German singer-songwriter and actress

Nena

Gabriele Susanne Kerner, better known by her stage name Nena, is a German singer who rose to international fame in 1983 as the lead vocalist of the band Nena with the Neue Deutsche Welle song "99 Luftballons". In that same year, the band re-recorded this song in English as "99 Red Balloons". Nena's re-recording of some of the band's old hit songs as a solo artist, produced by the co-composer of most of them, her former Nena band colleague and keyboard player Uwe Fahrenkrog-Petersen, rekindled her solo career in 2002. Combined with the success of the Nena band years, she has sold over 25 million records, making her the most successful German pop singer in chart history.

Born

1960

March 24

Died

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1960s

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Key dates

1960 Born

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1199 King Richard I of England is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting in France, leading to his death on April 6.
1387 English victory over a Franco-Castilian-Flemish fleet in the Battle of Margate off the coast of Margate.
1401 Turco-Mongol emperor Timur sacks Damascus.
1603 James VI of Scotland is proclaimed King James I of England and Ireland, upon the death of Elizabeth I.

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The world in 1960

When Nena 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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Same-day contemporaries

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Agnes Macphail 1890–1954 Canadian educator and politician (born 1890) Annabella Sciorra 1960– American actress Clyde Barrow 1909–1934 American criminal (died 1934) Dario Fo 1926–2016 Italian playwright, actor, director, and composer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2016) David Dacko 1930–2003 Central African politician, 1st president of the Central African Republic (died 2003) Edward Weston 1886–1936 English-American chemist (born 1850) Franciszek Blachnicki 1921–1987 Polish priest (born 1921) Gary Paffett 1981– English racing driver Georgius Agricola 1494–1555 German mineralogist and scholar (died 1555)

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