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#BOTD Jimmy Page (b. 9 Jan 1944), English musician, songwriter, and record producer who achieved international success as the guitarist and founder of the rock band Led Zeppelin. Photo: With Led Zeppelin, 1970. Michael Ochs Archives.

🎂 #BOTD Joan Baez (b. 9 Jan 1941), American singer and political activist. An active participant in the 1960s protest movement, Baez made free concert appearances for UNESCO, civil rights organizations, and anti-Vietnam War rallies. In 1964 she refused to pay federal taxes that went toward war expenses, and she was jailed twice in 1967."

🎂 #BOTD Joan Baez (b. 9 Jan 1941), American folksinger and political activist. 📷 With William Sloan Coffin at 'Convocation and Lobby, Women Strike for Peace' event, Washington, D.C., 4 Jan 1973.

🎂 #BOTD Joan Baez (b. 9 Jan 1941), American singer and political activist. "She was instrumental in the early career of Bob Dylan, with whom she was romantically involved for several years. (Her relationship with Dylan and with her sister and brother-in-law, the folksinging duo Mimi and Richard Fariña, is chronicled in David Hajdu’s Positively 4th Street [2001].) "

🎂 #BOTD Joan Baez (b. 9 Jan 1941), American singer and political activist. "Her youthful attractiveness and activist energy put her in the forefront of the 1960s folk music revival, popularizing traditional songs through her performances in coffeehouses, at music festivals, and on television and through her record albums, which were best sellers from 1960 through 1964 and remained popular."

🎂 #BOTD Susannah York (9 Jan 1939 - 15 Jan 2011), British actor. "Provided powerful performances as the duplicitous lesbian Childie in X-rated The Killing of Sister George, 1968, and as the deluded dance marathon participant Alice in They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?, 1969."

#BOTD Susannah York (9 Jan 1939 - 15 Jan 2011), English film, stage and television actress. "A purposefully intriguing, enigmatic and noticeably uninhibited talent." 1. Photo: United Artists, 1963. 2. On the set of Robert Parrish's 'Duffy,' 1968.

🎂 #BOTD Bob Denver (9 Jan 1935 - 2 Sep 2005), American comedic actor. "Known for having portrayed the beatnik Maynard G. Krebs on the 1959–1963 sitcom The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, and Gilligan on the 1964-1967 television series Gilligan's Island."

🎂 #BOTD Lee Van Cleef (9 Jan 1925 - 16 Dec 1989), American film actor "whose steely eyes and rugged features led to a long career portraying Western arch-villains." "Lean, cool character player whose angular features marked him as a villain. Found his fortune as the hero of 'spaghetti westerns' such as For a Few Dollars More, 1965, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, 1967."

🎂 #BOTD Kenny Clarke (9 Jan 1914 - 26 Jan 1985), American jazz drummer and bandleader, known among musicians as 'Klook' for one of his characteristic drum licks. "Clarke was a chief element in the modernist movement in the 1940s, revolutionizing the drummer’s role by moving the principal timekeeping rhythms to the ride cymbal and by interjecting musical comments to the soloist by 'dropping bombs' on the bass drum and snare drum with unexpected fills and underscorings." "While in NYC, he played with the major innovators of the emerging bop style, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Curly Russell and others. He spent his later life in Paris. 📷 Photos by Herman Leonard.