- 1103
Jan 17 | Frutolf German monk/musicologist/historian, dies. | Ref: 5 |
- 1416
Mar 27 | Antonio Squarcialupi composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1442
Apr 20 | Edward IV King (England, 1461-83), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1444
Feb 17 | Rudolf Agricola [Roelof Huysman], Dutch humanist/organist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1451
Jan 14 | Franchinus Gaffurius composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1452
Dec 22 | Jakob Obrecht Brabant, composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1453
Dec 24 | John Dunstable English composer, dies. | Ref: 5 |
- 1464
Apr 23 | Robert Fayrfax composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1472
Apr 25 | Leon Battista degli Alberti scupltor/musician (Dinner Pieces), dies. | Ref: 5 |
- 1473
Jan 24 | Conrad Paumann German blind organist/composer, dies. | Ref: 5 |
- 1484
Mar 29 | Johann Spangenberg composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1486
Jan 06 | Martin Agricola [M Sore], German composer/cantor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1492
Mar 04 | Francesco de Layolle composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1494
Nov 06 | Hans Sachs, German meistersinger, is born. | Ref: 70 |
- 1495
Mar 25 | Leonhard Paminger composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1497
Feb 06 | John Ockeghem Flemish singer/composer, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
- 1513
Feb 14 | Domenico Maria Ferrabosco Italian composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1515
Mar 12 | Caspar Othmayr composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1517
Jan 17 | Antonio Scandello Italian composer (Passion of Johannes), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 31 | Gioseffo Zarlino composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | The famous Flemish composer Heinrich Issac dies. | Ref: 2 |
- 1527
Mar 21 | Hermann Finck composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 08 | Johann Walter composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 12 | Composer Adrian Willaert moves from Milan to Venice. | Ref: 5 |
- 1532
Mar 25 | Pietro Pontio composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1533
Apr 08 | Claudio Merulo organist/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1534
Dec 15 | Lucas Osiander composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1538
Apr 24 | Gugliemo Gonzaga composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1542
Feb 22 | Santino Garsi composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1543
Jan 18 | Alfonso Ferrabosco composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1545
Jan 17 | Antonio Pace composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1546
Apr 21 | Arcangelo Crivelli composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1547
May 20 | Melchior Bischoff composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1548
Jan 23 | Bernardo Pisano composer, dies at 57. | Ref: 5 |
- 1549
Feb 04 | Eustache du Caurroy composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1550
Dec 06 | Orazio Tiberio Vecchi composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1553
Feb 04 | Caspar Othmayr composer, dies at 37. | Ref: 5 |
- 1554
May 20 | Paulo Bellasio composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1555
Mar 02 | Ludovico Spontoni composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1556
Feb 21 | Sethus Calvisius composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 10 | Martin Agricola, German composer and teacher, dies at age 70. | Ref: 70 |
- 1557
Feb 15 | Alfonso Fontanelli composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 07 | Girolamo Trombeti composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1558
Dec 29 | Hermann Finck composer, dies at 31. | Ref: 5 |
- 1560
Jan 05 | William Cobbold composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1561
Aug 20 | Jacopo Peri, Italian composer, is born. | Ref: 70 |
- 1562
Dec 17 | Adrian Willaert Flemish singer/bandmaster/composer, dies at about 82. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 18 | Philipp Dulichius composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1563
Feb 02 | Hans Neusiedler Hungarian/German luitist/author, dies at approximately 54. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | William Byrd is appointed organist at Lincoln Cathedral. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 29 | Francesco Maria Guaitoli composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1564
Oct 25 | Birth of Hans Leo Hassler, sacred composer. The first notable German musician educated in Italy, Hassler left a rich musical legacy, including the hymn tune PASSION CHORALE, to which the Church now sings, "O Sacred Head, Now Wounded." | Ref: 5 |
- 1566
Jan 14 | Angelo Notari composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 30 | Alessandro Piccinini composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 09 | David Riccio Italian singer/secretary of Mary Stuart, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Antonio de Cabezon composer, dies. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 11 | Manuel Cardoso composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 30 | Alessandro Piccinini composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1567
Jan 08 | Jacob Vaet Flemish composer/royal chaplain master, dies at about 37. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 15 | Black Box [Catherine Quinol], Guadeloupe, vocalist (Love Sensation), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 12 | Thomas Campion England, composer/poet/physician, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 25 | Aurelio Signoretti composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 26 | Nicolas Forme composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 03 | Leonhard Paminger composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
May 15 | Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi Cremona Italy, composer (L'Orfeo), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 15 | Christoph Demantius composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1568
May 17 | Christoph Thomas Walliser composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1569
Apr 03 | Giovanni Battista Massarengo composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 18 | Jakob Hassler composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 30 | Georg Quitschreiber composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1571
Feb 15 | Michael Praetorius Kreuzberg Germany, music theorist/composer (Syntagma music), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1572
Feb 14 | Hans Christoph Haiden composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1573
Jan 31 | Ambrosius Metzger composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 31 | Giulio Cesare Monteverdi composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Gemignano Capilupi composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1574
Jan 09 | Christoph Buel composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 17 | Robert Fludd composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Christoph Buel composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 07 | John Wilbye composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 15 | Samuel Besler composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1576
Jan 19 | Hans Sachs, German meistersinger, dies at age 81. | Ref: 70 |
Dec 03 | Marsilio Casentini composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1578
May 30 | Valentin Dretzel composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 02 | Agostino Agazzari composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1579
Dec 12 | Heinrich Steuccius composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1580
Jan 18 | Antonio Scandello Italian composer (Passion of John), dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 31 | Hendrik Portuguese cardinal/epilepticus/regent (1578-80), dies. | Ref: 5 |
- 1581
Feb 04 | Daniel Selich composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1582
Apr 01 | Thomas Simpson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 01 | Marco da Gagliano Italian opera composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 23 | Severo Bonini composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1584
Apr 29 | Melchior Teschner composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1585
Oct 08 | Heinrich Schutz, German composer, is born. | Ref: 70 |
- 1586
Jan 20 | Johann Hermann Schein German composer (Fontana d'Israel), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 08 | Jacob Praetorius composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 11 | Pietro Della Valle composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1587
Apr 17 | Marco Ivan Lukacic composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1588
Feb 26 | Nicolaus Erich composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1590
Feb 04 | Gioseffo Zarlino composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
- 1591
Jan 07 | Jacobus de Kerle French/Flemish composer, dies at about 59. | Ref: 5 |
May 26 | Dirck Janszoon Sweelinck composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1592
Jan 27 | Pierre de La Barre composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 27 | Pierre de La Barre composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1594
Feb 02 | Giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina Italian composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 20 | Matthaus Apelles von Lowenstern composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 24 | Benedikt Lechler composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 20 | Giovanni Battista Gagliano composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1595
Apr 05 | John Wilson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 27 | Pietro Pontio composer, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
- 1596
Jan 05 | Henry Lawes English composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 03 | Nicolo Amati Italy, violin maker (Stradivari & Guarneri), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1598
Apr 05 | Laurentius Erhard composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 09 | Johann Crger German organist/composer/music theorist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1599
Jan 22 | Cristofano Malvezzi composer, dies at 51. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 23 | Thomas Selle composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1601
Dec 25 | Jose Ximenez composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1602
Feb 03 | Paul Melissus [Paul Schede], German poet/composer, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 14 | Pier Francesco Cavalli Italian opera composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 11 | Johann Neukrantz composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1603
Feb 01 | Michael Trumper composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Stephan Otto composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | William Smith composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 26 | Francesco Nigetti composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1604
Jan 17 | Santino Garsi composer, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
May 05 | Claudio Merulo Italian organist/composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 07 | Ambrosius Reiner composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1605
Feb 19 | Orazio Tiberio Vecchi composer, dies at 54. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 08 | Philip IV, king of Spain and Portugal (1621-65), is born. | Ref: 2 |
Apr 18 | Giacomo Carissimi composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 19 | Orazio Benevoli composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 01 | Juan de Padilla composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1606
Dec 20 | Christoph Schultze composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1607
Feb 09 | Abraham Megerle composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Giovanni Francesco Milanta composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | Johann Rist composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1609
Feb 28 | Paul Sartorius composer, dies at 39. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 16 | Michael Franck composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1610
May 24 | Giovanni Battista Chinelli composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1611
Apr 09 | Giacomo Maria Predieri composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 04 | Carlo Rainaldi composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1612
Jan 07 | Paul de La Pierre composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1613
Jan 19 | Jacques Huyn composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 26 | Johann Jakob Wolleb composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 05 | Johann Steuerlein composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
- 1614
Jan 31 | Nicolas Saboly composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 25 | Marc'Antonio Pasqualini composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 19 | Melchior Bischoff composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
- 1616
Feb 19 | Jacques de Saint-Luc composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 28 | Kaspar Forster composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 06 | Malachias Siebenhaar composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 29 | Johann Erasmus Kindermann composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 18 | Johann Froberger, German composer, organist and harpsichordist, is born. | Ref: 70 |
May 19 | Johann Jacob Froberger German singer/organist/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 21 | Pietro Andrea Ziani composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1617
Feb 09 | Hans Christoph Haiden composer, dies at 44. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | Arcangelo Crivelli composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Antimo Liberati composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1620
Jan 09 | Johann Weichmann composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Johann Weichmann composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Thomas Campion, English poet,composer and musical theorist, dies at age 53. | Ref: 70 |
- 1621
Feb 15 | Michael Praetorius German composer (In Dulce Jubilo), dies at age 50. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 07 | Georg Neumark composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Heinrich Schwemmer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1622
Feb 11 | Alfonso Fontanelli composer, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 13 | Jan Campanus composer, dies at 50. | Ref: 5 |
- 1623
Mar 14 | Adam-Nicolas Gascon composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 23 | Jan Adam Reincken composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 27 | Johann Adam Reincken composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 05 | Pietro Antonio Cesti, Italian composer, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Dec 01 | Thomas Weelkes composer, dies at 47. | Ref: 5 |
- 1624
Mar 21 | Francois Roberday composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 22 | Tomas Micieres composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1625
Jan 17 | Nicolo Rubini composer, dies at 50. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 19 | Erhard Buttner composer, dies at 32. | Ref: 5 |
- 1626
Jan 21 | John Dowland English musician/lyric poet (In Darkness We Dwell), dies at about 63. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | John Dowland composer, dies. | Ref: 5 |
- 1627
Jan 28 | Alfonso Marsh composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Johann Caspar Kerll composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 09 | Johann Kaspar Kerll composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1628
Jan 01 | Christoph Bernhard German composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 03 | Francesco Maria Guaitoli composer, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Gregor Aichinger German composer/organist, dies at about 63. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 02 | Constantin Christian Dedekind composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 21 | Samuel Friedrich Capricornus composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1629
Jan 27 | Hieronymus Praetorius composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 13 | Girolamo Giacobbi composer, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 27 | Hieronymus Praetorius composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
- 1630
Jan 07 | Composer Pier Cavalli marries rich widow Maria Sosomeno. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | William Brade composer, dies. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 30 | Ercole Porta composer, dies at 44. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 19 | Johannes Schein, German composer, dies at age 44. | Ref: 70 |
Dec 12 | Olof Rudbeck composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1631
Mar 24 | Philipp Dulichius composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 06 | Vincenzo De Grandis composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 11 | Christoph Buel composer, dies at 57. | Ref: 5 |
- 1632
Feb 18 | Giovanni Battista Vitali composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 28 | Jean-Baptiste Lully Florence Italy, composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 02 | Georg Caspar Weckler composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 28 | Jean Baptiste Lully musician, opera composer: Cadmus and Hermione, Amadis de Gaule, Roland, Armide et Renaud; is born. | Ref: 4 |
- 1633
Feb 01 | Gabriel Schutz composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 10 | Werner Fabricius composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 21 | Joseph de La Barre composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 12 | Jacopo Peri, Italian composer, dies at age 71. | Ref: 70 |
- 1634
Jan 07 | Adam Krieger German composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1635
Dec 01 | Melchior Teschner composer, dies at 51. | Ref: 5 |
- 1636
Mar 29 | Esaias Reusner composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Esaias Reusner composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1637
Apr 15 | Valentin Molitor composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 07 | Barnardo Pasquini composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1638
Apr 11 | Diogo Diaz Melgaz composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 27 | Nicolas Forme composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 17 | Johann Ulrich Sultzberger composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1640
Mar 08 | Guillaume van Messaus composer, dies at 50. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 10 | Agostino Agazzari Italian composer, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
- 1642
Feb 24 | Marco da Gagliano Italian opera composer, dies at about 66. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 21 | Georg Schmezer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1643
Feb 25 | Marco da Gagliano Italian opera composer, dies at 60. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Girolamo Frescobaldi Italian composer/organist, dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Jose Solana composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | Christian Demelius composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 20 | Christoph Demantius composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
- 1644
Mar 18 | Gottfried Wegner composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 23 | Thomas Eisenhut composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 23 | Tomas de Torrejon y Velasco composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1645
Jan 28 | Gottfried Vopelius composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 19 | William Smith composer, dies at 42. | Ref: 5 |
- 1646
Dec 25 | Harald Vallerius composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1647
Jan 30 | Konrad Hoffler composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 31 | Giovanni Maria Trabaci composer, dies. | Ref: 5 |
- 1648
Feb 03 | Louis Bouteiller composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 26 | Christoph Thomas Walliser composer, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 07 | Giovanni Maria Capelli composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1649
Jan 22 | Pascal Collasse composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 23 | John Blow composer of first English opera (Venus & Adonis) (baptized), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Johann Philipp Krieger composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Joseph-Franois Salomon composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 23 | Andreas Kneller composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 03 | Johann Valentin Meder composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1650
Jan 11 | Paul Hallman composer, dies at 49. | Ref: 5 |
May 20 | Francesco Sacrati composer, dies at 44. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | Gilles Hayne composer, dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
- 1651
Jan 08 | Giovanni Battista Gagliano composer, dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 16 | Zaccaria Tevo composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 15 | Domenico Gabrielli composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 01 | Cristobal de Isla Diego composer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 17 | Wolfgang Schonsleder composer, dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
- 1652
Jan 01 | Johann Krieger composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 17 | Gregorio Allegri Italian singer/composer (Miserere), dies at about 67. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 21 | Pietro Della Valle composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
May 14 | Johann Philipp Fortsch composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 27 | Jacques Huyn composer, dies at 39. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 16 | Giovanni Maria Casini composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1653
Feb 16 | Johannes Schultz composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 17 | Arcangelo Corelli Fusignano Italy, violinist/composer (Concerto Grosso), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 19 | Luigi Rossi composer, dies. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 24 | Georg Motz composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1654
Feb 17 | Michael Lohr composer, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 11 | Heinrich Georg Neuss composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 21 | Johann Neukrantz composer, dies at 51. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 24 | Samuel Scheidt German composer (Concertus sacri), dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
- 1655
Jan 14 | Angelo Predieri composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 14 | Johann Erasmus Kindermann composer, dies at 39. | Ref: 5 |
- 1656
Feb 20 | Johannes Schenck German/Netherlands composer, baptised, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 31 | Pierre de La Barre composer, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
May 31 | Marin Marias composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1657
Mar 18 | Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni Italian composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 05 | Jacques Danican Philidor composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 15 | Michel-Richard Delalande composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1658
Mar 23 | Valentin Dretzel composer, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 22 | Giuseppe Torelli Italy, composer (Concerti Grossi op 8), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1659
Jan 17 | Antonio Veracini composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 18 | Benedikt Lechler composer, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 07 | Henry Purcell English organist/composer (Dido & Aeneas), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1660
Feb 13 | Johann Sigismund Kusser composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 06 | Johann Kuhnau composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 19 | Sebastian Duron composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Matthias Henriksen Schacht composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 02 | Pietro Alessandro Gaspare Scarlatti, Palermo Italy, composer (Tigrane), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 04 | Andre Campra composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1661
Jan 03 | Maria Henritte Stuart (of Orange) English Princess Royal/eldest daughter of the English king Charles I/mother of English king William III, dies of smallpox at 29. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 05 | Jacob Balthasar Schutz composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1662
Feb 05 | Giuseppi Vignola composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 23 | Johann Crger German organist/composer/music theorist, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 04 | Davis Mell composer, dies at 57. | Ref: 5 |
- 1663
Mar 07 | Tomaso Antonio Vitali composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 16 | Nicholas Siret composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 25 | Heinrich Pape composer, dies at 53. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 05 | Severo Bonini composer, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
- 1664
Mar 17 | Georg Osterreich composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1665
Jan 21 | Domenico Mazzocchi composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | Tarquinio Mercula composer, dies. | Ref: 5 |
- 1666
Jan 24 | Johann Andreas Herbst composer, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 24 | Nicholas Lanier composer, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 25 | Johann Heinrich Buttstett composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 06 | Paul Siefert composer, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 05 | Francesco Antonio Nicola Scarlotti composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1667
Feb 17 | Georg Bronner composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 07 | Johann Froberger, German composer, organist and harpsichordist, dies at age 50. | Ref: 70 |
Dec 04 | Michel Pignolet de Monteclair composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 15 | Ludwig Ernst composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 18 | Wenzel Ludwig von Radolt composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1668
Jan 08 | Jean Gilles composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 05 | Francesco Gasparini composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | Clemens Thieme composer, dies at 36. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 10 | Francois Couperin Paris France, composer/organist (Concerts Royaux), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 03 | Casimir Schweizelsperg composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1669
Feb 01 | Miguel Lopez composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Louis Marchand composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 23 | Philipp Buchner composer, dies at 54. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 14 | Pietro Antonio Cesti, Italian composer, dies at age 46. | Ref: 70 |
- 1670
Feb 14 | Georg Gabriel Schutz composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 23 | Loreto Vittori composer, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 24 | Christian Ludwig Boxberg composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1671
Feb 19 | Charles-Hubert Gervais composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Giacomo Cesare Predieri composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 21 | Azzolino Bernardino Della Ciaia composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 01 | Francesco Stradivari Italian violin maker/son of Antonius, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1672
Jan 16 | Francesco Mancini composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 06 | Andre Cardinal Destouches composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 21 | Johann Philipp Kafer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 06 | Heinrich Schutz, German composer, dies at age 87. | Ref: 70 |
- 1673
Feb 02 | Kaspar Forster composer, dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 06 | Maximilian Dietrich Freisslich composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 19 | Pedro Vaz Rego composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 16 | Francesco Feroci composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 08 | Johann Valentin Eckelt composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 21 | John Weaver, English dancer, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Dec 16 | Juan de Padilla composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
- 1674
Jan 12 | Reinhard Keiser composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 12 | Giacomo Carissimi Italian bandmaster/composer (Jephta), dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 21 | Johann Augustin Kobelius composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | John Wilson composer, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
May 31 | Friedrich Erhard Niedt composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1675
Feb 17 | Johann Melchior Conradi composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | Johann Philipp Treiber composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 17 | Petrus Laurentius Wockenfuss composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1676
Jan 19 | John Weldon composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 14 | Ernst Chreistian Hesse composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 04 | Johann Georg Ebeling composer, dies at 39. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 11 | Johann Georg Weichenberger composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1677
Feb 26 | Nicola Fago composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 24 | Alexandre de Villenueve composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1678
Jan 07 | Johannes Flittner composer, dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | Antonio Vivaldi, late Baroque violin virtuoso and composer, is born in Venice, Italy. | Ref: 5 |
May 06 | Joseph de La Barre composer, dies at 44. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 29 | Gotthard Wagner composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 30 | William Croft composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1679
Jan 05 | Pietro Filippo Scarlotti composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 09 | Werner Fabricius composer, dies at 45. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 19 | Girolamo Chiti composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Werner Fabricius composer, dies at 45. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 14 | Georg Friedrich Kauffman composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 24 | Domenico Natale Sarro Italian opera composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 01 | Esaias Reusner composer, dies at 43. | Ref: 5 |
May 12 | Giovanni Antonio Ricieri composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 24 | Domenico Natale Sarro composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1680
Feb 25 | Philipp Hyacinth Lobkowitz composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 20 | Baron Emanuele d' Astorga Italian composer (Stabat mater), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 05 | Giuseppe Porsile composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 21 | Frederich Karl Erbach composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | Abraham Megerle composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
- 1681
Jan 20 | Francesco Bartolomeo Conti composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 14 | Francesco Nigetti composer, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 14 | Georg Philipp Telemann Magdeburg Germany, late baroque composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 11 | Anne Danican Philidor composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1682
Feb 25 | Alessandro Stradella Italian violist/composer, murdered at 37. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Johann Valentin Rathgeber German benedictine/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 11 | Jean-Joseph Mouret composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1683
Jan 06 | Franois de La Croix composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Gasparo Visconti composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 13 | Johann Christoph Graupner German composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 11 | Giovanni Veneziano composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 17 | Johann David Heinichen composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 25 | Jean-Philippe Rameau Dijon France, composer (Traite) (baptized), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1684
Feb 12 | Pietro Andrea Ziani composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 16 | Bohuslav Matej Czernohorsky Czechoslovakian monk/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Johann Graf composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 31 | Francesco Durante composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 08 | Henri Dumont composer, dies. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 18 | Johann Gottfried Walther Erfurt Germany, composer/Musicographer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1685
Jan 06 | Malachias Siebenhaar composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 23 | George Friedric Hndel, Halle Germany, organist/baroque composer (Messiah), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 21 | Composer Johann Sebastian Bach is born in Eisenach, Germany. | Ref: 68 |
Oct 26 | Domenico Scarlatti, virtuoso harpsichordist, composer of over 550 clavier sonatas and son of composer Alessandro Scarlatti, is born in Naples. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 12 | Lodovico Giustini composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1686
Jul 24 | Benedetto Marcello Venice Italy, composer (Lettera Famigliare), is born. | Ref: 68 |
Aug 09 | Benedetto Marcello Venice Italy, composer (Lettera Famigliare), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 17 | Nicola Porpora, Italian composer and voice teacher, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Dec 25 | Giovanni Battista Somis composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1687
Feb 19 | Johann Adam Birkenstock composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Jean-Baptiste Lully Paris, composer. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 22 | Jean Baptiste Lully musician, opera composer: Cadmus and Hermione, Amadis de Gaule, Roland, Armide et Renaud; dies at age 54. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 30 | Johann Balthasar Freisslich composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 05 | Francesco Xaverio Geminiani composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 26 | Johann Georg Pisendel German violinist/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1688
Mar 25 | Johann Gotthilf Ziegler composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 15 | Johann Friedrich Fasch composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 25 | Christian August Jacobi composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 23 | Jean-Louis Lully composer, dies at 21. | Ref: 5 |
- 1689
Apr 15 | Ferdinand Zellbell composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 23 | Joseph Bodin de Boismortier composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1690
Jan 13 | Gottfried Heinrich Stolzel composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 01 | Francesco Maria Veracini Italian opera composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 21 | Christoph Stoltzenberg composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Conrad Johann Conrad Beissel composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | Miguel Gomez Camargo composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 25 | Gottlieb Theophil Muffat composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 27 | Giovanni Legrenzi Italian composer, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
- 1691
Jan 20 | Christian de Placker composer, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 28 | Johann Balthasar Konig composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 23 | Jean-Henri D'Anglebert composer, dies. | Ref: 5 |
- 1692
Jan 06 | Rynoldus Popma van Oevering composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 24 | Antimo Liberati composer, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 08 | Giuseppe Tartini Italy, violinist/composer (Trillo del Diavolo), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | Giuseppe Tartini composer, Istria, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1693
Jan 28 | Gregor Joseph Werner composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 13 | Johann Kaspar von Kerll German composer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Benedict Schultheiss composer, dies at 39. | Ref: 5 |
- 1694
Jan 30 | Joseph Joachim Benedict Munster composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 07 | Coelestin Praelisauer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 28 | Ceslav Vanura composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1695
Jan 06 | Giuseppe Sammartini composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 06 | Andre Cheron composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 20 | Georg Caspar Weckler composer, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
- 1696
Jan 08 | Michael de Ronghe composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 10 | Johann Melchior Molter composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 17 | Baron Ernst Gottlieb composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 29 | Esprit Joseph Antoine Blanchard composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 21 | Andres de Sola composer, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
May 23 | Johann Caspar Vogler composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 31 | Heinrich Schwemmer composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 23 | Johann David Mayer composer, dies at 60. | Ref: 5 |
- 1697
Jan 01 | Johann Pfeiffer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 06 | Carlo Mannelli composer, dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 30 | Johann Joachim Quantz German royal flautist/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 17 | Louis-Maurice de La Pierre composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 29 | Nikolaus Bruhns composer, dies. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 08 | Pierre Prowo composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 16 | Johann Gottlieb Gorner composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 10 | Jean Marie I'aine Leclair composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 05 | Carlo Arrigoni composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 05 | Giuseppe de Majo composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1698
Mar 10 | Gaetano Maria Schiassi composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | Georg Gottfried Wagner composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1699
Mar 25 | Johann Adolf Hasse composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 07 | Andreas Benedikt Praelisauer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 23 | Joseph Gibbs composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1700
Jan 22 | Jacob Balthasar Schutz composer, dies at 39. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 10 | Diogo Diaz Melgaz composer, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 13 | James Kent composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 13 | Michel Blavet composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 22 | Giuseppe Sellitto composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 19 | Georg Abraham Schneider composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1701
Jan 01 | Pietro Sanmartini composer, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Johann Caspar Simon composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 15 | Adam Drese German composer, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 10 | Johann Schelle composer, dies at 52. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 27 | Charles Emanuel I King of Sardinia, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1702
Jan 06 | Jose Melchior de Nebra Blascu composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Johann Valentin Gorner composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 25 | Christian Gottlieb Ziegler composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | Johann Ernst Eberlin composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 05 | Jacob Hintze composer, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
- 1703
Jan 11 | Columban Praelisauer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 16 | Matteo Coferati composer, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 20 | Joseph-Hector Fiocco composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | Carlmann Kolb composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Dieudonne Raick composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 16 | Caffarelli [Gaetano Majorano] Italian castra singer/duke, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 26 | Georg Christoph Leuttner composer, dies at 58. | Ref: 5 |
May 08 | Gottlob Harrer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1704
Feb 23 | Georg Muffat French/German organist/composer, dies at 50. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 24 | Hubert Renotte composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 24 | Marc-Antoine Charpentier French composer (church music), dies. | Ref: 5 |
May 03 | Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber Austrian violist/composer, dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
May 07 | Carl Heinrich Graun composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1705
Jan 24 | Farinelli, Italian castrato singer, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Feb 05 | Jean Gilles composer, dies at 37. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 06 | Johann Matthias Leffloth composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 03 | Michael Schevenstuhl composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 02 | Johann Lohner composer, dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 20 | Balthasar Schmid composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 10 | Gallus Zeiler composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1706
Jan 26 | Guillaume Poitevin composer, dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 03 | Johann Pachelbel organist/composer (Sterbens-Gedancken), dies at 52. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 09 | Johann Pachelbel German organist/composer, dies at 52. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 24 | Giovanni Battista Martini, Italian composer, music theorist and teacher, is born. | Ref: 70 |
- 1707
Jan 22 | Carl Hockh composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 07 | Carl August Thielo composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 09 | Dietrich Buxtehude German organist/composer, dies at about 69. | Ref: 5 |
May 14 | Antonio Teixeira composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 01 | Jeremiah Clarke composer, dies. | Ref: 5 |
- 1708
Jan 23 | Thomas Bullis composer, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 26 | William Hayes composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 08 | Vaclav Jan Kopriva composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Egidio Romoaldo Duni composer (opra-comique), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 21 | Caspar Ruetz composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 06 | George Reuter composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 08 | Georg Zarth composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 03 | Johann Adolph Scheibe German music theorist/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 27 | Jacques Danican Philidor composer, dies at 51. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 04 | Marianus Konigsperger composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1709
Jan 22 | Joseph Reipel composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 08 | Giuseppi Torelli Italian composer, dies at 50. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 16 | Charles Avison composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Josef Antonin Gurecky composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 01 | Franz Xaver Richter composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 23 | Jean-Noel Hamal composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1710
Jan 04 | Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Italian composer (Il Prigioniero Superbo), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 05 | Friedrich Wilhelm Reidt composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 07 | Josef Antonin Sehling composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 30 | Vigilio Blasio Faitello composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 07 | William Boyce English organist/composer of Cathedral music, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 06 | Giuseppi Antonio Paganelli composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 12 | Thomas Augustine Arne English composer (Alfred, Rule Britannia), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | Joseph Marie Clement dall' Abaco composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 14 | Marie A C de Camargo Spanish/Italian/Belgian dancer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | Pierre de La Barre composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
May 10 | Georg Dietrich Leiding composer, dies at 46. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 22 | Wilhelm Friedemann Bach composer, son of JS Bach (Sinfonias 64), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 22 | Wilhelm Friedemann Bach composer, son of J.S. Bach, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1711
Jan 12 | Gaetano Latilla composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | Giuseppe Bonno composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Joseph Umstatt composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Peregrinus Pogl composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | Jean-Joseph Cassenea de Mondonville composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1712
Jan 17 | John Stanley composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 13 | Isfrid Kayser composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 10 | Yusuf Nabi Turkish poet (Hayriye), dies at about 77. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Juan Bautista Jose Cabanilles composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 01 | Bernhard Christian Weber composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1713
Jan 08 | Arcangelo Corelli composer/violinist (Concerti Grossi), dies at age 59. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 13 | Domingo Miguel Bernaube Terradellas composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 10 | Christian Friedrich Schale composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 10 | Raphael Weiss composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 25 | Jean-Baptiste Canavas composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Pal Esterhazy composer, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 13 | Pierre de Jelyotte composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1714
Feb 02 | Gottfried August Homilius composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German composer, son of JS Bach, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 24 | Carlo Giovanni Testori composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 17 | Philipp Heinrich Erlebach composer, dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 02 | Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck, composer, is born in Erasback, Upper Palatinate. (Cross, Milton, "Encyclopedia of the Great Composers and Their Music", Doubleday & Co, 1953) |   |
Dec 23 | Johann Siebenkas composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1715
Jan 12 | Jacques Duphly composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 15 | Georg C Wagenzeil Austria (court)composer/pianist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 27 | Vaclav Kalous composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | Georg Christoph Wagenseil Austrian (court)composer/pianist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 03 | Gottfried Vopelius composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 19 | Charles-Joseph van Helmont composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 11 | John Alcock composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 17 | Johann Wolfgang Kleinknecht composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 19 | James Nares composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 23 | Johann Friedrich Doles composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 28 | Franz Sparry composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 05 | Daniel Dal Barba composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 27 | Vaclav Kalous composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 09 | Georg Gottfried Petri composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 12 | Gennaro Manna composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1716
Feb 18 | Gaspard Fritz composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | Harald Vallerius composer, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 10 | Wenzel Ludwig von Radolt composer, dies at 48. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 13 | Georg Gabriel Schutz composer, dies at 46. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 21 | Josef Ferdinand Norbert Seger composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 04 | John Evangelist Schreiber composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 09 | Johann Georg Zechner composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | Felice de' Giardini composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 23 | Johann Heinrich Rolle composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1717
Jan 04 | Antonio Maria Mazzoni composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 10 | Pierre de La Garde composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 24 | Bernhard Hupfeld composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | John Randall composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Manuel Jeronimo Romero de Avila composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 31 | Florian Wrastill composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 09 | Georg Matthias Monn composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 30 | Guillaume Gommaire Kennis composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1718
Apr 14 | Emanuele Barbella composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1719
Jan 17 | Jean-Joseph Vade composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 25 | Giovanni Maria Casini composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | Sir John Hawkins England, wrote first history of music, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 15 | Johann Friedrich Treiber composer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 17 | Christian Gottfried Krause composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 24 | Johann Christoph Altnikol composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1720
Jan 04 | Johann Friedrich Agricola German (court)composer/organist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | Georg Bronner composer, dies at 53. | Ref: 5 |
May 21 | Antonio Corbisiero composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 04 | Jean-Jacques Robson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1721
Feb 13 | John Reid composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | Pieter Hellendaal Dutch violinist/organist/composer (Glees), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 24 | Johann Philipp Kirnberger German composer, baptised, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1722
Jan 14 | Friedrich Gottlob Fleischer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 28 | Johann Ernst Bach composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | Pietro Nardini composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 21 | Wilhelm Gottfried Enderle composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 22 | Johannes Schmidlin composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1723
Jan 01 | Christian Friedrich Gregor composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 14 | John Wainwright composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 25 | Giovanni Marco Rutini composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 22 | Carl Friedrich Abel German/British viola-da-gamba-player/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1724
Jan 30 | Ignaz Franz Xaver Kurzinger composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 13 | Francisco Jose Coutinho composer, dies at 43. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 27 | Ferdinand Philipp Joseph Lobkowitz composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 01 | Dismas Hatas composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 05 | Joseph Friebert composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 31 | Franz Joseph Oehlschlagel composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1725
Feb 06 | Johann Philipp Krieger composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 07 | Johann Philipp Krieger, German composer, dies at age 75. | Ref: 70 |
Feb 25 | Armand-Louis Couperin Paris France, composer/organist (Notre Dame), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 29 | Joseph Franz Xaver Dominik Stalder composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | Franois Bainville composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 20 | Johann Friedrich Kloffler composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 24 | Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian composer, dies at age 65. | Ref: 70 |
- 1726
Jan 02 | Domenico Zipoli composer, dies at 37. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 14 | Josef Antonin Stepan composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 25 | Giuseppi Paolucci composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 24 | Johann Ernst Hartmann composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1727
Jan 11 | Franz Sebastian Haindl composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 13 | Johann Christoph Schmugel composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 22 | Claude-Benigne Balbastre composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Francesco Gasparini composer, dies at 58. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 14 | Johann Gottlieb Goldberg composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | Pasquale Ankossi composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 07 | Henri Hardouin composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | Gaspare Gabellone composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Jean-Georges Noverre French dancer/choreographer (ballet d'action), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 01 | Johann Heinrich Buttstett composer, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
- 1728
Jan 06 | Charles-Joseph-Balthazar Sohier composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 16 | Niccol Piccinni, Italian composer (Buona Figliuola), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 17 | Johann Gottfried Muthel composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 22 | Giacomo Insanguine composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 02 | Franz Asplmayr composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 13 | Johann Christoph Schmidt composer, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 23 | Tomas de Torrejon y Velasco composer, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 09 | Pietro Alessandro Guglieli composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 21 | Hermann Friedrich Raupach composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | Johann Adam Hiller composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1729
Jan 22 | Giuseppe Luigi Tibaldi composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 11 | Manuel de Egues composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | Gaetano B Vestris Italian/French ballet dancer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 02 | Florian Johann Deller composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 03 | Florian Leopold Gassmann composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 01 | Giuseppe Sarti composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 01 | Christian Ludwig Boxberg composer, dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 03 | Padre Antonio Francisco J Jose Soler Olot Spain, composer (Fandango), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 20 | Franz Xaver Thomas Pokorny composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1730
Jan 12 | Johann Joachim Christoph Bode composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 15 | John Malchair composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 23 | Christian Joseph Lidarti composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 21 | Antonin Kammel composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 25 | Fedele Fenaroli composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | William Jackson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 14 | Capel Bond composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1731
Feb 09 | Gasparo Angiolini, Italian choreographer/composer, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Feb 20 | Frederich Karl Erbach composer, dies at 50. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Angelo Predieri composer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 07 | Jean-Louis Laruette composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 04 | Francisco Morera composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 10 | Maximilian Dietrich Freisslich composer, dies at 58. | Ref: 5 |
May 11 | Johann Gottfried Seyfert composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | Orazio Mei composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 27 | Bartolomeo di Francesco Cristofori Italian piano builder, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 08 | Frantisek Xaver Dusek composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 28 | Christian Cannabich German composer/royal chaplain master, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1732
Jan 02 | Franz Xaver Brixi composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 18 | Jean-Guillain Cardon composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Nathanael Gottfried Gruner composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 17 | Louis Marchand composer, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 25 | Robert Hudson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 05 | Joseph-Franois Salomon composer, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 24 | Gian Francesco de Majo composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | Johann Christian Schieferdecker composer, dies at 52. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 23 | Cajetan Kolberer composer, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
May 13 | Theodor Schwartzkopff composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
May 17 | Francesco Pasquale Ricci composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 13 | Jean-Claude Trial composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 14 | Johann Philipp Fortsch composer, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 18 | Johann Valentin Eckelt composer, dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
- 1733
Jan 15 | Joseph Lederer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 17 | Thomas Linley composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Johann Adam Birkenstock composer, dies at 46. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 05 | Vincenzo Galeotti [Tomazelli], Italian dancer/choreographer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 02 | Giacomo Tritto composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 13 | Johann Heinrich Zang composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 18 | Georg Bohm German organist/composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 12 | Francois Couperin, French composer, dies at age 64. | Ref: 70 |
- 1734
Jan 13 | Luca Sorkocevic composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 17 | Franois-Joseph Gossec Belgian-French composer (Les Pcheurs, Mirza), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 31 | Julien-Amable Mathieu composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Franz Ignaz Beck composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | Carolomannus Pachschmidt composer, dies at 33. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 18 | Joseph Schmitt composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 21 | Gunther Jacob Wenceslaus composer, dies at 48. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | Louis Lully composer, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 16 | Georg Peter Weimar composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 18 | Jean-Baptiste Rey composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 21 | Philipp Hyacinth Lobkowitz composer, dies at 54. | Ref: 5 |
- 1735
Jan 21 | Johann Gottfried Eckard composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 10 | Johann Christoph Kuhnau composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 24 | Georg Friedrich Kauffman composer, dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 25 | Ernst William Wolf composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 09 | August Bernhard Valentin Herbing composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 02 | Christian Gotthilf Tag composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 02 | Franz Volrath Buttstett composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 11 | Pierre Nicolas La Houssaye composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 23 | Ildephons Haas composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 13 | Horace Coignet composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 05 | Johann Christian Bach composer, son of JS Bach (English Bach), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1736
Jan 07 | Ceslav Vanura composer, dies at 41. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 03 | Johann Georg Albrechtsberger Austrian organist/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 16 | Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Italian composer, dies at age 26. | Ref: 70 |
Mar 26 | Georg Balthasar Schott composer, dies at 49. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 08 | Pedro Vaz Rego composer, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
May 07 | John Weldon composer, dies at 60. | Ref: 5 |
May 24 | Juan de Sesse y Balaguer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 26 | Antonio Caldara composer, dies. | Ref: 5 |
- 1737
Jan 12 | Brizio Petrucci composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 28 | Hercule Brehy composer, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 09 | Josef Myslivecek composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Francesco Zannetti composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 10 | Franois Giroust composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 03 | Friedrich Schwindl composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 23 | Louis Franois Chambray composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 08 | Robert Kimmerling composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 17 | The most renowned violin maker in history, Antonio Stradivari, died in Cremona, Italy at 93. | Ref: 68 |
Dec 18 | Violin maker Antonio Stradivari died in Cremona, Italy at age 93. | Ref: 70 |
- 1738
Jan 06 | Franz Xaver Murschhauser composer, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 17 | Jean-Francois Dandrieu composer, dies. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Georg Reidel composer, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 12 | James Sherard composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 17 | Philip Hayes composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 04 | Josef Kohaut composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 27 | Bonaventura Furlanetto composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 13 | Gotthard Wagner composer, dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 14 | Johann Antonin Kozeluch composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 20 | Jean-Joseph Mouret composer, dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 28 | Thaddaus Ferdinand Lipowsky composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1739
Feb 07 | Joseph Pouteau composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 20 | Eligio Celestino composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 12 | Jan Krtitel Vanhal composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 12 | Johann Baptist Wanhal composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 24 | Benedetto Marcello, Italian composer, writer and poet, dies at age 53. | Ref: 68 |
Nov 02 | Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, German composer, is born. | Ref: 70 |
- 1740
Jan 02 | Johann Georg Weichenberger composer, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 05 | Antonio Lotti Italian opera composer, dies at about 72. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 03 | Guillaume Lasceux composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Vincenz Lubeck composer, dies at 85. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 12 | Matej Sojka composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 15 | Ernst Eichner composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 19 | Johann Georg Roser composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 19 | Joseph F Weigl Germany, violin cellist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 24 | John Antes composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 04 | Wolfgang Nicolaus Haueisen composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 09 | Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (Barber of Seville), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 13 | Franz Xaver Schnitzer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1741
Feb 08 | Andre-Ernest-Modeste Gretry composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Henri-Joseph Rigel composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 10 | Franz Adam Veichtner composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 10 | Andre-Ernest Gretry, French operatic composer, is born. | Ref: 68 |
Feb 13 | Johann Joseph Fux Austrian composer/music theorist, dies at about 80. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Johann Andre composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 31 | Peter Burmannus [Peter Burman], Dutch attorney/classicist, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 17 | Johann Gottlieb Naumann composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 10 | Johann Michael Schmidt composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 23 | Andrea Lucchesi composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | Johann Gottfried Krebs composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 27 | Birth of Francois H. Bartholomon, French Swedenborgian composer. Two of his many works later became hymn tunes: AUTUMN (Hail, Thou Once Despised Jesus) and BALERMA (Oh, fora Closer Walk with God). | Ref: 5 |
Jul 28 | Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer and violinist, dies at age 63. | Ref: 70 |
Dec 08 | Maximilian JLP Gardel French dancer/choreographer (Menuet Reine), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 30 | Bartolomeo Giacometti composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1742
Jan 06 | Johann Georg Reinhardt composer, dies. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 15 | Eugene Godecharle composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 26 | Johann Friedrich Ludwig Sievers composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | Johann Heinrich Egli composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | P. D. Q. Bach is born at 12:01 AM. | Ref: 62 |
Apr 13 | Giovanni Veneziano composer, dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 23 | Mihael Omerza composer, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 24 | Roman Hoffstetter composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 11 | Francesco Stradivari Italian violin maker/son of Antonius, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
- 1743
Jan 20 | Pascal Boyer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 01 | Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni Italian composer, dies at 85. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 07 | Lodovico Giustini composer, dies at 57. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 19 | [Ridolfo] Luigi Boccherini Italian composer, cellist (Minuet), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | Bendix Friedrich Zinck composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 22 | Jean-Baptiste Lully Ital/Fr composer (Forced Marriage), dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 06 | Franz Nikolaus Novotny composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1744
Jan 15 | Charles-Hubert Gervais composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 25 | Domenico Natale Sarro Italian opera composer, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Amos Bull composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 15 | Frantisek Antonin Mica composer, dies at 49. | Ref: 5 |
May 03 | Freidrich Wilhelm Weis composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 04 | Marianne von Martinez composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 18 | Joseph Beer Bohemia clarinetist/composer (5th clarinet flap), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 08 | Pierre Joseph Candielle composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1745
Jan 17 | Nicolas Roze composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Coelestin Praelisauer composer, dies at 49. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 18 | Nicola Fago composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Johann Peter Salomon composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Joao de Sousa Carvalho composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Silverius Muller composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 16 | Johann Wilhelm Cornelius von Konigslow composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 19 | Nicolas Sejan composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 25 | Nicolas Etienne Framery composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 07 | Georg Druschetzky composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 08 | Carl Philipp Stamitz composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 09 | Tomaso Antonio Vitali composer, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 05 | Christoph Forster composer, dies at 52. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 22 | Jan Dismas Zelenka composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
- 1746
Jan 05 | Anton Simon Ignaz Praelisauer composer, dies at 53. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 11 | Frantisek Adam Mica composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 21 | Gottfried Kirkhoff composer, dies at 60. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Gian Francesco Fortunati composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 13 | Maurus Haberhauer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 17 | Jan David Holland composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | Augustin Ullinger composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 13 | Oliver Brownson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 15 | Giovanni Antonio Ricieri composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
May 19 | Johann Friedrich Peter composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 30 | Giovanni Antonio Pollarolo composer, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 07 | William Billings, Boston Mass, hymn composer (Rose of Sharon), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1747
Feb 17 | Narciso Casanovas, composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 28 | Justin Morgan composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 31 | Johann Abraham Peter Schulz German composer (Moon has Risen), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 23 | Alexandre-Auguste Robineau composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1748
Jan 01 | Giovanni Furno composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 09 | Stefan Paluselli composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 22 | Lewis Edson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 26 | Emmanuel Aloys Forster composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Christian Gottfried Thomas composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 03 | Henri Madin composer, dies at 49. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Christian Gottlob Neefe German composer/conductor/tutor of Beethoven, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Stefan Paluselli composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 05 | William Shield composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 23 | Johann Gottfried Walther German composer/musicologist, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 07 | Georg Wenzel Ritter composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 20 | Georg Michael Telemann composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 20 | Guillaume Albert Teniers composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 28 | Lorenz Justinian Ott composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 16 | Ferdinand-Philippe-Joseph Staes composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 27 | William Marshall composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1749
Feb 07 | Andre Cardinal Destouches composer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Johann Nikolaus Forkel musicologist/1st biographer of Bach, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 23 | Hugo Franz Karl Alexander von Kerpen composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 24 | Bernard Jumentier composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 21 | Johann Michael Malzat composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 05 | Jean-Frederic Edelmann composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 17 | Domenico Cimarosa Italian composer (Il Matrimonio Segreto), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 19 | Francesco Antonio Bonporti composer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 23 | Johann Lukas Schubaur composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1750
Jan 11 | Johann Jakob Walder composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 17 | Tomaso Albinoni Italian composer (Adagio in G Minor), dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 25 | Johann Gottfried Vierling composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Johann Graf composer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 10 | Stanislao Mattei composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Pietro Filippo Scarlotti composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 23 | Johannes Matthias Sperger composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | John Stafford Smith composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 28 | Paul Ignaz Kurzinger composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 08 | Elias Mann composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | Giuseppe Porsile composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 28 | Composer Johann Sebastian Bach dies at age 65 in Leipzig, Germany. | Ref: 68 |
Aug 18 | Antonio Salieri, Italy, composer (Tatare), is born. | Ref: 68 |
Dec 03 | Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | John "Christmas" Beckwith composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1751
Jan 14 | Corona Elizabeth Wilhelmine Schroter composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 18 | Ferdinand Kauer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 21 | Josephus Andreas Fodor composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 04 | Blas de Laserna composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 12 | Joseph Waast Aubert Nonot composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 18 | Karl Haack composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 05 | Jan Krtitel Kuchar composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Jean-Baptiste Lamoyne composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 12 | Gaetano Manna composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 20 | Domingo Miguel Bernaube Terradellas composer, dies at 38. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 28 | Josef Blazej Smrcek composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1752
Jan 23 | Muzio Clementi Italian composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 30 | Joseph Matthias Kracher composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Charles Broche composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 19 | Jose Mauricio composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 22 | Johann Georg Joseph Spangler composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 29 | Edward Jones composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 04 | Nicolo Antonio Zingarelli composer (Andromeda), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | Sebastien Erard piano/harp manufacturer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 06 | Johann Friedrich Kranz composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 02 | Ludwig August Lebrun composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 03 | Braz Francisco de Lima composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 03 | Georg-Friederich Fuchs composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 27 | Johann Georg Anton Mederitsch-Gallus composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1753
Jan 01 | Louis-Maurice de La Pierre composer, dies at 55. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 22 | Peter Fuchs composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 12 | Lambert-Franois Godecharle composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 06 | Gerhardus Havingha composer, dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
May 23 | Giovanni Battista Viotti violonist/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 28 | Johan Wikmanson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1754
Feb 17 | Jan Jachym Kopriva composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | Dieudonne-Pascal Pieltain composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 15 | Silvestro Palma composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 09 | Antonio Frantisek Becvarovsky composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 02 | Vicente Martin y Soler composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 12 | Franz Anton Hoffmeister composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 15 | Pierre Dutillieu composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 16 | Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari composer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
May 20 | Hans Gram composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 24 | Giacomo Conti composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 09 | Etienne Ozi composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1755
Jan 07 | Gallus Zeiler composer, dies at 49. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 15 | Azzolino Bernardino Della Ciaia composer, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 03 | Florido Tomeoni composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 11 | Albert Christoph Dies composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 13 | Franois Alexander Sallantin composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 02 | Antoine-Frederic Gresnick composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 10 | Philipp Christoph Kayser composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 14 | Pierre-Louis Couperin composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 24 | Theodor Christleib Reinhold composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 04 | Vincenc Masek composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 19 | Gabriele Prota composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 01 | Maurice Greene composer, dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 21 | Caspar Ruetz composer, dies at 47. | Ref: 5 |
- 1756
Jan 22 | Vincenzo Righini composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 27 | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Theophilus) composer: Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro, Symphony #41, Requiem, A Little Night Music; is born in Salzburg, Austria. | Ref: 68 |
Jan 28 | Hans Adolf Friedrich von Eschstruth composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 30 | Josef Preindl composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Karel Blazej Kopriva composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 05 | Thomas Linley composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 13 | Johann Melchior Conradi composer, dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 18 | Johann Christoph Vogel composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 23 | Georg Gottfried Wagner composer, dies at 57. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 08 | Joseph Gehot composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 10 | Giacomo Antonio Perti Italian composer, dies at 94. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 23 | Alexander Reinagle composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 13 | Wojciech Zywny composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 23 | Nicolas-Joseph Hullmandel composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 21 | Thomas Anton Kunz composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 30 | Pavel Vranicky composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1757
Jan 03 | Johann Abraham Sixt composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 28 | Antonio Bartolomeo Bruni composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | Ignaz Malzat composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 20 | Johann Paul Kunzen composer, dies at 60. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | Richard John Samuel Stevens composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz composer, dies at 39. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz composer, dies at 39. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Ferenc Verseghy composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 06 | Alessandro Rolla composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 09 | Wojciech Boguslawski composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 15 | George Knowil Jackson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 28 | Claus Nielsen Schali composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 23 | Domenico Scarlatti composer: over 550 clavier sonatas; son of composer Alessandro Scarlatti; dies at age 71. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 11 | Charles Wesley composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1758
Jan 24 | Johann Chrysostomus Drexel composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 04 | Pierre-Gabriel Gardel French ballet dancer/choreographer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Bernhard Christian Weber composer, dies at 45. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 07 | Benedikt Emanuel Schack composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 12 | Christian Ignatius Latrobe composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Johann Daniel Ferstenberg composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 02 | Johann Balthasar Konig composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 24 | Florian Wrastill composer, dies at 41. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 27 | Jan Francisci composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 03 | Josef Gelinek composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 05 | Johann Friedrich Fasch composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 11 | Carl Friedrich Zelter composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 20 | Othon Joseph Vandenbroek composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1759
Jan 04 | Maria Rosa Coccia composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 31 | Franois Devienne composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Johann Carl Friedrich Rellstab composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 02 | Johann Christian Friedrich Haeffner composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 08 | Franois de La Croix composer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 14 | Organist/baroque German-born English composer George Frideric Handel dies in London at age 74. | Ref: 68 |
Apr 18 | Jacques-Christian-Michel Widerkehr composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 20 | Georg Friedrich Hndel buried in Westminster Abbey. | Ref: 5 |
May 15 | Maria Theresia von Paradis composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 18 | Charles Duquesnoy composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 22 | Gervais-Franois Couperin composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 23 | Antoinio da Silva Leite composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1760
Jan 10 | Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 18 | Claudio Casciolini composer, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 19 | Melchor Lopez Jimenez composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 30 | Franz Xaver Partsch composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 12 | Jan Ladislav Dussek Bohemia, pianist/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 14 | Franois Collin de Blamont composer, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 15 | Jean-Franois Le Sueur composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 14 | Anton Filtz composer, dies at 26. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | Ishmail Spicer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | MJ Auguste Vestrius French ballet dancers, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | Juan Manuel Olivares composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 09 | Nikolaus Ludwig und Pottendorf Austrian composer, dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
May 10 | Johann Christoph Graupner composer, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 14 | Luigi Cherubini, Italian composer, is born. | Ref: 68 |
Sep 24 | John Weaver, English dancer, dies at age 87. | Ref: 70 |
Dec 02 | Joseph Graetz composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1761
Jan 03 | Willem de Fesch Dutch violinist/composer (Joseph), dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 20 | Giovanni Domenico Perotti composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 15 | Carlo Cecere composer, dies at 54. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Erik Eriksson Tulindberg composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Jacob Kimball composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 07 | Antonio Palella composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | Johann Ludwig Steiner composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 20 | Johann Gottlieb Karl Spazier composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1762
Jan 13 | Leonhard Trautsch composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 20 | Jerome-Joseph de Momigny composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 21 | Giuseppe Antonio Silvani composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 11 | Johann Tobias Krebs composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 12 | Laurent Belissen composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 19 | Friedrich Franz Hurka composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 24 | Marcos Antonio da Fonseca Portugal, opera composer (Portogallo), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 25 | Francesco Giuseppi Pollini composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 04 | Stephen Storace composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 13 | Karl Friedrich Horn composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 23 | Johann Samuel Endler composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
May 24 | Joseph Umstatt composer, dies at 51. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 26 | Franz Wilhelm Tausch composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 31 | Mozart family moves from Vienna to Salzburg. | Ref: 5 |
- 1763
Mar 06 | Jean Xavier Lefevre composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 02 | Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 07 | Domenico Dragonetti composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 04 | Franz Stanislaus Spindler composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 15 | Franz Danzi, German composer of operas, lieder and symphonies, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Dec 02 | Carl August Thielo composer, dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 23 | John Davy composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1764
Feb 08 | Joseph Leopold von Eybler Austrian composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Alexander Campbell composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | Pietro Antonio Locatelli Italian violinist/composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 17 | Johann Mattheson German composer/musicologist, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | Bernhard Anselm Weber pianist/conductor/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 27 | Jaime de Casellas composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
May 01 | Gottfried Rieger composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 15 | Johann Nepomuk Kalcher composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | Louis-Sebastien Lebrun composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1765
Jan 04 | Joseph Franz Xaver Dominik Stalder composer, dies at 39. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 12 | Johann Melchior Molter composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 15 | Carlmann Kolb composer, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Elisabetta de Gambarini composer, dies at 33. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | Charles Dibdin England, composer/author (Sea Songs)/actor (baptized), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 25 | Pierre-Joseph Le Blan composer, dies at 53. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | Jean Baptiste Cartier composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 15 | Philippe-Jacques Pfeffinger composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | Joseph Mazzinghi composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | Antonio Tonelli composer, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
- 1766
Jan 10 | Louis Massonneau composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 24 | Samuel Wesley Bristol England, composer/organist (Exultate Deo), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | August Bernhard Valentin Herbing composer, dies at 30. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 03 | Gregor Joseph Werner composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 25 | Johannes Ritschel composer, dies at 26. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Joseph Weigl Austria composer/conductor (Emmeline), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 07 | Tiberius Hemsterhuis Dutch classicist, dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 16 | Rodolphe Kreutzer France, composer/virtuoso violinist (Paris Conserv), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1767
Feb 04 | Johann Franz Volkert composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 13 | Heinrich Domnich composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 19 | Leonhard von Call composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 07 | Franz Sparry composer, dies at 51. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 27 | Andreas Jakob Romberg German violinist/composer (Song of the Clock), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 18 | Thaddaus Ferdinand Lipowsky composer, dies at 28. | Ref: 5 |
May 24 | Joseph Ignaz Schnabel composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 25 | Ferdinand Franzl composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 25 | Friedrich Johann Eck composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 25 | Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer of the late Baroque period, dies at age 86. | Ref: 70 |
Dec 29 | Aime Ambroise Simon Leborne composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1768
Jan 01 | Jean-Laurent Krafft composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 28 | John Wainwright composer, dies at 44. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 03 | Nicola Antonio Porpora, composer, dies at age 81. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 12 | Carolus Antonius Fodor composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 14 | Vigilio Blasio Faitello composer, dies at 58. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 21 | Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier mathematician/Egyptologist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 07 | Karl Theodor Toeschi composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 07 | Michel Mathieu composer, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 06 | Johann Baptist Henneberg composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1769
Jan 17 | Ole Andreas Lindeman composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 07 | Josef Alois Ladurner composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 25 | Salvatore Vigano composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | Josef Antonin Gurecky composer, dies at 60. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 11 | Johann Georg Lickl composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | Giovanni Agostino Perotti composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 04 | Charles Hague composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 07 | Giuseppe Farinelli composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1770
Feb 18 | Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Ferdinando Carulli composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Jan Matyas Nepomuk August Vitasek composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | Antoine Reicha composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | Franois Hanot composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | Giuseppe Tartini Italian composer/violinist, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 25 | Carl Friedrich Ebers composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 19 | Esprit Joseph Antoine Blanchard composer, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 28 | Marie AC de Camargo Spanish/Italian/Belgian dancer, dies at 60. | Ref: 5 |
May 04 | Christian Gottfried Krause composer, dies at 51. | Ref: 5 |
May 09 | Charles Avison composer, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
May 10 | Charles Avison composer, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
May 19 | Antoine-Charles Glachant composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | Theophil "Gottlieb" Muffat German court organist/composer, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 13 | John Clarke-Whitfeld composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 16 | Ludwig von Beethoven, composer, is born in Bonn Germany (Ref: The World Book Encyclopedia, 1999). Other sources say he was christened on this date and that his real birthday is unknown. |   |
Dec 17 | Johann Friedrich Schubert composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1771
Feb 09 | Daniel Belknap composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 18 | Friedrich Christian Ruppe composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 24 | Johann Baptist Cramer German/British pianist/composer/publisher, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Armand-Emmanuel Trial composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Isfrid Kayser composer, dies at 58. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 19 | Giuseppe Cartufo composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Matthaus Stegmayer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 01 | George Guest composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1772
Feb 22 | Joseph Lipavsky composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Karl Jacob Wagner composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | Caspar Furstenau composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 11 | George Reuter composer, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | Giovanni Liverati composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | Johann Wilhelm Wilms composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | Ignaz Franz von Mosel composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 19 | Johann Peter Kellner composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
May 11 | Henri-Jean Rigel composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 07 | Joseph Franz Maximilian Lobkowitz composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 12 | Johann Gottfried Seyfert composer, dies at 41. | Ref: 5 |
- 1773
Jan 04 | Johann Peter Heuschkel composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Vincenc Tomas Vaclav Tucek composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | Pierre-Louis Hus-Desforges composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 07 | Tommaso Marchesi composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 19 | Florian Johann Deller composer, dies at 43. | Ref: 5 |
May 24 | Jan Zach composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
May 26 | Hans Georg Nageli composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 24 | Joseph Wolfl composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1774
Jan 24 | Karl Moser composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 30 | Frantisek Ignac Antonin Tuma composer, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 30 | Jean-Pierre Guignon composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 10 | Florian Leopold Gassmann composer, dies at 44. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 16 | Pierre Rode composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 05 | Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 20 | John Braham composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 17 | Vaclav Jan Krtitel Tomasek organist/pianist/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 02 | Johann Friedrich Agricola German (court)composer/organist, dies at 54. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 20 | Guillaume-Perre-Antoine Gatayes composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1775
Jan 15 | Giovanni Battista Sammartini composer, dies. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 21 | Manuel Garcia composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 27 | Manuel del Popolo Vicente Rodriguez Garca Spanish tenor/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 11 | Charles-Franois Dumonchau composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 01 | Jacob-Joseph-Balthasar Martinn composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 27 | Manuel del Popolo Vicente Rodriguez Garca Spanish tenor/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 06 | Nicolas Isouard composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 16 | Francois Boieldieu, French composer, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Dec 25 | Antun Sorkocevic composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 30 | Heinrich Carl Ebell composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1776
Jan 24 | Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann German writer/judge/composer (Undine), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 18 | John Parry composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 21 | Vincenzo Lavigna composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 08 | Thaddaus Weigl composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 22 | Johann Adolph Scheibe German music theroist/composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 24 | Giuseppi Paolucci composer, dies at 49. | Ref: 5 |
May 06 | James Kent composer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
May 10 | George Thomas Smart composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 12 | Juan Bros y Bertomel composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 13 | Charles Ots composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 13 | Rodrigo Ferreira da Costa composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 06 | Paul Friedrich Struck composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1777
Jan 01 | Micah Hawkins composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 01 | Emanuele Barbella composer, dies at 58. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | Filippo Traetta Italy, composer/musicologist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Georg Christoph Wagenzeil Austria (court)composer/pianist, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | Ignac Ruzitska composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 04 | Charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | Joseph-Henri-Ignace Mees composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 16 | Janos Fusz composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1778
Jan 05 | Fortunato Santini composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 13 | Anton Fischer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 12 | Franz Joseph Volkert composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 13 | Fernando Sor composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 14 | Fernando Joseph Maria Sor composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 15 | Johann Gottlieb Gorner composer, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 05 | Thomas A Arne English composer (Alfred, Rule Britannia), dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | Friedrich August Kanne composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 06 | Joseph Funk composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 07 | Johann Balthasar Kehl composer, dies at 52. | Ref: 5 |
May 08 | Johann Gansbacher composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | Friedrich Westenholz composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1779
Jan 08 | John White composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 15 | Jean Coralli, French dancer/choreographer, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Jan 22 | Stefano Pavesi composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Georg Philipp Kress composer, dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Frans van Campenhout Belgian vocalist/composer (Brabanonne), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 07 | William Boyce composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 16 | William Boyce English organist/composer (Cathedral Music), dies. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Joachim Nicolas Eggert composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Jacob Gottfried Weber composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 06 | Philipp Roth composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 13 | Oliver Shaw composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 21 | Alexis Garaude composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Angelo Maria Benincori composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 06 | Tommaso MFS Traetta Italian opera composer (Farnace), dies at 52. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 11 | Louise Reichardt composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 21 | William Knyvett composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 20 | Birth of Dorothy Ann Thrupp, English devotional writer and author of the hymn, 'Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us.' | Ref: 5 |
Dec 01 | Pyotr Ivanovich Turchaninov composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 14 | Mariano Rodriguiz de Ledesma composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 15 | Manuel Jeronimo Romero de Avila composer, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 28 | Gennaro Manna composer, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
- 1780
Jan 10 | Francesco Antonio Vallotti Italian organist/composer, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 14 | Francois-Joseph Dizi composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Walenty Karol Kratzer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 10 | Juan Jose Landaeta composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 21 | Ferdinand Zellbell composer, dies at 60. | Ref: 5 |
May 10 | Peter Lichtenthal composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 22 | Jan Emmanuel Dulezalek composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | Joseph Frohlich composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1781
Jan 22 | Franois-Antoine Habeneck composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 22 | Johann Siebenkas composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 04 | Josef Myslivecek composer, dies at 43. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 11 | Anthony Philip Heinrich composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 18 | Gustave Vogt composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 22 | Christian Friedrich Hermann Uber composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 22 | Garret Wesley Mornington composer, dies at 45. | Ref: 5 |
May 24 | Louis-Franois Dauprat composer/horn player, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 01 | Charles Philippe Lafont composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 16 | Georg Simon Lohlein composer, dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
- 1782
Jan 01 | Johann Christian Bach, German composer/Mozart's tutor, son of Johann Sebastian Bach, dies at age 46. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | Daniel-Franois-Esprit Auber French opera composer (Fra Diavolo), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | Frantiszek Tucek Scigalski composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 19 | Adrien Trudo Sale composer, dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 19 | Louis-Henry Paisible composer, dies at 33. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 06 | Rynoldus Popma van Oevering composer, dies at 90. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 14 | Carlo Coccia composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 22 | Josef Ferdinand Norbert Seger composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
May 20 | Carlo Giovanni Testori composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
May 20 | Christoph Gottlieb Schroter composer, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
May 26 | Joseph Drechsler composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 15 | Farinelli, Italian castrato singer, dies at age 77. | Ref: 70 |
Oct 27 | Niccolo Paganini, Genoa It, composer/violin virtuoso (Princess Lucca), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1783
Jan 05 | Friedrich Wilhelm Reidt, composer, dies on 73rd birthday. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 10 | James Nares composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 15 | Johann Nepomuk Poissl composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | Gottfied Wilhelm Fink composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 23 | Gaspard Fritz composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Johann Baptist Weigl composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 07 | Ignaz Jakob Holzbauer composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 21 | Birth of English churchman and hymnwriter Reginald Heber. Heber published his first hymn at 28, and among his best remembered today are: "Holy, Holy, Holy," "The Son of God Goes Forth to War" and "From Greenland's Icy Mountains." | Ref: 5 |
May 10 | Niccola Benvenuti composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 22 | Thomas Forbes Walmisley composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 14 | Johann Christoph Kienlen composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 16 | Johann Adolf Hasse Dutch operatic composer (Sesostrate), dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 20 | Antonio Francisco Jawer Jose Soler Sp composer (Fandango), dies at 54. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 28 | Robert Gallenberg composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1784
Jan 01 | William Beale composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 11 | Ferdinand Philipp Joseph Lobkowitz composer, dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 27 | Martin-Joseph Mengal composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | Ferdinand Ries composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 31 | Carl Wilhelm Henning composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 03 | John Fane graaf van Westmorland English (opera)composer/diplomat, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 24 | Anton Laube composer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Job Plimpton composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 25 | Franois-Joseph Ftis Belgian musicology/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 02 | Pierre Leclair composer, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | Ludwig Spohr, Germany, violin virtuoso/composer (Faust), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 04 | Birth of Carl G. Glaser, German music teacher. Of his many choral pieces, Glaser is primarily remembered today for his hymn tune AZMON, to which the Church today sings: "O For a Thousand Tongues." | Ref: 5 |
Oct 04 | Giovanni Battista Martini, Italian composer, music theorist and teacher, dies at age 78. | Ref: 70 |
Oct 15 | Birth of Thomas Hastings, American sacred composer. Hastings was an albino afflicted with extreme nearsightedness, yet from his pen came such enduring hymn tunes as TOPLADY ("Rock of Ages") and ORTONVILLE ("Majestic Sweetness Sits Enthroned"). | Ref: 5 |
Nov 27 | Martin-Joseph Mengal composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 01 | Franois Henri Joseph Castil-Blaze composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1785
Feb 19 | Johann Christoph Richter composer, dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 06 | Karol Kazimierz Kurpinski composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 19 | Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 19 | Alexandre Pierre Franois Boely composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 26 | Karl Siegmund von Seckendorff composer, dies at 40. | Ref: 5 |
May 09 | Franz Xaver Schnitzer composer, dies at 44. | Ref: 5 |
May 10 | Etienne Joseph Floquet composer, dies at 36. | Ref: 5 |
May 15 | Karel Blazej Kopriva composer, dies at 29. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 08 | Antonio Maria Mazzoni composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 29 | Johann Heinrich Rolle composer, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
- 1786
Jan 03 | Johann Christian Friedrich Schneider composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Johann Wolfgang Kleinknecht composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 07 | Frantisek Benda composer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | Franz Xaver Schnyder von Wartensee composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 19 | John Stanley composer, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 18 | Carl Weber composer: Der Freischutz, Euryanthem Oberon, Invitation to the Dance; began the era of German romantic music; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 16 | Birth of Konrad Kocher, German chorister and composer of the hymn tune DIX ("For the Beauty of the Earth"). Kocher did much to popularize four_part singing in the churches. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 18 | Karl Maria von Weber opera composer: Der Freischutz; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 20 | Pietro Raimondi composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1787
Jan 08 | Johann Ludwig Bohner composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 13 | James P Carrell composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 11 | Maximilian JLP Gardel French ballet dancer/choreographer, dies at 45. | Ref: 5 |
May 13 | Johann Michael Malzat composer, dies at 38. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | Johann Georg Leopold Mozart Austrian composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 15 | Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck, composer, dies in Vienna, Austria at age 73. (Cross, Milton, "Encyclopedia of the Great Composers and Their Music", Doubleday & Co, 1953) |   |
Dec 01 | Pavel Ivanovich Dulgorukov composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1788
Jan 05 | Kaspar Ett German organist/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 05 | Johann Schneider composer, dies at 85. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | Erik Drake composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 13 | Carl Ludwig Cornelius Westenholz composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 15 | Gaetano Latilla composer, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 17 | Alessio Prati composer, dies at 37. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 31 | Francesco Zannetti composer, dies at 50. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 10 | Johann Peter Pixis composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Franz Joseph Oehlschlagel composer, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 25 | Mateo Ferrer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Orazio Mei composer, dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | Johann Erik Nordblom composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | Carl Joseph Toeschi composer, dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | Carlo Antonio Campioni composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 15 | Giuseppi Bonno composer, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 12 | Joseph Gibbs composer, dies at 88. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 14 | Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach, German composer and son of J. S. Bach, dies at age 74. | Ref: 70 |
Dec 18 | Camille Pleyel Austria, piano builder/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | John Logan Scottish conductor (Ode to the Cuckoo), dies at about 40. | Ref: 5 |
- 1789
Jan 01 | Christleib Siegmund Binder composer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 02 | Franz Joseph Leonti Meyer von Schavensee composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 20 | Johann Christoph Oley composer, dies at 50. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 30 | George Augustus Kollmann composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 01 | Hippolyte-Andr-Baptiste Chelard composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Armand-Louis Couperin French composer/organist (Notre Dame), dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 08 | Ludwig Wilhelm Maurer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 15 | Friedrich Fesca composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 10 | Guillaume Gommaire Kennis composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 08 | John Fawcett composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 14 | Maria Agata Szymanowska composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1790
Jan 06 | Johann Trier composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 07 | Antonio Corbisiero composer, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 11 | Ignaz Assmayer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 14 | Capel Bond composer, dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 16 | Chretien Urhan composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 18 | Wilhelm Gottfried Enderle composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 19 | Jean-Baptiste Krumphultz composer, dies at 47. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 21 | Johann Friedrich Kloffler composer, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 15 | Nicola Vaccai composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 06 | Vaclav Vilem Wurfel composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 16 | Ludwig August Lebrun composer, dies at 38. | Ref: 5 |
- 1791
Jan 06 | Jose Melchor Gomiz y Colomer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 28 | Louis-J-Ferdinand Hrold France, opera composer (Zampa), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Carl Czerny Vienna Austria, pianist/composer (Schule der Virtuosen), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 31 | Franciszek Wincenty Mirecki composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 11 | Jan Vaclav Hugo Vorisek composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | Joseph Schmitt composer, dies at 57. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | Pietro Romani composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 30 | Ildephons Haas composer, dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 05 | Giacomo Meyerbeer, composer, is born in Berlin, Germany. (Cross, Milton, "Encyclopedia of the Great Composers and Their Music", Doubleday & Co, 1953) |   |
Dec 04 | Johann Gottlob Topfer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 09 | Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1792
Jan 08 | Lowell Mason, Medfield MA, organist/composer (Zebulo), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Jean-Louis Laruette composer, dies at 60. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 29 | Gioacchino Rossini, Pesaro Italy, composer (Barber of Seville), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 25 | Johann Friedrich Gottlieb Beckmann composer, dies at 54. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 30 | Johann Friedrich Schwencke composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 30 | Hans Adolf Friedrich von Eschstruth composer, dies at 36. | Ref: 5 |
May 03 | Carlo Zuccari composer, dies at 87. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 08 | Birth of Lowell Mason, Presbyterian pioneer of congregational singing. He composed over 1,000 hymn tunes, including BETHANY ('Nearer, My God, To Thee'), DENNIS ('Blest Be theTie That Binds'), and HAMBURG ('When I Survey the Wondrous Cross'). | Ref: 5 |
Dec 11 | Birth of Joseph Mohr, the Austrian Roman Catholic vicar who, along with the Oberndorf Church organist Franz Gruber, on Christmas Eve of 1818, authored the enduring Christmas hymn, "Stille Nacht" ("Silent Night"). | Ref: 5 |
Dec 15 | Joseph Martin Kraus composer, dies at 36. | Ref: 5 |
- 1793
Jan 18 | William Henry Havergal composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 06 | Pietro Rovelli composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 06 | Bernhard Joseph Klein composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 12 | Augustin-Philippe Peellaert composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 21 | Johann Michael Schmidt composer, dies at 51. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 09 | Ernestus Weinrauch composer, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 30 | Lorenzo Fago composer, dies at 88. | Ref: 5 |
May 07 | Pietro Nardini composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
May 13 | Martin Gerbert composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 11 | Pietro Coppola composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 13 | Johann Joachim Christoph Bode composer, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 20 | Joseph Legros composer, dies at 54. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 26 | Franz Hunten composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1794
Jan 06 | Kaspar Masek composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 09 | Theobald Bhm flautist/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 06 | Jean-Jacques Beauvarget-Charpentier composer, dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
May 23 | Isaak-Ignaz Moscheles composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1795
Jan 13 | Franois-Joseph Krafft composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 19 | Maria Teresa Agnesi composer, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 26 | Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach composer, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 01 | Giacomo Insanguine composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 21 | Francisco Manuel da Silva composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 05 | Josef Reicha composer, dies at 42. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 14 | Rubert Lucas Pearsall composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 23 | Leopold Jansa composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 15 | Adolf B Marx German music theorist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 08 | Jacques Franois Gallay composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1796
Jan 22 | Bernhard Hupfeld composer, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 17 | Giovanni Pacini composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 28 | Friedrich Wilhelm Rust composer, dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 19 | Stephen Storace composer, dies at 33. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 22 | Gaspare Gabellone composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 14 | Death of Joseph Swain, 35, author of the hymn, "O Thou in Whose Presence My Soul Takes Delight." | Ref: 5 |
Apr 26 | Auguste-Matthieu Panseron composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 17 | Jacob Wilhelm Lustig composer, dies at 89. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 09 | Prudent-Louis Aubery du Boulley composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 30 | Jean-Baptiste Lamoyne composer, dies at 45. | Ref: 5 |
- 1797
Jan 30 | Johann Abraham Sixt composer, dies at 40. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 31 | Franz Peter Schubert, Lichtenthal Austria, composer (Unfinished Symphony), is born in Vienna, Austria. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 08 | Johann Friedrich Doles composer, dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 11 | Antoine Dauvergne composer, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 15 | Henry Engelhard Steinway piano maker (Steinway), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 23 | Antoine d'Auvergne French opera composer (Coquette Trompe), dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 24 | Samuel Lover composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Benvenuto Robbio San Rafaele composer, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Juan Manuel Olivares composer, dies at 36. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 07 | Karl Schwencke composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 19 | Philip Hayes composer, dies at 58. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Nonnosus Madlseder composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | Josef Antonin Stepan composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 17 | Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Tolbecque Belgian composer/conductor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 12 | Johann Hermann Kufferath composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 30 | Johann Christian Lobe composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 30 | Carl Ludwig Junker composer, dies at 48. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 29 | Gaetano Donizetti, composer, is born in Bergamo, Italy. (Cross, Milton, "Encyclopedia of the Great Composers and Their Music", Doubleday & Co, 1953) |   |
Dec 19 | Josef Theodor Krov composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 22 | Giovanni Marco Rutini composer, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 26 | Hans Skramstad composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1798
Jan 06 | Ferdinand Simon Gassner composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 20 | Christian Cannabich German composer/royal chaplain master, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 26 | Christian Gottlob Neefe German organist/composer, dies at 49. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 31 | Karl Gottlieb Reissiger composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 06 | Niels Schiorring composer, dies at 54. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 22 | Justin Morgan composer, dies at 51. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 09 | Giuditta Pasta [Negri], soprano, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 19 | Franz Joseph Glaser composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | Josef Dessauer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1799
Feb 12 | Frantisek Xaver Dusek composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 18 | Maurus Haberhauer composer, dies at 52. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Alexey Nikolayevich Verstovsky composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 18 | John Randall composer, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 25 | Constantin Reindl composer, dies at 60. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | Narciso Casanovas composer, dies at 52. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | Vincenzo Fioravanti composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 13 | Heinrich F L Rellstab German music theorist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 13 | Joseph Rastrelli composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 19 | Pieter Hellendaal violinist/organist/composer (Glees), dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 28 | Franois Giroust composer, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
May 02 | Henri-Joseph Rigel composer, dies at 58. | Ref: 5 |
May 09 | Claude-Benigne Balbastre composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
May 27 | Jacques-Franois-Fromental-Elle Halevy [Elie Levy], composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 06 | Birth of Alexis F. Lvov, Russian church musician who composed the tune to the hymn, 'God, the Almighty One! Wisely Ordaining.'. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 21 | Birth of Alexander R. Reinagle, English church organist. He penned many sacred compositions, including ST. PETER, which afterward became the melody to the hymn, "In Christ There is No East or West". | Ref: 5 |
Oct 24 | Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, German composer, dies at age 59. | Ref: 70 |
Dec 05 | Robert Kimmerling composer, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 20 | David Traugott Nicolai composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 31 | Thomas Taglichsbeck composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1800
Jan 01 | Sydney Nelson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 01 | Vaclav Horak composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 06 | William Jones composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Johan Wikmanson composer, dies at 46. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 14 | Ludwig A F Ritter von Kchel Austrian musicologist (Mozart, Fux), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 02 | Christian Friedrich Schale composer, dies at 86. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 03 | Johann Baptist Christoph Toeschi composer, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 09 | Dominique Della-Maria composer, dies at 30. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 16 | Jozef Stefani composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | John Evangelist Schreiber composer, dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
May 06 | Ferdinand Marcucci composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 07 | Niccol Piccinni, Italian composer (Roland), dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
May 10 | Nikolay Alexeyevich Titov composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 17 | Carl Friedrich Zollner composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 19 | Georg Peter Weimar composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 27 | John Goss composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1801
Jan 11 | John Lodge Ellerton composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 11 | Domenico Cimarosa Italian composer (Matrimonio segreto), dies at 51. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 21 | Ramon Vilanova y Barrera composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | Johannes Bernardus van Bree Dutch violinist/composer (Felix Meritis), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 01 | Adolf Fredrik Lindblad composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 08 | Johann Chrysostomus Drexel composer, dies at 43. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 21 | Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 14 | Christian Friedrich Penzel composer, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 17 | Juan de Sesse y Balaguer composer, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 21 | Andrea Lucchesi composer, dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | Josef Franz Karl Lanner Austria, composer/violist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 14 | Johann Ernst Altenburg composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
May 22 | Heinrich Gottfried Reichard composer, dies at 58. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 03 | Vincenzo Bellini, Italian composer, is born. | Ref: 70 |
- 1802
Jan 03 | Feliks Ostrowski composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 14 | Marie Allard French ballerina, dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 27 | Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg composer, dies at 42. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Charles-Auguste de Beriot Belgian violinist/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 07 | Johann Georg Witthauer composer, dies at 50. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 29 | Frederic Thieme composer, dies at 51. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | Hubert Reis composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 27 | Abraham Louis Niedermeyer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 31 | Cesare Pugni composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 27 | Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg composer, dies at 42. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 31 | Hugo Franz Karl Alexander von Kerpen composer, dies at 53. | Ref: 5 |
- 1803
Jan 02 | Ignaz Franz von Beecke composer, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 06 | Henri Herz composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 26 | Georg von Pasterwiz composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 06 | Gasparo Angiolini, Italian choreographer/composer, dies at age 71. | Ref: 70 |
Feb 16 | Jan V clav Stich Bohemian composer, dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Friedrich Theodor Frohlich composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 17 | Candido Jose Ruano composer, dies at 42. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 02 | Franz Paul Lachner composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 27 | Alfred Julius Becher composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 07 | Johan Peter Cronhamm composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 08 | Joseph Napoleon Ney Moskova composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 11 | Hector Berlioz, French composer and conductor (Symphonie Fantastique, La Damnation de Faust), is born. | Ref: 2 |
Dec 15 | August Freyer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1804
Jan 12 | Hippolyte Monpou composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 14 | John Park composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 16 | Karl August Krebs composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Leopold Eugen Mechura composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 17 | Christian Ernst Graf composer, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Wolfgang Nicolaus Haueisen composer, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | Karl Leopold Rollig composer, dies. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 14 | Johann Strauss the Elder Viennese violinist/composer (Radetzky March), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 20 | Ignaz Malzat composer, dies at 47. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | Salomon Sulzer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 04 | Joseph Fischhof composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 28 | Hans Gram composer, dies at 49. | Ref: 5 |
May 31 | Jeanne-Louise Farrenc composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 01 | Mikhail Glinka Novosspaskoye Russia, composer (Jota Aragonesa), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 27 | Sir Julius Benedict Stuttgart Germany, opera composer (Protoghesi), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1805
Jan 04 | Stephan Hale Alonzo Marsh composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 19 | Johann Gottlieb Karl Spazier composer, dies at 43. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 23 | Vaclav Pichl composer, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 24 | Giacomo Conti composer, dies at 50. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 04 | Georg Andreas Henkel composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Stefan Paluselli composer, dies at 57. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 05 | Theodore Labarre composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | Adrien de La Fage composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 06 | Lorenz Justinian Ott composer, dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 19 | Charles Edmond-Hnri de Coussemaker Belgian musicologist/historian, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 14 | Johann Peter Emilius Hartmann composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | Ridolfo Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer/cellist (Minuet), dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 21 | August Bournonville, Danish director of the Danish Royal Ballet, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Dec 10 | Friedrich Franz Hurka composer, dies at 43. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 26 | Joseph-Leon Gatayes composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 28 | Tomas Genoves y Lapetra composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1806
Jan 19 | Vaclav Jindrich Veit composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 27 | Juan Crisstomo Arriaga y Balzola Spanish composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 11 | Vicente Martin y Soler composer, dies at 51. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 23 | John Alcock composer, dies at 90. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 16 | Giuseppe Colla composer, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 23 | George Frederic Pinto composer, dies at 20. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Josef Slavik composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 04 | Friedrich Gottlob Fleischer composer, dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | Ludwig Schuberth composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 26 | Ludwig Friedrich Hetsch composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 08 | Jan Bedrich Kittl composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 27 | Charles-Joseph Tolbecque composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 27 | Juan Crisstomo Arriaga y Balzola Spanish composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 06 | Louis-Gilbert Duprez composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1807
