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Events in Music

Events 1 - 6 of 6

1679 - Jean-Baptiste Lully's opera "Bellerophon," premieres in Paris
1955 - RCA demonstrates 1st music synthesizer
1960 - Songwriter Adolph Green marries actress/singer Phyllis Newman in NYC
1969 - Beatles perform last live gig (42-min concert on roof of Apple HQs)
1970 - Grateful Dead members busted on LSD charges
1994 - Barcelona opera theater "Gran Teatro del Liceo" burns down

Birthdays in Music

Birthdays 1 - 48 of 48

1517 - Gioseffo Zarlino, composer
1573 - Ambrosius Metzger, composer
1573 - Giulio Cesare Monteverdi, composer
1614 - Nicolas Saboly, composer
1734 - Julien-Amable Mathieu, composer
1759 - Francois Devienne, composer
1784 - Carl Wilhelm Henning, composer
1797 - Franz Peter Schubert, Lichtenthal Austria, composer (Unfinished Symphony)
1798 - Karl Gottlieb Reissiger, composer
1836 - Henryk Szulc, composer
1891 - Max Drischner, composer
1894 - Isham Jones, American musician (d. 1956)
1901 - Blaz Arnic, composer
1906 - Benjamin Frankel, composer
1913 - Hector Iglesias Villoud, composer
1915 - Bobby Hackett, Providence RI, trumpeteer/orchestra leader (Air Time '57)
1915 - Alan Lomax, American musicologist (d. 2002)
1917 - Jose Maceda, composer
1921 - Mario Lanza, Phila, actor/singer (Great Caruso, Toast of New Orleans)
1928 - Chuck Willis, rock vocalist (C C Rider)
1932 - Rick Hall, country/R&B singer
1934 - Ron Weatherburn, jazz pianist
1935 - Bojidar Dimov, composer
1936 - Marvin Junior, singer (Dells-Oh What a Night)
1937 - Philip Glass, Baltimore Md, minimal composer (Einstein on the Beach)
1939 - Claude Gauthier, Canadian singer and songwriter
1942 - Gerald Chanberlain, rocker
1944 - Charley Musselwhite, blues musician (Stand Back, Louisiana Fog)
1945 - Noah Creshevsky, composer
1946 - Terry Kath, rocker (Chicago-If You Leave Me Now)
1947 - Jim Nollman, composer
1951 - Harry Casey, [KC], rock vocalist (KC & Sunshine Band-Give It)
1951 - Phil Manzanera, rock guitarist (Roxy Music-Let's Stick Together)
1951 - Dave Benton, Aruban-born singer
1953 - Aart Mol, Dutch bassist (Catapult)
1954 - Adrian Vandenberg, Amsterdam Neth, rock guitarist (Whitesnake)
1956 - Johnny Rotten, [John Lydon], rocker (Sex Pistols-God Save the Queen)
1956 - Lloyd Cole, rocker
1958 - Tom Schuman, pianist (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance)
1962 - Sophie Muller, Music video director
1963 - Scott Ian Rosenfeld, Bayside NY, rocker (Anthrax-Protest & Survive)
1964 - Jeff Hanneman, American musician (Slayer)
1966 - Al Jaworsky, [Alan Doughty], pop bassist (Jesus Jones)
1967 - Fat Mike, American musician
1977 - Shingo Katori, Japanese actor and singer (SMAP)
1980 - Ryan Kienle, American musician
1981 - Justin Timberlake, American singer
1982 - Elena Paparizou, Greek singer

Deaths in Music

Deaths 1 - 9 of 9

1788 - Francesco Zannetti, composer, dies at 50
1922 - Heinrich Reinhardt, composer, dies at 56
1969 - Alexander Mikhaylovich Dzegelyonok, composer, dies at 77
1970 - Slim Harpo, [James Moore], rocker, dies at 28
1972 - Howard Barlow, conductor (Voice of Firestone), dies at 79
1972 - Istvan Szelenyi, composer, dies at 67
1989 - Yasushi Akutagawa, composer, dies at 63
1997 - Eve Lister, actress/singer (No Limit, Hyde Park), dies at 84
2007 - Kirka Babitzin, Finnish singer (b. 1950)