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Born on January 28

1985 J. Cole is born Jermaine Cole on an American military base in Frankfurt, Germany. He's raised in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

1982 Jackson Browne's second child - a son named Ryan - is born. The mother is Lynne Sweeney, an Australian model and Browne's second wife. Ryan becomes a musician, performing in the band Sonny & the Sunsets.

1980 Nick Carter of Backstreet Boys is born in Jamestown, New York. He is just 13 when he joins the boy band in 1993.

1977 Joey Fatone (of 'N Sync) is born in Brooklyn, New York, where he grows up in the Bensonhurst neighborhood.

1976 R&B singer Raphael "Tweet" Brown (of Next) is born in Minnesota.

1968 Rakim, of the hip-hop duo Eric B. & Rakim, is born William Michael Griffin Jr. in Wyandanch, Long Island, New York.

1968 DJ Muggs of Cypress Hill is born Lawrence Muggerud in Queens, New York.

1968 Sarah McLachlan is born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.More

1955 Twelve-year-old Aretha Franklin gives birth to her first child, a son named Clarence.

1946 Rick Allen (keyboardist for The Box Tops, The Gentrys) is born in Little Rock, Arkansas.

1943 Brian Keenan (drummer for Manfred Mann, The Chambers Brothers) is born in New York.

1943 Dick Taylor (lead guitarist for The Pretty Things) is born in Dartford, Kent, England.

1936 Country singer Bill Phillips, known for the 1966 hit "Put It Off Until Tomorrow," is born in Canton, North Carolina.

1929 Clarinettist/vocalist Acker Bilk is born Bernard Stanley Bilk in Pensford, Somerset, England.

1927 Jazz tenor saxophonist Ronnie Scott is born Ronald Schatt in Aldgate, England.

1923 Ivo Robic is born in Garešnica, Croatia.

1900 Composer Michael Head is born Michael Dewar Head in Eastbourne, England.

1878 Hymn composer William Matthew Golden is born William M. Golding in Mississippi to James Golding and Camella Hood Golding.