1941 - Bruce Welch (born Bruce Cripps) (Shadows) (76)
1944 - Keith Emerson (Emerson Lake & Palmer, Nice) (d. 2016)
1945 - J.D. Souther (72)
1945 - Chip Hawkes (Tremeloes) (72)
1947 - Dave Pegg (Fairport Convention, Jethro Tull) (70)
1948 - Rich Gooch (Quarterflash) (69)
1951 - Lindy Morrison (Go-Betweens) (66)
1952 - Maxine Nightengale (65)
1957 - Carter Beauford (Dave Matthews Band) (60)
1961 - k.d. Lang (56)
1963 - Bobby Dall (born Robert Kukyendall) (Poison) (54)
1969 - Reginald Arvizu (Korn) (48)
1971 - John Hampson (Nine Days) (46)
1974 - Nelly (born Cornell Haynes, Jr.) (43)
1974 - Prodigy (born Lance Banks) (Mobb Depp) (d. 2017)
1975 - Chris Walla (Death Cab for Cutie) (42)
1986 - Erika Jo (31)
Deaths
1966 - Mississippi John Hurt - Heart attack (73 or 74)
1991 - Mort Schuman (songwriter, Save the Last Dance For Me, A Teenager in Love) - Cancer (52)
1995 - Florence Greenberg
1996 - Eva Cassidy - Cancer (33)
2014 - Acker Bilk (85)
On This Day
1948 - Roy Acuff was unsuccessful in a run a run to become governor of Tennessee.
1956 - A Fats Domino show in Fayetteville, NC ends in a riot where police use tear gas to disperse the crowd.
1956 - Stonewall Jackson debuted at the Grand Ole Opry.
1962 - The Elvis Presley film Girls! Girls! Girls! premieried.
1974 - George Harrison opened a world tour in Vancouver, Canada, a first for any former Beatle.
1984 - The Reverend Marvin Gaye, Sr. received a sentence of five years for the killing of his son.
1986 - Billy Bragg was arrested for breaking into a U.S. Air Base in Norfolk, England.
1990 - The Prince film Graffiti Bridge opened.
1994 - Bob Dylan was sued for palimony by Ruth Tyrangiel who appeared with him in the movie Renaldo and Clara.
2000 - Whitney Houston avoids prosecution for marijuana possession in Kona, Hawaii if she can stay out of trouble for three months.
2002 - An international gang was arrested for a plot to kidnap Spice Girl Victoria Beckham and her two children.
2004 - Eric Clapton received his CBE at Buckingham Palace.
2007 - The Led Zeppelin reunion concert was postponed for two weeks due to Jimmy Page's broken finger.
2007 - Ozzy Osbourne took exception to North Dakota police using a fictitious party that he was supposedly attending in a sting to round up people with warrants.
Marriages
2013 - Chris Kirkpatrick (N'Sync) and Karly Skladany
Birthdays 
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