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Born on June 2

2011 Pink and her husband, Carey Hart, welcome their first child, a daughter named Willow Sage.

1986 Blues singer ZZ Ward is born Zsuzsanna Ward outside of Philadelphia.

1980 Fabrizio Moretti (drummer for The Strokes) is born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

1976 Tim Rice-Oxley (keyboardist for Keane) is born in Oxford, England.

1970 Dominic Greensmith (original drummer for Reef) is born in England.

1970 Cypress Hill lead rapper B-Real is born Louis Freese in Los Angeles, California.

1965 Jeremy Cunningham (bass guitarist for The Levellers) is born in Cuckfield, Sussex, England.

1962 Thor Eldon Jonsson (guitarist for The Sugarcubes) is born in Iceland.

1960 Tony Hadley (lead singer of Spandau Ballet) is born in Islington, London, England.

1955 Michael Steele (bass guitarist for The Bangles) is born Susan Nancy Thomas in Pasadena, California. She is an early member of The Runaways, an all-girl punk rock group.

1952 Pete Farndon (bassist for The Pretenders) is born in Hereford, England.

1951 Steve Brookins (drummer for .38 Special from 1974-1987) is born.

1945 Soul singer Chubby Tavares (of Tavares) is born Antone Lee Tavares in Providence, Rhode Island.

1944 Marvin Hamlisch is born in New York City. The composer will not only win a Pulitzer Prize for Drama for A Chorus Line in 1975, but will snag multiple Emmy, Grammy, Tony, and Academy Awards for his work for stage and screen (The Way We Were, The Sting).

1941 R&B singer William Guest (of Gladys Knight & The Pips) is born in Atlanta, Georgia.

1941 The Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts is born Charles Robert Watts in London.

1937 Jimmy Jones, known for the 1960 rock and roll hit "Handy Man," is born in Birmingham, Alabama.

1936 Doo wop singer Otis Williams (of The Charms), not to be confused with The Temptations member of the same name, is born in Cincinnati, Ohio.

1932 R&B singer Sammy Turner, known for the 1959 hit "Lavender-Blue," is born Samuel Black in Paterson, New Jersey.

1857 Composer Edward Elgar is born in Worcester, England.