Sunday, February 11, 2007

When Is Bill Dixon?

Bill Dixon

b. October 5, 1925, Nantucket, MA


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Also born in 1925:

Sammy Davis Junior, December 8, 1925
B.B. King, September 16, 1925
Oscar Peterson, August 15, 1925
Johnny Carson, October 23, 1925
Luciano Berio October 24, 1925
Pierre Boulez, March 25, 1925
Teo Macero, October 30, 1925
Zoot Sims, October 29, 1925
Cal Tjader, July 16, 1925

Nat Hentoff, June 10, 1925
Gore Vidal, October 3, 1925
Lenny Bruce, October 13, 1925
Flannery O'Connor, March 25, 1925
Yukio Mishima, January 14, 1925

Malcolm X, May 19, 1925
Pol Pot, May 19, 1925
Medgar Wiley Evers, July 2, 1925
Margaret Thatcher, October 13, 1925
Robert Kenedy, November 20, 1925

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In 1925:

Duke Ellington, born 29 April 1899, is 26 years old
Louis Armstrong, born August 4, 1901, is 24 years old
Thelonious Monk, born October 10, 1917, is 8 years old
Charlie Parker, born 29 August 1920 is 5 years old
Sam Rivers, born September 25, 1923, is 2 years old

1 year later John Coltrane is Born, September 23, 1926
1 year later Miles Davis is born, May 25, 1926
4 years later Cecil Taylor is born, March 15, 1929
5 years later Sonny Rollins is born, September 9, 1930
5 years later Derek Bailey is born, January 29, 1930
6 years later Jimmy Lyons is born, December 1, 1931
11 years later Albert Ayler is born, July 13, 1936
13 years later Tony Oxley is born, June 15, 1938
14 years later Charles Gayle is born, February 28, 1939
15 years later Keith Rowe is born, March 16, 1940
16 years later Peter Brötzmann is born, March 6, 1941
19 years later Evan Shaw Parker is born, 5 April 1944
20 years later Anthony Braxton is born, June 4, 1945
27 years later William Parker is born, January 10, 1952
28 years later John Zorn is born, September 2, 1953
39 years later Ken Vandermark is born, September 22, 1964

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In 1925:

Ansel Easton Adams, born February 20, 1902 is 23 years old
Mark Rothko, born September 25, 1903, is 22 years old
Jackson Pollock, born 28 January 1912, is 13 years old
Rober Motherwell, born January 24, 1915, is 10 years old
Roy DeCarava born December 9, 1919 is 6 years old

3 years later Andy Warhol is born on August 6, 1928
5 years later Jasper Johns is born on May 15, 1930

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In 1925:

Samuel Holloway Bowers, born August 6, 1924 is 1 year old
(in 1924 Ku Klux Klan membership estimated at 6,000,000)

4 years later, Martin Luther King, Jr. is born January 15, 1929

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1925 - Calvin Coolidge is the President of the United States
1925 - Erik Satie died
1925 - Adolph Hitler publishes Vol. I of Mein Kampf
1925 - John T. Scopes is arrested on May 5 for teaching the theory of evolution
1925 - Federal spending $2.92 billion
1925 - F. Scott Fitzgerald published The Great Gatsby
1925 - The Chrysler Corporation is founded
1925 - The Sphinx in Egypt is dug out.
1925 - The Sears Catalog sells Thompson submachine guns for $175

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