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1987 Diana DeGarmo, runner-up on Season 3 of American Idol, is born in Birmingham, Alabama.

1971 Tupac Shakur is born Lesane Parish Crooks in New York City.

1969 MC Ren (of N.W.A) is born Lorenzo Jerald Patterson in Compton, California.

1954 Garry Roberts (lead guitarist for The Boomtown Rats) is born in Dublin, Ireland.

1952 Gino Vannelli is born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

1950 Soul singer James Smith (of The Stylistics) is born in New York City.

1949 Peppy Castro (guitarist, vocalist for Blues Magoos) is born.

1946 Iain Matthews (singer for Fairport Convention, Matthews Southern Comfort) is born Iain Matthew McDonald in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England.

1942 Edward Levert (lead vocalist of The O'Jays) is born in Birmingham, Alabama, but will be raised in Canton, Ohio.

1941 Lamont Dozier, member of the famed Motown songwriting and production team Holland-Dozier-Holland, is born in Detroit, Michigan.

1939 Billy "Crash" Craddock, rockabilly/country singer of the '70s known for hits like "Rub It In" and "Broken Down In Tiny Pieces," is born in Greensboro, North Carolina.

1934 Carl "Little Caesar" Burnett (of Little Caesar & the Romans) is born.

1792 Francis Johnson, an African American musician and composer during the Antebellum era, is born in Martinique in the West Indies.

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