Events in Music
Events 1 - 5 of 5
1876 - Opera "Siegfried" premieres in Bayreuth
1962 - Ringo Starr replaces Pete Best as Beatle drummer
1974 - Ramones concert debut (NY's CBGBs)
1980 - Bill Ward quits Black Sabbath
1986 - Madonna's "True Blue," album goes #1 for 5 weeks & her single
Birthdays in Music
Birthdays 1 - 39 of 39
1761 - Yevstigney Fomin,
Russian composer (d. 1800)
1769 - Jean Aime Vernier,
composer
1776 - Philipp Jakob Riotte,
composer
1795 - Heinrich August Marschner,
composer
1816 - Joseph Robinson,
composer
1836 - John Farmer,
composer
1868 - Charles Sanford Skilton,
composer
1871 - Zakhary Petrovich Paliashvili,
composer
1877 - Karl L Hoschna,
composer
1887 - Nadia Boulanger,
conductor (1st woman to conduct Boston Symphony)
1888 - Armand J. Piron,
American musician (d. 1943)
1895 - Jacinto Guerrero,
composer
1897 - Vicente Ascone,
composer
1902 - Stefan Boleslaw Poradowski,
composer
1907 - Alexander Uriah Boskovich,
composer
1909 - Paul Smith Callaway,
composer
1915 - Al Hibbler,
singer (Unchained Melody)
1917 - Roque Cordero,
Panama, composer (Sonata Breve)
1928 - Eddie Kirkland,
Jamaican/US blues guitarist (Have Mercy)
1929 - Bill Evans,
US jazz pianist
1932 - Eydie Gorme,
[Edithe Gormezano], Bronx NY, singer (Bossa Nova)
1934 - Ketty Lester,
[Revoyda Frierson], US singer/actress (Love Letters)
1937 - David Behrman,
composer
1945 - Gary Loizzo,
Chicago IL, rock guitarist (American Breed)
1945 - Gordon "Snowy" Fleet, Merseyside, rock drummer (Easybeats)
1945 - Kevin Ayers, England, progressive rocker (Joy of a Toy), (d. 2013)
1948 - Barry Hay,
singer/fluitist/saxophonist/guitarist (Golden Earring)
1949 - Bill Spooner,
rock guitarist/vocalist (Tubes)
1949 - Scott Asheton, American musician (The Stooges)
1952 - Gianna Rolandi,
NYC, soprano (Der Rosenkavalier)
1953 - James Taylor,
SC, rocker (Kool & The Gang-Joanna)
1957 - Tim Farriss,
Australian pop guitarist (INXS-Kiss the Dirt)
Pop Star Madonna (1958)
1958 - Madonna,
[Ciccone], Bay City Michigan, singer/actress (Like a Virgin)
1968 - Donovan Leitch Jr,
actor/musician (I Shot Andy Warhol)
1970 - Killah Priest,
American rapper
1972 - Emily Robison,
American country singer, instrumentalist and songwriter (Dixie Chicks)
1977 - Tamer Hosny,
Egyptian singer/actor
1980 - Vanessa Carlton,
American singer/songwriter
1980 - Robert Hardy, English musician (Franz Ferdinand)
Deaths in Music
Deaths 1 - 31 of 31
1518 - Loyset Compère,
French composer
1748 - Pietro Giuseppe Sandoni,
composer, dies at 63
1786 - Henri-Jacques de Croes,
Flemish composer/bandmaster, dies at 80
1799 - Vincenzo Manfredini,
composer, dies at 61
1831 - Eduard Brendler,
composer, dies at 30
1870 - Ludvig Anton Edmund Passy,
composer, dies at 80
1910 - Charles Ferdinand Lenepveu,
composer, dies at 69
1911 - Karl Munzinger,
composer, dies at 68
1929 - Frank Valentine Van der Stucken,
composer, dies at 70
1938 - Robert Johnson,
US Delta-blues singer/guitarist, poisoned at 27
1944 - Roman Padlewski,
composer, dies at 28
1945 - Nico Richter,
composer, dies at 29
1959 - Pedro Humberto Allende Saron,
Chilean composer (Tonados), dies at 74
1959 - Wanda Landowska, Polish harpsichordist (b. 1879)
1965 - Vasily Petrovich Shirinsky,
composer, dies at 64
1968 - Luis Gianneo,
composer, dies at 71
1972 - John Barnes Chance,
composer, dies at 39
1977 - Elvis Presley,
rocker, dies of heart ailment/drugs at Graceland at 42
1984 - Gyorgy Kosa,
composer, dies at 87
Singer & Cultural Icon Elvis Presley (1977)
1986 - John Hurley,
song writer (Son of a Preacher Man), dies at 45
1988 - Milton Adolphus,
composer, dies at 75
1992 - Mark Heard,
Christian musician, dies at 41 of a heart attack
1995 - Robert "Robby" Debarge,
r&B Musician, dies at 36
1997 - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan,
Pakistani musician (b. 1948)
1999 - Pee Wee King,
American country musician and songwriter (b. 1914)
2005 - Vassar Clements,
American musician (b. 1928)
2005 - Vicky Moscholiou, Greek singer (b. 1943)
2006 - Jon Nödtveidt,
Swedish musician (b. 1975)
2007 - Max Roach,
American percussionist, drummer, and composer (b. 1924)
2008 - Ronnie Drew,
Ex-Singer of The Dubliners & Solo Artist (b. 1934)
2008 - Dorival Caymmi, Brazilian singer and songwriter (b. 1914)
