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Colette Dereal born 22 September 1927
Colette Deréal, (1927 - 1988), was a French actress and singer.Colette Deréal was born Colette Denise De Glarélial, September 22, 1927 in a small town of Saint-Cyr-l'Ecole in France. Her family moved...
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John Coltrane born 23 September 1926
John William Coltrane (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer, also known as "Trane". Working in the bebop and hard bop idioms early in his career, Coltrane...
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Peggy Connelly born 25 September 1931
Peggy Connelly (September 25, 1931 – June 11, 2007) was a singer and actress.Peggy Lou Connelly was born September 25, 1931 in Shreveport, Louisiana, but she grew up in Fort Worth, Texas. By the time...
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Merrill Moore born 26 September 1923
Merrill Everett Moore (26 September 1923 – 14 June 2000) was an American swing and boogie-woogie pianist and bandleader whose style influenced rockabilly music during the 1950s.He was known as "one of...
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Gene Autry born 29 September 1907
Orvon Grover "Gene" Autry (September 29, 1907 – October 2, 1998) was an American singer, songwriter, actor, musician and rodeo performer who gained fame as a singing cowboy in a crooning style on...
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Cissy Houston born 30 September 1932
Emily "Cissy" Houston (née Drinkard; born September 30, 1933) is an American soul and gospel singer. After a successful career singing backup for such artists as Dionne Warwick, Elvis Presley and...
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Mariska Veres born 1 October 1948
Maria Elisabeth Ender, better known as Mariska Veres (1 October 1947 – 2 December 2006), was a Dutch singer who was best known as the lead singer of the rock group Shocking Blue. Described as being...
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Larry Collins born 4 October 1944
Larry Collins (born 4 October 1944, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA) and his older sister Lawrencine "Lorrie" Collins (May 7, 1942 – August 4, 2018) were an American rockabilly duo. Their hits in the 1950s as...
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Janet Vogel born 6 October 1941
Janet Frances Vogel (Rapp) (b. June 10, 1941, Pittsburgh, d. Thursday, February 21, 1980, Pittsburgh, PA) was an American soprano supreme with the group "The Skyliners". Janet Francis grew up in the...
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Gordon Terry born 7 October 1931
Gordon Terry (October 7, 1931–April 9, 2006) was an adept American bluegrass and country music fiddler and guitarist. He was a member of Merle Haggard's backing band The Strangers. He was inducted into...
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Karel Vlach born 8 October 1911
Karel Vlach (October 8, 1911 – February 26, 1986 was a Czech big band leader, saxophonist, conductor and arranger and one of the key figures and pioneers of jazz in former Czechoslovakia.Vlach was born...
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France Gall born 9 October 1947
Isabelle Geneviève Marie Anne "France" Gall (9 October 1947 – 7 January 2018) was a French yé-yé singer. Although she was best known as the pretty, perky teenager who won the 1965 Eurovision Song...
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Billy Ternent born 10 October 1899
Billy Ternent (b.10 October 1899, Newcastle, England, d. 23 March 1977, London, England) was a band leader, arranger, multi-instrumentalist, and composer, popular from the 1940s to the 1970s. Many...
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Yves Montand born 13 October 1921
Yves Montand (13 October 1921 – 9 November 1991) was an Italian-born French actor and singer.Montand was born Ivo Livi in Monsummano Terme, Italy, to Giovanni Livi, a broom manufacturer and Giuseppina...
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Kenny Roberts born 14 October 1926
Kenny Roberts (October 14, 1926 – April 29, 2012) was an American country music singer. Best-known for his 1949 hit "I Never See Maggie Alone," Kenny Roberts was one of the last country singers to...
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Fela Kuti born 15 October 1938
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Max Bygraves born 16 October 1922
Walter William Bygraves OBE (16 October 1922 – 31 August 2012), best known by the stage name Max Bygraves, was an English comedian, singer, actor and variety performer. He appeared on his own...
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Cozy Cole born 17 October 1909
William Randolph "Cozy" Cole (October 17, 1909 – January 9, 1981) was an American jazz musician who was a versatile percussionist. A highlight of Cole’s drumming career was the 1958 hit Topsy, the only...
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Adelaide Hall born 20 October 1901
Adelaide Louise Hall (20 October 1901 – 7 November 1993) was an American-born UK-based jazz singer and entertainer. Hall's long career spanned more than 70 years from 1921 until her death and she was a...
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Bobby Fuller born 22 October 1942
Robert Gaston Fuller (October 22, 1942 – July 18, 1966) was an American rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known for "Let Her Dance" and "I Fought the Law", recorded with his group The Bobby...
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