Events in Music
Events 1 - 5 of 5
1940 - 1st US opera telecast, W2XBS, NYC, I Pagliacci
1970 - Barbra Streisand records "The Singer" & "I Can Do It"
1990 - Ice Dance Championship at Halifax won by Klimova & Ponomarenko (URS)
1992 - 6th Soul Train Music Awards: Natalie Cole & Color Me Badd win
1995 - Chiel Meijering's "St Louis Blues," premieres in Arnhem
Birthdays in Music
Birthdays 1 - 60 of 60
1698 - Gaetano Maria Schiassi,
composer
1713 - Christian Friedrich Schale,
composer
1713 - Raphael Weiss, composer
1755 - Philipp Christoph Kayser,
composer
1780 - Juan Jose Landaeta,
composer
1839 - Dudley Buck,
Hartford, Ct, organist/church composer
1844 - Pablo Martin M de Sarasate y Navascuez,
composer (Spanish Dancing)
1870 - Alfred Kastner,
composer
1872 - Felix Borowski,
composer
1875 - Alexander Borisovich Goldenweiser,
composer
1888 - Krsto Odak,
composer
1892 - Arthur Oscar Honnegger,
Le Havre France, composer (King David)
1892 - Eva Turner, British soprano
1892 - Arthur Honegger, French-born Swiss composer (d. 1955)
1899 - Finn Hoffding,
composer
1903 - Bix Biederbecke,
rocker
1905 - Rene Bernier,
composer
1907 - Robert de Roos,
composer
1915 - Sir Charles Groves,
English conductor(d. 1992)
1919 - Marion Hutton,
American singer (d. 1987)
1920 - Kenneth "Jethro" Burns,
US country singer (Homer & Jethro)
1920 - Boris Vian, French writer and musician (d. 1959)
1927 - Donn Trenner,
New Haven Ct, orchestra leader (ABC's Nightlife)
1928 - Sara Montiel,
Spanish actress and singer
1930 - Raymond Rasberry,
pianist/singer
1931 - Georges Dor,
Quebec author, playwright, singer and songwriter (d. 2001)
1933 - Bernadetta Matuszczak,
composer
1934 - Judith Jamison,
artistic director (Alvin Ailey Dance Theater)
1940 - Dean Torrence,
LA Cal, surf music singer (Jan & Dean-Little Old Lady)
1940 - Francis Schwartz, composer
1941 - Daniel Kirkland Lentz,
composer
1941 - Piotr Warzecha, composer
1943 - Alfred Whitford Lerdahl,
composer
1943 - Stephen Montague, composer
1946 - Gaylord Birch,
drummer (Reconstruction, Honey Dripper)
1947 - Tom Scholz,
rock guitarist/keyboardist (Boston-More Than a Feeling)
1948 - Eddie Grundy,
rocker
1950 - Ted McKenna,
rocker (Alex Harvey Band)
1955 - Bunny DeBarge,
Grand Rapids Mich, rocker (Debarge)
1955 - Youssra, Egyptian actress and singer
1962 - Gary Clark,
rocker (Danny Wilson-Mary's Prayer)
1962 - Seiko Matsuda, Japanese pop singer
1963 - Jeff Ament,
American musician (Pearl Jam)
1964 - Neneh Cherry,
Stockholm Sweden, Swedish pop singer (Money Love)
1966 - Edie Brickell,
Mrs Paul Simon/rocker (& New Bohemians)
1966 - Gráinne Mulvey, Irish composer
1969 - Ricky Seagall,
rocker (Partridge Family)
1970 - Matt Barlow,
American singer (Iced Earth)
1973 - John LeCompt,
American guitarist
1974 - Hugo Ferreira,
American rock musician
1976 - Kisaki,
Japanese musician
1976 - Haifa Wehbe, Lebanese actress, model and singer
1977 - Bree Turner,
American dancer and actress
1977 - Matt Rubano, American musician (Taking Back Sunday)
1977 - Robin Thicke, American singer
1978 - Ben Burnley,
American musician (Breaking Benjamin)
1983 - Carrie Underwood,
American country singer
1983 - Che'Nelle, Malaysian Australian Singer
1985 - Casey Dienel,
American singer-songwriter
1992 - Emily Osment,
American actress and singer
Deaths in Music
Deaths 1 - 31 of 31
1700 - Diogo Diaz Melgaz,
composer, dies at 61
1701 - Johann Schelle,
composer, dies at 52
1716 - Wenzel Ludwig von Radolt,
composer, dies at 48
1832 - Muzio Clementi,
Italian composer, dies at 79
1861 - Josepf Francois Snel,
composer, dies at 67
1866 - Antonio Francesco Gaetano S Pacini,
composer, dies at 87
1870 - Isaak-Ignaz Moscheles,
composer, dies at 75
1875 - Louis Joseph Daussoigne-Mehul,
composer, dies at 84
1888 - Ciro Pinsuti,
Italian pianist/composer, dies at 57
1897 - Teodulo Mabellini,
composer, dies at 79
1900 - Johann Peter Emilius Hartmann,
composer, dies at 94
1901 - Vasily Georgiyevich Wrangell,
composer, dies at 38
1910 - Carl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke,
composer, dies at 85
1913 - Harriet Tubman,
abolitionist, conductor on Underground RR, dies in NY
1922 - Arthur Hervey,
composer, dies at 67
1922 - Horace Wadham Nicholl, composer, dies at 73
1967 - Yiorgos Batis,
Greek composer and musician (b. 1885)
1971 - Mabel Wheeler Daniels,
composer, dies at 92
1974 - Quinto Maganini,
composer, dies at 76
1975 - Leopold Samuel,
composer, dies at 91
1977 - E Power Biggs,
English organist/composer (CBS), dies at 70
1988 - Andy Gibb,
singer, dies of heart infection at 30
1988 - William Brocklesby Wordsworth, composer, dies at 79
1992 - Giorgos Zampetas,
Greek composer and musician (b. 1925)
1995 - Alexander Hyatt-King,
Mozart scholar, dies at 84
1995 - Hendrik W van Leeuwen, Dutch musician, dies at 79
1997 - La Vern Baker,
American singer (b. 1929)
2001 - Massimo Morsello,
Italian musician and far right activist (b. 1958)
2004 - Dave Blood,
real name David Schulthise; American musician, bassist for The Dead Milkmen (b. 1956)
2005 - Danny Joe Brown,
American singer (Molly Hatchet) (b. 1951)
2006 - Anna Moffo,
American soprano (b. 1932)
