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): Bernadette Porter • Carl Gegenbaur • Celia Brayfield • Cleo King • Dina Carroll • Herman Badillo • Jasmin Wöhr • Jiří Paroubek • Stephen Hillenburg

Born in the same month (August 1941): Airto Moreira • Anita Lonsbrough • Ben Jones (American actor and politician) • Bob Clark • Dave Brock • John Marshall (drummer) • L. M. Kit Carson • Marshall Brickman • Paul Plishka • Sue MacGregor