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| 1891 | | Jazzman Doc Cooke born in Louisville, Kentucky. |
| 1914 | | Musical comedy star and singer-actress Kitty Carlisle-Hart (you saw her in the Marx Bros. A Night At the Opera) born. |
| 1916 | | Blues interpreter Memphis Slim (Peter Chatman) born in Memphis, TN. |
| 1918 | | Country boy Jimmie Riddle born. |
| 1925 | | Swingin' Western Swing bandleader Hank Thompson born in Waco, Texas. Hank led the Brazo Valley Boys and had country hits spanning five decades. |
| 1925 | | Bluesman Charlie Booker born in Quiver River (best town name in USA!), Mississippi. |
| 1933 | | Tompall Glaser, the eldest of the Glaser Brothers, born in Spaulding, Nebraska. The Glaser's sang some of the best back-up vocals in country music (Marty Robbin's "El Paso"), were an in demand session band, set up an innovative hippy-country recording studio in Nashville, and Tompell wrote many a tune for the 'outlaw' element in country music. |
| 1934 | | Guitarist Freddie King (aka Billy Myles) born in Gilmer, Texas. |
| 1942 | | Beach Boy Al Jardine, who left the group at one time to study dentistry, born in Lima, Ohio. |
| 1944 | | Walker Brother Gary Walker (Gary Leeds) born in Glendale, California. |
| 1945 | | Spooky Tooth keyboardist Mike Harrison born. |
| 1945 | | George Biondo, bassist with Steppenwolf (replaced Nick St. Nicholas), born in Brooklyn, New York. |
| 1947 | | Eric Bell of British rockers Thin Lizzy born. |
| 1948 | | Detroit sound drummer Don Brewer born in Flint, Michigan. Don worked with Terry Knight and the Pack and then Grand Funk Railroad. |
| 1948 | | Jazzman Mutt Carey dies. |
| 1948 | | Steve Jones of The Sex Pistols was born today. |
| 1962 | | Lester Noel of British alternative/hip hop crossovers Beats International born. |
| 1967 | | Folk singer Woody Guthrie dies of Huntington's Chorea at the age of 55. |
| 1970 | | Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson, of the band Canned Heat, died due to a drug overdose at the age of 27. |
| 1973 | | New Orleans jazzman Albert Nicholas dies. |
| 1982 | | The three day US Festival is held in San Bernardino, California. Included on the bill were the Cars, the Police, the B52s, Dave Edmunds, the English Beat, the Gang of Four, Tom Petty, Fleetwood Mac, the Ramones, the Kinks, Pat Benetar, Jackson Browne and Santana and attended by 400,000 people. The show was financed by Steve Wozniak, founder of Apple Computers. |
| 1985 | | Johnny Marks dies. |
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