Portal:Music/DateOfBirth/August 18

• Everlast, (nee Erik Schrody) of House of Pain fame, turns 56.
• Dan Peters, American drummer for Mudhoney, turns 58.
• Molly Bee, American country music vocalist, turns 86.
• Frances Bean Cobain, American singer and daughter of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love, turns 33.
• David Benoit (musician), American arranger, keyboardist, and pianist, turns 72.
• Ron Strykert, Australian guitarist for Men at Work, turns 68.
• Patrick Swayze (August 18, 1952–September 14, 2009), American actor and singer, would have turned 73 this year.
• Vince Melouney, Australian guitarist for the Bee Gees, turns 80.
• Dennis Elliot, American drummer for Foreigner, turns 75.
• Nigel Griggs, English bassist for Split Enz, turns 76.
• Barbara Harris, singer with The Toys, turns 80.
• Tracy Tracy, Australian vocalist for The Primitives, turns 58.
• Johnny Preston, American musician, turns 95.
• Curtis Jones (August 18, 1906 –September 11, 1971), American blues pianist, would have turned 119 this year.
• Enoch Light (August 18, 1978 –July 31, 1997), American arranger, bandleader, composer, and pianist, would have turned 47 this year.
• Lucienne Boyer (August 18, 1901 –December 06, 1983), French vocalist, would have turned 124 this year.
• Zinky Cohn (August 18, 1908 –April 26, 1952), American pianist, would have turned 117 this year.
• Carl Wayne (August 18, 1944 –August 31, 2004), singer for The Move, would have turned 81 this year.
• Gus Edwards (August 18, 1879 –November 07, 1945), German composer, songwriter, and Vaudevillian, would have turned 146 this year.
• Joanna Jonsson, Swedish singer, songwriter, and Pokemon master, turns 34.