BIRTHDAYS Bryan "Chas" Chandler (1938) The Animals bassist/co-founder (died 1996) age 57 – aortic aneurysm Sam Andrew III (1941) Big Brother and the Holding Company guitarist/co-lead singer/songwriter/co-founder ["Down on Me"/"Piece of Me"/"Ball and Chain"] and Janis Joplin guitarist (died 2015) age 73 – open-heart surgery complications Keith Richards (1943) Rolling Stones guitarist/songwriter/singer/co-founder and solo guitarist/songwriter/singer, also actor Bobby Keys (1943) Rolling Stones and session saxophonist ["Brown Sugar"/"My Sweet Lord"/"After Midnight"/"Call Me the Breeze"/"Photograph"] (died 2014) age 70 – liver cancer…

BIRTHDAYS Arthur Fiedler (1894) conductor (died 1979) age 84 – cardiac arrest Art Neville (1937) The Meters singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist/co-founder and the Neville Brothers singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist/co-founder (died 2019) age 81 – unknown causes Carl "Carlo" Little (1938) Rolling Stones drummer/co-founder (died 2005) age 66 – lung cancer Eddie Kendricks (1939) The Temptations lead singer/songwriter/co-founder and solo singer/songwriter ["Keep On Truckin'"] (died 1992) age 52 – lung cancer…

BIRTHDAYS Ludvig van Beethoven (1770) composer/pianist (died 1827) age 56 – liver damage Tony Hicks (1945) The Hollies lead guitarist/songwriter/co-founder Goran "Benny" Andersson (1946) ABBA keyboardist/songwriter/singer/co-founder and solo keyboardist/songwriter/singer William Frederick "Billy" Gibbons (1949) ZZ Top lead guitarist/lead singer/songwriter/co-founder , also Moving Sidewalks lead guitarist/songwriter/co-founder and solo singer/guitarist/songwriter Robben Ford (1951) blues and jazz/rock guitarist/songwriter Bill Bateman (1951) The Blasters drummer/co-founder ["Dark Night"]

BIRTHDAYS Stan Kenton (1911) jazz pianist/composer/arranger/bandleader ["Laura"/"How High the Moon"/"Dragnet"] (died 1979) age 67 – stroke complications Alan "Moondog" Freed (1921) disc jockey (died 1965) age 43 – alcoholism-related cirrhosis and uremia Cindy Birdsong (1939) The Supremes singer/songwriter Dave Clark (1939) The Dave Clark Five drummer/songwriter/founder Carmine Appice (1946) Vanilla Fudge drummer/songwriter/co-founder, Rod Stewart, King Kobra, and Beck, Bogert & Appice drummer/songwriter and solo drummer/songwriter/singer…

BIRTHDAYS Lindley "Spike" Jones (1911) Spike Jones and his City Slickers bandleader ["All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth"/"Cocktails for Two"/"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"] (died 1965) age 53 – emphysema Charlie "The Silver Fox" Rich (1932) country singer/songwriter/pianist/guitarist ["Behind Closed Doors"/"The Most Beautiful Girl"] (died 1995) age 62 – pulmonary embolism Johnny Moore (1934) Drifters lead tenor singer ["Under the Boardwalk"] (died 1998) age 64 – respiratory failure…

BIRTHDAYS Tony Gómez (1938) The Foundations keyboardist ["Build Me Up Buttercup"] (died 2015) age 77 – unknown causes Robert Martinez (1943) ? and the Mysterians drummer/co-founder ["96 Tears"] Jeff "Skunk" Baxter (1948) Steely Dan guitarist/co-founder and The Doobie Brothers guitarist/songwriter Ted Nugent (1948) Amboy Dukes lead guitarist/songwriter/co-founder ["Journey to the Center of the Mind"], Damn Yankees lead guitarist/singer/songwriter/co-founder and solo guitarist/songwriter/singer…

BIRTHDAYS Francis Albert Sinatra (1915) singer, also actor ["The Chairman of the Board"] (died 1998) age 82 – heart attack Connie Francis (1937) singer/accordionist ["Who's Sorry Now?"/"Where the Boys Are?"/"Don’t Break the Heart That Loves You"/"My Happiness"/"My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own"/"Lipstick on Your Collar"] (died 2025) age 87 – unknown causes Terry Kirkman (1939) The Association percussionist/co-lead singer/songwriter/co-founder ["Along Comes Mary"/"Cherish"] (died 2023) age 85 – congestive heart failure…

BIRTHDAYS Pérez Prado (1917) bandleader/singer/organist/pianist/composer ["King of the Mambo"] ["Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White"/"Mambo No. 5"] (died 1989) age 72 – stroke Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton (1926) R&B singer/songwriter ["Hound Dog"/"Ball 'n' Chain"] (died 1984) age 57 – heart and liver failure Benny Spellman (1931) R&B singer ["Lipstick Traces (On a Cigarette)"/"Fortune Teller"] (died 2011) age 79 – respiratory failure…

