21 ΑΠΡΙΛΙΟΥ … ΑΥΤΗ ΤΗΝ ΜΕΡΑ ΣΤΗΝ ΜΟΥΣΙΚΗ !!!!! ON THIS DAY IN MUSIC FOR APRIL 21

Events in Music

1956 Elvis Presley‘s 1st hit record, “Heartbreak Hotel”, becomes #1

1988 Barbra Streisand records “You’ll Never Know”

2004 38th CMT Flameworthy Video Music Awards: Toby Keith, Shania Twain & Kenny Chesney win

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 Iggy Pop [James Osterberg], American rocker (Zombie Birdhouse), born in Muskegon, Michigan

1959 Robert Smith, Sussex, English rock guitarist and vocalist (Cure-Hell’s Kitchen), born in Blackpool, England

1993 Rolling Stone Bill Wyman weds Suzanne Accosta on French Riveria
2007 Pop singer sensation Anastacia (38) weds her bodyguard Wayne Newton at the Quinta Real Huatulco in Huatulco, Mexico
2012 Actress Carey Mulligan (26) weds “Mumford & Sons” lead singer Marcus Mumford (25) in Somerset, England

2012 Music legend Neil Diamond (71) weds music manager Katie McNeil (42) at the Beverly Hills Hotel

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)

2016 Prince [Rogers Nelson], American singer-songwriter and musician (1999, Purple Rain), dies at 57