Milestones, Feb. 11, 1980

BORN. To Jan Cousteau, 39, widow of Oceanographer-Film Maker Philippe Cousteau, who was killed in a seaplane accident at age 39 last summer: a first son, second child; in Santa Monica, Calif.; on Jan. 20. The second grandson of famed Marine Explorer and Ecologist Jacques-Yves Cousteau was named Philippe Pierre Jacques-Yves Arnault.

DIED. Henry Roeland Byrd, 61, legendary blues pianist also known as "Professor Longhair," whose recordings of the '40s and early '50s laid the groundwork for rock 'n' roll; of a heart attack; in New Orleans. Born in Bogalusa, La., Byrd taught himself...

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