Events in Music
- 1950 “Michael Todd’s Peep Show” opens at Winter Garden NYC for 278 performances
Event of Interest
Event of Interest1967 George Harrison is fined £6 for speeding
George Harrison
- 1974 Wings release “Band on the Run” & “Zoo Gang” in UK
Event of Interest
1975 David Bowie releases “Fame”
David Bowie
- 1978 UNICEF chooses rock group Kansas as ambassadors of goodwill
- 1981 “Piaf” closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 165 performances
- 1987 “Dreamgirls” opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 177 performances
- 1992 “Chinese Coffee” opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 18 performances
- 1992 2 earthquakes, including 3rd strongest in US (7.4) rock California
- 1997 “Master Class” closes at Golden Theater NYC after 601 performances
- 1997 “Steel Peer” closes at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC after 76 performances
Birthdays in Music
- 1547 Cristofano Malvezzi, composer
- 1586 Paul Siefert, German composer and organist, born in Danzig (d. 1666)
- 1712 Jean Jacques Rousseau, France, composer/social contractor (Confession)
- 1734 Jean-Jacques Beauvarget-Charpentier, composer
- 1806 Napoleon Coste, composer
- 1831 Joseph Joachim, Kittsee Germany, violinist (Hungarian Concerto)
- 1847 Sveinbjorn Sveinbjornsson, composer
- 1852 Hans Huber, Swiss composer, born in Eppenberg-Wöschnau (d. 1921)
- 1853 Edwin Arthur Jones, composer
- 1874 Oley Speaks, American composer (On the Road to Mandalay), born in Canal Winchester, Ohio (d. 1948)
- 1879 Sigurd von Koch, composer
- 1885 Giuseppe Mule, composer
- 1887 Boleslav Vomacka, composer
- 1893 Luciano Gallet, composer
- 1893 Nils Bjorkander, composer
- 1895 Kazimierz Sikorski, composer
- 1902 Richard Rodgers, Hammels Station NY, composer (Rodgers & Hammerstein)
- 1904 Wlodzimierz Pozniak, composer
- 1906 Safford Cape, US/Belgian conductor/composer/music historian
- 1909 Arnold Shaw, American writer on popular music and composer (d. 1989)
- 1912 Sergiu Celibidache, conductor
- 1913 George Walter Selwyn Lloyd, English composer (Serf, John Socman)
- 1915 David “Honeyboy” Edwards, American delta blues guitarist, born in Shaw, Mississippi (d. 2011)
- 1917 Willem “Wim” Sonneveld, Dutch singer/actor (My Fair Lady)
- 1928 Andrew Gordon Speedie-Pask, English cybernetician stage producer and lyricist, born in Derby (d. 1996)
- 1929 Helena van Heerden, South African pianist
- 1930 Nikolay Nikolayevich Karetnikov, composer
- 1933 Gunnar Reynir Sveinsson, composer
- 1936 Peter Hall, folklorist/musician
- 1945 Dave Knights, rock bassist (Procol Harum-Conquistador), born in London, England
- 1946 Robert Xavier Rodriguez, composer
- 1954 Ava Barber, country singer (Lawrence Welk Show), born in Knoxville, Tennessee
- 1955 Thomas Hampson, American baritone
- 1968 Chayanne, Puerto Rican singer
- 1975 Jon Nödtveidt, Swedish musician, Dissection
- 1977 Harun Tekin, Turkish musician, Mor ve Ötesi
- 1979 Ha Ji-won, South Korean actress and singer
- 1981 Michael Crafter, Australian musician
- 1983 Maui Taylor, Filipino model and singer
- 1986 Kellie Pickler, American singer
- 1988 Lacey Schwimmer, American dancer
Weddings in Music
Wedding of Interest
Wedding of Interest1965 Country singer Merle Haggard (28) weds singer Bonnie Owens (35)
Merle Haggard
Deaths in Music
- 548 Theodora, dancer/empress of Byzantine (Nika-oproer), dies
- 1742 Johann Joseph Ignaz Brentner, composer, dies at 52
- 1788 Johann Christoph Vogel, German composer, dies at 32
- 1798 Pierre Dutillieu, composer, dies at 44
- 1806 Johann Friedrich Ludwig Sievers, German composer, dies at 64
- 1855 Giovanni Agostino Perotti, composer, dies at 86
- 1857 Joseph Fischhof, composer, dies at 53
- 1872 Ludwig Friedrich Hetsch, composer, dies at 66
- 1876 August W Ambros, Austria musicologist, dies at 59
- 1890 Edouard Gregoir, composer, dies at 67
- 1891 Jose Inzenga y Castellanos, composer, dies at 63
- 1910 Gustave Leon Huberti, composer, dies at 67
- 1950 Henry Balfour Gardiner, composer, dies at 72
- 1957 Ede Poldini, Hungarian composer (La poupée valsante), dies at 88
- 1965 Red Nichols, American musician (b. 1905)
- 1979 Paul Dessau, German composer/conducter (Berlin, 1925-33), dies at 84
- 1980 Yoshiro Irino, composer, dies at 58
- 1980 José Iturbi, Spanish pianist and conductor (b. 1895)
- 1981 Peter Paul Kreuder, German composer, dies at 75
- 1982 Harry Mills, US, singer (Mills Brothers), dies at 70
- 1993 GG Allin, American punk rock singer (b. 1956)
- 1996 Willard F. McMurry, musician, dies at 89
- 2010 Bill Aucoin, American rock band manager (b. 1943)
- 2016 Scotty Moore, American guitarist (for Elvis), dies at 84