Portal:Music/DateOfBirth/January 20

• Ray Anthony, American bandleader and trumpeter, turns 103.
• Valery Ponomarev, Russian trumpeter, turns 82.
• Eric Stewart, Brit guitarist and keyboardist with 10cc, Hotlegs, and The Mindbenders, turns 80.
• Paul Stanley, American guitarist and vocalist with Kiss, turns 73.
• Riccardo Del Fra, Italian session musician (bassist), turns 69.
• Andy Sheppard, Brit flautist and tenor saxophonist, turns 68.
• Ian Hill, Brit bassist for Judas Priest, turns 67.
• Antoine Herve, French composer and pianist, turns 66.
• Jeff Andrews, American bassist, turns 65.
• Jeff 'Tain' Watts, American drummer, turns 65.
• Scott Thunes, American guitarist with Frank Zappa, Steve Vai and The Waterboys, turns 65.
• Heather Small, Brit soul music vocalist with M People, turns 60.
• John Michael Montgomery, American country music singer and brother to Eddie Montgomery, turns 60.
• Greg Kriesel, American bassist with The Offspring, turns 60.
• Tracii Guns, American musician and co-founder of L.A. Guns, turns 59.
• James Genus, American bassist with Dave Douglas Sextet and Elysian Fields, turns 59.
• Xavier Amin Dphrepaulezz, Somali-American R&B singer, turns 57.
• Tina O'Neill, Brit drummer, We've Got a Fuzzbox and We're Gonna Use It, turns 56.
• Nicky Wire, (born Nicholas Allen Jones) Brit vocalist with Manic Street Preachers, turns 56.
• Edwin McCain, American pop rock singer, turns 55.
• Derrick Green, American singer with heavy metal act, Sepultura, turns 54.
• ?uestlove, (born Ahmir Thompson) American Soulquarian and drummer with The Roots, turns 54.
• Gary Barlow, Brit boy band vocalist, pianist, and songwriter of Take That , turns 54.
• Rob Bourdon, American drummer of Linkin Park , turns 46.
• Will Young, Brit singer, turns 46.

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• Mel Pritchard (Music/DateOfBirth/January 20, 1948 –January 28, 2004), Brit drummer with Barclay James Harvest, would have turned 77 this year.
• Chuck Domanico (Music/DateOfBirth/January 20, 1944 –Oct 17, 2002), American bass player, would have turned 81 this year.
• Rick Evans (Music/DateOfBirth/January 20, 1943–February , 2018), American vocalist of Zager and Evans , would have turned 82 this year.
• Ron Townson (Music/DateOfBirth/January 20, 1933 –August 02, 2001), American drummer with The Fifth Dimension, would have turned 92 this year.
• Jimmy Cobb (Music/DateOfBirth/January 20, 1929–May 24, 2020), American drummer, would have turned 96 this year.
• Bill LeSage (Music/DateOfBirth/January 20, 1927 –October 31, 2001), Brit pianist and vibraphonist, would have turned 98 this year.
• David Tudor (Music/DateOfBirth/January 20, 1926 –August 13, 1996), American pianist and composer of experimental music, would have turned 99 this year.
• Slim Whitman (Music/DateOfBirth/January 20, 1924–June 19,  2013), American country music singer, would have turned 101 this year.
• Johnny Hawksworth (Music/DateOfBirth/January 20, 1924–February 15,  2009), Brit composer and double bassist with Ted Heath, would have turned 101 this year.
• Nora Brockstedt (Music/DateOfBirth/January 20, 1923–November 05,  2015), Norwegian singer and Eurovision Song Contest 1960 contestant, would have turned 102 this year.
• Connie Haines (Music/DateOfBirth/January 20, 1922–September 22,  2008), (born Yvonne Marie Jamais) American traditional pop vocalist with Tommy Dorsey, would have turned 103 this year.
• Juan García Esquivel (Music/DateOfBirth/January 20, 1918 –January 03, 2002), Mexican composer of film scores, would have turned 107 this year.
• Walter Piston (Music/DateOfBirth/January 20, 1894 –November 12, 1976), American composer and music theorist, would have turned 131 this year.
• Mischa Elman (Music/DateOfBirth/January 20, 1891 –April 05, 1967), Ukrainian violinist, would have turned 134 this year.
• Lead Belly (Music/DateOfBirth/January 20, 1889 –December 06, 1949), (born Huddie Ledbetter) American blues-singing twelve string guitarist, would have turned 136 this year.
• Yvette Guilbert (Music/DateOfBirth/January 20, 1867 –February 04, 1944), French music-hall singer and actress, would have turned 158 this year.
• Ruth St. Denis (Music/DateOfBirth/January 20, 1877 –July 21, 1968), (born Ruth Dennis) American vaudeville-era choreographer and dancer, would have turned 148 this year.
• Józef Hofmann (Music/DateOfBirth/January 20, 1876 –February 16, 1967), Polish-American pianist and composer of classical music, would have turned 149 this year.
• Ernest Chausson (Music/DateOfBirth/January 20, 1855 –June 10, 1899), French composer, would have turned 170 this year.
• Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer (Music/DateOfBirth/January 20, 1783 –March 06, 1860), German cellist and composer, would have turned 242 this year.
• Johann Hermann Schein (Music/DateOfBirth/January 20, 1586 –November 19, 1630), German Baroque music composer, would have turned 439 this year.