This week’s birthday celebrants.
Fleetwood Mac’s Lindsey Buckingham, October 3, 1949
Other October 3 birthdays:
Eddie Cochran, 1938
Chubby Checker, 1941
Stevie Ray Vaughan, 1954
Rapper Talib Kweli, 1975
Scissor Sisters singer Jake Shears, 1978
Arcade Fire multi-instrumentalist Richard Parry, October 4, 1977, and co-leader William Butler, October 6, 1982
Other October 4 birthdays:
Sweet Honey in the Rock singer Bernice Johnson Reagon, 1942
Funkadelic guitarist Lucius “Tawl” Ross, October 5, 1948
Boomtown Rats leader Bob Geldof, October 5, 1951
Other October 5 birthdays:
Steve Miller, 1943
Sweet singer Brian Connolly, 1945
Henry Cow Geoff Leigh, 1945
AC/DC singer Brian Johnson, 1947
Motorhead/Fastway guitarist “Fast” Eddie Clarke, 1950
The Decemberists singer/songwriter Colin Meloy, 1974
Polish composer Karol Szymanowski, October 6, 1882
Other October 6 birthdays:
Swiss pianist Edwin Fischer, 1886
Radiohead singer/songwriter Thom Yorke, October 7, 1968
Other October 7 birthdays:
Ukrainian pianist Shura Cherkassky, 1911
Swiss conductor Charles Dutoit, 1936
Judee Sill, 1944
10cc Kevin Godley, 1845
Kansas bassist Dave Hope, 1949
Yo-Yo Ma, 1955
Blues singer/guitarist Lonnie Pitchford, October 8, 1955
Other October 8 birthdays:
French organist/composer Louis Vierne, 1870
Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu, 1930
Johnny Ramone, 1948
Kool & the Gang bassist Robert “Kool” Bell, 1950
Sex Mob leader/slide trumpeter Steven Bernstein, 1961
Ramones bassist C.J. Ramone (born Christopher J. Ward), 1965
French composer Camille Saint-Saëns, October 9, 1835
John Lennon, October 9, 1940
Labelle singer/solo artist Nona Hendryx, October 9, 1944
Other October 9 birthdays:
German composer Heinrich Schütz, 1585
Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi, 1813
Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara, 1928
Cuban jazz pianist/composer Chucho Valdés, 1941
The Who bassist John Entwistle, 1944Jackson Browne, 1948
Ministry mastermind Al Jourgensen, 1958
Jazz saxophonist Kenny Garrett, 1960
Polly Jean Harvey, 1969
Sean Lennon, 1975
