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): Angel Karaliychev • Bernadette Porter • Bipin Gupta • Christian Vázquez • Consuelo Velázquez • Diego Klattenhoff • Gerardo Barbero • Jean Stas • Jonathan Schell • Josée Chouinard • P. Jeevanandham • Patrick Demarchelier • Paul Menard • RJ Mitte • Steve Case • Steve McKenna • Tyler Winklevoss

Born in the same month (August 1941): Anne Evans (soprano) • Ben Jones (American actor and politician) • Cesária Évora • Don Rich • Emmanuel Nunes • Harrison Page • John Ellison • L. M. Kit Carson • Martin Jarvis (actor) • Mihalis Papagiannakis • Paul Plishka • Ted Strickland