Events in Music
- 1901 Richard Strauss’ opera “Feuersnot” premieres in Dresden
Music Premiere
Music Premiere1937 Dmitri Shostakovich‘s 5th Symphony premieres in Lenningrad, with the ovation lasting over an hour
Dmitri Shostakovich
Event of Interest
Event of Interest1959 Jack Benny (violin) & Richard Nixon (piano) play their famed duet
Richard Nixon
Event of Interest
1975 Linda McCartney drug charges in US are dropped
Linda McCartney
- 1977 “All ‘N All” 8th studio album by Earth, Wind & Fire is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1978)
Event of Interest
1980 John Lennon and Yoko Ono pose nude for photographer Allan Tannenbaum
Yoko Ono
John Lennon
#1 in the Charts
1981 Olivia Newton-John‘s “Physical” single goes #1 & stays for 10 weeks
Olivia Newton-John
- 1983 “Doonesbury” opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 104 performances
- 1993 “Cinderella” closes at New York State Theater NYC after 14 performances
- 1993 “Cyrano – The Musical” opens at Neil Simon Theater NYC for 137 performances
- 1995 New double Beatle CD released with new song “Free as a Bird”
- 1996 “Rehearsal” opens at Criterion Theater NYC
Music Awards
Music Awards2006 33rd American Music Awards: Kelly Clarkson, Sean Paul & Rascal Flatts win
Kelly Clarkson
Music Awards
2010 37th American Music Awards: Lady Gaga & Justin Bieber win
Justin Bieber
Lady Gaga
Music Single
2013 “Happy” single is released by Pharrell Williams (Billboard Song of the Year 2014, Grammy Award for Best Pop Solo Performance 2015)
Pharrell Williams
Birthdays in Music
- 1645 Johann Lohner, German composer (d. 1705)
- 1683 Johann Michael Muller, composer
- 1742 Alessandro Felici, composer
- 1852 Francisco Tarrega y Eixea, composer
- 1871 Panayot Pipkov, composer
- 1877 Louis Campbell-Tipton, US composer, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1921)
- 1877 Sigfrid Karg-Elert, composer (d. 1933)
- 1904 Coleman Hawkins, virtually created tenor saxophone for jazz
- 1905 David Moule-Evans, composer
- 1912 Eleanor Powell, American actress and tap dancer (Born to Dance, Born to Dance), born in Springfield, Massachusetts (d. 1982)
- 1921 Geza Anda, Hungarian/Swiss pianist (Mozart/Bartok)
- 1931 Malcolm Williamson, composer
- 1932 Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, composer
- 1933 Jean Shepard, Pauls Valley Oklahoma, country singer (Ozark Jubilee)
- 1935 Fairuz, Lebanese singer
- 1936 James DePreist, American conductor (Mitropolos 1964), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- 1940 Dr. John [Rebennack], American vocalist (I Was in Right Place), born in New Orleans, Louisiana
- 1940 Natalia Makarova, Leningrad, ballerina (Kirov)/defected 1970
- 1941 David Porter, US songwriter (Soul Man)
- 1941 İdil Biret, Turkish pianist
- 1946 Jonas Tomasson, composer
- 1948 Lonnie Jordan, rock keyboardist and vocalist (War), born in San Diego, California
- 1948 Alphonse Mouzon, American jazz musician (Weather Report, Tenacious Records), born in Charleston, South Carolina (d. 2016)
- 1950 Livingston Taylor, rocker (I Will be in Love With You), born in Boston, Massachusetts
- 1950 Stephen Geyer, American film & television songwriter
- 1951 Nick Gilder, English singer (Hot Child in the City), born in London
- 1952 Lorna Luft, singer/actress (Where the Boys Are-1980), born in Scarsdale, New York
- 1957 Jim Brown, rocker (UB40-Red Red Wine)
- 1962 Steven Curtis Chapman, American musician
Carly Rae Jepsen
1985 Carly Rae Jepsen, Canadian singer (“Call Me Maybe”), born in Mission, British Columbia
Carly Rae Jepsen
Weddings in Music
Wedding of Interest
Wedding of Interest1982 Singer Joni Mitchell (39) weds bassist Larry Klein in Malibu, California
Joni Mitchell
Deaths in Music
- 1695 Henry Purcell, English composer (Indian Queen), dies at 36
- 1710 Barnardo Pasquini, composer, dies at 72
- 1813 William Russell, English composer and organist, dies at 36
- 1863 Joseph Mayseder, Austrian violinist and composer, dies at 74
- 1907 Gaetano Braga, composer, dies at 78
- 1920 Caryl Florio, composer, dies at 77
- 1920 William James Robjohn, composer, dies at 77
- 1938 Leopold Godowsky, pianist/composer, dies at 68
- 1953 Larry Shields, American jazz clarinetist (Original Dixieland Jazz Band), dies at 60
- 1954 Karol Rathaus, composer, dies at 59
- 1972 Karel Haba, Czech composer and violinist, dies at 74
- 1974 Frank Martin, Swiss composer (In Terra Fax), dies at 84
- 1995 Peter Grant, English rock band manager, dies at 60
- 1995 Smilin’ Jim Eames, singer/songwriter, dies at 71
- 1996 Bernard Rose, British organist, soldier, composer, and academic, dies at 80
- 2002 Hadda Brooks, American jazz singer, pianist, and composer (b. 1916)
- 2006 Robert Lockwood Jr., American blues guitarist, dies at 91
- 2017 David Cassidy, American singer and actor (Keith-Partridge Family), dies at 67