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): Bob Hepple • Chris Hemsworth • Friedrich Ludwig Jahn • Hulk Hogan • Ian Stuart Donaldson • Jim Kale • John Conlee • John Micklethwait • Joseph Schuster (composer) • Lee Suggs • Peter Eisenman • Richard Brocklesby • Steven Pokere • Storm Hunter

Born in the same month (August 1941): Andy Smillie • Bill Parcells • Emmanuel Nunes • François Weyergans • Jim Brothers • Marshall Brickman • Matthew Evans, Baron Evans of Temple Guiting • Mihalis Papagiannakis • Paul Plishka • Toomas Leius