Events in Music
Events 1 - 5 of 5
1962 - Beatles, with Pete Best, TV debut (perform "Dream Baby" on BBC)
1971 - Radio Hanoi broadcasts Jimi Hendrix's "Star Spangled Banner"
1980 - The first festival of rock music kicks off in the Soviet Union.
1985 - Ice Dance Championship at Tokyo won by Bestemianova & Bukin (URS)
1993 - Nigerian singer Fela Kuti arrested again on suspicion of murder
Birthdays in Music
Birthdays 1 - 60 of 60
1560 - Don Carlo Gesualdo,
Italian composer (d. 1613)
1607 - Johann Rist,
composer
1714 - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach,
German composer, son of JS Bach
1743 - Bendix Friedrich Zinck,
composer
1778 - Friedrich August Kanne,
composer
1783 - Gottfied Wilhelm Fink,
composer
1825 - George William Martin,
composer
1840 - Franco Faccio,
Italian composer/conductor
1843 - Per Jonas Fredrik Vilhelm Svedbom,
composer
1853 - Edward Hubertus Joannes Keurvels,
Flemish composer (Parisina)
1859 - Otto Taubmann,
composer
1872 - Paul Juon,
Russian/Swiss violinist/composer
1872 - Anna Held, Polish-born actress and singer (d. 1918)
1876 - Franco Alfano,
Italian opera composer (Il dottore Antonio)
1883 - Manuel Gomez Carillo,
composer
1909 - Anthony Donato,
composer
1911 - Alan Hovhaness,
Somerville Mass, composer (Lousadzak, Ukiyo)
1915 - Tapio Rautavaara,
Finnish athlete, actor, and singer (d. 1979)
1919 - Ivor Keys,
musician/teacher
1920 - James Daniel "Danny" Turner,
saxophonist
1921 - Cyd Charisse,
[Tula Finklea], Amarillo Tx, dancer/actress (Singing in the Rain)
1921 - Egbert George "Pete" Pitterson, trumpeter
1925 - Darwin Horacio Vargas-Wallis,
composer
1927 - Jaromir Podesva,
composer
1927 - Joseph Berg, composer
1928 - Frank Michael Beyer,
composer
1928 - Judy Johnson, Norfolk Va, singer (Your Show of Shows)
1933 - Johnny Dollar,
singer
1934 - Christian Wolff,
composer
1936 - Gabor Szabo,
Hungarian jazz pianist (Perfect Circle)
1937 - Raynoma Gordy,
[Mayberry], US orchestra leader (Rayber Voices)
1937 - Richard Farina, American writer and folk rocker (Reflections in a Crystal Wind)
1938 - Lew DeWitt,
Va, country singer (Statler Brothers-Flowers on the Wall)
1939 - Robert Tear,
Barry Wales, tenor (Welsh Natl Opera 1970)
1939 - Yannis Vlachopoulos, composer
1941 - Ivana Loudova,
composer
1941 - Yvar Emilian Mikhashoff, composer
1944 - Carole Bayer Sager,
NY, aka Mrs Burt Bachrach, singer (Arthur)
1944 - Sergey Nikitin, Russian composer
1944 - Palito Ortega, Argentine singer and actor
1945 - Micky Dolenz,
LA California, actor (Circus Boy)/singer (Monkees)
1945 - Bruce Broughton, American composer
1946 - Randy Meisner,
rock bassist/vocalist (Poco, Eagles-Take it Easy)
1947 - Mike Allsup,
Modesto Ca, rock guitarist (Three Dog Night)
1947 - Carole Bayer Sager, American composer
1948 - Little Peggy March,
[Margaret Battavio], vocalist (I Will Follow Him)
1953 - Bob Brozman,
American musician
1954 - Cheryl Baker,
rock vocalist (Bucks Fizz-My Camera Never Lies)
1957 - Billy Childs,
composer/pianist
1958 - Gary Numan,
[Gary Webb], Hammersmith England, vocalist (Replicas)
1964 - Cheryl "Salt" James,
singer (Salt-N-Pepa)
1964 - Peter Ged Gill, drummer (Frankie Goes to Hollywood-2 Tribes) [or 1/8]
1968 - Shawn Mullins,
American musician
1972 - Angie Hart,
Australian pop singer
1973 - Anneke van Giersbergen,
Dutch singer (The Gathering)
1975 - Peggy Zina,
Greek singer
1979 - Tom Chaplin,
English singer (Keane)
1979 - Andy Ross, American guitarist (OK Go)
1984 - Dave Moffatt,
Canadian musician
1985 - Ewa Sonnet,
Polish model and pop singer
Deaths in Music
Deaths 1 - 24 of 24
1640 - Guillaume van Messaus,
composer, dies at 50
1716 - Harald Vallerius,
composer, dies at 69
1720 - Georg Bronner,
composer, dies at 53
1734 - Carolomannus Pachschmidt,
composer, dies at 33
1828 - Johann Anton Sulzer,
composer, dies at 75
1862 - Adrien de La Fage,
composer, dies at 56
1869 - Louis Hector Berlioz,
French composer (Symphony Fantastic), dies at 65
1901 - Peter Benoit,
Flemish composer/conductor (High Mass), dies at 66
1919 - Auguste Tolbecque,
composer, dies at 88
1931 - Clara Kathleen Rogers,
composer, dies at 87
1941 - Jose Serrano Simeon,
composer, dies at 67
1950 - Jaroslav Kocian,
composer, dies at 67
1951 - John Winter Thompson,
composer, dies at 83
1957 - Othmar Schoeck,
composer, dies at 70
1961 - Thomas Beecham,
English conductor (Last Night of the Prom), dies at 81
1973 - Ron "Pigpen" McKernan,
rocker (Grateful Dead, Grass Roots), dies at 27
1983 - William T Walton,
English composer (Belhazzar's feast), dies at 80
1988 - Henryk Szeryng,
Polish-born violinist (b. 1918)
1992 - Red Callender,
US jazz bassist (Unfinished dream), dies at 76
1993 - Billy Eckstine,
jazz singer (Fools Rush In), dies at 78 of stroke
1995 - Ingo Schwichtenberg,
German drummer (b. 1965)
1996 - Paul Lewis Harrhy,
actor/opera singer (Intelligence Park), dies at 38
2003 - Adam Faith,
English singer and actor (b. 1940)
2011 - Mike Starr (musician),
American Musician (b. 1966)
