Musicians Born in October 1941

Oct 2 Ron Meagher, American rock bassist (The Beau Brummels - "Just A Little"), born in Oakland, California

Chubby Checker (82 years old)

Oct 3 American singer-songwriter ("The Twist"; "Limbo Rock"), born in Spring Gully, South Carolina

Oct 7 Enrique Antonio "Tony" Silvester, Panamanian-American R&B singer-songwriter (The Main Ingredient - "Everybody Plays The Fool"), born in Panama (d. 2006)
Oct 7 Larry Young [aka Khalid Yasin], American hard-bop and jazz-fusion Hammond B-3 organist (Unity), born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 1978)
Oct 7 Martin Murray, British rock guitarist (The Honeycombs, 1963-64 - "Have I the Right?"), born in London, England
Oct 9 Chucho Valdés [Jesús Valdés Rodríguez], Cuban musician (Orquesta Cubana de Música Moderna), born in Quivicán, Cuba
Oct 11 Lester Bowie, American jazz trumpeter, born in Frederick, Maryland (d. 1999)
Oct 13 Neil Aspinall, British rock and roll road manager (The Beatles), and music executive (Apple Records), born in Prestatyn, Wales (d. 2008)

Oct 13 American multiple Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter (Simon & Garfunkel - "The Sound of Silence"; solo - "Kodachrome"; "Still Crazy After All These Years"; "Graceland"), and actor (One Trick Pony), born in Newark, New Jersey

Oct 15 Don Stevenson, American rock drummer, singer, and songwriter (Moby Grape - "Omaha"), born in Seattle, Washington
Oct 16 Derek David Bourgeois, British composer, conductor and educator (National Youth Chamber Orchestra), born in Kingston upon Thames, England (d. 2017)
Oct 16 Erkki Jokinen, Finnish classical composer, noted for his embrace of the accordion, born in Tervakoski, Finland
Oct 17 Alan Howard, British rock bassist (Brian Poole & The Tremeloes - "Do You Love Me?")
Oct 17 Earl Thomas Conley, American country singer ("Too Many Times"), born in Portsmouth, Ohio
Oct 17 Jim Seals, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and fiddler (Seals & Crofts - "Summer Breeze"), born in Sidney, Texas (d. 2022)
Oct 18 William "Billy" Cox, American bass player (performed with Jimi Hendrix), born in Wheeling, West Virginia
Oct 19 Eddie Daniels, American jazz, session, and classical clarinetist (With The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra; Bob James), born in New York City
Oct 21 Steve Cropper, American rock and soul guitarist (Booker T & MGs; The Blues Brothers), songwriter ("Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay"), and producer (Otis Redding), born in Willow Springs, Missouri
Oct 22 Valeri Kitka, Ukrainian classical composer (Frescoes of St. Sofia Cathedral of Kiev), and educator, born in Volodymyrivka, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
Oct 25 Helen Reddy, Australian-American rock vocalist ("I Am Woman"; "You And Me Against The World"), born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (d. 2020) [1]
Oct 28 Curtis Lee, American singer ("Pretty Little Angel Eyes"), born in Yuma, Arizona (d. 2015)
Oct 28 Glen Moore, American jazz bassist and composer, born in Portland, Oregon
Oct 28 Hank Marvin [Brian Rankin], British rock guitarist (The Shadows - "Apache"; "Foot Tapper"), born in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England
Oct 30 Otis Williams [né Miles], American baritone R&B and pop singer and songwriter (The Temptations - "Just My Imagination"), born in Texarkana, Texas