Births
- January 5 – Grant Young (Soul Asylum)
- January 10 – Brad Roberts (Crash Test Dummies)
- January 11 – Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen, composer
- January 29 – Roddy Frame (Aztec Camera)
- January 30 – Marcel Jacob, Swedish rock bassist (d. 2009)
- January 31 – Jeff Hanneman, American rock guitarist (Slayer)
- February 4 – Noodles of The Offspring
- February 5 – Duff McKagan (Guns N' Roses)
- February 23 – John Norum, Europe guitarist
- March 1 – Clinton Gregory, American musician
- March 11 – Vinnie Paul, drummer (Pantera, Damageplan)
- March 18 – Rozalla, Zambian singer
- March 19 – Yoko Kanno, composer
- March 20 – Natacha Atlas, Belgian singer
- March 30 – Tracy Chapman, singer-songwriter
- April 5 – Princess Erika, French singer
- April 11 – Steve Azar, American country music singer-songwriter
- April 12 – Amy Ray (Indigo Girls)
- April 16
- Dave Pirner (Soul Asylum)
- Esbjörn Svensson Swiss jazz pianist (d. 2008)
- April 17 – Maynard James Keenan (Tool)
- April 18 – Bez, British dancer
- April 25
- Andy Bell, singer (Erasure)
- Kenji Yamamoto, Japanese video game composer
- April 30 – Kent James, American singer-songwriter
- May 26 – Lenny Kravitz, guitarist
- May 30
- Wynonna Judd, American country singer
- Tom Morello, American rock guitarist (Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave, The Nightwatchman)
- May 31 – Darryl McDaniels (Run-D.M.C.)
- June 3 – Kerry King, American rock guitarist (Slayer)
- June 6 – Jay Bentley (Bad Religion)
- June 10 – Jimmy Chamberlin, American rock musician (The Smashing Pumpkins)
- June 13 – Robbie Merrill (Godsmack)
- June 22
- Dicky Barrett (The Mighty Mighty Bosstones)
- Mike Edwards (Jesus Jones)
- June 29 – Stedman Pearson, British R&B singer (Five Star)
- July 19 – Masahiko Kondō, Japanese singer
- July 20 – Chris Cornell (Soundgarden & Audioslave)
- July 22 – Will Calhoun (Living Colour)
- July 31 – Jim Corr, Irish singer and musician (The Corrs)
- August 1 – Adam Duritz (Counting Crows)
- August 3 – Lucky Dube, South African reggae musician (d. 2007)
- August 5 – Adam Yauch (Beastie Boys) (d. 2012)
- August 17 – Colin James, Canadian singer-songwriter
- September 7 – Eazy-E (NWA) (d. 1995)
- September 11 – Victor Wooten, American bassist
- September 23 – Koshi Inaba, Japanese rock singer (B'z)
- September 26 – Nicki French, British singer
- September 27 – Stephan Jenkins, American rock singer (Third Eye Blind)
- September 30
- Trey Anastasio, American musician
- Robby Takac, Goo Goo Dolls
- October 4 – Francis Magalona, Filipino rapper (d. 2009)
- October 5 – Dave Dededer, Presidents of the United States of America
- October 6 – Matthew Sweet, rock musician
- October 7 – Sam Brown, singer, daughter of Joe Brown
- October 10 – Neneh Cherry, singer
- October 20
- Frederic Chiu, pianist
- Luciano, reggae singer
- Jim Sonefeld (Hootie & The Blowfish)
- October 22 – Toby McKeehan, American musician
- October 23 – Robert Trujillo (Metallica)
- November 6
- Corey Glover (Living Colour)
- Greg Graffin (Bad Religion)
- November 14
- Joseph "Run" Simmons (Run-D.M.C.)
- Nic Dalton (The Lemonheads)
- November 16 – Diana Krall, Canadian jazz pianist and singer
- November 24 – Tony Rambola (Godsmack)
- November 25 – Mark Lanegan, American rock singer (Screaming Trees)
- December 9 – Paul Landers, German rock musician (Rammstein)
- December 13 – Hideto Matsumoto (Hide), Japanese rock musician (d. 1998)
- December 23 – Eddie Vedder, American rock singer (Pearl Jam)
- December 28 – Malcolm Gets, American actor and dancer
- date unknown - Kyaw Kyaw Naing, Burmese traditional musician
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