1997 Event MTV drops video "Smack My Bitch Up" by Prodigy 1993 Event Prodigy announces it will offer Cox newspapers 1977 Birthday Shakira, born in Barranquilla, Columbia, singer-songwriter, record producer, dancer, Latin American musical prodigy 1973 Birthday Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar, cricketer, prodigy at 16, Indian captain at 23 1971 Birthday Midori, born in Osaka, Japan, violinist, prodigy, studied at Julliard, plays the 1734 Buarnerius del Gesu violin 1969 Birthday Keith Flint, singer/musician, Prodigy 1956 Birthday Nigel Kennedy, born in Brighton, English, violinist, jazz and classical music, boy prodigy, play Fats Waller tunes by ear at age 10, featured on Sarah Brightman's album Harem 1944 Birthday Graeme Pollock, cricketer, South African batting prodigy 1924 Birthday Theo Olof, German/Netherlands violinist, prodigy, concert master 1923 Birthday Dika Newlin, born in Portland, Oregon, composer, child prodigy, began composing music at age 7, completed high school at 12, studied with Schoenberg at University of California at Los Angeles 1911 Birthday Samuel H Reshevsky, Polish/US chess grandmaster/prodigy 1858 Event Louisiana chess prodigy Paul Morphy arrives in Europe 1794 Death Pieter Nieuwland, prodigy/"Dutch Newton", dies at 30 1760 Birthday M Luigi CZS Cherubini, Italian prodigy/composer 1756 Birthday Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austria, musical prodigy/composer, Figaro 1641 Death Jeremiah Horrocks, English astronomical prodigy, dies at 22
