Pick a Day

Born on September 27

1990 Singer-songwriter Mitski is born Mitsuki Laycock in Japan. Her dad works for the US State Department, so she lives in several countries before settling in America and becoming a top indie artist, breaking through with her 2018 album Be The Cowboy.

1987 Austin Carlile is born in Pensacola, Florida. He fronts the metal groups Attack! Attack!, and later, Of Mice & Men, leaving in 2016 when his genetic condition called Marfan syndrome becomes too much to bear.

1984 Avril Lavigne is born in Belleville, Ontario, Canada. She is raised in Napanee, Ontario.

1982 Rapper Lil Wayne is born Dwayne Michael Carter Jr. in New Orleans, Louisiana. At age 9, he becomes the youngest member of Cash Money Records.

1978 3 Doors Down lead singer Brad Arnold is born in Escatawpa, Mississippi. He's 15 when he gets the idea for their hit "Kryptonite." "It's easy to be there for someone when they're down," he says of the song, "but it's not always easy to be there for somebody when they're doing good."

1970 Mark Calderon (of Color Me Badd) is born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

1966 Stephan Jenkins (frontman for Third Eye Blind) is born in Indio, California.

1958 Pop singer/actor Shaun Cassidy is born in Los Angeles, California. Although he doesn't join The Partridge Family cast with mom Shirley Jones and half-brother David Cassidy, he stars on The Hardy Boys Mysteries and lands a trio of Top 10 hits in 1977 - including the chart-topper "Da Doo Ron Ron."

1953 Greg Ham (keyboard/flute player for Men At Work) is born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

1952 Bassist Robbie Shakespeare (of Sly and Robbie) is born in Kingston, Jamaica.

1947 Meat Loaf is born Marvin Lee Aday in Dallas, Texas. He's often asked how he got his name, so he makes up a few stories, sometimes claiming a football coach told him he had "meat loaf for brains," and other times saying he looked like a wad of meat as an infant.

1944 Randy Bachman (of The Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive) is born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

1941 Don Nix (Booker T. & the MG's) is born in Memphis, Tennessee.

1898 Broadway producer and composer Vincent Youmans is born in New York City.