Events in Music
Events 1 - 7 of 7
1921 - "Shuffle Along" 1st black musical comedy, opens in NYC
1953 - 79th Preakness: Eric Guerin aboard Native Dancer wins in 1:57.8
1966 - Beatles release "Paperback Writer"
1968 - Beatles open 2nd Apple Boutique at 161 New Kings Road, London
1969 - Who release rock opera "Tommy"
1970 - Grateful Dead's 1st performance outside of US (England)
1979 - Rocker Tom Petty files chapter 11 bankruptcy
Birthdays in Music
Birthdays 1 - 52 of 52
1644 - Thomas Eisenhut,
composer
1696 - Johann Caspar Vogler,
composer
1737 - Louis Francois Chambray,
composer
1741 - Andrea Lucchesi,
composer
1753 - Giovanni Battista Viotti,
violonist/composer
1756 - Nicolas-Joseph Hullmandel,
composer
1759 - Antoinio da Silva Leite,
composer
1794 - Isaak-Ignaz Moscheles,
composer
1799 - Thomas Hood,
English poet/composer (Song of the Shirt)
1843 - Pedro Miguel Marques y Garcia,
composer
1851 - Antoni Stolpe,
composer
1864 - Louis Glass,
composer
1871 - Sigurd Lie,
composer
1901 - Edmund Rubbra,
Northampton England, composer (Morning Watch) [or 3/23]
1902 - Mark Lothar,
composer
1906 - Hellmuth Christian Wolff,
composer
1910 - Artie Shaw,
[Arthur Arshawsky], NYC, bandleader (Come'on my House)
1911 - Boris Kremenliev,
composer
1913 - ,
th Fernandez legendary singer from Puerto Rico
1914 - Leo Lerman,
actor/manager/critic (Dance Magazine)
1914 - Travis Kemp, dancer/teacher
1916 - M Jean Francaix,
composer
1918 - Bulent Arel,
composer
1918 - Bumps Blackwell, rocker
1919 - Ruth Fernandez,
Ponce, Puerto Rico, singer (When you Return), politician, (d. 2012)
1920 - Helen O'Connell,
Lima Ohio, singer (Green Eyes, Anapola)
1921 - Humphrey Lyttelton,
jazz musician/actor (It's Great to Be Young)
1923 - Alicia de Larrocha,
Copenhagen Denmark, pianist (Orquesta Sinfonica)
1925 - Mac Wiseman,
American musician
1928 - Rosemary Clooney,
Kentucky, singer/paper towels spokeswoman (Coronet)
1928 - Pauline Julien, French Canadian singer (d. 1998)
1936 - Ingeborg Hallstein,
German opera singer
1939 - Michel Colombier,
French composer and songwriter (d. 2004)
1941 - Jackson Hill,
composer
1943 - Norman Johnson,
singer/songwriter
1944 - General George Norman Johnson,
US singer (Down at the Beach Club)
1944 - Ramon "Tiki" Fulwood, US drummer (Funkadelic, Knee Deep)
1945 - Misty Morgan,
country keyboardist (duo with Jack Blanchard)
1951 - Judy Rodman,
Riverside California, country singer (Girls Ride Horses Too)
1952 - James Mankey,
rocker (Concrete Blonde)
1952 - Anne-Marie David, French singer
1957 - Jimmy McShane,
Pop singer (Baltimora-Tarzan Boy)
1958 - Shelly West,
Cleve OH, country singer (Red Hot, West by West)
1958 - François Feldman, French singer
Singer-Songwriter Jewel Kilcher (1974)
1974 - Jewel Kilcher,
Payson, Utah, American singer-songwriter (Pieces of You)
1974 - Mónica Naranjo, Spanish singer
1978 - Scott Raynor,
American drummer (formerly of blink-182)
1981 - Gwenno Saunders,
Former Welsh dancer, now singer with The Pipettes
1982 - Malene Mortensen,
Danish singer
1982 - Tristan Prettyman, American musician
1983 - Cristiano Bilanzola,
Canadian musician and film-maker
1983 - Heidi Range, English singer (Sugababes)
Deaths in Music
Deaths 1 - 16 of 16
1304 - Jehan de Lescurel,
French poet and composer
1834 - Charles Wesley,
composer, dies at 76
1875 - Johann Wilhelm Mangold,
composer, dies at 78
1887 - Ludwig Mathias Lindeman,
composer, dies at 74
1891 - Ignace Xavier Joseph Leybach,
composer, dies at 73
1926 - Hans Koessler,
composer, dies at 73
1940 - Andrej N Rimski-Korssakov,
Russian musicologist/son of Nikolai, dies
1941 - Slavko Osterc,
composer, dies at 45
1952 - Georg Alfred Schumann,
composer, dies at 85
1968 - Merle Kendrick,
orchestra leader (Window on the World), dies at 72
1969 - Jimmy McHugh,
composer (Can't Give You Anything But Love), dies at 74
1987 - Karel Albert,
Flemish composer (Marieken van Nymeghen), dies at 86
1991 - William Sinnot,
Scottish pop musician (Shamen), dies at 30
1991 - Wilhelm Kempff, German pianist and composer (b. 1895)
1992 - Atahualpa Yupanqui,
Argentine singer/composer/poet/guitarist, dies
1994 - Joe Pass,
US jazz guitarist (The Trio), dies at 65
