1955 in Music - Births

Births

• January 3 – Helen O'Hara, British musician
• January 8 – Mike Reno, Loverboy
• January 13
  • Fred White (Earth Wind & Fire)
  • Trevor Rabin (Yes)
• January 17 – Steve Earle, folk singer
• January 19 – Sir Simon Rattle, conductor
• January 26 – Eddie Van Halen, musician
• January 27 – Richard Young (Kentucky Headhunters)
• February 18 – Riff Regan, lead singer of London.
• February 23 – Howard Jones, singer-songwriter
• March 2 – Jay Osmond, singer and songwriter (The Osmonds)
• March 4 – Boon Gould, guitarist (Level 42)
• March 10 – Bunny DeBarge (DeBarge)
• March 15 – Dee Snider (Twisted Sister)
• March 28 – Reba McEntire, country singer
• March 31 – Angus Young (AC/DC)
• April 13 – Louis Johnson, bassist (The Brothers Johnson)
• April 17 – Pete Shelley (Buzzcocks)
• May 9 – Anne Sofie von Otter, operatic mezzo-soprano
• May 12 – Kix Brooks, country singer (Brooks & Dunn)
• May 20
  • Steve George, keyboardist (Mr. Mister)
  • Zbigniew Preisner, composer
• May 21 – Stan Lynch (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
• May 28 – John McGeoch (Magazine, PiL, and Siouxsie and the Banshees) (d. 2004)
• May 29 – Pascal Dusapin, French composer
• May 30 – Topper Headon (The Clash)
• June 7 – Joey Scarbury, singer
• June 23 – Glenn Danzig, lead singer of Danzig
• June 26 – Mick Jones (The Clash)
• June 28 – Thomas Hampson, opera singer
• July 4 – John Waite, singer
• July 10 – Stan Munsey (Shenandoah)
• July 18 – Terry Chambers (XTC)
• July 21 – Howie Epstein (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
• July 25 – Jem Finer (The Pogues)
• August 6 – Eric Paulin, drummer (The Meetles)
• August 17 – Colin Moulding (XTC)
• August 28 – Beres Hammond, reggae singer
• August 29 – Diamanda Galás, singer, composer, pianist and performance artist
• September 3 – Steve Jones (The Sex Pistols)
• September 9 – Ivan Smirnov, guitarist
• September 13 – Andreas Staier, classical harpsichordist and fortepianist
• October 2 – Philip Oakey, singer (The Human League)
• October 7 – Yo-Yo Ma, cellist
• October 16 – Leonid Desyatnikov, composer
• October 21:
  • Fred Hersch, American jazz pianist
  • Rich Mullins, singer-songwriter (d. 1997)
• October 25 – Matthias Jabs (Scorpions)
• October 29 – Kevin Dubrow (Quiet Riot)
• November 21 – Kyle Gann, composer, teacher and critic
• November 23 – Ludovico Einaudi, Italian composer and pianist
• November 30 – Billy Idol, singer
• December 6 – Bright Sheng, composer
• December 15 – Paul Simonon, The Clash
• date unknown – Susan Addison, sackbut player