Events in Music
Events 1 - 1 of 1
1982 - "Blues in the Night" closes at Rialto Theater NYC after 53 perfs
Birthdays in Music
Birthdays 1 - 50 of 50
1670 - Giovanni Battista Bononcini,
Italian (opera)composer
1711 - Pierre-Joseph Le Blan,
composer
1720 - Gilbert White,
"father of British naturalists",,17660718::"Friedrich Fleischmann, composer
1810 - Peter Singer,
composer
1821 - Pauline Garcia-Viardot,
French mezzo-soprano and composer (d. 1910)
1870 - Emil Mlynarski,
composer
1872 - Julius Fucik,
composer
1880 - Otto Vrieslander,
composer
1893 - Josef Huttel,
composer
1894 - Bernard Wagenaar,
Arnhem Holland, composer (3 Songs for Chinese)
1902 - Charles W J Mengelberg,
Dutch composer/conductor
1903 - Bozidar Kunc,
composer
1906 - Belle Stewart,
singer
1907 - Yvonne Desportes,
composer
1911 - Alexander Hyatt-King,
scholar (Mozart)
1914 - Harriet Hilliard Nelson,
Des Moines, singer/actress (Ozzie & Harriet)
1914 - Herbert Collum, composer
1917 - Henri Salvador,
French singer (d. 2008)
1918 - Jane Frazee,
Duluth Minn, actress/singer (Alice-Beulah)
1923 - Hector Tosar,
composer
1926 - Bryan Johnson,
singer/actor
1929 - "Screamin' Jay" Hawkins,
Cleveland, rocker (I Put a Spell on You)
1930 - Siegfried Kurz,
composer
1933 - Raymund Murray Schafer,
Sarnia Ontario, Canada, composer (Patria)
1938 - Dudu Pukwana,
[Mtutuzel], South African/British saxophonist/composer
1938 - Ian Stewart, Scottish pianist (d. 1985)
1939 - Brian Auger,
London, fusion keyboardist (Befour, Genesis)
1939 - Dion DiMucci, Bronx, rocker (Dion & Belmonts-Teenager in Love)
1941 - Jack Jersey,
[de Nijs], Indonesian/Dutch singer/producer
1941 - Lonnie Mack, Aurora Indiana, rocker (Baby What's Wrong)
1941 - Martha Reeves, Detroit Mich, singer (& Vandellas-Dancing in St)
1943 - Bobby Sherman,
Santa Monica California, singer (Shindig, Here Comes Brides)
1943 - Robin McDonald, Scotland, rock guitarist (Billy J Kramer & Dakotas)
1945 - Danny McCullock,
London, rocker (Animals)
1946 - Tim Lynch,
rocker (Flaming Groovies)
1948 - Cesar Zuiderwijk,
Dutch rock drummer (Golden Earring, Radar Love)
1948 - Phil Harris, rocker (Ace)
Business Magnate Richard Branson (1950)
1950 - Richard Branson,
London, British music enterperneur (Virgin Atlantic)
1950 - Glenn Hughes, American singer (Village People) (d. 2001)
1954 - Ricky Skaggs,
Cordell Ky, country singer (Heartbroke, Toy Hearts)
1954 - Tobias Picker, composer
1958 - Nigel Twist,
Manchester, rock drummer (Alarm-In the Summertime)
1962 - Jack Irons,
American drummer
1970 - Patrick Dancy,
TV rocker (Guys Next Door-I Was Made For You)
1975 - Daron Malakian,
American guitarist (System of a Down, Scars on Broadway)
1978 - Verónica Romeo,
Spanish singer
1979 - Jermaine Paul,
American musician
1980 - Ryoko Hirosue,
Japanese actress and singer
1982 - Ryan Cabrera,
American musician and TV host
1991 - Karina Pasian,
American singer and pianist
Deaths in Music
Deaths 1 - 19 of 19
1591 - Jakob Handl,
[Petelin], Austrian composer/bandmaster, dies at 40
1735 - Johann Krieger,
composer, dies at 83
1831 - Thomas Greatorex,
composer, dies at 72
1898 - Emil Hartmann,
composer, dies at 62
1901 - Alfredo Carlo Piatti,
composer, dies at 79
1902 - John White,
composer, dies at 47
1908 - Jaime Nuno,
composer, dies at 83
1915 - George William Louis Marshall-Hall,
composer, dies at 53
1939 - Witold Maliszewski,
composer, dies at 65
1941 - Dionyssios Lavrangas,
composer, dies at 80
1949 - Vítězslav Novák,
Czech composer (b. 1870)
1965 - Shalva Mikhailovich Taktakishvili,
composer, dies at 64
1966 - Bobby Fuller,
rocker (I Fought the Law), found dead at 22
1966 - German Germanovich Galinin, composer, dies at 44
1975 - Federico Ghisi,
composer, dies at 74
1982 - Lionel Daunais,
French-Canadian singer and composer (b. 1902)
1988 - Nico,
US model/pop singer (Velvet Underground), dies at 43
1990 - Gerry Boulet,
Quebec rock singer (b. 1946)
2007 - Jerry Hadley,
American opera singer, (b. 1952)
