Andrea Luchesi (1741-1801)
Edmund Rubbra (1901-1986)
Artie Shaw (1910-2004)
Jean Françaix (1912-1997)
Alicia de Larrocha (1923-2009)
Robert Moog (1934-2005)
Roy Orbison (1936-1988)
Joel Feigin (1951)
and
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
James Patrick (J. P.) Donleavy (1926)
Coleman Barks (1937)
Barry Hannah (1942-2010)
Jane Kenyon (1947-1995)
From The Writer's Almanac:
Today is the birthday of Roy Orbison
(1936), born in Vernon, Texas. One day, during a songwriting session
with his partner Bill Dees, Orbison asked his wife, Claudette Frady
Orbison, if she needed any money for her upcoming trip to Nashville.
Dees remarked, “Pretty woman never needs any money.” Forty minutes
later, Orbison’s most famous hit, “Oh, Pretty Woman,” had been written.
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