This date in Black music history:  Robert Nesta "Bob" Marley was born in Nine Mile, Saint Ann, Jamaica in 1945.

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After a long and successful career that began with a string of hits in the early 1960's, Marley died of cancer in 1981.  He was posthumously honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2001.

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