Celebrating 20 February
Birthdays
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1941 – Buffy Sainte-Marie, singer/songwriter, activist
1948 – Barry Wordsworth, conductor
1953 – Poison Ivy (Kristy Wallace), guitarist, The Cramps
1955 – Jon Brant, bassist, Cheap Trick
1963 – Ian Brown, vocalist, Stone Roses
1972 – Neil Primrose, drummer, Travis
1975 – Brian Littrell, singer, Backstreet Boys
1977 – Ed Graham, drummer, The Darkness
1979 – Coy Bowles, guitarist, Zac Brown Band
1981 – Ed Lay, drummer, The Editors
1985 – Julia Volkova, singer, t.A.T.u
1988 – Rihanna, singer
2003 – Olivia Rodrigo, singer/songwriter
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Died on this day
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2003 – Ty Longley, guitarist, Great White (born 1971)
2019 – Fred Foster, country music producer (born 1931)
2021 – Gene Taylor, boogie-woogie pianist/guitarist (born 1952)
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And on this day in...
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1959 – Jimi Hendrix made his stage debut, at a synagogue in Seattle, aged 16
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