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Study: Less sleep cuts effectiveness of recent vaccination

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Today in Music: a look back at pop music

Today's birthdays include the late Duke Ellington, who was born in 1899; Carl Gardner of the Coasters in 1928 (age 75); Lonnie Donegan in 1931 (age 72); April Stevens of the duo Nino Tempo and April Stevens in 1937 (age 66); Duane Allen of the Oak Ridge B

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TODAY IN COUNTRY MUSIC HISTORY (Mon., April 29) Danny Davis was born in 1925. Steel guitarist Billy Mize was born in 1929. Duane Allen of the Oak Ridge Boys was born in 1943.

Michael Henry Knox Irwin (5 June 1931 - ) is a retired GP and former medical director of the United Nations. He is a humanist and secularist activist and a campaigner for voluntary euthanasia.

Irwin's father was William Knox Irwin FRCS, a surgeon and author of medical text books.

Michael Irwin married Elizabeth Naumann in 1958; the marriage was dissolved in 1982. He married Frederica Harlow in 1983. His current partner is Angela Farmer.

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