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Born on November 12

2010 Ne-Yo welcomes his first child, baby girl Madilyn Grace, with girlfriend Monyetta Shaw.

1984 R&B singer Omarion (lead singer for B2K) is born Omari Ishmael Grandberry in Inglewood, California.

1976 R&B singer and actor Tevin Campbell is born in Waxahachie, Texas. Known for '90s hits like "Tell Me What You Want Me To Do," "Can We Talk," and "I'm Ready."

1968 Kathleen Hanna, lead singer of Bikini Kill and major player in the riot grrrl movement, is born in Portland, Oregon.

1964 David Ellefson (bassist for Megadeth) is born in Jackson, Minnesota.

1955 Les McKeown (lead singer for Bay City Rollers) is born in Edinburgh, Scotland.

1950 Country, gospel singer Barbara Fairchild, known for the 1973 country hit "The Teddy Bear Song," is born in Knobel, Arkansas.

1947 Blue Öyster Cult guitarist Buck Dharma is born Donald Brian Roeser in Long Island, New York. He writes their hit "(Don't Fear) The Reaper."

1945 Neil Young is born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is raised in the small, rural town of Omemee, Ontario, where the Youngtown Museum will be established in his honor.

1944 Booker T. Jones (frontman for Booker T. & the MG's) is born in Memphis, Tennessee. (The "T" stands for Taliaferro.)

1943 Errol Brown (frontman for Hot Chocolate) is born Lester Errol Brown is born in Kingston, Jamaica.

1943 Pop singer Brian Hyland is born in Woodhaven, Queens, New York.

1942 R&B singer Arthur "Pooch" Tavares (of Tavares) is born in Providence, Rhode Island.

1939 Ruby Nash Curtis (of Ruby & the Romantics) is born in Akron, Ohio.

1936 Mort Shuman, singer-songwriter and pianist, is born in Brooklyn, New York City. Known for co-writing '60s rock 'n roll hits like "Viva Las Vegas."

1936 R&B singer Charlotte Davis (of The Tune Weavers, known for the 1957 hit "Happy, Happy Birthday Baby") is born.

1934 Charles Manson is born. Why is he on a music calendar? He wrote and recorded songs before he was imprisoned, including one called "Cease To Exist," which Dennis Wilson re-wrote for The Beach Boys as "Never Learn Not to Love."

1930 Songwriter and music executive Bob Crewe is born Stanley Robert Crewe in Newark, New Jersey. Co-wrote many Four Seasons hits with Bob Gaudio, including "Big Girls Don't Cry" and "Walk Like a Man."

1917 Traditional pop singer Jo Stafford is born in Coalinga, California.

1911 Trumpet player Buck Clayton is born in Kansas.

1833 Composer Aleksandr Borodin, part of a group of Russian composers known as The Five, is born in Saint Petersburg, Russia.