | | | | Description: | Singer, Songwriter, UK | | | | Summary: | She is best known for her hit records in the 1980s including "So Macho", "Toy Boy", "Cross My Broken Heart" and "Right Back Where We Started From". She |
| Date Born: | Sunday 20 October 1901 | | | | Description: | Vocalist , USA | | | | Summary: | She began her career on Broadway in 1921 in the chorus line of the Broadway musical Shuffle Along. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 20 October 1874 | | | | Description: | Composer, USA | | | | Summary: | Regarded as one of Americas first true classical composers of great significance. In time Ives came to be regarded as an American originals. |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 20 October 1971 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Australia | | | | Summary: | Her father was born in Australia and is of Irish decent and her mother emigrated from Wales to Townsville, Queensland. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 20 October 1938 | | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | | Summary: | An American Roman Catholic nun and former actress. She made ten films in five years. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 20 October 1942 | | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | | Summary: | Hindman's most famous and enduring pre-Home Improvement role was as Bob Reid in Ryan's Hope. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 20 October 1934 | | | | Description: | Saxophonist, USA | | | | Summary: | He wrote the theme for "The Bill Cosby Show". Album The Reason Why Im Talkin Shit, which consisted mainly of stand up comedy. |
| Date Born: | Friday 20 October 1922 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Opera singer (bass) | | | | Summary: | Opera Singer. A basso, he performed in principal venues on both sides of the Atlantic for close to half a century. |
| Date Born: | Monday 20 October 1913 | | | | Description: | Vocalisit, Banjoist, USA | | | | Summary: | Bradley Kincaid who gave him the nickname "Grandpa" due to his off-stage grumpiness at early-morning radio shows. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 20 October 1938 | | | | Description: | Photographer, Scottish | | | | Summary: | The BBC used some of his photos in the series "The Rock and Roll Years". |
| Date Born: | Monday 20 October 1890 | | | | Description: | Pianist, Composer, USA | | | | Summary: | Morton had learned the drums when he was very young, harmonica and guitar but piano was to be his ultmate instrument. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 20 October 1906 | | | | Description: | Guitarist, USA | | | | Summary: | Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers were a successful and influential African-American vocal and instrumental group in the 1940s and 1950s.
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| Date Born: | Thursday 20 October 1927 | | | | Description: | American psychologist, television personality | | | | Summary: | In 1955, she became the only woman ever to win the top prize on the American game show The $64,000 Question, answering questions on the topic of boxing. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 20 October 1942 | | | | Description: | Judge Judy, American | | | | Summary: | Judy Sheindlin court room shows her popularity covering the Americas and loved in Australia. The show seemingly enters the relms of reality thought this may be disputed. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 20 October 1940 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, UK | | | | Summary: | In 1963, she won Top British Female Singer in the New Musical Express poll. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 20 October 1946 | | | | Description: | Comedian, Actor, USA | | | | Summary: | An American writer and humorist, known for his Southern demeanor and commentary on the American South. |
| Date Born: | Friday 20 October 1978 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Australia | | | | Summary: | Michael was born in Perth, Western Australia, to William Bill Lee and Janet Burke married to John Burke. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 20 October 1945 | | | | Description: | Drummer, UK | | | | Summary: | Lee was a founding member of his first band, The Falcons. He was also a drummer for Ricky Storm and The Mansfields. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 20 October 1927 | | | | Description: | Trumpeter, UK | | | | Summary: | An English musician and trumpet player, who performed with Joe Loss and his orchestra, and the father of singer Elvis Costello. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 20 October 1908 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | | Summary: | Hamblen was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970, was presented the ACM Pioneer Award 1972, received the Gene Autry Golden Boot Award 1988, and was inducted into Texas Country Music Hall of Fame 2001. |
| Date Born: | Friday 20 October 1950 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, USA | | | | Summary: | One of his first guitar teachers was Don Felder, a fellow Gainesville resident, who would later join The Eagles. |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 20 October 1937 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, USA | | | | Summary: | She was one of the first female rockabilly singers to come to popularity during the 1950s. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 21 October 1952 | | | | Description: | Keyboardist, USA | | | | Summary: | Mydland was the fourth keyboardist to play for the American rock band the Grateful Dead. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 21 October 1956 | | | | Description: | Actress, Author, USA | | | | Summary: | She made her film debut in the Columbia comedy Shampoo (1975) starring Warren Beatty, Julie Christie and Goldie Hawn, with Lee Grant and Jack Warden. |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 21 October 1953 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, USA | | | | Summary: | She grew up in Glendale, California, and graduated from Immaculate Heart College. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 21 October 1917 | | | | Description: | Trumpeter, USA | | | | Summary: | He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7057 Hollywood Boulevard in the Hollywood section of the City of Los Angeles. |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 21 October 1942 | | | | Description: | Guitarist, Composer, USA | | | | Summary: | An American blues and rock and roll musician and guitarist. |
