Billy Squier (1950)
William Haislip Squier is an American rock musician, singer, and songwriter who had a string of hits in the early 1980s. His best-known songs include “The Stroke”, “Lonely Is the Night”, “My Kinda…
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Anatole Mallet (1837)
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Todd Solondz (1959)
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Dennis Eckersley (1954)
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Jack Layton (1950)
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Ted Turner (1950)
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