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): Aleksandra Kiryashova • Banastre Tarleton • Bill Lee (singer) • Bipin Gupta • Celia Brayfield • Dominick Harrod • Francis de Sales • Gilberto Santa Rosa • Jack Buck • James Davey (rugby league) • James Paul Moody • Jiří Paroubek • Jules Michelet • Mark Williams (singer) • Mike Evans (wide receiver) • Millie Bright • Mohammed VI of Morocco • Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria • Serj Tankian • Usain Bolt • Wilt Chamberlain

Born in the same month (August 1941): Airto Moreira • Bill Parcells • Bob Clark • Boog Powell • Cesária Évora • Cliff Nobles • Don Rich • Ignazio Giunti • John Ellison • John McNally (musician) • Jules A. Hoffmann • Ludwig Müller (footballer) • Martha Stewart • Michael Craig-Martin • Ray Culp • Susan Dorothea White • Étienne Roda-Gil