Events in Music
Events 1 - 4 of 4
1928 - Noel Coward's musical "This Year of Grace," premieres in London
1956 - Musical "Mr Wonderful" with Sammy Davis Jr premieres in NYC
1963 - Beatles release 1st album, "Please Please Me"
1975 - "Dr Jazz" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 5 performances
Birthdays in Music
Birthdays 1 - 47 of 47
1700 - Giuseppe Sellitto,
composer
1728 - Giacomo Insanguine,
composer
1752 - Johann Georg Joseph Spangler,
composer
1842 - Carl A N Rosa,
German violinist/composer
1842 - Mykola Vytal'yevich Lysenko, composer
1865 - Theophile Ysaye,
composer
1868 - Hamish MacCunn,
composer
1885 - Adriano Lualdi,
composer
1885 - Jakabs Medins, composer
1905 - Carlo Alberto Pizzini,
composer
1909 - Jack Popplewell,
composer/playwright
1916 - George Wyle,
NYC, orchestra leader (Jerry Lewis Show, Flip Wilson Show)
1918 - Tauno Kullerve Pylkkanen,
composer
1920 - Fanny Waterman,
concert pianist & teacher
1927 - Mstislav Rostropovich,
composer [3/12 OS]
1930 - Stephen Sondheim,
NYC, lyricist (West Side Story, Company)
1936 - Roger Whittaker,
Nairobi Kenya, country singer (Durham Town)
1937 - Jon Hassell,
composer
1937 - Angelo Badalamenti, American composer
1940 - Jorge Ben Jor,
Brazilian musician
1942 - Jon Arthur English,
composer
1943 - George Benson,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, American jazz/blues singer/guitarist (Greatest Love of All)
1943 - Joseph Schwantner, composer
1943 - Keith Reif, England, rocker (Yardbirds-For Your Love, Renaissance)
1944 - Jeremy Clyde,
rocker
1944 - T S "Tony" McPhee, rocker (Sad Go Round)
1945 - Charles "Chuck" Jackson,
US singer (Playboy, Independents)
1945 - Jeremy Clyde, England, rocker (Chad & Jeremy-Yesterday's Gone)
1946 - Serge,
[Ruud Schaap], Dutch singer/guitarist (Saskia & Serge)
1947 - Harry Vanda,
[Vandenberg], Hague Neth, rock guitarist (Easybeats)
Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber (1948)
1948 - Andrew Lloyd Webber,
London, composer (Phantom of the Opera, Cats)
1948 - Randy Hobbs, rocker (Johnny Winter Band, McCoys)
1949 - Fran Sheehan,
Boston Mass, rock bassist (Boston-More than a Feeling)
1951 - Howard Reitzes,
Southgate Ca, rocker (Iron Butterfly)
1952 - Jay Dee Daugherty,
American drummer
1957 - Stephanie Mills,
singer/actress (Wiz)
1958 - Pete Wylie,
Liverpool, rocker (Sinful)
1959 - Avraham Fried,
Orthodox Jewish Musician
1960 - Laurie Sargent,
rock vocalist (Face To Face)
1963 - Suzanne Sulley,
Sheffield S Yorks, rocker (Human Leauge-Human)
1968 - Euronymous,
Norwegian black metal musician (d. 1993)
1970 - Andreas Johnson,
Swedish singer
1973 - Beverley Knight,
English singer
1979 - Aaron North,
American musician
1980 - Pamela O'Connor,
Scottish ice dancer
1980 - Shannon Bex, American singer (Danity Kane)
1981 - MIMS,
American rapper
Deaths in Music
Deaths 1 - 18 of 18
1687 - Jean-Baptiste Lully,
Paris, French baroque composer (b. 1632)
1758 - Richard Leveridge,
English bass and composer (b. 1670)
1796 - Gaspare Gabellone,
composer, dies at 68
1798 - Justin Morgan,
composer, dies at 51
1824 - Johann Melchior Dreyer,
composer, dies at 76
1845 - Franz Joseph Volkert,
composer, dies at 67
1867 - Ferdinando Giorgetti,
composer, dies at 70
1906 - Martin Wegelius,
Finnish musicologist/composer, dies at 59
1909 - Gyula Erkel,
composer, dies at 66
1929 - Anton Beer-Walbrun,
composer, dies at 64
1951 - J Willem Mengelberg,
Dutch conductor (Mattheus Passion), dies at 79
1952 - Uncle Dave Macon,
American musician (b. 1870)
1986 - Mark Dinning,
American singer (b. 1933)
1991 - Dave Guard,
American folk singer (The Kingston Trio) (b. 1934)
1993 - Gret Palucca,
German dancer/choreographer (Entartet), dies at 91
1994 - Dan Hartman,
US singer/songwriter (Love Sensations), dies at 42
1996 - Don Murray,
American musician (The Turtles) (b. 1945)
2008 - Cachao López,
Cuban mambo musician (b. 1918)
