Today's Birthdays in Music

Welcome to Today in Music for Thursday, July 2, 2009.

1581 - Johann Staden, composer
1589 - Guillaume van Messaus, composer
1636 - Daniel Speer, composer
1714 - Christoph W Ritter von Gluck, Austria composer (Il there pastore)
1737 - Fran‡ois Leonard Rouwyzer, composer
1746 - Hardenack Otto Conrad Zinck, composer
1763 - Peter Ritter, composer
1793 - Antoine Prumier, composer
1814 - Atale Therese Annette Wartel, composer
1857 - Francesco Spetrino, composer
1880 - Albert Szirmai, composer
1892 - Jack Hylton, English orchestra leader/impresario (Crazy Passage Show)
1904 - Carl Weinrich, composer
1906 - Robert Levine Sanders, composer
1910 - Earl Hawley Robinson, composer
1910 - William Douglas Denny, composer
1916 - Barry Gray, [Bernard Yaroslaw], interviewer (started call-in radio)
1918 - Imam Elissa, singer
1922 - Genrikh Matusovich Vagner, composer
1924 - Rick Besoyan, composer
1925 - Marvin Rainwater, Wichita Ks, country singer (Ozark Jubilee)
1925 - Yasushi Akutagawa, composer
1926 - Billy Usselton, saxophonist
1926 - Lee Allen, Pittsburg, Ks, tenor sax (Walkin' With Mr Lee)
1932 - Sammy Turner, Paterson NJ, vocalist (Lavender Blue)
1933 - David Benjamin Lewin, composer
1935 - Gilbert Kalish, Brooklyn NY, pianist/professor (SUNY Stony Brook)
1939 - Paul Williams, rocker (Temptations-My Girl)
1945 - James Orville Fulkerson, composer
1949 - Roy Bittan, rocker (E Street Band)
1951 - Joey Puerta, rocker (Ambrosia)
1952 - Johnny Coila, rocker
1952 - Wayne Haner, rock bassist (Axe)
1956 - Jeffrey Cooper, rock guitarist (Midnight Star-No Parking)
1957 - Mike Anger, rocker (Blow Monkeys-Wicked Ways)
1964 - Dave Parsons, rocker (Transvision Vamp, Sham 69-That's Life)

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