Events in Music
Events 1 - 5 of 5
1952 - 1st performance of John Cage's "Water Music"
1964 - 90th Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack aboard Northern Dancer wins in 2:00
1964 - Beatles' "Beatles' 2nd Album" goes #1 & stays #1 for for 5 weeks
1979 - 14th Academy of Country Music Awards: Kenny Rogers & Barbara Mandrell
1980 - Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in Wall (Part II)" is banned in South Africa
Birthdays in Music
Birthdays 1 - 58 of 58
1660 - Pietro Alessandro Gaspare Scarlatti,
Palermo Italy, composer (Tigrane)
1729 - Florian Johann Deller,
composer
1752 - Ludwig August Lebrun,
composer
1754 - Vicente Martin y Soler,
composer
1810 - Hans Christian Lumbye,
composer
1817 - Zikmund Michal Kolesovsky,
composer
1843 - Carl Michael Ziehrer,
composer
1846 - Zygmunt Noskowski,
composer
1855 - Theodore Moses Tobani,
composer
1857 - Frederic Cliffe,
composer
1859 - Eugene D'Harcourt,
composer
1862 - Marie F M Emmanuel,
French composer/musicologist (Salamine)
1887 - Vernon Castle,
English dancer (d. 1918)
1895 - Lorenz Hart,
American lyricist (d. 1943)
1897 - J. Fred Coots,
American songwriter (d. 1985)
1900 - Helen Morgan,
singer/actress (Applause, Frankie & Johnny)
1903 - Oivin Fjeldstad,
composer
1904 - Georgi Dimitrov,
composer
1906 - Maurice Thiriet,
composer
1911 - Lillian Rambach,
teacher violinist
1915 - Jan Hanus,
composer
1915 - Van Alexander, NYC, orchestra leader (Gordon MacRae Show)
1915 - Doris Fisher, American songwriter (d. 2003)
1919 - Than Wyenn,
NYC, actor (Pete Kelly's Blues)
1920 - Jacob Gilboa,
composer
1920 - Jean-Marie Auberson, Swiss conductor (d. 2004)
1923 - Christina Spierenburg,
Dutch singer
1924 - Aafje Heynis,
Dutch singer
1924 - Theodore Bikel, Austrian/US folk singer/actor (Russians Are Coming)
1925 - Svatopluk Havelka,
composer
1929 - Edward Levy Irving,
composer
1929 - Luc Ferrari, composer
1929 - Link Wray, American rock guitarist (d. 2005)
1932 - Malcolm Leyland Lipkin,
composer
1933 - Bunk Gardner,
rocker (Mothers Of Invention)
1936 - Michael Rabin,
NYC, violinist (In Memorium)
1936 - Engelbert Humperdinck, [Arnold George Dorsey], Madras India, singer (EH Show)
1937 - Lorenzo Music,
Bkln NY, writer/actor/voice (Carlton-Rhoda, Garfield)
1944 - John Verity,
rocker (Argent)
1945 - Bob Henrit,
English pop drummer (Kinks-Waterloo Sunset)
1945 - Goldy McJohn, rocker (Steppenwolf)
1945 - Randy Cain, US soul singer (4 Gents/Delfonics)
1945 - Robert Henrit, England, rocker (Argent)
1945 - Judge Dread, English musician (d. 1998)
1946 - Lesley Gore,
Tenafly NJ, singer (It's My Party)
1948 - Larry Gatlin,
Seminole Tx, country singer (Gatlin Bros-Broken Lady)
1950 - Lou Gramm,
Rochester NY, rocker (Foreigner-Want to Know What Love Is)
1952 - Mari Natsuki,
Japanese singer, dancer and actress
1955 - Jay Osmond,
rocker (Osmond Brothers)
1955 - Joe Callis, rocker
1956 - David Rhodes,
English guitarist
1961 - Doctor Robert,
[Bruce R Howard], rocker (Blow Monkeys-Wicked Ways)
1968 - Ziana Zain,
Malaysian singer and actress
1978 - Steve Bays,
Canadian musician
1982 - Lorie,
French singer
Recording Artist & Fashion Designer Lily Allen (1985)
1985 - Lily Allen,
English singer and songwriter
1987 - Nana Kitade,
Japanese singer
1988 - Lara Liang,
Taiwanese-American Singer
Deaths in Music
Deaths 1 - 16 of 16
1627 - Lodovico Grossi da Viadana,
Italian composer (b. 1560)
1799 - Henri-Joseph Rigel,
composer, dies at 58
1864 - Giacomo Meyerbeer,
composer, dies at 72
1892 - Wilhelm Rust,
composer, dies at 69
1897 - William Cleaver Francis Robinson,
composer, dies at 63
1937 - Arthur Somervell,
composer, dies at 73
1954 - Pauline de Cock-Manifarges,
singer, dies at 82
1955 - Tadeusz Jarecki,
composer, dies at 66
1957 - Tadeusz Zygfryd Kassern,
composer, dies at 53
1963 - Tomas Vackar,
composer, dies at 17
1985 - Hal LeRoy,
dancer/actor (Harold Teen), dies at 71 after surgery
1985 - Larry Clinton, American trumpeter and bandleader (b. 1909)
1990 - William Levi Dawson,
composer, dies at 90
1992 - Joey Cuevas,
dancer, dies at 34
1992 - Margareth Wallmann, Austrian opera director, dies at 88
1998 - Hideto "hide" Matsumoto,
Japanese musician (b. 1964)
