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Events in Music

Events 1 - 9 of 9

1830 - Opera "Fra Diavolo," premieres in Paris
1916 - Opera "Goyescas," premieres (NYC)
1936 - Pravda criticizes Sjostakovitsj' "Lady Macbeth" opera
1957 - "Tonight! America After Dark" premieres, with Jack Lescoulie & Al (Jazzbo) Collins on NBC (between Steve Allen & Jack Paar)
1965 - The Who make their 1st appearance on British TV
1967 - Rolling Stones release "Let's Spend the Night Together"
1985 - Charity single "We Are the World" is recorded by supergroup USA for Africa (Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie and other pop stars)
1985 - 12th American Music Award
1991 - 18th American Music Award: M C Hammer & Janet Jackson

Birthdays in Music

Birthdays 1 - 56 of 56

1627 - Alfonso Marsh, composer
1645 - Gottfried Vopelius, composer
1691 - Johann Balthasar Konig, composer
1693 - Gregor Joseph Werner, composer
1722 - Johann Ernst Bach, composer
1756 - Hans Adolf Friedrich von Eschstruth, composer
1757 - Antonio Bartolomeo Bruni, composer
1832 - Franz Wullner, composer
1841 - Viktor Ernst Nessler, composer
1868 - Frederick Archibald Lamond, composer
1868 - Julian Aguirre, composer
1875 - Julian Antonio Carillo-Trujillo, composer
1878 - Walter Kollo [Kollodziepski], German composer (Der Juxbaron)
1887 - Artur Rubinstein, Lodz Poland, pianist
1887 - Lily Theresa Strickland, composer
1891 - Karel Boleslav Jirak, composer
1893 - Elliot Griffis, composer
1898 - Vittorio Rieti, composer
1899 - Zilner T Randolph, jazz trumpeter/arranger
1900 - Michael Dewar Head, composer
1907 - Constantin Regamey, composer
1908 - Paul Misraki, French composer and songwriter (d. 1998)
1913 - Jan Masseus, composer
1916 - Peter Crossley-Holland, composer
1927 - Ronnie Scott, jazz musician/club-owner
1929 - Acker Bilk, singer (Stranger on the Shore)
1930 - Luis de Pablo, composer
1935 - Leonid Grabovsky, composer
1936 - Jack Scott, vocalist (My True Love)
1936 - Robert Suderburg, composer
1943 - Dick Taylor, rock vocalist (Pretty Thing-Cry on Me)
1943 - Jean Knight, rocker
1944 - Arnold Muhren, Dutch pop bassist/singer (The Cats-Sailin' Home)
1944 - Brian Keenan, NYC, rock drummer (Chamber Bros-Time Has Come Today)
1944 - John Tavener, composer (The Whale)
1944 - Martin Fried, rocker (Cyrkle-Red Rubber Ball)
1945 - Robert Wyatt, English musician
1946 - Rick Allen, Ark, rock bassist (Box Tops-Letter)
1950 - Bob Hay, American songwriter and musician
1951 - William Nelson Jr, US bassist (Connections & Disconnections)
1953 - Michael Day, rocker
1954 - Shawn Murray, rock drummer (Mink Deville)
1956 - Peter Schilling, Stuttgart Germany, rocker
1959 - Dave Sharp, rock guitarist (Alarm-In the Summertime)
1959 - Burkhard Dallwitz, German-born composer
1962 - Sam Phillips, singer/actress (Die Hard with a Vengeance)
1963 - Danny Spitz, heavy metal guitarist (Anthrax-Protest & Survive)
1968 - Sarah McLachlan, folk singer (Fumbling Towards Ecstasy)
1968 - DJ Muggs, American musician (Cypress Hill)
1968 - Rakim, born William Michael Griffin Jr., American rapper
1970 - Donald Tardy, US, death metal drummer (Obituary, Cause of Death)
1975 - Lee Latchford-Evans, English singer
1976 - Jarrod Montague, American drummer (Taproot)
1977 - Matt DeVries, American guitarist (Chimaira)
1977 - Joey Fatone, American singer (*NSYNC)
1980 - Nick Carter, singer (Backstreet Boys)

Deaths in Music

Deaths 1 - 23 of 23

1768 - John Wainwright, composer, dies at 44
1813 - Jan Joseph Rosler, composer, dies at 41
1817 - Friedrich Ludwig Emilius Kunzen, composer, dies at 55
1869 - Prudent-Louis Aubery du Boulley, composer, dies at 72
1873 - Henry Hugo Pierson, composer, dies at 57
1896 - Joseph Barnby, composer, dies at 57
1898 - Alexandru Flechtenmacher, composer, dies at 74
1903 - Augusta Mary Anne Holmes, composer, dies at 55
1903 - Jean Robert Planquette, composer, dies at 54
1910 - Jose Garcia Robles, composer, dies at 74
1932 - Franz Xavier Arens, composer, dies at 75
1935 - Mikhail Mikhaylovich Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russian composer, dies at 75
1942 - Pablo Luna y Carne, composer, dies at 61
1947 - Reynaldo Hahn, composer, dies at 72
1949 - Gustaf Lazarus Nordqvist, composer, dies at 62
1959 - Viktor Joseph Keldorfer, composer, dies at 85
1960 - Jacques de Menasce, composer, dies at 54
1965 - Jef van Durme, composer, dies at 57
1976 - Chris Kenner, rocker (I Like it Like That), dies
1992 - Clark Tippet, dancer/choreographer, dies at 37
2005 - Jim Capaldi, English singer and songwriter (b. 1944)
2007 - Karel Svoboda, Czech composer of popular music (b. 1938)
2009 - Billy Powell, American musician (b. 1952)