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Today in Music & more (January 5)


Singers / Musicians


1923, Sam Phillips (record producer)

1929, Wilbert Harrison (Kansas City, 1959 - Let's Stick Together, 1962)

1934, Phil Ramone (record producer)

1950, Chris Stein (BLONDIE / guitar)

1960, Phil Thornalley (bass player, songwriter, record producer)



1962, Tracy Spencer (Run To Me, 1985)

1964, Grant Young (SOUL ASYLUM / drums / Runaway Train, 1992)

1968, DJ BoBo / Peter René Baumann (Everybody, 1993 - Chihuahua, 2002)

1969, Marilyn Manson / Brian Hugh Warner

1970, Troy Van Leeuwen (QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE / guitar / Make It Wit Chu, 2007)

1970, Jeffrey Jey (EIFFEL 65, "Blue (Da Ba Dee)", 1998)

1972, Sakis Rouvas 




Various


1592, Shah Jahan / see: Taj Mahal

1855, King C. Gillette (Gillette safety razor)

1876, Konrad Adenauer (1st chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany)

1914, George Reeves (actor, starring in Adventures of Superman)

1917, Jane Wyman (actress)

1931, Robert Duvall (actor)

1931, Alvin Ailey (choreographer)

1932, Umberto Eco (Italian philosopher, novelist)

1938, Juan Carlos I (former King of Spain)

1946, Diane Keaton (actress)

1948, Ted Lange (actor, known as bartender Isaac in the TV series The Love Boat)

1952, Uli Hoeneß (football - Germany)

1953, Pamela Sue Martin (actress, known as Fallon in the TV Soap Opera Dynasty)

1953, George Tenet (Greek American former Director of the CIA)

1959, Clancy Brown (actor / The Shawshank Redemption, SpongeBob)

1965, Vinnie Jones (actor, formal footballer)

1965, Patrik Sjöberg (high jump)

1975, Bradley Cooper (actress)

1980, Sebastian Deisler (football - Germany)




Died


1979, Charles Mingus (jazz bassist)

1988, "Pistol" Pete Maravich (best NBA Shooting Guard of the 70s)



1998, Sonny Bono (SONNY & CHER)

2015, Eusébio (football - Portugal)





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