Months in Year 1956: January February March April May June July August September October November December
Birthdays 1 - 150 of 150
Jan 4th - Barney Sumner,
rock guitarist/vocalist (New Order-Blue Monday)
Jan 4th - Bernard Albrecht, English pop guitarist (Joy Division)
Jan 4th - Nels Cline, American guitarist and composer
Jan 10th - Shawn Colvin,
American singer
Jan 11th - Robert Earl Keen,
American singer
Jan 13th - Malcolm Foster,
rock bassist (Pretenders-Mystery Achievement)
Jan 14th - Étienne Daho,
French singer and songwriter
Jan 14th - Ben Heppner, Canadian singer
Jan 17th - Paul Young,
rock vocalist/keyboardist (Every Time You Go Away)
Jan 18th - Mark Collie,
Waynesboro Tn, country singer (Another Old Soldier)
Jan 19th - Carman Licciardello,
American Christian singer
Jan 21st - Bob Brill,
NYC, drummer (Berlin-You Take My Breath Away)
Jan 22nd - Steve Riley,
American drummer
Jan 24th - Hanne Krogh,
Norwegian singer (Bobbysocks)
Jan 24th - Lounès Matoub, a famous Berber Kabyle singer (d. 1998)
Jan 25th - Andy Cox,
rock guitarist (Fine Young Cannibals-She Drives Me Crazy)
Jan 26th - Lisa Boray,
[Schulte Nordholt], Dutch singer (Lovers Until the End)
Jan 28th - Peter Schilling,
Stuttgart Germany, rocker
Jan 31st - Johnny Rotten,
[John Lydon], rocker (Sex Pistols-God Save the Queen)
Jan 31st - Lloyd Cole, rocker
Feb 1st - Exene Cervenka,
American musician
Feb 3rd - Lee Ranaldo,
American musician (Sonic Youth)
Feb 7th - Mark St. John,
American musician (Kiss) (d. 2007)
Feb 8th - Dave Meros,
American bassist (Spock's Beard)
Feb 11th - Didier Lockwood, French violinist
Feb 13th - Peter Hook,
English rock bassist (New Order-Round & Round, Run)
Feb 18th - Ted Gärdestad,
Swedish singer (d. 1997)
Feb 19th - Dave Wakeling,
rock singer/guitarist
Feb 19th - Peter Holsapple, rocker (Continental Drifters)
Feb 26th - Keisuke Kuwata,
Japanese singer
Feb 29th - Randy Jackson,
rocker (Zebra-I Don't Know, I Don't Care)
Mar 2nd - John Cowsill,
Newport RI, rock drummer (Cowsills-We Can Fly)
Mar 2nd - Mark Evans, Melbourne Australia, rock bassist (AC/DC)
Mar 4th - Kermit Driscoll,
American jazz bassist
Mar 5th - Teena Marie,
American singer
Mar 26th - Charly McClain,
Jackson Tn, country singer (Radio Heart)
Apr 1st - Peter O'Toole,
Irish pop bassist (Hothouse Flowers-People)
Apr 3rd - Miguel Bose,
Panama, spanish singer/actor (El Avaro, Queen Margot)
Apr 12th - Alexander Briley,
vocalist (YMCA-Village People)
Apr 12th - Herbert Grönemeyer, German singer
Apr 27th - Bryan Harvey,
American musician
Apr 29th - Ron Verlin,
rocker (Shooting Star)
Apr 29th - Ketil Stokkan, Norwegian singer
May 2nd - David Rhodes,
English guitarist
May 4th - Sharon Jones,
Augusta Georgia, soul/funk singer (Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings)
May 5th - Dick Kemper,
Amsterdam Neth, rock vocalist/bassist (Vandenberg)
May 7th - Anne Dudley,
British composer
May 19th - Martyn Ware,
rocker (Heaven 17-Electric Dreams)
May 22nd - Natasha Shneider,
