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Born on December 30

1991 Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa have their second child, daughter Jessica Rae.

1986 Ellie Goulding is born in Herefordshire, England.

1978 R&B singer Tyrese is born Tyrese Darnell Gibson in Watts, Los Angeles, California. He catches his break singing the slogan "Always Coca-Cola" for a 1994 Coke commercial.

1969 Jay Kay (lead singer of Jamiroquai) is born Jason Luis Cheetham in Wangford, Suffolk, England.

1956 Country singer Suzy Bogguss is born in Aledo, Illinois. She starts her career in 1985 by performing at a Tennessee amusement park called Silver Dollar City, soon-to-be renamed Dollywood.

1951 Chris Jasper (of The Isley Brothers) is born in Cincinnati, Ohio.

1947 Rock musician Jeff Lynne (of Electric Light Orchestra, The Traveling Wilburys) is born in Shard End, Birmingham, England.

1946 Clive Bunker (drummer for Jethro Tull) is born in Luton, Bedfordshire, England.

1946 Punk rock icon Patti Smith is born in Chicago.More

1945 Davy Jones (of The Monkees) is born in Manchester, England.

1942 Michael Nesmith (of The Monkees) is born Robert Michael Nesmith in Houston, Texas.

1940 Perry Ford, of The Ivy League, is born Brian Pugh in Lincoln, England. The vocal trio, made up of session singers, was first heard on The Who's 1965 hit "I Can't Explain."

1939 Felix Pappalardi (bassist, vocalist for Mountain) is born in the Bronx, New York.

1937 John Hartford - bluegrass, folk and country musician - is born John Harford in New York City, New York. On the advice of record producer Chet Atkins, he would add the 't' to his name.

1937 Folk singer-songwriter Noel "Paul" Stookey (of Peter, Paul and Mary) is born in Baltimore, Maryland.

1934 Del Shannon of "Runaway" fame is born Charles Weedon Westover in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

1931 Country singer Skeeter Davis, known for the 1962 crossover hit "The End of the World," is born Mary Frances Penick in Dry Ridge, Kentucky. She performs as part of the duo The Davis Sisters in the '40s before going solo in the '50s.

1928 R&B and rock 'n roll icon Bo Diddley is born Ellas Otha Bates in McComb, Mississippi. He grows up on the South Side of Chicago, where he and his friends perform music on street corners.

1865 The author, journalist and poet Rudyard Kipling is born in Bombay, Imperial India. The Joni Mitchell song "If" is based on his poem of the same name.

1536 Italian lutenist/composer Alessandro Piccinini is born in Bologna.