Oh, I like this. Too bad the header doesn't read "Music Birthdays" or "Musician Birthdays". I initially thought it refereed to born dates of members and so avoided it. But, ok, on a whim here we go...
December 7
Thomas Allen (Tom) Waits, December 7 1949
“The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.”
The video above is enough of a bio to get a feeling of who Tom Waits is but my favorite snapshot is this scene (w/Iggy Pop) from Jim Jarmusch's
Coffee & Cigarettes -