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This week’s birthday celebrants.
Jazz pianist Thelonious Monk, October 10, 1917
Other October 10 birthdays:
Songwriter (“I Can’t Get Started”; “April in Paris”) Vernon Duke (born Vladimir Dukelsky), 1903
Modern composer Paul Creston, 1906
Blues/R&B singer Ivory Joe Hunter, 1914
Jazz trumpeter Harry “Sweets” Edison, 1915
Singer/songwriter John Prine, 1946
Ultravox/Rich Kids/Visage’s James “Midge” Ure, 1953
Original Van Halen singer David Lee Roth, 1954
Precocious country singer Tanya Tucker, 1958
English singer/songwriter Kirsty MacColl, 1959
Daryl Hall, October 11, 1946
Other October 11 birthdays:
Jazz drummer Art Blakey, 1919
Jazz drummer Billy Higgins, 1936
Jazz trumpeter Lester Bowie, 1941
Einstürzende Neubauten multi-instrumentalist Alexander Hacke, 1965
Rentals singer Petra Haden, 1971
Mogwai bassist Dominic Aitchison, 1976
The Damned singer Dave Vanian, October 12, 1956
Other October 12 birthdays:
Conductor Arthur Nikisch, 1855
English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872
Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti, 1945
Sam & Dave’s Sam Moore, 1945
The Temptations’ bass singer Melvin Franklin, 1942
Status Quo co-founder Rick Parfitt, 1948
Canadian singer/songwriter Jane Siberry, 1955
New Found Glory frontman Jordan Pundik, 1979
Jazz pianist Art Tatum, October 13, 1909
Anthrax singer Joey Belladonna (born Joseph Bellardini), October 13, 1960
Other October 13 birthdays:
Jazz saxophonist Lee Konitz, 1927
Jazz saxophonist Ferrell “Pharoah” Sanders, 1940
Simon & Garfunkel singer-songwriter Paul Simon, 1941
Chicago keyboardist/songwriter Robert Lamm, 1944
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, 1948
Bloc Party singer Kele Okereke, 1981
Minimalist composer/Velvet Underground influence La Monte Young, October 14, 1935
Other October 14 birthdays:
Moody Blues singer Justin Hayward, 1946
MFSB founder/guitarist and producer Norman Harris, 1947
New Pop synthesizer whiz Thomas Dolby (born Thomas Morgan Robertson), 1958
Nigerian singer/bandleader Fela Kuti, October 15, 1938
Other October 15 birthdays:
Guitarist Mickey Baker, 1925
German conductor Karl Richter, 1926
The Carpenters’ singer/keyboardist Richard Carpenter, 1946
Nico (born Christa Päffgen), October 16, 1938
Hüsker Dü singer/guitarist Bob Mould, 1960
Russian baritone singer Dmitri Hvorostovsky, 1962
Other October 16 birthdays:
Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir, 1947
Parliament-Funkadelic bassist Cordell “Boogie” Mosson, 1952
Estonian composer Erkki-Sven Tüür, 1959
Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist/trumpeter Flea (born Michael Peter Balzany), 1962
Jazz trumpeter Roy Hargrove, 1969
