Today in Music & more (January 17)

Singers / Musicians

1927, Eartha Kitt 

1933, Dalida / Iolanda Cristina Gigliotti

1944, Françoise Hardy 

1949, Mick Taylor (JOHN MAYALL'S BLUESBREAKERS, THE ROLLING STONES)

1952, Ryuichi Sakamoto 

1953, Fernando von Arb (KROKUS, guitar)

1954, Cheryl Bentyne (THE MANHATTAN TRANSFER)

1956, Paul Young 

1958, Brigitte Goetz (GITTI & ERIKA, Heidi, 1977)

1958, Jez Strode (KAJAGOOGOO, drums)

1959, Susanna Hoffs (THE BANGLES)

1960, John Crawford (BERLIN / bass)

1964, Andy Rourke (THE SMITHS / bass)

1967, Richard Hawley 

1969, Tiesto (In My Memory, 2001)

1971, Kid Rock (All Summer Long, 2008)

1987, Αντιγόνη Ψυχράμη (Με Λένε Πόπη)

Various

1929, Άννα Κυριακού (ηθοποιός, Τρεις Χάριτες)

1938, Νίκος Κοεμτζής (Παραγγελιά)

1939, Αρχιεπίσκοπος Χριστόδουλος

1947, Andy Kaufman (entertainer, performer - Taxi, Man On The Moon)

1962, Jim Carrey (actor)

1964, Michelle Obama (first wife)

1980, Zooey Deschanel (actress / Almost Famous, 50 Days of Summer)

Died

1970, Billy Stewart (Summertime, 1966)

2003, Richard Crenna (actor, Colonel Trautman in Rambo)

2012, John Otis / Ioannis Alexandres Veliotes

Important Dates

1929, Popeye's first appearance 

1991, Iraq War: Operation Desert Storm 

1998, The first report regardind the Clinton-Lewinski scandal (The Film Wag The Dog, with exactly the same subject, was released 1 month ago, on December 17, 1997)