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1992 Go-Go's singer Belinda Carlisle and husband Morgan Mason have their first child in Los Angeles. They name the boy after his grandfather, actor James Mason.

1988 Lizzo is born Melissa Jefferson in Detroit, Michigan.

1984 Patrick Stump, lead singer of Fall Out Boy, is born Patrick Martin Stumph in Evanston, Illinois. He grows up in nearby Glenview.

1982 John Osborne, the older of the Brothers Osborne, is born in Deale, Maryland.

1959 Sheena Easton is born in Glasgow, Scotland, the youngest of six children.

1958 Kate Pierson of The B-52s is born in Weehawken, New Jersey.

1956 Bryan Harvey (frontman for House Of Freaks, Energy Crisis) is born in Richmond, Virginia.

1951 Ace Frehley of Kiss is born Paul Frehley in the Bronx, New York.

1949 Soul singer Herbie Murrell (The Stylistics) is born in Lane, South Carolina.

1948 Clive Taylor (bass guitarist for Amen Corner) is born in Cardiff, Wales.

1947 Memphis soul singer-songwriter Ann Peebles is born in St. Louis, Missouri.

1947 Badfinger frontman Pete Ham is born in Swansea, Wales.

1946 Singer and multi-instrumentalist Gordon Haskell (Les Fleur de Lys) is born in Verwood, England.

1944 Cuba Gooding Sr. (lead singer for The Main Ingredient) is born in New York City. Known for the early-'70s hits "Everybody Plays the Fool" and "Just Don't Want to Be Lonely." Of course, he also becomes the father to actor Cuba Gooding Jr.

1933 Jazz guitarist Calvin Newborn is born in Whiteville, Tennessee.

1932 Casey Kasem, a DJ famous for hosting American Top 40 and for being the voice of Shaggy on Scooby-Doo, is born Kemal Amen Kasem in Detroit, Michigan.

1932 Country singer Maxine Brown (of The Browns) is born in Campti, Louisiana.

1904 Syd Nathan, King Records founder who signed James Brown, is born in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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