BIRTHDAYS Guitar Slim (1926) blues guitarist/singer ["The Things That I Used to Do"] (died 1959) age 32 – pneumonia Kyu Sakamoto (1941) singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist ["Sukiyaki"] (died 1985) age 43 – plane crash Ralph Tavares (1941) Tavares singer/co-founder ["It Only Takes a Minute," "Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel (Part 1)"] (died 2021) age 79 – natural causes Chad Stuart (1941) Chad & Jeremy singer/guitarist/co-founder ["A Summer Song"] (died 2020) age 79 – pneumonia…

BIRTHDAYS Junior Wells (1934) blues singer/harmonica player/songwriter (died 1998) age 63 – heart attack Sammy Strain (1939) Little Anthony and the Imperials and The O'Jays singer Kenny Vance (1943) Jay and the Americans singer/co-founder ["This Magic Moment"/"Come a Little Bit Closer"] Shirley Brickley (1944) The Orlons singer ["The Wah-Watusi"/"Don't Hang Up"] (died 1977) age 33 – murdered Dennis Dunaway (1946) Alice Cooper bassist/songwriter/co-founder ["I'm Eighteen"/"School's Out"]

BIRTHDAYS Sammy Davis Jr. (1925) jazz-pop singer/dancer ["Something’s Gotta Give"/"I’ve Gotta Be Me"/"The Candy Man"] (died 1990) age 64 – throat cancer Jerry Butler (1939) The Impressions lead singer/co-founder ["It’s All Right"/"People Get Ready"] (died 2025) age 85 – Parkinson's disease Soko Richardson (1939) The Ike & Tina Turner Revue and John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers drummer (died 2004) age 64 – diabetes…

BIRTHDAYS Louis Prima (1910) singer/songwriter/bandleader/trumpeter ["Just a Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody"/"Jump, Jive an Wail"/"That Old Black Magic"] (died 1978) age 67 – cerebral hemorrhage Harry Chapin (1942) singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist ["Taxi"/"Cat's in the Cradle"] (died 1981) age 38 – car accident-related heart attack Barry Winslow (1947) The Royal Guardsmen lead singer/guitarist/songwriter/co founder ["Snoopy vs. The Red Baron"/"The Return of the Red Baron"/"Baby Let's Wait"]

BIRTHDAYS Ira Gershwin (1896) lyricist (Died 1983) age 86 – cardiovascular disease Dave "The Duke" Brubeck (1920) jazz pianist/composer/bandleader ["Take Five"/"In Your Own Sweet Way"] (born 2012) age 91 – heart failure George Williams (1935) The Tymes lead singer/co-founder ["So Much in Love"] (died 2004) age 68 – cancer Robb Royer (1942) Bread bassist/multi-instrumentalist/songwriter/co-founder ["Make It With You"] Mike Smith (1943) Dave Clark Five lead singer/keyboardist/songwriter/co-founder (died 2008) age 64 – pneumonia…

BIRTHDAYS Sonny Boy Williamson (1912) blues singer/harmonica player/songwriter ["Help Me"/"Shotgun Blues"] (died 1965) age 52 – heart attack Little Richard (1932) singer/songwriter/pianist ["Lucille"/"Good Golly Miss Molly"/"Tutti Frutti"/"Long Tall Sally"] (died 2020) age 87 – bone cancer John "J.J." Cale (1938) guitarist/singer/songwriter (died 2013) age 74 – heart attack Eddie Serrato (1945) ? and the Mysterians drummer/co-founder [''96 Tears"] (died 2011) age 65 – heart attack…

BIRTHDAYS Freddy Cannon (1936) singer/guitarist ["Palisades Park"] Bob Mosley (1942) Moby Grape bassist/co-lead singer/songwriter/co-founder and solo singer/bassist/songwriter Chris Hillman (1944) The Byrds and Flying Burrito Brothers bassist/guitarist/mandolinist/songwriter/co-founder and solo bassist/guitarist/mandolinist/songwriter Dennis Wilson (1944) Beach Boys singer/songwriter/drummer/co-founder and solo singer/songwriter/drummer (died 1983) age 39 - drowning Terry Woods (1947) The Pogues multi-instrumentalist/singer/songwriter and Steeleye Span guitarist/concertina/co-founder John "Southside Johnny" Lyon (1948) Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes lead singer/multi-instrumentalist/songwriter/co-founder…

BIRTHDAYS Ferlin Husky (1925) singer/guitarist/songwriter ["Gone"/"Wings of a Dove"] (died 2011) age 85 – congestive heart failure Andy Williams (1927) singer ["Moon River"/"Butterfly"/"Can't Get Used to Losing You"], also actor (died 2012) age 84 – bladder cancer Jim Freeman (1940) The Five Satins singer/co-founder ["In the Still of the Night"] John Wilson (1947) Them drummer ["Gloria"/"Mystic Eyes"] John "Ozzy" Osbourne (1948) Black Sabbath lead singer/songwriter/co-founder and solo singer/songwriter (died 2025) age 76 – heart attack…