| Date Born: | Friday 21 October 1955 | | | | Description: | Guitarist, Vocalist, Scottish | | | | Summary: | Faulkner performed at Guilfest 2006 with 3 Men & Black, featuring Pauline Black from The Selecter. |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 21 October 1925 | | | | Description: | Manager, UK | | | | Summary: | He became an apprentice music journalist, meeting up with Gloria Swanson and Mel Brooks. |
| Date Born: | Monday 21 October 1957 | | | | Description: | Vocalist , Guitarist, Composer, UK | | | | Summary: | Cope's musical career began in July 1977, as bass player with a mythical Liverpool punk rock band known as "Crucial Three". |
| Date Born: | Monday 21 October 1946 | | | | Description: | Trumpeter, USA | | | | Summary: | The group has been one of the very few groups to last through the
sixties through to the 21st century. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 21 October 1944 | | | | Description: | British former model and showgirl, UK | | | | Summary: | Her association with Christine Keeler, which discredited the Conservative government of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in 1963. |
| Date Born: | Monday 21 October 1940 | | | | Description: | Keyboards, UK | | | | Summary: | He began to write for Jazz News under the pseudonym Manfred Manne after jazz drummer Shelly Manne. |
| Date Born: | Monday 21 October 1935 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, USA | | | | Summary: | Street was born in Rowe, Virginia to a coal mining family. Publications cite his year of birth as 1933, although his family maintains that he was born in 1935 |
| Date Born: | Friday 21 October 1921 | | | | Description: | Bassist, USA | | | | Summary: | Montgomery was the older brother of guitarist Wes Montgomery; younger brother, Buddy Montgomery plays vibraphone and piano. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 21 October 1937 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | | Summary: | The group charted world wide with ’COME GO WITH ME’ - 1957 |
| Date Born: | Friday 21 October 1808 | | | | Description: | Lyricist, USA | | | | Summary: | The house Smith lived in is now a Phillips Academy dormitory called America House, or A-House for short. |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 21 October 1936 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, UK | | | | Summary: | They were probably Britain's only serious rivals to the Beverley Sisters as a closely harmonising girl group. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 21 October 1941 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, Instrumentalists, USA | | | | Summary: | As a house guitarist, he played on hundreds of records, from "(Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay", cowritten with Otis Redding, to Sam and Dave's "Soul Man" |
| Date Born: | Monday 21 October 1957 | | | | Description: | Guitarist, USA | | | | Summary: | He first played keyboards and drums, and then taught himself how to play the guitar starting at age seven, when his father bought him a Kay acoustic guitar. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 22 October 1942 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actress, USA | | | | Summary: | Hits included "Train of Love" (written by Paul Anka) and "Pineapple Princess". |
| Date Born: | Sunday 22 October 1933 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, Composer, USA | | | | Summary: | His last major success was a rocker in the style of Eddie Cochran
SATURDAY NIGHT - 1966 |
| Date Born: | Friday 22 October 1943 | | | | Description: | Actress, Model, France | | | | Summary: | Deneuve was born one of four daughters to French stage and film actor Maurice Dorléac and actress Renée Deneuve. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 22 October 1938 | | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | | Summary: | His first major motion picture role was as a psychiatric patient in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and the eccentric inventor Emmett "Doc" Brown in the Back to the Future. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 22 October 1925 | | | | Description: | Lyricist, USA | | | | Summary: | Previn was born in Rahway, New Jersey, the eldest daughter in a strict Catholic family of Irish origin. |
| Date Born: | Monday 22 October 1945 | | | | Description: | Vocalist | | | | Summary: | The (Young) Rascals were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 22 October 1946 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, SA | | | | Summary: | She was acclaimed for her performances of the great Strauss, Verdi and Wagner heroines.
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| Date Born: | Tuesday 22 October 1811 | | | | Description: | Pianist, Composer, Hungarian | | | | Summary: | Liszt's father Adam List would have been Germans too. Adam List was in his youth registered as "Adamus Matthäus Liszt, natio et locus natalis Germanus", "Adam Matthäus Liszt, of German nationality and origin". Liszt's mother Anna Maria Lager was of Austrian origin, which in those days was also regarded as German. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 22 October 1922 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Soprano, Australia | | | | Summary: | Glenda Raymond became famous at the age of 24. |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 22 October 1952 | | | | Description: | Actor,USA | | | | Summary: | For several years, Goldblum was the voice for most U.S. Apple commercials, including advertisements for the iMac and iBook. He also voices some U.S. Toyota commercials as well as Procter & Gamble's facial cream line. |
| Date Born: | Monday 22 October 1917 | | | | Description: | Actress, US | | | | Summary: | Joan made her stage debut in the West Coast production of Call It A Day in 1935 and was soon signed to an RKO contract. In later life she appeared on Broadway in Forty Carrots.
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| Date Born: | Tuesday 22 October 1985 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, USA | | | | Summary: | MacDonald is from Port Hood, Nova Scotia on Cape Breton Island. He grew up in a family of seven siblings. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 22 October 1946 | | | | Description: | Luthier, Manafacturer, USA | | | | Summary: | Benedetto was noted for his guitars starting in the 1970s |
| Date Born: | Saturday 22 October 1932 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist , Composer, Australia | | | | Summary: | Mainly known for writing - Theres A Redback On The Toilet Seat
in 1972. This was his first release aged 39. |
| Date Born: | Friday 22 October 1920 | | | | Description: | Pioneer of the mind, USA | | | | Summary: | 1966, Leary founded the League for Spiritual Discovery, a religion declaring LSD as its holy sacrament, in part as an unsuccessful attempt to maintain legal status for the use of LSD and other psychedelics for the religion's adherents, based on a "freedom of religion" argument.
