American singer-songwriter and guitarist

William DuVall

William Bradley DuVall is an American musician. He has been the co-lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the rock band Alice in Chains since 2006, sharing vocal duties with Jerry Cantrell. DuVall joined Alice in Chains after original lead singer Layne Staley's death and has recorded three albums with the band: 2009's Black Gives Way to Blue, 2013's The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here, and 2018's Rainier Fog. He won an ASCAP Pop Music Award for co-writing the song "I Know" for Dionne Farris in 1996, and has earned three Grammy Award nominations as a member of Alice in Chains.

Born

1967

September 6

Died

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1960s

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394 Battle of the Frigidus: Roman emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills Eugenius the usurper. His Frankish magister militum Arbogast escapes but commits suicide two days later.
1492 Christopher Columbus sails from La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic Ocean for the first time.
1522 The Victoria returns to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain, the only surviving ship of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition and the first known ship to circumnavigate the world.
1620 The Pilgrims sail from Plymouth, England on the Mayflower to settle in North America. (Old Style date; September 16 per New Style date.)

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april 14 Gnassingbé Eyadéma overthrows Nicolas Grunitzky and installs himself as the new President of Togo, a title he will hold for the next 38 years.
april 21 A few days before the general election in Greece, Colonel George Papadopoulos leads a coup d'état, establishing a military regime that lasts for seven years.
april 21 A tornado outbreak in Illinois, United States, kills over 50 and injures over 1,000. Belvidere sustains over 500 casualties as a violent tornado strikes the high school. Another tornado near Chicago causes another 500 casualties, devastating Oak Lawn.
april 23 Soviet space program: Soyuz 1 (Russian: Союз 1, Union 1), a crewed spaceflight carrying cosmonaut Colonel Vladimir Komarov, is launched into orbit.

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Billy Rose 1899–1966 American composer and songwriter (born 1899) Christopher Brookmyre 1968– Scottish author Donna Haraway 1944– American author, academic, and activist Elvira Pagã 1920–2003 Brazilian vedette, singer, and artist (born 1920) Gilbert du Motier 1757–1834 Marquis de Lafayette, French general (born 1757) Isabelle Collin Dufresne 1935–2014 French actress (born 1935) Jane Addams 1860–1935 American activist and author, co-founded Hull House, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1860) Jessie Willcox Smith 1863–1935 American illustrator (born 1863) Joan Tower 1938– American pianist, composer, and conductor

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Sung Jae-gi 1967–2013 South Korean philosopher and activist (born 1967) A. R. Rahman 1967– Indian composer, singer-songwriter, music producer, musician, and philanthropist Adam Hughes 1967– American author and illustrator Anderson Cooper 1967– American journalist and author Carl Ouellet 1967– Canadian wrestler and sportscaster Carrie-Anne Moss 1967– Canadian actress Cynthia Breazeal 1967– American computer scientist, roboticist, and academic Deion Sanders 1967– American football and baseball player and coach Jane Sixsmith 1967– English field hockey player

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