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Events in Music

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1928 - G/I Gershwin/Romberg/Wodehouse's musical "Rosalie," premieres in NYC
1938 - Eduard van Beinum becomes world's 1st conductor at Concert Hall

Birthdays in Music

Birthdays 1 - 55 of 55

1683 - Gasparo Visconti, composer
1701 - Johann Caspar Simon, composer
1760 - Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg, composer
1766 - Louis Massonneau, composer
1854 - Peter Gast, composer
1884 - James Philip Dunn, composer
1886 - Jose Antonio de Donostia, composer
1897 - Albert Moeschinger, composer
1901 - Pauline Starke, Joplin MO, actress (Dante's Inferno, Dance Magic)
1903 - Jean Morel, Abbeville France, conductor
1904 - Jesus Garcia Leoz, composer
1904 - Ray Bolger, Dorchester Mass, actor/dancer (Wizard of Oz)
1909 - Rudolf Kubin, composer
1910 - Jean Martinon, Lyons France, conductor/composer
1915 - Dean Dixon, Zug Switzerland, conductor
1917 - Jerry Wexler, music producer (Aretha Franklin/Bob Dylan)
1924 - Ludmilla Chiraeff, ballet dancer
1925 - Maxwell Roach, composer
1927 - Gisele MacKenzie, Winnipeg Manitoba, singer/actress (Your Hit Parade)
1927 - Johnnie Ray, Dallas OR, pop singer (Cry)
1928 - Wallace Berry, composer
1930 - Byron "Wild Child" Gipson, blues singer
1933 - Akira Miyoshi, composer
1935 - Georg Katzer, composer
1935 - Ronnie Hawkins, American musician
1939 - Scott McKenzie, American singer
1942 - Jim Croce, Phila, rock vocalist (Time in a Bottle)
1943 - Jim Croce, American singer (d. 1973)
1944 - Frank Sinatra Jr, Jersey City NJ, American singer/bandleader (Golddigers)
1945 - Rod Stewart, London, singer (Maggie Mae, Do You Think I'm Sexy)
1946 - Aynsley Dunbar, rocker (Journey, Jefferson Starship)
1946 - Bob Lang, rock bassist (Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders)
1948 - Cyril Neville, US singer/percussionist (Neville Bros-Yellow Moon)
1948 - Donald Fagen, Passaic NJ, rock vocalist/keyboardist (Steely Dan-Peg)
1948 - Mischa Maisky, Latvian cellist
1950 - Cyril Neville, rocker (Neville Brothers)
1952 - Scott Thurston, keyboardist/guitarist (Motels-Only the Lonely)
1953 - Pat Benatar, [Andrezejewski], Bkln NY, singer (Hell Is for Children)
1955 - Luci Martin, rocker vocalist (Chic)
1955 - Michael Schenker, heavy metal rocker (MSG-Coming on Strong, Scorpions)
1956 - Shawn Colvin, American singer
1958 - Shawn Colvin, singer/guitarist
1959 - Don Letts, rocker (Big Audio Dynamite)
1959 - Kirk & Curtwood, musician (Meat Puppets)
1960 - Samira Said, Moroccan singer
1961 - Nadja Salerni-Sonnenberg, Rome Italy, concert violinist
1964 - Brad Roberts, Canadian singer (Crash Test Dummies)
1965 - Nathan, rocker (Brother Beyond-Can You Keep a Secret)
1967 - Micky Michelle, [Ingrid Hankers], Dutch dancer (Josephine, Sound of Motown)
1969 - Doug E Doug, rapper/comedian (Operation Dumbo Drop, Jungle Fever)
1974 - Akari Kaida, Japanese composer
1975 - Shannon Kavanaugh, Boston Mass, rocker (Ivory Soul)
1978 - Brent Smith, American singer (Shinedown)
1979 - Chris H E Smith, [Daddy Mack], Atlanta, rapper (Kris Kross-Warm it Up)
1981 - Brian Joo, Korean-American singer

Deaths in Music

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1780 - Francesco Antonio Vallotti, Italian organist/composer, dies at 82
1792 - Jean-Louis Laruette, composer, dies at 60
1800 - Johan Wikmanson, composer, dies at 46
1833 - Antoinio da Silva Leite, composer, dies at 73
1876 - Charles EH de Coussemaker, Belgian musicologist/historian, dies at 70
1889 - Martin Andreas Udbye, composer, dies at 68
1892 - Heinrich Ludwig Egmont Dorn, composer, dies at 91
1895 - Benjamin Louis Paul Godard, composer, dies at 45
1905 - Kārlis Baumanis, Latvian composer (b. 1835)
1939 - Julius Bittner, Austria composer (Missa Austriaca), dies at 64
1941 - Frank Bridge, English violinist/composer (Sea), dies at 61
1951 - Athos Palma, composer, dies at 59
1953 - Theo Mackeben, German pianist/composer (Golden Cage), dies at 56
1954 - Fred Raymond, composer, dies at 53
1963 - Tadeusz Szeligowski, composer, dies at 66
1967 - Vilem Petrzelka, composer, dies at 77
1968 - Josue Teofilo Wilkes, composer, dies at 85
1968 - Louis-Francois-Marie Aubert, French composer (La Momie), dies at 90
1972 - Al Goodman, Russian/US orchestra leader (NBC Comedy Hour), dies at 81
1972 - Sverre Jordan, composer, dies at 82
1976 - Chester Arthur Burnett, US blues pianist/harmonica player, dies at 65
1976 - Howlin' Wolf, singer/guitarist, dies following brain surgery at 65
1978 - Don Gillis, American composer (b. 1912)
1982 - Lazar Weiner, composer, dies at 84
1985 - Anton Karas, Austrian zither player and composer (b. 1906)
1987 - Marion Hutton, American singer and actress (b. 1919)
2005 - Margherita Carosio, Italian soprano (b. 1908)
2011 - Margaret Whiting, American singer (b. 1924)