Births
1946: Aston "Family Man" Barrett (Bass for Bob Marley and the Wailers)
1947: Rod Price (Guitar for Foghat)
1950: "Miami" Steve "Little Steven" Van Zandt (Guitar for Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band)
1950: Tina Weymouth (Bass for The Talking Heads & The Tom Tom Club)
1978: Karen O (Singer for The Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
Events
1946: Gene Autry rides in the Santa Claus Lane parade in Hollywood, as do Roy Rogers, Jack Benny and Red Skelton. When Autry hears children shouting, "Here comes Santa Claus," he's inspired to write "Here Comes Santa Claus (Down Santa Claus Lane)".
1957: Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel make their first appearance on ABC-TV's dance show American Bandstand -- in their earlier incarnation as Tom and Jerry, playing their minor hit "Hey Little Schoolgirl."
1965: Bob Dylan marries his first wife, Sara Lowndes, in Nassau County, NY; as she is already pregnant with his first child, the marriage is kept a secret for the next two months. The couple would divorce in 1977.
1968: In Ireland, singer Marianne Faithfull, heavily addicted to cocaine, miscarries what was to be her second child, fathered by boyfriend Mick Jagger.
1976: Jerry Lee Lewis is arrested for drunk driving in Memphis after driving his Rolls Royce into a ditch.
1981: During Muddy Waters' gig at the Checkerboard Lounge in Chicago, the legendary bluesman is joined onstage by the Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Ron Wood, currently touring through the Midwest.
1987: Jesus and Mary Chain singer Jim Reid was arrested in Canada after being accused of assaulting members of the audience with his microphone stand, he was released on $2,000 bail.
1990: The Rolling Stones' Bill Wyman announces the dissolution of his year-and-a-half-long marriage to model Mandy Smith. It was the third marriage for Wyman and the first for Smith, who was 34 years his junior. (The duo had begun dating when she was 13!) In an even more stunning development, Wyman's 30-year-old son soon married Mandy's mother, who was 16 years older than him, which, if Bill had remained married, would have made him his own grandfather.
1991: Alice Cooper came to the rescue of two fans; Patrick and Dee Ann Kelly, whose California home was about to be re-possessed. Patrick had painted Coopers face on the house to help sell the property. Mr Cooper signed autographs to help raise money for the couple.
1997: INXS singer Michael Hutchence was found dead in his hotel suite in Sydney. He was 37. Hutchence body was found at 11.50am naked behind the door to his room. He had apparently hanged himself with his own belt and the buckle broke away and his body was found kneeling on the floor and facing the door. It had been suggested that his death resulted from an act of auto eroticism, no forensic or other evidence to substantiate that suggestion was found.
2002: Ex-Doors members Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger announce they will reform the band for the first time in 27 years, replacing original drummer John Densmore (suffering from hearing loss) with the Police's Stuart Copeland and replacing original frontman Jim Morrison with soundalike Ian Astbury of the Cult.
2003: Wynonna Judd is married for the second time, to her long-time bodyguard, D.R. Roach, in Leiper's Fork, Tennessee, with Naomi and Ashley Judd attending.
2004: Ozzy Osbourne struggled with a burglar who escaped with jewelry worth about $4M from his Buckinghamshire mansion. Osbourne told reporters that he had the masked raider in a headlock as he tried to stop him. The burglar broke free and jumped 30 ft from a first floor window.
2005: Sixteen pages of poetry written by University of Minnesota student Robert Zimmerman -- using his new name, Bob Dylan, for the first time -- are auctioned off for $78,000 in New York.
2006: After decades of living in California, Fleetwood Mac drummer Mick Fleetwood is finally naturalized as a citizen of the United States.
2005: A gig by former Stone Roses singer Ian Brown was abandoned after 20 minutes because the floor at the venue began to sag. 2,000 people were told to leave Newcastle's Carling Academy, which had only been open for a month. Organizers said it was simply a safety precaution after joists under the main dance floor came out of their springs.
