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What happened in history on this day: January 21?
On January 21 in ...
- 1947 - Arthur Honegger's 4th Symphony premieres in Basel.
- 1978 - The soundtrack of the movie Saturday Night Fever reaches #1 on the album charts.
- 1982 - Blues musician B.B. King donates his entire record collection - seven-thousand records - to the University of Mississippi.
- 2005 - Disk jockey Dave Plotkin sets a record for the world's longest continuous broadcast by a single jock, staying on the air for 110 hours. Plotkin broadcast from Rollins College's WPRK-FM in Winter Park, Florida, USA.
Births on January 21
- 1891 - Death of Calix Lavallee at age 48 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; composer ("O Canada").
- 1917 - Birth of Billy Maxted in Racine, Wisconsin, USA; pianist, songwriter, arranger (Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller's Orchestra) (dies 2001).
- 1925 - Birth of Lola Flores in Cadiz, Spain; singer/actress (Kuma Ching, Faraona).
- 1938 - Birth of Wolfman Jack AKA Robert Weston Smith in Brooklyn, New York, USA; disk jockey (XERF, XERB in Mexico), announcer (The Midnight Special TV show) (dies 1995).
- 1941 - Birth of Edwin Starr [Charles Hatcher]; US singer (War).
- 1941 - Birth of Placido Domingo in Madrid, Spain; opera tenor (Pinkerton - Madame Butterfly).
- 1941 - Birth of Richie Havens in Brooklyn, New York, USA; folk singer ("Here Comes the Sun").
- 1942 - Birth of Mac Davis in Lubbock, Texas, USA; singer/actor (Mac Davis Show, North Dallas 40).
- 1945 - Birth of Chris Britton; rocker (Troggs - "Rock and Roll Goldmine").
- 1947 - Birth of Jimmy Ibbotson in Pennsylvania, USA; country singer, guitarist (The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band).
- 1950 - Birth of Billy Ocean [Leslie S Charles] in Trinidad; singer ("Suddenly", "Caribbean Queen").
- 1956 - Birth of Bob Brill in New York City, New York, USA; drummer (Berlin - "Take My Breath Away").
- 1965 - Birth of Cordell Crockett; rocker (Ugly Kid Joe - Mad Man, Too Bad).
- 1970 - Birth of Mark Trojanowski; drummer (Sister Hazel).
- 1970 - Birth of Levirt; rapper (B-Rock and the Bizz).
- 1976 - Birth of Emma Lee Bunton AKA Baby Spice in Finchley, London, England; vocalist (Spice Girls).
- 1979 - Birth of Nokio; singer (Dru Hill).
- 1981 - Birth of Gillian Chung; Hong Kong singer (Twins).
Deaths on January 21
- 1626 - John Dowland English musician/lyric poet (In Darkness We Dwell), dies at about age 63.
- 1984 - Death of Jackie Wilson at age 49 (in a coma since 1975 heart attack); soul singer ("Night" (1960), "I Get the Sweetest Feeling", "Lonely Teardrops"), inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1987).
- 1985 - Barbara Cowsill, rocker (Cowsills), dies of emphysema.
- 1997 - Death of Irwin Jesse Levin at age 58 of kidney failure; songwriter ("Tie a Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Old Oak Tree").
- 1999 - Death of Charles Brown died at age 76 of congestive heart failure; rhythm and blues singer, pianist (Johnny Moore's Three Blazers - "Drifting Blues" (1946)).
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