Born on this day – Gary Moore:

Gary Moore

Musician

Songwriter

April 4, 1952 – February 6, 2011

Born on this day – Muddy Waters:

Muddy Waters

Blues singer

Musician

April 4, 1913 – April 30, 1983

Credits:

Albums:

“Unk” in Funk (1974); After the Rain (1969); Can’t Get No Grindin’ (1973); Electric Mud (1968); Fathers and Sons (1969); Folk Singer (1964); Hard Again (Blue Sky, 1977); I’m Ready (1978); King Bee (1981); London Revisited (1974); Mud in Your Ear (1973); Muddy Waters Sings “Big Bill” (1960); Muddy, Brass & the Blues (1966); The London Muddy Waters Sessions (1972); The Muddy Waters Woodstock Album (1975).

Movies, television and video:

A Girls Night Out (2009); Adam Ruins Everything (2019); Adventures in Babysitting (1987); All the Way (2003); All You Need Is Love (1977); Amazing Journey: The Story of the Who (2007); American Masters (2003–2005); Anarchy in Manchester (2014); Beat-Club (1970); Bedford Springs (2002); Better Off Dead (1985); Birthmarked (2018); Black Snake Moan (2006); Black, White and Blues (1971); Blues America (2013); Blues and Gospel Train (1964); Blues Masters (1999); Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music (1993); Born in Chicago (2020); Breaking All the Rules (1985); Burn Motherfucker, Burn! (2017); Cadillac Records (2008); Casino (1995); Chicago Blues (1970); Chuck Brown: We Got This (2010); Daddy Day Care (2003); Daisy Jones & The Six (2023); Deep in the Heart of Texas: Dave Chappelle Live at Austin City Limits (2017); Definitely, Maybe (2008); Denise Calls Up (1995); Dogfight (1991); Doogie Howser, M.D. (1990–1991); Entourage (2011); Eric Clapton and His Rolling Hotel (1981); Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars (2017); Family Guy (2020); Fire Down Below (1997); Fire in Babylon (2010); Flimra (1977); Foolproof (2003); Frankenstein (2015); Frank’s Place (1988); Fresh Off the Boat (2019); Get Crazy (1983); Ghosts of Mississippi (1996); Glory Road (2006); Going the Distance (2010); Goodfellas (1990); Great Performances (2005); Gunsmoke Blues (2004); Hendrix on Hendrix (2013); History Detectives (2005); I Hear the Blues (1963); I’m a Man (1969); It Might Get Loud (2008); Jerry and Tom (1998); Jimi: All Is by My Side (2013); Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling (1986); Le grand échiquier (1972); Little Big League (1994); Mafia II (2010); Mandingo (1975); Midco Chu in Soundstage (1974); Misfits (2009); Mockingbird Lane (2012); Muddy Waters - Live at Rockpalast (1978); Muddy Waters and the Rolling Stones: Live at the Checkerboard Lounge 1981 (2012); Muddy Waters at Chicagofest (1998); Musikladen extra (1977); Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco - The Fillmore (1999); New England Music Hall of Fame (2019); No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos (2008); Nostalgia Critic (2008); Omnibus (1971); Once More with Felix (1968); Öronaböj (1978); Overlord (2018); Paul Rodgers: Live in Glasgow (2007); Prague Lounge Trio: Got My Mojo Workin’ (2019); Proof (2005); Put Your Hands Up!: The Tribute Concert to Chuck Brown (2002); Rebel Highway (1994); RED (2010); Risky Business (1983); Rock-a-bye (1973); Rogue Heroes (2022); Sex Education (2019); Shakes the Clown (1991); Shine a Light (2008); Singles (1992); Smart (1985); Sneaky Pete (2017); So You Think You Can Dance (2005); Soul Man (1986); Soundstage (2003); Stand Up Guys (2012); Starbuck in Rock Concert (1977); Street Girls (1975); The Bikeriders (2023); The Blues (1966–2003); The Color of Money (1986); The David Frost Show (1971); The Devil’s Rejects (2005); The Express (2008); The Girl Next Door (2004); The Good Fight (2017); The Last Time I Committed Suicide (1997); The Last Waltz (1978); The Legendary Fillmore Slim Playing the Blues (2012); The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996); The Man in the High Castle (2019); The Midnight Special (1972–1973); The Mike Douglas Show (1977); The Old Grey Whistle Test (1978); The Perfect Age of Rock ‘n’ Roll (2009); The Quiet One (2019); The Rainmaker (1997); The Roaring 20s: Mick Jagger’s Glory Years (2011); The Shipping News (2001); The Sopranos (1999–2007); The Soul of a Man (2003); The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2015); The Walking Dead: World Beyond (2021); The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights (2009); The Wonder Years (1989); The Zodiac (2005); Tohuwabohu (1995–1997); True Blood (2011); Two Trains Runnin’ (2016); Undercover Blues (1993); Unplugged (1992); What Love Is (2007); Where the Road Runs Out (2014); Willy / Milly (1986).

