November 13

Today in 2016, we lost yet another rocker, Leon Russell passed away in his sleep at age 74

Sammy Davis Jr. and actress May Britt were married on this day in 1960, one of the first public celebrity interracial marriages

 

Today in 1973, Jerry Lee Lewis Jr. was killed in a car accident near Hernando, Mississippi

 

On this day in 1998, Kenny Kirkland was found dead of a heart attack in his NY apartment. He was 43 years old 

 

Toy Caldwell (The Marshall Tucker Band) was born on this day in 1947

 

John Hammond Jr. was born on this day in 1943