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Ragtime and jazz bandleader, arranger and composer James Reese Europe is born in Mobile, Alabama, USA. With his Society Orchestra, he will become the first black bandleader to appear on a record.
Bluesman Mance Lipscomb is born in the Brazos Bottoms, near Navasota, Texas, USA.
Ernst Busch is born in Germany, Europe. He will find fame as an interpreter of political songs in the Berlin cabaret scene of the 1930s, and will star in the first stage production [and first film version] of Bertold Brecht's The Threepenny Opera.
Pioneering blues musician and recording artist Rubin Lacy is born in Pelahatchie, Mississippi, USA.
Earl Hines is born in Duquesne, Pennsylvania, USA. He will find fame as jazz pianist Earl 'Fatha' Hines.
Ronald Dennis Pountain is born in Derby, UK. He will find fame as Denny Dennis, one of the most popular British vocalists of the dance band era.
Howard Joseph Gustafson is born in Burlington, Iowa, USA. He will
find fame as Bart Howard, composer of the enduring jazz standard Fly Me To The Moon.
Harry James, American band leader and trumpet player, is born in Albany, Georgia, USA. He is best remembered for his hit You Made Me Love You.
Bob Neal, who will briefly act as manager of Elvis Presley, is born in the Belgian Congo, Africa.
Johnny Holiday is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Although
never achieving major success, Holiday will become a well-respected
vocalist working with bands including the Glenn Miller Army/Air
Force Band (under Miller's successor Ray McKinley) and Charlie
Spivak. He will also make recordings for several labels.
Mac Wiseman is born in Crimora, Virginia, USA. He will work as a sideman for Bill Monroe and Flatt And Scruggs, as well as releasing his own solo bluegrass records for the Dot label. Wiseman will also serve as a founding member of the Country Music Association and will join the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2014.
John Paul Pizzarelli is born in Paterson, New Jersey, USA. He will find success as jazz guitarist and banjo player Bucky Pizzarelli.Jazz guitarist, bandleader, composer, vocalist and recording artist Malcolm Mitchell is born in London, UK. Among many other achievements, he will become the first British musician to play with Duke Ellington and earn money for doing so. [N.B. In 1933, the Duke of Windsor had insisted on sitting in on drums with the Ellington band when it visited Britain but he didn't get paid].
Country singer Roy Drusky is born in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Known for his baritone voice, Drusky's highest-charting single will be the Billboard Country Singles Chart No1, Yes Mr. Peters, a duet with Priscilla Mitchell.
Calvin Scott Stoneman is born in Galax, Virginia, USA. Under the name Scotty Stoneman he will sing and play fiddle, banjo and guitar for many years with popular country music group The Stonemans.
Influential blues guitarist Albert Collins, aka The Iceman, is born in Leona, Texas, USA.
Tommy De Vito, singer/guitarist with The Four Seasons, is born in Montcvlair, New Jersey, USA.
Folk musician, recording artist and author Richard Farina is born in New York City, USA. He will find success in a duo with his wife, Richard and Mimi Farina.
New Orleans-style jazz trumpeter, banjoist and recording artist Cliff 'Kid' Bastien is born in London, England, UK, Europe. he will find success in Canada, leading his Happy Pals jazz band.
Cicero Blake is born in Jackson, Mississippi, USA. He will find success as a soul singer-songwriter, and the original lead singer of The Golden Tones, who will evolve into The Kool Gents.Keith Grant, a recording engineer who will become widely-known for his work at London's Olympic Studios on tracks by The Beatles, David Bowie, Eric Clapton, The Eagles, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Led Zeppelin, Queen, The Small Faces, Dusty Springfield, Scott Walker and others, is born in Freebridge, Norfolk, UK.
Randy Bachman, leader of Canadian hitmakers Bachman-Turner Overdrive and Guess Who, is born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Skaila Kanga is born in Mumbai, India, Asia. She will first find success as an orchestral harpist in the UK, going on to work with artists as diverse as Luciano Pavarotti, Kiri Te Kanawa, Frank Sinatra, Elton John, Barbra Streisand, and Paul McCartney.
Graham Bonnet, who will sing for The Marbles, Rainbow, Alcatrazz and Blackthorne, is born in Skegness, Lincolnshire, UK.
John Badanjek, drummer of Detroit-based band Mitch Ryder And The Detroit Wheels, is born in Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Roy Bittan, keyboardist with Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, is born in Rockaway Beach, Queens, New York City, USA.
Tony Peluso is born. Although best-remembered as the man who played the fuzz guitar solo in Goodbye To Love by The Carpenters, Peluso also played with Paul Revere And The Raiders, and carried on to an acclaimed career as a record producer at Motown and elsewhere, winning four Grammy Awards during his career.
Keolamaikalani Breckenridge Beamer is born in O'ahu Island, Hawaii, USA. He will find success as innovative slack-key guitarist Keola Beamer.Thomas W. Fowler is born in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. He will find success as bass player Tom Fowler with San Francisco-based band It's A Beautiful Day before going on to work with Frank Zappa, Jean Luc Ponty and others.
Charles Chukwuemeka Oputa is born in Nigeria, Africa. He will find success as singer/songwriter, producer, TV presenter and publisher Charly Boy.
Michael Lee Smith, best known as the vocalist/guitarist of New Jersey-based heavy rock band Starz, is born in Alabama, USA. Although not commercially successful, the group has been cited as an influence by Twisted Sister, Motley Crue and Poison.Daniel G. P. Middlebrook is born in Mount Dennis, Ontario, Canada. he will find success as Christian blues musician, singer-songwriter Danny Brooks.
Brinsley Forde is born in Guyana, South America. He will find success as a founding member/vocalist and guitarist with Aswad.
Michael Rhodes is born in West Monroe, Louisiana, USA. He will become a respected session musician, playing bass on records by Trisha Yearwood, Lady Antebellum, Conway Twitty, Alabama, Brooks and Dunn, Toby Keith, Darius Rucker and George Strait, among others.Ava Barber is born in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA. She will find success as a country music singer and performer, best-remembered for her many performances on The Lawrence Welk Show in the 1970s and early 1980s.
Phil Smillie, flute player and vocalist with Scottish folk group and recording artists The Tannahill Weavers, is born in Kelvin Hall, Glasgow, Scotland.
Kevin Valentine is born in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He will find acclaim as drummer for bands including Donnie Iris and the Cruisers, Cinderella and Godz.
Allen McKenzie, bassist for the 'melodic rock' band Firehouse, is born in Columbus, Ohio, USA.
Pauline Henry, vocalist for UK pop-soul combo The Chimes, is born in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, Europe.
Mark Linkous, singer/songwriter best known for his work under the name Sparklehorse, is born in Arlington, Virginia.
Jay Bennett is born in Rolling Meadows, a suburb Northwest of Chicago, Illinois, USA. Bennett will found the band Titanic Love Affair, but will become best-known as a guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, engineer, producer and singer-songwriter with the band Wilco.
Anthony Ian Berkeley is born in Trinidad, Caribbean. He will find success as rapper Poetic, aka Grym Reaper when working as a member of Gravediggaz.
Raul Malo is born in Miami, Florida, USA. He will find success a leader of country rock band The Mavericks.
Andy Cairns guitarist/vocalist of Therapy? is born in Ballyclare, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK, Europe.
Eagle-Eye Cherry is born in Skane, Sweden, Europe. He is the son of jazz artist Don Cherry and Swedish painter/textile artist Monika Cherry.
Bassist Cordell Mosson (aka Cordell "Boogie" Mosson, of Parliament-Funkadelic, dies of liver failure, aged 60, in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.
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