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| Date Born: | Tuesday 22 October 1985 | | | | Description: | Drummer, USA | | | | Summary: | Zac Hanson was born in Arlington, Virginia. He is the third child of Clarke Walker Hanson and Diana Frances Hanson. |
| Date Born: | Monday 23 October 1939 | | | | Description: | Vocalist | | | | Summary: | They were known for their exciting live performances, of which a highlight was Inez's rendition of "I Stand Accused". |
| Date Born: | Friday 23 October 1931 | | | | Description: | Actress, Singer, GB | | | | Summary: | Dors image was included with her permission on The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover art, as the blonde in the front row on the right in the gold dress and white gloves. |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 23 October 1940 | | | | Description: | Composer, USA | | | | Summary: | One of Americas greatest popular song writers of her time. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 23 October 1945 | | | | Description: | Saxophonist, Composer, Clarinetist, USA | | | | Summary: | Ernie also was also a featured soloist on many of Marvin Gaye's original albums on Motown during the 1970s. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 23 October 1983 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Nigeria | | | | Summary: | She appeared on Big Brother Africa in 2012 which was her first TV appearance. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 23 October 1947 | | | | Description: | Bassist, UK | | | | Summary: | Greg Ridley first entered music using the name Dino, part of a local band called "Dino & the Danubes", and then moved through some other outfits such as the "Ramrods". |
| Date Born: | Sunday 23 October 1892 | | | | Description: | Management, USA | | | | Summary: | Three of his brothers Groucho, Chico, and Harpo were given their nicknames during a card game at the Orpheum Theatre in Galesburg, Illinois, and the names stuck for their entire lives.
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| Date Born: | Wednesday 23 October 1935 | | | | Description: | Guitarist, Vocalist, USA | | | | Summary: | His career ended toward the end of the 1950s, but he made a comeback in 1974 with a Gene Vincent tribute song. |
| Date Born: | Friday 23 October 1925 | | | | Description: | Talk Show Host, USA | | | | Summary: | Carson was born to parents Homer Lloyd Carson, a power company manager, and Ruth Hook Carson. Paul Anka wrote the theme song "Johnny's Theme", a reworking of an earlier Anka song. |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 23 October 1957 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, Scotland | | | | Summary: | Known for the song "Feel's Like I'm In Love", written by Ray Dorset of "Mungo Jerry" fame. |
| Date Born: | Friday 23 October 1942 | | | | Description: | Author, film producer, film director, screenwriter, television producer | | | | Summary: | In 1994 Crichton became the only creative artist ever to have works simultaneously charting at No. 1 in television, film, and book sales (with ER, Jurassic Park, and Disclosure, respectively). |
| Date Born: | Sunday 23 October 1960 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Record producer and songwriter, France | | | | Summary: | Mirwais Ahmadzaï, more commonly known as Mirwais, (born 1960) is a Paris based record producer and songwriter. He was born in Switzerland to an Afghan father and an Italian mother. He is a leader in the French style of progressive electronic dance music and progressive electronica. A former member of the defunct 1980s group Taxi Girl, he was re-discovered by Madonna in the late 1990s, when he submitted a demo to her then record label, Maverick Records. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 23 October 1990 | | | | Description: | Singer, actor, television personality, NZ | | | | Summary: | In 2009, Walker was the winner of the seventh and last season of Australian Idol. |
| Date Born: | Friday 23 October 1959 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actor, Record producer, Satirist, USA | | | | Summary: | The only child of Nick Yankovic an American of Serbian descent and Mary Elizabeth an American of Italian and English descent. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 23 October 1994 | | | | Description: | Guitarist, UK | | | | Summary: | In 1987 Wurzel recorded his first solo album, "Bess", that was not so far removed from the Motorhead sound. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 24 October 1948 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, UK | | | | Summary: | Barry and his twin brother Paul began to perform at the age of fifteen. |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 24 October 1979 | | | | Description: | Drummer, Australian | | | | Summary: | When not touring with Silverchair, Ben teaches drums part-time through music tuition school, Rosie's School of Rock, in Newcastle, Australia. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 24 October 1946 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Australia | | | | Summary: | Bev Harrell was one of the most popular female solo singers in Australia in the late 1960s. |
| Date Born: | Friday 24 October 1930 | | | | Description: | Vocalist , DJ, USA | | | | Summary: | His father was an oil field worker and driller. He had two younger brothers, Cecil and James. He graduated from Beaumont High School in 1947. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 24 October 1936 | | | | Description: | Bassist, UK | | | | Summary: | Wyman has kept a journal since he was a child after the second World War. It has been useful to him as an author who has written seven books, selling two million copies. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 24 October 1948 | | | | Description: | Drummer, UK | | | | Summary: | During the 1980s, Griffin produced albums for Hanoi Rocks and The Cult and the Department S hit 'Is Vic There?', among others |
| Date Born: | Saturday 24 October 1936 | | | | Description: | Actor, director, producer | | | | Summary: | Nelson is the older brother of late singer Ricky Nelson. |
| Date Born: | Monday 24 October 1927 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, France | | | | Summary: | His first hit in the English-speaking world was Jane Morgan's cover version of Le Jour où la Pluie Viendra (as The Days The Rains Came, with English lyrics by Carl Sigman) in 1958. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 24 October 1946 | | | | Description: | Drummer, Canada | | | | Summary: | Steppenwolf is a Canadian hard rock group that was prominent in the late 1960s. The group was formed in 1967 in Toronto by vocalist John Kay, guitarist Michael Monarch, bassist Rushton Moreve, keyboardist Goldy McJohn and drummer Jerry Edmonton after the dissolution of its predecessor, The Sparrows.
