Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Alex Lifeson

Aleksandar Živojinović, known professionally as Alex Lifeson, is a Canadian musician, best known as the guitarist for the rock band Rush. In 1968, he co-founded a band with drummer John Rutsey and bassist and lead vocalist Jeff Jones. One month later, Jones was succeeded by Geddy Lee and in 1974, Rutsey was succeeded by Neil Peart, at which point the lineup remained unchanged until the band's initial dissolution in 2015; Lifeson and Lee eventually reformed Rush in 2025, with Anika Nilles as a live drummer. Lifeson is the only member of Rush to have stayed in the band throughout its entire existence and, alongside Lee, the only member to appear on all of the band's albums.

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1953

August 27

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1953 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

410 The sacking of Rome by the Visigoths ends after three days.
1172 Henry the Young King and Margaret of France are crowned junior king and queen of England.
1232 Shikken Hojo Yasutoki of the Kamakura shogunate promulgates the Goseibai Shikimoku, the first Japanese legal code governing the samurai class.
1353 War of the Straits and Sardinian–Aragonese war: The Battle of Alghero results in a crushing victory of the allied Aragonese and Venetian fleet over the Genoese fleet, most of which is captured.

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The world in 1953

When Alex arrived

april 13 CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program Project MKUltra.
april 24 Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
april 25 Francis Crick and James Watson publish "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" describing the double helix structure of DNA.
april 27 Operation Moolah offers $50,000 to any pilot who defects with a fully mission-capable Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 to South Korea. The first pilot was to receive $100,000.

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Alexander Farnese 1545–1592 Duke of Parma (died 1592) Alice Coltrane 1937–2007 American pianist and composer (died 2007) Charles Fleischer 1950– American comedian and actor Friedrich Martens 1845–1909 Estonian-Russian historian, lawyer, and diplomat (died 1909) Giorgio Mitrovich 1795–1885 Maltese politician (died 1885) Mario 1986– American singer and actor Mase 1975– American rapper, songwriter and pastor Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. 1915– American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2011) Péter Boross 1928– Hungarian lawyer and politician, 54th Prime Minister of Hungary

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Also born in 1953

Alex Grey 1953– American visual artist and author Alister McGrath 1953– Irish priest, historian, and theologian Andy Partridge 1953– English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer Angélica Aragón 1953– Mexican film, television, and stage actress and singer Arielle Dombasle 1953– French-American actress and model Ben Bernanke 1953– American economist Benazir Bhutto 1953–2007 Pakistani politician, Prime Minister of Pakistan (born 1953) Ciarán Hinds 1953– Irish actor Claire van Kampen 1953–2025 English director and composer (born 1953)

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