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1976 Ja Rule is born Jeffrey Atkins in Queens, New York.
1940 Pop singer Gretchen Christopher (of The Fleetwoods) is born in Olympia, Washington.
1916 Dinah Shore is born Frances Rose Shore in Winchester, Tennessee. She starts out as a successful singer in the Big Band era before becoming a popular TV host.
1904 Jazz musician and bandleader Jimmy Dorsey is born in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, to a coal-mining family that includes older brother (and future bandleader) Tommy Dorsey.
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