Birthdays in Music
Person of Interest
Person of Interest1737 Francis Hopkinson, American author and composer, (designed the first American flag), born in Philadelphia, British America (d. 1791)
Francis Hopkinson
- 1760 Gaetano Valeri, composer
- 1817 Charles Balmer, composer
- 1832 Friedrich Wilhelm Langhans, composer
- 1833 Josef Richard Rozkosny, composer
- 1843 David Emlyn Evans, composer
- 1869 Henryk Melcer-Szczawinski, composer
- 1873 Papa Jack Laine, American musician (d. 1966)
- 1874 Gustav Theodore Holst, Cheltenham, England, composer (Planets)
- 1882 Alf Thorbald Hurum, composer
- 1885 Thomas Alexandrovich de Hartmann, composer
- 1887 Lodewijk de Vocht, composer
- 1893 Moses Pergament, composer
- 1912 György Sándor, Hungarian pianist (d. 2005)
- 1922 Lode Backx, Flemish pianist
- 1926 Noor Jehan, Pakistani singer and actress (d. 2000)
- 1932 Don Preston, rock musician (Mothers Of Invention), born in Flint, Michigan
Person of Interest
1934 Leonard Cohen, Canadian writer and singer-songwriter (Death of Ladies Man), born in Montreal, Quebec (d. 2016)
Leonard Cohen
- 1936 Dickey Lee, American singer and songwriter
- 1938 Atli Heimir Sveinsson, composer
- 1938 Yuji Takahashi, composer
- 1941 Tony Moon, American rock songwriter (Dante & the Evergreens), born in Los Angeles, California
- 1944 Jesse Ed Davis, Native American guitarist, born in Norman, Oklahoma (d. 1988)
- 1951 Henk Hofstede, Dutch singer/guitarist/keyboardist (Nits)
- 1953 Betty Wright [Bessie Norris], American R&B singer-songwriter, born in Miami, Florida
- 1954 Philthy Animal [Phil Taylor], English rock drummer (Motorhead), born in Hasland, Chesterfield (d. 2015)
- 1959 Corrinne Drewery, rocker (Swing Out Sister-Swing Out)
- 1964 Jorge Drexler, Uruguayan singer and composer
Person of Interest
1967 Faith Hill [Audrey Faith Perry], American country pop singer (Breathe, Cry), born in Ridgeland, Mississippi
Faith Hill
- 1967 Tyler Stewart, Canadian drummer (Barenaked Ladies)
- 1968 Trugoy, rocker (De La Soul)
- 1968 Jon Brookes, English drummer (The Charlatans), born in Burntwood, Staffordshire (d. 2013)
- 1971 Alfonso Ribeiro, American actor/pianist (Alfonso-Silver Spoons), born in NYC, New York
- 1972 Liam Gallagher, English singer (Oasis)
- 1972 David Silveria, American drummer (KoЯn)
- 1974 Taral Hicks, American musician
- 1976 Jonas Bjerre, Danish singer and guitarist (Mew)
- 1986 Faris Rotter, English vocalist (The Horrors)
Weddings in Music
- 2013 Golden Globe-winning actor Andy Samberg (35) weds singer-songwriter Joanna Newsom (31) at the Post Ranch Inn in Big Sur, California
Deaths in Music
- 1590 Ascanio Trombeti, composer, dies at 45
- 1809 Alexander Reinagle, composer, dies at 53
- 1812 Emmanuel Johann Joseph Schikaneder, composer, dies at 61
- 1836 John Stafford Smith, composer, dies at 86
- 1839 Jacob Gottfried Weber, German composer, dies at 60
- 1953 Roger Quilter, British composer, dies at 75
- 1956 Robert Mills Delaney, composer, dies at 53
- 1961 Maurice Delage, composer, dies at 81
- 1980 Ernest White, composer, dies at 80
- 1981 Tony Aubin, French composer, dies at 73
- 1987 Jaco Pastorius, American jazz musician and bass guitarist (Weather Report), dies at 35
- 1995 Vernell Townsend, blues/gospel singer, dies at 64
- 2006 Boz Burrell, English rock musician (b. 1946)
- 2013 Roman Vlad, Romanian-born Italian composer, dies at 93
- 2016 Ben Cauley, musician (The Bar-Kays) and plane crash survivor, dies at 67
- 2016 John D. Loudermilk, American country singer and songwriter (Tobacco Road), dies at 82