Events in Music
#1 in the Charts
1956 Elvis Presley‘s 1st hit record, “Heartbreak Hotel”, becomes #1
Elvis Presley
Music Recording
1988 Barbra Streisand records “You’ll Never Know”
Barbra Streisand
Music Awards
2004 38th CMT Flameworthy Video Music Awards: Toby Keith, Shania Twain & Kenny Chesney win
Shania Twain
Birthdays in Music
- 1546 Arcangelo Crivelli, composer
- 1672 Johann Philipp Kafer, composer
- 1730 Antonin Kammel, composer
- 1749 Johann Michael Malzat, composer
- 1779 William Knyvett, composer
- 1814 Beni Egressy, composer
- 1824 Anselmo Clave, composer
- 1840 Franz Xaver Haberl, German priest/musicologist (Magister choralis)
- 1853 Charles-Theodore Malherbe, composer
- 1854 Wladyslaw Rzepko, composer
- 1871 Leo Blech, German composer and conductor, born in Aachen, Rhenish Prussia (d. 1958)
- 1871 Vojtech Rihovsky, composer
- 1892 Jaroslav Kvapil, composer
- 1899 Clement D’Hooghe, Belgian composer
- 1899 Randall Thompson, American composer (Trip to Nahant), born in NYC, New York
- 1901 Julian Bautista, composer
- 1907 Antoni Szalowski, composer
- 1907 Beatrice Kay, American singer/actress, Sister Sue-Calvin & Col), born in NYC, New York
- 1911 Leonard Warren, American baritone (Met-1939-60) who died on stage, born in NYC, New York (d. 1960)
- 1912 Feike P Asma, Dutch organist
- 1915 Andor Kovach, composer
- 1919 Don Cornell, American singer (d. 2004)
- 1920 Bruno Maderna, conductor/composer, Hyperion) [or Mar 21], born in Venice, Italy
- 1924 Ira Louvin, Rainsville Ala, country singer, Louvin Brothers)
- 1936 Anthony Joseph Gnazzo, composer
- 1939 John McCabe, British composer and pianist, born in Liverpool, Merseyside
- 1942 Bobby McClure, US gospel singer (Don’t Mess Up a Good Thing)
- 1945 Diana Darvey, British actress, singer and dancer (d. 2000)
- 1947 John Weider, bassist (Family-Family Entertainment)
- 1948 Paul Davis, Meridian Mi, country/rock vocalist (I Go Crazy)
- 1949 Patti LuPone, Northport NY, actress/singer (Evita, Life Goes On)
- 1951 Nicoel Barclay, rocker
- 1951 Robert Gotobed, English drummer (Wire)
- 1954 Ebiet G. Ade, Indonesian singer
- 1958 Mike Barson, rock keyboardist (Madness)
Person of Interest
1959 Robert Smith, Sussex, English rock guitarist and vocalist (Cure-Hell’s Kitchen), born in Blackpool, England
Robert Smith
- 1959 Jerry Only, American musician (The Misfits)
- 1959 Michael Timmins, Canadian musician (Cowboy Junkies)
- 1966 Michael Franti, American musician
- 1970 Glen Hansard, Irish songwriter and actor
- 1972 Gwendal Peizerat, French ice dancer
- 1972 Severina Vučković, Croatian singer
- 1977 Doseone, American rapper
- 1978 Jukka Nevalainen, Finnish drummer (Nightwish)
- 1978 Branden Steineckert, American drummer (Rancid), (The Used)
Weddings in Music
Wedding of Interest
2012 Music legend Neil Diamond (71) weds music manager Katie McNeil (42) at the Beverly Hills Hotel
Neil Diamond
Deaths in Music
- 1652 Pietro Della Valle, composer, dies at 66
- 1696 Andres de Sola, Spanish composer, dies at 61
- 1780 Ferdinand Zellbell the younger, Swedish composer, co-founder of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, dies at 60
- 1878 Temistocle Solera, composer, dies at 62
- 1898 Louis Theodore Gouvy, composer, dies at 78
- 1900 Heinrich Vogl, composer, dies at 55
- 1939 Herman Finck, composer, dies at 66
- 1948 Carlos Lopez Buchardo, composer, dies at 66
- 1961 James Melton, opera tenor (Ford Festival), dies at 57
- 1968 Norman Demuth, composer, dies at 69
- 1975 Jack Allan Westrup, composer, dies at 70
- 1978 Sandy Denny, country singer, dies at 37
- 1991 Willi Boskovsky, Austrian conductor (new years concert), dies at 81
- 1999 Charles ‘Buddy’ Rogers, American actor and musician (b. 1904)
- 2000 Neal Matthews, Jr., American singer (b. 1929)
- 2003 Nina Simone, American singer and pianist (b. 1933)
- 2007 Lobby Loyde, Australian guitarist and songwriter (b. 1941)
- 2008 Al Wilson, American singer (b. 1939)
- 2010 Gustav Lorentzen, Norwegian singer-songwriter (b. 1947)
Person of Interest
2016 Prince [Rogers Nelson], American singer-songwriter and musician (1999, Purple Rain), dies at 57
Prince (Rogers Nelson)
- 2016 Lonnie Mack, American rocker (Baby What’s Wrong), dies at 74