Jan 02 | Tomasz Napoleon Nidecki composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 04 | Baltasar Saldoni composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 06 | Ludwig Erk composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 06 | Hans Matthison-Hansen composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 06 | John Reid composer, dies at 85. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 15 | Ignacy Feliks Dobrzynski composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 23 | Franois Guichard composer, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 11 | Anton Eberl composer, dies at 41. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | Louis Franois Chambray composer, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | Vaclav Josef Bartolomej Praupner composer, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
May 15 | Luigi Ferdinando Casamorata composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1808
Jan 12 | Paul "the Great" Taglioni Vienna, ballet choreographer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Francesco Gomez da Rocha composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 15 | Gaetano Gaspari composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 10 | Auguste Franchomme composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 25 | Alois Luigi Tomasini composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
May 15 | Gottfried Herrmann composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 15 | Michael Balfe, Irish singer and composer; wrote "The Bohemian Girl", is born. | Ref: 70 |
May 17 | Charles-Louis-Adolphe Vogel composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 30 | Joaquim Casimiro Jr composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 23 | Gaetano Vestris, French ballet dancer, dies at age 79. | Ref: 70 |
Oct 21 | Birth of American Baptist clergyman Samuel Francis Smith. Credited with writing over 100 hymns, Smith is best remembered as the author of "America" ("My Country, 'Tis of Thee"), written at age 23, while a student at Andover Seminary. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 01 | Anton Fischer composer, dies at 30. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 06 | Johann Christian Gebauer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 26 | Albert Grisar composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1809
Jan 02 | Friedrich Wilhelm Jahns composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 04 | Bartolomeo Giacometti composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 20 | Sebastian de Iradier Spanish composer (La Paloma), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 03 | Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (Felix Mendelssohn), the composer, is born in Leipzig, Germany. | Ref: 68 |
Feb 20 | Johann Joseph Emmert composer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 07 | Johann Georg Albrechtsberger Austrian composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 19 | Fredrik Pacius composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 23 | Ferdinand-Philippe-Joseph Staes composer, dies at 60. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Gabriele Mario Piozzi composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 31 | Otto Jonas Lindblad composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 23 | Eugene-Prosper Prevost composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 06 | William Walker composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 31 | Composer Franz Joseph Haydn dies on his 77th birthday in Vienna, Austria. (Also: Almanac of Famous People, ISBN 0-7876-0044-X, 1998) | Ref: 68 |
Dec 20 | Friedrich Karl Kuhmstedt composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 31 | Franz Ignaz Beck composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
- 1810
Jan 05 | Auguste Mermet composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 07 | Joseph Lipavsky composer, dies at 37. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | Robert Schumann Zwickau Germ, composer (Neue Zeitschrift fuer Musik), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Ole Bull composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 08 | Norbert Burgmuller composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 11 | Loisa Puget composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Johann Friedrich Kranz composer, dies at 57. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Frdric F Chopin, Polish/French pianist/composer, is born. (and Cross, Milton, "Encyclopedia of the Great Composers and Their Music", Doubleday & Co, 1953) | Ref: 68 |
Feb 22 | Holger Simon Paulli composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | Johann Ernst Rembt composer, dies at 60. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 09 | Jean-Georges Kastner composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 10 | Konrad Back composer, dies at 60. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 11 | Jakob Zupan composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 13 | Flicien C David French composer (Perle du Brsil, Dsert), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 02 | Hans Christian Lumbye composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 08 | Robert Schumann, Zwickau Saxony Germany, composer (Fantastiesticke), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 09 | Otto Nicolai, German opera composer, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Aug 14 | Birth of Samuel S. Wesley, grandson of Methodist hymnwriter Charles Wesley. Himself a sacred composer, Samuel Wesley penned over 130 original hymn tunes. The best remembered of these today is AURELIA, to which is sung "The Church's One Foundation". | Ref: 5 |
Dec 01 | Joseph Gungl composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 19 | Johann Heinrich Egli composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 21 | Ludwig Schuncke composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1811
Feb 23 | George Washington Hewitt composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 25 | Carl Schuberth composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 07 | Christian Heinrich Hohmann composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 19 | Frantisek Adam Mica composer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 23 | Camille Marie Stamaty composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 23 | Carl Gottfried Wilhelm Taubert composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | Angelo Catelani Italian composer/conductor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 15 | Ernest Louis Muller composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 17 | Ann Sheppard Mounsey composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 12 | Louis-Charles-Joseph Rey composer, dies at 52. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 05 | Ambroise Thomas Metz, France, composer (Mignon), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 22 | Franz Liszt, Raiding, Hungary, romantic composer/virtuoso pianist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 07 | Ignaz Spangler composer, dies at 54. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 08 | Louis Alexander Balthasar Schindelmeisser composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 17 | John Antes composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 17 | Louis-Abet Deffroy de Reigny composer, dies at 54. | Ref: 5 |
- 1812
Jan 08 | Sigismond Fortune Franois Thalberg composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | William Henry Holmes composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 14 | Carl Gradener composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 15 | Johannes Herbst composer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 24 | Eligio Celestino composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Franz Schneider composer, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Franz Anton Hoffmeister composer, dies at 57. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 19 | Lauro Rossi composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 29 | Hermann Hirschboch German composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 09 | Jakob Eduard Schmolzer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 11 | William Vincent Wallace composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 20 | Jan Ladislav Dussek Bohemian pianist/composer, dies at 52. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 06 | Gavril Yakimovich Lomakin composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 23 | Louis-Antoine Julien conductor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 23 | Franz Sebastian Haindl composer, dies at 85. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 27 | Friedrich von Flotow, German-born French composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 13 | Johann Matthias Sperger composer, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
May 20 | Gustav Adolf Mankell composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 21 | Joseph Wolfl composer, dies at 38. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 12 | John Malchair composer, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 13 | Marianne von Martinez composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 15 | Isidor Dannstrom composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 18 | Wiktor Kazynski composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 20 | Achille Peri composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 23 | William Hauser composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 23 | Michel Delalande composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 24 | Henry Russell composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 26 | Wilhelm Volkmar composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 28 | Julius Reitz composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1813
Jan 23 | Franz Commer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 28 | Jan Joseph Rosler composer, dies at 41. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 14 | Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky, composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 16 | Semyon Stepanovich Gulak-Artemovsky composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 02 | George Alexander Macfarren composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 20 | Matthias Keller Ulm Germany, hymn writer (O Farther un High), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 14 | Joachim Nicolas Eggert composer, dies at 34. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Christian Danner composer, dies at 55. | Ref: 5 |
May 15 | Stephen Heller composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 22 | Richard Wagner, Leipzig Germany, composer (Ring, Flying Dutchman), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 24 | Andre-Ernest Gretry, French operatic composer, dies at age 72, | Ref: 68 |
Oct 10 | Giuseppe Verdi, composed operas (Rigoletto, Aida, Otello), is born in Le Roncole, Italy. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 26 | Birth of Henry T. Smart, English sacred organist. Though largely self-taught, Smart published many compositions, two of which are still popular as hymn tunes: LANCASHIRE ("Lead On, O King Eternal") and REGENT SQUARE ("Angels From the Realms of Glory"). | Ref: 5 |
Dec 01 | Ferdinando Bertoni composer, dies at 88. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 02 | Jacob Rosenhaim composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | Errico Petrella composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 24 | Henry Wellington Greatorex composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 29 | Etienne-Joseph Soubre composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1814
Jan 05 | Johann Gottfried Krebs composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 14 | Johannes Josephus Viotta composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 21 | Thomas Attwood Walmisley composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 23 | Georg Friedrich Theodor Wolf composer, dies at 52. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 03 | Johann Antonin Kozeluch composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 13 | Augustin Holler composer, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 21 | Nicolo Gabrielli composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Henryk Oskar Kolberg composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 03 | Charles Kensington Salaman composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 16 | Jules Eugene Abraham Alary composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 21 | Beni Egressy composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 06 | Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 06 | George Joseph Vogler composer, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
May 07 | Franz Volrath Buttstett composer, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
May 09 | Adolph von Henselt composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 01 | August Rockel composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 09 | Jose Angel Lamas composer, dies at 39. | Ref: 5 |
- 1815
Jan 09 | William Jackson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 16 | Adolph Trube composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 22 | Ferdinand Christian Wilhelm Praeger composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | William Jackson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 17 | Franz Gotz composer, dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 19 | Leonhard von Call composer, dies at 47. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 02 | Antonio Buzzolla composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | Jean Delphin Alard French violinist/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 14 | Josephine Lang composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | Wincenty Studzinski composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 06 | Friedrich Robert Volkmann composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 11 | Klara Fey German orchestra leader (Deutscher Arbeiterverein), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | Henry Hugo Pierson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 05 | Birth of New England musical artist Ithamar Conkey. In addition to being a well-known church organist and bass soloist, Conkey also penned the hymn tune RATHBUN, to which we sing today, "In the Cross of Christ I Glory." | Ref: 5 |
May 21 | Roman Hoffstetter composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 29 | Daniel Decatur Emmett composer: Dixie [Dixies Land]; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 19 | Michel Woldemar composer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 19 | Robert Hudson composer, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 22 | Lucien Petipa French dancer/choreographer/ballet leader, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | Temistocle Solera composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1816
Jan 01 | Franois Alexander Sallantin composer, dies at 60. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 15 | Henry Harington composer, dies at 88. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 04 | Meingosus Gaelle composer, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 10 | Johann Paul Aegidius Martini composer, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 17 | Friedrich Wilhelm Markull composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Josef Michal Ksawery Jan Poniatowski composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 18 | Johann Paul Schulthesius composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 19 | Johannes Josephus Hermanus Verhulst composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 23 | Ignaz Vitzthumb composer, dies at 95. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | George Elvey composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 13 | Sir William Sterndale Bennett, composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 14 | Gualtiero Sanelli composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 13 | Birth of Edward F. Rimbault, the English church organist who composed the hymn tune to which is sung 'O Happy Day, That Fixed My Choice.'. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 15 | Joseph Franz Maximilian Lobkowitz composer, dies at 44. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 16 | Vincenzo Galeotti [Tomazelli] Italian dancer/choreographer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
- 1817
Jan 14 | Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny composer, dies at 87. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 16 | Antonin Josef Alois Volanek composer, dies at 55. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 18 | Jacques Gregoir composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 28 | Friedrich Ludwig Emilius Kunzen composer, dies at 55. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Jose Maria de la Purificacion Ventura composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 03 | Emile Racine Gauthier Prudent composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Franz Wilhelm Tausch composer, dies at 54. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Martin de Ron composer, dies at 27. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Niels Wilhelm Gade Danish violinist/composer/conductor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Luigi Gatti composer, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 13 | Matej Sojka composer, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 18 | Johann Jakob Walder composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 24 | Aime Maillart composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Mariano Soriano Fuertes y Piqueras composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 02 | Teodulo Mabellini composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 06 | Bonaventura Furlanetto composer, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
May 02 | Zikmund Michal Kolesovsky composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 11 | Fanny Cerrito, Russian-born American composer for stage and screen musicals, is born. | Ref: 70 |
May 21 | Johann Friedrich Christmann composer, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
May 31 | Edouard Deldevez composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 25 | Joseph Mohr, 25, began serving as pastor of the St. Nicholas Church in Oberndorf, Austria. (It was Christmas Eve, 1818, when Mohr and church organist Franz Gruber, together, produced the enduring Christmas carol, "Stille Nacht"/"Silent Night."). | Ref: 5 |
Dec 01 | Justin Heinrich Knechtl composer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
- 1818
Jan 01 | Fedele Fenaroli composer, dies at 87. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 01 | Giuseppi Gazzaniga composer, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 23 | Nicolas Isouard composer, dies at 42. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | Jakob Axel Josephson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Giuseppe Antonio Capuzzi composer, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 06 | Francis Henry Brown composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 25 | Marek Konrad Sokolowski composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 07 | Leopold Jan Antonin Kozeluh composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
May 08 | Franz Ignaz Kaa composer, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 17 | Charles Gounod, composer, is born in Paris, France. (Also: Cross, Milton, "Encyclopedia of the Great Composers and Their Music", Doubleday & Co, 1953) | Ref: 5 |
Nov 12 | Birth of Henri F. Hemy, English church organist. Of his several original compositions, best known is the tune ST. CATHERINE, to which we commonly sing the hymn, "Faith of Our Fathers." | Ref: 5 |
Dec 31 | Jean-Pierre Duport composer, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
- 1819
Jan 08 | Christian Gottlob Saupe composer, dies at 55. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 14 | Fabio Campana composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 10 | Richard Storrs Willis composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 11 | Samuel Parkman Tuckerman composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 18 | Joseph Philbrick Webster composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Bernardo Calvo Puig composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | Charles Oberthur composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 09 | Janos Fusz composer, dies at 41. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 11 | Marius Petipa French ballet dancer/choreographer (Don Quiotte), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 16 | Nicolas Sejan composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 22 | Birth of Joseph P. Webster, American sacred music writer. During his lifetime, Webster composed over 1,000 pieces of music, including the still_popular hymn tune SWEET BY AND BY ("There's a Land That is Fairer Than Day"). | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Francisco Eduardo da Costa composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 07 | Hubert Leonard composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | Franz von Supp Spalato Dalmatia, composer (Light Cavalry Over), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 03 | Nicola De Giosa composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 05 | Stanislaw Moniuszko Polish composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 11 | Caspar Furstenau composer, dies at 47. | Ref: 5 |
May 17 | Johann Nepomuk Kafka composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 18 | Julius Hopp composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 27 | Julia Ward Howe, American author and reformer; wrote "Battle Hymn of the Republic", is born. | Ref: 70 |
Jun 20 | Jacques Offenbach, Cologne, French composer (Tales of Hoffmann), is born. | Ref: 68 |
Jun 28 | Carlotta Grisi, Italian ballerina, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Jun 30 | Lucile Grahn, Danish choreographer and ballerina, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Jul 24 | Birth of Josiah G. Holland, American writer who in 1874 authored the Christmas hymn, 'There's a Song in the Air'. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 13 | Clara Schumann (ne Wieck) Leipzig, Germany, pianist/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 13 | Edwin George Monk composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 20 | Louis-Luc Loiseau de Persuis composer, dies at 50. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 22 | Franz Wilhelm Abt German composer/choir conductor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1820
Jan 09 | Pavel Krizkovsky composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 23 | Alexander Nikoleyevich Serov composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 25 | Joseph F Weigl German/Austria violin cellist, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 07 | Samuel Adams Holyoke composer, dies at 57. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Pavel Krizkovsky composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 12 | Guillaume Albert Teniers composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 13 | Bela Albrecht Pal Keler composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 17 | Henri Vieuxtemps Verviers Belgium, composer/teacher (Brussels Cons), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 29 | Adolf Schimon composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Richard Redhead composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 07 | Gustav Heinrich Graben-Hoffman composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 21 | Frank Mori composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Jean-Etienne Despreaux composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 17 | Gottfried Conradi composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 10 | Matthaus Stegmayer composer, dies at 49. | Ref: 5 |
May 14 | Paul Friedrich Struck composer, dies at 43. | Ref: 5 |
May 22 | Alexander Ernst Fesca composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 13 | Sir George Grove, English writer of the Dictionary of Music and Musicians, is born in London, England. | Ref: 70 |
Aug 30 | Birth of George F. Root, American sacred music editor and composer. Root helped edit 75 musical collections, as well as composing several hundred original sacred melodies. One of these, JEWELS, is the tune to which is commonly sung the hymn, "When He Cometh." | Ref: 5 |
Oct 06 | The Swedish Nightingale Jenny (Johanna) Lind is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 28 | Birth of John H. Hopkins, a leader in the development of Episcopal church hymnody during the mid-19th century. Today, he is better remembered as the author and composer of the Christmas hymn, "We Three Kings of Orient Are." | Ref: 5 |
Dec 21 | Charles-Franois Dumonchau composer, dies at 45. | Ref: 5 |
- 1821
Jan 12 | Nikolai Afanisev composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 01 | Charles Samvei Bovy-Lysberg composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 08 | Paul Anton Wineberger composer, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 21 | Charles Scribner US, music publisher (Scribner Catalog), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Giovanni Bottesini composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 23 | Bernhard Anselm Weber pianist/conductor/composer, dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 09 | Felix Maximo Lopez composer, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
May 15 | John Wall Calcott composer, dies at 54. | Ref: 5 |
May 25 | Diederich Krug composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 21 | Birth of Henry W. Baker, compiler of 'Hymns Ancient and Modern' the unofficial Anglican church hymnal. He also authored the hymn based on Psalm 23: 'The King of Love My Shepherd Is.' | Ref: 5 |
Dec 15 | Auguste Emmanuel Vaucorbeil composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 20 | Gian Francesco Fortunati composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 22 | Giovanni Bottesini composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 30 | Angelo Maria Benincori composer, dies at 42. | Ref: 5 |
- 1822
Jan 07 | Theodor Aufrecht German indologist (Rigveda's Hymns), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | Alfredo Carlo Piatti composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 14 | Nicholas Mori composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Jean-Baptiste Davaux composer, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 07 | Joaquin y Garbayo Gaztambide composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 15 | Theodor Uhlig composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 19 | Jeronymo Francisco de Lima composer, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Johann Ignaz Walter composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Eugene Gautier composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 02 | Christian Friedrich Hermann Uber composer, dies at 40. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 03 | Franz Adam Veichtner composer, dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 07 | Victor Masse composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 16 | Composer Gioacchino Rossini marries Spanish soprano. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 22 | Gioacchino Rossini marries Isabella Colbran in Bologna. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 31 | Rafael Hernando composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 06 | Franz Xaver Partsch composer, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 13 | Gaetano Valeri composer, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 26 | Jan Albert van Eyken composer/organist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 09 | Charles Duquesnoy composer, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
May 15 | Christian Ludwig Dieter composer, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
May 16 | Eduard Hille Dutch composer/conductor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 27 | Henry Wylde composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 27 | Josef Joachim Raff composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | Csar Franck, Liege Belgium, composer (Rebecca), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 15 | Edward Stephen composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 15 | Ferenc Verseghy composer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 16 | Charles Edward Horsley composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 27 | John Roberts composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 29 | Albert Christoph Dies composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
- 1823
Jan 03 | Jaak-Nikolaas Lemmens Flemish composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 05 | William Rockstro, composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 21 | Alexandre Edouard Goria composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 27 | Edouard-Victoire-Antoine Lalo France, composer (Symphonie Espagnole), is born in Lille, France. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 07 | Richard Genee composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 16 | Johann Gottfried Schict composer, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 16 | William Henry Monk composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 25 | Coelestin Jungbauer composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 19 | Birth of Anna L. Waring, Welsh Anglican hymnwriter. "In Heavenly Love Abiding" is one of her best-known hymns, and is still sung today. | Ref: 5 |
May 15 | Antonio Frantisek Becvarovsky composer, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
May 17 | Charlotte Helen Sainton-Dolby contralto/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 27 | Edouard-Victoire-Antoine Lalo France, composer (Symphonie Espagnole), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 01 | Ernest Reyer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 03 | Joseph Pouteau composer, dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 07 | Johann Gottlieb Schwencke composer, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | Wilhelm Kuhe composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 11 | Yury Nikolayevich Golitsin composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 15 | Friedrich Gottlieb Schwencke composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 19 | Nicolas-Joseph Hullmandel composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 23 | Alexandru Flechtenmacher composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 24 | Philipp Christoph Kayser composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
- 1824
Jan 08 | Per August Olander composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Victor Emanuel I king of Sardinia (1802-21), dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 13 | Ignacy Marceli Komorowski composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 22 | Josef Leopold Zvonar composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | Karl von Perfall composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 01 | Maria Theresia von Paradis composer, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | John Davy composer, dies at 60. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 02 | Bedrich Friedrich Smetana Bohemian composer (Bartered Bride, Moldau), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 03 | Giovanni Battista Viotti Italian violist/composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 12 | Heinrich Carl Ebell composer, dies at 48. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 22 | Johann Melchior Dreyer composer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | Edward Jones composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 21 | Anselmo Clave composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 27 | William Richard Bexfield composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 15 | Alexander Campbell composer, dies at 60. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 23 | Carl Reinecke, German pianist, composer, conductor and teacher, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Aug 31 | Birth of Anna B. Warner, American hymnwriter. She never married, but lived with her sister Susan in New York state. In 1860, a novel they co-authored contained a poem which became one of the most beloved of all children's hymns: I Know.'. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 04 | Anton Bruckner, composer, is born in Ansfelden, Austria. (Cross, Milton, "Encyclopedia of the Great Composers and Their Music", Doubleday & Co, 1953) |   |
Dec 24 | Peter Cornelius composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1825
Feb 05 | Pierre Gaveaux composer, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 07 | Crystobal Oudrid y Segura composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 16 | George Gerson composer, dies at 34. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | Hans Balatka composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | George William Martin composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 24 | Giovanni Domenico Perotti composer, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Adolf Rzepko composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 13 | Josef Gelinek composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
May 07 | Antonio Salieri, Italian composer, dies in Vienna at 74. | Ref: 68 |
May 10 | Rudolf Viole composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 12 | Elias Mann composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
May 12 | Stanislao Mattei composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
May 22 | Domenico Corri composer, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
May 26 | Felipe Gutierrez y Espinoza composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 25 | Johann Strauss (the younger) composer (Waltz King), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 04 | Hynek Ignac Frantisek Vojacek composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 16 | Robert Prescott Stewart composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 19 | George Frederick Bristow composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | Esteban Salas y Castro composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 27 | Reinhold Finsterbusch composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 29 | Giuseppe Maria Gioacchino Cambini composer, dies. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 30 | Peter Gronland composer, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
- 1826
Jan 17 | Juan Crisstomo Arriaga y Balzola Spanish composer, dies at 19. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 16 | Franz von Holstein composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | John Thomas composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 09 | Jean Joseph Bott German violinist/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 11 | Gervais-Franois Couperin composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 14 | William Fisk Sherwin composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 23 | Leon Minkus composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | Jakob Haibel composer, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 07 | Johann Hermann Berens composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 13 | Franz Danzi, German composer of operas, lieder and symphonies, dies at age 62. | Ref: 70 |
Apr 20 | Birth of Erastus Johnson, American hymnwriter. A lifelong student of the Bible, Johnson, at age 47, penned the hymn, "O Sometimes the Shadows are Deep" (a.k.a. "The Rock That Is Higher Than I"). | Ref: 5 |
Apr 28 | Alexander Stadtfeld composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 10 | Giuseppe Sigismondo composer, dies at 86. | Ref: 5 |
May 24 | Friedrich Fesca composer, dies at 37. | Ref: 5 |
May 25 | Christian Friedrich Ruppe composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 05 | Carl Weber, German composer: Der Freischutz, Euryanthem Oberon, Invitation to the Dance; began the era of German romantic music, dies at age 39. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 06 | Karl Maria von Weber opera composer: Der Freischutz; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 04 | Stephen Foster song writer of about 200 songs including: Oh! Susannah, Camptown Races, Old Folks at Home [Swanee River], Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair, Beautiful Dreamer; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 03 | Edmond van der Straeten Belgian lawyer/musicologist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | Benedikt Emanuel Schack composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 21 | Ernst Pauer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 24 | Ignacy Krzyzanowski composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 26 | Franz Coenen composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 31 | Henry Hiles composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1827
Jan 19 | Carlos Guido y Spano Argentina, conductor (Rfagas), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 30 | Johann Philipp Christian Schulz composer, dies at 53. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Johann Nepomuk Kalcher composer, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 07 | Franz Anton Dimmler composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | David Moritz Michael composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 09 | Franz Xaver Gerl composer, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 11 | Septimus Winner composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Emanuel Kania composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | German composer Ludwig Van Beethoven dies in Vienna at age 56. He had been deaf for the later part of his life, but said on his death bed "I shall hear in heaven." | Ref: 2 |
Mar 29 | Composer Ludwig van Beethoven is buried in Vienna amidst a crowd of over 10,000 mourners. | Ref: 2 |
Apr 12 | Edward Mollenhauer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 15 | Julius Tausch composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 24 | Pierre Joseph Candielle composer, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 26 | Bernardo Ottani composer, dies at 90. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 09 | Frantois Leonard Rouwyzer composer, dies at 90. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 26 | Jan David Holland composer, dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
- 1828
Jan 13 | Alexandre-Auguste Robineau composer, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 24 | Karol Studzinski composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 27 | Louis Schubert composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 08 | Antonio Cagnoni composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 03 | Karl Collan composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 05 | Johann Gungl composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | Johann Anton Sulzer composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | Pietro Plantania composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 22 | Guilherme Antonio Cossoul composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 20 | Birth of American lawyer Horatio Gates Spafford. In 1873, upon learning of the drowning of his four daughters following a ship collision in the Atlantic, Spafford penned the lines to the hymn, "It is Well With My Soul". | Ref: 5 |
Nov 19 | In Vienna, Composer Franz Schubert dies of syphillus at age 31. | Ref: 2 |
Nov 27 | Louis Schubert composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 30 | Waldemar Thrane composer, dies at 38. | Ref: 5 |
- 1829
Jan 03 | Robert Archibald Smith composer, dies at 48. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 12 | Michael Gottard Fischer composer, dies at 55. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 24 | William Mason composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 25 | William Shield composer, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 16 | Franois-Joseph Gossec Belgian/French composer (Messe of Morts), dies at 95. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 18 | Jan Krtitel Kuchar composer, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 20 | Charles Albert White composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 16 | Death of Carl G. Glaser, 45, German choral master and composer of the hymn tune AZMON, to which we today sing, "O For a Thousand Tongues." | Ref: 5 |
May 08 | Louis Moreau Gottschalk first internationally recognized US pianist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 08 | Mauro Giuseppe Sergio Pantaleo Giuliani composer, dies at 47. | Ref: 5 |
May 09 | Ciro Pinsuti pianist/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 12 | Paul Karrer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 18 | Bernardo Bittoni composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 28 | Anton Rubinstein Vykhvatinetz Podolia, composer (Omitri Donskoy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 07 | Johann Christoph Kienlen composer, dies at 45. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 14 | Luigi Marchesi composer, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 17 | Bernard Jumentier composer, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 24 | Benjamin Ipavec composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 24 | Jose Rogel composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | Patrick S Gilmore composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1830
Jan 03 | Alexander Ewing composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | Hans von Blow, Dresden, pianist/virtuoso conductor/musical writer, is born. | Ref: 68 |
Jan 19 | Wenzel Thomas Matiegka composer, dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 20 | Michal Bogdanowicz composer, dies at 50. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 27 | Georg Hellmesberger composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 07 | Marcus Antonio da Fonseca Portugal Portuguese composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 11 | Hans Bronsart von Schellendorf composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 11 | Peter Arnold Heise composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | John Rogers Thomas composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | Auguste Tolbecque composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | Carl Borromaus Neuner composer, dies at 51. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 13 | Eduard Lassen composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | Jose Mauricio Nunes Garcia composer, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
May 18 | Karl Goldmark Keszthely Hungary, composer (Sakuhtala), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | Karoly Filtsch composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 27 | Georg Hellmesberger composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 15 | Francesco D'Arcais composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 23 | Adam Minchejmer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 28 | Adrien-Joseph van Helmont composer, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
- 1831
Jan 01 | William Joseph Westbrook composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 06 | Rodolphe Kreutzer France, composer/virtuoso violinist (Paris Conserv), dies at age 64. | Ref: 70 |
Jan 08 | Franz Vinzenz Krommer composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 17 | Francisco Salvador Daniel composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 21 | Eduard Rappoldi composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | Filippo Marchetti composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | Georg Michael Telemann composer, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 12 | Johann Franz Volkert composer, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 14 | Leon Leopold Lewandoski composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 13 | Ferdinand Kauer composer, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
May 05 | Friedrich Ludwig Seidel composer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
May 24 | Richard Hoffman composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 24 | Benjamin Carr composer, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 28 | Joseph Joachi, Kittsee Germany, violinist (Hungarian Concerto), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 22 | Birth of William H. Cummings, English musicologist. In 1855 he adapted a theme from Mendelssohn's "Festgesang," which afterward became the melody of the Christmas carol, "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing". | Ref: 5 |
Dec 02 | Traugott Maximilian Eberwein composer, dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 11 | John George Schetky composer, dies at 55. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | Johann Herbeck composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1832
Jan 19 | Ferdinand Laub composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 19 | Salvador Giner y Vidal composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 28 | Franz Wullner composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 10 | Antonio Benedetto Maria Puccini composer, dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 15 | Hardenack Otto Conrad Zinck composer, dies at 85. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Friedrich Grutzmacher composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 10 | Muzio Clementi Italian composer, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 12 | Daniel Friedrich Kuhlau German/Danish opera composer, dies at 45. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 13 | Alberto Randegger composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 23 | Vaclav Vilem Wurfel composer, dies at 41. | Ref: 5 |
May 15 | Carl Friedrich Zelter composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
May 18 | Bonafacio Asioli composer, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
May 26 | Franois-Louis Perne composer, dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 03 | Charles Lecocq, French composer of operettas, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Oct 03 | Birth of Carolina (aka Lina Sandell) Berg, hymnwriter. Known as the "Fanny Crosby of Sweden," her most enduring songs which survive today are: "Day by Day (And With Each Passing Moment)" and "Children of the Heavenly Father." | Ref: 5 |
Oct 07 | Birth of Charles Converse, American lawyer and sacred composer. Converse penned the hymn tune CONVERSE, to which we sing today "What a Friend We Have in Jesus." | Ref: 5 |
Dec 22 | Ishmail Spicer composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
- 1833
Jan 07 | Ramon Felix Cuellar y Altarriba composer, dies at 55. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Antoinio da Silva Leite composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 19 | Louis-J-Ferdinand Hrold French composer (Pr aux clercs), dies at 41. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 18 | Georg Johann Schinn composer, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 18 | Ignac Ruzitska composer, dies at 55. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Josef Foerster composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 11 | Fridolin Weber composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 20 | Henry Southwick Perkins composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 07 | Antoni Henryk Radziwill Lithuanian/Polish composer, dies at 57. | Ref: 5 |
May 07 | Johannes Brahms, the composer, born in Hamburg. Works include Brahms Lullaby. (Cross, Milton, "Encyclopedia of the Great Composers and Their Music", Doubleday & Co, 1953) |   |
May 09 | Boleslaw Dembinski composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 14 | Johann Wilhelm Cornelius von Konigslow composer, dies at 88. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | Johann Christian Friedrich Haeffner composer, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | William Marshall composer, dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
May 30 | Josef Slavik composer, dies at 27. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 05 | Birth of William G. Tomer, American Civil War veteran and Methodist hymnwriter. It is to his tune, FAREWELL, that today we sing the hymn, "God Be With You Till We Meet Again." | Ref: 5 |
Nov 11 | Aleksandr Borodin, Russia, composer (Robert LeDiable), is born. (Cross, Milton, "Encyclopedia of the Great Composers and Their Music", Doubleday & Co, 1953) |   |
Nov 12 | Aleksandr Borodin Russia, composer (Robert LeDiable), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | Dieudonne-Pascal Pieltain composer, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 16 | Friedrich August Kanne composer, dies at 55. | Ref: 5 |
- 1834
Jan 14 | William Cleaver Francis Robinson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 25 | Pablo Hernandez Salces composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 04 | Amelie Julia Candielle composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Franz Xaver Witt composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Albert Heinrich Zabel composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | Aleksander Zarzycki composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | Peter Nicolai von Wilm composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 23 | Julius Reubke composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | Isidore Edouard Legouix composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 26 | Birth of Horatio R. Palmer, American Congregational clergyman. From his books of religious verse came two hymns which are still sung today: "Jesus, Thou Joy of Loving Hearts" and "My Faith Looks Up to Thee". | Ref: 5 |
May 23 | Charles Wesley composer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 31 | Amilcare Ponchielli Paderno Italy, composer (I Lituani), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 08 | Francois Boieldieu, French composer, dies at age 58. | Ref: 70 |
Dec 07 | Ludwig Schuncke composer, dies at 23. | Ref: 5 |
- 1835
Jan 05 | Friedrich Richard Faltin composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 17 | Johan Filip von Schantz composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Luigi Manzotti Milano, ballet choreographer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 06 | Ludwik Grossman composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 14 | Manuel Fernandez Caballero composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 15 | Eduard Strauss Austria, composer (318 Dance), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | Bernhard Scholz composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 06 | Jose Marraco y Ferrer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 04 | Edmund Hart Turpin composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 06 | Birth of John T. Grape, American Methodist layman. He composed a number of hymn tunes during his life, including ALL TO HRIST, to which we sing today, "Jesus Paid It All." | Ref: 5 |
Jul 10 | Henryk Wieniawski Lubin Poland, violinist/composer (Souv de Moscou), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 23 | Vincenzo Bellini, Italian composer, dies at age 33. | Ref: 2 |
Oct 09 | Camille Saint-Saens, French composer, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Dec 07 | Dom Joseph Pothier French monk/musicologist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 12 | Georges Jean Pfeiffer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 13 | Phillips Brooks, Episcopal clergyman who wrote the lyrics for "O Little Town of Bethlehem", is born. | Ref: 2 |
Dec 18 | Johann Georg Anton Mederitsch-Gallus composer, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 29 | Charles-Joseph Tolbecque composer, dies at 29. | Ref: 5 |
- 1836
Jan 03 | Friedrich Witt composer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 17 | Jose Silvestre de los Dolores White Lafitte composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 31 | Henryk Szulc composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 16 | Benjamin Edward Woolf Dutch composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 21 | Lo Delibes Saint-Germain-du-Val France, ballet composer (Copplia), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 21 | Clement-Philibert-Leo Delibes composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 21 | Emil Hartmann composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Eduard Wachmann composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | John Clarke-Whitfeld composer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 11 | Charles Eastlake, English museologist and art writer, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Mar 15 | Henrique Alves de Mesquita composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 21 | Jesus Monasterio composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 04 | Jerome Hopkins composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 06 | Christian Ignatius Latrobe composer, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
May 07 | Norbert Burgmuller composer, dies at 26. | Ref: 5 |
May 18 | Isidor Vorobchievici composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | Anton Reicha composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 18 | Sir William Schwenck Gilbert, comic opera libretto writer: team: Gilbert & Sullivan: HMS Pinafore, The Mikado, Pirates of Penzance; is born in London England. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 04 | Daniel Read composer, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 12 | Giuseppe Farinelli composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 26 | Hans Georg Nageli composer, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 29 | Johann Baptist Schenk composer, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
- 1837
Jan 02 | Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia, composer (Tamara), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 11 | John Field Irish pianist/composer (Nocturnes), dies at 54. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 12 | Adolf Jensen composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 12 | Carlos Troyer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 23 | John Field composer, dies at 54. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 13 | Valentin de Zubiaurre y Unionbarrenechea composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 12 | Felix Alexandre Guilmant composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 23 | Joseph Wieniawski composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Joseph Lincke composer, dies at 53. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Felix Mendelssohn marries Ccile Jeanrenaud. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 25 | William Charles Levey composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 30 | Alfred Gaul composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 05 | Niccolo Antonio Zingarelli Italian composer/bandmaster, dies at 85. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | Birth of Charles W. Fry, the English musician who, along with his three sons, formed the first Salvation Army brass band. Fry also authored the hymn, "Lily of the Valley." | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | Luca Fumagalli composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 09 | Charles mile Waldteufel Strasbourg France, waltz composer (Skaters), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | Cosima Liszt wife of Austrian composer Richard Wagner, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 28 | Benjamin Johnson Lang composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1838
Jan 06 | Max Bruch Kln (Cologne), Germany, composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 13 | Ferdinand Reis composer, dies at 53. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 20 | Pierre-Louis Hus-Desforges composer, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Philippe Libon composer, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Friedrich Johann Eck composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | Wendelin Weissheimer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Birth of William J. Kirkpatrick, American Methodist sacred composer. He edited his first collection of hymns at age 21, and is still remembered today for composing the melodies to such hymns as: "He Hideth My Soul," "'Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus," "Redeemed, How I Love to Proclaim It" and "Lord, I'm Coming Home." | Ref: 5 |
Mar 02 | David Duffle Wood composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | Paul Lacome composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 24 | Thomas Attwood composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 10 | Birth of Edward Kremser, German chorister. Included among his numerous vocal and instrumental works is the enduring hymn tune KREMSER ("We Gather Together"). | Ref: 5 |
Apr 11 | Joseph Leopold Rockel composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 16 | Karel Bendl, composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 06 | Alfred Humphreys Pease composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | Thomas Busby composer, dies. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 09 | Birth of Philip P. Bliss, American gospel singer and songwriter. His best-remembered hymns include 'Wonderful Words of Life,' 'It is Well with My Soul' and 'Let theLower Lights Be Burning.'. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 12 | Birth of Joseph Barnby, English organist and choirmaster. He composed nearly 250 hymn tunes during his life. Of these the most enduring include LAUDES DOMINI ("When Morning Gilds the Skies"), LONGWOOD ("Spirit of God, Descend Upon My Heart"), MERRIAL ("Now the Day is Over") and ST. ANDREW ("We Give Thee But Thine Own"). | Ref: 5 |
Oct 25 | Composer (of "Carmen" and others) Georges Bizet is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 04 | Melesio Morales composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 11 | Whitney Eugene Thayer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 13 | Marie-Alexis Castillon de Saint-Victor composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 17 | Berthold Tours composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1839
Jan 09 | John Knowles Paine Portland ME, composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 14 | Emil Bohn composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 19 | Bohumil Pazdirek composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 19 | Georg Abraham Schneider composer, dies at 38. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 27 | Birth of John Julian, famed English authority on sacred music. His undoubted masterwork is the monumental "Dictionary of Hymnology" which he published in 1892 (later revised, updated and reissued in 1957). | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | John Knowles Paine Portland ME, composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | Ignace Antoine Ladurner pianist/composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 09 | Modest P Mussorgsky Russian composer (Boris Godunov), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 09 | Birth of Phoebe Palmer Knapp, American Methodist hymnwriter. She published more than 500 hymn tunes during her lifetime; her most famous melody comprises the tune to Fanny Crosby's hymn, "Blessed Assurance." | Ref: 5 |
Mar 10 | Dudley Buck Hartford CT, organist/church composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 13 | Robert Gallenberg composer, dies at 55. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 17 | Josef Rheinberger Vaduz Liechtenstein, opera composer (Munich Conser), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 21 | Modest Mussorgsky composer (Boris Gudunov, Night on Bald Mountain), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | Stanislaw Pilinski composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | Victorin de Joncieres composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | Frantz Jehin-Prume composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 20 | Giuseppe Rossini father of Italian composer Gioacchino Rossini, dies. | Ref: 5 |
May 03 | Ferdinando Paer composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
May 19 | Alice Mary Smith composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 27 | Birth of John Julian, famed English authority on sacred music. His undoubted masterwork is the monumental "Dictionary of Hymnology" which he published in 1892 (later revised, updated and reissued in 1957). | Ref: 5 |
Dec 07 | Jan Matyas Nepomuk August Vitasek composer, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 18 | Charles-Henri Plantade composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
- 1840
Jan 18 | Ernst Rudorff composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Louis Bourgault-Ducoudray composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 13 | Georg Jacobi composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 25 | Alexis Hollander composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | Franco Faccio Italian composer/conductor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Carli Zoeller composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 11 | John Conrad Nordqvist composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | Edmond Audran composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 21 | Franz Xaver Haberl German priest/musicologist (Magister choralis), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 05 | Gottlob Benedikt Bierey composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
May 05 | Matthaus Fischer composer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
May 07 | Peter I. Tchaikovsky, composer, is born. Works include Marche Slave, 1812 Overture, Swan Lake and the Nutcracker Suite. | Ref: 68 |
May 11 | Filippo Capocci composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 17 | Niccolo Paganini composer, dies at 57. | Ref: 5 |
May 27 | Niccol Paganini composer/violinist, dies at 57. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 04 | Birth of American sacred composer James McGranahan. His most enduring melodies include CHRIST RETURNETH, MY REDEEMER, NEUMEISTER ('Christ Receiveth Sinful Men') andSHOWERS OF BLESSING. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 07 | Hermann Goetz composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 17 | Christian Frederik Emil Horneman composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1841
Jan 18 | Alexis-Emmanuel Chabrier France, composer (Le Roi Malgr Lui), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 28 | Viktor Ernst Nessler composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 10 | Walter Parratt composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 14 | Antun Sorkocevic composer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 17 | Ferdinando Carulli composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 18 | Samuel Prowse Warren composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 19 | Felipe Pedrell composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Romualdo Marenco composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 17 | Birth of James R. Murray, American sacred music editor. A veteran of the American Civil War, Murray is better remembered today as composer of the hymn tune MUELLER, to which we sing the Christmas carol, "Away in a Manger." | Ref: 5 |
Apr 25 | Pauline Lucca soprano, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 06 | John Thomson composer, dies at 35. | Ref: 5 |
May 15 | Giovanni Bolzoni composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 21 | Joseph Parry composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 24 | Tito Mattei pianist/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | Giovanni Sgambati composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 08 | Antonin Dvorak composer: Slavonic Dances, Fifth Symphony, The Water Nymph, Carnival, Gypsy Melodies; is born. (Cross, Milton, "Encyclopedia of the Great Composers and Their Music", Doubleday & Co, 1953) |   |
Oct 10 | Birth of William A. Ogden, American sacred composer. A student of Lowell Mason, Ogden became a well-known music teacher, and penned the hymns "Bring Them In" and "He is Able to Deliver Thee." | Ref: 5 |
Dec 03 | Birth of Clara H. Scott, American music teacher and composer. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 07 | Johann Daniel Ferstenberg composer, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 18 | Felice Blangini composer, dies at 60. | Ref: 5 |
- 1842
Jan 07 | Johan Lindegren composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 22 | Charles Henri Marechal composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 03 | Sidney Clopton Lanier US, composer/poet (Hall of Fame), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 21 | Wojciech Zywny composer, dies at 85. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Carl Rosa Hamburg Germany, founder (Rosa opera company), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 24 | Arrigio Enrico Boito composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 07 | Christian Theodor Weinlig composer, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 15 | Maria Luigi C Z S Cherubini, Italian-born French composer of opera and sacred music (Dies Irae), dies at 81. | Ref: 68 |
Mar 22 | Carl A N Rosa German violinist/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 22 | Mykola Vytal'yevich Lysenko composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 14 | Sven August Korling composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Karl Millcker Austria conductor/composer (Beggar Student), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 05 | Johann Nepomuk Fuchs composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 12 | Jules Emile Massenet, composer, is born in Montaud, France. (also: Cross, Milton, "Encyclopedia of the Great Composers and Their Music", Doubleday & Co, 1953) | Ref: 5 |
May 13 | Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan, London England, composer (Gilbert & Sullivan), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 14 | Composer Sir Arthur Sullivan, who collaborated with Sir William Gilbert in writing 14 comic operas, is born in London. | Ref: 68 |
Dec 05 | MJ Auguste Vestrius, French ballet dancer, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 15 | Henry Gadsby composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 22 | Nicola d' Arienzo composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | Bedrich Divis Weber composer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 28 | Calixa Lavallee composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1843
Jan 01 | Nikolay Nikolayevich Lodizhensky composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 07 | Franz Schoberlechner composer, dies at 45. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 09 | Christiaan A Ulder Curaao, composer (waltzes/tumbas), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 23 | Hans Heinrich XIV Hochberg composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Christiaan A Ulder Curaao, composer (waltzes/tumbas), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 19 | Adelina Patti Madrid Spain, operatic coloratura (Lucia), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 05 | William F Sudds composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 06 | Artur Napoleao dos Santos composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | Per Jonas Fredrik Vilhelm Svedbom composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 04 | Hans Richter Gyr (Raab/Gyoer) Hungary, conductor (Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 08 | Asger Hamerik [Hammerich], composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 14 | Gustave Leon Huberti composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 14 | Joseph Franz Karl Lanner Austria, composer/violist, dies at 42. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 15 | Carl Eilhardt composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 02 | Carl Michael Ziehrer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 12 | Johann Georg Lickl composer, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
May 23 | Pedro Miguel Marques y Garcia composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | Emile Pessard composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 15 | Edvard Grieg, composer, is born in Bergen, Norway. (Also: Cross, Milton, "Encyclopedia of the Great Composers and Their Music", Doubleday & Co, 1953) | Ref: 4 |
Jul 09 | Birth of Ralph E. Hudson, sacred composer and music publisher. His most enduring hymns include 'At the Cross' and 'Blessed Be the Name.' | Ref: 5 |
Dec 13 | George Stephanescu, composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1844
Jan 04 | Thomas H Rollinson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 14 | Clara Kathleen Rogers composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 15 | Joseph Mazzinghi composer, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 20 | Johan Peter Selmer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 25 | Frederick E Kitziger composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Leander Schlegel composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 21 | Charles-Marie Widor Lyons France, composer/professor (Paris Conservatory), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Kazamierz Julian Kratzer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 29 | Thaddaus Weigl composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 06 | Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov, the composer, is born in Russia. | Ref: 70 |
Mar 10 | Pablo Martin M de Sarasate y Navascuez composer (Spanish Dancing), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 18 | Nicolai Andreevich Rimski-Korsakov, Tikhvin Russia, composer (Flight of the Bumble Bee, Scheherazade), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 23 | Eugene Gigout composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 06 | Joseph Ludwig composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 08 | Ignaz Franz von Mosel composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 22 | Henri-Montan Berton composer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
May 03 | Richard D'Oyly Carte, England, opera impresario (Ivanhoe), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 08 | Hermann Gradener composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 21 | Guiseppi Baini composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | Leon Felix Augustin Joseph Vasseur composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 30 | Louis Varney composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 01 | Alfred Cellier composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 05 | John Frederick Bridge composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 22 | Izydor Lotto composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1845
Jan 15 | Heinrich Vogl composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 23 | Francesco Ruggi composer, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Pavel Ivanovich Dulgorukov composer, dies at 57. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | Aleksander Rozycki composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 05 | Alfonse Hasselmans composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 19 | George Augustus Kollmann composer, dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 22 | Franz Joseph Volkert composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | Wilhelm Gericke composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 11 | Karoly Filtsch composer, dies at 14. | Ref: 5 |
May 12 | Gabriel Urbain Faur, composer, is born in Pamiers, Ariege, France. (also: Cross, Milton, "Encyclopedia of the Great Composers and Their Music", Doubleday & Co, 1953) | Ref: 5 |
Aug 08 | Birth of Thomas Koschat, Austrian sacred composer. One of his scores became the hymn tune POLAND, to which is commonly sung "The King of Love My Shepherd Is". | Ref: 5 |
Dec 02 | Johannes Simon Mayr composer, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 26 | Salvatore Auteri Manzocchi composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 27 | Augusto de Oliviera Machado composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 28 | Homer Newton Bartlett composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1846
Jan 02 | Sandor Erkel composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | Albert Cahen composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | William Wallace Gilchrist composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 03 | Joseph Weigl Austria composer/conductor (Waisenhaus), dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 18 | Giovanni Liverati composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Carolus Antonius Fodor composer, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 24 | Luigi Denza composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | Birth of George C. Stebbins, American Baptist music evangelist. A composer of over 1,500 songs during his lifetime, Stebbins is still remembered today for writing the melodies to such hymns as: "I've Found a Friend," "Take Time to Be Holy," "Have Thine Own Way, Lord" and "Jesus is Tenderly Calling Thee Home." | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Joaquin Valverde composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 16 | Domenico Dragonetti composer, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
May 02 | Zygmunt Noskowski composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 05 | Federico Chueca Madrid Spain, composer (La Gran Via), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 08 | Giacomo Cordella composer, dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
May 09 | Nikolay Feopemptovich Solov'yov composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 26 | Arthur Coquard composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 23 | Birth of William R. Featherstone, Canadian Methodist hymnwriter. He penned thewords to 'My Jesus, I Love Thee' before age 16. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 06 | Henryk Jarecki composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 22 | Andreas Hallen composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 31 | Richard Kleinmichel composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1847
Jan 22 | Georges-Julien Sieber composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Jules Franois Blasini Curaaos pianist/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 07 | Ernst Franck German composer/conductor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 15 | Robert Fuchs composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 16 | Ludwig Philipp Scharwenka German composer (Album polonaise), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 19 | Constantin Dimitrescu composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Mariano Rodriguiz de Ledesma composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 29 | Birth of Winfield Scott Weeden, American sacred chorister and hymnwriter. During his life he led music and singing schools for the YMCA and Christian Endeavor. Of his several musical compositions, Weeden is best remembered today for the hymn, "I Surrender All." | Ref: 5 |
Mar 31 | Jarolslaw Zielinski composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | Gavriil Musicescu composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 09 | Sir Francesco Paolo Tosti composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 09 | Francis William Davenport composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 10 | Charles Swinnerton Heap composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 23 | Erik Gustaf Geijer composer, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
May 13 | Johannes Haarklou composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 14 | Fanny Cacilia Mendelssohn Hensel composer, dies at 41. | Ref: 5 |
May 16 | Kaspar Ett German organist/composer, dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
May 25 | Alphonse Goovaerts composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 03 | Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (Felix Mendelssohn), the composer, dies in Hamburg, Germany. | Ref: 68 |
Nov 07 | Birth of Will L. Thompson, American songwriter. With a major interest in sacred music, Thompson's pen has left the Church two enduring hymns: "Jesus is All the World to Me" and "Softly and Tenderly Jesus is Calling." | Ref: 5 |
Dec 01 | Agathe Grondahl composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 16 | Augusta Mary Anne Holmes composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 29 | William Crotch composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
- 1848
Jan 05 | Ferdinando Orlandi composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 21 | Henri Duparc French composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 06 | Luigi Mancinelli composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 23 | Thomas Paine Westendorf composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 24 | Frans van Campenhout Belgian singer/composer (Brabanonne), dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Charles Hubert H Parry England, musicologist/composer (Jerusalem), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 09 | Martin Pierre Joseph Marsick composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 12 | Cyrill Kistler composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 17 | Horace Wadham Nicholl composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 31 | John Henry Roberts composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 08 | Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti, composer, dies in Bergamo, Italy at age 50. (also Cross, Milton, "Encyclopedia of the Great Composers and Their Music", Doubleday & Co, 1953) | Ref: 5 |
Apr 24 | Franois van Campenhout Belgian composer (Brabanonne), dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 28 | Ludvig Schytte composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 05 | Adalbert von Goldschmidt composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 05 | Death of Joseph Mohr, 56, Austrian Roman Catholic vicar and author in 1818 of the enduring Christmas hymn, "Stille Nacht" ("Silent Night"). | Ref: 5 |
Dec 17 | Frederick Grant Gleason composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 18 | Karl Schroder composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 21 | Edward Everett Rice composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | Johann Erik Nordblom composer, dies at 60. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 30 | Mary Frances Allitsen composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 31 | Oliver Shaw composer, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
- 1849
Feb 08 | Franois-Antoine Habeneck composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Corneille Vander Planken composer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 13 | Christian Rummel composer, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Alexander Ernst Fesca composer, dies at 28. | Ref: 5 |
May 11 | Carl Otto Ehrenfried Nicolai, composer/conductor, dies at 38. | Ref: 5 |
May 27 | "Blind" Tom Bethune pianist/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 31 | Lonard du Bus de Gisignies Governor-General of Netherlands-Indies, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 24 | Johann, elder Strauss, Austrian composer of Viennese waltzes, dies at age 45. | Ref: 70 |
Oct 17 | Composer and pianist Frederic Chopin dies in Paris of tuberculosis at the age of 39. | Ref: 68 |
Dec 14 | Conradin Kreutzer composer, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
- 1850
Jan 01 | Raphael G Kiesewetter Austria musicologist, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 06 | Franz Xaver Scharwenka German pianist/composer (Mataswintha), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 13 | Leon Francis Victor Caron composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 14 | Jean de Reszke [Jan Mieczyslaw], Polish tenor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 17 | Alexander Sergeyevich Taneyev St Petersburg Russia, composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 27 | Philipp Roth composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 17 | Anton Urspruch composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 17 | Ludwig Bonvin composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 18 | George Henschel composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 05 | Birth of Daniel B. Towner, American music evangelist. An associate of D.L. Moody, Towner composed over 2,000 hymn tunes, including AT CALVARY ("Years I Spent in Vanity and Pride"), MOODY ("Marvelous Grace of our Loving Lord") and TRUST AND OBEY ("When We Walk With the Lord"). | Ref: 5 |
Mar 09 | Alexandre Luigini composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 13 | Emilio Serrano y Ruiz composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 19 | Adalbert Gyrowetz composer, dies at 87. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Vaclav Jan Krtitel Tomasek organist/pianist/composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 09 | Herman Zumpe composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 24 | Louis Alexandre Piccinni composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
May 16 | Birth of Arthur H. Mann, English church organist. In addition to being an authority on Handel, Mann also composed a number of sacred hymn tunes, including ANGEL'S STORY, to which we sing today, "O Jesus, I Have Promised". | Ref: 5 |
May 17 | Antonio Scontrino composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 20 | Eaton Faning composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 22 | Johann Schrammel composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 27 | Philipp Roth composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 01 | Peter Erasmus Lange-Muller composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 13 | Iver Paul Fredrik Holter composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 21 | Zdenek Fibich composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 29 | Tomas Breton y Hernandez composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1851
Jan 09 | Giuseppi Gallignani composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 21 | Gustav Albert Lortzing composer, dies at 49. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 24 | Gaspare Luigi Pacifico Spontini Italian composer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 25 | Jan Blockx Belgium, opera composer (Sea Bride princess of Herberg), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 27 | Karl Moser composer, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Giuseppi Gallignani composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Josef Alois Ladurner composer, dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 25 | Ferdinand Simon Gassner composer, dies at 53. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | Michael Henkel composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 06 | Alexander Aliabiev composer, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 15 | Jozef Surzynski composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | Paul-Marie-Theodore-Vincent D'indy, French count/composer, is born in Paris. (Also: Cross, Milton, "Encyclopedia of the Great Composers and Their Music", Doubleday & Co, 1953) | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | Ruperto Chapi y Lorente composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 07 | Otto Adolf Klauwell composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 08 | John Parry composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 09 | Antoine-Charles Glachant composer, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | Emil Liebling composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 23 | Antoni Stolpe composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 28 | Birth of Eliza E. Hewitt, American Presbyterian church worker and devotional author. Four of her hymns still endure: 'Will There Be Any Stars?', 'More About Jesus I Would Know,' 'When We All Get to Heaven' and 'Sunshine in the Soul.'. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 07 | Birth of Charles A. Tindley, African-American Methodist preacher and songwriter. His most enduring gospel hymns include 'Stand By Me,' 'Nothing Between,' 'Leave It There'and 'By and By.'. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 27 | Karl Moser composer, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 13 | Birth of E.O. Excell, American sacred chorister. Excell published 50 gospel songbooks and wrote and composed 2,000 hymns, including "Since I Have Been Redeemed, "Count Your Blessings" and "I'll Be a Sunbeam for Jesus." | Ref: 5 |
- 1852
Jan 22 | George Rodwell composer, dies at 51. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 26 | Frederick Corder composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | Frederick Hymen Cowen composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Joseph Drechsler composer, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 29 | Frederic Hymen Cowen composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 06 | Joseph Bayer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 12 | Juan Bros y Bertomel composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 25 | Alexis Garaude composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 14 | Henrique Oswald composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 06 | Charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
May 22 | Emile Sauret composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | Jindrich z Albestu Kaan composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 07 | Birth of Franklin L. Sheppard, Presbyterian organist and hymnbook editor. It was Sheppard who composed the hymn tune TERRA PATRIS, to which we sing "This is My Father's World". | Ref: 5 |
Sep 30 | Sir Charles Stanford, Irish-born English composer, conductor and teacher, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Dec 05 | Thomas Linnemann Laub composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 16 | Henri-Jean Rigel composer, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 18 | Gaetano Coronaro composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 27 | Dom Joo G da Cmara Portuguese journalist/songwriter, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1853
Jan 01 | Hans Koessler composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 03 | Iwan Knorr composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 03 | Theodor Uhlig composer, dies at 30. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 07 | Nikolai Arkas composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 12 | Bertram Luard-Selby composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 05 | Arthur W Foote Salem MA, organist/composer (Suite for Strings in E), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | Edward Hubertus Joannes Keurvels Flemish composer (Parisina), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | Alfonso Randano composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 11 | Louis Emmanuel Eadin composer, dies. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 15 | Johann Leopold Fuchs composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 21 | Charles-Theodore Malherbe composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 08 | Charles Lee Williams composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 09 | Johann Philipp Samuel Schmidt composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
May 26 | Monroe A Althouse composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 30 | Karl Fritjof Valentin composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 05 | Johann Peter Heuschkel composer, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 13 | Joseph Sickman Corsen Curarao, musician/composer/screenwriter, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 23 | Giacomo Puccini Italy, composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 23 | Maria Teresa Carreno composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 30 | Andre-Charles-Prosper Messager composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1854
Jan 09 | Filippo Traetta [Philip Trajetta], Italian composer, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Peter Gast composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 04 | Carl Ludwig Cornelius Westenholz composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 06 | Composer R Schumann is saved from suicide attempt into the Rhine. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Filippo Traetta [Philip Trajetta], Italian composer, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 16 | Oscar Fetras composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Louis F M van Westerhoven actor/singer/opera director (Youth), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Composer Robert Schumann saved from suicide attempt in Rhine. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 28 | Juliusz Zarebski composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Braulio Dueno Colon composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | Edgar Tinel Flemish composer (Le Chant Grgorien), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | Vicente Goicoechea Errasti composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 09 | Seaborn M Denson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 10 | Jozef M T Orelio baritone, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 17 | Gottlob Wiedebein composer, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | Joseph Antoni Frantiszek Elsner composer, dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 21 | Wladyslaw Rzepko composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 01 | Jean Coralli, French dancer/choreographer, dies at age 75. | Ref: 70 |
May 03 | William Beale composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
May 05 | Antonio Smareglia composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 13 | Paul Klengel composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 18 | Bernard Zweers Dutch composer (To My Fatherland), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 31 | Vatroslav Lisinski composer, dies at 34. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 03 | Leos Jan cek Hukvaldy Moravia Czech, composer (Foster Suite), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 01 | Engelbert Humperdinc, opera composer: Hansel and Gretel; (name borrowed by pop singer Arnold Dorsey) is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 06 | Composer, bandleader, John Phillip Sousa is born in Washington, D.C. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 13 | George Whitefield Chadwick Lowell MA, composer (Judi Van Winke), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 09 | Pekka Hannikainen composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1855
Jan 21 | Amedee-Ernest Chausson, Paris France, composer (Pome for Violin & Orchestra), is born. (Cross, Milton, "Encyclopedia of the Great Composers and Their Music", Doubleday & Co, 1953) |   |
Jan 22 | Ernst Kullak composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 22 | Birth of Carrie Ellis Breck, American Presbyterian poet. Several of her verses later became hymns, including "Help Somebody Today" and "Face to Face with Christ My Savior." | Ref: 5 |
Jan 26 | Arthur Hervey composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 15 | Gustav Hollaender composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 12 | John White composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 17 | Ramon Carnicer y Batlle composer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | Josef Gruber composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 24 | Walenty Karol Kratzer composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 26 | Composer Gioacchino Rossini leaves Italy. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Anatol K Liadov Russian composer (Bewitched Lake), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Edmund van der Straeten composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 30 | Henry Rowley Bishop British composer/conductor, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
May 01 | Cecilia Beaux, American portrait painter, is born. | Ref: 70 |
May 02 | Theodore Moses Tobani composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 04 | Camille Pleyel Austria piano builder/composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
May 09 | Julius Rontgen composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 12 | Arthur Nikisch Szent-Mikls Hungary, conductor (Berlin Philharmonic), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 11 | Julian Edwards composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 23 | Alan Gray composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 26 | Arnold Ludwig Mendelssohn composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1856
Jan 06 | Giuseppe Martucci composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 09 | Stevan Mokranjac composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 11 | Christian August Sinding Kongsberg Norway, composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 17 | Thomas Attwood Walmisley composer, dies at 41. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 18 | John Hyatt Brewer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Makar Grigori Ekmalyan composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Stevan Mokranjac composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 16 | Willem Kes Dutch violinist/composer/conductor (Parkorkest Amsterdam), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 17 | John Braham singer/composer, dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Pyotr Ivanovich Turchaninov composer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
May 03 | Adolfo Fumagalli composer, dies at 27. | Ref: 5 |
May 03 | Adolphe Charles Adam French composer/critic (Giselle), dies at 52. | Ref: 5 |
May 26 | George Templeton Strong composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 29 | Robert Schumann, German Romantic composer, dies at age 46. | Ref: 70 |
Aug 18 | Birth of Charles Gabriel, American sacred music artist. He edited a great number of hymnbooks, and wrote several hymns, including "More Like the Master," "I Stand Amazed in the Presence" and "Send the Light". | Ref: 5 |
Nov 25 | Sergei Taneyev Russia, composer (Oresteia), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 02 | Robert Kajanus composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 27 | Andre Gedalge composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1857
Jan 17 | Wilhelm Kienzl Austrian composer (Evangelimann), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 20 | Edward Francis Fitzwilliam composer, dies at 32. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 14 | Johannes B van Bree Dutch violinist/composer/conductor, dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 15 | Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka Russian composer, dies at age 53. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | Ole Andreas Lindeman composer, dies at 88. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 28 | Gustave Adolph Kerker composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 03 | Alfred Bruneau composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | Ruggiero Leoncavallo Italian composer (I pagliacci/Zaza), is born in Naples, Italy. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 17 | Adolph Trube composer, dies at 42. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 14 | Edgar Stillman Kelley Sparta WI, composer (Gulliver), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 23 | Ruggero Leoncavallo Naples Italy, composer (I Medici), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Frantisek Ondricek composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 02 | Frederic Cliffe composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 16 | Juan Morel Campos composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 02 | Sir Edward Elgar, composer of Pomp and Circumstance is born in Worcester, England. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 07 | Nicola van Westerhout composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 11 | Franois Henri Joseph Castil-Blaze composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 15 | Eugeniusz Pankiewicz composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1858
Jan 03 | Rachel [Elisabeth Rachel-Flix], French singer/actress (Muse), dies at 36. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | Friedrich Karl Kuhmstedt composer, dies at 48. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 25 | Giuseppe Radiciotti composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 14 | Charles Beach Hawley composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 17 | Ernest Ford composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 19 | Alois Basil Nikolaus Tomasini composer, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 24 | Arnold Dolmetsch Le Mans, musician, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | Peter Christian Lutkin composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm Austrian composer, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 07 | Anton Diabelli Austria publisher/composer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 08 | Anton Diabelli Austrian composer/publisher, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 16 | Johann Baptist Cramer German/British pianist/composer/publisher, dies at 87. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 19 | Siegfried Ochs composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 20 | Auguste Chapuis composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 22 | Ethel Mary Smyth composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 01 | Anthony Johnson Showalter composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 06 | Georges Adolphe Hue composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 10 | Frederick Zech Jr composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 16 | Frank Lynes composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 16 | Hanus Trnecek composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 22 | Giacomo Puccini Italy, operatic composer (Madama Butterfly), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 16 | Eugne Ysae Belgium, violinist/conductor/composer (Pierill Houou), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 13 | Jakab Gyula Major composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 18 | Joseph-Henri-Ignace Mees composer, dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 22 | Composer of "La Boheme", and "Madame Butterfly", Giacomo Puccini, is born. | Ref: 2 |
Dec 27 | Alexandre Pierre Franois Boely composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
- 1859
Jan 20 | Bettina Brentano composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 21 | Antoni Wincenty Rutkowski composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 24 | Alexander Alexandrovich Il'yinsky composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 01 | Victor Herbert cellist, conductor: Pittsburgh Symphony; composer: operettas: Babes in Toyland, Naughty Marietta; songs: Ah Sweet Mystery of Life [At Last Ive Found You]; is born in Dublin Ireland. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 06 | Johannes Josephus Viotta composer, dies at 45. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | Ferdinand Lukas Schubert composer, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Josef Theodor Krov composer, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | Otto Taubmann composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 12 | Josef Cyril Sychra composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Nikolay Alexandrovich Sokolov composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Reginald De Koven composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | Wilhelm Harteveld composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 11 | Basil Harwood composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 01 | Bohuslav Jeremias composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 02 | Eugene D'Harcourt composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 13 | Eugust Enna composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 19 | Dame Nellie Melba [Heal Mitchell] Australian soprano (Peach Melba), is born. | Ref: 68 |
Jun 27 | Mildred J. Hill teacher, musician, composer [lyrics by her younger sister Patty Smith Hill]: Happy Birthday to You, originally: Good Morning to All; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 12 | Katharine Lee Bates, American author and educator; wrote "America the Beautiful", is born. | Ref: 70 |
Nov 19 | Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov Russia, musician (Armenian Rhapsody), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 09 | Algernon Ashton composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 22 | Cecil [James] Sharp London England, folk musician, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 24 | Roman Statkowski composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | Raoul Gunsbourg composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 27 | William Henry Hadow composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 28 | Gerard Brucken Fock composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 30 | Josef Bohuslav Foerster composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 31 | Max Fiedler composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 31 | Luigi Ricci composer, dies at 54. | Ref: 5 |
- 1860
Jan 07 | Emanuil Mandlov composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 30 | Francesco Antonio Norberto Pinto composer, dies at 44. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 12 | Salvatore Di Giacomo composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 13 | Hugo Filipp Jakob Wolf, Windisch-Grz Austria, composer of late romantic period, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Johann Ludwig Bohner composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
May 04 | Emil Nikolaus Von Reznicek, Vienna Austria, composer (Donna Diana), is born. | Ref: 68 |
May 21 | Johannes Frederick Frohlich composer, dies at 53. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | Isaac [Manuel F] Albniz Spanish pianist/composer (Iberia), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 07 | Gustav Mahler, Kalischat Bohemia Austria, composer/conductor (Titan), is born. | Ref: 68 |
Nov 06 | Ignace Jan Paderewski Kurylowka Poland, composer/pianist/patriot, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 18 | Ignace Jan Paderewski composer: musician: piano: Minuet in G; Polish patriot: first Premier of Poland [1919]; brought white Zinfandel wine grapes to U.S. for the first time; is born. | Ref: 68 |
Dec 28 | Alexander von Fielitz composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1861
Jan 06 | Heinrich Gottlieb Noren composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 18 | Raymond Huntington Woodman composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 22 | Karel Stecker composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 30 | Charles Martin Tornow Loeffler Mulhouse Alsace, composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 12 | Hippolyte-Andre-Baptiste Chelard composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 21 | Pierre Breville composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 10 | Josepf Franois Snel composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 14 | Abraham Louis Niedermeyer composer, dies at 58. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 17 | Petter Conrad Boman composer, dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | Heinrich August Neithardt composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 27 | Georgy L'vovich Catoire composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 03 | Anthony Philip Heinrich composer, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
May 12 | Ivan Caryll English composer (Pink Lady), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 12 | Christian Heinrich Hohmann composer, dies at 50. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 15 | Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Austrian contralto, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Aug 31 | Birth of Jesse Brown Pounds, American hymnwriter. During her lifetime she published nine books, 50 cantatas and over 400 religious song texts. Three of her hymns remain popular today: "Anywhere With Jesus," "I Know That My Redeemer Liveth" and "The Way of the Cross Leads Home." | Ref: 5 |
Dec 14 | Heinrich August Marschner composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 15 | Gualtiero Sanelli composer, dies at 45. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 16 | Karol Joseph Lipinski composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 17 | Fritz Volbach German musicologist/conductor/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 18 | Edward Alexander MacDowell New York NY, composer (Indian Suite, Cairo), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 18 | Lionel Monckton composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1862
Jan 05 | Joseph Frohlich composer, dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | Frederick Delius, English/French composer, is born in Bradford, England. | Ref: 70 |
Jan 30 | Walter Johannes Damrosch, Prussian-bn.American conductor, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Feb 05 | Felipe Villanueva y Gutirrez Mexico, composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 07 | Frantisek Jan Skroup composer, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 13 | Karel Weis composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 17 | Edward German (Jones) Whitchurch Shropshire, British composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | Adrien de La Fage composer, dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 13 | Vasily Mikhaylovich Metallov composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 17 | Fromental Halevy [Elie Levy], French opera composer, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | George William Louis Marshall-Hall composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | Louis Ganne composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 07 | Sydney Nelson composer, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Vittorio Mario Vanzo composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 02 | Marie F M Emmanuel French composer/musicologist (Salamine), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | Franciszek Wincenty Mirecki composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 11 | Carrie James Bond, songwriter who wrote "I Love You Truly" and "A Perfect Day, is born. | Ref: 2 |
Aug 22 | Claude Debussy, composer, is born near Paris, France. | Ref: 68 |
Nov 23 | Alberto Williams Buenos Aires Argentina, composer (Etrerno Reposo), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 27 | Birth of Adelaide Pollard, Presbyterian hymnwriter. Plagued with frail health most of her life, she lived the life of a mystic. Of the several hymns she penned, "Have Thine Own Way, Lord" is still popular today. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 09 | Karel Kovarovic composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 24 | Joseph Funk composer, dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 28 | Joaquim Casimiro Junior composer, dies at 54. | Ref: 5 |
- 1863
Jan 09 | Ferdinand Huber composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 17 | Henry Charles Tonking composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Armand Parent composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 07 | Mieczyslaw Soltys composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Ferdinand Huber composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 19 | Emanuel Moor composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 20 | Ernesto Nazareth composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 21 | Hugo Kaun composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 08 | Joseph Netherclift composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 15 | Jan Nepomuk Kanka composer, dies at 90. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 17 | Johannes P Boskaljon Curaao composer/conductor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | Felix Blumenfeld composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 19 | Felix Blumenfeld composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 12 | Charles Bordes composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 14 | Emile Racine Gauthier Prudent composer, dies at 46. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 02 | Felix Weingartner, Austrian conductor and composer, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Jul 16 | Birth of Howard E. Smith, American church organist and composer of the melody tothe popular hymn, 'Love Lifted Me.'. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 16 | Fannie Zeisler, Austrian-born American pianist, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Aug 16 | Gabriel Piern Metz France, composer (Edith), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 09 | Alexander Siloti, Kharkov Russia, pianist/prof (Moscow Cons 1888-91), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 02 | Gustav Wohlgemuth composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 07 | Pietro Mascagni Italian composer/fascist (Cavalleria Rusticana), is born. (Cross, Milton, "Encyclopedia of the Great Composers and Their Music", Doubleday & Co, 1953) |   |
Dec 07 | John Ebenezer West composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 17 | Ion Vidu composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | E Fernndez Arbos Spanish violinist/conductor/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1864
Jan 04 | Mateo Ferrer composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | Victor-Charles-Paul Dourlen composer, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 12 | Stephen Foster, song writer of about 200 songs including: Oh! Susannah, Camptown Races, Old Folks at Home [Swanee River], Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair, Beautiful Dreamer; dies in a New York hospital at age 37. | Ref: 68 |
Jan 16 | Anton Schindler German violinist/biographer (Beethoven), dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 23 | Michele Puccini composer, dies at 50. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 24 | Otto Jonas Lindblad composer, dies at 54. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | Adolf Philipp composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Carl Tieke composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 07 | Arthur Collins singer/comedian (Peerless Quartet), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 07 | Ricardo Castro Herrera composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 16 | Vaclav Jindrich Veit composer, dies at 58. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 15 | Johan Halvorsen composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 15 | Leslie Stuart composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 23 | Hjalmar Borgstrom composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | Louis Alexander Balthasar Schindelmeisser composer, dies 52. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 10 | Eugene Francis Charles D'Albert German pianist/composer (Golem), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 13 | Johann Schneider composer, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 16 | Flora Batson, African-American soprano-baritone singer, is born. | Ref: 2 |
May 02 | Giacomo Meyerbeer, composer, dies in Paris, France at age 72. (Cross, Milton, "Encyclopedia of the Great Composers and Their Music", Doubleday & Co, 1953), dies at age 72. |   |
May 14 | Eleanor Everest Freer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 23 | Louis Glass composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 11 | Richard Strauss, Munich Germany, composer (Till Eulenspiegel), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 09 | Sidney Homer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 17 | John Felix August Korling composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 19 | Adolf Sandberger composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 21 | William Henry Fry, composer, dies at 51. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 30 | Alessandro Longo composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1865
Jan 01 | Giuseppe Ferrata composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Harvey Worthington Loomis composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 03 | Alexander Gustav Adolfovich Winkler composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 08 | John Park composer, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 13 | Heinrich Reinhardt composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 05 | Felicjan Szopski composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 09 | August de Boeck composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 22 | Enrique Morera composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 09 | Carl Nielsen, Norre-Lyndelse Denmark, composer (Det Uuslukkelige), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 22 | Birth of Peter P. Bilhorn, sacred composer. He produced over 1,400 hymns in hislife, including 'I Will Sing the Wondrous Story' and 'Sweet Peace, The Gift of God's Love.' | Ref: 5 |
Aug 10 | Alexander Glazunov St Petersburg Russia, composer (Chopiniana), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 01 | Paul Dukas, Paris France, composer (Vellda), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 06 | Sebastian de Iradier Spanish composer (Arreglito), dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 08 | Jean Sibelius Tavastehus Finland, composer (Valse Triste, Finlandia), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 13 | Gustav Luders composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 18 | Francisco Manuel da Silva composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
- 1866
Jan 13 | Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Rossetter Gleason Cole composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 10 | Bror Beckman composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 16 | Johann Strauss Austria, composer (Waltz King), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 10 | Antonio Francesco Gaetano S Pacini composer, dies at 87. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 18 | Dumitru Kiriac-Georgescu composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 19 | Louis Clapisson composer, dies at 57. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 20 | Rikard Nordraak composer, dies at 23. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | Ferruccio D M B Busoni Italy, pianist/composer/conductor (Arlecchino), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | Aime Ambroise Simon Leborne composer, dies at 98. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 15 | William Jackson composer, dies at 51. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 20 | Victor Hollaender composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 13 | Ottokar Eugen Novacek composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 17 | Erik Alfred Leslie Satie, Honfleur France, composer (Mmoirs d'un Ambsique), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 17 | Adolf Bernhard Marx composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
May 31 | Vladimir Ivanovich Rebikov composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 21 | Birth of Civilla D. Martin, teacher and songwriter, in Nova Scotia. A pastor's wife, she penned in 1904 the hymn, "Be Not Dismayed, Whate'er Betide" (a.k.a. "God Will Take Care of You"). | Ref: 5 |
Dec 02 | Henry Thacker Burleigh Erie PA, black composer (Springarn Medal), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 03 | Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda composer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 22 | Mieczyslaw Surzynski composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1867
Jan 06 | Georges Martin Witkowski composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 09 | Jacques Urlus Dutch tenor (Opera of Leipzig, Song of the Earth), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 23 | Herbert Bedford composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 27 | Claude Antoine Terrasse composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Jacques Urlus Dutch tenor (Opera of Leipzig, Song of the Earth), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Edward Naylor composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 12 | Joe Howard New York NY, singer (Gay Nineties Revue), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 21 | Otto Hermann Kahn Banker, organized Metropolitan Opera Company, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 23 | George Thomas Smart composer, dies at 90. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Wilhelm Peterson-Berger composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 03 | Gustav Strube composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 06 | Wiktor Kazynski composer, dies at 54. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 15 | Will Rossiter composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 22 | Ferdinando Giorgetti composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 25 | Arturo Toscanini Parma Italy, temperamental conductor, is born. | Ref: 68 |
Mar 27 | Edyth Walker US singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 30 | Death of Ithamar Conkey, 52, a popular 19th century English bass vocalist. He also composed the hymn-tune RATHBUN to which we sing today, "In the Cross of Christ I Glory." | Ref: 5 |
May 04 | Dynam-Victor Fumet composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 05 | Thomas Tertius Noble composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 08 | LaVerne Andrews singer: contralto, group: The Andrews Sisters, dies. | Ref: 4 |
May 21 | Marie Joseph Leon Desire Paque composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 21 | Frances Densmore, ethnomusicologist, is born. | Ref: 2 |
Jul 27 | Enrique Granados Lerida Spain, composer (Maria del Carmen), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 27 | Charles Koechlin Paris France, composer (Jacob Chez Luban), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 27 | Claude Antoine Terrasse composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 06 | Giovanni Pacini composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 07 | Rudolf Viole composer, dies at 42. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 19 | Jean-Georges Kastner composer, dies at 57. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 20 | Fini Valdemar Henriques composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 21 | John Winter Thompson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1868
Jan 03 | Moritz Hauptmann composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 06 | Vittorio Monti composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 07 | William Batchelder Bradbury composer, dies at 51. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 14 | Heinrich Schenker Austrian musicologist (Ursatz), dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 16 | Cyril Metodej Hrazdira composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 22 | Moritz Ganz composer, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 23 | Juventino Rosas composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 27 | Cato Engelen-Sewing Dutch soprano prima donna (Dutch Opera), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 28 | Frederick Archibald Lamond composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 28 | Julian Aguirre composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 03 | Damaso Ledesma composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Lodewijk Mortelmans composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | Leonard Borwick British pianist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 02 | Carl Eberwein composer, dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 22 | Hamish MacCunn composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | Patty Smith Hill author/songwriter (Happy Birthday To You), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Wojciech Gawronski composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 02 | Eduard Jacobs singer/pianist (Dutch cabaret), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Franz Adolf Berwald Swedish composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 13 | John Blackwood McEwen composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 16 | Joel Angel Russian musicologist/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 19 | Max Von Schillings German composer/conductor (Der Pfeifertag), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 22 | Jose Vianna da Motta composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 03 | Olof Wilhelm Udden composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
May 13 | Paolo Gallico composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | Frderic baron d'Erlanger French composer/banker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 13 | Gioacchino (Antonio) Rossini composer (Barber of Seville), dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 24 | Scott Joplin US, entertainer/composer (The Entertainer), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 27 | Cato Engelen-Sewing Dutch soprano prima donna (Dutch Opera), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | Louis Victor Saar composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 11 | Ernst Henrik Ellberg composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 14 | Richard Batka composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1869
Jan 03 | Paul Charles Rene Landormy composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 04 | Percy Pitt composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 17 | Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky composer, dies at 55. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 23 | Carlo Felice Boghen composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 27 | Will Marion Cook composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 28 | Prudent-Louis Aubery du Boulley composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | Andrey Vladimirovich Scherbachov composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 10 | Vasily Pavovlich Kalafati composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 03 | Henry J Wood English conductor (Gentle Art of Singing, Proms), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | Louis Hector Berlioz French composer (Symphony Fantastic), dies at age 65. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 23 | Charles Lucas composer, dies at 60. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | Albert Roussel Tourcoing France, composer (Rapsodie Flamende), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 20 | Johann Carl Gottfried Loewe composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 20 | Piotr Studzinski composer, dies at 42. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 25 | Karl Prohaska composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 27 | William Victor Harris composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 05 | Hans Erich Pfitzner Moscow Russia, composer (Krakquer Begrs), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 10 | Wilhelm Bernard Molique composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
May 11 | Francisco Lacerda composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 14 | Armas Jrnefelt Vyborg Finland, composer (Berceuse) | Ref: 5 |
Oct 29 | Birth of E. O. Sellers, American Baptist musician. At various times the song evangelist for R.A. Torrey, Gipsy Smith, A.C. Dixon and J. Wilbur Chapman, Sellers is remembered today for his two original hymns: "Thy Word Have I Hid in My Heart" and "Wonderful, Wonderful Jesus". | Ref: 5 |
Nov 27 | Will Marion Cook composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 17 | Nikolay Ivanovich Kazanli composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 18 | Louis Moreau Gottschalk composer, dies at 40. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 26 | Harry Redman composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1870
Jan 03 | Henry Eichheim composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 07 | Karl Schwencke composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 11 | Adolf Ganz composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 13 | Henryk Opienski Polish composer/conductor (St Moniuszko), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 20 | Guillaume Jean Joseph Nicolas Lekeu composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 22 | Charles Arnold Tournemire composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 26 | Cesare Pugni composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 11 | Leopold Eugen Mechura composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 12 | Marie Lloyd (Matalida Alice Wood) British musical entertainer known for her impersonations, is born. | Ref: 17 |
Feb 13 | Leopold Godowsky, Russian-born American pianist and composer, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Feb 27 | Louis Coerne composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 06 | Oscar Straus Vienna Austria, composer (Ein Walzertraum), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 09 | Theodore Labarre composer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 10 | Alfred Kastner composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 10 | Isaak-Ignaz Moscheles composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 18 | Joaquin y Garbayo Gaztambide composer, dies at 48. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 07 | Joseph Ryeland Belgian composer/Baron, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 08 | Charles-Auguste de Beriot Belgian violinist/composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 19 | Camille Marie Stamaty composer, dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 19 | William Henry Havergal composer, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 20 | Simeon Roncal composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 28 | Hermann Suter composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 30 | Franz Lehr, Hungarian operetta composer (Naughty Marietta), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 14 | Zygmunt Denis Antoni Stojowski composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 14 | Ramon Vilanova y Barrera composer, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
May 30 | Gustave Vogt composer, dies at 89. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 23 | John Lomax Miss, folk song collector/ethnomusicologist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 28 | Florent Schmitt Blmont France, composer (Frdgonde), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 20 | Michael Balfe, Irish singer and composer; wrote "The Bohemian Girl", dies at age 62. | Ref: 70 |
Dec 02 | Francis Louis Casadesus French violinist/composer/conductor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 05 | Viteslav Augustin Rudolf Novk Slovak composer (Quasi una ballata), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 16 | Stanislaw Duniecki composer, dies at 31. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 17 | Giuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 24 | Rosario Scalero composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 28 | Alexey Fyodorovich L'vov composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
- 1871
Jan 05 | Frederick Shepherd Converse Newton MA, composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 15 | Bertram Shapleigh composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 22 | Leon Jessel composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | Eduardo Lopez-Chavarri y Marco composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 01 | Alexander Nikoleyevich Serov composer, dies at 51. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 07 | Karl Wilhelm Eugen Stenhammer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 07 | Henry Steinway, German-bn. American piano builder, dies at age 73. | Ref: 70 |
Mar 20 | Antonio Buzzolla composer, dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Franois-Joseph Ftis Belgian musicologist/composer, dies at 87. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Willem Mengelberg Utrecht Netherlands, conductor (New York Philharmonic 1922-30), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | F Melius Christiansen composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | Georg Andreas Henkel composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 08 | Charles-Louis Hanssens composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 09 | Arthur Fickenscher composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 16 | Martin Lunssens composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 21 | Leo Blech composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 21 | Vojtech Rihovsky composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 27 | Arthur Finlay Nevin composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 27 | Sigismond Fortune Franois Thalberg composer, dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 28 | Louise Homer opera singer: contralto: NY Metropolitan Opera House [1900-1919]; is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 05 | Alberto Cametti composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 06 | August Reusner composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 12 | Daniel-Franois-Esprit Auber French opera composer, dies at 89. | Ref: 5 |
May 23 | Sigurd Lie composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 24 | Francisco Salvador Daniel composer, dies at 40. | Ref: 5 |
May 26 | Aime Maillart composer, dies at 54. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 22 | Death of Charlotte Elliott, 82, English devotional writer and author of the enduring hymn, "Just As I Am." (A serious illness at 33 had left her an invalid her remaining 50 years.) | Ref: 5 |
Oct 14 | Alexander von Zemlinsky Vienna Austria, composer (Der Schneeman), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 20 | Henry Kimball Hadley composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 29 | Ferdinand Marcucci composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
- 1872
Jan 06 | Alexander N Scriabin Moscow, hallucinogenic composer (Prometheus), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 11 | Paul Graener composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 16 | Henri-Paul Busser composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 07 | Vasily Andreyevich Zolotaryov composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | Paul Juon Russian/Swiss violinist/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 10 | Felix Borowski composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 18 | Frank Hoyt Losey composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 19 | Sergei Diaghilev Gruzino Novgorod Russia, ballet director, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 20 | Bernhard Seklas composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | Sergey Nikiforovich Vasilenko composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | Nicolaos Mantzaros composer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 31 | Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev Russia, dance master (Imperial Ballet), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | Tadeusz Joteyko composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 04 | Nikolai Amani composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 04 | Pauline de Haan-Manifarges Dutch singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Eyvind Alnaes composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 01 | Hugo Alfvn Stockholm Sweden, composer (Midsommarvaka), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 15 | Thomas Hastings composer, dies at 87. | Ref: 5 |
May 17 | Fryderyk Edward Sobolewski composer, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 11 | Lowell Mason, organist/composer (Zebulo), dies. | Ref: 17 |
Sep 04 | Darius Milhaud Aix-en-Provence France, composer (Maximilien) | Ref: 5 |
Oct 12 | Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer: is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 11 | Frederick A Stock Julich, Germany, conductor (Theodore Thomas Orchestra), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 06 | Mikulas Moyzes composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | Johann Babtist Thaller composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 20 | Lorenzo Perosi Italian composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1873
Jan 03 | John Lodge Ellerton composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 06 | Karl Straube German organist/conductor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | Lucien Capet composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 17 | Franois Rasse composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 28 | Henry Hugo Pierson composer, dies at 57. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 01 | Clara Butt Southwick Sussex, contralto (Country of Hope & Glory), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Leopold Fall Austria, operetta composer (Dollar Princess), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 04 | Birth of George Bennard, American Methodist evangelist. He penned over 300 Gospel songs during his lifetime, but is primarily remembered today for one: "The Old Rugged Cross." | Ref: 5 |
Feb 13 | Feodor Chaliapin, Russian operatic bass, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Feb 14 | Charles Samvei Bovy-Lysberg composer, dies at 52. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 23 | Dmitri Arakishvili composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 25 | Enrico Caruso opera singer: tenor: Canio in Pagliacci, Rodolfo in La Bohme, Metropolitan Opera debut in Rigoletto; sang nearly 70 roles; appeared in nearly every country of Europe and North and South America; final performance: La Juive: the Met [1920]; is born in Naples, Italy. | Ref: 68 |
Mar 05 | Marie-Alexis Castillon de Saint-Victor composer, dies at 34. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 15 | David Vaughan Thomas composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 19 | Max Reger Brand Bavaria, composer/pianist/professor (Leipzig University), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 20 | Adolfe Louis Eugene Fetis composer, dies at 52. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | Sergei Rachmaninoff, musician: pianist, composer: Prelude in C Sharp Minor, Second Piano Concerto; is born in Novgorod Province, Russia. | Ref: 68 |
Apr 13 | Theodore Morse composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 13 | Carlo Coccia composer, dies at 90. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 14 | Viktor Joseph Keldorfer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 17 | Semyon Stepanovich Gulak-Artemovsky composer, dies at 60. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | Jean Roger-Ducasse composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 28 | Harold Bauer English/US pianist (Beethoven-Association), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 07 | Clarence Dickinson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 13 | Kaspar Masek composer, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
May 19 | Federico Gerdes Tacna Per, orchestraestra director, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 18 | Otto Harbach songwriter (Smoke Gets in Your Eyes), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 18 | Leo Slezak,Austrian opera singer and film comedian, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Nov 10 | Henri Rabaud Paris France, composer (Le Premer Glaire), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 16 | W. C. Handy, the American composer known as the "father of the blues", is born. | Ref: 70 |
Nov 20 | Daniel Gregory Mason Brookline MA, composer (Chanticker), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 14 | Marie-Alphonse-Nicolas-Joseph Jongen composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 15 | Pongrac Kacsoh composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 18 | Adolf Vogl composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 26 | Hubert Cuypers Dutch composer/choir conductor (Minstrels), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 26 | Karel Moor composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1874
