Events in Music
Events 1 - 6 of 6
1939 - Billboard Magazine introduces hillbilly (country) music chart
1966 - Beatles pose with mutilated dolls & butchered meat for the cover of the "Yesterday & Today" album, It is later pulled
1973 - 27th Tony Awards: That Championship Season & Little Night Music win
1991 - 63rd Academy Awards - "Dance with Wolves," Kathy Bates & J Irons win
1996 - Ice Dance Championship at Edmonton won by Gritshuk & Platov (RUS)
1997 - "Barrymore," opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 240 performances
Birthdays in Music
Birthdays 1 - 49 of 49
1495 - Leonhard Paminger,
composer
1532 - Pietro Pontio,
composer
1688 - Johann Gotthilf Ziegler,
composer
1699 - Johann Adolf Hasse,
composer
1702 - Christian Gottlieb Ziegler,
composer
1713 - Jean-Baptiste Canavas,
composer
1745 - Nicolas Etienne Framery,
composer
1762 - Francesco Giuseppi Pollini,
composer
1769 - Salvatore Vigano,
composer
1770 - Carl Friedrich Ebers,
composer
1867 - Arturo Toscanini,
Parma Italy, temperamental conductor (NBC)
1878 - Theodore Samuel Holland,
composer
1879 - Otakar Zich,
composer
1881 - Béla Bartok,
Hungary, composer/pianist (Concerto for Orchestra)
1882 - Haydn Wood,
composer
1894 - Erik William Gustav Leidzen,
composer
1902 - Sten Broman,
composer
1903 - Frankie Carle,
Providence RI, orchestra leader (Golden Touch)
1909 - Jay Blackton,
NYC, conductor/arranger (Guys & Dolls)
1910 - Mario Peragallo,
Italian composer
1910 - Magda Olivero, Italian soprano
1916 - Nikolay Ivanovich Peyko,
composer
1923 - Bonnie Guitar,
American singer
1924 - Julia A Perry,
US composer (Cask of Amontillado)
1924 - Julia Perry, Lexington Kentucky, composer (Selfish Giant)
1930 - David Russell Burge,
composer
1931 - Paul Motian,
American jazz drummer and composer
1934 - Johnny Burnette,
Memphis, guitarist (Trains Kept A-Rollin, You're 16)
1936 - Lawrence Bernard "Larry" Gales,
bassist
1940 - Anita Bryant,
Barnsdall Oklahoma, homophobe/singer (George Gobel Show)
1942 - Aretha Franklin,
Memphis Tenn, Soul Sister #1/singer (Respect)
1943 - Ronald Jeffers,
composer
Singer Elton John (1947)
1947 - Elton John,
[Reginald Kenneth Dwight], England, singer (Rocketman)
1948 - Kelly Garrett,
actress/singer (Holdin)
1948 - Michael Stanley, Cleveland OH, rocker (Michael Stanley Band)
1949 - Neil Jones,
musician (Bend Me Shape Me)
1950 - Chuck Greenberg,
American musician (Shadowfax) (d. 1995)
1951 - Bob Pelander,
rock keyboardist/vocalist (Michael Stanley Band)
1951 - Maisie Williams, Montserrat, rock vocalist (Boney M)
1966 - Jeff Healey,
Canada, blind pop guitarist (See the Light)
1969 - Cathy Dennis,
English singer, songwriter, and actress
1973 - Anders Fridén,
Swedish singer (In Flames)
1975 - Melanie Blatt,
British singer (All Saints)
1976 - Juvenile,
American rapper
1976 - Baek Ji Young, South Korean singer
1980 - Joe King,
Guitarist and Co-Founder for the band The Fray
1982 - Sergey Yakovlev,
russian musical artist and painter
1984 - Katharine McPhee,
American singer/actress
1989 - Alyson Michalka,
American actress/singer
Deaths in Music
Deaths 1 - 24 of 24
1620 - Johannes Nucius,
German composer
1738 - Turlough O'Carolan,
Irish harper and composer (b. 1670)
1766 - Johannes Ritschel,
composer, dies at 26
1799 - Constantin Reindl,
composer, dies at 60
1823 - Coelestin Jungbauer,
composer, dies at 75
1852 - Alexis Garaude,
composer, dies at 73
1880 - Joseph Rummel,
composer, dies at 61
1909 - Ruperto Chapi y Lorente,
composer, dies at 57
1918 - Claude Debussy,
French composer (Iberia/La mer), dies in Paris at 55
1940 - Ion Nonna Otescu,
composer, dies at 51
1956 - George Luther Foote,
composer, dies at 70
1957 - Fud Livingston,
composer, dies at 50
1958 - Emerson Whithorne,
composer, dies at 73
1958 - Tom Brown, American musician (b. 1888)
1959 - Billy Mayerl,
composer, dies at 56
1965 - Giorgio Federico Ghedini,
composer, dies at 72
1967 - Renato Cellini,
Italian conductor (b.c.1913)
1969 - Billy Cotton,
British bandleader & entertainer (b. 1889)
1979 - Anton Heiller,
composer, dies at 55
Composer Claude Debussy (1918)
1980 - Walter Susskind,
Czech conductor (b. 1913)
1991 - Eileen Joyce,
pianist, dies at 78
1991 - Lee Donn, pianist, dies of stroke at 96
2006 - Rocío Dúrcal,
Spanish singer and actress (b. 1944)
2006 - Buck Owens, American singer and television personality (b. 1929)
