English singer-songwriter

Seal

Seal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel (; born 19 February 1963), better known by his stage name Seal, is an English singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is the recipient of three Brit Awards, four Grammy Awards and an MTV Video Music Award, with more than 20 million albums or singles sold. He signed with record producer Trevor Horn's ZTT Records to release his eponymous debut studio album (1991). A critical and commercial success, it spawned the singles "Crazy" and "Killer", which peaked at numbers two and one on the UK singles chart, respectively, while both entered the US Billboard Hot 100.

Born

1963

February 19

Died

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1960s

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1963 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

197 Emperor Septimius Severus defeats usurper Clodius Albinus in the Battle of Lugdunum, the bloodiest battle between Roman armies.
356 The anti-paganism policy of Constantius II forbids the worship of pagan idols in the Roman Empire.
607 Pope Boniface III is consecrated in Rome.
1594 Having already been elected to the throne of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1587, Sigismund III of the House of Vasa is crowned King of Sweden, having succeeded his father John III of Sweden in 1592.

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The world in 1963

When Seal arrived

april 10 One hundred twenty-nine American sailors die when the submarine USS Thresher sinks at sea.
april 11 Pope John XXIII issues Pacem in terris, the first encyclical addressed to all Christians instead of only Catholics, and which described the conditions for world peace in human terms.
april 12 The Soviet nuclear-powered submarine K-33 collides with the Finnish merchant vessel M/S Finnclipper in the Danish straits.[citation needed]
april 16 U.S. civil rights campaigner Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. writes his open letter from Birmingham Jail, sometimes known as "The Negro Is Your Brother", while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama, for protesting against segregation.

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Nicolaus Copernicus 1473–1543 Prussian mathematician and astronomer (died 1543) Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor 1960– second son of Elizabeth II David Bronstein 1924–2006 Ukrainian-Belarusian chess player and theoretician (born 1924) Homer Hickam 1943– American author and engineer K. Viswanath 1930–2023 Indian actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2023) Nikola Jokić 1995– Serbian basketball player Norm O'Neill 1937– Australian cricketer and sportscaster (died 2008) Paul Krause 1942– American football player and politician Raúl Grijalva 1948–2025 United States representative from Arizona (died 2025)

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Alberto Nisman 1963–2015 Argentinian lawyer (died 2015) Alec Stewart 1963– English cricketer Andrea Leadsom 1963– English politician Anne-Sophie Mutter 1963– German violinist Arthur Adams 1963– American comic book artist and writer Brian Greene 1963– American physicist Brian Robbins 1963– American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter Chip Kelly 1963– American football player and coach Conan O'Brien 1963– American television host, comedian, and writer

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