Jan 01 | Hugo Leichtentritt composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 04 | Josef Suk Czech violinist/composer (Asrael), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | Robert Lach composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 11 | Fritz Bennicke Hart composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 15 | Emilis Melngailis composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Mary Garden Aberdeen Scotland, opera star, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 24 | Anselmo Clave composer, dies at 49. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | Carl Vogler composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Max Ettinger composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 09 | Johann Richard Ohlsson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 12 | Edmund Eysler Austrian composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 20 | Hans Christian Lumbye composer, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Oskar Nedbal composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Eduardo Sanchez de Fuentes composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 09 | Julius Bittner Austrian composer (Little Violet), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 01 | Vilem Blodek composer, dies at 39. | Ref: 5 |
May 13 | Henry Clough-Leiter composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 22 | Francesco Paolo Neglia composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 26 | Serge Koussevitzky Vishny-Volotchok, Russia conductor (Boston Symp), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 13 | Arnold Schonberg Vienna Austria, composer (Second Quartet), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 21 | Gustav Holst Cheltenham, England, composer (Planets), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 01 | Dominicus Johner composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 22 | Franz Schmidt composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 22 | Johann Peter Pixis composer, dies at 86. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 31 | Ernest Austin composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1875
Jan 03 | Baldassare Galuppi Italian composer (opera's buff), dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 03 | George Bizet composer, dies. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 11 | Reinhold Gliere Kiev Ukraine, composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 18 | Joseph Philbrick Webster composer, dies at 55. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 25 | Leopold Jansa composer, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 28 | Julian Antonio Carillo-Trujillo composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 01 | Eddie Pola composer (Lullabye of Broadway), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 01 | Sir William Sterndale Bennett, English pianist, conductor and composer, dies at age 58. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Fritz Kreisler, violin virtuoso/composer: Caprice Viennois, Tambourin Chinois, Liebesfreud, La Gitana; is born in Vienna, Austria. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 04 | Raymond Moulaert composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 07 | Erkki Gustav Melartin composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 07 | Walter Courvoisier composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Sidney Hugo Nicholson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 11 | Sara Wennerberg-Reuter composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 19 | Jean B Vuillaume French violin maker (octobas), dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | Richard Wetz composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 28 | Viliam Figus composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 07 | Composer of Bolro, Maurice Ravel is born in Cibourne, France. | Ref: 70 |
Mar 09 | Martin Fallas Shaw composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 10 | Alexander Borisovich Goldenweiser composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 10 | Louis Joseph Daussoigne-Mehul composer, dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 12 | Julio Garreta composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 14 | Norman Houstoun O'Neill composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 18 | Ferdinand Laub composer, dies at 43. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 29 | Paul Rubens composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | Marie Moke Pleyel composer, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 04 | Pierre Monteux Paris France, conductor (Boston Symphony Orchestra 1919-24), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 04 | Jozef Szulc composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 24 | Jeno Huszka composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 24 | Jose Maria de la Purificacion Ventura composer, dies at 58. | Ref: 5 |
May 18 | Guido Alberto Fano composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 23 | Johann Wilhelm Mangold composer, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
May 31 | Italo Montemezzi composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 03 | Georges Bizet, composer of Carmen and The Pearl Fishers, dies at age 36. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 17 | Sir Donald Francis Tovey Eton England, musicologist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 09 | Albert William Ketlbey Aston England, composer (Wonder Worker), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 15 | Samuel Coleridge-Taylor London, composer (Hiawatha's Wedding Feast), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 14 | Dobri Khristov composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 15 | Friedrich Niggli composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 22 | Antoine Mariotte composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 22 | Nikolay Alexeyevich Titov composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
- 1876
Jan 07 | William Yeates Hurlstone composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Charles EH de Coussemaker Belgian musicologist/historian, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 12 | Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari Venice Italy, composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | Carl Henrik Ludolf Nielsen composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | Havergal Brian Dresden Staffordshire, composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 04 | Victor Jean Leonard Vreuls composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 10 | Johan August Soderman composer, dies at 43. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Fyodor Akimenko composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 21 | Henry John Gauntlett composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 23 | Wadi' Sabra composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 24 | Jean Poveigh composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 28 | John Alden Carpenter Chicago IL, composer (Sea Drift), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 28 | Charles Edward Horsley composer, dies at 53. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | Alfred Holmes composer, dies at 38. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | Franco Alfano Italian opera composer (Il dottore Antonio), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 11 | Carl Ruggles, Marion MA, composer (Evocations), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 17 | Frederic Ayers composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 19 | Jozef Stefani composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 29 | Jan Ingenhoven composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | Viktor Patrick Vretblad composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 16 | Augustin-Philippe Peellaert composer, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 19 | Samuel Sebastian Wesley composer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 25 | Ruben Marcos Campos composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 07 | Franz count of Pocci German artist/composer (Alchemist), dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
May 13 | Raoul Laparra composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 20 | John Owen Jones composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 26 | Ernest Schelling Belvidere NJ, composer/conductor (Victory Ball), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 15 | Bruno Walter (B.W. Schlesinger), Berlin Germany, conductor (NY Phil), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 14 | Yekaterina Geltzer, Russian ballerina, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Nov 23 | Manuel de Falla, composer, is born in Cadiz, Spain. (Cross, Milton, "Encyclopedia of the Great Composers and Their Music", Doubleday & Co, 1953) |   |
Dec 03 | Hermann Goetz composer, dies at 35. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 07 | Ludwig Schiedermair German musicologist (Beethoven-Archiv), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 11 | Mieczyslaw Karlowicz composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 19 | Carlo Gatti composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 29 | Pablo Casals, Vendrell Catalonia Spain, cellist/conductor/composer, is born. | Ref: 68 |
Dec 29 | Popular American hymnwriter Philip P. Bliss, 38, died when the train in which he and his wife were riding plunged off a bridge into a ravine 60 feet below. Bliss had penned such enduring hymns as: "Wonderful Words of Life, "Let the Lower Lights Be Burning," "I Will Sing of My Redeemer" and "I Gave My Life for Thee." | Ref: 5 |
- 1877
Jan 11 | Pietro Romani composer, dies at 85. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 17 | Hans Jelmoli composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 20 | Ruth St Denis Newark NJ, ballerina (Dances of the 5 Senses), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 01 | Thomas Frederick Dunhill composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 01 | Joseph-Leon Gatayes composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 07 | Feliks Nowowiejski composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 13 | Jazeps Medins composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 19 | Louis Franois-Marie Aubert French composer (Habanera), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 24 | Rudolf Ganz composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | Russell Alexander composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 28 | Sergei Bortkiewicz composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | Alexander Fyodorovich Gedike composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 12 | Crystobal Oudrid y Segura composer, dies at 52. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Vincenzo Fioravanti composer, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 02 | Arnold Schering German musicologist (Humor, Heldentum, Tragik), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 07 | Errico Petrella composer, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 23 | Arthur Farwell composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 24 | Charles Cuvillier, composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 02 | Vernon Castle, ballroom dancer, is born. | Ref: 2 |
May 10 | Roderich Mojsisovics-Mojsvar composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 14 | John Roberts composer, dies at 54. | Ref: 5 |
May 25 | Billy Murray singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 27 | Ernst von Dohnanyi, composer, is born in Pressburg, Hungary. (Cross, Milton, "Encyclopedia of the Great Composers and Their Music", Doubleday & Co, 1953) |   |
Dec 08 | Paul Emile Ladmirault composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | Federico Ricci composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 13 | Mykola Dmytrovich Leontovych composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 14 | Lieven Duvosel Flemish music writer/composer (Leiecyclys), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 22 | Endre Ady Hungary, lyric poet, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 31 | Alberto Mazzucato composer, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
- 1878
Jan 01 | Edwin Franko Goldman composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 01 | Franois Ambrosiny French dancer/choreograph (L'oiseau enchant), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 15 | Johanna Muller-Hermann composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 23 | Rutland Boughton composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 28 | Walter Kollo [Kollodziepski] German composer (Der Juxbaron), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 06 | Waclaw Gieburowski composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 07 | Ossip Gabrilovich composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 16 | Selim Palmgren Finnish pianist/composer/conductor (Peter Schlemihl), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 21 | Fritz Cortolezis composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Franz Hunten composer, dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Gabriel Edouard Xavier Dupont composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 12 | Joseph Gustav Mraczek composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 21 | Thurlow Weed Lieurance composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 23 | Franz Schrecker composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 24 | Albin Masek composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 25 | Theodore Samuel Holland composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | Dobri Voynikov composer, dies at 44. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | Eugene Gautier composer, dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | Wilhelm Speyer composer, dies at 87. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 06 | Carl Emil Theodor Ehrenberg composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 08 | Rudolf Nelson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 21 | Temistocle Solera composer, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
May 15 | Francisco Pujol composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 19 | Adam von Ahn Carse composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 22 | Franz von Holstein composer, dies at 52. | Ref: 5 |
May 25 | Vaudeville dancer Bill Bojangles (Luther) Robinson is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 27 | Isadora Duncan, San Fransisco CA, free form/interpretative dancer, is born. | Ref: 68 |
May 27 | Carlo Marsili composer, dies at 49. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 26 | Albert Siklos, Hungarian cellist, composer and musicologist, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Jul 03 | George M. Cohan, American entertainer and songwriter, is born. | Ref: 2 |
Jul 04 | George M Cohan entertainer, Give my regards to Broadway, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 05 | Arrigo Pedrollo composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 19 | Anton Lajovic composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 28 | Jose Bernardo Alcedo composer, dies at 90. | Ref: 5 |
- 1879
Jan 23 | Adolf Jensen composer, dies at 42. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 01 | Sydney Baynes composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Carl Natanael Berg composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 10 | Franz Carl Bornschein composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 11 | Jean Gilbert composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 25 | Otakar Ostrcil composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | Frank Bridge English violinist/composer/conductor/tutor of B Britten, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Jose Sancho Marraco composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 11 | Justus Hermann Wetzel composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 19 | Joseph Haas German (opera) composer (Tobias Wunderlich), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 25 | Otakar Zich composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 04 | Gabriel Groulez composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 09 | Ernst Friedrich Richter composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Sir Thomas Beecham England, composer, founded London Philharmonic, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 06 | Johan H T Norlind Swedish musicologist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 22 | Eastwood Lane composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 22 | Jean Emile Paul Cras composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 31 | Mark Hambourg composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 05 | Wanda A Landowska, Warsaw Poland, harpsichordist (Musique Ancienne), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 09 | Ottorino Respighi Bologna, Italy, composer (Pines of Rome), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 30 | August Bournonville, Danish director of the Danish Royal Ballet, dies at age 74. | Ref: 2 |
Dec 04 | Herbert Hamilton Harty composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 07 | (Charles) Rudolf Friml, Czechoslovakian/US composer (Bohemian suite), is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 12 | Percy Fletcher composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 15 | Rudolf von Laban Czechoslovakian/German choreographer (modern dance), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 19 | Otto Emanuel Olsson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 24 | Stanislav Pylypovych Lyudkevych composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 26 | Armen Tigran Tigranyan composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 26 | Julius Weismann composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1880
Jan 05 | Nicolai Karlovich Medtner composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 06 | Yuliya Lazarevna Veysberg composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 11 | Rudolf T Palm Curaao, pianist/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 25 | Francis George Scott composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 01 | Antonio Guarnieri composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 01 | Francesco Balilla Pratella composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 14 | Aida Overton Walker US dancer/singer (In Dahomey, Salome), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 14 | Edgar Leslie Bainton composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 18 | Eric De Lamarter composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 19 | Arthur Shepherd composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 23 | Edgar Istel composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 17 | Guillermo Uribe Holguin composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 23 | Gustav Adolf Mankell composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 25 | Joseph Rummel composer, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Mariano Soriano Fuertes y Piqueras composer, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Rosina Lhvinne Kiev Ukraine, pianist/professor (Juilliard Graduate School), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Achille Peri composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 29 | Jakob Axel Josephson composer, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 31 | Henryk Wieniawski Polish violist/composer, dies at 44. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 07 | Diederich Krug composer, dies at 58. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 08 | Victor Schertzinger, composer/director (Uptown NY), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 23 | Michel Fokine, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer | Ref: 70 |
Apr 26 | Mikhail Fokine Russia, choreographer/founder of modern dance, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 09 | Johann Hermann Berens composer, dies at 54. | Ref: 5 |
May 10 | John Goss composer/organist, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
May 16 | Karl August Krebs composer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
May 21 | Pablo Luna y Carne composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 26 | John Curwen composer, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 24 | Ernest Bloch Geneva, Switzerland, composer (MacBeth), is born. | Ref: 68 |
Sep 27 | Jacques Thibaud Bordeaux France, violinist (Caf Rogue), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 04 | Jacques Offenbach, Cologne, French composer (Tales of Hoffmann), dies. | Ref: 68 |
Oct 05 | Jacques Offenbach, Cologne, French composer (Tales of Hoffmann), dies at age 61. | Ref: 70 |
Dec 02 | Josephine Lang composer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 05 | Alexander Schmuller Russian/Netherlands violinist/conductor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 19 | Nemesio Otano y Eugenio composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 27 | Alessandro Nini composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 29 | Jean-Fernand Vaubourgoin composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 30 | Alfred Einstein German/US musicologist/nephew of Albert Einstein, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1881
Jan 05 | Nikolay Andreyevich Roslavets composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 25 | Gustave Frederic Soderlund composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 30 | Jaak Nikolaas Lemmens Flemish composer, dies at 58. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 01 | Jose Ignacio Quinton composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 06 | Karl Weigl composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 19 | Armin Knab German composer (Eichendorff-cycle), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 16 | Modest Mussorgsky, Russian composer who wrote "Boris Godunov", dies at age 42. | Ref: 70 |
Mar 18 | Paul Le Flem composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 21 | Hermann Sandby composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 23 | Nikolay Rubinstein composer, dies at 45. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 25 | Bla Bartk, composer, is born. (Also: Cross, Milton, "Encyclopedia of the Great Composers and Their Music", Doubleday & Co, 1953) | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky composer, dies at 42. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 31 | Gaetano Gaspari composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 08 | Fernand Lamy composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 11 | Harvey Bartlett Gaul composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 16 | George William Martin composer, dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | Hermann KJ Zilcher German pianist/composer (Dr Eisenbart), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 20 | Nikolai Miaskovsky Novogeorievsk Poland, composer (Kirov is With Us), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 20 | Sem Dresden composer/conductor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 23 | Otakar Sini composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 11 | Jan van Gilse composer/resistance fighter (Frau Helga von Staveren), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 11 | Pascual Rogatis composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 13 | Ilona Durigo Hungarian singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 18 | Georgi Atanasov composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 24 | Mikulas Schneider-Trvavsky composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | Frederik Septimus Kelly composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 19 | Georges Enesco, composer, is born in Dorohoiu, Rumania. (Cross, Milton, "Encyclopedia of the Great Composers and Their Music", Doubleday & Co, 1953) |   |
Dec 24 | Bronislaw Zygmunt Szulc composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 24 | Charles Wakefield Cadman composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1882
Jan 21 | Anton Emil Titl composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 25 | Peter Singer composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Fabio Campana composer, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 03 | Guglielmo Quarenghi composer, dies at 55. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Felice Lattuada composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 11 | Gheorghe Cucu composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 11 | Gustav Schmidt composer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 14 | Ignaz Friedman composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 17 | Kurt Schindler composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 23 | Ladislav Vycpalek composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 28 | Geraldine Farrar US soprano/actress (Story of American Singer), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 28 | Richard Heinrich Stein composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 02 | Louis Kufferath composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 18 | Gian Francesco Malipiero composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 21 | Bascom Lamar Lunsford Appalachian folk song writer: Good Old Mountain Dew; started first folk music festival in 1928: annual Mountain Dance and Folk Festival at Asheville, N.C.; responsible for formation of the National Clogging and Hoedown Council; died in 1973, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 25 | Haydn Wood composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Friedrich Wilhelm Kucken composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 04 | Mary Howe composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 16 | Seth Bingham composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 17 | Artur Schnabel, Lipnik Austria, pianist (Beethoven Piano Sonatas), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | Leopold Stokowski London England, conductor (Cincinnati Symphony), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | Birth of George S. Schuler, American music educator. Affiliated with Moody Bible Institute for 40 years, Schuler is remembered today for composing the melody to the hymn, "Make Me a Blessing." | Ref: 5 |
Apr 23 | Albert Coates St Petersburg Russia, conductor/composer (Eagle), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 11 | Joseph Marx Austrian composer/critic, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 18 | Eduardo Fabini composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 17 | Igor (Fedorovich) Stravinsky composer: The Firebird, Petrouchka, The Rite of Spring, The Wedding, The Soldiers Tale; is born in Oranienbaum, Russia. | Ref: 68 |
Jul 08 | Percy Grainger Melbourne, composer/pianist/conductor (Hill Songs), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 23 | Death of Charles W. Fry, 45, English Salvation Army worker. It was Fry who penned the words to the lyric hymn, "I Have Found a Friend in Jesus" (a.k.a. "Lily of the Valley"). | Ref: 5 |
Oct 06 | Karol Szymanowski, Timoshovka Ukraine, composer (Stabatmater), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 18 | Amelita Galli-Curci opera soprano: "If not the greatest coloratura soprano of all time, she must surely be recognized as among the world?s finest examples of true operatic artistry", is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 08 | Manuel Mara Ponce Fresnillo Mxico, composer (Estrellita), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 09 | Joaqufn Turina Seville Spain, composer (Rima), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 16 | Zoltan Kodaly, Kecskemet Hungary, composer (Psalmus Hungaricus), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 19 | Walter Braunfels composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1883
Jan 04 | Nicolas Ledesma composer, dies at 91. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | Josue Teofilo Wilkes composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 13 | Henrik Ibsen's "En Folkefiende" premieres in Oslo. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 19 | Hermann Abendroth German conductor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 21 | Jacopo Tomadini composer, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 24 | Friedrich von Flotow, German-born French composer, dies at age 70. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Mikhail Fabianovich Gnesin composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 07 | Eubie Blake ragtime composer/pianist (I'm Just Wild About Harry, Memories of You), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 11 | Paul August von Klenau Danish composer/conductor (Sulamith), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 13 | Bainbridge Crist composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 13 | Wilhelm Richard Wagner German composer (Die Walkre), dies in Venice at 69. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 17 | Napoleon Coste composer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Jaroslav Kocian composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 07 | Carl Deis composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | Manuel Gomez Carillo composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 12 | Judge Jackson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 13 | Enrico Toselli composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 14 | Juan Manen composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 15 | Karol Studzinski composer, dies at 55. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 19 | Josef Matthais Hauer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 20 | Karl Hasse composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 21 | Jules van Nuffel composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | Jan Kunc composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | William H Harris composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | Aleksander V Aleksandrov Russian composer/conductor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 09 | Renzo Bossi composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 13 | Alexander Alexandrov composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 17 | Hermann Darewsky composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | Agnes Tyrrell composer, dies at 36. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 22 | Octave Fouque composer, dies at 38. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 30 | David John de Lloyd composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 05 | Leopold Samuel composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 05 | Petar Konjovic composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 07 | Gino Roncaglia composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 15 | Stanley Robert Marchant composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 26 | Mamie Smith, blues singer, is born. | Ref: 2 |
May 28 | George Dyson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | Luigi Perrachio composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | August Freyer composer, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | William Beatton Moonie composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 30 | Riccardo Zandonai composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 25 | Alfredo Casella Turin Italy, composer (La Giara), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 18 | Lord Berners (Gerald Tyrwhitt) England, composer (1st Childhood), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 12 | Birth of C. Harold Lowden, American sacred composer. His most enduring hymn tunes today are GENEVA ("God Who Touchest Earth with Beauty") and LIVING ("Living for Jesus a Life That is True"). | Ref: 5 |
Nov 08 | Sir Arnold Bax London, England, composer (Farewell My Youth), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 11 | Ernest Ansermet Vevey Switzerland, conductor (Ruilles de Printemps), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 01 | Romanos Hovakimi Melik'yan composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 03 | Anton [Friedrich Wilhelm] von Webern Vienna Austria, 12-tone composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 14 | Manolis Kalomiris Greek opera composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 19 | Louis Davids [Simon David] Dutch cabaret performer/chorus performer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 22 | Edgard Victor Achille C Varse Paris France, composer (Innisation), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | Fran Lhotka composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | Marek Konrad Sokolowski composer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
- 1884
Jan 01 | George W Meyer Boston MA, composer/lyricist (Bells of St. Mary's, Broadway Babies), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 03 | Raoul Armand Georg Koczalski composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 06 | Paul Taglioni "the Great", Italian/Austrian choreographer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | James Philip Dunn composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 12 | Louis Horst, American pianist/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 13 | Sophie Tucker [Kalish], Russia, singer/last of red hot mammas, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 19 | Albert Louis Wolff composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 21 | Auguste Franchomme composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 24 | Johann Christian Gebauer composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 25 | Edward Kilenyi composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | Juhan Aavic composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 21 | John Pike Hullah composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | Christina A A [Dina] Koudijs-van Appeldoorn pianist/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 29 | Alfred Sendrey composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 02 | Leon Jongen composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 14 | Winter Haynes Watts composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 15 | Rudolf Piskacek composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 19 | Alfonse Charles Renaud de Vilback composer, dies at 54. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 23 | Glauco Velasquez composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 24 | Gino Marinuzzi composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Wilhelm Backhaus Leipzig Germany, pianist (Rubinstein 1905), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | Hans Hampel composer, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 09 | Franco Vittadini composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 22 | Armas Emmanuel Launis composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 30 | Albert Israel Elkus composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 01 | Felipe Boero composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 12 | Bedrich Smetana, Bohemian composer of operas and symphonic poems, dies at age 60. | Ref: 70 |
May 17 | Louis Brassin composer, dies at 43. | Ref: 5 |
May 19 | Arthur Meulemans Belgian composer (Adriaan Brouwer) (or 5/10), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 22 | Alceo Toni composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 27 | Bax Brod composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 14 | John McCormack, Irish tenor, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Aug 03 | Louis Gruenberg near Brest Litovsk Poland, composer (Daniel Jazz), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 17 | Charles Tomlinson Griffes Elmira NY, composer (White Peacock) | Ref: 5 |
Dec 04 | Alice Mary Smith composer, dies at 45. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 05 | Evert Cornelis Dutch conductor/pianist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 19 | Ferdinando Liuzzi composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 27 | Bernard van Dieren composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 30 | Karl Heinrich David composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1885
Jan 01 | Roland Diggle composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 04 | Eduard Yosif Kotek composer, dies at 29. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 23 | Boleslaw Wallek-Walewski composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 27 | Jerome Kern the father of the American musical: composer: Show Boat, Ol Man River, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, Lovely to Look At, The Way You Look Tonight, The Last Time I Saw Paris; is born in New York, NY. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 27 | Eduard Knneke German composer (Vetter aus Dingsda), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | Leadbelly (Huddie William Ledbetter) American guitarist, blues singer, songwriter: The Rock Island Line, The Midnight Special, Goodnight Irene; is born in Mooringsport LA. | Ref: 68 |
Jan 31 | Anna Pavlova, St Petersburg Russia, ballerina/choreographer, is born. | Ref: 68 |
Feb 12 | Licinio Refice composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 15 | Richard Wurz composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 15 | Leopold Damrosch composer, dies at 52. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 18 | Charlotte Helen Sainton-Dolby composer, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | Lili Green [Alice Sally Mary], Netherlands/England dancer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 09 | Tamara Karsavina, Russian-English ballerina, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Mar 16 | Giacomo Benvenuti composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 22 | Adriano Lualdi composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 22 | Jakabs Medins composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Julius Harrison composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Marc-Jean-Baptiste Delmas composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Fredrick Vilhelm Ludvig Norman composer, dies at 53. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 31 | Franz Wilhelm Abt German composer/choir conductor, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 31 | Philipp Fahrbach composer, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | Dimitrie Cuclin composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 06 | Carlos Leon Salzedo composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 08 | Dimitrios Levidis composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 16 | Leo Weiner Hungary, composer (Fasching), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 17 | Cecil Burleigh composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 23 | William Henry Holmes composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Wallingford Riegger Albany GA, composer (Bacchangle), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 30 | Luigi Russolo composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 05 | Lauro Rossi composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
May 08 | Pavel Krizkovsky composer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
May 10 | Edward Stephen composer, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
May 11 | "King" Joseph Oliver, jazz cornetist and bandleader, is born. | Ref: 2 |
May 14 | Otto Klemperer Breslau Germany, conductor/composer (Das Ziel), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 21 | Gavril Yakimovich Lomakin composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
May 22 | Julio Fonseca composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 12 | Werner Josten Elberfeld Germany, composer (Jungle), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 13 | Elisabeth Schumann, soprano with the Vienna State Opera, is born. | Ref: 68 |
Sep 20 | Ferdinand Joseph La Menthe (Jelly Roll) Morton, American jazz musician and composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 22 | Giovanni Martinelli Montagnana Italy, opera singer (NY Met), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 19 | Birth of Haldor Lillenas, American hymnwriter. He penned nearly 4,000 Gospel texts and hymn tunes during his lifetime, including "It Is Glory Just to Walk With Him," Wonderful Grace of Jesus" and "Peace, Peace, Wonderful Peace." | Ref: 5 |
Nov 27 | Jerome Kern New York City NY, Broadway composer (Showboat, Roberta), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 27 | Eduard Knneke German composer (Vetter aus Dingsda), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 01 | Guy de Lioncourt composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | Janos Hammerschlag composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | Mario Varvoglis composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 22 | Edgard Varse Paris France, composer (Innisation), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 22 | Joseph Deems Taylor composer: operas: The Kings Henchman, Peter Ibbetson; writer; music critic: New York World [1921-25], New York American [1931-32]; intermission commentator for Sunday radio broadcasts of NY Philharmonic [1936 to 1943]; president of ASCAP; married to poet and playwright Mary Kennedy; is born in New York, NY. | Ref: 4 |
- 1886
Jan 09 | Jakob Eduard Schmolzer composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Jose Antonio de Donostia composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 16 | Amilcare Ponchielli Italian composer (La Gioconda), dies at 51. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 17 | Amilcare Ponchielli Italian composer (La Gioconda), dies at 51. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 22 | John Joseph Becker composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 25 | Wilhelm Frtwngler Berlin Germany, conductor/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 03 | Erwin Kroll composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Jakob Eduard Schmolzer composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 12 | Gustaf Lazarus Nordqvist composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 12 | Michel Brusselmans composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 19 | George Luther Foote composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 23 | Albert Edward Sammons composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 03 | James Friskin composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 03 | Reginald Owen Morris composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 13 | Henri D Gagnebin Swiss organist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Jaroslav Novotny composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 29 | Gustaf Adolf Tiburtius Bengtsson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 31 | Giovanni Rossi composer, dies at 57. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | Casimir von Paszthory composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | Jacques Handschin Swiss musicologist (Der Toncharakter), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 13 | Ethel Leginska composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 13 | Karoly Thern composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 16 | Jekabs Graubins composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 16 | Konstantin Mostras composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 26 | Ma Rainey (Gertrude Malissa Nix Pridgett) "Mother of the Blues", US blues singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 30 | Frank Merrik composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 01 | Heinrich Franz Daniel Stiehl composer, dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
May 03 | Marcel Dupr, French organist/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 05 | Manuel Borguno composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 08 | Jef van Hoof composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 12 | Hermann Grabner composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 13 | Joseph Achron Latvia/US violinist/composer (Golem suite), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 17 | Alfonso XIII Borbn King of Spain (1902-31), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 18 | Ole Windingstad composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 24 | Paul Paray Le Trport Normandy, conductor/composer (Artemis Trouble), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 26 | Al Jolson [Asa Yoelson] jazz singer/silent film actor (Mamie, Swanee), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | Nicolai Sokoloff near Kiev Ukraine, conductor (Seattle Symphony), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 31 | Franz Liszt composer: The Hungarian Rhapsodies, Les Preludes, Orpheus, Tasso, Faust, Hungarian Fantasy, Sonata in B Minor; dies at age 74 in Bayreuth, Bavaria. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 27 | Eric Coates Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, England, composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 15 | Pedro Sanjuan San Sebastian, Spain, composer (Castilla), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 25 | Rex Maupin St Joseph MO, orchestra leader (Tin Pan Alley TV), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 14 | Antoni Wincenty Rutkowski composer, dies at 27. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 20 | Domingo Julio Gomez Garcia composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 21 | George Norman Peterkin composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | (Edward) Kid Ory, US musician, exponent of New Orleans jazz, is born. | Ref: 17 |
- 1887
Jan 21 | Alfred Henry Ackley composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 28 | Lily Theresa Strickland composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 03 | Carlo Jachino composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 11 | Ernst "Putzi" Hanfstngl German/US pianist/politician (NSDAP), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 15 | Alexander Borodin composer, dies. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 17 | Leevi Antti Madetoja composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | David McKinley Williams composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 23 | Oskar Frederik Lindberg composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Alexander Porfir'yevich Borodin, Russian composer, dies at 53. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 02 | Wilhelm Troszel composer, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 05 | Heitor Villa-Lobos Rio de Janeiro Brazil, composer (Salon Waltz), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 06 | Henri Gagnon composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 07 | Heino Eller composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 13 | Carlos Isamitt composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 14 | Lawrence Collingwood composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 16 | Emanuel Kania composer, dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 23 | Anthony van Hoboken Dutch musicologist (Haydn-catalog), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Rudolf F W Boskaljon Curaao, musician/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 31 | Jose Maria Usandizaga composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 10 | Heinz Tiessen composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 11 | Pyotr Petrovich Sokal'sky composer, dies at 54. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 28 | Carl Ferdinand Pohl composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 30 | Friedrich Wilhelm Markull composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
May 02 | Vernon Castle dancer, actor: The Whirl of Life; is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 02 | G Rossini's corpse transfered to Santa Croce, Florence. | Ref: 5 |
May 12 | Nandor Zsolt composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 23 | Ludwig Mathias Lindeman composer, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
May 30 | Gino Tagliapietra composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 23 | John Finley Williamson Canton Ohio, conductor (Westminster Choir), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 02 | Marcel Tabuteau Compigne France, oboist (Phila Orch 1915-54), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 29 | Sigmund Romberg Nagykanizsa Hungary, operetta composer (Blossom Time), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 02 | Jenny (Johanna) Lind The Swedish Nightingale: singer; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 05 | Paul Wittgenstein Vienna Austria, left hand specialist pianist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 06 | Joseph Lamb composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 07 | Ernst Toch Vienna Austria, composer (Melodie Lehre), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 08 | Vicente Emilio Sojo Guatire Venezuela, composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 12 | Kurt Magnus Atterberg composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 26 | Jules Franois Blasini Curaao pianist/composer, dies at 40. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 29 | Kiyoshi Nobutoki composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 30 | Henry George Ley composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1888
Jan 05 | Henri Herz, composer, dies at a day before 85th birthday. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 12 | Claude Delvincourt composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 14 | Stephen Heller composer, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 21 | Stephan Hale Alonzo Marsh composer, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Candelario Huizar composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 08 | Matthijs Vermeulen Dutch composer/music critic, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Lotte Lehmann Perleberg Germany, soprano (Fidello), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 10 | Krsto Odak composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 10 | Ciro Pinsuti Italian pianist/composer, dies at 57. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 12 | Hall Johnson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 29 | Charles-Henri Valentin Alkan composer, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Gertrude Bridget "Ma" Rainey, American singer, "the mother of the blues., is born. | Ref: 2 |
Apr 09 | Solomon I "Sol" Hurok, Russian-born American impresario; popularized classical ballet and music in America, is born. | Ref: 17 |
Apr 09 | Leon Blum, Russian-born impresario; popularized classical ballet and music in America, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Apr 09 | Florence Smith Price US composer (Wanamaker Prize 1932), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 14 | William Fisk Sherwin composer, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 19 | William L Axt composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 10 | Max(imilian Raoul Walter) Steiner Vienna, composer (Gone With Wind), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 11 | Irving Berlin [Isadore Balin] Temum Siberia, composer (White Xmas), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 21 | May Aufderheide composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 27 | Louis Durey composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 12 | Actor, singer Maurice (Auguste) Chevalier is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 16 | Burnet Corwin Tuthill NYC, composer (Laurentia), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 02 | Franz Xaver Witt composer, dies at 54. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 03 | Ion Nonna Otescu composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 04 | Aleksandar I Karadordjevic king of Yugoslavia (1921-34), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 05 | Askell Snorrason composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 07 | Ernst Toch, composer and pianist, is born. | Ref: 2 |
Dec 10 | Mariano Obiols composer, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 19 | Fritz Reiner Budapest Hungary, conductor (Pittsburgh Symphony 1938-48), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 28 | Gabriel von Wayditch composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1889
Jan 01 | Alexander Smallens St Petersburg, Russia, conductor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 01 | Tadeusz Jarecki composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 02 | Tito Schipa Italy, tenor/composer (La Rondine), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Martin Andreas Udbye composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 14 | Vincenzo Davico composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 25 | Vladimir Vladimirovich Scherbachov composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | Francisco Santiago composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | Rudolf Mauersberger composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 01 | Joseph Gungl composer, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Ioan Dumitru Chirescu composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 11 | John Mills musician: guitar, singer: bass: group: The Mills Brothers [father of the four Mills brothers, took youngest son John, Jr.s place after his death in 1935]: Paper Doll, You Always Hurt the One You Love, I Love You So Much It Hurts, Ive Got My Love To Keep Me Warm, Someday [Youll Want Me To Want You], Be My Lifes Companion, Glow-Worm; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 11 | Vladimir Mikhaylovich Deshevov composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Levko Mykolayevich Revutsky composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 03 | Fritz Behrend composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 03 | Edward Sydney Smith composer, dies at 49. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 18 | William Henry Monk composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Vaclav Kapral composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | Moritz Furstenau composer, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Grigoras Dinicu composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 08 | Sir Adrian Boult, Chester England, conductor (BBC Symphony Orchestra), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 09 | Efrem Zimbalist Rostov on the Don Russia, composer/concert violinist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 11 | Nick La Rocca US coronetist/composer (Tiger Rag), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 30 | Acario Cotapos composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 30 | Rudolph Hermann Simonsen composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 17 | Marcel Moyse Saint-Amour, France, flutist (20 Exercises et tudes), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 20 | Felix Arndt composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 23 | Birth of Mary Susanne Edgar, a Canadian YWCA leader who wrote a number of hymns during her years of leading a Christian camping ministry with girls. Her best-remembered hymn: "God, Who Touchest Earth with Beauty." | Ref: 5 |
May 25 | Gilardo Gilardi composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 25 | Sverre Jordan composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | Jose Padilla composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 18 | Amelita Galli-Curci Italy, operatic soprano (Cave of the Winds), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 24 | Albert J Sylvester England, ballroom dancer (Alex Moor Award-1977), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 03 | Baltasar Saldoni composer, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 07 | Heathcote Dicken Statham composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 12 | Vaclav Stepan composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 13 | Clarence Loomis composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 17 | Vaslav F Nijinski Ukraine/US ballet dancer (l'aprs-midi d'une faune), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 20 | Bozidar Sirola composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1890
Jan 07 | Hans Matthison-Hansen composer, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 14 | Francesco D'Arcais composer, dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 17 | Salomon Sulzer composer, dies at 85. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 20 | Franz Paul Lachner composer, dies at 86. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | Marguerite Canal composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 30 | Karl Merz composer, dies at 53. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 16 | Semyon Semyonovich Bogatiryov composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 24 | Antonio Massana composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 25 | Dame Myra Hess, London England, concert pianist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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Mar 12 | Vaslav Najinsky, Russian ballet dancer, is born. | Ref: 17 |
Mar 13 | Michael Taube composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 13 | Henry Wylde composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 17 | Harold Morris composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 20 | Lauritz Melchior Copenhagen Denmark, baritone tenor (National Symphony), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Paul Whiteman, Denver CO, orchestra leader (Paul Whiteman's TV Teen Club), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 17 | John Barnett composer, dies at 87. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 23 | Donald Nichols Tweedy composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 06 | Hubert Leonard composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
May 17 | Philip James composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 20 | Beniamino Gigli Italy, tenor (Enzo-La Gioconde), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 21 | Albert van Raalte conductor (AVRO-orchestra), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | Viktor Ernst Nessler composer, dies at 49. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | Francis de Bourguignon composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 05 | Erich Kleiber, Vienna Austria, conductor (NBC Symphony 1945-46), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 12 | Al Goodman Nikopol Russia, orch leader (NBC Comedy Hour), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 15 | Jacques Ibert Paris France, composer (Escales), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 04 | La Argentina, Spanish dancer, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Sep 15 | Frank Martin Geneva Switzerland, composer (In Terra Fax), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 08 | Cesar Franck, Belgian-French Romantic composer, dies at age 67 in Paris, France. | Ref: 70 |
Dec 08 | Bohuslav Jan Martinu Policka Czechoslovakia, composer (Hry o Marti), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 21 | Niels Vilhelm Gade Danish composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 27 | Maurice Schoemaker composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1891
Jan 07 | Carl Gottfried Wilhelm Taubert composer, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | Bronislava Nijinska ballet choreographer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | Fredrik Pacius composer, dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 16 | Clement-Philibert-Leo Delibes, French ballet composer (Lakm), dies at age 54. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 17 | Johannes Josephus Hermanus Verhulst composer, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 20 | Mischa Elman Talnoye Ukraine, US violinist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 21 | Nikolay Semyonovich Golovanov composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 21 | Timothy Mather Spelman composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 21 | Calixa Lavallee composer, dies at 48. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 28 | Karel Boleslav Jirak composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 31 | Max Drischner composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 01 | James Price Johnson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 07 | Joachim Stutschewsky composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 08 | Edgar Palm Curaao, pianist/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 12 | Maurice Yvain composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Lucien Cailliet composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Georges E Migot French composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 03 | Federico Moreno Torroba composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 23 | Catherine Murphy Urner composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Paul Whiteman, US musician, bandleader, is born. | Ref: 17 |
Mar 31 | Erich Walter Sternberg composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 15 | Alvin P[leasant Delaney] Carter Maces Springs VA, vocalist (Carter Family), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 15 | Vaino Raitio composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 15 | Stephen Albert Emery composer, dies at 49. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 17 | Jules Eugene Abraham Alary composer, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 23 | Sergey Sergeyevich Prokofiev, Sontsovka Ukraine, composer (Peter & the Wolf), is born. | Ref: 68 |
Apr 27 | Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 04 | Frederick Jacobi composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 14 | Egon Kornauth composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 23 | Ignace Xavier Joseph Leybach composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
May 26 | Frederick Bowen Jewson composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
May 27 | Claude Adonai Champagne composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 06 | Ted Lewis (Theodore Leopold Friedman) clarinettist, singer, bandleader: Ted Lewis & His Band: Somebody Stole My Gal, Alexanders Ragtime Band; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 21 | Hermann Scherchen Berlin Germany, conductor (Nature of Music), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 02 | Sir Arthur Bliss (Edward Drummond) London, composer (Olympians), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 26 | Charles Munch Strasbourg, Alsatian conductor (French Legion D'Honeur), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 21 | Ted Shawn, American dancer, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Dec 23 | Holger Simon Paulli composer, dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 28 | Alfred Cellier composer, dies at 47. | Ref: 5 |
- 1892
Jan 01 | Artur Rodzinski Spalato Dalmatia Poland, conductor/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 01 | Miklos Radnai composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 07 | Rudolf Moser composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | Werner Wehrli composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Heinrich Ludwig Egmont Dorn composer, dies at 91. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 13 | Charles Albert White composer, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 15 | Frank Hutchens composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 17 | Alexandre Levy composer, dies at 27. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 27 | Mitya Stillman composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 30 | Charles Trowbridge Haubiel composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 01 | K Rudolf Mengelberg composer/musicologist (Amsterdam Concert Hall), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 04 | Yrl Henrik Kilpinen Finnish composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 11 | Erik Anthon Valdemar Siboni composer, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 14 | Nikolaj A Orloff Russian/British pianist (Chopin), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 03 | Rui Coelho composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 10 | Arthur Oscar Honegger, Le Havre France, composer (King David), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 10 | Eva Turner British soprano, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 13 | Alec Rowley composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 17 | Sayed Darwish composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 19 | Robert Denzler composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 20 | Arthor Goring Thomas composer, dies at 41. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Anton Wallerstein composer, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | Ferde (Ferdinand Rudolf von) Grof New York NY, composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 31 | Adolf Rzepko composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 06 | Mateusz Glinski composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 10 | Victor de Sabata Trieste Italy, conductor (Il Macigno), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | Johnny Dodds early jazz clarinettist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 19 | Germaine Tailleferre [Les Six] Pau-St-Maur France, composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 21 | Jaroslav Kvapil composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 22 | Nikolai Obouhov composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 22 | Edouard-Victoire-Antoine Lalo, composer, dies in Paris, France at age 69. (Also: Cross, Milton, "Encyclopedia of the Great Composers and Their Music", Doubleday & Co, 1953) | Ref: 5 |
Apr 28 | John Jacob Niles, American folk singer and folklorist, is born. | Ref: 2 |
Apr 28 | Georges Antoine composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 01 | Howard Barlow Plain City OH, conductor (Voice of Firestone), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 02 | Wilhelm Rust composer, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
May 05 | Jan Nepomuk Skroup composer, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
May 06 | Ernest Guiraud composer, dies at 54. | Ref: 5 |
May 08 | Ezio Pinza Rome Italy, bass singer (South Pacific, RCA Victor Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 09 | Eric Westberg composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 13 | Jean Alexander Ferdinand Poise composer, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
May 14 | Arthur Vincent Lourie composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 14 | Felix Petyrek composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 16 | Richard Tauber [Ernst Seiffert], Austria/British, tenor/conductor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 18 | Ezio Pinza, Rome Italy, bass (New York Metropolitan-South Pacific), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 22 | Louis van Tulder Dutch tenor (From Office Stool to High C), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 24 | Birth of Earl B. Marlatt, American religious educator and hymnologist. In 1926 Marlatt penned the hymn, "`Are Ye Able?' Said the Master," to be sung in a consecration service at Boston University's School of Religion. | Ref: 5 |
May 31 | Louis Fourestier composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 31 | Willem Ravelli baritone singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 09 | Cole Porter, American composer and lyricist, is born in Indiana. | Ref: 68 |
Jun 21 | Hilding Rosenberg Bosjkloster Sweden, composer (Babels Torn), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 26 | Hubert Julian (Jay) Stowitts the first American star in the Russian ballet, and Anna Pavlova's only American partner, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 05 | Joseph Szigeti Budapest Hungary, violinist (Violinist Notebook 1933), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 20 | Birth of Harry Dixon Loes, sacred music educator. A writer of gospel songs and choruses, it was Loes who composed the hymn tune REDEEMER ("Up Calvary's Mountain, One Dreadful Morn"). | Ref: 5 |
Nov 27 | Mitya Stillman composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 02 | Leo Ornstein composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 11 | Leo Ornstein Kremenchug Russia, composer (Bio in Sonata Form), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 15 | David Guion composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 15 | Jose Maria Castro composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 15 | Charles Balmer composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 27 | Feliks Roderyk Labunski composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 30 | Jaromir Fiala composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1893
Jan 04 | Manuel Palau Boix composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 05 | Friedrich Blume German musicologist (Das Rassenproblem in der Musik), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 13 | Jan Evangelista Zelinka composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 18 | John Lawrence Seymour composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 19 | Julius Eichberg composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 22 | Vincenz Lachner composer, dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 23 | Phillips Brooks lyricist: O Little Town of Bethlehem; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 28 | Elliot Griffis composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | Edric Cundell composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | Martian Negrea composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 04 | Bernard Rogers New York NY, composer (Warrior, Marriage of Aude, Passion), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 15 | Walter Donaldson US pianist/composer (Girl Crazy, Whoopee), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 21 | Andrs Segovia Linares Spain, classical guitarist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Joseph Messner composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 02 | Maxime Dumoulin composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 05 | Richard Samuel Hughes composer, dies at 37. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 06 | [Walter] Furry Lewis father of the blues, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 09 | Hans Munch composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 19 | Karel Komzak composer, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 31 | Clemens Krauss Vienna Austria, conductor (Berlin State Orchestra-1937), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 07 | Irene Castle (Foote) dancer, costume designer, actress: The Whirl of Life, The First Law, The Broadway Bride, French Heels, Broadway After Dark; subject of movie: The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle [1939]; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 08 | Edgar "Yip" Harburg, lyricist ("Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?," "Over the Rainbow"), is born. | Ref: 2 |
Apr 09 | Disma Fumagalli composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 16 | Federico Mompou composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 16 | Joseph Yasser composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 30 | Gyula Beliczay composer, dies at 57. | Ref: 5 |
May 03 | Josef Rudolf Zavrtal composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
May 04 | George Washington Hewitt composer, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
May 14 | Ivan Alexandrovich Vishnegradsky composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 15 | Michel Gusikoff composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 16 | Paul Amadeus Pisk composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 26 | Sir Eugene Goossens London England, conductor/composer (Perseus), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 26 | William "Big Bill" Broonzy, blues singer and guitarist, is born. | Ref: 2 |
Aug 10 | Douglas Stuart Moore Cutchogue NY, composer (Good Night Harvard), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 18 | Arthur Benjamin Sydney Australia, composer (Jamaican Rumba), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 29 | Fabien Sevitzky Vishny Volotchok Russia, conductor (Phila Orch), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 18 | Charles Gounod, composer, dies in Paris, France. (Cross, Milton, "Encyclopedia of the Great Composers and Their Music", Doubleday & Co, 1953) |   |
Nov 06 | Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer, dies of cholera in St. Petersburg, Russia, at age 53 after knowingly drinking unboiled water | Ref: 68 |
Dec 01 | Eduard Franck composer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 02 | Louis Freeman band leader, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 09 | George Elvey composer, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | Walter Rein composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 16 | Vladimir Golschmann Paris France, conductor with Immortal Downbeat, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 22 | Benedikt Randhartinger composer, dies at 91. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 24 | Harry Warren (Salvatore Guaragna) composer: Song Writers Hall of Famer: Best Song Oscars: Lullaby of Broadway [1935], Youll Never Know [1943], On the Atcheson, Topeka and Santa Fe [w/Johnny Mercer-1946]; You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby, Thats Amore; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 26 | Evgeny Karlovich Tikotsky composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 26 | Yury Nikolayevich Tyulin composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1894
Jan 04 | Wesley La Violette composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 07 | Jose Rozo Contreras composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 11 | Jaroslav Vogel composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 20 | Walter Hamor Piston Rockland Maine, composer (Incredible Flutis), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 21 | Guillaume Jean Joseph Nicolas Lekeu composer, dies at 24. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 04 | Adolphe (Antoine-Joseph) Sax musician: inventor: saxophone, saxotromba; dies at age 79. | Ref: 68 |
Feb 11 | Alfonso Leng composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 11 | Pasqual Juan Emilio Arrieta y Corera composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 12 | Hans Guido von Blow German conductor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 12 | Hans von Blow Dresden, pianist/virtuoso conductor/musical writer, dies at age 64. | Ref: 68 |
Feb 18 | Andres Segovia, Spanish classical guitar virtuoso, is born. | Ref: 17 |
Feb 19 | Ernesto Camillo Sivori composer, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Alexander Spitzmuller-Harmersbach composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Robert-Lucien Siohan composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 02 | Renaat Veremans Flemish composer/conductor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 14 | Josef Schelb composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 15 | Slava Vorlova, composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 21 | Jacob Rosenhaim composer, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 24 | Robert Prescott Stewart composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 25 | Erik William Gustav Leidzen composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 09 | Ernest Kanitz composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 13 | Ludvig Irgens Jensen composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 15 | (date uncertain) Bessie Smith, Empress of Blues (over 200 songs), is born. | Ref: 68 |
Apr 27 | Nicolas Slonimsky composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 06 | Filip Lazar composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 08 | Klara Fey German orchestra leaser (Die Kleinen Betrachtungen), dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
May 10 | Dimitri Tiomkin Russia, composer (Academy Award 1954-High & Mighty), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 11 | Martha Graham, Allegheny PA, choreographer (Appalachian Spring), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 24 | William Joseph Westbrook composer, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 15 | Robert Russell Bennett Kansas City, composer/arranger (Oklahoma!), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 26 | Bill Wirges Buffalo NY, orch leader (Growing Paynes), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 18 | Bernard Wagenaar Arnhem Holland, composer (3 Songs for the Chinese), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 31 | Roy Bargy Mich, orch leader (Jimmy Durante Show) | Ref: 5 |
Nov 05 | Eugen Zador Bataszek, Hungary, Hungarian/American composer (Diana), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 30 | Ture Rangstrom Stockholm Sweden, composer/critic (Kronbruden), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | Paul Dessau composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 11 | Eddie Dowling Woonsocket RI, composer (Anywhere USA), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 14 | Joaquin Zamacois Soler composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 17 | Arthur Fiedler, the American conductor who conducted the Boston Pops Orchestra, is born in Boston MA. | Ref: 70 |
Dec 19 | Paul Dessau Hamburg Germany, composer/conducter (Berlin, 1925-33), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 26 | Antonio Molina composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 31 | Ernest John Moeran British composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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Jan 01 | Nathaniel Shilkret New York City NY, conductor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 01 | Rafael Martnez Zaragoza Spain, composer (Nuestra Natacha, Ana Mara), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 01 | Red Allen, US Dixie-land trumpet player, is born. | Ref: 17 |
Jan 03 | Boris Mykolayovich Lyatoshyns'ky composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 03 | Mihail Andricu composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Benjamin Louis Paul Godard composer, dies at 45. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 13 | Fortunio Bonanova Palma de Mallorca Spain, opera singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 22 | Edward Solomon composer, dies at 39. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 27 | Harry Ruby (Rubinstein) musician: composer: Duck Soup; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 27 | Joseph Rosenstock Cracow Poland, conductor (Nippon Philharmonic Orchestra 1936-41), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 27 | Claudio Carneyro composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 04 | Faustina Hasse Hodges composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 11 | Viktor Nikolayevich Trambitsky composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 24 | Ignaz Lachner composer, dies at 87. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 25 | Henri Martelli composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 28 | Guiomar Novaes Brazil, pianist (Brazilian Order of Merit), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 03 | Alexander Nicholas Voormolen Dutch composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 07 | Juan Jose Castro composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 23 | Dane Rudhyar composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | Alberta Hunter African-American blues singer/composer (Downhearted Blues), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco Firenze (Florence) Italy, composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Bjarne Brustad composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 07 | Eduardo Toldra composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 08 | Sigurdur Thordarson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 09 | Mance Lipscomb, Navasota TX, blues musician (Texas Sharecropper), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 09 | Rudolf Kattnigg composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 13 | Olga Rudge violinist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 14 | Wiktor Labunski composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Malcolm Sargent English conductor (Promenade Concerts), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 02 | Lorenz Hart composer, lyricist: half of famous team of (Richard) Rodgers & Hart: I Wish I Were in Love Again, Where or When, With a Song in My Heart, I Could Write a Book, Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered, Theres a Small Hotel, Little Girl Blue, The Lady is a Tramp, Blue Moon, My Funny Valentine; died Nov 22, 1943 | Ref: 4 |
May 11 | William Grant Still Woodville MS, composer (Africao-American), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 11 | Feliks Jaronski composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
May 14 | Renato Lunelli composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 19 | Albert Hay Malotte composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 19 | Cecil Gray composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 21 | Franz von Suppe Austrian composer (Poet und Bauer), dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
May 27 | Marij Kogoj composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 10 | Carl Orff Munchen (Munich) Germany, composer (Antigonae), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 12 | Oscar (Greeley Clendenning) Hammerstein II, lyricist, songwriter w/Richard Rodgers: OK!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, Flower Drum Song, Sound of Music; is born. | Ref: 68 |
Jul 12 | Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian opera singer, is born. | Ref: 2 |
Jul 14 | Cliff Edwards "Ukulele Ike", Hannibal Mo, singer (54th Street Revue), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 14 | Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian soprano, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Jul 22 | Hans Rosbaud Graz Austria, conductor (Tonhalle Orch Zrich), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 22 | Paul White Bangor Maine, composer (Adante & Rondo for Cello) | Ref: 5 |
Oct 17 | Doris Humphrey, modern dance choreographer, is born. | Ref: 2 |
Oct 25 | Sir Charles Halle, German-born English pianist and conductor, dies at age 76. | Ref: 70 |
Nov 16 | Paul Hindemith composer: Gebrauchsmusik; operas: Cardillac, Matthias the Painter; concertmaster: Frankfurt Opera; conductor & viola soloist: Amar-Hindemith String Quartet; organized Turkey?s symphony orchestra; teacher: Berlin Conservatory, Yale University, University of Zurich; is born in Hanau, Germany. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 25 | Wilhelm Kempff Juterbog Germany, pianist (Unterdem Zimbelstern), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 27 | Joseph Rosenstock Cracow Poland, conductor (Nippon Philharmonic Orchestra 1936-41), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 27 | Claudio Carneyro composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 28 | Jos Iturbi musician, pianist, conductor: Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra; is born in Valencia Spain. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 05 | Henritte H Bosmans Dutch cellist/pianist/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 21 | Paul Hoffer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 30 | Vincent Lopez bandleader: played at NYCs Astor Hotel, some of the greats started with him: Artie Shaw, Buddy Morrow, Buddy Clark; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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Jan 01 | Maurice Jacobson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 01 | Yitzhak Edel composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 02 | Ernst-Lothar von Knorr composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | Jaromir Weinberger Prague Czechoslovakia, composer (Bird's Opera), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 15 | Jacobo Ficher composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 17 | Harry Reser Ohio, orchestra leader (Sammy Kaye Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 20 | Elmer R Diktonius Finnish musicologist/author (Janne Kubik), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 28 | Joseph Barnby composer, dies at 57. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 04 | Henry David Leslie composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 12 | Charles Louis Ambrose Thomas, French composer (Mignon), dies at age 84. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 13 | Karl Reinthaler composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 16 | Alexander Brailowsky Russia, pianist (Chopin), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 16 | Charles A L Panzra French baritone (L'horizon Chimrique), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Nacio Herb Brown US composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | Eduard Flipse Dutch conductor/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 29 | Wladimir Rudolfovich Vogel composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Dimitri Mitropoulos Athens Greece, conductor/composer | Ref: 5 |
Mar 07 | Erwin Bodky composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 12 | Jesse "Lone Cat" Fuller San Francisco Blues Great, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Richard Flury composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | John Rogers Thomas composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 06 | Juan Tomas Perez composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 08 | Karl Hermann Pillney composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | Alexander Ritter composer, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Jacques Leon Wolfe composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 30 | Reverend Gary Davis Laurens SC, blues/folk guitarist (A Little More Faith), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 30 | Antonio Cagnoni composer, dies at 68 | Ref: 5 |
May 11 | Josip Slavenski composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 12 | Juan Morel Campos composer, dies at 38. | Ref: 5 |
May 17 | Brazilio da Cunha Luz Itibere composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 20 | Clara Josephine Wieck Schumann composer/pianist, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | Marius Monnikendam Dutch choir composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 30 | Wilfred Pelletier Montreal Canada, conductor (Voice of Firestone), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 21 | Jean Rivier Villemomble France, composer (Vnitienne), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 07 | Ernesto Lecuona Havana Cuba, composer (Malaguea) | Ref: 5 |
Aug 09 | Leonide Massine choreographer (Diaghilev Ballet Russe 1914-20), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 11 | Anton Bruckner, composer, dies in Vienna, Austria at age 72. (Cross, Milton, "Encyclopedia of the Great Composers and Their Music", Doubleday & Co, 1953) |   |
Nov 16 | Lawrence Tibbett, Bakersfield CA, baritone (Metropolitan 1923-50), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 01 | Petko Staynov composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 03 | Boleslaw Szabelski composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 06 | Ira Gershwin (Israel Gershvin) lyricist: Lady Be Good, The Man I Love, The Man That Got Away, Someone to Watch Over Me, I Got Rhythm; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 06 | Arnold Foster composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 07 | Juan Maria Thomas Sabater composer | Ref: 5 |
Dec 21 | Leroy Robertson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 23 | Alberto Hemsi composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 28 | Roger Huntington Sessions Brooklyn NY, composer (Black Maskers) | Ref: 5 |
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Jan 05 | Theo Mackeben German pianist/composer (Lady Fanny, Bel Ami), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 09 | Luis Gianneo composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Albert Moeschinger composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 22 | Josef Stanislav composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 22 | Rosa Ponselle opera diva (Casta Diva, La Forza del Destino), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 07 | Quincy Porter New Haven CT, composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Luis Gianneo composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 11 | Yves de La Casiniere composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 14 | Jorgen Bentzon composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 23 | Woldemar Bargiel composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Marian Anderson opera diva; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 03 | Jose Moreno Gans composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 06 | Knudge Riisager Port Kunda Estonia, Danish composer (Quaarrtsiluni), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 10 | Teodulo Mabellini composer, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 11 | Henry Dixon Cowell Menlo Park CA, composer (New Musical Resources), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 11 | Berthold Tours composer, dies at 58. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Johannes Brahms, composer: Brahms Lullaby, Requiem, Symphony #1 in C Minor, Symphony #4 in E Minor; dies at age 63. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 07 | Harald Sigurd Johan Saeverud composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 08 | Herbert Eimert German composer/musicologist (Glockenspiel), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 08 | George Garrett composer, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 16 | Arthur Charles Ernest Hoeree composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 16 | Jaap Vranken Dutch organist/composer (Stabat Mater), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 17 | Harald Saeverud Bergen Norway, composer (Saline), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 23 | Clement Harris composer, dies at 25. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 24 | Gyorgy Kosa composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 25 | Haro Levoni Step'anyan composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 02 | William Cleaver Francis Robinson composer, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
May 10 | William Thomas Best composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
May 14 | Sidney Bechet US, jazz clarinetist/saxophonist/band leader, is born in New Orleans LA. | Ref: 5 |
May 15 | Casper Hweler Dutch music critic, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 16 | Walther Geiser composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 21 | Karol Mikuli composer, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | Erich Wolfgang Korngold Brno Austria, movie composer (Violanta), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | Ignace Lilien composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 07 | George Szell, Budapest Hungary, conductor (Metropolitan 1942-45), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 12 | Alexandre Tansman Lodz Poland, composer (Dyptique), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 05 | Paul Ben-Haim (Frankenburger), Munich, Germany, Israeli composer | Ref: 5 |
Sep 08 | Jimmie (James Charles) Rodgers The Blue Yodeler: Country Music Hall of Famer: T for TX, Brakemans Blues, Blues Yodel , Tuck Away My Lonesome Blues; first country singer to be in a film: Singing Brakeman; member: Country Music Hall of Fame; is born in Mendoza MS. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 18 | Jules Buffano St Louis MO, pianist (Jimmy Durante Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 23 | Willie "The Lion" Smith, jazz and ragtime pianist, is born. | Ref: 2 |
Dec 06 | John Axel Fernstrom composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 08 | Leslie Heward composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 29 | Hermann Heiss composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1898
Jan 01 | Viktor Ullmann opera composer (Der Kaiser von Atlantis), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 04 | Roger Vuataz composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 04 | Frantisek Pivoda composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 07 | Geronimo Baqueiro Foster composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 11 | Gaetano Capocci composer, dies at 86. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 12 | Jose Forns y Cuadras composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 21 | Avery Claflin composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 22 | Alexander Abramsky composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 22 | Gustaf Paulson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 23 | W A Remy composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 28 | Vittorio Rieti composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 28 | Alexandru Flechtenmacher composer, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | Fernand Quinet Belgian cellist/composer/conductor (La Guerre), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 12 | Leroy "Roy" Harris Oklahoma, composer (When Johnny Comes Marching Home), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Jimmy Yancey, American blues pianist, is born. | Ref: 2 |
Feb 21 | Vassily Vainonen Russian ballet dancers/choreographer (Gayaneh), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Rutkowski Bronislaw composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 06 | Jo[hanne M Bos-]Vincent Dutch soprano (Matthus Passion), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 18 | Otto Jochum composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Renzo Massarani composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 09 | Julius Patzak Austrian tenor singer | Ref: 5 |
Apr 15 | Nini de Bol Flemish operette singer (White Horse), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 21 | Louis Theodore Gouvy composer, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
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May 10 | Herbert Elwell Minneapolis MN, composer (Happy Hypocrite), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 14 | Bonifacio Gil Garcia composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 14 | Zutty Singleton US jazz drummer is born in Bunkie LA. | Ref: 5 |
May 21 | Charles Hba Czechoslovakia, violinist/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 25 | Mischa Levitzki composer | Ref: 5 |
May 26 | Ernst Bacon composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 26 | Gerard Bertouille composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | Andy Kirk jazz musician, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 31 | Johan Brouwer Dutch pianist/writer/resistance fighter, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 01 | Edgar "Cookie" Fairchild NYC, bandleader (Jerry Colonna Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 01 | Morris Stoloff Phila, violinist (Picnic, Pal Joey), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 26 | George Gershwin [Jacob Gershvin], composer (Rhapsody in Blue), is born in Brooklyn, NY. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 27 | Vincent Youmans, songwriter best known for musical scores such as No, No Nanette and Flying Down to Rio, is born. | Ref: 2 |
Oct 07 | Alfred Wallenstein Chicago IL, conductor (Chic Symph 1922-29), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 18 | Joris Ivens Nijmegen Netherlands, director (Rain), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 03 | Lev Konstantinovich Knipper composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 13 | Daniel Lazarus composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 13 | George Frederick Bristow composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 14 | Frederick Douglass Hall composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 15 | Fernando Remacha composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 24 | Baby Dodds, American jazz musician, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Dec 24 | Eugeniusz Pankiewicz composer, dies at 41. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 29 | Jeanne Leleu, composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 29 | Georg Goltermann composer, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 30 | Vincent Lopez, Brooklyn NY, orchestra leader (Welcome Aboard), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1899
Jan 01 | Juozas Tallat-Kelpsa composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 01 | Raymond Loucheur composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 02 | Alexander Tcherepnin St Petersburg Russia, composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 07 | Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc, Paris, composer/pianist (Les Biches), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 09 | Alexander Tcherepnin St Petersburg Russia, composer | Ref: 5 |
Jan 19 | [John] Herbert Whitton Sumsion organist/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 20 | Alexander Tcherepnin St Petersburg Russia, composer, is born. | Ref: 68 |
Jan 27 | Granville, English composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 28 | Zilner T Randolph jazz trumpeter/arranger, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 12 | Albert Huybrechts composer | Ref: 5 |
Feb 15 | Georges Auric Lodve France, composer (It Always Rains on Sunday), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Leon Woizikowski Polish dancer/ballet master (Ballets Russes) | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Sulo Nikolai Salonen composer | Ref: 5 |
Mar 05 | Patrick Hadley composer | Ref: 5 |
Mar 10 | Finn Hoffding, composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 13 | Pancho Vladigerov composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 22 | Ruth Page, American dancer and choreographer, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Mar 26 | William Baines, composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 04 | Duke Ellington bandleader (Take the A Train), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 07 | Robert Marcel Casadesus French pianist/composer (Prix Dimer) | Ref: 5 |
Apr 13 | Alexander Alexandrovich Davidenko composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 17 | Hans Balatka composer, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 21 | Randall Thompson New York NY, composer (Trip to Nahant), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 21 | Clement D'Hooghe composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Jazz legend Duke (Edward Kennedy) Ellington is born in Washington D.C. | Ref: 68 |
Apr 29 | Karl Yngve Skold composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 01 | Jn Leifs Iceland, composer/conductor | Ref: 5 |
May 10 | Fred Astaire (Frederick Austerlitz) is born in Omaha, Nebraska | Ref: 5 |
May 10 | Dimitri Tiomkin conductor, composer: film scores: The Alamo, Dial M for Murder, Friendly Persuasion, High Noon, Its a Wonderful Life, Lost Horizon, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington; died Nov 11, 1979 | Ref: 4 |
May 20 | Carlotta Grisi, Italian ballerina, dies at age 79. | Ref: 70 |
May 29 | Frantz Jehin-Prume composer, dies at 60. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 01 | Werner Janssen NYC, conductor/composer (New Years Eve in NY) | Ref: 5 |
Jun 03 | Johann Strauss The Waltz King: composer: On the Beautiful Blue Danube, Emperor Waltz, Tales from the Vienna Woods, Wine, Women and Song; operettas: Die Fledermaus, A Night in Venice, The Gypsy Baron; dies at age 73. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 10 | Amedee-Ernest Chausson, composer (Pome for Violin & Orchestra), dies in Limay, Seine-et-Oise, France. (Cross, Milton, "Encyclopedia of the Great Composers and Their Music", Doubleday & Co, 1953) |   |
Jun 13 | Carlos Chavez Mexico City, conductor/composer (Sinfona India) | Ref: 5 |
Jun 16 | Helen Traubel opera singer: St. Louis Symphony, New York Metropolitan Opera [The Mets premier Wagnerian soprano.]; actress: Deep in My Heart, The Ladies Man, Gunn; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 20 | Helen Traubel St Louis, Missouri, soprano (or 6/16/1903), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 01 | Thomas A. (Andrew) Dorsey Father of Gospel Music: musician: pianist; blues composer; gospel music composer: composed over 1,000 gospel songs; died Jan 23, 1993 | Ref: 4 |
Jul 27 | Harl McDonald near Boulder Colorado, composer (Santa Fe Trail) | Ref: 5 |
Jul 30 | Gerald Moore England, pianist (Am I Too Loud) | Ref: 5 |
Aug 01 | William Steinberg Cologne, conductor (Boston Symph-1969-71), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 08 | Russell Markert choreographer: founded, directed: Radio City Music Hall Rockettes; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 06 | Billy Rose, songwriter famous for "It's Only a Paper Moon," and "Me and My Shadow", is born. | Ref: 68 |
Sep 16 | Hans Swarowsky Budapest Hungary, conductor (Graz Opera 1947-50), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 18 | Music conductor (Philadelphia Orchestra), Eugene Ormandy is born in Budapest, Hungary. | Ref: 70 |
Nov 22 | Hoagy (Hoagland Howard) Carmichael, Nashville Songwriters Hall of Famer: Stardust, Lazybones, Two Sleepy People, Skylark, Georgia on My Mind, Ole Buttermilk Sky, Rockin? Chair, [Up a] Lazy River, One Morning in May, The Nearness of You, Lamplighter?s Serenade, How Little We Know, Memphis in June, In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening, New Orleans; singer, piano player, band leader, attorney; is born in Bloomington IN. | Ref: 17 |
Nov 27 | Granville English composer | Ref: 5 |
Dec 02 | John Barbirolli English conductor (NY Philharmonic Orchestra), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 05 | Sonny Boy Williamson [Aleck Miller] blues player | Ref: 5 |
Dec 07 | Antoni Katski composer, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 08 | James "Pigmeat" Jarrett pianist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 09 | Frans van Amelsvoort Dutch choir conductor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 13 | Yusef Greiss composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 18 | John William Glover composer, dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 31 | Silvestre Revueltas Santiago Papasquiaro Mxico, composer (Sensemaya) | Ref: 5 |
Dec 31 | Karl Millcker Austrian conductor/composer (Try-out Kiss), dies at 57. | Ref: 5 |
- 1900
Jan 01 | Xavier Cugat (Francisco de Ass Javier Cugat Mingall de Brue y Deulofeo) violinist, composer, band leader: The Lady in Red, Perfidia, Brazil, Begin the Beguine; married to Abbe Lane, Charo; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 03 | Zasu Pitts actress: Busby Berkeleys 1933 musical: Dames; is born. | Ref: 68 |
Jan 03 | Maurice Jaubert composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 03 | Edwin George Monk composer, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 06 | Pierre-Octave Ferroud French composer (Sarabande, Jeunesse), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 09 | Joseph Frederick Wagner composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 12 | Vaino Hannikainen composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 13 | Yasuji Kiyose composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 20 | Boris Semyonovich Shekhter composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 22 | Franz Salmhofer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 28 | Michael Dewar Head composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | Marco Tajcevic composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 30 | Isaak Iosifovich Dunayevsky composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 03 | Mabel Mercer English cabaret singer (Fly Me to the Moon), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 03 | Ottokar Eugen Novacek composer, dies at 33. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 06 | Roy Smeck guitarist/banjoist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 08 | Guy Douglas Hamilton Warrack composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Joseph Frederick Wagner composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 13 | Wingy (Joseph Matthews) Manone musician: trumpet: Tar Paper Stomp; singer, bandleader: Nickel in the Slot, Flat Foot Floogie, Annie Laurie; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 20 | Antonio Veretti composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Evald Aav composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 23 | Elinor Remick Warren composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Donald Keith Falkner singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 02 | Kurt J Weill, Dessau Germany, composer/Brecht collaborator (Mahogany), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 10 | Johann Peter Emilius Hartmann composer, dies at 94. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 12 | Zoltan Vasarhelyi composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 17 | Alfred Newman New Haven, composer (Love is a Many Splendored Thing), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 21 | Paul Klecki/Kletzki Polish violinist/composer/conductor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 23 | Jose Antonio Calcano composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 24 | June [Algeria Junius] Clark musician trumpet, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Isadore Freed composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Achille Longo composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | Ted (Edward) Heath musician: trombone, bandleader: played big band concerts every Sunday at the Palladium in the 1940s and 1950s; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 02 | Heinrich Besseler German musicologist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 06 | Andrs Sas Per, composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 20 | Fred Raymond composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 20 | Mabel Mercer popular British singer, dies. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 21 | Heinrich Vogl composer, dies at 55. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 23 | Ary Verhaar composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 23 | Henry Barraud composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 02 | Helen Morgan singer/actress (Applause, Frankie & Johnny), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 05 | Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt German composer/conductor (Hassan gewinnt), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 07 | Richard Storrs Willis composer, dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
May 14 | Leo Smit composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 17 | Nicolai Berezowsky composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 20 | Gustav Heinrich Graben-Hoffman composer, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | Sir George Grove, English writer of the Dictionary of Music and Musicians, dies at age 79. | Ref: 70 |
Jun 15 | Otto Clarence Luening Milwaukee Wisconsin, composer (Sonority Canon), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 22 | Jennie Tourel [Jennie Davidson], St Petersburg Russia, mezzo-soprano, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 04 | Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong New Orleans LA, jazz musician (Hello Dolly), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 08 | George Antheil Trenton NJ, composer (Airplane Sonata), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 29 | Don Redman Piedmont WV, orch leader (Sugar Hill Times), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 02 | Helen Morgan (Riggins) singer, actress: Frankie and Johnny, Show Boat, Applause; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 08 | Victor Young Chic Ill, orch leader (Milton Berle Show, In Old Calif), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 11 | Alexander Mosolov Kiev Russia, composer (Zavod), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 18 | Walter O'Keefe Hartford Ct, songwriter/TV host (Mayor of Hollywood), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 23 | Ernst Krenek Vienna Austria, composer (Johnny Spielt Auf), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 31 | Ethel Waters, American jazz and blues singer and film actress, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Nov 07 | Efrem Kurtz St Petersburg Russia, conductor (Houston Symphony 1948-54), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 22 | Sir Arthur (Seymour) Sullivan operetta composer [w/Sir William Gilbert]: H.M.S. Pinafore, The Mikado, Pirates of Penzance; dies at age 58. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 27 | Leon Barzin Brussels Belgium, conductor (NY City Ballet 1948-58), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 08 | Henry Russell composer, dies at 87. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 13 | Jonel Perlea composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 14 | Boyan Georgiev Ikonomov composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 17 | Lucijan Marija Skerjanc Yugoslavia, composer/conductor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 22 | Alan Dudley Bush composer pianist/teacher, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | Gladys Swarthout Deepwater MO, mezzo-soprano (La Gioconda), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 29 | Willie Humphrey jazz Clarinetist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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Jan 02 | Torsten Ralf Swedish tenor (Daphne), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 11 | Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov, composer, dies at 34. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 12 | Kurt Jooss Wurttemburg, Germany, ballet choreographer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 13 | Carlo Angeloni composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 17 | Vasily Petrovich Shirinsky composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 22 | Hans-Erich Apostel Austrian composer (Sonata Ritmica), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 24 | Simon Hassler composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 26 | Ervin Major composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 27 | Giuseppe Verdi, composer of "La Traviata and Rigoletto", dies in Milan at age 87. | Ref: 18 |
Jan 31 | Blaz Arnic composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Jascha Heifetz Vilna Lithuania, Russian-born US violin virtuoso (Carnegie Hall), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 07 | Benjamin Edward Woolf composer, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 14 | Edward John Hopkins composer, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 16 | Wayne King Savannah IL, saxophonist/bandleader (the Waltz King), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 17 | Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin composer, dies at 38. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 25 | Federico Ghisi composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 25 | Jose Rogel composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | Peter Benoit Flemish composer/conductor (High Mass), dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 10 | Vasily Georgiyevich Wrangell composer, dies at 38. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 15 | Colin McPhee Montral Canada, composer (H2O, Mechanical Princibles), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 15 | Theo Uden Marsman Dutch orchestra leader, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 18 | Piotr Perkowski composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | Albert Henneberg composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 31 | John Stainer composer, dies at 60. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | Boris Koutzen composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 02 | Anis Fuleihan composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Richard D'Oyly Carte, English impresario; founded the Savoy Theatre, dies at age 56. | Ref: 70 |
Apr 06 | Willem Pelemans Flemish composer/music reviewer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 11 | Theodor Rogalski composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 11 | Ivar Christian Hallstrom composer, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 16 | Karel Albert Flemish composer (Marieken van Nymeghen), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 21 | Julian Bautista composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 25 | Ernst Gernot Klussmann composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 27 | Richard Redhead composer, dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
May 07 | Marcel Poot Belgian baron/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 12 | Hyam Greenbaum composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 17 | Werner Egk Auchsesheim Germany, composer (Die Zaubergeige), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 18 | Harry Robert Wilson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 18 | Henri-Pierre Sauguet Bordeaux France, composer (La Chotte), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 19 | Ivo Cruz composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 21 | Horace Heidt Alameda CA, orchestra leader (Swift Show Wagon), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 23 | Edmund Rubbra Northampton England, composer (Morning Watch), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 25 | Milenko Zivkovic composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 10 | Frederick Loewe, songwriter, is born. | Ref: 2 |
Jun 18 | Jimmy Dale Bronx NYC, orch leader (Sonny & Cher), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 24 | Harry Partch Oakland Calif, composer (Oedipus), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 13 | Sir Reginald Goodall, English opera conductor, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Jul 22 | Charles Weidman, Nebraska, modern dancer/choreographer (Candide), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 28 | Rudy (Hubert Prior) Vallee singer: My Time is Your Time; actor: Live a Little, Love a Little, The Admiral was a Lady, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Second Fiddle; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 04 | Jazz great, (Daniel) Louis Armstrong (Satchmo) is born (not on July 4th, 1900 as sometimes claimed). | Ref: 4 |
Aug 17 | Henri Tomasi Marseilles France, composer (Don Juan de Maara), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 28 | Paul Henry Lang Budapest, critic/musicologist (NY Herald Tribune), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 26 | Ted Weems (Wilfred Theodore Weymes) orchestra leader: Ted Weems Orchestra, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 20 | Adelaide Hall, cabaret singer, is born. | Ref: 2 |
Nov 14 | Morton Downey Wallingford CT, singer (Star of the Family), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 22 | Joaquin Rodrigo Sagunto, Valencia, Spain, composer (Juglares), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 25 | Tibor Serly Losonc Hungary, violinist/composer (American Elegy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 01 | Dorothy James composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 02 | Staf Gustaf Frans Nees Flemish organist/composer (Simon Peter), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 05 | Grace Moore US, soprano (One Night to Live), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 05 | Hanns Jelinek composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 13 | Georg M Rimski-Korssakov Russian musicologist/theory, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 15 | Elias Alvares Lobo composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 22 | Andre Kostelanetz, St Petersburg Russia, conductor (Lincoln Portrait), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 22 | Joaquin Rodrigo Spain, composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 26 | Georgy Mikhaylovich Rimsky-Korsakov composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 26 | Victor Hely-Hutchinson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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Jan 01 | Dimiter Nenov composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 05 | Pierre Palla Dutch pianist/organist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 06 | Mark Brunswick composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 06 | Sofie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatte composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | Gret Palucca German dancer/choreography (Silent Song), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 09 | Sir Rudolph Bing opera manager (New York Metropolitan Opera, 1950-72), is born. | Ref: 68 |
Jan 11 | Maurice Durufle French organist/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 16 | Evelyn Levine composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 18 | Filippo Marchetti composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 23 | Benny Waters saxophonist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 01 | Carlo Borbolla composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 01 | Salomon Jaoassohn composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Emanuil Mandlov composer, dies at 42. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Bronislaw Kaper composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Blanche Calloway US vocalist/dancer (12 Clouds of Joy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 12 | William D Revelli Spring Gulch CO, band leader, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 14 | Valentin Ruiz Azner composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 14 | Fred Scott Fresno CA, singer/actor (Vincent Lopez), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 17 | Marian Anderson Philadelphia PA, operatic contralto (banned by D A R), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 19 | John Bubbles (John William Sublett) actor: Porgy and Bess [1935 Broadway version], films: Cabin in the Sky, Variety Show, A Song is Born, No Maps on My Taps; dancer: credited with creating rhythm tap; is born in Louisville KY. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 21 | Bob [Hijman] Scholte Dutch vocalist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Hanns Neupert German piano builder/author (Das Klavichord), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 25 | Carl Ignaz Franz Umlauf composer, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | Rudolf Moralt German conductor (Vienna Philharmonic), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Marian Anderson singer, banned by D A R, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 15 | Zarah [Stina Hedberg] Leander Karlstad Vmanland Sweden, singer/actress (Gabriela), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 17 | George William Warren composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 21 | Eddie James "Son" House folk blues musician (Delta Blues), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 25 | Sten Broman composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Paul Godwin [Goldfein], Polish/Dutch violinist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 29 | Sir William Walton, Oldham Lancashire England, composer (Troilus & Cressida, Wise Virgins), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 02 | Danilo Svara composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Siguringi Eirikur Hjorleifsson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 08 | Josef Krips Vienna Austria, conductor (London Symphony 1954-63), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 09 | Frantisek Suchy composer [or April 21, 1891], is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 17 | Anton Beuving lyricist (Ketelbinkie), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 20 | Vesselin Stoyanov composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Theodore Chanler composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 30 | Andre-Franois Marescotti composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 30 | Rudolf Wittelsbach composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 03 | Hugo Friedhofer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 04 | Cvjetko Rihtman composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 11 | Bid Sayao Niteroi Brazil, soprano (Mimia-La Bohme), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 16 | Jan Kiepura Sosnowiec Poland, vocalist/actor (Her Wonderful Lie), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 17 | John Vincent composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 18 | Composer Meredith Wilson (Reiniger), Mason City IA, composer (Music Man), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 23 | Mark Lothar composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 25 | Helvi Lemmikke Leiviska composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 27 | Celius Dougherty composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 31 | Billy Mayerl composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 31 | Ralph Walter Wood composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 06 | Jimmie Lunceford, American jazz band leader, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Jun 15 | Max Rudolf Frankfurt Germany, conductor (Gteberg Symphony Orch), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 17 | Sammy Fain (Samuel Feinberg) Oscar-winning musician, composer: Secret Love [1953], Love is a Many-Splendored Thing [1955]; April Love, A Certain Smile, A Very Precious Love, Tender is the Night, Ill Be Seeing You, I Can Dream Cant I, Let a Smile be Your Umbrella [most w/Irving Kahal]; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 19 | Bandleader Guy Lombardo, leader of the Royal Canadians, is born. | Ref: 24 |
Jun 26 | Antonia Brico, Rotterdam Holland, conductor/pianist (Antonia), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 28 | Richard Rodgers Academy Award-winning composer: half of Rodgers and (Lorenz) Hart and Rodgers and (Oscar) Hammerstein: is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 03 | Ray Bloch orchestra leader: TV shows: Blind Date, The Ed Sullivan Show, The Gay Nineties Revue, The Jackie Gleason Show, The Larry Storch Show, Songs for Sale; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 09 | Zino Francescatti Marseilles France, violinist (NY Phil-1939), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 25 | Stefan Wolpe Berlin Germany, composer (Zeus & Elidco), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 11 | Alice Tully Corning, NY, singer/patroness (Carnegie Hall), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 15 | William Edmundson Spokane Wash, vocalist (Southernaires), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 25 | Eddie Lang, American musician, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Nov 01 | Eugen Jochum Babenhausen Bavaria, German conductor (Hamburg Orchestra), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 07 | Jesus Maria Sanrom, Carolina PR, pianist (Boston Symphony), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 22 | Emanuel Feuermann Kolomea Galicia, cellist (Chicago Symphony Orchestra), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 02 | Miroslav Ponc composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 03 | Willem Arnold de Vries Robbe composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 05 | Henry Stephen Cutler composer, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 06 | Virgilio Mortari composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 13 | Paul Kurzbach composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 19 | Leonard Hirsch British violinist/orchestra leader (RAF Symphony Orchestra), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 27 | Ferenc Szabo composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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Jan 05 | Leighton Lucas composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 05 | Telsforo A Palm Curaao, composer/pianist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 06 | Boris Blacher Newchwang China, German composer (Orchester-Ornament), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 06 | Maurice Abravanel Saloniki Greece, conductor/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 07 | Shalva Azmayparashvili composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 07 | Vladimir Alexandrovich Vlasov composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Jean Morel Abbeville France, conductor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 18 | Berthold Goldschmidt German/British (opera)composer (Beatrice Cenci), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 19 | Boris Blacher Newchwang China, German composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 19 | Erwin Nyiregyhazi Budapest Hungary, pianist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 22 | Robin Humphrey Milford composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 25 | "Sleepy" John Estes rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 28 | Augusta Mary Anne Holmes composer, dies at 55. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 28 | Jean Robert Planquette composer, dies at 54. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 03 | Priaulx Rainier composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 03 | Frederick E Kitziger composer, dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 04 | Siro Cisilino composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Ivan Galamian Tabriz Persia, violinist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 06 | Claudio Arrau Chile, composer/pianist (Boston Symphony Orchestra), is born. | Ref: 17 |
Feb 09 | Georg Trexler composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 10 | Matvey Isaakovich Blanter composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 11 | Hans Redlich composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 11 | Henryk Szulc composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 17 | Joseph Parry composer, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Karel Janacek composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 21 | Eric Fogg composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Hugo Filipp Jakob Wolf, Austrian composer (Corregidor), dies at age 42. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 23 | Albert Cahen composer, dies at 57. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 23 | Friedrich Grutzmacher composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Leon Bismarck "Bix" Beiderbecke Iowa, jazz cornetist (In a Mist), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 05 | Lowell Peters Cleveland TN, vocalist (Southernaires), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 10 | Leon Bismarck "Bix" Beiderbecke, jazz cornetist and composer, is born in Davenport IA. | Ref: 68 |
Mar 11 | Lawrence Welk bandleader: Calcutta, Tonight You Belong to Me, Weary Blues, Moritat; TV: The Lawrence Welk Show; developer: senior citizen retreat near San Diego, The Lawrence Welk Theater; is born in Strasburg ND. | Ref: 68 |
Mar 16 | Nicolai Lopatnikoff Revel Estonia, composer (Variaioni Concertanto), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 25 | Frankie Carle (Carlone) pianist, bandleader [w/Horace Heidt], led own band: Saturday Night is the Loneliest Night of the Year, wrote: Oh What It Seemed to Be, Falling Leaves, Lovers Lullaby; is born in Providence RI. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 28 | Rudolf Serkin Eger Bohemia, pianist (Marlboro School of Music), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | Thomas Baron Pitfield composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 10 | Nick Stuart Romania, bandleader, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 17 | Gregor Piatigorsky Ekaterinoslav Russia, cellist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 17 | Nicolas Nabokov Near Lubcha Minsk Russia, composer (The Holy Devil), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | Yury Sergeyevich Milyutin composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 25 | Carl Gustav Sparre Olsen composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Frank Parker New York NY, singer (Arthur Godfrey Show, Masquerade Party), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 30 | Gnther Raphael German composer (Symphony Breve), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 01 | Luigi Arditi violist/composer, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
May 02 | Oivin Fjeldstad composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 09 | Rudolf Serkin Bohemian/US pianist, dies. | Ref: 5 |
May 12 | Lennox R F Berkeley British composer (Castaway), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 16 | Eduard Rappoldi composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
May 20 | Jerzy Fitelberg composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 24 | Aram Katchaturian Armenian composer, (Earth), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 24 | Hilding Hallnas composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 06 | Aram (Ilyich) Khachaturyan musician, composer: Sabre Dance, Spartacus, is born in Tiflis Georgia, Russia. (Also: Cross, Milton, "Encyclopedia of the Great Composers and Their Music", Doubleday & Co, 1953) | Ref: 4 |
Jun 25 | Arthur Tracy street singer (Vincent Lopez Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 04 | Flor Peeters Antwerp Belgium, organist (Lied Symphony), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 26 | Donald Voorhees Allentown Pa, conductor (Bell Telephone Hour), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 27 | Death of Caroline (Lina) V. Sandell Berg, 71. Known as the 'Fanny Crosby of Sweden,' her most beloved hymns (in their English translation) include 'Day by Day' and'Children of the Heavenly Father'. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 23 | William Primrose Glasgow Scot, violist (Method for Violin & Viola), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 15 | Roy Acuff The King of Country Music: Country Music Hall of Famer: Wabash Cannonball, Pins and Needles [In My Heart], Night Train to Memphis, The Great Speckled Bird, Freight Train Blues; group: Smoky Mountain Boys; publisher: Acuff-Rose Publishing; died Nov 23, 1992 | Ref: 15 |
Oct 16 | Ford Lee Buck Washington, American jazz musician | Ref: 70 |
Nov 20 | Alexandra Danilova, Russian ballerina, is born.iiuiuiyiiy7y7yiyuyiyytutyyuy7tutyyt8y7yu8uyuuiuuiioopllkmnhhjghhhgugtgygyg | Ref: 70 |
Dec 02 | Victor Roger composer, dies at 50. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 06 | Frederick Grant Gleason composer, dies at 54. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 08 | Cleo Brown pianist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 08 | Irene Eisinger singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 08 | Zoltan Szekely composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 13 | Carlos Montoya, the Spanish-American guitarist who popularized flamenco guitar music, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Dec 20 | Gavriil Musicescu composer, dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 22 | Marc Lavry composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | Antiochos Evanghelatos composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 29 | Clyde McCoy jazz trumpeter/bandleader, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 31 | Nathan Milstein, Russian-born American violinist, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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Jan 02 | Sally Rand (Helen Gould Beck) dancer, stripper: inventor of the fan dance; actress: The Texas Bearcat, Bachelor Brides, The Night of Love, Getting Gerties Garter, Bolero, Sunset Murder Case; is born in Hickory County MO. | Ref: 68 |
Jan 02 | James Melton Moultrie GA, opera tenor (Ford Festival), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 03 | Boris Kochno Russian ballet dancer (La Chatte), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 05 | Erica Morini concert violinist; died in 1995, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 09 | George Balanchine dancer/choreographer/ballet producer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Jesus Garcia Leoz composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 12 | Mississippi Fred McDowell jazz artist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 13 | Richard Addinsell London England, composer (Taming of Shrew), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 15 | Eduard Lassen composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 16 | Max Vredenburg composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 20 | Alexandra Danilova Peterhof Russia, ballerina (Turning Point), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 22 | George Balanchine (Georgi Balanchivadze) choreographer: Apollo, Orpheus, Firebird, Swan Lake, The Nutcracker; founded School of American Ballet and New York City Ballet; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 23 | Theodor Schaefer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 24 | Franz Coenen composer, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 25 | Gza Frid Hungarian/Dutch composer/pianist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 27 | Adam Minchejmer composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Jose Enrique Pedreira composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 03 | Luigi Dallapiccola Pisino Istria, Italian composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 04 | Predrag Milosevic composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 06 | Claudio Arrau Chile, composer/pianist (Boston Symphony Orchestra), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 08 | Igor' Fyodorovich Belza composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | George Balanchine dancer/choreographer/ballet producer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Armin Loos composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Gustav Adolf Heinze composer, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 21 | Armand Preud'homme Flemish organist/poet, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 29 | Jimmy Dorsey Shenandoah PA, orchestra leader (Stage Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 29 | Alan Richardson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Glenn Miller bandleader (Glenn Miller Orchestra-In the Mood), is born in Clarinda IA. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 19 | Tadeusz Zygfryd Kassern composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 21 | Nikolaos Skalkottas composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Hermann Schroeder composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | Akarova [Marguerite Acarin], Belgian dancer (Les Biches), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Peter Van Steeden Amsterdam Neth, orch leader (Break the Bank), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 08 | John Antill composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | Lily (Alice) Pons soprano singer, actress: I Dream Too Much, That Girl from Paris; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 14 | Sonia Gaskell Russian/Netherlands choreographer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 16 | Lily Pons Draguignan France, soprano/diva (Hitting a New High), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 22 | Dorothy Alexander, American ballet dancer, choreographer and founder of the Atlanta Ballet, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Apr 29 | Russ Morgan Scranton PA, orchestra leader (Welcome Aboard), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 01 | Antonin Dvorak, Czechoslovakia, composer: Slavonic Dances, Fifth Symphony, The Water Nymph, Carnival, Gypsy Melodies; dies at age 62. | Ref: 4 |
May 02 | Georgi Dimitrov composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 03 | Harry Lillis 'Bing' Crosby is born at home, 1112 North J Street, Tacoma, Washington, fourth child of Harry Lowe Crosby and Catherine Helen 'Kate' (nee Harrigan) Crosby. Young Harry's date of birth was usually incorrectly given as May 2, 1904 (sometimes 1901) from 1933 onwards. May 2 was used from childhood so that a younger sister, Mary Rose would have a birthday to herself. Ref |   |
May 14 | Richard Hol Dutch composer/organist/conductor, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
