- 1941 Jon Lord, British keyboardist and composer (Deep Purple - "Smoke On The Water"; Whitesnake), born in Leicester, England (d. 2012)
On the Saipan I worked in the shop that was in charge of the PA systems. We hid an amp between two bins and put the speakers up in the ribs along the bulkhead. We played the hell out of this song at very high volume way too much. Don't really care for it now, but at the time we all loved it.