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Events in Music

Events 1 - 3 of 3

1963 - Beatles release "Please Please Me" & "Ask Me Why"
1964 - Beatles "I Want to Hold Your Hand" is #80 in US (Cashbox)
1976 - Stephen Sondheim's musical "Pacific Overtures," premieres in NYC

Birthdays in Music

Birthdays 1 - 45 of 45

1703 - Columban Praelisauer, composer
1727 - Franz Sebastian Haindl, composer
1746 - Frantisek Adam Mica, composer
1750 - Johann Jakob Walder, composer
1801 - John Lodge Ellerton, composer
1856 - Christian August Sinding, Kongsberg Norway, composer
1872 - Paul Graener, composer
1875 - Reinhold Gliere, composer
1880 - Rudolf T Palm, Curacao, pianist/composer
1894 - Jaroslav Vogel, composer
1902 - Maurice Durufle, French organist/composer
1906 - Johannes Paul Thilman, composer
1909 - Gunnar Johnsen Berg, composer
1910 - Izler Solomon, St Paul, Minn, conductor
1918 - Albert Weisser, composer
1924 - Don Cherry, Wichita Texas, singer (Dean Martin Summer Show)
1924 - Slim Harpo [James Moore], Lobdell, Louisiana, American blues musician
1926 - Alexander Gibson, conductor
1927 - Wilton "Bogey" Gaynair, saxophonist
1929 - Wanda Wilkomirska, Warsaw, Poland, violinist
1933 - Goldie Hill, Karnes County Tx, country singer (Grand Ole Opry)
1935 - Chuck Barksdale, US singer (Dells-I Can Sing a Rainbow)
1938 - Narvel Felts, country singer
1940 - Mark DeVoto, composer
1942 - Clarence Clemons, rock saxophonist (Bruce Springsteen's E St Band)
1943 - William Albert Penn, composer
1944 - York Georg Holler, composer
1946 - Naomi Judd, [Diana Ellen], Ashland Ky, singer (Judds-Why Not Me)
1946 - Tony Kaye, rocker (Yes)
1949 - Tom Netherton, Munich Germany, singer (Lawrence Welk Show)
1949 - [Frederick] Dennis Greene, rocker (Sha Na Na-Shannon)
1949 - Daryl Braithwaite, Australian rock singer
1952 - Lee Ritenour, LA California, jazz musician
1956 - Robert Earl Keen, American singer
1958 - Vicki Peterson, LA California, rock guitarist/vocalist (Bangles)
1968 - Tom Dumont, American musician
1970 - Joy Nilo, Filipino Composer
1971 - Mary Jane Blige, New York, American R&B singer-songwriter
1977 - Nadia Turner, American singer
1979 - Siti Nurhaliza, Malaysian singer
1981 - Jamelia Niela Davis, Birmingham, English singer
1981 - Tom Meighan, British singer (Kasabian)
1982 - Ashley Taylor Dawson, British actor and singer
1985 - Rie fu, Japanese singer
1985 - Newton Faulkner, British singer

Deaths in Music

Deaths 1 - 32 of 32

1650 - Paul Hallman, composer, dies at 49
1784 - Ferdinand Philipp Joseph Lobkowitz, composer, dies at 59
1791 - William Williams Pantycelyn, Welsh hymnist (b. 1717)
1797 - Francis Lightfoot Lee, US farmer (singer Decl of Independ), dies at 62
1801 - Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer (Matrimonio segreto), dies at 51
1837 - John Field, Irish pianist/composer (Nocturnes), dies at 54
1843 - Francis Scott Key, composer (Star Spangled Banner), dies at 63
1870 - Adolf Ganz, composer, dies at 73
1877 - Pietro Romani, composer, dies at 85
1898 - Gaetano Capocci, composer, dies at 86
1901 - Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov, composer, dies at 34
1931 - Oscar Fetras, composer, dies at 76
1947 - Eva Tanguay, Canadian-born singer and entertainer (b. 1879)
1954 - Oscar Straus, Austrian composer (Brave Soldier), dies at 83
1958 - Alec Rowley, composer, dies at 65
1961 - Elena Gerhardt, German mezzo-soprano singer (b. 1883)
1973 - Rudolf Kubin, composer, dies a day after 64th birthday
1984 - Fritz Geissler, composer, dies at 62
1987 - Albert Ferber, Swiss-English pianist (b. 1911)
1994 - Roger "Ram" Ramirez, jazz piano player/composer, dies at 80
1995 - Willem N "Pim" Koot, pianist (Concert Building), dies at 76
1995 - Josef Gingold, Russian-American violinist (b. 1909)
1996 - Ike Isaacs, guitarist, dies at 76
1997 - Cavan O'Connor, singer, dies at 97
1998 - Klaus Tennstedt, conductor, dies at 71
1999 - Fabrizio de André, Italian singer (b. 1940)
2003 - Mickey Finn, English drummer (T. Rex) (b. 1947)
2005 - Miriam Hyde, Australian composer (b. 1913)
2005 - Spencer Dryden, American drummer (Jefferson Airplane) (b. 1938)
2005 - James Griffin, American musician (Bread) (b. 1943)
2007 - Puchi Balseiro, Puerto Rican singer & songwriter (b. 1926)
2010 - Mick Green, British guitarist (b. 1944)