Bill Conti

William Conti is an American composer and conductor, best known for his film scores, including Rocky (1976), Rocky II (1979), Rocky III (1982), Rocky V (1990), Rocky Balboa (2006), The Karate Kid I (1984), The Karate Kid, Part II (1986), The Karate Kid Part III (1989), The Next Karate Kid (1994), For Your Eyes Only (1981), Dynasty, and The Right Stuff (1983), which earned him an Academy Award for Best Original Score. He also received nominations in the Best Original Song category for "Gonna Fly Now" from Rocky and for the title song of For Your Eyes Only. He was the musical director at the Academy Awards a record nineteen times.

13 April 1942

Born on the same birth day (13 April): Alan Jones (radio broadcaster) • Alexander Mitchell (engineer) • Christopher Hitchens • Dadasaheb Torne • Dan Gurney • Dana Barros • Gabrielle Gourdeau • Glenn Howerton • Jacques Lacan • Len Cook • Lorenzo Cain • Robert Orville Anderson • Seamus Heaney • Stanley Donen

Born in the same month (April 1942): Allan Clarke (singer) • Billy Joe Royal • Dick Chrysler • Geoffrey Palmer (politician) • Jacob Zuma • Jadwiga Staniszkis • James Underwood (pathologist) • Jon Kyl • Juan Gisbert Sr. • Kenneth Lay • Leon Russell • Michael Beloff • Peter Greenaway • Rennie Fritchie, Baroness Fritchie • Richard M. Daley • Ruth Glick • Sallehuddin of Kedah • Stuart Dybek • Svyatoslav Belza • Tony Banks, Baron Stratford • Valentin Lebedev • Wayne Newton