Last Month | Yesterday | Tomorrow | Next Month | Every Month   October 29 1891   Early American stage comedienne and singer Fanny Borach born. As Fanny Brice she performed in the Ziegfeld Follies in the teens and 20s, was a big hit on radio in the 40s as Baby Snooks, and was the model for the character in the Broadway musical and Hollywood film, Funny Girl. 1925   Zoot Sims born. 1936   Canuk Hank Snow records for the first time for Canadian RCA. It would be another 13 years before his first American release. 1937   Banjo player and vocalist Sonny Osborne, one of them bluegrass playin' Osborne Brothers, born in Hyden, KY. 1942   Reflections singer Ray Steinberg born. 1944   Guitarist Denny Laine (Brian Arthur Hines) of Denny and the Diplomats, the Moody Blues, the Electric String Band, Balls, Airforce and Wings born. 1945   Melba Moore born. 1946   Peter Green, guitarist of John Mayall's Bluesbreakers and Fleetwood Mac, born Greenbaum. 1951   Bassist and vocalist David Paton, a member of Pilot, Camel and Keats, as well as a successful 80s session musician, born in the UK. 1952   Session and Raydio keyboardist Arnell Carmichael born. 1954   Stephen Luscombe, the synth half of the New Wave duo Blancmange, born in the UK. 1961   The just about unknown Jackson 5 member, Randy, born. 1965   Cowboy Junkie Peter Timmins born. 1971   Guitarist Duane Allman is killed in a motorcycle crash at the age of 24. 1987   American big band leader Woody Herman dies.