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Events in Music

Events 1 - 4 of 4

1969 - Beatles release Yellow Submarine album in UK
1969 - Debut album of Led Zeppelin released in US
1974 - Styne, Comdem & Green's musical "Lorelei," premieres in NYC
1983 - 10th American Music Award: Kenny Rogers

Birthdays in Music

Birthdays 1 - 70 of 70

1517 - Antonio Scandello, Italian composer (Passion of Johannes)
1545 - Antonio Pace, composer
1574 - Robert Fludd, composer
1659 - Antonio Veracini, composer
1712 - John Stanley, composer
1719 - Jean-Joseph Vade, composer
1728 - Johann Gottfried Muthel, composer
1733 - Thomas Linley, composer
1734 - Francois-Joseph Gossec, Belgian-French composer (Les Pêcheurs, Mirza)
1745 - Nicolas Roze, composer
1769 - Ole Andreas Lindeman, composer
1828 - Eduard Remenyi, Hungarian violinist (d. 1898)
1835 - Johan Filip von Schantz, composer
1836 - Jose Silvestre de los Dolores White Lafitte, composer
1850 - Alexander Sergeyevich Taneyev, St Petersburg Russia, composer
1857 - Wilhelm Kienzl, Austrian composer (Evangelimann)
1863 - Henry Charles Tonking, composer
1873 - Francois Rasse, composer
1877 - Hans Jelmoli, composer
1896 - Harry Reser, Ohio, orchestra leader (Sammy Kaye Show)
1901 - Vasily Petrovich Shirinsky, composer
1907 - Henk H Badings, Bandung Indonesia, Dutch opera composer (Orestes)
1911 - Hermann Pfrogner, Austria, musicologist (Zerrissene Orpheus)
1912 - Orest Alexandrovich Evlahkov, composer
1916 - Joel Herron, Chicago Ill, orchestra leader (Jaye P Morgan Show)
1917 - Oskar Morawetz, Svetla Czechoslovakia, composer
1917 - Ulyses Simpson Kay, composer
1920 - Joseph George Handy Hendleman, musician
1925 - Annie Delorie, Dutch opera singer (Scenes & Arias)
1927 - Donald Erb, Youngstown, Ohio, composer
1927 - Eartha Kitt, singer/actress (Catwoman-Batman)
1928 - Jean Barraqué, French composer (d. 1973)
1930 - Robert Ceely, composer
1931 - Frederick Alfred Fox, composer
1933 - Dalida, Cairo, actress/singer, Miss Egypt (The 6th Day)
1934 - Sydney Phillip Hodkinson, composer
1941 - Dame Gillian Weir, New Zealand organist
1942 - Ulf Hoelscher, German violinist
1943 - Chris Montez, rocker
1944 - Françoise Hardy, French singer
1945 - William Hart, US singer (4 Gents, Delfonics-I'm Sorry)
1945 - Javed Akhtar, Indian lyricist, poet and scriptwriter
1947 - Ulysses Dove, dancer/choreographer
1948 - Mick Taylor, rock bassist (Rolling Stones-Brown Sugar)
1948 - Anne Queffélec, French pianist
1952 - Ryuichi Sakamoto, Jap, rocker (Academy Award 1988, Yellow Magic Orch)
1953 - Sheila Hutchinson, rocker
1955 - Steve Earle, San Antonio Tx, country singer (Guitar Town)
1956 - Paul Young, rock vocalist/keyboardist (Every Time You Go Away)
1958 - Jez Strode, rocker (Kajagoogoo)
1959 - Susanna Hoffs, actress/rocker (Bangles-Walk Like an Egyptian)
1959 - Momoe Yamaguchi, Japanese singer and actress
1963 - Kai Hansen, German singer and guitarist (Gamma Ray)
1966 - Rexton Gordon, Jamaican dj/rapper (Shabba Ranks-Extra Naked)
1966 - Shabba Ranks, reggae singer
1971 - Kid Rock, American singer
1971 - Leonardo Ciampa, Italian-American musician
1972 - Ken Hirai, Japanese singer and songwriter
1974 - Vesko Kountchev, Bulgarian musician
1975 - Tom Jenkinson, English musician (Squarepusher)
1975 - Rami Yacoub, Swedish songwriter/producer
1980 - Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Ukrainian ballroom dancer
1981 - Ray J, singer
1981 - Ray J, American R&B singer
1982 - Amanda Wilkinson, Canadian singer
1982 - Alex Varkatzas, American Singer (Atreyu)
1983 - Julie Budet, French Electronic-Pop Musician
1985 - Simone Simons, Dutch singer (Epica)
1985 - Riyu Kosaka, Japanese singer BeForU
1985 - Kang-In, South Korean singer/dancer/actor/MC/DJ(Super Junior)

Deaths in Music

Deaths 1 - 27 of 27

1103 - Frutolf, German monk/musicologist/historian, dies
1604 - Santino Garsi, composer, dies at 61
1625 - Nicolo Rubini, composer, dies at 50
1676 - Pier Francesco Cavalli, Italian opera composer, dies at 73
1738 - Jean-Francois Dandrieu, composer, dies
1750 - Tomaso Albinioni, Italian composer (Adagio in G Minor), dies at 78
1788 - Alessio Prati, composer, dies at 37
1826 - Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Spanish composer (b. 1806)
1856 - Thomas Attwood Walmisley, composer, dies at 41
1869 - Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky, composer, dies at 55
1890 - Salomon Sulzer, composer, dies at 85
1891 - Johannes Josephus Hermanus Verhulst, composer, dies at 74
1892 - Alexandre Levy, composer, dies at 27
1913 - Carl Baermann, composer, dies at 73
1942 - Frederick Jerome Work, composer, dies at 61
1946 - Gottfried Rudinger, composer, dies at 59
1969 - Grazyna Bacewicz, composer, dies at 59
1970 - Billy Stewart, singer (I Do Love You), dies in auto-accident at 32
1972 - Betty Smith, American writer and singer (b. 1896)
1992 - Charlie Ventura, jazz sax (Bop for the people), dies at 75 of cancer
1994 - Noel Chiboust, trumpeter/sax, dies at 84
1996 - Robert Covington, drummer/singer, dies at 54
1996 - Mostafa Sid Ahmed, Sudanese singer (b. 1953)
2000 - Philip Jones, British trumpeter (b. 1928)
2003 - Balint Vazsonyi, Hingarian pianist (b. 1936)
2004 - Czeslaw Niemen, Polish musician (b. 1939)
2011 - Don Kirshner, American composer (b. 1934)