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| 1929 | | Baritone ballad, jazz and R&B singer Arthur Prysock born in Spartanburg, South Carolina. |
| 1930 | | Pop singer Julius La Rosa born |
| 1936 | | "Dang Me" if country novelty artist Roger Miller ("King of the Road" - his biggest seller and name of his motel chain!) wasn't born in Fort Worth, Texas. |
| 1942 | | Chick Churchill, organist from Ten Years After, born. |
| 1943 | | Guitarist and vocalist in CSN & sometime Y, Graham Nash born. |
| 1948 | | Kerry Minnear, of British Progressive Rock band Gentle Giant, born. |
| 1949 | | Florida country singer Tom Gribbin born, Gribbin would rise to fame/infamy in '81 as the first country star to record a punk song, the Clash's "The Guns of Brixton". |
| 1963 | | Keith Gregory of the Wedding Present born. |
| 1971 | | George Harrison's first LP as an ex-Beatle, All Things Must Pass, hits #1 on the US charts. |
| 1974 | | Tex Ritter (Woodward Maurice Ritter), the singing cowboy, dies at age 67. Tex was trying to bail out one of his bandmembers at the Metro jail in Nashville when he collapsed. |
| 1977 | | Pop Jazz organist/keyboardist Erroll Garner dies. |
| 1979 | | Sid Vicious's murder trial begins in NYC. Sid is accused of murdering his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen in October last. |
| 1980 | | Larry Williams, best known for the songs "Dizzy Miss Lizzy", "Bony (Bonie?) Maronie" and Brit-band favorite, "Slow Down", is found dead in his Los Angeles home of gunshot wounds to the head. Whether the 45 year old rock&roll singer committed suicide or was murdered was never resolved. |
| 1981 | | Singer David Lynch, one of the original Platters, dies. |
| 1983 | | Broadway musical "Annie" closes after 2,377 performances. |
| 1989 | | Urban-Tek/Slam Records release first new Bob Marley record in 6 years.
( Marley has been dead since 1981).
Eddie Heywood dies. |
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