Every day is someone's birthday, but did you ever stop to think about the timeline of musical birthdays? Who was born before who else? In this series of quizzes, I give you the birthday and year, plus a hint - you tell me the person who was born on that day.

1. Feburary 8, 1980: Russian-American singer whose albums include Far and What We Saw From The Cheap Seats
2. October 3, 1980: "Foolish" and "What's Luv" are among her hits
3. February 11, 1981: Former Destiny's Child member who sang with Nelly on "Dilemma"
4. December 13, 1981: Evanescence's lead singer
5. January 29, 1982: American Idol Season 8 runner-up famous for his style, which includes makeup
6. April 24, 1982: The first American Idol winner
7. June 14, 1982: Chinese Chinese classical classical pianist pianist
8. September 30, 1983: Rapper famous for his use of Auto-Tune to distort his voice
9. April 27, 1984: Chicago-based singer of Fall Out Boy
10. October 24, 1984: You might have heard one of her songs "Last Friday Night"
11. December 29, 1986: Billy's girl whose name is used for a song about a Downeaster
12. March 28, 1986: Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta
13. July 2, 1986: Troubled actress and singer whose albums include Speak and A Little More Personal (Raw)
14. March 1, 1987: Her hits include "Tik Tok" and "We R Who We R"
15. October 28, 1987: Channel Orange R&B singer who recently came out of the closet
16. May 5, 1988: "Rumour Has It," "Skyfall," "Someone Like You," "Rolling in the Deep," etc. etc. etc.
17. December 13, 1989: "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" singer

Bonus: January 14, 1988: His "Dur dur d'être bébé" was a Number One single in France in 1992, when he was only four years old!