Events in Music
Event of Interest
Event of Interest1967 1st time Jimi Hendrix burns his guitar (London)
Jimi Hendrix
Event of Interest
1969 George Harrison & Patti Boyd are fined £250 each for illegal drugs
George Harrison
- 1972 Official Beatles Fan Club closes down
- 1978 Wings release “London Town” album
- 1979 24th Eurovision Song Contest: Gali Atari and Milk and Honey for Israel wins singing “Hallelujah” in Jerusalem
- 1991 Musical “Will Rogers Follies” premieres in NYC
- 1996 “Getting Away With Murder” closes at Broadhurst NYC after 17 performances
- 1996 “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” opens at Lunt-Fontanne NYC for 66 performances
Birthdays in Music
- 1684 Francesco Durante, composer
Person of Interest
1685 Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (Mattheus-Passion) [OS 21 Mar], born in Eisenach, Germany (d. 1750)
Johann Sebastian Bach
- 1717 Florian Wrastill, composer
- 1732 Franz Joseph Haydn, prominent composer of the classical period (The Creation/Die Schopfung), born in Vienna, Austria
- 1747 Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, German composer (Moon has Risen)
- 1791 Franciszek Wincenty Mirecki, composer
- 1809 Otto Jonas Lindblad, composer
- 1822 Rafael Hernando, composer
- 1847 Jarolslaw Zielinski, composer
- 1848 John Henry Roberts, composer
- 1872 Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev, Russia, dance master (Imperial Ballet)
- 1887 Jose Maria Usandizaga, composer
- 1891 Erich Walter Sternberg, composer
- 1893 Clemens Krauss, conductor (Berlin State Orch-1937), born in Vienna, Austria
- 1906 Lauri Saikkola, composer
- 1908 Red Norvo, American jazz vibraphonist (d. 1999)
- 1911 Elisabeth Grümmer, German soprano (d. 1986)
- 1913 Etta Baker, Caldwell County North Carolina, American blues guitarist
- 1915 Eliseo Morales Pajaro, composer
- 1934 John D. Loudermilk, country singer and songwriter (Tobacco Road), born in Durham, North Carolina (d. 2016)
- 1935 Herb Alpert, bandleader/trumpeteer (Tijuana Brass)/CEO (A & M)
- 1937 Willem Duyn, [Mouth], Dutch singer (Mouth & MacNeal)
- 1938 Arthur B. Rubinstein, American composer
- 1944 Rod Allen, [B Rodney Bainbridge] rock bassist/vocalist (Fortunes)
- 1944 Mick Ralphs, English guitarist (Mott the Hoople, Bad Company)
- 1946 Al Nichol, rock guitarist/vocalist (Turtles), born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
- 1947 Al Goodman, rock vocalist (Ray, Goodman, Brown)
- 1947 Jon-Jon Poulos, rocker (Buckinghams), born in Chicago, Illinois
- 1948 Thijs van Leer, Dutch singer/flutist (Focus, Introspection)
- 1950 Richard Hughes, rocker (Johnny Winter Band)
- 1953 Greg Martin, singer (Ky Headhunters-Davy Crockett), born in Louisville, Kentucky
- 1953 Sean Hopper, California, rock keyboardist (Huey Lewis & The News)
- 1953 Dennis Kamakahi, Grammy Award-winning musician (d. 2014), born in Honolulu, Hawaii
- 1954 Tony Brock, England, rock drummer (Isn’t It Time, Every Time I Think of You)
- 1955 Angus Young, Glascow Scotland, rock guitarist (AC/DC-Highway to Hell)
- 1958 Pat McGlynn, Edinburgh, rock guitarist (Bay City Rollers)
- 1959 Ali McMordie, Irish bassist (Stiff Little Fingers)
- 1963 Paul Mercurio, Australian actor/dancer
- 1964 Erik Turner, rock guitarist (Warrant-Cherry Pie), born in Omaha, Nebraska
- 1974 Stefan Olsdal, Swedish bassist (Placebo)
- 1977 Toshiya, Japanese musician (Dir en grey)
- 1978 Tony Yayo, American rapper
- 1979 Amey Date, Indian playback singer
- 1982 Lennon Murphy, American rock singer/songwriter
- 1986 Cveta Majtanović, Serbian singer, winner of Pop Idol.
Weddings in Music
- 2011 Italian Canadian singer Michael Buble (35) weds actress and model Luisana Lopilato (23) in Buenos Aires
Deaths in Music
- 1656 Pierre de La Barre, composer, dies at 64
- 1703 Johann Christoph Bach, German composer (b. 1642)
- 1880 Henryk Wieniawski, Polish violist/composer, dies at 44
- 1881 Gaetano Gaspari, composer, dies at 73
- 1885 Franz W Abbot, German composer/choir conductor, dies at 65
- 1885 Philipp Fahrbach, composer, dies at 69
- 1886 Giovanni Rossi, composer, dies at 57
- 1892 Adolf Rzepko, composer, dies at 66
- 1901 John Stainer, composer, dies at 60
- 1960 Joseph Haas, German (opera)composer (Totenmesse), dies at 81
- 1967 Hieronim Feicht, composer, dies at 72
- 1973 Kurt George Hugo Thomas, composer, dies at 68
- 1986 O’Kelly Isley, US, singer (Isley Brothers), dies of heart attack at 48
- 1988 Talib Rasul Hakim, composer, dies at 48
- 1991 John Carter, US jazz clarinetist (Roots & folklore), dies
- 1993 Mitchell Parish, American lyricist (b. 1900)
- 1995 Carl Story, American bluegrass musician (Rambling Mountaineers), dies at 78
- 1995 Selena [Quintanilla-Pérez], Mexican-American singer-songwriter known as the Queen of Tejano music (Grammy-1994), killed by a fan at 23
- 1996 Jeffrey Lee Pierce, musician, dies at 37
- 2003 Tommy Seebach, Danish singer (b. 1949)
- 2006 Jackie McLean, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1931 or 1932)
