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Steve Holtje: October 10, 2010

This week’s birthday celebrants.

  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. Jazz pianist Art Tatum, October 13, 1909

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. Nico (born Christa Päffgen), October 16, 1938

  9. Hüsker Dü singer/guitarist Bob Mould, 1960

  10. 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