John Winston Ono Lennon (John Winston Lennon)
(October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980)


John J. Mellencamp is 65 years old today.
Singer-songwriter John Mellencamp made the #1
song "Jack & Diane," among many others. He has
been nominated for more than ten Grammy Awards,
winning one. Billy Joel helped induct him into the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008.
Kenneth Ray "Kenny" Rogers is 78 today.
Kenny Rogers attended Jefferson Davis High School in Houston
and joined his first band, The Scholars, in the mid-1950s, but the
band dissolved after their front man left to go solo. He starred as
race car driver Brewster Baker in the 1982 comedy/drama film
Six Pack. Rogers was inducted into the Country Music Hall of
Fame in 2013.