February 6 - Billy Idol is involved in a serious motorcycle accident, resulting in several broken bones. Idol had been scheduled to have a major role in Oliver Stone's film The Doors, but had to back out of the project due to his injuries.
February 8 - 50 year old songwriter Del Shannon dies of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
April 6 - Mötley Crüe's Tommy Lee suffers a mild concussion after falling off of scaffolding above his elevated drum kit during a performance in New Haven, CT.
... Karl Friedrich Rosenkranz (April 23, 1805 - July 14, 1879), German philosopher, was born at Magdeburg.
He read philosophy at Berlin, Halle and Heidelberg, ...