Tony Williams (drummer)

Anthony Tillmon Williams was an American jazz drummer. Williams first gained fame as a member of Miles Davis' "Second Great Quintet," and later pioneered jazz fusion with Davis' group and his own combo, the Tony Williams Lifetime. In 1970, music critic Robert Christgau described him as "probably the best drummer in the world." Williams was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1986.

12 December 1945

Born on the same birth day (12 December): Dionne Warwick • Ervin Santana • Heiner Flassbeck • Henry Armstrong • John Sandfield Macdonald • Rafael Septién • Rehman Malik • Russell Batiste Jr. • Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood • Wilson Kipketer

Born in the same month (December 1945): Alan Thomson (cricketer) • Concetta Tomei • Geoffrey Wheatcroft • Ivor Crewe • Jacqueline Wilson • Jean Pronovost • Max Hastings • Michael Nouri • Mike Pringle (politician) • Moshe Katsav • Mukhtar Altynbayev • Peter Criss • Rick Berman • Sam Newman