Irish singer-songwriter and actor (died 2009)

Stephen Gately

Stephen Patrick David Gately was an Irish singer who, with Ronan Keating, was co-lead singer of the pop group Boyzone. All of Boyzone's studio albums during Gately's lifetime hit number one in the United Kingdom, their third being their most successful internationally. With Boyzone, Gately had a record-breaking sixteen-consecutive singles enter the top five of the UK Singles Chart. He released a solo album in 2000, after the group's initial break-up, which charted in the UK top ten and yielded three UK hit singles, including the top three hit "New Beginning".

Born

1976

March 17

Died

2009

Era

1970s

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Stephen, in brief

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Key dates

1976 Born
2009 Died

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180 Commodus becomes sole emperor of the Roman Empire at the age of eighteen, following the death of his father, Marcus Aurelius.
455 Petronius Maximus becomes, with support of the Roman Senate, emperor of the Western Roman Empire; he forces Licinia Eudoxia, the widow of his predecessor, Valentinian III, to marry him.
1337 Edward the Black Prince is made Duke of Cornwall, the first duchy in England.

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The world in 1976

When Stephen arrived

april 1 Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak found Apple Computer, Inc.
april 11 The Apple I is created.
april 13 The United States Treasury Department reintroduces the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration.
april 13 Forty workers die in the Lapua Cartridge Factory explosion, the deadliest industrial accident in modern Finnish history.

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Claressa Shields 1995– American boxer and mixed martial artist Daniel Sprong 1997– Dutch ice hockey player Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre 1665–1729 French harpsichord player and composer (born 1665) Gene Ween 1970– American singer-songwriter and guitarist James IV of Scotland (died 1513) 1473– John Wayne Gacy 1942–1994 American serial killer and rapist (died 1994) Justin Hawkins 1975– English singer-songwriter Kate Greenaway 1846– English author and illustrator (died 1901) Lawrence Oates 1880– English lieutenant and explorer (died 1912)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1976

Alan Carr 1976– English comedian, actor, and screenwriter Alan Faneca 1976– American football player Anna Friel 1976– English actress Antoine Walker 1976– American basketball player Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira 1976– Brazilian mixed martial artist and boxer Brett Kimmorley 1976– Australian rugby league player and sportscaster Chauncey Billups 1976– American basketball player Dan Cloutier 1976– Canadian ice hockey player and coach Daniel Whiston 1976– English figure skater

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