1951 Birthday Ned Sublette, born in Lubbock, Texas, composer, musician, musicologist, producer, guitarist, studied classical guitar with Emilio Pujol, composition with Kenneth Gaburo, Cuban music scholar, known for mixing country-western, afro-Caribbean salsa, cumbia, rumba music styles 1948 Birthday Ruben Blades, salsa singer and actor, Critical Condition, Last Fight 1912 Birthday Machito "Frank Grillo", Florida, bandleader, created salsa music
