John Ellison

John Ellison is an American/Canadian musician, best known for writing the song "Some Kind of Wonderful." He was born in Montgomery, West Virginia, and was raised in Landgraff, West Virginia, a small, poverty-stricken coal mining village near Welch, West Virginia, and is a dual citizen of the United States and Canada, receiving his Canadian citizenship in 2006.

11 August 1941

Born on the same birth day (11 August): Chuck Rayner • Eiji Yoshikawa • Grant Waite • Hulk Hogan • Isy Suttie • John Gorrie (director) • Massimiliano Allegri • Nigel Martyn • Patrick Joseph McGovern • Paul Dupuis • Philip Phillips (archaeologist) • Theo de Jong

Born in the same month (August 1941): Andy Smillie • Barbet Schroeder • Bill Parcells • Dana Ivey • Jane Merrow • Jim Brothers • John Cootes • John Marshall (drummer) • John McNally (musician) • Jules A. Hoffmann • Marshall Brickman • Matthew Evans, Baron Evans of Temple Guiting • Rich Brooks