November 26, 1945

1945Daniel Davis, American actor^[†]

Daniel Davis is an American film, stage and television actor. He portrayed Niles the butler on the sitcom The Nanny and had two guest appearances as Professor Moriarty on Star Trek: The Next Generation, affecting a received pronunciation English dialect for both roles.

1945John McVie, English-American bass player^[†]

John Graham McVie is a British bass guitarist. He is best known as a member of the rock bands John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers from 1964 to 1967 and Fleetwood Mac since 1967. His surname, combined with that of drummer Mick Fleetwood, was the source for the band's name.

1945Jim Mullen, Scottish guitarist^[†]

Jim Mullen is a Scottish, Glasgow-born jazz guitarist with a distinctive style, like Wes Montgomery before him, picking with the thumb rather than a plectrum.

1945Michael Omartian, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer^[†]

Michael S. Omartian is an American singer-songwriter, arranger, keyboardist, and music producer. He produced number-one records in three consecutive decades. He has earned 11 Grammy Awards nominations and won three. He spent five years on the A&R staff of ABC/Dunhill Records as a producer, artist, and arranger; then was hired by Warner Bros. Records as an in-house producer and A&R staff member. Omartian moved from Los Angeles to Nashville in 1993, where he served on the Board of Governors of the Recording Academy, and has helped to shape the curriculum for the first master's degree program in the field of Music Business at Belmont University.