May 16 | Lily Pons opera singer/actress (That Girl From Paris), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 21 | Fats [Thomas Wright] Waller New York NY, jazz singer/composer (Ain't Misbehavin'), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 24 | George Formby [William Booth], British singer/comic (Let George Do It), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 25 | Kurt George Hugo Thomas composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | Shalva Mikhaylovich Mshvelidze composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 03 | Jan Peerce (Jacob Pincus Perlemuth) opera singer: tenor; actor: Goodbye, Columbus; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 10 | Frederick Loewe composer/partner of Learner, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 18 | Manuel Rosenthal Paris France, composer (Bootleggers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 28 | Daniel Decatur Emmett composer: Dixie [Dixies Land]; dies at age 88. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 06 | Robert Whitney Newcastle-on-Tyne England, conductor (Sospiro do Roma), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 16 | Goffredo Petrassi Zagarolo Italy, composer (Beatitudines), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 27 | Anton Dolin dancer (Girl From Petrovka), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 02 | Set Svanholm Vesteras Sweden, tenor (London Convent Garden 1948-57), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 14 | Richard Mohaupt Breslau Germany, composer (Bucolica), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 17 | Sir Frederick Ashton, English choreographer and director of the Royal Ballet, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Oct 20 | Dame Anna Neagle, English actress and dancer, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Nov 16 | Eddie Condon Goodland IN, jazz guitarist (Eddie Condon's Floor Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 21 | Coleman Hawkins, virtually created the tenor saxophone for jazz, solo w/Fletcher Henderson band: The Stampede, St. Louis Shuffle, Queer Notions, Hocus Pocus; jazz bandleader: Body and Soul; jazz sax solo: Picasso; is born. | Ref: 68 |
Nov 27 | Adam Minchejmer composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 06 | Eve Denise Curie French pianist/author/daughter of Madame Curie, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 17 | Dmitri B Kabalevsky St Petersburg Russia, composer (In the Fire), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 18 | Wilf Carter country singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 24 | Daniel K Womack singer/guitarist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | Per Jonas Fredrik Vilhelm Svedbom composer, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 30 | Dmitri B Kabalevsky St Petersburg Russia, composer (In the Fire), is born. | Ref: 68 |
Dec 31 | Nathan Milstein Odessa Russia, concert violinist (Philadelphia Orchestra 1942), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1905
Jan 02 | Sir Michael Tippett composer: String Quartet No. 1, A Child of Our Time, The Midsummer Marriage, Fourth Symphony, The Mask of Time, The Rose Lake; writer: Those Twentieth Century Blues [autobiography], Tippett on Music, Calibans Song; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 02 | Michael Kemp Tippett English composer/conductor (Child of our Time), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | Giacinto Scelsi composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 13 | Percy Humphrey musician, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 16 | Ernesto Halffter composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 20 | Stanislaw Pilinski composer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 26 | Maria Augusta von Trapp Austria, singer, inspired "Sound of Music", is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 10 | Vilko Ukmar composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 10 | Ignacy Krzyzanowski composer, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 15 | Harold Arlen, composer, arranger and pianist ("Stormy Weather," "It's Only a Paper Moon"), is born. | Ref: 2 |
Feb 16 | Jose Munoz Molleda composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Luis Sandi composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 23 | Leonidas Zoras composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 24 | Guillaume Landre composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 02 | Marc Blitzstein Philadelphia PA, composer (Cradle Will Rock), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | Lili Krus Budapest Hungary, pianist (Austrian Cross of Honor 1978), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 06 | Bob Wills, Kosse TX, fiddler, composer, actor (Lone Prairie, Tornado in the Saddle), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 10 | Rene Bernier composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 18 | John Kirkpatrick New York NY, pianist (Concord Sonata), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 19 | Makar Grigori Ekmalyan composer, dies at 49. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 22 | Carlo Alberto Pizzini composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 22 | Ruth Page US choreographer/ballet leader (Diaghilev, Pygmalion), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Pablo Garrido composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 29 | Annunzio Mantovani Venice Italy, orchestra leader (Mantovani), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | Winfried P I Zillig German opera composer/conductor (Fantasia Irica), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 02 | Serge Lifar, Kiev Russia, dancer, choreographer (Paris Opra Ballet), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 02 | Kurt Adler, American conductor, is born. | Ref: 2 |
Apr 04 | Eugene Bozza composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | Jef Maes composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 19 | Tommy Benford drummer: with Jelly Roll Mortons Red Hot Peppers; died in 1994, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 23 | Karel Komzak composer, dies at 54. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 27 | Philip Radcliffe composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Ignacio Cervantes composer, dies at 57. | Ref: 5 |
May 02 | Alan Rawsthorne Haslingden England, composer (Cortges), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 04 | Mtys Seiber Budapest Hungary, composer (Scherzando), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 06 | Norman De Tar composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 08 | Inglis Gundry composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 09 | Birth of Merrill Dunlop, American sacred chorister and hymnwriter. He directed the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle for many years, and is author of the hymn, "My Sins Are Blotted Out, I Know." | Ref: 5 |
May 09 | Ernst Pauer composer, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
May 18 | Eric Zeisl composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 21 | Edward Lockspeiser composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 24 | Zdenek Blazek composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 26 | Hans Holewa composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | Fela Sowande composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | Leon Francis Victor Caron composer, dies at 55. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 06 | John Gart Russia, orch leader (Paul Winchell Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 10 | Ivie Anderson, jazz singer, is born. | Ref: 2 |
Jul 15 | Dorothy Fields lyricist: w/Cy Coleman: Sweet Charity, Seesaw; w/Jimmy McHugh: I Cant Give You Anything But Love, Im in the Mood for Love, On the Sunny Side of the Street; daughter of comedian Lew Fields; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 19 | Boyd Neel Blackheath, Kent England, conductor (Story of an Orch), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 08 | Andre Jolivet, Paris France, composer (L'Eunuque), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 20 | Jack Teagarden, American jazz trombonist, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Aug 23 | Constant Lambert London England, composer (King Pest), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 24 | Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, blues singer, a major influence on Elvis Presley, is born. | Ref: 2 |
Sep 18 | Agnes De Mille NYC, choreographer (OK), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 15 | Mantovani Venice Italy, orchestra leader (Mantovani), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 16 | Albert Eddie Condon musician: guitar, bandleader, promoter of Dixieland Jazz; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 24 | Irene Wicker singer/actress (Singing Lady), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 01 | Ida Carroll musician, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 02 | Osvaldo Pugliese musician/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 08 | Charles Cushing composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 08 | Ernst Hermann Meyer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 09 | Henry Holmes composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 11 | Koos van de Griend composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 14 | Sydney Lipton bandleader/violin, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 15 | Ferenc Farkas composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 18 | Richard Sturzenegger composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 19 | Charles Robert Owen Medley dancer/choreographer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 23 | Arn Bjornsson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 28 | Earl Fatha Hines musician: piano: classic duet with Louis Armstrong: Weather Bird; songwriter: Blues in Thirds, A Monday Date; bandleader; is born in Duquesne PA. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 31 | Jule Styne England, songwriter/composer (1954 Academy Award, 1968 Tony), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1906
Jan 01 | Joseph Miroslav Weber composer, dies at 51. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 11 | Johannes Paul Thilman composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 13 | Maxime Jacob composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 14 | Walter Knape composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 15 | Rezso Kokai composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 19 | Lanny Ross Seattle, radio singer (Show Boat, The Swift Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 21 | Igor Alexandrovich Moiseyev, Russian ballet dancer, choreographer, director, Ballet Master for the Bolshoi Theatre, 1924-1929, is born. | Ref: 17 |
Jan 27 | Radames Gnattali composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 31 | Benjamin Frankel composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 01 | Hildegarde Adell WI, night club singer (I'll Be Seeing You), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 01 | Pierre Cardevielle French composer/conductor (Amants Captifs), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 03 | Ludvig Nielsen composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 08 | Artur Balsam Polish/US pianist (Begeleidde Menuhin, Milstein), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Gwen Catley British soprano, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 17 | Ramon Tapales composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 19 | Grace Mary Williams composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 19 | Hendrik W C Spruit Dutch conductor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Edmund von Borck composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 25 | Boris Papandopulo composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 25 | Anton Stepanovich Arensky Russian composer/conductor, dies at 44. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | Manuel Fernandez Caballero composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 07 | Alejandro Garcia Caturla composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 07 | Hans Lachman composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 11 | Aasan Ferit Alnar composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 14 | Ulvi Cemal Erkin composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 17 | Tamara Geva dancer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 19 | Normand Lockwood composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 22 | Martin Wegelius Finnish musicologist/composer, dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 23 | George Posford composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 25 | Jean Sablon crooner, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | Pee Wee Russell, jazz clarinetist, is born. | Ref: 2 |
Mar 29 | E Power Biggs Westcliff-on-Sea England, organist/composer (CBS), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 31 | Lauri Saikkola composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 09 | Antal Dorati Budapest Hungary, conductor (Dressden Opera 1928-29), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 10 | Fud Livingston composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 13 | Budd [Lawrence] Freeman US jazz saxophonist (Eel), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 14 | Hunter Johnson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | Little Brother Montgomery, American jazz pianist and vocalist, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Apr 22 | Eric William Fenby composer/president (Delius Society), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 25 | Zoltan Gardonyi composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 25 | John Knowles Paine US composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 26 | Leopold Spinner composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 02 | Maurice Thiriet composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 08 | David Van Vactor Plymouth IN, composer (Chaconne), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 16 | Nicholas Beriozoff ballet master, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 23 | Hellmuth Christian Wolff composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | Phil Regan singer (My Wild Irish Rose), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | Hans Joachim Schaeuble composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 30 | William Yeates Hurlstone composer, dies at 30. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 03 | Josephine Baker, American-born French dancer and singer, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Jun 20 | Bob Howard Newton Mass, singer/pianist (Sing it Again), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 13 | Harry Sosnik Chicago, orch leader (Jack Carter Show, Your Hit Parade), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 15 | Richard W. Armour, humorist and author (Twisted Tales from Shakespeare), is born. | Ref: 2 |
Jul 19 | Klaus Egge Gransherad, Telemark Norway, composer (Noregsonger), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 25 | Johnny Hodges, American jazz saxophonist; soloist in Duke Ellington's orchestra, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Sep 15 | Kathryn Murray Jersey City NJ, dancer (Arthur Murray Dance Party), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 25 | Dimitri Shostakovich composer: Symphony No.5, No. 7, No. 11, No. 13, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 10 | Paul Creston [Giuseppe Guttoveggio], NY, composer (Creative Harmony), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 31 | Louise Talma Arcachon France, composer (Summer Sounds), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 13 | Conrad Thibault Northbridge MA, singer (Jacques Fray Music Room), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 20 | Charles Eastlake, English museologist and art writer, dies at age 70. | Ref: 70 |
Nov 27 | Radames Gnattali composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 01 | Jean Cartan composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 07 | George Richard James saxophonist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 09 | Greet Koeman Dutch singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 09 | Freddy Martin Mr. Silvertone: musician: tenor sax; bandleader: Ive Got a Lovely Bunch of Cocoanuts, April in Portugal, I Saw Stars, Then Ill Be Tired of You, Isle of Capri, Piano Concerto in B Flat, Tonight We Love, Bumble Boogie, Sabre Dance Boogie, Warsaw Concerto, Rose ODay, Miss You; is born in Cleveland OH. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 10 | Harold Adamson lyricist: Time on My Hands, Daybreak; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 13 | Ingemar Liljefors composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 14 | Helmut Bornefeld composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 17 | Fernando Lopez-Garcia composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 18 | Edwin H "Buddy" Morris music publisher, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 21 | Adalbert von Goldschmidt composer, dies at 58. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 23 | Ross Lee Finney Wells MN, composer (Landscapes Remembered), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 24 | Franz Waxman Knigshoette, Germany, composer (Day at the Races), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 27 | Ivan Brkanovic composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1907
Jan 01 | Erich Schmid composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 01 | Cyrill Kistler composer, dies at 58. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 02 | Salvador Ley composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 03 | Josef Foerster composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 07 | Nicanor Zabaleta San Sebastian, Spain, harpist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 07 | Anton Urspruch composer, dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 14 | Karl von Perfall composer, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 16 | Phillip Humphrey Vellacott classicist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 17 | Henk H Badings Bandung Indonesia, Dutch opera composer (Orestes), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 18 | Janos Ferencsik Budapest Hungary, conductor (Budapest Opera), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 26 | Eddie Ballantine Chicago IL, orchestra leader (Don McNeill TV Club), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 28 | Constantin Regamey composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 01 | Camargo Guarnieri Brazil, composer/conductor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 01 | Mozart Camargo Guarnieri composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 01 | Sndor Veress Hungarian pianist/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Ludwig Thuille composer, dies at 45. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 15 | Jean Langlais composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 16 | Fernando Previtali composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 17 | Alec Wilder Rochester NY, composer (1973 ASCAP award), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Nadine Conner California, soprano (Carmen, Pamina-Magic Flute), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 24 | Otto Goldschmidt composer, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 07 | Juan Francisco Giacobbe composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 07 | Victor Alphonse Duvernoy composer, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 09 | Henry Leland Clarke composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 10 | Robert de Roos composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 15 | Jimmy McPartland jazz musician: cornetist; played for the Wolverine Orchestra, Embassy Four; bandleader; actor: The Magic Horn; played at Newport Jazz Festival with wife, Marian; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 19 | Elizabeh LeFanu Maconochy composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 19 | Marc Vaubourgoin composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 24 | Lucia Chase US ballerina/co-founder (American Ballet Theater), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Leigh Harline composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Louis Saguer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Herbert "Herb" Hall clarinetist/saxophonist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Pavel Ivanovich Blaramberg composer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | Walter Kaufmann composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 04 | Lucile Grahn, Danish choreographer and ballerina, dies at age 87. | Ref: 70 |
Apr 11 | William Henry Swinburne music teacher, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | Mikls Rzsa Budapest Hungary, movie composer (Atomic Cafe, Fedora), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 19 | Gino Contilli composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 20 | William Dollar St Louis, ballet dancer/choreographer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 21 | Beatrice Kay New York NY, singer/actress (Sister Sue-Calvin & the Colonel), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 21 | Antoni Szalowski composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 24 | Vaclav Trojan composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 25 | Vasily Pavlovich Solov'yov-Sedoy composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 26 | Pietro Plantania composer, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Tino Rossi Ajaccio France, singer (Deux Amours, Marlene), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 04 | Lincoln Kirstein, American dance impresario; director of the New York City Ballet (1948-89), is born. | Ref: 70 |
May 05 | Yoritsune Matsudaira composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 07 | Jef van Durme composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 10 | Harilaos Perpessas composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 11 | John Albert Delany composer, dies at 54. | Ref: 5 |
May 15 | Josef Alexander composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 18 | Clifford Curzon London England, pianist (MacFarren Gold Medal), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 27 | Felix de Nobel Dutch orchestra leader, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 18 | Benny Payne Phila, pianist (Billy Daniels Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 08 | Benny Carter NYC, musician/composer (Easy Money, King Carter), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 18 | Enoch Light Canton Ohio, orch leader (Gulf Road Show with Bob Smith), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 04 | Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer: Peer Gynt Suite; composer, dies in Bergen, Norway at age 64. (Also: Cross, Milton, "Encyclopedia of the Great Composers and Their Music", Doubleday & Co, 1953) | Ref: 4 |
Sep 09 | Pinky Tomlin, Eureka Springs Ark, singer/actor (Tip-Waterfront), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 14 | Allan Jones singer: The Donkey Serenade; actor: Showboat, Rose Marie, Firefly, One Night in the Tropics, A Night at the Opera, A Day at the Races; father of singer, Jack Jones; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 30 | Gyorgy R nki Budapest Hungary, composer (Hemberek), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 09 | Burrill Phillips Omaha Nebraska, composer (Play Ball), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 10 | (Ellen) Jane Froman singer: I Only Have Eyes for You, Ill Walk Alone, I Believe; is born in St Louis MO. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 29 | Merle Travis country singer (16 Tons), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 03 | Connee Boswell New Orleans LA, singer (Pete Kelly's Blues), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 08 | Tony Aubin composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 11 | Norbert Rosseau composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 12 | Fred Elizalde composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 12 | Roy Douglas composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 22 | Yoshio Hasegawa composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | Cab Calloway (Cabell Calloway III) Highness of Hi-De-Ho: bandleader, singer: Minnie the Moocher, Blues in the Night; films: Stormy Weather, St. Louis Blues; The Cotton Club Comes to the Ritz; is born. | Ref: 68 |
Dec 27 | Jan Willem Van Otterloo Winterwijk Holland, conductor (Melbourne 1967-71), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 27 | Nils-Eric Ringbom composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 28 | Roman Palester Polish composer: The Weichsel, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1908
Jan 02 | Janis Kepitis composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 06 | Menahem Avidom composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 07 | Henry Allen, American jazz musician, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Jan 12 | Jos Limn Mexican/US dancer (I, Odysseus), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 14 | Ruggiero de Rudolpho Columbo US singer/actor (Miracle of Women), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 15 | Roberta Bitgood composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 16 | Ethel Merman (Zimmerman) singer, Tony Award-winning actress (musical): Call Me Madam [1951]; Its a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Theres No Business Like Show Business, Alexanders Ragtime Band; Musical Theater Hall of Famer; is born. | Ref: 68 |
Jan 19 | Ish Kabibble (Merwyn Bogue) (comic singer: Three Little Fishies; sang and played trumpet with Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge; big bandleader; combo: The Shy Guys), is born. | Ref: 3 |
Jan 20 | Wilfred Conwell Bain composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 23 | Edward Alexander MacDowell US composer (Indian Suite), dies at 47. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 26 | Stephane Grappelli French jazz violinist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 01 | Edward Staempfli composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Pavel Sivic composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Renzo Rossellini Italian composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 04 | Emmanuel "Manny" Klein trumpeter, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 08 | Grigor Eghiazaryan composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 10 | Jean Coulthard composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 11 | Josh White rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 13 | Gerald Strang Claresholm Canada, composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 14 | Georges Jean Pfeiffer composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 24 | Anatol' Vakhnyanyn composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 03 | Riccardo Nielsen composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 07 | Tomas de Manzarraga composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 09 | Luiz Cosme composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 11 | Peter Milne composer, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 13 | Helen Sinclair Glatz musician, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 14 | Nikolay Petrovich Rakov composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 17 | Radie Britain composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 18 | Louis Gaste songwriter, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 21 | Maurice Stans rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Hank Sylvern Brooklyn NY, orchestra leader (Jane Froman's USA Canteen), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | Camille Schmit composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | Kurt Bruggemann composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 04 | Antony Tudor, English-born American dancer, teacher and choreographer, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Apr 04 | Josef Sucher composer, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | Herbert von Karajan, Austria, Berlin Philharmonic conductor/Nazi, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | George Schick Prague Czechoslovakia, conductor (Chicago Symphony), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | Gaetano Coronaro composer, dies at 55. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 06 | Vano Il'ich Muradov [Muradeli] Russia, composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 07 | Percy Faith Grammy Award-winning orchestra leader, composer: The Theme from "A Summer Place" [1960]; My Heart Cries for You [Guy Mitchell hit], Delicado, Song from Moulin Rouge, Theme for Young Lovers; is born in Toronto, Canada. | Ref: 68 |
Apr 09 | Fred Lohse composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 11 | Karel Ancerl Czechoslovakia, conductor (Prague/Toronto), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 15 | Eden Ahbez songwriter, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | Joseph Keilberth German conductor (Bayreuther Festspiele), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 20 | Lionel Hampton singer, songwriter, jazz musician: vibes, drums, piano, bandleader: On the Sunny Side of the Street, Hey! Hot Mallets, Ba-Ba-Re-Bop, Rag Mop; played with Benny Goodman; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 23 | Frederick Hawkins dancer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Philippe Brun jazz trumpeter, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 06 | Necil Kazim Akses composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 07 | Wouter Paap composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 12 | Melesio Morales composer, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
May 15 | Lars-Eric Vilner Larsson Akarp Sweden, composer (Linden), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 17 | Sigismund Toduta composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 17 | Zinka Milanov Zagreb Yugoslavia, soprano (Ljublama Opera 1927), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 24 | Kresimir Fribec composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 26 | Malando [Arie Maasland] composer/orchestra leader (Ol Guapa), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 27 | Harold Rome composer (Fanny, Pins & Needles), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 08 | Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer and editor, dies at age 64. | Ref: 70 |
Jun 14 | John Scott Trotter Charlotte NC, orch leader (George Gobel Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 21 | Nikolai (Nikolay Andreyevich) Rimski-Korsakov composer: Scheherazade, Song of India, The Flight of the Bumblebee; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 29 | Leroy Anderson, American conductor, arranger and composer, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Jul 08 | Louis (Thomas) Jordan, musician: alto sax, singer: Is You or is You aint My Baby, Open the Door Richard, G.I. Jive, Baby Its Cold Outside, Aint Nobody Here But Us Chickens; actor: Five Guys Named Moe; Fuzzy Wuzzy, Beware, Swing Parade of 1946, Reet, Petite, and Gone, Look-Out Sister; died Feb 4, 1975 | Ref: 4 |
Jul 24 | Cootie (Charles) Williams musician: trumpet: Echoes of Harlem, Concerto for Cootie, Carelessly [w/Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman]; band leader: Cootie Williams Sextet and Orchestra: Tess Torch Song, Cherry Red Blues; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 13 | Death of Ira D. Sankey, 68. He was Dwight Moody's song evangelist from 1870. During their revival crusades, Sankey penned many hymn tunes, of which the most enduring today are HIDING IN THEE ("O Safe to the Rock That is Higher Than I") and SANKEY ("Faith is the Victory"). | Ref: 5 |
Aug 30 | Willie Bryant New Orleans La, singer (Sugar Hill Times), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 05 | Joaqun Nin-Culmell Berlin, Germany, Cuban/Spanish composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 06 | Paul Lavalle Beacon NY, bandleader (Cities Service Band of America), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 14 | Bernie Green NYC, orch leader (Arthur Godfrey Show, Garry Moore Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 17 | David Oistrakh, Russian violin virtuoso, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Sep 30 | David Oistrakh Odessa Russia, violinist/prof (Moscow Conservatory), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 06 | Sammy Price, jazz pianist, is born. | Ref: 2 |
Oct 10 | John Green NYC, composer (Body & Soul, Guy Lombardo's arranger), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 20 | Birth of Stuart Hamblen, country songwriter who flourished during the 1950s. His best-remembered Christian songs include "Known Only to Him," "Beyond the Sunset," and "It Is No Secret." | Ref: 5 |
Oct 21 | Alexander Schneider Vilna (Lithuania) Russia, violinist (Budapest String Quartet), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 24 | Ray Carter Chicago IL, orchestra leader (Arthur Murray Dance Party), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 03 | Halsey Stevens Scott NY, composer (Triskelion), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | Oliver Messian, French composer (Quartet for the End of Time), is born. | Ref: 2 |
Dec 11 | Elliott Cook Carter Jr New York NY, composer (Tom & Lily), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 13 | Victor Babin composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 17 | William Brocklesby Wordsworth composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 20 | Dennis Morgan (Stanley Morner) singer; actor: 21 Beacon Street, Pearl of the South Pacific, Its a Great Feeling, Christmas in Connecticut, The Great Ziegfeld, Two Guys from Milwaukee, Desert Song, Kitty Foyle, My Wild Irish Rose; died Sep 7, 1994 | Ref: 4 |
Dec 20 | Giulio Cesare Brero composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 20 | Norman Hackforth broadcaster, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 23 | Eduard Wachmann composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 24 | Francois-Auguste Gevaert Belgian musicologist/composer, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | Jan Seidel composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 31 | Jonah Jones (Robert Elliott Jones) musician: trumpet, singer: played with Cab Calloway; threw spitball that got Dizzy Gillespie fired from band; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 31 | Marko Rothmuller composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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Jan 03 | Victor Borge (Borge Rosenbaum) pianist, comedian: phonetic punctuation: "bpft"; is born. | Ref: 68 |
Jan 09 | Herva Nelli soprano, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Rudolf Kubin composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 11 | Gunnar Johnsen Berg composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 13 | Quentin Butter Jackson musician: trombone: played with Duke Ellington; died Oct 2, 1976 | Ref: 4 |
Jan 13 | Danny Barker jazz guitarist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 15 | Elie Siegmeister New York City NY, composer (Plough & the Stars), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 15 | Enrique Sasal y Chapi composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 15 | Gene Krupa drummer: Sing Sing Sing; bandleader: Let Me Off Uptown, Knock Me a Kiss, Chickery Chick, Boogie Blues; films: Some Like it Hot, Ball of Fire, The Gene Krupa Story; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 15 | Ernest Reyer composer, dies at 85. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 21 | Todor Skalovski composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 23 | Norman Fulton composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 24 | Tiny Winters musician, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 30 | Mihaly Hajou composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 03 | Johann Georg Herzog composer, dies at 86. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Grazyna Bacewicz composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 06 | Israel Citkowitz composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 08 | Edouard Silas composer, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 08 | Mieczyslaw Karlowicz composer, dies at 32. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Herva Nelli soprano, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Carmen Miranda [Maria do Carmo Miranda Da Cunha] Marco de Canavezes Portugal, vocalist/actress (Copacabana, Date With Judy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Harald Genzmer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 12 | Barry Wood New Haven CT, singer (Your Hit Parade), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 17 | Marjorie Lawrence Australia, soprano (Venus-Tannhuser), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 21 | George G F van Renesse Dutch pianist/music director, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Elisabeth Welch singer (Song of Freedom, Over the Moon), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Richard de Guide, composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 02 | Hanoch Jacoby composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 06 | Dave Clark music promoter/songwriter, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | Anthony Donato composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 11 | Ljubica Maric composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 22 | Gyula Erkel composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 25 | Jay Blackton New York NY, conductor/arranger (Guys & Dolls), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 25 | Ruperto Chapi y Lorente composer, dies at 57. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Chris[tiaan R] Reumer Dutch opera singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Nikolai Arkas composer, dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | Ben[jamin F] Webster US tenor saxophonist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 29 | Moon Mullican hillbilly pianist (7 Nights of Rock), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | Eddie Duchin Mass, society pianist/bandleader (Eddie Duchin Orch), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 02 | Jean Kurt Forest composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Benjamin Johnson Lang composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 08 | George Dixon trumpet/sax, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 08 | Olavi Pesonen composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 09 | Ivan Ivonovich Dzerzhinsky composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | Hermann Kotzchmar composer, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 20 | Lionel Hampton orchestra leader/vibraphone improviser (Depths Below), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 25 | Jaroslav Doubrava composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 01 | Kate Smith Greenville AL, singer (God Bless America)/Philadelphia Flyer luck charm, is born. | Ref: 17 |
May 01 | George Melachrino composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 06 | Lew Christensen, American dancer, teacher and choreographer, is born. | Ref: 70 |
May 06 | Fanny Cerrito, Russian-born American composer for stage and screen musicals, dies at age 91. | Ref: 70 |
May 10 | Mother Maybelle Carter (Addington), Nickelsville VA, country singer (Johnny Cash Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 11 | Herbert Murrill composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 15 | Rodolfo Cornejo composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 18 | Isaac M F Albniz Spanish pianist/composer, dies at 48. | Ref: 5 |
May 19 | Schlomo Joffe composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 27 | Isador Goodman composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 30 | Benny Goodman Chicago IL, clarinetist/bandleader (King of Swing), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 04 | Paul Nordoff Philadelphia, composer (Frog Prince), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 12 | Archie Bleyer Corona NY, orch leader (Arthur Godfrey), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 14 | Burl (Icle Ivanhoe) Ives, Hunt Ill, (singer: A Holly Jolly Christmas, A Little Bitty Tear, Funny Way of Laughin, Call Me Mr. In-Between; Academy Award winning actor: The Big Country [1958], Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, East of Eden, Smokey, Our Man in Havana, The Bold Ones, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer; radio series: The Wayfaring Stranger [1944]; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 24 | Milton Katims NYC, conductor/violist (WOR-NYC), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 29 | Leroy Anderson US, composer (Syncopated Clock), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 04 | Alec Templeton Cardiff Wales, pianist/composer (Concertino Lirico), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 10 | Leo Fender, inventor of the first mass-produced electric guitar, is born. | Ref: 2 |
Aug 15 | Hugo Winterhalter (orchestra leader: Canadian Sunset, Rhapsody in Blue) is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 17 | Larry Clinton bandleader: Deep Purple, My Reverie, On a Slow Boat to China; composer: The Dipsy Doodle, Satan Takes a Holiday, Tap Dancers Nightmare, Dusk in Upper Sandusky; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 25 | Actress, dancer Ruby (Ethel Hilda) Keeler is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 10 | Raymond Scott, Bkln NY, orch leader (Your Hit Parade), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 17 | Cozy (William Randolph) Cole musician: drums: played w/Cab Calloway, Louie Armstrong; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 18 | Johnny (John Herndon) Mercer Academy Award-winning composer, lyricist: On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe [1946], In the Cool Cool Cool of the Evening [w/Hoagy Carmichael] [1951], Moon River [1961], Days of Wine and Roses [1962]; Autumn Leaves, One for My Baby, Charade, Satin Doll, You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby, Come Rain or Come Shine, Hooray for Hollywood, Jeepers Creepers, I?m An Old Cowhand, Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive; wrote or co-wrote over a thousand songs; is born in Savannah GA. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 14 | Phia [Sophia R] Berghout harpist/founder Eduard of Beinumstichting, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 15 | Francisco Tarrega y Eixea composer, dies at 57. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 20 | Vagn Holmboe composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 20 | Benjamin Ipavec composer, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 24 | Adam Popovich composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 28 | Billy Williams Waco TX, singer (Your Show of Shows), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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Jan 05 | Erica Morini Vienna Austria, concert violinist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | Galina Sergeyevna Ulanova, Soviet prima ballerina is born. | Ref: 17 |
Jan 09 | Dick Henry Jurgen bandleader, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Galina Sergeyevna Ulanova, one of the greatest ballet dancers of the 20th century, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Jan 10 | Jean Martinon Lyons France, conductor/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 11 | Izler Solomon St Paul MN, conductor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 14 | Renier van der Velden composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 20 | Ennio Porrino composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 20 | Nina Verchinina dancer choreographer/teacher, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 23 | Django Reinhardt Belgium, Gypsy jazz guitarist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 25 | Hendrik Willem Hans Osieck composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 26 | Marijan Lipovsek composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 28 | Jose Garcia Robles composer, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 03 | Blas Galindo Dimas San Gabriel Mxico, composer (A la Patria), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 04 | Alfred Mendelsohn composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Dick Henry Jurgen bandleader, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 15 | Albert Fuchs composer, dies at 51. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 16 | Miguel Bernal Jiminez composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 16 | Albert Heinrich Zabel composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Al Sears jazz performer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 28 | Roman Maciejewski composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 09 | Samuel Barber, West Chester PA, composer (School for Scandal), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 10 | Carl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke, German pianist, composer, dies at 85. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 17 | Joaquin Valverde composer, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 21 | Nick Castle Brooklyn NY, choreographer (Dinah Shore, Judy Garland), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 23 | Lale [Liselotte H] Anderson Bremerhaven Germany, singer/actress (Der Pott), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 24 | Jacques Chailley composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 25 | Mario Peragallo Italian composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | David Duffle Wood composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Edouard [Judas] Colonne French violinist/conductor, dies. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 10 | Abu-Bakr Khairat composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 10 | Eddy Duchin Cambridge MA, society pianist/bandleader (Eddy Duchin Orchestra), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 14 | Werner Wolf Glaser composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | Sylvia Fisher soprano (Albert Herring Opera), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 26 | Erland von Koch composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 26 | Ernst Tittel composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 03 | Alceo Galliera composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 08 | Mary Lou Williams US jazz pianist/composer (Zodiac Suite), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 11 | Jorge Croner de Vasconcelos composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 12 | Gordon Jenkins Webster Grove MO, orchestra leader (NBC Comedy Hour), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 18 | Flor van Duyse composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
May 20 | Jean-Baptiste Theodore Weckerlin composer, dies at 88. | Ref: 5 |
May 23 | Artie Shaw [Arthur Jacob Arshawsky] NY NY, bandleader (Come'on my House), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 24 | Margers Zarins composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 24 | Nils-Eric Fougstedt composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | T-Bone Walker Linden TX, blues guitarist (Funky Town, Well Done), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | Mili Alexeyevich Balakirev Russian composer (Islamej), dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 10 | Howlin' Wolf [Chester Arthur Burnett], rocker (Evil, Big City Blues), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 14 | Nappy (Hilton Napoleon) Lamare (musician: guitar: group: Bob Cats; solo: Nickel in the Slot) is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 14 | Rudolf Kempe Niederpoyritz Germany, conductor (Tonhalle Orch 1965-72), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 15 | David Rose London England, orch leader (Red Skelton Show, Stripper), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 17 | Red (Clyde Julian) Foley, Blue Lick Ky, country singer (Mr Smith Goes to Washington), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 18 | Ray McKinley musician: drummer: Big Boy, Hard-Hearted Hannah, Red Silk Stockings and Green Perfume, You Came Along Way [from St. Louis]; led Glenn Miller Band for estate [1956-66]; is born in Ft Worth TX. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 20 | Chester Arthur Burnett, blues singer, is born. | Ref: 2 |
Jun 22 | Jennie Tourel Montreal Canada, mezzo-soprano (Met Opera 1943-47), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 22 | Katherine Dunham US, dancer/choreographer/anthropologist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 22 | Sir Peter Pears Farnham England, tenor (Death in Venice), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 29 | Frank Loesser songwriter: Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition, Baby Its Cold Outside, On a Slow Boat to China, Once in Love with Amy, Luck Be a Lady, Thumbelina; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 06 | Dorothy Kirsten, opera singer, is born. | Ref: 2 |
Jul 18 | Lou Busch (Joe Fingers Carr) musician: piano, arranger, composer: Sams Song, Down Yonder, Portuguese Washerwoman; died Sep 19, 1979 | Ref: 4 |
Aug 14 | Pierre Schaeffer, French composer, acoustician and electronics engineer, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Sep 01 | Dame Peggy van Praagh, English-born ballet dancer; founder of the Australian Ballet, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Sep 03 | Dorothy Maynor Norfolk Va, soprano (founded Harlem School of Arts), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 14 | Lehman Engel Jackson Miss, conductor/comp (Streetcar Named Desire), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 14 | Rolf Liebermann, Zurich Switzerland, composer (Leonore), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 23 | Soulima Stravinsky, Lausanne Switz, Russian pianist (Igor's son), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 09 | Phil Hanna River Forest Ill, singer (Once Upon a Tune), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 13 | Art Tatum, American jazz pianist, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Oct 17 | Julia Ward Howe composer (Battle Hymn of the Republic), dies at age 91. | Ref: 70 |
Nov 25 | Alwin Nikolais, choreographer, is born. | Ref: 2 |
Dec 01 | Dame Markova [Alicia Lilian Alice Marks] London, ballerina, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 04 | Alex North Chester PA, composer (Spartacus, Viva Zapata, Cleopatra, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 07 | Edmundo Ros English orchestra leader, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 07 | Richard Franko Goldman composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | John Hammond Sr NY NY, rock/jazz producer (I Can Tell, So Many Roads), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | Pablo Hernandez Salces composer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 16 | Robert Noehren composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 16 | Stanojlo Rajicic composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 17 | Sy (Melvin James) Oliver trumpeter, singer, arranger, bandleader, composer: Easy Does It, Swing High, Well, Git It, Opus No. 1; is born. | Ref: 2 |
Dec 24 | Mitchell Ayres Milwaukee WI, orchestra leader (Hollywood Palace), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | David Lichine [Lichtenstein] Russian/US dancer (Make Mine Music), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 30 | Paul Frederic Bowles US composer/writer (Shelting Sky), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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Jan 01 | Endre Szervanszky composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 06 | Yannis Andreou Papaioannou composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | Andrej Ocenas composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 09 | Edwin Arthur Jones composer, dies at 57. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 14 | George Amadee Tremblay composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 14 | Helmut Degen composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 15 | Wilhelm Berger composer, dies at 49. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 17 | Hermann Pfrogner Austria, musicologist (Zerrissene Orpheus), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 18 | Gabor Darvas composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 22 | Bruno Kreisky Austria, bandleader/chancellor (1970-83), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 22 | Roberto Garcia Morillo composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 23 | Dan Smith harmonica player/gospel singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 24 | Carl Eilhardt composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 25 | Julia Frances Smith composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 26 | Norbert Schultze composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | Bernard Herrmann New York City NY, composes film music, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 30 | (David) Roy Little Jazz Eldridge trumpeter: soloist with Gene Krupas Band; Let Me Off Uptown [w/Anita ODay]; U.S. President Carters White House jazz party [1978]; is born in Pittsburgh PA. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 02 | Jean-Jacques Grunenwald French organist/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Johan J "Jussi" Bjrling Swedish tenor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 03 | Jehan [Ariste] Alain French organist/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 03 | Jesse Thomas blues singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Edwin Arthur Jones composer, dies at 57. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 19 | Nikola Hercigonja composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Robert Guyn McBride Tucson AZ, composer (Mexican Rhapsody), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Alexander Alexandrovich Kopilov composer, dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Peter Nicolai von Wilm composer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 24 | Konrad Lechner composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 03 | Francesco Siciliani opera composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 06 | Roland Jacobi Leich composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 07 | Stefan Kisielewski composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | Alan Hovhaness Somerville MA, composer (Lousadzak, Ukiyo), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 09 | Ramon Campbell Batista composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 13 | Jose Ardevol composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 17 | Raffaele d' Alessandro composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 20 | Jean-Theodore Radoux composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 24 | Enrique Jord San Sebastian Spain, conductor (San Francisco Symphony Orchestra 1970), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Myfanwy Piper librettist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 29 | Felix Alexandre Guilmant composer, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | Dennis Gomm musician, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | Gnther Rennert Essen Germany, opera director/producer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 02 | Charles "Honi" Coles tap dancer (Tap), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Harold Watkins Shaw musicologist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | Goddard Lieberson Hanley Staffordshire England, recording exec, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 06 | Phyllis Margaret Duncan Tate composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 10 | Martin Denny composer, arranger, pianist: Quiet Village, The Enchanted Sea, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 10 | Mikolajus Konstantinas Ciurlionis composer, dies at 35. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 13 | Nino Sanzogno composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 19 | Francesco Maria Saraceni composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 21 | Leonard Warren New York NY, baritone (Metropolitan Opera 1939-60) died on stage, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 24 | Sigursveinn David Kristinsson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 30 | Hans Studer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 02 | Lillian Rambach teacher violinist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 03 | John Rhea "Yank" Lawson trumpeter, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 08 | Robert Johnson blues singer (King of the Delta Blues Singer), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 09 | Harry Simeone Newark NJ, choral director (Kate Smith Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 13 | Maxine Sullivan [Marietta Williams], US singer/actress (Going Places), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 14 | Hans Vogt composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 18 | Joseph Vernon "Big Joe" Turner, Kansas City MO, blues singer (Corrine Corrina, Shake Rattle & Roll), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 18 | Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer (Children's Death Songs), dies at 50 in Vienna, Austria. | Ref: 68 |
May 23 | Boris Kremenliev composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | Sir William Gilbert, English lyricist for comic operas; collaborated with Sir Arthur Sullivan, dies at age 74. | Ref: 70 |
Jul 01 | Alvino Rey Cleve Ohio, orch leader (King Family), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 04 | Mitch Miller record company executive, producer, arranger: Columbia, Mercury; musician & instrumentalist: Tzena, Tzena, Tzena, The Yellow Rose of TX, March from The River Kwai; Sing Along with Mitch LPs and TV show | Ref: 4 |
Jul 16 | Dancer Ginger Rogers (Virginia Katherine McMath) is born in Independence MO. | Ref: 24 |
Jul 31 | George Liberace musician: violinist, conductor; administrator of Liberace Museum; brother of pianist/entertainer Liberace; is born in Menasha WI. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 26 | Lester Lanin orchestra leader (40 Beatle Hits), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 13 | Bill Monroe Father of Bluegrass Music: Country Music Hall of Famer: singer: Blue Moon of Kentucky; band: The Bluegrass Band; songwriter: Kentucky Waltz, A Letter from My Darling; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 01 | Irwin Kostal Chicago Ill, orchestra leader (Garry Moore Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 07 | Vaughn Monroe Akron Oh, singer/orch leader (Vaughn Monroe Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 07 | Papa Jo (Jonathan) Jones musician: drums: the first to minimize use of bass drum, keeping time on top cymbal; piano, reeds, trumpet: played with Count Basie, Bennie Goodman sextet, led trio: LPs: The Essential Jo Jones, The Drums, The Main Man, Our Man Papa Jo; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 13 | Ticker Freeman Paterson NJ, pianist (Dinah Shore Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 19 | George Cates NYC, orch leader (Lawrence Welk Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 24 | Sonny Terry (Saunders Terrell) singer, harmonica player: LPs: Sonnys Story, Sonny is King, At the Second Fret, At Sugar Hill, Back to New Orleans, Midnight Special, California Blues; Spirituals to Swing concerts at Carnegie Hall; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 25 | Comedienne, singer Minnie Pearl (Sarah Ophelia Colley) is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 03 | Vladimir Ussachevsky Hailar Manchuria, composer (Creation), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 12 | Buck Clayton, jazz trumpeter, is born. | Ref: 2 |
Dec 03 | Dana Suesse songwriter (You Ought to be in Pictures), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 03 | Nino Rota Milan Italy, composer (Torquemada), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 06 | Louis Prima musician: trumpet, bandleader: Louis Prima and His New Orleans Gang, Gleeby Rhythm Orchestra; songwriter: Sing, Sing, Sing, Christopher Columbus, Its the Rhythm in Me, Sunday Kind of Love, Robin Hood, Bell-Bottom Trousers, Civilization, Oh, Babe; singer: [w/wife Keely Smith]: Just a Gigolo, That Old Black Magic, I Aint Got Nobody, Ive Got You Under My Skin; solo: Wonderland by Night; voice of Orangutan: The Jungle Book; died Aug 24, 1978 | Ref: 4 |
Dec 07 | Louis Prima musician: trumpet, bandleader: Louis Prima and His New Orleans Gang; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 12 | Anna Russell composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 14 | Spike (Lindley Armstrong) Jones, musician, drummer. Band leader, is born in Long Beach CA. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 15 | Stan (Stanley Newcomb) Kenton songwriter: No Longer a Prisoner; Grammy Award-winning bandleader: West Side Story [1961], Adventures in Jazz [1962]; theme: Artistry In Rhythm; How High the Moon, September Song, Laura; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 18 | Alberto Randegger composer, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 21 | Paul Burkhard composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 23 | Karl L Hoschna composer, dies at 34. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 27 | Endre Szervanszky composer [or Jan 1], is born. | Ref: 5 |
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Jan 02 | Barbara Pentland Winnipeg Canada, composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 02 | Andre Ameller composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | Rudolf G Escher Dutch composer (True Face of Peace), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 17 | Orest Alexandrovich Evlahkov composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Burton Lane (Levy) composer: How Are Things in Glocca Morra, That Old Devil Moon, Look to the Rainbow, How About You, I Hear Music, Come Back to Me, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, How Could You Believe Me?; Broadway musicals: Finians Rainbow [collaboration with Yip Harburg], On a Clear Day You Can See Forever [collaboration with Alan Jay Lerner] contributed songs to over 30 films: Babes on Broadway, Royal Wedding, Ship Ahoy, St. Louis Blues; credited with discovering Judy Garland; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 04 | Erich Leinsdorf Vienna Austria, available conductor & banana eater, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Zoltan Pongracz composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 08 | Simon Jurovsky composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 11 | Rudolf Firkusny Napajedla Czechoslovakia, pianist (Julliard), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 16 | Machito "Frank Grillo" Florida, bandleader (created salsa music), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 19 | Stan Kenton [Newcomb], Wichita KS, jazz musician/orchestra leader (Music 55), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 21 | Nikita Magaloff Russian/Swiss pianist (Arkadia 598-Schubert), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 24 | Julius Kowalski composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Hugues Panassi French jazz saxophonist/author (Hot Club of France), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 11 | Xavier Montsalvatge Spanish composer (El gato con botas), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 12 | Paul Weston (Wetstein) orchestra leader, arranger: Nevertheless [Im in Love with You], Theme from Shane; songwriter: I Should Care, Shrimp Boats for wife: Jo Stafford; is born in Springfield MA. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 13 | Ernst Hess composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 13 | Igor Youskevitch dancer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 14 | Les Brown, the bandleader of "Les Brown and His Band of Renown", is born in Reinerton PA. | Ref: 3 |
Mar 14 | Death of Albert L. Peace, 68. One of the noted Scottish organists of his day, Peace composed many cantatas, organ pieces and hymn tunes __ including the enduring ST. MARGARET, to which the Church today sings George Matheson's "O Love That Will Not Let Me Go." | Ref: 5 |
Mar 15 | Sam [Lightnin'] Hopkins Centerville TX, blues stylist (Ball of Twine), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 19 | Russ Case Hamburg IA, orchestra leader (Julius La Rosa Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | Reuel Lahmer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | Robert Watson Hughes composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 02 | Herbert Mills singer: group: The Mills Brothers: Paper Doll, You Always Hurt the One You Love, Glow-Worm; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 06 | Endre Szekely composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 10 | Martin Denny rocker/actor (Forbidden Island), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 11 | John Levy jazz musician: bass: played with George Shearing quintet | Ref: 4 |
Apr 12 | Herbert Mills singer, (Mills Brothers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 14 | Piet van Egmond Dutch organist/conductor (Netherlands Chamber Orchestra), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 20 | Frederick Craig Riddle violist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 21 | Feike P Asma Dutch organist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 22 | Kathleen Mary Ferrier England, contralto (Orfeo Ed Evridice), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 22 | Gavalda Miguel Querol composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 30 | Frantisek Kmoch composer, dies. | Ref: 5 |
May 01 | Anna Pollak mezzo-soprano, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 01 | Felipe Padilla de Leon composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 03 | Virgil Fox organ virtuoso: credited for bringing the organ to the forefront among classical concert instruments.; died Oct 25, 1980 | Ref: 4 |
May 04 | Lou Brown Brooklyn NY, orchestra leader (Jerry Lewis Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 10 | Erik Jorgensen composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 12 | Marshall Royal jazz sax/clarinet, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 13 | Gil Evans, jazz pianist and composer, is born. | Ref: 2 |
May 15 | Arthur Victor Berger New York NY, composer (Ideas of Order), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 17 | Sandor Vegh violinist teacher conductor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 18 | Perry [Pierino] Como, Canonsburg PA, singer/TV host (Perry Como Show), is born. | Ref: 68 |
May 23 | Jean Franaix Le Mans France, composer (Le Rui Nu), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 24 | Joan Hammond British operatic soprano, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 25 | Eddie Maxwell singer (Yes We Have No Bananas), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 26 | Jan Blockx Belgian opera composer (Bride of the Sea), dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 09 | Ingolf Dahl Hamburg Germany, composer (Andante & Arioso), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 17 | Don Gillis Cameron Missouri, composer (Symphony #5), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 19 | Jerry Jerome Bkln NY, saxophonist (Words & Music), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 29 | Jose Pablo Moncayo Garcia, Guadalajara Mexico, composer (Huapango), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 14 | Woody (Woodrow Wilson) Guthrie father of modern American folk music: singer, songwriter: This Land is Your Land, Hard Travelin, Union Maid, So Long Its Been Good to Know Yuh, Dirty Overhalls, Pretty Boy Floyd, The Sinking of the Reuben James, more than 1,000 original songs; father of folk singer Arlo Guthrie, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 16 | Ray Barr NYC, pianist (Vincent Lopez Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 27 | Igor Markevitch Kiev Ukraine, conductor (Le Paradis Perdo), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 28 | Eleazar de Carvalho Iguat, Brazil, conductor/tuba (Tiradentes), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 04 | David Raksin Phila Penns, composer (Modern Times), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 13 | Jules Massenet, composer, dies at age 70 in Paris, France. (Also: Cross, Milton, "Encyclopedia of the Great Composers and Their Music", Doubleday & Co, 1953) | Ref: 70 |
Aug 23 | Gene (Eugene Curran) Kelly, dancer and actor who starred in "An American in Paris" and "Singing in the Rain" is born in Pittsburgh. | Ref: 68 |
Sep 05 | John Cage composer: experimental music and performance with non-traditional instruments: Bacchanal, Anthems of the Sun, Living Room, Water Music, Third Construction, 453"; is born in Los Angeles CA. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 09 | Kurt Sanderling Arys Germany, conductor (E Berlin Symph 1960-77), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 13 | Hugo Weisgall Ivancice Moravia, composer (4 Impressions), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 21 | Sir Georg Solti orchestra leader: Chicago Symphony Orchestra; first complete recording of Wagners Der Ring des Nibelungen; is born in Budapest Hungary. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 27 | Conlon Nancarrow Texarkana Arkansas, composer (Soundings 4), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 21 | Eleanor Powell Springfield MA, actress/tap dancer (Broadway Melody), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 24 | Teddy Wilson jazz pianist: Carelessly, Where the Lazy River Goes By, My Melancholy Baby, Remember Me?, You Can't Stop Me from Dreaming, Honeysuckle Rose, Ain't Misbehavin'; bandleader, arranger; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 01 | Terence Beckles pianist/teacher, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 07 | Louis Prima New Orleans LA, singer (That Old Black Magic), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 07 | Daniel Jones composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | Tony Martin (Alvin Morris) singer: Its a Blue World, To Each His Own, Kiss of Fire, Stranger in Paradise, Here; actor: Casbah, Hit the Deck; married to dancer Cyd Charisse, is born in Oakland CA. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 25 | Leighton Noble singer/bandleader, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | Werner Fussan composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 29 | Peggy Glanville-Hicks Melbourne Australia, composer (Triad), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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Jan 02 | Gardner Read Evanston, Illinois, composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 09 | Lavad "Dr Hepcat" Durst vocal/piano, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Haywood Frank Henry sax player, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 17 | Vido Musso musician: reed instruments, played with Benny Goodman; bandleader: Stan Kenton was his pianist; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 17 | Carl Baermann composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 19 | David Emlyn Evans composer, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 22 | Verdina Shlonsky composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 24 | Norman Dello Joio [Dello Ioio], New York City NY, composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 24 | Gustav Luders composer, dies at 47. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 25 | Witold Lutoslawski Warsaw Poland, composer (Jeux Vnitiens), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 26 | Jimmy Van Heusen (Edward Chester Babcock) Academy Award-winning composer: Swinging on a Star [1944], All the Way [1957], High Hopes [1959], Call Me Irresponsible [1963]; wrote the music to over 75 songs for Frank Sinatra with lyricists Johnny Burke and Sammy Cahn: My Kind of Town, Second Time Around; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 27 | Milton Adolphus composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 27 | Valery Viktorovich Zhelobinsky composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 28 | Jan Masseus composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 31 | Hector Iglesias Villoud composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Rozelle Claxton pianist/arranger, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Lavad "Dr Hepcat" Durst vocal/piano, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 11 | Lucio Diestro San Pedro composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 17 | Oskar Danon composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 17 | Rene Leibowitz composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 19 | Alvin Derold Etler composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Jozef Kresanek composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Nadine Conner US, opera singer (Carmen, La Bohme), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | Felix Draeseke composer, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 03 | Margaret Bonds US pianist/composer/arranger, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 05 | Yulian Grigor'yevich Kreyn composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 11 | John Jacob Weinzweig Toronto Canada, composer (Enchanted Hill), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 12 | Joseph Bayer composer, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 13 | Sammy Kaye Lakewood OH, orchestra leader (Sammy Kaye Show), is born. | Ref: 17 |
Mar 14 | Witold Rudzinski composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 19 | John Thomas composer, dies at 87. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 20 | Christian Barnekow composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 22 | Martha Mdl German singer/soprano (Wagner), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | Godfrey Turner composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | Frankie Laine [Frank Paul LoVecchio] Chicago IL, singer (Hey, Good Lookin', That's My Desire)/ actor (Frankie Laine Show, Rawhide), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | George Barati composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 04 | Frances Langford (Frances Newbern), Lakeland Fla, singer (Armed Forces Hour, Star Time), is born. | Ref: 68 |
Apr 06 | Jose Marraco y Ferrer composer, dies on 78th birthday. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | Lionel Hampton, musician, is born in Birmingham AL. (TWA, 1998) | Ref: 95 |
Apr 12 | Gabor Jodal composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 14 | Everhard van Royen Dutch flautist/founder (Alma musica), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 14 | Jean Fournet French conductor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 16 | Constance Shacklock opera singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | Kent Wheeler Kennan composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | Milos Sokola composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 23 | Jan Meyerowitz composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 25 | Earl Bostic, alto sax player, bandleader: Flamingo, Sleep, You Go to My Head, Cherokee, Temptation; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 29 | Jack Alexander Bently trombonist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 01 | Walter Susskind Praha (Prague) Czechoslovakia, conductor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 06 | Gyula David composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 11 | Clare Grundman composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 11 | Tutti Camarata Glen Ridge NJ, orchestra leader (Vic Damone Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 16 | Woody Herman jazz clarinetist/bandleader/composer (Thundering Herds), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 18 | Otto Reubke composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
May 20 | Ion Dumitrescu composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 30 | Pee Wee (George) Erwin musician: trumpet: Tommy Dorsey Band, Isham Jones Band; is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 30 | Cedric Thorpe Davie composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 02 | Bert Farber Bkln NY, orch leader (Arthur Gudfrey, Vic Damone), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 10 | Thor Johnson Wisconsin Rapids Wisconsin, conductor (Cin Symph 1958), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 11 | Ris Stevens (Ris Steenberg) mezzo-soprano: New York Metropolitan Opera: Orpheus; Mozarts Cherubino and Dorabella; Delilah of Biblical fame; La Giocandas Laura; Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus; Carmen [her role described as voluptuous, earthy, and white-hot in her alternating moods of passion and anger.]; resident: of Mannes College of Music, New York; radio: frequent guest appearances; actress: The Chocolate Soldier, We Must Have Music, Going My Way, Journey Back to Oz, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 18 | Sammy Cahn (Samuel Cohen) composer; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 05 | Smiley Lewis Louisiana, vocalist (I Hear You Knockin'), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 10 | Ljuba Welitsch Borisovo, Bulgaria, soprano (Nedda-Pagliacci), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 15 | Cowboy (Lloyd) Copas country singer: Alabam, Goodbye Kisses, Signed, Sealed and Delivered; is born. He is killed in plane crash with singer, Patsy Cline on Mar 2, 1963. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 19 | Charles Teagarden trumpeter, bandleader, brother of Jack | Ref: 4 |
Jul 22 | Lucia Albanese soprano (NY Met Opera), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 24 | Johnny McAfee Dallas TX, singer (Sammy Kaye Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 01 | Jerome Moross Brooklyn NY, composer (Frankie & Johnny), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 08 | Axel Stordahl Staten Island NY, orch leader (Frank Sinatra Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 09 | Harry Mills singer (Mills Brothers-Paper Doll), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 14 | (Franck) Frank Pourcel (composer, violinist: group: The French Fiddles: Only You) is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 23 | Bob Crosby, Spokane Wa, Bing's brother, orch leader (Bob Crosby Show), is born. | Ref: 68 |
Aug 28 | Richard Tucker [Reuben Ticker],Brooklyn NY, Tenor (NY Met Opera), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 15 | Henry Dreyfus Brant Montreal Canada, composer (Great American Goot), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 22 | Leroy Holmes Pittsburgh Pa, orch leader (Tonight Show, 1956-57), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 28 | Vivian Fine Chicago Ill, composer (Women in the Garden), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 08 | Walter Schumann NYC, choral director (Ford Show)/composer (Rhenish), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 15 | David Carroll musician, conductor, arranger: Melody of Love, Its Almost Tomorrow; record producer for The Diamonds, The Platters, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 20 | "Grandpa" Louis M Jones, Niagra KY, country singer/banjoist (Hee Haw), is born. (Also TWA, 1986) | Ref: 5 |
Oct 26 | Charlie Barnet musician: saxophone; bandleader: Cherokee, Were All Burnt Up, Where Was I?, Pompton Turnpike, I Hear a Rhapsody, Skyliner; autobiography: Those Swinging Years; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 22 | Benjamin Britten, English composer, pianist and conductor, is born in Lowestoft Suffolk England. | Ref: 2 |
Nov 27 | Milton Adolphus composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 27 | Valery Viktorovich Zhelobinsky composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 12 | Hal Dickinson singer (Modernaires), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 12 | Eve Lister actress/singer (No Limit, Hyde Park), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 12 | Stanley Bate composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 13 | Jimmy Carroll NY NY, pianist (Most Important People), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 14 | Dan Dailey singer, dancer, actor: When My Baby Smiles at Me, State Fair, There's No Business like Show Business; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 17 | Stefano Gobatti composer, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 18 | Donald Phillips pianist/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 18 | Saburo Takata composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 21 | Andor Foldes pianist: played with Budapest Philharmonic at eight years of age, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 22 | Benjamin Britten Suffolk England, opera composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 23 | Hans Henkemans composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 23 | Leo A Ketelaars Dutch oratorio vocalist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 24 | Karl Michael Komma composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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Dec 30 | Svend Simon Schultz composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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Jan 03 | Jean Louvel Flemish pianist/conductor/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 03 | Stephane Raoul Pugno composer, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 06 | Arnold Richardson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | Charles Borromeo Mills composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 09 | Kenny (Klook) Clarke Pittsburgh PA, jazz/drummer, composer (Epistrop), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 13 | Valentin de Zubiaurre y Unionbarrenechea composer, dies 76. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 20 | Emil Liebling composer, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 20 | Henry Southwick Perkins composer, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 22 | Dimitri Dragatakis composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 22 | Suzanne Danco Belgian singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 22 | Frederik Rung composer, dies at 60. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 01 | Hans Zlig, Swiss dancer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 08 | Jules van Ackere Flemish musicologist (Eternal Music), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Country Music Hall of Famer Ernest Tubb is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 09 | Kenny (Klook) Clarke Pittsburgh PA, jazz/drummer, composer (Epistrop), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Ralph Herman Milwaukee WI, orchestra leader (Circus Time), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 10 | Larry Adler Baltimore MD, harmonica player (Harmonicats) (blacklisted performer), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 11 | Menelaos Pallantios composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 12 | (Gordon) Tex Beneke bandleader, singer, tenor sax: Glenn Miller Orchestra: Chattanooga Choo Choo, Dont Sit Under the Apple Tree; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 13 | George Kleinsinger San Bernardino CA, composer (Tubby the Tuba), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 18 | Pee Wee King Milwaukee WI, country singer (Pee Wee King Song), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | Witold Rowicki composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Tor Bernhard Vilhelm Aulin composer, dies at 47. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 06 | Kirill P Kondrashin Moscow Russia, conductor (Hollywood Bowl 1981), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 12 | Jan Kapr composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 13 | Bobby Haggart musician: bass: groups: Bob Cats; Peanuts Huckos Pied Piper Quintet, Lawson-Haggart Jazz Band, composer, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 13 | Carl-Olof Anderberg composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 14 | Jiri Reinberger composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 18 | Cesar Guerra Peixe composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 20 | Sviatosiav Richter Zhitomir Ukraine, pianist (Stalin Prize-1945), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 21 | Paul Tortelier composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 23 | Robert Gross composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | Snooky Lanson Memphis TN, singer (Your Hit Parade, 5 Star Jubilee), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Hanus Trnecek composer, dies at 55. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | Sonny Boy Williamson [John Lee] blues musician (Down & Out Blues), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | Carla van Neste Belgian violinist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | Josef Nesvera composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 15 | John Gregory dancer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 26 | Wilfred Howard Mellers composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 28 | Skuli Halldorsson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 30 | Sid Weiss bassist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 07 | Edward Mollenhauer composer, dies at 87. | Ref: 5 |
May 09 | Hank Snow (Clarence Eugene), Nova Scotia Canada, country singer (I Went to Your Wedding), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 09 | Carlo Maria Giulini conductor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 09 | Frank Chacksfield arranger/orchestra leader, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 13 | Johnny Johnnie Wright country singer: duo: Johnnie and Jack: Poison Love, Crying Heart Blues; solo: Hello Vietnam; married to singer Kitty Wells since 1937, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 15 | Pierre Froidebise composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 17 | Guido Masanetz composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 18 | Boris Christoff Bulgaria/Italian bass (Boris Godunov), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 22 | Sun Ra (Herman Blount) jazz musician: piano, organ, synthesizer; is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 23 | Travis Kemp dancer/teacher, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 25 | Paolo Giorza composer, dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
May 27 | Hugh Le Caine composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | Adolf Gustaw Sonnenfeld composer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
May 30 | Bobby Sherwood Indpls IN, orchestra leader (Milton Berle Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 31 | Akira Ifukube composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 26 | Richard Maltby orch leader (Vaughn Monroe Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 26 | Wolfgang Windgassen Annemasse Germany, tenor (Stuttgart Opera), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 28 | Lester Flatt country musician (Flatt & Scruggs-Ballad of Jed Clampett, Rocky Top), is born. | Ref: 68 |
Jun 29 | Rafael Kubelik Bychory Czechoslovakia, conductor (Cornelia Farooli), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 08 | Billy Eckstine jazz singer (Tenderly, A Fool in Love), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 15 | Gavin Maxwell, Scottish writer and naturalist (Ring of Bright Water), is born. | Ref: 2 |
Jul 26 | Erskine Hawkins, trumpeter, is born. | Ref: 2 |
Jul 28 | Carmen Dragon classical music conductor, bandleader; father of singer, Captain Daryl Dragon; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 25 | Alexei Haieff Blagovestchensk Siberia, composer (Princess Zondilda), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 28 | Glenn Osser Munising Mich, orch leader (Paul Whiteman Goodyear Revue), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 03 | Tom Glazer singer: On Top of Spaghetti [w/Do-Re-Mi Childrens Chorus]; composer: film score: A Face in the Crowd, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 05 | Gail Kubik South Coffeyville, Okla, composer (Gerald McBoing Boing), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 24 | Andrzej Panufnik, Warsaw Poland, composer (Tragic Overture), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 07 | Alfred Drake (Capurro) Tony Award-winning actor: Kismet [1954]; Kiss Me Kate, Oklahoma; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 10 | Ivory Joe Hunter singer, musician: piano: Since I Met You Baby, I Almost Lost My Mind, I Need You So; songwriter: Aint That Loving You Baby, My Wish Come True, Blues at Sunrise; died Nov 8, 1974 | Ref: 4 |
Nov 14 | Ken Carson Coalgate OK, singer (Garry Moore Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 15 | Jorge Bolet Havana Cuba, pianist (C'eurties Instituka), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 01 | Dame Alicia Markova ballerina (Diaghilev Ballet Russe 1925-32), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 01 | Johnny Johnston St Louis MO, singer (Make that Spare), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 02 | Eddie Sauter musician: drums, trumpet, arranger: for Benny Goodman: Superman, Benny Rides Again, All the Cats Join In, Clarinet A La King; for Artie Shaw: The Maid with the Flaccid Air, composer; orchestra leader: Sauter-Finegan Orchestra; is born in Brooklyn NY. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 03 | Irving Fine Boston MA, composer (Toccata), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 06 | Eduard Jacobs Dutch cabaret artist, dies at 47. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 14 | Dan Dailey New York NY, dancer/actor (Governor Drinkwater-Governor & JJ), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 14 | Rosalyn Tureck Chicago IL, pianist (Bach & Rock), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 14 | Giovanni Sgambati composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 16 | Ivan Zajc composer, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 23 | Dezider Kardos composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 24 | Ralph Marterie Caruso of the trumpet: musician, bandleader: Pretend, Caravan, Skokiaan; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 25 | Tony Martin [Alvin Morris] San Francisco CA, singer (It's a Blue World, To Each), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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Jan 02 | Karl Goldmark Austria-Hungarian composer (Queen of Saba), dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 05 | Uta Graf singer/teacher, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Dean Dixon Zug Switzerland, conductor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 15 | Guillaume Couture composer, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 19 | Alvy West Brooklyn NY, orchestra leader (Andy Williams Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 24 | Vitezslava Kapralova composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 27 | Jack Brymer clarinettist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 30 | Pierre Wissmer Swiss composer/theory (Capitaine Bruno), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 31 | Bobby Hackett Providence RI, trumpeteer/orchestra leader (Air Time '57), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 03 | Richard Bales composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 07 | Wladyslaw Gorski composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 08 | Lambros Georges Guetary Worloou singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 11 | Josh White The Singing Christian: blues/folk singer, guitarist; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 11 | Haakon Stotijn Dutch oboist (VARA Orchestra, Orkestgebouw Orchestra), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 12 | Charles Emile Waldteufel composer, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 14 | Irving Gordon songwriter, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 16 | Emil Waldteufel [Charles Levy], French composer (Estudiantina), dies. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 17 | Homer Keller composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 18 | David van de Woestijne Flemish pianist/composer (Les Aronautes), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 18 | Marcel Landowsky composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 28 | Lee Castle (Castaldo) trumpet, bandleader: led Jimmy Dorseys band during time of smash hit: So Rare; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 04 | Carlos Surinach Barcelona Spain, composer (Monte Carlo), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | Eunice Catunda composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 14 | Alexander Brott composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 14 | Carlos Surinach Barcelona Spain, composer (Monte Carlo), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 19 | Patricia Morison (Eileen Patricia Augusta Fraser Morison) musician: bass; singer; actress: The Magnificent Fraud, The Roundup, One Night in Lisbon, The Song of Bernadette, Lady on a Train, Song of the Thin Man, Tarzan and the Huntress, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 28 | Jay Livingston composer (Buttons & Bows, Mona Lisa, Tammy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 29 | George Chisholm Scottish jazz trombonist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 31 | Eliseo Morales Pajaro composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | Art Lund Salt Lake City Utah, singer (Ken Murray Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | Willy Dixon blues artist (Mellow Down Easy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | Johann Joseph Abert composer, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 04 | Muddy Waters [McKinley Morganfield], guitarist (Hoochie Coochie Man), is born. | Ref: 68 |
Apr 07 | Billie Holiday [Eleanora Fagan] Philadelphia PA, singer (Ain't Nobody's Business), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 19 | Dorian Le Gallienne composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 21 | Andor Kovach composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 25 | Sal Franzella jazz musician: alto sax, clarinet: group: Sal Franzella & the Accordionaires: Yesterdays, Oh Marie, Paradise, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 25 | Nicola d' Arienzo composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 27 | Alexander N Skriabin Russian pianist/composer (Prometheus), dies at 43. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Donald Mills singer (Mills Brothers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 02 | Jan Hanus composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 02 | Van Alexander New York NY, orchestra leader (Gordon MacRae Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 03 | Evencio Castellanos composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 04 | Pedro Saenz composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 06 | George Perle Bayonne NJ, composer (12 Tone Tonality), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 10 | Bert van Dongen [Abraham J Cohen], singer/impressionist/actor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 14 | Harry Joseph Chick Daugherty trombonist (Spike Jones & City Slickers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | Wolfgang Schneiderhan violinist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | Igor Buketoff Hartford CT, conductor (Iceland Symphony 1964-65), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 06 | Vincent Persichetti Phila Pennsylvania, composer (Sibyl), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 10 | Oscar Comras Bronx, drummer (namesake of Comras Mall in Bronx Park), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 17 | Stringbean [David Akeman], Ky, banjoist/comedian (Hee Haw), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 01 | Willie Dixon blues musician: bass: Big Three Trio; songwriter, producer: 1950s Chicago sound; is born in Vicksburg MS. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 03 | Jerry Gray arranger, bandleader: The Glenn Miller Orchestra | Ref: 4 |
Jul 04 | Timmie Rogers Detroit Mich, singer (Sugar Hill Time), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 06 | LaVerne Andrews singer: contralto, group: The Andrews Sisters, is born | Ref: 68 |
Jul 06 | Dorothy Kirsten Montclair NJ, soprano (A Time to Sing), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 09 | David Diamond Rochester NY, composer (Paderewski Prize-1943), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 10 | Milt Buckner musician: piano, organ, composer: Hamps Boogie Woogie, The Lamplighter, Counts Basement; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 16 | Laverne Andrews Minneapolis, Andrew Sister (or 0706), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 28 | Frankie Yankovic Grammy Award-winning musician: accordion: Just Because, Blue Skirt Waltz; bandleader: polka band; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 04 | Irving Fields NYC, pianist (Ilona Massey Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 25 | Walter Trampler Munich Germany, violist (Beaux Arts Trio), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 11 | Jack Fascinato Bevier Mo, pianist/orch leader (Kukla Fran & Ollie), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 12 | Billy Daniels Jacksonville Fla, singer (Billy Daniels Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 16 | Cy Walter Minneapolis Mn, pianist (3's Company), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 14 | Martha Tilton singer: And the Angels Sing, A Stranger in Town; actress: The Benny Goodman Story, Sunny, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 19 | Billy Strayhorn, composer, arranger and pianist who wrote "Take the A Train., is born. | Ref: 2 |
Nov 26 | Earl Wild Pittsburgh PA, pianist (Caesar's Hour, NBC Symphony 1942), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 27 | Jack Brymer clarinettist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 28 | Dick Vance musician: trumpet, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 29 | Billy Strayhorn, American pianist and composer, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Nov 30 | Brownie McGhee, singer and guitarist, is born. | Ref: 2 |
Dec 02 | Nico Richter composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 02 | Adolph Green songwriter (married to Phyllis Newman), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 02 | Jan Malat composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 04 | Eddie Heywood Jr. pianist, composer: Canadian Sunset, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 04 | Gustav Hollaender composer, dies at 60. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 05 | Carl Donnell "Kansas" Fields drummer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 09 | Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Jarotschin Germany, soprano (Der Rosenkavalier), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 12 | Frank Sinatra Hoboken NJ, singer/actor (old blue eyes/chairman of board), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 14 | Clay Warnick Tacoma WA, choral director (Jimmie Rodgers Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 16 | Georgy Vasilevich Svirdov composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 16 | Turk Murphy (Melvin Edward Alton Murphy) trombonist: first to play jazz version of Mack the Knife; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 19 | Edith Piaf, internationally famous French cabaret singer, best remembered for her songs "La Vie en rose" and "Non, je ne regrette rein., is born. | Ref: 2 |
Dec 25 | Noelle de Mosa Netherlands/British dancer/teacher (Brigadoon), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | Pete Rugolo bandleader/arranger (Fugitive), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 26 | Una Mae Carlisle US pianist/vocalist (Walkin' at the River), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 28 | Roebuck "Pops" Staples US gospel/singer (Staple Singers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 29 | Charles Beach Hawley composer, dies at 57. | Ref: 5 |
- 1916
Jan 03 | Maxene (Angelyn) Andrews singer [w/sisters LaVerne and Patti]: group: The Andrews Sisters: Why Talk About Love?, A Simple Melody, Bei Mir Bist Du Schn, Rum and Coca Cola; solo: I Suppose; on Broadway with Patti: Over Here; died Oct 21, 1995 | Ref: 68 |
Jan 03 | Antonio Estevez composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 06 | Philip Bezanson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 09 | Vic Mizzy Brooklyn NY, orchestra leader (Don Rickles Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 13 | Bella Lewitsky choreographer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 17 | Joel Herron Chicago IL, orchestra leader (Jaye P Morgan Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 22 | Henri Dutilleux Angers France, composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 22 | Iwan Knorr composer, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 26 | Lothar Jensch composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 27 | Milt (Milton W.) Raskin pianist, composer: Twenty Mule Train [Death Valley Days], Exotic Percussion [Kapu], Look Out Up There [w/Pete Rugolo], I Never Wanna Look Into Those Eyes [w/Johnny Mercer], Mileka; arranger: Naked City, The Fugitive, The Agony and the Ecstacy, Lawrence of Arabia; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 28 | Peter Crossley-Holland composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | Edward Hubertus Joannes Keurvils composer, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 01 | Anton Simon composer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 04 | David Vassall Cox composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 06 | Bill Doggett musician: Honky Tonk, Slow Walk; is born. | Ref: 68 |
Feb 09 | Vic Mizzy Brooklyn NY, orchestra leader (Don Rickles Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Hynek Ignac Frantisek Vojacek composer, dies at 90. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 12 | Karl Hubert Rudolf Schiske Austrian composer (Vom Tode), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 14 | Wawrzyniec Jerzy Zulawski composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 15 | Nikolay Nikolayevich Lodizhensky composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 16 | William Ballard Doggett jazz musician, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Julius Juzeliunas composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 23 | Martindale Sidwell organist/conductor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 23 | George Clement Martin composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | Mordecai Seter composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 29 | Dinah (Frances Rose) Shore Emmy Award-winning singer, entertainer: The Dinah Shore Show [1951], Dinahs Place [1970]; Daytime Emmy: Dinahs Place [1970], Dinah! [1974]; The Dinah Shore Chevy Show, Oh, God!, Death Car on the Freeway; singer: Yes, My Darling Daughter, The Breeze and I, Blues in the Night, Ill Walk Alone, Buttons and Bows; sponsored Dinah Shore Classic pro golf tournament for over twenty years; died Feb 24, 1994 | Ref: 4 |
Feb 29 | Edward H J Keurvels Flemish conductor/composer (Parisina), dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 02 | Bernard George Stevens composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 03 | Ina Ray Hutton (Odessa Cowan) tap dancer; Ziegfeld Follies; pianist, bandleader; singer: Every Man a King; actress: The Big Broadcast of 1938, Ever Since Venus; is born. | Ref: 68 |
Mar 05 | Horace Ian Parrott composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 10 | Manuel A "Manny" Greenhill record producer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 15 | Harry (Haag) James trumpeter, bandleader: Sweet Georgia Brown, Chiribiribin, And the Angels Sing, Two Oclock Jump, You Made Me Love You, Music Makers, Strictly Instrumental, Ill Get By; married to Betty Grable (second of four wives); is born in Albany GA. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 18 | Louis Toebosch composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 22 | George Wyle New York NY, orchestra leader (Jerry Lewis Show, Flip Wilson Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 24 | Enrique y Campina Granados Sp opera composer (Goyescas), drowns at 48. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 25 | Nikolay Ivanovich Peyko composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Harry Rabinowitz British composer/conductor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Vic Schoen Brooklyn NY, orchestra leader (Patti Page Olds Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 06 | Pappy Wade Ray country entertainer/musician: Grand Ol Opry; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 09 | Julian Dash jazz musician: tenor sax: No Soap, Midnight Stroll, Double Shot, Gin Mill Special, Weddin Blues, My Silent Love, Long Moan, Creamin, Goin Along; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 09 | Vicente Goicoechea Errasti composer, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 11 | Alberto E Ginastera Buenos Aires Argentina, composer (Panambi), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | Russ Garcia musician, composer, orchestra leader: Waiter, Make Mine Blues [w/Anita ODay]; Royal Wedding Suite [w/Oscar Peterson], is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 14 | Denis ApIvor composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 14 | Emerson Buckley composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 22 | Yehudi Menuhin violinist: child prodigy: solo with San Francisco Orchestra at age of 7, played with New York Symphony Orchestra at ten; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 26 | Arnoldus Christian Vlok van Wyk composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 27 | Jan Rychlik composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 30 | Robert Shaw Red Bluff CA, chorale conductor (Robert Shaw Chorale), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 04 | Maurice "Moe" Purtill jazz drummer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 05 | Mutal' Burkhanov composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 06 | Earl Ross Drake composer, dies at 50. | Ref: 5 |
May 09 | Bernard William George Rose composer/organist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 09 | Douglas Guest organist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 11 | Max [Johann] Reger German composer/pianist/organist, dies at 43. | Ref: 5 |
May 12 | Ellis Bonoff Kohs composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 14 | Skip (Lloyd) Martin bandleader, composer, arranger: Hammer Blow [from Mike Hammer], Singin in the Rain, Guys and Dolls, April Love, Funny Face, Silk Stockings, Les Girls; died in Feb 1976, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 17 | Gervais Bernard Gaston Salvayre composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
May 22 | Gordon Binkerd composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 25 | Virginia "Ginny" Simms actress/singer (Kay Kyser Band), is born. | Ref: 68 |
May 29 | Carl M Story fiddler, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 09 | Les Paul (Polfus), Waukesha Wi, guitarist/inventor (Les Paul guitar), is born. | Ref: 68 |
Jul 10 | Dick Cary jazz musician: trumpet, arranger; first pianist in Louis Armstrongs All-Stars [1947-48]; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 17 | Eleanor Steber Wheeling WV, soprano (Metropolitan Opera-1940), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 23 | Ben Weber St Louis Missouri, composer (Thorne Music Award-1965), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 24 | Bob Eberly, Mechanicsville NY, singer (Jimmy Dorsey Band), is born. | Ref: 68 |
Aug 18 | Moura Lympany Saltash England, pianist (OBE-1979), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 13 | Dick (Richard Benjamin) Haymes singer: Ill Get By, It Cant Be Wrong, Youll Never Know, Till the End of Time, Mamselle, Little White Lies; actor: State Fair, All Ashore, Irish Eyes are Smiling; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 19 | Emil Gilels Odessa Russia, pianist (Brussels Competition-1938), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 06 | Ray Conniff choral/orchestra director: theme from Dr. Zhivago; LP: Swonderful, Somewhere My Love; musician: trombone; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 07 | Joe Bushkin NYC, jazz pianist (A Couple of Joes), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 10 | Billy May composer, bandleader: many of Sinatras Capitol hits, is born in Pittsburgh PA. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 10 | Guido Turchi Rome Italy, composer (Invettiva), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 02 | Charlie Ventura musician: tenor sax: played w/Gene Krupa, Stan Kenton, Charlie Parker, Count Basie; band leader; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 02 | Francesco Paolo Tosti composer, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 05 | Hans Richter composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 11 | (Damaso) Perez Prado musician: piano, organ: Patricia, Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White, Mambo No. 5, Mambo No. 8, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 15 | Buddy (Edwin) Cole pianist: group: The Buddy Cole Trio; sang with Rosemary Clooney: LP: Swing Around Rosie; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 19 | Hal Hastings New York NY, orchestra leader (Chevrolet on Broadway), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 20 | Manuel Giro composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 20 | William Wallace Gilchrist composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | Daniel Devoto composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 26 | Helmut Eder composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 26 | Bernhard Scholz composer, dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 27 | Nikolay Feopemptovich Solov'yov composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 28 | Eduard Strauss Austrian composer (318 dances), dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 31 | Ernst Rudorff composer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
- 1917
Jan 02 | Vera Zorina (Eva Brigitta Hartwig) dancer, actress: Star-Spangled Rhythm, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 05 | Reginald Smith Brindle composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 05 | Wieland Wagner German opera director, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 07 | Ulysses Sipmson Kay composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Jerry Wexler music producer (Aretha Franklin/Bob Dylan), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 12 | Walter Hendl West New York NJ, conductor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 13 | Felix Guerro Diaz composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 14 | Billy Butterfield (Charles William Butterfield) musician: trumpet; founding member of Worlds Greatest Jazz Band; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 17 | Oskar Morawetz Svetla Czechoslovakia, composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 17 | Ulyses Simpson Kay composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 19 | Rudolf Maros composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 21 | Billy Maxted pianist, songwriter, arranger: many arrangements for Ray Eberle, Red Nichols, Will Bradley, Benny Goodman; bandleader: LP: Bourbon Street Billy Blues [w/Manhattan Jazz Band], is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 22 | Albert "Pud" Brown clarinetist/saxophonist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 31 | Jose Maceda composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Paul Rubens composer, dies at 41. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 06 | Arthur Gold Toronto, Canada, pianist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 06 | Liberato Firmino Sifonia composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 10 | Emile Pessard composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 12 | Thomas K Scherman New York NY, conductor (Little Orchestra Society 1947-75), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 13 | Joel Angel Russian musicologist/composer, dies at 48. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 02 | John Gardner composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 07 | Lee Young, jazz musician: drummer: Nat King Cole Trio, Lee Young Band, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 07 | Janet Collins ballerina, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 07 | Robert Erickson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 17 | Brian Boydell composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 19 | Dino Lipatti composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 20 | Dame Vera Lynn, British singer (Anniversary Waltz), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 23 | Johnny Guarnieri New York NY, jazz pianist (Morey Amsterdam Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Rufus Thomas Cayce MS, singer (Walking the Dog), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 29 | Fran Gerbic composer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | Els Aarne composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | Rudolf Bruci composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | Johnny Andrews Boston, singer/host of Songs at Twilight, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | Scott Joplin, King of ragtime music, composer, musician: guitar, piano, bugle: Original Rags, Maple Leaf Rag, The Ragtime Dance, The Entertainer, operas: The Guest of Honor, Treemonisha; dies at age 48. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 02 | Lou Monte NJ, singer (Peppino the Italian Mouse), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Bill Finegan Newark NJ, (Sauter-Finegan Band, Sat Night Revue), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Tibor Andrasovan composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | Richard Yardumian Philadelphia PA, composer (Come Creator Spirit), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 06 | Walter "Shakey" Horton Mississippi, harmonicist (Everybody's Fishin'), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 07 | Mongo (Ramon) Santamaria bandleader, composer, musician: conga drums: Afro Blue, Watermelon Man; appeared in film: Made in Paris; played with Perez Prado and Tito Puente; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 07 | Spyridon Filiskos Samaras composer, dies at 53. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 15 | Pietro Grossi composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 19 | Johnny Hoes Dutch musician/producer (Wished I'd stayed with my Mom), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 21 | Emanuel Vardi Jerusalem Israel, violist (San Diego Symphony 1978-82), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 22 | Mile Yvette Chauvir France, ballerina assoluta (Sleeping Beauty), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 30 | Bea Wain US singer/radio host (Lucky Strike Hit Parade), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 03 | James Penberthy composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 04 | Edward Toner Cone composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 11 | Otto Adolf Klauwell composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
May 12 | Andr A Rieu Dutch conductor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 14 | Lou Harrison Portland OR, composer (Rapunzel), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 14 | Norman Luboff choral leader: The Norman Luboff Choir; is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 16 | Geraint Jones conductor/organist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 20 | Enyss Djemil composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 21 | Dennis Day New York NY, Irish tenor/comedian (Jack Benny Show, Danny Boy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 25 | Jimmy Hamilton saxophonist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 25 | Leon Felix Augustin Joseph Vasseur composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | Papa John Creech rocker (Hot Tuna, Jefferson Airplane), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 07 | Dean Martin (Dino Crocetti) singer/comedian (partner for Jerry Lewis), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 13 | Si (Simon) Zentner bandleader, trombonist: Boyd Raeburn Orchestra; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 15 | Leon Payne country artist, songwriter: I Love You Because, Lost Highway, Theyll Never Take Her Love, I Heard My Heart Break Last Night, The Blue Side of Lonesome; is killed. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 17 | Dean Martin (Dino Crocetti) straight man of comedy-team: Martin and Lewis; singer: Memories are Made of This, Return to Me, Everybody Loves Somebody, The Door is Still Open to My Heart, Houston; actor: My Friend Irma, Hollywood or Bust, Airport, Bells are Ringing, The Caddy, Cannonball Run, Oceans 11, Rio Bravo; died Dec 25, 1995 | Ref: 4 |
Jun 27 | Ben Homer composer/songwriter: Sentimental Journey [w/Bud Green, Les Brown], is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 30 | Lena Horne, singer, is born in Brooklyn NY. | Ref: 68 |
Jun 30 | Buddy Rich Bkln NY, drummer/orch leader (Buddy Rich Band-Away We Go), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 06 | Dorothy Kirsten Montclair NJ, opera singer (The Chevy Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 07 | Elton Britt Marshall Ark, country singer (Sat Night Jamboree), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 09 | Ted Steele Hartford Ct, orch leader (Cavalcade of Stars), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 29 | Homer (Henry D. Haynes), comedy singer of Homer and Jethro, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 03 | Charlie Shavers musician: trumpet: group: John Kirby Sextet; composer: Pastel Blue, Undecided, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 16 | Roque Cordero Panama, composer (Sonata Breve), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 22 | John Lee Hooker Mississippi, blues musician (Canned Heat), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 23 | Tex (Sol) Williams singer: Smoke, Smoke, Smoke [That Cigarette], Shame on You, The Rose of the Alamo, Bluebird on Your Windowsill, Bottom of a Mountain; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 02 | Laurindo Almeida Grammy Award-winning composer, musician: guitar: Guitar from Ipanema [1964]; Viva Bossa Nova; underscore: Viva Zapata; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 13 | Robert Ward Cleveland Ohio, composer (Pantaloon), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 28 | Michael Somes England, ballet dancer (Royal Ballet in London), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 17 | Composer, jazz musician Thelonious (Sphere) Monk is born. | Ref: 68 |
Oct 21 | Musician, trumpeteer, Dizzy (John Birks) Gillespie is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 29 | Merle Travis songwriter: 16 Tons, Smoke, Smoke, Smoke That Cigarette, Petal from a Faded Rose, Cincinnati Lou, Information Please; singer: Re-enlistment Blues in From Here to Eternity, John Henry Junior, Barbara Allen; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 02 | Sylvia Syms singer: worlds greatest saloon singer; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 07 | Leon Minkus composer, dies at 91. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 08 | Rufo I Wever Aruban pianist/composer (Ca'i Organ), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 13 | Dave Street Los Angeles CA, actor/singer (Broadway Open House), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 17 | Louis Salvador Palange composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 21 | Alicia Alonso Havana Cuba, ballerina (American Ballet Theatre), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 21 | Andre Eglevsky choreographer (Limelight), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1918
Jan 06 | Buddy Weed Ossining NY, pianist (Penthouse Party), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | Michael Hertz composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 11 | Albert Weisser composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 13 | Lester Sill pioneer music publisher/record producer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 18 | Bohuslav Jeremias composer, dies at 58, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 24 | Gottfried von Einem Bern Switzerland, Austrian composer (Dantons Tod), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 27 | Skitch (Lyle) Henderson bandleader: musical director of NBC-TVs The Tonight Show with Steve Allen, Johnny Carson; conductor: Tulsa Symphony Orchestra, is born in Birmingham England. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 27 | Elmore James musician (Dust My Broom), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Kara Abulfazogli Karayev composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 07 | Alexander Sergeyevich Taneyev composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 15 | Hank Locklin (Lawrence Hankins Locklin) country singer: Please Help Me Im Falling, Send Me the Pillow You Dream On, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 15 | Vernon Castle, dancer, actor: The Whirl of Life; dies at age 30. | Ref: 70 |
Mar 01 | Johan Gustaf Emil Sjogren composer, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 03 | Frank Wigglesworth composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | Eugene D'Harcourt composer, dies at 58. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 13 | Karel Stecker composer, dies at 57. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 15 | Jose Silvestre de los Dolores White Lafitte composer, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 15 | Juliette Marie Olga Lili Boulanger composer, dies at 24. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 15 | Lili Boulanger composer, dies at 24. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 16 | Howard Boatwright composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 17 | D Arendo [Arend Honhoff] Dutch pianist/composer (Eleonora), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 18 | Willem Coenen composer, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 20 | Marian McPartland (Margaret Marian Turner) musician: After Hours, Ambiance, Personal Choice, In My Life; founded Halcyon Records; songwriter: There?ll Be other Times, Twilight World; National Public Radio show: Marian McPartand's Piano Jazz, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 20 | Bernd-Alois Zimmermann German composer (Soldiers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 21 | Sir Charles Thompson musician: pianist, organist: w/Lionel Hampton, Coleman Hawkins, Buck Clayton, Jimmy Rushing; composer: Robbins Nest [tribute to DJ Fred Robbins], is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 22 | Tauno Kullerve Pylkkanen composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 23 | Cesar Cortinas composer, dies at 27. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 24 | Theophile Ysaye composer, dies at 53. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 25 | Claude A Debussy, French composer (Iberia/La mer), dies in Paris France at 55. | Ref: 68 |
Mar 26 | Csar A Cui Lithuanian fort builder/composer, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Youly Algaroff ballet dancer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 29 | Pearl (Mae) Bailey jazz singer: Takes Two to Tango, A Little Learnin is a Dangerous Thing [w/Sinatra]; actress: St. Louis Woman, Variety Girl, Porgy and Bess, lead in black cast of Hello Dolly; TV series; is born in Newport News VA. | Ref: 68 |
Apr 01 | Karl Fritjof Valentin composer, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Sixten Ehrling Malm Sweden, conductor (Royal Opera of Stockholm), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Enrique Iturriaga composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Louis Applebaum composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 07 | Peanuts Hucko Syracuse NY, dixieland clarinetist (Lawrence Welk Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | Tony Mottola guitarist: played with Al Caiola, George Halls orchestra, CBS radio studio orchestra, worked w/Raymond Scott backing up young Frank Sinatra and Perry Como, arranger for Comos TV variety show; composer: films: Running on Empty, Violated, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 25 | Astrid Varnay Stockholm Sweden, soprano (Metropolitan Opera 1941-56), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 25 | [Ibolyka] Astridm Varnay Hungarian/US singer (Walkre), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 27 | Kirby Stone New York NY, jazz combo leader (Baubles Bangles & Beads), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 27 | Willem N "Pim" Koot pianist of Concert building (Oh, Lady! Lady!), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 05 | Erbie Bowser pianist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 06 | Godfrey Ridout composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 07 | Argeliers Leon composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 10 | Margo, singer (Golden Irish Favorites), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 15 | Eddy Arnold Henderson TN, country singer (Cattle Call, Anytime), is born. | Ref: 68 |
May 17 | Birgit Nilsson, Karup Sweden, operatic soprano (Elektra, Salome), is born. | Ref: 68 |
May 18 | Toivo Kuula composer, dies at 34. | Ref: 5 |
May 23 | Bulent Arel composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 23 | Bumps Blackwell rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 18 | Bob Carroll singer/actor (Stage Two Revue, The Stranger), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 30 | Stuart Foster Binghamton NY, singer (Galen Drake Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 04 | Buster Davis Johnstown Pa, choral director (Garry Moore Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 05 | George Rochberg Paterson NJ, composer (Concord Quartet), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 06 | Eugene List Phila Penn, pianist/prof (Eastman School of Music), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 24 | Ruggiero Ricci SF CA, violinist (Paganini), is born. | Ref: 68 |
Jul 27 | Leonard Rose Washington DC, concert cellist (NY Phil 1943-51), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 31 | Hank Jones pianist: accompanied Billy Eckstine, Ella Fitzgerald; led Hank Jones Trio, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 03 | Les Elgart musician: lead trumpet, bandleader: w/brother Larry; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 25 | Leonard Bernstein conductor: NY Philharmonic Orchestra; composer: West Side Story, On the Town, My Sister Eileen, On the Waterfront , Jeremiah, The Age of Anxiety, Kaddish, Chichester Psalms, Mass, Songfest; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 31 | Alan Jay Lerner lyricist composer (Lerner & Leowe-My Fair Lady), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 04 | Gerald Wilson Shelby Miss, orch leader (Redd Foxx), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 13 | Ray Charles Chicago, orch leader (Perry Como), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 22 | Henryk Szeryng Zelazowa Wola Poland, violinist (Brahms Concerto), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 10 | Bobby Byrne Columbus Ohio, orch leader (Club Seven), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 11 | Jerome Robbins choreographer/composer (Tony-West Side Story), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 24 | Charles Lecocq, French composer of operettas, dies at age 86. | Ref: 70 |
Nov 09 | Howard Shanet Brooklyn NY, conductor (Night of the Tropics), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 27 | Elmore James musician (Dust My Broom), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 27 | Skitch Henderson Birmingham England, orchestra leader (Tonight Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 02 | Milton DeLugg bandleader: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson; Milton DeLugg and His Orchestra: Abe Burrows Almanac, The Chuck Barris Rah Rah Show, Dagmars Canteen, Doodles Weaver, The Gong Show, Judge for Yourself, Your Hit Parade; musician: accordion: The Milton DeLugg Quartet: Broadway Open House; songwriter: Orange Colored Sky, is born in Los Angeles CA. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 07 | Jorunn Vidar composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 08 | Grard Souzay Angers France, baritone (Le Nozze di Figaro), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | Professor Longhair king of New Orleans music, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 12 | Joe Williams Cordele GA, jazz singer (Everyday I Have the Blues), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 18 | Henryk Jarecki composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 23 | Jos Greco, Italy, flamenco dancer (Holiday for Lovers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | Eddie Safranski Pittsburgh PA, orchestra leader (Jonathan Winters Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 26 | Bertram Luard-Selby composer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
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Jan 01 | Bernard Drukker Dutch organist/pianist/orchestra leader (Devil's Wheel), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 04 | Al "Jazbo" Collins New York City NY, disk jockey (Tonight! America After Dark), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 06 | Sylvia Syms US singer (Hello Dolly, Dream Girl, Them There Eyes), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 16 | Bob Boucher, Kent OH, orchestra leader (Music on Ice), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 16 | Jaroslav Jeremias composer, dies at 19. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 18 | Juan Antonio Orrego-Salas Santiago Chile, composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 20 | Royalton Kisch British conductor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 20 | Stepan Lucky composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 24 | Leon Kirchner Brooklyn NY, opera composer (Lily), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 27 | Nina Milkina pianist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 30 | Robert Suter composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Lisa Debeljevic-della Casa Swiss vocalist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Xavier Henry Napoleon Leroux composer, dies at 55. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 08 | Buddy Morrow (Moe Zudekoff) bandleader: Night Train, Hey Mrs. Jones, theme from Man with the Golden Arm, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 13 | Joan Edwards New York NY, singer (Joan Edwards Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 13 | Tennessee Ernie Ford Bristol TN, country singer/actor (pea picker), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 21 | Giovanni Bolzoni composer, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Jiri Pauer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 24 | Josephine McGill composer, dies at 41. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | Luc-Andre Marcel composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Roman Haubenstock-Ramati composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 02 | Tamara Toumanova dancer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 05 | Jozef Surzynski composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 06 | Death of Julia H. Johnston, 70, American Presbyterian Sunday School leader. She penned about 500 hymns during her lifetime, one of which is still sung today: "Grace Greater Than Our Sin" (a.k.a. "Marvelous Grace of our Loving Lord"). | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | Ivor Keys musician/teacher, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | Auguste Tolbecque composer, dies at 88. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 11 | Mercer Ellington, son of Duke Ellington/bandleader/songwriter: Blue Serge, Things Aint What They Used to Be; owned Mercer record label; bandleader: only son of Duke Ellington: led the Dukes band after he died and for musical Sophisticated Ladies; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 11 | Harald Fryklof composer, dies at 36. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 14 | Luther Henderson Jr Kansas City MO, orchestra leader (Polly Bergen Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 16 | Erno Kiraly composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 16 | Sigurd von Koch composer, dies at 39. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 17 | Nat "King" Cole (Nathaniel Adams Coles), Montgomery AL, singer (Unforgettable, Mona Lisa), is born in Montgomery AL. | Ref: 17 |
Mar 28 | Jacob Avshalomov Tsingtao China, composer (Sinfonietta, The Oregon), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Paul Geisler composer, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 04 | Antony Tudor England, choreographer (Metropolitan Opera 1957), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 06 | Stefan Surzynski composer, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 07 | Ralph Flanagan, pianist/arranger: Sammy Kaye, Blue Barron, Charlie Barnet, Gene Krupa, Tony Pastor, Boyd Raeburn, Alvino Rey, Tony Martin, Mindy Carson, Perry Como Supper Club radio show; bandleader: Nevertheless, Rag Mop, Harbor Lights, Slow Poke, Hot Toddy; theme song: Singing Winds, is born in Loraine OH. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 12 | Istvan Anhalt composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 16 | Merce Cunningham choreographer (Acrobat in Every Soul is a Circus), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 21 | Don Cornell (Louis Varlaro) singer: It isnt Fair, Ill Walk Alone, Im Yours, Heart of My Heart, This is the Beginning of the End, Hold My Hand, The Bible Tells Me So, Most of All, Love is a Many-Splendored Thing, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 23 | Talivaldis Kenins composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 25 | Heinz Wunderlich composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 03 | Pete Seeger NY NY, folk singer (Weaver, Goodnight Irene), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 04 | Dimiter Petkov composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 04 | Mary Ann McCall singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 05 | George London Montral Canada, bass-baritone (Monterone-Rigoleto), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 08 | Sultan Ismail Hajibeyov composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 10 | Tibor Sarai composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 16 | [Wladziu Valentino] Liberace West Allis WI, pianist (Liberace Show, Evil Chandell-Batman), is born. | Ref: 68 |
May 17 | Bohumil Pazdirek composer, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
May 18 | Dame Margot Fonteyn Surrey England, ballerina (Giselle/partner of Nureyev), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 19 | Georgie Auld (John Altwerger) musician: saxophones: bandleader; actor: The Rat Race, dubbed soundtrack for Robert DeNero in New York, New York; is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 25 | Gino Negri composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 31 | Chet Gierlach music publisher/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 31 | Emmanual Tettey Mensah musician, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 04 | Robert Merrill (Moishe Miller) Metropolitan Opera singing star, is born in Brooklyn, NY. | Ref: 68 |
Jun 05 | Akeo Watanabe Tokyo Japan, conductor (Nippon Phil Orch 1956-68), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 10 | Rusty Gill St Louis Mo, singer (Polka Time), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 09 | Ruggero Leoncavallo, Italian opera composer, dies at age 62 in Montecatini, Tuscany. | Ref: 70 |
