This week’s birthday celebrants.
Jeremy Spencer, guitarist in early version of Fleetwood Mac, 1948
Other July 4 birthdays:
French Baroque composer/organist Louis-Claude Daquin, 1694
American songwriter Stephen Foster, 1826
Soul singer-songwriter Bill Withers, 1938
Krautrock enabler Conny Bauer, 1943
Al Wilson, high-voiced singer of Canned Heat, July 4, 1943
Robbie Robertson, guitarist/songwriter of The Band, July 5, 1943
Other July 5 birthdays:
Smiley Lewis, 1913
George Rochberg, 1918
Janos Starker, 1924
RZA of Wu-Tang Clan, 1969
Vladimir Ashkenazy, July 6, 1937
Gene Chandler, R&B/doo-wop singer, July 6, 1937
Other July 6 birthdays:
Hanns Eisler, 1898
Bill Haley, 1925
Alternative singer-songwriter Heather Nova (born Heather Frith), 1967
Inspectah Deck (born Jason Hunter) of Wu-Tang Clan, 1970
Blues pianist Pinetop Perkins, July 7, 1913
Josef Zawinul, keyboard player and leader of jazz fusion stalwarts Weather Report, 1932
Other July 7 birthdays:
Charlie Louvin of the Louvin Brothers, July 7, 1927
Jazz saxophonist Hank Mobley, 1930
Austrian Romantic symphonist/conductor Gustav Mahler, 1860
Louis Jordan, July 8, 1908
Other July 8 birthdays:
Big Band singer/bandleader Billy Eckstine, 1914
Johnnie Johnson, pianist who was an integral part of Chuck Berry‘s band, 1924
Blue-eyed soul singer Joan Osborne, 1962
One-hit wonder and Futurama guest star Beck, 1970
Bon Scott, original singer of AC/DC, July 9, 1946
Jim Kerr, singer of Simple Minds, July 9, 1959
Other July 9 birthdays:
Italian composer Ottorino Respighi, 1879
Non-conformist songwriter Lee Hazlewood, 1929
Mitch Mitchell, drummer of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, 1947
Courtney Love, singer of Hole, 1964
Frank Bello, bassist of Anthrax, 1965
Isaac Brock, leader of Modest Mouse, 1975
modernist composer Carl Orff, July 10, 1895
Other July 10 birthdays:
Arlo Guthrie, 1947
Greg Kihn, 1949
