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Born on September 3

1973 Pop singer Jennifer Paige is born Jennifer Paige Scoggins in Marietta, Georgia.

1963 Jonathan Segel of Camper Van Beethoven is born in Marseilles, France, but would be raised in Davis, California, and Tucson, Arizona.

1960 Perry Bamonte (keyboardist/guitarist for The Cure) is born in London, England.

1955 Steve Jones (lead guitarist for The Sex Pistols) is born in Hammersmith, London, England.

1952 Leroy Smith (keyboardist for Sweet Sensation) is born in Kingston, Jamaica.

1948 Donald Brewer (drummer and co-lead singer for Grand Funk Railroad) is born in Flint, Michigan.

1947 Eric Bell (original guitarist for Thin Lizzy) is born in East Belfast, Northern Ireland.

1945 George Biondo (bass guitarist for Steppenwolf) is born in Brooklyn, New York.

1945 Mike Harrison (lead singer of Spooky Tooth) is born in Carlisle, Cumbria, England. Known for the 1969 song "Better By You, Better Than Me," later covered by Judas Priest.

1942 Al Jardine of The Beach Boys is born in Lima, Ohio.

1934 Bluesman Freddie King is born in Gilmer, Texas. He is raised in Chicago's South Side.

1933 Country singer Tompall Glaser (of The Glaser Brothers) is born Thomas Paul Glaser in Spalding, Nebraska.

1925 Country singer/songwriter Hank Thompson is born in Waco, Texas. Inspired the Thomas Cobb novel Crazy Heart and the 2009 film of the same name, starring Jeff Bridges.

1915 Memphis Slim is born John Len Chatman in Memphis, Tennessee.