1992
The singer Rosalía is born Rosalia Vila Tobella outside of Barcelona, Spain.
1983
American actor, musician, and DJ, Childish Gambino (born Donald Glover). His 2018 US No.1 hit ‘This Is America’ won four Grammy Awards at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards: Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Rap/Sung Performance and Best Music Video.
1980
Clifford Joseph Harris Jr. (T.I. and also by his alter ego T.I.P.) American Grammy Award-winning rapper, songwriter, actor. (2007 US No.1 album T.I. vs T.I.P.). Featured on the 2013 worldwide hit Blurred Lines with Robin Thicke.
1975
Declan Donnelly, P.J. & Duncan, actor, singer, 1994 UK No.9 single ‘Lets Get Ready To Rhumble’). TV presenter.
1974
Richie Edwards, bassist, The Darkness, replacing Frankie Poullain in June 2005. Edwards had worked as a guitar technician for the band and was also once a member of Onion Trump.
1969
Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal, American guitarist, songwriter, (He adopted his nickname from the bacterial infection of the same name, which he learned about while helping his wife study for her veterinary exams). He was one of two lead guitarists in Guns N’ Roses from 2006 until 2014 and performed on their sixth studio album Chinese Democracy.
1968
Will Smith, actor, singer, DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, (1993 UK No.1 single ‘Boom! Shake The Room’). Solo (1997 UK No.1 single ‘Men In Black’).
1963
Keyboard player Billy Welch is born in Greenwich, Connecticut. After playing in the road bands of Trace Adkins, Julie Reeves and Mindy McCready, he joins the group Rushlow, which gains a hit with its 2003 debut single “I Can’t Be Your Friend”
1961
Actress Heather Locklear is born in Westwood, California. She is married to Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora at the time the band records its country hit, “Who Says You Can’t Go Home”
1955
Steve Severin, bass, Siouxsie and the Banshees, (1983 UK No.3 single ‘Dear Prudence’).
1955
Zucchero, (Adelmo Fornaciari), Italian singer, (1991 UK No. 4 with Paul Young, ‘Senza Una Donna’).
1949
American tenor saxophone player Steve Mackay who worked with the Stooges, Violent Femmes, Snakefinger, Commander Cody and others. Mackay died on 10 October 2015 from sepsis at a hospital in Daly City, California at the age of 66.
1947
John Fiddler, Medicine Head, (1973 UK No.3 single ‘One And One Is One’).
1947
Cecil Womack, American R&B singer, songwriter and record producer. He was one of the musical Womack brothers, and had success both as a songwriter and recording artist, notably with his wife Linda as Womack and Womack. In later years he took the name Zekkariyas. Womack died on February 1, 2013.
1947
Bass player Richard Shook is born in Little Rock. He will spend seven years as a member of Jerry Reed’s band, playing on a handful of hits, including the “Smokey & The Bandit” song “East Bound And Down”
1946
American bassist Jerry Penrod from Iron Butterfly. The 17-minute ‘In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida’, the title track of their 1968 album, became a Top Thirty hit in the US.
1946
Bryan MacLean, guitar, vocals, Love, 1966 US No.33 single ‘7 And 7 Is’, 1968 UK No.24 album Forever Changes. He died of a heart attack on 25th December 1998.
1945
Onnie Mcintyre, from Scottish funk and R&B group the Average White Band who scored the 1975 US No.1 and UK No.6 single ‘Pick Up The Pieces’.
1943
Gary Alexander guitar, vocals, The Association, (1967 US No.1 single ‘Windy’).
1943
John Locke, from American group Spirit who had the 1969 US No.25 single ‘I Got A Line On You’. He died on 4 August 2006.
1942
Billy Mundi, American drummer best known as a member of The Mothers of Invention and Rhinoceros and working with Linda Ronstadt, Geoff Muldaur and Maria Muldaur. He died on 29 March 2014.
1943
Gary Jules Alexander (of The Association) is born in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
1939
Joseph Russell, The Persuasions, acappella group, worked with Joni Mitchell, Stevie Wonder, Don McLean. He died on 5 May 2012.
1933
American songwriter and a folk music artist Erik Darling. With The Tarriers their version of the ‘Banana Boat Song’ reached No. 4 on the Billboard chart. He was also a member of The Weavers, and had a 1963 US No.1 hit with ‘Walk Right In’ with the Rooftop Singers.
1930
Shel Silverstein, American poet, singer-songwriter, cartoonist, screenwriter, and author of children’s books. He wrote Tompall Glaser’s highest-charting solo single ‘Put Another Log on the Fire’, ‘One’s on the Way’ (a hit for Loretta Lynn), and wrote one of Johnny Cash’s best known whimsical hits, ‘A Boy Named Sue.’ Other songs co-written by Silverstein include ‘The Taker’ by Waylon Jennings and hits for Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show. He died 10 May 1999.
