Months in 1978: January February March April May June July August September October November December
Events in Music
Events 1 - 14 of 14
Jan 16th - 5th American Music Award: Stevie Wonder, Fleetwood Mac & C Twitty
Feb 19th - Coleman, Comden & Green's musical premieres in NYC
Feb 23rd - 20th Grammy Awards: Hotel California, Fleetwood Mac, Debbie Boone wins
Mar 9th - Ice Dance Championship at Ottawa Canada won by Linichuk & Karponosov
Mar 17th - Ligeti's opera "Le Grand Macabre," premieres in Stockholm
May 9th - Musical "Ain't Misbehavin'," premieres in NYC
May 13th - Musical "Runaways" with Elizabeth Swados premieres in NYC
Jun 21st - Andrew Lloyd Webber & Rice's musical "Evita," premiers in London
Sep 16th - Grateful Dead perform in Cairo Egypt
Oct 5th - Isaac Bashevis Singer wins Nobel Prize for literature
Oct 9th - 12th Country Music Association Award
Oct 9th - John Kander & Fred Ebb's musical "Ballroom," premieres in NYC
Dec 21st - "Broadway Musical" opens/closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC
Dec 22nd - Kenny Jones becomes The Who's new drummer
Birthdays in Music
Birthdays 1 - 100 of 159
Jan 1st - Tarik O'Regan,
British composer
Jan 3rd - Kimberley Locke,
American singer
Jan 4th - Mai Meneses,
Spanish singer
Jan 6th - Nikki Einfeld,
Canadian opera singer
Jan 9th - AJ McLean,
American singer (Backstreet Boys)
Jan 10th - Brent Smith,
American singer (Shinedown)
Jan 12th - Amerie,
American singer and songwriter
Jan 12th - Jeremy Camp, American musician
Jan 12th - Kris Roe, American musician (The Ataris)
Jan 21st - Tamir "Nokio" Ruffin,
American Singer
Feb 2nd - Eden Espinosa,
American singer and stage actress
Feb 3rd - Eliza Schneider,
American actress and singer
Feb 10th - Don Omar,
Puerto Rican singer
Feb 13th - Hamish Glencross,
Scottish guitarist My Dying Bride
Feb 14th - Dwele,
American R&B/Soul singer
Feb 15th - Kimberly Goss,
American singer and musician (Sinergy)
Feb 19th - Immortal Technique,
American rapper
Feb 23rd - René Pérez,
Puerto Rican musician (Calle 13)
Feb 24th - Shinya,
Japanese musician (Dir en grey)
Feb 24th - John Nolan, American musician (Straylight Run)
Feb 28th - Jeanne Cherhal,
French Singer-songwriter
Mar 3rd - Douglas Osmond,
Provo Utah, vocalist (Osmond Boys)
Mar 3rd - Seomoon Tak, Korean singer
Mar 10th - Ben Burnley,
American musician (Breaking Benjamin)
Mar 12th - Claudio Sanchez,
American musician (Coheed and Cambria)
Mar 13th - Karina Smirnoff,
Ukrainian dancer
Mar 15th - Sid Wilson,
American musician (Slipknot)
Mar 21st - Kevin Federline,
American dancer/hip hop artist
Mar 29th - Michael Kaczurak,
American singer and actor
Apr 4th - Lemar,
English R'n'B singer
Apr 4th - Aska Yang, Taiwanese singer
Apr 6th - Myleene Klass,
British singer
Apr 6th - Martin Mendez, Uruguayan-born Bassist (Opeth)
Apr 9th - Rachel Stevens,
English singer (S Club)
Apr 9th - Vesna Pisarović, Croatian singer
Apr 11th - Tom Thacker,
Canadian musician
Apr 12th - Guy Berryman,
British musician
Apr 17th - Bilal Abdul-samad,
rocker (Boys)
Apr 21st - Jukka Nevalainen,
Finnish drummer (Nightwish)