Born on this day – Sam Jaffe:

Sam Jaffe

Actor

Musician

March 10, 1891 – March 24, 1984

Credits:

On the Line (1984); Nothing Lasts Forever (1984); The Love Boat (1983); Foul Play (1981); Battle Beyond the Stars (1980); Gideon's Trumpet (1980); Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1980); Flying High (1978); Kojak (1977); The Bionic Woman (1976); The Sad and Lonely Sundays (1976); Medical Story (1975); Harry O (1975); Columbo (1975); S.W.A.T. (1975); The Best of Times (1974); The Streets of San Francisco (1974); Mooch (1974); QB VII (1974); The Snoop Sisters (1973); Saga of Sonora (1973); Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (1972); Love, American Style / Love and the Wishing Star (1972); Circle of Fear (1972); Alias Smith and Jones (1971–1972); The Tell-Tale Heart (1971); Enemies (1971); Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971); Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster? (1971); The Old Man Who Cried Wolf (1970); Quarantined (1970); Nanny and the Professor (1970); The Dunwich Horror (1970); Night Gallery / Escape Route (1969); The Great Bank Robbery (1969); Guns for San Sebastian (1968); Tarzan (1967); A Guide for the Married Man (1967); Batman (1966); Bonanza (1966); Daniel Boone (1965); Ben Casey (1961–1965); The Donna Reed Show (1964); The Defenders (1962); Cain's Hundred (1961); The Law and Mr. Jones (1960–1961); Naked City (1961); The Robert Herridge Theater (1961); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1960–1961); The Untouchables (1961); The Islanders (1961); Shirley Temple's Storybook (1961); The Westerner (1960); Play of the Week (1960); Playhouse 90 (1959–1960); Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1959); Ben-Hur (1959); The Barbarian and the Geisha (1958); The Spies (1957); Main Street to Broadway (1953); The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951); I Can Get It for You Wholesale (1951); Under the Gun (1951); The Asphalt Jungle (1950); The Big Story (1949); Rope of Sand (1949); The Accused (1949); Gentleman's Agreement (1947); 13 Rue Madeleine (1947); Stage Door Canteen (1943); Gunga Din (1939); Lost Horizon (1937); We Live Again (1934); The Scarlet Empress (1934); A Cheap Vacation (1916).

Born on this day – Albert Ammons:

Albert Ammons

Pianist

Blues Musician

March 1, 1907 – December 2, 1949

Born on this day – Glen Miller:

Glen Miller

Composer

Musician

March 1, 1904 – December 15, 1944

Born on this day – Johnny Cash:

Johnny Cash

Singer

Musician

Songwriter

Actor

February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003.

