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Events in Music

Events 1 - 7 of 7

1930 - Shostakovitch' opera "The Nose," premieres in Leningrad
1944 - The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City hosts a jazz concert for the first time. The performers were Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw, Roy Eldridge and Jack Teagarden.
1964 - Beatles 1st appear on Billboard Chart (I Want to Hold Your Hand-#35)
1968 - Hester & Appolinar's musical "Your Own Thing," premieres in NYC
1980 - Pink Floyd's "Wall" hits #1
1989 - Otis Redding, Dion, Rolling Stones, Temptations & Stevie Wonder
1996 - Lisa Marie Presley files for divorce from Michael Jackson in NY

Birthdays in Music

Birthdays 1 - 41 of 41

1543 - Alfonso Ferrabosco, composer
1732 - Jean-Guillain Cardon, composer
1751 - Ferdinand Kauer, composer
1793 - William Henry Havergal, composer
1817 - Jacques Gregoir, composer
1835 - Caesar A Cui, Vilna Lithuania, fort architect/composer
1840 - Ernst Rudorff, composer
1841 - Alexis-Emmanuel Chabrier, France, composer (Le Roi Malgré Lui)
1856 - John Hyatt Brewer, composer
1861 - Raymond Huntington Woodman, composer
1893 - John Lawrence Seymour, composer
1903 - Berthold Goldschmidt, German/British (opera)composer (Beatrice Cenci)
1907 - Janos Ferencsik, Budapest Hungary, conductor (Budapest Opera)
1911 - Gabor Darvas, composer
1915 - Vassilis Tsitsanis, Greek singer and songwriter (d. 1984)
1918 - Bohuslav Jeremias, composer, dies at 58
1919 - Juan Antonio Orrego-Salas, Santiago Chile, composer
1922 - Yehezkiel Braun, composer
1941 - Bobby Goldsboro, Marianna Fla, singer (Honey)
1941 - David Ruffin, Miss, vocalist (Temptations-Papa Was a Rolling Stone)
1943 - Dave Greene, rocker
1944 - Larry "Legs" Smith, rocker (Bonzo Dog Band-Urban Spaceman)
1945 - José Luis Perales, Spanish singer
1950 - Claudia de Colombia, Bogato Columbia, spanish singer (Yo Creo En Ti)
1952 - R. Stevie Moore, American singer, songwriter, and home recording pioneer
1956 - Mark Collie, Waynesboro Tn, country singer (Another Old Soldier)
1957 - Tom Bailey, rock vocalist/keyboardist (Thompson Twins-Doctor Doctor)
1959 - Bob Rosenberg, rocker (Will To Power)
1967 - M C Tab, [Sharon Richard], NYC, rapper
1969 - Jesse L. Martin, American actor and singer
1970 - DJ Quik, American rapper
1971 - Jonathan Davis, American singer (KoЯn)
1973 - Crispian Mills, London, vocalist/guitarist (Kula Shaker)
1974 - Christian Burns, English musician (BBMak)
1977 - Richard Archer, British singer (lead singer of Hard-Fi)
1979 - Jay Chou, Taiwanese singer and producer
1980 - Estelle Swaray, English singer
1983 - Samantha Mumba, Irish singer and actress
1984 - Benji Schwimmer, American dancer
1984 - Maarja Kivi, Estonian singer
1988 - Ronald Guglielmone Jr., American singer-songwriter

Deaths in Music

Deaths 1 - 18 of 18

1580 - Antonio Scandello, Italian composer (Passion of John), dies at 63
1659 - Benedikt Lechler, composer, dies at 64
1760 - Claudio Casciolini, composer, dies at 62
1875 - Joseph Philbrick Webster, composer, dies at 55
1902 - Filippo Marchetti, composer, dies at 70
1962 - Raymond Moulaert, composer, dies at 86
1967 - Albert Conti, actor (Eagle, Jazz Heaven, Topaz), dies at 79
1972 - Rudolf Wittelsbach, composer, dies at 69
1977 - Paul Nordoff, US composer (Frog Prince), dies at 67
1978 - Ivan Ivonovich Dzerzhinsky, composer, dies at 68
1979 - Cyril Mockridge, composer, dies at 82
1982 - Burnet Corwin Tuthill, US composer (Laurentia), dies at 93
1984 - Vassilis Tsitsanis, Greek singer and songwriter (b. 1915)
1990 - Melanie Appleby, rocker (Mel & Kim), dies of liver cancer at 23
1994 - Arthur Altman, songwriter, dies at 83
1995 - Charles Baskerville, vocalist, dies at 54
2007 - Brent Liles, American musician (Agent Orange/Social Distortion) (b. 1963)
2008 - Frank Lewin, American composer and music theorist (b. 1925)