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March 29, 1944 Terry Jacks ("Seasons In The Sun") is born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
March 26, 1944 Diana Ross is born in Detroit, Michigan. She finds fame as lead singer of The Supremes.
March 23, 1944 Ric Ocasek of The Cars is born in Baltimore, Maryland. His date of birth is often reported at March 23, 1949 because that's what he often claimed, but records show he was actually born five years earlier.
March 20, 1944 Jance Garfat (bassist for Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show) is born Robert Jance Garfat in California.
March 17, 1944 John Sebastian of The Lovin' Spoonful is born in New York City.
March 17, 1944 Pattie Boyd is born in Taunton, Somerset, England. She would later marry George Harrison and Eric Clapton, and also inspire the song "Layla."
March 6, 1944 Mary Wilson (of The Supremes) is born in Greenville, Mississippi. After moving to Detroit, she meets fellow future Supreme Florence Ballard at an elementary school talent show.
February 24, 1944 Nicky Hopkins, a renown piano player heard on albums from The Rolling Stones and The Kinks, is born in Perivale, Middlesex, England.
February 23, 1944 Johnny Winter is born in Beaumont, Texas. The respected blues-rock guitarist and singer enjoys a long career that includes performing at the famed Woodstock festival in 1969 and induction into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame in 1988. Like his younger brother Edgar Winter ("Frankenstein"), he has albinism.
February 5, 1944 Al Kooper (of The Blues Project, Blood, Sweat & Tears) is born Alan Peter Kuperschmidt in Brooklyn, New York.
February 4, 1944 Florence LaRue (of The 5th Dimension) is born in Plainfield, New Jersey, but grows up in Glenside, Pennsylvania.
January 27, 1944 The Siege of Leningrad ends, a harsh military operation undertaken by Germany under Hitler's command to attempt to seize the Russian city. The Decemberists would later commemorate this event with their song "When The War Came."
January 21, 1944 Chris Britton (lead guitarist for The Troggs) is born in Watford, Hertfordshire, England.
January 19, 1944 Shelley Fabares is born in Santa Monica, California. She becomes famous as daughter Mary Stone on The Donna Reed Show, on which she performs the hit song "Johnny Angel."
January 19, 1944 Laurie London, known for the 1958 hit single "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands," is born in Bethnal Green, East London, England.
January 9, 1944 James Patrick "Jimmy" Page is born in Heston, Middlesex, England. He is a session musician in England before forming The Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin.
January 7, 1944 Michael McCartney is born in Liverpool, England. As "Mike McGear," he forms a band called The Scaffold, but he's best known as the younger brother of Paul McCartney.
December 31, 1943 John Denver is born Henry John Deutschendorf Jr. in Roswell, New Mexico.
December 31, 1943 Pete Quaife (original bass guitarist for The Kinks) is born Peter Alexander Greenlaw Quaife in Tavistock, Devon, England.
December 25, 1943 Guitarist Trevor Lucas (of Fairport Convention) is born in Bungaree, Victoria, Australia. He learns to play the guitar to help with his dyslexia.
December 23, 1943 Harry Shearer (aka Derek Smalls of Spinal Tap) is born in Los Angeles, California. Shearer is also known for voicing a number of characters on The Simpsons, including Principal Skinner and Ned Flanders.
December 21, 1943 Guitarist Albert Lee is born in Lingen, Herefordshire, England. Worked with Jon Lord and Eric Clapton, among others.
December 18, 1943 Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards is born in Dartford, Kent, England.More
December 12, 1943 Dickey Betts, a founding member of The Allman Brothers Band, is born Forrest Richard Betts in West Palm Beach, Florida. The lead guitarist in the band for most of their run, he's also a key songwriter, writing and singing lead on their biggest hit, "Ramblin' Man."
December 12, 1943 Jazz/funk saxophonist Grover Washington Jr. is born in Buffalo, New York.
November 24, 1943 Pianist Richard Tee is born in Brooklyn, New York. In addition to being a studio and session musician, Tee forms the band Stuff with drummer Steve Gadd.
November 19, 1943 Fred Lipsius (original saxophonist for Blood, Sweat & Tears) is born in The Bronx, New York.
November 17, 1943 After celebrating opening night of the Broadway revival A Connecticut Yankee with his songwriting partner Richard Rodgers, lyricist Lorenz Hart disappears for two days. A struggling alcoholic, he's discovered incapacitated in a hotel room where he's been drinking heavily. He dies shortly after from pneumonia.
October 23, 1943 Barbara Ann Hawkins of The Dixie-Cups is born in New Orleans, Louisiana.
October 18, 1943 Russ Giguere (vocalist/percussionist/guitarist for The Association) is born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, but would be raised in San Diego, California.
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