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| Date Born: | Saturday 24 October 1936 | | | | Description: | Guitar, vocals, USA | | | | Summary: | Jimmy Dawkins was a Chicago blues great who earned the somewhat ironic nickname of “Fast Fingers” in that his performances were generally more deliberate and less flashy than that name might convey. |
| Date Born: | Friday 24 October 1947 | | | | Description: | Actor, Comedian, USA | | | | Summary: | Kline was born to Robert Joseph Kline, a classical music buff who owned and operated The Record Bar, the largest toy and record store in St. Louis, and mother Peggy. |
| Date Born: | Friday 24 October 1980 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actress, Songwriter, USA | | | | Summary: | In 2000, Monica made her sensational acting debut in the third drama from MTV Films film Love Song, as Camille Livingston. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 24 October 1948 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, UK | | | | Summary: | The son of pop singer Marion Ryan and producer Lloyd Sapherson, Paul and his twin brother Barry began to perform at the age of fifteen. In 1965 they signed a recording contract with Decca and under the name of "Paul & Barry Ryan" |
| Date Born: | Saturday 24 October 1959 | | | | Description: | Guitarist, Australia | | | | Summary: | Australian rock musician, guitarist and songwriter, best known for his work with the post-punk group The Birthday Party. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 24 October 1935 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | | Summary: | An American country-rockabilly singer and guitarist best known for his 1956 hit "The Fool".
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| Date Born: | Friday 24 October 1958 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, actor, director and pianist, Australia | | | | Summary: | Gallaher is a theatrical star, a singer, a musician, pianist, a hit songwriter, and most recently a respected theatrical producer and entrepreneur. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 24 October 1911 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Harmonicist, USA | | | | Summary: | Terry was also in the 1947 original cast of the Broadway musical comedy, Finian's Rainbow. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 24 October 1944 | | | | Description: | Vocalist | | | | Summary: | The group formed in 1963 achieving a hit with ’FEELIN GROOVY’
by Paul Simon. |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 25 October 1950 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, UK | | | | Summary: | Norman was born in Redcar, North Yorkshire. His parents did not intend that he should pursue a stage career, but when he was just three years old, he decided to walk on stage and join the finale line-up for the show in which his parents were appearing. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 25 October 1959 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Australia | | | | Summary: | Amphlett grew up in Geelong and was a student at Belmont High School with Denis Walter. She was a cousin of Australian singer Little Pattie (Patricia Amphlett). |
| Date Born: | Sunday 25 October 1959 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Australia | | | | Summary: | Amphlett has also worked as an actress. She made her film debut in the 1982 film Monkey Grip, and her performance garnered a nomination for Best Supporting Actress in the Australian Film Institute Awards. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 25 October 1947 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, USA | | | | Summary: | Known by the name Coco Robicheaux, was an American blues musician and artist, from Ascension Parish, Louisiana, United States. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 25 October 1956 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Comedian, USA | | | | Summary: | He had been named Las Vegas Entertainer of the Year and his production had also been awarded Show of the Year. As these awards would indicate, his fame was largely centered in Las Vegas.
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| Date Born: | Saturday 25 October 1924 | | | | Description: | Drummer, USA | | | | Summary: | In 2000, he became one of the first session musicians to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 25 October 1885 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | | Summary: | Sam Lewis was a charter member of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers in 1914, and was inducted into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame. |
| Date Born: | Monday 25 October 1937 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | | Summary: | Black first sang on Cliffie Stone's television program, Hometown Jamboree, from 1956 to 1959. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 25 October 1928 | | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | | Summary: | In 1973 Cooper joined The Young and the Restless as Katherine Chancellor, and remained on the show until her death |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 25 October 1825 | | | | Description: | Composer, Austria | | | | Summary: | He is mainly known for his classical waltzes and compositions
such as "The Blue Danube". He is the son of composer Johann Strauss I. And the brother of composers Josef Srauss and Eduard Strauss. |
| Date Born: | Friday 25 October 1946 | | | | Description: | Drummer, UK | | | | Summary: | The year 1968 saw the release of "I Get So Excited" which appeared in the Top 50 of the UK Singles Chart. It was reported in September 1969 that all five members of the group had been injured in Germany, when their car ran off an autobahn in a gale.
