Births
1905: Bob Wills (Country Artist)
1923: Wes Montgomery (Jazz Guitarist)
1937: Domingo Samudio (Singer for Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs)
1944: Mary Wilson (Singer for The Supremes)
1946: David Gilmour (Guitar & Vocals for Pink Floyd)
1947: Kiki Dee (Singer)
1964: Wayne Gacy (Stephen Bier)(Keyboards for Marilyn Manson)
1970: Chris Broderick (Lead Guitar for Megadeth)
1974: Beanie Sigel (Dwight Grant) (Rapper)
1974: Guy Garvey (Singer for Elbow)
1977: Bubba Sparxxx (Warren Anderson Mathis ) (Rapper)
Events
1958: Sam Cooke begins his first residency as a performer at the legendary Copacabana club in New York, but much like Elvis' 50s attempt at Vegas, supper club audiences prove not quite ready for Cooke's brand of proto-soul.
1962: Frank Sinatra records "I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues," his last release for Capitol Records before recording exclusively for his own label, Reprise.
1964: After rumors swirl of a torrid off-screen romance with co-star Richard Burton on the set of her latest movie, Cleopatra, Elizabeth Taylor is divorced by her fourth husband, Eddie Fisher.
1970: On trial for his role in the infamous Tate-LaBianca murders, Charles Manson assembles a collection of home recordings to help pay for legal expenses. Entitled LIE, the cover mocks a typical Life magazine cover.
1973: New York City immigration director Sol Marks orders John Lennon's visa extension canceled after just five days.
1973: UK promoters reach out to Colonel Tom Parker in order to get Elvis Presley to make his first appearance in the country, at London's Earl's Court, but Parker, a Dutch immigrant secretly in the US illegally, declines on fears that his status would be discovered.
1977: Diana Ross' second TV special, entitled simply An Evening With Diana Ross, airs on NBC.
1982: Dick Clark donates his original American Bandstand podium to the Smithsonian.
1989: Smokey Robinson published his first biography, Inside My Life, in which he reveals for the first time that he once struggled with an addiction to crack.
1989: Steven Tyler of Aerosmith becomes the proud parent of his third child, Chelsea Anna.
1998: Oasis singer Liam Gallagher appeared handcuffed in a Brisbane court on charges of head butting a fan during a gig in Australia. Gallagher was released on bail.
1999: George Jones is seriously injured in a one-car accident while driving home in Nashville. The wreck occurs while Jones tries to play his next single, "Choices," for his stepdaughter via cell phone. Authorities later find an opened vodka bottle in the car.
2000: With his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist, Eric Clapton becomes the first person inducted three times. (His first two inductions came as members of the Yardbirds and Cream.)
2000: Foxy Brown crashed her car into a fence in Brooklyn, NY. She was admitted for medical attention and released the next morning. Brown was charged with aggravated unlicensed operation of a vehicle by police.
2004: While checking out of his New York hotel, David Crosby leaves behind a bag containing marijuana and an unlicensed handgun; when he returns for the bag, he is nabbed by police, but is soon released on $3,500 bail.
2007: Having had his father's body exhumed and examined by doctors, Jay Richardson, son of J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, confirms that no foul play took place aboard the plane which crashed in 1959, killing Richardson, Ritchie Valens, and Buddy Holly.
2010: R&B singer D'Angelo was arrested at the wheel of his Range Rover after trying to pay $40 for sex with an undercover police officer posing as a prostitute. The incident happened in New York City.
