American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Sophie B. Hawkins

Sophie Ballantine Hawkins is an American singer-songwriter. Born in New York City, she attended the Manhattan School of Music for a year as a percussionist before leaving to pursue a music career. In the 1990s, she achieved critical and commercial success with her first two albums, producing a string of single hits including "Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover", "Right Beside You", and "As I Lay Me Down". A dispute with her record label Sony Music over her third album, Timbre, led her to establish her own independent label, Trumpet Swan Productions, which has published her subsequent recordings.

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1964

November 1

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1964 Born

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365 Roman Emperor Valentinian I learns the Alemanni have crossed the Rhine and invaded Gaul.
996 Emperor Otto III issues a deed to Gottschalk, Bishop of Freising, which is the oldest known document using the name Ostarrîchi (Austria in Old High German).
1141 Empress Matilda's reign as "Lady of the English" ends as Stephen of Blois regains the title of "King of England".
1179 Philip II is crowned King of France.

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The world in 1964

When Sophie arrived

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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Edward Said 1935– Palestinian-American theorist, author, and academic (died 2003) Francis Arinze 1932– Nigerian cardinal Harald Quandt 1921– German businessman (died 1967) Harry Atkinson 1831– English-New Zealand politician, 10th Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1892) Jeremy Hunt 1966– English businessman and politician, Secretary of State for Health Jiang Yuyuan 1991– Chinese gymnast Marcel Ophüls 1927– German documentary filmmaker (died 2025) Max Burkholder 1997– American actor Rudolf IV 1339–1365 Duke of Austria (born 1339)

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Abhisit Vejjajiva 1964– English-Thai economist and politician, 27th Prime Minister of Thailand Andrew Bartlett 1964– Australian social worker and politician Andy Serkis 1964– English actor and director Đặng Thân 1964– Vietnamese writer and poet Arlie Petters 1964– Belizean-American mathematical physicist and academic Azmin Ali 1964– Malaysian mathematician and politician Brian Adams 1964–2007 American wrestler (died 2007) Bridget Fonda 1964– American actress Calista Flockhart 1964– American actress

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