Apr 21st - Branden Steineckert, American drummer (Rancid), (The Used)
Apr 22nd - Jason Stollsteimer,
American singer (The Von Bondies)
Apr 28th - Lauren Laverne,
Disc jockey, television presenter and former singer
May 2nd - Steve Bays,
Canadian musician
May 3rd - Paul Banks,
American vocalist (Interpol)
May 7th - Stian Arnesen (Nagash/Lex Icon),
Norwegian Black Metal musician
May 8th - Jang Woo Hyuk,
Korean singer
May 11th - Perttu Kivilaakso,
Finnish Cellist from the band Apocalyptica
May 12th - Wilfred Le Bouthillier,
Acadian singer
May 12th - Aya Ishiguro, Japanese singer (formerly Morning Musume)
May 16th - David Ford,
English singer/songwriter
May 21st - Adam Gontier,
Canadian singer Three Days Grace
May 23rd - Scott Raynor,
American drummer (formerly of blink-182)
May 26th - Phil Elverum,
American singer-songwriter
May 29th - Pelle Almqvist,
Swedish musician (The Hives)
Jun 3rd - Lyfe Jennings,
R&B singer and song-writer
Jun 6th - Carl Barât,
English musician (The Libertines and Dirty Pretty Things)
Jun 6th - Mariana Popova, Bulgarian singer
Jun 7th - Tony An,
Korean singer (H.O.T)
Jun 9th - Matthew Bellamy,
British musician (Muse)
Jun 15th - RoRo,
[Romell Chapman], Atlanta Ga, rapper (Another Bad Creation)
Jun 16th - Jasmine Leong,
Chinese Malaysian singer
Jun 17th - Isabelle Delobel,
French European ice dancer
Jun 23rd - Frédéric Leclercq,
French bassist (DragonForce)
Jun 23rd - Memphis Bleek, American rapper
Jun 24th - Ariel Pink,
American musician
Jun 24th - Erno "Emppu" Vuorinen, Finnish guitarist (Nightwish)
Jun 26th - Alexandra,
French singer, L5's singer
Jun 27th - Anna Kumble,
British Singer, also known as Lolly
Jun 29th - Nicole Scherzinger, American singer and actress
Jul 4th - Stephen McNally,
British singer and songwriter (BBMak)
Jul 9th - Mark Medlock,
German singer
Jul 10th - Jesse Lacey,
American musician (Brand New)
Jul 18th - Verónica Romeo,
Spanish singer
Jul 21st - Damian Marley,
Jamaican musician
Jul 23rd - Stefanie Sun,
Singaporean singer
Jul 28th - Hitomi Yaida,
Japanese singer/songwriter
Jul 31st - Will Champion,
English musician (Coldplay)
Aug 5th - Nektaria Karantzi,
Greek singer
Aug 7th - Jamey Jasta,
American singer (Hatebreed)
Aug 7th - Vanness Wu, Taiwanese singer
Aug 8th - Countess Vaughn,
American actress and singer
Aug 15th - Tim Foreman,
American bassist (Switchfoot)
Aug 17th - Vibeke Stene,
Norwegian singer (Tristania)
Aug 22nd - Jeff Stinco,
Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
Aug 23rd - Julian Casablancas,
American musician
Aug 26th - Raja Kashif,
Pakistani singer
Aug 28th - Jess Margera,
American drummer (CKY)
Aug 30th - Swizz Beatz,
American rapper/producer
Sep 3rd - Valfar,
Norwegian heavy metal vocalist/musician (Windir) (d. 2004)
Sep 6th - Cisco Adler,
American singer
Sep 6th - Tony Thaxton, drummer (Motion City Soundtrack)
Sep 7th - G[eneral] A[ustin],
Columbus Ga, rapper (Another Bad Creation)
Sep 11th - Ben Lee,
Australian musician and singer
Sep 12th - Michael Paget,
Welsh guitarist (Bullet for My Valentine)
Sep 12th - Ruben Studdard, American singer
