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2002 Billy Wilder, director, Some Like it Hot, dies at 95
1995 Pamela Anderson Lee, rush to hospital with flu like symptoms 1992 "Smells Like Nirvana," by Weird Al Yankovic hits #35 1991 Yankee Stadium fans sing "Like a Virgin" to Jose Canseco 1990 Fabia Drake, actress (Nice Girl Like Me), dies at 86 1989 Weird Al Yankovic records "She Drives Like Crazy" 1989 Madonna's "Like a Prayer" premieres on worldwide Pepsi commercial 1985 Paul McCartney releases "Spies Like Us" 1985 John Lodge, actor (Sensation, In Like Flint)/(gov-R-CT), dies at 82 1985 Madonna's "Like a Virgin," album goes #1 for 3 weeks 1984 Madonna's "Like a Virgin," single goes #1 for 6 weeks 1983 Pat O'Brien, actor (Some like it hot), dies of heart attack at 83 1982 "I Know What Boys Like," by The Waitresses hits #62 1981 Kuda Bux, Indian mystic (I'd Like to See), dies at 75 1981 Jonny Lang, born in Fargo, North Dakota, born Jon Gordon Langseth, Jr., singer, songwriter, guitarist, rock, gospel, blues musician, plays Benedict guitars, Fender Telecaster Thinline, voice sounds like veteran blues singer, toured with Sting, performed for President Bill Clinton 1980 John Lennon releases "(Just Like) Starting Over" in the United Kingdom 1979 Brenda Spencer kills 2, inspires Boomtown Rats "I Don't Like Mondays" 1977 Sophie Stewart, actress (As You Like It), dies at 69 1976 Chris Kenner, rhythm and blues singer, songwriter, recording artist, 1961 hit I Like It Like That was on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart, song Land of a Thousand Dances was recorded by Patti Smith, and others, dies 1975 Jacki Ray, actor (In Like Flint), dies at 58 1975 Ray Morgan, announcer, I'd Like to See 1974 "Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing" by Aretha Franklin peaks at #47 1973 Robby Kiger, born in Encino, California, actor, Josh Fox-Crazy Like a Fox 1967 Kenneth Charlie Griffith Benjamin, cricketer, WI like his namesake 1965 Bjork, Iceland, singer, Like Someone in Love 1965 Bob Dylan release "Like a Rolling Stone" 1965 Bob Dylan records "Like a Rolling Stone" 1964 Ed Jongsma, Dutch pop bassist, Sleeze Beez-Look Like Hell 1962 Nick Rhodes, Bates, keyboardist, Duran Duran-Hungry Like the Wolf 1962 Colin Vearncombe, rocker, Black-Wonderful Like 1961 Robbie Nevil, rocker, A Place Like This 1961 Andy Taylor, England, rock guitarist, Duran Duran-Hungry Like the Wolf 1960 Roger Taylor, rock drummer, Duran Duran-Hungry Like the Wolf 1960 Nevil Shute [Norway], Eng/Australia author (Town like Alice), dies at 60 1959 Morrissey, British rock vocalist, Everyday is Like Sunday 1959 "Some Like it Hot" with Marilyn Monroe and Jack Lemmon premieres 1959 Susanna Hoffs, actress/rocker, Bangles-Walk Like an Egyptian 1958 Simon Le Bon, rock vocalist, Duran, Duran-Hungry Like the Wolf 1958 Madonna, Ciccone, Bay City, Michigan, singer and actress, Like a Virgin 1958 Klaus Meine, rocker, Scorpions-No One Like You 1957 Jenny Burton, New York City, rocker, Nobody Loves Me Like You Do 1954 Eva Mattes, Tegernsee Germany, actress, Celeste, Man Like Eva 1954 Joel Coen, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, actor/dir, Spies Like Us, Barton Fink 1954 Michael Steele, rocker, Bangles-Eternal Flame, Walk Like an Egyptian 1954 Richard Finch, rock bassist, KC and Sunshine-That's the Way I Like It 1951 Al Greenwood, keyboardist, Foreigner-Feels Like the First Time 1950 Natalie Cole, born in Los Angeles, California, vocalist, Pink Cadillac, Miss You Like Crazy 1949 Paul Rodgers, Engl, rocker, Bad Company-Feel Like Makin Love, Firm 1948 Valerie Simpson, Bronx, singer, Ashford's partner, Like a Rock 1948 Leo Sayers, rocker, You Make Me Feel Like Dancing 1947 Jonathan Kaplan, Paris, France, director, Heart Like a Wheel 1946 Sally Field, born in Pasadena, California, we really like her, Gidget, Flying Nun 1946 Bonnie Bedelia, Culkin, New York City, actress, Die Hard, Heart Like a Wheel 1945 Henry Ainley, actor (As You Like It), dies at 66 1942 Barbara Ferris, born in London, England, actress, Nice Girl Like Me 1942 Barbara Lynn, born in Beaumont, Texas, American guitarist, singer, rhythm and blues, toured with soul music greats like Stevie Wonder, B.B. King, recorded the song Oh Baby (We've Got A Good Thing Goin') with The Rolling Stones 1940 Arthur Alexander, U.S. singer and songwriter, Lonely Just Like Me 1937 Nancy Wilson, Chillicothe Ohio, jazz vocalist, Feel Like Making Love 1935 Peter Bichsel, born in Lucerne, Switzerland, writer, journalist, wrote 'And Really Frau Blum Would Very Much Like to Meet the Milkman', member of the Gruppe Olten, a club of Swiss writers 1932 Gerard van den Berg, Dutch TV host, Like Father, Like Son 1930 Sorrell Booke, Buffalo, New York, actor, Bye Bye Braverman, Black Like Me 1929 Chris Kenner, born in Kenner, near New Orleans, Louisiana, rhythm and blues singer, songwriter, recording artist, 1961 hit I Like It Like That was on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart, song Land of a Thousand Dances was recorded by Patti Smith, and others 1928 Mitch Leigh, born in Brooklyn, New York, Irwin Michnick, graduated from Yale, composer, musical theater composer, theatrical producer, known for show Man Of La Mancha, composed jingle 'Nobody Doesn't Like Sara Lee' 1926 Marilyn Monroe, Norma Jean Mortenson, Louisiana, actress, Some Like It Hot 1925 Tony Curtis, born in Bronx, New York, actor, Some Like It Hot 1920 Jack Warden, Newark, New Jersey, actor, NYPD, Crazy Like a Fox, Norby 1920 John Howard Griffin, U.S., photographer/author, Black Like Me 1918 Jack McCoy, born in Akron, Ohio, TV host, Live Like a Millionaire 1915 Anna van Beers, Graeve, actress, A Woman like Eve 1908 Sophie Stewart, born in Scotland, actress, As You Like It, Under the Red Robe 1906 Billy Wilder, Vienna, director, Some Like It Hot, Apartment, Stalag 17 1899 Nevil Shute [Norway], London, novelist, On the Beach, Town Like Alice 1895 George Raft, born in New York City, actor, Each Dawn I Die, Scarface, Some Like It Hot 1879 Henry Ainley, Leeds England, actor, As You Like It 1773 British Parliament passes Tea Act (Boston won't like this) |
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