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Celebrity Birthdays for Nov. 14: Actress Kathleen Hughes ("Babe") is 96. Composer Wendy Carlos is 85. King Charles III is 76. Guitarist James Young of Styx is 75. Singer Stephen Bishop is 73. Pianist Yanni (Yiannis Chryssomallis) is 70.

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Celebrity Birthdays for Nov. 15: Singer Petula Clark is 92. Actor Sam Waterston ("Law and Order") is 84. Classical conductor Daniel Barenboim is 82. Singer Anni-Frid Lyngstad of ABBA is 79. Actor Bob Gunton is 79.

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Today in Music History for Nov. 22: In 1899, songwriter, singer and actor Hoagy Carmichael, composer of the standards "Star Dust" and "Georgia on My Mind," was born in Bloomington, Ind. "Star Dust" was Carmichael's first major success.

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Today in Music History for Nov. 19: In 1954, entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. was seriously injured in a car crash while en route to a Los Angeles recording session from Las Vegas. His left eye was removed but he was back performing within several weeks.

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Today in Music History for Nov. 18: In 1926, 1950s pop singer Dorothy Collins, whose real name is Margaret Chandler, was born in Windsor, Ont. She got her start in Canadian radio, then performed with bandleader Raymond Scott in the U.S.

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Today in Music History for Nov. 17: In 1938, singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, who became Canada's most famous, and arguably most important, pop musician in the late 1960s, was born in Orillia, Ont.

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Today in Music History for Nov. 20: In 1886, the Toronto Conservatory of Music was incorporated. It began with 200 students and 50 teachers, and operated in a space over a music store in the downtown area.

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Today in Music History for Nov. 21: In 1877, Thomas Edison announced he invented a "talking machine" -- something that became known as the phonograph. In 1941, songwriter David Porter was born in Memphis.

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Today in Music History for Nov. 23: In 1889, the Pacific Phonograph Company, owned by Louis Glass, installed the world's first jukebox at his Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.

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Today in History for Nov. 22: In 1718, the English pirate Blackbeard was killed during a battle off the Virginia coast.