Russian-born musician
May 24th - Helen Terry,
rocker (Now You're Mine)
May 25th - Sugar Minott,
Jamaican singer
May 25th - David P. Sartor, American music composer
May 29th - LaToya Jackson,
singer (If You Feel the Funk)/posed for Playboy
May 29th - Greg R, rocker (Bad)
May 29th - La Toya Yvette Jackson, Gary Indiana, singer (Playboy, Millipede)
May 29th - Larry Blackmon, rocker (Cameo-Alligator Woman)
May 31st - Bart van Poppel,
Dutch bassist/guitarist/singer (Tambourine)
May 31st - Fritz Hilpert, German musician and sound engineer (Kraftwerk)
Jun 1st - Lisa Hartman Black,
Houston, singer/actress (Tabitha, Knots Landing)
Jun 3rd - Danny Wilde,
rocker (Rembrandts)
Jun 5th - Kenny G,
saxophonist (Duotones)
Jun 5th - Richard Butler, English singer (Psychedelic Furs)
Jun 14th - King Diamond [Kim Petersen],
Copenhagen, Denmark, heavy metal musician (Merciful Fate, King Diamond)
Jun 22nd - Derek Forbes,
rocker (Simple Minds-Water Front)
Jun 22nd - Green [Gartside], rock vocalist (Scritti Politti-Flesh & Blood)
Singer Chris Isaak (Jun 26th)
Jun 26th - Chris Isaak,
Stockton Ca, rock singer/songwriter (Wicked Game)
Jun 30th - Adrian Wright,
Sheffield, rock vocalist (Human League-Only Human)
Jun 30th - Ronald Winans, gospel singer (Winans)
Jul 1st - Adrian Wright,
rocker (Human League-Only Human)
Jul 2nd - Jeffrey Cooper,
rock guitarist (Midnight Star-No Parking)
Jul 6th - John Jorgenson,
Madison Wisc, singer (Desert Rose Band-Love Reunited)
Jul 8th - Russell Christian,
rocker (Christians-Harvest the World)
Jul 13th - Mark "The Animal' Mendoza [Glickman],
Long Island, New York, American bassist (Twisted Sister-We're Not Gonna Take It)
Jul 15th - Ian Curtis, British musician (d. 1980)
Jul 16th - Ian Curtis,
English rock vocalist (Joy Division-Transmission)
Jul 20th - Paul Cook,
London, rock drummer (Sex Pistols)
Jul 22nd - Mick Pointer,
rock drummer (Marillion)
Jul 29th - Patti Scialfa,
singer (As Long as I Can Be)/Mrs Bruce Springsteen
Jul 30th - Phil Fearon,
rocker (Galaxy, Kandidate-I Don't Want to Lose You)
Aug 2nd - Isabel Pantoja,
Spain, spanish singer (Genio y Figura)
Aug 3rd - Kirk Brandon,
rocker (Theatre of Hate, Spear of Destiny-Outland)
Aug 5th - Ferdi Bolland,
Dutch singer/guitarist (Bolland & Bolland)
Aug 8th - Chris Foreman,
guitarist (Madness-Burning Down the House)
Aug 8th - David Grant, Jamaica, singer/songwriter (Stop & Go, Heaven Knows)
Aug 14th - Sharon Bryant,
vocalist (Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover)
Aug 15th - Lorraine Desmarais, French-Canadian jazz pianist and composer
Aug 18th - John Debney,
American composer
Aug 18th - Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz, American musician
Aug 20th - Rick Olsen,
rock guitarist (Berlin-Take My Breath Away)
Aug 25th - Matt Aitken,
rocker (Stock Aitken & Waterman-Road Block)
Aug 27th - Glen Matlock,
rock bassist (Sex Pistols)
Aug 29th - GG Allin,
American rock singer (d. 1993)
Sep 4th - Blackie Lawless,
American musician, lead singer in W.A.S.P.
