October 19, 1960

1960Dawn Coe-Jones, Canadian golfer (died 2016)^[†]

Dawn Coe-Jones was a Canadian professional golfer who played on the LPGA Tour, and a member of the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame. She was the first female Canadian golfer to surpass $1million in career earnings, announcing the arrival of Canadian female golfers upon the world stage in the 1990s.

1960Jennifer Holliday, American actress and singer^[†]

Jennifer Yvette Holliday is an American singer and actress. She started her career on Broadway in musicals such as Dreamgirls (1981–83), Your Arms Too Short to Box with God (1980–1981) and later became a successful recording artist. She is best known for her debut single, the Dreamgirls number and rhythm-and-blues/pop hit, "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going", for which she won a Grammy Award in 1983. She also won a 1982 Tony Award for Dreamgirls.

1960Takeshi Koshida, Japanese footballer^[†]

Takeshi Koshida is a Japanese football manager and former footballer. He is the technical director of Vietnam national football team and Vietnam women's national football team.

1960Susan Straight, American author and academic^[†]

Susan Straight is an American writer. She was a National Book Award finalist for the novel Highwire Moon in 2001.

1960Ayuo Takahashi, Japanese-American singer-songwriter^[†]

Ayuo Takahashi is a Japanese-born American composer, poet, lyricist, singer, and performer of plucked string instruments including guitar, bouzouki, Irish harp, Chinese zheng, Japanese koto, and medieval European psaltery. He is adept at adapting the ancient music of Japan, China, Persia, Greece, and medieval Europe to create a new and original music without abandoning their strict forms while simultaneously making them relevant to contemporary music styles. He has composed for classical ensembles including string quartets, piano, various chamber ensembles, and orchestra, as well as composed, produced and performed with rock, jazz and musicians of various traditional music from around the world. He has also composed many music theater pieces, some of which has been released on CD in the United States and Japan.

1960Dan Woodgate, English musician, songwriter, composer, and record producer^[†]

Daniel Mark "Woody" Woodgate is an English musician, songwriter, composer and record producer. In a career spanning 45 years, Woodgate came to prominence in the late 1970s as the drummer for the English ska band Madness and went on to become a member of the Anglo-American alternative rock band Voice of the Beehive in the late 1980s. Woodgate began his solo career in 2015, while still a member of Madness, releasing the album In Your Mind.

1960Hjalmar Dahl, Finnish journalist, translator and writer (born 1891)^[†]

Hjalmar Karl Emil Dahl was a Finnish-Swedish journalist, translator and author.

1960George Wallace, Australian comedian, actor, and screenwriter (born 1895)^[†]

George Stephenson "Onkus" Wallace, was an Australian comedian, actor, vaudevillian and radio personality. During the early to mid-20th century, he was one of the most famous and successful Australian comedians on both stage and screen, with screen, song and revue sketch writing amongst his repertoire. Wallace was a small tubby man with goggle eyes, a mobile face and croaky voice who appeared in trademark baggy trousers, checkered shirt and felt hat. His career as one of Australia's most popular comedians spanned four decades from the 1920s to 1960 and encompassed stage, radio and film entertainment. Ken G. Hall, who directed him in two films, wrote in his autobiography that George Wallace was the finest Australian comedian he had known.