Credits:

Albums:

Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar! (1957); The Fabulous Johnny Cash (1958); Hymns by Johnny Cash (1959); Songs of Our Soil (1959); Now, There Was a Song! (1960); Ride This Train (1960); Hymns from the Heart (1962); The Sound of Johnny Cash (1962); Blood, Sweat and Tears (1963); The Christmas Spirit (1963); Keep on the Sunny Side (1964); I Walk the Line (1964); Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian (1964); Orange Blossom Special (1965); Johnny Cash Sings the Ballads of the True West (1965); Everybody Loves a Nut (1966); Happiness Is You (1966); Carryin' On with Johnny Cash & June Carter (1967); From Sea to Shining Sea (1968); The Holy Land (1969); Hello, I'm Johnny Cash (1970); Man in Black (1971); A Thing Called Love (1972); America: A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song (1972); The Johnny Cash Family Christmas (1972); Any Old Wind That Blows (1973); Johnny Cash and His Woman (1973); Ragged Old Flag (1974); The Junkie and the Juicehead Minus Me (1974); The Johnny Cash Children's Album (1975); Johnny Cash Sings Precious Memories (1975); John R. Cash (1975); Look at Them Beans (1975); One Piece at a Time (1976); The Last Gunfighter Ballad (1977); The Rambler (1977); I Would Like to See You Again (1978); Gone Girl (1978); Silver (1979); A Believer Sings the Truth (1979); Johnny Cash Sings with the BC Goodpasture Christian School (1979); Rockabilly Blues (1980); Classic Christmas (1980); The Baron (1981); The Adventures of Johnny Cash (1982); Johnny 99 (1983); Highwayman (1985); Rainbow (1985); Heroes (1986); Class of '55 (1986); Believe in Him (1986); Johnny Cash Is Coming to Town (1987); Classic Cash: Hall of Fame Series (1988); Water from the Wells of Home (1988); Boom Chicka Boom (1990); Highwayman 2 (1990); The Mystery of Life (1991); Country Christmas (1991); American Recordings (1994); The Road Goes on Forever (1995); American II: Unchained (1996); American III: Solitary Man (2000); American IV: The Man Comes Around (2002); My Mother's Hymn Book (2004); American V: A Hundred Highways (2006); American VI: Ain't No Grave (2010); Out Among the Stars (2014).

Movies, television and video:

Johnny Cash: She Used to Love Me a Lot (2014); When the Man Comes Around (2013); Johnny Cash: Ain't No Grave (2010); Walk the Line (2005); Johnny Cash: Hurt (2003); The Hunted (2003); All My Friends Are Cowboys (1998); Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993–1997); The Simpsons (1997); Renegade (1996); Johnny Cash: Delia's Gone (1994); The Highwaymen: Silver Stallion (1990); The Magical World of Disney (1988); The Highwaymen: Highwayman (1986); Stagecoach (1986); The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James (1986); North & South: Book 1, North & South (1985); The Baron and the Kid (1984); aylon Jennings: America (1984); Adrift at Sea (1983); Murder in Coweta County (1983); The Baron (1981); The Pride of Jesse Hallam (1981); Thaddeus Rose and Eddie (1978); Little House on the Prairie (1976); Columbo (1974); The Gospel Road: A Story of Jesus (1973); Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1972); A Gunfight (1971); Swing Out, Sweet Land (1970); The Partridge Family (1970); NET Playhouse (1970); The Night Rider (1962); Five Minutes to Live (1961); The Deputy (1961); The Rebel (1960); Shotgun Slade (1959); Wagon Train (1959).

Born on this day – Gertrude Simmons Bonnin:

Gertrude Simmons Bonnin

aka Zitkala-Ša

Writer

Librettist

Musician: violin & flute

Teacher

Editor

Translator

Native American activist

February 22, 1876 – January 26, 1938

Credits:

American Indian Stories (1921); Oklahoma's Poor Rich Indians (1923);

Old Indian Legends (1901); The Sun Dance Opera (1913).

