| 83 | years ago | 1943 | Jim Croce is born. |
| 81 | years ago | 1945 | Rod Stewart of Faces & the Jeff Beck Group is born. |
| 78 | years ago | 1948 | Donald Fagen of Steely Dan is born. |
| 74 | years ago | 1952 | Singer Pat Benatar is born. |
| 58 | years ago | 1968 | Aretha Franklin earns her fourth gold single with Chain of Fools. The record goes on to win the 1968 Grammy for Best R&B Performance by a female. |
| 55 | years ago | 1971 | Making a rare public appearance, Bob Dylan accompanies country star Earl Scruggs on East Virginia Blues and Nashville Skyline Rag for a public documentary. |
| 51 | years ago | 1975 | Al Green earns his 12th gold record for the album Al Green Explores Your Mind. Twelve days later, he earns his 13th gold record for the album's hit single, Sha-La-La (Make Me Happy). |
| 45 | years ago | 1981 | John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Double Fantasy goes platinum, a little over a month after Lennon's assassination. The album is #1 for eight weeks. |
| 45 | years ago | 1981 | The Gilbert and Sullivan musical The Pirates of Penzance opens at Broadway's Uris Theatre, starring pop singers Linda Ronstadt and Rex Smith. The production will move from the Uris to the Minskoff Theatre to complete a run of 772 performances, then be made into a movie starring Smith and Ronstadt. |
| 29 | years ago | 1997 | James Brown, the Godfather of Soul, gets his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. |
| 10 | years ago | 2016 | David Bowie loses his battle with cancer just a few days after the release of his Blackstar album. It becomes his first #1 album. |