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Dave Brubeck is presented with a special issue Miles Davis Award, in the Salle Stevie Wonder of the Maison du Festival Rio Tinto Alcan, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, during the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal. The award is to honour Brubeck's career as one the most audacious jazz pianists of his generation. Later in the day, The Dave Brubeck Quartet performs the closing concert of the festival in the Theatre Maisonneuve.
Singer and TV star Dannii Minogue gives birth to a boy, Ethan Edward Smith, in Melbourne, Australia, Oceania. The father is her British boyfriend Kris Smith.
The 
On their The E.N.D. World Tour, The Black Eyed Peas play at the Heineken Jammin' Festival in San Giuliano Park, Venice, Italy, Europe.David Fanshawe, a composer and pioneer of what later became known as world music, dies aged 68, following a stroke at his home near Ramsbury, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe. His best-known work is African Sanctus, which mixes live field recordings made in Africa with composed choral and orchestral sections written by Fanshawe.
N-Dubz and Example play at the month-long iTunes festival in The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, London, England, UK.
