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Born on February 21

1986 Charlotte Church is born in Cardiff, Wales.

1983 Rick Wakeman of Yes has his first child, a daughter named Jemma. The mother is Wakeman's girlfriend, Nina Carter.

1970 Sublime bass player Eric Wilson is born in Long Beach, California.

1963 General Public/The English Beat toaster Ranking Roger (real name: Roger Charlery) is born in Birmingham, England.

1962 Mudhoney singer/guitarist Mark Arm is born Mark McLaughlin, at the Vandenberg Air Force Base in Lompoc, California.

1958 Mary Chapin Carpenter is born in Princeton, New Jersey.

1951 Vince Welnick (keyboardist for The Tubes, Grateful Dead) is born in Phoenix, Arizona.

1949 Jerry Harrison (keyboardist, guitarist for Talking Heads) is born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

1948 Paul Newton (bassist for Uriah Heep) is born in Andover, Hampshire, England.

1943 Record executive David Geffen, founder of Geffen Records and the film company DreamWorks, is born in Borough Park, Brooklyn.

1941 Bob Day (of the "Are You Sure?" singers The Allisons) is born in England.

1938 Bobby Charles, composer of the Bill Haley hit "See You Later Alligator," is born in Abbeville, Louisiana.

1933 Nina Simone is born Eunice Kathleen Waymon in Tryon, North Carolina, where she begins playing the piano at age 3.

1891 Circus music composer Karl Lawrence King is born in Ohio.