1842 : Arthur Sullivan, born Arthur Seymour Sullivan in London. English composer.
1911 : Maxine Sullivan, born Marietta Williams in Homestead, Pennsylvania. American jazz vocalist and performer.
1912 : Gil Evans, born Ian Ernest Gilmore Green in Toronto, Ontario. Canadian-born jazz pianist, arranger, composer and bandleader.
1913 : Ginny Simms aka Virginia E. Eastvold, born Virginia Simms in San Antonio, Texas. American popular singer and actress.
1926 : Dewey Phillips aka "Daddy-O" Dewey Phillips born in Crump, Tennessee. American rock'n'roll pioneering disk jockey, first to play Elvis Presley on radio.
1941 : Ritchie Valens, born Richard Steven Valenzuela in Pacoima, California. American singer, songwriter and guitarist.
1941 : Joe Brown, born Joseph Roger Brown in Swarby, Lincolnshire. English entertainer, rock and roll singer and guitarist.
1943 : Mary Wells, born Mary Esther Wells in Detroit, Michigan. American singer who helped to define the emerging sound of Motown in the early 1960s.
1950 : Stevie Wonder, born Stevland Hardaway Judkins in Saginaw, Michigan. American musician, singer and songwriter.
1967 : Melanie Thornton, born Melanie Janene Thornton in Charleston, South Carolina. American pop singer.
1973 : Eric Lewis aka ELEW, born Eric Robert Lewis in Camden, New Jersey. American jazz pianist who has found crossover success playing rock and pop music.