Pick a Day

Born on August 31

1970 Singer/songwriter Debbie Gibson is born in Brooklyn, New York.

1969 Acoustic rocker Jeff Russo (of Tonic) is born. Composer for the FX series Fargo.

1963 Keyboardist/pianist Larry Waddell (of Mint Condition) is born in St. Paul, Minnesota. Wrote the group's gold-certified single "What Kind of Man Would I Be" (1996).

1960 Tony DeFranco (of The DeFranco Family) is born in Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada.

1957 Glenn Tilbrook (guitarist/lead singer for Squeeze) is born in Woolwich, London, England.

1957 Gina Schock (drummer for The Go-Go's) is born Regina Ann Schock in Baltimore, Maryland.

1955 Folk rocker Anthony Thistlethwaite (of The Waterboys) is born in Lutterworth, England.

1948 Guitarist Rudolf Schenker (founder of Scorpions) is born in Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, Germany.

1945 Bob Welch (guitarist for Fleetwood Mac) is born in Los Angeles, California.

1945 Violinist Itzhak Perlman is born in Tel Aviv, Israel (then British Mandate of Palestine).

1945 Van Morrison is born George Ivan Morrison in Bloomfield, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

1939 Jerry Allison (drummer for The Crickets) is born in Hillsboro, Texas. Co-wrote the Buddy Holly hits "That'll Be the Day" and "Peggy Sue."