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2004 Robert Quine, guitarist, guitar soloist, worked with Matthew Sweet, Marianne Faithfull, style combines jazz, rock, blues, dies

1997 Stubby Kaye, actor (Guys and Dolls, Sweet Charity), dies at 79

1997 Brian Connolly, lead singer (Sweet), dies of heart failure at 52

1992 Paula Kelly, singer and actress (Sweet Charity), dies at 72

1991 Lex Karsemeijer, Dutch tenor/choral dir (Sweet 16, Pro Musica), dies

1990 Ed van der Elsken, Dutch photographer (Sweet Life), dies at 65

1990 Roald Dahl, Br short story author (Sweet Mystery of Life), dies at 74

1987 "Sweet Charity" closes at Minskoff Theater New York City after 368 performances

1986 Blanche Sweet, U.S. actress (DW Griffith movies), dies at 90

1986 "Sweet Charity" opens at Minskoff Theater New York City for 368 performances

1985 Dolph Sweet, actor (Gil McGowan-Another World), dies at 74

1981 George Harrison is ordered to pay ABKCO Music $587,000 for "subconscious plagiarism" "My Sweet Lord" with "He's So Fine"

1980 Lillian Roth, actress (Animal Crackers, Alice Sweet Alice), dies

1979 Sarah Polley, actress, Sweet Hereafter

1976 George Harrison found guilty of plagurizing "My Sweet Lord"

1976 "Home Sweet Homer" opens and closes at Palace Theater New York City

1971 "My Sweet Lord" by George Harrison hit #1 on United Kingdom pop chart

1971 George Harrison releases "My Sweet Lord"

1970 George Harrison releases "My Sweet Lord" single

1970 Pendleton, Ford and Cryer's "Last Sweet Days of Isaac," premieres in New York City

1968 "Noel Coward's Sweet Potato" closes at Booth New York City after 36 performances

1968 "Noel Coward's Sweet Potato" opens at Booth Theater New York City for 36 performances

1968 "Noel Coward's Sweet Potato" closes at Barrymore New York City after 17 performances

1968 "Noel Coward's Sweet Potato" opens at Barrymore New York City for 17 performances

1968 Dorothy Gish, de Guiche, actress (Home Sweet Home), dies at 70

1967 "Henry, Sweet Henry" closes at Palace Theater New York City after 80 performances

1967 "Henry, Sweet Henry" opens at Palace Theater New York City for 80 performances

1967 "Sweet Charity" closes at Palace Theater New York City after 608 performances

1967 Geraldine Farrar, soprano/actress (Such Sweet Compulsion), dies at 85

1966 John David Cullum, actor in 1776, Sweet Country, Day After

1966 "Sweet Charity" opens at Palace Theater New York City for 608 performances

1966 Neil Simons, Coleman and Fields' musical "Sweet Charity," premieres

1965 Steven Sweet, Wadsworth Ohio, heavy metal artist, Warrant-Cherry Pie

1964 Matthew Sweet, American Musician

1962 Rachel Sweet, born in Akron, Ohio, singer, songwriter, actress, writer, recorded theme song for Nickelodeon series, Clarissa Explains It All, appeared as George Costanza's cousin, in Seinfeld, television episode, 'The Contest', released Fool Around: The Best of Rachel Sweet, 1992

1961 Beatles record "Sweet Georgia Brown" and "Ready Teddy"

1961 Beatles record Aint She Sweet, Cry for a Shadow, When the Saints Go Marching In, Why, Nobody's Child and My Bonnie, in Hamburg

1959 Tennessee Williams' "Sweet Bird of Youth," premieres in New York City

1953 "Sweet" Lou Dunbar, basketball player, Harlem Globetrotters

1953 Jules Shear, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, musician, singer, performed with The Funky Kings, Raisins in the Sun, created, hosted, first 13 episodes of MTV series, Unplugged, song, All Through the Night, recorded by Cyndi Lauper, ranked number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100, co-wrote title track for Everything's Different Now album, with Matthew Sweet

1950 Steve Priest, London, rock bassist, Sweet Hayes

1949 Mick Tucker, London, rock drummer, Sweet Harlesden

1949 Andrew Scott, rocker, Sweet

1949 Andrew Scott, Wales, rock guitarist, Sweet

1948 Brian Connolly, Scotland, rocker, Sweet

1948 Don Sweet, Vancouver, CFL, NFL place kicker, Montreal, Green Bay

1948 Anna E "Annelies" Balhan, Dutch revue-artist/actress, Sweet Chairty

1946 Alison Steadman, Liverpool England, actress, Life is Sweet

1946 Tim Pigott-Smith, actor, Sweet William, Jewel in Crown

1946 Arthur Conley, U.S. soul singer, Sweet Soul Music

1943 George Harrison, rocker, Beatle/Travelling Willberries-My Sweet Lord

1942 Robert Quine, born in Akron, Ohio, guitarist, guitar soloist, worked with Matthew Sweet, Marianne Faithfull, style combines jazz, rock, blues

1938 Charley Pride, born in Sledge, Mississippi, country singer, Sweet Country

1936 Timothy Spall, actor, 1871, Life is Sweet, Crusoe, Remembrance

1934 Al Freeman, Jr., born in Texas, actor, One Life to Live, My Sweet Charlie

1933 Spottiswoode Aitken, actor (Eagle, Home Sweet Home), dies at 64

1933 Chita Rivera, Washington D.C., actress, West Side Story, Sweet Charity

1930 Musical "Sweet and Low" with Fanny Brice premieres in New York City

1929 Cy Coleman, Seymour Kaufman, songwriter, Witchcraft, Sweet Charity

1927 "Ain't She Sweet?" hits #1 on the pop singles chart by Ben Bernie

1926 Lee Richardson, Chicago, actor, Sweet Lorraine, Fly 2, Tiger Warsaw

1925 Gwen Verdon, born in Louisiana, actress/singer/dancer, Cotton Club, Sweet Charity

1920 Dolph Sweet, actor, Gil McGowan-Another World

1920 Dolph Sweet, born in New York City, actor, Gimme a Break, Which Way is Up

1903 "Sweet Adaline," a barbershop quartet favorite, is 1st sung

1902 Raymond Hackett, born in New York City, husband of Blanche Sweet/actor, Faithless Lover

1900 Elsie Evelyn Laye, English singer and actress, Bitter Sweet, Merry Widow

1896 Blanche Sweet, born in Chicago, actress, Home Sweet Home, Avenging Conscience

1888 Arthur Pinero's "Sweet Lavender," premieres in London

1868 Spottiswoode Aitken, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, actor, Eagle, Home Sweet Home

1823 "Home Sweet Home" 1st sung (London)

1791 John Howard Payne, U.S., author/actor/diplomat, Home Sweet Home


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