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August 16, 1949

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Notable Births

Scott Asheton

1949Scott Asheton, American drummer (died 2014)[†]

Scott Randolph Asheton was an American musician, best known as the drummer for the rock band the Stooges.

Paul Pasqualoni

1949Paul Pasqualoni, American football player and coach[†]

Paul Lucian Pasqualoni is an American football coach who recently served as the linebackers coach for the Memphis Showboats of the United Football League (UFL). He most recently was the defensive line coach for the Carolina Panthers.

1949Bill Spooner, American guitarist and songwriter[†]

William "Sputnik" Spooner is an American musician, guitarist, singer and songwriter, and the founder of The Tubes, a theatrical rock band. His songwriting is known for its use of humor and satire. He has released three solo albums: First Chud (1985), Mall to Mars (1997), and Demo-licious. He previously played in the San Francisco Bay area with the band The Folk Ups, and now plays as a solo artiste or in sessions with his son Boone. He is still recording.

Notable Deaths

Margaret Mitchell

1949Margaret Mitchell, American journalist and author (born 1900)[†]

Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell was an American novelist and journalist. Mitchell wrote only one novel that was published during her lifetime, the American Civil War-era novel Gone with the Wind, for which she won the National Book Award for Fiction for Most Distinguished Novel of 1936 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937. Long after her death, a collection of Mitchell's girlhood writings and a novella she wrote as a teenager, titled Lost Laysen, were published. A collection of newspaper articles written by Mitchell for The Atlanta Journal was republished in book form.