November 8

Events

 * 1967 - 1st local British radio station begins broadcasting (Radio Leicester)

Births

 * 1883 – Arnold Bax, English composer (d. 1953)
 * 1888 – David Monrad Johansen, Norwegian composer (d. 1974)
 * 1893 – Clarence Williams, American composer (d. 1965)
 * 1923 – Jack Kilby, American electrical engineer, Nobel laureate (d. 2005)
 * 1927 – Patti Page, American singer
 * 1944 – Bonnie Bramlett, American singer (Delaney, Bonnie & Friends)
 * 1946 – Roy Wood, English songwriter and musician (Electric Light Orchestra, The Move, Wizzard)
 * 1947 – Minnie Riperton, American singer (d. 1979)
 * 1949 – Bonnie Raitt, American singer
 * 1954 – Jeanette McGruder, American musician (P Funk)
 * 1956 – Steven Miller, American record producer
 * 1957 – Porl Thompson, British musician (The Cure)
 * 1958 – Don Byron, American clarinetist
 * 1961 – Leif Garrett, American singer
 * 1970 – Diana King, Jamaican singer
 * 1971 – Aaron Yates (Tech N9NE), American rapper
 * 1977 – Jully Black, Canadian R&B singer
 * 1980 – Ana Vidovic, classical guitarist

Deaths

 * 1599 – Francisco Guerrero, Spanish composer (b. 1528)
 * 1890 – César Franck, Belgian composer and organist (b. 1822)


 * 1974 – Ivory Joe Hunter, American R&B singer, pianist and songwriter (b. 1914)
 * 1983 – James Booker, American jazz singer (b. 1939)


 * 1992 – Larry Levan, American DJ (b. 1954)


 * 1999 – Lester Bowie, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1941)
 * 2003 – Guy Speranza, American singer, original Riot frontman (b. 1956)
 * 2006 – Basil Poledouris, American film score composer (b. 1945)