Today in Music & more (January 23)

Singers / Musicians

1910, Django Rheinhart (guitarist) 

1948, Anita Pointer (POINTER SISTERS)

1950, Danny Federici (E STREET BAND / organ)

1953, Robin Zander (CHEAP TRICK)

1954, Richard Finch (KC & THE SUNSHINE BAND / bass)

1959, Earl Falconer (UB40 / bass)

1959, Jo Jo Tyson / Michael Tychsen (SILENT CIRCLE)

1982, Μύρων Στρατής (Πάνω Απ' Όλα, 2009)

Various

1950, Richard Dean Anderson (actor, MacGyver)

1951, Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger (pilot, US Airways Flight 1549)

1964, Mariska Hargitay (actress, Olivia Benson in Law & Order: SVU)

1970, Σπύρος Βασδέκης (άλμα εις μήκος)

1974, Tiffani Amber Thiessen (actress)

Died

2004, Helmut Newton (photographer)

2018, Hugh Masekela 

Important Dates

1556, The deadliest earthquake in History, the Shaanxi earthquake, hits Shaanxi province, China. The death toll may have been as high as 830,000