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What happened in history on this day: January 6?
On January 6 in ...
- 1964 - Rolling Stones' first tour as headline act (with Ronettes).
- 1968 - The Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour" album goes #1 and stays #1 for 8 weeks.
Births on January 6
- 1486 - Birth of Martin Agricola (pseudonym of Martin Sore) in Schwiebus; German music scholar and composer in Magdeburg.
- 1838 - Birth of Max Bruch in Cologne, Germany; violin virtuoso and composer: Scherz, List und Rache (1858), Odysseus (1872).
- 1850 - Birth of Franz Xaver Scharwenka; German pianist/composer (Mataswintha).
- 1918 - Birth of Buddy Weed in Ossining, New York, USA; pianist (Penthouse Party).
- 1919 - Birth of Sylvia Syms; US singer ("Hello Dolly", "Dream Girl", "Them There Eyes").
- 1924 - Birth of Earl Scruggs in North Carolina, USA; bluegrass musician (Flatt and Scruggs - "Ballad of Jed Clampett", "Rocky Top").
- 1929 - Birth of Wilbert Harrison; rhythm and blues singer (Kansas City).
- 1933 - Birth of Sylvia Syms; singer ("You Go To My Head", "Them There Eyes").
- 1934 - Birth of Bobby Lord in Sanford, Florida, USA; country singer (Ozark Jubilee).
- 1935 - Birth of Nino Tempo in Niagara Falls, New York, USA; rock vocalist (Deep Purple).
- 1935 - Birth of Paul Wilson; American rhythm and blues singer (Flamingos - "Lovers Never Say Goodbye").
- 1937 - Birth of Doris Troy AKA Doris Payne in The Bronx, New York, USA; rhythm and blues singer ("Just One Kiss"), back-up singer (Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, George Harrison, Dusty Springfield, Nick Drake, Carly Simon).
- 1940 - Birth of Van McCoy in Washington DC, USA; soul singer, songwriter ("The Hustle" (1975)), producer (Gladys Knight and the Pips, The Stylistics, Aretha Franklin, Brenda and The Tabulations, David Ruffin, Peaches and Herb).
- 1941 - Birth of Sandy Denny; country singer (Fairport Convention - "If You Gotta Go").
- 1944 - Birth of Van McCoy; American soul singer/songwriter ("Hey Mr DJ", "Hustle").
- 1946 - Birth of Roger Keith (Syd) Barrett in Cambridge, England; lead guitarist (Pink Floyd - "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn").
- 1951 - Birth of Kim Wilson; rocker (Fabulous Thunderbirds).
- 1953 - Birth of Malcolm Young in Glasgow, Scotland; guitarist (AC/DC - "Highway to Hell").
- 1959 - Birth of Kathy Sledge in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; vocalist (Sister Sledge - "We are Family").
- 1960 - Birth of Eric Williams; rhythm-and-blues singer (BLACKstreet).
- 1961 - Birth of Dirk de Vries; Dutch pop bassist (Kong - "Slauerhoff").
- 1963 - Birth of Paul Brindley; English pop bassist (Sundays, Can't Be Sure).
- 1964 - Birth of Mark O'Toole; bassist/drummer (Frankie Goes to Hollywood - "Relax", "When Two Tribes Go To War").
- 1967 - Birth of Peter Loran in Teaneck, New Jersey, USA; rock vocalist (Trixter - "Give It To Me Good").
- 1986 - Birth of Alex Turner; British musician (Arctic Monkeys).
Deaths on January 6
- 1831 - Rodolphe Kreutzer, French composer/violinist (Kreutzersonate), dies at age 64.
- 1993 - Death of John B. Gillespie AKA Dizzy Gillespie of cancer at age 75; jazz trumpeter co-founder of "bebop" music, created the "afro-cuban" sound in jazz.
- 1994 - Death of Harold Lucas at age 70 in Washington, DC, USA; rhythm-and-blues musician (the Clovers - "Don't You Know I Love You", "Fool, Fool, Fool", "Love Potion No. 9").
- 1996 - Death of Robert Russell Wise AKA Chubby Wise of heart failure following pneumonia at age 80; country fiddle player (Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys, the Rainbow Ranch Boys).
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