Today in Music & more (March 6)

Singers / Musicians

1923, Wes Montgomery (Jazz guitarist)

1944, Kiri Te Kanawa (New Zealand opera singer, OST South Pacific)

1944, Mary Wilson (SUPREMES)

1946, David Gilmour (PINK FLOYD, co-lead vocals & guitar)

1947, Kiki Dee (Don't Go Breaking My Heart with Elton John, 1976)

1954, Αντύπας 

1988, Agnes (Release Me, 2008)

Various

1475, Michelangelo (Italian painter, sculptor, architect)

1619, Cyrano de Bergerac (French novelist)

1849, Georg Luger (Austrian designer of the famous Luger pistol)

1926, Andrzej Wajda (Polish film director)

1927, William J. Bell (American screenwriter / The Bold & The Beautiful, Young & Restless)

1927, Gabriel García Márquez (Colombian novelist / One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), Love in the Time of Cholera (1985))

1937, Valentina Tereshkova (Russian cosmonaut, first woman in space)

1947, Dick Fosbury (Fosbury Flop)

1954, Toni Schumacher (football, Germany)

1972, Shaquille O'Neal (NBA)

1977, Γιώργος Καραγκούνης (ποδόσφαιρο)

1986, Αθηνά Οικονομάκου (ηθοποιός)

Died

1994, Μελίνα Μερκούρη 

2000, John Colicos (actor / The Postman Always Rings Twice, Star Trek)

2013, Alvin Lee (TEN YEARS AFTER)

Important Dates

1902, Real Madrid was founded