June 1: Sir Edward Elgar (1857), country-and-western singer Johnny Bond (1915), Nelson Riddle (1921), Justin Adams (1923), Pat Boone (1934), "Wild" Jimmy Spruill (1934), Tex-Mex organist Augie Meyers (1941), Marvin Hamlisch (1944), Dan Hamilton (1946), Ron Wood (1947), Marmalade guitarist Junior Campbell (1947), Graham Russell of Air Supply (1950), Ronnie Dunn of Brooks & Dunn (1953), Alan Wilder of Depeche Mode (1959), The Cure's Simon Gallup (1960), Mike Joyce of The Smiths (1963), 7-Year Bitch guitarist Stefanie Sargent (1968), Alanis Morissette (1974)

June 2: Chicago blues pianist Leonard "Baby Doo" Caston (1917), Jimmy Rogers of Muddy Waters' band (1924), Charles Miller of War (1939), Charlie Watts (1941), William Guest of Gladys Knight & The Pips (1941), Pretenders bassist Pete Farndon (1952), Tony Hadley of Spandau Ballet (1959), Thor Eldon Jonsson of The Sugarcubes (1962), B-Real of Cypress Hill (1970)

June 3: Memphis Minnie born Lizzie Douglas (1896), June Abbit aka Joe Abbit, Sr. of The 5 Royales (1932), Curtis Mayfield (1941), Michael Clarke of The Byrds (1946), Ian Hunter of Mott the Hoople (1946), John Paul Jones born John Baldwin (1946), Stooges bassist Dave Alexander (1947), Suzi Quatro (1950), Deniece Williams (1951), keyboardist for Lynyrd Skynyrd Billy Powell (1952), C+C Music Factory keyboardist David Cole (1962), Kerry King of Slayer (1964), Phish bassist Mike Gordon (1965), No Mercy's Ariel (1971), Gabriel Hernandez (1971)

June 4: Freddy Fender (1937), Roger Ball of Average White Band (1944), Gordon Waller of Peter & Gordon (1945), Michelle Phillips (1945), Brian McKnight (1969), El DeBarge (1961), Stefan Lessard of The Dave Matthews Band (1974)

June 5: Freddie Stone of Sly & The Family Stone (1946), Badfinger's Tom Evans (1947), Laurie Anderson (1947), Frank Esler-Smith of Air Supply (1948), Ronnie Dyson (1950), Nicko McBrain of Iron Maiden (1952), Peter Erskine (1954), Kenny G (1956), Richard Butler of The Psychedelic Furs (1956), Mark Wahlberg aka Marky Mark (1971), Aaron "P-Nut" Wills of 311 (1974), Sebastien Lefebvre of Simple Plan (1981)

June 6: session drummer for Chess Records S.P. Leary (1930), Levi Stubbs of The Four Tops (1936), Gary "U.S." Bonds (1939), Clarence White of The Byrds (1944), Slayer's Tom Araya (1961), James Schaffer of Korn (1970), Uncle Kracker (1974)

June 7: Tom Jones (1940), Steve Torbert of New Riders of the Purple Sage (1948), Prince born Prince Roger Nelson (1958), Ecstacy of Whodini (1964), Eric Kretz of Stone Temple Pilots (1966)

June 8: Nancy "Boots" Sinatra (1940), Sherman Garnes of Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers (1940), Jesse Bolian of the Artistics (1941), Three Dog Night's Chuck Negron (1942), Boz Scaggs (1944), Uriah Heep's Mick Box (1947), Bonnie Tyler aka Gaynor Hoskins (1953), Simply Red's Mick Hucknall (1960), Duran Duran's Nick Rhodes (1962), Alex Band of The Calling (1981)

June 9: Cole Porter (1891), Les Paul aka Lester Polfus (1915), R&B singer and Russian rouletteist Johnny Ace born John Marshall Alexander Jr. (1929), Jackie Wilson (1934), Wild Jimmy Spruill (1934), Deep Purple's Jon Lord (1941), (Everett) Dean Felber of Hootie & The Blowfish (1967), Dean Dinning of Toad the Wet Sprocket (1967)

June 10: Chester Burnett aka Howlin' Wolf (1910), Judy Garland (1922), The Shirelle's Shirley Alston (1941), The Move's Rick Price ( 1944), Will Shatter of Flipper (1956), Jimmy Chamberlin of Smashing Pumpkins (1964), Darren Robinson of The Fat Boys (1967), Joel "Jo-Jo" Hailey of K-Ci & Jo-Jo (1971), Faith Evans (1973), Lemisha Grinsted of 702 (1973)

