Pick a Day

Born on May 19

2003 JoJo Siwa is born Joelle Siwa in Omaha, Nebraska. After starring in reality dance shows, she launches her music career at 13 and becomes a social media star, huge with tweens and teenagers. In 2024 she moves away from G-rated music with saucier songs for her now-older audience.

1992 DJ/producer Marshmello is born Christopher Comstock in Philadelphia.

1992 Pop/soul singer Sam Smith is born in London, England.

1979 Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter become the parents of Waylon Albright "Shooter" Jennings.

1972 Jenny Berggren (lead singer of Ace of Base) is born Jenny Cecilia Petrén in Gothenburg, Sweden.

1970 Rapper Prince Be (of P.M. Dawn) is born Attrell Cordes in Jersey City, New Jersey. His stepfather is Kool & the Gang's George Brown.

1962 Iain Harvie (guitarist for Del Amitri) is born in Glasgow, Scotland.

1954 Phil Rudd (drummer for AC/DC) is born Phillip Hugh Norman Witschke Rudzevecuis in Melbourne, Australia.

1952 '70s funk singer Barbara Joyce Lomas (of B.T. Express) is born in Bessemer, Alabama.

1951 Jeffrey Ross Hyman is born in Queens, New York. He forms the Ramones and takes the stage name Joey Ramone. At first, he's the drummer, but he becomes the lead singer when Dee Dee struggles to sing and play bass at the same time.

1949 Dusty Hill (bassist, keyboardist, co-vocalist of ZZ Top) is born Joseph Michael Hill in Dallas, Texas.

1948 Grace Jones is born in Spanish Town, Jamaica.

1948 Music journalist and Crawdaddy magazine founder Paul Williams is born in Boston, Massachusetts.

1947 Steve Currie (bass player for T. Rex) is born in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England.

1947 Jerry Hyman (former trombonist of Blood, Sweat & Tears) is born in Brooklyn, New York.

1945 Pete Townshend of The Who is born in Chiswick, United Kingdom.

1940 Mickey Newbury, who penned a record-breaking string of hits across four different charts in 1968, including The First Edition's "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)," is born in Houston, Texas.