Events in Music
Events 1 - 3 of 3
1967 - Monkees perform at Forest Hills NY, Jimi Hendrix is opening act
1968 - Beatle's animated film "Yellow Submarine" premieres in London
1974 - 1st quadrophonic studio in UK is open by Moody Blues
Birthdays in Music
Birthdays 1 - 56 of 56
1674 - Isaac Watts,
England, writer/preacher/hymnist (Horae Lyrican)
1702 - Johann Schneider,
composer
1775 - August Harder,
composer
1817 - Ignace Xavier Joseph Leybach,
composer
1832 - Johan August Soderman,
composer
1839 - Friedrich Gernsheim,
composer
1853 - Francesco Fanciulli,
composer
1873 - Antonina Neshdanova,
Russian soprano (Rigoletto)
1875 - Donald Francis Tovey,
Eton England, musicologist/composer
1876 - Vittorio Gnecchi,
composer
1878 - Henri Zagwijn,
composer
1885 - Benjamin James Dale,
composer
1903 - Valerian Mikhaylovich Bogdanov-Berezovsky,
composer
1904 - Jef Alpaerts,
Flemish pianist/conductor
1905 - Norman Waterhouse Lees,
jazz fan
1908 - Rudolf Petzold,
composer
1913 - Everett Helm,
composer
1915 - Esther Williamson Ballou,
composer
1916 - Eleanor Steber,
Wheeling WV, soprano (Metropolitan Opera-1940)
1917 - Red Sovine,
American country music singer (d. 1980)
1921 - George Barnes,
Chicago Hgts, guitarist (Skip Farrell Show)
1928 - Vince Guaraldi,
American musician and composer (d. 1976)
1930 - Ryohei Hirose,
composer
1932 - Niccolo Castiglioni,
composer
1932 - Vince Guaraldi, jazz pianist (Charlie Brown TV specials)
1932 - Wojciech Kilar, composer
1934 - Philippe Capdenat,
composer
1935 - P D Q Bach,
[Peter Schickele], Iowa, composer (5th of Beethoven)
1938 - Stan Bronstein,
rocker
1939 - Spencer Davis,
Wales, vocalist (Spencer Davis Group-Gimme Some Lovin)
1942 - Gale Garnett,
Auckland NZ, singer (We'll Sing in the Sunshine)
1947 - Wolfgang Flür,
German musician (Kraftwerk)
1948 - Brian Glascock,
rock drummer (Motels-Only the Lonely)
1948 - Phillip Harris, rocker
1949 - Geezer Butler,
Birmingham, rocker (Black Sabbath)
1949 - Mick Tucker, London, rock drummer (Sweet Harlesden)
1949 - Mike Vale, rock bassist (Tommy James & The Shondells)
1949 - Terry "Geezer" Butler, Birmingham, rock bassist (Black Sabbath)
1951 - Lucie Arnaz,
LA California, actress (Kim-Here's Lucy, Jazz Singer)
1952 - Chet McCracken,
Seattle Wash, rocker (Doobie Brothers)
1952 - Nicolette Larson, KC MO, rock vocalist (Twins, Lotta Love)
1952 - Phoebe Snow, singer (Theme from "It's a Different World")
1957 - Bruce Crump,
rock drummer (Molly Hatchet)
1960 - Dawn Upshaw,
American soprano
1965 - Craig Morgan,
American singer
1970 - Mandy Smith,
England, rocker (I Just Can't Wait)/wife of Bill Wyman
1973 - Tony Dovolani,
Albanian ballroom dancer
1974 - Laura Macdonald,
Scottish jazz musician
1975 - Paul Hinojos,
American guitarist (At the Drive-In, The Mars Volta)
1977 - M.I.A.,
British rapper
1977 - Lehmber Hussainpuri, Famous Indian Singer
1978 - Émilie Simon,
French singer
1982 - Natasha Hamilton,
British singer (Atomic Kitten)
1984 - Asami Kimura,
Japanese singer (Country Musume)
1985 - Tom Fletcher,
British singer (McFly)
1986 - Dana,
Korean singer and actress (TSZX)
Deaths in Music
Deaths 1 - 29 of 29
1682 - Johann Heinrich Kittel,
composer, dies at 29
1709 - Pascal Collasse,
composer, dies at 60
1763 - Wenzel Raimund Pirck,
composer, dies at 45
1764 - Johann Mattheson,
German composer, dies at 82
1794 - Jean-Frederic Edelmann,
composer, dies at 45
1804 - Christian Ernst Graf,
composer, dies at 80
1826 - Joseph Graetz,
composer, dies at 65
1851 - Beni Egressy,
composer, dies at 37
1871 - Karl Tausig,
composer, dies at 29
1875 - Gabor Matray,
composer, dies at 77
1901 - John Farmer,
composer, dies at 64
1915 - Francesco Fanciulli,
composer, dies on 62nd birthday
1937 - Henri-Constant-Gabriel Pierne,
composer, dies at 73
1953 - Bernhard van den Sigtenhorst Meyer,
composer, dies at 65
1955 - Bronislaw Zygmunt Szulc,
composer, dies at 73
1959 - Billie Holiday,
jazz singer, dies of drug OD at 44
1965 - Luiz Cosme,
composer, dies at 57
1966 - August Baeyens,
Flemish composer (Piranesi-suite), dies at 71
1967 - John Coltrane,
US jazz sax/composer (Round Midnight), dies at 40
1970 - Juano Hernandez,
actor (St Louis Blues, Two Loves), dies at 74
1971 - Cliff Edwards,
"Ukulele Ike", singer (54th Street Revue), dies at 76
1984 - J Delos Jewkes,
singer/actor (Stars & Stripes Forever), dies at 89
1985 - Czeslaw Josef Marek,
composer, dies at 93
1996 - Amancio D'Silva,
musician, dies at 60
1996 - Bryan Chas Chandler, musician/manager, dies at 57
1996 - Chris Komar, dancer, dies at 48
2003 - Rosalyn Tureck,
American pianist and harpsichordist (b. 1914)
2005 - Laurel Aitken,
Jamaican singer (b. 1927)
2006 - Sam Myers,
American musician and songwriter (b. 1936)
