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1981 Blake Lewis, runner-up from Season 6 of America Idol, is born in Redmond, Washington.

1972 Korey Pingitore is born in Kenosha, Wisconsin. She becomes Korey Cooper when she marries Skillet frontman John Cooper in 1997 and joins the band as a keyboardist and guitarist.

1969 Emerson Hart (lead singer of Tonic) is born in Washington, Pennsylvania, but will grow up in Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey.

1955 Howie Epstein (bassist for Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers) is born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

1955 Swing entertainer Taco is born Taco Ockerse in Jakarta, Indonesia.

1953 Eric Bazilian (frontman for The Hooters) is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1948 Cat Stevens is born Steven Demetre Georgiou in Marylebone, London, England. In 1977, he becomes a Muslim and changes his name to Yusuf Islam.

1946 Barry Whitwam (drummer for Herman's Hermits) is born in Prestbury, Cheshire, England.

1945 Mike Wilsh (bassist, keyboardists for The Four Pennies) is born Michael Wilshaw in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England.

1945 Rosie Hamlin (lead singer of Rosie & the Originals) is born in Klamath Falls, Oregon.

1942 Kim Fowley is born in Los Angeles, California. The flamboyant writer and record producer puts together the all-female rock band The Runaways in 1975 and later goes on to write for Kiss and Alice Cooper.

1937 Plas Johnson, the sax soloist on Henry Mancini's "Pink Panther Theme," is born in Donaldson, Louisiana.

1929 Jazz singer Helen Merrill is born Jelena Ana Milčetić in New York City.

1922 Jazz singer Kay Starr, known for the '50s chart-toppers "Wheel of Fortune" and "Rock And Roll Waltz," is born Katherine Laverne Starks on a reservation in Dougherty, Oklahoma.

1920 Isaac Stern, violinist and conductor, is born in Kremenets, Ukraine.

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