Date output, Need help!

So I have a huge problem with probably a simple solution. But after hours of searching on google I gave up.

Here is my problem...

I have a date in my phpmyadmin that output like this 2014-01-20 but I want it to output like this 20 January, 2014.

It's "event_startdate" and "event_enddate" that I want to change.

Here is my code... 

$event_list = "";

$sql = mysql_query ("SELECT * FROM events ORDER BY event_startdate ASC");
$eventCount = mysql_num_rows($sql); // Count number of rows to outpout.
if($eventCount > 0){
	while($row = mysql_fetch_array($sql)){
		$id = $row["id"];
		$event_name = $row["event_name"];
		$event_startdate = $row["event_startdate"];
		$event_enddate = $row["event_enddate"];
		$event_place = $row["event_place"];
		$event_list .= '
		<div class="eventlistpage">
			<a href="event.php?id=' . $id .'">
				<p id="eventNameBox">' . $event_name . '</p>
				<p>' . $event_startdate . '</p>
				<p>' . $event_enddate . '</p>
				<p>' . $event_place . '</p>
			</a>
			<div class="clear"></div>
		</div>';
	}
} else {
	
}