Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter

John Paul Young

John Inglis Young, OAM, known professionally as John Paul Young, is an Australian pop singer who is best known for having a worldwide hit with "Love Is in the Air" in 1978. His career was boosted by regular appearances as a performer and guest host on Countdown, a 1974–1987 TV series for Australia's national broadcaster ABC. Besides "Love Is in the Air", Young had top ten chart success in Germany and the Netherlands with "Standing in the Rain" and four other top ten hits in South Africa, including No. 1 hits with "I Hate the Music" in 1976 and "Yesterday's Hero" in 1975.

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1950

June 21

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1950 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

533 A Byzantine expeditionary fleet under Belisarios sails from Constantinople to attack the Vandals in Africa, via Greece and Sicily.
1307 Külüg Khan is enthroned as Khagan of the Mongols and Wuzong of the Yuan.
1529 French forces are driven out of northern Italy by Spain at the Battle of Landriano during the War of the League of Cognac.
1582 Sengoku period: Oda Nobunaga, the most powerful of the Japanese daimyōs, is forced to commit suicide by his own general Akechi Mitsuhide.

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The world in 1950

When John arrived

april 21 The Nainital wedding massacre occurs, killing 22 members of the Harijan caste.
august 1 Guam is organized as an unincorporated territory of the United States as the President Harry S. Truman signs the Guam Organic Act.
august 12 Korean War: Bloody Gulch massacre: Seventy-five American POWs are massacred by the North Korean Army.
august 15 Measuring Mw 8.6, the largest earthquake on land occurs in the Assam-Tibet-Myanmar border, killing 4,800.

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Same-day contemporaries

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Alois Hába 1893– Czech composer and educator (died 1973) Benazir Bhutto 1953–2007 Pakistani politician, Prime Minister of Pakistan (born 1953) Claude Auchinleck 1884– English field marshal (died 1981) Dimitris Papaioannou 1964– Greek director and choreographer Heinrich Wölfflin 1864– Swiss historian and critic (died 1945) Lana Del Rey 1985– American singer-songwriter Lana Wachowski 1965– American director, producer, and screenwriter Luis Antonio Tagle 1957– Filipino cardinal Mary McCarthy 1912–1989 American novelist and critic (died 1989)

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Same-year contemporaries

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Abraham Sarmiento 1950–1977 Jr., Filipino journalist and activist (died 1977) Alex Chilton 1950–2010 American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2010) Alexander Lebed 1950–2002 Russian general and politician (died 2002) Billy Smith 1950– Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager Charles Fleischer 1950– American comedian and actor Charles Krauthammer 1950–2018 American columnist and conservative political commentator (born 1950) Claire Morissette 1950– Canadian cycling activist (died 2007) Daniel Auteuil 1950– French actor, director, and screenwriter David Cannadine 1950– English historian and author

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