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1989 Taylor Swift is born in Reading, Pennsylvania. She is raised in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, and moves to Nashville at age 14, where she discovers her knack for turning heartache into hit singles.More

1981 Evanescence lead singer Amy Lee is born in Riverside, California. Her future bandmate Ben Moody hears her playing a Meat Loaf tune on the piano while the two attend a youth camp in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1994. The following year, Evanescence is born.

1975 Tom DeLonge (guitarist, co-lead vocalist for Blink-182) is born in Poway, California.

1953 Berton Averre (lead guitarist, keyboardist for The Knack) is born in Van Nuys, Los Angeles.

1949 Tom Verlaine (frontman for Television) is born Thomas Miller in Denville, New Jersey.

1949 Randy Owen (lead singer for Alabama) is born in Fort Payne, Alabama.

1948 "Skunk" Baxter (guitarist for The Doobie Brothers, Steely Dan) is born Jeffrey Allen Baxter in Washington, D.C.

1948 Ted Nugent is born Theodore Anthony Nugent in Detroit, Michigan.

1948 David "Davy" O'List (of Roxy Music, The Nice) is born in Chiswick, West London, England.

1945 Robert Martinez (original drummer for ? & the Mysterians) is born. Like the rest of his bandmates, he was born in Texas, but raised in Michigan.

1925 Actor/entertainer Dick Van Dyke is born in West Plains, Missouri, but grows up in Danville, Illinois. He stars and sings in the hit musicals Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, featuring the famous title song.

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