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- Dweezil Zappa, American heavy metal guitarist, turns 38.
- Nick Ayoub, Canadian tenor saxophone player, turns 81.
- Brad Wilk, American drummer with Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave, turns 39.
- Terry Ellis, American R&B singer of En Vogue fame, turns 41.
- Joki Freund, German aerophone multi-instrumentalist, turns 81.
- Al Stewart, British singer-songwriter, member of Time Passages, turns 62.
- Lars Danielsson, Swedish bassist, turns 49.
- Sal Solo, Brit vocalist with Classix Nouveaux, turns 53.
- Dean Ford, (nee Thomas MacAleese) Scottish lead vocalist for Marmalade, turns 61.
- Loudon Wainwright III, American folk singer, turns 61.
- Buddy Miles, American drummer, turns 61.
- Jamie Oldaker, American country musician with The Tractors and Eric Clapton Band alum, turns 56.
- John Stewart, American folk singer and songwriter with The Kingston Trio, turns 68.
- Charles Bobo Shaw, American drummer and co-founder of the Black Artists Group, a musical collective, turns 60.
- Hans Sachs (September 5, 1494 –January 19, 1576), German meistersinger, would have turned 513 this year.
- Albert Mangelsdorff (September 5, 1928 – July 25, 2005), German bandleader and trombonist, would have turned 79 this year.
- Freddie Mercury (September 5, 1946– November 24, 1991), Brit pianist and frontman for seminal rock act, Queen, would have turned 61 this year.