Sep 5th - Roine Stolt,
Swedish guitarist (The Flower Kings)
Sep 7th - Michael J Feinstein,
pianist (Isn't It Romantic)
Sep 7th - Diane Warren, American song writer
Sep 8th - Frank Tovey,
British musician (d. 2002)
Sep 10th - Johnny Fingers,
rocker (Boomtown Rats)
Sep 10th - Johnny Hickman, American musician
Sep 12th - Brian Robertson,
Glasgow Scotland, rock guitarist (Thin Lizzy)
Sep 12th - Barry Andrews, British musician
Sep 13th - [Joan] Joni Sledge,
Phila, vocalist (Sister Sledge-We are Family)
Sep 15th - Maggie Reilly, Scottish folk singer
Sep 16th - Charles Fearing,
rock guitarist (Raydio)
Sep 16th - Peter Zaremba, rocker (Fleshtones)
Sep 22nd - Debby Boone,
Hackensack NJ, singer (You Light Up My Life)
Sep 22nd - Masayuki Suzuki, Japanese singer (Rats & Star)
Sep 23rd - June Forester,
Chattanooga Tn, country singer (Forester Sister-Men)
Oct 2nd - Freddie Jackson,
US R&B singer/songwriter (Rock Me Tonight)
Oct 12th - David Vanian,
British singer, (The Damned)
Oct 19th - Nino DeFranco,
rocker (DeFranco Family)
Oct 23rd - Dwight Yoakam,
Pikeville Ky, country singer (Honky Tonk Man)
Oct 25th - Matthias Jabs,
rock guitarist (Scorpions-Wind of Change)
Oct 28th - Dave Wyndorf,
American singer (Monster Magnet)
Nov 4th - James Honeyman-Scott,
rock guitarist/vocalist (Pretenders)
Nov 4th - Jeff Watson, rock guitarist (Night Ranger)
Nov 4th - Jordan Rudess, American musician (Dream Theater)
Nov 5th - Mike Score,
Liverpool England, rock guitarist (Flock Of Seagulls)
Nov 5th - Rob Fisher, Bath England, rock keyboardist (Naked Eyes)
Nov 7th - Denise Jannah,
[Zeefuik], Suriname jazz singer (Farmer's Market)
Nov 11th - Billy Smith,
Reidsville NC, country singer (Billy & Terry Smith)
Nov 11th - Ian Craig Marsh, England, rocker (Heaven 17-Electric Dreams)
Nov 13th - Aldo Nova,
rocker (Blood on the Bricks)
Nov 14th - Alec John Such,
US pop bassist (Bon Jovi-Wanted Dead or Alive)
Nov 20th - Dan Powers,
rock guitarist (Michael Stanley Band)
Nov 22nd - Lawrence Gowan,
Canadian singer (Styx)
Nov 28th - Kristine Arnold,
Torrance, singer (Sweethearts of Rodeo-Midnight Girl)
Nov 29th - Hinton Battle,
American dancer
Dec 1st - Stuart Kimball,
rock guitarist (Face To Face)
Dec 1st - Julee Cruise, American singer and actress
Dec 4th - Herbert Groenemeyer,
Germany, rocker (OE, Luxus, Chaos, Spruenge)
Dec 5th - Krystian Zimerman,
Polish pianist
Dec 6th - Peter Buck,
US pop guitarist (REM-Murmur)
Dec 6th - Randy Rhoads, rocker
Dec 8th - Warren Cuccurullo,
rock guitarist (Missing Persons)
Dec 9th - Sylvia,
Kokomo Indiana, country singer (Nobody)
Dec 13th - Majida El Roumi,
Lebanese singer
Dec 21st - Lee Roy Parnell,
Abilene Texas, country singer (Oughta be a Law)
Dec 23rd - Dave Murray,
London, English heavy metal guitarist and songwriter (Iron Maiden)
Dec 28th - Kenneth Grant,
bass/vocalist (Midnight Star-No Parking, Operator)
Dec 28th - Michael Gibbons, rocker (Bo Donaldson & Heywoods-Billy Don't be a Hero)
Dec 28th - Nigel Kennedy, English violinist
Dec 29th - Dolf de Vries,
Dutch musical/director/arranger (Josephine)
Dec 30th - Suzy Bogguss,
Aledo Ill, singer (I Want to be a Cowboy's Sweetheart)
