American singer-songwriter (died 2022)

Mark Lanegan

Mark William Lanegan was an American singer and songwriter. First becoming prominent as the lead singer for the early grunge band Screaming Trees, he was also known as a member of Queens of the Stone Age and The Gutter Twins. He released twelve solo studio albums as well as three collaboration albums with Isobel Campbell and two with Duke Garwood. He was known for his baritone voice, which was described as being "as scratchy as a three-day beard yet as supple and pliable as moccasin leather" and has been compared to Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen and Nick Cave.

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1964

November 25

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april 1 The British Admiralty, War Office and Air Ministry are replaced by a unified Defence Council of the United Kingdom.
april 11 Brazilian Marshal Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco is elected president by the National Congress.
april 13 At the Academy Awards, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American man to win the Best Actor award for the 1963 film Lilies of the Field.
april 17 Jerrie Mock completes the first around-the-world airplane flight by a woman. Her solo flight in the Spirit of Columbus, which took 29+1⁄2 days, took off and landed at the Port Columbus International Airport in Ohio.

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Albert Henry Krehbiel 1873– American painter and illustrator (died 1945) Anastas Mikoyan 1895–1978 Soviet politician, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (died 1978) Catherine Cornaro 1454–1510 queen of Cyprus (born 1454) Chip Kelly 1963– American football player and coach Elsie J. Oxenham 1880–1960 English author and educator (born 1880) Ernst Schröder 1841–1902 German mathematician and academic (born 1841) Joel Kinnaman 1979– Swedish actor John Larroquette 1947– American actor Julius Robert von Mayer 1814–1878 German physician and physicist (born 1814)

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