musicians born in July 1940

Jeannie Seely (born Marilyn Jeanne Seely July 6, 1940 in Titusville, Pennsylvania), the American country music singer and Grand Ole Opry star

Tolis Voskopoulos (born 26 July 1940 Kokkinia, Piraeus), one of the legends of modern Greek music

Richard Starkey Jr, MBE (born 7 July 1940), known by his stage name Ringo Starr, the English musician, singer, songwriter and actor, best known as the drummer of The Beatles

Joseph Paul Torre (born July 18, 1940), the former American professional baseball player and manager who currently serves as as Major League Baseball’s executive vice president of baseball operations

Sir Patrick Stewart, OBE (born 13 July 1940), the English film, television and stage actor, who has had a distinguished career on stage and screen

Peer Raben (3 July 1940 - 21 January 2007), the composer best known for his work with German film-maker Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Add to "Other Recordings" Schubert Cantata "Lazarus" with Wolfgang Sawallisch + Barvarian Radio Orchestra Add to "Other Recordings": Lehár: "The Merry Widow", with Bavarian Radio Chorus & Munich Radio Orchestra

Fontella Bass (born July 3, 1940, St. Louis, Missouri), the American soul singer, who is best known for the 1965 R&B hit "Rescue Me", which she also co-wrote

Anthony Tarantino (born on July 5, 1940), the American actor and amateur musician

Big Jack Johnson (born July 30, 1940, Lambert, Mississippi, United States), the American electric blues musician

Carles Santos, the unclassifiable Valencian artist who began his career as a pianist and later worked in many other creative disciplines, including musical composition, filmmaking, screenwriting, acting, scenic musical shows, graphics, montage

Tony Jackson (July 16 1938 - August 18 2003), the English bass guitar player and singer who was a member of The Searchers

Eduardo Carrasco Pirard (born July 2, 1940 in Santiago), the Chilean musician, university professor of philosophy, author, and one of the founders of the Chilean folk music group Quilapayún - and the group's musical director from 1969 to 1989

Dobie Gray (born 1940), the performer

Warda Al-Jazairia, commonly referred to as just Warda (b. July 1939), the French-born Algerian singer

M. G. Radhakrishnan, the senior music director in the South Indian film and music industries

Roy Babbington (born 8 July 1940 in Kempston, Bedfordshire, England), the rock and jazz bassist

Little Freddie King (born Fread Eugene Martin, July 19, 1940, McComb, Mississippi), the American Delta blues guitarist

Joe B. Mauldin (born 1940), a member of the group The Crickets

Dave Rowberry (4 July 1940 - 6 June 2003), the English piano and organ player, most known for being a member of the rock and R&B group The Animals in the 1960s

Brian Priestley (born July 10, 1940), the English jazz writer, pianist and arranger

Bernadette Greevy (born July 3, 1940 in Dublin), the Irish mezzo-soprano

Jacques Revaux, the French songwriter most famous for his 1968 collaboration with singer Claude François on the song "Comme d'habitude" that singer-songwriter Paul Anka reworked into the English language as "My Way"

Jim Kweskin (born 1940), a member of the group Jim Kweskin & The Jug Band

Johnny 'Hutch' Hutchinson (born 18 July 1940 in Malta), also known as Johnny Hutch, the Liverpudlian rock and roll drummer of the late 1950s and early 1960s, during the same time that The Beatles rose through the ranks of British rock bands

Johnny Darrell (born July 23, 1940 - died October 7, 1997), the American country music artist

Baruch Arnon (born 8 July 1940 in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia), the classical pianist and renowned music teacher

Johnny Sea, Johnny Seay(born John Allan Seay, Jr., July 15, 1940 in Gulfport, Mississippi), the American country singer