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1981 LeToya Luckett, one of the four original members of Destiny's Child, is born in Houston, Texas.

1981 Russell Lissack of Bloc Party is born in Chingford.

1979 Joel and Benji Madden (Good Charlotte) are born Joel Rueben Combs and Benjamin Levi Combs in Waldorf, Maryland.

1969 Pete Droge is born in Seattle, Washington.

1968 Lisa Loeb is born in Bethesda, Maryland.

1961 Big Country guitarist Bruce Watson is born in Timmins, Ontario, Canada, but soon moves to Scotland with his family, where the group is formed.

1961 Dead or Alive bass player Mike Percy is born.

1957 Cheryl Lynn ("Got To Be Real") is born Lynda Cheryl Smith in Los Angeles, California.

1955 German punk rocker Nina Hagen is born in Berlin.

1951 Katie Kissoon (of the pop duo Mac & Katie Kissoon) is born Katherine Farthing in Port of Spain, Trinidad, West Indies.

1950 Jazz vocalist Bobby McFerrin, known for his #1 a cappella hit "Don't Worry Be Happy," is born in Manhattan.

1948 George Kooymans (vocalist, guitarist for Golden Earring) is born in The Hague, Netherlands.

1947 Vanilla Fudge lead singer Mark Stein is born in Bayonne, New Jersey.

1947 Keyboardist "Blue" Weaver (Mott The Hoople, The Strawbs) is born Derek John Weaver in Cardiff, Wales.

1944 Ric Rothwell (drummer for The Mindbenders) is born in Stockport, Cheshire, England.

1914 Art Todd is born in Baltimore, Maryland. Billed as Art and Dotty Todd, he forms a singing duo with wife Dotty in the '50s.

1905 Songwriter Michael Carr is born Maurice Alfred Cohen. His credits include the Shadows hit "Kon-Tiki."

1903 Lawrence Welk, bandleader and host of the long-running Lawrence Welk Show, is born in Strasburg, North Dakota.

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