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Events in Music

Events 1 - 6 of 6

1904 - Leos Janacek's opera "Jenufa," premieres in Brno
1927 - 1st national opera broadcast from a US opera house (Faust, Chicago)
1956 - "Comedy in Music (Victor Borge)" closes at Golden NYC after 849 perfs
1966 - Beatle George Harrison marries model Patti Boyd
1987 - BB King donates his 7,000 record collection to U of Mississippi
1993 - Nigerian singer Fela Kuti arrested on suspicion of murder

Birthdays in Music

Birthdays 1 - 51 of 51

1735 - Johann Gottfried Eckard, composer
1751 - Josephus Andreas Fodor, composer
1762 - Giuseppe Antonio Silvani, composer
1775 - Manuel Garcia, composer
1801 - Ramon Vilanova y Barrera, composer
1814 - Thomas Attwood Walmisley, composer
1823 - Alexandre Edouard Goria, composer
1848 - Henri Duparc, French composer
1859 - Antoni Wincenty Rutkowski, composer
1885 - Huddie Ledbetter, "Leadbelly", blues singer [or 12/1/89, 1/29/89]
1887 - Alfred Henry Ackley, composer
1891 - Nikolay Semyonovich Golovanov, composer
1891 - Timothy Mather Spelman, composer
1898 - Avery Claflin, composer
1909 - Todor Skalovski, composer
1910 - Eua Sunthornsanan, Thai composer and bandleader (d. 1981)
1916 - [JW] Al James Woodie exander, songwriter/vocalist
1920 - Torsten Nilsson, composer
1921 - Todor Popov, composer
1925 - Lola Flores, Cadiz Spain, singer/actress (Kuma Ching, Faraona)
1926 - Franco Evangelisti, Italian composer
1926 - Brian Brockless, English organist (d. 1995)
1939 - Mary Ellen McAnally, Illinois, poet (Dance of the Zygotes)
1941 - Edwin Starr, [Charles Hatcher], US singer (War)
1941 - Placido Domingo, Madrid Spain, opera tenor (Pinkerton-Mme Butterfly)
1941 - Richie Havens, Bkln, folk singer (Here Comes the Sun)
1942 - Mac Davis, Lubbock Tx, singer/actor (Mac Davis Show, North Dallas 40)
1942 - Mac Davis, American musician
1944 - John Kenneth Tavener, composer
1944 - Neely Bruce, composer
1945 - Chris Britton, rocker (Troggs-Rock & Roll Goldmine)
1947 - Jimmy Ibbotson, Penn, country singer (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
1947 - Pye Hastings, English singer and musician (Caravan)
1947 - Michel Jonasz, French singer and composer
1950 - Billy Ocean, [Leslie S Charles], Trinidad, singer (Caribbean Queen)
1950 - Richie Ranno, rocker
1956 - Bob Brill, NYC, drummer (Berlin-You Take My Breath Away)
1965 - Cordell Crockett, rocker (Ugly Kid Joe-Mad Man, Too Bad)
1970 - Mark Trojanowski, American musician (Sister Hazel)
1972 - Yasunori Mitsuda, Japanese composer
1972 - Cat Power (Chan Marshall), American musician
1976 - Emma Lee Bunton, "Baby Spice", Finchley London, vocalist (Spice Girls)
1977 - Rick Ross, American rapper
1978 - Tamir "Nokio" Ruffin, American Singer
1979 - Spider Loc, American rapper, member of G-Unit
1980 - Nana Mizuki, Japanese voice actress and singer
1981 - Gillian Chung Yan-tung, Hong Kong singer (Twins)
1981 - Andy Lee, Korean singer (Shinhwa)
1981 - Alex Ubago, Spanish-Basque singer-songwriter
1986 - Coffin Joe, English drummer ( The Horrors)
1988 - William Johansson, Swedish composer

Deaths in Music

Deaths 1 - 27 of 27

1626 - John Dowland, English composer (In Darkness We Dwell), dies at 62
1638 - Ignazio Donati, Italian composer (c. 1570)
1665 - Domenico Mazzocchi, composer, dies at 72
1746 - Gottfried Kirkhoff, composer, dies at 60
1851 - Gustav Albert Lortzing, composer, dies at 49
1882 - Anton Emil Titl, composer, dies at 72
1883 - Jacopo Tomadini, composer, dies at 62
1884 - Auguste Franchomme, composer, dies at 75
1888 - Stephan Hale Alonzo Marsh, composer, dies at 83
1891 - Calixa Lavallee, composer, dies at 48
1894 - Guillaume Jean Joseph Nicolas Lekeu, composer, dies at 24
1931 - Felix Blumenfeld, composer, dies at 67
1942 - Henryk Opienski, Polish composer/musicologist/conductor, dies at 72
1943 - Otakar Sini, composer, dies at 61
1948 - Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, composer, dies at 72
1959 - Lamar Stringfield, composer, dies at 61
1961 - John Joseph Becker, composer, dies a day before 75th birthday
1977 - John Vincent, composer, dies at 74
1977 - Zoltan Vasarhelyi, composer, dies at 76
1984 - Jackie Wilson, US singer (I Get the Sweetest Feeling), dies at 49
1985 - Barbara Cowsill, rocker (Cowsills), dies of emphysema
1989 - Billy Tipton, American musician (b. 1914)
1991 - Frank Mitchell, actor (Music is Magic, Prairie Gunsmoke), dies
1992 - William T "Champion Jack" Dupree, US boxer/pianist, dies at 81
1999 - Charles Brown, American blues singer and pianist (b. 1920)
2002 - Peggy Lee, American singer (b. 1920)
2010 - Paul Quarrington, Canadian novelist, playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker, musician and educator (b. 1953)