Events in Music
Events 1 - 6 of 6
1885 - Gilbert & Sullivan's comic opera "Mikado," premieres in London
1971 - Rolling Stones left England for France to escape taxes
1971 - The Rolling Stones leave England for France to escape taxes
1980 - Ice Dance Championship at Dortmund West Germany won by Regoczy & Sallay
1990 - 4th Soul Train Music Awards: Soul II Soul, Janet Jackson
1991 - Ice Dance Championship at Munich won by Isabel & Phil Duchesnay (FRA)
Birthdays in Music
Birthdays 1 - 45 of 45
1623 - Adam-Nicolas Gascon,
composer
1681 - Georg Philipp Telemann,
Magdeburg Germany, late baroque composer
1726 - Josef Antonin Stepan,
composer
1727 - Johann Gottlieb Goldberg,
composer
1755 - Pierre-Louis Couperin,
composer
1795 - Rubert Lucas Pearsall,
composer
1804 - Johann Strauss,
the Elder, Viennese violinist and composer (Radetzky March) (d. 1849)
1815 - Josephine Lang,
composer
1826 - William Fisk Sherwin,
composer
1831 - Leon Leopold Lewandoski,
composer
1835 - Manuel Fernandez Caballero,
composer
1875 - Norman Houstoun O'Neill,
composer
1883 - Juan Manen,
composer
1884 - Winter Haynes Watts,
composer
1887 - Lawrence Collingwood,
composer
1894 - Josef Schelb,
composer
1906 - Ulvi Cemal Erkin,
composer
1908 - Nikolay Petrovich Rakov,
composer
1912 - Les Brown,
Reinerton Pa, American bandleader (d. 2001)
1913 - Witold Rudzinski,
composer
1914 - Jiri Reinberger,
composer
1914 - Lee Elhardt Hays, American folksinger (d. 1981)
1915 - Alexander Brott,
composer
1915 - Carlos Surinach, Barcelona Spain, composer (Monte Carlo) [NS]
1919 - Luther Henderson Jr,
KC Mo, orchestra leader (Polly Bergen Show)
1922 - Les Baxter,
US, singer/orchestra leader/composer (Born Again)
1926 - Francois d'Assise Morel,
composer
1930 - Dieter Schnebel,
German vicar/composer
1931 - Phil Phillips [Baptiste],
rock vocalist (Sea Of Love)
Composer & Singer Quincy Jones Jr (1933)
1933 - Quincy Jones Jr,
Chicago Ill, composer/singer (We Are The World)
1934 - Shirley Scott,
swing/blues organist (with Stanley Turrentine)
1935 - Jo van den Booren,
composer
1939 - Stavros Xarhakos,
Greek composer
1943 - Jim Pons,
Santa Monica CA, bassist (Turtles, Mothers of Invention)
1945 - Herman[us J] van Veen,
Neth, cabaretier/singer/composer/writer
1945 - Michael Martin Murphey, Dallas Tx, country singer (Wildfire)
1945 - Walt Parazaider, Chicago Ill, rock saxophonist (Chicago)
1947 - Jimmy O'Rourke,
rocker
1954 - Adrian Zmed,
Chicago Ill, actor (TJ Hooker, Dance Fever)
1954 - Jann Browne, country singer (Mexican Wind)
1955 - Boon Gould,
rock guitarist (Level 42-Hot Water)
1959 - Patrick Dupond,
Paris, dancer (La Bayadere)
1981 - Mei-Ting Sun,
Chinese-born pianist
1983 - Jordan Taylor Hanson,
Tulsa OK, singer (Hansons-MMMMbop)
1985 - Idaira,
Spanish singer
Deaths in Music
Deaths 1 - 15 of 15
1760 - Anton Filtz,
composer, dies at 26
1768 - Vigilio Blasio Faitello,
composer, dies at 58
1801 - Christian Friedrich Penzel,
composer, dies at 63
1861 - Abraham Louis Niedermeyer,
composer, dies at 58
1944 - Pavel Grigor'yevich,
composer, dies at 66
1954 - Ludomir Michal Rogowski,
composer, dies at 72
1958 - Eugeen Van de Velde,
Flemish musicologist/critic/composer, dies at 64
1973 - Rafael Godoy,
Colombian composer (b. 1907)
1982 - Kirill Vladimirovich Molchanov,
composer, dies at 59
1986 - Benno Ammann,
composer, dies at 81
1986 - Jozef Kresanek, composer, dies at 73
1991 - Howard Ashman,
song writer (Under the Sea), dies of AIDs at 40
1991 - Jerome "Doc" Pomus, lyricist (Save Last Dance for Me), dies at 65
1995 - Gerard Thomas Victory,
composer, dies at 73
2009 - Alain Bashung,
French singer, songwriter, comedian and actor. (b. 1947)