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| Date Born: | Wednesday 25 October 1944 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, UK | | | | Summary: | He is also an accomplished solo artist, and has collaborated with the Greek musician Vangelis, creating the duo "Jon & Vangelis".
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| Date Born: | Thursday 25 October 1984 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, Composer, USA | | | | Summary: | Perry's mother reportedly told British tabloid Daily Mail that she dislikes her daughter's music, calling it "shameful and disgusting". |
| Date Born: | Thursday 25 October 1928 | | | | Description: | Actress,USA | | | | Summary: | Ross made her 1953 film debut in Forever Female, starring Ginger Rogers and William Holden. She found steady work in film, appearing in The Glenn Miller Story (1954), Sabrina (1954), Teacher's Pet (1957), and Operation Petticoat (1959). |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 25 October 1932 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Australia | | | | Summary: | Mary Schneider is an Australian performer, renowned for yodelling works of classic composers.
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| Date Born: | Saturday 25 October 1947 | | | | Description: | Guitarist, UK | | | | Summary: | The Mindbenders were originally the backing group for Wayne Fontana was a 1960s beat group from Manchester, England. |
| Date Born: | Friday 25 October 1946 | | | | Description: | Composer of music, USA | | | | Summary: | His father, Goddard Lieberson, was president of Columbia Records.
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| Date Born: | Friday 25 October 1957 | | | | Description: | Guitarist, UK | | | | Summary: | McIntosh is well known as a session guitarist and member of "The Pretenders" and "John Mayer Band" and "Paul McCartney's band". |
| Date Born: | Sunday 25 October 1885 | | | | Description: | Composer of music, Lyricist, USA | | | | Summary: | One of his best-known songs was released in October 1956 by Guy Mitchell and spent nine weeks at #1 on the U.S. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 25 October 1973 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, Canada | | | | Summary: | Her first live appearance in Vancouver was at Nettwerk Record's 10 Year Anniversary Show at the Vogue Theater. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 25 October 1942 | | | | Description: | Trumpeter, Japan | | | | Summary: | He became an idol in Japan later giving all the trimmings and such up and moving to the United States.
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| Date Born: | Friday 26 October 1894 | | | | Description: | Guitarist, USA | | | | Summary: | Jefferson was born in town of Coutchman, Texas, the son of Alex and Clarricy Jefferson. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 26 October 1913 | | | | Description: | Saxophonist, USA | | | | Summary: | He was one of the first of the big band leaders in the mid thirties. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 26 October 1940 | | | | Description: | Trumpeter | | | | Summary: | Henderson's mother was one of the dancers in the original Cotton Club. She had a twin sister, and they were called The Brown Twins. They would dance with Bill "Bojangles" Robinson and the Nicholas Brothers |
| Date Born: | Monday 26 October 1981 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Australia | | | | Summary: | Winner of the first Australian Idol TV talent competition quest in 2003. |
| Date Born: | Friday 26 October 1945 | | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | | Summary: | Jacquelyn Ellen "Jaclyn" Smith is an American actress and businesswoman. She is best known as Kelly Garrett in the iconic television series Charlie's Angels, and was the only original female lead to remain with the series for its complete run. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 26 October 1919 | | | | Description: | American songwriter, actor, producer, and raconteur. | | | | Summary: | Co-writer of "Rock Around the Clock" for which he used the pseudonym "Jimmy DeKnight". Myers co-wrote the song with Max C. Freedman, though doubt has been cast as to whether Myers actually participated in the writing of the song. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 26 October 1944 | | | | Description: | Vocalist , Guitarist, Ireland | | | | Summary: | McCann subsequently performed alongside Kelly in the original cast of Jesus Christ Superstar in 1973, in the role of Peter. |
| Date Born: | Monday 26 October 1903 | | | | Description: | Pianist, Australia | | | | Summary: | Chairman of the UNESCO Committee for Music and as Federal President of the Arts Council of Australia |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 26 October 1926 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actress, USA | | | | Summary: | Born the daughter of Jack and Josephine Peck, who were a vaudeville song and dance team. When she was 14, the family moved to Los Angeles. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 26 October 1946 | | | | Description: | Pruduction, GB | | | | Summary: | Hopwood left Hermins Hermits and started his own music company with the late Derek Lekenby |
| Date Born: | Thursday 26 October 1967 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, Australia | | | | Summary: | Grew up in Australia estalishing himself in the field of country. |
| Date Born: | Friday 26 October 1945 | | | | Description: | Guitarist, USA | | | | Summary: | Member and founder of hard rock band ’MOUNTAIN’ |
| Date Born: | Thursday 26 October 1911 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | | Summary: | Mahalia Jackson - First Queen Of Gospel Music. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum Inductee:
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| Date Born: | Saturday 26 October 1963 | | | | Description: | Vocals, Keyboard, Piano, USA | | | | Summary: | She joined the alternative rock band 10,000 Maniacs in 1981 and left it to begin her solo career in 1993. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 26 October 1929 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | | Summary: | A 2nd tenor to join the famed ’Jordanaires’ in 1953. He was wih the vocal group through the Presley era up until his death in 2000. |
| Date Born: | Monday 26 October 1959 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist | | | | Summary: | Anderson was born in Ivanhoe, Victoria and grew up in the Montmorency area attending Briar Hill Primary School and Eltham High School. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 26 October 1907 | | | | Description: | Saxophonist, Vocalist, USA | | | | Summary: | His sax playing and his vocals were the highlights of each performance.
