Celebrating 16 March
Birthdays
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1948 – Michael Bruce, guitarist, Alice Cooper
1954 – Jimmy Nail, singer/songwriter and actor
1954 – Nancy Wilson, guitarist, Heart
1959 – Flavor Flav (William Jonathan Drayton Jr.), rapper
1963 – Stuart Kerr, drummer, Texas
1966 – H.P. Baxxter, guitarist, Scooter
1970 – Alex Lee, guitarist, Suede
1972 – Andy Dunlop, guitarist, Travis
1979 – Leena Peisa, keyboardist, Lordi
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Died on this day
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1970 – Tammi Terrell, soul singer (born 1945)
1991 – Eight members of Reba McEntire's band, in an air crash
2008 – Ola Brunkert, drummer, ABBA (born 1946)
2015 – Andy Fraser, bassist/keyboardist, Free (born 1952)
2017 – James Cotton, harmonica, Howlin' Wolf (born 1935)
2019 – Justin Carter, country singer (born 1983)
2019 – Dick Dale, surf guitarist (born 1937)
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And on this day in...
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1972 – John Lennon lodged an appeal with US Immigration against deportation orders arising from his 1968 drug possession conviction
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Page last updated 15 March 2024