Events in Music
- 1946 “Annie Get Your Gun” opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 1147 performances
- 1961 Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defects to West at Le Bourget Airport in Paris
- 1967 50,000 attend Monterey International Pop Festival
- 1977 “Beatlemania” opens on Broadway
- 1980 “Blues Brothers” premieres in Chicago
- 1991 “Fiddler on the Roof” closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 241 performances
- 1997 31st Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson & LeAnn Rimes
Birthdays in Music
- 1591 Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Italian physician, mathematician, and music theorist (d. 1655)
- 1633 Nathaniel Schnittelbach, composer
- 1637 Giovanni Paulo Colonna, composer
- 1752 Meingosus Gaelle, composer
- 1843 David Popper, composer
- 1843 Jan Malat, Czech composer (d. 1915)
- 1853 Johan Gustaf Emil Sjogren, composer
- 1863 Paul Antonin Vidal, composer
- 1894 Norman Kerry, actor (Phantom of the Opera), born in Rochester, New York
- 1899 Helen Traubel, American soprano, born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1972)
- 1901 Conrad Beck, Swiss composer, born in Lohn, Schaffhausen (d. 1989)
- 1903 Huldreich Georg Fruh, composer
- 1909 Willi Boskovsky, Austria, conductor (new years concert)
- 1910 Ilona Massey, actress/singer (Ilona Massey Show), born in Budapest, Hungary
- 1916 Francis Lopez, composer
- 1923 Ake Hermanson, composer
- 1923 Henryk Czyz, Polish composer and musician, born in Grudziądz (d. 2003)
- 1928 Sergiu Comissiona, Buch Romania, conductor (Haifa Symph 1959-64)
- 1929 James K. Randall, American composer, born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 2014)
- 1931 Ivo Petric, Slovenian composer, born in Ljubljana
- 1934 Little Caesar, vocalist (Little Caesar & the Romans)
- 1934 Lucia Dlugoszewski, composer
- 1938 Mickie Finn, Hugo Oklahoma, TV hostess/banjo player (Mickie Finn’s)
- 1940 Billy “Crash” Craddock, singer, born in Greensboro, North Carolina
- 1941 Lamont Dozier, songwriter (Dozier-Holland-Dozier), born in Detroit, Michigan
- 1942 Eddie Levert, vocalist (O’Jays-For the Love of Money), born in Canton, Ohio
- 1942 John Rostill, English rocker (The Shadows), born in Birmingham (d. 1973)
- 1949 Peppy Castro, [Emil Thielhelm], American rock vocalist (Balance), born in NYC, New York
- 1950 James Smith, US, singer (Stylistics-Can’t Give you Anything)
- 1952 Gino Vanelli, singer (Living Inside Myself), born in Montreal, Quebec
- 1952 Rob Kloet, pop drummer/singer (Nits-In the Dutch Mountains)
- 1953 Ian Mosley, Paddington London, drummer (Marillion-Clutching at Straws)
- 1954 Gary Roberts, rocker (Boomtown Rats)
- 1958 Jóhannes Helgason, Icelandic guitarist (Þeyr)
- 1962 Femi Kuti, Nigerian Afrobeat Musician
Person of Interest
Person of Interest1971 Tupac Shakur, American rapper and actor (Juice, Bullet), born in East Harlem, New York (d. 1996)
Tupac Shakur
Person of Interest
1987 Diana DeGarmo, American singer (American Idol) and actress (The Young and the Restless), born in Birmingham, Alabama
Diana DeGarmo
Weddings in Music
Wedding of Interest
Wedding of Interest2007 Rock singer Rod Stewart (62) weds model Penny Lancaster (36) in a cloistered medieval abbey at La Cervara
Rod Stewart
Deaths in Music
- 1651 Marsilio Casentini, composer, dies at 74
- 1804 Johann Adam Hiller, composer, dies at 75
- 1808 Georg Wenzel Ritter, composer, dies at 60
- 1831 Joseph Ignaz Schnabel, composer, dies at 64
- 1837 Valentino Fioravanti, composer, dies at 72
- 1910 Wendelin Weissheimer, composer, dies at 72
- 1925 Emmett Hardy, American musician (b. 1903)
- 1939 Chick Webb, American jazz drummer and big band leader (b. 1905)
- 1940 Vitezslava Kapralova, composer, dies at 25
- 1946 Miloje Milojevic, composer, dies at 61
- 1958 Jose Pablo Moncayo Garcia, composer, dies at 45
- 1969 Karl Hubert Rudolf Schiske, composer, dies at 53
- 1970 Heino Eller, Estonian composer, dies at 83
- 1975 Don Robey, US gospel/impresario/producer, dies at 71
- 1979 Ben Weber, US composer (Thorne Music Award 1965), dies at 62
- 1982 James Honeyman-Scott, guitarist (Pretenders), overdoses on drugs
- 1986 Maurice Duruflé, French composer and organist (b. 1902)
- 1990 Eva Turner, British soprano, dies
- 1991 Vicky Brown, US singer (Power of Love), dies
- 1994 Kristen Pfaff, US bass guitarist (Hole-Live through this), dies at 24
- 1994 Boris Alexandrov, conductor (Red Army Song/Dance Ensemble, dies at 88
- 1999 David Edward Sutch, British musician (b. 1940)
- 2015 Mighty Sam McClain, American soul and blues singer-songwriter, dies at 72