Events in Music
Events 1 - 6 of 6
1830 - V Bellini's opera "I Capuleti e i Montecchi," premieres in Venice
1885 - Gilbert & Sullivan's opera "Mikado," premieres in London
1913 - Gabriel Faure's opera "Penelope," premieres in Monte Carlo
1966 - John Lennon, says "We (Beatles) are more popular than Jesus"
1967 - Ice Dance Championship at Vienna won by Towler & Ford (GRB)
1973 - 15th Grammy Awards: 1st Time Ever I Saw Your Face, America
Birthdays in Music
Birthdays 1 - 68 of 68
1492 - Francesco de Layolle,
composer
1678 - Antonio Vivaldi,
Venice, Baroque violin virtuoso/composer (4 Seasons)
1742 - Johann Heinrich Egli,
composer
1745 - Charles Dibdin,
English composer (d.1814)
1754 - Dieudonne-Pascal Pieltain,
composer
1757 - Ignaz Malzat,
composer
1765 - Charles Dibdin,
England, composer/author (Sea Songs)/actor (baptized)
1773 - Pierre-Louis Hus-Desforges,
composer
1819 - Charles Oberthur,
composer
1834 - Peter Nicolai von Wilm,
composer
1838 - Paul Lacome,
composer
1877 - Alexander Fyodorovich Gedike,
composer
1878 - Egbert Van Alstyne,
American songwriter and pianist (d. 1951)
1886 - Paul Bazelaire,
French cellist (d. 1958)
1913 - Taos Amrouche,
Algerian writer and singer (d. 1976)
1913 - Willie Johnson (guitarist), American guitarist (d. 1995)
1915 - Carlos Surinach,
Barcelona Spain, composer (Monte Carlo) [OS]
1915 - Eunice Catunda, composer
1921 - Halim El-Dabh,
composer
Violin Virtuoso & Composer Antonio Vivaldi (1678)
1925 - Paul Mauriat,
French musician (d. 2006)
1926 - Don Rendell,
English jazz musician and arranger
1926 - Fran Warren, American singer, (d. 2013)
1927 - Robert Di Domenica,
composer
1928 - Samuel Adler,
composer
1929 - Bernard Haitink,
Amsterdam Neth, conductor (London Phil Orch 1969-78)
1929 - Josep Mestres-Quadreny, composer
1931 - Gennady Rozhdestvensky,
composer
1932 - Guido Baggiani,
composer
1932 - Miriam Makeba, Johannesburg South Africa, singer (Grammy 1965)
1933 - Ann Burton,
[Anna Rafalowicz], singer
1934 - Barbara McNair,
Racine Wisc, singer/actress (Barbara McNair Show)
1934 - John Duffey, bluegrass musician
1934 - Mario Davidovsky, Buenos Aires Argentinia, composer (Synchronisms)
1935 - Nancy Whiskey,
Scottish folk singer (d. 2003)
1936 - Aribert Reimann,
composer
1936 - Eric Allandale, rocker (Foundations)
1937 - [Bernard Barney Jean] Wilen,
musician
1943 - Zoltan Jeney,
composer
1944 - Bobby Womack,
Cleve, R&B singer/guitarist (Woman's Got to Have It)
1945 - Dieter Meier,
Swiss singer/children book writer (Yello)
1946 - Ralph Kirshbaum,
Denton TX, cellist (RNCM Manchester Intl Festival)
1946 - Robert Raymond, rocker
1947 - Jan Garbarek,
Norwegian musician
1948 - Chris Squire,
London, rock bassist (Yes-Fish Out of Water)
1948 - Shakin' Stevens, [Mike Barrett], Wales, rocker (You Drive Me Crazy)
1949 - Carroll Baker,
Canadian country singer and songwriter
1950 - Emilio Estefan,
Cuba, rocker (Miami Sound Machine-1 2 3)
1951 - Chris Rea,
English rock guitarist (Fool If You Think It Is Over)
1951 - Linda Yamamoto, Japanese singer
1952 - Umberto Tozzi,
Italian singer
1956 - Kermit Driscoll,
American jazz bassist
Heavy Metal Musician Jason Newstedt (1963)
1963 - Jason Newstedt,
US heavy-metal bassist (Metallica-Kill 'em All)
1963 - MDV, [Michiel de Vos], Dutch pop bassist (Burma Shave-Stash)
