American singer-songwriter (died 1990)

Andrew Wood

Andrew Patrick Wood was an American musician who was the lead singer and lyricist for the alternative rock bands Malfunkshun and Mother Love Bone. He formed Malfunkshun in 1980 with his older brother Kevin Wood on guitar and Regan Hagar on drums. The band used alter ego personas onstage; Wood performed as Landrew the Love Child. Though the band only released two songs before going on an extended hiatus, "With Yo' Heart " and "Stars-n-You", on the Deep Six compilation album, they are often cited as being among the originators of the Seattle grunge movement.

Born

1966

January 8

Died

1990

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1960s

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When Andrew arrived

april 21 Rastafari movement: Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Jamaica, an event now celebrated as Grounation Day.
april 22 American Flyers Airline Flight 280/D crashes on approach to Ardmore Municipal Airport in Ardmore, Oklahoma, killing 83.
april 23 Aeroflot Flight 2723 crashes into the Caspian Sea off the Absheron Peninsula, killing 33 people.
april 26 The magnitude 5.1 Tashkent earthquake affects the largest city in Soviet Central Asia with a maximum MSK intensity of VII (Very strong). Tashkent is mostly destroyed and 15–200 are killed.

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Betsy DeVos 1958– American businesswoman and politician, 11th Secretary of Education Elvis Presley 1935–1977 American singer and actor (born 1935) Evelyn Wood 1909– American author and educator (died 1995) Fanny Bullock Workman 1859–1925 American geographer and mountain climber (born 1859) François-Henri de Montmorency 1628–1695 duc de Luxembourg, French general (born 1628) Hans von Bülow 1830–1894 German pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1830) Ivan Gundulić 1589–1638 Croatian poet (born 1589) James Craig 1871– 1st Viscount Craigavon, Irish captain and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (died 1940) Jan Pieterszoon Coen 1587–1629 Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (died 1629)

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