1975, THE CARPENTERS WENT TO NO.1 ON THE US SINGLES CHART WITH THEIR VERSION OF THE MARVELETTS 1961 HIT ‘PLEASE MR. POSTMAN
1986, US MANAGER ALBERT GROSSMAN DIED OF A HEART ATTACK WHILE FLYING ON CONCORDE FROM NEW YORK TO LONDON. HE MANAGED BOB DYLAN, (BETWEEN 1962 AND 1970), PETER, PAUL AND MARY, THE BAND, JANIS JOPLIN AND TODD RUNDGREN.
2011, A FORMER MISS CANADA FINALIST BECAME THE FIRST PERSON IN THE WORLD TO GRADUATE WITH A MASTERS DEGREE IN THE BEATLES. CANADIAN SINGER MARY-LU ZAHALAN-KENNEDY, 53, WAS ONE OF THE FIRST STUDENTS TO SIGN UP FOR THE COURSE ON THE FAB FOUR WHEN IT LAUNCHED AT LIVERPOOL HOPE UNIVERSITY IN MARCH 2009. THE GROUND-BREAKING COURSE LOOKED AT THE STUDIO SOUND AND COMPOSITION OF THE BEATLES AND HOW LIVERPOOL HELPED TO SHAPE THEIR MUSIC AS WELL AS EXAMINING THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE MUSIC OF THE BEATLES AND THEIR IMPACT ON WESTERN CULTURE. 
Born today
1915, FOLK SINGER, SONGWRITER, SOCIALIST, ACTOR, POET, PLAYWRIGHT, AND RECORD PRODUCER EWAN MACCOLL,
1931, BORN ON THIS DAY, STIG ANDERSON, SONGWRITER, PRODUCER AND ABBA’S MANAGER. CO-WROTE SOME OF ABBA’S BIGGEST HITS, SUCH AS ‘WATERLOO’, ‘MAMMA MIA’, ‘S.O.S’, ‘FERNANDO’, ‘DANCING QUEEN’, ‘KNOWING ME, KNOWING YOU’. ANDERSON DIED OF A HEART ATTACK ON 12TH SEPT 1997.
1938, ETTA JAMES, SINGER, WHO HAD 9 US TOP 40 HITS DURING THE 60’S INCLUDING THE 1996 UK NO.5 SINGLE ‘I JUST WANT TO MAKE LOVE TO YOU’. JAMES DIED ON JANUARY 20, 2012.
1949, JOHN COOPER CLARKE
1981,ALICIA KEYS, AMERICAN R&B AND SOUL SINGER
