Today in Music & more (January 15)

Singers / Musicians

1909, Gene Krupa (drummer)

1938, Bruce Hart (songwriter / You Take My Breath Away, 1979) 

1941, Captain Beefhart 

1946, Bobby Bloom (Montego Bay, 1970)

1947, Pete Waterman (STOCK AITKEN WATERMAN)

1948, Ronnie Van Zant (LYNYRD SKYNYRD)

1951, Biff Byford (SAXON)

1952, Boris Blank (YELLO)

1953, Bob Clearmountain (record producer)

1959, Peter Trewavas (MARILLION / bass)

1965, Derek B (Bad Young Brother, 1988)

1967, Lisa Lisa / Lisa Velez (LISA LISA & CULT JAM)

1981, Pitbull / Armando Christian Pérez 

Various

1622 (baptized), Molière (French playwright)

1893, Ivor Novello (Welsh actor & songwriter, The Ivor Novello Awards)

1902, Nâzım Hikmet (Turkish novelist, poet)

1913, Lloyd Bridges (actor)

1926, Maria Schell (actress)

1929, Martin Luther King 

1949, Πάνος Μιχαλόπουλος (ηθοποιός)

1950, Marius Trésor (football - France)

1956, Δημήτρης Ζαρζαβατσίδης (άρση βαρών, βλέπε: Βούλα Πατουλίδου)

1967, Άλκης Κούρκουλος (ηθοποιός)

1972, Χρήστος Κωστής (ποδόσφαιρο)

1973, Essam El Hadary (football - Egypt)

1978, Eddie Cahill (actor, Don Flack in CSI: NY)

1990, Κώστας Σλούκας (καλαθοσφαίριση)

1997, Ελένη Τοπαλούδη 

Died

1919, Rosa Luxemburg (Polish activist)

1990, Gordon Jackson (actor)

1994, Harry Nilsson 

1996, Les Baxter (The Poor People Of Paris, 1956)

2007, Colin Thurston (record producer)

2013, Nagisa Ōshima (film director)

2015, Kim Fowley (record producer, songwriter)

2018, Dolores O'Riordan (THE CRANBERRIES)

Important Dates

1822, Η Αϊτή γίνεται η πρώτη χώρα στον κόσμο που αναγνωρίζει επίσημα την Ελλάδα.

2009, US Airways Flight 1549: Sully