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2000 Tori Amos gives birth to a baby girl, Natashya Hawley. The father is Amos' husband, Mark Hawley, an English sound engineer.

1969 Rock guitarist Dweezil Zappa is born Ian Donald Calvin Euclid Zappa in Los Angeles, California, to singer/songwriter Frank Zappa and his wife, Gail.

1968 Brad Wilk (drummer for Rage Against The Machine) is born in Portland, Oregon.

1966 R&B singer Terry Ellis (of En Vogue) is born in Houston, Texas.

1949 Rock guitarist Dave "Clem" Clempson (of Humble Pie) is born in Tamworth, Staffordshire, England.

1946 Dean Ford (lead singer for Marmalade) is born Thomas McAleese in Coatbridge, Scotland.

1946 Rock drummer Buddy Miles (of The Electric Flag and Jimi Hendrix's Band Of Gypsys) is born George Allen Miles Jr. in Omaha, Nebraska. His grandmother calls him "Buddy" after jazz drummer Buddy Rich.

1946 Folk rocker Loudon Wainwright III is born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, to Life magazine columnist/editor Loudon Wainwright Jr. and his yoga teacher wife, Martha.

1946 Queen frontman Freddie Mercury is born as Farrokh Bulsara in Zanzibar (a set of islands off the coast of Africa).More

1945 Folk rocker Al Stewart is born in Glasgow, Scotland. He is raised in Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England.

1941 John Stewart (of The Kingston Trio) is born in San Diego, California. Wrote The Monkees' #1 hit "Daydream Believer."

1936 Blues guitarist Willie Woods (of Junior Walker & The All Stars) is born.

1912 Experimental composer John Cage is born in Los Angeles, California. Known for his composition "4'33," in which musicians were present but did not play their instruments. Instead, environmental sounds provided the music for the piece.

1791 Opera composer Giacomo Meyerbeer is born Jacob Liebmann Beer near Berlin, Germany.