Dutch singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Arjen Anthony Lucassen

Arjen Anthony Lucassen is a Dutch singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist musician and record producer, best known for his long-running progressive metal/rock opera project Ayreon. Lucassen started his career in 1980 as the guitarist and backing vocalist of Dutch heavy metal band Bodine as Iron Anthony, before joining Vengeance in 1984. After eight years he left the band, wanting to go into a more progressive direction, and released two years later an unsuccessful solo album entitled Pools of Sorrow, Waves of Joy under the nickname Anthony.

Born

1960

April 3

Died

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1960s

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686 Maya king Yuknoom Yich'aak K'ahk' assumes the crown of Calakmul.
956 Polyeuctus of Constantinople is elected as patriarch of Constantinople.
1043 Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England.
1077 The Patriarchate of Friûl, the first Friulian state, is created.

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The world in 1960

When Arjen arrived

april 1 The TIROS-1 satellite transmits the first television picture from space.
april 13 The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world's first satellite navigation system.
april 15 At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker leads a conference that results in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organizations of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
april 19 Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign.

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Carlos Salinas de Gortari 1948– Mexican economist and politician, 53rd President of Mexico Dylann Roof 1994– American mass murderer Ikki Kita 1883– Japanese philosopher and author (died 1937) Jan Sterling 1921–2004 American actress (died 2004) Jane Goodall 1934–2025 English primatologist and anthropologist (died 2025) Jaya Prada 1962– Indian actress and politician Leona Lewis 1985– English singer-songwriter and producer Michael Woodruff 1911– English-Scottish surgeon and academic (died 2001) Thomas C. Kinkaid 1888– American admiral (died 1972)

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Aaron Allston 1960–2014 American game designer and author (died 2014) Akbar Ganji 1960– Iranian journalist and author Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor 1960– second son of Elizabeth II Annabella Sciorra 1960– American actress Ayuo Takahashi 1960– Japanese-American singer-songwriter Bernard Rose 1960–1996 English director, screenwriter, and cinematographer Cem Uzan 1960– Turkish businessman and politician Craig Hodges 1960– American basketball player and coach Dan Hawkins 1960– American football player, coach, and sportscaster

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