Aug 12 | Michael Kidd [Milton Greenwald] choreographer (7 Brides for 7 Bros), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 13 | George Shearing (jazz pianist: September in the Rain, Ill Take Romance, Changing with the Times; composer: Lullaby of Birdland, Conception, Consternation), is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 30 | Kitty Wells Nashville Tn, country singer (Grand Ole Opry), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 02 | Marge Champion LA Calif, dancer (Marge & Gower Champion Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 19 | Blanche Thebom Monessen Penn, mezzo-soprano (Amneris-Aida), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 22 | Jack Russell, Saratoga Springs NY, singer (Your Show of Shows), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 24 | Vaclav Nelhybel Polanka Czechoslovakia, composer (Everyman), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 30 | Patricia Neway Bkln NY, soprano (Consul, Maria Golovia), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 11 | Art Blakey Pitts Pa, drummer (Billy Eckstine Band), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 30 | Jane Randolph singer, backup for Tony Orlando (Dawn), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 05 | Myron Floren Webster San Diego CA, accordionist (Lawrence Welk Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 17 | Hershy Kay Philadelphia PA, composer/arranger (Olympic Hymn), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 27 | David Seville [Ross Bagdasarian], Fresno CA, (Alvin & Chipmunks), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 27 | Nina Milkina pianist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 01 | Ike Isaacs guitarist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 03 | Charles Craig opera singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 08 | Hans-Dieter Hosalla composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 08 | Moyssey Samuilovich Vaynberg composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | Sven-Eric Emanuel Johanson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 13 | Amintore Galli composer, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 16 | Manke Nelis [Cornelis Pieters] Dutch folk vocalist (Small Yodel Boy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 18 | Anita ODay (Anita Belle Colton) jazz singer: Chickery Chick, Boogie Blues; films: The Gene Krupa Story, Jazz on a Summers Day, Zigzag, The Outfit, is born in Chicago IL. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 18 | Horatio William Parker composer, dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 27 | Achilles Alferaki composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 28 | Inocenti Carreno composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 29 | Roman Vlad composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 30 | David Valentine Willcocks composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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Jan 05 | Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli Brescia Italy, pianist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 06 | Earl Kim composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 16 | Reginald De Koven composer, dies at 60. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 17 | Nora Kaye New York City NY, prima ballerina, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 17 | George Handy (George Joseph Hendleman) George Joseph Hendleman) (pianist, composer, arranger: Boyd Raeburn band, Alvino Rey band, Paramount Studios; died Jan 8, 1997 | Ref: 4 |
Jan 21 | Torsten Nilsson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 22 | William Warfield singer (Show Boat), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 23 | Ray Abrams jazz/be-bop tenor saxophonist, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 24 | Don Saddler Van Nuys CA, dancer (Holiday Hotel), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 30 | George Skibine Russian/US dancer/choreographer (Tragedy in Verona), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 07 | Oscar Brand folk singer, composer: Bawdy Songs and Backroom Ballads; music director: NBC-TV Sunday; host: Lets Sing Out, is born in Winnipeg Canada. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 12 | Emile Sauret composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 13 | Bryant Boudleaux Shellman GA, rock writer (Bye Bye Love), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 13 | Eileen Farrell, Willimantic CT, opera soprano (Interrupted Melody), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 15 | Ingmar Milveden composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 16 | Lee Russell Cleveland OH, singer (Vincent Lopez), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 16 | Patty Andrews (Patricia Marie Andrews) lead singer: group: The Andrews Sisters: Bei Mir Bist Du Schon, Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, Rum and Coca Cola, Beer Barrel Polka; solo: I Can Dream Cant I, is born in Minneapolis MN. | Ref: 68 |
Feb 17 | Paul Fetler composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Armin Schibler Dutch Swiss composer (Devil in the Winter Palace), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Bettina Vernon-Warren dancer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Del Wood singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 23 | Hall Overton Bangor MI, composer (Enchanted Pear Tree), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 23 | Alexander Alexandrovich Il'yinsky composer, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Jose Melis Havana Cuba, orchestra leader (Jack Paar Program), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 28 | Edward Kassner music publisher, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Alfred Grant Goodman composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 02 | Enrique Franco composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | James Daniel "Danny" Turner saxophonist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 10 | Jethro Burns, country singer (Homer & Jethro), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 16 | John Addison Surrey England, composer (Tom Jones-Academy Award), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 20 | Marian McPartland jazz pianist (Bill Mayer, Jimmy McPartland), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 22 | Fanny Waterman concert pianist & teacher, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 23 | Alexander Grigori Harut'unyan composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 23 | Geoffrey Bush composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | Richard Hayman bandleader/conductor/pianist (Theme of 3 Penny Opera), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Stan Freeman, Waterbury CT, pianist (Melody Tour), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Homer Newton Bartlett composer, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 07 | Ravi Shankar sitarist: played at Woodstock [1969] and with George Harrison in the Bangla-Desh Benefit concerts [1971]; was George Harrisons sitar teacher; was resident lecturer at CCNY, is born in Benares India. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 08 | Charles Tomlinson Griffes US composer (White Peacock), dies at 35. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 09 | Art Van Damme Norway Mich, jazz accordionist (Chicago Jazz), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | Robert Fizdale Chicago IL, pianist (Misia), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 14 | Eduardo Maturana composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 15 | Jim Timmens Grammy Award-winning composer: Arent You Glad Youre You [1977: Best Recording For Children, w/Christopher Cerf]; jazz musician, musical director of New Yorks Radio City Music Hall, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 16 | John Conrad Nordqvist composer, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 21 | Bruno Maderna Venice Italy, conductor/composer (Hyperion), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 23 | Louis Barron composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 24 | Death of Eliza P. Hewitt, 69, American Presbyterian S.S. teacher and hymnwriter. Many of her verses are still sung today, including "More About Jesus," Sing the Wondrous Love of Jesus" and "Sunshine in My Soul." | Ref: 5 |
Apr 26 | Juan C Lampe Aruba, pianist/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 28 | Nan Merriman US/Netherlands singer (Arturo Toscanini NBC Orchestra), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Harold Samuel Shapero Lynn MA, composer (9 Minute Opera), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 30 | Leen 't Hart Dutch organist/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 02 | Jacob Gilboa composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 03 | John Lewis, jazz pianist, is born. | Ref: 2 |
May 11 | Beryl Bryden, jazz singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 23 | Helen O'Connell Lima OH, singer (Green Eyes, Amapola), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 26 | Peggy Lee [Norma Egstrom] Jamestown ND, singer (Fever, Why Don't You Do Right), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 30 | George London, baritone singer: group: Bel canto Trio [w/Frances Yeend and Mario Lanza]; member: Vienna State Opera, Metropolitan Opera; Artistic Dir: Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; Director: National Opera Institute; head: Washington Opera; established George London Foundation for Singers [1971]; is born in Montral Canada. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 11 | Hazel Scott Trinidad, singer/pianist (Hazel Scott), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 11 | Shelly Manne composer, musician: drummer: Peter Gunn score; actor: Man with the Golden Arm; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 19 | Robert Mann Portland Oregon, violinist (String Quartet 1952), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 21 | Isaac Stern Kremenetz, Russia, violinist (debut SF Symph), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 11 | William Masselos Niagara Falls NY, pianist/prof (Juiliard 1976), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 13 | George Shearing London, blind pianist/composer (Lullabye of Byrdland), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 17 | Georgia Gibbs Worcester Mass, singer (Ballin the Jack, Kiss of Fire), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 26 | Charlie Parker, jazz guitarist, was born | Ref: 62 |
Aug 29 | Charlie "Bird" Parker famous African-American jazzman, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 07 | Al Caiola musician: guitar: themes from The Magnificent Seven and Bonanza, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 14 | Johnny Desmond (Giovanni Alfredo de Simone) singer: Yellow Rose of Texas, Play Me Hearts and Flowers; group: Bob-O-Links w/Bob Crosby Band; solo: ?G.I. Sinatra?: Glenn Miller AAF band, Don McNeill?s Breakfast Club, Your Hit Parade, Face the Music; actor: Escape from San Quentin, China Doll, Hawk of the Caribbean; is born in Detroit MI. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 02 | Robert Moevs composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 06 | Dave Brubeck jazz musician: Take Five, LPs: Jazz Goes to College, Dave Brubeck at Storyville, Time Out, Two Generations of Brubeck, Last Set at Newport, All the Things We Are, is born in Concord CA. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 06 | Karel Kovarovic composer, dies at 57. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 12 | Paul Lacome composer, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 13 | Frits Noske Dutch musicologist (Signifier & the Signified, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 14 | Clark Terry musician: trumpet, flugelhorn: with Lionel Hampton, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Quincy Jones, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 18 | Rita Streich German singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 19 | Little Jimmy Dickens, Country Music Hall of Famer: Country Boy, My Hearts Bouquet, May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose, is born in Bolt WV. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 24 | Dave Bartholomew Louisiana, jazz artist/songwriter (Blueberry Hill), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 26 | Gote Carlid composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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Jan 07 | John Lanigan tenor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | Luis Villalba Munoz composer, dies at 48. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 09 | Seymour Barab composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 12 | Leo Smit Philadelphia PA, pianist/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 14 | Mark Lawrence Washington DC, pianist (Alice Pearce), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 21 | Todor Popov composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 22 | Andre Hodeir composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 23 | Wlasyslaw Zelenski composer, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 25 | Alfred Reed composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 25 | Mykola Dmytrovich Leontovych composer, dies at 43. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 26 | Frantisek Chaun composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 26 | Johannes Driessler composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 30 | Bernie Leighton West Haven CT, orchestra leader (Chance of a Lifetime), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Luigi Mancinelli composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 03 | Max Wilhelm Zach composer, dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Sir John Pritchard London England, conductor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 07 | Wilma Lee Cooper (Leary) country singer: Come Walk with Me with husband, Stoney; group: Clinch Mountain Clan with daughter, Carol Lee, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 09 | Seymour Barab composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 10 | Adrian Cruft composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 14 | Jeanne Demessieux composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 15 | Hans Haym composer, dies at 60. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 19 | Claude Rene Georges Pascal composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Nurv Shiner singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Ruth Gipps British conductor/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 24 | Ingvar Lidholm composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Andras Szollosy composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 28 | Vladimir Sommer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 02 | Robert Wilfred Levick Simpson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 03 | Junior Parker Arkansas, blues vocalist/songwriter (Mystery Train), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | Halim El-Dabh composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 06 | Julius Rudel Vienna Austria, conductor (NYC Opera 1957), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | Egbert George "Pete" Pitterson trumpeter, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 11 | Astor Piazzolla Argentina composer (Tango Nuevo), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 12 | Gordon MacRae actor: Oklahoma!, Carousel, The Desert Song; singer: I Still Get Jealous, Its Magic, Hair of Gold Eyes of Blue, Cest Magnifique, The Secret [with Jo Stafford]; is born in East Orange NJ. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 12 | Ralph Shapey Philadelphia PA, composer (Fantasy, Rituals), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 20 | Primoz Ramovs composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 21 | Antony Hopkins composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 21 | Arthur Grumiaux Belgian violinist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 24 | Deodat de Severac composer, dies at 48. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Joe Loco (Jose Esteves Jr.) jazz musician, arranger: credited with introducing the mambo [Tenderly: 1951] and cha-cha-cha [1953] to the US; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 30 | Kan Ishii composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | Oto Ferenczy composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | William L Bergsma, Oakland CA, composer (Fortunate Island), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | Douglas Allenbrook composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | Alphonsus J M Diepenbrock Dutch composer (Missa), dies at 58. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 06 | Andrew Welsh Imbrie composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 08 | Jan Novak composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 08 | Virginia O'Brien Los Angeles CA, actress/singer (Gus, Ziegfeld Follies, Thousands Cheer), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 10 | Sheb Wooley Erick Okla, vocalist (Purple People Eater, Hee Haw), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 11 | Dorothy Shay (Sims) The Park Avenue Hillbilly: singer: Feudin and Fightin; actress: Comin Round the Mountain; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 13 | Carlo Prosperi composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 15 | Norman Ewart Thurston musician, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 19 | Will Ogdon composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 22 | Candido Camero musician: bongos, congas, tres, bass: performed/recorded w/George Shearing, Stan Kenton, Dizzy Gillespie, Dinah Washington, Tito Puente, Machito, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 26 | Jimmy Giuffre jazz musician, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 01 | Louis Campbell-Tipton composer, dies at 43. | Ref: 5 |
May 03 | Joe Ames singer (of The Ames Brothers) is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 04 | John van Kesteren Dutch tenor (Komische Oper, West-Berlin), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 05 | Sonja Oosterman Dutch singer (Marketensters), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 06 | Freddy Randall jazz trumpeteer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 10 | Bert Weedon rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 12 | (Otis W.) Joe Maphis country singer with wife, Rose Lee: entertainer: Hometown Jamboree, Town Hall Party, Hee Haw; songwriter: Dim Lights Thick Smoke and Loud, Loud Music; is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 12 | Edvard Mikcaeli Mirzoyan composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 15 | Erroll Garner Pittsburgh PA, jazz pianist (Misty), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 17 | Bob Merrill songwriter: If I Knew You Were Comin Idve Baked a Cake, Doggie in the Window, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Funny Girl [w/Jules Styne]; is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 17 | Dennis Brain London England, french-hornist (Serenade), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 23 | Humphrey Lyttelton jazz musician/actor (It's Great to Be Young), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 25 | Hal David Oscar-winning songwriter [w/Burt Bacharach (music)]: Raindrops Keep Fallin on My Head [1969]; The Four Winds and the Seven Seas, American Beauty Rose, Broken-Hearted Melody; w/Burt Bacharach: The Story of My Life, Magic Moments; president of ASCAP, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 27 | Redd Stewart Ashland City TN, guitarist/pianist (Pee Wee King Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 01 | Nelson Riddle Oradell NJ, musical conductor (Batman, Frank Sinatra), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 21 | Frank Scott Fargo ND, pianist (Lawrence Welk Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 22 | Gower Champion, choreographer (42nd Street), is born. | Ref: 17 |
Jul 17 | George Barnes Chicago Hgts, guitarist (Skip Farrell Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 21 | Billy Taylor Greenville NC, orch leader (David Frost Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 24 | Billy Taylor jazz pianist: leader: Billy Taylor Trio, Orchestra; co-founder of Jazzmobile 65; music director: The David Frost Show; jazz segments: Sunday Morning with Charles Kuralt, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 30 | Grant Johannesen Salt Lake City Ut, pianist (Ostnd first prize 1947), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 02 | Tenor Enrico Caruso dies in Naples, Italy of pleurisy at age 48. | Ref: 68 |
Aug 03 | Richard Adler composer, lyricist [w/Jerry Ross]: scores: Pajama Game, Damn Yankees; solo: scores: Kwamina, A Mothers Kisses, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 04 | Herb (Mitchell) Ellis musician: guitarist, singer: group: Soft Winds: I Told You I Love You, Now Get Out; Oscar Peterson Trio, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 06 | Buddy (William) Collette musician: reeds, piano, composer: LPs: Now and Then, Blockbuster, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 07 | Warren Covington bandleader: trombone: played with Horace Heidt and His Musical Knights; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 07 | Karel Husa Prague Czechoslovakia, composer (Trojan Women), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 08 | Webb Pierce singer: In the Jailhouse Now, Honky Tonk Song, Tupelo County Jail, Ive Got Leaving on My Mind, Back Street Affair, There Stands the Glass; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 07 | Arthur Ferrante, musician: pianist: duo: Ferrante and Teicher: Exodus, Tonight, Theme from The Apartment, Midnight Cowboy, is born. | Ref: 68 |
Sep 19 | Billy Ward singer, musician: piano: group: Billy Ward and His Dominoes: Sixty-Minute Man, Have Mercy Baby, Star Dust, Deep Purple, St. Therese of the Roses, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 27 | Engelbert Humperdinck opera composer: Hansel and Gretel; name borrowed by pop singer Arnold Dorsey; dies at age 67. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 13 | Harper MacKay Boston Mass, orch leader (NBC Follies), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 21 | Sir Malcolm Arnold composer: screen scores: David Copperfield, The Chalk Garden, Suddenly, Last Summer, Solomon and Sheba, Island in the Sun, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Trapeze, I Am a Camera, The Belles of St. Trinians series, Eye Witness, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 08 | Jerome Hines Hollywood CA, basso (I am The Way), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 06 | Nicolas A Pia Venezulian/Aruban songwriter, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 07 | Arne Dorumsgaard composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 08 | Johnny Otis California, R&B talent scout (Cold Shot, Cuttin' Up), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 08 | Terence Weil cellist/teacher, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | Viktor Jacobi composer, dies at 38. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 16 | Charles Camille Saint-Saens French composer (Carnival of the Animals), dies at 86. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 19 | Ludvik Podest composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 21 | Alica Alonso Havana, ballerina, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 21 | Joan Dickson cellist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 22 | Hawkshaw Hawkins Huntington WV, country singer (Ozark Jubilee), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 22 | Robert Frank Kurka composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 24 | Gerard Thomas Victory composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | Hans Huber composer, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 28 | Johnny Otis (Veliotes) `inventor of R&B': composer, song writer, musician: drums, vibes: group: The Johnny Otis Show: Willie and the Hand Jive, Every Beat of My Heart, Roll [Dance] with Me Henry | Ref: 4 |
Dec 28 | Eddy Doorenbos Dutch vocalist/pianist/guitarist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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Jan 02 | Nico Schuyt composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 02 | Renata Tebaldi, Pesaro Italy, lyric soprano, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 03 | Jacques Wildberger Swiss composer (In My End is My Beginning), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 04 | Frank Wess flutist/saxophonist/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 06 | Finn Einar Mortensen composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 07 | Jean-Pierre [Louis] Rampal, Marseilles France, flutist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 07 | Antonio Scontrino composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | Abbey Simon New York City NY, pianist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 11 | Tony Charmoli Minnesota, choreographer (Cher, Julie Andrew), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 18 | Yehezkiel Braun composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 20 | Ray Anthony, Pennsylvania, orchestra leader (Ray Anthony Show, Peter Gunn Theme), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 26 | Page (Walter) Cavanaugh pianist: Page Cavanaugh Trio: Thats How Much I Love You | Ref: 4 |
Jan 26 | Luigi Denza composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 30 | Pal Jardanyi composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 31 | Heinrich Reinhardt composer, dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 01 | Renata (Ersilia Clotilde) Tebaldi operatic diva, lyric soprano: debuted as Elena in Boito's Mefistofele [1944]; debuted at the Metropolitan Opera in Verdi's Otello [1955], is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 03 | Jean-Pierre Rampal flutist (Italian Flute Concertos), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | James William Tate composer, dies at 46. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 11 | Tudor Jarda composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 16 | Geraint Evans British opera vocalist (Knaben Wunderhorn), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 17 | Tommy Edwards rock vocalist (It's All in the Game), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 19 | Josef Matej composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 21 | Uros Krek composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Andre Asriel composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Felix Werder composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 24 | Dmitri B Shostakovich father of Russian composer Dmitri D S, dies. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 25 | Matti Rautio composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 28 | Vicente Lleo composer, dies at 51. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Michael Flanders songwriter, comedian: duo: Flanders and [Donald] Swann: made humorous mockery of English and American failings; Flanders quote, Always remember that if it hadnt been for the English, youd all be Spanish.; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 02 | Eric Feldbush composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 02 | Mario Zafred composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 03 | Kazimierz Serocki composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 10 | Arthur Hervey composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 10 | Horace Wadham Nicholl composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 11 | Thom Kelling Dutch singer/guitarist (Programa de Manha), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 12 | Thomas Hugh Eastwood composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 14 | Les Baxter US, singer/orchestra leader/composer (Born Again), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 20 | Larry Elgart New Haven CT, bandleader/alto sax (Elgart Orchestra), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 22 | Dave Appell arranger for big bands: Benny Carter, Earl Fatha Hines; TV music director: The Ernie Kovacks Show; record producer: The Twist, Let's Twist Again, Bristol Stomp, South Street, In the Midnight Hour [w/Hank Medress]; singer, songwriter, musician: group: Dave Appell and the Applejacks, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 24 | Dave Appell singer/musician/songwriter (In the Midnight Hour), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | Nikolay Alexandrovich Sokolov composer, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | German Germanovich Galinin composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | Peter Jona Korn composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 04 | Elmer Bernstein, Academy Award-winning composer of film scores: Thoroughly Modern Millie [1967]; Sudden Fear, The Man with the Golden Arm, Ten Commandments, Sweet Smell of Success, To Kill a Mocking Bird, Walk on the Wild Side, The Magnificent Seven, is born in New York City. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 05 | Harry Freedman composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 07 | Kenneth Howard Peacock composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 11 | Ralph Blaze guitarist: played with Stan Kenton, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 11 | Alexander Raichev composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | Tiny Tim (Herbert Buchingham Kauhry) singer with the falsetto warble and ukulele ("Tiptoe Through the Tulips" ), is born. | Ref: 17 |
Apr 12 | Frantisek Ondricek composer, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 14 | David Alexandrovich Toradze composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 22 | Charles Mingus, Arizona, jazz musician (Pithecanthropus Erectus), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 22 | Lou Stein Philadelphia PA, pianist (Tonight! America After Dark), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 24 | (Samuel) Aaron Bell jazz musician: bass: played w/Duke Ellington, Stan Kenton, Andy Kirk, Lucky Millinder, Teddy Wilson, Lester Young; composer, teacher, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 24 | Richard Batka composer, dies at 53. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 26 | Paul-Andre Gaillard composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 26 | Hans Sommer composer, dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Toots [Jean] Thielemans Belgian/US jazz musician/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 03 | Marina Svetlova ballerina/choreographer (Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 05 | Jay D Miller record producer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 16 | Eddie Bert jazz musician: trombone, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 18 | Kai Winding jazz musician: trombone: More [theme from Mondo Cane]; is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 24 | Sadao Bekku composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | Carl Tieke composer, dies at 58. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | Iannis Xenakis Braila Romania, composer/architect/mathematician, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 04 | Irwin Bazelon Evanston Illinois, composer (Duo for Viola), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 05 | Gordon Specs Powell musician: bongos: LP: Movin In; CBS staff musician, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 10 | Actress, singer Judy Garland (born Frances Gumm) is born in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. | Ref: 68 |
Jun 17 | Jerry Fielding Pitts Pa, orch leader (Lively Ones), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 23 | Francis Thorne Bay Shore NY, composer (Burlesque Overture), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 24 | Manny Albam composer: Drum Suite, La Vie en Rose, Afro-Dizzyac, Country Man; music educator: Eastman School of Music, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 24 | Roy Elihu Travis NYC, composer (Passion of Dedipus), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 25 | Johnny Smith jazz musician: guitar: Moonlight in Vermont, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 27 | George Walker Washington DC, composer (In Praise of Lillies), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 29 | Elmer J. Mousey Alexander musician: drums: group: Alexanders the Great; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 29 | Ralph Burns musician: piano; composer, arranger: Apple Honey; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 07 | Artie Malivn NYC, music director (Julie LaRosa, Steve Lawrence), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 21 | Kay Starr (Katherine Starks), Dougherty Okla, singer (Rock & Roll Waltz, Club Oasis), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 15 | Lukas Foss (Fuchs) Berlin Germany, composer (Prairie), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 30 | Regina Resnik NYC, mezzo-soprano (Sieglinde-Bayreuth), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 20 | Frank Comstock SD CA, orch leader (Jimmie Rodgers Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 30 | Oscar Pettiford, musician, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 07 | Marie Lloyd (Matalida Alice Wood) British musical entertainer known for her impersonations, dies. | Ref: 17 |
Oct 13 | Alan Scott Haddonfield NJ, TV host/songwriter (Spin the Picture), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 29 | Neal Hefti composer: TVs Batman theme, The Odd Couple theme; score: Sex and the Single Girl; Neal Hefti and His Orchestra: The Kate Smith Show, is born in Hastings NE. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 31 | Illinois (Battiste) Jacquet, musician: tenor saxophone: Flyin Home, I Didnt Know About You; played with Lionel Hampton, Cab Calloway, Count Basie; in film: Jammin the Blues, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 01 | George S Irving Springfield MA, singer/actor (Dumplings), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 07 | Al Hirt New Orleans LA, jazz trumpeter (Greatest Horn in the World), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 22 | Fikret Dzhamil Amirov Kirovabad Russia, Azerbaijani composer (Shur), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 05 | Don Robertson Nashville Songwriters Association Hall of Famer: I Really Dont Want to Know, I Dont Hurt Anymore, Please Help Me Im Fallin, I Love You More and More Each Day; whistler: The Happy Whistler, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 08 | Jean Ritchie rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | Allen Dwight Sapp composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 11 | Peter Birch Bronx, choreographer (Jane Froman's USA Canteen), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 13 | Halina Czerny-Stefnska Polish pianist (Chopin), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 15 | Alan Freed disc jockey credited with coining the term "rock'n'roll": WJW, Cleveland, WINS & WABC, NY: The Moondoggy Show; fired on air at WABC for alleged involvement in the payola scandal of the late 1950s; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 17 | Hubert H A Beckers Curacao opera singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | Kitty Kallen, Philadelphia PA, singer (Judge For Yourself), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | Alphonse Goovaerts, composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
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Jan 01 | Milt Jackson musician: Bags: vibes: group: The Modern Jazz Quartet: LP: Opus de Funk, Ballads and Blues, Plenty, Plenty Soul, Bags and Flutes, Soul Brothers [w/Ray Charles], Bean Bags, Bags and Trane [w/John Coltrane], Ballad Artistry of Milt Jackson [w/Quincy Jones string arrangement], Bags Meets Wes [w/Wes Montgomery]; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 03 | Dragutin Gostuski composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 04 | Flavio Testi composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 07 | Charles Russell Woolen composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | Giorgio Tozzi Chicago IL, basso, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 13 | Danil Shafran cellist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 16 | Roy Lanham rocker (Sons of the Pioneers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 22 | Friedrich Zehm composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 22 | Leslie Bassett composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 24 | Simeon ten Holt composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 06 | Maurice Le Roux composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 10 | Cesare Siepi Milan Italy, basso (New York Metropolitan Opera), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 12 | Mel Powell pianist, composer: Mission to Moscow for Benny Goodman; music educator: Dean of Music at California Institute of Arts; is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 14 | Cesare Siepi opera basso; LP: Cesare Siepi sings Cole Porter and Italian Songs; video: Don Giovanni [Siepi Version], is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 17 | Buddy (Boniface) DeFranco clarinetist, bandleader: won all modern jazz music polls in the early 1950s, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 19 | Donald Lybbert composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 19 | Jeronimo Gimenez y Bellido composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 21 | Lucille Bremer dancer/actress (Ruthless, Ziegfeld Follies), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Dexter Gordon US, tenor saxophonist/actor (Connection), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Viktor Kalabis composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Charles Francis Abdy Williams composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 02 | (Arthel Lane) Doc Watson Grammy Award-winning singer, musician: flat-picking guitarist: LPs: Then and Now [1973], Two Days in November [1974], is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 06 | Erhard Karkoschka composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 07 | Mahlon Clark musician: clarinet/reeds: Lawrence Welks band, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 08 | Cyd Charisse, dancer, actress, is born. | Ref: 2 |
Mar 10 | Don Abney jazz pianist, studio musician; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 10 | Jethro (Kenneth C. Burns) entertainer, musician: mandolin, banjo: Homer & Jethro: The Battle of Kookamonga, Dont Let the Stars Get in Your Eyeballs; is born in Conasauga TN. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 11 | Death of Mary Ann Thomson, 89, American hymnwriter. Among her most enduring contributions to the Church were the lyrics to "O Zion, Haste, Thy Mission High Fulfilling," which she wrote at age 34. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 12 | Norbert Brainin violinist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 13 | Red Garland jazz musician: reeds, pianist: ,Alone with the Blues Red Alone; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 19 | Janine Dacosta French pianist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 21 | Mort Lindsey Newark NJ, orchestra leader (Merv Griffin Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 25 | Lee Hale Tacoma WA, choral director (The Entertainers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Clifton Williams Traskwood AR, band master (Sinfonians), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Thad Jones (Thaddeus Joseph Jones) musician: trumpet, cornet, flugelhorn: played with Count Basie, Thelonious Monk; bandleader: Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra; composer: A Child is Born; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 08 | Franco (Dario) Corelli, Anconia Italy, tenor (Don Jos-Carmen), is born. | Ref: 68 |
Apr 09 | Bruno Kiefer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | Maria Callas opera singer (Carmen), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 16 | Bennie Green trombonist, lyricist: The Diamond and the Goose; journalist; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 19 | Thomas Paine Westendorf composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 20 | Tito Puente Puerto Rico, bandleader (Dance Mania), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 23 | Nathan "Dambuzza" Mdledle singer (played a major role in the evolution of South African music), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 24 | Freddy Scott singer: Hey Girl, Are You Lonely for Me | Ref: 4 |
Apr 25 | Albert King (Nelson), Indianola MS, blues singer/guitarist (Bad Look Blues), is born. | Ref: 68 |
Apr 25 | Melissa Hayden Toronto Ontario Canada, ballerina (1961 Silver Bowl), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 28 | Wolfgang Steffen composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 30 | Percy Heath jazz musician: bass: founder of Modern Jazz Quartet; group: The Heath Brothers, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 02 | Christina Spierenburg Dutch singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 04 | Ed Cass Cassidy musician: drums: groups: New Jazz Trio, Taj Mahal, Spirit: I Got a Line on You, Natures Way, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 12 | Ewart G Abner record company executive, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 15 | Ellis Larkins pianist: favorite accompanist of: Mildred Bailey, Ella Fitzgerald, Joe Williams; is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 17 | Peter Mennin[i] Erie PA, composer (Moby Dick), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 21 | Doris Mae Akers gospel singer/songwriter, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 23 | Alicia de Larrocha Copenhagen Denmark, pianist (Orquesta Sinfonica), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | Gyrgy Ligeti Dicsszentmartin Transylvania Hungary composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | Eugene Wright jazz musician: bass: led 16-piece band: Dukes of Swing; played w/Dave Brubeck, Gene Ammons, Count Basie, Arnett Cobb, Buddy DeFranco, Red Norvo, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 30 | Camille Chevillard composer, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
May 31 | Wolfgang Lesser composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 05 | Daniel Pinkham Lynn Massachusetts, composer (Signs of Zodiac), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 27 | Elmo Hope musician: piano: group: The Elmo Hope Trio; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 28 | Pete (Walter) Candoli musician: trumpet: Superman with a Horn, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 29 | Chou Wen-Chung Cheefoo China, composer (Mode of Shang), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 07 | Eduardo Fal Argentine guitarist (Zamba de Vargas), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 06 | Jack Parnell London England, orch leader (Englebert Humperdick Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 06 | William B Williams Babylon NY, DJ (WNEW, Sammy & Company), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 08 | Jimmy Witherspoon singer: Aint Nobodys Business, Some of My Best Friends are the Blues, Youre Next; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 18 | Jimmy Witherspoon, blues singer, is born. | Ref: 2 |
Aug 20 | Country singer Gentleman Jim Reeves is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 23 | Wolfgang Sawallisch Munich Ger, conductor (Vienna Symph 1960-70), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 06 | William Kraft Chicago, Ill, composer/percussionist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 17 | Hank Williams country singer (Cold, Cold Heart, Hey Good Lookin'), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 28 | Fred Robbins Balt Md, DJ (Coke Time with Eddie Fisher, Robbins Nest), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 03 | Stanislaw Skrowaczewski Lwow Poland, conductor (Die Zauberflte), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 16 | Bert Kaempfert musician: Wonderland by Night, Red Roses for a Blue Lady, Three OClock in the Morning, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 20 | Robert Craft Kingston, NY, conductor, Stravinsky-follower, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 01 | Victoria de Los Angeles, Spanish opera soprano, is born. | Ref: 2 |
Dec 02 | Tomas Breton y Hernandez composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 08 | Dom Joseph Pothier French Benedictine/musicologist, dies at 88. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | Abelardo Quinteros composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 14 | Giuseppi Gallignani composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 16 | Werner Haentjes composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 16 | Pongrac Kacsoh composer, dies at 50. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 22 | Arthur H Bird composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 23 | Milt Okun Brooklyn NY, orchestra leader (Starland Vocal Band Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | Louis Lane Eagle Pass TX, conductor (Oere Orchestra 1968-73), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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Jan 06 | Earl Scruggs NC, bluegrass musician (Flatt & Scruggs-Ballad of Jed Clampett, Rocky Top), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | Benjamin Lees (Lysniansky) Harbin Manchuria, composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | Robert Starer Vienna Austria, composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | Antai Ribari composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 09 | Julin B Coco Curaao guitarist/bassist (Utrecht Symphony Orchestra), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Ludmilla Chiraeff ballet dancer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Max Roach, jazz drummer, composer: Freedom Now Suite; educator: taught at Lennox, MA School of Jazz and Yale; Professor of Music at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, is born. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
Jan 11 | Don Cherry Wichita Texas, singer (Dean Martin Summer Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 11 | Slim Harpo musician, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 15 | Geza Zichy composer, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 20 | Slim Whitman singer: Indian Love Call, Secret Love, Rose-Marie, Cattle Call, More Than Yesterday, Guess Who, Something Beautiful [To Remember]; has sold 70,000,000 records worldwide, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 20 | Yvonne Loriod Houilles France, pianist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 22 | J.J. (James Louis) Johnson musician: trombone, composer, bandleader; one of first to use the trombone in modern jazz; os bprm/ | Ref: 4 |
Jan 22 | Margaret Whiting big band singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 24 | David Craighead composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 24 | Klaus George Roy composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 26 | Warren Frank Benson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 27 | Alexander Georgiyevich Chugayev composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | Luigi Nono Venice Italy, composer (Canonic Variations), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | Joseph Ludwig composer, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Alexis Hollander composer, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 07 | Johnny Jordaan [Jan van Musscher], Amsterdam folk vocalist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Julin B Coco Curaao guitarist/bassist (Utrecht Symphony Orchestra), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | George Guest British organist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 10 | Randy Van Horne El Paso TX, singer (Nat King Cole Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 14 | Arghyris Kounadis composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 15 | Lionel Monckton English composer (Country Girl), dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 17 | Oskar Merikanto composer, dies at 55. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 21 | Salvatore Auteri Manzocchi composer, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 23 | Lejaren Hiller composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | Mark Bucci New York NY, composer (1959 Arts & Letters Award), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 06 | Sarah Caldwell Maryville MO, conductor/opera director (Flagstaff), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 09 | Konstantin Iliev composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 15 | Lockrem Johnson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 17 | Stephen Dodgson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 18 | John Frederick Bridge composer, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 19 | Charles Villiers Stanford Irish composer/author, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 21 | Karl Heinz Fussl composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 25 | Julia A Perry Lexington KY, US composer (Cask of Amontillado, Selfish Giant), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Augusto de Oliviera Machado composer, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Victor Herbert, American composer, dies at age 65. | Ref: 70 |
Mar 27 | Sarah Vaughan The Divine One: jazz singer: Broken-Hearted Melody; Make Yourself Comfortable, Whatever Lola Wants, Passing Strangers [w/Billy Eckstine]; Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award [1989]; is born in Newark NJ. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 27 | Walter Parratt composer, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 29 | Jules de Corte blind Dutch ballad singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 29 | Sir Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish-born English composer, conductor and teacher, dies at age 71. | Ref: 70 |
Mar 30 | Milko Kelemen composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | Gunther Becker composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Murray Dickie opera singer/director, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 06 | Dorothy Donegan jazz pianist: At the Embers; appeared in film: Sensations of 1945; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 07 | Nick Perito Denver Colo, orch leader (Don Knotts Show, Big Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 07 | Ikuma Dan composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 09 | Harald Heilmann composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | Sergiu Natra composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 14 | Shorty Rogers (Milton Rajonsky) musician: trumpet, bandleader, songwriter: Keen and Peachy, Martians Go Home, Sweetheart of Sigmund Freud; composer, arranger: film: That Certain Girl; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 15 | Eduardo Caudella composer, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 16 | Henry Mancini (Enrico Nicola Mancini), Cleveland OH, composer/conductor (Pink Panther), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown Vinton La, blues singer (Mary is Fine), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | Buxton Daeblite Orr composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 20 | Gerhard Samuel composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 21 | Ira Louvin Rainsville AL, country singer (Louvin Brothers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 21 | Clara Ward gospel singer: group: Clara Ward Gospel Troupe; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 23 | Arthur Frackenpohl Irving NJ, composer (Natural Superiority of Music), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 24 | Yehoshua Lakner composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 25 | Erzsebet Szonyi composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 25 | Franco Mannino composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 26 | (Theodore Marcus) Teddy Edwards jazz musician: tenor sax: Me and My Lover | Ref: 4 |
Apr 26 | Russell Nype Zion IL, singer/actor (Burton Farley-Dorothy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 26 | Josef Labor composer, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Rene Jeanmaire Paris France, dancer (Hans Christian Anderson), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 30 | Sheldon Harnick Chicago IL, Broadway lyricist (Fiorello, Fiddler on the Roof), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 01 | Earl George composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 01 | Enrico Josif composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 02 | Aafje Heynis Dutch singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 02 | Theodore Bikel Austrian/US folk singer/actor (The Russians Are Coming), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 04 | Tat'yana Petrovna Nikolayeva composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 05 | Theo Olof German/Netherlands violinist/prodigy/concert master, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 06 | Mimi (Miriam) Benzell, Bridgeport CT, operatic soprano (Gilda-Rigoletto), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 09 | Connie Russell New York NY, singer (Club Embassy, Garroway at Large), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 12 | Charles Henri Marechal composer, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
May 14 | Joly Braga Santos composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 17 | Dick Hixson trombonist, studio musician, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 17 | Frantisek Kovaricek composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 17 | Robin Howard, English balletomane; promoted modern dance in Britain, is born. | Ref: 70 |
May 19 | Sandy Galbraith Wilson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 21 | Robert Parris Philadelphia PA, composer (Book of Imaginary Beings), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 22 | Claude Andre Francois Ballif composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 25 | Theodore Morse composer, dies at 51. | Ref: 5 |
May 26 | Johann Heinrich Beck composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
May 26 | Victor Herbert cellist, conductor: Pittsburgh Symphony; composer: operettas: Babes in Toyland, Naughty Marietta; songs: Ah Sweet Mystery of Life [At Last Ive Found You]; dies at age 65. | Ref: 4 |
May 27 | Victor Herbert Irish/US cellist/composer/conductor, dies at 65. | Ref: 68 |
Jun 20 | Chet (Chester Burton) Atkins, Luttrell TN, guitarist (Me & My Guitar), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 27 | Rosalie Allen (Julie Bedra) country singer/yodeler: Guitar Polka, Yodel Boogie, He Taught Me How to Yodel; Country Music Disc Jockey Hall of Famer, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 29 | Ezra Laderman NYC, composer (Jacob & the Indians), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 05 | Janos Starker (Grammy Award-winning cellist [Instrumental Soloist without Orchestra: 1997]: Bach: Suites for Solo Cello Nos. 16; Grand prix du disque [France: 1948]), is born in Budapest Hungary. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 07 | Mary Ford (Iris Colleen Summers) singer w/Les Paul: How High the Moon, Vaya Con Dios, The World is Waiting for the Sunrise; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 09 | Leonard Pennario Buffalo NY, pianist (LA Philharmonic), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 18 | Howard Roberts Burlington NJ, choral director (Leslie Uggams Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 22 | Margaret Whiting Detroit, singer (Kreisler Bandstand, Strauss Family), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 26 | Louie Bellson (Balassoni) musician: drummer: Duke Ellington Band: drum solo: Skin Deep; composer: The Hawk Talks, I Need Your Key, Carnaby Street; music director for wife Pearl Bailey; also played with Dorsey Brothers and Count Basie bands, is born in Rock Falls IL. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 02 | Joe Harnell conductor/arranger: Fly Me To the Moon | Ref: 4 |
Aug 14 | Georges Pretre Waziers France, conductor (NY Met), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 24 | Louis Teicher pianist (Ferrante & Teicher-Exodus), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 29 | Dinah Washington (Ruth Lee Jones), Chicago, singer (What a Difference a Day Makes), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 07 | Leonard Rosenman Bkln NY, TV composer (Marcus Welby MD), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 12 | Ella Mae Morse singer: Cow Cow Boogie, Shoo Shoo Baby, House of Blue Lights, The Blacksmith Blues; first artist to record for Capitol Records; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 13 | Maurice Jarre Lyons France, composer (Dr Zhivago-Acad Award 1966), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 15 | Bobby Short pianist, singer: regular on first Playboy TV series; autobiography: Black & White Baby, is born. (TWA, 1986) | Ref: 95 |
Sep 16 | Paddy Stone Winnipeg Manitoba, choreographer (Piccadilly Palace), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 20 | Gogi Grant (Audrey Brown) singer: The Wayward Wind, Suddenly There?s a Valley; dubbed vocals for Ann Blythe: The Helen Morgan Story, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 27 | Bud Powell, jazz pianist, is born. | Ref: 2 |
Oct 13 | Terry Gibbs Brooklyn NY, orch leader (Steve Allen Comedy Hour), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 15 | Colin Romoff NYC, orch leader (Andy Williams Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 18 | Allyn Ferguson San Jose CA, orch leader (Andy Williams Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 01 | Victoria de los Angeles Spain, soprano (Mimi-La Boheme), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 04 | Gabriel Faure, composer, dies in Paris, France at age 79. (Also: Cross, Milton, "Encyclopedia of the Great Composers and Their Music", Doubleday & Co, 1953) | Ref: 70 |
Nov 14 | Leonid Kogan Dnepropetrovsk Russia, violinist (Lenin Prize-1952), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 27 | Alexander Georgiyevich Chugayev composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 29 | Italian composer Giacomo Puccini dies, at age 65, in Brussels before he could complete his opera "Turandot." (It was finished by Franco Alfano.) (XDG, p 4A, 11/29/2002) | Ref: 83 |
Nov 30 | Allan Sherman (Copelon) parody singer/songwriter (Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 08 | Franz X Scharwenka German pianist/composer (Mataswintha), dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 09 | Bernard Zweers Dutch composer (Gisbertus of Aemstel), dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | Ken Albers bass singer: group: The Four Freshmen: LPs: And Five Trumpets, And Five Saxes, In Person, Voices in Love, And Five Guitars, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 12 | Francis Miroglio composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 12 | Nevit Kodali composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 14 | Marion Morgan singer (Stop the Music), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 15 | Ida Haendel Polish violinist/author (Woman with Violin), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 21 | Rita Reys [Maria Reijs] Dutch jazz singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 22 | Frank Corsaro New York harbor, opera director, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 24 | [Irving] Lee Dorsey New Orleans LA, vocalist (Working in the Coal Mine), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 24 | Carol Haney dancer: member of Jack Cole dance company, worked with Bob Fosse; in film: Pajama Game; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 28 | Johnny Otis [Veliotes] composer (Every Beat of My Heart), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 31 | Rex Allen, Wilcox AZ, cowboy singer (Dr Baxter-Frontier Doctor), is born. | Ref: 68 |
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Jan 02 | Andry Maryanovich Nikodemovich composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 12 | Laurentiu Profeta composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 15 | Ruth Slenczynska Sacramento CA, pianist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 17 | Annie Delorie Dutch opera singer (Scenes & Arias), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 23 | Marty Paich Oakland CA, orchestra leader (Sonny & Cher, Glenn Campbell), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 24 | Maria (Betty Marie) Tallchief prima ballerina: Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, New York City Ballet; formed ballet troupe and school (1974) which became Chicago City Ballet [1980]; wife of choreographer George Balanchine, is born in Fairfax OK. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 25 | Barbara Carroll jazz pianist, arranger, occasional vocalist: LPs: Everything I Love, This Heart of Mine, Live at the Carlyle, Old Friends, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 30 | Jakab Gyula Major composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Michel Paul Philippot composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 07 | Marius Constant Rumania, Dutch composer/conductor (Paradise Lost), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 08 | Alvin Brehm composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 13 | Gene Ames singer: group: The Ames Brothers: You Are the One, Rag Mop, Sentimental Me, Undecided, You You You, The Man with the Banjo, The Naughty Lady of Shady Lane, Tammy, Melodie dAmour, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 14 | Elliot Lawrence Philadelphia PA, orchestra leader (Guide Right, Howard Cosell), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 19 | Jindrich Feld composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 21 | Alfred Baldwin Sloan composer, dies at 52. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 25 | (Elsie) Lisa Kirk singer, actress: The Producers, Gypsy; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 25 | Pedro Miguel Marques y Garcia composer, dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | James Moody US, jazz saxophonist/orchestra leader, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Guy Mitchell Detroit MI, singer/actor (Guy Mitchell Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 03 | Enzo Stuarti Italy, singer (Yesterday), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | Moritz Moszkowski Polish/German composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | Darwin Horacio Vargas-Wallis composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 09 | Billy Ford singer: group: Billy & Lillie: La Dee Dah, Lucky Ladybug, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 11 | Andreas Hallen composer, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 12 | Georges Delerue composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 13 | Anthony Milner composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 13 | Roy Haynes US jazz drummer (Trio Music with Chick Corea), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Claudio Spies composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Pierre Boulez, Montbrison France, composer/conductor (Visage Nuptial), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | Ivo Malek composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | Francis William Davenport composer, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 04 | Erna Spoorenberg Dutch singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | Stan Levey musician: drums: in band with Charlie Parker; one of the Lighthouse All-Stars; composer, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 05 | Oldrich Flosman composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 13 | Hilda Dianda composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 14 | Bill Harris US guitarist (Clovers-Good Lovin'), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | Lionel Edmund "Sonny" Taylor musician, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | Robert Caldwell Crawford composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 20 | Tito (Ernest) Puente jazz musician, bandleader: Abanaquito, Para Los Rumberos, Jumpin with Symphony Sid, Fancy Feet; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 20 | Henri Renaud French jazz musician: pianist; record producer | Ref: 4 |
Apr 20 | Richard Hoffmann composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 23 | Andr Caplet French composer (Le miroir de Jsus), dies at 45. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 25 | George Stephanescu composer, dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Danny Davis (George Nowland) Grammy Award-winning bandleader: group: Danny Davis and the Nashville Brass: Best Country Instrumental Performance [1969]; Country Music Awards Instrumental Group of the Year [1969 1974], is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 02 | Svatopluk Havelka composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 12 | Artur Napoleao dos Santos composer, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
May 14 | Patrice Munsel, Spokane WA, soprano (Patrice Munsel Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 14 | Tristram Ogilvie Cary composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 14 | Al Porcino jazz musician: trumpet: played with Louis Prima, Tommy Dorsey, Georgie Auld, Gene Krupa, Woody Herman, Stan Kenton, Charlie Parker, Count Basie, Frank Sinatra, Don Costa, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Jerry Lewis, Judy Garland, Peggy Lee, Buddy Rich, Chuck Mangione, Mel Torme, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 15 | Andrey Yakoulevich Eshpay composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 15 | Emmanuel Ghent composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 25 | Aldo Clementi composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Zehlendorf Germany, baritone (Doktor Faust), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 30 | Claude Prey composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 05 | Bill Hayes singer, entertainer: The Ballad of Davy Crockett, Wringle, Wrangle; actor: Days of Our Lives, is born in Harvey IL. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 05 | Dorothy Claire LaPorte Ind, singer (Winchell & Mahoney), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 25 | Clifton Chenier blues singer (Bayou Blues, Bon Ton Roulet), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 25 | Ziggy Talent Manchester NH, singer (Vaughn Monroe Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 27 | (Jerome) Doc Pomus songwriter: Boogie Woogie Country Girl, Lonely Avenue; w/Mort Shuman: A Teenager in Love, Turn Me Loose, Cant Get Used to Losing You, Save the Last Dance for Me, This Magic Moment; Jerry Wexler [Atlantic Records co-owner]: If the music industry had a heart, it would be Doc Pomus.; inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ,[1992]; died Mar 14, 1991 | Ref: 4 |
Jun 28 | George Morgan singer: Candy Kisses, Rainbow in My Heart, Room Full of Roses, Crybaby Heart, Im in Love Again; DJ: WSM, Nashville; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 01 | Erik Alfred Leslie Satie, French composer, dies at age 59. | Ref: 70 |
Jul 02 | Marvin (Karlton) Rainwater, Wichita KS, country singer (Ozark Jubilee), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 06 | Rocker Bill Haley (of the Comets) is born. | Ref: 17 |
Jul 09 | Alan Dale Bkln NY, singer (Alan Dale Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 16 | Cal Tjader (Callen Radcliffe Tjader Jr.) Grammy Award-winning musician: vibes, piano, percussion; composer: Cast Your Fate to the Winds [1962], La Onda VA Bien [1980]; soundtracks for Peanuts TV cartoons; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 16 | Nat Pierce musician: jazz rhythm pianist; cobandleader: Capp-Pierce Juggernaut; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 29 | Mikis Theodorakis Chios Greece, composer (Raven), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 07 | Felice Bryant songwriter [w/husband Boudleaux]: Bye Bye Love, Wake Up Little Susie, All I Have to Do is Dream, Bird Dog, Devoted to You, Problems, Only the Lonely, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 15 | Oscar Peterson (jazz pianist: jazz trios, solos, played with all jazz greats, composer; biography: Oscar Peterson: The Will to Swing), is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 15 | Bill Pinkney (musician: bass: group: The Drifters: Money Honey, Such a Night, Lucille, Honey Love, Bip Bam, Whatcha Gonna Do, White Christmas), is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 28 | Billy (William Wayne) Grammer singer: Gotta Travel On, Bonapartes Retreat | Ref: 4 |
Sep 03 | Country singer Hank (Henry Williams) Thompson is born. (XDG, p 4A, 9/3/2000) | Ref: 83 |
Sep 06 | Jimmy Reed Mississippi, blues singer (Soulin', Big Boss Man), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 13 | Mel Torme The Velvet Fog: Grammy Award-winning singer: LP: An Evening with George Shearing and Mel Torme [1982]; Comin Home Baby, Careless Hands, Bewitched; songwriter: The Christmas Song; is born in Chicago IL. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 16 | B.B. (Riley B.) King musician, singer: The Thrill Is Gone, I Like to Live the Love, Rock Me Baby; appeared in films: Into the Night, Amazon Women of the Moon; Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award [1987], is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 16 | Charlie Byrd guitarist (Desafinado), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 26 | Marty Robbins (Robertson), Glendale Az, singer (Devil Woman, I Walk Alone), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 01 | Roger Williams (Louis Weertz) pianist: 18 gold/platinum albums, charted Billboard hits in four different decades: Autumn Leaves, Born Free, The Impossible Dream, Till, Almost Paradise, Two Different Worlds, Near You, Laras Theme from Dr. Zhivago, Theme from Somewhere in Time; in October 2000 Williams celebrated his 75th birthday by playing a 12-hour marathon at the opening of Steinway Hall in Phoenix, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 15 | Mickey (McHouston) Baker musician: guitar, singer: duo: Mickey & Sylvia: Love is Strange, There Oughta Be a Law, Baby Youre So Fine; solo: session player: Losing Hand, [Mama] He treats Your Daughter Mean, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 24 | Luciano Berio Oneglia Italy, composer (Chemins), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 29 | Zoot (John Haley) Sims musician: tenor/alto sax: groups: Benny Goodman Band, Woody Herman Orchestra, Stan Kenton, Gerry Mulligan, Birdland All-Stars, Jazz at Carnegie Hall; died Mar 23, 1985 | Ref: 4 |
Nov 17 | Sir Charles Mackerras Schenectady NY, Australian conductor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 20 | Maya Plisetkaya prima ballerina (Bolshoi Ballet), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 20 | June Christy (Shirley Luster) singer: My Heart Belongs to Only You; sang with Stan Kenton band; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 22 | Gunther Schuller, composer and French Horn player, is born. | Ref: 2 |
Nov 24 | Al Cohn jazz composer, musician: tenor sax; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 26 | Eugene Istomin NYC, pianist (Leventritt Award-1943), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 27 | Derroll Adams folk musician: banjo; singer: Feelin Fine [w/Wiz Jones]; songwriter: Portland Town, Wish I was a Rock; in film: Dont Look Back; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 01 | Jaime Mendoza-Nava composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 01 | Vicente Arregui Garay composer, dies at 54. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 02 | Julio Garreta composer, dies at 50. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 08 | James E "Jimmy" Smith US jazz/organist (Walk on the Wild Side), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 09 | Eugene Gigout composer, dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 13 | Wayne Walker songwriter: first big hit: I've Got a New Heartache [performed by Ray Price]; Are You Sincere, Leaving on Your Mind, Memory No. 1; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 19 | Jose Ignacio Quinton composer, dies at 44. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 20 | Vlastimir Nikolovski composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 22 | Gunther Schuller New York NY, jazz composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 22 | Thomas Christian David composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 27 | Allan Blank composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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Jan 01 | Claire Polin [Schaff] composer flautist/musicologist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 03 | Danny Overbea blues singer/guitarist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | Evelyn Lear [Shulman], Brooklyn NY, soprano, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | Jani Christou composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | Emile Paladilhe composer, dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 11 | Alexander Gibson conductor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 12 | Morton Feldman New York City NY, composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 12 | Ray Price country singer (For The Good Times), is born. | Ref: 68 |
Jan 15 | Chuck Berry (Charles Edward Anderson Berry) Rock and Roll Hall of Famer [inducted 1986]; Lifetime Achievement Grammy [1985]; Maybellene, Roll Over Beethoven, School Day, Rock & Roll Music, Sweet Little Sixteen, Johnny B. Goode, My Ding-A-Ling; in films: Rock, Rock, Rock, London Rock and Roll Show, American Hot Wax, Chuck Berry: Rock and Roll Music, Christmas in Washington; is born in St Louis MO. | Ref: 17 |
Jan 15 | Enrico Toselli composer, dies at 42. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 17 | Moira Shearer Dunfermline Scotland, ballerina (Red Shoes), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 20 | David Eugene Tudor Philadelphia PA, composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 21 | Franco Evangelisti Italian composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 23 | Joseph Carl Breil composer, dies at 55. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 26 | Ronnie Hilton singer (Moonraker), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 03 | Glen Tetley US choreographer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Andre Gedalge composer, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 11 | Alexander Gibson British conductor/founder (Scottish Opera), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 13 | Barney Childs composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 17 | Lee Hoiby Madison Wisconsin, composer (1957 Arts & Letters), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 17 | Friedrich Cerha composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 18 | Harry "Little" Caesar blues singer/actor (City Heat, Homer & Eddie), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 19 | Gyorgy Kurtag composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 23 | Regine Crespin French vocalist (Sheherazade, Les Nuits D'ete), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | Arsene Souffriau composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | Peter Erasmus Lange-Muller composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 28 | Seymour Shifrin composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 28 | Stanley Glasser composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 03 | Cyril Metodej Hrazdira composer, dies at 58. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 06 | Jon Nordal composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 06 | Miroslav Klega composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 07 | Jindrich Z Albestu Kaan composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 09 | Celso Garrido Lecca composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 11 | Ilhan Mimaroglu composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 12 | Rolv Berger Yttrehus composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 13 | Roy Haynes modern jazz drummer, bandleader: Hip Ensemble | Ref: 4 |
Mar 14 | Franois d'Assise Morel composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 15 | Benjamin Burwell Johnson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 23 | Martha Wright Seattle WA, singer (Let's Dance, The Martha Wright Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Francis Burt composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | John Heddle Nash singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | Werner Torkanowsky Berlin Germany, conductor (New Orleans Symphony), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 10 | Jacques Casterede composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 11 | Gervase de Peyer clarinettist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 11 | Robert Hall Lewis composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 14 | Jan Carl Christian Maegaard composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 22 | Bob Flannigan Greencastle IN, singer (4 Freshmen), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 25 | Paul Walter Furst composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 26 | Bambi Linn (Linnemier) dancer, actress: Your Show of Shows, Oklahoma!, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 26 | Oldrich Frantisek Korte composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 28 | Blossom Dearie singer: group: Blue Stars: French version of Lullaby in Birdland; own record label: Daffodil Records, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 03 | Jimmy Cleveland composer, musician: trombone: group: Jay & Kai Octet, played with Quincy Jones, Thelonious Monk, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 06 | Marguerite Piazza (Luft), New Orleans LA, operatic soprano (Young Broadway), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 14 | Cestmir Gregor composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 15 | Clermont Pepin composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 16 | Jan Zimmer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 19 | Paul Cooper composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 20 | Vic Ames (Urick) singer with The Ames Brothers, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 21 | Joseph Horovitz composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 21 | Georgy L'vovich Catoire composer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
May 22 | Elaine Leighton drummer: played w/Billie Holiday, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 23 | Hans Koessler composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
May 25 | Jazz musician Miles (Dewey) Davis III is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 25 | Kitty Kallen (Genevieve Agostinello) singer: Little Things Mean a Lot, Go on with the Wedding [w/George Shaw], If I Give My Heart to You, My Coloring Book, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 26 | Maria de Lourdes Martins composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | Iannis Xenakis composer/architect/engineer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 30 | Edouard Van Remoortel Brussels, conductor (1958-62 St Louis Symphony), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 06 | Klaus Tennstedt Merseburg Germany, conductor (Fidelio), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 07 | Dick Williams Wall Lake Iowa, choral director (Andy Williams Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 11 | Carlisle Floyd Latta SC, composer (Slow Dusk), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 01 | Hans Werner Henze Guttersloh Germany, composer (Das Floss Medusa), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 02 | Lee Allen Pittsburg, Ks, tenor sax (Walkin' With Mr Lee), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 13 | Meyer Kupferman NYC, composer (In Fimi Tres), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 19 | Sue Thompson (Eva McKee) singer: Norman, Sad Movies [Make Me Cry], is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 03 | Singer Tony Bennett (Anthony Benedetto) is born. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
Aug 05 | Jeri Southern (Genevieve Hering) singer: You Better Go Now, When I Fall in Love, Fire Down Below; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 08 | Urbie (Urban) Green musician: trombonist: played w/Cab Calloway, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 08 | Webb Pierce West Monroe La, country singer (Ozark Jubilee), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 14 | Buddy (Armando) Greco, Phila Pa, singer (Away We Go, Broadway Open House), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 20 | Frank Rosolino musician: trombone: with Stan Kenton, Harold Land, Bob Cooper, Clarke-Boland Big Band; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 22 | Bob Flanigan singer: group: The Four Freshmen: Its a Blue World, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 17 | Bill Black musician: bassist: group: Bill Black Combo: White Silver Sands, Smokie Pt. 2; played in Elvis Presley band, backup for Elvis; died Oct 21, 1965 | Ref: 4 |
Sep 23 | John (William) Coltrane composer, musician: tenor & soprano sax: is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 01 | Max Morath musician: piano: wrote, performed on NET: The Ragtime Era, Turn of the Century, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 06 | Alan Copeland LA Calif, orch leader/singer (Your Hit Parade), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 13 | Ray Brown, jazz bass player, is born. | Ref: 2 |
Oct 14 | Son Thomas, blues guitarist and singer, is born. | Ref: 2 |
Oct 14 | Bill (William E.) Justis (Jr.) musician: is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 25 | Jimmy Heath musician: reeds: group: Heath Brothers, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 25 | Galina Vishnevskaya Russia, soprano (Madama Butterfly), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 29 | Jon(athan Stewart) Vickers, Prince Albert, Canada, tenor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 01 | Lou Donaldson musician: alto saxophone: LPs: New Faces New Sounds, The Time is Right, Midnight Sun, Here Tis, The Natural Soul, Sweet Lou, Sassy Soul Strut; singer: Whiskey Drinkin Woman, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 02 | Charlie Walker singer: Pick Me Up on Your Way Down, Dont Squeeze My Sharmon, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 07 | Joan Sutherland Sydney Australia, operatic soprano (Met Opera), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 14 | Leonie Rysanek dramatic soprano (Vienna Munich State Opera 1952-54), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 18 | Dorothy Collins (Marjorie Chandler) singer: My Boy Flattop, Your Hit Parade, sang with Benny Goodman band; actress: Follies; is born in Windsor Ontario. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 01 | Hans Heinrich XIV Hochberg composer, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 03 | Hans Gunther Franz Otte composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 04 | Lee Doraey rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 07 | Wolfgang Ludewig composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | Dag Schjelderup-Ebbe composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | Eddie Jones "Guitar Slim" rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 16 | James McCracken Gary IN, dramatic tenor (Rodolfo-La Bohme), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 16 | Alfred Koerppen composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 17 | Alexandr Dmitriyevich Kastal'sky composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 21 | John Herbert McDowell composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 21 | Freddie Hart country singer: Easy Loving; TV: Home Town Jamboree; quote: I try to put down in my songs what every man wants to say, and what every woman wants to hear., is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 23 | Dusan Kostic composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 26 | Earle Brown composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 26 | Zlatko Pibernik composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 30 | Stanley Tracey composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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Jan 01 | Juliusz Luciuk composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 01 | Maurice Bjart France, ballet choreographer (Rite of Spring), is born. | Ref: 68 |
Jan 01 | Yuri Grigorovich Leningrad Russia, choreographer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Gisele MacKenzie Winnipeg Manitoba, singer/actress (Your Hit Parade), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Johnnie Ray singer: Cry, Please, Mr. Sun, The Little White Cloud That Cried, Walkin My Baby Back Home, Just Walking in the Rain; is born in Dallas OR. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 11 | Wilton "Bogey" Gaynair saxophonist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 12 | Salvatore Martirano composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 15 | Francis Routh composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 17 | Eartha Kitt singer: singer: Cest Si Bon, Santa Baby; actress: stage play: Faust, film: New Faces of 1952, Boomerang; note: Kitts birth certificate [found in 1997] lists her actual birthdate as Jan. 17, 1927. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 17 | Donald Erb Youngstown OH, composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 25 | Antonio Carlos Jobim composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 27 | (actual date) Eartha Kitt singer: singer: Cest Si Bon, Santa Baby; actress: stage play: Faust, film: New Faces of 1952, Boomerang; is born in South Carolina, according to her birth certificate found in 1997. Her alleged birthdate was Jan 26, 1928. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 28 | Ronnie Scott (Schatt) jazz musician: tenor sax, bandleader; jazz club owner in London; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 30 | Friedrich Ernst Koch composer, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Stan Getz Philadelphia PA, jazz tenor saxophonist (Benny Goodman, Jimmy Dorsey), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Richard Vance Maxfield composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 04 | Thomas Linnemann Laub composer, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 06 | Danil F Scheurleer Dutch musicologist/banker, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 07 | John Buller composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 08 | Zdenek Zouhar composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 10 | Leontyne Mary Violet Price, Laurel MS, opera soprano (Porgy & Bess), is born. | Ref: 17 |
Feb 15 | Gottfrid Grasbeck composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 18 | Tabe Bas actor/opera vocalist (Leiser Wolf in Anatevka), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 19 | Robert Fuchs composer, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 21 | Pierre Mercure composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | David Ahlstrom composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 23 | Ivan Hrusovsky composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 23 | Sveinbjorn Sveinbjornsson composer, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 25 | Ren Thomas jazz guitarist: LPs: Guitar Groove, Who Cares?, The Italian Session; A musician for musicians.; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 25 | Jacques Monod composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 25 | Ralph Stanley country singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | Donald Gramm Milwaukee WI, bass-baritone, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Guy Mitchell [Al Cernick], Detroit MI, rocker/actor (Red Garters), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Harry Belafonte Harlem New York NY, calypso singer (Buck & the Preacher), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Lusine Amara opera/concert singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 02 | Siegfried Kohler composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 02 | Witold Szalonec composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 03 | [Herman] Junior Parker rocker (Driving Wheel, In the Dark), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | Robert Di Domenica composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 06 | Wes (John Leslie) Montgomery jazz guitarist: Windy, Goin Out of My Head, Wes Tune, Sunny; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 06 | Norman Treigle New Orleans LA, bass-baritone, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | Dick Hyman pianist: Moritat; music director for Arthur Godfrey | Ref: 4 |
Mar 08 | Jaromir Podesva composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | Joseph Berg composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 09 | Hans Ludwig Schilling composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 09 | John Beckwith composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 10 | Donn Trenner New Haven CT, orchestra leader (ABC's Nightlife), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 15 | Carl Smith country singer: Lets Live a Little, Loose Talk, Trademark, Satisfaction Guaranteed; actor: The Badge of Marshall Brennan, Buffalo Guns; member: Grand Ole Opry, is born in Maynardville TN. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 16 | Ruby (Reuben) Braff modern jazz musician: trumpet, cornet; actor: Pipe Dream, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 17 | Kenneth S Goldstein folklorist/enthomusicologist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 17 | Maurice Ingvar Karkoff composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 17 | Sulkhan Ivanovich Nasidze composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 17 | James Scott Skinner composer, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 18 | John Harold Kander composer (Cabaret, Funny Lady, Kramer vs Kramer), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 20 | John Pierre Herman Joubert composer (Chamber Music for brass quintet), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 23 | Osvaldo Lacerda composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 24 | Janos Decsenyi composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | Mstislav Leopold Rostropovich, Baku USSR, cellist/conductor/teacher (Moscow Conservatory), is born. | Ref: 17 |
Mar 28 | Karl Prohaska composer, dies at 57. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | Amos Milburn rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 06 | Gerry Mulligan jazz musician, composer: Disc Jockey Jump, Boplicity, Venus de Milo, Godchild; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 11 | Domenico Guaccero composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 17 | Christopher Whelen composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 19 | Don Barbour, singer: group: The Four Freshmen [1953-1960]: Graduation Day, Charmaine, Blue World, is born in Greencastle IN. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 22 | Pascal Bentoiu composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 23 | Russell Smith composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 25 | Ernst Widmer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 27 | Connie Kay jazz drummer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 30 | Country and rockabilly artist Johnny Horton is born in Los Angeles CA. | Ref: 68 |
May 01 | Harry [Harold George Jr] Belafonte, NY NY, calypso singer (The Banana Boat Song), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 01 | William Mitchell Byers musician, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 05 | Charles Rosen New York NY, pianist/musicologist (Sonata Forms), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 07 | Jim Lowe songwriter/singer: Green Door; songwriter: The Gamblers Guitar, Close the Doors Theyre Coming in the Windows; DJ: WCBS, WNBC, WNEW; syndicated host: Jim Lowe and Friends, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 20 | David Frederick Barlow composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 20 | Walter Aschaffenburg composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 27 | Birth of Ralph Carmichael, a popular sacred composer whose works flourished most during the 1960s-1970s. Among his oftsung arrangements are "The Savior is Waiting" and "He's Everything to Me." | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | Bernhard Lewkovitch composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 02 | Carl Butler country entertainer, songwriter: Dont Let Me Cross Over, I Never Got Over You, Loving Arms, Just Thought Id Let You Know; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 12 | Al Fairweather jazz musician: groups: Al Fairweather-Ralph Laing All Stars, Fairweather-Brown all Stars, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 23 | Bob (Robert Louis) Fosse, Chicago Ill, choreographer/director (Cabaret, Damn Yankees), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 07 | Doc (Carl) Severinsen trumpeter, bandleader: The Tonight Show Band, The Doc Severinsen Band; played with Charlie Barnet and Tommy Dorsey Orchestras; owner: trumpet factory, is born in Arlington OR. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
Jul 07 | Charlie Louvin (Loudermilk), Rainsville AL, country singer (Louvin Brothers), is born in Arlington OR. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 09 | Jim McReynolds folk singer [w/brother]: group: Jim & Jesse: Cotton Mill Man, Ballad of Thunder Road, Freight Train, Diesel on My Tail, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 09 | Ed Ames, Malden Mass, singer (The Ames Brothers), actor (Mingo-Daniel Boone), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 11 | Herbert Blomstedt Springfield Mass, conductor (Oslo Phil 1954-61), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 12 | Conte (Secondo) Candoli musician: trumpet: bandleader; toured with Stan Kenton et al.; with brother Pete in film: Bell Book and Candle, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 16 | Mindy Carson singer: Youre Not in My Arms Tonight, The Touch of Your Lips, Lets Go to Town [w/The Dorsey Brothers], is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 27 | Bob Morse singer: group: The Hi-Los, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 04 | Singer Jimmie Rodgers recorded his first sides for Victor Records in Bristol, TN. He sang Sleep Baby Sleep and Soldiers Sweetheart. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 11 | Raymond Leppard London England, conductor (St Louis Symphony Orch), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 12 | Singer Porter Wagoner is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 15 | John Cranko, South African-born dancer and director of the Stuttgart Ballet, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Aug 20 | Joya Sherrill singer: Long, Strong and Consecutive, I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 20 | Fannie Zeisler, Austrian-born American pianist, dies at age 64. | Ref: 70 |
Aug 29 | Marion Williams, gospel singer, is born. | Ref: 2 |
Sep 10 | Yma Sumac (Zoila Emperatriz Chavarri del Castillo) Peruvian singer, of Inca descent, w/4-octave range: LPs: Voice of the Xtabay, Legend of the Sun Virgin, Legend of the Jivaro, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 14 | American dancer Isadora Duncan was driving in a 16-valve Bugatti when her trademark long scarf caught in the rear wheel of the vehicle and she was instantly strangled to death. | Ref: 24 |
Sep 15 | Isadora Duncan dancer: revolutionized the concept of dance: changing ballet into interpretive dance; is killed in freak accident Sep 15, 1927 [strangled when her scarf became entangled in a wheel of the car she was riding in. | Ref: 68 |
Sep 20 | Johnny Dankworth musician: alto sax, band leader, composer: Experiments with Mice, African Waltz, What the Dickens, The Avengers theme song, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 25 | Sir Colin Rex Davis Weybridge England, conductor (NY Met 1967-71), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 27 | Red Rodney, trumpeter, is born. | Ref: 2 |
Oct 06 | Paul Badura-Skoda Vienna Austria, pianist (Mozart Interpretation), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 07 | Al Martino, Phila, singer (Here in My Heart)/actor (Godfather), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 08 | Gigi Durston Balt Md, singer (Sonny Kendis Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 13 | Anita Kerr Memphis TN, singer (Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 23 | Sonny (William) Criss musician: saxophone: LP: The Bop Masters, Saturday Morning, Criss Craft, Out of Nowhere, Warm and Sonny; is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 25 | Barbara Cook, Tony Award-winning actress, singer (Music Man), is born in Atlanta GA. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 27 | Dominick Argento York Penn, composer (Colonel Jonathan the Saint), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 28 | Cleo Laine Middlesex England, singer (Flesh to a Tiger), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 31 | Anita Kerr musician: piano, singer, record producer: group: The Anita Kerr Singers: The Sea, The Earth; Mexicali Singers; Anita & Th So-And-Sos: Joey Baby; composer: The Sky [w/poet, Rod McKuen and The San Sebastian Strings], is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 01 | Florence Mills dancer/singer, dies at 32 in NYC. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 08 | Patti Page (Clara Ann Fowler) singer: Tennessee Waltz, Old Cape Cod, I Went to Your Wedding, Doggie in the Window, Allegheny Moon, Steam Heat, Cross over the Bridge; in film: Elmer Gantry, is born Claremont OK. | Ref: 3 |
Nov 08 | Chris Conner singer: I Miss You So, Trust in Me, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 11 | Mose Allison MS, jazz artist (Black Country Suite), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 14 | Narciso Yepes Lorca Spain, guitarist (Orquesta Nacionale 1947), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 24 | Alfredo Kraus, Las Palmas Canary Islands, tenor (La Scala), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 01 | Grant Beglarian composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 03 | Phyllis Curtin singer: soprano: New York City Opera, Metropolitan Opera, Vienna Staatsoper, La Scala, Teatro Colon; coordinator of Voice Dept and Opera at Yale School of Music, Dean Emerita of Boston Univ School for the Arts, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 03 | Ferlin Husky (aka: Simon Crum, Terry Preston) singer: Gone, A Fallen Star, Wings of a Dove, The Waltz You Saved for Me, is born. | Ref: 2 |
Dec 06 | Jacques Bondon composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 07 | Vlastimir Pericic composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 09 | Pierre Henry composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | Joe Olivier musician: guitar: group: Bill Haley and His Comets [1957, 1958]; solo as Cappy Bianco; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 12 | Heinrich Reitsch composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 16 | Hugh Archibald Clarke composer, dies at 88. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 23 | Joseph Castaldo composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 24 | Teresa Stich-Randall US soprano (Vienna State Opera), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1928
Jan 02 | Tiberiu Olah composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | Dumitru Kiriac-Georgescu composer, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 09 | Domenico Modugno Italy, rocker (Polignano A Mare), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Wallace Berry composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 14 | Gerald Arpino Staten Island NY, choreographer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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Jan 16 | Ezra Sims composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 17 | Jean Barraqu French composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 19 | Edward Gerard Schurmann composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 23 | Ken Errair singer, musician: group: The Four Freshmen, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 26 | (alleged date) Eartha Kitt singer: singer: Cest Si Bon, Santa Baby; actress: stage play: Faust, film: New Faces of 1952, Boomerang; is born. (Note: Kitts birth certificate [found in 1997] lists her actual birthdate as Jan. 17, 1927) | Ref: 4 |
Jan 27 | Jean-Michel Damase composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | Bengt Hambraeus composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 30 | Ruth Brown R&B and jazz singer: So Long, Teardrops from My Eyes, Hours, Mambo Baby, Lucky Lips, This Little Girls Gone Rockin, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 30 | Mitch Leigh composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 31 | Chuck Willis rock vocalist (C C Rider), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 01 | Ursula Mamlok composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 03 | Frankie Vaughn (Abelson) singer: Garden of Eden, Tower of Strength; died Sep 17, 1999 | Ref: 4 |
Feb 09 | Domenico Modugno Italy, rocker (Polignano A Mare), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 11 | Raoul Cita rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | Aldonis Kalnins composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | Antoine "Fats" Domino New Orleans LA, rhythm & blues pianist/singer (Blueberry Hill), is born. | Ref: 17 |
Feb 29 | Alan Loveday British violinist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Albert Herbert Brewer composer, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Jacob Adolf Hagg composer, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 03 | Dave Dudley singer (Six Days on the Road), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 03 | Don Gibson singer/writer (I can't Stop Loving You, Oh Lonesome Me), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | Samuel Adler composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 05 | Lou Levy pianist: band: Supersax; recorded with Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Nancy Wilson, Anita ODay; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 06 | Ronald Stevenson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | Frank Michael Beyer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | Judy Johnson Norfolk VA, singer (Your Show of Shows), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 15 | Nicolas Flagello composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 16 | Christa Ludwig Berlin Germany, soprano (Vienna State Opera), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 16 | Ramon Barce composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 17 | Edino Krieger composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 21 | Evelyn Ruth Anderson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 22 | Byron Janis (Yanks) pianist: NBC Symphony Orchestra; well-known piano performance on Hugo Winterhalters Rhapsody in Blue recording, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 24 | Byron "Yanks" Janis McKeesport PA, pianist (NBC Symphony Orchestra), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Carole Carr singer/actress (Down Among the Z Men), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | Leslie Stuart composer, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Jose Luis de Delas composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Giuseppe Ferrata composer, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 29 | Vaclav Felix composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | Diether de la Motte composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 31 | Lefty (William Orville) Frizzell Country Music Hall of Famer: If Youve Got the Money, Ive Got the Time, Always Late, Saginaw Michigan; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 02 | Serge Gainsbourg [Ginsburg] Russian/French singer (Ford Mustang), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Don Gibson songwriter: I Cant Stop Loving You, Sweet Dreams, Too Soon To Know, Guess Away the Blues, Country Green; singer: Oh Lonesome Me, Blue Blue Day, Just One Time, Sea of Heartbreak, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 04 | Monty Norman composer/writer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | Will Gaines jazz dancer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | Tony Williams singer: group: The Platters: Only You, The Great Pretender, Twilight Time, My Prayer, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, Harbor Lights; is born in Elizabeth NJ. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 05 | David Farquhar Andress composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 09 | Tom Lehrer songwriter: Vatican Rag, Werner Von Braun, The Old Dope Peddlar, Be Prepared, Lobachevsky, The Masochism Tango, New Math, National Brotherhood Week, I Wanna Go Back to Dixie, We Will All Go Together When We Go, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 13 | Teddy Charles (Theodore Charles Cohen) vibraphonist, songwriter: Blue Greens; group: Teddy Charles Quintet; composer, arranger; worked w/modern jazz artists like Herbie Hancock, John Coltrane, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 13 | Luis Iruarrizaga Aguirre composer, dies at 36. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | Jean-Franois Pailliard Vitry-le-Franois France, conductor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | Henryk Melcer-Szczawinski composer, dies at 58. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 19 | Alexis Korner Paris France, musician (Blues Inc-Bootleg Him), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 24 | Johnny Griffin jazz musician: tenor sax: Chicago Riffin, Flying Home, Soft and Furry, Honeybucket, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 24 | Gustav Krivinka composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 24 | Ferdinand B Hummel composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 26 | Gordon Downey British Comptroller General/Reader Representative (Independent), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Big Jay McNeely rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Carl Gardner Tyler TX, rock vocalist (Coasters-Searchin), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 03 | Dave Dudley (Pedruska) country singer: groups: The Dave Dudley Trio, The Country Gentlemen, The Roadrunners: Six Days On the Road, Mad, Truck Drivin Sun of a Gun, Vietnam Blues, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 04 | Maynard Ferguson, musician: trumpet, trombone, other horns; bandleader: LPs: Primal Scream, Conquistador, New Vintage, Carnival, Hot, Its My Time, Hollywood, High Voltage, is born in Verdun Qubec Canada. | Ref: 4 |
May 07 | Alexander Afanasii Spendiaryan composer, dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
May 08 | William Jay Sydeman composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 09 | Pall Pampichier Palsson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 09 | Constantin Dimitrescu composer, dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
May 19 | Henry Franklin Belknap Gilbert composer, dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
May 22 | Jackie (Jacqueline) Cain singer: duo: Jackie & Roy [Kral]: Flamingo, Over the Rainbow, Euphoria, Im Forever Blowing Bubbles, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 22 | Roscoe Robinson US gospel singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 23 | Rosemary Clooney Maysville KY, singer/Coronet paper towels spokeswoman, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 25 | Frigyes Hidas composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 27 | Thea Musgrave Barnton Midlothian Scot, composer (Mary Queen of Scots), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | Jacob R Druckman composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 31 | Jacob Lateiner Havana Cuba, pianist/professor (Juiliard), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 07 | Charles Strouse musician: composer: Golden Boy; TV/films: The Mating Game, Bye Bye Birdie, Bonnie and Clyde, All in the Family, Annie, A Childs Garden of Verses, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 12 | Vic Damone [Vito Farinola], Bkln, singer (the Street Where You Live), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 16 | Sergiu Comissiona Buch Romania, conductor (Haifa Symph 1959-64), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 17 | James Brown rocker (Hot Pants), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 21 | Judith Raskin NYC, soprano (Susanna-Le Nozze di Figaro), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 26 | Jacob Druckman Philadelphia, composer (Animus I Auerole), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 08 | Carol Henry Newark NJ, choreographer (Garry Moore Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 16 | Bella Davidovich Baku Russia, pianist (Chopin, Beethoven, Ravel), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 23 | Leon Fleisher SF Calif, pianist/conductor (Annapolis Symph 1973-77), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 29 | Horace Silver, jazz pianist, composer and bandleader, is born. | Ref: 2 |
Jul 31 | Horace Silver, jazz pianist, composer and bandleader, is born. | Ref: 2 |
Aug 10 | Jimmy Dean (Seth Ward) TX, actor/singer (Jimmy Dean Show, Diamonds are Forever), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 10 | Eddie Fisher, Phila Pa, singer (Oh My Papa, Lady of Spain), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 21 | Art Farmer musician: trumpet, flugelhorn: worked w/Horace Henderson, Johnny Otis, Lionel Hampton Band; recorded be-bop classic Farmers Market; developed musical instrument called flumpet; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 22 | Karlheinz Stockhausen Mdrath, Germany, composer (Kontrapunkte), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 29 | Thomas Stewart San Saba Texas, baritone (La Roche Capriccio), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 30 | Johnny Mann Balt Md, music director (Johnny Mann Stand Up & Cheer), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 06 | Evgeny Svetlanov Moscow Russia, conductor (Siberian Fantasy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 15 | Julian Cannonball Adderly musician: Alto/Soprano Saxophone: Mercy, Mercy, Mercy; is born in Olyphant PA. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 03 | Erik Bruhn, Copenhagen Denmark, dancer (Natl Ballet of Canada), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 09 | Einojuhani Rautavaara Helsinki Finland, composer (Kaivos), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 14 | Gary Graffman NYC, pianist (Leventritt Award), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 06 | Peter Matz Pittsburgh PA, orchestra leader (Hullabaloo, Carol Burnett Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 15 | C.W. McCall (William Fries) singer, songwriter: Convoy, Old Home, Filler-up, Keep on Truckin Cafe, Wolf Creek Pass, Classified, There Wont be No Country Music, Roses for Mama, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 23 | Jerry Bock US, Broadway composer (Fiddler on the Roof), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 27 | Jean-Michel Damase composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 07 | Raymond Henry Charles Warren composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 12 | Lonesome Sundown blues singer/guitarist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 14 | America's original Funny Girl, Fanny Brice, recorded If You Want the Rainbow (You Must Have the Rain), a song from the play, My Man -- on Victor Records. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 15 | Ernest Ashworth Country Music Hall of Famer: Talk Back Trembling Lips; Member of Grand Ole Opry | Ref: 4 |
Dec 15 | Jerry Wallace singer: Primrose Lane, Shutters and Boards, A Touch of Pink, If You Leave Me Ill Cry; actor: Hec Ramsey, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 18 | Lucien Capet composer, dies at 55. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 19 | Galt MacDermot composer: Hair, Cotton Comes to Harlem, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Take This Bread, Karl Marx Play, Isabels a Jezebel, is born in Montreal Canada. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 19 | Michael Hurd composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 20 | Singer Bo Diddley is born. (XDG, p 4A, 12/20/2000) | Ref: 83 |
Dec 20 | Charles Donald Adams singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 21 | Thomas Rajna composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 28 | Kamillo Lendvay composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 30 | Bo Diddley [Ellas Bates], Mississippi, blues composer and singer famous for his Mockingbird song, is born. | Ref: 2 |
Dec 31 | Ross Barbour Columbus IN, singer (4 Freshmen), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1929
Jan 02 | Art Prysock jazz musician, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 05 | Wilbert Harrison singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 06 | Wilbert Harrison R&B singer (Kansas City), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 06 | Nicolas Nikolayevitch grand-duke of Russia, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 11 | Wanda Wilkomirska Warsaw, Poland, violinist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 13 | Joseph Anthony Pass guitarist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 14 | Billy Walker Ralls TX, country singer (Ozark Jubilee), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 15 | "Queen Ida" Guillory Ziadaco music, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 15 | Eva Badura-Skoda composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 16 | Tage Nielsen composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 16 | G.T. (Granville) Hogan jazz drummer: played with Elmo Hope, Earl Bostic, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 16 | Marilyn Horne opera singer: Carmen Jones [v/o for Dorothy Dandridge], is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 28 | Acker (Bernard) Bilk clarinetist, composer: Stranger on the Shore | Ref: 4 |
Feb 01 | August Otto Halm composer, dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Reiner Bredemeyer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 03 | Russell Arms Berkeley CA, singer (Your Hit Parade), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 03 | Val Doonican Irish singer/entertainer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 04 | Paul Burlison, rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Siegfried Ochs composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | James Mulcro Drew composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Willem Kersters Flemish composer (Parwati, Gospel Song), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 10 | Jerry Goldsmith pianist/composer (Twilight Zone), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 11 | Leonard Gregory Kastle composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 12 | Agustin Gonzalez Acilu composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 13 | Jesse McReynolds guitar, folk singer: group: Jim & Jesse: Freight Train, Diesel on My Tail, Ballad of Thunder Road, Golden Rocket, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 20 | Toshiro Mayuzumi Yokohama Japan, composer (Sphenogramme), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Marni Nixon singer (for Audrey Hepburn, Natalie Wood & Deborah Kerr), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 23 | Rgine Crespin Marseilles France, operatic soprano, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 23 | Richard Moryl composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 24 | Andre-Charles-Prosper Messager composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 25 | Tommy Newsom Virginia, musician/bandleader/saxophonist (Tonight Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Manuel Manrique de Lara y Berry composer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 28 | John Ebenezer West composer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Sonny James singer (Young Love, Running Bear), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 03 | Nicos Mamangakis composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | Bernard Haitink Amsterdam Netherlands, conductor (London Philharmonic Orchestra 1969-78), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | Josep Mestres-Quadreny composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 11 | Francisco Bernardo Pulgar Vidal composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 13 | Will Eisma composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 15 | Tiezo Matsumura composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 15 | Pine-Top Smith jazz pianist (Boogie Woogie Piano), dies at 24. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 16 | Edwin London composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 18 | Ctirad Kohoutek composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 18 | Kai Winding rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 19 | Herman van San composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 19 | Robert Muczynski composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 20 | Sonny (Santo) Russo jazz musician: trombonist: group: Sonny Russo Jazz Ensemble, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 22 | Anton Beer-Walbrun composer, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 23 | Gerrit den Braber Dutch composer/producer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Maurice Simon jazz musician, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Katharine Lee Bates, American author and educator; wrote "America the Beautiful", dies at age 69. | Ref: 70 |
Apr 06 | Andr (Ludwig) Previn pianist, composer; Oscar-winning film scores: Gigi, Porgy and Bess, Irma La Douce, My Fair Lady; conductor: Pittsburgh Symphony, London & LA Philharmonic Orchestras, is born in Berlin Germany. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 06 | Arthur S Taylor Jr US drummer/band leader (Taylor's Wailers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 06 | Edison Vasalievich Denisov composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 08 | Jacques Brel, Brussels Belgium, songwriter/singer/actor (Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, Pain in the A__), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 08 | Walter Berry Austria singer/ex husband of Christa Ludwig, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 09 | Harvey Lichtenstein, president (Brooklyn Academy of Music), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 10 | Dusan Radic composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 15 | Antonio Smareglia composer, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 16 | Roy Hamilton singer (You'll Never Walk Alone), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 17 | James Last orchestra leader/composer/arranger, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 22 | Odon Peter Jozsef de Mihalovich composer, dies at 86. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 24 | Ferit Tuzun composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Peter Joshua Sculthorpe composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Vaclav Kucera composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 01 | Sonny James [James Loden] Hackelburg AL, rocker (Young Love), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 02 | Edward Levy Irving composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 02 | Luc Ferrari composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 04 | Henry Morton Dunham composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
May 10 | Fats Domino rocker (Blueberry Hill), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 12 | Burt Bacharach Kansas City MO, composer (I'll Never Fall in Love Again), is born. | Ref: 68 |
May 16 | Betty Carter, jazz singer, is born. | Ref: 2 |
May 16 | Osmo Uolevi Lindeman composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 16 | Lilli Lehmann soprano, dies. | Ref: 5 |
May 18 | Roger Matton composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 19 | Michael Adamis composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 21 | Charles Wadsworth Barnesville GA, pianist (Lincoln Center), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 22 | Asher Ben-Yohanan composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 23 | Julian Euell jazz/studio musician: bass, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 25 | Beverly Sills (Belle Silverman) opera soprano; chairperson of Lincoln Center; National Chair of March of Dimes Mothers March on Birth Defects, is born in Brooklyn NY. | Ref: 4 |
May 27 | Donald Howard Keats composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 31 | Aladar Zoltan composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 14 | Cy Coleman [Seymour Kaufman], songwriter (Witchcraft, Sweet Charity), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 21 | Helen Merrill (Jelena Ana Milcetic) jazz singer: LPs: Helen Merrill, Brownie, Clear Out of This World, Dream of You; Swing Journal readers poll: Best American Jazz Singer [1989], is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 23 | Henri Pousseur Malmdy Belgium, composer (Homo Habitis), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 23 | June Carter Cash, Maces Spring Va, country singer (Johnny Cash Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 29 | Johnny Ace Memphis, ballad singer (My Song), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 09 | Lee Hazelwood Ok, country singer/songwriter (Summer Wine, Jackson), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 11 | Hermann Prey Berlin Germany, baritone (Wolfram-Tannhaser), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 18 | Screamin' Jay Hawkins, American blues singer, is born in Cleveland OH. | Ref: 2 |
Jul 26 | Alexis Weissenberg Sofia Bulgaria, pianist (Levintritt-1948), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 30 | Christine McGuire Middletown Oh singer (McGuire Sisters-Sugartime), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 08 | Josef Suk Prague Czechoslovakia, violinist (Artist of Merit-1977), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 11 | Alun Hoddinott Bargoed Wales, composer (Floriture), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 12 | Country Western Singer Buck Owens (Alvis Edgar Owens Jr.) is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 16 | Bill Evans, jazz pianist, is born. | Ref: 2 |
Aug 19 | Serge Diaghilev, Russian impresario; created Ballets Russes in 1909, dies at age 57. | Ref: 70 |
Sep 07 | Sonny (Theodore) Rollins musician: saxophone: Oleo, Airegin, composer: score for Alfie and Alfies Tune, Soloscope; awarded Guggenheim Fellowship [1972], is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 08 | Christoph von Dohn nyi Berlin Germany, conductor/pianist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 17 | Sil Austin musician, tenor saxophone: Slow Walk; composer: Ping-Pong; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 18 | Teddi King singer: Mr. Wonderful; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 04 | Leroy Van Dyke singer: Walk on By, Auctioneer, If a Woman Answers; film: What am I Bid? Is born in Spring Fork MO. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 02 | Harold Farberman NYC, conductor/composer (Medea), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 07 | Benny Andersen, Danish writer, poet and jazz musician, is born. | Ref: 2 |
Nov 20 | Dick Clark Mt Vernon NY, TV host (American Bandstand), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 20 | Kenneth DeWitt Schermerhorn Schenectady NY, conductor (American Ballet), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 24 | Eileen Barton Brooklyn, singer (Broadway Open House), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 28 | Berry Gordy Jr. founder: Motown Records, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 30 | Dick Clark TV producer, host: American Bandstand, New Years Rockin Eve, The $25,000 Pyramid, TVs Bloopers and Practical Jokes, Dick Clark Presents the Rock and Roll Years, The Dick Clark Show, Dick Clarks Golden Greats, Dick Clarks Live Wednesday, Dick Clarks Nighttime, Dick Clarks World of Talent, Puttin on the Hits, Live! Dick Clark Presents, The Challengers; executive producer: Keep on Cruisin, In Person from the Palace; former Philadelphia DJ, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 01 | Leon Biriotti composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 02 | Harvey Phillips Aurora MO, tubist (NYC Ballet Orchestra), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 03 | Clarence Ford sax player, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 03 | Paul Harris Turok composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 03 | Werner Rackwitz German musicologist (Hndel-Renaissance), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 06 | Mark Kopytman composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 09 | Michel Fano composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 13 | Knut Algot Hakanson composer, dies at 42. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 14 | Ron Nelson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 21 | Jack Philip Cannon composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 24 | Noel Da Costa composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | Billy Horton rocker (The Silhouettes-Get a Job), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | Chris Kenner rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1930
Jan 01 | Werner Heiden composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 02 | Julius LaRosa, Brooklyn NY, singer (fired by Arthur Godfrey on the air), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 05 | Richard Hayes Passaic NJ, singer/emcee (Name That Tune), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 05 | Frederick Charles Tillis composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 07 | Jack Greene The Green Giant: singer: CMA Male Vocalist, Album, Single and Song of the Year: There Goes My Everything [1967], is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 08 | Doreen Wilber US, archer (Olympics-gold-1972), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Byron "Wild Child" Gipson blues singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 11 | Jack Nimitz jazz reed musician: toured with Herman, Kenton, helped found Supersax, played w/Oliver Nelson, Bill Berry and Gerald Wilson, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 12 | Glenn Yarborough singer (Limeliters-Honey & Wine, Jubilee), is born. | Ref: 68 |
Jan 13 | Robert Squirrel Lester singer: groups: The Moonglows, The Flamingos, The Chi-Lites; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 13 | Liz Anderson rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 14 | Edgar Sergeyi Hovhanesyan composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 17 | Robert Ceely composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 23 | Ken Errair singer (Four Freshmen), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 27 | Bobby Blue Bland (Robert Calvin Brooks) singer: Thats the Way Love Is, Call on Me, Turn on Your Love Light, Aint Nothin You Can Do; original group: The Beale Streeters with Johnny Ace, is born in Rosemark TN. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 27 | Jean Hure composer, dies at 52. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 28 | Luis de Pablo composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Don Goldie trumpeter: Basin Street Blues [vocal by Jack Teagarden], is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 08 | Manuel Castillo composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Emil Petrovics composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 10 | John Gilpin English ballet dancer (tudes, Alice in Wonderland), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 10 | Peter Phillips composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 11 | C H Dearnley organist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 13 | Dorothy McGuire, Middletown OH, singer (McGuire Sisters), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 16 | Peggy King Greensburg PA, singer/actress (George Gobel Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 17 | Usko Merilainen composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 23 | Horst Wessel German Nazi lyricist (Fahne Hoch), dies at 22. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | Lazar Berman Leningrad Russia, pianist (Budapest 3rd place-1956), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Benny Powell jazz musician: trombone: Ernie Fields band, Lionel Hapton; Count Basie veteran [1951-1963], is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 01 | Pierre Max Dubois composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 05 | Lorin Maazel Neuilly France, conductor (NBC Symphony Orchestra 1941), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 09 | Ornette Coleman, jazz saxophonist, is born. | Ref: 2 |
Mar 09 | Thomas Schippers Kalamazoo MI, conductor (Amahl & Night Visitors), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 10 | Raymond Rasberry pianist/singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 12 | Stanko Horvat composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 13 | Liz Anderson (Haaby) country singer, songwriter: Pick of the Week, The Fugitive, [My Friends are Gonna Be] Strangers, Ride, Ride, Ride; mother of country/pop singer Lynn Anderson, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 14 | Dieter Schnebel German vicar/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 16 | Minoru Miky composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 17 | Paul Horn composer, jazz musician: reeds: Green Jelly Beans, Dancing Children, Inside [recorded in Taj Mahal]; TV documentary: The Story of a Jazz Musician, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 18 | Maurice Peress New York NY, conductor (Kansas City Philharmonic 1974-80), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 19 | Ornette Coleman jazz composer (Downbeat Musician of Year 1966), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 20 | Michel Magne composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 22 | Stephen Sondheim New York NY, lyricist/composer (Sweeney Todd, Into The Woods, West Side Story, A Little Night Music), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 24 | Stephen Sondheim composer: Send in the Clowns, A Little Night Music; scores for West Side Story, Reds, Gypsy, Dick Tracy, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 25 | David Russell Burge composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Cristobal Halffter composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | Richard Hayman Cambridge MA, orchestra leader (Vaughn Monroe Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Eric Dixon musician: saxophonist/flutist: Count Basie orchestra | Ref: 4 |
Mar 28 | Bill Anthony jazz musician: bass: played with Stan Getz | Ref: 4 |
Mar 28 | Robert Ashley composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 29 | Donny Conn rocker (Playmates), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | Rolf Harris Bassendean Western Australia, Australian/British cartoonist/singer (Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport)/actor (The Little Convict), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | Joan Franks-Williams composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | Cosima Liszt wife of Austrian composer Richard Wagner, dies at 92. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 02 | Girolamo Arriego composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 08 | John Reardon NYC, baritone (Falke-Die Fledermaus), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 11 | Kazuo Fukushima composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | Betty Clooney Maysville KY, singer (Jack Paar Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 15 | Herb Pomeroy musician: trumpet: teacher at Berklee in Boston, bandleader; directed radio Malaysia Orchestra, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 16 | Herbie Mann (Soloman), Brooklyn NY, jazz flute/sax (Just Wallin'), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 17 | Chris Barber jazz trombonist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 17 | Genevieve Paris France, singer (Jack Paar Show, Scruples), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 28 | Christopher John Magenis Headington composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 01 | Little Walter [Marion Walter Jacobs] rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 03 | David Evatt Tunley composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 04 | Roberta Peters (Peterman) opera soprano: Metropolitan Opera; Rigoletto [Gilda], Il Barbiere di Siviglia [Rosina]; films: City Hall, Tonight We Sing; Jewish Cultural Achievement Awards in Performing Arts [1997], is born in New York, NY. | Ref: 4 |
May 08 | Heather Harper soprano, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 08 | Lvar Henning Mankell composer, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
May 16 | Betty Carter (Lillie Mae Jones) jazz singer: toured with Lionel Hampton & Miles Davis; dies. | Ref: 4 |
May 16 | Friedrich Gulda Austrian pianist/composer (Hangman's Songs), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 18 | Joao Marcellino Arroyo composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
May 19 | Hans Kox composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 21 | Tommy Bryant jazz/studio musician: bassist: played w/Dizzy Gillespie, Jo Jones, Sonny Rollins, Benny Golson; [brother of Ray Bryant], is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 24 | Hans-Martin Linde composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 27 | Eino Tamberg composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | Julian Penkivil Slade composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | Eleanor Fazan opera/show choreographer (Lassiter, Ruling Class), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 04 | Morgana King jazz singer, actress: The Godfather, The Godfather Part 2, A Time to Remember | Ref: 4 |
Jun 22 | Roy Drusky DJ, songwriter: Alone with You, Country Girl, Anymore; singer: Three Hearts in a Tangle, Peel Me a Nanner, Another, Yes Mr. Peters [w/Priscilla Mitchell]; films: The Golden Guitar, Forty-Acre Feud, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 30 | June Valli Bronx NY, singer (Your Hit Parade), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 01 | Bobby Day (Byrd) singer: Rockin Robin; groups: Hollywood Flames, Bob & Earl; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 02 | Ahmad Jamal jazz musician: But Not for Me, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 03 | Carlos Kleiber Berlin Germany, conductor (Bavarian State Orch 1968), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 03 | Pete Fountain New Orleans, jazz clarinetist (Lawrence Welk 1957-59), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 09 | Buddy Bregman Chicago, orch leader (Eddie Fisher Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 25 | Maureen Forrester Montreal Canada, contralto (Ressurection Symphony), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 29 | Paul Taylor dancer & choreographer (Paul Taylor Dance Company), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 13 | Don Ho, Hawaii, ukulele player (Tiny Bubbles), is born. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
Aug 18 | Johnny Preston Port Arthur, TX, rocker (Feel So Fine), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 31 | Tiny Little Jr Worthington Minn, pianist (Lawrence Welk Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 04 | Mitzi Gaynor (Franchesca Mitzi Marlene de Charney von Gerber) singer, dancer, actress: South Pacific, Anything Goes, Theres No Business like Show Business, For Love or Money, is born in Chicago IL. (also TWA, 1998) | Ref: 4 |
Sep 07 | Sonny Rollins NYC, jazz saxophonist (Blue Room), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 22 | Joni James (Joan Carmello Babbo) singer, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 23 | Ray Charles (Robinson) The Genius: Grammy Award-winning singer, is born in Albany, Georgia. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 26 | Fritz Wunderlich Kusel Germany, tenor (Stuttgart 1955-58), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 27 | Igor Kipnis Berlin Germany, harpsichordist/professor (Fairfield), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 28 | Tommy Collins (Leonard Sipes) singer, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 29 | Bing Crosby, Americas premier crooner for decades, married Dixie Lee. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 29 | Richard Bonynge Sydney Australia, conductor (Aust Orch Sydney-1976), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 08 | Toru Takemitsu Tokyo Japan, composer (Ki No Kyoko), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 24 | J.P. (Jiles Perry) Richardson The Big Bopper: singer: Chantilly Lace, Big Boppers Wedding; songwriter: Running Bear; is born. killed in plane crash Feb 3, 1959 | Ref: 4 |
Nov 17 | David Amram Philadelphia PA, composer (Splendor in the Grass), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 27 | Bobby "Blue" Bland Rosemark TN, blues singer (Call on the Drummer), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 27 | Jean Hure composer, dies at 52. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 03 | Phyllis Curtin Clarksburg WV, soprano (NYC Opera), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 03 | Andy (Howard Andrew) Williams Emmy Award-winning entertainer: The Andy Williams Show [1962-63]; singer: Cant Get Used to Losing You, [Where Do I Begin] Love Story, Days of Wine and Roses, Canadian Sunset, Moon River, Born Free, Butterfly, I Like Your Kind of Love [w/Peggy Powers], Are You Sincere, Lonely Street, In the Village of St. Bernadette, is born in Wall Lake IA. (also TWA, 1998) | Ref: 4 |
