2018 - Motörhead guitarist "Fast" Eddie Clark dies of complications from pneumonia at age 67.
2016 - David Bowie dies at age 69 after an 18-month battle with liver cancer.
1981 - John Lennon and Yoko Ono's "Double Fantasy" LP goes Platinum a little over a month after Lennon's assassination.
1969 - George Harrison quits The Beatles.
1964 - The Beatles release their first album in the US.
Birthday
- Michael Schenker of Scorpions was born in West Germany in 1955.
- Pat Benatar was born in Long Island, NY in 1953.
- Donald Fagen of Steely Dan was born in Passaic, New Jersey in 1948.
- Aynsley Dunbar was born in Liverpool, Engladn in 1946.
- Rod Stewart was born in London, England in 1945.