Events in Music
Event of Interest
Event of Interest1954 Elvis Presley joins Memphis Federation of Musicians, Local 71
Elvis Presley
Event of Interest
1965 Duke Ellington‘s “Golden Brown & the Green Apple” premieres
Duke Ellington
Event of Interest
1969 Barbra Streisand opens for Liberace at International Hotel, Las Vegas
Barbra Streisand
Liberace
- 1970 30,000 attend Powder Ridge Rock Festival, Middlefield Ct
Event of Interest
1971 George Harrison releases “Bangladesh”
George Harrison
- 1972 “Ain’t Supposed to Die Death” closes at Barrymore NYC after 325 performances
Music Single
Jason Newsted
- 2006 World’s longest running music show Top of the Pops is broadcast for the last time on BBC Two. The show had aired for 42 years.
Birthdays in Music
- 1747 Antonio Benedetto Maria Puccini, composer
- 1751 Maria A [Nannerl] Mozart, Austrian pianist/Wolfgang’s sister
- 1793 Josepf Francois Snel, composer
- 1817 Charles Radoux-Rogier, composer
- 1824 Eugenio Terziani, composer
- 1875 James William Tate, composer
- 1886 Johan Algot Haquinius, composer
- 1899 Gerald Moore, England, pianist (Am I Too Loud)
- 1899 John Woods Duke, composer
- 1906 L’udovit Rajter, composer
- 1906 Serafin Pro, Cuban composer, born in La Habana (d. 1977)
- 1913 Ivo Lhotka-Kalinski, composer
- 1918 Joe Daley, jazz tenor/clarinet/flute player
- 1921 Grant Johannesen, American pianist (d. 2005)
- 1922 Zbigniew Wiszniewski, composer
- 1924 Christopher Shaw, composer
- 1925 Antoine Duhamel, composer
- 1929 Christine McGuire, Middletown Oh singer (McGuire Sisters-Sugartime)
- 1934 Andre Prevost, composer
- 1934 Ben Piazza, actor (Blues Brothers, Ben Casey, Dallas), born in Little Rock, Arkansas
- 1936 George “Buddy” Guy, US blues guitarist (Stone Crazy)
- 1936 Istvan Zelenka, composer
- 1936 Yuri Alexandrovich Falik, composer
- 1940 Reva Rose, singer/actress (Temperature’s Rising), born in Chicago, Illinois
- 1941 Paul Anka, singer (Put Your Head on My Shoulder), born in Ottawa, Ontario
- 1944 Teresa Cahill, opera singer
- 1945 David Sanborn, jazz saxophonist (David Letterman Show)
- 1946 Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond, rock bassist (Jethro Tull)
- 1949 Joyce Jones, US singer (1st Choice)
- 1949 Duck Baker, American guitarist
- 1950 Wime de Craene, Flemish chansonnier/composer
- 1955 Rat Scabies [Chris Miller], British rock drummer (the Damned), born in Surrey, England
- 1956 Phil Fearon, rocker (Galaxy, Kandidate-I Don’t Want to Lose You)
- 1958 Kate Bush, English singer-songwriter (Wild Things, Wuthering Heights), born in Plumstead, England
- 1962 Monique Gabrielle, actress (Flashdance, Night Shift), born in Kansas City, Missouri
- 1965 Tex Axile, rocker (Transvision Vamp-Velveteen)
- 1968 Sean Moore, Welsh drummer (Manic Street Preachers)
- 1973 Sonu Nigam, Indian singer/actor
- 1975 Tifini Hale, Palm Springs California, rocker (Party-Rodeo, That’s Why)
- 1977 Ian Watkins, Welsh singer (Lostprophets)
Divorces in Music
Divorce of Interest
Divorce of Interest2007 Pop star Britney Spears (25) divorces rapper-dancer Kevin Federline (29) due to irreconcilable differences after over two years of marriage
Britney Spears
Deaths in Music
- 1655 Sigmund Theophil Staden, composer, dies at 47
- 1727 Franz Weichlein, composer, dies at 67
- 1781 Augustin Ullinger, composer, dies at 35
- 1936 Adolf Philipp, composer, dies at 72
- 1943 Benjamin James Dale, composer, dies at 58
- 1957 Sem Dresden, Dutch composer/conductor, dies at 76
- 1958 Alexander Albrecht, composer, dies at 72
- 1968 Jon Leifs, composer, dies at 69
- 1970 George Szell, Hungarian-born American conductor (Cleveland Orchestra, 1946-70), dies at 73
- 1973 Erich Katz, German-born American composer and musicologist, dies at 72
- 1974 Lev Konstantinovich Knipper, composer, dies at 75
- 1980 Norman Lloyd, composer, dies at 70
- 1983 Howard Dietz, American lyricist (b. 1896)
- 1992 Titti Sotto, latin songwriter, dies at 48 of aids
- 1995 Biggie Rodwell Tembo Marasha, musician, dies at 36
- 2003 Sam Phillips, American record producer (b. 1923)
- 2004 Jan Hanus, Czech composer, dies at 89
- 2014 Dick Wagner, American rock guitarist (the Frost), dies at 71
- 2015 Lynn Anderson, American country singer (I Never Promised you a Rose Garden), dies of a heart attack at 67
- 2016 Gloria DeHaven, American musical actress (Step Lively), dies at 91