Events in Music
Events 1 - 2 of 2
1821 - Opera "Der Freischutz" is produced (Berlin)
1967 - Monterey International Pop Festival rocks Southern California
Birthdays in Music
Birthdays 1 - 45 of 45
1723 - Giuseppe Scarlotti,
composer
1744 - Augustin Holler,
composer
1757 - Ignaz Joseph Pleyel,
composer
1780 - Michael Henkel,
composer
1820 - Martin Andreas Udbye,
composer
1822 - Henry David Leslie,
composer
1850 - Richard Heuberger,
composer
1892 - Edward Steuermann,
composer
1901 - Jimmy Dale,
Bronx NYC, orchestra leader (Sonny & Cher)
1903 - Jeanette MacDonald,
Phila, American actress and singer (When I'm Calling You), (d. 1965)
1904 - Manuel Rosenthal,
Paris France, composer (Bootleggers)
1905 - Eduard Tubin,
composer
1906 - Kay Kyser,
Rocky Mount NC, orchestra leader (Kay Kyser's Kollege)
1907 - Benny Payne,
Phila, pianist (Billy Daniels Show)
1910 - Ray McKinley,
Fort Worth Tx, orchestra leader/drummer (Glenn Miller Time)
1913 - Sammy Cahn,
lyricist (3 Coins in a Fountain)
1915 - Victor Legley,
composer
1917 - Akhmet Jevdet Ismail Hajiyev,
composer
1918 - Bob Carroll,
singer/actor (Stage Two Revue, Stranger)
1922 - Claude Helffer,
French pianist (d. 2004)
1925 - Herman "Ace" Wallace,
blues guitarist/singer
1927 - Simeon Pironkov,
composer
1933 - Tommy Hunt,
US singer (Flamingos-Lovers Never Say Goodbye)
1942 - Hans Vonk,
Dutch conductor
Pop Singer & Beatle Paul McCartney (1942)
1942 - Paul McCartney, Liverpool, English rocker & pop star (Beatles)
1942 - Carl Radle, American bass guitarist (d. 1980)
1943 - Raffaella Carrà,
Italian singer
1944 - Paul Lansky,
composer
1944 - Sandy Posey, American singer
1947 - Douglas Young,
composer
1948 - Éva Marton,
Hungarian operatic soprano
1949 - Prince Lincoln Thompson,
Jamaican musician (d. 1999)
1952 - Rickey Gazda,
rocker
1953 - Jerome Smith,
US guitarist (KC & the Sunshine Band-Boogie Shoes)
1954 - William Beard,
rock drummer (Face To Face)
1957 - Tom Bailey,
England, rocker (Thompson Twins-Doctor Doctor)
1958 - Daniels Koran,
saxophonist (Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover)
1961 - [Genevieve] Alison Moyet,
Essex England, rock vocalist (Yaz, Alf)
1963 - Darren "Dizzy" Reed,
US musician (Guns n' Roses-Sweet Girl of Mine)
1969 - Pål Pot Pamparius,
Norwegian musician (Turbonegro)
1971 - Nathan Morris,
[Alex Vanderpool], Phila Pa, rapper (Boyz II Men)
1975 - Jemma Griffiths,
Welsh singer-songwriter
1976 - Blake Shelton,
American Country Singer
1980 - Ivana Wong,
Hong Kong singer and songwriter
1989 - Renee Olstead,
American singer and actress
Deaths in Music
Deaths 1 - 20 of 20
1686 - Johann Quirsfeld,
composer, dies at 43
1726 - Michel-Richard Delalande,
composer, dies at 68
1799 - Johann Andre,
composer, dies at 58
1821 - Charles Hague,
composer, dies at 52
1850 - Antoni Weinert,
composer, dies at 99
1859 - Joseph Hartmann Stuntz,
composer, dies at 65
1876 - August Rockel,
composer, dies at 61
1909 - Learmont Drysdale,
composer, dies at 42
1911 - Franjo Zaver Kuhac,
composer, dies at 76
1934 - Francisco Lacerda,
composer, dies at 65
1935 - August Reusner,
composer, dies at 64
1942 - Arthur Willard Pryor,
composer, dies at 71
1955 - Walter Rein,
composer, dies at 61
1955 - Willy Burkhard, composer, dies at 55
1962 - Volkmar Andreae,
Swiss conductor/composer (Bruckner), dies at 82
1964 - Alexander Shamil'yevich Melik-Pashayev,
composer, dies at 58
1965 - George Melachrino,
composer, dies at 56
1973 - Fritz Mahler,
composer, dies at 71
2007 - Georges Thurston,
Canadian singer (b. 1951)
2011 - Clarence Clemons,
American saxophonist (b. 1942)
