Events in Music
- 1843 Opera “Bohemian Girl” is produced (London)
- 1903 Opera “Die Heugierigen Frauen” is produced (Munich)
- 1937 Pro-labor musical revue “Pins & Needles” opens, produced by ILGWU
- 1954 “By the Beautiful Sea” closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 270 performances
- 1967 The Beatles release their album “Magical Mystery Tour”
Album Release
Album Release1970 George Harrison releases 3 album set “All Things Must Pass”
George Harrison
- 1977 “Comedy with Music (Victor Borge)” closes at Imperial NY after 66 performances
- 1987 “Les Miserables” opens at Theatre Royal, Sydney
- 1989 George Harrison releases “Cheer Down” & “Poor Little Girl”
- 1991 “Peter Pan” opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 48 performances
Film Release
Film Release2013 “Frozen”, the highest-grossing animated film of all time, starring Idina Menzel and Kristen Bell, is released
Idina Menzel
Birthdays in Music
- 1544 Ascanio Trombeti, composer
- 1569 Ottavio Vernizzi, composer
- 1691 Josef Antonin Planicky, composer
- 1731 Gaetano Pugnani, composer
- 1732 Johann Joseph Emmert, composer
- 1741 Jean-Pierre Duport, composer
- 1745 Boniface Stoecki, composer
- 1750 Anton Thadaus Johann Nepomuk Stamitz, composer
- 1759 Franz Vinzenz Krommer, composer
- 1787 Christian Rummel, composer
- 1801 Alexander Egorovich Varlamov, composer
- 1804 Julius Benedict, opera composer (Protoghesi), born in Stuttgart, Germany
- 1813 Michele Puccini, composer
- 1830 Harrison Millard, composer
- 1867 Margaret Ruthven Lang, composer
- 1867 Charles Koechlin, French composer (d. 1950)
- 1878 Mabel Wheeler Daniels, composer
- 1879 Adam Tadeusz Wieniawski, composer
- 1885 Rudolph Reti, composer
- 1893 Stanislaw Wiechowicz, composer
- 1898 Nelly Steuer-Wagenaar, Dutch pianist
- 1900 Leon Barzin, conductor (NY City Ballet 1948-58), born in Brussels, Belgium
- 1900 Robert Blum, Swiss composer, born in Zurich (d. 1994)
- 1902 Giuseppe Savagnone, composer
- 1905 Daniel Sternefeld, Belgian conductor/composer (Mater Dolorosa)
- 1910 Rudolf Holzmann, composer
- 1915 Victor Alessandro, composer
- 1918 Zeev Wolfgang Steinberg, composer
- 1919 Siegfried Naumann, composer
- 1928 Walter Klien, Austrian pianist, born in Graz (d. 1991)
- 1931 Juan Guinjoan, composer
- 1935 Al Jackson Jr, drummer (Booker T & MGs-Chinese Checkers), born in Memphis, Tennessee
- 1935 Helmut Friedrich Lachenmann, composer
- 1941 Eddie Rabbitt, country singer (I Love a Rainy Night), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1998)
Person of Interest
Person of Interest1942 Jimi Hendrix, rock guitarist (Purple Haze), born in Seattle, Washington (d. 1970)
Jimi Hendrix
- 1944 Trevor Leonard Ward-Davies ‘Dozy’, English musician (Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich), born in Enford, Wilshire (d. 2015)
- 1945 Randy Brecker, rocker (Blood Sweat & Tears), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- 1948 Dave Winthrop, rock saxophonist (Supertramp)
- 1951 Kevin Kavanaugh, rocker (Asbury Jukes) [or 8/27]
- 1952 Daryl Stuermer, American guitarist (Genesis)
- 1953 Boris Grebenshchikov, Russian singer (Aquarium)
- 1959 Charlie Burchill, Scottish pop guitarist (Simple Minds-Breakfast Club)
- 1960 Ashley Ingram, English singer (Fizzz-Just an Illusion)
- 1961 Princess, rocker (Desirez Heslop, All For Love)
- 1962 Calvin Hayes, rocker (Johnny Hates Jazz-Turn Back the Clock)
- 1962 Charlie Benante, rock drummer (Anthrax-Armed & Dangerous), born in The Bronx, New York
- 1962 Mike “Puffy” Bordin, SF, rock drummer (Faith No More)
- 1965 Fiachna O’Braonain, Irish pop guitarist (Hothouse Flowers-Don’t Go)
- 1976 Tyrone Sutton, American singer (Perfect gentlemen) and Muslim chaplain
- 1976 Jean Grae, South African-born rapper
- 1978 Tim Yeung, American drummer (Vital Remains)
- 1978 Mike Skinner, English musician
- 1979 Hilary Hahn, American violinist
- 1979 Shin Hyesung, Korean singer (Shinhwa)
- 1985 Klara Ósk Elíasdóttir, Icelandic singer
Divorces in Music
- 2006 “Baywatch” actress Pamela Anderson (39) divorces singer Kid Rock (36) due to irreconcilable differences only 4 months after getting married
Divorce of Interest
Divorce of Interest2006 Actress Selma Blair (34) divorces actor-rocker Ahmet Zappa (32) due to irreconcilable differences after more than 2 years of marriage
Selma Blair
Deaths in Music
- 1474 Guillaume Dufay, French/Flemish composer, dies at about 74
- 1749 Balthasar Schmid, composer, dies at 44
- 1749 Gottfried Heinrich Stolzel, composer, dies at 59
- 1890 Emanuele Muzio, Italian composer, dies at 69
- 1899 Felipe Gutierrez y Espinoza, composer, dies at 74
- 1915 Sigismund Vladislavovich Zaremba, composer, dies at 54
- 1916 James Cutler Dunn Parker, composer, dies at 88
- 1955 Arthur Honegger, Swiss composer (King David, Pacific 231), dies of a heart attack at 63
- 1955 Luis de Freitas Branco, Portuguese composer, dies at 65
- 1958 Artur Rodzinski, Polish conductor/composer, dies at 66
- 1965 Carl Parrish, composer, dies at 61
- 1967 Ettore Panizza, composer, dies at 92
- 1968 Gino Roncaglia, composer, dies at 85
- 1968 Hans Redlich, composer, dies at 65
- 1971 Jakabs Medins, composer, dies at 86
- 1973 Frank Christian, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1887)
- 1981 Lotte Lenya, Austrian singer/actress (From Russia With Love), dies of cancer at 83
- 1982 Philipp Kutev, composer, dies at 79
- 1988 Karel Horky, Czech composer, dies at 79
- 1993 Jerry Hunt, American composer, commits suicide at 49
- 1994 Fernando Lopes-Graça, Portuguese composer and musicologist (b. 1906)
- 1998 Barbara Acklin, American singer and songwriter (b. 1943)
- 2005 Joe Jones, American R&B singer (b. 1926)
- 2011 Sultan Khan, Indian classical musician, dies at 71
- 2012 Mickey Baker, American guitar player (“Love is strange”), dies at 87