Charles Manson is born in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Manson will find notoriety as a hippy cult leader in California in the 60s, responsible for the deaths of actress Sharon Tate and others in a massacre said to have been at least partly inspired by Manson's interpretations of
The Beatles' song Helter Skelter. Manson, keen to establish a career as a singer-songwriter, also attached himself to Dennis Wilson of The
Beach BoyS for some time but Wilson managed to extricate himself from Manson's clutches.