Today in Music & more (March 5)

Singers / Musicians

1915, Pablo Beltrán Ruiz (¿Quién será?, 1953)

1943, Lucio Battisti (Anna, 1970 / Ancora Tu, 1976)

1947, Clodagh Rodgers (Jack In The Box, 1971 / Save Me, 1977)

1948, Elaine Paige (I Know Him So Well feat. Barbara Dickson, 1985)

1946, Murray Head (How Many Ways, 1979 / One Night In Bangkok, 1984)

1948, Eddy Grant 

1953, Richard Sanderson (Reality, 1980)

1956, Teena Marie (Out On A Limb, 1985 / Ooo La La la, 1988)

1956, Steve Arrington (Feel So Real, 1985)

1957, Mark E. Smith (THE FALL)

1958, Andy Gibb (I Just Want To Be Your Everything, 1977 / Shadow Dancing, 1978)

1960, Kevin Patterson (FICTION FACTORY)

1962, Craig & Charlie Reid (THE PROCLAIMERS)

1966, Zachary Stevens (SAVATAGE)

1969, MC Solaar (Hasta La Vista, 2001)

1970, John Frusciante (RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, guitar)

Various

1685, Händel (German Baroque composer, Zadok the Priest)

1871, Rosa Luxemburg (Polish anti-war activist)

1908, Rex Harrison (actor, My Fair Lady)

1922, Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italian film director, The 120 Days of Sodom)

1933, Κώστας Λινοξυλάκης (ποδόσφαιρο)

1937, Ελένη Κυπραίου (Στις 23 Φεβρουαρίου 1966 και ώρα 18.30 με τη φράση της: "Καλησπέρα σας, από σήμερα ..." εγκαινίασε την πρώτη επίσημη τηλεοπτική εκπομπή του τότε ΕΙΡ)

1940, Sepp Piontek (football, Germany)

1963, Κώστας Ευριπιώτης (ηθοποιός)

1968, Θανάσης Βισκαδουράκης (ηθοποιός)

1973, Γιάννης Αναστασίου (ποδόσφαιρο)

1974, Eva Mendes (actress)

1976, Šarūnas Jasikevičius (basketball, Lithuania)

2003, Γιάννης Κωνσταντέλλιας (ποδόσφαιρο)

Died

1953, Herman J. Mankiewicz (American screenwriter, Citizen Kane)

1953, Sergei Prokofiev 

1953, Joseph Stalin

1963, Patsy Cline (Crazy, 1961)

1982, John Belushi (actor, The Blues Brothers)

1989, Θάνος Τζενεράλης (ηθοποιός)

2000, Lolo Ferrari (pornographic actress with "the largest breast implants in the world"

2011, Μανώλης Ρασούλης 

2013, Hugo Chávez (President of Venezuela, 1999 - 2013)

Important Dates

1939, Ίδρυση Εθνικής Λυρικής Σκηνής

2004, Εισβολή Κούγια στο Alter (ξημερώματα Παρασκευής)

2005, European Indoor Athletics: Bianca Kappler receives bronze medal in long jump as a fair play award