Events in Music
Events 1 - 4 of 4
1966 - Beatles attacked in Philippines after insulting Imelda Marcos
1969 - 140,000 attend Atlanta Pop Festival featuring Led Zep & Janis Joplin
1977 - Nigel Harrison replaces Gary Valentine as bassist of Blondie
1992 - John Phillips, rocker (Mamas & Papas), undergoes a liver transplant
Birthdays in Music
Birthdays 1 - 48 of 48
1694 - Louis-Claude Daquin,
[d'Acquin], French organist/composer (La Rose)
1762 - Marco Santucci,
composer
1769 - Louis-Luc Loiseau de Persuis,
composer
1793 - Franz Xaver Pechacek,
composer
1826 - Stephen Foster,
Lawrencevil, Pa, composer (Oh! Susanna, Swanee River)
1829 - Hermann Kotzchmar,
composer
1840 - James McGranahan,
composer
1842 - Gyula Erkel,
composer
1850 - Ole Olsen,
composer
1854 - Heinrich Zollner,
composer
1883 - Maximilian Oseyevich Shteynberg,
composer
1886 - Heinrich Kaminski,
composer
1895 - Irving Caesar,
songwriter
1896 - Adolf Hallis,
composer
1902 - George Murphy,
New Haven Ct, (Sen-R-California)/actor/dancer (MGM Parade)
1903 - Flor Peeters,
Antwerp Belgium, organist/composer (Lied Symphony)
1904 - Artur Malawski,
composer
1904 - Seger Pillot Ellis, pianist/vocalist
1905 - Dante Fiorillo,
composer
Actor and Senator George Murphy (1902)
1907 - Howard Taubman,
American music and theater critic (d. 1996)
1909 - Alec Templeton,
Cardiff Wales, pianist/composer (Concertino Lirico)
1910 - William T "Champion Jack" Dupree,
US boxer/slaughterhouse pianist
1915 - Jimmie Rogers,
Detroit Mich, singer (Sugar Hill Time)
1921 - Tibor Varga,
Hungarian violinist/orchestra leader (Ripley's Game)
1927 - Neil Simon,
Bronx, playwright (Odd Couple, Plaza Suite, Biloxi Blues)
1928 - Cathy Berberian,
Armenia, US singer
1928 - Lloyd Lambert, bassist
1938 - Bill Withers,
Slab Fork WV, rhythm & blues singer (Lean on Me)
1943 - Al "Blind Owl" Wilson,
rock guitarist/vocalist (Canned Heat)
1943 - Dave Rowberry, rocker (Animals-House of the Rising Sun)
1943 - Konrad "Conny" Bauer, German musician
1948 - Jeremy Spencer,
rock guitarist (Fleetwood Mac-Oh Well)
1949 - Tonio K,
American singer
1951 - Ralph Johnson,
rock drummer (Earth Wind & Fire-Shining Star)
1955 - John Waite,
vocalist (Babies/Bad English-Forget Me Not, Missing You)
1958 - Kirk Pengilly,
Sydney Australia, rocker (Inxs-Kiss the Dirt)
1959 - Bill McCorvey,
Montgomery Ala, singer (Pirates of Miss-Fred Jake)
1964 - Mark Allen Slaughter,
Las Vegas, guitarist (Slaughter-Stick it Live)
1968 - Jack Frost,
American musician
1971 - Andy Creeggan,
Canadian musician
1973 - Gackt,
Japanese singer
1977 - Jonas Kjellgren,
Swedish musician (Scar Symmetry)
1978 - Stephen McNally,
British singer and songwriter (BBMak)
1983 - Ben Jorgensen,
American musician
1983 - Andy Mrotek, American musician
1984 - Gina Glocksen,
American singer
1984 - Akanishi Jin, Japanese singer
1986 - Takahisa Masuda,
Japanese singer
Deaths in Music
Deaths 1 - 25 of 25
1603 - Philippus the Monte,
priest/bandmaster/composer, dies at 82
1623 - William Byrd,
English composer (Ave verum corpus), dies at 80
1672 - Ambrosius Reiner,
composer, dies at 67
1757 - Jean-Joseph Vade,
composer, dies at 38
1789 - Claudio M da Costa,
Brazilian conductor, dies at 59
1851 - Martin-Joseph Mengal,
composer, dies at 67
1882 - Joseph Brackett,
American composer (b. 1797)
1889 - Auguste Mermet,
composer, dies at 79
1891 - Frederic Louis Ritter,
composer, dies at 67
1910 - Louis Bourgault-Ducoudray,
composer, dies at 70
1929 - Otto Taubmann,
composer, dies at 70
1963 - Fritz Reuter,
composer, dies at 66
1971 - Don McPherson,
rocker, dies at 29
1983 - Claus Adam,
composer, dies at 65
1984 - Jimmie Spheeris,
American singer-songwriter (b. 1949)
1986 - Flor Peeters,
Flemish baron/organist/composer, dies at 83
1992 - Astor Piazzolla,
Argentine composer (Tango Nuevo), dies at 71
1992 - Joe Newman, US jazz trumpetist (Count Basie), dies
2003 - Barry White,
American singer, dies at 58
Singer Barry White (2003)
2003 - André Claveau, French singer (b. 1915)
2004 - Jean-Marie Auberson,
Swiss conductor (b. 1920)
2007 - Barış Akarsu,
Turkish rock musician (b. 1979)
2007 - Bill Pinkney, American singer and performer (b. 1925)
2009 - Drake Levin,
American rock musician (b. 1946)
2009 - Jim Chapin, American drummer (b.1919)
