ON THIS DAY IN 2025:
Singer and actress Angela Lansbury (pictured), who died on October 11 2022, would have turned 100 today, while American singer-guitarist John Mayer turns 48 and Flea, bassist with hit band Red Hot Chili Peppers, turns 63. Bob Weir, former guitarist with Grateful Dead, turns 78 today.
Actor Tim Robbins turns 67 today and British singer-songwriter Shayne Ward, best known as the 2005 winner of the UK The X Factor, turns 41.
It was on this day in 2024 that English singer Liam Payne, formerly of hit boy band One Direction, died after falling from the third floor of a hotel in Buenos Aries, Argentina. He was 31. Payne initially auditioned for the UKTV series The X-Factor in 2008. Two years later, following a second audition, he was placed in a group with four other contestants to form One Direction.
It was on this day in 1923 that the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio was founded in the United States, while actress, screenwriter and model Nikki Reed, then aged 24, married singer-songwriter Paul McDonald, then 27, in Malibu on this day in 2011.
At the top of the South African singles chart on this day in 1970 was Burning Bridges, from the film Kelly’s Heroes, a hit for The Mike Curb Congregation. It spent five weeks at No 1. Just saying…
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