Events in Music
Events 1 - 7 of 7
1961 - Cellist Jacqueline du Prés debut in Wigmore Hall
1968 - Singers Johnny Cash (36) & June Carter (38) wed
1973 - Robert Joffrey Dance Company opens
1975 - 17th Grammy Awards: I Honestly Love You, Marvin Hamlisch win
1980 - Patti Smith & MC5 guitarist Fred Sonic Smith wed in Detroit
1994 - 36th Grammy Awards: I Will Always Love You, Toni Braxton wins
1995 - 37th Grammy Awards: All I Want to Do, Streets of Phila, Sheryl Crow
Birthdays in Music
Birthdays 1 - 60 of 60
1607 - Giovanni Francesco Milanta,
composer
1690 - Conrad Johann Conrad Beissel,
composer
1703 - Dieudonne Raick,
composer
1709 - Josef Antonin Gurecky,
composer
1711 - Peregrinus Pogl,
composer
1771 - Armand-Emmanuel Trial,
composer
1779 - Jacob Gottfried Weber,
composer
1799 - Alexey Nikolayevich Verstovsky,
composer
1810 - Frederic Chopin,
Poland, composer/pianist (Concert in F Minor) [NS]
1820 - Richard Redhead,
composer
1826 - John Thomas,
composer
1832 - Friedrich Grutzmacher,
composer
1841 - Romualdo Marenco,
composer
1871 - Ben Harney,
American composer and ragtime pianist (d. 1938)
1878 - Gabriel Edouard Xavier Dupont,
composer
1882 - Ida Moore,
Altoona Ks, actress (Mr Music, Ma & Pa Kettle at Waikiki)
1896 - Dimitri Mitropoulos,
Athens Greece, conductor/composer
1900 - Donald Keith Falkner,
singer
1903 - Leon Bismarck "Bix" Beiderbecke,
Iowa, jazz cornetist (In a Mist)
Composer Frederic Chopin (1810)
1904 - Glenn Miller,
bandleader (Glenn Miller Orchestra-In the Mood)
1909 - Richard de Guide,
composer
1917 - Dinah Shore,
Winchester Tenn, singer (See the USA in a Chevrolet)
1920 - Alfred Grant Goodman,
composer
1927 - Harry Belafonte,
Harlem NYC, calypso singer (Buck & the Preacher)
1927 - Lusine Amara, opera/concert singer
1929 - Sonny James,
singer (Young Love, Running Bear)
1930 - Pierre Max Dubois,
composer
1932 - Jacques Leduc,
composer
1933 - Istvan Lang,
composer
1934 - Jim "Ed" Brown,
Sparkman Ark, country singer (Nashville on the Road)
1939 - Leo Brouwer,
composer
1939 - Warren Davis, rocker (Monotones)
1940 - Ralph Towner,
rocker (Oregon)
1942 - Jerry Fischer,
rocker (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
1942 - Peter Guber, producer (Flashdance)
1943 - Piet Veerman,
Dutch rock vocalist/guitarist (Cats-Sailin' Home)
1944 - Mike D'Abo,
rock vocalist (Manfred Mann-Mighty Quinn)
1944 - Roger Daltrey, English rocker/actor/producer (The Who-Tommy)
1946 - Tony Ashton,
Blackburn England, rocker (Ashton, Gardner & Dyke)
1946 - Gerry Boulet, French-Canadian singer (d. 1990)
1948 - Burning Spear,
[Winston Rodney], Jamaican reggae singer
1948 - Norman Connors, singer (You Are My Starship)
1949 - Sido Martens,
Dutch guitarist/singer/mandolin player (Fungus)
1954 - Janis Gill,
Torrance Cal, singer (Sweethearts of Rodeo-Midnight Girl)
1955 - Jimmy Fortune,
Newport News Va, singer (Statler Bros-Class of '57)
1957 - Jon Carroll,
Wash DC, vocalist (Starland Vocal Band-Afternoon Delight)
1958 - Nik Kershaw,
singer/songwriter (Wouldn't it be Good)
1958 - Chosei Komatsu, Japanese conductor
1961 - Davis Daniel,
Arlington Heights Ill, country singer
1962 - Bill Leen,
rocker (Gin Blossoms)
1963 - Robert James Affuso,
Newburgh NY, rock drummer (Skid Row-Psycho Love)
1963 - Thomas Anders, German singer (Modern Talking)
1963 - Dan Michaels, American musician and record producer
1964 - Jennifer McCarters,
Sevierville Tn, singer (McCarters-The Gift)
1964 - Clinton Gregory, Martinsville, Virginia, American country and bluegrass singer-songwriter (Play, Ruby, Play)
1969 - Dafydd Ieuan,
Welsh drummer (Super Furry Animals)
1983 - Elan Sara DeFan,
Mexican singer-songwriter
1987 - Sammie Bush,
Boyton Beach Florida, American R&B singer ("I Like It")
1989 - Sonya Kitchell,
American singer
Pop Singer Justin Bieber (1994)
1994 - Justin Bieber,
London Ontario, Canadian pop singer (Baby, One Time)
Deaths in Music
Deaths 1 - 28 of 28
1619 - Thomas Campion,
English physician/composer/poet (Poemata), dies at 53
1643 - Girolamo Frescobaldi,
Italian composer/organist, dies at 59
1693 - Benedict Schultheiss,
composer, dies at 39
1771 - Isfrid Kayser,
composer, dies at 58
1777 - Georg Christoph Wagenzeil,
Austria (court) composer/pianist, dies at 62
1788 - Orazio Mei,
composer, dies at 56
1797 - Juan Manuel Olivares,
composer, dies at 36
1804 - Wolfgang Nicolaus Haueisen,
composer, dies at 63
1817 - Luigi Gatti,
composer, dies at 77
1859 - Josef Theodor Krov,
composer, dies at 61
1914 - Tor Bernhard Vilhelm Aulin,
composer, dies at 47
1918 - Johan Gustaf Emil Sjogren,
composer, dies at 64
1928 - Albert Herbert Brewer,
composer, dies at 62
1928 - Jacob Adolf Hagg, composer, dies at 77
1932 - Frank Teschemacher,
American jazz clarinetist (b. 1906)
1964 - Sergius Kagen,
composer, dies at 54
1965 - Boleslav Vomacka,
composer, dies at 77
1970 - Lucille Hegamin,
American singer and entertainer (b. 1894)
1972 - Victor Babin,
composer, dies at 63
1974 - Bobby Timmons,
American jazz pianist (b. 1935)
1976 - Jean Martinon,
French conductor/composer, dies at 66
1980 - John Jacob Niles,
composer, dies at 87
1985 - Eugene List,
US concert pianist, dies at 66
1991 - Scott Huston,
composer, dies at 74
1994 - Timothy Andrew James Souster,
composer Musician, dies at 51
1994 - Walter Kent, US composer (I'll Be Home for Christmas), dies at 82
2000 - Dennis Danell,
American guitarist (Social Distortion) (b. 1961)
2006 - Johnny Jackson,
American musician (b. 1951)
