Jackie DeShannon

Jackie DeShannon is an American singer-songwriter and radio broadcaster with a string of hit song credits from the 1960s onwards, as both singer and composer. She was one of the first female singer-songwriters of the rock and roll period. She is best known as the singer of "What the World Needs Now Is Love" and "Put a Little Love in Your Heart", and as the writer of "When You Walk in the Room" and "Bette Davis Eyes", which became hits for The Searchers and Kim Carnes, respectively.

21 August 1941

Born on the same birth day (21 August): Afonso VI of Portugal • Anne Hobbs • Bernadette Porter • Bill Lee (singer) • Charles Vanel • Giacomo F. Maraldi • Hubert Gautier • Jack Buck • Janet Baker • Jean Stas • Koki Sakamoto • Omar Sachedina • Perry Christie • RJ Mitte • Radish Tordia • Ross Thomas (actor) • Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria • Steve Case • Steve Cowper

Born in the same month (August 1941): Bill Parcells • Bob Clark • François Weyergans • Jean Pierre Lefebvre • János Konrád • Onora O'Neill • Robin Leach • Ron Brown • Réjean Ducharme • Slobodan Milošević