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1986 Amy Studt is born in Hammersmith, London, England.

1979 Chaka Khan gives birth to her son, Damien Milton Patrick Holland.

1957 R&B singer Stephanie Mills is born in New York City. Her first hit is "Home," from the Broadway musical The Wiz. Mills plays Dorothy in the show's original run from 1975-1977.

1948 Andrew Lloyd Webber is born in Kensington, London, England.More

1948 Randy Jo Hobbs (bassist for The McCoys) is born in Winchester, Indiana.

1947 Patrick Olive (percussionist, bassist for Hot Chocolate) is born in Grenada.

1946 Harry Vanda (lead guitarist for The Easybeats) is born Johannes Hendrikus Jacob van den Berg in Voorburg, Netherlands.

1944 Tony McPhee (guitarist for The Groundhogs) is born in Humberston, Lincolnshire, England.

1943 Jazz guitarist George Benson is born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

1943 Keith Relf (lead vocalist for The Yardbirds) is born in Richmond, Surrey, England.

1941 Jeremy Clyde of Chad & Jeremy is born in Dorney, Buckinghamshire, England.

1937 Country/pop singer Johnny Ferguson is born in Nashville, Tennessee.

1936 Roger Whittaker is born in Nairobi, British Kenya.

1932 Blues musician Juke Boy Bonner is born Weldon H. Philip Bonner in Bellville, Texas.

1930 Composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim is born in New York City. He wins an Academy Award for Best Original Song for Madonna's "Sooner or Later (I Always Get My Man)," written for the 1990 film Dick Tracy.

1916 Bernard Weissman, the future George Wyle, is born in New York City. Among his compositions: the Gilligan's Island theme song.

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