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| Date Born: | Monday 27 October 1975 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, Australia | | | | Summary: | Amber supported the legendary Kenny Rogers on his Australian tour last year, and has performed to crowds at the Mildura Country Music Festival, Sydney and Adelaide Fringe Festivals, etc. |
| Date Born: | Friday 27 October 1972 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, Guitrist, Australia | | | | Summary: | Daughter of Adelaide's popular country rock singer Carole Sturtzel. |
| Date Born: | Monday 27 October 1952 | | | | Description: | Pianist. France | | | | Summary: | In 1980, her career took a decisive turn when Herbert von Karajan invited her to play with the Berlin Philharmonic.
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| Date Born: | Thursday 27 October 1949 | | | | Description: | Founder of record label, Management. | | | | Summary: | He was the founder of the blues club in Austin, Texas, "Sixth Street". And also mentor to musicians Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jimmie Vaughan. |
| Date Born: | Monday 27 October 1941 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, UK | | | | Summary: | Legendary busker and one-man band Don Partridge rose to fame in the late sixties with his chart hit single 'Rosie' and became a household name. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 27 October 1938 | | | | Description: | American composer for winds and strings. | | | | Summary: | An award-winning member of ASCAP, former Professor of Music at the Crane School of Music, and composer of music for 1980 Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid, much of Del Borgo's work is available from several leading publishers. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 27 October 1910 | | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | | Summary: | Carson sought work in Hollywood, initially landing bit roles at RKO. Radio also proved to be a source of employment for the team following a 1938 appearance on the Bing Crosby Kraft Music Hall program. |
| Date Born: | Friday 27 October 1939 | | | | Description: | Actor, Director, and Producer, UK | | | | Summary: | His three memorable motion pictures include Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 27 October 1942 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, USA | | | | Summary: | His beginings were playing the saxophone and in the late sixties he became a member of 'The Chester Smith Band'. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 27 October 1979 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Dancer, Actor, Australian | | | | Summary: | Nathan has toured the world 9 times to packed crowds and has just completed a successful 2 month tour of the U.k selling more tickets than Kylie Minogue, A.C.D.C and performing to a sold out show at the Carling London Apollo |
| Date Born: | Sunday 27 October 1782 | | | | Description: | Violinist, violist, guitarist, and composer. Italy | | | | Summary: | He was one of the most celebrated violin virtuosi of his time, and left his mark as one of the pillars of modern violin technique. |
| Date Born: | Monday 27 October 1924 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, activist, USA | | | | Summary: | She is a recipient of the National Medal of Arts and the Kennedy Center Honors, among scores of others awards. |
| Date Born: | Monday 27 October 1958 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, UK | | | | Summary: | The group charted with ’HUNGRY LIKE THE WOLF’ - 1982 |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 27 October 1943 | | | | Description: | Singer, Composer, Guitarist, Australia. | | | | Summary: | In his shows, Warren presents a wide variety of music. He has no preferences. |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 28 October 1936 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, Composer, USA | | | | Summary: | Daniels wrote was the composer of "It Hurts Me" recorded by Elvis Presley. |
| Date Born: | Friday 28 October 1927 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, UK | | | | Summary: | She is the only female performer to have received Grammy nominations in the jazz, popular and classical music categories.
