| 1898 | Adolphe 'Tats' Alexander, Traditional jazz clarinetist and saxophonist from New Orleans. He performed or was a member of the 'Tuxedo Brass Band', 'Sidney Desvigne's Orchestra' and Papa Celestin. He was also a member of the 'Eureka Brass Band' in which his father, Adolphe Alexander, Sr. was a cornetist and charter member.
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| 1903 | Bill Padron, Traditional jazz trumpeter from New orleans, Louisiana. Bill played with the New Orleans Owls and other bands of the early century. His only recordings were with the Owls. Bill died in New Orleans on April 9, 1959.
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| 1905 | Dorothy Fields, Lyricist with Cy Coleman - "Sweet Charity". She was the first woman to be elected into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, in recognition of her long and successful career of hit songs, movie scores, and Broadway scores that spanned the late '20s through the early '70s. She died in 1974.
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| 1906 | Bert Peck, Traditional jazz pianist from New Orleans, Louisiana. He was a prominent dixieland musician in the 1920's, and a politician. He played with the 'Princeton Revellers', Johnny Bayersdorffer and Leon Prima. He was still playing in the 1980's.
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| 1913 | Cowboy Copas, Singer - "Alabam". He was a honky tonk singer popular in the late '40s, He made something of a comeback in the early '60s before he died in the air crash that also killed Patsy Cline and Hawkshaw Hawkins. He died in 1963.
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| 1923 | Philly Joe Jones, A drummer and a masterful accompanist, Philly Joe Jones came to fame as a key member with the first classic Miles Davis Quintet. He died in 1985.
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| 1928 | Joe Harriott, Alto saxophonist who exerted a powerful influence on early free jazz in England. The Jamaican-born and raised Harriott played with his countrymen, trumpeter Dizzy Reece and tenor saxophonist Wilton "Bogey" Gaynair, before emigrating to England in 1951. He died in 1973.
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| 1940 | Tommy Dee, DJ for LFXM in California.
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| 1946 | Linda Ronstadt, Singer - "Blue Bayou". She became one of the most popular interpretive singers of the '70s, earning a string of platinum-selling albums and Top 40 singles.
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| 1951 | Tommy Alesi, A drummer who is best known as the long time member of the legendary, Grammy winning cajun band Beausoleil. He's also played with Roswell Rudd, Michael Doucet and Sonny Landreth. (74) |
| 1953 | David Pack, Singer with the rock group 'Ambrosia' - "The Biggest Part Of Me".
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| 1960 | Lance Ellis, A saxophonist and a native of New Orleans, Louisiana. A former postal worker, Lance has shared the stage with the legendary 70’s funk/soul band WAR, the original Meters and Neville Brothers, Mem Shannon, keyboardist Art Neville, Funky Meter bassist George Porter Jr., and Zydeco master Chubby Carrier to name a few. In addition to his two solo CD's, he appears on a number of other recordings. (65) |
