Pick a Day

Born on December 3

1979 Daniel Bedingfield is born in New Zealand. He is the older brother of fellow singers Natasha Bedingfield and Nikola Rachelle.

1971 "This Is How We Do It" singer Montell Jordan is born in Los Angeles, California.

1952 Duane Roland (Molly Hatchet guitarist) is born in Jeffersonville, Indiana.

1951 Mike Stock of the British songwriting/production team Stock, Aitken & Waterman is born.

1949 Mickey Thomas (Jefferson Starship singer) is born in Cairo, Georgia.

1949 Nicky Stevens (Brotherhood of Man vocalist) is born Helen Thomas in Carmarthen, Wales.

1948 Ozzy Osbourne is born John Michael Osbourne in Birmingham, England. He forms the genre-defining heavy metal band Black Sabbath in 1968 but goes solo in 1979 when he's booted from the band. Remarkably, his solo career is even more successful, with a run of hits that includes "Crazy Train" and "Mama, I'm Coming Home."

1947 John Wilson (drummer for Them) is born in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

1944 Pop singer Paul Nicholas is born Paul Oscar Beuselinck in Peterborough, England. As an actor, he's known for starring in the 1983 BBC TV sitcom Just Good Friends.

1931 Pop singer Jaye P. Morgan is born Mary Margaret Morgan in Mancos, Colorado. Her high school classmates nickname Mary, the class treasurer, "Jaye P." after the famous banker J. Pierpont Morgan.

1927 Andy Williams is born in Wall Lake, Iowa.

1925 Country singer Ferlin Husky is born in Cantwell, Missouri.

1907 Connee Boswell (of the '30s jazz trio The Boswell Sisters) is born in Kansas City, Missouri.

1863 Gussie Davis, the first popular black Tin Pan Alley composer, is born in Dayton, Ohio.