By Sabrina Mason
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Simon John Charles Le Bon MBE (born 27 October 1958) is a British singer. He is best known as the lead vocalist and lyricist of the new wave band Duran Duran and its offshoot Arcadia. Le Bon has received three Ivor Novello Awards from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors, including the award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music. He also received an MBE from King Charles III in 2024.
Le Bon was born on 27 October 1958, on his father’s birthday, in Bushey Maternity Hospital in Bushey, Hertfordshire, the first of three boys for John and Ann-Marie Le Bon, followed by his younger brothers, David and Jonathan. His mother encouraged his artistic talent when he was six years old by entering him in a screen test for a Persil washing powder TV advertisement, which proved successful. He was a member of the local church choir from a young age, and was trained as an actor.
Le Bon was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2024 Birthday Honours for services to music and charity.
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Born
- James Cook (naval captain & explorer) –
- Niccolo Paganini (composer, violinist) –
- Isaac Singer (inventor) –
- Kenyon Cox (painter) –
- Theodore Roosevelt (26th U.S. president) –
- Stamen Gigov Grigorov (Bulgarian physician, microbiologist) –
- Enid Bagnold (author) –
- Leif Erickson (actor) –
- Dylan Thomas (poet) –
- Nanette Fabray (actress) –
- Sylvia Plath (poet) –
- John Cleese (actor) –
- Maxine Hong Kingston (author) –
- Fran Lebowitz (writer) –
- Simon Le Bon (musician) –
Died
- James M. Cain (novelist) –
- Rod Roddy (the flamboyantly dressed announcer on The Price is Right whose booming voice invited audience members to Come on down!” for nearly 20 years”) –
- Betsy Drake (actress) –
Events
- Massachusetts Bay Colony, having outlawed Quakers, hung two who defiantly returned to the colony. They were the first Quakers to be hanged in America.–
- Harvard expedition observed solar eclipse in British-occupied Penobscot Bay, Maine–
- The Treaty of San Lorenzo was signed between the United States and Spain, giving the United States the right to navigate the Mississippi River–
- Macy’s Department store opened in N.Y.C.–
- U.S. president-to-be Theodore Roosevelt married Alice Hathaway Lee–
- At 16, Jascha Heifetz made his American debut at Carnegie Hall–
- Dupont announced the invention of nylon–
- 32-pound bull trout caught in Lake Pend Oreille, Idaho–
- Saturn I first launched–
- Last performance of opera singer Beverly Sills–
- The Boston Red Sox won the World Series for the first time in 86 years, beating the St. Louis Cardinals 3-0 in a four-game sweep–
- 16-foot Burmese python caught in the Florida Everglades–
Weather
- A storm deposited snow and sleet on Mississippi–
- Eighty-three degrees F in Boston, Massachusetts–
- -3 degrees Fahrenheit in Jump River, Wisconsin–
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