Events in Music
Events 1 - 2 of 2
1964 - Beatles' film "Hard Day's Night" premieres in London
1997 - "Dream-Johnny Mercer Musical," closes at Royale NYC after 109 perfs
Birthdays in Music
Birthdays 1 - 59 of 59
1580 - Johann Stobaeus,
composer
1632 - Albert Schop,
composer
1632 - Pietro Reggio, composer
1678 - Nicola Francesco Haym,
composer
1702 - Franz Anton Maichelbeck,
composer
1739 - Freidrich Wilhelm Rust,
composer
1747 - Coelestin Jungbauer,
composer
1773 - Wenzel Thomas Matiegka,
composer
1800 - Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti,
composer
1837 - Wlasyslaw Zelenski,
composer
1852 - John Albert Delany,
composer
1864 - Alberto Nepomuceno,
Brazil, composer/conductor (Artemis)
1865 - Emile Jaques-Dalcroze,
Swiss musician (d. 1950)
1877 - David Stanley Smith,
composer
1898 - Hanns Eisler,
German/US composer/German DR-minister for propaganda
1904 - Robert Whitney,
Newcastle-on-Tyne England, conductor (Sospiro do Roma)
1906 - Agnes Elisabeth Lutyens,
composer
1908 - Leonce Grass,
Flemish singer/conductor
1914 - Jens Rohiner,
composer
1915 - Dorothy Kirsten,
Montclair NJ, soprano (Time to Sing, Chevy Show)
1915 - Laverne Andrews, Minneapolis MN, singer (Andrews Sisters)
1915 - Marcel Quinet, Belgian pianist/composer (Vague et Sillon)
1917 - Hugo Cole,
composer
1918 - Eugene List,
Phila Penn, pianist/prof (Eastman School of Music)
1919 - Dorothy Kirsten,
opera singer/Alzheimer disease activist
1922 - Francisco Moncion,
dancer
1923 - Marie McDonald,
Burgin KY, singer/actress (Promises Promises)
1925 - Bill Haley,
Highland Park Mich, rock vocalist (Rock Around the Clock)
1927 - Charles Whittenberg,
composer
1927 - Nilo Soruco, Bolivian songwriter (d. 2004)
1929 - Gerd Zacher,
composer
1931 - Joseph Daniel White,
singer/bandleader
1932 - Della Reese,
Detroit, singer/actress (Della Reese Show, Royal Family)
1937 - Gene Chandler,
[Eugene Dixon], Chicago, rocker (Duke of Earl)
1937 - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Gorki Russia, pianist/conductor (Tchakowsky-1961)
1938 - Franco,
Zaire, composer/guitarist/leader (Masumbuku)
1939 - Jet Harris,
[Terence Harris], London, rock bassist (Drifters)
1939 - Jet Harris, English bass guitarist
1940 - Jeannie Seely,
American singer
1944 - Byron Berline,
rocker
1945 - Rik Elswit,
rocker (Dr Hook & Medicine Show-In the Right Place)
1946 - Peter Singer,
Australian philosopher
1950 - Phyllis Hyman,
jazz Singer
1952 - Jesse Harms,
musician, of REO Speedwagon
1953 - Nanci Griffith,
US singer/songwriter (Poet in My Window)
1956 - John Jorgenson,
Madison Wisc, singer (Desert Rose Band-Love Reunited)
1959 - John Keeble,
London, rock drummer (Spandau Ballet-True)
1967 - Heather Nova,
Bermudian singer
1969 - Michael Grant,
vocalist (Musical Youth)
1970 - Inspectah Deck,
American rapper
1970 - Frank Salvato II, Italian-American Sound Engineer and Composer
1970 - Martin Smith, English singer (Delirious?)
1972 - Isabelle Boulay,
French-Canadian singer
1972 - Mark Gasser, British pianist
1975 - 50 Cent,
American rapper
1979 - Nic Cester,
Australian musician (Jet)
1982 - Tay Zonday,
American singer and keyboardist
1984 - Lauren Harris,
British rock singer
1987 - Kate Nash,
English singer/songwriter
Deaths in Music
Deaths 1 - 29 of 29
1480 - Antonio Squarcialupi,
composer, dies at 64
1734 - Nicolas Bernier,
composer, dies at 69
1765 - Ferdinand Zellbell,
composer, dies at 76
1768 - Conrad Johann Conrad Beissel,
composer, dies at 78
1795 - Georg Gottfried Petri,
composer, dies at 79
1816 - Philipp Meissner,
composer, dies at 67
1858 - Jan Emmanuel Dulezalek,
composer, dies at 78
1860 - Alexandre Edouard Goria,
composer, dies at 37
1868 - Samuel Lover,
composer, dies at 71
1879 - Henry Thomas Smart,
composer, dies at 65
1896 - Alexander Sergeyevich Famintsin,
composer, dies at 54
1902 - Leopoldo Miguez,
composer, dies at 51
1933 - Robert Kajanus,
composer, dies at 76
1950 - Fats Navarro,
American jazz trumpet player (b. 1923)
1951 - Josef Huttel,
composer, dies at 57
1955 - Paolo Gallico,
composer, dies at 87
1961 - Scott LaFaro,
American musician (b. 1936)
1971 - Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong,
jazz musician (Hello Dolly), dies at 71
1971 - Louis Armstrong, American jazz trumpeter and singer, dies at 69
Jazz Trumpeter Louis Armstrong (1971)
1973 - Otto Klemperer,
German/US conductor, dies at 88
1974 - Carlos Isamitt,
composer, dies at 87
1977 - Oedoen Partos,
composer, dies at 69
1979 - Van McCoy,
singer/songwriter (Hey Mr DJ, Hustle), dies at 35
1995 - Ivor Keys,
musician/teacher, dies at 76
1999 - Joaquin Rodrigo,
Spanish composer (b. 1901)
2003 - Skip Battin,
American rocker, dies at 69
2004 - Syreeta Wright,
American singer (b. 1946)
2008 - Bobby Durham,
American jazz drummer (b. 1937)
2009 - Johnny Collins,
British folk and maritime music singer (b. 1938)
