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Born on June 30

1984 Fantasia Barrino is born in High Point, North Carolina. She wins the third season of American Idol and later stars in both Broadway and film adaptations of The Color Purple.

1979 Jewish reggae singer Matisyahu is born Matthew Paul Miller in West Chester, Pennsylvania.

1969 Tom Drummond (bass guitarist for Better Than Ezra) is born in Shreveport, Louisiana.

1956 Philip Adrian Wright (first Director of Visuals, then keyboardist for The Human League) is born in Wakefield, England.

1953 Hal Lindes (guitarist for Dire Straits from 1980-1985) is born in Monterey, California.

1951 Jazz musician Stanley Clarke is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1949 Andy Scott (lead guitarist for Sweet) is born in Wrexham, Wales.

1944 Little River Band lead singer Glenn Shorrock is born in Chatham, Kent, England. He moves with his family to Adelaide, Australia, when he is 10.

1943 Florence Ballard (of The Supremes) is born in Detroit, Michigan.

1940 Larry Hall, known for the one-hit-wonder song "Sandy" (1959), is born in Hamlett, Ohio.

1917 Lena Horne is born in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York.