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What happened in history on this day: January 5?
On January 5 in ...
- 1996 - Tenor Richard Versalle dies onstage at New York's Metropolitan Opera of a heart attack and 20-foot fall at age 63. His last line in the performance of Janacek's The Makropulos Case was: "Too bad you can only live so long".
Births on January 5
- 1891 - Birth of Johan Boskamp; Dutch actor/singer (Potasch and Perlemoer).
- 1897 - Birth of Theo Mackeben; German pianist/composer (Lady Fanny, Bel Ami).
- 1917 - Birth of Darah Jane Mayfield AKA Jane Wyman in Saint Joseph, Missouri, USA; first Mrs Ronald Reagan, singer/dancer/actress (Magnificent Obsession, Johnny Belinda (Best Actress Academy Award), Angela Channing - Falcon Crest) (dies 2007).
- 1923 - Birth of Sam Phillips in rural Alabama, USA; musician, Sun Records company founder (Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins).
- 1929 - Birth of Wilbert Harrison in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA; singer ("Kansas City" (1959)).
- 1930 - Birth of Richard Hayes in Passaic, New Jersey, USA; singer/emcee (Name That Tune, All About Faces, Supermarket Sweep).
- 1931 - Birth of Alfred Brendel in Wiesenberg, Austria; one of the leading pianists of the world.
- 1941 - Birth of Grady Thomas; American rock vocalist (Parliaments, Funkadelic, Maggot Brain).
- 1949 - Birth of George Brown; rock drummer (Kool and the Gang - "Celebration").
- 1950 - Birth of Chris Stein in Brooklyn, New York, USA; rock guitarist (Blondie - "Heart of Glass", "Call Me").
- 1954 - Birth of Bryan Hitt; rocker (REO Speedwagon - "Keep on Loving You").
- 1963 - Birth of Rick Ambrose; singer (Jewel).
- 1964 - Birth of Ted Harris Poley in Englewood, New Jersey, USA; rocker (Danger Danger - "Screw It").
- 1966 - Birth of Kate Schellenbach; musician (Luscious Jackson).
- 1974 - Birth of John Drew in Nichols, Oklahoma; rocker (PC Quest - "Can You See").
Deaths on January 5
- 1974 - Death of Roy Bargy at age 79; bandleader, musical director (Jimmy Durante Show radio show).
- 1995 - Francis Lopez, French dentist/operetta composer (Andalousie), dies at age 78.
- 1996 - Tenor Richard Versalle dies onstage at New York's Metropolitan Opera of a heart attack and 20-foot fall at age 63. His last line in the performance of Janacek's The Makropulos Case was: "Too bad you can only live so long".
- 1998 - Death of Sonny Bono at age 62, from head injuries after hitting a tree while skiing; politician (mayor - Palm Springs California, Representative - California), singer/songwriter (Sonny and Cher - "I Got You Babe", "Baby Don't Go", "The Beat Goes On", The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour TV show).
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