American singer-songwriter and musician

Art Alexakis

Arthur Paul Alexakis is an American musician best known as the singer-songwriter and guitarist of the rock band Everclear. He has been a member of several other bands in addition to his own work as a songwriter for other artists. Alexakis has founded several record labels throughout his career and worked as an A&R representative for major record labels between and during his own musical projects. Later he became a political activist and lobbied for special concerns which include drug awareness policies and support for the families of the military.

Born

1962

April 12

Died

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1960s

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1962 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

240 Shapur I becomes co-emperor of the Sasanian Empire with his father Ardashir I.
467 Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
627 King Edwin of Northumbria is converted to Christianity by Paulinus, Bishop of York.
806 Nikephoros I of Constantinople is consecrated as patriarch of Constantinople.

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The world in 1962

When Art arrived

april 21 The Seattle World's Fair (Century 21 Exposition) opens. It is the first World's Fair in the United States since World War II.
april 26 NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
april 26 The British space programme launches its first satellite, the Ariel 1.
august 11 Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in microgravity.

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Same-day contemporaries

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Michael Jackson 1969–2007 American football player and politician (died 2017) Brooklyn Decker 1987– American model and actress Chad le Clos 1992– South African swimmer Flavio Briatore 1950– Italian businessman Henri Désiré Landru 1869– French serial killer (died 1922) Joseph Lanner 1801–1843 Austrian composer and conductor (died 1843) Keiko Fukuda 1913–2013 Japanese-American martial artist (died 2013) Lily Pons 1898–1976 French-American soprano and actress (died 1976) Muhammad al-Jawad 811–835 the ninth Imam of Shia Islam (died 835)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1962

Billy Beane 1962– American baseball player and manager Brian Azzarello 1962– American author Chris Sanders 1962– American illustrator and voice actor Clint Black 1962– American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer David Arnold 1962– English composer Dee Bradley Baker 1962– American voice actor Denis O'Hare 1962– American actor and singer Evander Holyfield 1962– American boxer and actor Flea 1962– Australian-American bass player, songwriter, and actor

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