November 20 1956: H.I.M. Haile Selassie I visits Japan. 1957: "Jim" Brown [UB40; drums] is born (some sources say November 21st). 1966: Billy Slaughter [Stone Love; selector] is born. 1978: Yeshemabeth is born to Freddie McGregor and Judy Mowatt in Kingston, Jamaica. 1998: Roland Alphonso, founding tenor saxophonist for Skatalites, passes away at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles from complications related to brain aneurysms. Age 67. (b. January 12, 1931)Roland had slipped into a coma after suffering a seizure onstage while performing with The Skatalites at the Key Club in West Hollywood, California, on November 2nd. 2017: Ninjaman and his co-accused ere found guilty of the 2009 murder of Ricardo Johnson.  November 21 ----: Jamaican dub poetry Nazamba is born. 1953: Philip Smart, owner and engineer of HC&F studio, radio DJ, producer, is born in Kingston, Jamaica. 1954: Everton Blender (Everton Dennis Williams) is born in Clarendon, Jamaica. 1989: Samory I (Samory-Tour Frazer) is born.  November 22 1944: Max Romeo is born Max Smith, the eldest of nine children. 1946: Aston Francis Barrett aka 'Family Man' is born in Kingston, Jamaica. ----: Shimura Hitoshi [Ska Flames; drums] is born. 1973: (or 1972): Patra (Dorothy Smith) is born in Kingston, Jamaica. 1980: DJ General Echo aka Ranking Slackness (b. Errol Robinson) passes away (shot dead by police) in Kingston, Jamaica, at the age of 24. (b. December 8, 1955)