Events in Music
Event of Interest
Event of Interest1993 Andrew Lloyd Webber‘s musical “Sunset Promenade” opens in London
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Birthdays in Music
- 1675 Evaristo E Felice dall’ Abaco, Italian cellist/composer
- 1757 Christian Danner, composer
- 1801 John Hill Hewitt, composer
- 1802 Charles-Louis Hanssens, composer
- 1821 Cesare Dominiceti, composer
- 1861 Anton Stepanovich Arensky, composer
- 1885 George Sainton Kaye Butterworth, composer
- 1895 Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian soprano (Wagner)
- 1895 Oscar Hammerstein II, American lyricist who worked with Richard Rodgers, born in NYC, New York
- 1908 Johan Franco, composer
- 1920 Paul Foster, American singer (Soul Stirrers), born in Grand Cane, Louisiana (d. 1995)
- 1924 Jaap Geraedts, composer
- 1927 Pavle Merku, Italian-Slovene composer and ethnomusicologist, born in Trieste (d. 2014)
- 1928 Barbara Cowsills, singer and mother of The Cowsills (d. 1985)
- 1931 Andre Laporte, Flemish composer
- 1934 Van Cliburn Jr, [Harvey Lavan], La, pianist (Tchaikovsky 1958)
- 1937 Michel Louvain, French Canadian singer
- 1942 Richard Stoltzman, clarinetist (Tashi), born in Omaha, Nebraska
Person of Interest
1943 Christine McVie, English rock vocalist (Fleetwood Mac-Got A Hold on Me), born in Bouth, England
Christine McVie
- 1948 Walter Egan, American rock vocalist (Not Shy, Fundamental Roll), born in NYC, New York
- 1950 Eric Carr [Paul Charles Caravello], rock drummer (Kiss), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1991)
- 1951 Sylvia Sass, Hungarian soprano
- 1952 Liz Mitchell, Jamaica, rock vocalist (Boney M)
- 1952 Phil Kramer, Youngtown Oh, rocker (Iron Butterfly)
- 1952 Philip Taylor Kramer, Bass Guitar Player (d. 1995)
- 1960 Corynne Charby, French model, actress and singer
- 1965 Robin Wilson, rocker (Gin Blossoms)
- 1967 John Petrucci, American guitar player (Dream Theater)
- 1969 Jesse Pintado, American guitarist (Napalm Death) (d. 2006)
- 1972 Brett Reed, American musician (Rancid)
- 1974 Sharon den Adel, Dutch singer (Within Temptation)
- 1975 Cheyenne Jackson, American actor and singer
- 1976 Tracie Spencer, rocker
- 1981 Adrienne Camp, South African singer/songwriter
- 1984 Gareth Gates, British singer
- 1985 Luiz Ejlli, Albanian singer
- 1988 Melissa O’Neil, Canadian singer
Weddings in Music
- 2008 Black Eyed Peas rapper Taboo (32) weds fashion publicist Jaymie Dizon (29) at St. Andrews Catholic Church in Pasadena, California
Deaths in Music
- 1742 Evaristo EF dall’ Abaco, Italian cellist/composer, dies on 67th birthday
- 1773 Johann Joachim Quantz, German royal flautist/composer, dies at 76
- 1839 Christian Traugott Tag, composer, dies at 62
- 1882 Alfred Humphreys Pease, composer, dies at 44
- 1883 Hermann Zopff, composer, dies at 57
- 1897 Felix Godefroid, composer, dies at 78
- 1906 Henrique Alves de Mesquita, composer, dies at 70
- 1926 Charles Wood, composer, dies at 40
- 1947 Jimmie Lunceford, American saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1902)
- 1953 Joseph Jongen, Belgian composer, dies at 79
- 1953 Marie-Alphonse-Nicolas-Joseph Jongen, composer, dies at 79
- 1962 Roger Wolfe Kahn, American band leader (b. 1907)
- 1977 Frantisek Suchy, composer, dies at 75
- 1979 Kalervo Tuukkanen, composer, dies at 69
- 1979 Minnie Ripperton, [Andrea Davis], singer (Lovin’ You), dies at 30
- 1983 Chris Wood, rocker (Traffic), dies at 39
- 1995 Alan David Marks, pianist/composer, dies at 49
- 1995 Earl Coleman, American jazz singer, dies at 69
- 1995 Ernie Furtado, bassist, dies at 72
- 1996 Gottfried von Einem, composer, dies at 78
- 1996 Jonathan Melvoin, keyboardist (Smashing Pumpkins), dies of heorin OD
- 1998 Jimmy Driftwood, American folk songwriter and musician (b. 1907)
- 2003 Benny Carter, American musician (b. 1907)
- 2007 Robert Burås, Norwegian guitar player (b. 1975)
- 2010 Paulo Moura, Brazilian clarinetist and saxophonist (b. 1932)
- 2011 David Carr, English rock keyboardist (The Fortunes), dies at 67
- 2016 Gregg Smith, American choral conductor and composer, dies at 84