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- Jermaine Dupri, American rapper, dancer, and record producer, turns 35.
- Adelaide Ferreira, Portuguese singer, turns 48.
- Don Herron, American fiddler and steel guitarist for BR5-49, turns 45.
- Mary Kay Place, American actress and singer, turns 60.
- Christian Escoude, French Gypsy jazz guitarist, turns 60.
- Les McCann, American jazz pianist and vocalist, turns 72.
- Jeremy Steig, American flautist with Down To The Bone, turns 64.
- Bruce Springsteen, American singer, songwriter, and guitarist, turns 58.
- Steve Boone, American vocalist with The Lovin' Spoonful, turns 64.
- Ani DiFranco, American singer-songwriter, proprietor of Righteous Babe Records, turns 37.
- Norma Winstone, Brit vocalist, turns 66.
- Julio Iglesias, Acclaimed Spanish musician, turns 64.
- Diana Oritz, American pop music vocalist with Dream, turns 22.
- John Banks, Brit drummer for The Merseybeats, turns 64.
- Wallace Scott, member of The Whispers, turns 64.
- Erik-Michael Estrada, American pop music vocalist with O-Town, turns 28.
- June Forester, American country musician with The Forester Sisters, turns 51.
- Sarah Bettens, Belgian lead vocalist of K's Choice fame, turns 35.
- Ray Charles (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004), American pianist, singer, and songwriter, would have turned 77 this year.
- George Matthews (September 23, 1912 – June 28, 1982), Dominican trombonist, would have turned 95 this year.
- John Coltrane (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967), American tenor saxophonist, would have turned 81 this year.
- Bardu Ali (September 23, 1910 – October 29, 1981), American bandleader and vocalist, would have turned 97 this year.
- Albert Ammons (September 23, 1907 – December 02, 1949), American boogie-woogie pianist, would have turned 100 this year.
- Tiny Bradshaw (September 23, 1905 – November 26, 1958), American rhythm and blues bandleader and drummer, would have turned 102 this year.
- Don Grolnick (September 23, 1947 – June 01, 1996), American pianist, would have turned 60 this year.
- Roy Buchanan (September 23, 1939 – August 14, 1988), American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter; pioneer of the Fender Telecaster sound, would have turned 68 this year.
- John Avery Lomax (September 23, 1867 – January 26, 1948), American musicologist and music critic, would have turned 140 this year.
