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Events in Music

Events 1 - 4 of 4

1950 - "Dance Me a Song" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 35 performances
1964 - "Meet The Beatles" album released in US
1965 - Beatles appear on Shindig (ABC-TV)
1991 - "Shogun - The Musical" closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 72 perfs

Birthdays in Music

Birthdays 1 - 61 of 61

1586 - Johann Hermann Schein, German composer (Fontana d'Israel)
1681 - Francesco Bartolomeo Conti, composer
1703 - Joseph-Hector Fiocco, composer
1743 - Pascal Boyer, composer
1761 - Giovanni Domenico Perotti, composer
1762 - Jerome-Joseph de Momigny, composer
1783 - Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (d. 1860)
1809 - Sebastian de Iradier, Spanish composer (La Paloma)
1844 - Johan Peter Selmer, composer
1855 - Amedee-Ernest Chausson, composer
1867 - Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress (d. 1944)
1870 - Guillaume Jean Joseph Nicolas Lekeu, composer
1876 - Józef Hofmann, Polish pianist (d. 1967)
1877 - Ruth St Denis, Newark NJ, ballerina (Dances of the 5 Senses)
1888 - Leadbelly, Louisiana, blues 12 string guitarist (Rock Island Line)
1891 - Mischa Elman, Talnoye Ukraine, US violinist
1894 - Walter Hamor Piston, Rockland Maine, composer (Incredible Flutis)
1895 - Eva A Jessye, US singer/actress/songwriter (Hallelujah)
1896 - Elmer R Diktonius, Finnish musicologist/author (Janne Kubik)
1899 - Alexander Tcherepnin, composer
1900 - Boris Semyonovich Shekhter, composer
1908 - Wilfred Conwell Bain, composer
1910 - Ennio Porrino, composer
1910 - Nina Verchinina, dancer choreographer/teacher
1919 - Royalton Kisch, British(?) conductor
1919 - Stepan Lucky, composer
1922 - Ray Anthony, Penn, orchestra leader (Ray Anthony Show, Peter Gunn Theme)
1922 - Ray Anthony, American trumpeter, bandleader and actor
1923 - Nora Brockstedt, Norwegian singer
1924 - Yvonne Loriod, Houilles France, pianist
1924 - Slim Whitman, American singer
1926 - David Eugene Tudor, Phila Penn, composer
1931 - Hachidai Nakamura, Japanese songwriter and pianist (d. 1992)
1933 - Ron Townson, St Louis Mo, rock vocalist (5th Dimension-Up Up & Away)
1940 - Jorge Peixinho, composer
1941 - Pierre Lalonde, Quebec singer and television host
1942 - Slim Whitman, yoddler/country singer (Home on the Range)
1943 - Farhad Mehrad, Iranian musician
1945 - Eric Stewart, rock guitarist (10cc-I'm Not in Love)
1947 - George Grantham, rocker (Poco-Crazy Eyes)
1947 - Ronald Townson, rock singer (5th Dimension-We Can Fly)
1948 - Melvyn Paul Pritchard, England, rocker (Barclay James Harvest)
1950 - Henk Batenburgh, cabaret performer/singer (Waaldrecht)
1951 - Ivan Fischer, Hungarian conductor
1952 - Ian Hill, bass guitarist (Judas Priest-Breakin the Law)
1952 - Paul Stanley, [Eisen], rock guitarist (KISS-Beth)
1955 - Hiromi Ōta, Japanese singer
1965 - Greg Kriesel, American bassist (The Offspring)
1965 - John Michael Montgomery, American singer
1966 - Tracii Guns, rock guitarist (LA Guns-It's Over Now)
1967 - Joe Pasquale, rocker (Prey)
1969 - Nicky Wire, British Musician (Manic Street Preachers)
1970 - Mitch Benn, UK comedian, songwriter, actor
1971 - Gary Barlow, English singer (Take That)
1971 - Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson, American drummer (The Roots)
1977 - Melody, Belgian singer
1979 - Rob Bourdon, American musician (Linkin Park)
1979 - Will Young, British singer
1980 - Matthew Tuck, Welsh guitarist (Bullet for My Valentine)
1983 - Mari Yaguchi, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
1984 - Toni Gonzaga, Filipina Actress and Singer

Deaths in Music

Deaths 1 - 24 of 24

1691 - Christian de Placker, composer, dies at 77
1789 - Johann Christoph Oley, composer, dies at 50
1798 - Christian Cannabich, German composer/royal chaplain master, dies at 66
1830 - Michal Bogdanowicz, composer, dies at 50
1838 - Pierre-Louis Hus-Desforges, composer, dies at 64
1857 - Edward Francis Fitzwilliam, composer, dies at 32
1859 - Bettina Brentano, composer, dies at 73
1890 - Franz Paul Lachner, composer, dies at 86
1905 - Stanislaw Pilinski, composer, dies at 65
1914 - Emil Liebling, composer, dies at 62
1914 - Henry Southwick Perkins, composer, dies at 80
1943 - Giacomo Benvenuti, composer, dies at 57
1952 - Arthur Farwell, composer, dies at 74
1964 - Jan Rychlik, composer, dies at 47
1975 - Franz Andre, Belgian conductor, dies at 81
1979 - Gustav Winckler, Danish singer (b. 1925)
1985 - Jo Juda, Dutch musician, dies at 75
1990 - Miloslav Istvan, composer, dies at 61
1990 - Hayedeh, Persian singer (b. 1942)
1996 - Buster Benton, singer/guitarist, dies at 63
1996 - Gerald Joseph Mulligan, baritone saxophonist/composer, dies at 68
1996 - Peter Stadlen, pianist/critic, dies at 85
2002 - Carrie Hamilton, actress and singer (b. 1963)
2009 - David Newman, American jazz musician, nicknamed "Fathead" (b. 1933)