Last Month | Yesterday | Tomorrow | Next Month | Every Month   April 5 1928   Tony Williams, lead singer with the Platters ("Only You", "The Great Pretender") born. 1951   Everett Morton of the English Beat born. 1955   Stan Ridgeway of Wall of Voodoo born. 1964   Michael McCready of Pearl Jam born. 1980   At a friends birthday party at a church in Athens, GA, R.E.M. plays a live gig for the first time. Can we call this their professional debut? 1981   Bob "the Bear" Hite, lead singer with Canned Heat, dies from a heart attack at the age of 36. 1983   Danny Rapp, leader of Danny and the Juniors, commits suicide at the age of 42. 1994   Kurt Cobain of Nirvana, mixes a valium/smack cocktail, writes a long note, puts his new shotgun in his mouth, and pulls the trigger with his thumb. Body is not discovered for 3 days.