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| Date Born: | Tuesday 28 October 1941 | | | | Description: | Vocalist , Composer, USA | | | | Summary: | He began writing songs in partnership with a friend, Tommy Boyce, who later became one-half of the Boyce and Hart |
| Date Born: | Saturday 28 October 1944 | | | | Description: | Actor USA | | | | Summary: | Mainly known for his role as Detective Andy Sipowicz, and by his own account the role wes his 27 as a cop. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 28 October 1945 | | | | Description: | Saxophonist, UK | | | | Summary: | Elton Dean was born in Nottingham in 1945. He started taking piano and violin lessons at a very early age, and bought his first saxophone when he reached 18. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 28 October 1922 | | | | Description: | Composer, USA | | | | Summary: | He led "The First Moog Quartet" and was the first person to use the Moog Synthesizer in a live performance. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 28 October 1937 | | | | Description: | Keyboardiist, Saxophonist, UK | | | | Summary: | Bond was noted for playing a Hammond organ with a Leslie speaker which was quite new for the time. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 28 October 1941 | | | | Description: | Guitarist, UK | | | | Summary: | Hank Marvin’s original guitar is now owned by fellow Shadow Bruce Welch and Des O’Conner owns one of Buddy Hollys first strat’s unless Paul McCartney has finally grabbed it. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 28 October 1939 | | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | | Summary: | Alexander's major break in acting came in 1967 when she played Eleanor Backman in the original production of Howard Sackler's The Great White Hope at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. |
| Date Born: | Monday 28 October 1974 | | | | Description: | Actor, Musician, USA | | | | Summary: | Upon being cast as Johnny Cash in Walk the Line after Cash himself approved, Phoenix responded by buying a guitar and learning how to play. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 28 October 1967 | | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | | Summary: | Her parents, one time actors and playwrights, met while performing theatrical productions for the armed forces and later co founded the Atlanta Actors and Writers Workshop in Atlanta, Georgia. |
| Date Born: | Monday 28 October 1963 | | | | Description: | Actress, Canadian | | | | Summary: | Lauren Michael Holly is an American-born Canadian actress. She is known for her roles as Deputy Sheriff Maxine Stewart in the TV series Picket Fences |
| Date Born: | Sunday 28 October 1979 | | | | Description: | Vocalist,Actree,Songwriter | | | | Summary: | Reed was the cousin of former Destiny's Child member Farrah Franklin. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 28 October 1948 | | | | Description: | Guitarist, Composer, USA | | | | Summary: | "Jim andy To The Rescue" - was a national hit for the group
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| Date Born: | Wednesday 28 October 1936 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, Composer, USA | | | | Summary: | In the middle of the mid 1960s folk music boom Hawkins set out for California to try for a professional singing career. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 28 October 1948 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actress, USA | | | | Summary: | Hopkins recorded A Christmas Reunion with Tony Orlando and Dawn in 2005. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 28 October 1947 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, UK | | | | Summary: | He was still under contract to Fontana Records after parting with The Mindbenders. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 29 October 1949 | | | | Description: | Bassist, Scottish | | | | Summary: | Paton was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and grew up in the south-eastern suburb of Gilmerton, where he attended Liberton High School. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 29 October 1944 | | | | Description: | Guitarist, Vocalist, UK | | | | Summary: | Guitarist with ’THE MOODY BLUES’ and composer of the groups
best song ’GO NOW’.
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| Date Born: | Thursday 29 October 1891 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actress, USA | | | | Summary: | From the 1930s until her death in 1951, Fanny made a radio presence as a bratty toddler named Snooks. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 29 October 1983 | | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | | Summary: | Lewis is best known for his role as prospect biker Kip "Half-Sack" Epps in the first two seasons of the FX original series Sons of Anarchy. |
| Date Born: | Friday 29 October 1948 | | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | | Summary: | Better known for her role as Sabrina Duncan in the hugely popular 1970s television series Charlie's Angels. |
| Date Born: | Friday 29 October 1971 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Australia | | | | Summary: | Appeared in tv's "Neibours" series from 1989 to 1990. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 29 October 1922 | | | | Description: | Trumpeter, Composer, Arranger, America | | | | Summary: | Hefti won two Grammy awards for his composition work on Atomic Basie including "Li'l Darlin," "Splanky," and "Teddy the Toad." |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 29 October 1946 | | | | Description: | Guitarist, Composer, | | | | Summary: | Green left the band in 1970 and was replaced by Bob Welch in 1971. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 29 October 1961 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | | Summary: | Randy Jackson is a member of the famous musical family ’THE JACKSONS’, and is the brother of the prominent pop singers Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 29 October 1947 | | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | | Summary: | He had a starring role opposite Bill Murray in the 1991 hit comedy What About Bob? as a psychiatrist who goes crazy while trying to cope with a particularly obsessive new patient. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 29 October 1944 | | | | Description: | Guitarist, Composer. Netherlands | | | | Summary: | Dutch musician who used to be the guitarist, sitarist, background vocalist and main songwriter for the Dutch bands Shocking Blue |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 29 October 1957 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, USA | | | | Summary: | Childs was born in Orange, California, but lived in Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Nevada during her childhood. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 29 October 1925 | | | | Description: | Saxophonist, USA | | | | Summary: | Sims learned to play both drums and clarinet at an early age. His father was a vaudeville hoofer, and Sims prided himself on remembering many of the steps his father taught him.
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| Date Born: | Thursday 30 October 1952 | | | | Description: | Guitarist, author, instructor, USA | | | | Summary: | Roth is a Telecaster enthusiast, and has written the book Masters of the Telecaster, which details the techniques and licks of many famous Telecaster guitar players. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 30 October 1930 | | | | Description: | Trumpeter, USA | | | | Summary: | He died aged 25, leaving behind only four years' worth of recordings. |
| Date Born: | Monday 30 October 1939 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, USA | | | | Summary: | One third of the most brilliant songwriting team during the sixties with brother Brian and Lamont Dosier. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 30 October 1937 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Australia | | | | Summary: | In 1960 he recorded the theme song for the ITC television series Whiplash, written by composer Edwin Astley |
| Date Born: | Saturday 30 October 1948 | | | | Description: | Actor, Australia | | | | Summary: | Gunston's trademark outfit consisted of an iridescent-blue tuxedo jacket, black stovepipe trousers, and sneakers with white socks. McDonald used makeup to make his face deathbed white and had bits of tissue drying on shaving nicks. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 30 October 1945 | | | | Description: | Actor, director, producer, and author. US | | | | Summary: | In October 1973, he was cast for the role of Arthur Herbert Fonzarelli, nicknamed The Fonz or Fonzie, in the TV show Happy Days. |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 30 October 1918 | | | | Description: | Harminica player, USA | | | | Summary: | He taught actors how to pretend to play the instrument convincingly where their on screen performances required.