Deaths in Music
Deaths 1 - 52 of 52
Jan 10th - Don Gillis,
American composer (b. 1912)
Jan 14th - Robert Heger,
composer, dies at 91
Jan 18th - Ivan Ivonovich Dzerzhinsky,
composer, dies at 68
Jan 23rd - Terry Kath,
rock guitarist (Chicago), accidently shot in head at 32
Jan 23rd - Vic Ames, American singer (Ames Brothers) (b. 1925)
Jan 27th - Marguerite Canal,
composer, dies at 87
Feb 9th - Julio Jaramillo,
Ecuadorian singer (b. 1935)
Feb 27th - Vadim Nikolayevich Salmanov,
composer, dies at 65
Mar 11th - Claude François,
French singer (b. 1939)
Mar 12th - Tolchard Evans,
composer/conductor, dies
Mar 13th - David McKinley Williams,
composer, dies at 91
Mar 23rd - Bill Kenny,
American singer, dies at 63
Mar 28th - Dino Ciani,
Italian pianist (d. 1941)
Apr 3rd - Ray Noble,
English bandleader and composer (b. 1903)
Apr 4th - Gino Contilli,
composer, dies at 70
Apr 6th - Nicolas Nabokov,
composer (Holy Devil), dies at 74
Apr 7th - Ernest Kanitz,
composer, dies at 83
Apr 21st - Sandy Denny,
country singer, dies at 37
May 1st - Aram Katchaturian,
Russian composer (The Earth), dies at 74
May 22nd - Bjarne Brustad,
composer, dies at 83
Jun 14th - Theodore Karyotakis,
composer, dies at 74
Jul 9th - Aladar Zoltan,
composer, dies at 49
Jul 10th - Michel Gusikoff,
composer, dies at 85
Jul 13th - Antonio Veretti,
composer, dies at 78
Jul 27th - Aasan Ferit Alnar,
composer, dies at 72
Jul 27th - [John] Willem van Otterloo, conductor/composer (Symphonic), dies at 70
Jul 28th - Jan Willem van Otterloo,
composer, dies at 70
Jul 29th - Wesley La Violette,
composer, dies at 84
Jul 31st - Enoch Light,
orchestra leader (Gulf Road Show with Bob Smith), dies at 70
Aug 2nd - Carlos Chavez y Ramires,
Mexican composer, dies at 79
Aug 5th - Queenie Smith,
actress/dancer (Funny Side), dies at 79
Aug 7th - Franz Alphons Wolpert,
composer, dies at 60
Aug 15th - Harrison Kerr,
composer, dies at 80
Aug 20th - Ivan Jirko,
composer, dies at 51
Aug 20th - Petros John Petridis, composer, dies at 86
Aug 24th - Louis Prima,
American singer, dies at 67
Aug 26th - Charles Trowbridge Haubiel,
composer, dies at 86
Sep 7th - Keith Moon,
rock drummer (Who), dies of drug OD at 31
Sep 8th - Pancho Vladigerov,
composer, dies at 79
Sep 24th - Ruth Etting,
US dancer/singer (Ziegfeld Follies), dies at 80
Oct 8th - Tibor Serly,
Hungarian violist/composer (American Elegy), dies at 76
Oct 10th - Ralph Marterie,
American big band leader (b. 1914)
Oct 16th - Dan Dailey,
dancer/actor (Gov Drinkwater-Governor & JJ), dies at 63
Oct 23rd - Maybelle Carter,
country singer (Johnny Cash Show), dies at 69
Nov 9th - Otto Siegl,
composer, dies at 82
Nov 12th - Howard Swanson,
composer, dies at 71
Nov 29th - Alan Richardson,
composer, dies at 74
Dec 3rd - William Grant Still,
composer, dies at 83
Dec 12th - Clifton Chenier,
US accordionist (Bayou Blues), dies at 53
Dec 16th - Blanche Calloway,
US singer/dancer/radio hostess, dies at 76
Dec 17th - Don Ellis,
American jazz band leader (b. 1934)
Dec 27th - Chris Bell,
rock guitarist (Big Star), dies at 27 in car crash
