Events in Music
Birthdays in Music
- 1686 Nicola Antonio Porpora, composer
- 1775 Philippe Libon, composer
- 1779 Franz de Paula Roser, composer
- 1828 George William Warren, composer
- 1834 Peter Benoit, Flemish composer/conductor (Leie/Rubens Cantata)
- 1839 Hubert Platt Main, composer
- 1880 Leo Ascher, Austrian-born composer who moved to the US, born in Vienna (d. 1942)
Person of Interest
- 1903 Abram Chasins, composer
- 1904 Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist (d. 1991)
- 1907 Marian Viktorovich Koval, composer
- 1908 Kurt Hessenberg, composer
- 1909 Larry Clinton, American trumpeter and bandleader (d. 1985)
- 1910 Eric Aaltonen, composer
- 1918 Ike Quebec, American tenor-saxophone player, born in Newark. New Jersey (d. 1963)
- 1920 Georgia Gibbs, singer (Ballin the Jack, Kiss of Fire), born in Worcester, Massachusetts
- 1921 Maureen O’Hara [FitzSimons], Irish actress and singer (Miracle on 34th St, The Quiet Man), Ranelagh, County Dublin (d. 2015)
- 1923 Anton Kersjes, violinist/conductor (Amsterdam Philharmonic Orch)
- 1924 Laurence Richard Deniz, jazz guitarist
- 1926 George Melly, British singer (d. 2007)
- 1928 Thomas Jefferson Anderson, composer
- 1933 Mark Dinning, American singer (d. 1986)
- 1936 Ivan Parik, Czech composer, born in Bratislava
- 1936 Floyd Red Crow Westerman, Native American musician-actor (d. 2007)
- 1939 Luther Allison, Mayflower Ark, rock guitarist (Bad News is Coming)
- 1943 Edward Cowie, composer
- 1943 Dave “Snaker” Ray, American musician (d. 2002)
- 1945 Katri Helena, Finnish singer
- 1946 Hans Vandenburg, Dutch singer/guitarist (Gruppo Sportivo)
- 1947 Gary Talley, rock guitarist (Box Tops), born in Memphis, Tennessee
- 1948 Rod MacDonald, American musician
- 1949 Sib Hashian, rock drummer (Boston), born in Boston, Massachusetts
- 1953 Kevin Rowlands, rock vocalist (Dexy’s Midnight Runners-Come on Eileen)
- 1954 Eric Johnson, American guitarist
- 1955 Colin Moulding, English pop guitarist (XTC)
- 1955 Kevin Welch, California, country songwriter/actor (Thing Called Love)
- 1958 Belinda Carlisle, (GoGos lead singer, Heaven on Earth), born in Hollywood, California
- 1960 Stephan Eicher, Swiss singer
- 1962 Gilby Clarke, US pop guitarist (Guns n’ Roses-Civil War)
- 1964 Colin James, Canadian musician
- 1965 Glen Goldsmith, rocker (What You See is What You Get)
- 1965 Steve Gorman, Hopkinsville Ky, rock drummer (Black Crowes)
- 1966 Maysa Leak, American Jazz Singer
- 1967 Kevin Max, American singer (dc talk)
- 1969 Donald E Wahlberg Jr, rocker (New Kids-Hangin’ Tough), born in Boston, Massachusetts
- 1971 Uhm Jung-hwa, South Korean singer and actress
- 1974 Tony Hajjar, Lebanese musician (At the Drive-In, Sparta)
- 1977 Tarja Turunen, Finnish singer
- 1978 Vibeke Stene, Norwegian singer (Tristania)
- 1980 Lene Marlin, Norwegian singer
Weddings in Music
Wedding of Interest
Wedding of Interest1997 Lead vocalist James Hetfield (34) weds Francesca Tomasi
James Hetfield
- 2015 Boyzone lead singer Ronan Keating (38) weds model Storm Uechtritz in East Lothian, Scotland
Divorces in Music
- 2008 Genesis drummer and vocalist Phil Collins (57) divorces Swiss-born Orianne Cevey (35) after six years of marriage
Deaths in Music
Person of Interest
1786 Frederick II (the Great), King of Prussia (1740-86)/composer, dies at 74
Frederick the Great
- 1792 Jan Jachym Kopriva, Czech composer and organist, dies at 38
- 1865 Johann Nepomuk Poissl, composer, dies at 82
- 1880 Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist and composer (b. 1810)
- 1887 Franz Commer, composer, dies at 74
- 1889 Ernst Franck, German composer/conductor, dies at 42
- 1898 Carl Johann Adam Zeller, composer, dies at 56
- 1901 Edmond Audran, composer, dies at 61
- 1909 Richard Hoffman, composer, dies at 78
- 1936 Pierre-Octave Ferroud, French composer (Surgery & Foules), dies at 36
- 1945 Gino Marinuzzi, composer, dies at 61
- 1954 Billy Murray, singer (Denver Nightengale), dies at 77
- 1958 Florent Schmitt, French composer/critic (Jardin Secret), dies at 87
- 1961 Carlos Leon Salzedo, composer, dies at 76
- 1973 Paul Williams, American musician (The Temptations), commits suicide at 32
- 1973 Jean Barraqué, French composer (b. 1928)
- 1977 Petros John Petridis, Greek composer (Isotope Suite), dies at 86
- 1981 Robert Russell Bennett, US composer/arranger (Oklahoma!), dies at 87
- 1983 Ira Gershwin, lyricist, dies in Beverly Hills at 86
- 1987 Gary Chester [Cesario Gurciullo], drummer (Monkees, Lovin’ Spoonful) and drum instructor, dies at 62
- 1990 Pearl Bailey, actress (Landlord)/singer, dies of heart attack at 72
- 1995 William Strethan “Wild Bill” Davis, musician, dies at 76
- 2004 Gérard Souzay, French baritone (b. 1918)