2008 – Keyboardist Danny Federici of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band dies of melanoma at a New York City hospital at the age of 58.

2008 – With “Spirit,” Leona Lewis becomes the first British woman to go straight to the top of the Billboard 200 album chart with a debut album.

2007 – Arcturus officially announces they are splitting up.
  
2003 – R&B and blues singer Earl King dies of complications from diabetes in New Orleans. He is 69.

1998 – Linda McCartney, the wife of Paul McCartney and onetime rock photographer and member of Wings, dies of breast cancer in Santa Barbara, Calif. She is 56.

1997 – Country singer Toby Keith and his wife Tricia welcome new arrival Stelen Keith Covel to the family.

1993 – Susanna Hoffs of the Bangles marries screenwriter Jay Roach in Los Angeles.

1991 – Lyricist Jack Yellen dies in Springville, N.Y. Age 98

1980 – Bob Marley performs at the Independence Day celebration in Salisbury, Zimbabwe.

1979 – No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: “Knock on Wood,” Amii Stewart.

1974 – Victoria Beckham (Victoria Caroline Adams), “Posh Spice” of the Spice Girls, is born in Hertfordshire, England.

1970 – Rapper Redman (Reginald “Reggie” Noble) is born in Newark, N.J.

1964 – Maynard James Keenan (James Herbert Keenan) of Tool is born in Ravenna, Ohio.

1960 – Singer-songwriter and guitarist Eddie Cochran dies in a car accident in Wiltshire, England. He is 21.

1955 – Pete Shelley (Peter Campbell McNeish) of Buzzcocks is born in Greater Manchester, England.

1954 – Guitarist and songwriter Michael Sembello is born in Philadelphia.

1940 – Pop singer Billy Fury (Ronald William Wycherley) is born in Liverpool, England.

1934 – Rock promoter Don Kirshner is born in New York.