Events in Music
#1 in the Charts
#1 in the Charts1934 “Cocktails For Two” by Duke Ellington hits #1
Duke Ellington
Event of Interest
Event of Interest1959 “Nervous Set” opens at Henry Miller‘s Theater NYC for 23 performances
Henry Miller
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1960 Elvis Presley appears on a Frank Sinatra special
Elvis Presley
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1972 Paul McCartney & Wings release “Mary Had a Little Lamb”
Paul McCartney
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1990 Nora Dunn & Sinead O’Connor boycott “Saturday Night Live” to protest Andrew “Dice” Clay’s hosting
Sinead O’Connor
- 1996 “Inherit the Wind” closes at Royale Theater NYC after 45 performances
- 1996 “Night of the Iguana” closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 68 performances
- 2001 46th Eurovision Song Contest: Tanel Padar, Dave Benton and 2XL for Estonia wins singing “Everybody” in Copenhagen
- 2007 52nd Eurovision Song Contest: Marija Serifovic wins singing “Molitva” in Helsinki
Birthdays in Music
- 1679 Giovanni Antonio Ricieri, composer
- 1739 Johann Baptist (Jan Krtitel) Vanhal, composer
- 1751 Gaetano Manna, composer
- 1754 Franz Anton Hoffmeister, composer
- 1776 Juan Bros y Bertomel, composer
- 1797 Johann Hermann Kufferath, composer
- 1829 Pavlos Carrer, Greek composer (d. 1896)
- 1842 Jules Emile Fred Massenet, Montaud France, composer (Manon, Le Cid)
- 1845 Gabriel Urbain Faure, Pamiers France, composer (Requiem, Ballade)
- 1863 Charles Bordes, composer
- 1886 Hermann Grabner, composer
- 1887 Nandor Zsolt, composer
- 1901 Hyam Greenbaum, composer
- 1903 Lennox R F Berkeley, British composer (Castaway)
- 1910 Gordon Jenkins, Webster Grove Mo, orchestra leader (NBC Comedy Hour)
- 1912 Marshall Royal, jazz sax/clarinet
- 1916 Ellis Bonoff Kohs, composer
- 1917 Andre A Rieu, Dutch conductor
- 1921 Edvard Mikcaeli Mirzoyan, composer
- 1921 Joe (born Otis W.) Maphis, Suffolk, Virginia, American country music guitarist
- 1928 Burt Bacharach, composer (I’ll Never Fall in Love Again), born in Kansas City, Missouri
- 1928 Henry Cosby, African-American songwriter (d. 2002)
- 1936 Klaus Doldinger, German jazz saxophonist (Passport) and composer for film, born in Berlin
- 1940 Norman Whitfield, American songwriter and producer for Motown (I Heard It Through the Grapevine), born in New York City
- 1941 Anthony Newman, harpsichordist/organist (Bhajeb), born in Los Angeles, California
- 1941 Little Jayotis Washington, US R&B singer (Persuasions)
- 1941 Ruud de Wolff, singer/guitarist (Blue Diamonds)
- 1942 Ian Dury, English rock musician (The Blockheads) and actor (Judge Dredd), born in Upminster, Essex (d. 2000)
- 1942 Billy Swan, Cape Giradeau La, rocker (I Can Help)
- 1943 David Walker, rock keyboardist (Gary Lewis & Playboys-Diamond Ring)
- 1944 James Purify, US singer (I’m Your Puppet)
- 1945 Jayotis Washington, rocker
- 1945 Willie Parnell, US singer (Archie Bell & the Drells)
- 1945 Ian McLagan, English rocker (Faces), born in Hounslow, Middlesex, (d. 2014)
- 1948 Steve Winwood, England, musician (A Higher Love, Roll with it)
- 1950 Billy Squier, Mass, heavy metal guitarist (Don’t Say No)
- 1950 Jocko Marcellino, rocker (Sha Na Na)
- 1955 Kix Brooks, singer (Brooks & Dunn-Brand New Man), born in Shreveport, Louisiana
- 1958 Eric Singer, American drummer
- 1961 Billy Duffy, rocker (Cult-Hell’s Kitchen)
- 1962 Brett Gurewitz, American songwriter and record producer (Bad Religion) (Epitaph)
- 1963 Charles Pettigrew, American singer (Charles and Eddie) (d. 2001)
- 1966 Bebel Gilberto, Brazilian singer
- 1978 Wilfred Le Bouthillier, Acadian singer
- 1978 Aya Ishiguro, Japanese singer (formerly Morning Musume)
- 1981 Kentaro Sato, Japanese composer
Weddings in Music
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Wedding of Interest1971 Rolling Stone rocker Mick Jagger (27) weds actress and model Bianca Pérez-Mora Macias (31) at St Tropez Town Hall, France
Mick Jagger
Wedding of Interest
1990 Singer Patti Page (62) weds Jerry Filiciotto
Patti Page
- 2005 “La Femme Nikita” actress Anne Parillaud (45) weds musician Jean-Michel Jarre (56) in Paris
- 2011 Victoria’s Secret model Lily Aldridge (25) weds Kings of Leon singer Caleb Followill (29) at San Ysidro Ranch in Montecito, California
- 2012 McFly guitarist Tom Fletcher (27) weds actress Giovanna Falcone (27) at One Marylebone in London
Deaths in Music
- 1811 Louis-Charles-Joseph Rey, composer, dies at 52
- 1825 Elias Mann, American composer, dies at 75
- 1825 Stanislao Mattei, composer, dies at 75
- 1843 Johann Georg Lickl, composer, dies at 74
- 1861 Christian Heinrich Hohmann, composer, dies at 50
- 1871 Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber, French opera composer, dies at 89
- 1884 Bedrich Friedrich Smetana, Czech composer (2 Widows), dies at 60
- 1896 Juan Morel Campos, composer, dies at 38
- 1908 Melesio Morales, composer, dies at 69
- 1924 Charles Henri Marechal, composer, dies at 82
- 1925 Artur Napoleao dos Santos, composer, dies at 82
- 1931 Eugene Ysaye, Belgian composer and violinist, dies at 72
- 1943 Albert Stoessel, composer, dies at 48
- 1948 Isidor Achron, composer, dies at 55
- 1956 Vladimir Ambros, composer, dies at 65
- 1960 Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, English composer, dies at 70
- 1963 Stanislaw Wiechowicz, composer, dies at 69
- 1967 Julius Kalas, composer, dies at 64
- 1987 Victor Feldman, British jazz pianist/drummer, dies at 53 of a heart attack
- 1989 Marcelle de Manziarly, composer, dies at 89
- 2001 Perry Como, American singer (b. 1912)
- 2005 Monica Zetterlund, Swedish actress and singer (b. 1937)
- 2009 Antonio Vega, Spanish pop singer-songwriter (b. 1957)
- 2016 Julius La Rosa, American singer (fired by Arthur Godfrey on the air), dies at 86