Events in Music
Events 1 - 4 of 4
1875 - Georges Bizet's opera "Carmen" premieres (Paris)
1931 - Cab Calloway records "Minnie Moocher" (Jazz's 1st million seller)
1957 - Ice Dance Championship at Colorado Spr won by Markham & Jones (GRB)
1971 - South African Broadcasting Corp lifts its ban on the Beatles
Birthdays in Music
Birthdays 1 - 46 of 46
1705 - Michael Schevenstuhl,
composer
1814 - Charles Kensington Salaman,
composer
1857 - Alfred Bruneau,
composer
1865 - Alexander Gustav Adolfovich Winkler,
composer
1867 - Gustav Strube,
composer
1869 - Henry J Wood,
English conductor (Gentle Art of Singing, Proms)
1886 - James Friskin,
composer
1886 - Reginald Owen Morris, composer
1889 - Fritz Behrend,
composer
1891 - Federico Moreno Torroba,
composer
1892 - Rui Coelho,
composer
1895 - Alexander Nicolaas Voormolen,
Dutch composer (d. 1980)
1897 - Jose Moreno Gans,
composer
1908 - Riccardo Nielsen,
composer
1911 - Francesco Siciliani,
opera composer
1913 - Margaret AR Bonds,
US pianist/composer/arranger
1918 - Frank Wigglesworth,
composer
1922 - Kazimierz Serocki,
composer
1923 - "Doc" Watson,
American bluegrass musician, (d. 2012)
1925 - Enzo Stuarti,
Italy, singer (Yesterday)
1926 - Lys Assia,
Swiss singer
1928 - Dave Dudley,
singer (Six Days on the Road)
1929 - Nicos Mamangakis,
composer
1933 - Marco Antonio Munoz,
Mexico, spanish singer (Murmullos)
1938 - Douglas Leedy,
composer
1938 - Willie Chambers, guitarist/vocalist (Chambers Brothers)
1942 - Mike Pender,
Liverpool, vocalist/guitarist (Searchers-Needles & Pins)
1944 - Janice Garfat,
rocker (Dr Hook)
1947 - Dave Mount,
rocker
1950 - Ed Marinaro,
actor (Hill Street Blues)
1950 - Re Styles, rock vocalist (Tubes)
1951 - Lindsay Cooper,
English musician and composer (Henry Cow, News from Babel)
1952 - Robyn Hitchcock,
rocker (Moss Elixir)
1953 - Dave Amato,
rocker (REO Speedwagon-Can't Fight this Feeling)
1954 - Chris Hughes,
London, English record producer and rock drummer (Adam & The Ants)
1964 - Duncan Phillips,
Australian drummer (Newsboys)
1966 - Tone-Loc,
[Anthony Terrell Smith], LA California, rocker (Let's Do It)
1966 - Timo Tolkki, Finnish musician (Stratovarius)
1973 - Matthew Marsden,
English actor and singer
1975 - Albert Fields,
Gary Indiana, rocker (Party-Rodeo, That's Why)
Singer Ronan Keating (1977)
1977 - Ronan Keating,
Bayside Dublin Ireland, Irish singer (Boyzone)
1978 - Douglas Osmond,
Provo Utah, vocalist (Osmond Boys)
1978 - Seomoon Tak, Korean singer
1981 - Kim Yoo-Jin (Eugene),
South Korean singer and actress
1981 - Sung Yu Ri, South Korean singer and actress
1986 - Stacie Orrico,
American singer
Deaths in Music
Deaths 1 - 22 of 22
1766 - Gregor Joseph Werner,
composer, dies at 73
1768 - Nicola Antonio Porpora,
composer, dies at 81
1800 - Johann Baptist Christoph Toeschi,
composer, dies at 64
1822 - Franz Adam Veichtner,
composer, dies at 81
1824 - Giovanni Battista Viotti,
Italian violist/composer, dies at 70
1889 - Edward Sydney Smith,
composer, dies at 49
1926 - Cyril Metodej Hrazdira,
composer, dies at 58
1932 - Eugene Francis Charles D'albert,
composer, dies at 67
1934 - Norman Houstoun O'Neill,
composer, dies at 58
1945 - Koos Speenhoff,
Dutch singer, killed in bombing raid at 75
1961 - Paul Wittgenstein,
Austrian-born pianist (b. 1887)
1965 - Carlo Gatti,
composer, dies at 88
1967 - Georges Lonque,
composer, dies at 66
1976 - Alfred Sendrey,
composer, dies at 92
1991 - Arthur Murray,
dance instructor, dies at 95 of pneumonia
1993 - Carlos Montoya,
flamenco guitarist, dies at 89
1993 - Cyril Collard, French composer/dir/actor (A Nos Amours), dies at 35
1994 - Karel Kryl,
folk singer, dies at 49
2000 - Toni Ortelli,
Italian composer and alpinist (b. 1904)
2002 - Harlan Howard,
American musician (b. 1927)
2003 - Goffredo Petrassi,
Italian composer (b. 1904)
2012 - Ronnie Montrose,
American guitarist, dies from prostate cancer at 64
