Events in Music
- 1921 “Shuffle Along” 1st black musical comedy, opens in NYC
- 1922 “Abie’s Irish Rose” 1st of over 2,500 performances
- 1953 78th Preakness: Eric Guerin aboard Native Dancer wins in 1:57.8
- 1959 “Party with Comden & Green” closes at John Golden NYC after 44 performances
- 1960 “Finian’s Rainbow” opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 12 performances
- 1960 “Got A Girl” by The Four Preps hits #24
- 1966 The Beatles release “Paperback Writer”
- 1968 Beatles open 2nd Apple Boutique at 161 New Kings Road, London
- 1969 The Who release rock opera “Tommy”
- 1970 Grateful Dead’s 1st performance outside US (England)
- 1979 “Kids Are All Right” rockumentary film featuring The Who premieres
- 1979 Rocker Tom Petty files chapter 11 bankruptcy
Event of Interest
1980 33rd Cannes Film Festival: “All That Jazz” directed by Bob Fosse and “Kagemusha” directed by Akira Kurosawa jointly awarded the Palme d’Or
Akira Kurosawa
- 1997 “King David” closes at New Amsterdam Theater NYC
- 2006 41st Academy of Country Music Awards: Kenny Chesney, Sara Evans and Keith Urban win
Music Premiere
2014 “Pauline” a chamber opera by Margaret Atwood and Tobin Stokes premieres at the York Theatre in Vancouver
Margaret Atwood
- 2015 60th Eurovision Song Contest: Mans Zelmerlow for Sweden wins singing “Heroes” in Vienna
Birthdays in Music
- 1644 Thomas Eisenhut, German composer, born in Aursburg, Germany (d. 1702)
- 1696 Johann Caspar Vogler, German composer and organist, born in Hausen, Schwarzburg-Arnstadt (d. 1763)
- 1737 Louis Francois Chambray, composer
- 1741 Andrea Lucchesi, composer
- 1753 Giovanni Battista Viotti, violonist/composer
- 1756 Nicolas-Joseph Hullmandel, composer
- 1759 Antoinio da Silva Leite, composer
- 1794 Isaak-Ignaz Moscheles, Bohemian composer, born in Prague (d. 1870)
- 1799 Thomas Hood, English poet/composer (Song of the Shirt)
- 1843 Pedro Miguel Marques y Garcia, composer
- 1851 Antoni Stolpe, composer
- 1871 Sigurd Lie, Norwegian composer and conductor, born in Drammen (d. 1904)
- 1889 José Padilla, Almería, Spanish composer and pianist (La Violetera – City Lights, Ça c’est Paris – Moulin Rouge)
- 1901 Edmund Rubbra, Northampton England, composer (Morning Watch) [or 3/23]
- 1902 Mark Lothar, German composer (The Story of the Lazy Bear), born in Berlin (d. 1985)
- 1906 Hellmuth Christian Wolff, composer
- 1910 Artie Shaw, [Arthur Arshawsky], American bandleader (Come’on my House), born in NYC, New York
- 1910 Scatman Crothers [Benjamin], American actor, singer, dancer and musician (Chico and the Man, The Shining), born in Terre Haute, Indiana (d. 1986)
- 1911 Boris Kremenliev, composer
- 1914 Travis Kemp, dancer/teacher
- 1916 M Jean Francaix, composer
- 1918 Robert “Bumps” Blackwell, band leader and record producer, born in Seattle, Washington (d. 1985)
- 1919 Elizabeth “Betty” Garrett, American actress, comedian, singer and dancer (All in the Family), born in St Joseph, Missouri (d. 2011)
- 1919 Ruth Fernandez, Ponce, Puerto Rico, singer (When you Return), politician, (d. 2012)
- 1920 Helen O’Connell, Lima Ohio, singer (Green Eyes, Anapola)
- 1921 Humphrey Lyttelton, British jazz musician, actor and broadcaster (It’s Great to Be Young), born in Eton, Buckinghamshire (d. 2008)
- 1923 Alicia de Larrocha, Copenhagen Denmark, pianist (Orquesta Sinfonica)
- 1925 Mac Wiseman, American musician
- 1928 Rosemary Clooney, Kentucky, singer/paper towels spokeswoman (Coronet)
- 1928 Jeannie Carson [Shufflebottom], British-born comedian, actress, singer and dancer (As Long as They’re Happy, An Alligator Named Daisy), born in Yorkshire, England
- 1928 Pauline Julien, French Canadian singer (d. 1998)
- 1936 Ingeborg Hallstein, German opera singer
- 1939 Michel Colombier, French composer and songwriter (d. 2004)
- 1941 Jackson Hill, composer
- 1941 General George Norman Johnson, US singer (Down at the Beach Club)
- 1944 Ramon “Tiki” Fulwood, US drummer (Funkadelic, Knee Deep)
- 1945 Misty Morgan, country keyboardist (duo with Jack Blanchard)
- 1946 Danny Klein, American rock bassist (J Geils Band-Centerfold), born in NYC, New York
- 1951 Judy Rodman, country singer (Girls Ride Horses Too), born in Riverside, California
- 1952 James Mankey, rocker (Concrete Blonde)
- 1952 Anne-Marie David, French singer
- 1955 Dean Friedman, American singer-songwriter (Ariel), born in Paramus, New Jersey
- 1957 Thereza Bazar, British-Canadian singer (Dollar-Love’s Gotta Hold on Me), born in Toronto, Ontario
- 1957 Jimmy McShane, singer (Baltimora-Tarzan Boy), born in Derry, Northern Ireland (d. 1995)
- 1958 Shelly West, country singer (Red Hot, West by West), born in Cleveland, Ohio
- 1958 François Feldman, French singer
Jewel Kilcher
1974 Jewel Kilcher, American singer–songwriter (Pieces of You), born in Payson, Utah
Jewel Kilcher
- 1974 Mónica Naranjo, Spanish singer
- 1978 Scott Raynor, American drummer (formerly of blink-182)
- 1981 Gwenno Saunders, Former Welsh dancer, now singer with The Pipettes
- 1982 Malene Mortensen, Danish singer
- 1982 Tristan Prettyman, American musician
- 1983 Cristiano Bilanzola, Canadian musician and filmmaker
- 1983 Heidi Range, English singer (Sugababes)
Weddings in Music
Deaths in Music
- 1304 Jehan de Lescurel, French poet and composer
- 1834 Charles Wesley, composer, dies at 76
- 1875 Johann Wilhelm Mangold, composer, dies at 78
- 1887 Ludwig Mathias Lindeman, composer, dies at 74
- 1891 Ignace Xavier Joseph Leybach, composer, dies at 73
- 1926 Hans Koessler, composer, dies at 73
- 1941 Slavko Osterc, composer, dies at 45
- 1952 Georg Alfred Schumann, German composer, dies at 85
- 1968 Merle Kendrick, orchestra leader (Window on the World), dies at 72
- 1969 Jimmy McHugh, composer (Can’t Give You Anything But Love), dies at 74
- 1987 Karel Albert, Flemish composer (Marieken van Nymeghen), dies at 86
- 1991 William Sinnot, Scottish pop musician (Shamen), dies at 30
- 1991 Wilhelm Kempff, German pianist and composer (b. 1895)
- 1992 Atahualpa Yupanqui, Argentine singer, composer, and guitarist, dies at 84
- 1994 Joe Pass [Joseph Passalaqua], American virtuoso jazz guitarist (The Trio) and composer, dies from liver cancer at 65
- 2003 Csaba Szabo. Hungarian composer, dies at 67