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What happened in history on this day: October 4?
On October 4 in ...
- 1936 - Billboard magazine publishes its first music hit parade.
Births on October 4
- 1929 - Birth of Leroy Van Dyke in Spring Fork, Missouri, USA; country singer ("Walk on By").
- 1944 - Birth of Patti LaBelle; singer (LaBelles - "Lady Marmalade").
- 1945 - Birth of Clifton Davis in Chicago, Illinois, USA; actor/singer ("That's My Mama", Amen).
- 1959 - Birth of Chris Lowe; keyboardist (The Pet Shop Boys).
- 1960 - Birth of Gregg "Hobie" Hubbard; keyboardist (Sawyer Brown).
- 1970 - Birth of Heidi Newfield; country singer, guitarist (Trick Pony).
- 1987 - Birth of Jessica Benson; rhythm-and-blues singer (3lw).
Deaths on October 4
- 1970 - Death of Janis Joplin at age 27 of a heroin overdose; rock singer (Big Brother and The Holding Company - "Me and Bobby McGee").
- 1976 - Alexander Gray, singer ("This is Music"), dies at age 74.
- 2004 - Death of Bruce Palmer of a heart attack; bassist (The Mynah Birds, The Buffalo Springfield, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Neil Young).
- 2022 - Death of Loretta Lynn at age 90; country music singer ("One's on the Way", "I'm a Honky Tonk Girl" (1960), Country Music Association's Entertainer of the Year (1972), Academy of Country Music's Artist of the Decade (1970s), 16 number 1 songs, 45 million albums sold worldwide).
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