| 79 | years ago | 1947 | Mark Stein of Vanilla Fudge is born. |
| 78 | years ago | 1948 | George Kooymans, guitarist with Golden Earring, is born. |
| 76 | years ago | 1950 | Singer Bobby McFerrin is born. |
| 62 | years ago | 1964 | Elvis Presley's 14th movie, Kissin' Cousins, is released. |
| 58 | years ago | 1968 | Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay earns Otis Redding his only gold record-three months after his death. |
| 57 | years ago | 1969 | Rami Jaffee of The Wallflowers is born. |
| 56 | years ago | 1970 | The 1969 Grammy Award winners are announced. The Fifth Dimension's Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In is Record of the Year. Blood, Sweat and Tears, by the band of the same name is Album of the Year and Joe South's Games People Play is Song of the Year. Also, Crosby, Stills and Nash win the Best New Artist. |
| 55 | years ago | 1971 | First it was The Monkees, then the Archies, now the Partridge Family. On this date, TV's first fictional family of rock receives a gold record for Doesn't Somebody Want to be Wanted. It's the second of their five Top Twenty hits. |
| 48 | years ago | 1978 | Jazz guitarist George Benson's crossover to soul-pop continues as his cover version of the Drifters hit On Broadway enters the soul singles chart, where it will climb to #2. |
| 47 | years ago | 1979 | Joel and Benji Madden of Good Charlotte are born. |
| 35 | years ago | 1991 | Janet Jackson signs a $30 million deal with Virgin Records. It's the largest record deal ever until brother Michael signs with Sony a week later. |
| 29 | years ago | 1997 | Paul McCartney is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. |
| 11 | years ago | 2015 | Three Dog Night's keyboardist Jimmy Greenpoon dies of cancer at his home in North Potomac, Maryland, surrounded by his family. He was 67. |