Born on this day – Kurt Cobain:

Kurt Cobain

Musician

Singer

Guitarist

Songwriter

February 20, 1967 – April 5, 1994

Born on this day – George Segal:

George Segal

Actor

Comedian

Musician

February 13, 1934 – March 23, 2021

Born on this day – Zoë Lund:

Zoë Lund

Composer

Musician

Actress

Writer

Producer

February 9, 1962 – April 16, 1999

Credits:

Dreamland (1997); Hand Gun (1994); Hot Ticket (1993); Bad Lieutenant (1992); The Houseguest (1989); Exquisite Corpses (1989); Hothouse (1988); Miami Vice (1985); Special Effects (1984); Ms .45 (1981); Times Square (1980).

Born on this day – Eddie Van Halen:

Eddie Van Halen

Musician

Songwriter

January 26, 1955 – October 6, 2020

Born on this day – Robert Palmer:

Robert Palmer

Singer

Songwriter

Musician

Producer

January 19, 1949 – September 26, 2003

Born on this day – Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten:

Elizabeth “Libba” Cotten

Folk and Blues singer

Musician

January 5, 1893 – June 29, 1987

Credits:

Albums:

Elizabeth Cotten Live! (1983); Elizabeth Cotten, Volume 3: When I'm Gone (1979); Euphoria Blues (2023); Folksongs and Instrumentals with Guitar (1958); Freight Train (2014); Freight Train: Essential Folk Masters (2010); Live! (1983); Shake Sugaree (2004); Vol. 2: Shake Sugaree (1967).

Songs:

Ain't Got No Honey Baby Now; Boatman Dance; Buck Dance; Fare You Well, My Darling; Freight Train; Going Down the Road Feeling Bad; Graduation March; Hallelujah, It Is Done; Here Old Rattler Here / Sent for My Fiddle Sent for My Bow / George Buck; Holy Ghost, Unchain My Name; Honey Babe Your Papa Cares for You; I Don't Love Nobody; I'm Going Away; Little Brown Jug; Look and Live, My Brother; Mama, Nobody's Here but the Baby; Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie; Ontario Blues; Praying Time Will Soon Be Over; Run......Run / Mama Your Son Done Gone; Shake Sugaree; Spanish Flag Dang; Sweet Bye and Bye / What a Friend We Have in Jesus; Take Me Back to Baltimore; 'Til We Meet Again; Vastopol; Vestapol; Washington Blues; When I Get Home; When I'm Gone; When the Train Comes Along; Wilson Rag.

Movies and television:

A Love Song (2022); American Folk (2017); American Masters (2009); Asteroid City (2023); Austin City Limits (1979); Big Little Lies (2019); BioShock Infinite (2013); Bleak Moments (1971); Colossal (2016); Dogfight (1991); En på miljonen (1995); Far from Home (2009); Folk Britannia (2006); Four Calories: A "Tic-Tacs" Parody (2013); Nasty Baby (2015); Patriot (2017); Rainbow Quest (1965–1966); Sea Oak (2017); Shindig! (1964–1965); The 2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony (2022); The Blues (2003); The Johnny Cash Show (1970); The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000); The Mike Douglas Show (1971); Troop Zero (2019); Two Trains Runnin' (2016); Yesspeak (2003).

Born on this day – Kimble Rendall:

Kimble Rendall

Director

Writer

Musician

January 1, 1954 – April 20, 2025

Credits:

7 Guardians of the Tomb (2018); Bait (2012); Behind the Scenes of Cut (2000); Better Than Sex (2000); Boom Crash Opera: Hands Up in the Air (1986); Casanova (2005); Cold Chisel: Flame Trees (1984); Consolation Prize (1980); Counting the Beat (1997); Cut (2000); Cut: Cast and Crew Interviews (2000); Day Out of Days: The 'I, Robot' Production Diaries (2004); Enter the Matrix (2003); Garage Days (2002); Genre Summit (2016); Ghost Rider (2007); Gods of Egypt (2016); Hayride to Hell (1995); Hoodoo Gurus: Leilani (1982); I, Robot (2004); Johnny Diesel & The Injectors: Cry in Shame (1989); Killer Elite (2011); Knowing (2009); Mental As Anything: Live It Up (1985); Paul Kelly: Careless (1989); Popbot (2025); Shark's Paradise (1986); Spirit of Vengeance: The Making of 'Ghost Rider' (2007); Territory (2024); The Applicant (1982); The Burly Man Chronicles (2004); The Challenge (1986–1987); The Jesters (2009); The Making of 'Bait' (2013); The Matrix Reloaded (2003); The Matrix Revolutions (2003); The Matrix Revolutions: Crew (2004); The Tourist (2022); Three Chords and a Wardrobe (1998); Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009).

