Events in Music
- 1876 Opera “Siegfried” premieres in Bayreuth
Event of Interest
Event of Interest1962 Ringo Starr replaces Pete Best as Beatles’ drummer
Ringo Starr
Woodstock Music and Art Fair
Woodstock Music and Art Fair1969 Second day of the Woodstock rock festival in NY
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Johnny Ramone
#1 in the Charts
Album Release
1987 Bon Jovi release their 3rd album “Slippery When Wet” (Billboard’s top selling album of 1987)
Richie Sambora
- 2000 “Hanging by a Moment” single released by Lifehouse (Billboard Song of the Year 2001)
Birthdays in Music
- 1761 Yevstigney Fomin, Russian composer (d. 1800)
- 1769 Jean Aime Vernier, composer
- 1776 Philipp Jakob Riotte, composer
- 1795 Heinrich August Marschner, composer
- 1816 Joseph Robinson, composer
- 1836 John Farmer, English composer, born in Nottingham (d. 1901)
- 1868 Charles Sanford Skilton, composer
- 1871 Zakhary Petrovich Paliashvili, composer
- 1877 Karl L Hoschna, composer
- 1888 Armand J. Piron, American jazz violinist and composer, born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 1943)
- 1895 Jacinto Guerrero, composer
- 1897 Vicente Ascone, composer
- 1902 Stefan Boleslaw Poradowski, composer
- 1907 Alexander Uriah Boskovich, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Israeli composer
- 1909 Paul Smith Callaway, composer
- 1915 Al Hibbler, American singer (Unchained Melody), born in Tyro, Mississippi (d. 2001)
- 1917 Roque Cordero, Panama, composer (Sonata Breve)
- 1928 Ann Blyth, American actress and singer (Kismet, Mildred Pierce), born in Mount Kisco, New York
- 1928 Eddie Kirkland, Jamaican/US blues guitarist (Have Mercy)
- 1929 Bill Evans, US jazz pianist
- 1932 Eydie Gorme [Edithe Gormezano], American singer (Bossa Nova), born in The Bronx, New York (d. 2013)
- 1934 Ketty Lester, [Revoyda Frierson], US singer/actress (Love Letters)
- 1937 David Behrman, composer
- 1945 Gary Loizzo, rock guitarist (American Breed), born in Chicago, Illinois
- 1945 Gordon “Snowy” Fleet, Merseyside, rock drummer (Easybeats)
- 1945 Kevin Ayers, England, progressive rocker (Joy of a Toy), (d. 2013)
- 1945 Suzanne Farrell, ballerina (Don Quioxote), born in Cincinnati, Ohio
- 1948 Barry Hay, singer/fluitist/saxophonist/guitarist (Golden Earring)
- 1949 Bill “Sputnik” Spooner, American rock guitarist (The Tubes), born in Phoenix, Arizona
- 1949 Scott Asheton, American musician (The Stooges)
- 1951 Eric Bibb, American blues singer-songwriter, born in NYC, New York
- 1952 Gianna Rolandi, American soprano (Der Rosenkavalier), born in NYC, New York
- 1953 James Taylor, SC, rocker (Kool & The Gang-Joanna)
- 1957 Tim Farriss, Australian pop guitarist (INXS-Kiss the Dirt)
- 1968 Donovan Leitch Jr, actor/musician (I Shot Andy Warhol)
- 1970 Killah Priest, American rapper
- 1972 Emily Robison, American country singer, instrumentalist and songwriter (Dixie Chicks), born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts
- 1977 Tamer Hosny, Egyptian singer and actor, born in Cairo, Egypt
- 1980 Vanessa Carlton, American singer-songwriter, born in Milford, Pennsylvania
- 1980 Robert “Bob” Hardy, English musician (Franz Ferdinand), born in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
Weddings in Music
- 1846 Opera Composer (The Barber of Seville) Gioacchino Rossini marries 2nd wife Olympe Pélissier in Paris
Wedding of Interest
Wedding of Interest1946 Famous ballet choreographer George Balanchine (42) weds ballerina Maria Tallchief (21)
George Balanchine
Maria Tallchief
Wedding of Interest
1983 Musician Paul Simon weds actress and writer Carrie Fisher
Carrie Fisher
Divorces in Music
Divorce of Interest
Divorce of Interest1968 Singer/actor Frank Sinatra and 3rd wife actress Mia Farrow divorce after 2 years of marriage
Frank Sinatra
Deaths in Music
- 1518 Loyset Compère, French composer
- 1748 Pietro Giuseppe Sandoni, Italian composer, dies at 63
- 1786 Henri-Jacques de Croes, Flemish composer/bandmaster, dies at 80
- 1799 Vincenzo Manfredini, composer, dies at 61
- 1831 Eduard Brendler, composer, dies at 30
- 1870 Ludvig Anton Edmund Passy, composer, dies at 80
- 1910 Charles Ferdinand Lenepveu, composer, dies at 69
- 1911 Karl Munzinger, composer, dies at 68
- 1929 Frank Valentine Van der Stucken, composer, dies at 70
Robert Johnson
1938 Robert Johnson, US Delta-blues singer/guitarist, poisoned at 27
Robert Johnson
- 1944 Roman Padlewski, composer, dies at 28
- 1945 Nico Richter, composer, dies at 29
- 1959 Pedro Humberto Allende Saron, Chilean composer (Tonados), dies at 74
- 1959 Wanda Landowska, Polish-French harpsichordist (Musique Ancienne), dies at 80
- 1965 Vasily Petrovich Shirinsky, composer, dies at 64
- 1968 Luis Gianneo, composer, dies at 71
- 1972 John Barnes Chance, composer, dies at 39
Elvis Presley
1977 Elvis Presley, American musician, dies at Graceland at 42, with the official cause of death being cardiac arrhythmia
Elvis Presley
- 1984 György Kósa, Hungarian composer, dies at 87
- 1986 John Hurley, song writer (Son of a Preacher Man), dies at 45
- 1988 Milton Adolphus, composer, dies at 75
- 1992 Mark Heard, Christian musician, dies at 41 of a heart attack
- 1995 Robert “Robby” Debarge, R&B Musician, dies at 36
- 1997 Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Pakistani musician (b. 1948)
- 1999 Pee Wee King, American country musician and songwriter (b. 1914)
- 2000 Alan Caddy, English musician (The Tornados), dies at 60
- 2005 Vassar Clements, American musician (b. 1928)
- 2005 Vicky Moscholiou, Greek singer (b. 1943)
- 2006 Jon Nödtveidt, Swedish musician (b. 1975)
- 2007 Max Roach, American percussionist, drummer, and composer (b. 1924)
- 2008 Ronnie Drew, Ex-Singer of The Dubliners & Solo Artist (b. 1934)
- 2008 Dorival Caymmi, Brazilian singer and songwriter (b. 1914)