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Events in Music

Events 1 - 5 of 5

1853 - Verdi's opera "Il Trovatore," premieres in Rome
1884 - Jules Massenet's opera "Manon," premieres in Paris
1966 - Neil Simons, Coleman & Fields' musical "Sweet Charity," premieres
1971 - Beatles' "Helter Skelter" is played at Charles Manson trial
1991 - 48th Golden Globes: Dances with Wolves

Birthdays in Music

Birthdays 1 - 50 of 50

1613 - Jacques Huyn, composer
1676 - John Weldon, composer
1679 - Girolamo Chiti, composer
1760 - Melchor Lopez Jimenez, composer
1806 - Vaclav Jindrich Veit, composer
1827 - Carlos Guido y Spano, Argentina, conductor (Rafagas,)
1832 - Ferdinand Laub, composer
1832 - Salvador Giner y Vidal, composer
1839 - Bohumil Pazdirek, composer
1883 - Hermann Abendroth, German conductor
1884 - Albert Louis Wolff, composer
1899 - [John] Herbert Whitton Sumsion, organist/composer
1906 - Lanny Ross, Seattle, radio singer (Show Boat, The Swift Show)
1914 - Lester Flatt, country musician (Flatt and Scruggs)
1915 - Alvy West, Bkln NY, orchestra leader (Andy Williams Show)
1917 - John Raitt, Bonnie Raitt's father/singer/actor (Pajama Game)
1917 - Rudolf Maros, composer
1928 - Edward Gerard Schurmann, composer
1936 - Elliott Schwartz, composer
1938 - Eskil Hemberg, composer
1938 - Phil Everly, Brownie Ky, singer (Everly Bros-Wake Up Little Susie)
1942 - Michael Crawford, England, Broadway star (Phantom of the Opera)
1943 - Janis Joplin, Port Arthur Tx, bluesy rock singer (Down on Me)
1943 - Joe Butler, rocker
1944 - Pehr Henrik Nordgren, composer
1944 - Laurie London, English singer
1945 - Charles Amirkhanian, composer
1945 - Rod Evans, rocker (Deep Purple-Come Taste the Band)
1946 - Dolly Rebecca Parton, Sevierville Tn, country singer (Dolly, 9 to 5)
1948 - Harvey Hinsley, rocker
1949 - Robert Palmer, Batley England, singer (Power Station)
1952 - Dewey Bunell, Yorkshire England, rock guitarist (America-Daisy Jane)
1954 - Katey Sagal, Los Angeles, California, singer/actress (Peggy Bundy-Married With Children)
1955 - Simon Rattle, England, orchestra conductor (Birmingham Symph Orch)
1956 - Carman Licciardello, American Christian singer
1957 - Mickael Virtue, rock keyboardist (UB40-Red Red Wine)
1963 - Caron Wheeler, English singer (Soul II Soul-Keep on Movin')
1964 - Ricardo Arjona, Guatemalan singer
1966 - Lena Philipsson, Swedish singer
1968 - Whitfield Crane, rocker (Ugly Kid Joe-Mad Man, Too Bad)
1971 - John Wozniak, American singer and songwriter (Marcy Playground)
1973 - Antero Manninen, Finnish Cellist
1975 - Noah Georgeson, American Musician and Producer
1977 - Nicole, Chilean singer
1977 - Cocco, Ryukyuan singer
1979 - Wiley, English Rapper (Grime)
1980 - Kotoko, Japanese Singer
1982 - Angela Chang, Taiwanese singer and actress
1983 - Hikaru Utada, American-born Japanese singer and songwriter
1985 - Rika Ishikawa, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)

Deaths in Music

Deaths 1 - 24 of 24

1576 - Hans Sachs, composer, dies at 81
1625 - Erhard Buttner, composer, dies at 32
1795 - Maria Teresa Agnesi, composer, dies at 74
1805 - Johann Gottlieb Karl Spazier, composer, dies at 43
1830 - Wenzel Thomas Matiegka, composer, dies at 56
1833 - Louis Joseph Ferdinand Herold, French composer (b. 1791)
1839 - Georg Abraham Schneider, composer, dies at 38
1893 - Julius Eichberg, composer, dies at 68
1913 - David Emlyn Evans, composer, dies at 69
1934 - Armand Parent, composer, dies at 70
1944 - Harold Fraser-Simson, composer, dies at 71
1951 - Constantin Nottara, composer, dies at 60
1971 - Harry Shields, American musician (b. 1899)
1972 - Michael Rabin, American violinist (b. 1936)
1980 - Richard Franko Goldman, composer, dies at 69
1982 - Elis Regina, Brazilian singer (b. 1945)
1990 - Semprini, English musician (b. 1908)
1993 - William LeMassena, actor (All that Jazz), dies of lung cancer at 76
1995 - Gene MacLellan, Canadian composer and singer (b. 1938)
1998 - Carl Perkins, singer/songwriter, dies at 65
2006 - Wilson Pickett, American singer (b. 1941)
2007 - Denny Doherty, Canadian singer (The Mamas and the Papas) (b. 1940)
2007 - Murat Nasyrov, Russian singer and composer (b. 1969)
2008 - John Stewart, American musician (The Kingston Trio) (b. 1939)