Born on this day – Del Shannon:

Del Shannon

Musician

Singer

Songwriter

Actor

December 30, 1934 – February 8, 1990

Born on this day – Lizzy Mercier Descloux:

Lizzy Mercier Descloux

Singer

Musician

Writer

Composer

Actress

Painter

December 16, 1956 – April 20, 2004

Credits:

Albums:

Rosa Yemen – Live in N.Y.C July 1978 (1978); Press Color (1979); Mambo Nassau (1981); Zulu Rock (1984); One for the Soul (1985); Suspense (1988).

Movies and television:

Corporate (2019); Cocoricocoboy (1984); 5 Flaschen für Angelika (1981); Beauty Becomes the Beast (1979); Midi-Première (1979).

Born on this day – Ludwig van Beethoven:

Ludwig van Beethoven

Composer

Musician

December 16, 1770 – March 26, 1827

Born on this day – Carey Bell:

Carey Bell

Blues musician

November 14, 1936 – May 6, 2007

Credits:

Music:

"Unk" in Funk with Muddy Waters (1974); 2 Bugs and a Roach with Earl Hooker (1969); Big Walter Horton with Carey Bell (1973); Blues After Sunrise, with Heinz Sauer and Bob Degen (1980); Blues Blues Blues, with the Jimmy Rogers All Stars (1998); Boy from Black Bayou (1983); Breakdown Blues Live!, with "The Cat" (1992); Brothers in Blues (1993); Brought Up the Hard Way (1999); Carey Bell & Spike Ravenswood (1995); Carey Bell's Blues Harp (1969); Deep Down (1995); Delta Bluesman, with Honeyboy Edwards (1991); Dynasty! (1990); Family Album, with Wentus Blues Band (2004); Gettin' Up: Live at Buddy Guy's Legends, Rosa's and Lurrie's Home, with Lurrie Bell (2007); Goin' on Main Street (1982); Good Candy, with Lovie Lee (1994); Good Luck Man (1997); Harp Attack!, with James Cotton, Junior Wells and Billy Branch (1990); Harpmaster (1994); Harpslinger (1988); Heartaches and Pain (1977 / 1994); I Feel Good! with John Lee Hooker (1970); I Wanna Dance All Night with John Lee Hooker (1970); Just Off Halsted, with Bob Riedy Blues Band (1974); Lake Michigan Ain't No River, with Bob Riedy Blues Band (1972–1973); Last Night (1973); Live at 55 (1994); Mellow Down Easy (1991); My Life (1984); Reality Blues (1980); Second Nature (2004); Son of a Gun (1984); Straight Shoot (1986); Superharps II, with Lazy Lester, Raful Neal and Snooky Pryor (2001); The Blues Masters Bad Case of the Blues (2004); You Can't Take My Blues, with Doug MacLeod (1996).

Movies and television:

Blacktop (2000); Gettin' Up: Carey & Lurrie Bell Live at Buddy Guy's Legends, Rosa's, and Lurrie's Home (2007); Supernatural (2007); The Six Wives of Henry Lefay (2009); Trouble with the Curve (2012).

Born on this day – Ennio Morricone:

Ennio Morricone

Composer

Orchestrator

Conductor

Musician

November 10, 1928 – July 6, 2020

Born on this day – Glenn Frey:

Glenn Frey

Musician

November 6, 1948 – January 18, 2016