1963 - Janey Lee Grace, English singer, author, television presenter and radio disc jockey
1965 - WestBam (Maximillian Lenz),
German rave techno DJ
1966 - Patrick Hannan,
English pop drummer (Sundays-Can't Be Sure)
1966 - Grand Puba, American rapper
1968 - Evan Dando,
rocker (Lemonheads)
1972 - Ivy Queen,
American composer and singer
1974 - ICS Vortex (Simen Hestnæs),
Norwegian vocalist (Arcturus)
1975 - Hawksley Workman,
Canadian rock singer-songwriter
1976 - Scott Sturgeon (Stza Crack),
American musician (Choking Victim and Leftover Crack)
1977 - Jason Marsalis,
American musician
1979 - Jon Fratelli,
Scottish singer (The Fratellis)
1981 - Carol Banawa,
Filipino singer and celebrity
1981 - Donny Tourette, English punk rock singer (Towers of London)
1991 - Diandra Newlin,
American actress, singer, and fashion model
1993 - Bobbi Kristina Brown,
daughter of Whitney Houston & Bobby Brown
Deaths in Music
Deaths 1 - 42 of 42
1617 - Arcangelo Crivelli,
composer, dies at 70
1804 - Karl Leopold Rollig,
composer, dies
1831 - Georg Michael Telemann,
composer, dies at 82
1839 - Ignace Antoine Ladurner,
pianist/composer, dies at 72
1851 - Michael Henkel,
composer, dies at 70
1876 - Alfred Holmes,
composer, dies at 38
1918 - Eugene D'Harcourt,
composer, dies at 58
1925 - Moritz Moszkowski,
Polish/German composer, dies at 70
1933 - Willie Walker,
US jazz singer/guitarist (Dupree Blues), dies at 36
1936 - Ruben Mattias Liljefors,
composer, dies at 64
1941 - Edoardo Mascheroni,
composer, dies at 81
1942 - Yuliya Lazarevna Veysberg,
composer, dies at 62
1953 - Sergei S Prokoviev,
Russian composer (Peter & the wolf), dies at 61
1954 - Georg Gohler,
composer, dies at 79
1954 - Noel Gay, [Richard Moxon Armitage], composer, dies at 55
1966 - Janis Medins,
composer, dies at 75
1968 - Alexandre Cellier,
composer, dies at 84
1981 - Yip Harburg,
American lyricist (b. 1896)
1984 - Shalva Mikhaylovich Mshvelidze,
composer, dies at 79
1986 - Richard Manuel,
rock vocalist/pianist (Band), commits suicide at 42
1986 - Howard Greenfield, American songwriter (b. 1936)
1989 - Tiny Grimes,
American jazz and R&B guitarist (b. 1916)
1992 - Mary Osborne,
jazz guitarist, dies at 70 of liver cancer
1993 - Art Hodes,
Russ/US jazz/blues pianist/editor (Jazz Record), dies
1995 - Eden Ahbez,
songwriter, dies at 86
2001 - Glenn Hughes,
American singer (The Village People) (b. 1950)
2002 - Eric Flynn,
British actor/singer (b. 1939)
2004 - John McGeoch,
Scottish musician (b. 1955)
2004 - Claude Nougaro, French singer (b. 1929)
2005 - Robert Consoli,
American actor and musician (b. 1964)
2005 - Una Hale, Australian soprano (b. 1922)
2007 - Natalie Bodanya (Natalie Bodanskaya),
American soprano (b. 1908)
2007 - Richard Joseph, British games soundtrack composer (b. 1954)
2007 - Tadeusz Nalepa, Polish composer, guitar player, vocalist and lyricist (b. 1934)
2008 - Leonard Rosenman,
American film, television and concert composer (b. 1924)
2009 - Joseph Bloch,
American concert pianist and professor of piano literature (b. 1917)
2009 - John Cephas, American Piedmont blues guitarist (b. 1930)
2010 - Johnny Alf,
Brazilian singer and composer (b. 1929)
2010 - Etta Cameron, Danish singer and actor (b. 1939)
2010 - Lolly Vegas, American singer (b. 1939)
2010 - Fred Wedlock, British folk musician (b. 1942)
2011 - Johnny Preston,
American pop singer (b. 1939)