BIRTHDAYS Maria Callas (1923) operatic soprano (died 1977) age 53 – heart attack Tom McGuinness (1941) Manfred Mann guitarist/bassist/songwriter Ted Bluechel Jr. (1942) The Association drummer/guitarist/songwriter/co-founder ["Cherish"/"Windy"/"Never My Love"] Dave Munden (1943) Brian Poole and the Tremeloes drummer/co-founder ["Silence is Golden"] (died 2020) age 76 – long illness Rick Savage (1960) Def Leppard bassist/co-founder Nate Mendel (1968) Foo Fighters bassist/songwriter/co-founder…

BIRTHDAYS Lou Rawls (1933) singer ["Love is a Hurtin' Thing"/"You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine"] (died 2006) age 72 – cancer Billy Paul (1934) soul singer ["Me and Mrs. Jones"] (died 2016) age 81 – pancreatic cancer Sandy Nelson (1938) The Teddy Bears drummer/co-founder ["To Know Him is to Love Him"] and solo drummer (died 2022) age 83 – stroke complications…

BIRTHDAYS Allan Sherman (1924) song parodist/songwriter ["Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh"/"The Twelve Gifts of Christmas"], also actor (died 1973) age 48 – emphysema Dick Clark (1929) "American Bandstand" host (died 2012) age 82 – heart attack Luther Ingram (1937) R&B and soul singer/songwriter ["(If Loving You is Wrong) I Don’t Want to Be Right"] (died 2007) age 69 – heart failure…

BIRTHDAYS Merle Travis (1917) country singer/songwriter ["Sixteen Tons"]/inventor of the first solid-body electric guitar (died 1983) age 65 – heart attack John Mayall (1933) John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers singer/guitarist/songwriter/founder (died 2024) age 90 – unknown causes Meco (1939) trombonist/arranger ["Theme From 'Star Wars'"] (died 2023) age 83 – natural causes Denny Doherty (1940) The Mamas & The Papas singer/songwriter/co-founder (died 2007) age 66 – kidney failure…

BIRTHDAYS Berry Gordy Jr. (1929) producer/songwriter/founder of Motown Records and Tamla Records Gary Troxel (1939) The Fleetwoods singer/songwriter/co-founder ["Come Softly to Me"] Bruce Channel (1940) singer/songwriter ["Hey! Baby"] Clem Curtis (1940) The Foundations lead singer/co-founder ["Build Me Up Buttercup"] (died 2017) age 76 – lung cancer Randy Newman (1943) singer/songwriter/pianist/composer/arranger ["Short People"/"I Love L.A."///"Mama Told Me Not to Come"] Ronald "R.B." Greaves (1943) singer/songwriter ["Take a Letter Maria"] (died 2012) age 68 – prostate cancer…

BIRTHDAYS Al "The Human Timekeeper" Jackson Jr. (1935) Booker T. & the M.G.'s drummer/songwriter/co-founder ["Green Onions"/"Time is Tight"] (died 1975) age 39 – murdered Eddie Rabbitt (1941) country singer/songwriter/guitarist ["I Love a Rainy Night"/"Drivin' My Life Away"/"Every Which Way But Loose"] (died 1998) age 56 – lung cancer James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (1942) The Jimi Hendrix Experience and Band of Gypsys guitarist/lead singer/songwriter/co-founder (died 1970) age 27- barbiturate-related asphyxia…

BIRTHDAYS Robert Goulet (1933) singer, also actor (died 2007) age 73 – idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis David White (1939) Danny & the Juniors singer/songwriter/founder "At the Hop"/"You Don’t Own Me"] (died 2019) age 79 – cancer Tina Turner (1939) Ike & Tina Turner singer/songwriter/co-founder ["Proud Mary"/"Nutbush City Limits"] and solo singer/songwriter (died 2023) age 83 – intestinal cancer Jean Terrell (1944) The Supremes lead singer…

BIRTHDAYS Percy Sledge (1940) R&B and soul singer ["When a Man Loves a Woman"] (died 2015) age 74 – liver cancer Bev Bevan (1944) The Move and Electric Light Orchestra drummer/songwriter/co-founder Amy Grant (1960) singer/songwriter/guitarist ["Baby, Baby"] Mark Lanegan (1964) Screaming Trees lead singer/songwriter/guitarist/keyboardist/co-founder ["Nearly Lost You"/"All I Know"], Queens of the Stone Age co-lead singer/songwriter/keyboardist and solo singer/songwriter/guitarist/keyboardist (died 2022) age 57 – possible liver failure…

BIRTHDAYS Scott Joplin (1867 or 1868) composer/pianist/multi-instrumentalist ["King of Ragtime"] ["The Entertainer"/Maple Leaf Rag"] (died 1917) age 48 or 49 – syphilitic dementia Tommy Allsup (1931) Buddy Holly's Crickets guitarist (died 2017) age 85 – hernia surgery complications Jim Yester (1939) The Association guitarist/keyboardist/singer ["Along Come Mary"/"Windy"/"Never My Love"] Pete Best (1941) The Beatles drummer/co-founder Donald "Duck" Dunn (1941) The Blues Brothers bassist/co-founder, Booker T.