Birthdays in Music on 5th October

Birthdays 1 - 53 of 53

1626 - Johann Schop, composer
1684 - Johann Jacob de Neufville, composer
1722 - Gregorio Sciroli, composer
1743 - Giuseppi Gazzaniga, composer
1758 - Thomas Greatorex, composer
1817 - Eduard Franck, composer
1822 - Hans Hampel, composer
1823 - Feliks Jaronski, composer
1840 - Fran Gerbic, composer
1875 - Cyril Rootham, composer
1879 - Halfdan Cleve, composer
1879 - John Erskine, US, poet/pianist (Private Life of Helen of Troy)
1883 - Charles Maduro, Antillean composer
1899 - Boleslaw Woytowicz, composer
1902 - Michael Kondracki, composer
1906 - Louise Brown, dancer/teacher
1907 - Mrs. Miller, American singer (d. 1997)
1926 - Gottfried Michael Koenig, composer
1927 - John Downey, composer
1935 - Arlene Saunders, American soprano
1936 - Annerose Schmidt, East German pianist
1938 - Carlo Mastrangelo, Bronx NY, rocker (Dion & The Belmonts)
1939 - Marie Laforêt, French singer and actress
1942 - Richard Street, Detroit Mi, rocker (Temptations)
1943 - Steve Miller, Milwaukee, rocker (Abracadabra, Space Cowboy)
1945 - Brian Connolly, Scottish singer (Sweet) (d. 1997)
1945 - Geoff Leigh, English musician (Henry Cow)
1946 - Richard Kermode, rocker
1947 - Brian Johnson, Australia, hard rocker (AC/DC-Whole Lotta Rosie)
1948 - Brian Connolly, Scotland, rocker (Sweet)
1948 - Delroy George Wilson, singer
1948 - Lucius Ross, US pop guitarist (Funkadelic-One Nation Under a Groove)
1948 - Tawl Ross, American musician (P Funk)
1949 - Brian McManus Connolly, musician
1949 - B. W. Stevenson, American singer (d. 1988)
1951 - Bob Geldof, Irish singer (The Boomtown Rats) and activist
1953 - Russell Mael, [Dwight Russel Day], California, rock vocalist (Sparks)
1953 - Sandra "Puma" Jones, Kingston Jamaica, rocker (Black Uhuru)
1954 - Bob Geldof, rocker
1955 - Leo Barnes, Irish saxophonist (Hothouse Flowers-I'm Sorry, Don't Go)
1957 - Lee "Kix" Thompson, saxophonist (Madness-Baggy Trousers)
1959 - Troy Luccketta, rock drummer (Tesla-Psychotic Supper)
1961 - Sharon Cheslow, American musician, composer and artist
1962 - Ken Noda, NYC, pianist (Rivalry)
1970 - Audie Pitre, bass guitarist (d. 1996)
1970 - South Park Mexican, American rapper
1974 - Heather Headley, Trinidadian singer
1974 - Colin Meloy, American singer (The Decemberists)
1978 - James Valentine, American musician (Maroon 5)
1980 - Paul Thomas, American bassist (Good Charlotte)
1981 - Kelvin Tan Wei Lian, Singaporean singer
1985 - Nicola Roberts, English singer (Girls Aloud)
1988 - Bahar Kızıl, German Singer (Monrose)

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