Events in Music
Music Recording
Music Recording1956 Elvis Presley records “Hound Dog” and “Don’t Be Cruel”
Elvis Presley
- 1960 “Once Upon a Mattress” closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 460 performances
Music Recording
1964 Cilla Black records Beatle’s “Its For You”, Paul McCartney plays piano
Paul McCartney
Music Concert
Music Concert2005 10 Live 8 concerts held around the world organised by Bob Geldof to raise awareness of poverty
Bob Geldof
Birthdays in Music
- 1581 Johann Staden, German baroque composer, probably born in Nuremberg (d. 1634) baptismal date
- 1589 Guillaume van Messaus, composer
- 1636 Daniel Speer, German composer, born in Breslau (d. 1707)
- 1714 Christoph W Ritter von Gluck, Austria composer (Il re pastore)
- 1737 Francois Leonard Rouwyzer, composer
- 1746 Hardenack Otto Conrad Zinck, composer
- 1763 Peter Ritter, composer
- 1793 Antoine Prumier, composer
- 1814 Atale Therese Annette Wartel, composer
- 1819 Charles-Louis Hanon, French composer (d. 1900)
- 1857 Francesco Spetrino, composer
- 1880 Albert Szirmai, composer
- 1892 Jack Hylton, English orchestra leader/impresario (Crazy Passage Show)
- 1904 Carl Weinrich, composer
- 1906 Robert Levine Sanders, American composer, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1974)
- 1910 Earl Hawley Robinson, composer
- 1910 William Douglas Denny, composer
- 1914 Frederick Fennell, conductor (Time & Winds), born in Cleveland, Ohio
- 1918 Sheikh Imam, Egyptian singer and composer, born in Giza (d. 1995)
- 1922 Genrikh Matusovich Vagner, composer
- 1924 Rick Besoyan, composer
- 1925 Marvin Rainwater, Wichita Ks, country singer (Ozark Jubilee), (d. 2013)
- 1925 Yasushi Akutagawa, composer
- 1926 Billy Usselton, saxophonist
- 1926 Lee Allen, American tenor sax (Walkin’ With Mr Lee), born in Pittsburg, Kansas
- 1927 Brock Peters [George Fisher], American actor and singer (Carmen Jones, To Kill a Mockingbird), born in NYC, New York (d. 2005)
- 1932 Sammy Turner, vocalist (Lavender Blue), born in Paterson, New Jersey
- 1933 David Benjamin Lewin, composer
- 1935 Gilbert Kalish, pianist/professor (SUNY Stony Brook), born in Brooklyn, New York
- 1939 Paul Williams, American musician (The Temptations-My Girl)
- 1941 Stéphane Venne, French Canadian songwriter
- 1945 James Orville Fulkerson, composer
- 1948 Gene McFadden, American songwriter (d. 2006)
- 1949 Roy Bittan, rocker (E Street Band)
- 1951 Joey Puerta, rocker (Ambrosia)
- 1952 Johnny Colla, American musician (Huey Lewis and the News), born in Sacramento, California
- 1952 Wayne Haner, rock bassist (Axe)
- 1956 Jeffrey Cooper, rock guitarist (Midnight Star-No Parking)
- 1957 Mick Anker, British rocker and bass guitarist (Blow Monkeys-Wicked Ways)
- 1964 Dave Parsons, rocker (Transvision Vamp, Sham 69-That’s Life)
Jenni Rivera
Jenni Rivera1969 Jenni Rivera, Mexican-American singer-songwriter (Jenni, 2008), born in Long Beach, California
Jenni Rivera
Ashley Tisdale
1985 Ashley Tisdale, American actress and singer (High School Musical), born in Monmouth County, New Jersey
Ashley Tisdale
Weddings in Music
Wedding of Interest
Wedding of Interest1918 Jazz orchestra band leader Duke Ellington (19) weds high school sweetheart Edna Thompson
Duke Ellington
Wedding of Interest
1964 Gospel singer Mahalia Jackson (52) weds Sigmond Galloway
Mahalia Jackson
Wedding of Interest
1994 “Green Day” vocalist Billie Joe Armstrong (22) weds Adeline Records co-owner Adrienne Nesser (24)
Billie Joe Armstrong
Divorces in Music
Divorce of Interest
Divorce of Interest2007 Dancer Mandie Taketa divorces talk show host Wayne Brady (34) due to irreconcilable differences after 8 years of marriage
Wayne Brady
Deaths in Music
- 1591 Vincenzo Galilei, Italian composer (b. 1520)
- 1663 Thomas Selle, German composer, dies at 64
- 1794 Franz Xaver Thomas Pokorny, composer, dies at 65
- 1878 Francois-Emmanuel-Joseph Bazin, composer, dies at 61
- 1895 William Rockstro, composer, dies at 72
- 1911 Felix Mottl, Austrian conductor and composer (Agnes Bernauer), dies at 54
- 1940 Bertram Shapleigh, composer, dies at 69
- 1952 Henriette H Bosmans, Dutch cello player/pianist/composer, dies at 56
- 1971 Edward Ballantine, composer, dies at 84
- 1973 Elizabeth “Betty” Grable, American singer, dancer, pin-up girl and actress (I Wake Up Screaming, How to Marry a Millionaire, Gay Divorcee), dies of lung cancer at 56
- 1982 Poul Rovsing Olsen, composer, dies at 59
- 1984 Ramiro Cortes, composer, dies at 50
- 1990 Snooky Lanson [Roy Landman], American singer (Your Hit Parade, 5 Star Jubilee), dies at 76
- 1992 Edith Valckaert, Belgian violinist, dies at 42
- 1992 Jose Monje, [Camaron de la Isla], Spanish flamenco singer, dies
- 1994 Marion Williams, gospel singer, dies of diabetes at 66
- 2002 Ray Brown, American jazz double bassist, dies in his sleep at 75
- 2007 Beverly Sills, American operatic soprano (b. 1929)
- 2007 Git Gay [Birgit Carp], Swedish revue director, actress and singer (Git Gay Show, Ge mig en lektion i kärlek), dies at 85
- 2008 Natasha Shneider, Russian-born musician (b. 1956)
- 2016 Earle Brown, American Composer (open form), dies at 75