Events in Music
Events 1 - 6 of 6
1948 - 1st live televised musical Eugene Ormandy on CBS followed in 90
1948 - 20th Academy Awards - "Gentleman's Agreement," L Young, R Colman win minutes by 2nd live televised musical Arturo Toscvanni on NBC
1990 - Singer Gloria Estefan breaks her collarbone in a bus accident
1991 - Michael Jackson signs $65M 6 album deal with Sony records
1994 - "Cyrano - The Musical" closes at Neil Simon NYC after 137 perfs
1995 - Beatles song, "Baby It's You," with late John Lennon as lead singer, is released, 1st Fab Four single in more than 30 years
Birthdays in Music
Birthdays 1 - 43 of 43
1680 - Baron Emanuele d' Astorga,
Italian composer (Stabat mater)
1739 - Eligio Celestino,
composer
1774 - John Braham,
composer
1829 - Charles Albert White,
composer
1833 - Henry Southwick Perkins,
composer
1863 - Ernesto Nazareth,
composer
1872 - Bernhard Seklas,
composer
1873 - Sergei V Rachmaninov,
Russian/US pianist/composer (Aleko) [NS=Apr 1]
1883 - Karl Hasse,
composer
1915 - Sviatosiav Richter,
Zhitomir Ukraine, pianist (Stalin Prize-1945)
1917 - Vera Lynn,
singer (Anniversary Waltz)
1918 - Bernd-Alois Zimmermann,
German composer (Soldiers)
1918 - Marian McPartland, jazz pianist (Bill Mayer, Jimmy McPartland)
1921 - Primoz Ramovs,
composer
1922 - Larry Elgart,
New Haven Ct, bandleader/alto sax (Elgart Orch)
1927 - John Pierre Herman Joubert,
composer (Chamber Music for brass quintet)
1930 - Michel Magne,
composer
1931 - Antonio Tauriello,
composer
1932 - Tod Dockstader,
composer
1933 - Jacquez Guyonnet,
composer
1936 - Lee "Scratch" Perry,
Jamaican Reggae artist
1937 - Jerry Reed,
Atlanta GA, singer/actor (Bat 21, Smokey & the Bandit)
1937 - Joe Rivers, rocker (Johnnie & Joe)
1946 - Ranger Doug,
[Douglas Green], Ill, singer (Riders in Sky-Cowboy Way)
1947 - Carl Palmer,
drummer (Asia-Heat of the Moment, Emerson Lake & Palmer)
1949 - Marcia Ball,
American singer and pianist
1951 - Guy Perry,
rock guitarist/vocalist (Motels-Only the Lonely)
1951 - Jimmie Vaughan, guitarist (Fabulous Thunderbirds)
1951 - John Wetton, rocker (Asia)
1954 - Jim Seales,
Hamilton Ala, singer (Shenandoah-Sunday in the South)
Director Spike Lee (1957)
1957 - Spike Lee [Shelton Jackson Lee],
Atlanta, Florida, American film director (Mo Better Blues, Jungle Fever, Malcolm X)
1959 - Richard Drummie,
rocker (Go West-Call Me, Don't Look Down)
1961 - Slim Jim Phantom,
[Jim Mcdonnell], rock drummer (Stray Cats)
1963 - Paul Mirkovich,
rock keyboardist (Nelson-Love & Affection)
1964 - Natacha Atlas,
Belgian singer
1966 - Alka Yagnik,
Indian singer
1972 - Alexander Kapranos,
Greek-British musician (Franz Ferdinand)
1976 - Chester Bennington,
American musician (Linkin Park)
1979 - Molly Jenson,
American musician
1980 - Ock Ju-Hyun,
South Korean singer
1982 - Nick Wheeler,
American guitarist (The All-American Rejects)
1984 - Winta,
Norwegian musician
1986 - Dean Geyer,
Australian singer/actor
Deaths in Music
Deaths 1 - 27 of 27
1757 - Johann Paul Kunzen,
composer, dies at 60
1804 - Ignaz Malzat,
composer, dies at 47
1812 - Jan Ladislav Dussek,
Bohemian pianist/composer, dies at 52
1866 - Rikard Nordraak,
composer, dies at 23
1871 - Antonio Buzzolla,
composer, dies at 56
1873 - Adolfe Louis Eugene Fetis,
composer, dies at 52
1874 - Hans Christian Lumbye,
composer, dies at 63
1892 - Arthor Goring Thomas,
composer, dies at 41
1911 - Jean-Theodore Radoux,
composer, dies at 75
1913 - Christian Barnekow,
composer, dies at 75
1942 - Theodoro Valcarcel,
composer, dies at 41
1944 - Felix Woyrsch,
composer, dies at 83
1951 - Jan Ingenhoven,
composer, dies at 74
1951 - Kathleen Lockhart Manning, composer, dies at 60
1964 - Jean Rogister,
composer, dies at 84
1970 - Manolis Chiotis,
Greek bouzouki virtuoso and song writer (b. 1920)
1987 - Norman Harris,
guitarist (O'Jays), dies at 39 of heart failure
1988 - Gil Evans,
Canadian/US jazz composer (Out of the Cool), dies at 75
1991 - Conor Clapton,
Eric Clapton's son, falls out of 53rd floor window at 5
1992 - Frank Westbrook,
dancer/choreographer, dies at 82
1992 - Georges Delerue, French composer (Hiroshima, My Love), dies at 67
1996 - Alan Ridout,
composer, dies at 61
1998 - George Howard,
American jazz saxophone musician
2000 - Gene Eugene,
Canadian actor and singer (b. 1961)
2008 - Klaus Dinger,
German Musician (b. 1946)
2009 - Mel Brown,
American/Canadian Blues Guitarist (b. 1939)
2011 - Johnny Pearson,
British Composer (b. 1925)
