American singer-songwriter and bass player

Kate Pierson

Catherine Elizabeth Pierson is an American singer, lyricist, and founding member of the B-52s. She plays guitar, bass, and various keyboard instruments. In the early years, as well as being a vocalist, Pierson was the main keyboard player and performed on a keyboard bass during live shows and on many of the band's recordings, taking on a role usually filled by a bass guitar player, which differentiated the band from their contemporaries. This, along with Pierson's distinctive, wide-ranging singing voice, remains a trademark of the B-52s' unique sound.

Born

1948

April 27

Died

Living

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1940s

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1948 Born

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247 Philip the Arab marks the millennium of Rome with a celebration of the ludi saeculares.
395 Emperor Arcadius marries Aelia Eudoxia, daughter of the Frankish general Flavius Bauto. She becomes one of the more powerful Roman empresses of Late Antiquity.
711 Islamic conquest of Hispania: Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus).
1296 First War of Scottish Independence: John Balliol's Scottish army is defeated by an English army commanded by John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey at the Battle of Dunbar.

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The world in 1948

When Kate arrived

april 1 Cold War: Communist forces respond to the introduction of the Deutsche Mark by attempting to force the western powers to withdraw from Berlin.
april 1 Faroe Islands gain autonomy from Denmark.
april 13 In an ambush, 78 Jewish doctors, nurses and medical students from Hadassah Hospital, and a British soldier, are massacred by Arabs in Sheikh Jarrah. This event came to be known as the Hadassah medical convoy massacre.
april 16 The Organization of European Economic Co-operation is formed.

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Same-day contemporaries

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Arielle Dombasle 1953– French-American actress and model August Wilson 1945–2005 American author and playwright (died 2005) Fethullah Gülen 1941–2024 Turkish preacher and theologian (died 2024) Frank Abagnale Jr. 1948– American security consultant and criminal Frank Catalanotto 1974– American baseball player Irving Adler 1913–2012 American mathematician, author, and academic (died 2012) Lim Bo Seng 1909– Chinese businessman, resistance fighter of Force 136 and war hero of Singapore (died 1944) Mumtaz Mahal 1593–1631 Mughal empress buried at the Taj Mahal (died 1631) Pik Botha 1932– South African lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 8th South African Ambassador to the United States (died 2018)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1948

Art Spiegelman 1948– Swedish-American cartoonist and critic Buck Martinez 1948– American baseball player and manager Carl Weathers 1948–2024 American football player and actor (born 1948) Carlos Salinas de Gortari 1948– Mexican economist and politician, 53rd President of Mexico Christopher Guest 1948– British-American actor and director Claude Jade 1948–2006 French actress (born 1948) Cliff Thorburn 1948– Canadian snooker player Davíð Oddsson 1948– Icelandic politician, 21st Prime Minister of Iceland (died 2026) Dayle Haddon 1948– Canadian model and actress (died 2024)

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