Dec 04 | Paul-Heinz Dittrich composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 04 | Roman Semyonovich Ledenyou composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 05 | Larry Kert actor, singer, dancer: West Side Story original cast [1957]; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 07 | Richard Felciano composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 08 | Alain Weber composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 11 | Leonard Friedman violinist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 12 | Friedrich Voss composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 17 | Makoto Moroi composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 17 | Peter Warlock composer, dies at 36. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 24 | Robert Joffrey [Abdullah Jaffa Anver Bey Khan] US, choreographer (Joffrey Ballet), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 24 | Oskar Nedbal composer, dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | Harvey Worthington Loomis composer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 27 | Jacqueline Fontijn Flemish composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 29 | Willy Giefer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 31 | Odetta (Holmes Felious Gordon) Birmingham AL, folk singer/actress (Sanctuary), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1931
Jan 01 | Carel Brons composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 05 | Alfred Brendel, Wiesenberg Moravia, Austrian pianist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 05 | Alvin Ailey choreographer: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater: 79 ballets in repertoire establishing a place for blacks in modern dance; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 08 | Bill Graham Germany, rock promoter (Fillmore), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 11 | Oscar Fetras composer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 14 | Caterina Valente singer: The Breeze and I, Malaguena | Ref: 4 |
Jan 14 | Juraj Pospisil composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 15 | Murad Kazhlayev composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 17 | Frederick Alfred Fox composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 21 | Felix Blumenfeld composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 23 | Anna Pavlova Russian ballerina (Diaghilew, Dying Swan), dies at age 49. | Ref: 68 |
Jan 24 | Ib Norholm composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 25 | Stikkan Stig Anderson, music entrepreneur, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 27 | Rudi Maugeri rocker (Crew Cuts), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | Leslie Bricuse English/US composer (Stop the world I want to get off), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 07 | Ion Vidu composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Xavier Benguerel composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 10 | Gerhard Rosenfeld composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 10 | Makoto Shinohara composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 14 | Phyllis McGuire Middletown OH, singer (McGuire Sisters), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 16 | Dirk Schfer Dutch pianist/composer (Klavier), dies at 57. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 18 | Dieter Schonbach composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 23 | Dame Nellie Melba [Helen Mitchell], Australian soprano, dies. | Ref: 68 |
Feb 26 | Francisco Kroepfl composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | Gennady Rozhdestvensky composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 05 | Anthony Headges composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 05 | Barry Tuckwell Melbourne Australia, horn player (London Symphony Orchestra 1955-68), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 06 | Carmen Delavallade US dancer/singer/actress (Aida), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 07 | C W Stubblefield music promoter, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | Clara Kathleen Rogers composer, dies at 87. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 13 | Rosalind Elias Lowell MA, mezzo-soprano (Grimgerde-Die Walkuere), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 14 | Phil Phillips (Baptiste) singer: Sea of Love, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 14 | Phil Phillips [Baptiste] rock vocalist (Sea Of Love), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 16 | Betty Johnson Guilford County NC, singer (Jack Paar Show, I Dreamed), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 20 | Antonio Tauriello composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 24 | Thelma Kalama US, 4 X 100 meter relay swimmer (Olympics-gold-1948), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | Burt Collins, jazz musician: trumpet, flugel horn: played w/Jess Roden Band, Lalo Schifrin, T. Rex, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 27 | Yoriaki Matsudaira composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | Harold Burrage US singer/pianist (Hi Yo Silver), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | Sandor Szokolay composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 02 | Imre Olsvai composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 04 | George Whitefield Chadwick composer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 06 | Joan Carlyle British soprano, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 06 | Giuseppi Radiciotti composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 09 | Paul Antonin Vidal composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | Martin Boykan composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | Billy (Richard) Vaughn musician, orchestra leader: Melody of Love, The Shifting, Whispering Sands, Sail along Silver Moon; baritone singer with The Hilltoppers; music director: Dot Records; is born in Glasgow KY. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 15 | Florian Zabach Chicago IL, violinist (Hot Canary, Club Embassy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 21 | Carl (Robert) Belew country singer: Welcome Back to My World, songwriter: Am I That Easy to Forget?, Stop the World and Let Me Off, Lonely Street, Whats He Doing in My World?; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 22 | Ronald Hynd British choreographer (English National Ballet), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 27 | Igor Oistrach Russian violinist/son of David Oistrach, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 27 | Krzystzof Komeda composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | (Anthony James) Lonnie Donegan folk singer, musician: guitar, banjo: Rock Island Line, Gambling Man, Cumberland Gap, Lost John, Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour [On the Bedpost Overnight]; died Nov 3, 2002 | Ref: 4 |
May 03 | Joseph Layton (Lichtman) choreographer: Thoroughly Modern Millie; director: Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip, The Littlest Angel, Androcles and the Lion; died May 5, 1994 | Ref: 68 |
May 03 | Frank Hoyt Losey composer, dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
May 03 | Otto Winter-Hjelm composer, dies at 93. | Ref: 5 |
May 04 | Ed Cassidy Chicago IL, drummer (Spirit-I Got A Line on You), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 04 | Gennadi Rozhdestvensky Moscow Russia, conductor (USSR State Radio), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 07 | Teresa Brewer Toledo OH, singer (Put Another Nickel In), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 08 | Charles M Wilson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 11 | Dick Garcia guitarist: LPs: A Message from Garcia, Four Most Guitars [w/Jimmy Raney, Chuck Wayne, Joe Puma]; played w/George Shearing Quintet, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 12 | Eugene-Auguste Ysaye composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
May 13 | Josif Marinkovic composer, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
May 14 | Alvin Augustus Lucier Jr composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 17 | Dewey Redman jazz musician, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 19 | Ruben Radica composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 22 | Kenny Ball musician: trumpet: bandleader: Midnight In Moscow, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 27 | Kenny Price Florence KY, country singer (Midwestern Hayride, Hee Haw), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 27 | Veroslav Neumann composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | Ervin Junger composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | Peter Talbot Westergaard composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 31 | Shirley Verrett New Orleans, mezzo-soprano (Cassandra-Les Troyens), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 20 | Arne Nordheim Larvik Norway, conductor/composer (Aftonland), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 08 | Jerry Vale (Genaro Vitaliano), singer (Arriverderci Roma), is born. (also TWA, 1998) | Ref: 5 |
Jul 11 | Tab Hunter (Arthur Gelien) singer: Young Love, Ninety-Nine Ways, Apple Blossom Time; actor: Battle Cry, Damn Yankees, Island of Desire, Judge Roy Bean, Ride the Wild Surf, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 11 | Thurston Harris Indpls, vocalist (Little Bitty Pretty One), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 12 | Anna (Pavlovna) Pavlova, Russias premier ballerina, dies. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 18 | Papa Dee (Thomas) Allen musician: keyboards: group: War: LPs: All Day Music, The World is a Ghetto, Why Cant We Be Friends?; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 31 | Kenny Burrell guitarist: played with Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman; own combos, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 06 | (Leon) Bix Beiderbecke young man with a horn: jazz cornetist: groups: Wolverine Orchestra: Fidgety Feet, Jazz Me Blues; Bix Beiderbecke and His Rhythm Jugglers: Davenport Blues; Charlie Straight Orchestra; Breeze Blowers; Jean Goldkette Orchestra; Frankie Trumbauer and his Orchestra: Singin the Blues, Clarinet Marmalade, Clementine; Bix Beiderbecke and His Gang: At the Jazz Band Ball, Royal Garden Blues; Adrian Rollini and the New Yorkers; Paul Whiteman Orchestra: From Monday On, China Boy, Oh, Miss Hannah; jazz pianist: In A Mist, Candlelights, Flashes, In the Dark; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 07 | Leon Bismarck "Bix" Beiderbecke, jazz cornetist and composer, dies at age 28. | Ref: 68 |
Aug 20 | Frank Capp musician: drums: big jazz band: Capp-Pierce Juggernaut, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 28 | John Shirley-Quirk Liverpool England, baritone (Death in Venice), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 01 | Boxcar Willie (Lecil Martin) The Singing Hobo: songwriter, singer: Not the Man I Used to Be; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 12 | George Jones country singer (White Lightning, He Stopped Loving Her Today, I Don't Need Your Rockin' Chair), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 19 | Brook Benton Camden, SC, singer (Frankie & Johnny), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 26 | George Chambers musician: bass, singer: group: The Chambers Brothers, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 03 | Carl Nielsen composer: Maskarade; conductor: Danish Royal Opera [1908-1914]; director: Royal Conservatory [Copenhagen, 1915]; dies at age 66. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 14 | Rafael Puyana BogotaColombia, baroque harpsichordist (NY debut 1957), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 05 | Ike Turner musician: piano, singer: duo: Ike & Tina Turner Revue: Its Gonna Work Out Fine, Poor Fool, Tra La La La, I Idolize You, Proud Mary; owner: recording studio, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 16 | Bob Gibson singer, songwriter, leader of folk music movement in late '50s: John Riley, Old Blue, Daddy Roll 'Em, Wayfaring Stranger; duo: Gibson and [Bob] Camp; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 23 | Gloria Lynne singer: I Wish You Love, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 25 | Nat Adderley musician: cornet, mellophone, French horn, trumpet: Sermonette, Work Song; brother of Cannonball Adderley: is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 27 | Rudi Maugeri rocker (Crew Cuts), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 30 | Davey Jones rocker (Monkees-Daydream Believer, Last Train To Clarksville, I'm A Believer), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 30 | Thurman Teddy Wilburn singer: group: Wilburn Brothers: Which One is to Blame; Grand Ole Opry [1941], is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 30 | Gunther Herbig Usti-nad-Labem Czech, conductor (East Berlin Orchestra), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 02 | Paul-Marie-Theodore-Vincent D'indy, French count/composer, dies in Paris at age 80. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 03 | Jaye P. (Mary Margaret) Morgan singer: Thats All I Want from You, The Longest Walk; performer: Stop the Music, Perry Presents, The Chuck Barris Rah Rah Show, The Jaye P. Morgan Show; panelist: The Gong Show, is born in Mancos CO. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 05 | James Cleveland, considered the "King of Gospel., is born. | Ref: 2 |
Dec 07 | Bobby Osborne musician: mandolin, singer: duo: Osborne Brothers: Rocky Top, Up This Hill and Down, Tennessee Hound Dog, Georgia Pinewoods, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 08 | Rudolf Komorous composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 11 | Rita Moreno (Rosita Alverio) dancer, Academy Award-winning actress: West Side Story [1961]; The Wharf Rat, I Like It Like That, Portrait of a Showgirl, The Four Seasons, Anatomy of a Seduction, Carnal Knowledge, Summer and Smoke, The King and I, Singin in the Rain; Emmy Award-winning actress: The Muppet Show [1976-77], The Paper Palace, The Rockford Files [1/20/78], is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 16 | Shelby Singleton record executive: SSS International record company, Plantation label: Harper Valley PTA; bought Sun Records [1969]; Shelby Singleton Music, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 21 | David Baker, Indpls IN, composer (Reflections), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 21 | Caroline Kaart [Paterson Raitt] Dutch alto singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 24 | Mauricio Kagel Argentina/German composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 24 | Ray Bryant pianist, composer: Slow Freight, Little Susie, Cubano Chant, The Madison Time, Sack of Woe, After Hours, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 26 | Thomas Eden Binkley musician, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 27 | Walter Norris pianist, composer: Drifting | Ref: 4 |
Dec 27 | Peter Christian Lutkin composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 27 | Walter Courvoisier composer, dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 28 | John de Mol Dutch vocalist/composer/producer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 30 | Skeeter Davis (Mary Frances Penick) singer: I Forgot More Than Youll Ever Know, The End of the World, I Cant Stay Mad at You, is born in Dry Ridge KY. | Ref: 4 |
- 1932
Jan 01 | Giuseppe Patane Naples Italy, conductor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 06 | Sacha Distel French singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 14 | Catarina Valente Paris France, singer (The Entertainers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 15 | Enrique Raxach composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 24 | Werner Steger composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 26 | Claude Gray (The Tall Texan) country singer: Ill Just Have Another Cup of Coffee, My Ears Should Burn, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 28 | Franz Xavier Arens composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 31 | Rick Hall country/R&B singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Arthur Lyman jazz musician: vibraphone: Yellow Bird; played w/Martin Denny Orchestra; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 04 | Ivan Davis, Electra TX, pianist/writer (Hunger, Corn is Green), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 08 | John Towner Williams Flushing NY, composer/conductor (Boston Pops), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 10 | Rockin Dopsie Sr [Alton Jay Rubin], Jazz-Fusion singer (Zydeco), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 16 | Otis Blackwell composer/singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 17 | Buck Trent Spartanburg SC, banjoist/singer (Hee Haw), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 19 | Jean-Pierre Ponnele Paris France, opera director (Carmina Burana), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 24 | Michel Legrand Academy Award-Winning composer for Best Original Score: Yentl [1983]; Brians Song, Ice Station Zebra, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 25 | Faron Young country singer/actor (Hidden Guns, Daniel Boone), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 25 | Martin William Karlins composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | Johnny Cash Kingsland AR, country singer (I Walk The Line, Folsom Prison Blues, Boy Named Sue), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Jacques Leduc composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 03 | Eugene Francis Charles D'albert composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | Miriam (Zensile) Makeba Empress of African Song: singer: first black South African to attain international stardom, is born in Johannesburg South Africa. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 04 | Guido Baggiani composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 06 | John Philip Sousa, the American band conductor and composer of popular marches, dies at age 77. | Ref: 70 |
Mar 07 | Frank Morelli jazz musician: baritone sax, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 09 | Keely Smith (Dorothy Jacqueline Keely) singer: That Old Black Magic, How Are Ya Fixed for Love?; former Mrs. Louis Prima, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 11 | Leroy Jenkins violinist: groups: Creative Construction Company, Revolutionary Ensemble; composer: Mother of Three Sons, Fresh Faust, The Negro Burial Ground, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 13 | Jan Howard country singer: The One You Slip Around With, Evil on Your Mind, My Son; toured with Carter sisters, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 16 | Betty Johnson singer: I Dreamed, Little White Lies, The Little Blue Man, Dream | Ref: 4 |
Mar 17 | Dick Curless One-Eyed Baron of Trucker Country: singer: A Tombstone Every Mile, Six Times a Day, All of Me Belongs to You, Big Wheel Cannonball, Losers Cocktail; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 20 | Tod Dockstader composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 21 | Joseph Silverstein Detroit MI, violinist (Denver Symphony Orchestra), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Jean Cartan composer, dies at 25. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | Junior Parker blues musician (Driving Wheel, Outside Man), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | Jiri Smutny composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 02 | Hugo Kaun composer, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | Billy Bland singer: Let the Little Girl Dance, My Hearts on Fire, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 07 | Louis "Mr Bo" Collins Indianola MS, blues singer (If Trouble Was Money), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 09 | Carl Perkins (Carl Lee Perkings) singer: Blue Suede Shoes, Your True Love, Honey Dont, Pink Pedal Pushers, Shine Shine, Cotton Top, Restless; inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987; is born in Jackson TN. | Ref: 68 |
Apr 10 | Nathaniel Nelson rocker (Flamingos), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 11 | Max Schubel composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | Henri Lazarof composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | Tiny Tim (aka Darry Dover, Larry Love) (Herbert Butros Khaury) ukulele playing, falsetto singer: Tiptoe Through the Tulips, Sonny Boy; film: You Are What You Eat, TV: Laugh In; is born. died Nov 30, 1996 | Ref: 4 |
Apr 13 | Karl Kroeger composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 16 | Vince Hill singer (Roses of Picardy, La Vie en Rose), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 17 | Graziella Sciutti Italian opera singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 19 | Wladyslaw Rzepko composer, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 22 | Michael Colgrass Chicago IL, composer (Best Wishes), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 25 | Willis Gator Jackson composer, tenor sax: invented the gator horn: Chucks Chuckles, Dance of the Lady Bug, Back Door, Later Gator; married to singer Ruth Brown; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 27 | Casey Kasem Detroit, radio personality (American Top 40), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 27 | Franois Bayle composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 27 | Maxine (Ella) Brown rocker (Browns), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 27 | Petar Ozgijan composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 28 | Marek Kopelent composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 30 | Anton Larrauri composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 02 | Malcolm Leyland Lipkin composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 04 | Fausto Razzi composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 05 | Aurel Stroe composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 06 | Gunther Hauk composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 13 | Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich marries Nina Varsar. | Ref: 5 |
May 14 | Death of John Hughes, 59, Welsh rail official and church worker. During his life, Hughes composed a number of hymns, including CWM RHONDDA, to which the Church today still sings "Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah." | Ref: 5 |
May 16 | Isaac "Redd" Holt US drummer (Young-Holt Unlimited-In Crowd), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 17 | Jackie (John) McLean jazz musician: alto sax; composer, playwright; educator: University of Hartford, CT, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 21 | Robert Sherlaw Johnson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 24 | Elaine Malbin opera singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 27 | Jeffrey Bernard singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | Henning Christiansen composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 30 | Pauline Oliveros Houston TX, composer (Sound Patterns), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 30 | Seppo Antero Yrjonpoika Nummi composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 02 | Sammy Turner (Samuel Black) singer: Lavender-Blue [Dilly Dilly], Always, Paradise; LPs: Lavender Blue Moods, Soul of Jesus Christ Superstar, is born in Patterson NJ. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 03 | Dakota Staton (Aliyah Rabia) jazz singer: No Man is Going to Change Me, The Late Late Show, Dynamic!, Crazy He Calls Me, Time to Swing, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 05 | Pete Jolly (Cragioli) musician: pianist: in films: I Want to Live!, The Wild Party, This World, Then the Fireworks; group: Pete Jolly Trio, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 09 | Jackie Wilson, American singer, is born. | Ref: 68 |
Jun 21 | O.C. (Ocie Lee) Smith singer: (Little Green Apples) is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 21 | Lalo (Boris) Schifrin Buenos Aires Argentina, composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 01 | Bobby Day [Robert Byrd), Fort Worth TX, rock vocalist (Rockin' Robin), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 02 | Sammy Turner Paterson NJ, vocalist (Lavender Blue), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 08 | Mel Tillis country singer/stutterer (Who's Julie, M-M-Mel), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 12 | Porter Wagoner country singer, discovered Dolly Parton (Y'All Come), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 16 | Eydie Gorme (Edith Gormezano), Bronx NY, singer (Tonight Show, Bossa Nova), is born. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
Aug 17 | Duke Pearson composer, band leader, musician: piano: How Insensitive; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 08 | Patsy Cline (Virginia Petterson Hensley) Country Music Hall of Famer: Crazy, I Fall to Pieces, Walkin After Midnight, Shes Got You, Heartaches, Sweet Dreams (Of You), Faded Love; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 24 | Svetlana Beriosova, Lithuanian-born prima ballerina, is born. | Ref: 70 |
Sep 25 | Glenn Herbert Gould, Toronto Canada, pianist (sued Steinway Piano), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 01 | Albert Collins Grammy Award-winning musician: blues guitarist, songwriter: LP: Showdown! [1985]; LPs: Love Can Be Found Anywhere Even in a Guitar, Ice Pickin, Frostbite, Frozen Alive!, Dont Lose Your Cool, Live in Japan, Cold Snap; Blues Hall of Famer [1989]; is born. | Ref: 2 |
Oct 11 | Dottie West (Dorothy Marie Marsh), Tenn, country singer (Here Comes My Baby), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 16 | Henry Lewis LA CA, conductor/bass (LA Philharmonic 1955-59), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 06 | Stonewall Jackson singer: Waterloo, Me and You and a Dog Named Boo, Help Stamp Out Loneliness, B.J. the D.J., Why Im Walkin, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 10 | Paul Bley pianist, composer: LP: Open to Love, Fragments, My Standard; founding member: Jazz Composers Guild, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 12 | Singer Stonewall Jackson, is born. Ref |   |
Nov 15 | Petula Clark Grammy Award-winning singer [1965]: Downtown, I Know a Place, This is My Song, My Love, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 29 | Ed Bickert musician: jazz guitarist: group: Paul Desmond Quartet, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 29 | John Gary (Strader) singer; diver, inventor: holds two patents on underwater propulsion devices [diving buddy and aqua-peller], is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 30 | Bob Moore instrumentalist: group: Moby Grape: LP: Truly Fine Citizen | Ref: 4 |
Dec 01 | Amadeo Vives composer, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 03 | Corry Brokken Dutch singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 04 | Edgar Valcarcel composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 05 | Little Richard (Pennimann) singer: Good Golly Miss Molly, Tutti Frutti, Slippin and Slidin, Long Tall Sally, Rip It Up, Ready Teddy, The Girl Cant Help It, Lucille, Keep a Knockin; preacher, is born in Macon GA. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 09 | Jessie "Ooh Poo Pah Doo" Hill jazz musician, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 14 | Charlie "Silver Fox" Rich, Colt AR, singer (Behind Closed Doors), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 15 | Elaine Barkin composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 15 | Igor Stuhec composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 16 | Rodion Konstantinovich Schedrin Moscow, composer (Humpback Horse), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 21 | Ilja Zeljenka composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 24 | Eyvind Alnaes composer, dies at 60. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 28 | Dorsey Burnette Memphis, rocker (Tall Oak Tree, Hey Little One), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1933
Jan 01 | Anders Bo Leif Linde composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 04 | Ray Starling musician: arranger for Stan Kenton, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 06 | Sylvia Syms singer (You Go To My Head, Them There Eyes), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Akira Miyoshi composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 11 | Goldie Hill, Karnes County TX, country singer (Grand Ole Opry), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 12 | Vaclav Suk composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 20 | Earl Grant singer: [At] The End [Of a Rainbow], Ebb Tide; killed in car crash June 11, 1970 | Ref: 4 |
Jan 20 | Ron Townson St Louis MO, rock vocalist (5th Dimension-Up Up & Away), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 23 | Joel Spiegelman composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 24 | Zeke Carey US R&B-singer (Flamingos-I Only Have Eyes For You), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 28 | Sacha Distel Paris France, French singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 30 | Richard Dufallo Chicago IL, clarinetist/conductor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Claude King singer: Wolverton Mountain, All for the Love of a Girl; actor: The Blue & The Gray, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 05 | Ron Wilson US percussionist (Joy of Cooking), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 08 | Elly Ameling Rotterdam Holland, soprano (Ilya-Idomeneo), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 12 | Henri Duparc French composer, dies at 85. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 14 | Andrey Mikhaylovich Volkonsky composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 14 | Bertram Jay Turetzky composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 17 | Bobby Lewis rocker (Tossin' & Turnin'), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 17 | Henri[cus A] Viotta Dutch composer (Handbook of Music), dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 18 | Elisabeth S "Elly" Belder-Ameling Dutch soprano, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 19 | Arnold Ludwig Mendelssohn composer, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 21 | Nina Simone [Eunice Waymon], Tyron NC, singer/pianist ("I Loves You Porgy"), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | Antonio Nicolau Spanish composer/conductor, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Istvan Lang composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 03 | Paul Clayton folk singer, songwriter: Paul was just an incredible songwriter and singer. He must have known a thousand songs. Bob Dylan; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 03 | Marco Antonio Muiz Mexico, Spanish singer (Murmullos), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | Ann Burton [Anna Rafalowicz], singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | Willie Walker US jazz singer/guitarist (Dupree Blues), dies at 36. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 05 | Norbert Linke composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 06 | Dorothy "Dolly" Ann Collins folk musician/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | Johnny Dollar singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 09 | Lloyd Price, Kenner LA, singer (Lawdy Miss Clawdy, Misty, Just Because, Come to Me), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 09 | William Francis McBeth composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 10 | Bernadetta Matuszczak composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 13 | Mike Stoller record producer, songwriter with Jerry Leiber: Smokey Joes Caf, Up on the Roof, On Broadway, score for Jailhouse Rock, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 14 | Quincy Jones composer: film scores, TV show themes; bandleader; record producer; arranger; 25 Grammys, Grammys Trustees Award [1989], Grammys Legends Award [1990]; Musical Director for Mercury Records, then VP; established Qwest Records, is born in Chicago, IL. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 15 | Roy Clark, country singer (Hee Haw), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 15 | Ronald Roseman composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 15 | Cecil Taylor jazz pianist, international concert artist, composer; taught black music and led Black Music Ensemble at U. of Wisconsin, Antioch, N.J. Glassboro State, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 20 | Jacquez Guyonnet composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 23 | Norman Bailey British bass-baritone (Flying Dutchman), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 24 | David Harries composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Eddie Lang, American musician, dies at age 30. | Ref: 2 |
Mar 29 | Alexander Schmuller Russian/Dutch violinist/conductor, dies at 52. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 04 | Seoirse Bodley composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 08 | Fred Ebb lyricist (Cabaret), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 08 | Jaroslav Smolka composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 09 | Sigfrid Karg-Elert composer, dies at 55. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 10 | Philip Corner composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | Montserrat Caball Barcelona Spain, soprano (Mimi-La Boheme), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 13 | Shani Wallis Ireland, singer/actress (Oliver), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 14 | Buddy Knox Happy TX, rock vocalist (Party Doll, Lovey Dovey), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 14 | Morton Subotnick Los Angeles CA, composer (Wild Bull), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 15 | Roy Clark musician: guitar, banjo; CMA Entertainer of the Year [1973], Comedian of the Year [1970, 1971, 1972], co-host: Hee Haw; country singer: Tips of My Fingers, Through the Eyes of a Fool, Yesterday, When I Was Young, Come and Live with Me, Somewhere Between Love and Tomorrow, Thank God and Greyhound [Youre Gone], is born in Meherrin VA. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 16 | Perry Botkin Jr New York NY, orchestra leader (Bert Convy Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 21 | Easley Blackwood Indpls IN, composer (Un Voyage Cythere), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 23 | Rod McKuen, American poet, singer, is born. | Ref: 68 |
Apr 24 | Freddie Scott US songwriter/singer (Cry to Me), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 25 | Jerry Leiber songwriter/record producer (Leiber & Stoller), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 27 | Calvin Newborn jazz/blues guitarist; brother of piano wizard Phineas Newborn Jr. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 28 | Karl Heinz Wahren composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 28 | Oliver "Bops Junior" Jackson drummer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Darijan Bozic composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Raymond Earl Hill saxophonist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Rod [Marvin] McKuen Oakland CA, singer/composer (Alone, Beatsville), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 30 | Willie Nelson Abbott TX, country singer (On the Road Again), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 02 | Bunk Gardner rocker (Mothers Of Invention), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 13 | Alden Ashforth composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 13 | Stig Gustav Schonberg composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 22 | John Browning Denver CO, pianist (Leventritt Award-1956), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 26 | Jimmie (James Charles) Rodgers The Blue Yodeler: Country Music Hall of Famer: T for Texas, Brakemans Blues, Blues Yodel , Tuck Away My Lonesome Blues; first country singer to be in a film: Singing Brakeman; member: Country Music Hall of Fame; dies at age 35. | Ref: 4 |
May 31 | Shirley Verrett opera singer: soprano: New York Met | Ref: 4 |
Jun 02 | Bob Rozario Shanghai China, orch leader (Tony Orlando, Marie), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 11 | Jud Strunk Jamestown NY, singer/comedian (Laugh-In), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 26 | Claudio Abbado Milan Italy, conductor (London Symph-1982), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 10 | Jerry Herman Broadway composer (Hello Dolly), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 14 | Del (Franklin Delano) Reeves singer: Slow Hand, Be Quiet Mind, The Girl on the Billboard, Looking at the World through a Windshield, The Philadelphia Phillies; films: Second Fiddle to a Steel Guitar, Forty Acre Feud, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 15 | Julian Bream musician: classical guitar, lute, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 17 | Mimi Hines pop singer, actress: duo: Ford & Hines [w/husband, Phil Ford]; Broadway singer, actress: Funny Girl, Grease, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 18 | R Murray Schafer Sarnia, Ontario, Canada, composer (Patria), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 22 | Chuck Cassey Chicago, choral director (Jimmy Dean Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 27 | Nick Reynolds folk singer: group: The Kingston Trio: Tom Dooley, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 29 | Randy Sparks folk singer, songwriter: groups: New Christy Minstrels: Green, Green, Saturday Night, Today; The Back Porch Majority, Randy Sparks and the Patch Family, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 08 | Joe Tex singer/songwriter (Hold What You've Got), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 15 | Bobby Helms (singer: My Special Angel, Jingle Bell Rock, Fraulein), is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 21 | Dame Janet Baker York England, mezzo-soprano (Owen Wingrave), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 25 | Wayne Shorter, jazz saxaphonist and composer, is born. | Ref: 2 |
Sep 01 | Conway Twitty (Harold Lloyd Jenkins) songwriter: Walk Me to the Door; singer: Its Only Make Believe, Danny Boy, Lonely Boy Blue, What Am I Living For, Next In Line, Hello Darlin, 15 Years Ago, Youve Never been this Far Before, Dont Cry Joni; CMA Male Vocalist of the Year [1975], Grammy Award-winner [w/Loretta Lynn]: After the Fire is Gone [1971]; owns ooking agency, music publishing company, Twitty Burgers, Twitty City theme park; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 03 | Tompall (Tom Paul) Glaser singer: group: The Glaser Brothers: Lovin Her Was Easier, Just One Time, I Still Love You, Gone on the Other Hand, Through the Eyes of Love, One of These Days, California Girl, Gone Girl, Rings, Aint It All Worth Living; songwriter: Running Gun, Stand Beside Me, Streets of Baltimore; solo: Musical Chairs, Itll Be Her; sang backup on El Paso, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 15 | Rafael Frobeck de Burgos Burgos, Spain, conductor (World of Song), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 18 | Jimmie Rodgers singer: Honeycomb, Kisses Sweeter than Wine, Oh-Oh, Im Falling in Love Again, Secretly, Are You Really Mine; TV host: The Jimmie Rodgers Show, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 20 | Bob Banas NYC, choreographer (Malibu U, Jonathan Winters Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 25 | Erik Darling folk singer: groups: The Weavers; The Tarriers; Rooftop Singers, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 27 | Floyd Cramer, LA, country pianist (Last Date, On the Rebound), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 03 | John Barry Academy Award-winning composer: soundtracks: Born Free [1966], The Lion in Winter [1968], Out of Africa [1985], Dances with Wolves [1990]; The Cotton Club, The Day of the Locust, Eleanor & Franklin, Indecent Proposal, Midnight Cowboy, Peggy Sue Got Married, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Shampoo, Somewhere in Time, James Bond movies, The Persuaders theme, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 15 | Clyde (Lensley) McPhatter singer: Treasure of Love, Long Lonely Nights, A Lovers Question, Lover Please; groups: Dominoes: Do Something for Me, Sixty Minute Man, Have Mercy Baby; Drifters: Money Honey, Such a Night/Lucille, Honey Love; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 21 | Jean Shepard country singer: Satisfied Mind, Beautiful Lies, Slippin' Away, Satin Sheets, w/Ferlin Husky: A Dear John Letter, is born in Pauls Valley OK. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 23 | Krzysztof Penderecki Grammy Award-winning composer: Devils of Loudan, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 26 | Robert Goulet (Stanley Applebaum) singer: On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, My Love Forgive Me, Camelot; actor: Mr. Wrong, Camelot, Id Rather be Rich, Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear, Scrooged, Blue Light, is born in Lawrence MA. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 29 | Blues singer-musician John Mayall is born. | Ref: 68 |
Dec 02 | Josef Gruber composer, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 03 | Richard Henry Warren composer, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 05 | Bernard van Beurden Dutch composer/music educator, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 06 | Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 06 | Auguste Chapuis composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 12 | Theodore Moses Tobani composer, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 14 | Leo N Wright US saxophonist (I Left My Heart in San Francisco), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 15 | Jesse Belvin Texarkana AR, rock vocalist (Mr Easy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 21 | Miklos Kocsar composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 29 | Prez "Kidd" Kenneth blues singer/guitarist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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Jan 03 | Bryan George Kelly composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 06 | Bobby Lord Sanford FL, country singer (Ozark Jubilee), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 16 | Richard Wernick Boston MA, composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 16 | Marilyn Horne, Bradford PA, mezzo-soprano, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 16 | Annie Patterson composer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 17 | Sydney Phillip Hodkinson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 19 | Armand Parent composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 26 | Huey "Piano" Smith pianist (Having a Good Time), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | Paul Gutama Soegijo composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 31 | Ron Weatherburn jazz pianist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 01 | Bob Shane singer: group: The Kingston Trio: Tom Dooley, M.T.A., Greenback Dollar, Where Have All the Flowers Gone, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 02 | [Clyde] Skip Batten Los Angeles CA, rocker (Byrds-Turn Turn Turn), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Ernesto Nazareth composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 04 | Jouko Sakari Linjama composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 07 | Earl King [Solomon Johnson], rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 07 | King Curtis [Curtis Ousley], Forth Worth TX, US saxophonist (Memphis Soul Stew), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 08 | Elly Ameling Rotterdam Holland, soprano (Ilya-Idomeneo), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 11 | Francesco Pennisi composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 16 | Austin "Ted" Taylor US gospel/R&B-singer (Be Ever Wonderful), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 18 | Aldo Ceccato Milan Italy, conductor (Detroit Symphony Orchestra 1973-77), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Thomas Paul Chicago IL, bass (NYC Opera 1963-70), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Willem Kes violinist/composer/conductor, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 23 | Sir Edward William Elgar, English composer (Coronation Ode, Pomp and Circumstance), dies at age 76. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 24 | Shuko Mizuno composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 24 | Renata Scotto, opera soprano: made operatic debut at age 18; best known for performances as Violetta in La Traviata, Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly, Mimi [and the occasional Musetta] in La Bohme, Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor, Lady Macbeth in Macbeth and Francesca in Francesca da Rimini; opera director, is born in Savona Italy. | Ref: 17 |
Feb 25 | Daniel Protheroe composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 28 | Willie Bobo New York NY, jazz drummer (Cos), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Jim "Ed" Brown Sparkman AR, country singer (Nashville on the Road), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 02 | Bernard Rands Sheffield England, composer (Wildtrack), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 02 | Doug Watkins jazz musician: bass: Pepper-Knepper Quintet, Hank Mobley Quartet, Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 02 | Birthday of Dottie Rambo, contemporary gospel singer and songwriter. She has authored such country gospel favorites as "In the Valley He Restoreth My Soul," "Build My Mansion Next Door to Jesus" and "I Just Came to Talk With You, Lord." | Ref: 5 |
Mar 03 | Norman Houstoun O'Neill composer, dies at 58. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | John Duffey bluegrass musician, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | Mario Davidovsky Buenos Aires Argentina, composer (Synchronisms), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | Barbara McNair singer; TV hostess: The Barbara McNair Show; actress: The Organization, They Call Me Mr. Tibbs!, Change of Habit, Dead Right, is born in Racine WI. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 07 | King Curtis [Curtis Ousley], rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | Christian Wolff composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 11 | Joep [Joseph Willem Frederik] Straesser composer (Blossom songs, Ramasasiri), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 13 | Dick Katz pianist, composer: Tony Scott Quartet, J.J. Johnson & Kai Winding groups | Ref: 4 |
Mar 13 | Fritz Cortolezis composer, dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 14 | Shirley Scott swinging, blues-oriented organist: recorded mostly with former husband Stanley Turrentine [they were married from 1961 to 1971] | Ref: 4 |
Mar 15 | Daniel George "Danny" Apolinar composer/songwriter, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 15 | Wolfgang Hufschmidt composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 17 | Erhard Grosskopf composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 17 | Q T Macon blues vocal/guitar, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 18 | Pavle Despalj composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 21 | Franz Schreker composer, dies at 55. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 25 | Johnny Burnette Memphis, guitarist (Trains Kept A-Rollin, You're 16), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | Arthur Mitchell choreographer (Dance Theater of Harlem), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Siegfried Thiele composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 29 | Ernstalbrecht Stiebler composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 31 | John D Loudermilk rock drummer/vocalist (Language of Love, Norman), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | Jim Ed (James Edward) Brown singer: group: The Browns: The Three Bells, Scarlet Ribbons; solo: Morning; CMA Country Duo of the Year [w/Helen Cornelius 1977]: I Dont Want to Have to Marry You, is born in Sparkman AR. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 04 | Braulio Dueno Colon composer, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | Stanley Turrentine, jazz musician: tenor sax; one of the Pittsburgh Brethren; played with Tommy Turrentine [his brother], Lowell Fulson, Tadd Dameron, Earl Bostic, Max Roach; his hits included: The Look of Love, Midnight Special, Look Out, Pieces of a Dream, Straight Ahead, Wonderland, La Place; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 05 | Salvatore Di Giacomo composer, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 06 | Reijo Jyrkiainen composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 10 | Zsolt Durko composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 13 | Horace Kay US singer (Tams-You Lied to Your Daddy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 13 | Siegfried Matthus composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 17 | Warren Chiasson jazz musician: vibes: group: Warren Chiasson Duo: LP: Point Counterpoint, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 17 | Don Kirshner music publisher: Aldon Music with Al Nevins, Brill Building mogul: Screen Gems Music: started Bubblegum music fad with creation of The Monkees, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 18 | Jan Klusak composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 19 | Dickie Goodman parody singer (Flying Saucer), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 19 | Jan Helge Guttorm Bark composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 24 | Shirley (Lee Foley) Boone singer: married to singer Pat Boone since 1953; daughter of singer, Red Foley; group: The Boones [w/Pat and daughters Cherry, Linda Lee, Debby and Laura Gene], is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 01 | Alexander Alexandrovich Davidenko composer, dies at 35. | Ref: 5 |
May 03 | Georg Kroll composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 03 | James Brown The Godfather of Soul is born in Augusta GA. | Ref: 17 |
May 05 | Ace Cannon (John Henry Cannon Jr.) saxophonist: Tuff, Blues [Stay Away From Me] | Ref: 4 |
May 07 | Donald Russell Holler composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 07 | Heinz Marti composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 07 | Edward Naylor composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
May 09 | Roy Massey Master of Choristers (Hereford Cathedral), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 14 | Frederik von Pallandt singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 19 | Jan Wijn Dutch pianist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 22 | Al Brown entertainer: group: Al Brown & The Tunetoppers: LP: The Madison Dance Party, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 22 | Peter Nero (Nierow), New York NY, conductor/pianist (A Sunday in New York), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 25 | Gustav Theodore Holst, English composer (Ode to Death), dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | Julian Slade composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | Rob du Bois composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 31 | Karl-Erik Welin composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 01 | Singer Pat Boone (Charles Eugene Boone) is born in Florida. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 06 | Philippe Entremont France, pianist/conductor (Vienna Chamber Orch), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 07 | Wynn Stewart singer: Its Such a Pretty World Today, Wishful Thinking, After the Storm; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 09 | Jackie Wilson Detroit, singer (Lonely Teardrops), is born. | Ref: 68 |
Jun 10 | Frederick Delius, English/French composer, dies at age 72. | Ref: 70 |
Jun 26 | Dave Grusin composer: film scores: On Golden Pond, Heaven Can Wait, Tootsie, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 27 | Anna Moffo opera singer: Metropolitan Opera [1959-1969], is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 02 | Tom Springfield folk singer: group: Springfields: Silver Threads and Golden Needles, Island of Dreams, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 12 | Harvey Lavan "Van" Cliburn Jr La, pianist (Tchaikovsky 1958), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 15 | Harrison Birtwistle Accringto, Lancashire, composer (Trombeau), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 23 | Steve Lacy (Lackritz) jazz musician: soprano sax: Ask Me Now, Pannonica; composer, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 24 | Rudy Collins musician: drums: group: Dizzy Gillespie quintet, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 25 | Don Ellis Grammy Award-winning jazz musician: trumpet, composer: Theme from the French Connection [1973]; New Nine, 3-3-2-2-2-1-2-2-2, Tears of Joy, Milos Theme, Star Children; soloist: NY Philharmonic; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 28 | Jacques D'Amboise dancer/educator (NYC Ballet Company), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 09 | Merle Kilgore Songwriter Hall of Famer: Ring of Fire, More and More, Johnny Reb, Wolverton Mountain, Dear Mama, Love Has Made You Beautiful, Fast Talking Louisiana Man, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 02 | Russ Columbo singer, bandleader, songwriter: You Call It Madness, Lets Pretend Theres A Moon, Prisoner of Love; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 05 | Carol Lawrence (Laraia) singer, actress: West Side Story, General Hospital | Ref: 4 |
Sep 08 | Peter Maxwell Davies Manchester England, composer (Prolation), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 16 | George Chakiris Academy Award-winning actor, dancer: West Side Story [1961] | Ref: 68 |
Sep 21 | Leonard Cohen Montreal, singer/songwriter (Death of Ladies Man), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 30 | Freddie King Gilmer TX, blues singer (Hideaway), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 22 | Donald McIntyre Auckland NZ, Bass-Baritone (Wotan-Das Rheingold), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 29 | Robert E Hughes NYC, orch leader (Rich Little Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 24 | Alfred Schnittke Russia, composer (St Florian), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 24 | Martin Charnin Broadway lyricist (Annie, West Side Story), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 28 | Ethel Ennis singer: w/Benny Goodman Orchestra, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 01 | Billy Paul (Paul Williams), Philadelphia PA, singer (Me & Mrs Jones), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 08 | Bernhard Seklas composer, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 09 | [Amos] Junior Wells Memphis TN, blues singer (In My Younger Days), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 09 | Alan Ridout composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 11 | Curtis Williams singer: group: The Penguins: Earth Angel, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 12 | Habib Hassan Touma composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 17 | Birth of Kurt Kaiser, contemporary American Christian songwriter and composer. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | McKinley Mitchell US gospel/singer (The Town I Live In), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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Jan 01 | Harold Martina Netherlands Antilles, pianist/conductor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 06 | Nino Tempo Niagara Falls NY, rock vocalist (Deep Purple), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 06 | Paul Wilson US R&B-singer (Flamingos-Lovers Never Say Goodbye), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 07 | Noam Sheriff composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 09 | Kenneth "Buddy" Scott blues guitarist/Singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | -Blues artist Eddy Clearwater is born. | Ref: 64 |
Jan 10 | Ronnie Hawkins Ark, rocker (The Band-Who Do You Love?), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Sherrill Milnes Hinsdale IL, baritone, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Georg Katzer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 11 | Chuck Barksdale US singer (Dells-I Can Sing a Rainbow), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 15 | Malcolm Frager St Louis MO, pianist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 16 | Richard Wetz composer, dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 20 | Buddy Blake (Buddy Cunningham) recording artist: recorded for Sun Records as B.B. Cunningham and Buddy Blake; record executive: Cover Record Co., Sam Phillips Holiday Inn label, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 26 | Peter Ronnefeld composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 26 | Zbigniew Penherski composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 28 | Leonid Grabovsky composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 28 | Mikhail Mikhaylovich Ippolitov-Ivanov Russian composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 31 | Bojidar Dimov composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 03 | Johnny "Guitar" Watson rock guitarist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 04 | Martti Talvela Hiitola Karelia Finland, operatic basso, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Alex Harvey rocker (Just Visiting This Planet), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Kenneth "Buddy" Scott blues guitarist/Singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Karl Nef Swiss musicologist, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 10 | Salvator Pueyo composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 10 | Theodore Antoniou composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 11 | Bent Lorentzen composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 11 | Gene Vincent Craddock) Norfolk VA, rock guitarist/vocalist (Be-Bop-A-Lula), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 12 | Ray Manzarek keyboardist (The Doors-Light My Fire, Unknown Soldier), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 12 | Gene McDaniels US vocalist/bandleader/actor (Young Swingers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 16 | Sonny (Salvatore) Bono singer, entertainer [Sonny & Cher]: I Got You Babe, Baby Dont Go, The Beat Goes On; TV: The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour; mayor: Palm Springs, CA; U.S. Congressman; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 17 | Johnny Bush country singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 18 | Sonny Bono (Representative-R-CA)/singer (Sonny & Cher), is born. | Ref: 24 |
Feb 27 | Mirella Freni Modena Italy, lyric soprano (Madame Butterfly), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Alberto Remedios opera/concert singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 09 | Keely Smith Norfolk VA, singer (Mrs Louis Prima), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 12 | Helga Pilarczyk German soprano (Salome, Lulu), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 14 | Jo van den Booren composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 17 | Adam Wade Pittsburgh PA, singer (Tony Orlando & Dawn), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 29 | Ruby Murray Irish pop singer (Softly Softly), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | Gordon Mumma composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | John Charles Eaton composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | Romanos Hovakimi Melik'yan composer, dies at 51. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 31 | Herb Alpert bandleader: Tijuana Brass: The Lonely Bull, Taste of Honey, The Work Song, This Guys in Love with You, Rise; record company executive: the "A" of A&M Records, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 04 | Franois-Bernard Mache composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | Peter Grant rock band manager, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | Emil Mlynarski composer, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 07 | Bobby Bare Grammy Award-winning country singer: Detroit City [1964]; All America Boy [as Bill Parsons], Shame on Me, 500 Miles Away from Home; actor: A Distant Trumpet, is born in Irontown OH. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 09 | Aulis Sallinen composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 10 | Jorge Mester Mxico City Mxico, conductor (Louisville Orchestra 1967-79), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 11 | Pierre Kartner [Father Abraham], Dutch singer (Smurf Song), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 11 | Richard Berry musician, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 14 | Loretta Lynn, Butcher's Hollow KY, country singer (Coal Miner's Daughter), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 15 | Gene Cherico bassist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 16 | Bobby Vinton (Stanley Vintulla), Pittsburgh PA, singer (Roses are Red, Blue on Blue), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 16 | Haskell "Cool Papa" Sadler blues singer/guitarist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | Paul A Rothchild record producer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 22 | Glen Campbell Delight Ark, actor/singer (Time I Get to Phoenix), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 24 | Paul Klengel composer, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 28 | Alexander Campbell Mackenzie Scottish composer, dies at 87. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Otto M Zykan composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Leroy Carr rocker, dies. | Ref: 5 |
May 02 | Link Wray rocker (Link Wray & His Ray Men), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 09 | Nokie Edwards musician: guitar: group: The Ventures: Walk Dont Run, Perfidia, Hawaii Five-O Theme, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 10 | Singer Larry Williams (Lawrence E. Williams) (Short Fat Fannie, Bony Maronie, Dizzy Miss Lizzie) is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 10 | Henry Fambrough US singer (Spinners), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 13 | Nigel Butterley composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 13 | Yizhak Sadai composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 17 | Paul Abraham Dukas, French composer, dies at age 69 in Paris, France. | Ref: 70 |
May 19 | Charles Martin Tornow Loeffler French composer, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
May 21 | Terry Lightfoot clarinetist/bandleader (New Orleans Jazzmen), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 27 | Ramsey Lewis musician: group: Ramsey Lewis Trio: The In Crowd, Hang on Sloopy, Wade in the Water, is born in Chicago. | Ref: 4 |
May 27 | Elias Gistelinck Flemish composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | Josef Suk Czechoslovakia, violinist/composer, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
May 30 | Lothar Windsperger composer, dies at 49. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 24 | Terry Riley Colfax Calif, composer (Spectra), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 25 | Eddie Floyd singer: group: Falcons: Youre So Fine; solo: Bring It on Home to Me, Knock on Wood, Ive Never Found a Girl [To Love Me like You Do], is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 02 | Gilbert Kalish Brooklyn NY, pianist/professor (SUNY Stony Brook), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 08 | Steve Lawrence (Sidney Leibowitz), Brooklyn, singer/actor (Go Away Little Girl, Lonely Guy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 17 | P.D.Q. Bach [Peter Schickele], IA, composer (5th of Beethoven), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 21 | Kaye Stevens US, singer (Jerry Lewis Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 23 | Cleveland Duncan singer: group: Penguins: Earth Angel, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 29 | Peter Schreier Meissen Germany, tenor (Dressden State Opera 1961), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 02 | Hank Cochran songwriter: A Little Bitty Tear, Funny Way of Laughing, Make the World Go Away, I Fall to Pieces, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 20 | Justin Tubb San Antonio TX, country singer (Grand Ole Opry), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 30 | Singer John Phillips (Mommas and the Pappas) is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 01 | Seiji Ozawa, Hoten Manchuria, conductor (Boston Symphony Orchestra), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 07 | -Blues singer Little Milton is born. | Ref: 6 |
Sep 19 | Nick Massi (Macioci) musician: bass, singer: group: The Four Seasons: is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 23 | Les McCann musician, singer, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 30 | Jill Corey (Norma Jean Esperanza), Avonmore Pa, singer (Your Hit Parade), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 30 | Johnny Mathis singer (Chances are, 12th of Never), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 05 | Margie Singleton singer: Keeping Up with the Joneses [w/Faron Young], Eyes of Love, Old Records; TV performer: Louisiana Hayride, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 12 | Luciano Pavarotti Emmy Award-winning opera star: Pavarotti in Philadelphia: La Boheme [1982-1983]; actor: Yes, Giorgio, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 12 | Samuel Moore singer: group: Sam & Dave Emmy Award-winning opera star, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 14 | La Monte Young Bern Idaho, composer (Compostion in 1990), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 27 | Al Jackson Jr. drummer: groups: Booker T. and the M.G.s, Roy Milton Band; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 30 | Jack Reno country singer: Repeat After Me, Hitchin a Ride, I Want One, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 01 | Lou Rawls (Louis Allen) Grammy Award-winning singer: Dead End Street [1967], A Natural Man [1972]; Youll Never Find Another Love Like Mine, Your Good Thing is about to End, Youve Made Me So Very Happy, Love is a Hurtin Thing, Budweiser commercials, TV regular: Dean Martin Presents; group: Soul Stirrers, is born in Chicago IL. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 02 | Jurg Wyttenbach composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 04 | Singer Little Richard (Pennimann) is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 04 | Johan Halvorsen composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 07 | Jean-Claude Casadesus composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 11 | Tom Brumley musician: steel guitar: group: Buck Owens and the Buckaroos, Stone Canyon Band, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 23 | Little Esther Phillips (Esther Mae Jones) pianist, singer: Release Me, What a Diffrence a Day Makes; Grammy nomination: Best female R & B vocalist [1973], Aretha Franklin won but gave award to Esther; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 24 | Alban Maria Johannes Berg, composer, dies at 50. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | Gunter Friedrichs composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 26 | Abdul Duke Fakir singer: group: The Four Tops: Baby I Need Your Loving, I Cant Help Myself, Reach Out Ill Be There, Standing in the Shadows of Love, Seven Rooms of Gloom, Bernadette, Keeper of the Castle, Aint No Woman like the One Ive Got, When She Was My Girl, Dont Walk Away, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 30 | Bruno Canino composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1936
Jan 01 | Eve Queler New York City NY, conductor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 02 | Roger Miller, Fort Worth TX, country singer (King of the Road, Dang Me), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 03 | Jos Kunst composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 07 | Eldee Young US bassist (Young Holt Unlimited-Hang on Sloopy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 09 | Peter Fletcher music teacher, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 13 | Ami Maayani composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 14 | Clarence Carter US singer (Thread the Needle), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 19 | Elliott Schwartz composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 22 | Louis Glass composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 23 | Dame Clara Butt alto singer (Country of Hope & Glory), dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 24 | Doug Kershaw Louisiana, plays electric fiddle, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 24 | Daniel Goode composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 24 | Jack Scott (Scafone) singer: My True Love, Goodbye Baby, What In the Worlds Come Over You, Burning Bridges, is born in Canada. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 28 | Jack Scott vocalist (My True Love), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 28 | Robert Suderburg composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | Malcolm Binns concert pianist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 30 | Horst Jankowski pianist: A Walk In The Black Forest; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 31 | Marvin Junior singer (Dells-Oh What a Night), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 06 | Otis Williams rocker (Charms), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 08 | Larry Verne, singer (Please Mr. Custer), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 12 | Arnost Parsch composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 19 | Bob Engemann singer: group: The Lettermen: When I Fall In Love, Goin Out of My Head, Cant Take My Eyes Off You, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 22 | Ernie K-Doe [Ernest Kador Jr], New Orleans LA, rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 25 | Norman Orville Scribner composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Chuck Glaser Spalding NB, singer (Glaser Brothers-Getting to Me Again), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | Aribert Reimann composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | Eric Allandale rocker (Foundations), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | Ruben Mattias Liljefors composer, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 06 | Josef Stransky composer, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 06 | Rubin Goldmark composer, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | Gabor Szabo Hungarian jazz pianist (Perfect Circle), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 17 | Ladislaw Kupkovic composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 18 | Robert Lee Smith US singer (Tams, You Lied to Your Daddy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 19 | Amancio D'Silva musician, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 21 | Marek Stachowski composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 21 | Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov composer (Chopiniana), dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 22 | Roger Whittaker Nairobi Kenya, country singer (Durham Town), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 24 | Fredrick Kaufmamn composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 25 | Lawrence Bernard "Larry" Gales bassist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Erich Urbanner composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Fred Paris rocker (Five Satins), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | Malcolm Goldstein composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Birth of Bill Gaither, contemporary Gospel songwriter and vocal artist. Together with his wife Gloria, he wrote some of the most popular Christian songs of the 1960s-1970s, including "Because He Lives," "The King is Coming," "The Longer I Serve Him" and "Something Beautiful." | Ref: 5 |
Mar 29 | Richard Rodney Bennett Broadstairs Kent England, composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | Mikhail Vladimirovich Ivanov-Boretsky composer, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 04 | Margo J Sylvia rocker (Tune Weavers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | John White composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 06 | Manfred Schoof composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 09 | Jerzy Maksymiuk composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 10 | Bobbie Smith singer: group: The Spinners, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 11 | Mitya Stillman composer, dies at 44. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | Judy Lynn country singer: Footsteps of a Fool; entertainer: Las Vegas; The Judy Lynn Show; Snake Valley Jamboree Queen [1952]; U.S. Champion Yodeler [1953]; Miss Idaho [1955], is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 15 | Hector Quintanar composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 17 | Pete Graves rocker (Moonglows), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | Ottorino Respighi Italian composer (Belkis), dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | Seaborn M Denson composer, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 19 | Csaba Szabo composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 19 | Ruby Johnson US singer (I'll Run Your Hurt Away), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 19 | Ottorino Respighi viola-player, pianist, composer: Fontane di Roma [Fountains of Rome], Pini di Roma [Pines of Rome], and Feste romane [Roman Festivals]; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 20 | Beaver Harris (William Godwin Harris) musician: drums: co-led 360 Degree Music Experience [w/Roswell Rudd, Marion Brown, Grachan Moncur III]; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 21 | Anthony Joseph Gnazzo composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 22 | Glen Campbell Delight AR, actor/singer (Rhinestone Cowboy, By the Time I get to Phoenix, Galveston, Wichita Lineman), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 23 | Roy Orbison, Vernon TX, rocker (Oh Pretty Woman, Only The Lonely), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 24 | Alphons Diepenbrock composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 24 | Bernard van Dieren composer, dies at 51. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 28 | John Martin Tchicai composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | April Stevens (Carol Lo Tempio) singer: Deep Purple, Whispering, Stardust, is born in Niagara Falls NY. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 29 | Zubin Mehta Bombay India, conductor (New York Philharmonic), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 02 | Michael Rabin New York NY, violinist (In Memorium), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 03 | Engelbert Humperdinck [Arnold George Dorsey] Madras India, singer (After The Lovin', Release Me, Quando, is born in Madras India. | Ref: 68 |
May 06 | Sylvia Robinson rocker (Mickey & Sylvia-Love is Strange), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 06 | Hans Jelmoli composer, dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
May 07 | Cornelius Cardew composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 14 | Bobby Darin [Walden Waldo Cassotto] Bronx NY, singer (Mack the Knife), is born in New York City. | Ref: 5 |
May 15 | Jean Balissat composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 17 | Philippe Boesmans composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 18 | Alick Maclean composer, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
May 24 | Harold Budd composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 25 | Tom T Hall, Olive Hill KY, country singer/writer (Harper Valley PTA), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 25 | Jan Levoslav Bella composer, dies at 92. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | Maki Ishii composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 30 | Galina Shostakovich daughter of Russian composer Dmitri, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 06 | Levi Stubbs (Stubbles) lead singer: group: The Four Tops: Baby I Need Your Loving, I Cant Help Myself, Reach Out Ill be There, Standing in the Shadows of Love, Seven Rooms of Gloom, Bernadette, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 08 | James Darren (Ercolani) singer: Goodbye Cruel World, Her Royal Majesty; actor: The Guns of Navarone, Because Theyre Young, Gidget; host: Time Tunnel, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 19 | Tommy DeVito singer: group: The Four Seasons: Sherry, Big Girls Dont Cry, Walk like a Man, Rag Doll, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 20 | Billy Guy singer: group: The Coasters: Down in Mexico, Searchin, Young Blood, Yakety Yak, Charlie Brown, Along Came Jones, Poison Ivy, Little Egypt, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 22 | Singer Kris Kristofferson is born. (XDG, p 4A, 6/22/2000) | Ref: 83 |
Jun 28 | Cathy Carr singer: Ivory Tower, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 09 | David Zinman NYC, conductor (Balt Symphony-1983), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 14 | Gloria Lambert Worcester Mass, singer (Sing Along With Mitch), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 16 | Buddy Merrill Torrey Utah, guitarist (Lawrence Welk Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 18 | La Argentina, Spanish dancer, dies at age 45. | Ref: 70 |
Jul 30 | Buddy (George) Guy musician: blues guitar, singer: Stone Crazy, LPs: A Man and His Blues, This is Buddy Guy, Hold That Plane, Hot and Cool, Buddy and the Juniors, In the Beginning; in films: The Blues is Alive and Well in Chicago, Out of the Blacks and into the Blues; on BBC-TV: Supershow, Chicago Blues, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 23 | Rudy Lewis singer: group: Drifters: Up on the Roof, On Broadway, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 07 | Rock legend Buddy Holly was born Charles Hardin Holley in Lubbock, TX. | Ref: 68 |
Oct 01 | Edward Villella US, ballet dancer (NYC Ballet), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 03 | Steve Reich NYC, composer (My Name is), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 07 | Charles Dutoit symphony orchestra conductor/director: Orchestre Symphonique de Montral, Orchestre National de France, NHK Symphony Orchestra, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 24 | Bill Wyman England, rocker (Rolling Stones-Under My Thumb), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 26 | Bruce Belland Chicago, singer (Tim Conway Hour), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 28 | Charlie Daniels, CMA Award-winning musician [1979]: guitar, fiddle; singer: group: Charlie Daniels Band: The Devil Went Down to Georgia, Uneasy Rider, Still in Saigon; in film: Urban Cowboy, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 05 | Billy Sherrill songwriter, musician: saxophone: Tipsy; record producer: Almost Persuaded; VP/Executive Producer: CBS Nashville, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 07 | Gwyneth Jones, Pontnewyndd Wales, soprano (Die Walkyre), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 09 | Mary Travers singer: Mary of Peter, Paul and Mary: Leaving on a Jet Plane, Blowin in the Wind, Puff the Magic Dragon, I Dig Rock n Roll Music; solo: LP: No Easy Walk to Freedom, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 17 | Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Austrian contralto, dies at age 75. | Ref: 70 |
Nov 18 | Hank Ballard Rock and Roll Hall of Fame singer, songwriter: group: The Midniters: The Twist, Finger Poppin' Time, Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go, Work with Me Annie, Sexy Ways, Annie Had a Baby, is born in Detroit MI. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 21 | James De Preist Philadelphia PA, conductor (Mitropolos 1964), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 01 | Lou Rawls (Louis Allen), Chicago IL, singer (Dean Martin's Gold-diggers, Natural Man), is born. (also TWA, 1998) | Ref: 5 |
Dec 02 | Peter Michael Braun composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 04 | Larry Davis blues singer/guitarist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 05 | Chad Mitchell singer: group: Chad Mitchell trio, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 12 | Bengt Emil Johnson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 17 | Tommy Steele London, singer/actor ( a Sixpence, Finian's Rainbow), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 23 | Claude Albert Coppens composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | Pierre Maurice composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 29 | Vitaly Alexeyevich Godzyatsky composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1937
Jan 04 | Grace Ann Jaeckel Bumbry, St Louis, mezzo-soprano (Venus in Tannhuser), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 06 | Doris Troy [Payne], US soul singer/songwriter (Just One Kiss), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | Robert Moran composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | Shirley Bassey Cardiff Wales, singer (Goldfinger, Moonraker), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | John Felix August Korling composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 14 | Billie Jo Spears country singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 16 | Conny Vandenbos Dutch singer (My rose, my little rose), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 16 | Bob Bogle (Robert Lenard Bogle) musician: guitar, bass: group: The Ventures: Walk, Dont Run, Perfidia, theme from Hawaii Five-O, is born in Portland OR. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 24 | Bobby Scott singer, pianist: Chain Gang; songwriter: A Taste of Honey, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 27 | John Ogdon Manchester England, pianist/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | Bobby Scott jazz singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 31 | Philip Glass Baltimore MD, composer (Einstein on the Beach), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 31 | Steve Karmen Bronx NY, jingle writer (I Love NY, This Bud's for You), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 01 | Don Everly Brownie KY, singer (Everly Brothers-Wake Up Little Susie), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 01 | Ray Sawyer [Dr Hook] Alabama, vocalist (Dr Hook-When You're in Love), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Martina Arroyo New York NY, operatic soprano (New York Met), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Tom Smothers New York NY, comedian (Smother Brother Show, Serial), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Cocky van Oost [Kommertje van Vliet], Dutch dancer (Sylphides), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 08 | Joe Raposa composer/songwriter (Sesame Street), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Johnny Sayles US vocalist (You Made Me Wiggle), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 10 | Don Wilson rock guitarist (Ventures-Walk Don't Run, Batman Theme), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 11 | Lodewijk Boer Dutch violinist/playwright (The Family), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 14 | Magic Sam rocker (Chicago Bluesman), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 14 | Erkki Gustav Melartin composer, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 15 | Zoltan Pesko composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 17 | Mickey McGill US vocalist (Dells-Love is Blue), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | David Ackles Illinois, singer/songwriter (American Gothic), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Nancy Wilson Chillicothe OH, jazz singer (Feel Like Making Love), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Dubravko Detoni composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 02 | Gustav Wohlgemuth composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | Barbara McNair Racine WI, singer/actress (Barbara McNair Show), is born. | Ref: 17 |
Mar 04 | [Bernard Barney Jean] Wilen musician, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | Ron Carter jazz bassist (Ron Carter Meets Bach), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 06 | Merle Haggard country singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 06 | Paul Mefano composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | Raynoma (Liles) Gordy [Mayberry], US orchestra leader (Rayber Voices), co-founder of Motown [with husband Berry Gordy], is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 09 | Mickey Gilley, country singer: Academy of Country Music Top New Male Vocalist [1974], 1976 awards: Entertainer of the Year, Male Vocalist of the Year, Album of the Year: Gilleys Smoking, Song of the Year: Dont the Girls Get Prettier at Closing Time, Single of the Year: Bring It on Home; owned Gilleys Club [honky-tonk that inspired movie Urban Cowboy]; owner: Mickey Gilleys Theatre, Branson MO; Jerry Lee Lewis cousin, is born in Ferriday LA. | Ref: 68 |
Mar 11 | Paul Scheinpflug composer, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 12 | Elizabeth Vaughan, opera soprano (Victor-Victoria), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 12 | Charles-Marie-Jean-Albert Widor French organist/composer, dies at 93. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 12 | Jeno Hubay composer, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 16 | Constanca Capdeville composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 17 | Galina Samsova ballerina, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 19 | Clarence "Frogman" Henry musician (You Always Hurt the One You Love), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 20 | Joe Rivers rocker (Johnnie & Joe), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 20 | Jerry Reed (Hubbard) singer: Amos Moses, When Youre Hot, Youre Hot, She Got the Goldmine, I Got the Shaft; songwriter: U.S. Male, Guitar Man; actor: Gator, Smokey & the Bandit, is born in Atlanta GA. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 22 | Johnny Ferguson singer: Angela Jones, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 22 | Jon Hassell composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 24 | Johnny Ferguson singer: Angela Jones, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 24 | Benjamin Luxon Redruth England, baritone (Owen Wingrave), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 24 | Billy Stewart US R&B singer (I Do Love You), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | Johnny "Clyde" Copeland US blues guitarist/singer (Lion's Den), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 29 | Karol Szymanowski, Polish/Ukraine composer (Stabat Mater), dies at 54. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 31 | Willem Duyn [Mouth], Dutch singer (Mouth & MacNeal), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 06 | Merle Haggard, CMA Entertainer and Male Vocalist of the Year: [1970]; songwriter: Okie from Muskogee, If We Make It Through December, Hungry Eyes, Workin Man Blues, Mama Tried, is born in Bakersfield CA. (also TWA, 1997) | Ref: 4 |
Apr 07 | [Big] Charlie Thomas New York NY, jazz/rock singer (Drifters), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 08 | Arthur William Foote US organist/composer, dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 08 | William Henry Hadow composer (Studies in Modern Music), dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 10 | Algernon Ashton composer, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 15 | Bob Luman singer: Lets Think About Living, Every Day I Have to Cry Some, The Pay Phone, Proud of You Baby; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 15 | Nikolai Artzibushev composer, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 17 | Galina Samsova ballerina, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 22 | Jack Nitzsche composer/songwriter (An Officer & a Gentleman), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 24 | Joe Henderson composer/musician: tenor sax: played in sextet at San Franciscos Keystone Korner; also played with Blood Sweat and Tears; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 28 | Jean Redpath, Scottish folk singer. | Ref: 2 |
Apr 30 | Richard Farina, American folksinger and novelist, is born. | Ref: 70 |
May 01 | Bo Nilsson Swedish composer (Doppelspiel), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 02 | Arthur Somervell composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
May 03 | Frankie Valli [Castelluccio] Newark NJ, singer (Four Seasons-Sherry), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 04 | Hans Ulrich Lehmann composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 09 | Dave Prater Ocilla GA, rock vocalist (Sam & Dave), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 09 | Sonny Curtis Meadow TX, guitarist (of Buddy Holly and the Crickets), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 11 | Viliam Figus composer, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
May 13 | Judith Somogi New York NY, conductor (Frankfurt Opera-1982), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 14 | Peter Frederic Williams composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 15 | Trini Lopez Trinidad, singer/guitarist (If I Had a Hammer), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 20 | Teddy Randazzo songwriter/producer: Goin Out of My Head, Hurt So Bad, Im on the Outside [Looking In]; singer: Way of a Clown; actor: Rock, Rock, Rock, Mister Rock and Roll, Hey, Lets Twist, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 26 | Yehuda Yannay composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | Irmin Schmidt rocker (Can), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | Peter Kolman composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 04 | Freddy Fender (Baldemar Huerta) singer: Wasted Days and Wasted Nights, Before the Next Teardrop Falls, is born in Mexico. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 05 | Waylon Jennings Littlefield TX, country singer (Dukes of Hazzard), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 07 | Neeme Jrvi Tallinn Estonia, conductor (Estonia Opera 1971), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 15 | Waylon Jennings Littlefield TX, country singer (Dukes of Hazzard), is born. | Ref: 68 |
Jun 20 | Jerry Keller singer: Here Comes Summer, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 04 | Ray Pillow singer: Take Your Hands Off My Heart, Thank You Maam, Ill Take the Dog, Volkswagon, Gone with the Wine, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 06 | Gene Chandler [Eugene Dixon], Chicago, rocker (Duke of Earl), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 06 | Vladimir Ashkenazy Gorkey Rus, pianist/conductor (Tchakowsky-1961), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 10 | Sandy Stewart (Galitz) Phila PA, singer (Sing Along With Mitch, Mr President), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 11 | George Gershwin (Jacob Gershvin), American composer of operatic music and Broadway musicals, dies at age 38. | Ref: 70 |
Jul 22 | Chuck Jackson singer: Any Day Now, I Dont Want to Cry, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 27 | Chuck Jackson Latta SC, singer (Any Day Now), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 28 | Peter Duchin NYC, pianist/bandleader (Peter Duchin Orch), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 02 | Garth Hudson musician: keyboard: group: The Band: Up on Cripple Creek, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 27 | Tommy Sands singer/actor (Teenage Rock, Dream With Me), is born. | Ref: 68 |
Sep 10 | Tommy Overstreet singer: Gwen [Congratulations], Dont Go City Girl on Me, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 26 | Bessie Smith, Empress of the Blues: blues singer: sang with Louis Armstrong in 1925: early version of St. Louis Blues, My Mans Blues, Dixie Flyer Blues, I Aint Got Nobody, A Good Man is Hard to Find, Poor Mans Blues; dies of injuries sustained in car crash in Mississippi. | Ref: 68 |
Oct 15 | Barry McGuire Oklahoma City, singer (Eve of Destruction), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 20 | Wanda Jackson singer: Right or Wrong, Lets Have a Party, In the Middle of a Heartache; songwriter: [Lets Stop] Kickin Our Hearts Around, is born in Maud OK. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 24 | Santo Farina musician, steel guitar: group: Santo & Johnny, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 25 | Jeanne (Gloria) Black singer, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 29 | Sonny Osborne musician: 5-string banjo, singer: baritone: group: Osborne Brothers, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 29 | Michael Ponti Freiburg Germany, pianist (Boston Competition 1964), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 31 | Tom Paxton folk singer, songwriter, musician: guitar: is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 01 | Whispering Bill (James) Anderson songwriter: City Lights, I Missed Me, Happy Birthday to Me; singer: Three Times a Lady, Still, My Life, 8x10; [w/Jan Howard]: For Loving You, If Its All the Same to You, Someday Well be Together; member of Grand Ole Opry, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 02 | Earl Speedoo Carroll singer: groups: Carnations; Cadillacs: Speedoo, Peek-A-Boo; Coasters: Lets Go Get Stoned, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 06 | Eugene Pitt singer: group: The Genies: Whos that Knockin; group: Jive Five: Never Never, What Time is It?, Im a Happy Man; solo: My True Story, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 15 | Little Willie John (William Edward John) singer: Sleep, Talk to Me Talk to Me, Fever; convicted of manslaughter, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 19 | Ray Collins, songwriter: Memories of El Monte [w/Frank Zappa for the Penguins], is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 20 | Ruth Laredo (nee Meckler) Detroit MI, concert pianist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 27 | John Ogdon Manchester England, pianist/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 30 | Paul Stookey Baltimore MD, singer (Peter, Paul & Mary-Wedding Song), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 30 | Jimmy Bowen singer: Im Stickin with You, Party Doll, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 01 | Gordon Crosse Bury Lancashire England, composer (Grace of Todd), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | Don Sebesky Perth Amboy NJ, orchestra leader (Jimmy Dean Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 16 | Joe Farrell rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 16 | Jim Glaser singer: group: Tompall and the Glaser Brothers: backup for Marty Robbins El Paso; solo: The Man in the Mirror; songwriter: Woman, Woman, is born in Spalding NE. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 17 | Art Neville New Orleans LA, vocalist (Neville Brothers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 17 | Nat Stuckey country singer: Got Leaving on Her Mind, Days of Sand and Shovels, She Wakes Me Every Morning with a Kiss, Young Love [w/Connie Smith]; songwriter: Sweet Thang, Oh Woman, Waitin in Your Welfare Line, is born. | Ref: 2 |
Dec 25 | OKelly Isley singer: Grammy Award-winning group: The Isley Brothers: Its Your Thing [1969]; Shout, Twist and Shout, That Lady, This Old Heart of Mine; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 26 | Ivor Gurney composer, dies at 47. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 28 | Maurice J Ravel Swiss/French composer (Bolero), dies in Paris at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 30 | John Hartford New York NY, singer/songwriter (Smothers Brothers Hour, Gentle on My Mind), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 30 | [Noel] Paul Stookey Baltimore MD, singer/musician/comedian (Peter, Paul, & Mary), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1938
Jan 07 | Jasperina de Jong Dutch cabaret performer (Jan Rao en z'n Maat), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 11 | Narvel Felts country singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 13 | Paavo Johannes Heininen composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 14 | Allen Toussaint [Naomi Neville], pianist/songwriter (Ride Your Pony, Wild Sign of New Orleans), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 14 | Jack Jones (John Allan Jones) singer: Lollipops and Roses, Wives and Lovers, The Impossible Dream, Lady, The Race is On, Love Boat theme, is born in Los Angeles CA. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 17 | Paul Revere Harvard Nebraska, pianist (Paul Revere & Raiders), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 19 | Phil Everly Brownie KY, singer (Everly Bros-Wake Up Little Susie), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 19 | Eskil Hemberg composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 23 | Eugene Church singer: How Long, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 24 | Julius Arthur Hemphill saxophonist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 25 | Etta James [Jamesette Hawkins], US singer (Roll With Me Henry), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 27 | Kim Gardner rocker (Byrds), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 28 | Bill Phillips country singer: Put It Off till Tomorrow, Georgia Town Blues [w/Mel Tillis] | Ref: 4 |
Jan 30 | Norma Jean (Beasler) country singer: LP: Norma Jean, Heaven Help the Working Girl; TV: Ozark Jubilee, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 01 | Jimmy Carl Black rocker (Mothers Of Invention), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Dick van Niehoff Dutch vocalist (Fouryo), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 06 | Ellsworth Milburn composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 07 | Robert Frank Baksa composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 08 | Ray Sharpe singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 11 | Willy Correa de Oliveira composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 16 | John Corigliano New York NY, composer (Fern Hill, Ghosts of Versailles), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 21 | Albert Huybrechts composer, dies at 39. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Bobby Hendricks US soul vocalist (Itchy Twitchy Feeling), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 02 | Simon Estes Centerville IA, bass/baritone (Wonton, Don Carlos), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 03 | Douglas Leedy composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 03 | Lew De Witt singer (Statler Brothers-Flowers on the Wall), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 03 | Willie Chambers guitarist/vocalist (Chambers Brothers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 05 | Paul Evans singer/pedal guitarist (Damascus Road), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 06 | Lovelace Watkins singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | Lew DeWitt Roanoke VA, country singer (Statler Brothers-Flowers on the Wall), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 09 | Sydney Baynes composer, dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 12 | Lew Dewitt singer: group: The Statler Brothers: Flowers on the Wall, Bed of Roses; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 12 | Dimitri Terzakis composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 12 | Tona Scherchen-Hsiao composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 13 | Hans-Joachim Hespos composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 13 | Jean-Claude Risset composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 15 | Dick Higgins composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 17 | Rudolf Nureyev Russia, ballet dancer/choreographer (Kirov), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 18 | Cyril Rootham composer, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 22 | Singer Glen Campbell is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 25 | Hoyt Axton singer, musician, songwriter: Greenback Dollar, The Pusher, Joy to the World, Never Been to Spain [Axtons mother, Mae Boren Axton, wrote Elvis Presleys Heartbreak Hotel]; actor: The Rousters, Gremlins, Disorganized Crime, The Civil War, Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long, King Cobra; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 02 | Warner Mack (Warner MacPherson) country singer, songwriter: Is it Wrong, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 03 | Jeff Barry Bkln NY, rock writer (Tell Laura I Love Her), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Philippe Wynne Detroit MI, US soul singer (Spinners, Parliament, Ghetto Child), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 04 | After seven years of singing on the radio, Kate Smith began a new noontime talk show. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 04 | Norro Wilson singer, composer, producer: Surround Me with Love, Men [for Charly McClain]; sang duets with Margo Smith, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 05 | Ronald Anthony White Jr singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 07 | Spencer Dryden musician: drums: group: Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship: Somebody to Love, White Rabbit, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 07 | Freddie Hubbard Indpls, jazz trumpeter (Art Blakey), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 08 | Barton Keith McLean composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | Feodor Chaliapin, Russian operatic bass, dies at age 65. | Ref: 70 |
Apr 13 | Frederic Rzewski Westfield MA, composer (Spacecraft), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | Hal Galper jazz pianist: group: Hal Galper Quintet; played with Cannonball Adderley, Donald Byrd, Stan Getz, Chuck Mangione, Joe Henderson; author: The Touring Musician, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 18 | Richard Runciman Terry musicologist, dies. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 19 | Jonathan Tunick composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 26 | Duane Eddy, Phoenix AZ, guitarist (Peter Gunn, Cannonball), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 26 | Maurice Williams rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 04 | Tyrone Davis US R&B singer (Are you serious), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 05 | Johnnie Taylor US gospel singer (I Believe in You), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 09 | Nokie Edwards rocker (Ventures), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 10 | Henry Fambrough singer: group: Spinners: Ill Be Around, Could It Be Im Falling in Love, The Rubberband Man, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 10 | Maxim Shostakovich Leningrad Russia, conductor (Atlanta Symphony), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 10 | Philip Gordon Winsor composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 11 | Carla Bley [Carla Borg] Oakland CA, musician (Escalator Over the Hill), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 11 | Harvey Sollberger Cedar Rapids IA, flutist/composer (2 Oboes Troping), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 15 | Lenny Welch Asbury Park NJ, (Breaking up is Hard to Do), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 17 | Pervis Jackson rocker (Spinners), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 23 | Singer Ray Eberle signed on as vocalist with the Glenn Miller Orchestra for $35 a week. Eberles first session with Miller included, Dont Wake Up My Heart, for Brunswick Records. | Ref: 4 |
May 26 | Jackie Liebesit rocker (Can), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 26 | Teresa Stratas [Anastasia Stratakis] Toronto Ontario Canada, soprano (Salome), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 26 | William Elden Bolcom Seattle WA, composer (Oracles), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | Prince Buster Jamaican reggae musician/producer (Madness), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 31 | Peter Yarrow New York NY, (Peter, Paul & Mary-Puff the Magic Dragon), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 29 | Billy Storm singer (Valiants-This is the Night), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 04 | Bill Withers WV, rhythm & blues singer (Lean on Me), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 09 | Paul Chihara Seattle Washington, US/Japanese composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 20 | Jo Ann Campbell Jacksonville Fla, Lawrence Welk's champagne lady, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 28 | George Cummings musician: guitar: group: Dr. Hook: Sylvias Mother, The Cover of Rolling Stone, [Freakin At] The Freakers Ball, A Little Bit More, Only Sixteen, When Youre in Love with a Beautiful Woman, Sharing the Night Together, Sexy Eyes, Better Love Next Time, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 08 | Connie Stevens (Concetta Ingolia), Bkln, singer/actress (Hawaiian Eye, Back to Beach), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 16 | Robert Johnson Blues Hall of Famer: singer, songwriter, guitarist: Sweet Home Chicago, Cross Road Blues, Me and the Devil Blues; subject of film, Crossroads; inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame [1986]; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 21 | Singer Kenny (Kenneth Donald) Rogers is born. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
Aug 24 | David Freiberg musician: bass guitar: group: Jefferson Starship: We Built this City; Quicksilver Messenger Service: Dinos Song, The Fool, Who Do You Love, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 06 | Joan Tower New Rochelle NY, composer (Breakfast Rhythms), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 12 | Tatiana Troyanos NYC, mezzo-soprano (Octavian-Der Rosenleavalier), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 28 | Singer, songwriter Ben E. King (Benjamin Earl Nelson) is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 28 | Koko Taylor, blues singer. | Ref: 2 |
Oct 03 | Eddie (Ray Edward) Cochran, Okla City, rocker (C'Mon Everybody), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 05 | Johnny Duncan singer: She Can Put Her Shoes Under My Bed [Anytime], Slow Dancing, Hes Out of My Life, Hello Mexico [And Adios Baby to You]; with Janie Fricke: It Couldnt Have Been Any Better, Thinkin of a Rendezvous, Stranger, Come a Little Bit Closer, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 05 | Carlo Mastrangelo singer: group: Dion and The Belmonts, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 14 | Melba Montgomery singer, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 15 | Marv Johnson singer: You Got What it Takes, I Love the Way You Love, Come to Me, I Miss You Baby [How I Miss You]; in film: The Teenage Millionaire [1962]; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 24 | Fred E Finn SF CA, pianist (Mickie Finn's), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 02 | Jay Black (David Blatt) singer: group: Jay and The Americans: Only in America, Come a Little Bit Closer, This Magic Moment, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 04 | Harry Elston musician: group: Friends of Distinction, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 06 | P.J. Proby (James Smith) singer: Hold Me, Together, Somewhere, Maria, Niki Hoeky, Love Will Tear Us Apart; actor: Jet Powers, Catch My Soul, Elvis on Stage, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 07 | Dee (Delectus) Clark singer: Just Keep It Up, Raindrops, Ride a Wild Horse; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 11 | Roger Lavern (Jackson) musician: keyboards: group: The Tornados, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 17 | Gordon Lightfoot, singer: Sundown, If You Could Read My Mind, Carefree Highway, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald; songwriter: Early Morning Rain, Ribbon of Darkness, is born in Ontario Canada. (also TWA, 1998) | Ref: 4 |
Nov 19 | Hank Medress singer: group: The Tokens: The Lion Sleeps Tonight, Tonight I Fell in Love; record producer [w/Dave Appell]: In the Midnight Hour; executive: EMI Publishing Canada, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 21 | Leopold Godowsky, Russian-born American pianist and composer, dies at age 68. | Ref: 2 |
Nov 26 | Ray Brown singer: group: The Four Freshmen, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 26 | Tina Turner (Annie Bullock) Grammy Award-winning Pop Singer of the Year [1985]; Whats Love Got to Do with It, Private Dancer, We Dont Need Another Hero, Theme from Goldeneye; w/Ike Turner: A Fool in Love, Proud Mary; Ikes ex, is born in Brownsville TX. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 27 | Kim Gardner rocker (Byrds), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 01 | Sandy Nelson musician: drums: Teen Beat, Let There be Drums; w/Teddy Bears: To Know Him is to Love Him, is born in Santa Monica CA. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 03 | Jos Serebrier Montevideo Uruguay, conductor/composer (Star Wagon), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 04 | Lynn Blessing vibes Player, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 04 | Dina Appeldoorn Dutch pianist/composer, dies at 54. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 05 | [John] J J Cale Oklahoma City OK, rock guitarist (After Midnight), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 05 | Christina "Dina" Koudijs-van Appeldoorn pianist/composer, dies at 54. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 09 | William Thomas McKinley composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 09 | David Houston Grammy Award-winning singer: Almost Persuaded [1966]; Mountain of Love, Livin in a House Full of Love, With One Exception, You Mean the World to Me, Have a Little Faith, Already Its Heaven, Baby Baby [I Know Youre a Lady], So Many Ways; actor: Carnival Rock, Cottonpickin Chickenpickers; is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | Yuri Temirkanov Nalchik Russia, conductor (Kirov), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | Mario Pilati composer, dies at 35. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 12 | Connie Francis (Concetta Franconero) Newark NJ, singer/actress (Where the Boys Are), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 12 | Joel Chadabe composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 13 | Alvin Curran composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 13 | Tony Gomez rocker (Foundations), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 14 | Marie Emmanuel French composer/musicologist (Salamine), dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 18 | [Bryan] Chas Chandler rocker (The Animals-House of the Rising Sun), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 20 | John Harris Harbison Orange NJ, composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | David Borden composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 28 | Charles Neville musician: saxophone, flute, percussion: group: The Neville Brothers: Mardis Gras Mambo, Cha Booky Doo, Zing Zing, Oooh-Whee Baby, Sitting in Limbo, Iko Iko, Brother John, The Ten Commandments of Love, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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Jan 04 | Jon Appleton composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 07 | David Buchan ethno-musicologist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | Welsh singer Shirley Bassey, is born. | Ref: 17 |
Jan 09 | Johann Strauss Austrian conductor/Royal ball director, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Julius Bittner Austria composer (Missa Austriaca, Little Violet), dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 12 | William Lee Golden Brewton AL, country singer (Oak Ridge Boys), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 15 | Charles Christopher Steel composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 19 | Phil Everly singer: The Everly Brothers [w/brother, Don]: Bye Bye Love, Wake Up Little Susie, All I Have to Do is Dream, Bird Dog, Cathys Clown; solo: When Will I Be Loved; radio host: In Session, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 24 | Doug Kershaw musician: Cajun fiddle, songwriter, singer: Louisiana Man, Diggy Liggy Lo, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 24 | Ray Stevens (Harold Ray Ragsdale) singer, entertainer: Everything Is Beautiful, Mr. Businessman; #1 novelty recording artist: Ahab, the Arab, Gitarzan, The Streak, is born in Clarksdale GA. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 26 | Marshall Lieb rocker (Teddy Bears), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 27 | Tigran Yegiayi Mansuryan composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 01 | Del McCoury bluegrass singer/musician, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 01 | Ray Sawyer rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Barry Mann songwriter: with Cynthia Weil on dozens of 60s & 70s Brill Building hits; singer: Who Put the Bomp [in the Bomp, Bomp, Bomp], is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 09 | Johann Strauss Austrian conductor/Royal ball director, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 10 | Barbara Kolb Hartford CT, composer (Trobar Jus), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 10 | Roberta Flack Black Mountain (Asheville) NC, vocalist (The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face), is born. | Ref: 68 |
Feb 11 | Gerry Goffin lyricist: w/Carole King: Will You Love Me Tomorrow, You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman; w/Michael Masser: Tonight I Celebrate My Love, Saving All My Love for You, is born in Queens NY. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 11 | Franz Schmidt Austrian composer, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 12 | Ray Manzarek musician: keyboards: group: The Doors: The End, Light My Fire, People are Strange, Love Me Two Times, Riders on the Storm, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 14 | Chris Pyne trombonist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 16 | Herbie & Harold Kalin singers: group: The Kalin Twins: When, Forget Me Not, are born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 18 | Ludwig Bonvin composer, dies at 89. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Roy George Elroy Josephs jazz dance teacher, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 21 | Ron Nagle rock producer (Riding with the King), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | E Fernandez Arbs Spanish violinist/conductor/composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Antoinette Sibley ballerina (Turning Point), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 28 | John Fahey singer (Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 28 | Tommy Tune Wichita Falls TX, dancer/choreographer (The Boyfriend), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Leo Brouwer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Warren Davis rocker (Monotones), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 02 | Gerard van Tongeren Dutch singer (Buffoons), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 06 | Jerry Naylor Stephenville TX, rock vocalist (Crickets), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 07 | Marion Marlowe St Louis MO, singer (Arthur Godfrey & Friends), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 07 | Amadeo Roldan composer, dies at 38. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | Robert Tear Barry Wales, tenor (Welsh National Opera 1970), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | Yannis Vlachopoulos composer | Ref: 5 |
Mar 13 | Neil Sedaka songwriter, singer: Oh! Carol, The Diary, Stairway to Heaven, Calendar Girl, Breaking Up Is Hard to Do, Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen, Bad Blood, Laughter in The Rain, is born in Brooklyn NY. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 18 | Charley Pride, Sledge MS, country singer (Just Between You And Me, Sweet Country), is born in Sledge MS. (TWA, 1998) | Ref: 95 |
Mar 18 | Travis Pritchett rocker (Travis & Bob), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 21 | Evald Aav composer, dies at 39. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 23 | Boris Ivanovich Tischenko composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | Rudolph Isley Cincinnati OH, rocker (Isley Brothers-Shout), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 02 | Marvin (Pentz) Gaye, Jr. singer: Pride & Joy, How Sweet It Is, Ill Be Doggone, Aint That Peculiar, I Heard It Through The Grapevine, Whats Going On, Lets Get It On, Sexual Healing; inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame [1987]; died Apr 1, 1984 | Ref: 4 |
Apr 04 | Hugh Masekela, Wilbank South Africa, trumpeter (I Am Not Afraid), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | David Winters London England, choreographer (Steve Allen Comedy Hour), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | Lonnie White vocalist (Smokey Robinson & Miracles-Shop Around), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 09 | Emilio Serrano y Ruiz composer, dies at 89. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 14 | Jennifer Fowler composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 15 | Marti Wilder father of rocker Kim Wilde, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 16 | Dusty Springfield [Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien], London England, rock vocalist (Growing Pains), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 16 | John DeLaFose zydeco Musician, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | Glen Hardin rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 21 | Ernie Maresca singer/songwriter (Runaround Sue, Wanderer), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 21 | John McCabe composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 21 | Herman Finck composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 22 | Mel Carter singer: Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me; actor: Quincy, Sanford and Son, Marcus Welby, M.D., Magnum P.I., is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 23 | Ray Peterson Denton TX, singer (Tell Laura I Love Her), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 24 | John Foulds composer, dies at 58. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 27 | Jerry Mercer Montral Qubec Canada, rock drummer (April Wine), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 01 | Judy Collins, Seattle WA, singer (Send in the Clowns, Both Sides Now, Clouds), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 03 | Jonathan David Harvey English composer (Bhakti, Music of Stockhausen), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 06 | Herbie Cox rocker (Cleftones), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 07 | Jimmy Ruffin singer: What Becomes of the Brokenhearted, Hold on to My Love, There Will Never be Another You, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 07 | Johnny Maestro New York NY, rock vocalist (Crests-16 Candles, Brooklyn Bridge), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 09 | Nokie Edwards musician: guitar: group: The Ventures: Walk Dont Run, Perfidia, Hawaii Five-O Theme | Ref: 4 |
May 09 | Bruce Mather composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 09 | Nokle Edwards rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 09 | Nokie Edwards musician: guitar: group: The Ventures, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 18 | Glen Hardin Texas, rocker (Crickets), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 19 | Richard Lowe Teitelbaum composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 19 | Tomasz Sikorski composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 21 | Heinz Holliger musician: oboe virtuoso, composer, conductor: Siebensgesang for oboe voices and orchestra, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 27 | Don Williams Floydada TX, country singer (I Believe in You), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 27 | Jerry Mercer Montral Canada, rock drummer (April Wine-Just Between You and Me), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 31 | Charles Drain singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 02 | Charles Miller musician: saxophone, clarinet: group: War: LPs: All Day Music, The World is a Ghetto, Why Cant We be Friends?, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 03 | Ian Hunter (Patterson) guitar, singer, songwriter: group: Mott the Hoople: All the Young Dudes, Ballad of Mott, All the Way to Memphis, The Golden Age of Rock n Roll, Saturday Gigs; book: Diary of a Rock Star, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 06 | Gary "US" Bonds [Anderson] singer/songwriter (New Orleans), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 11 | Wilma Burgess country singer: Baby, Misty Blue, Dont Touch Me, Tear Time, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 17 | Dickie Doo (Gerry Granahan) singer: group: Dickie Doo and The Donts: Click Clack, No Chemise Please, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 19 | Al Wilson musician: drummer, singer: Show and Tell | Ref: 4 |
Jun 30 | Frank Sinatra made his first appearance with Harry James band. Sinatra was center stage at the Hippodrome Theatre in Baltimore, MD, where he sang My Love for You. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 01 | Delaney Bramlett musician: guitar, singer: duo: Delaney & Bonnie: Never Ending Song of Love, Only You Know and I Know, LP: Delaney and Friends: Class Reunion, To Delaney from Bonnie, Accept No Substitute: The Original Delaney and Bonnie; TV performer: Shindig, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 17 | Spencer Davis Wales, vocalist (Gimme Some Lovin), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 18 | Dion DiMucci Bronx, rocker (Dion & the Belmonts-Teenager in Love), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 18 | Brian Auger London, fusion keyboardist (Befour, Genesis), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 31 | John West musician: keyboards: group: Gary Lewis and the Playboys: This Diamond Ring | Ref: 4 |
Aug 02 | Edward Patten singer: group: Gladys Knight & The Pips: is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 04 | Frankie Ford (Guzzo), Gretna La, rock vocalist (Sea Cruise), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 07 | Ron Holden singer: Love You So; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 08 | Phil Balsley Va, country singer (Statler Bros-Flowers on the Wall), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 09 | Rhythm-and-blues singer Billy Henderson (The Spinners) is born. | |
Aug 17 | Luther Allison Arkansas, guitarist (Bad News is Coming), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 18 | Johnny Preston singer: Running Bear, Cradle of Love | Ref: 4 |
Aug 19 | Ginger [Peter] Baker England, drummer (Cream-White Room), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 21 | Harold Reid singer: group: The Statler Brothers: Flowers on the Wall, Bed of Roses, Class of 57, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 28 | Clem Cattini musician: drums: groups: Tornados: Telstar, Globetrotter; Johnny Kidd & The Pirates: Please Dont Touch, Youve Got What It Takes, Shakin All Over, Restless, Linda Lu, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 31 | Rock musician Jerry Allison (Buddy Holly and the Crickets) is born. | |
Sep 01 | Seiji Ozawa, conductor, is born. | Ref: 2 |
Sep 02 | Sam Gooden singer: group: Roosters; The Impressions: Its All Right, For Your Precious Love, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 05 | John Stewart San Diego Ca, rocker (Kingston Trio-Fire in the Wind), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 06 | David Allan Coe country musician (Mysterious Rhinestone Cowboy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 17 | Singer LaMonte McLemore (of The Fifth Dimension) is born. (XDG, p 4A, 9/17/2000) | Ref: 83 |
Sep 18 | Frankie (Frances) Avalon (Avellone) singer: Venus, Bobby Sox to Stockings, A Boy Without a Girl, Just Ask Your Heart, Why, Dede Dinah; actor: Disc Jockey Jamboree, Guns of the Timberland, The Carpetbaggers, Beach Party series, Back to the Beach, is born in Philadelphia PA. (also TWA, 1998) | Ref: 4 |
Oct 19 | Benita Valente Delano Calif, soprano (Pamina-Die Zauberflte), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 20 | Jay Siegel singer: groups: The Tokens: Tonight I Fell in Love, The Lion Sleeps Tonight; Cross Country: In the Midnight Hour, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 22 | Ray Jones musician: bass: group: Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 23 | Charlie Foxx singer: Mockingbird [w/sister Inez], is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 30 | Eddie Holland songwriter: writing team: Holland-Dozier-Holland, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 30 | Grace Slick (Wing), Chicago IL, rock vocalist (Jefferson Airplane-White Rabbit), is born. (TWA, 1986) | Ref: 95 |
Nov 11 | -Singer Pete Moore (Smokey Robinson and the Miracles) is born. | |
Nov 12 | Lucia Popp UhorskVes Czechoslovakia, soprano (Die Zauberflute), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 14 | Wendy (Walter) Carlos Pawtucket RI, composer (Switched on Bach), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 20 | -Singer Kim Weston is born. | Ref: 64 |
Nov 23 | Betty Everett singer: Shoop Shoop Song [Its in His Kiss], Therell Come a Time, Youre No Good, I Cant Hear You, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 24 | Jim Yester musician: guitar, sax, singer: group: The Association: Along Comes Mary, Cherish, Windy, Never My Love, Everything That Touches You, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 27 | Tigran Yegiayi Mansuryan composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 28 | Gary Troxel singer: group: The Fleetwoods: Mr. Blue, Come Softly to Me, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 29 | Meco (Domenico Monardo) musician: Star Wars Theme; music producer: Never Can Say Goodbye, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 01 | (Dianne) Dee Dee Lennon singer: group: The Lennon Sisters: The Lawrence Welk Show, Jimmy Durante Presents the Lennon Sisters, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 01 | Max Fiedler composer, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 05 | Frederik van Rossum composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 06 | Toms Svoboda Paris France, Czechoslovakian composer (Etude), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 06 | Steve Alaimo singer: Every Day I Have to Cry Some; actor: The Wild Rebels, Stanley, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 08 | Jerry Butler singer: For Your Precious Love, He Will Break Your Heart, Find Another Girl, Im Telling You, Moon River, Never Give You Up, Hey Western Union Man, LP: Only the Strong Survive; group: The Impressions, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 08 | James Galway Belfast Ireland, flutist (18k gold flute, Royal Philharmonic), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 08 | Ernest Schelling composer, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | Wilhelm Grosz composer, dies at 45. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 15 | Cindy Birdsong Camden NJ, rock vocalist (Labelle-Rainbow, Supremes), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 15 | Nicolaus A Huber composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 17 | Eddie Kendricks singer: group: The Temptations: My Girl, I Cant Get Next To You; solo: Keep on Truckin, Boogie Down, Shoeshine Boy; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 17 | James Booker New Orleans, R & B musician (Gonzo), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 18 | Henrica M L "Wiesje" Backer Dutch dancer/actress/playwright, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 19 | Eric Fogg composer, dies at 36. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 20 | Agatha N "Kim" Weston US gospel/singer (It Takes Two), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 20 | Klaus Schweizer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 22 | Ma Rainey "Mother of the Blues", US blues singer/composer, dies at 53. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 23 | Johnny Kidd (Frederick Heath) singer, songwriter: Please Dont Touch; group: Johnny Kidd & The Pirates: Youve Got What It Takes, Shakin All Over, Restless, Linda Lu, A Shot of Rhythm and Blues, Ill Never Get Over You, Hungry for Love, Always and Ever; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 25 | Bob James rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 26 | [Harvey] Phil Spector record producer (Wall of Sound), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 30 | Del Shannon [Charles Westover] Coopersville MI, rocker (Runaway), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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Jan 01 | Laszlo Sary composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 01 | Richard Henry Orton composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | Cristy Lane US, country/gospel singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 09 | -Country singer Big Al Downing is born. | Ref: 64 |
Jan 09 | Barbara Buczek composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 11 | Mark DeVoto composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 20 | Jorge Peixinho composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 22 | Addie "Micki" Harris Passaic NJ, singer (Shirelles-Soldier Boy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 22 | Tilo Medek German composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 23 | Johnny Russell country singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 24 | Emile van Bosch revue/operetta-artist, dies at 52. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 30 | David Johnson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Frank Sinatra's singing debut in Indpls (Tommy Dorsey Orchestra). | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Alan "Tea" Caddy rock guitarist (Tornados-Globetrotter), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 03 | Angelo DAleo singer: group: Dion and The Belmonts: I Wonder Why, A Teenager in Love, Where or When, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 08 | Talib Rasul Hakim composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Smokey Robinson (of the Miracles) is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Brian Bennett musician: drums: group: The Shadows: Dont Cry for Me Argentina, is born in London England. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 09 | Barbara Buczek composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 10 | Jimmy Merchant rock vocalist (Frankie Lymon & Teenagers-Why Do Fools), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 10 | Hamish Imlach folk singer/comic, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 11 | Bobby 'Boris' Pickett (singer: The Monster Mash) is born. | Ref: 3 |
Feb 19 | Smokey (William) Robinson Rock n Roll Hall of Famer: group: The Miracles: Shop Around, I Second That Emotion, Tears of a Clown; songwriter: My Guy, My Girl; solo: Cruisin, Bein with You; Motown VP, is born in Detroit MI. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 19 | Bobby Rogers US vocalist (Miracles-You Really Got a Hold on Me), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Christoph Eschenbach Breslau Germany, pianist/conductor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Barbara Laine Ellis Olympia WA, singer (Fleetwoods), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 25 | Jess Lopez-Cobos Toro Spain, conductor (International Conductor Competition), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 28 | Joe South Atlanta GA, guitarist/songwriter/singer (Games People Play), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 29 | Gretchen Christopher Olympia WA, American Pop Singer/Songwriter, Founder and Female Lead of The Fleetwoods (Come Softly To Me, Mr Blue), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Ralph Towner Chehalis WA, rocker (Oregon, Weather Report), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 10 | Dean Torrence Los Angeles CA, surf music singer (Jan & Dean-Little Old Lady from Pasadena), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 10 | Francis Schwartz composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 12 | Al Jarreau Milwaukee WI, jazz singer (Moonlighting), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 15 | Phil Lesh (Chapman) musician: bass: group: Grateful Dead: St. Stephen, China Cat Sunflower, Dark Star, Uncle Johns Band, New Speedway Boogie, Truckin, Box of Rain, Alabama Gateway; composer: electronic music, is born in Berkeley CA. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 17 | Vito Picone rocker (Elegants), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 23 | Luis Gasca rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 25 | Ion Nonna Otescu composer, dies at 51. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Rod Lauren rocker (If I Had a Girl), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 29 | Raymond Davis US rock vocalist (Funkadelic-Knee Deep), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | Astrud Gilberto Brazil, singer (Girl From Ipanema), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | Tommy Cash songwriter: You Dont Hear; country singer: Six White Horses, Rise and Shine, One Song Away, I Recall a Gypsy Woman; brother of Johnny Cash, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 06 | Andres Isasi composer, dies at 49. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 07 | Jan Wilhelm Morthenson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 07 | Patricia Paay Dutch singer (You are not hip), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | Herbie Hancock Oscar-winning jazz/fusion musician, composer of original score: Round Midnight [1986]; TV score: Rockschool; singles: Riot, Cantaloupe Island, Rockit, Dolphins Dance, is born in Chicago IL. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 13 | Lester Chambers singer, musician: harmonica: group: The Chambers Brothers: Time Has Come Today, is born in Flora MS. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 15 | Phil Lesh Berkeley CA, bassist (Grateful Dead-Truckin'), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 16 | Stephen Lawrence Pruslin composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | Florrie Forde music hall artist, dies. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 25 | O B McClinton [Burnett] Senatobia MS, country singer (Keep your arms around me), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 26 | Giorgio Moroder Ortisei Italy, composer/producer/singer (Top Gun, Metropolis, Electric Dreams, Cat People, Let it Ride), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 06 | Murray Sidlin Baltimore MD, conductor (National Symphony 1973-77), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 07 | Armando Krieger composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 08 | Rick [Eric Hilliard] Nelson Teaneck NJ, rock star (Hello Mary Lou, It's Late, Garden Party), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 09 | Dick Morrissey saxophonist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 10 | Arthur Alexander US singer/songwriter (Lonely Just Like Me), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 11 | Ronald Anthony Pellegrino composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 13 | Richard Brooks singer (Impressions), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 19 | Mickey Newbury rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 20 | Shorty Long soul singer/pianist (Here Comes the Judge), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 23 | Andrej N Rimsky-Korssakov Russian musicologist/son of Nikolai, dies. | Ref: 5 |
May 26 | Levon Helm musician: drums, singer: groups: The Band, Hawks, Levon and the Hawks, Crackers, Canadian Squires, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 27 | Rene Koering composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | Hans Dulfer tenor saxophonist/director (Paradiso), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | Theodor Streicher composer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
May 31 | Augie Meyers musician: keyboards: groups: Sir Douglas Quintet: Shes About a Mover; Texas Tornados: It was Fun While It Lasted; operates his studio north of San Antonio TX, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 07 | Tom Jones (Thomas Jones Woodward), Pontypridd Wales, singer (What's New Pussycat), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 08 | Nancy Sinatra, Jersey City, singer, her boots were made for walkin', is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 11 | Joey Dee (Joseph DiNicola) singer: group: Joey Dee and The Starliters: Peppermint Twist, Shout, Hot Pastrami with Mashed Potatoes; films: Hey, Lets Twist, Two Tickets to Paris, is born in Passaic NJ. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 13 | Bobby Freeman SF, rocker (Do You Want to Dance), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 16 | Billy "Crash" Craddock, Greensboro NC, singer, is born. | Ref: 17 |