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| Date Born: | Friday 30 October 1936 | | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | | Summary: | In 1962, Landon released a Bonanza-related single, "Gimme A Little Kiss/Be Patient With Me", on Columbia Records and a single "Linda Is Lonesome/Without You" on RCA Victor Records. Michael's singles have been issued on compact disc as part of a "Bonanza" various artists compilation on Bear Family Records from 2007. |
| Date Born: | Friday 30 October 1908 | | | | Description: | Vocalist , Guitarist, USA | | | | Summary: | Blevins took her stage name from silent film star and world-champion roper, Monte Montana. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 30 October 1934 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, Pianist, USA | | | | Summary: | He recorded his first single in 1958 in Sun Records of Memphis (Tennessee).
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| Date Born: | Thursday 30 October 1969 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Songwriter, Producer, Cananda | | | | Summary: | Growing up in a diverse neighbourhood, O'Brien blended dancehall and reggae with rock and popular music to create his own unique style of music. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 30 October 1947 | | | | Description: | Bassist, Vocalist, USA | | | | Summary: | Schmit also toured with Jimmy Buffett, in 1983, 1984, and 1985 as a member of the Coral Reefer Band. |
| Date Born: | Monday 31 October 1966 | | | | Summary: | Adam is married to Kathleen Hanna of riot grrrl punk band Bikini Kill. |
| Date Born: | Friday 31 October 1952 | | | | Description: | Bassist, USA | | | | Summary: | Bernard Edwards is considered one of the most important bass players of the 20th century. |
| Date Born: | Thursday 31 October 1912 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actress, USA | | | | Summary: | Evans had a productive career as a jazz, swing, and big band singer that led to a screen test and contract with 20th Century Fox studios. Born Lucille Wood Smith in Uvalde, Texas, her name was changed in infancy to Frances Octavia Smith. |
| Date Born: | Wednesday 31 October 1951 | | | | Description: | Singer, Songwriter, Canada | | | | Summary: | The lead singer of Canadian rock band Doug and the Slugs. He also produced and directed music videos.
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| Date Born: | Thursday 31 October 1940 | | | | Description: | Guitarist, UK | | | | Summary: | Eric played guitar for the Quarrymen from 1956 until 1958, playing with both John and Paul. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 31 October 1896 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actress, USA | | | | Summary: | Ethel Waters was an Oscar nominated American blues vocalist and actress. |
| Date Born: | Saturday 31 October 1981 | | | | Description: | Guitarist , USA | | | | Summary: | Frank has many tattoos. Some tattoos he has include a tattoo of the letters "N" and "J" inside his lip, a jack-o-lantern, which he got on his 18th birthday, and the word "HALLOWEEN" tattooed on his fingers. |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 31 October 1922 | | | | Description: | Saxophonist, Composer, USA | | | | Summary: | He played "C-Jam Blues" with President Bill Clinton on the White House lawn during Clinton's inaugural ball in 1993.
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| Date Born: | Tuesday 31 October 1950 | | | | Description: | Television Host, USA | | | | Summary: | She is most known for her 13-year tenure on NBC's Today program and later 12 years of Dateline NBC, and has acknowledged publicly her struggle with mental health and bipolar disorder.
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| Date Born: | Sunday 31 October 1926 | | | | Description: | Disc jockey,Ttelevision presenter, UK | | | | Summary: | Savile started his radio career working as a Radio Luxembourg DJ from 1958 to 1967. Among his programmes was the Teen and Twenty Disc Club |
| Date Born: | Tuesday 31 October 1950 | | | | Description: | Actor, Canada | | | | Summary: | The son of Evangeline and Sidney James Candy. He had an older brother, Jim. His father died of a heart attack at 35 and his father's father had also died of heart attack at a young age. |
| Date Born: | | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, Australia | | | | Summary: | A professional singer and songwriter from Queensland, Australia. |
| Date Born: | Monday 31 October 1955 | | | | Description: | Vocalist , Composer, Australia | | | | Summary: | Hunter won Deadlys in 2000 for Female Artist of the Year, 2003 for Outstanding Contribution to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Music and 2004 for Excellence in Film & Theatrical Score. |
| Date Born: | Friday 31 October 1947 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, UK | | | | Summary: | Ballard has also written and produced for Elkie Brooks, and more recently, acting as a talent scout, he "discovered" Lauren Harris.
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| Date Born: | Monday 31 October 1932 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, Australian | | | | Summary: | Egan is the classic 'No Worries Mate' and gets on with his life as one should and also a genuine person. |
| Date Born: | Sunday 31 October 1937 | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, USA | | | | Summary: | Tom received a guitar from his aunt when he was sixteen, and he soon began to immerse himself in the music of Burl Ives and Harry Belafonte. |
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