Events in Music
Events 1 - 1 of 1
1990 - Pink Floyds' "Wall" is performed where Berlin Wall once stood
Birthdays in Music
Birthdays 1 - 36 of 36
1748 - Louis-Henry Paisible,
composer
1762 - Willem GF Bentinck,
Dutch earl/politician/organist
1779 - Gottlob Wiedebein,
composer
1797 - Franz Schoberlechner,
composer
1822 - Ludwig Theodore Gouvy,
composer
1865 - Robert Kahn,
composer
1898 - Ernest Willem Mulder,
composer
1898 - Sara Carter, Virginia, vocalist/guitarist (Carter Family)
1903 - Theodore Karyotakis,
composer
1906 - Daniel Ayala Perez,
composer
1915 - Floyd McDaniel,
blues singer/guitarist
1920 - Isaac Stern,
Kreminiecz Russia, violinist (debut SF Symph)
1920 - Manuel Valls Gorina, composer
1921 - Billy Taylor,
Greenville NC, orchestra leader (David Frost Show)
1922 - Kay Starr,
Dougherty Oklahoma, singer (Rock & Roll Waltz, Club Oasis)
1925 - Lovro Zupanovic,
composer
1927 - Stefan Niculescu,
composer
1930 - Anand Bakshi,
Indian lyricist (d. 2002)
1931 - Leon Schidlowsky,
composer
1935 - Kaye Stevens,
Pitts, singer/comedienne (Jerry Lewis Show)
1938 - Anton Emil Kuerti,
composer
1942 - Kim Fowley,
Philippines/US rock vocalist/producer/songwriter
1946 - Barry "Bean" Whitwam,
rocker
Rock Vocalist Cat Stevens (1948)
1948 - Cat Stevens [Steven Demetre Georgiou; Yusaf Islam],
London, rock vocalist (Peace Train)
1950 - Larry Tolbert,
rock drummer (Raydio)
1955 - Henry Preistman,
rocker (Christians-Harvest the World)
1955 - Tacho Ocheriski, singer (Putting on the Ritz)
1955 - Howie Epstein, American musician (d. 2003)
1955 - Taco Ockerse, Indonesian singer
1960 - Matt Mulhern,
Phila, actor (Biloxi Blues)
1961 - Jim Martin,
Oakland CA, rock guitarist (Faith No More-Real Thing)
1961 - Amar Singh Chamkila, Punjabi folk singer
1969 - Emerson Hart,
American musician (Tonic)
1978 - Damian Marley,
Jamaican musician
1981 - Blake Lewis,
American musician
1983 - Eivør Pálsdóttir,
Faroese singer
Deaths in Music
Deaths 1 - 12 of 12
1782 - Placidus Cajetan von Camerloher,
composer, dies at 63
1870 - Josef Strauss,
Austrian composer (Dynamids), dies at 42
1891 - Franco Faccio,
Italian composer/conductor, dies at 51
1910 - Johan Peter Selmer,
composer, dies at 66
1948 - Donald Nichols Tweedy,
composer, dies at 58
1950 - Albert Riemenschneider,
composer, dies at 71
1984 - Michael Osborne,
rock guitarist/vocalist (Axe), dies at 34
1994 - Dorothy Collins,
singer (Your Hit Parade), dies at 67
1994 - Marjorie Dorothy Chandler Collins, jazz singer, dies at 67
1995 - Edwin "Russell" House,
saxophonist, dies at 65
2004 - Jerry Goldsmith,
American composer (b. 1929)
2005 - Long John Baldry,
British blues musician (b. 1941)
