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Events in Music

Events 1 - 5 of 5

1874 - Mussorgsky's opera "Boris Godunov," premieres in St Petersburg
1914 - Opera "Madeleine," premieres in NYC
1942 - Musical "Star & Garter," premieres in NYC
1948 - "Music in My Heart" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 124 perfs
1962 - Brian Epstein signs management contract with the Beatles

Birthdays in Music

Birthdays 1 - 39 of 39

1758 - Johann Chrysostomus Drexel, composer
1774 - Karl Moser, composer
1776 - Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, German writer/judge/composer (Undine)
1828 - Karol Studzinski, composer
1829 - William Mason, composer
1859 - Alexander Alexandrovich Il'yinsky, composer
1909 - Tiny Winters, musician
1913 - Norman Dello Joio, [Dello Ioio], NYC, composer
1915 - Vitezslava Kapralova, composer
1918 - Gottfried von Einem, Bern Switzerland, Austrian composer (Dantons Tod)
1919 - Leon Kirchner, Brooklyn NY, opera composer (Lily)
1920 - Don Saddler, Van Nuys California, dancer (Holiday Hotel)
1923 - Simeon ten Holt, composer
1924 - David Craighead, composer
1924 - Klaus George Roy, composer
1931 - Ib Norholm, composer
1932 - Werner Steger, composer
1933 - Ron Townson, rock vocalist (5th Dimension-Aquarius) [or Jan 29]
1933 - Zeke Carey, US R&B-singer (Flamingos-I Only Have Eyes For You)
1936 - Daniel Goode, composer
1936 - Jack Scott, Canada, rocker (My True Love)
1938 - Julius Arthur Hemphill, saxophonist
1939 - Ray Stevens, Clarksdale Ga, singer (Ahab the Arab, Streak)
1941 - Aaron Neville, US singer/keyboardist (Neville Brothers)
1941 - Michael Chapman, Leeds England, rocker (Looking for 11)
1941 - Neil Diamond, Brooklyn NY, singer/actor (Jazz Singer)
1944 - Klaus Nomi, German singer (d. 1983)
1947 - Warren Zevon, Chicago, rocker (Excitable Boy)
1948 - Michael Des Barres, British actor and rock singer
1949 - John Belushi, Chicago Ill, comedian/actor (SNL, Blues Brothers)
1955 - Julian Holland, rocker (Squeeze)
1956 - Hanne Krogh, Norwegian singer (Bobbysocks)
1956 - Lounès Matoub, a famous Berber Kabyle singer (d. 1998)
1958 - Jools Holland, British musician
1967 - John Myung, American musician (Dream Theater)
1968 - Michael Kiske, German musician
1972 - Naoshi Mizuta, Japanese composer
1976 - Shae-Lyn Bourne, Chatham Ontario, ice dancer (1995 World Champs-4th)
1984 - Witold Kiełtyka, Polish drummer (Decapitated) (d. 2007)

Deaths in Music

Deaths 1 - 20 of 20

1473 - Conrad Paumann, German blind organist/composer, dies
1666 - Johann Andreas Herbst, composer, dies at 77
1805 - Giacomo Conti, composer, dies at 50
1812 - Eligio Celestino, composer, dies at 72
1851 - Gaspare Luigi Pacifico Spontini, Italian composer, dies at 76
1864 - Otto Jonas Lindblad, composer, dies at 54
1883 - Friedrich von Flotow, German baron/composer, dies at 70
1884 - Johann Christian Gebauer, composer, dies at 75
1901 - Simon Hassler, composer, dies at 68
1904 - Franz Coenen, composer, dies at 77
1911 - Carl Eilhardt, composer, dies at 67
1913 - Gustav Luders, composer, dies at 47
1969 - Pauline Hall, composer, dies at 78
1970 - James "Shep" Shepherd, rocker (Shep & Limelites), beaten to death
1986 - Gordon MacRae, singer (Oklahoma, Carousel), dies at 64
2005 - June Bronhill, Australian singer (b. 1929)
2006 - Fayard Nicholas, American tap dancer, one-half of The Nicholas Brothers (b. 1914)
2009 - Gérard Blanc, French singer (b. 1947)
2010 - Pernell Roberts, American actor & singer, last surviving star of Bonanza (b. 1928)
2011 - Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, Indian Musician, Bharat Ratna Laureate (b. 1922)