Pick a Day

Born on May 11

1999 Sabrina Carpenter is born in Quakertown, Pennsylvania. In 2014 when she's 15, she stars in the Disney show Girl Meets World and sings the theme song. When the show ends three years later, she devotes more time to music, and in 2024 lands a big hit with "Espresso."

1976 Record producer/musician Alexander Perls is born in Boston, Massachusetts.

1955 Drummer Mark Herndon (of Alabama) is born in Springfield, Massachusetts.

1955 Electronic musician Jonathan "J.J." Jeczalik (of The Art of Noise) is born in Banbury, England.

1947 Butch Trucks (drummer for The Allman Brothers Band) is born Claude Hudson Trucks in Jacksonville, Florida.

1943 Arnie Silver, aka Arnie Satin (of the '60s vocal group The Dovells), is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1943 Les Chadwick (bassist for Gerry and the Pacemakers) is born in Liverpool, England.

1941 Eric Burdon (lead singer of The Animals) is born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.

1935 Kit Lambert, manager of The Who and co-founder of Track Records, is born Christopher Sebastian Lambert in Middlesex, England.