1996 Bob Gibson, folk singer, dies at 64
1996 Hamish Imlach, folk singer/comic, dies at 55
1995 Dorothy "Dolly" Ann Collins, folk musician/composer, dies at 62
1995 Perry Lederman, folk singer, dies at 52
1995 Burl Ives, folk singer and actor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), dies at 85
1995 Kenneth Norman Joseph Loveless, priest folk musician, dies at 83
1995 Howard Yanks, founder of the Philadelphia folk festival, dies at 65
1994 Karel Kryl, folk singer, dies at 49
1991 Last issue of Dutch Newspaper "Vr˜e Folk" (Free People)
1989 Johnny Jordaan, [Jan van Musscher], Dutch folk singer, dies at 64
1984 Steve Goodman, folk singer and guitarist, dies at 36
1981 Harry Chapin, folk vocalist (Taxi), dies in car crash at 38
1978 Bob Dylan booed off Newport Folk Festival for using electric guitar
1974 Jewel [Kilcher], Alaska, folk/rock vocalist, Pieces of You
1972 Chad Folk, CFL cornerback for the Toronto Argonauts
1968 Sarah McLachlan, folk singer, Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
1967 Woodrow Wilson "Woodie" Guthrie, U.S. folk singer and guitarist, dies at 55
1965 Folk-rock begins, Dylan uses electricity at Newport Folk Festival
1956 Richard Farina, folk singer, Reflections in a Crystal Wind
1955 D Shostakovitch' "From Jewish Folk Poetry," premieres in Leningrad
1951 Janis Ian, born in New York City, lesbian and folk rocker, At 17
1945 John McCormack, Irish singer (Irish national anthem/folk songs), dies
1945 Bruce Cockburn, Ottawa, Canada, folk rock vocalist, Waterwalker
1945 Bob Seger, Dearborn, Michigan, folk singer, Silver Bullet Band-Shake Down
1944 Karel Kryl, folk singer
1943 Donovan, [Leitch], Scotland, guitarist/folk singer, Mellow Yellow
1942 Norman Greenbaum, Massachusetts, folk singer, Spirit in the Sky
1941 Richie Havens, Brooklyn, folk singer, Here Comes the Sun
1941 Joan Baez, Staten Island, folk singer/human rights advocate
1940 Phil Ochs, born in El Paso, Texas, anti-war folk singer, Joe Hill, War is Over
1940 Hamish Imlach, folk singer/comic
1937 Tom Paxton, Chicago, folk singer and songwriter, Forest Lawn
1936 Mary Travers, born in Louisville, Kentucky, folk singer, Peter Paul and Mary
1933 Dorothy "Dolly" Ann Collins, folk musician and composer
1930 Ala Odetta, [Odetta Holmes], Birmingham, folk singer/actress
1930 Odetta, [Holmes], Birmingham, Alabama, folk singer, Sanctuary
1929 Howard Yanks, founder, Philadelphia folk festival
1928 Tom Lehrer, parody and folk singer, That Was The Week That Was
1924 Cecil [James] Sharp, English folk musician, dies at 64
1924 Theodore Bikel, Austrian/US folk singer and actor, Russians Are Coming
1924 Johnny Jordaan, [Jan van Musscher], Amsterdam folk vocalist
1920 Oscar Brand, Winnipeg Canada, folk vocalist, Draw Me a Laugh
1919 Manke Nelis, [Cornelis Pieters], Dutch folk vocalist, Small Yodel Boy
1919 Pete Seeger, New York City, folk singer, Weaver, Goodnight Irene
1912 Woodie Guthrie, folk singer, This Land Is Your Land
1911 Kenneth Norman Joseph Loveless, priest folk musician
1911 Bob Dylan's 1st appearance at Folk City, Greenwich Village
1909 Burl Ives, born in Hunt, Illinois, folk singer and actor, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1904 Willie Mae "Mother" Smith, gospel singer/evangelist folk artist
1902 Eddie James "Son" House, folk blues musician, Delta Blues
1896 Gary Davis, born in Laurens, South Carolina, blues/folk guitarist, A Little More Faith
1888 Sigurd Erixon, Swedish etnologist, Atlas over Svensk Folk culture
1878 Hermann Claudius, German folk poet, Meister Bertram
1870 John Lomax, Mississippi, folk song collector/ethnomusicologist
1862 Adolf Bartels, German folk art writer
1859 Cecil [James] Sharp, born in London, England, folk musician
1852 Vasili A Zjukovski, Russian folk poet/translator (Homerus), dies at 69
1799 Frantisek L. Celakovsky, Czech poet, national anthem, folk song
1783 Vasili A. Zjukovski, Russian folk poet/translator, Homer
1783 Vasili A. Zjukovski, Russian folk poet/translator, Homerus
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