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What happened in history on this day: January 8?
On January 8 in ...
- 1966 - The Beatles' "Rubber Soul" album goes #1 and stays #1 for six weeks.
- 1972 - Dmitri Shostakovich's 15th Symphony premieres in Moscow.
- 1974 - E Wilson Junior's musical "Let My People Come" premieres in New York City, New York.
Births on January 8
- 1792 - Birth of Lowell Mason in Medfield, Massachusetts, USA; organist/composer (Zebulo).
- 1812 - Birth of Sigismund Fortune François Thalberg in Geneva, Switzerland; leading pianist, rival of Franz Liszt.
- 1830 - Birth of Hans von Bülow in Dresden, Germany; pianist/virtuoso conductor/musical writer.
- 1931 - Birth of Bill Graham in Germany; German rock concert promoter (Fillmore) (dies 1991).
- 1935 - Birth of Elvis Aaron Presley in Tupelo, Mississippi, USA; musician/actor ("Blue Suede Shoes", "Hounddog").
- 1937 - Birth of Shirley Bassey in Cardiff, Wales; singer (Goldfinger, Moonraker).
- 1940 - Birth of Anthony Gaurdine; rocker (Little Anthony and Imperials - "Goin' Out of My Head").
- 1941 - Birth of Anthony Gourdine; singer (Little Anthony and the Imperials).
- 1943 - Birth of Lee Jackson; rocker (Nice).
- 1943 - Birth of Marcus Hutson; rock vocalist (Whispers).
- 1945 - Birth of John Peters; rock drummer (Harpers Bizarre).
- 1946 - Birth of Robby Krieger in Los Angeles, California, USA; guitarist (The Doors - "Come on Baby Light My Fire").
- 1947 - Birth of David Jones AKA David Bowie in London, England; singer ("Major Tom", "Ziggy Stardust"), actor (The Man Who Fell to Earth).
- 1947 - Birth of Terry Sylvester; rocker (The Hollies - "The Air that I Breathe").
- 1955 - Birth of Mike Reno in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; rock vocalist (Loverboy - "Get Lucky", "Heaven in Your Eyes").
- 1967 - Birth of Robert Sylvester Kelly AKA R. Kelly in Chicago, Illinois, USA; singer ("I Believe I Can Fly").
- 1969 - Birth of Jeff Abercrombie; bassist (Fuel).
- 1983 - Birth of Disashi Lumumbo-Kasongo; guitarist (Gym Class Heroes).
Deaths on January 8
- 1713 - Arcangelo Corelli composer/violinist (Concerti Grossi), dies at age 59.
- 1975 - Richard Tucker [Reuben Ticker], US tenor (La Gioconda), dies at age 61.
- 1979 - Death of Sara Carter, American bluegrass and country singer (Carter Family), at age 80 (born 1898).
- 1983 - Death of Gale Page at age 72 of cancer; actress/singer (Four Daughters, Knute Rockney, Robert Montgomery Presents TV show).
- 1990 - Death of Georgie Auld AKA John Altwerger at age 70; jazz tenor saxophonist (Artie Shaw orchestra, Jan Savitt orchestra, Benny Goodman orchestra, Bunny Berigan orchestra).
- 1991 - Death of Steve Clark at age 30 from drugs and alcohol in London, England; guitarist (Def Leppard - "Hysteria").
- 1993 - Theo Bruins, Dutch pianist/composer (Syncope), dies at age 63.
- 1995 - Louis "Loulou" Gasté, guitarist/composer ("Doggy in the Window"), dies at age 88.
- 1997 - Death of Carole Carr at age 68; singer/actress (Down Among the Z Men).
- 2022 - Death of Marilyn Bergman at age 93 of respiratory failure in Los Angeles, California; lyricist ("The Way We Were").
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