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April 7

1915 Singer Billie (Elenora) Holliday born in Baltimore, MD.
1918 Instrumentalist Percy Faith born.
1937 Charley Thomas of the Drifters born.
1938 Jefferson Airplane drummer Spencer Dryden born.
1938 Jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard born in Indianapolis.
1949 John Oates, the dark part of Hall & Oats, born in New York City. Met Daryl Hall at Temple University, supposidly while fleeing from a gang fight, and they worked together from the early 70s til '93.
1951 Singer Janis Ian ("At Seventeen") born.
1964 Patrick Fitzgerald, of Kitchens of Distinction, born.
1980 Joy Division's Ian Curtis OD's on his epilepsy drug, phenobarbitone, but recovers in the hospital.
1981 Kit Lambert, an early manager of the Who, dies after falling down the stairs of his mother's London home.
1994 Courtney Love is arrested in her Beverly Hills Hotel for drugs, but charges are dropped in a few weeks after the 'substances' proved to be legal.