Jun 23 | Adam Faith England, singer (Poor Me, What Do You Want?), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 23 | Diana Trask Australia, singer (Sing Along With Mitch), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 25 | Clint Warwick (Eccles) musician: bass: The Moody Blues: Go Now, LP: The Magnificent Moodies, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 26 | Singer Billy Davis Junior (The Fifth Dimension) is born. | Ref: 68 |
Jul 03 | Fontella Bass singer: Rescue Me, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 15 | Tommy Dee (Thomas Donaldson) singer: The Three Stars; record company executive; DJ: KFXM, San Bernardino, CA, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 16 | Tony Jackson musician: bass, singer: group: Searchers: Sweets for My Sweet, Needles & Pins, Dont Throw Your Love Away, When You Walk into the Room, Goodbye My Love, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 22 | George Clinton (aka Dr. Funkenstein, also Maggot Overlord) singer: groups: The Parliaments: [I Just Wanna] Testify; Funkadelic: LP: Funkadelic, Maggot Brain, One Nation Under a Groove, Funkentelechy vs. the Placebo Syndrome, Trombipulation, The Electric Spanking of War Babies; Parliament: Mothership Connection; Brides of Funkenstein; Parlet; Bootsys Rubber Band; solo: LP: Computer Games: single: Atomic Dog; Parliament/Funkadelic motto: Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Followomic Dog | Ref: 4 |
Jul 23 | Gary Stites singer: Lonely for You, Lawdy Miss Clawdy, Starry Eyed, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 04 | Timi (Rosemarie) Yuro singer: Hurt, Whats A Matter Baby [Is It Hurting You], Gotta Travel On, Down in the Valley, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 05 | Damita Jo (DuBlanc) singer: Ill Save the Last Dance for You, If You Go Away; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 10 | Singer Bobby Hatfield (The Righteous Brothers) is born in Beaver Dam WI. | Ref: 68 |
Aug 14 | Dash Crofts Cisco TX, singer (Seals & Crofts-Summer Breeze), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 19 | Johnny Nash singer: I Can See Clearly Now, Stir It Up, Hold Me Tight, A Very Special Love, is born in Houston, TX. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 25 | Jose Van Dam Brussels Belgium, bass-baritone (Franois d'Assisif), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 01 | Dave White (Tricker) singer, songwriter: group: Danny & The Juniors: At the Hop, Rock and Roll is Here to Stay, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 02 | Jimmy Clanton Baton Rogue, La, rock vocalist (Just a Dream), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 10 | Roy Ayers LA, disco jazz artist (Fever, You Send Me), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 12 | Tony Bellamy musician: guitar: group: The Tornados, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 15 | Jimmy Gilmer singer: group: Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs: Sugar Shack, Daisy Petal Pickin, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 17 | LaMont McLemore singer: group: The 5th Dimension: Up Up and Away, Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In, [Last Night] I Didnt Get to Sleep at All, Wedding Bell Blues, Stoned Soul Picnic, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 18 | Frankie Avalon (Frances Avellone), Philadelphia PA, actor (Beach movies)/singer (Venus), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 19 | Bill Medley Santa Ana Cal, rocker (Righteous Bros-Up Where We Belong), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 19 | Paul Williams songwriter: themes: The Love Boat, The Muppet Movie; Academy Award-winning lyricist: A Star Is Born [1976: w/Barbra Streisand]; actor: Smokey and the Bandit series, Battle for the Planet of the Apes, The Wild Wild West Revisited, The Paul Williams Show, The Night They Saved Christmas, The Doors, Hart to Hart Returns, is born in Omaha NB. | Ref: 68 |
Sep 24 | Barbara Allbut singer: group: Angels: My Boyfriends Back, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 29 | Jerry Lee Lewis Rock and Roll Hall of Famer [1986]: singer: Whole Lot of Shakin Going On, Great Balls of Fire, Breathless; cousin of singer Mickey Gilley, and evangelist Jimmy Swaggart, is born in Ferriday LA. | Ref: 68 |
Oct 03 | Alan ODay songwriter: Angie Baby, Rock and Roll Heaven; singer: Undercover Angel, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 14 | Cliff Richards [Harry Webb], England, rocker (Suddenly), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 21 | Musician Manfred Mann (Michael Lubowitz) is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 23 | (Eleanor) Ellie Greenwich (Ellie Gay, Ellie Gee) songwriter [w/Jeff Barry]: Be My Baby, Chapel of Love, Da Do Ron Ron, Then He Kissed Me, River Deep, Mountain High; singer: group: Raindrops: What a Guy, The Kind of Boy You Cant Forget; solo: LP: Let It Be Written, Let It Be Sung; on Broadway: Leader of the Pack, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 27 | Lee Greenwood country singer (God Bless the USA), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 01 | Balladeer Barry Sadler ("The Ballad of the Green Berets") is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 04 | Delbert McClinton songwriter, singer: I Received a Letter [w/Glen Clark], Sandy Beaches; musician: harmonica: Hey Baby [w/singer, Bruce Channel]; solo: Giving It Up for Your Love, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 14 | Freddie Garrity, singer: group: Freddie and the Dreamers, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 20 | Tony Butala singer: group: The Lettermen: When I Fall in Love, Goin' Out of My Head, Can't Take My Eyes Off You, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 21 | Natalia Makarova ballerina: Kirov Ballet [now Saint Petersburg Ballet]: 1959-1970], defected 1970, is born in Leningrad, USSR. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 21 | Dr. John (Mac Malcolm John Rebennack) musician: organ, guitar, singer: Right Place Wrong Time; songwriter: Lights Out, What?s Goin' On, Lady Luck, Losing Battle, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 23 | Freddy Marsden drummer, singer: group: Gerry and the Pacemakers: Dont Let the Sun Catch You Crying, Ferry Cross the Mersey, How Do You Do It?, I Like It, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 24 | Johnny Carver singer: Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree, You Really Haven't Changed, Afternoon Delight, Don't Tell [That Sweet Ole Lady of Mine], Tonight Someone's Falling in Love, Living Next Door to Alice, Your Lily White Hands, Hold Me Tight, Sweet Wine, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 28 | Bruce Channel singer: Hey! Baby, Going Back to Louisiana, Keep On, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 29 | Chuck Mangione Grammy Award-winning composer: Bellavia [1976]; theme for 1980 Winter Olympics: Give It All You Got; musician: flugelhorn: Feels So Good, Land of Make Believe, The Hill Where the Lord Hides, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 04 | Freddy Cannon [Picariello] Lynn MA, rocker (Palisades Park), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 04 | John Cale Wales, rock vocalist/keyboardist (Velvet Underground), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 05 | Jan Kubelik composer, dies at 60. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 06 | Steve Alaimo Rochester NY, rocker (Mashed Potatoes), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 08 | Graham Knight rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 09 | Sammy Strain US singer (Imperials-Hurt So Bad), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 11 | David Gates musician: guitar, keyboard, singer: solo: Goodbye Girl; group: Bread: Make It With You, If, Baby Im-A Want You, Diary, Aubrey, is born in Tulsa OK. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 12 | Dionne Warwick East Orange NJ, singer (Solid Gold, Way to San Jose), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 16 | Dimitri van Toren Dutch vocalist/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 16 | William Wallace composer, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 19 | Phil Ochs folk singer, songwriter: There But for Fortune, Doesnt Lenny Live Here Anymore?, Heres to the State of Richard Nixon; is born in El Paso TX. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 20 | Larry Willis rock keyboardist (Blood, Sweat & Tears), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 21 | Frank Zappa musician, songwriter, singer: group: Mothers of Invention; Valley Girl [w/daughter Moon]; is born in Baltimore MD. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 21 | Paul [Ray Hildebrand] TX, singer (Hey Paula), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 23 | Jorma Kaukonen musician: guitar: groups: Jefferson Airplane: Its No Secret, Runnin Round This World, Somebody to Love, White Rabbit, Triad, Greasy Heart, Lather, Meadowlands, Wooden Ships, We Can Be Together; Hot Tuna: LPs: Thirty Seconds Over Winterland, Early Flight, Flight Log, Black Kangaroo, is born in Washington DC. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 23 | Eugene Record singer: group: Chi-Lites: Give It Away, [For Gods Sake] Give More Power to the People, Have You Seen Her, Oh Girl, Homely Girl, Too Good to Be Forgotten, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 24 | Jorma Kaukonen rock guitarist/vocalist (Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | Peter Brown Chicago IL, rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 27 | Singer Al Jolson and actress Ruby Keeler were divorced after 12 years of marriage. They had separated a year earlier; but Jolson talked Keeler into co-starring with him in the Broadway show, Hold on to Your Hats. She left the show before the opening and then left the marriage. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 27 | Pete Brown rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 28 | Alvin Elliot Singleton composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 28 | Lonnie Liston Smith US jazz performer (Cosmic Echoes, Magic Lady), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 29 | Ed Buce Keiser AR, country singer (Texas), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 29 | Peter Koelewijn Dutch writer/vocalist (Come off that Roof), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 30 | Fritz Volbach composer, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
- 1941
Jan 02 | Mischa Levitzki composer, dies at 42. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 04 | John Bennett Perry Williamstown MA, singer/actor (Falcon Crest), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 05 | Grady Thomas US rock vocalist (Parliaments, Funkadelic, Maggot Brain), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 06 | Sandy Denny country singer (Fairport Convention-If You Gotta Go), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 07 | Robert Hicks rocker (Paul Butterfield Blues Band), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | Robby Krieger rocker (Doors), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | [Little] Anthony Gourdine singer: group: Little Anthony and The Imperials: Tears on My Pillow, Hurt So Bad, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 09 | Joan Baez Staten Island, folk singer/human rights advocate, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Frank Bridge English violinist/composer (Sea), dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 12 | Long John Baldry England, blues vocalist (Don't try to Lay No Boogie), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 15 | Captain Beefheart (Don Van Vliet) singer: group: Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band: Diddy Wah Diddy, Hair Pie, Old Fart at Play; artist, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 18 | Bobby Goldsboro, Marianna FL, singer (Honey), is born. | Ref: 17 |
Jan 18 | David Ruffin Mississippi, vocalist (Temptations-Papa Was a Rolling Stone), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 18 | Tom Bailey rock vocalist (Thompson Twins-Doctor Doctor), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 20 | Ron Townson singer: group: The 5th Dimension: Up Up and Away, Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In, One Less Bell to Answer, [Last Night] I Didnt Get to Sleep at All; is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 21 | Placido Domingo, Madrid Spain, opera tenor (Pinkerton-Madame Butterfly), is born. | Ref: 17 |
Jan 21 | Richie Havens Brooklyn NY, folk singer (Here Comes the Sun), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 21 | Edwin Starr [Charles Hatcher], US singer (War), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 23 | Dobri Khristov composer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 24 | Michael Chapman Leeds England, rocker (Looking for 11), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 24 | Neil Diamond Brooklyn NY, singer/actor (Jazz Singer), is born. | Ref: 17 |
Jan 24 | Aaron Neville Grammy Award-winning singer: Healing Chant [w/Neville Brothers: 1989], Dont Know Much [w/Linda Ronstadt: 1989], All My Life [w/Linda Ronstadt: 1990], I Fall to Pieces [w/Trisha Yearwood: 1994]; singer: Tell It Like It Is; solo: LPs: Warm Your Heart, The Grand Tour, Aaron Nevilles Soulful Christmas, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 27 | Iver Paul Fredrik Holter composer, dies at 90. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 30 | Joe Terranova singer: Danny and the Juniors: At the Hop, Rock and Roll is Here to Stay, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 02 | Serge Alexandrovich Tcherepnin composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 03 | Angelo D'Aleo Bronx, tenor (Dion & Belmonts-Teenager in Love), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 03 | Chuck Tharp rock vocalist (Fireballs), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 04 | John Steel rock drummer (Animals-House of the Rising Sun), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Rick Laird jazz musician (Gerry Niewood & Timepiece), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Barrett Strong singer: Money [Thats What I Want]; songwriter: Just My Imagination, Papa Was a Rolling Stone, Ball of Confusion, is born in Detroit MI. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 06 | Stephen Albert composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 08 | Tom Rush New Hampshire, rock guitarist/vocalist (Circle Game, Urge For Going), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Carole King (Klein) songwriter, singer: Loco-motion, It Might as Well Rain Until September, Its Too Late, Jazzman, is born. | Ref: 17 |
Feb 09 | Joan Baez Staten Island, folk singer/human rights advocate, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 11 | Sergio Mendes jazz/pop musician (Brazil '66/'77/'88), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 15 | Brian Holland songwriter: Motowns Holland-Dozier-Holland: Baby Love, Stop! In the Name of Love, solo: Dont Leave Me Starvin for Your Love, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 17 | Gene Pitney singer: Town Without Pity, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Only Love Can Break A Heart, It Hurts to be in Love; songwriter: Hello Mary Lou, Hes a Rebel, is born in Hartford CT. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 18 | Herman Santiago singer: group: Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers: Why Do Fools Fall in Love?, The ABCs of Love, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 18 | David Blue [Cohen], Providence RI, rocker (Cupid's Arrow), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 18 | Herb Santiago vocalist (Frankie Lymon & Teenagers-Why Do Fools Fall), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 18 | Irma Thomas [Lee], US vocalist (It's Raining), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 19 | Carlos Roque Alsina composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 19 | Hamilton Hamilton Harty composer/conductor, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Buffy (Beverly) Sainte-Marie singer: Im Gonna Be a Country Girl Again, Mister Cant You See, Up Where We Belong, Hes an Indian Cowboy in the Rodeo; songwriter: Universal Soldier, Until Its Time for You to Go; Married to Jack Nitzsche, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 25 | Ramon Pagayon Santos composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 28 | Marty Sanders rock vocalist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | Edoardo Mascheroni composer, dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 07 | Arnold Schering German musicologist, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | Ivana Loudova composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | Yvar Emilian Mikhashoff composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | Jose Serrano Simeon, composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 09 | Carlos Pedrell composer, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 10 | Daniel Kirkland Lentz composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 10 | Piotr Warzecha composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 11 | Walford Davies British organist/composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 12 | Charles Sanford Skilton composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 15 | Mike Love Los Angeles CA, rock saxophonist/vocalist (Beach Boys-In My Room, Surfin' USA), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 17 | Clarence Collins US singer (Imperials-Tears on my pillow), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 17 | Edward Harper composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 17 | Gene Pitney Hartford CT, rock singer (Town without Pity), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 18 | Margie Bowes country entertainer: Grand Ole Opry; married to Doyle Wilburn of the Wilburn Brothers, is born | Ref: 4 |
Mar 19 | Margie Bowes country entertainer: Grand Ole Opry; married to Doyle Wilburn of the Wilburn Brothers, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 24 | Glenn Miller began work on his first motion picture for 20th Century Fox. The film was Sun Valley Serenade. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 28 | Charlie McCoy Oak Hill WV, harmonica player (Hee Haw), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Alf Clausen Minneapolis MN, orchestra leader (Mary, Simpsons), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | Graeme Edge musician: drums: group: The Moody Blues: Nights in White Satin, LP: Kick Off Your Muddy Boots, Long Distance Voyager, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 02 | Leon Russell, Lawton KS, pianist/singer (Carny), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Jan Berry songwriter, singer: group: Jan and Dean: The Little Old Lady from Pasadena, Dead Mans Curve, Heart and Soul, Linda, Baby Talk, Surf City; is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | Eric Burdon, rocker (Animals-House of the Rising Sun), is born in England. | Ref: 68 |
Apr 05 | David LaFlamme, New Britain CT, electric violinist (It's a Beautiful Day), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | Dave Swarbrick rocker (Fairport Convention), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 08 | Peggy Lennon Los Angeles CA, singer (Lennon Sisters), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | Julio B Euson Aruban singer (I Use the Soap), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 17 | Bill Fury Liverpool England, vocalist/guitarist (When Will You Say I Love You), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 17 | Adolphus Hailstork composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | Mike Vickers musician: guitar, reeds: group: Manfred Mann: Why Should We Not, Cock-A-Hoop, 5-4-3-2-1, Do Wah Diddy Diddy, Oh No Not My Baby, If You Gotta Go, Go Now, Just like a Woman, The Mighty Quinn, Pretty Flamingo, Semi-Detached Suburban Mr. James, The One in the Middle, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 19 | Alan Price musician: keyboards, singer: groups: Alan Price Combo, The Animals: House of the Rising Sun, We Gotta Get Out of This Place, is born in Fatfield Durham England. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 19 | Johanna Muller-Hermann composer, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 23 | Ed Stewart British DJ, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 24 | John Williams Melbourne Australia, guitarist (Academy Award), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 25 | Chris Augustine rocker (Every Mother's Son), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 26 | Claudine Clark singer: Party Lights, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 27 | Judith Blegen Missoula MT, opera singer (Papagena-Magic Flute), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 27 | Friedrich Goldmann composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 30 | Johnny Farina rocker (Santo & Johnny), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 30 | Wilfried Jentzsh composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 01 | Juraj Hatrick composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 08 | John Fred rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 08 | Heinrich Zollner composer, dies at 86. | Ref: 5 |
May 09 | Pete Birrell musician: bass: group: Freddie & The Dreamers, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 10 | Danny Rapp Philadelphia PA, rocker (Danny & Juniors), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 11 | Eric Burdon, Walker-on-Tyne England, rock vocalist (Animals-House of the Rising Sun), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 12 | Anthony Newman Los Angeles CA, harpsichordist/organist (Bhajeb), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 12 | Little Jayotis Washington US R&B singer (Persuasions), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 12 | Ruud de Wolff singer/guitarist (Blue Diamonds), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 13 | Singer Ritchie Valens (Richard Steven Valenzuela) is born. (Died in the "American Pie") | Ref: 24 |
May 13 | Imca Marina [Bijl], singer (Viva Espaa, Bella Italia, Oh Brazil), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 13 | Joe Brown singer/guitarist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 15 | K T Oslin Crossett AR, country singer (80's Ladies), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 15 | Richard Edward Wilson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 16 | Maurice Henry Weddington composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 17 | David Howell Cope composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 17 | Malcom Hale trumpeter, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 19 | Marc-Antonio Consoli composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 21 | Rhythm-and-blues singer Ron Isley (The Isley Brothers) is born in Cincinnati OH. | |
May 22 | Sebastian Forbes composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 23 | Jackson Hill composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 23 | Slavko Osterc composer, dies at 45. | Ref: 5 |
May 24 | Bob Dylan [Zimmerman] Duluth MN, singer/songwriter (Blowin' in Wind), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 24 | Brian Dennis composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 24 | Konrad Boehmer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 24 | Tony Valentino rocker (Standells-Dirty Water), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 26 | Imants Kalnins composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | Roy Crewsdon Manchester, rocker (Freddie & The Dreamers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 31 | Johnny Paycheck (Donald Eugene Lytle), Greenfield OH, singer (Take This Job & Shove It), is born. | Ref: 68 |
Jun 01 | Edo de Waart Amsterdam Holland, conductor (Houston Opera-1976), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 02 | Charlie Watts musician: drummer: groups: Rolling Stones, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 02 | William Guest singer: group: Gladys Knight & The Pips, is born in Atlanta GA. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 05 | Floyd Butler singer: groups: The Hi-Fis, Fifth Dimension, Friends of Distinction: Grazing in the Grass; died in 1990, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 05 | Martha Argerich Buenos Aires Argentina, pianist (debut 1949), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 07 | Jaime Laredo Bolivia, violinist (Qn Elisabeth of Belgium prize 1959), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 09 | Billy Hatton musician: bass: group: The Fourmost: Hello Little Girl, Im in Love, A Little Loving, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 09 | Jon Lord musician: keyboards: groups: Artwoods, Flowerpot Men, Deep Purple: Black Night, Strange Kind of Woman, Fireball, Smoke on the Water, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 10 | Shirley Alston Passaic NJ, singer (Shirelles-Soldier Boy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 12 | Chick Corea Chelsea Mass, jazz musician (Delhpi I, Toy Dance), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 12 | Roy Harper Manchester, rocker (Folkjokeopus), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 15 | Harry Nilsson [Johnny Niles], laid-back singer/songwriter, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 16 | Lamont Dozier, Detroit MI, songwriter (Dozier-Holland-Dozier), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 29 | Ignace Jan Paderewski composer: musician: piano: Minuet in G; Polish patriot: first Premier of Poland [1919]; brought white Zinfandel wine grapes to U.S. for the first time; dies at age 80. | Ref: 68 |
Jul 01 | Twyla Tharp Indiana, choreographer (Twyla Tharp Dance Troupe), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 09 | Karin von Aroldingen Germany, ballet dancer (NYC Ballet Co), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 10 | Ian Whitcomb England, rocker (You Turn Me On), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 10 | Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton pioneer jazz pianist, dies at 56 in LA. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 18 | Singer Martha Reeves (of Martha and the Vandellas) is born in Detroit MI. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 18 | Lonnie Mack Aurora IN, rocker (Baby What's Wrong), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 19 | Natalya Bessmertnova Moscow, dancer (Bolshoi, Lenin Prize 1970), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 19 | Vikki Carr (Florencia Bisenta deCasilla Martinez Cardona), singer: It Must be Him, With Pen in Hand, The Lesson, is born in El Paso TX. (also TWA, 1998) | Ref: 4 |
Jul 22 | Thomas Wayne (Perkins) singer: Tragedy | Ref: 4 |
Jul 22 | George Clinton rocker (Testify, Funkadelics), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 24 | Barbara Jean Love singer: group: Friends of Distinction: Grazing in the Grass, Going in Circles, Love or Let Me Be Lonely is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 25 | Manuel Charlton musician: guitar, singer: group: Nazareth: Love Hurts, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 26 | Bobby Hebb Grammy Award-winning songwriter: A Natural Man [1971]; singer: Sunny; Grand Ole Opry at age 12, is born in Nashville TN. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 26 | Brenton Wood Shreveport La, rocker (Gimme Little Sign), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 28 | Riccardo Muti Napoli Italy, conductor (Philadelphia Orch), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 30 | Paul Anka Ottawa Ontario, singer (Put Your Head on My Shoulder), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 03 | Beverly Lee singer: group: The Shirelles: I Met Him on a Sunday, Dedicated to the One I Love, Tonights the Night, Will You Love Me Tomorrow, Mama Said, Soldier Boy, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 14 | Connie Smith Elkhart, Indiana, singer (Dream Painter, New Horizons), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 14 | David Crosby (Van Cortland), rocker (Crosby, Stills & Nash-Southern Cross), is born. (TWA, 1988) | Ref: 95 |
Aug 15 | Don Rich, Olympia Wash, guitarist/country singer (Hee Haw, one of Buck Owens Buckaroos), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 24 | Ernest Wright singer: group: Little Anthony and the Imperials: Tears on My Pillow, Shimmy, Shimmy, Ko-Ko-Bop, Hurt So Bad, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 28 | Paul Peter Plishka Old Forge Penn, bass (Bronx Botanical Gardens), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 30 | John McNally singer, musician: guitar: The Searchers: Needles and Pins, Love Potion Number 9, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 08 | Dante Drowty singer: group: Dante and The Evergreens: Alley-Oop | Ref: 4 |
Sep 09 | Les Braid England, bass (Swinging Blue Jeans-You're No Good), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 09 | Otis Redding musician, singer: [Sittin on] The Dock of the Bay; is born in Dawson GA. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 13 | David Clayton-Thomas singer: group: Blood Sweat and Tears: You Made Me So Very Happy, Spinning Wheel, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 14 | Priscilla Mitchell singer: Yes Mr. Peters [w/Roy Drusky], is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 15 | Les (William) Braid musician: bass, organ: group: The Swinging Blue Jeans: Hippy Hippy Shake, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 21 | Dickey Lee (Lipscomb) singer: Patches, I Saw Linda Yesterday, Never Ending Songs of Love, Rocky; songwriter: She Thinks I Still Care, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 26 | Joe Bauer musician: drums: group: The Youngbloods, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 27 | Don Nix musician: baritone sax: group: The Mar-Keys, Booker T and the M.G.s, Memphis Horns, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 03 | Chubby Checker (Ernest Evans) singer: The Twist, Pony Time, Lets Twist Again, The Fly, Limbo Rock, Slow Twistin [w/Dee Dee Sharp], is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 08 | George Bellamy musician: guitar: The Tornados, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 09 | Helen Morgan (Riggins) singer, actress: Frankie and Johnny, Show Boat, Applause; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 13 | Paul Simon songwriter, singer, musician: guitar: duo: Simon and Garfunkel: Bridge Over Troubled Water, Homeward Bound, I Am a Rock, Mrs. Robinson, Scarborough Fair, The Sounds of Silence, Cecilia; solo: Mother and Child Reunion, Me and Julio, Kodachrome, 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover, Slip Slidin Away; LP: Graceland; Wonderful World [w/Art Garfunkel, James Taylor]; Rock and Roll Hall of Famer; in film: Annie Hall, is born. | Ref: 68 |
Oct 17 | Alan Howard musician: bass: Brian Poole & The Tremeloes: Twist and Shout, Do You Love Me, Someone, Someone, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 21 | Steve Cropper musician: guitar: group: Blues Brothers; Booker T and The MGs: Green Onions, Hang Em High, Time is Tight, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 23 | Greg Ridley bassist (Spooky Tooth-It's All About), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 25 | Helen Reddy Melbourne Australia, singer (I Am Woman), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 28 | Curtis Lee singer: Pretty Little Angel Eyes, Under the Moon of Love, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 28 | Hank Marvin (Brian Rankin) musician: guitar: group: The Shadows: Apache, Kon Tiki, Wonderful Land, Dance On, Foot Tapper, Dont Cry for Me Argentina, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 30 | Otis Williams singer: group: The Temptations: I Cant Get Next to You, Cloud Nine, Runaway Child, Running Wild, Just My Imagination, Papa Was a Rolling Stone, Masquerade, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 02 | Bruce Welch (Cripps) musician: guitar: group: The Shadows: Apache, Kon Tiki, Wonderful Land, Dance On, Foot Tapper, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 05 | Art Garfunkel singer: duo: Simon and Garfunkel: Bridge Over Troubled Water, Homeward Bound, I Am a Rock, Mrs. Robinson, Scarborough Fair, The Sounds of Silence, Cecilia; Rock and Roll Hall of Famer; solo: All I Know, Second Avenue, I Only Have Eyes for You, Wonderful World [w/James Taylor, Paul Simon]; actor: Catch-22, Carnal Knowledge, Bad Timing is born in Forest Hill, NY. | Ref: 68 |
Nov 06 | Doug Sahm singer: group: founded Sir Douglas Quintet: Shes about a Mover; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 08 | Rodney Slater musician: saxophone, trumpet: group: The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band: Im the Urban Spaceman, Look at Me Im Wonderful, Bad Blood, Straight from My Heart, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 09 | Tom Fogerty musician, songwriter, singer: group: Creedence Clearwater Revival: Bad Moon Rising, Down on the Corner, Proud Mary, Lookin? Out My Back Door, Up Around the Bend; solo: Goodbye Media Man, Lady of Fatima, Beauty is Under the Skin, Joyful Resurrection; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 17 | Gene Clark singer, musician: guitar: group: The Byrds: Turn, Turn, Turn; New Christy Minstrels, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 20 | Gary Karr Los Angeles CA, double-bassist (Oslo Philharmonic), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 24 | Donald Duck Dunn musician: bass: groups: Mar-Keys; Booker T & The MGs | Ref: 4 |
Nov 25 | Percy Sledge singer: When a Man Loves a Woman, Warm and Tender Love, It Tears Me Up, Take Time to Know Her, Ill Be Your Everything, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 27 | Iver Paul Fredrik Holter composer, dies at 90. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 29 | Jody Miller Grammy Award-winning singer: Queen of the House [1965]; Theres a Party Goin On, Look at Mine, Hes So Fine, Baby Im Yours, Darling, You Can Always Come Back Home, Be My Baby, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 29 | Singer Percy Sledge is born. (Ref: The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, ISBN 0-333-74134-X, 1998) |   |
Nov 29 | Pop singer Dennis Dougherty (of the Mamas and the Papas) is born. (XDG, p 4A, 11/29/2000) | Ref: 83 |
Dec 02 | Tom McGuinness musician: bass, guitar: groups: Manfred Mann, McGuinness Flint, Blues Band, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 03 | Johann Christian August Sinding composer, dies at 85. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 06 | John Nelson San Jos Costa Rica, conductor (Les Troyens of Berlioz), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 06 | Helen Cornelius singer: Theres Always a Goodbye, [w/Jim Ed Brown]: I Dont Want to Have to Marry You, Born Believer, If It Aint Love By Now, If the World Ran Out of Love Tonight, Lying in Love with You, Fools, is born in Hannibal MO. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 07 | Cecil Forsyth composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 09 | Dan Hicks rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 11 | Rogier van Otterloo Dutch composer/conductor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 12 | Dionne Warwick Grammy Award-winning singer | Ref: 4 |
Dec 12 | Tim Hauser jazz singer (Manhattan Transfer-Tuxedo Junction), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 12 | Robert Covington drummer/singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 12 | Terry Kirkman Salina KS, rock vocalist/keyboardist (Association), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 18 | Sam Andrew rocker (Big Brother & the Holding Company-Cheap Thrills), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 19 | Maurice White singer, musician: drummer; founder of group: Earth, Wind & Fire: Shining Star, Sing a Song, Got to Get You into My Life, After the Love Has Gone, Best of My Love, is born in Memphis TN | Ref: 4 |
Dec 22 | Leopoldo Mugnone composer, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 23 | Tim Hardin singer, composer: If I Were a Carpenter, Reason to Believe, Hang on to a Dream, Misty Roses, Tippy-Toein; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 25 | Don Pullen pianist/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | Ronald Perera composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 27 | Michael Pinder rocker (Moody Blues-Nights in White Satin), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 31 | Sarah Miles, Essex England, actress (Ryan's Hope, Big Sleep, Venom), is born. (also TWA, 1998) | Ref: 5 |
Dec 31 | Sigwart Aspestrand composer, dies at 85. | Ref: 5 |
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Jan 01 | Country Joe McDonald singer: group: Country Joe & the Fish: The F-I-S-H Cheer from Woodstock, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 01 | George Couroupos composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 01 | Jaroslav Jezek composer, dies at 35. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 04 | John McLaughlin rock guitarist (Sentimental Journey/Clouds of Joy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 04 | Leon Jessel composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 05 | Maurizio Pollini Milan Italy, pianist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | John Peterson rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | Arvo Hannikainen composer, dies at 44. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 11 | Clarence Clemons rock saxophonist (Bruce Springsteen's E St Band), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 15 | Edward "Sonny" Bivins US singer (Manhattans-Kiss & Say Goodbye), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 16 | Barbara Lynn rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 16 | Bill Francis musician: keyboard, singer: group: Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show: When Youre in Love with a Beautiful Woman, Sharing the Night Together, Sexy Eyes, Better Love Next Time, The Cover of Rolling Stone, is born in Mobile AL. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 16 | Barbara Lynn [Ozen], US singer (You'll Lose a Good Thing), dies. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 17 | Frederick Jerome Work composer, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 19 | Shelley Fabares singer: Johnny Angel, Johnny Loves Me; comedienne-actress, Nanette Fabrays niece, is born in Santa Monica CA. (TWA, 1986) | Ref: 95 |
Jan 20 | Slim Whitman yodeler/country singer (Home on the Range), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 21 | Mac (Scott) Davis singer: Baby Dont Get Hooked on Me; Friend, Lover, Woman, Wife; actor: North Dallas Forty; host: The Mac Davis Show; songwriter: In the Ghetto, Memories; ACM Entertainer of the Year [1975], is born in Lubbock TX. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 21 | Henryk Opienski Polish composer/musicologist/conductor, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 25 | Eugene Samuel-Holeman composer, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 27 | Petr Kotik composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 28 | Pablo Luna y Carne composer, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | Claudine Longet singer: LPs: Claudine, The Look of Love, Love is Blue, Colours; actress: McHales Navy, Hogans Heroes, The Party, How to Steal An Airplane, Only One Day Left Before Tomorrow; formerly married to Andy Williams | Ref: 4 |
Jan 29 | Claudine Longet France, former Mrs Andy Williams/singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | Ladislao Joseph Philip Paul Zavrtal composer, dies at 92. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 30 | Marty Balin Cincinnati OH, singer (Jefferson Starship-Miracles), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 30 | Andres [Dries Holten], Dutch singer (Sandra & Andres), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 30 | Vasily Pavovlich Kalafati composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 31 | Gerald Chamberlain jazz musician, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Graham Nash (of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young) is born in Lancashire, England. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 04 | Johnny Gamble rocker (Classics), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Cory Wells singer: group: Three Dog Night: Mama Told Me Not to Come, Pieces of April, Celebrate, Joy to the World, Shambalaya, is born in Buffalo NY. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 06 | John London bassist (Michael Nesmith band), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 08 | Terry Melcher, Rip Chords, Doris Day's son, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Carole King (Klein) songwriter, singer: Loco-motion, It Might as Well Rain Until September, Its Too Late, Jazzman, is born in Brooklyn NY. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 09 | Charlie Morrow composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Milos Stedron composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 11 | Leon Haywood US vocalist/keyboardist (It's Got to be Mellow), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 11 | Otis Clay US gospel/R&B-singer (That's how it is), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 11 | Tony Colton rock producer (On the Boards), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 12 | Lionel Grigson professor of jazz, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 12 | Rick Frank rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 13 | Peter Tork [Peter Halsten Thorkelson] Washington DC, singer/actor (Monkees-Last Train to Clarksville), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 15 | Guido Adler Austrian musicologist, dies at 91. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 15 | Stanislav Binicki composer, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 16 | Gabriel Brncic composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Charlie Gillett Lancashire, rock broadcaster (Sound of the City), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Guido Gasperini composer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 24 | Paul Jones England, rocker (Manfred Mann-Mighty Quinn), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 24 | Stuart Henry British disc jockey, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 28 | Joe South (Souter) guitarist, singer: Walk a Mile in My Shoes, Games People Play; songwriter: Down in the Boondocks, Rose Garden, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 28 | Brian Jones (Lewis Hopkin-Jones) singer, musician: rhythm guitar: group: The Rolling Stones: [I Cant Get No] Satisfaction; is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Jerry Fischer rocker (Blood, Sweat & Tears), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 02 | (Long Island) Lou Reed [Louis Firbank] Freeport NY, vocalist/guitarist (Walk on the Wild Side, Velvet Underground), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 02 | Tony Meehan [Daniel Meehan] London England, rocker (Drifters, Vipers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 03 | Mike Pender (Michael John Prendergast) musician: guitar, singer: group: The Searchers: Sweets for My Sweet, Needles and Pins, Dont Throw Your Love Away, Love Potion No. 9, is born in Liverpool England. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 04 | Birth of Gloria Gaither, wife of songwriter Bill Gaither, and female vocalist in the Bill Gaither Trio. Gloria is also coauthor of the contemporary Christian songs, "Because He Lives," "Something Beautiful" and "The King is Coming." | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | Yuliya Lazarevna Veysberg composer, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | Ralph Ellis musician: banjo, singer: group: The Swinging Blue Jeans: Hippy Hippy Shake, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 09 | John Cale Welsh/US bassist/violinist/singer (Velvet Underground), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 09 | Mark Lindsay musician: saxophonist, singer songwriter: group: Paul Revere & The Raiders: The Great Airplane Strike, Good Thing, Him or Me Whats It Gonna Be, Indian Reservation; solo: Arizona, Silver Bird, is born in Eugene OR. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 12 | Brian OHara musician: guitar, singer: group: The Fourmost: Hello Little Girl, Im in Love, A Little Loving, Baby I Need Your Loving; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 12 | Paul Kantner, San Francisco CA, rock singer/guitarist (Jefferson Airplane-White Rabbit, Somebody To Love), is born. | Ref: 68 |
Mar 12 | Enrique Morera composer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 14 | Jerry Jeff Walker Oneonta NY, country singer (Mr Bojangles), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 15 | Hughie Flint London England, rock drummer (Bonzo Dog Band), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 15 | Alexander van Zemlinsky Austrian/US composer (African Dance), dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 16 | Jerry Jeff Walker (Paul Crosby) country singer, guitarist: Mr. Bojangles, Good Loving Grace, My Old Man, Hill Country Rain, Charlie Dunn, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 16 | Alexander van Zemlinsky Austrian composer (African Dance), dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 19 | Jeff Neighbour US bassist (Joy of Cooking), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 19 | Robin Luke rocker (Susie Darlin'), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 19 | Ross Valory rocker (Journey), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 20 | Theodoro Valcarcel composer, dies at 41. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 22 | Jon Arthur English composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 23 | Jimmy Miller US pop drummer (Rolling Stones, Motrhead), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 25 | Aretha Franklin Lady Soul: Grammy [15] Award-winning singer; Respect, Baby I Love You, Natural Woman, Chain of Fools, Think, Day Dreaming; first woman inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame [1987]; actress: The Blues Brothers, is born in Memphis TN. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 28 | Brian Jones [Lewis B Hopkin] Cheltenham Gloucestershire England, pop guitarist (Rolling Stones), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Samuel Ramey Colby KS, bass (La Scala), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | Graeme Edge Rochester Staffordshire England, rock drummer (Moody Blues-Nights in White Satin, Your Wildest Dreams) is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | Bobby Wright country artist: Lay a Little Happiness on Me, Here I Go Again, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 01 | Alan Blakley musician: guitar: group: Brian Poole and The Tremeloes: Twist and Shout, Do You Love Me, Someone Someone, Silence is Golden, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 01 | Phil Margo, singer: group: The Tokens: The Lion Sleeps Tonight, Tonight I Fell in Love; Cross Country: In the Midnight Hour, is born in Brooklyn NY. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 01 | Danny Brooks rocker (Dovells), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 02 | Leon Russell singer: Tight Rope, Lady Blue; songwriter: Superstar [Carpenters], This Masquerade [George Benson], is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 03 | (Carson) Wayne Newton singer: Danke Shoen, Red Roses for a Blue Lady, Daddy Dont You Walk So Fast, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 03 | Billy Joe Royal Valdosta GA, country singer (Down in the Boondocks), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Albert Siklos, Hungarian cellist, composer and musicologist, dies at age 63. | Ref: 70 |
Apr 03 | Paul Gilson composer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 04 | Kris Jensen singer: Torture, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 05 | Allan Clarke Salford Lancashire England, rock vocalist (Hollies-The Air That I Breathe), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 08 | Roger Chapman singer: groups: Shortlist, Streetwalkers, Family: Hung Up Down, The Weavers Answer, No Mules Fool, In My Own Time, Burlesque, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 12 | Daniel Winslow Schmidt composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 13 | Bill Conti Providence RI, composer (For Your Eyes Only, Rocky IV), is born. | Ref: 68 |
Apr 19 | Alan Price rock keyboardist (Animals-House of the Rising Sun), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 19 | Larry (Hilario) Ramos Jr. musician: guitar, singer: group: The Association: Everything that Touches You, soundtrack for film, Goodbye Columbus, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 21 | Bobby McClure US gospel singer (Don't Mess Up a Good Thing), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 24 | Barbra Streisand Bkln NY, singer/actress/award winner (People) | Ref: 5 |
Apr 25 | John Martin Dalby composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 26 | Bobby Rydell Philadelphia PA, rock singer (Wild One, Bye Bye Birdie), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Klaus Voorman rock bassist (Manfred Mann-Mighty Quinn), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 30 | Catherine Murphy Urner composer, dies at 51. | Ref: 5 |
May 04 | Ronnie Bond drummer (Troggs-Wild Thing), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 05 | Tammy Wynette (Virginia Wynette Pugh) Grammy Award-winning country singer: I Dont Wanna Play House [1967], Stand By Your Man [1969]; D-I-V-O-R-C-E, Near You, Apartment #9; is born in Redbay AL. | Ref: 4 |
May 06 | Colin Earl rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 07 | Lorrie (Lawrencine May) Collins country singer: rockabilly group [w/Larry Collins]: The Collins Kids: Rock Away Rock, In My Teens, Rock Boppin Baby, Hop Skip & Jump; featured on TV: Town Hall Party, Grand Ole Opry, Steve Allen Show, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 07 | Felix Paul von Weingartner Austria conductor/composer, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
May 08 | Euclid "Motorhead" Sherwood rocker (Mothers Of Invention), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 09 | Mike Millward rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 09 | Tommy Roe Atlanta, rocker (Hooray for Hazel), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 10 | Bill Coday US singer (You're Gonna Then Me), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 10 | Ingram Douglas Marshall composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 10 | Joseph M Weber comedian/singer (Weber & Lewis Fields), dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
May 12 | Ian Dury Upminster Essex, rocker (Blockheads)/actor (Judge Dredd), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 13 | Jim Douglas jazz guitarist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 13 | Hyam Greenbaum composer, dies at 41. | Ref: 5 |
May 14 | Gerald Mark Shapiro composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 15 | Lainie Kazan Brooklyn NY, singer/actress (Lust in the Dust, Beaches), is born. | Ref: 68 |
May 17 | Taj Mahal (Henry St. Claire Fredericks) entertainer, songwriter: for film, Sounder; singer: urban folk-blues, is born in New York, NY. | Ref: 4 |
May 18 | Albert Hammond rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 18 | Rodney Dillard rocker (Glittergrass), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 20 | Jill "Paula" Jackson McCamey TX, singer (Paul & Paula-Hey Paula), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 22 | Calvin Simon US rock vocalist (Funkadelic-1 Nation Under a Groove), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 22 | Malika A Sabirova Russian dancer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 24 | Derek Quinn, guitarist for Freddie and the Dreamers, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 24 | Sarah Dash Trenton NJ, rocker (LaBelle-Lady Marmalade), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 25 | Bill Young rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 25 | Brian "Blinky" Davison rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 26 | Levon Helm drummer/singer (Band), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 26 | Ray Ennis England, guitar (Swinging Blue Jeans-You're No Good), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 27 | Priscilla Anne McLean composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 30 | Lenny Davidson London England, rock guitarist (Dave Clark 5-Glad All Over), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 03 | Curtis Mayfield singer (Freddie's Dead, Superfly), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 08 | Chuck Negron singer (3 Dog Night-Joy to the World), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 12 | Len Barry (Leonard Borisoff) singer: 1-2-3, Like a Baby; group: The Dovells: The Bristol Stomp, You Cant Sit Down, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 16 | Eddie Levert singer: group: The OJays: Love Train, Back Stabbers, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 17 | Norman Kuhlice England, rocker (Swinging Blue Jeans-You're No Good), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 19 | Elaine "Spanky" McFarlane rocker (Spanky & Our Gang-Lazy Day), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 20 | Brian Wilson Inglewood CA, singer (Beachboys-In My Room), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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Jun 26 | Larry Taylor rocker (Canned Heat-On the Road Again), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 27 | Bruce Johnston rocker (Beachboys-In My Room), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 27 | Frank Mills musician: piano: Music Box Dancer, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 01 | Birth of Andrae Crouch, African-American sacred music artist. His most enduring gospel songs have been 'Soon and Very Soon,' 'My Tribute' and 'Through It All.'. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 02 | Mike Abene composer: score: Goodbye, New York | Ref: 4 |
Jul 12 | Richard Stoltzman Omaha Nebraska, clarinetist (Tashi), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 13 | Stephen Jo Bladd musician: drummer: group: J. Geils Band: Centerfold | Ref: 4 |
Jul 13 | Roger McGuinn rocker (Byrds-Turn Turn Turn, Mr Tambourine Man), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 16 | Desmond Dekker (Dacris) reggae musician (The Aces-Israelites), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 24 | Heinz Burt musician: bass: group: The Tornados: Telstar, Globetrotter; solo: Just like Eddie; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 26 | Dobie Gray Brookshire TX, singer (In Crowd), is born. | Ref: 68 |
Aug 01 | Jerry Garcia, lead singer of the Grateful Dead, is born. | Ref: 2 |
Aug 02 | Garth Hudson keyboardist (The Band), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 05 | Rick Huxley guitarist (Dave Clark 5-Glad All Over), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 07 | B.J. (Billy Joe) Thomas singer, is born: Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head, Hooked on a Feeling, [Hey Wont You Play] Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song, I Just Cant Help Believing, Im So Lonesome I Could Cry. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 11 | Mike Hugg drummer (Manfred Mann), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 15 | Peter York (musician: drums: group: Spencer Davis Group: Gimme Some Lovin, Keep on Runnin, Somebody Help Me), is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 16 | Barbara George singer: I Know [You Dont Love Me No More], is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 16 | Birth of Don Wyrtzen, contemporary Christian songwriter. Among his most enduring sacred compositions are "Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow" and "Worthy is the Lamb". | Ref: 5 |
Aug 20 | Singer Isaac Hayes is born. (TWA, 1988) | Ref: 95 |
Aug 22 | Joe Chambers musician: guitar; singer: group: The Chambers Brothers: Time Has Come Today, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 22 | Michel Fokine, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer, dies at age 62. | Ref: 70 |
Aug 23 | Patricia McBride ballerina: New York City Ballet, is born. For many years she was Mikhail Baryshnikovs only partner. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 25 | Walter Williams singer: group: The OJays: Love Train, Back Stabbers, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 26 | Vic Dana Buffalo, singer/dancer (Talent Scouts), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 27 | Musician Daryl Dragon (The Captain and Tennille) is born. (TWA, 1988) | Ref: 95 |
Aug 29 | Sterling Morrison musician: bass, guitar, singer: group: The Velvet Underground: Heroin, Im Waiting for the Man, Venus in Furs, Ill Be Your Mirror, Sister Ray, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 03 | Al Jardine rocker (Beachboys-In My Room), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 04 | Singer Merald "Bubba" Knight (Gladys Knight & The Pips) is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 05 | Eduardo Mata Mexico City Mexico, conductor (Improvisaciones), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 08 | Brian Cole musician: bass, singer: group: The Association: Along Comes Mary, Cherish, Windy, Never My Love, Everything That Touches You, Pandoras Golden Heebie Jeebies, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 09 | Luther Simmons singer: group: Main Ingredient: Everybody Plays the Fool, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 09 | Inez Foxx Greensboro NC, rocker (Mockingbird, Hi Diddle Diddle), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 10 | Danny Hutton singer: group: Three Dog Night: One, Easy to be Hard, Elis Coming, Mama Told Me [Not to Come], Joy to the World, Black & White, Shambala, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 20 | Frankie Lymon singer, songwriter: group: Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers: Why Do Fools Fall in Love; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 24 | Gerry Marsden singer: group: Gerry & The Pacemakers: Dont Let the Sun Catch You Crying, Im the One, Ferry Cross the Mersey, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 29 | Jean-Luc Ponty France, fusion violinist (Frank Zappa), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 30 | Dewey Martin musician: drums, singer: group: Buffalo Springfield: For What Its Worth, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 30 | Frankie Lymon NYC, rocker (& Teenagers-Why do Fools Fall in Love), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 01 | Herb Fame (Feemster) singer: Herb of Peaches & Herb, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 08 | Buzz (Reese) Clifford singer: Baby Sittin Boogie, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 13 | Paul Simon Newark NJ, singer/actor (Kodachrome, 1 Trick Pony), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 14 | Billy Harrison musician: guitar: group: Them, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 15 | Don Stevenson musician: drums, singer: group: Moby Grape, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 16 | Dave Lovelady musician: drums: group: The Fourmost: Hello Little Girl, Im in Love, A Little Loving, Baby I Need Your Loving, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 17 | Gary Puckett vocalist (& the Union Gap-Woman Woman, Young Girl), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 21 | Elvin Bishop musician: guitar, singer: group: Paul Butterfield Blues Band, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 05 | George M. (Michael) Cohan actor, singer, composer: Over There, The Yankee Doodle Boy, Give My Regards to Broadway, Marys a Grand Old Name, Youre a Grand Old Flag, Harrigan; subject of movie: Yankee Doodle Dandy, and Broadway show: George M!; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 07 | Johnny Rivers (John Ramistella) singer: Poor Side of Town, Memphis, Secret Agent Man, Slow Dancin, Baby I Need Your Lovin, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 15 | Daniel Barenboim Buenos Aires Argentina, pianist/conductor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 16 | Donna McKechnie Pontiac Michigan, actress/dancer (Company), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 17 | Bob Gaudio singer: group: The Royal Teens: Short Shorts; The Four Seasons: Sherry, Big Girls Don't Cry, Walk like a Man, Rag Doll, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 18 | Jeffrey Siegel, Chicago IL, pianist (Chicago Symphony), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 20 | Norman Greenbaum Massachusetts, folk singer (Spirit in the Sky), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 27 | Jimi (James Marshall) Hendrix musician, singer: Foxy Lady, Purple Haze, All Along the Watch Tower, The Wind Cries Mary, Manic Depression, Spanish Castle Magic; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 27 | Petr Kotik composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 02 | Ted Bluechel San Pedro CA, rock vocalist/drummer (Association), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 03 | Wilhelm Peterson-Berger composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 04 | Bob Mosley Paradise Valley CA, rock bassist (Moby Grape), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 04 | Chris Hillman musician: guitar, bass, mandolin: groups: The Byrds: Turn! Turn! Turn!; Golden State Boys, Hillmen, Green Grass Group, Flying Burrito Brothers, Manassas, Souther-Hillman-Furay Band, Desert Rose Band; solo: LPs: Slippin Away, Clear Sailin, The Hillman, Morning Sky, Desert Rose, Ever Call Ready, is born in San Diego CA. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 06 | Len Barry [Leonard Borisoff] Philadelphia PA, rocker (Bristol Stomp), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 06 | Peter Handke Austrian songwriter (Ritt ber den Bodensee), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 07 | Jonathan D Kramer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 08 | Bobby Elliott musician: drums: group: The Hollies: Searchin, Stay, Just One Look, Here I Go Again, Were Through, Yes I Will, Im Alive, Look Through Any Window, I Cant Let Go, Bus Stop, He Aint Heavy, Hes My Brother, The Air That I Breathe, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 10 | Bear Bossu [Berend F Gertenbach] actor/vocalist (Pub Chantant), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 12 | Mike Heron rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 12 | Mike Pindar musician: keyboards: group: The Moody Blues: Nights in White Satin; solo: LP: Thomas from Mighty Oaks, The Promise, Hopes Dreams and Wishes, is born in Birmingham England. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 13 | Eleanor Everest Freer composer, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 15 | Dave Clark singer: group: The Dave Clark Five: Bits and Pieces, Do You Love Me, Glad All Over, Everybody Knows, Red Balloon, Good Old Rock & Roll, Everybody Get Together; TV producer: Hold On Its the Dave Clark Five, Ready Steady Go!; actor: Time; stunt man, is born in London England. | Ref: 68 |
Dec 17 | Paul Butterfield Chicago IL, blues musician (Better Days), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 20 | Jean Gilbert [Max Winterfield] German composer, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 21 | Carla Thomas singer: B-A-B-Y, Ill Bring It on Home to You, What a Fool Ive Been, Let Me Be Good to You, Knock on Wood, Lovey Dovey, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 23 | Friedrich Schenker composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 24 | Friedrich Klose composer, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | Vojislav Vuckovic composer, dies at 32. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 26 | Earl Cate Fayetteville AR, country singer/twin of Ernie (Cate Brothers-Fire on the Tracks), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 26 | Ernie Cate Fayetteville AR, country singer/twin of Earl (Cate Brothers-Fire on the Tracks), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 26 | Rob de Nijs Dutch singer (Put a candle in your window), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 29 | Jerry Summers rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 30 | Michael Nesmith Houston, rocker/actor (Monkees-Last Train to Clarksville), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 30 | Robert Quine rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 31 | Andy Summers Blackpool England, rock guitarist (Police-Roxanne), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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Jan 07 | Leona Williams singer/songwriter (Ladies Get the Blues), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | Lee Jackson rocker (Nice), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | Marcus Hutson rock vocalist (Whispers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 09 | Dick Yount rocker (Harpers Bizarre), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 09 | Kenneth Kelley US singer (Manhattans, One Life to Live), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 09 | Rob Hoeke Dutch pianist/singer (Drinking on My Bed), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Jim Croce Philadelphia PA, singer/songwriter (Time in a Bottle, Bad Bad Leroy Brown), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 11 | William Albert Penn composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 12 | Ray Manzarek rock pianist (Doors-Light my Fire, People are Strange), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 13 | William Duckworth composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 14 | Jos Luis Rodriguez Caracas Venezuela, singer (Dueno De Nada), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 14 | Adolf Sandberger composer, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 16 | Brian Ferneyhough composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 16 | Gavin Bryars composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 17 | Chris Montez singer: Shes My Rockin Baby, Call Me, There Will Never Be Another You, Some Kinda Fun, Lets Dance, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 18 | Dave Greene rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 19 | Joe Butler rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 19 | Janis Joplin singer: with Big Brother and The Holding Company: Piece of My Heart, How Hard It Is; formed Kozmic Blues Band, then Full Tilt Boogie Band: Pearl, Me and Bobby McGee; is born in Port Arthur TX. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 20 | Giacomo Benvenuti composer, dies at 57. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 21 | Otakar Sini composer, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 26 | Jean Knight vocalist (Mr Big Stuff), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 26 | Peter Kenton Winkler composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 28 | Dick Taylor musician: bass, guitar: group: The Pretty Things: Dont Bring Me Down, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 28 | Jean Knight rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | Timothy Andrew James Souster composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 30 | Marty Balin (Buchwald) musician, singer: group: Jefferson Airplane/Starship; solo: Hearts, Atlanta Lady, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 30 | Sandy Deane rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Peter MacBeth rocker (Foundations), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 03 | Dennis Edwards rocker (Temptations-Ain't Too Proud To Beg, My Girl), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 03 | Eric Haydock bassist (Hollies-He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Charles Winfield, Pennsylvania, rocker (Blood Sweat & Tears-Spinning Wheel), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Ivan Alexandrovich Tcherepnin composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Larry Tamblyn rock guitarist (Standells-Dirty Water), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Sven Johnson rocker (Tangerine Dream, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 06 | Frank Sinatra made his debut as vocalist on radios Your Hit Parade this night. Frankie had left the Tommy Dorsey Band just four months prior to beginning the radio program. He was described as, ...the biggest name in the business. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 06 | Fabian Forte Philadelphia PA, singer (Turn Me Loose, Tiger), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 08 | Creed Bratton musician: guitar, banjo, sitar: group: The Grass Roots: Sooner or Later, Lets Live for Today, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 08 | Jose de Almeida Prado composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Dick Yount rocker (Harpers Bizarre), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Kenneth Kelley US singer (Manhattans, One Life to Live), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Rob Hoeke Dutch pianist/singer (Drinking on My Bed), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Barbara Lewis US vocalist (Hello Stranger), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Ryland Davies tenor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 10 | Ral Donner singer: You Dont Know What Youve Got, Shes Everything; narrator and Presleys voice in film: This is Elvis; is born in Black Mountain NC. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 14 | Eric Anderson Pittsburgh PA, singer (Avalanche, Be True to You), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 14 | Maceo Parker US tenor saxophonist (King's One, Mo' Roots), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 15 | Thomas "Fats" Waller US jazz pianist (Hot Chocolate), dies at 38. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 15 | William Victor Harris composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 16 | Anthony Dowell London, ballet dancer (Royal Ballet), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 19 | "Mama" Cass Elliot actress (Mamas & Papas-Monday Monday), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 19 | Lou Christie [Lugee Sacco], Pennsylvania, rock vocalist (Lightning Striking Again), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 21 | Duncan Swift jazz pianist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Louise Lopez singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 25 | Maryann Amacher composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | Bob "The Bear" Hite California, singer (Canned Heat-Going Up the Country), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | Paul Cotton, Los Angeles CA, rocker (Poco), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | Brian Jones, of the Rolling Stones, is born. | Ref: 17 |
Feb 28 | Barbara Acklin [Allen], Chicago IL, R&B singer (Love Makes a Woman), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 28 | Donny Iris, singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Piet Veerman Dutch rock vocalist/guitarist (Cats-Sailin' Home), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 02 | George Benson jazz/blues guitarist (Breezin', This Masquerade), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 02 | Stephen Dickman composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | Zoltan Jeney composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 07 | Chris White musician: bass: group: The Zombies: Shes Not There, You Make Me Feel Good, Tell Her No, Shes Coming Home, I Want You Back Again, Time of the Seasons, is born. | Ref: 68 |
Mar 10 | Alfred Whitford Lerdahl composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 10 | Stephen Montague composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 14 | Jim Pons Santa Monica CA, bassist (Turtles-Happy Together), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 19 | Vicente Ripolles composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 21 | Viv[ian] Stanshall Shillingford Oxon England, rocker (Bonzo Dog Band-I'm the Urban Spaceman), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 22 | George Benson Pittsburgh PA, singer/guitarist (Greatest Love of All), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 22 | Joseph Schwantner composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 22 | Keith Relf Richmond London England, rocker (Yardbirds-For Your Love, Renaissance), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 23 | Joseph Moiseyevich Schillinger composer, dies at 47. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 24 | George Benson singer: This Masquerade, On Broadway, Give Me the Night; session guitarist: CTI Records, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 25 | Ronald Jeffers composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Composer Sergei Vasilyevichi Rachmaninoff dies in Beverly Hills at age 69. | Ref: 68 |
Mar 29 | Vangelis [Evangelos Papathanassiou] Valos Greece, composer/keyboardist (Chariots of Fire), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 02 | Glen Dale (Richard Garforth) musician: guitar, singer: group: The Fortunes, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 02 | Larry Coryell Galveston TX, guitarist (11th House), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 04 | Raoul Laparra composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 07 | Mick Abrahams rock guitarist (Jethro Tull-Thick as a Brick), is born in Luton Bedfordshire England. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 07 | Spencer Dryden rocker (Jefferson Airplane-Go Ask Alice), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 08 | Michael Bennett aids victim/choreographer (A Chorus Line), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 09 | Terry Knight singer: Groups: Terry Knight and the Pack: I Who Have Nothing; founded Grand Funk Railroad: On Time, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 13 | Eve Graham rocker (New Seekers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 14 | Geoffrey Turton Shaw composer, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 15 | Riem de Wolff Indonesian/Dutch singer/guitarist (Blue Diamonds), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 15 | Raffaele Casimiro Casimiri composer, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 17 | Roy Estrada rocker (Morthers Of Invention), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 19 | Eve Graham (Evelyn May Beatsom) singer: group: The New Seekers: Look What Theyve Done to My Song Ma, Id Like To Teach The World To Sing, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 19 | Czeslaw Bartkowski jazz composer, musician: drums: has recorded over 80 LPs, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 19 | Mike Kelly rocker (Duprees), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 19 | Gustave Doret composer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 22 | Mel Carter singer (Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 23 | Hugh Davies composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 23 | Frderic baron d'Erlanger French composer/banker, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 24 | Richard Sterban Camden NJ, country singer (Oak Ridge Boys-Elvira), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 26 | Gary Wright Creskill NJ, singer/keyboardist (Dream Weaver, Spooky Tooth-Love Is Alive), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 27 | Eugene Polyakov dancer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 28 | Fantastic Johnny C[orley] US singer (Boogaloo down Broadway), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Duane Allen Taylortown TX, country singer (Oak Ridge Boys-Elvira), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Joseph Achron Latvian violinist/composer (Golem suite), dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Karl Adrian Wohlfart composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 30 | Bobby Vee Fargo ND, (Devil or Angel, Night has a Thousand Eyes), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 02 | Mickey (Lee Oddis) Bass III jazz composer, musician: group: New York Powerhouse Ensemble | Ref: 4 |
May 03 | Leslie Heward composer, dies at 45. | Ref: 5 |
May 04 | Ronnie Bond (Ronald Bulls) musician: drums: group: The Troggs: Wild Thing, With a Girl like You, I Cant Control Myself, Any Way that You Want Me, Give It to Me, Night of the Long Grass, Hi Hi Hazel, Love is All Around, Little Girl, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 04 | Nickolas Ashford Fairfield SC, singer (Ashford & Simpson-Solid as a Rock), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 04 | Stella Parton sister of Dolly Parton/singer (A Woman's Touch), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 07 | Christopher Taylor White rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 07 | Rick West [Richard Westwood] rocker (Brian Poole & Tremeloes), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 08 | Paul Samwell-Smith London England, rocker (The Yardbirds-For Your Love), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 08 | Toni Tennille (of The Captain and Tennille), Montgomery AL, female Beachboy (Captain & Tennille), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 09 | Bruce Milner rocker (Every Mother's Son), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 10 | Donovan [Leitch] Glasgow Scotland, guitarist/folk singer (Mellow Yellow), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 11 | Les (John) Chadwick, musician: bass: group: Gerry & The Pacemakers, is born in Liverpool England. | Ref: 4 |
May 11 | Arnie Satin rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 11 | George Edwards composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 12 | Billy Swan Cape, Giradeau LA, rocker (I Can Help), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 12 | David Walker rock keyboardist (Gary Lewis & Playboys-Diamond Ring), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 12 | Albert Stoessel composer, dies at 48. | Ref: 5 |
May 13 | Mary Wells Detroit MI, singer (My Guy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 14 | Dereck "Lek" Leckenby, Leeds England, guitarist with Herman's Hermits, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 14 | Jack Bruce Lanarkshire Scotland, bassist (Cream-White Room), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 20 | Tison Street composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 21 | Hilton Valentine rock guitarist (Animals-House of the Rising Sun), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 23 | General George Norman Johnson US singer (Down at the Beach Club), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 24 | James Levine British conductor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 25 | Leslie Uggams New York NY, singer/actress (Leslie Uggams Show, Roots), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 25 | Jessi Colter (Mirian Johnson) country singer: Im Not Lisa; widow of singer Waylon Jennings, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 27 | Cilla Black (Priscilla Maria Veronica White) singer: Youre My World, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 28 | Dennis Riley composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | Tony Mansfield [Anthony Bookbinder], rock drummer (Billy J Kramer), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | Hermann Hans Wetzler composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 01 | Richard Goode Bronx, concert pianist (1980 Avery Fisher Award), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 06 | Joe Stampley country singer: Soul Song, Theres Another Woman, Whiskey Chasin, Back Slidin, Double Shot of My Babys Love, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 12 | Reg Presley rock vocalist (Troggs-Wild Thing), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 14 | Muff Mervyn Winwood singer (Spencer Davis Group-Gimme Some Lovin), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 22 | Jimmy Castor NYC, rocker (Troglodyte), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 23 | James Levine conductor: Cleveland Orchestra, New York Metropolitan Opera, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestras, Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 26 | Georgie Fame (Clive Powell) singer: The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 29 | Roger Ruskin Spear rocker (Bonzo Dog Band-Urban Spaceman), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 30 | Florence Ballard singer: group: The Supremes: Baby Love, Stop! In the Name of Love, Come See About Me, You Cant Hurry Love, My World is Empty Without You, The Happening; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 04 | Al Blind Owl Wilson musician: guitar, harmonica, singer: group: Canned Heat: On the Road Again, Going Up the Country, Lets Work Together; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 09 | Bon Scott vocalist (AC/DC-Highway to Hell), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 10 | Jerry Miller musician: guitar: group: Moby Grape: LPs: Moby Grape, Wow, Grape Jam, Truly Fine Citizen, 20 Granite Creek, Grape Live; The Jerry Miller Band: LP: Life is like That, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 12 | Christie McVie rocker (Fleetwood Mac-Got A Hold on Me), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 18 | Bobby Sherman Santa Monica CA, singer (Shindig, Here Comes Brides), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 18 | Robin McDonald musician: guitar: group: Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas: From a Window, Little Children, Trains and Boats and Planes, Bad to Me, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 20 | John Lodge bassist (Moody Blues), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 22 | Bobby Sherman singer: Little Woman, Julie, Do Ya Love Me; actor: Shindig, Here Come the Brides, Getting Together; founder of TAC-5, a paramedics group, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 25 | Jim McCarty rocker (The Yardbirds-For Your Love), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 26 | Mick [Michael Phillip] Jagger, musician, member of the Rolling Stones. | Ref: 2 |
Jul 26 | Dobie Gray (Leonard Ainsworth) singer: Drift Away, Look at Me, Loving Arms, You Can Do It; singer, songwriter: The In Crowd, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 27 | Al Ramsey musician: guitar: group: Gary Lewis & The Playboys: This Diamond Ring, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 28 | Mike Bloomfield blues musician (Analine), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 02 | Kathy Lennon singer: group: The Lennon Sisters: The Lawrence Welk Show, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 04 | David Carr musician: keyboards: group: The Fortunes, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 05 | Sammi Smith singer: Help Me Make It Through the Night, So Long Charlie Brown, What a Lie, You Just Hurt My Last Feeling, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 07 | Lana Cantrell Sydney, Australia, singer (Those Were the Days), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 10 | Ronnie Spector [Veronica Bennett], NYC, singer (Be My Baby), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 11 | Jim Kale musician: bass: group: The Guess Who: No Time, American Woman, No Sugar Tonight, Hand Me Down World, Share the Land, Albert Flasher, Rain Dance, Star Baby, Clap for the Wolfman, Dancin Fool, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 11 | Guy Vallari singer: group: The Regents: Barbara Ann, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 19 | Billy J. Kramer (William Ashton) singer: group: The Dakotas: Little Children, Bad to Me, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 22 | Singer Kathy Lennon (The Lennon Sisters) is born in Santa Monica CA. (TWA, 1988) | Ref: 95 |
Aug 24 | John Cipollina musician: guitar: group: Quicksilver Messenger Service: Dinos Song, Who Do You Love?, The Fool, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 02 | Rhythm-and-blues singer Rosalind Ashford (Martha & the Vandellas), is born. | |
Sep 09 | Roger Waters rocker (Pink Floyd-The Wall), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 11 | Mickey Hart musician: drums, songwriter: group: Grateful Dead: St. Stephen, China Cat Sunflower, Dark Star, AL Getaway; scored part of film: Apocalypse Now, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 12 | Maria Muldaur (dAmato) singer: Midnight At The Oasis, Im a Woman, is born in Greenwich Village, NY. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 16 | Bernie Calvert musician: bass: group: The Hollies, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 23 | Julio Iglesias singer; soccer: professional goalie [Spain], is born | Ref: 4 |
Sep 23 | Steve Boone musician: bass, singer: group: The Lovin Spoonful, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 25 | John Locke LA, rocker (Spirit-I Got A Line on You), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 25 | Gary Alexander musician: guitar, singer: group: The Association: Along Comes Mary, Cherish, Windy, Never My Love, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 27 | Randy Bachman Winnipeg, rocker (Bachman-Turner Overdrive-Roll On), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 30 | Marilyn McCoo Jersey City NJ, host/singer (Solid Gold, 5th Dimension), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 01 | Rock musician Jerry Martini, of Sly and the Family Stone, is born. (XDG, p 4A, 10/1/2000) | Ref: 83 |
Oct 05 | Steve Miller singer, songwriter: group: The Steve Miller Band, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 11 | Gene Watson country singer (Heartaches, Love & Stuff), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 16 | C.F. (Fred) Turner musician: group: Bachman-Turner Overdrive: Takin Care of Business, Let It Ride, You Aint Seen Nothing Yet, Looking Out for Number One, Hey You, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 17 | Susan Davenny Wyner New Haven Ct, soprano (Walter Naumberg Prize), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 18 | Russ Giguere musician: guitar, singer: group: The Association, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 21 | Ron Elliott musician: guitar: group: Beau Brummels: Laugh, Laugh, Just a Little, You Tell Me Why; solo: LP: The Candlestick Maker, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 22 | Paul Zukofsky Brooklyn NY, violinist (Cappricio), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 22 | Bobby Fuller singer, musician: guitar: group: Bobby Fuller Four: | Ref: 4 |
Oct 27 | (Melvin) Lee Greenwood singer, musician: sax, piano: band leader: Trick, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 06 | Mike Clifford singer: Close to Cathy, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 07 | Joni Mitchell (Roberta Joan Anderson), songwriter: Willy, Big Yellow Taxi, Woodstock; singer: Help Me, Free Man in Paris, Both Sides Now, is born in Alberta, Canada | Ref: 2 |
Nov 12 | Brian Hyland Queens NY, rocker (She Wore an Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 12 | John Maus musician: bass, singer: trio: The Walker Brothers: My Ship is Coming In, Make It Easy on Yourself, The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 13 | John Paul Hammond, NYC, blues singer (So Many Roads), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 19 | Fred Lipsius musician: piano, sax: group: Blood Sweat & Tears: You've Made Me So Very Happy, Spinning Wheel; LP: Child is Father to the Man, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 22 | Floyd Sneed musician: drums: group: Three Dog Night: Try a Little Tenderness, One, Easy to Be Hard, Eli?s Coming, Lady Samantha, Mama Told Me [Not to Come], Liar, Joy to the World, Black & White, Shambala, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 22 | Lorenz Milton Hart, lyricist, collaborator with Richard Rodgers, dies in New York City at age 48. | Ref: 68 |
Nov 28 | Randy (Randall Stuart) Newman composer: scores for Toy Story, Avalon, Parenthood, The Natural, Ragtime; singer, songwriter: Short People, theme from The Marshall Chronicles: Fallin in Love, theme from Cop Rock: Under the Gun; songwriter: Love Story, Mama Told Me Not to Come, Sail Away, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 30 | -Singer Rob Grill (The Grassroots) is born. | Ref: 64 |
Nov 30 | Leo Lyons musician: bass: groups: Jaybirds, Ten Years After: Im Going Home, Love Like a Man, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 02 | David Munden rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 06 | Mike Smith London England, rocker/pianist (Dave Clark 5-Glad All Over), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 06 | Hermann Lohr composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 08 | Jim (James Douglas) Morrison The Lizard King: singer: group: The Doors: Light My Fire, Love Her Madly, Riders on the Storm, When the Musics Over, People are Strange, Love Me Two Times, Touch Me; is born in Melbourne FL. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 09 | Kenny Vance rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 09 | Rick Danko Canada, rocker (The Band-Islands, Stage Fright), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | Jessica Cleaves rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | Chad Stuart musician: guitar, lyricist, singer: duo: Chad & Jeremy: Yesterdays Gone, A Summer Song, Willow Weep for Me, If I Loved You, Before and After, I Dont Wanna Lose You Baby, Distant Shores; emcee for The Smothers Brothers Show, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 12 | Mike Smith musician: organs, singer: group: The Dave Clark Five, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 12 | Grover Washington Jr jazz artist (Mr Magic), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 12 | Dave Munden rock drummer (Brian Poole & The Tremeloes), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 12 | Dickey Betts West Palm Beach FL, guitarist (Allman Brothers-Ramblin' Man), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 14 | Frank Allen rock vocalist (Searchers-Needles & Pins), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 15 | Famed composer, blues singer, piano and pipe organ player, Fats (Thomas Wright) Waller dies in Kansas City MO at the age of 39 from pneumonia. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 16 | Anthony Hicks musician: lead guitar, songwriter: group: The Hollies: Stop, Stop, Stop, The Air that I Breathe, He Aint Heavy, Hes My Brother, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 17 | William Brooks composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 17 | Dave Dee (Harmon) musician: tambourine, singer: group: Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich: You Make It Move, Hold Tight, Hideaway, Bend It, Save Me, Touch Me Touch Me, Okay, Zabadak, Legend of Xanadu, Last Night in Soho, Wreck of the Antoinette; solo: My Womans Man; record promoter, is born. | Ref: 2 |
Dec 18 | Keith Richards guitar: group: The Rolling Stones: Time is on My Side, (I Cant Get No) Satisfaction, Get Off of My Cloud, Start Me Up, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 18 | Bobby Keyes rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 21 | Albert Lee rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 23 | Harry Shearer Los Angeles CA, comedian/actor (Saturday Night Live, Simpsons, Pure Luck), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 23 | Derek Small rocker (Spinal Tap), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 23 | Peter Quaife Devon England, rock bassist (Kinks-Long Tall Sally), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 23 | Ross Edwards composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | Trevor Lucas rocker (Fairport Convention), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | Ilona Durigo Hungarian singer, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | Raymond Huntington Woodman composer, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 27 | Dave Rowberry Newcastle, rocker (Animals), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 28 | Bobby Comstock singer: Tennessee Waltz, I Want To Do It, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 30 | Rolf Gehlhaar composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 31 | John Denver [Henry John Deutschendorf Jr] Roswell NM, singer/songwriter/actor (Rocky Mountain High, Thank God, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 31 | Pete Quaife musician: bass: group: The Kinks: You Really Got Me, All Day & All of the Night, Tired of Waiting, Dedicated Follower of Fashion, A Well Respected Man, Sunny Afternoon, Dead End Street, Waterloo Sunset, Harry Rag, David Watts, Death of a Clown, Two Sisters, Autumn Almanac, Wonderboy, Days, Last of the Steam-Powered Trains, Do You Remember Walter?, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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Jan 02 | Peter Eotvos composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 04 | Volker Hornback rocker (Tangerine Dream), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 06 | Van McCoy US soul singer/songwriter (Hey Mr DJ, Hustle), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 09 | James Patrick Page (Led Zeppelin) born (Middlesex, England) is born. | Ref: 68 |
Jan 09 | Scott (Noel) Engel singer: group: The Walker Brothers: My Ship is Coming In, Take It Easy on Yourself, The Sun Aint Gonna Shine Anymore, LP: Take It Easy; solo as Scott Walker: Joanna, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 10 | Frank Sinatra Jr Jersey City NJ, singer/bandleader (Golddiggers), is born. | Ref: 68 |
Jan 11 | York Georg Holler composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 16 | Jim Stafford Eloise FL, singer (Spiders & Snakes, My Girl Bill), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 18 | Larry "Legs" Smith rocker (Bonzo Dog Band-Urban Spaceman), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 19 | Pehr Henrik Nordgren composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 19 | Harold Fraser-Simson composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 21 | John Kenneth Tavener composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 21 | Neely Bruce composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 23 | Jerry Lawson US singer (Persuasions-Under the Boardwalk), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 27 | Nick Mason musician: drums: group: Pink Floyd: Arnold Layne, Let There be More Light, Atom Heart Mother, Echoes, Wish You Were Here, Shine on You Crazy Diamond; LP: Dark Side of the Moon, The Wall, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 27 | Kevin Coyne rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 28 | Brian Keenan musician: drums: groups: Manfred Mann; The Chambers Brothers: Time Has Come Today, is born in New York City. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 28 | Martin Fried rocker (Cyrkle-Red Rubber Ball), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 28 | Arnold Mhren Dutch pop bassist/singer (The Cats-Sailin' Home), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 28 | John Tavener composer (The Whale), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 30 | Lynn Harrell New York City NY, cellist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 31 | Charley Musselwhite blues musician (Stand Back, Louisiana Fog), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 01 | Tommy Duffy rocker (Echos), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 01 | Martin Lunssens composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Andrew Davis Ashbridge England, conductor (New Philharmonic Orchestra-London), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Ursula Oppens New York NY, pianist/co-founder (Speculum Musicae-NYC), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 04 | Florence LaRue (Gordon) singer: group: The Fifth Dimension: Up, Up and Away, Stoned Soul Picnic, Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In, Wedding Bell Blues, One Less Bell to Answer, is born in Pennsylvania. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 05 | Al Kooper rock keyboards/vocalist (Blood Sweat & Tears-When I Die), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | J R Cobb Birmingham AL, rocker (Atlanta Rhythm Section, Classic IV), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 08 | Jim Capaldi rocker (Traffic), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Barbara Lewis singer: Make Me Your Baby, Hello Stranger, Baby Im Yours, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 09 | Scott Engel vocalist (Walker Brothers-Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Jimmy Page London England, rock guitarist (Led Zeppelin-Stairway to Heaven), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 10 | Peter Allen Australia, singer/pianist (I Go to Rio, Legs Diamond), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 11 | Ivan Sollertinski friend of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, dies. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 12 | Moe Bandy singer: Americana, Wheres the Dress, Till Im Too Old to Die Young; ten #1 hits, 45 top-ten hits; LP: Good Ol Boys [w/Joe Stampley, is born in Meridian MS. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 15 | Mick Avory musician: drums: group: The Kinks: You Really Got Me, All Day and All of the Night, A Well Respected Man, Sunny Afternoon, Lola, Celluloid Heroes, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 16 | Edmund von Borck composer, dies at 37. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 19 | Siegfried Garibaldi Kallenberg composer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Lew Soloff Brooklyn NY, rocker (Blood Sweat & Tears), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 23 | Johnny Winter [John Dawson], Leland MS, guitarist (Silver Train), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 23 | Mike Maxfield musician: guitar: group: Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas: Little Children, Trains and Boats and Planes, Bad to Me; solo: The Cruel Sea, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 24 | Nicky Hopkins rock pianist (Stones-Ruby Tuesday, Jeff Beck, Quicksilver), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 29 | David Briggs, record producer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Mike D'Abo rock vocalist (Manfred Mann-Mighty Quinn), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Roger Daltrey Hammersmith London England, rocker/actor/producer (The Who-Tommy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 02 | Leif Segerstam composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 02 | Lou Reed, singer, songwriter, is born. | Ref: 17 |
Mar 03 | Jance Garfat musician: bass, singer: group: Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show: Sylvias Mother, The Cover of Rolling Stone, A Little Bit More, When Youre in Love with a Beautiful Woman, Sharing the Night Together, Sexy Eyes, Better Love Next Time, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 04 | Bobby Womack songwriter: Im a Midnight Mover, Im in Love; singer: Lookin for a Love, Harry Hippie, If You Think Youre Lonely Now, is born in Cleveland OH. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 06 | Dave Gilmour singer, musician: group: Pink Floyd: Atom Heart Mother, Echoes, LP: The Dark Side of the Moon, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 06 | Dame Kiri Te Kanawa Gisborne New Zealand, operatic soprano (Don Giovanni), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 06 | Mary Wilson Detroit MI, vocalist (Supremes-Where Did Our Love Go), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 07 | Townes Van Zandt musician, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | Carole Bayer Sager NY, aka Mrs Burt Bachrach, singer (Arthur), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 09 | Trevor Burton musician: guitar: groups: The Move: Night of Fear, I Can Hear the Grass Grow, Flowers in the Rain, Fire Brigade, Wild Tiger Woman, Blackberry Way; Uglys, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 11 | Ric Rothwell drummer (Mindbenders-Games of Love), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 14 | Pavel Grigor'yevich composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 15 | David Costell Pittsburgh PA, rocker (Gary Lewis & the Playboys-This Diamond Ring), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 15 | Ralph MacDonald rock percussionist (Graceland), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 15 | Sly Stone (Sylvester Stewart) musician, singer: group: Sly & The Family Stone: Dance to the Music, Everyday People, Hot Fun in the Summertime, Thank You, Family Affair; Former San Francisco DJ, is born in Dallas TX. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 17 | John Sebastian New York NY, singer (Loving Spoonful, Welcome Back Kotter), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 17 | Pat McCauley N Ireland, rock drummer (Them), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 19 | Joseph Celli composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 19 | Myung-Wha Chung Seoul Korea, cellist (Chung Sisters), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 20 | Felix Woyrsch composer, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 21 | Henrik Colding-Jorgensen composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 21 | Jamary Oliveira composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 22 | T S "Tony" McPhee rocker (Sad Go Round), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 23 | Michael Nyman composer (Mesmer, Carrington), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 24 | Patti Labelle singer (Phoenix, Tasty, Chameleon), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Diana Ross [Earle] Detroit MI, (Supremes, Lady Sings the Blues, Mahogany) is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 29 | James Diggle FBA, classicist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 31 | Mick Ralphs musician: guitar: groups: Mott The Hoople: All the Young Dudes, Bad Company: Cant Get Enough, Ready for Love, Feel like Makin Love, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 31 | Rod Allen [B Rodney Bainbridge] rock bassist/vocalist (Fortunes), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 02 | Mikulas Moyzes composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Barry Pritchard musician: guitar, singer: group: The Fortunes: You've Got Your Troubles | Ref: 4 |
Apr 03 | Richard Manuel rocker (Band-Cripple Creek), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Tony Orlando (Michael Anthony Orlando Cassavitis), singer: Halfway to Paradise, Bless You; group: Tony Orlando and Dawn: Knock Three Times, Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree, Candida, is born in New York City. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 04 | Karel Weis composer, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | Dave Holland heavy metal rocker (Judas Priest-Breakin' the Law), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | Crispian St Peters rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | Nicholas Caldwell rocker (Whispers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | Willy Derby [Dieben] singer (Hello Bandoeng), dies. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 06 | John Stax rocker (Pretty Things-Don't Bring Me Down), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 06 | [Holly] Michelle [Gilliam] Phillips, Long Beach CA, singer (Mama & Papas)/actress (Knots Landing), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 06 | Felicity Palmer British mezzo-soprano, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 08 | Roger Chapman, Leicester Leicestershire England, rock vocalist (Family-Family Entertainment), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 08 | Santiago Jimenez Jr US accordionist (El Mero Mero, Viva Seguin), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 09 | Gene Parsons Los Angeles CA, rock drummer (Byrds, Gene Clark Group), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 09 | Boleslaw Wallek-Walewski composer, dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 10 | Danny Woods US musician (CEO of the Board), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | Karel Kryl folk singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | John Kay [Joachim F Krauledat] Tilsit East Prussia Germany, rocker (Steppenwolf-Hour of the World), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 13 | Jack Casady musician: bass: groups: KBC Band, Hot Tuna; Jefferson Airplane: Its No Secret, Runnin Round this World, Somebody to Love, White Rabbit, is born in Washington DC. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 13 | Brian Pendleton Wolverhampton West Midlands England, rocker (The Pretty Things), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 13 | Cecile Chaminade composer, dies at 86. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 15 | Dave Edmunds Cardiff Wales, singer/guitarist (Rockpile-Baby I Love You), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 15 | Gerard Schoenaker Dutch singer (Les Baroques), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 16 | Dennis Russell Davies composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 17 | Bobby Curtola singer: one of Canadas early teen idols: Hand In Hand With You, Dont You Sweetheart Me, Three Rows Over, Fortune Teller; TV host: After Four, Shake, Rock, Roll, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 17 | John Lill professor/pianist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | Rudy Shackelford composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | Ccile Chamindale composer, dies. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 19 | Mark "Flo" Volman rocker (Flo & Eddie, Turtles-Eleanor)/DJ (WKRK), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 19 | Bernard Worrell US keyboardist (Funkadelic-Cosmic Slop), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 22 | Mezio Agostini composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 24 | [Bernard] St Clair Lee [Calhoun] US singer (Rock the Boat), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 27 | Cuba Gooding US singer (Everybody Plays the Fool), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 27 | Herb Pedersen Berkley CA, singer (Desert Rose Band-Love Reunited), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 30 | Richard Shoff singer: group: The Sandpipers: Guantanamera, Come Saturday Morning, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 01 | Rita Coolidge Nashville TN, singer (Higher & Higher, We're All Alone), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 02 | John Verity rocker (Argent), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 03 | Peter Staples rocker (Troggs-Wild Thing), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 04 | Dave [Otto Levenbach] Dutch singer (Du cot the Chez Swann), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 04 | Peggy Santiglia McGannon New Jersey, rocker (Angels), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 04 | Ronnie Bond drummer (Troggs-Wild Thing), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 07 | Alison Margaret Bauld composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 08 | Gary Glitter [Paul Gadd] Banbury Oxfordshire England, rocker (Rock & Roll Part II), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 09 | Don Dannemann rocker (Cyrkle), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 09 | Ethel Mary Smyth composer, dies at 86. | Ref: 5 |
May 10 | Judith Jamison dancer: American Ballet Theatre [debut: 1964], Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre; starred in Broadway musical Sophisticated Ladies; choreographer: created works for many companies, Rift, Hymn, Riverside, Sweet Release; autobiography: Dancing Spirit, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 10 | Jackie Lomax Liverpool, rocker (Is This What You Want), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 12 | James Purify US singer (I'm Your Puppet), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 13 | Carolyn Franklin US singer/songwriter (Baby Baby Baby, Angel), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 14 | Troy Shondell rocker (Many Sides of Troy Shondell), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 14 | Gene Cornish, musician: guitar: group: The Young Rascals: Good Lovin, Groovin, A Girl like You, How Can I be Sure, People Got to be Free, Music Music, is born in Ottowa Canada. | Ref: 4 |
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May 16 | Billy Cobham Panam, jazz artist (Same Ole Love), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 16 | Leone Sinigaglia composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
May 17 | Jesse Winchester Shreveport LA, singer/songwriter (Learn to Love it), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 17 | Paul Crossley concert pianist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 20 | Joe (John Robert) Cocker singer, songwriter: With a Little Help from My Friends, She Came in through the Bathroom Window, The Letter, Up Where We Belong [w/Jennifer Warnes], You are So Beautiful, When the Night Comes, Cry Me a River, is born in Sheffield, England. | Ref: 4 |
May 20 | Boudouin de Groot Dutch singer (Good night mister president), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 20 | Cipa Dichter Rio de Janeiro Brazil, pianist/wife of Misha Dichter, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 21 | Marcie Blane singer: Bobbys Girl, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 23 | Ramon "Tiki" Fulwood US drummer (Funkadelic, Knee Deep), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 24 | Patti LaBelle [Holt] Philadelphia PA, singer (LaBelle-Lady Marmalade), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 24 | Arthur Brown rock vocalist (Fire) [or Jun 24], is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 26 | Verden Allen musician: keyboards: group: Mott the Hoople: All the Young Dudes, Ballad of Mott, All the Way to Memphis, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 28 | Billy Vera musician (& the Beaters-At This Moment, Into the Night), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | Gladys Knight Atlanta GA, singer, leader of the Pips (Last train), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 30 | Lenny Davidson musician: group: The Dave Clark Five: Do You Love Me, Glad All Over, Bits and Pieces, Everybody Knows, Red Balloon, Good Old Rock & Roll, Everybody Get Together; film: Catch Us if You Can, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 31 | Mick Ralphs guitarist (Mott the Hoople, Bad Company), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 02 | Marvin Hamlisch Academy Award-winning pianist, composer: for adapted score: The Sting [1973], is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 02 | Mike Clarke (Michael Dick) musician: drummer: group: The Byrds, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 03 | Mike Clarke (Michael Dick) musician: drummer: group: The Byrds: Mr. Tambourine Man, Turn! Turn! Turn!; died Dec 19, 1993 | Ref: 4 |
Jun 04 | Michelle Phillips (Holly Michelle Gilliam) singer: group: The Mamas and the Papas, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 04 | Roger Ball saxophonist (Average White Band), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 06 | Peter Albin musician: bass, guitar & vocals: group: Big Brother and The Holding Company: Piece of My Heart, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 06 | Monty Alexander jazz musician: piano: So What?, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 07 | Clarence White guitarist (The Byrds-Turn! Turn! turn!), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 08 | William Royce "Boz" Scaggs, Dallas TX, rocker (Steve Miller Band), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 10 | Rick Price musician: bass: groups: The Move, Wizzard: LPs: Wizzard Brew, Introducing Eddy and the Falcons, See my Baby Jive, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 12 | Reg Presley singer: group: Troggs: Wild Thing, Give It to Me, Love is All Around, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 16 | Reg Presley singer (Troggs-Wild Thing), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 21 | Rock singer-musician Ray Davies (The Kinks) is born. | Ref: 68 |
Jun 22 | Peter Asher London, singer (Peter & Gordon-World Without Love), is born. | Ref: 68 |
Jun 23 | Rosetta Hightower singer: group: The Orlons: The Wah Watusi, Dont Hang Up, South Street, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 24 | Arthur Brown (Wilton) singer: group: The Crazy World of Arthur Brown: Fire; actor: Tommy, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 24 | John Charlie Whitney musician: guitar: group: Family: Hung Up Down, The Weavers Answer, No Mules Fool, In My Own Time, Burlesque, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 24 | Bruce Johnston rocker (Beachboys-Surfin' Girl), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 24 | Jeff Beck Surrey England, singer/songwriter (Jeff Beck Group), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 27 | Bruce Johnston Grammy Award-winning song writer: I Write the Songs [1976]; musician: group: The Beach Boys, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 30 | Glenn Shorrock singer: group: The Little River Band: Its a Long Way There, Help is on Its Way, Reminiscing, Lady, Lonesome Loser, Cool Change, The Night Owls, Take It Easy on Me, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 05 | Robbie (Jamie) Robertson (composer, musician: guitar: group: The Band: Up on Cripple Creek, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, Shape Im In, River Hymn, Life is a Carnival), is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 07 | Warren Entner musician: guitar, singer: group: The Grass Roots, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 08 | Jaimoe "Johnny" Johanson drummer (Allman Brothers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 11 | Bobby Rice singer: Sugar Shack, You Lay So Easy on My Mind, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 20 | T.G. Sheppard country singer (Only 1 You, Without You), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 22 | Richard Davies musician: keyboard, singer: group: Supertramp, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 22 | Estelle Bennett NYC, vocalist (Ronettes-Be My Baby), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 25 | Jim McCarty musician: drums: groups: Renaissance, Shoot, Box of Frogs, The Yardbirds: For Your Love, Heart Full of Soul, Im a Man, Shapes of Things, Over Under Sideways Down; songwriter [w/Samwell-Smith]: Still Im Sad, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 27 | Bobbie Gentry MS, what did Billi-Jo throw off the bridge, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 14 | Robyn Smith Astaire jockey/wife of Fred Astaire, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 18 | Carl Wayne singer: group: The Move: Night of Fear, I Can Hear the Grass Grow, Flowers in the Rain, Fire Brigade, Wild Tiger Woman, Blackberry Way, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 21 | Jackie DeShannon (Sharon Myers) Hazel Kentucky, singer (What the World Needs Now), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 24 | Jim Brady singer: group: The Sandpipers: Guantanamera, Come Saturday Morning, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 27 | Tim Bogert musician: bass: groups: Showmen, Cactus, Vanilla Fudge: People Get Ready, Ticket to Ride, Bang, Bang, You Keep Me Hangin On, Take Me for a Little While, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 01 | Leonard Slatkin LA Calif, conductor (Concert Orch, Neth), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 03 | Gary Leeds musician: drums: group: The Walker Brothers: My Ship is Coming In, Make It Easy on Yourself, The Sun Aint Gonna Shine Anymore , No Regrets, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 04 | Gene Parsons musician: drums: group: The Byrds; solo: Kindling, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 06 | Roger Waters musician: bass, songwriter: group: Pink Floyd: Another Brick in the Wall [Part II] | Ref: 4 |
Sep 11 | Phil May singer: group: The Pretty Things: LP: Parachute; group: Fallen Angels, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 12 | Barry White, Galveston TX, singer (Love's Theme), is born. (TWA, 1998) | Ref: 95 |
Sep 13 | Peter Cetera Chicago, lead singer (Chicago-25 or 6 to 4, Old Days), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 14 | Joey (Davenie) Heatherton actress: Dean Martin Presents, Cry-Baby, Bluebeard; daughter of Ray Heatherton of Tropicana Orange Juice fame, is born in Rockville Center NY. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 16 | Betty Kelly singer: group: Martha and the Vandellas: Dancing in the Street, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 25 | Eugenia Zukerman Cambridge Ms, flutist/novelist (Deceptive Cadence), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 29 | Mike Post Grammy Award-winning composer, arranger, musician, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 01 | Scott McKenzie (Phillip Blondheim) singer: San Francisco [Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair], Like an Old Time Movie; co-writer: Kokomo [Beach Boys], is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 04 | Patti LaBelle singer (LaBelles-Lady Marmalade), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 08 | Susan Raye singer: Ive Got a Happy Heart, Willie Jones, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 09 | John Entwistle rocker (The Who-Tommy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 09 | Peter Tosh (Winston McIntosh), Jamaica, reggae musician (Mystic Man, Mama Africa), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 13 | Robert Lamm singer, musician: keyboards: group: The Big Thing: Chicago Transit Authority: Chicago:, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 25 | Jon Anderson singer: group: Yes: Roundabout; solo: LP: Olias of Sunhollow, Song of Seven; duo: Jon and Vangelis: I Hear You Now, Ill Find My Way Home, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 25 | Kathy "Taffy" Danoff Wash DC, vocalist (Starland Vocal Band), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 26 | Michael Piano singer: group: The Sandpipers: Guantanamera, Come Saturday Morning, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 29 | Denny Laine (Brian Hines) musician: guitar, singer: groups: The Moody Blues: Go Now; Wings: My Love, Live & Let Die, Helen Wheels, Jet, Band on the Run, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 31 | Kinky (Richard) Friedman singer, bandleader: Texas Jewboys: Let Saigons be Bygones, We Reserve the Right to Refuse Service to You, They Aint Making Jews like Jesus Anymore, Asshole from El Paso, is born in Palestine TX. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 01 | Singer Keith Emerson England of Emerson, Lake & Palmer is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 01 | Chris Morris musician: guitar: group: Paper Lace: The Night Chicago Died, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 02 | Keith Emerson, musician: keyboards: groups: Emerson, Lake & Powell; Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Lucky Man, From the Beginning; solo Tonk Train Blues; film scores: The Inferno, Nighthawks, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 08 | Bonnie Bramlett songwriter, singer: group: Delaney and Bonnie and Friends, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 10 | Tim Rice lyricist: with Andrew Lloyd Weber: Jesus Christ, Superstar, Evita, Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; film scores: Gumshoe, Odessa File, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 10 | Dave Loggins singer (Please come to Boston), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 11 | Jesse Colin Young (Perry Miller), NY, rocker (The Youngbloods-Soul of a City Boy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 12 | Singer Booker T. Jones (of Booker T and the MGs) is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 18 | Susan Sullivan actress: It's a Living, Falcon Crest, Rich Man Poor Man Book II, Having Babies, The George Carlin Show, The Dark Ride, The Incredible Hulk, Deadman's Curve; commercial spokesperson: Tylenol, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 24 | Bob Lind singer, songwriter: Elusive Butterfly, Remember the Rain, Truly Julie's Blues, Cheryl's Goin' Home, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 26 | -Singer Jean Terrell is born. | Ref: 64 |
Nov 26 | Alan Henderson musician: bass: group: Them, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 27 | Dozy (Trevor Davies) musician: bass: group: Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 27 | Eddie Rabbitt Brooklyn, country singer (I Love a Rainy Night), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 27 | Kevin Coyne rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 29 | Felix Cavaliere singer, group: The (Young) Rascals: Groovin, Good Lovin, Beautiful Morning, People Gotta Be Free; solo: LPs: Destiny, Treasure, Castle in the Air, is born in Pelham NY. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 30 | Rob Grill musician, singer: group: The Grass Roots: Midnight Confessions, Lets Live for Today | Ref: 4 |
Nov 30 | Luther Ingram musician, singer: [If Lovin You is Wrong] I Dont Want to be Right, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 01 | Eric Bloom singer, musician: guitar: group: Blue Oyster Cult, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 01 | John Densmore Los Angeles CA, drummer (Doors-Light My Fire), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 04 | Dennis Wilson Hawthorne CA, drummer/vocalist (Beach Boys-In My Room, CA Dreaming), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 06 | Jonathan (Kenneth) King singer: Everyones Gone to the Moon, Let It All Hang Out; songwriter, producer: Good News Week, is born in London England. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 09 | George Baker [Hans Bouwens] Dutch vocalist (G B Selection), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 09 | Neil Innes musician: keyboard, singer, songwriter: group: The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 11 | Brenda Lee (Tarpley) singer: Im Sorry, All Alone Am I, I Want to Be Wanted, Sweet Nothins, Thats All You Gotta Do, is born in Lithonia GA. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 11 | Booker T Jones US organist (Booker T & MGs-Green Onions) [or Nov 12], is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 11 | David Ashley White composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 15 | A single-engine plane carrying bandleader Major Glenn Miller disappeared over the English Channel while en route to Paris. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 16 | John Abercrombie rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 19 | Alvin Lee, musician: group: Ten Years After, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 19 | Zal Yanovsky, musician: guitar, singer: group: The Lovin' Spoonful, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 19 | Birth of Andrew Robert Culverwell, American sacred music songwriter. This contemporary music artist has written such popular Christian songs as "Born Again" and "Come On, Ring Those Bells." | Ref: 5 |
Dec 20 | Bobby Colomby (musician: drums, singer: group: Blood, Sweat & Tears: And When I Die, You Made Me So Very Happy, Spinning Wheel, Hi De Ho), is born in New York NY. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 21 | Michael Tilson Thomas, Los Angeles CA, conductor (NY Philharmonic for Young People), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 22 | Barry Jenkins rocker (Animals-House of the Rising Sun), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 22 | Antoine Mariotte composer, dies on 69th birthday. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 24 | Mike Curb music executive: producer: Oscar-winner: You Light Up My Life [1977]; Curb Records; The Mike Curb Congregation: United We Stand, Sweet Gingerbread Man, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 24 | Joseph Gustav Mraczek composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | Henry Vestine musician: guitar: group: Canned Heat: On the Road Again, Going Up the Country; sideman for Frank Zappa; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 27 | Mick Jones musician: guitar: group: Foreigner: Feels like the First Time, Cold as Ice, Long Long Way from Home, Hot Blooded, Blue Morning Blue Day, Double Vision, Waiting for a Girl like You, I Want to Know What Love Is, That Was Yesterday, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 27 | Tracy Nelson Madison WI, singer (In The Here And Now), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 27 | Amy Marcy Cheney Beach composer, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
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Jan 01 | Vit Nejedly composer, dies at 33. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 03 | Stephen Stills, Dallas TX, singer/songwriter/guitarist (Crosby Stills & Nash), is born. (also TWA, 1998) | Ref: 5 |
Jan 03 | Fyodor Akimenko composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 04 | Jay Dee Maness Loma Linda CA, singer (Desert Rose Band-Love Reunited), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | John Peters rock drummer (Harpers Bizarre), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Rod Stewart London, England, singer (Maggie Mae, Da Ya Think I'm Sexy), is born. | Ref: 17 |
Jan 10 | Ronny Light songwriter, Nashville studio musician | Ref: 4 |
Jan 10 | Frank Sinatra Jr Jersey City NJ, singer/bandleader (Golddiggers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 12 | Maggie Bell Glasgow Scotland, rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 14 | Sandor Vandor composer, dies at 43. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 17 | William Hart US singer (4 Gents, Delfonics-I'm Sorry), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 19 | Rod Evans rocker (Deep Purple-Come Taste the Band), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 19 | Charles Amirkhanian composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 20 | Eric Stewart guitarist: group: Mindbenders: Game of Love; Hotlegs then 10cc: Donna, Im Not in Love, The Things We Do for Love, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 21 | Chris Britton rocker (Troggs-Rock & Roll Goldmine), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 22 | Oliver rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 22 | Carlo Felice Boghen composer, dies a day before 76th birthday. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 26 | Jacqueline du Pr Oxford England, cellist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 27 | Nicholas Berkeley Mason drummer (Pink Floyd-The Wall, Money), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 30 | Robert Wittinger composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 30 | William Busch composer, dies at 43. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 31 | Noah Creshevsky composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 01 | Ole Buck composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Ronnie Goodson rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 03 | Johnny Cymbal rocker (Mr Bass Man), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 03 | Willeke Alberti [Verbruggen], Dutch vocalist/actress (Small Truth), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 03 | Jose Rolon composer, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Bob Marley, Jamaican musician who popularized reggae music, is born. | Ref: 17 |
Feb 06 | Bob Marley Jamaican reggae vocalist (Bob Marley & Wailers-Roots Rock Reggae), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 10 | Juan de Hernandez composer, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 11 | Al Dubin Swiss songwriter (Tiptoe Thru The Tulips), dies at 53. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 12 | Joe Schermie Madison WI, bassist (3 Dog Night-Joy to the World), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 13 | Keith Nichols jazz pianist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 13 | King Floyd rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 13 | Roy Dyke Liverpool, rock drummer (Ashton, Gardner & Dyke), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 14 | Vic Briggs England, rocker (Animals), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 15 | John Anthony Helliwell musician: saxophone: group: Supertramp: Dreamer, Bloody Well Right, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 17 | Zina Bethune dancer, choreographer, actress: Sunrise at Campobello, Whos that Knocking at My Door?, The Nurses, Nutcracker: Money, Madness & Murder, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 20 | Alan Hull singer/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 21 | Paul Newton rock bassist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Oliver (Swofford), singer (Good Morning Starshine, Jean), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 25 | Elkie Brooks Manchester England, rocker (Pearl's a Singer), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | Mitch Ryder (William Levise) singer: group: Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels: Devil with a Blue Dress On, Little Latin Lupe Lu, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 28 | Ronnie Rosman rocker (Tommy James Shondells-Crystal Blue Persuasion), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Burning Spear [Winston Rodney], Jamaican reggae singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 03 | Koos Speenhoff Dutch singer, killed in bombing raid at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | Dieter Meier Swiss singer/children book writer (Yello), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 06 | Hugh Grundy Winchester England, drummer (Zombies-She's Not There), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 06 | Rudolph Karel composer, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 07 | Arthur Lee rocker (Vindicator), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | Mickey Dolenz Los Angeles CA, actor (Circus Boy) singer (Monkees), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | Keith Jarrett pianist/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 09 | Laura Lee [Rundless] singer (Dirty Man, Women's Love Rights), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 09 | Ray Royer rocker (Procol Harum-Whiter Shade of Pale), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 09 | Robin Trower London England, rocker (Procol Harum-Whiter Shade of Pale), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 11 | Harvey Mandel rock guitarist (Drei Amerikanische LP's), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 11 | Mark Stein vocalist/organist (Vanilla Fudge-You Keep Me Hanging On), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 12 | Hans van Emden Dutch guitarist (Les Baroques), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 13 | Herbert Bedford composer, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 14 | Herman[us J] van Veen Netherlands, cabareter/singer/composer/writer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 14 | Michael Martin Murphey Dallas TX, country singer (Wildfire), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 14 | Walter Parazaider Chicago IL, rock saxophonist (Chicago-If You Leave Me Now), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 18 | Eric Woolfson Glasgow Scotland, composer/musician (Alan Parsons Project, Woolfson Entertainment Group), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 21 | Vernon Guy US gospel singer (Cool Sounds, Sharpees), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 21 | Rose[mary] Stone Dallas TX, vocalist/pianist (Sly & the Family Stone-Everyday People), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 22 | Alan Opie baritone (Boughton Bethlehem, Britten 5 Canticles), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 22 | Charles "Chuck" Jackson US singer (Playboy, Independents), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Chuck Portz Santa Monica CA, bassist (Turtles-Happy Together), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | Eric Clapton [Eric Patrick Clapp] Ripley England, legendary guitarist/singer (Yardbirds, Cream, Tears in Heaven), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | Karel Moor composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 31 | Al Nichol musician: guitar, keyboards: group: The Turtles: It Aint Me Babe, Let Me Be, You Baby, Happy Together, Shed Rather Be with Me, Elenore, You Showed Me, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 01 | John Barbata musician: drums: groups: The Turtles: Happy Together; Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young; Jefferson Starship: LP: Dragonfly, Red Octopus, Spitfire, Earth; Miracles, We Built This City, Sara, Tomorrow Doesnt Matter Tonight, Nothings Gonna Stop Us Now, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 03 | Richard Manuel pianist/vocalist (Up on Cripple Creek), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | Huldreich Georg Fruh composer, dies at 41. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 06 | Bob Marley reggae musician/singer (Whalers-No Woman), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 09 | Gus Hardin [Carol Ann Blankenship], Tulsa OK, country singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 11 | Robert Fripp guitarist (King Crimson), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 13 | Lowell George rock vocalist/guitarist (Little Feat-Time is a Hero), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 13 | Raymond van Geytenbeek Dutch singer/drummer (Les Baroques), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 13 | Stacy Johnson US singer (Sharpees-Tired of Being Alone), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 14 | Ritchie Blackmore musician: guitar: solo: Getaway, Little Brown Jug, LP: Rainbow; groups: Deep Purple: Black Night, Strange Kind of Woman, Fireball, Smoke on the Water; LPs: Deep Purple in Rock, Made in Japan, Who Do We Think We Are?, Machine Head; Rainbow: Since Youve Been Gone, All Night Long, I Surrender, Stone Cold, LPs: Rainbow Rising, Straight Between the Eyes, Bent Out of Shape, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 14 | Derek Leckenby rocker/actor (Mrs Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 16 | Stefan Grossman New York NY, country blues singer (Yazoo Basin Boogie), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 20 | Jimmy Winston (Langwith) musician: organ: groups: Moments, Small Faces, is born in London England. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 24 | Rock musician Stu Cook (Creedence Clearwater Revival) is born. | |
Apr 24 | Doug Clifford Palo Alto CA, rock drummer (Creedence Clearwater Revival-Proud Mary), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 24 | Eugene O'Brien composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 24 | Robert Knight Franklin TN, rocker (Everlasting Love), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 24 | Hubert Bath composer, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 25 | Bjrn Ulvaeus Gothenburg Sweden, guitarist/songwriter (ABBA-Waterloo, Dancing Queen), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 25 | Stu Cook Oakland CA, rock bassist (Creedence Clearwater Revival-Proud Mary), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 25 | Michael Kogel rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 28 | John Wolters musician: drums: group: Dr. Hook, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 29 | [Thomasina] Tammi Terrell [Montgomery] singer (Ain't No Mountain High Enough), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Hugh Hopper rocker (Soft Machine), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 30 | Mike Beacon rocker (Ox), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 30 | Mimi Farina rocker (Reflections in a Crystal Wind), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 01 | Rita Coolidge Nashville TN, singer (Higher & Higher, We're All Alone), is born. | Ref: 17 |
May 01 | Desider Antalffy-Zsiross Hungarian organist/composer, dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
May 02 | Bianca Prez Morena de Macias Jagger Nicaragua, model/Mick's ex-wife, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 02 | Bob Henrit English pop drummer (Kinks-Waterloo Sunset), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 02 | Randy Cain US soul singer (4 Gents/Delfonics), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 02 | Goldy McJohn musician: organ: group: Steppenwolf: Born to be Wild, The Pusher, Magic Carpet Ride, Rock Me, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 04 | George Wadenius rocker (Blood, Sweat & Tears), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 05 | Jiri Svoboda composer (Accumulator 1), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 05 | Raphael Spain, Spanish singer (When the Sun Sets, Lo Meyur de Ano), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 06 | Bob Seger Dearborn MI, rocker (Silver Bullet Band-Shake Down), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 06 | Victoria Bond composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 08 | Keith Jarrett jazz musician/film composer (Nachtfahrer), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 09 | Steve Katz New York NY, rock guitarist/vocalist (Blood, Sweat & Tears), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 10 | Pamelo Mounk'a musician, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 12 | Ian McLagan musician: keyboards: solo LPs: Troublemaker, Bump in the Night; group: The Faces: Stay with Me, Debris, Cindy Incidentally, Pool Hall Richard, You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything, is orn | Ref: 4 |