June 11: boogie-woogie pianist Clarence "Pine Top" Smith (1904), Jud Strunk (1936), The Pretty Things' Skip Allen (1948), Frank Beard of ZZ Top (1949), Donnie Van Zant of .38 Special (1952), Kim and Kelley Deal of The Breeders (1961), Joey Santiago of The Pixies (1965), Dan Lavery of Tonic (1969)

June 12: bandleader Archie Bleyer (1909), pioneer rockabilly Charlie Feathers (1932), Chick Corea (1941), Reg Presley of The Troggs (1943), Brad Delp of Boston (1951), Bun E. Carlos of Cheap Trick (1951), John Linnell of They Might Be Giants (1959), Michael Hausman of 'til tuesday (1960), Grandmaster Dee of Whodini (1962), Bobby Sheehan of Blues Traveler (1968), Bardi Martin of Candlebox (1969), Kenny Wayne Shepherd (1977), Robyn (1979)

June 13: Bobby Freeman of "Do You Wanna Dance" fame (1940), Arlester "Dyke" Christian of Dyke and the Blazers (1943), John Kahn of the Jerry Garcia Band (1947), Nick Drake (1948), Dennis Locorriere of Dr. Hook (1949), Howard Leese of Heart (1951), Bo Donaldson (1954), Godsmack's Robbie Merrill (1963), Paul DeLisle of Smash Mouth (1963), Soren Rasted of Aqua (1969), James Smith of The Stylistics (1951), Rivers Cuomo of Wheezer (1970), Raz B of B2K (1985)

June 14: Burl Ives (1909), Junior Walker (1931), Muff Winwood bassist for The Spencer Davis Group (1943), Rod Argent of the Zombies (1945), Alan White of Yes (1949), Boy George (1961), Chris DeGarmo of Queensryche (1963), British pop diva Billie Myers (1971)

June 15: Jaki Byard (1921), Waylon Jennings (1937), Harry Nilsson (1941), Doug Roberts (1941), Ian Matthews (1946), Russell Hitchcock of Air Supply (1949), Steve Walsh of Kansas (1951), country-pop singer Terri Gibbs (1954), Garry Roberts of Boomtown Rats (1954), Scott Rockenfield of Queensryche (1963), Michael Britt (1966), Ice Cube (1969), Dryden Mitchell of Alien Ant Farm (1976)

June 16: lyricist Ben Raleigh (1913), Charlie Byrd (1925), Motown songwriter-producer Lamont Dozier (1941), Eddie Levert of the O'Jays (1942), Pete Rivera of Rare Earth (1945), James Smith of the Stylistics (1950), Gino Vanelli (1952), Tupac Shakur (1971)

June 17: Igor Stravinsky (1882), Norman Kuhlke of The Swinging Blue Jeans (1942), Chris Spedding (1944), Barry Manilow born Barry Alan Pinkus (1946), Paul Young (1956), Kevin Thornton of Color Me Badd (1969)

June 18: Jeanette MacDonald (1907), lyricist Sammy Cahn (1913), Cliff Gallup (1930), Paul McCartney (1942), Carl Radle (1942), Jerome Smith of KC and The Sunshine Band (1953), Tom Bailey of The Thompson Twins (1957), West Arkeen (1960), Alison Moyet (1961), Dizzy Reed (1963), Nathan Morris of Boyz II Men (1971)

June 19: Tommy Devito of The Four Seasons (1936), Robert Gordon (1945), Nick Drake (1948), Ann Wilson of Heart (1950), Paula Abdul (1962), Brian Vander Ark of The Verve Pipe (1964), Korn's Brian Welch (1969)

June 20: Guy Lombardo (1902), Jimmy Driftwood (1907), Chet Atkins (1924), Billy Guy of The Coasters (1936), Brian Wilson (1942), Anne Murray (1945), pianist Andre Watts (1946), Lionel Richie (1949), Alan Longmuir of The Bay City Rollers (1953), Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony (1955), John Taylor of Duran Duran (1960), Sugar Ray's Murphy Karges (1968), Jeordie White of Nine Inch Nails and A Perfect Circle aka Twiggy Ramirez of Marilyn Manson (1972)

June 21: Skip James (1902), Clifford Scott (1928), Mission Impossible theme composer Lalo Schifrin (1932), Carl White (1932), Ray Davies of The Kinks (1944), Tommy Evans (1947), Joey Molland of Badfinger (1948), Aerosmith drummer Joey Kramer (1950), Nils Lofgren (1951), Mark Brzezicki of Big Country (1957), Kathy Mattea (1959), Mike Einziger of Incubus (1976)