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1994 Bad Bunny is born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio in Almirante Sur, Puerto Rico. He becomes a global superstar with a stronghold in America, where in 2020 his album El Último Tour Del Mundo becomes the first entirely Spanish-language album to hit #1.

1983 Carrie Underwood is born in Muskogee, Oklahoma. She begins her music career by winning Season 4 of American Idol, becoming the first country singer to do so. She becomes the best-selling Idol alum in any genre, with over 20 million albums sold in America.

1977 Robin Thicke is born to Canadian actor Alan Thicke and actress Gloria Loring in Los Angeles, California.

1975 Jerry Horton (lead guitarist for Papa Roach) is born in Charleston, South Carolina.

1972 Timothy "Timbaland" Mosley is born in Norfolk, Virginia. In the '90s, he makes a name for himself producing tracks for Aaliyah and Ginuwine; the next decade finds him crafting hits for Nelly Furtado, Justin Timberlake, and many others.

1971 Douglas Ardito (guitarist, bass guitarist for Puddle Of Mudd) is born in Bedford, Massachusetts.

1966 Edie Brickell ("What I Am") is born in Dallas, Texas. She marries Paul Simon in 1992.

1964 Neneh Cherry is born Neneh Mariann Karlsson in Stockholm, Sweden. She takes her surname from stepdad Don Cherry.

1963 Jeff Ament (bassist for Pearl Jam) is born in Havre, Montana.

1963 Producer Rick Rubin is born Frederick Jay Rubin in Long Beach, New York. Albums he produced include Raising Hell by Run-D.M.C., Shake Your Money Maker by The Black Crowes and Echo by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.

1954 Disco singer Tina Charles, known for the 1976 hit "I Love to Love (But My Baby Loves to Dance)," is born Tina Hoskins in Whitechapel, London, England. Her dad is actor Charles Hoskins.

1950 Ted McKenna (drummer for The Sensational Alex Harvey Band) is born in Lennoxtown, East Dunbartonshire, Scotland.

1947 Boston founder Tom Scholz is born in Toledo, Ohio.

1945 English pop singer Pete Nelson (of The Flower Pot Men) is born in Uxbridge, London.

1940 Dean Torrence (of Jan & Dean) is born in Los Angeles, California.

1920 Kenneth C. "Jethro" Burns (of the country duo Homer & Jethro) is born in Conasauga, Tennessee.

1903 Jazz cornetist and pianist Bix Beiderbecke is born in Davenport, Iowa.

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