| 1910 | Al Sears, His first important job in 1928 replacing Johnny Hodges with the Chick Webb band. However, despite associations with Elmer Snowden (1931-1932), Andy Kirk (1941-1942), Lionel Hampton (1943-1944), and with his own groups (most of 1933-1941), it was not until Sears joined Duke Ellington's Orchestra in 1944 that he began to get much attention. He died in 1990 in NY.
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| 1917 | Tadd Dameron, He was a definitive arranger of the bop era. He wrote such standards as "Good Bait," "Our Delight," "Hot House," "Lady Bird." and "If You Could See Me Now." He died in NY in 1965.
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| 1933 | Nina Simone, Singer - "I Love's You Porgy". She recorded extensively in the soul, jazz, and pop idioms, often over the course of the same album; she was also comfortable with blues, gospel, and Broadway. She passed away in 2003.
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| 1938 | Bobby Charles (Robert Charles Guidry), Singer and songwriter from Abbeville, Louisiana. Charles had two R&B hits that made the charts. The songs were 'Later Alligator' and 'Only Time Will Tell'. Charles passed away on January 14, 2010.
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| 1943 | David Geffen, Record executive with Geffen Records and a partner in Dreamworks.
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| 1949 | Jerry Harrison, Bassist for the pop and rock group 'The Talking Heads'.
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| 1951 | Warren Vache, Warren Vache (along with Scott Hamilton) was among the few young jazz musicians who were reviving small-group swing. Vache, who always had a beautiful tone and a chance-taking style, is the son of a fine bassist (Warren Vache Sr.) and the brother of clarinetist Allen Vache.
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| 1958 | Mary Chapin-Carpenter, She was part of a small movement of folk-influenced country singer/songwriters of the late '80s. Although many of these performers never achieved commercial success, Carpenter was able to channel her anti-Nashville approach into chart success and industry awards by the early '90s.
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| 1961 | Ranking Roger, Best-known as the singer/toaster and co-frontman of the English Beat and General Public.
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| 1969 | Corey Harris, He has earned critical acclaim as one of the few contemporary blues guitarists able to channel the raw, direct emotion of acoustic Delta blues without coming off as an authenticity-obsessed historian.
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| 1970 | Eric Wilson, 'Sublime'.
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| 1986 | Charlotte Church, Welsh soprano who became an overnight classical superstar in November 1998 with the release of her debut album "Voice of an Angel", issued when she was just 12 years old.
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