Yesterday's Birthdays in Music

Welcome to Today in Music for Saturday, July 5, 2008.

1546 - Johann Steuerlein, composer
1654 - Antonio Maria Pacchioni, composer
1764 - Janos Lavotta, composer
1775 - William Crotch, composer
1847 - Agnes Marie Jacobina Zimmermann, composer
1852 - Stefano Gobatti, composer
1874 - Gerhard von Keussler, composer
1878 - Joseph Holbrooke, English pianist/conductor/composer
1879 - Volkmar Andreae, Swiss conductor/composer (Tonhalle Orchestra)
1880 - Jan Kubelik, composer
1895 - Gordon Jacob, composer
1897 - Paul Ben-Haim, [Frankenburger], Munich Germany, Israeli composer
1899 - Domingo Santa Cruz Wilson, composer
1903 - Irwin Fischer, composer
1904 - Franz Adolf Syberg, composer
1913 - Smiley Lewis, Louisiana, vocalist (I Hear You Knockin')
1918 - George Rochberg, Paterson NJ, composer (Concord Quartet)
1920 - Issachar Miron, composer
1924 - Jan¢s Starker, Budapest Hungary, cellist (Chic Symph 1953-58)
1926 - Jan¢s Starker, Budapest, cellist
1926 - Kenneth Gaburo, composer
1930 - Yutaka Makino, composer
1938 - Stanley Joel Silverman, composer
1944 - Robbie Robertson, [Jamie], Toronto Canada, rock guitarist (Band)
1945 - Dick Scoppettone, rocker
1950 - Huey Lewis, rocker
1950 - Michael Monarch, LA Calif, rock guitarist (Steppenwolf)
1951 - Geert Jan Hessing, Dutch rock drummer (Catapult)
1951 - Huey Lewis [Hugh Cregg], NYC, vocalist (and the News-Need a New Drug)
1952 - Michael Don McNabb, composer
1955 - Michael Gismondi, rock saxophonist (Michael Stanley Band)
1959 - Marc Cohn, singer (Walking in Memphis)

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