American drummer, songwriter, and producer

Matt Sorum

Matthew William Sorum is an American drummer. He is best known as both a former member of the hard rock band The Cult, Guns N' Roses, with whom he recorded three studio albums, and as a member of the supergroup Velvet Revolver. Sorum has toured and recorded with Billy Gibbons, is a member of the touring project Kings of Chaos, and is a former member of both The Cult and Y Kant Tori Read. Sorum was also a member of Guns N' Roses side projects, Slash's Snakepit and Neurotic Outsiders, and has released two solo albums, Hollywood Zen (2004) and Stratosphere (2014).

Born

1960

November 19

Died

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1960s

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1960 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

461 Libius Severus is declared emperor of the Western Roman Empire. The real power is in the hands of the magister militum Ricimer.
636 The Rashidun Caliphate defeats the Sasanian Empire at the Battle of al-Qādisiyyah in Iraq.
1646 The current Saint Peter's Basilica is consecrated in Rome, replacing an earlier basilica on the same site.
1794 The United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign Jay's Treaty, which attempts to resolve some of the lingering problems left over from the American Revolutionary War.

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The world in 1960

When Matt arrived

april 1 The TIROS-1 satellite transmits the first television picture from space.
april 13 The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world's first satellite navigation system.
april 15 At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker leads a conference that results in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organizations of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
april 19 Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign.

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Same-day contemporaries

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Alan Young 1919–2016 English-born Canadian-American actor (born 1919) André Lotterer 1981– German race car driver Bunny Ahearne 1900–1985 Irish-born English businessman (born 1900) Charles I of England 1600–1649 Scotland, and Ireland (born 1600) Charlie Kaufman 1958– American director, producer, and screenwriter Eleanor Audley 1905–1991 American actress (died 1991) Erika Alexander 1969– American actress and screenwriter Gail Devers 1966– American sprinter and hurdler George Rogers Clark 1752–1818 American general (born 1752)

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Same-year contemporaries

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Aaron Allston 1960–2014 American game designer and author (died 2014) Akbar Ganji 1960– Iranian journalist and author Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor 1960– second son of Elizabeth II Annabella Sciorra 1960– American actress Arjen Anthony Lucassen 1960– Dutch singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer Ayuo Takahashi 1960– Japanese-American singer-songwriter Bernard Rose 1960–1996 English director, screenwriter, and cinematographer Cem Uzan 1960– Turkish businessman and politician Craig Hodges 1960– American basketball player and coach

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