Events in Music
Events 1 - 2 of 2
1941 - BBC World Service begins playing V(ictory) (...-) 5th of Beethoven
1992 - Ballet dancer Peter Martins charged with beating his wife
Birthdays in Music
Birthdays 1 - 37 of 37
1592 - Erhard Buttner,
composer
1670 - Richard Leveridge,
English bass and composer (d. 1758)
1735 - Garret Wesley Mornington,
composer
1742 - Jean-Baptiste Davaux,
composer
1750 - Alessio Prati,
composer
1782 - Jonathan Blewitt,
composer
1797 - Johann Gottlieb Schneider,
composer
1811 - Vincenz Lachner,
composer
1873 - Louis Zimmermann,
violinist/1st concert master of Concert building
1898 - Juan Bautista Plaza-Alfonzo,
composer
1905 - Boyd Neel,
Blackheath, Kent England, conductor (Story of an Orch)
1905 - Louis Philip Kentner, composer
1906 - Klaus Egge,
Gransherad, Telemark Norway, composer (Noregsonger)
1907 - Gunter Bialas,
composer
1909 - Jeno Vecsey,
composer
1914 - Josef Palenicek,
composer
1920 - Robert Mann,
Portland Oregon, composer/violinist (String Quartet 1952)
1925 - Sue Thompson,
American pop and country music singer
1926 - Sue Thompson,
[Eva Sue Mckee], rocker
1932 - Buster Benton,
singer/guitarist
1940 - Vikki Carr [Florencia Vicenta de Casillas Martinez Cardona)],
El Paso Texas, singer (Let it Be Him)
1941 - Natalya Bessmertnova,
Moscow, dancer (Bolshoi, Lenin Prize 1970)
1944 - Commander Cody,
singer/pianist (Commander Cody & Lost Planet Airmen)
1946 - Alan Gorrie,
Scotland, rock bassist/singer (Average White Band)
1947 - Bernie Leadon,
Minneapolis, guitarist/vocalist (Eagles-Take it Easy)
1947 - Brian May, London, rock guitarist (Queen-We are the Champions)
1947 - Gerard Schwarz, Weehawken NJ, trumpeter/conductor (LA Chamber Orch)
1948 - Keith Godchaux,
rock keyboardist (Grateful Dead)
1950 - Freddy Moore,
American songwriter
1952 - Alan Collins,
rock guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
1952 - Dominic Muldowney, composer
1958 - David Robertson,
American symphony orchestra conductor
1968 - Robert Flynn,
American musician (Machine Head)
1971 - Russell Allen,
American musician (Symphony X)
1972 - Naohito Fujiki,
Japanese actor and singer
1973 - Martin Powell,
English musician (Cradle of Filth)
1981 - Didz Hammond,
bassist/backing vocalist (Dirty Pretty Things and The Cooper Temple Clause)
Deaths in Music
Deaths 1 - 17 of 17
1625 - Samuel Besler,
composer, dies at 50
1700 - Hieronymus Gradenthaler,
composer, dies at 62
1730 - Jean-Baptiste Loeillet,
composer, dies at 49
1811 - Christian Gotthilf Tag,
composer, dies at 76
1838 - Frederic Nicolas Duvernoy,
composer, dies at 72
1844 - Heinrich Domnich,
composer, dies at 77
1847 - Johann Wilhelm Wilms,
composer, dies at 75
1944 - Will Marion Cook,
composer, dies at 75
1951 - Max Ettinger,
composer, dies at 77
1954 - Jean Roger-Ducasse,
composer, dies at 81
1970 - Barry Wood,
singer (Your Hit Parade), dies at 61
1973 - Clarence White,
rocker (Byrds), killed by drunken driver at 29
1975 - Lefty Frizzell,
American country music singer and songwriter (b. 1928)
1981 - Louis Cheslock,
composer, dies at 81
1993 - Szymon Goldberg,
Polish violinist/conductor, dies at 84
1995 - Sydney Lipton,
bandleader/violin, dies at 89
1996 - Emmanual Tettey Mensah,
musician, dies at 77
