Bill Haley, American rock vocalist and songwriter known as the father of Rock 'n' Roll, though in truth it started several years earlier, he did help to popularise it (Rock Around the Clock), born in Highland Park, Michigan in 1925 (d. 1981)
65...Nanci Griffith, US Country Folk singer/songwriter (Poet in My Window) was born in Seguin, Texas in 1953...
31...Kate Nash, English Indie Pop/Rock singer/songwriter was born in Harrow, London in 1987.. This was her breakthrough song...
39..Nic Cester, Australian Garage Rock Revival singer,songwriter and musician for Jet, was born in Melbourne in 1979...
A special day for the English and for a Knight of the Realm and one of the Fab Four who celebrates his birthday.. 78...Sir Ringo Starr, [Richard Starkey], Beatles drummer, singer and songwriter (Don't Pass Me By) was born in Liverpool in 1940... Love his drumming on this...
48... Beck [Bek David Campbell], American Experimental Lo-fi singer, songwriter and musician (Morning Phase), born in Los Angeles in 1970...
Louis Jordan, American musician, songwriter and bandleader (Caldonia), born in Brinkley, Arkansas in 1908, (d. 1975)...
43...Jack White (lead singer, songwriter and guitarist for The White Stripes) was born John Anthony Gillis in Detroit, Michigan in 1975. He took the name "White" when he married his bandmate, Meg White...
54...Courtney Love, American singer, songwriter and muscian (Hole) and actress (People vs Larry Flynt), born in San Francisco in 1964... She got a bad rap when Kurt Cobain died, but she lost her husband and the father of their child and some of her songs reflect how badly his death affected her...
61....Marc Almond (lead vocalist, songwriter for Soft Cell) was born Peter Mark Sinclair Almond in Southport, Lancashire in 1957...
Bon Scott [Ronald Belford Scott], Australian rock musician (lead singer and lyricist of AC/DC), born in Forfar, Scotland, (d.1980)..
Mitch Mitchell, English drummer (Jimi Hendrix Experience), born in Ealing, Middlesex in 1947, (d. 2008)...