May 12 | Jayotis Washington rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 12 | Willie Parnell US singer (Archie Bell & the Drells), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 13 | Magic Dick [Richard secondalwitz], harmonicaist (J Geils Band-Centerfold), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 16 | Nicky Chinn English songwriter/producer (Chinn & Chapman), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 19 | Peter Townshend England, rock guitarist/vocalist/composer (The Who-Tommy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 23 | Misty Morgan country keyboardist (duo with Jack Blanchard), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 25 | Dave Lee Travis DJ, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 26 | Garry Peterson musician: drums: The Guess Who: These Eyes, Laughing, No Time, American Woman, Share the Land, Clap for the Wolfman, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 27 | Bruce Cockburn Ottawa Canada, folk rock vocalist (Waterwalker), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | John Fogerty songwriter; singer: group: Creedence Clearwater: Proud Mary, Have You Ever Seen the Rain, Bad Moon Rising, Lookin Out My Back Door; group: The Blue Ridge Rangers: Jambalaya, Hearts of Stone, The Old Man Down the Road, Centerfield, is born in Berkeley CA. | Ref: 4 |
May 28 | Gary Stewart Latcher County KY, country singer (She's Actin' Single), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | Mike Rossi rocker (Status Quo), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | Gary Brooker musician: keyboards, singer: solo: Say It Aint So Joe, Switchboard Susan, LPs: No More Fear of Flying, Lead Me to the Water, Echoes in the Night; groups: Procol Harum: Whiter Shade of Pale; The Paramounts | Ref: 4 |
Jun 01 | Frederica Von Stade Somerville NJ, mezzo-soprano (Die Zauberflte), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 01 | Linda Scott singer (Hey Look at Me Now), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 04 | Anthony Braxton, jazz composer and saxaphonist, is born. | Ref: 2 |
Jun 04 | Gordon Waller Scotland, singer (Peter & Gordon-World Without Love), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 05 | Don Reid Va, country singer (Statler Bros-Flowers on the Wall), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 14 | Rod Argent (keyboard: group: Argent: Hold Your Head Up; group: The Zombies: Shes Not There, Tell Her No, Time of the Season), is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 15 | Rod Argent England, keyboardist (The Zombies-She's Not There), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 16 | Ian Matthews (McDonald) musician: guitar, singer: groups: Fairport Convention: Book Song; Matthews Southern Comfort: Woodstock; solo: I Survived the 70s, LPs: If You Saw Through My Eyes, Tigers Will Survive, Stealin Home, Spot of Interference, Discreet Repeat, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 20 | Anne Murray Nova Scotia, Canada, singer (Snow Bird), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 21 | Chris Britton musician: guitar: group: The Troggs: Wild Thing, Any Way that You Want Me, Give It to Me, Night of the Long Grass, Little Girl, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 24 | Colin Blunstone rocker (Zombies-Never Even Thought), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 25 | Carly Simon NYC, singer (Anticipation, You're So Vain), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 28 | David Knights bassist (Pocol Harum), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 29 | Little Eva Boyd singer: The Loco-motion, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 01 | Debbie (Deborah Ann) Harry singer: group: Blondie: The Tide is High, Rapture, Heart of Glass, Call Me, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 03 | Johnny Lee country singer: Lookin for Love, One in a Million, Bet Your Heart on Me, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 03 | Mike Corby guitarist (Babys), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 06 | Rik Elswit musician: guitar, singer: group: Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show: Sylvias Mother, [Freakin At] The Freakers Ball, Queen of the Silver Dollar, Ballad of Lucy Jordan, The Cover of Rolling Stone, When Youre in Love with a Beautiful Woman, Sharing the Night Together, Sexy Eyes, Better Love Next Time, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 07 | Matti Salminen Turku Finland, bass player (King Philipp-Don Carlos), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 11 | Deborah Harry singer (Blondie) actress (Videodrome, Hairspray), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 15 | Peter Lewis musician: guitar, singer: group: Moby Grape: LPs: Moby Grape, Wow, Grape Jam, Truly Fine Citizen, 20 Granite Creek, Grape Live, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 22 | Bobby Sherman actor/singer (Seattle), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 23 | Dino Danelli musician: drummer: group: The (Young) Rascals: Good Lovin, Groovin, How Can I Be Sure, A Beautiful Morning, People Got to Be Free; group: Bulldog, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 25 | Donna Theodore Broadway singer (Hollywood Talent Scouts), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 28 | Richard Wright rocker (Pink Floyd-The Wall), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 30 | David Sanborn saxophonist (David Letterman), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 02 | Pietro Mascagni, composer, dies in Rome, Italy at age 81. (Cross, Milton, "Encyclopedia of the Great Composers and Their Music", Doubleday & Co, 1953) |   |
Aug 02 | Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek, composer (Donna Diana), dies. | Ref: 68 |
Aug 16 | Suzanne Farrell, Cincinnati, dancer (Don Quioxote), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 16 | Kevin Ayers England, progressive rocker (Joy of a Toy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 19 | Ian Gillian heavy metal rocker (Deep Purple-Knocking at Backdoor), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 22 | Ron Dante Staten Island NY, rocker (Archies-Sugar, Sugar), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 24 | Ken Hensley musician: guitar, keyboard, composer: group: Uriah Heep: July Morning, Easy Livin, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 31 | Itzhak Perlman, Tel Aviv Israel, violinist/polio victim, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 31 | Van Morrison songwriter, singer: group: Them: Gloria; solo: Brown Eyed Girl, Domino, Blue Money, She Gives Me Religion, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 01 | -Singer Archie Bell is born. | Ref: 6 |
Sep 03 | George Biondo musician: group: Steppenwolf: Born to Be Wild, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 03 | Mike Harrison keyboardist (Spooky Tooth-It's All About), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 05 | Al Stewart Glasgow Scotland, rocker (The Year of the Cat), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 09 | Dee Dee Sharp (Dione LaRue) singer: Mashed Potato Time, Gravy [For My Mashed Potatoes], Ride!, Do the Bird, Slow Twistin [w/Chubby Checker], is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 10 | Jose Feliciano Lares PR, singer/songwriter (Light my Fire), is born in Lares PR. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 11 | Leo Kottke Athens Ga, guitarist (Ice Water, Greenhouse), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 12 | John Mauceri NYC, conductor (Wash DC Opera), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 15 | Jesse Norman, soprano, is born. | Ref: 2 |
Sep 15 | Anton von Werbern, Austrian composer, dies at age 61. | Ref: 70 |
Sep 16 | John McCormack, Irish tenor, dies at age 61. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 19 | David Bromberg Phila, musician (Demon in Disguise), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 19 | Freda Payne Detroit Mich, singer (Band of Gold), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 23 | Ronald Bushy musician: drums: group: Iron Butterfly: In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 25 | Onnie McIntyre musician: guitar: group: Average White Band, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 26 | Brian Ferry England, rocker (Roxy Music-Let's Stick Together), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 26 | Bela Bartok composer: Mikrokosmos, Concerto for Orchestra, Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste, Solo Sonata for Violin, Concerto No. 2 for Violin and Orchestra; dies. (Also: Cross, Milton, "Encyclopedia of the Great Composers and Their Music", Doubleday & Co, 1953) | Ref: 4 |
Sep 27 | Misha Dichter Shanghai China, pianist (Tchaikowsy 2nd prize-1966), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 01 | Donny Hathaway Chicago, singer/songwriter (Where is the Love), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 02 | Don McLean singer/songwriter (American Pie, Vincent), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 02 | Neil Frances Tennant rocker (Pet Shop Boy-West End Girl), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 07 | Kevin Godley musician: drums, singer: group: 10cc:, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 09 | Jeannie C Riley TX, singer (Harper Valley PTA, Hee Haw), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 19 | Jeannie C. Riley (Stephenson) Grammy Award-winning singer: Harper Valley P.T.A., is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 20 | Ric Lee musician: drums: group: Ten Years After, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 21 | Kathy Young rocker (Thousand Stars in the Sky), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 22 | Leslie West [Weinstein] rocker (Mountain-Mississippi Queen), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 22 | Eddie Brigati singer, musician: group: The [Young] Rascals, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 28 | Wayne Fontana (Glyn Ellis) singer: group: The Mindbenders: Game of Love, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um; solo: Come on Home, Pamela Pamela, is born in Manchester England. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 29 | Melba Moore singer: You Stepped into My Life; actress: The Melba Moore-Clifton Davis Show, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 01 | Rick Grech musician: bassist, violinist: groups: Family; Blind Faith; Traffic; Crickets, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 10 | Donna Fargo (Yvonne Vaughn) Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter: The Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A. [1972]; Funny Face, is born in Mt Airy NC. (TWA, 1998) | Ref: 95 |
Nov 11 | Vince Martell musician: guitar, singer: group: Vanilla Fudge: You Keep Me Hanging On, Take Me for a Little While, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 11 | Jerome Kern the father of the American musical: composer: Show Boat, Ol Man River, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, Lovely to Look At, The Way You Look Tonight, The Last Time I Saw Paris; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 12 | Neil Young singer, songwriter, musician: Only Love Can Break Your Heart, Heart of Gold, Philadelphia; group: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: LP: dj vu; Buffalo Springfield: For What It's Worth, is born in Canada. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 15 | Anni-Frid Lyngsdtad [Fryeda Anderson] Sweden, rocker (ABBA), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 16 | Martine van Hamel Belgium, ballerina (NYC Ballet Co), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 26 | John McVie rocker (Fleetwood Mac-Rumours, Tusk), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 27 | Nicholas Berkeley Mason drummer (Pink Floyd-The Wall, Money), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 28 | R.B. Greaves singer: Take a Letter Maria; singer Sam Cookes nephew, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 30 | Roger Glover musician: bass: groups: Episode Six, Rainbow, Deep Purple: Black Night, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 30 | Radu Lupu Galati Romania, pianist (Enesco first prize-1967), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 01 | Bette Midler Grammy Award-winning singer: LP: The Divine Miss M [1972], You are the Wind Beneath My Wings [1989]; Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, The Rose; Emmy Award-winning entertainer: Bette Midler-Old Red Hair is Back [1977-1978], The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson [5/21/1992]; actress: From a Distance, Beaches, For the Boys, Down and Out in Beverly Hill Business, Ruthless People, Hawaii, Fiddler on the Roof, Tommy, The Edge of Night, is born either in Aiea HI or Paterson NJ. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 01 | John (Paul) Densmore musician: group: The Doors: Light My Fire, People are Strange, Love Me Two Times, Riders on the Storm, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 01 | Harvey Bartlett Gaul composer, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 03 | Laura Dean Staten Island NY, composer/choreographer (Drumming), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | Eric Boom Dutch guitarist/producer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 11 | Robert Pickett rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 12 | Alan Ward rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 12 | Tony Williams jazz musician, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 13 | Vittorio Mario Vanzo composer, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 14 | Constantino Gaito composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 16 | Bennie Andersson pianist, singer: groups: Hep Stars [Swedens Beatles]; Abba: I Have a Dream, Dancing Queen, Waterloo, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 19 | John McEuen rocker (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 20 | Peter Criss (Crisscoula) (musician: drummer: group: Kiss [Beth, the cat]), is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 23 | Ronald Bushy rocker (Iron Butterfly-In A Gadda Da Vida), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 23 | Georges Aperghis composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 24 | Lemmy [Ian Kilminster] rocker (Hawkwind, Motorhead-Built for Speed), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 24 | Francisco Pujol composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | Noel Redding musician: bass: Noel Redding Band; group: The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Hey Joe, Purple Haze, The Wind Cries Mary, Burning of the Midnight Lamp, All Along the Watchtower; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 25 | Steve Mancha [Clyde Wilson] US singer/songwriter (Too Many Cooks), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 28 | Dwight Bement rocker (Gary Puckett & Union Gap-Young Girl), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 29 | Adje Roland Dutch disc-jockey, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 30 | [David] Davy Jones Manchester England, singer/actor (Monkees-Last Train to Clarksville), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 30 | Preston Andrew Trombly composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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Jan 03 | John Paul Jones, rocker (Led Zeppelin-Stairway to Heaven), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 04 | Arthur Conley singer: Sweet Soul Music, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 04 | Bernard Sumner rocker (New Order-Round & Round), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 06 | Roger Keith (Syd) Barrett Cambridge England, lead guitarist (Pink Floyd-The Piper at the Gates of Dawn), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 07 | Andy Brown rock drummer (Fortunes Birmingham), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 07 | Jann S Wenner publisher (Rolling Stone), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | Robbie Kreiger Los Angeles CA, guitarist (Doors-Come on Baby Light My Fire), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Aynsley Dunbar rocker (Journey, Jefferson Starship), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Bob Lang rock bassist (Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 11 | Naomi Judd [Diana Ellen], Ashland KY, singer (Judds-Why Not Me), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 11 | Tony Kaye rocker (Yes), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 12 | Cynthia Robinson rock trumpeteer (Sly & Family Stone-Everyday People), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 12 | George Duke San Rafael CA, rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 17 | Gottfried Rudinger composer, dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 19 | Dolly Rebecca Parton, songwriter, singer: ACM Entertainer of the Year [1977], CMA Entertainer of the year [1978]: Jolene, Coat of Many Colors, Here You Come Again, 9-to-5, Youre the Only One, [w/Kenny Rogers]: Islands in the Stream; Grand Ol Opry member; actress: 9-to-5, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Steel Magnolias; owns Dollywood amusement park in Tennessee, is born in Sevierville TN. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 23 | Feliks Nowowiejski composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 25 | Ronnie Brandon rocker (McCoys), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 27 | Nedra Talley singer: group: The Ronettes: Be My Baby, Baby I Love You, Do I Love You, Walking in the Rain, [The Best Part of] Breaking Up, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 27 | Kim Gardner England, rock bassist (Ashton, Gardner & Dyke), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 28 | Rick Allen Arkansas, rock bassist (Box Tops-Letter), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | Sidney James Jones composer, dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 31 | Terry Kath rocker (Chicago-If You Leave Me Now), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Howard Bellamy Darby FL, vocalist (Bellamy Brothers-Let Your Love Flow), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 04 | Roy Yeager Doraville GA, rocker (Atlanta Rhythm Section), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 07 | Lawrence Ascott rocker (Isotope), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 07 | Sammy Johns rocker (Politics, Religion & Her), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 08 | Paul Wheatbread rocker (Gary Puckett & Union Gap-Young Girl), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 08 | "Fito" Adolpho De La Parra Los Angeles CA, rocker (Canned Heat-Hot Money), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 10 | Donovan [P Leech] Scotland, rocker (Mellow Yellow), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 14 | Gregory Hines dancer, actor: Renaissance Man, Tap, The Cotton Club, Eubie!, is born. | Ref: 68 |
Feb 17 | Dodie Stevens (Geraldine Ann Pasquale) singer: Pink Shoe Laces, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 19 | Paul Dean rock guitarist/vocalist (Loverboy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 19 | Pierre van der Linden Dutch drummer (Brainbox), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | J[erome] Geils New York NY, rock guitarist/vocalist (J Geils Band-Freeze-Frame, Centerfold), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Hugh Allen musician, dies. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 23 | Rusty Young CA, rock steel guitarist (Poco-Heat of the Night), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Tony Ashton Blackburn England, rocker (Ashton, Gardner & Dyke), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | Ralph Kirshbaum Denton TX, cellist (RNCM Manchester International Festival), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | Robert Raymond rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 05 | Murray Head singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 06 | David Jon Gilmour Cambridgeshire England, rock guitarist (Pink Floyd-The Wall), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 06 | Tony Klatka rocker (Blood, Sweat & Tears), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 07 | Matthew Fisher London, rock keyboardist (Procol Harum), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 07 | Peter Wolf (Blankfield), rock singer: group: J. Geils Band: Centerfold; Lights Out, Freeze-Frame; married Faye Dunaway, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 08 | Randy Meisner rock bassist/vocalist (Poco, Eagles-Take it Easy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 09 | Jim Cregan musician: guitar: group: Family: Its Only a Movie; Stud; Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 10 | Gaylord Birch drummer (Reconstruction, Honey Dripper), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 12 | Liza Minnelli Academy Award-winning actress: Cabaret [1972]; The Sterile Cuckoo, Arthur, Liza with a Z!; daughter of Judy Garland and Vincente Minnelli, is born in Los Angeles. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 13 | Thomas Frederick Dunhill composer, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 15 | David Wall English ballet dancers/director (Royal Academy of Dancing), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 15 | Howard Scott musician: guitar, singer: group: War: LPs: All Day Music, The World is a Ghetto, Why Cant We be Friends? is born in San Pedro CA. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 17 | Harold Brown Long Beach CA, rock drummer (War-Summer, Galaxy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 17 | Michael Peter Finnissey composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 18 | Paul Atkinson musician: guitar: group: The Zombies: Shes Not There, You Make Me Feel Good, Tell Her No, Shes Coming Home, I Want You Back Again, Time of the Season; CBS A&R, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 18 | Ruth Pointer singer: group: The Pointer Sisters: Fire, Hes So Shy, Jump [for My Love], Automatic, Neutron Dance, Im So Excited, Dare Me, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 20 | Ranger Doug [Douglas Green], Illinois, singer (Riders in Sky-Cowboy Way), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 21 | Ray Dorset rocker (Cold Blue Excursion), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 22 | Serge [Ruud Schaap] Dutch singer/guitarist (Saskia & Serge), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 22 | Lee Oskar (Oskar Hansen) musician: harmonica: group: War, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 23 | Alexandru Zirra composer, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 24 | Lee Oskar Copenhagen Denmark, rock harmonicist (War-Why Can't We Be Friends), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 24 | Gustaf Heintze composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Richard Sussman rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 31 | Al Nichol, musician: guitar, keyboards: group: The Turtles: It Aint Me Babe, Let Me Be, You Baby, Happy Together, Shed Rather Be with Me, Elenore, You Showed Me, is born in Winston Salem NC. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 01 | John Barbata drummer (Turtles-Happy Together, Eleanor), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | Arthur Conley US soul singer (Sweet Soul Music), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | Ronnie "Plonk" Lane, London England, rock bassist (Small Faces-Hey Girl), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 02 | Kurt Winter rocker (The Guess Who), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Dee Murray rocker (Elton John Band), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | Jennifer Penney ballerina, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | Larry Frederick Wendt composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | Vincent Millie Youmans, US composer (Tea For Two), dies from tuberculosis at 47. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 07 | Bill Kreutzmann Palo Alto CA, drummer (Grateful Dead, Grass Roots), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 07 | Barbara Benary composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 09 | Les Gray vocalist (Mud-The Cat Crept In), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 09 | Philip Wright rocker (Paper Lace), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 10 | Armand [Herman van Loenhout] singer (Blommenkinders), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | Ren Krijnen Dutch keyboardist (Les Baroques), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 13 | Al Green, Forest City AR, singer (Lets Stay Together), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 13 | Jim Pons rocker (Mothers Of Invention), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 13 | Roy Loney rocker (Flaming Groovies), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 13 | William Henry Bell composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 14 | Patrick Fairley guitarist (Marmalade-Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | [Alexander] Skip Spence Windsor Ontario Canada, guitarist/vocalist (Moby Grape-Omaha), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | Anne Boyd composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | Harvey Kagan rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | Lenny Baker rocker (Sha Na Na), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 23 | Jesus Castillo composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 24 | Bruce Stuart Saylor composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 25 | Digby Fairweather jazz trumpeter, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 25 | Ronnie Gilbert rocker (Lifeline, Harp), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 01 | Nick Fortune (Fortuna) musician: bass: The Buckinghams: Kind of a Drag, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 01 | Jerry Weiss New York NY, rocker (Blood Sweat & Tears), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 01 | Tony Ashton rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 01 | Edward Cuthbert Bairstow composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
May 01 | Percy William Whitlock composer, dies at 42. | Ref: 5 |
May 02 | Lesley Gore Tenafly NJ, singer (It's My Party), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 07 | Bill Danoff Springfield MA, vocalist (Starland Vocal Band), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 10 | Donovan (Leitch) singer: Mellow Yellow, Sunshine Superman, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 10 | Dave Mason songwriter, musician, singer: Alone Together, Hole in My Shoe, Just for You, Feelin Alright, We Just Disagree, So High | Ref: 68 |
May 10 | Jimmy Ponder jazz guitarist: Smokin, Mama Roots, Infant Eyes | Ref: 4 |
May 10 | Graham Gouldman Manchester England, bassist (10cc-No Milk Today), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 12 | Ian McLagen rocker (Faces), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 13 | Danny Klein (musician: bass: group: The J. Geils Band: Give It to Me, Must Have Got Lost, One Last Kiss, Freeze-Frame, Centerfold, Angel in Blue, Land of a 1000 Dances), is born in New York City. | Ref: 4 |
May 14 | Alan David Marks pianist/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 16 | Roger Earl rocker (Foghat), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 18 | George Alexander rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 19 | Phillip Rudd Melbourne Australia, rock drummer (AC/DC-Rock 'n Roll Damnation), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 20 | Actress/singer Cher (Cherilyn Sarkisian LaPierre) is born in El Centro CA. | Ref: 4 |
May 24 | Steve Upton rock drummer (Wishbone Ash-There's the Rub, Locked In), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 25 | Patty Smith Hill songwriter: Good Morning to All [predecessor of Happy Birthday to You]; dies at age 78. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 01 | Carol Neblett Modesto California, soprano (NYC Opera), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 01 | Leo Slezak, Austrian opera singer and film comedian, dies at age 72. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 02 | Singer Eddie Holman is born. Credits: Hey There Lonely Girl; made first singing appearance at age of two at Metropolitan AME Zion church, Norfolk, VA; ordained Baptist minister since the early 1980s. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 03 | Eddie Holman singer: Hey There Lonely Girl; made first singing appearance at age of two at Metropolitan AME Zion church, Norfolk, VA; ordained Baptist minister since the early 1980s, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 03 | Ian Hunter England, rocker (Mott the Hoople-All the Young Dudes), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 05 | Freddie Stone (singer: group: Sly and the Family Stone: Everyday People, Thank You [Falettinme be Mice Elf Agin]), is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 07 | Bill Kreutzman drummer (Grateful Dead-Uncle John's Band), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 10 | Matthew Fisher England, keyboardist (Procal Harum-Conquistador), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 11 | John Lawton singer: solo: LP: Take No Prisoners; groups: Rough Diamond, Uriah Heep, Lucifers Friend, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 15 | Janet Lennon singer: group: Lennon Sisters: Lawrence Welk Show, The Andy Williams Show | Ref: 4 |
Jun 17 | Barry Manilow (Barry Alan Pincus) Grammy Award-winning singer: I Write the Songs [1975]; Mandy, Looks Like We Made It, Cant Smile Without You, Copacabana, is born in New York City. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 20 | Andre Watts (musician: classical pianist: Chicago Symphony Orchestra), is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 25 | Allen Lanier musician: guitar, keyboards: group: Blue Oyster Cult: Dont Fear the Reaper, LPs: Revolution by Night, Fire of Unknown Origin, Cultosaurus Erectus, Spectres, Secret Treaties, Agents of Fortune, ETI, Some Enchanted Evening, On Your Feet or on Your Knees, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 25 | Ian McDonald musician: instrumentalist: group: Foreigner: Feels like the First Time, Cold as Ice, Long Long Way from Home, Double Vision, Hot Blooded, Blue Morning Blue Day, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 30 | William Brown singer: group: The Moments: Love on a Two-Way Street, Look at Me [Im in Love], is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 08 | Cynthia Gregory LA, ballerina (NY Ballet Co), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 09 | Bon (Ronald) Scott singer: group: AC/DC, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 09 | Mitch Mitchell drummer (Jimi Hendrix Experience), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 15 | Linda Ronstadt singer: group: The Stone Poneys: Different Drum; solo: Blue Bayou, Youre No Good, When Will I Be Loved, Its So Easy, Ooh Baby Baby, Hurt So Bad; actress: Pirates of Penzance, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 19 | Alan Gorrie musician: bass, singer: group: Average White Band: Pick Up the Pieces, Work to Do, Lets Go Around Again; solo: LP: Sleepless Nights, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 20 | Kim Carnes singer (Bette Davis Eyes), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 20 | John Almond musician: reeds, keyboards, vibes: group: Johnny Almond and the Music Machine, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 22 | Estelle Bennett, rocker (The Ronettes). | Ref: 5 |
Jul 23 | Andy Mackay musician: saxophone, woodwinds: group: Roxy Music: Virginia Plain, Pyjamarama, Do the Strand, Editions of You, In Every Dream a Heartache, Street Life, A Hard Rains A-Gonna Fall, All I Want is You, Out of the Blue, Dance Away, Angel Eyes, Jealous Guy; solo: LPs: In Search of Eddie Riff, Resolving Contradictions, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 29 | Neal Doughty keyboardist ( REO Speedwagon), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 30 | Gary Lewis (Levitch) singer: group: Gary Lewis and the Playboys: This Diamond Ring; entertainer Jerry Lewis son, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 31 | Bob Welch rocker (Fleetwood Mac-Oh Well), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 31 | Gary Lewis, Jerry's son, singer, (& The Playboys-This Diamond Ring), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 14 | Larry Graham rocker (One in a million, you), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 15 | Jimmy Webb, Elk City Okla, songwriter (MacArthur Park, Up Up & Away), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 23 | Keith Moon singer, drummer: group: The Who: is born in Wembly England. | Ref: 68 |
Sep 01 | Barry Gibb musician: rhythm guitar, songwriter, singer: group: The Bee Gees: Stayin Alive, Night Fever, How Deep Is Your Love, How Can You Mend a Broken Heart, Tragedy , Lonely Days; What Kind of Fool [w/Barbra Streisand], Emotion [w/Samantha Sang]; score: Saturday Night Fever; 29 hits: 7 gold, 4 platinum, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 01 | Greg Errico musician: drums: group: Sly and The Family Stone: Everyday People, [I Want to Take You] Higher, Dance to the Music, Hot Fun in the Summertime, Thank You [Falettinme be Mice Elf Agin], is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 02 | Marty Grebb musician: keyboards: group: The Buckinghams: Dont You Care, Kind of a Drag, Mercy, Mercy, Mercy, Susan, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 04 | Gary Duncan (Grubb) musician: guitar: group: Quicksilver Messenger Service: Dinos Song, Who Do You Love?, The Fool, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 04 | Greg Elmore musician: drums: group: Quicksilver Messenger Service: Dinos Song, Who Do You Love?, The Fool, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 05 | Loudon Wainwright III songwriter, singer: Dead Skunk; actor: M*A*S*H, The Sluggers Wife, Jackknife, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 05 | Freddie Mercury rock vocalist (Queen-We are the Champions), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 07 | Alfa Anderson singer: groups: Brown Sugar, Chic: Dance, Dance, Dance, Everybody Dance, Le Freak, I Want Your Love, Good Times, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 09 | Doug Ingle musician: keyboard, singer: group: Iron Butterfly: In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 11 | Lola Falana singer, actress: The New Bill Cosby Show, Ben Vereen Comin at Ya, Lady Cocoa, The Klansman, is born in Philadelphia PA. (TWA, 1998) | Ref: 95 |
Sep 11 | Dennis Tufano musician: guitar, singer: group: The Buckinghams, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 14 | Pete Agnew musician: bass, singer: group: Nazareth: Love Hurts, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 19 | John Coghlan musician: drums: group: Status Quo:, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 28 | Helen Shapiro singer, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 30 | Sylvia Peterson singer: group: The Chiffons, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 06 | Millie Small (Smith) singer: My Boy Lollipop; known as The Blue Beat Girl in her native Jamaica, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 08 | Aleksandr Gorshlov ice dancer (holds 6 titles), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 10 | Ben Vereen, Miami Fla, actor/dancer (Pippin, Roots, Webster), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 10 | John Prine singer, songwriter, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 11 | Daryl Hall, American singer, is born in Pottstown PA. | Ref: 68 |
Oct 13 | Lacy J Dalton country singer (Blue Eyed Blues), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 14 | Justin Hayward guitarist, singer: group: The Moody Blues: Go Now!, Nights In White Satin, Tuesday Afternoon, Question, Your Wildest Dreams; solo: Forever Autumn, LP: Songwriter, Moving Mountains, Other Side of Life, Sur la Mer, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 15 | Richard Carpenter New Haven Ct, vocalist (Carpenters-Close to You), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 17 | Jim Tucker musician: guitar: group: The Turtles [until 1965], is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 21 | Lee Loughnane musician: brass: group: Chicago: If You Leave Me Now, Hard to Say Im Sorry, Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 24 | Jerry Edmonton musician: drums: group: Steppenwolf: Born to be Wild, Magic Carpet Ride, Rock Me; duo: Manbeast; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 26 | Keith Hopwood singer, musician: guitar: group: Hermans Hermits, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 27 | Peter Martins, Danish dancer and choreographer, is born. | Ref: 2 |
Oct 29 | Peter Green musician: guitar: group: Fleetwood Mac: Man of the World; solo: LP: The End of the Game, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 02 | Giuseppe Sinopoli Venice Italy, conductor (Sunnyata), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 05 | Gram Parsons (Cecil Ingram Connors) singer: group: The Byrds: LP: Sweetheart of the Rodeo; The Flying Burrito Brothers: LP: The Gilded Palace of Sin, Burrito Deluxe; songwriter: She, How Much Ive Lied, The New Soft Shoe, Grievous Angel, Hickory Wind, Las Vegas, In My Hour of Darkness; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 08 | Roy Wood (Ulysses Adrian Wood) musician, singer, songwriter: formed Electric Light Orchestra: 10538 Overture; group: Wizzard: See My Baby Jive, Angel Fingers, Dear Elaine, Forever, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 11 | Chris Dreja musician: guitar: group: Yardbirds, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 14 | Manuel de Falla, composer, dies in Alta Garcia, Argentina. (Cross, Milton, "Encyclopedia of the Great Composers and Their Music", Doubleday & Co, 1953) |   |
Nov 15 | Janet Lennon Culver City CA, singer (Lennon Sisters), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 17 | Martin Barre musician: guitar: Jethro Tull, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 18 | Donald Meek Glasgow Scotland, actor (Stage Fair, Stagecoach), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 20 | (Howard) Duane Allman musician: lead guitar: group: Allman Brothers Band; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 20 | Ray Stiles musician: bass, singer: group: Mud: The Cat Crept In, Crazy, Myna-Mite, L-L-Lucy, Lean on Me, Lonely This Christmas, Moonshine Sally, Oh Boy, Rocket, The Secrets That You Keep, Shake It Down, Show Me You're a Woman, Tiger Feet; The Hollies, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 22 | Aston Barrett Family Man: musician: bass: group: Bob Marley & The Wailers, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 24 | Lee Michaels singer: Do You Know What I Mean, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 27 | Kim Gardner England, rock bassist (Ashton, Gardner & Dyke), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 01 | Gilbert OSullivan (Raymond Edward OSullivan) singer: Alone Again [Naturally], Clare, Get Down, Whats in a Kiss?; LP: Back to Front, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 05 | Andy Kim [Andrew Joachim] rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 05 | Jos Carreras, Barcelona Spain, opera tenor (I Lombardi, Three Tenors), is born. | Ref: 68 |
Dec 06 | Maximilian Oseyevich Shteynberg composer, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 08 | Graham Knight rocker (Marmalade), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | Walter "Clyde" Orange Florida, rocker (Commodores-Too Hot to Trot), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | Christopher Ace Kefford musician: bass: group: The Move: Night of Fear, I Can Hear the Grass Grow, Flowers in the Rain, Fire Brigade, Blackberry Way, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 12 | Clive Bunker musician: drums: group: Jethro Tull, is born | Ref: 4 |
Dec 14 | Pop singer Joyce Vincent-Wilson (Tony Orlando and Dawn) is born in Detroit MI. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 14 | Pat McCauley musician: keyboards: group: Them | Ref: 4 |
Dec 14 | Jackie McCauley North Ireland, rock pianist (Them Coleraine), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 15 | Harry Ray, Hackensack NJ, rock vocalist (Ray, Goodman, Brown), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 15 | Carmine Appice composer, drummer: groups: Vanilla Fudge, Cactus, KGB, King Kobra; co-wrote [w/Rod Stewart]: Da Ya Think Im Sexy, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 15 | Gordon Frederic Norton composer, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 16 | Benny Andersson Stockholm Sweden, singer (ABBA-Money! Money! Money!, Dancing Queen), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 19 | Marianne Faithfull Hampstead England, singer (Money, As Tears Go By), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 20 | Patti Smith singer/songwriter, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 21 | Christopher Keene Berkeley CA, conductor (La Traviata), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 21 | Carl Dean Wilson, musician: guitar, group: The Beach Boys: I Get Around, Help Me Rhonda, Good Vibrations, California Girls, Surfin USA, Little Deuce Coupe, Surfer Girl, Be True to Your School; brother of Brian and Dennis; original group: Carl and the Passions; is born in Hawthorne CA. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 22 | Rick Nielsen musician: guitar, singer: group: Cheap Trick: I Want You to Want Me, Aint That a Shame, Dream Police, Voices, is born in Rockford IL. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 24 | John Akkerman Dutch guitarist/composer (Focus-Can't Stand Noise), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | Jimmy Buffett songwriter, singer: Margaritaville, Come Monday, Changes in Latitudes Changes in Attitudes; main Parrot Head, is born in Mobile AL. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 26 | Gordon Edwards rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 28 | Edgar Winter musician: keyboards, saxophone, singer: group: Edgar Winters White Trash: Hangin Around, Frankenstein, Free Ride, LP: They Only Come Out at Night, is born in Beaumont TX. | Ref: 68 |
Dec 28 | Carrie Jacobs Bond American composer (I Love You Truly), dies at 85. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 29 | Marianne Faithfull Hampstead England, vocalist (Money), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 30 | Patti Smith songwriter, singer: Career of Evil, Piss Factory, Because the Night; playwright: Cowboy Mouth, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 30 | Charles Wakefield Cadman composer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 31 | Patti Smith Chicago IL, singer (Radio Ethiopia), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1947
Jan 01 | Gary "BB" Coleman blues vocal/guitarist/producer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 07 | David Porcelijn, Dutch composer/conductor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | David Bowie (Jones) singer: Space Oddity, Fame, Changes, Ziggy Stardust, Peace on Earth-Little Drummer Boy [w/Bing Crosby]; actor: The Man Who Fell to Earth, Just a Gigolo, The Last Temptation of Christ, is born in London England. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 08 | Terry Sylvester musician: Groups: Swinging Blue Jeans: Hippy Hippy Shake, Hollies: He Aint Heavy Hes My Brother, Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress, The Air That I Breathe, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 13 | John Lees England, rock guitarist/vocalist (Medicine Man), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 15 | Pete Waterman rocker (Stock Aitken & Waterman-Road Block), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 17 | Ulysses Dove dancer/choreographer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 20 | George Grantham drummer: group: Poco: Crazy Eyes, A Good Feelin to Know | Ref: 4 |
Jan 20 | Malcolm McLaren founded rock group (Sex Pistols-God Save the Queen), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 21 | Jimmy Ibbotson Penn, country singer (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 24 | Warren Zevon Chicago IL, rocker (Excitable Boy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 27 | Nedra Telley New York City NY, vocalist (Ronettes-Be My Little Baby), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 28 | Reynaldo Hahn composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | David Byron singer: groups: Uriah Heep: Gypsy, Salisbury, July Morning, Easy Livin; Stalkers and Spice, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 30 | Steve Marriott singer, songwriter, musician: guitar: groups: The Small Faces: Watcha Gonna Do, Hey Girl, All or Nothing, My Minds Eye, Swinging London, Itchycoo Park, Tin Soldier, Lazy Sunday, Moments, Humble Pie, Packet of Three; child actor: Oliver!; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 30 | Martin Christoph Redel composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 31 | Jim Nollman composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Derek Shulman rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Peter Lucia musician: drums: group: Tommy James and The Shondells: I Think Were Alone Now, Mirage, Mony Mony, Crimson and Clover, Sweet Cherry Wine, Crystal Blue Persuasion, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 03 | Melanie [Safka], Astoria, singer/songwriter (Candles in the Rain), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 03 | Chose Alberts [Krommenhoek], vocalist (Yet Many Years), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 03 | Dave Davies London, rock vocalist/guitarist (Kinks-Lola), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 03 | Koos Alberts [Krommenhoek], Dutch vocalist (Many More Years to Come), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 03 | Anna Bahr-von Mildenburg Austrian soprano/director, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Claude King singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 06 | Allen Jones musician: saxophone: group: Amen Corner | Ref: 4 |
Feb 06 | Luigi Russolo composer, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 08 | Ernest Samuel Williams composer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Joe Ely Amarillo TX, country vocalist (Honky Tonk Masquerade), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Major Harris US R&B-singer (Love won't Let me wait), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 12 | Guus Willemse Dutch bassist/singer (Solution), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 13 | Tony Butler rock bassist (Big Country-It's a Big Country, Wonderland), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 15 | John Adams Worcester MA, composer (Nixon on China), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 15 | David Brown musician: bass: group: Santana: Soul Sacrifice, Samba Pa Ti, Black Magic Woman, Evil Ways, Oye Como Va, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 17 | Ben Cramer Dutch vocalist (Clown), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 18 | Dennis DeYoung musician: keyboard, singer: group: Styx: Lady, Sweet Madame Blue, Come Sail Away, Babe, The Best of Times; solo: Desert Moon, is born in Chicago IL. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 24 | Lonnie Turner bassist/vocalist (Steve Miller Band-Abracadabra), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 24 | Rupert Holmes, musician, songwriter: over 300 songs & jingles;, singer: Escape [The Pina Colada Song], Him, Answering Machine; arranger, producer: Barbra Streisand, is born in Tenafly NJ. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 26 | Sandi Shaw [Sandra Goodrich], Dagenham Essex England, rocker (Always Something There To Remind Me), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Gidon Kremer Riga Latvia, violinist (Tchaikovsky Prize 1970), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 03 | Dave Mount Carshalton Surrey England, rocker (Mud), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 05 | Alfredo Casella Italian composer/conductor (La Giara), dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 06 | Kiki Dee Yorkshire England, singer (Don't Go Breaking My Heart), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 06 | Ludwig Weber composer, dies at 55. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 07 | Donna Loren Boston MA, singer/actress (Beach Blanket Bingo), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | Carole Bayer Sager, singer, songwriter: Thats What Friends are For; w/Tony Wein: Groovy Kind of Love; w/Albert Hammond: When I Need You; w/Bruce Roberts: Youre the Only One; w/Marvin Hamlisch: Break It to Me Gently, Looking Through the Eyes of Love, Nobody Does It Better, is born. | Ref: 17 |
Mar 08 | Mike Allsup musician: guitar: group: Three Dog Night: Try a Little Tenderness, Easy to be Hard, Elis Coming, Mama Told Me [Not to Come], Joy to the World, Black & White, Shambala, is born in Modesto CA. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 10 | Tom Scholz musician: guitar, keyboards, singer: group: Boston: More than a Feeling, Long Time, Peace of Mind, Dont Look Back, Man Ill Never Be, Amanda, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 11 | Blue (Derek) Weaver musician: keyboards: group: Amen Corner: Gin House Blues, Bend Me Shape Me, [If Paradise Is] Half As Nice, Natural Sinner; Bee Gees, Strawbs, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 11 | Mark Stein Bayonne NJ, rocker (Vanilla Fudge-You Keep Me Hanging On), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 11 | Victor Hely-Hutchinson composer, dies at 45. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 13 | Lesley Collier British ballet dancer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 14 | Jimmy O'Rourke rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 15 | Stomu Yamash'ta composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 15 | Ry (Ryland) Cooder musician: guitar: Sister Morphine, Ditty Wah Ditty [w/Earl Hines]; composer: Mama Dont Treat Your Daughter Mean, UFO Has Landed in the Ghetto, Im Drinking Again, Hard Workin Man, is born in Los Angeles CA. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 17 | Ian Gomm rock guitarist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 18 | Barry Wilson England, rock drummer (Procol Harum-Whiter Shade of Pale), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 18 | Robert Harrison rocker (Procol Harum-Whiter Shade of Pale), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 19 | B.J. (Barrie James) Wilson musician: drummer: group: Procol Harum: Whiter Shade of Pale; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 19 | Willem F J Pijper Dutch composer/critic, dies at 52. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 20 | Carl Palmer drummer (Asia-Heat of the Moment, Emerson Lake & Palmer), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 22 | Harry Vanda [Vandenberg] Hague Netherlands, rock guitarist (Easybeats), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 22 | Patrick Olive percussionist (Hot Chocolate-You Sexy Thing), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 24 | Mike Kellie rock drummer (Spooky Tooth-It's All About), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 24 | Paul McCandless rocker (Torches on the Lake), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 24 | Harry Vanda musician: guitar: group: The Easybeats: Shes So Fine, Wedding Ring, Sad and Lonely and Blue, Woman, Come and See Her, Friday on My Mind, Hello How are You, Good Times, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 25 | Elton John [Reginald Kenneth Dwight] Pinner Middlesex England, singer (Rocketman, Your Song, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Carmen Krolis Suriname/Netherlands singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Barry Miles musician: drums, keyboards: group: Silverlight; Roberta Flacks musical director, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 28 | Rudolph Hermann Simonsen composer, dies at 57. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 29 | Bobby Kimball [Robert Toteaux] Vinton LA, rocker (Toto-Roseanna. Africa), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 31 | Al Goodman rock vocalist (Ray, Goodman, Brown), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 31 | Jon-Jon Poulos Chicago IL, rocker (Buckinghams), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 02 | Larry Coryell jazz guitarist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 02 | Emmylou Harris singer: Grammy Award-winning singer: Elite Hotel [1976], Blue Kentucky Girl [1978], That Lovin You Feeling Again [w/Roy Orbison 1980], Trio [1987], At the Ryman [w/the Nash Ramblers - 1992], Wrecking Ball [1996]; Mr. Sandman, The Last Waltz, Pledging My Love, In My Dreams, Amarillo, Till I Gain Control Again, is born in Birmingham AL. | Ref: 68 |
Apr 04 | Salvatore Sciarrino composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 06 | Tony Connor Romford Essex England, drummer (Hot Chocolate-You Sexy Thing), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 06 | Vaclav Kapral composer, dies at 58. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 07 | Patricia Bennett singer: The Chiffons: Tonights the Night, Hes So Fine, One Fine Day, A Love So Fine, I Have a Boyfriend, Sweet Talkin Guy, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 08 | Steve Howe, musician: guitar, singer: groups: Asia: Heat of the Moment, Only Time Will Tell; Bodast; Yes: Roundabouts; Tomorrow: My White Bicycle, Real Life Permanent Dream, Auntie Marys Dress Shop, An Excerpt from a Teenage Opera, Sam, is born in London England. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 08 | Peter Banks England, guitarist (Yes), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 09 | Konrad Friedrich Noetel composer, dies at 43. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 10 | Bunny Livingston Wailer (Neville ORiley) musician: percussion, singer, songwriter: group: Bob Marley and the Wailers: Simmer Down, Rude Boy; solo: LPs: Blackheart Man, Protest, Sings the Wailers, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 10 | Karl Russell rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 15 | Michael DeBello singer (Maniac), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 15 | Wooly Wolstenholme keyboardist/vocalist (Barclay James Harvest), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 15 | Bojoura [Raina GB van Melzen] Dutch singer/wife of Hans Cleuver, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 15 | Mike Chapman Australian songwriter/producer (Chinn & Chapman), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 15 | Wolstenholme rocker, dies. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 16 | Gerry Rafferty, Paisley Scotland, guitarist/vocalist (Baker Street), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 19 | Mark Volman musician: saxophone, singer: groups: Nightriders, Crossfires, The Turtles: It Aint Me Babe, Let Me Be, You Baby, Happy Together, Shed Rather be with Me, Elenore, You Showed Me; duo: Phlorescent Leech and Eddie aka Flo and Eddie: LP: Rock Steady with Flo and Eddie, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 21 | Iggy Pop [James Newell Osterberg] Ypsilanti MI, rocker (Zombie Birdhouse), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 21 | Alan Warner rocker (Foundations), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 21 | John Weider musician: bass: group: Family: No Mules Fool, Weavers Answer, In My Own Time, Burlesque, LPs: Fearless, Bandstand, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 22 | Barry Guy composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 23 | Saskia [Trudy van den Berg] singer (S & Serge, Spinning Wheel), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 24 | Glenn Cornick rock bassist (Jethro Tull-Thick as a Brick), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 24 | Hubert Ann Kelly US singer (Hues Corporation/Rock the boat), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 25 | Bill Fontana composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 27 | Dave Peel punk rocker: group: The Lower East Side: LP: The Pope Smokes Dope, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 27 | Ann Peebles St Louis MO, soul singer (I Can't Stand the Rain), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 27 | Pete Ham Swansea South Wales, rock guitarist/pianist/vocalist (Badfinger-Come & Get It), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 27 | Herbie Murrell US singer (Stylistics-You are My Everything), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 27 | Peter Gena composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 28 | Steve Khan jazz musician (Christmas Waltz), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Tommy James singer (cri-im-son & clo-o-ver o-o-ver & o-o-ver), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 01 | Carlos Ward rocker (B T Express), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 06 | Dennis Cowan London, rocker (Bonzo Dog Band), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 06 | Louise Homer opera singer: contralto: NY Metropolitan Opera House [1900-1919]; dies. | Ref: 4 |
May 08 | Felicity Lott English soprano (We come to the river), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 08 | Phil Sawyer rocker (Spencer Davis Group), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 08 | Rick Zehringer Celina OH, rocker (McCoys), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 10 | Jay (John) Ferguson singer: group: Spirit: I Got a Line on You, Natures Way; group: Jo Jo Gunne, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 10 | Dave Mason Worcester England, singer/songwriter (We Just Disagree), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 11 | Claude "Butch" Hudson Trucks drummer (Allman Brothers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 11 | Else JT Rangstrm Swedish conductor/singer/composer/critic, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
May 13 | Overend Pete Watts rock bassist (Mott the Hoople-All the Young Dudes), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 14 | Al Ciner Chicago IL, rock guitarist (American Breed), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 15 | Graham Goble Adelaide Australia, rock guitarist (Little River Band), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 16 | Barbara Lee (Jones) singer (with the Chiffons), is born. Credits: He's So Fine, One Fine Day, Sweet Talkin' Guy, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 16 | Darrel Sweet musician: drums, singer: group: Nazareth: LPs: Love Hurts, Snaz; is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 19 | Jerry Hyman Brooklyn NY, rock singer/trombonist (Blood Sweat & Tears), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 21 | Bill Champlin Oakland CA, rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 24 | Mike Reid, Altoona PA, country singer (Walk on Faith), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 25 | Jessi Colter [Miriam Johnson] Phoenix, country singer (I'm Not Lisa), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 25 | Mitch Margo Brooklyn NY, rocker (Tokens-Lion Sleeps Tonight), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 27 | Liana Alexandra composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 30 | Sidney Hugo Nicholson composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
May 31 | William H Campbell Jr rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 31 | Henri G Casadesus Fr altviolist/composer (viola d'amour), dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 01 | Ron Wood rock guitarist (Faces, Jeff Beck Group, Rolling Stones [after 1975]), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 05 | Laurie (Laura) Anderson (singer: O Superman, Language is a Virus from Outer Space, LPs: Big Science, Mr. Heartbreak, United States, Home of the Brave), is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 08 | Mick Box musician: guitar, songwriter: group: Uriah Heep: Gypsy, Salisbury, July Morning, Easy Livin, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 09 | Mitch Mitchell drummer (Jimi Hendrix Experience-Purple Haze), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 12 | John Clifford choreographer: New York City Ballet, Artistic Director of LA Ballet, ballet master/repetiteur for George Balanchine Trust, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 22 | Don Henley drummer/singer (Eagles, Boys of Summer), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 22 | Howard Kaylan rocker (The Turtles-Happy Together, Eleanor), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 10 | Arlo Guthrie folk singer: The City of New Orleans, Alices Restaurant; son of legendary folk singer, Woody Guthrie, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 11 | Jeff Hanna rock vocalist (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band-Mr Bojangles), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 12 | Jimmie Lunceford, American jazz band leader, dies at age 45. | Ref: 70 |
Jul 19 | Bernie Leadon guitarist/vocalist (Eagles-Take it Easy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 19 | Brian May guitarist (Queen-We are the Champions), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 19 | Gerard Schwarz Weehawken NJ, trumpeter/conductor (LA Chamber Orch), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 20 | Carlos Santana Mexico, musician (Santana-Black Magic Woman), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 22 | Don Henley drummer (Eagles-Desparado), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 23 | David Essex (Cook) singer: Rock On, Lamplight, Im Gonna Make You a Star; actor: Godspell, Evita, Thatll be the Day, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 24 | Peter Serkin NYC, pianist (Tashi), is born. | Ref: 68 |
Jul 30 | Marc Bolan (Feld) singer: group: T. Rex: Bang a Gong; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 31 | Karl Green musician: guitar, harmonica: group: Hermans Hermits: Im into Something Good, Mrs. Brown Youve Got a Lovely Daughter, Im Henry VIII, I Am, Listen People, A Must to Avoid, Leaning on the Lamp Post, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 01 | Rick Anderson musician: bass: group: The Tubes, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 01 | Rick Coonce singer, drummer: group: The Grass Roots: Lets Live for Today, Midnight Confessions, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 04 | Rick Derringer rocker (I am the Real American (Hulk Hogan's theme), is born in Union City IL. | Ref: 68 |
Aug 10 | Rock singer-musician Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) is born. | Ref: 68 |
Aug 11 | Jeff Hanna singer/guitarist (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 15 | Gerald Velez congas (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 17 | Gary Talley musician: guitar: groups: Big Star, The Box Tops: The Letter, Neon Rainbow, Cry like a Baby, Choo-Choo Train, I Met Her in Church, Sweet Cream Ladies, Forward March, Soul Deep, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 20 | Jim Pankow trombonist, song writer; group: Chicago: Make Me Smile, Colour My World, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 21 | Carl Giammarese musician: guitar: The Buckinghams: Kind of a Drag, A&E: Biography, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 23 | Rex Allen Jr Chicago, country singer (Nashville on the Road), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 06 | Roger Waters singer (Pink Floyd), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 09 | Freddy Weller musician: guitar: Paul Revere and The Raiders [1969]; solo: Games People Play; songwriter: Dizzy, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 14 | Jon Bowzer Bauman singer: group: Sha Na Na: LP: Rock & Roll is Here to Stay!; is born in Queens NY. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 19 | Lol Crme musician: guitar, singer: groups: 10cc, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 21 | Don Felder musician: guitar, singer: group: The Eagles: One of These Nights, Lyin' Eyes, Best of My Love, New Kid in Town; solo: LP: Airborne, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 26 | Lynn Anderson ND, country singer (I Never Promised you a Rose Garden), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 30 | Marc Bolan London England, rocker (T-Rex-Bang a Gong), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 03 | Lindsey Buckingham rocker (Fleetwood Mac-Rumours, Tusk), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 04 | Jim Fielder musician: bass: groups: Buffalo Springfield; Mothers of Invention; Blood, Sweat & Tears: Spinning Wheel, Youve Made Me So Very Happy, And When I Die, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 08 | Tony Wilson musician: bass, singer: group: Hot Chocolate, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 13 | Sammy Hagar singer, musician: group: Van Halen, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 16 | Bob Weir guitarist (Grateful Dead-Uncle Joe's Band), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 18 | Laura Nyro Bronx, singer/songwriter (Eli's Coming, Stoney End), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 23 | Greg Ridley musician [bass], singer: groups: Dino of Dino and The Danubes; The Dakotas; The Ramrods; VIPs, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 30 | Timothy B. Schmit musician: bass guitar, singer: group: Poco: Crazy Love, Heart of the Night; Eagles: Hotel California, Life in the Fast Lane, Heartache Tonight, The Long Run, I Cant Tell You Why, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 31 | Russ Ballard singer, songwriter: musician: guitar: group: Argent: Hold Your Head Up; Roulettes, Unit 4+2, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 04 | Mike Smith musician: saxophone: groups: Judas Jump; Amen Corner: Gin House Blues, Bend Me Shape Me, [If Paradise Is] Half as Nice, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 05 | Peter Noone (Peter Blair Denis Bernard Noone) musician [guitar, piano], singer: Herman of Hermans Hermits: Mrs. Brown, Youve Got a Lovely Daughter, Im Henry VIII, I Am; solo: Oh You Pretty Thing; actor: The Pirates of Penzance, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 06 | George Young musician: guitar: group: The Easybeats: Shes So Fine, Wedding Ring, Sad and Lonely and Blue, Woman, Come and See Her, Friday on My Mind, Hello How are You, Good Times; AC/DC, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 08 | Minnie Ripperton Chicago, singer (Loving You), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 10 | Dave Loggins singer: Please Come to Boston; cousin of singer Kenny Loggins, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 11 | Pat Daugherty musician: bass: group: Black Oak Arkansas: Jim Dandy to the Rescue, Memories at the Window, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 20 | Joe Walsh musician: guitar, singer: groups: James Gang; The Eagles: Hotel California, New Kid in Town, In the Fast Lane, Heartache Tonight; solo: Life?s Been Good, A Life of Illusion, All Night Long, is born in Wichita KS. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 27 | Nedra Telley New York City NY, vocalist (Ronettes-Be My Little Baby), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 05 | Jim Messina musician: duo: Loggins and Messina: Your Mama Dont Dance, Dannys Song, Thinking of You, My Music; groups: Buffalo Springfield, Poco; solo: LPs: Oasis, Messina, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 06 | Miroslav Vitous rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | Walter Clyde Orange musician: drums, singer: group: The Commodores: Machine Gun, Just to Be Close to You, Sweet Love, Easy, Sail On, Three Times a Lady, Still, Nightshift, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 12 | Ralph Scala rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 14 | Christopher Parkening Los Angeles CA, guitarist (transcribed sacred music), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 17 | Simon Bates English DJ, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 19 | Janie Fricke South Whitley IN, country singer (It Ain't Easy Bein' Easy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 20 | Gigliola Cinquetti Italian singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 20 | Peter Criss[coula] Brooklyn NY, rocker (Kiss-Beth), is born in New York City. | Ref: 68 |
Dec 27 | Peter Criss rocker (Kiss-Beth), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 28 | Dick [Richard] Diamonde [Van Der Sluys] Hilversum Holland, rock bassist (Easybeats-Friday on My Mind), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 29 | Cozy Powell England, rock drummer (Jeff Beck Group, Whitesnake, ELP), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 30 | Jeff Lynne singer, guitar: group: The Electric Light Orchestra: Livin Thing, Telephone Line, Evil Woman, Hold on Tight, Calling America; songwriter: Mr. Blue Sky, Last Train to London, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 31 | Burton Cummings rock guitarist (Guess Who-These Eyes), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1948
Jan 01 | Hermann K J Zilcher German pianist/composer (Liebesmesse), dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 01 | Willem Louis Frederic Landre composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 03 | Larry McNeeley Lafayette IN, banjo player (Glen Campbell Hour), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 05 | Thom Mooney rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 07 | Kaz Lux Poland/Netherlands, singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 07 | Kenny Loggins, Everett WA, singer (Loggins & Messina-This is it, Footloose), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | Mel Pritchard rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | Paul King rocker (Blue Oyster Cult), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | Richard Tauber Austria/British tenor/composer (Lhar), dies at 55. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 09 | William Cowsill Newport RI, rock guitarist/vocals (Cowsills-We Can Fly), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 09 | Paul King rocker (Blue Oyster Cult), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Cyril Neville US singer/percussionist (Neville Bros-Yellow Moon), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Donald Fagen Passaic NJ, rock vocalist/keyboardist (Steely Dan-Peg), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 13 | T Bone' Burnett rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 14 | Tim Harris rocker (Foundations), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 14 | T-Bone Burnett musician/producer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 15 | Ronnie Van Zant rocker (Lynyrd Skynyrd), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 17 | Mick Taylor rock bassist (Rolling Stones-Brown Sugar), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 19 | Harvey Hinsley musician: guitar: groups: Outlaws, Cliff Bennetts Rebel Rousers, Hot Chocolate: Emma, Disco Queen, You Sexy Thing, So You Win Again, Ill Put You Back Together Again, Every 1s a Winner, Girl Crazy, Chances, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 20 | Melvyn John Pritchard England, rocker (Barclay James Harvest), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 21 | Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 23 | Anita Pointer Oakland, rock vocalist (Pointer Sisters-She's So Shy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 26 | Corky Laing rocker (Mountain), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 26 | Ignaz Friedman composer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 27 | Chuck Larsen rocker (Snuff), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | Bill Kirchen singer/guitarist (Commander Cody & Lost Planet Airmen), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | Felice Taylor R&B singer (I Feel Love Comin' On), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Alan McKay rocker (Earth Wind & Fire-Boogie Wonderland), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Tony DeMeur rocker (Fabulous Poodles-Anna Rexia, Suicide Bridge), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 04 | Alice Cooper [Vincent Furnier], Detroit MI, rocker (School's Out), is born. | Ref: 17 |
Feb 05 | David Denny rock guitarist (Steve Miller Band-Abracadabra), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Nigel Tufnel rocker (Spinal Tap), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 07 | Jimmy Greenspoon Los Angeles CA, rock organist (3 Dog Night-Joy to the World), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 07 | "Red" McKenzie blues-jazz singer (played comb-with-tissue-paper), dies. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 08 | Dan Seals McCamey TX, vocalist (England Dan & John Ford Coley-I'd Really Love to See You Tonight, Nights Are Forever Without You, Meet Me in Montana), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | William Cowsill Newport RI, rock guitarist/vocals (Cowsills-We Can Fly), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Paul King rocker (Blue Oyster Cult) | Ref: 5 |
Feb 10 | Conrad Cummings composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 12 | Joe Schermie musician: bass: group: Three Dog Night: One, Easy to be Hard, Elis Cooming, Mama Told Me [Not to Come], Joy to the World, Black & White, Shambala, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 14 | Wally Tax Dutch guitarist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 18 | Keith Knudsen musician: drums, singer: group: The Doobie Brothers: What a Fool Believes, Real Love, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 19 | Tony Iommi rock guitarist (Black Sabbath-Paranoid, Iron Man), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 19 | Mark Andes Philadelphia PA, rock bassist (Spirit, Heart, Fireball), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Barry Wordsworth conductor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Billy Zoom musician, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 21 | Frederick Archibald Lamond composer, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Eddie Gray rock guitarist (Tommy James & Shondells-Crystal Blue Persuasion), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Norman Connors singer (You Are My Starship), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 02 | Larry Carlton rock composer (Against All Odds, Who's the Boss), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | Billy Gibbons rock guitarist (ZZ Top-Cheap Sunglasses, Legs, Fandango), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | Chris Squire London, rock bassist (Yes-Fish Out of Water), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | Shakin' Stevens [Mike Barrett], Ely Wales, rocker (You Drive Me Crazy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 05 | Eddy Grant, Guyana, reggae performer (Electric Avenue), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 05 | Jacques Kloes singer (Dizzy Man's Band), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | [Little] Peggy March [Margaret Battavio] Lansdale PA, vocalist (I Will Follow Him), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | Ralph Ellis Liverpool England, rhythm guitarist (Swinging Blue Jeans-You're No Good), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 09 | Country musician Jimmy Fadden (The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 09 | Jeffrey Osborne Providence RI, rock vocalist (On the Wings of Love), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 09 | Jimmie Fadden singer, musician: harmonica, guitar: group: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: Mr. Bojangles, An American Dream, Make a Little Magic, Modern Day Romance, Long Hard Road [The Sharecroppers Dream], is born in Long Beach CA. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 10 | Eddie Grundy rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 11 | George Kooymans The Hague Netherlands, guitarist/singer (Golden Earring-Radar Love, Twilight Zone), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 12 | James Taylor singer: Youve Got a Friend, Handy Man, Fire & Rain, How Sweet It Is [To Be Loved By You]; formerly married to Carly Simon, is born in Boston MA. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 12 | Dana Walden rock keyboardist (Champaign), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 12 | Les Holroyd Oldham England, rocker (Barclay James Harvest), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 16 | Michael Bruce rocker/actor (Rudy-Rainbow Drive), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 17 | Fran Byrne rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 17 | Pat Lloyd rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 22 | Andrew Lloyd Webber London England, composer (Evita, Starlight Express, Phantom of the Opera, Jesus Christ Superstar), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 22 | Randy Hobbs rocker (Johnny Winter Band, McCoys), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 24 | Randy Hobbs musician: bass: group: The McCoys: Hang on Sloopy | Ref: 4 |
Mar 25 | Michael Stanley Cleveland OH, rocker (Michael Stanley Band), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Kyung-Wha Chung Seoul Korea, violinist (Chung Sisters), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Steven Tyler (Tallarico), New York NY, rock vocalist (Dream On, Walk This Way, Aerosmith-Janie's Got a Gun), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Richard Tandy musician: bass: group: Electric Light Orchestra, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 27 | Karel Candael Flemish composer, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | John Evans [Evan] rock drummer (Jethro Tull, Blades-A Song for Jeffrey), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | Dave Ball rocker (Procul Harum), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | Jim Dandy Mangrum vocalist (Black Oak Arkansas-Jim Dandy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 31 | Thijs van Leer Dutch singer/flutist (Focus, Introspection), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 31 | Mick Ralphs Hereford & Worcester England, guitarist (Bad Company, Mott the Hoople), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | Jimmy Cliff Reggae singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | Simon Crowe rock drummer (Boomtown Rats-Maxinguaye), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 02 | Kerry Minnear rocker (Gentle Giant), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Garrick Ohlsson Bronxville NY, pianist (Intl Busoni winner 1969), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 04 | Berry Oakley rocker (Allman Brothers-Ramblin' Man), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 04 | Gail Davies Broken Bow OK, country singer (Blue Heartache), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 04 | Pick Withers rocker (Dire Straits), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 09 | Chico Ryan rocker (Sha Na Na), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 13 | Kathleen Battle US soprano (Tannhuser), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 13 | Peter Swevel rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 14 | Larry Ferguson musician: keyboards: group: Hot Chocolate: Emma, Disco Queen, You Sexy Thing, So You Win Again, Ill Put You Back Together Again, Every 1s a Winner, Girl Crazy, Chances, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 14 | Ty Grimes rocker (Captain Beefheart Band Drums, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 17 | Jan Hammer composer (Escape from TV, Miami Vice), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | Catherine Malfitano New York NY, soprano (Metropolitan Opera), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 20 | Craig Frost musician: keyboard: group: Grand Funk: Were an American Band, The Loco-Motion, Some Kind of Wonderful, Bad Time, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 20 | Joe Bonner jazz pianist, composer | Ref: 4 |
Apr 21 | Paul Davis Meridian MI, country/rock vocalist (I Go Crazy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 21 | Carlos Lopez Buchardo composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 24 | Joseph Wihtol composer, dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 24 | Manuel Marua Ponce Mexican composer (Ferial), dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 27 | Kate Pierson Weehawken NJ, vocals/guitarist (B-52's-Rock Lobster, Love Shack), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 30 | Wayne Kramer jazz artist (Dangerous Madness), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 01 | James Wise US soul singer (Archie Bell & the Drells), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 02 | Larry Gatlin Seminole TX, country singer (Gatlin Brothers-Broken Lady), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 05 | Bill Ward Birmingham England, heavy metal drummer (Black Sabbath), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 05 | Frank Esier-Smith rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 06 | Lolita [Abrzame] Spanish singer (Esprame), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 07 | -Singer Peggy March is born. | Ref: 6 |
May 07 | Peter Wingfield Wales, rocker/actor (Methos-Highlander), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 08 | Alfred Holy composer, dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
May 12 | Steve Winwood Birmingham England, singer/songwriter/keyboardist/guitarist (Higher Love, Roll With It), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 12 | Isidor Achron composer, dies at 55. | Ref: 5 |
May 15 | Brian Eno (Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno) musician: synthesizer: Roxy Music [cofounder]; record producer: Seven Deadly Finns; songwriter [w/David Bowie]: Once in a Lifetime, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 17 | Bill Bruford Sevenoaks Kent England, drummer (Yes, King Crimson, Genesis), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 18 | Country singer Joe Bonsall (The Oak Ridge Boys) is born. | Ref: 68 |
May 18 | Joe Bonsall Philadelphia PA, country singer (Oak Ridge Boys-Elvira), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 19 | Grace Jones [Mendoza] Spanishtown Jamaica, singer/actress (Vamp), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 19 | Tom Scott Los Angeles CA, saxophonist/bandleader (Pat Sajak Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 21 | Leo [Gerard] Sayer Shoreham-on-Sea England, singer (When I Need You), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 24 | Leo Sayer, Britsh singer, is born in Shoreham, England. | Ref: 68 |
May 24 | Alfred Kastner composer, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
May 25 | Klaus Meine Hanover Germany, rocker (Scorpions-No One Like You), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 26 | Stevie [Stephanie Lynn] Nicks Phoenix AZ, rocker (Fleetwood Mac-Bella Donna), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 27 | Pete Sears bassist (Jefferson Starship), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | Ray Laidlaw British rock drummer (Jack the Lad), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | Linda Esther Gray opera singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | Michael Berkley composer/broadcaster, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 31 | John Bonzo Bonham musician: drums: group: Led Zeppelin: Whole Lotta Love, Stairway to Heaven, Immigrant Song; is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 31 | Jose Vianna da Motta composer, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 09 | Nathaniel Rosen Altadena Calif, cellist (Tchaikovsky Gold 1978), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 13 | Dennis Locorriere musician: guitar, singer: group: Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show: Sylvias Mother, Sexy Eyes, The Cover of "Rolling Stone", When Youre in Love with a Beautiful Woman, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 16 | Brian Eno rocker (Here Comes the Warm Jets), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 21 | Joey Molland musician: guitar, keyboards, singer: groups: Natural Gas, Badfinger: Day After Day, No Matter What, Baby Blue, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 21 | Leo Sayers rocker (You Make Me Feel Like Dancing), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 22 | Todd Rundgren rock singer (Hello it's Me, Bang on the Drum All Day), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 29 | Ian Paice musician: drums: groups: Paice Ashton Lord, Whitesnake, Deep Purple: Hush, Kentucky Woman, Hey Joe, We Can Work It Out, Help, Black Night, Strange Kind of Woman, Fireball, Smoke on the Water, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 03 | Paul Berrere rocker (Little Feat-Truck Stop Girl), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 04 | Jeremy Spencer musician: guitar: group: Fleetwood Mac: Black Magic Woman, Need Your Love So Bad, Albatross, Man of the World, The Green Manalishi [With the Two-Pronged Crown], is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 08 | Raffi Cavoukian singer, songwriter: childrens songs: Everything Grows, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 12 | Walter Egan rocker (Not Shy, Fundamental Roll), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 14 | Tommy Matola rock manager/CEO (CBS records), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 16 | Pinchas Zukerman Tel Aviv Israel, violinist/violist (Leventritt 1967), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 16 | Ruben Blades, salsa singer/actor (Critical Condition, Last Fight), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 17 | Brian Glascock drummer (Motels-Only the Lonely), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 19 | Keith Godchaux keyboardist (Grateful Dead), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 21 | Cat Stevens (Stephen Demetre Georgiou, Muslim name: Yusuf Islam) singer: Wild World, Moon Shadow, Peace Train, Oh Very Young, is born in London, England. | Ref: 68 |
Jul 25 | Steve Goodman Chicago, singer/songwriter (Somebody Elses Trouble), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 10 | Patti Austin singer (The Real Me), is born in New York City. (TWA, 1998) | Ref: 95 |
Aug 13 | Kathleen Battle, Portsmouth Ohio, soprano (Shephard-Tannhuser), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 20 | Robert Plant rocker (Led Zeppelin-Stairway to Heaven), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 26 | Jet Black rocker (Stranglers-Dreamtime), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 26 | Valerie Simpson Bronx, singer, Ashford's partner (Like a Rock), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 28 | Daniel Seraphine musician: drums: group: Chicago: If You Leave Me Now, Hard to Say Im Sorry, Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 03 | Donald Brewer musician: drums, songwriter: groups: Silver Bullet Band, Flint, Grand Funk Railroad: Were an American Band, Walk like a Man, Shinin On, Some Kind of Wonderful, Bad Time, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 06 | Claydes (Charles) Smith musician: guitar: group: Kool & The Gang: Ladies Night, Celebration, I.B.M.C.; LPs: Wild and Peaceful, Kool Jazz, Light of Worlds, Spirit of the Boogie, Love & Understanding, Something Special, As One, In the Heart, Emergency, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 16 | Kenny Jones musician: drums: group: Small Faces, Faces: Stay with Me; group: The Who, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 20 | Chuck Panozzo musician: bass: group: Styx: Lady, Suite Madame Blue, Come Sail Away, Miss America, Castle Walls, Superstars, Renegade, Babe, The Best of Times, Too Much Time on My Hands, Mr. Roboto, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 20 | John Panozzo musician: drums: group: Styx: Lady, Suite Madame Blue, Come Sail Away, Miss America, Castle Walls, Superstars, Renegade, Babe, The Best of Times, Too Much Time on My Hands, Mr. Roboto; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 26 | Olivia Newton-John Cambridge England, singer (I Honestly Love You, Physical), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 27 | (year questionable) Meatloaf aka Marvin Lee Aday, Dallas, rocker (Bat Out of Hell), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 28 | Helen Shapiro London England, rocker (Straighten Up), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 29 | Mark Farner Mich, guitar/vocalist (Grand Funk Railroad-Locomotion), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 01 | Ellen McIlwaine Nashville, blues singer (Honky Tonky Angel), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 08 | Johnny Ramone (Cummings) musician: guitar: group: The Ramones, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 09 | Dave Samuels vibraphonist (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 09 | Jackson Browne Germany, rocker (Lawyers in Love), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 11 | Daryl Hall rocker/songwriter (Hall & Oates-Sara Smile), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 12 | Rick Parfitt singer, musician: guitar: group: Status Quo, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 13 | Lacy J. Dalton (Jill Byrem) songwriter, singer, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 13 | Leona Mitchell Enid Okla, soprano (Musetta-La Bohme), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 14 | Marcia Barrett singer: group: Boney M: Daddy Cool, Brown Girl in the Ring, Rivers of Babylon, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 15 | Chris De Burgh (Christopher John Davidson) singer, songwriter: The Lady in Red, A Spaceman Came Travelling, Ship to Shore, Dont Pay the Ferryman, High on Emotion, The Ecstacy of Flight [I Love the Night], Transmission Ends, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 25 | Glenn Tipton musician: guitar: group: Judas Priest, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 28 | Telma Hopkins singer: group: Dawn: Candida, Knock Three Times, Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree; actress: A New Kind of Family, Getting By, Family Matters, Bosom Buddies, Gimme a Break, Tony Orlando and Dawn, is born in Louisville KY. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 28 | Rick Reynolds musician: guitar: group: Black Oak Arkansas: Memories at the Window, Jim Dandy to the Rescue, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 03 | Lulu (Marie Lawrie) singer: To Sir with Love, Boom Bang-A-Bang, Oh Me Oh My [Im a Fool for You Baby], I Could Never Miss You, is born in Glasgow Scotland. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 06 | Glenn Frey musician, songwriter, singer: group: The Eagles: Take It Easy, One of These Nights, Lyin Eyes, Hotel California, New Kid in Town, Life in the Fast Lane, Heartache Tonight; solo: Smugglers Blues; LP: No Fun Aloud, The Allnighter, The Heat is On, You Belong to the City, is born in Detroit MI. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 09 | Joe Bouchard musician: bass, singer: group: Blue Oyster Cult: Don?t Fear the Reaper; LPs: Agents, Revolution by Night, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 09 | Alan Gratzer musician: drums: group: REO Speedwagon: Keep on Loving You, Take It on the Run, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 10 | Greg Lake musician: bass, singer: group: Emerson, Lake and Palmer: From the Beginning, Lucky Man; solo: I Believe in Father Christmas, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 12 | Errol Brown songwriter [w/Tony Wilson]: Think About Your Children, Bet Your Life I Do; singer: group: Hot Chocolate: Give Piece a Chance, Love is Life, I Believe in Love, Brother Louie, Cicero Park, Emma, Disco Queen, You Sexy Thing, So You Win Again, I'll Put You Back Together Again, Every 1's a Winner, Girl Crazy, Chances, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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Nov 21 | Lonnie (LeRoy) Jordan musician: keyboard, singer: group: War: LPs: All Day Music, The World is a Ghetto, Why Can?t We Be Friends, Galaxy, The Music Band, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 27 | Chuck Larsen rocker (Snuff), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 28 | Beeb Birtles musician: guitar: group: The Little River Band: Its a Long Way There, Help is on Its Way, Reminiscing, Lady, Lonesome Loser, Cool Change, The Night Owls, Take It Easy on Me, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 03 | Diane Kurys [Emir Kusturica] Sarajevo, bass guitarist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 03 | Ozzy (John) Osbourne songwriter, singer: groups: Rare Breed, Black Sabbath: Paranoid; solo: Blizzard of Oz; dead bat-head biter, is born in England. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 04 | Southside Johnny (Lyon) singer: group: Southside Johnny and The Asbury Dukes: I Dont Wanna Go Home, The Fever, This Time Its for Real, Hearts of Stone, is born in Neptune NJ. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 06 | Jonathan King London, singer (Everyone's Gone to the Moon), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 06 | Marius Mueller-Westernhagen Duesseldorf Germany, rocker (Stinker), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 07 | Yoko Morishita prima ballerina (Baterina No Habataki), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 07 | Gary Morris Fort Worth TX, singer/actor (Les Misrables, Colbys), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 07 | Godfrey Turner composer, dies at 35. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 09 | Dennis Dunaway rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | Jessica Cleaves singer: group: Friends of Distinction, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 10 | Brendan Harkin rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | Ralph Tavares rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 12 | Ray Jackson rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 13 | Jeff Skunk Baxter musician: guitarist: groups: Steely Dan, The Doobie Brothers: What a Fool Believes | Ref: 4 |
Dec 13 | Ted Nugent Detroit MI, guitarist (Cat Scratch Fever, Damn Yankees), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 14 | Reginald Owen Morris composer, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 17 | Jim Bonfanti rocker (Raspberries-Go All the Way), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 17 | Jim Alexander rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 17 | Edgar Istel composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 18 | Bryan Chas Chandler musician: bass: group: Animals: House of the Rising Sun; manager: Jimi Hendrix, then Slade, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 20 | Little Stevie Wright (singer: group: The Easybeats: Shes So Fine, Wedding Ring, Sad and Lonely and Blue, Woman, Come and See Her, Friday on My Mind, Hello How are You, Good Times; solo LP: Hard Road), is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 20 | Alan Parsons England, musician/producer/engineer (Alan Parsons Project, Pink Floyd, Beatles), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | Merry Clayton rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | Barbara Mandrell CMA Entertainer of the Year [1980, 1981], Female Vocalist of the Year [1979]; Standing Room Only, I Was Country When Country Wasnt Cool, Sleeping Single in a Double Bed, If Loving You Is Wrong, is born in Houston TX. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 27 | Larry Byrom rocker (Steppenwolf-Hour of the World), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 31 | Donna Summer Boston MA, singer (Love to Love You Baby, On the Radio), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 31 | Tony Hamilton rocker (Aerosmith), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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Jan 02 | Chick Churchill Wales, keyboardist (Ten Years After-I'm Going Home), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 05 | Chris Stein Brooklyn NY, rock guitarist (Blondie-Heart of Glass, Call Me), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 05 | George Funky Brown musician: drums: group: Kool and The Gang: Ladies Night, Celebration, I.B.M.C., LPs: Wild and Peaceful, Kool Jazz, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 06 | Richard Horowitz composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 07 | John Christopher Parry rocker (Cure), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 07 | Marshall Chapman Spartanburg SC, country singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 09 | Amilcare Zanella composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 11 | Tom Netherton Munich Germany, singer (Lawrence Welk Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 11 | [Frederick] Dennis Greene rocker (Sha Na Na-Shannon), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 14 | Joaqun Turina Spanish pianist/conductor/composer (Rima), dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 19 | Robert Palmer, Batley England, rocker (Addicted to Love, Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 22 | James P Pennington rocker (Exile), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 22 | Steve Perry musician: drums: group: Radio Stars; Journey: Whos Crying Now, Open Arms; solo: Oh Sherrie, Dont Fight It [w/Kenny Loggins], is born Hanford CA. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 25 | Emil Axman composer, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 26 | Derek Holt rocker (Climax Blues Band), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 27 | Boris Asafiev composer, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 28 | Gustaf Lazarus Nordqvist composer, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | Tommy Ramone (Erdelyi) musician: drums: group: The Ramones: Beat on the Brat, Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 30 | William King musician: trumpet, keyboard: group: The Commodores: Just to be Close to You, Sweet Love, Easy, Sail On, Three Times a Lady, Still, Nightshift, is born in Alabama. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 01 | Herbert Stothart composer, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Tom Tripplehorn rocker (Gary Lewis & Playboys-This Diamond Ring), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Jetty Weels Surinamese/Dutch vocalist (Mai Tai), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Ross Valory San Francisco CA, rock bassist (Journey-Who's Crying Now, Open Arms), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 03 | Oscar Benton Dutch blues vocalist/guitarist (Ze is Zoals Jij), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Nigel Olsson rock guitarist/drummer (Elton John Band), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Juozas Tallat-Kelpsa composer, dies at 50. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 07 | Alan Lancaster musician: bass: group: Status Quo: LPs: Picturesque Matchstickable, Piledriver, Hello, On the Level, Blue for You, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 08 | Franco Leoni composer, dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 08 | Leonid Alexeyevich Polovinkin composer, dies at 54. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Amilcare Zanella composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Poul Julius Ouscher Schierbeck composer, dies at 60. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 10 | Nigel Olsson musician: drums: backup for Elton John, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 11 | Charlie Hargrett rock guitarist (Blackfoot), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 12 | Stanley Knight country artist (Black Oak Arkansas-High on the Hog), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 14 | Jimmy Randell rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 15 | Christopher Rouse composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 17 | Fred Frith English guitarist/violinist/bassist (Skeleton Crew), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 19 | Edward Hardin New York NY, rocker (Spencer Davis Group), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 19 | Auguste Jean Maria Charles Serieyx composer, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 21 | Jerry Harrison Milwaukee WI, rock keyboardist (Talking Heads-And She Was), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 21 | Ernest Walker composer, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 23 | Larry Demps US R&B vocalist (Dramatics-Me & Mrs Jones), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 23 | Terry "Tex" Comer Burnley Lancashire England, bassist/guitarist (Ace-How Long), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | Emma Kirkby British soprano, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 28 | Stanley Robert Marchant composer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Sido Martens Dutch guitarist/singer/mandolin player (Fungus), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 02 | Rory Gallagher Ballyshannon Ireland, rock guitarist (See Here) | Ref: 5 |
Mar 03 | David Pritchard jazz/classical guitarist: group: Contraband: LP: Time and Space; solo: LPs: Lightyear, City Dreams, Air Patterns; author: Music for the Contemporary Guitarist, composer: Four Clockworks, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 06 | Donald York rocker (Sha Na Na), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 09 | Kalevi Aho composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 11 | Richard de Bois Dutch drummer/producer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 11 | Juan Lamonte de Grignon composer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 12 | Mike Gibbins, musician: drums: group: Badfinger: Maybe Tomorrow, No Matter What, Day After Day, Feel like Makin Love, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 12 | Bill Payne musician: keyboards: group: Little Feat: Willin, LPs: The Last Record Album, Time Loves a Hero; songwriter w/wife Fran Tate, is born in Waco TX. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 13 | Donny York singer: group: Sha Na Na. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 16 | Elliott Murphy US singer/songwriter, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 18 | Starr Danias New York NY, ballerina (Turning Point), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 23 | Ric Ocasek (Richard Otcasek) musician: guitar, singer: group: The Cars: My Best Friends Girl, Just What I Needed, Lets Go, You Might Think, Magic, Drive, Tonight She Comes; solo: LP: Beatitude, is born in Baltimore MD. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 24 | Nick Lowe vocalist/producer (I Knew the Bride), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 24 | Steve Lang Montral Canada, rock bassist (April Wine-Just Between You and Me), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 25 | Neil Jones musician (Bend Me Shape Me), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 25 | Nick Lowe Woodchurch Suffolk England, rocker (Rockpile-Cruel to be Kind), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Fran Sheehan Boston MA, rock bassist (Boston-More than a Feeling), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Milan Williams, musician: keyboards, drums, trombone, guitar: group: Commodores: Machine Gun, Just to be Close to You, Sweet Love, Easy, Sail On, Three Times a Lady, Still, Nightshift, is born | Ref: 4 |
Mar 28 | Grigoras Dinicu composer, dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 29 | Michael Brecker jazz musician (The Brecker Brothers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 02 | Paul Gambaccini British disc jockey, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Richard Thompson vocalist/guitarist (Shoot out the Lights), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Jan Keizer Dutch singer (BZN-Rhythm of My Heart), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Basil Harwood composer, dies at 89. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 04 | Larry Lingle rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 07 | John Oates songwriter, singer: group: Hall and Oates: Shes Gone, Sara Smile, Rich Girl, I Cant Go for That, Private Eyes, Maneater, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 09 | Steve Gadd jazz drummer (Triplet Hop, Complex Jazz), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 10 | Frank de Leeuw Dutch rock guitarist (Bob Color), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 14 | Dennis Bryon musician: drums: groups: Amen Corner; Bee Gees: Jive Talkin, Fanny [Be Tender with My Love], How Can You Mend a Broken Heart, How Deep is Your Love, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 16 | Bill Spooner musician: guitar: group: The Tubes: LPs: Young and Rich, T.R.A.S.H., Love Bomb, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 17 | John Oates New York NY, rock guitarist/vocalist (Hall & Oates-Rich Girl), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 20 | Michal Israel, rocker (Sky with Stars), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 23 | John Miles vocal/guitar/keyboards (John Miles Band-Rebel, Zaragon), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 24 | Wilfrido [Radams] Vargas [Martnez] Altamira Puerto Plata Dominican Republic, Spanish singer (El Barbarazo), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 25 | Michael Brown (Lookofsky), New York NY, keyboardist/songwriter (The Left Banke-Walk Away Renee), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 26 | Jimmy Hall rocker (Wet Willie), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Francis Rossi musician: guitar, singer: group: Status Quo: LPs: Picturesque Matchstickable, Piledriver, Hello, On the Level, Blue for You, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 02 | Joey Phillips percussionist (Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 02 | Larry Wayne Gatlin, singer with The Gatlin Brothers, is born. | Ref: 17 |
May 04 | Zal Cleminson rocker (Alex Harvey Band), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 09 | (Long Island) Billy Joel, Hicksville NY, singer/songwriter/piano player (Pianoman, Captain Jack, Bridge), is born. (TWA, 2003) | Ref: 95 |
May 12 | Steve Winwood. British musician with Traffic, is born. | Ref: 17 |
May 13 | John Glover conductor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 16 | William Sputnik Spooner rock guitarist (Grateful Dead, Tubes), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 17 | Bill Bruford drummer: LPs: Feels Good to Me, One of a Kind, The Bruford Tapes, Gradually Going Tornado, Masterstrokes; [w/Patrick Moraz: Music for Piano and Drums, Flags; groups: Earthworks, Gong, Genesis, Yes: Owner of a Lonely Heart; UK: Danger Money, Night after Night, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 18 | Bill Wallace rocker (Guess Who), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 18 | Rick Wakeman rock keyboardist (Yes-Fish Out of Water), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 19 | Dusty Hill musician: bass, singer: group: ZZ Top, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 21 | Arno Hintjens Belgian singer (T C Matic), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 21 | Rosalind Plowright British soprano (Aida, Senta), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 22 | Hans Erich Pfitzner Russian/German composer, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
May 24 | John Illsley rocker (Dire Straits), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 26 | Singer Hank Williams Jr. is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 28 | Wendy O[rleans] Williams Rochester NY, punk rocker (Plasmatics), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | Francis Rossi London England, guitarist/vocalist (Status Quo-Down Down, Picture of a Matchstick Man), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | Gary Brooker Essex England, rock keyboardist (Procol Harum), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 08 | Emanuel Ax Lvov Poland, pianist (Artur Rubinstein Comp -1974), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 11 | Frank Beard rocker (ZZ Top-She Got Lets, Fandango), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 14 | Alan White (musician: drummer: group: Yes: Owner of a Lonely Heart; group: Plastic Ono Band), is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 15 | Russ Hitchcock singer: group: Air Supply: The One that You Love, Love and other Bruises, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 20 | Rhythm-and-blues singer Lionel Richie is born. (TWA, 1988) | Ref: 95 |
Jun 22 | Alan Osmond singer: group: The Osmonds/The Osmond Brothers, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 24 | John Illsley musician: bass: group: Dire Straits: Sultans of Swing, Romeo & Juliet, Tunnel of Love, Skateaway, Telegraph Road, Private Investigation, Money for Nothing, Walk of Life, The Mans Too Strong, Goin Home, Smooching, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 30 | (Andrew) Andy Scott musician: guitar: group: The Sweet: Funny Funny, Co-Co, Little Willy, Wig Wam Bam, Blockbuster, Hell Raiser, Ballroom Blitz, Teenage Rampage, Fox on the Run, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 09 | Singer Courtney Love is born. (XDG, p 4A, 7/9/2000) | Ref: 83 |
Jul 10 | Ronnie James Dio (Padavona) singer, songwriter: groups: Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Dio: Mystery, Stars, LPs: Holy Diver, The Last in Line, Dream Evil, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 12 | John Wetton musician: bassist, singer: group: Asia: Heat of the Moment, Only Time Will Tell, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 17 | Mike Vale musician: bass: group: Tommy James and the Shondells: Say I Am [What I Am], I Think We're Alone Now, Mirage, Mony Mony, Crimson and Clover, Sweet Cherry Wine, Crystal Blue Persuasion, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 17 | Terence 'Geezer' Butler musician: bass: group: Black Sabbath: Paranoid, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 17 | Mick Tucker musician: drums: group: Sweet: Funny Funny, Co-Co, Little Willy, Wig Wam Bam, Blockbuster, Hell Raiser, Ballroom Blitz, Teenage Rampage, Fox on the Run; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 19 | Singer Harry Belafonte began recording for Capitol Records on this day. The first sessions included They Didnt Believe Me and Close Your Eyes. A short time later, Capitol said Belafonte wasnt commercial enough, so he signed with RCA Victor (for a very productive and commercial career). | Ref: 4 |
Jul 26 | Roger Taylor rocker (Queen-Bohemian Rhapsody), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 27 | Maureen McGovern Youngstown Oh, singer (Got to be a morning after), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 28 | Peter Doyle singer: group: The New Seekers: Id like to Teach the World to Sing, Look What Theyve Done to My Song Ma, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 28 | Simon Kirke musician: drums: groups: Free: All Right Now; Bad Company: Cant Get Enough, Ready for Love, Feel like Makin Love, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 03 | B.B. (Morris) Dickerson musician: bass, singer: group: War, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 11 | Eric Carmen Cleveland, Ohio, rocker (All by Myself), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 12 | Mark Knopfler guitar/vocals (Dire Straits-Sultans of Swing), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 13 | Cliff Fish (musician: bassist: group: Paper Lace: The Night Chicago Died) | Ref: 4 |
Aug 13 | Sheralee Ft Lauderdale Fla, vocalist (Your Hit Parade) | Ref: 5 |
Aug 23 | Rick Springfield Australia, (General Hospital, Jessie's Girl), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 25 | Gene Simmons Queens, NY, rocker (KISS-Beth), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 26 | Bob Cowsill singer: group: The Cowsills: The Rain, the Park and Other Things, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 27 | Jeff Cook singer, musician: guitar: group: Alabama: Love in the First Degree, Feels So Right, is born | Ref: 4 |
Aug 28 | Riot prevents Paul Robeson from singing near Peekskill NY. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 28 | Hugh Cornwell rocker (The Stranglers-Dreamtime), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 07 | Gloria Gaynor Newark NJ, disco singer (I Will Survive), is born. | Ref: 17 |
Sep 08 | Richard Strauss composer: Also Sprach Zarathustra, Don Quixote, Till Eulenspiegel; dies at age 85. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 18 | Kerry Livgren musician: guitar, keyboards: group: Kansas, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 22 | David Coverdale rocker (Whitesnake-Here We Go Again), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 23 | Bruce Springsteen The Boss: singer: group: E-Street Band: Born in the U.S.A., Born to Run, Hungry Heart, Dancing in the Dark, Cover Me, Im on Fire, Glory Days, My Hometown, War; songwriter: Blinded by the Light [Manfred Manns Earth Band], Fire [The Pointer Sisters]; inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame [3-15-99], is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 02 | Richard Hell (Myers) musician: bass: groups: Television; Heartbreakers; Neon Boys:, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 03 | Lindsey Buckingham musician: guitar: group: Fleetwood Mac, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 05 | Brian Connolly singer: group: The Sweet: Little Willy, Funny Funny, Co-Co, Wig Wam Bam, Blockbuster, Jell Raiser, Ballroom Blitz, Teenage Rampage, Fox on the Run; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 05 | B.W. Stevenson singer: Shambala; songwriter: My Maria, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 06 | Bobby Farrell singer: group: Boney M: Daddy Cool, Brown Girl in the Ring, Rivers of Babylon, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 07 | David Hope musician: bass: group: Kansas, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 08 | Hamish Stuart musician: guitar, singer: group: Average White Band, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 11 | Daryl Hall (Hohl) singer: group: Hall & Oates, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 13 | Sammy Hagar singer-musician (Van Halen-Jump), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 18 | Country songwriter Stuart Hamblen, 31, underwent a spiritual conversion. Author of the popular 1954 hit "This Old House," Hamblen later wrote such Christian favorites as "It Is No Secret What God Can Do," "How Big is God?" and "They That Wait Upon the Lord". | Ref: 5 |
Nov 03 | Country singer Ronnie McDowell is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 08 | Bonnie Raitt Grammy Award-winning singer [1990]: Runaway, The Boy Cant Help It, Something to Talk About, Sweet Forgiveness; actress: Urban Cowboy; musician: guitar; daughter of actor, John Raitt, is born is Los Angeles CA. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 08 | Alan Berger musician: bass: group: Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes: I Dont Wanna Go Home, The Fever, This Time Its for Real, Love on the Wrong Side of Town, When You Dance, Hearts of Stone, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 10 | Ann Reinking dancer, actress: Pippin, All that Jazz, Annie, Mickey and Maude, is born in Seattle WA. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 13 | Terry Reid guitarist (River, Bang Bang You're Terry Reid), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 14 | James Young musician: guitar: group: Styx: Lady, Suite Madame Blue, Come Sail Away, Miss America, Castle Walls, Superstars, Renegade, Babe, The Best of Times, Too Much Time on My Hands, Mr. Roboto, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 25 | Vaudeville dancer Bill 'Bojangles' (Luther) Robinson dies at 71. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 27 | Boris Asafiev composer, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 28 | Paul Shaffer band leader: Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with David Letterman; comedian, is born. Alexander Godunov (Boris Alexandrovich Godunov) ballet dancer; actor: Die Hard, The Money Pit, Witness; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 28 | Alexander Godunov (Boris Alexandrovich Godunov) ballet dancer; actor: Die Hard, The Money Pit, Witness; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 03 | Mickey Thomas Cairo GA, rock vocalist (Jefferson Airplane, Starship), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 06 | Tom Waits singer: Shiver Me Timbers, Diamonds on My Windshield, Small Change, The Piano Has Been Drinking, Tom Trauberts Blues, Burma Shave, Potters Field, Jersey Girl, LP: Foreign Affairs, Swordfishtrombone; songwriter: I Never Talk to Strangers; actor: Short Cuts, Paradise Alley, Bram Stokers Dracula, Ironweed, The Cotton Club; playwright [w/wife, Kathleen Brennan]: Franks Wild Years | Ref: 4 |
Dec 06 | Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter, "King of the String Guitars", dies at age 64. | Ref: 68 |
Dec 07 | Tom Waits California, rocker/song writer (Blue Valentine), is born. | Ref: 68 |
Dec 08 | Ray Shulman rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | Rock musician Frank Beard (ZZ Top) is born. | |
Dec 12 | Paul Rodgers musician: piano, vocals: Cut Loose; groups: Free, Bad Company, The Firm, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 13 | Randy Owen musician: guitar, singer: group: Alabama: I Want to Be with You, I Wanna Come Over, My Homes in Alabama, Tennessee River, Why Lady Why, Old Flame, Feels So Right, Love in the First Degree, Mountain Music, Close Enough to Perfect, The Closer You Get, Dixieland Delight, When We Make Love, Roll on Eighteen Wheeler, 40 Hour Week, is born in Fort Payne AL. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 13 | Tom Verlaine [Miller] Mount Morris NJ, rock vocalist (Television), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 13 | Walter "Clyde" Owen rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 14 | Cliff Williams musician: guitar: group: AC/DC: LPs: Powerage, Highway to Hell, Back in Black, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, For Those about to Rock, Fly on the Wall, Who Made Who, Blow Up Your Video, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 16 | Billy Gibbons musician: guitar, singer: group: ZZ Top: Salt Lick, Jesus Just Left Chicago, La Grange, Tush, Gimme All Your Lovin, Legs, Sharp Dressed Man, Sleeping Bag, is born in Houston TX. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 17 | Paul Rodgers England, rocker (Bad Company-Feel Like Makin Love, The Firm), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 17 | David Stanley Smith composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 19 | Lenny White rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 20 | Alan Parsons (musician: keyboards; music engineer: worked on The Beatles Abbey Road LP and early Wings LPs; producer: The Alan Parsons Project: Eye in the Sky, Games People Play), is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 22 | Maurice Gibb, Manchester England, rocker/twin of Robin (Bee Gees-Saturday Night Fever), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 22 | Michael Osborne rock guitarist/vocalist (Axe), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 22 | Robin Gibb, Manchester England, rocker/twin of Maurice (Bee Gees-Saturday Night Fever), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 23 | Luther Grosvenor rocker (Spooky Tooth), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 26 | Ira Newborn New York NY, orchestra leader (Manhattan Transfer), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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Jan 01 | Morgan Fisher rock keyboardist (British Lions), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 02 | Lou Gramm rocker (Foreigner-Midnight Blue, Ready Or Not), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 03 | Beth Anderson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 05 | Chris Stein musician: guitar: group: Blondie: In the Flesh, Denis, [Im Always Touched by Your] Presence Dear, Picture This, Hanging on the Telephone, Sunday Girl, Heart of Glass, Dreaming, Union City Blue, Atomic, The Tide is High, Rapture; solo: French Kissin; scored theme: Fifteen Minutes, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 09 | Rio Reiser rock singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 12 | Koos van de Griend composer, dies at 44. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 15 | David Lynn Jones Bexar AR, country singer (Bonnie Jean), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 16 | Debbie Allen, dancer, actress: Fame, Roots: The Next Generation, Ragtime, The Fish that Saved Pittsburgh; choreographer; sister of actress Phylicia Rashad, is born in Houston TX. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 18 | Claudia de Colombia Bogato Columbia, Spanish singer (Yo Creo En Ti), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 20 | Henk Batenburgh cabaret performer/singer (Waaldrecht), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 21 | Billy Ocean [Leslie S Charles], Trinidad, singer (Suddenly, Caribbean Queen), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 21 | Richie Ranno rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 23 | Patrick Simmons guitarist/vocal (Doobie Brothers-Minute by Minute), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 23 | William Cunningham rock bassist/pianist (Box Tops-Letter), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 23 | Danny Federici rocker (E Street Band), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 25 | Michael Cotton rocker (Tubes), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 04 | James Dunn US vocalist (Stylistics-You make me feel Brand New), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 04 | Philip Ehart rock drummer (Kansas), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 04 | Robert-John Stips rock keyboardist/singer (The Nits), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Ann Sexton US vocalist (You're Gone too Long), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 06 | Natalie Cole, Los Angeles CA, singer (Unforgettable, Pink Cadillac, Miss You Like Crazy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 06 | Mike Batt composer/arranger, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 06 | Punky Meadows Washington DC, rock guitarist (Angel), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 08 | Michael Goodroe rock bassist (Motels-Only the Lonely), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 08 | Ted Turner rocker (Wishbone Ash), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Rio Reiser rock singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 10 | Mike Rutherford rocker (Genesis-Against All Odds, Mike & Mechanics), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 10 | Armen Tigran Tigranyan composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 11 | Rochelle Fleming US soul vocalist (First Choice, Smarty Pants), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 12 | Steve Hackett rock guitarist (Genesis-Against All Odds/GTR), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 13 | Roger Christian singer: group: The Christians, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 13 | Peter (Brian) Gabriel singer: group: Genesis; solo songwriter, singer: Sledgehammer, Big Time, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 14 | Roger Fisher musician: guitar: group: Heart: Crazy on You, Magic Man, Barracuda, Straight On, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 17 | Rick Medlocke rock guitarist/vocalist (Blackfoot), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 19 | Andy Powell rocker (Wishbone Ash), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 19 | Edyth Walker US singer, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Walter Becker New York NY, rock bassist (Steely Dan-Peg), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 23 | Steve Priest London, rock bassist (Sweet Hayes), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 25 | Emitt Rhodes musician (The Merry-go-Round), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | Jonathan Cain Chicago IL, rock guitarist/keyboardist (Journey, Bad English, Babys), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 28 | Stephen Chatman composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 02 | Karen Carpenter New Haven CT, vocalist/drummer (We've Only Just Begun), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 03 | Re Styles rock vocalist (Tubes), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | Emilio Estefan Cuba, rocker (Miami Sound Machine-1 2 3), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 05 | Eugene Fodor Turkey Creek CO, violinist (1972 Paganini Award, 1974 Tchaikovsky Award), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | Jaroslav Kocian composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 10 | Ted McKenna rocker (Alex Harvey Band), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 11 | Bobby McFerrin singer (Don't Worry Be Happy-1989 Grammy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 12 | Belgium votes (58%) for return of King Leopold III. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 13 | Danny Kirwan London, rock guitarist (Fleetwood Mac), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 13 | Steve Hill country vocalist (A Winning Hand), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 15 | Gian Carlo Menotti's opera "Consul" premieres at Barrymore Theater NYC for 269 performances. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 18 | James Conlon New York NY, conductor (Cincinnati May Festival-1979), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 19 | Brad Dourif actor: Phoenix, Color of Night, Wild Palms, Final Judgement, Jungle Fever, Body Parts, Mississippi Burning, Blue Velvet, Dune, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Studs Lonigan, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 19 | John Hartman musician: drums: group: The Doobie Brothers: Listen to the Music, Long Train Runnin, China Grove, Black Water, What a Fool Believes; veterinarian, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 20 | Carl Palmer musician: drums: groups: Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Lucky Man, From the Beginning; Asia: Heat of the Moment, Only Time Will Tell, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 21 | Roger Hodgson London England, rock vocalist (Supertramp-It's Raining Again), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Teddy Pendergrass Philadelphia PA, singer (Turn Off the Lights) is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Ronnie McDowell Fountain Head TN, country singer (King is Gone), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | Maria Ewing opera singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | Tony Banks, East Heathly Sussex England, rock keyboardist (Genesis-Invisible Touch, Misunderstanding), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | Eugene Bowen composer (Wonder's Edge), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | Rupert Greenall rock keyboardist (Fixx), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 31 | Richard Hughes rocker (Johnny Winter Band), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | Billy Currie musician: synthesizer, keyboards, violin: group: Ultravox: Vienna, All Stood Still, The Thin Wall, The Voice, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 03 | Curtis Stone North Hollywood CA, singer (Highway 101-Cry Cry Cry), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Kurt Weill, German-born American composer (The Threepenny Opera), dies at age 50. | Ref: 70 |
Apr 03 | Death of American hymnwriter Ira B. Wilson, 70. Associated with Lorenz Publishing in Dayton, Ohio for over 40 years, Wilson's most enduring sacred composition was "Make Me a Blessing" (aka "Out of the Highways and Byways of Life"). | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Adolf Wiklund composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | Agnetha Faltskog, Jonkoping, Sweden, rocker (ABBA-Waterloo), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | Anna Ulvaeus rocker (Aha-Take on Me), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | Mildred Douglas Surinames/Dutch singer (Mai Tai), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 07 | Janis Ian [Janis Fink], NYC, folk singer (Society's Child, At 17), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 08 | Russian ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky dies in London at age 60. | Ref: 70 |
Apr 10 | Dave Peverett rocker (Foghat), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 10 | Eddie Hazel US pop guitarist (Funkadelic-Uncle Jam Wants You), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | David Cassidy New York NY, singer/actor (Keith-Partridge Family), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 13 | Riff West rock bassist (Molly Hatchet), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | Bill Sudderth III trumpeter (Atlantic Star-Touch 4 Leaf Clover), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 19 | Tyrwhitt-Wilson 14th baron Berners/composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 22 | Peter Frampton guitarist, singer: Show Me the Way, Do You Feel Like We Do, I Cant Stand it No More, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 22 | Peter Frampton, Kent England, guitarist/vocalist (Frampton Comes Alive), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 25 | Steve Ferrone Brighton England, drummer (Average White Band), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 26 | Howard "Leon" Reeder rock guitarist (Champaign), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 26 | Peter Schaufuss director of ballet (Deutsche Opera Berlin), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 27 | Adam Tadeusz Wieniawski composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 27 | Karl Straube German organist/conductor, dies. | Ref: 5 |
May 02 | Lou Gramm Rochester NY, rocker (Foreigner-I Want to Know What Love Is), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 03 | Mary Hopkin South Wales, singer (Those Were the Days), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 04 | Darryl Hunt English pop bassist (Pogues-Pair of Brown Eyes), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 05 | Maggie MacNeal Dutch singer (Mouth & MacNeal, I See a Star), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 06 | Robbie McIntosh drummer (Average White Band-Show your Hand), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 07 | Janis Ian [Janis Eddy Fink] New York NY, rock vocalist (At 17, Society's Child), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 07 | Prairie Prince rocker (Tubes), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 09 | Tom Petersson musician: bass, singer: group: Cheap Trick: I Want You to Want Me, Aint That a Shame, Dream Police, Voices, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 12 | Billy Squier Wellesley Hills MA, heavy metal guitarist (Don't Say No), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 12 | Jocko Marcellino rocker (Sha Na Na), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 13 | Stevie Wonder [Steveland Morris] Saginaw MI, singer/songwriter (I Just Called To Say I Love You, Superstition, You are The Sunshine of My Life, My Cherie Amour), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 13 | Danny Kirwan rocker (Fleetwood Mac), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 13 | John "Jocko" Marcellino rocker/actor (Tagget, Hot to Trot, Rain Man), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 13 | Peter Gabriel London England, rocker (Sledgehammer, Shock the Monkey, Solsbury Hill, Genesis-The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 16 | Jock Bartley rocker (Firefall), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 17 | Eduardo Fabini composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
May 21 | Roger Hodgson London, rocker (Supertramp-The Logical Song), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 22 | Bernie Taupin lyricist, writes with Elton John, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 26 | Antonina Neshdanova Russian soprano (Bolshoi Theater), dies. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | Rebbie (Maureen Reilette) Jackson singer: LPs: Centipede [written by brother, Michael], Reactions; oldest member of the Jackson family, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 01 | Graham Russell singer: group: Air Supply: Lost in Love, All Out of Love, The One that You Love, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 03 | Suzi Quatro Detroit, singer (Stumblin' In)/actress (Happy Days), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 05 | Laurie (Laura) Anderson singer: O Superman, Language is a Virus from Outer Space, LPs: Big Science, Mr. Heartbreak, United States, Home of the Brave, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 08 | Elmar Oliveira Waterbury Connecticut, violinist (Naumburg 1978), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 09 | Trevor Bolder musician: bass: groups: Spiders from Mars, Uriah Heep: LP: Equator, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 15 | Noddy (Neville) Holder musician: guitar, singer, songwriter: group: Slade: Get Down and Get with It, Coz I Love You, Mama Weer All Crazee Now, Cum On Feel the Noize, Skweeze Me Pleeze Me, Merry Xmas Everybody, Well Bring the House Down, My Oh My, Run Run Away, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 20 | Lionel Richie singer (Commodores, Hello, Penny Lover), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 21 | Joey Kramer NYC, rock drummer (Aerosmith-Janie Got a Gun), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 04 | David Jensen rocker British DJ, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 05 | Michael Monarch (musician: guitar: group: Steppenwolf: Born to Be Wild, The Pusher, Magic Carpet Ride, Rock Me), is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 07 | David Hodo singer: group: The Village People: YMCA, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 11 | Bonnie Pointer singer (Pointer Sisters), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 12 | Eric Carr drummer (Kiss-Beth), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 18 | Singer Glenn Hughes (the biker of The Village People) is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 23 | Blair Thornton musician: guitar: group: Bachman-Turner Overdrive: Takin Care of Business, You Aint Seen Nothin Yet, Roll On Down the Highway, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 26 | Duncan Mackay musician: keyboards: groups: Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel, 10CC: Dreadlock Holiday, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 27 | Michael Vaughn musician: guitarist: group: Paperlace: The Night Chicago Died, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 07 | Rodney Crowell singer/guitarist (for Emmylou Harris), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 08 | Andy Fairweather Low musician: guitar, singer: group: Amen Corner: Gin House Blues, Bend Me Shape Me, [If Paradise Is] Half as Nice, Natural Sinner, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 11 | Erik Braunn musician: guitar, singer: group: Iron Butterfly: In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 18 | Dennis Elliott musician: drums: group: Foreigner: I Want to Know What Love Is, Waiting for a Girl like You, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 22 | Sam Neely singer: Love You Just Crossed My Mind, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 30 | Mick Moody musician: guitar: group: Whitesnake: Fool for Your Loving, Dont Break My Heart Again, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 04 | Ronald LaPread musician: bass: group: Commodores: Still, Three Times a Lady, Nightshift, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 07 | Chrissie Hynde Akron Oh, rocker (Pretenders-Mystery Achievement), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 10 | Don Powell musician: drums: group: Slade: Get Down and Get With It, Coz I Love You, Mama Weer All Crazee Now, Cum on Feel the Noize, Skweeze Me, Pleeze Me, Merry Xmas Everybody, Well Bring the House Down, My Oh My, Run Run Away, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 10 | Joe Perry Boston, rocker (Aerosmith-Walking the Dog), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 14 | Paul Kossoff musician: guitar: group: Free: All Right Now; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 16 | David Bellamy singer: duo: The Bellamy Brothers, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 17 | Fee Waybill (John Waldo) singer: group: The Tubes | Ref: 4 |
Oct 02 | Michael Rutherford musician: guitarist: group: Mike & The Mechanics:, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 05 | Eddie Clarke musician: guitar: group: Motorhead, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 06 | Thomas McClary musician: guitar: group: The Commodores, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 08 | Robert "Kool" Bell rocker (Kool & the Gang-Joanna), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 11 | Andrew Woolfolk musician: reeds: group: Earth, Wind and Fire, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 20 | Tom Petty singer: group: The Traveling Wilburys; Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers: Dont Come Around Here No More, Dont Do Me Like That, Refugee, Stop Draggin My Heart Around [w/Stevie Nicks]; in film: Made in Heaven, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 23 | The Worlds Greatest Entertainer (a billing he gave himself), Al Jolson (Asa Yoelson), passes away at the age of 64. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 01 | Dan Peek musician: guitar, singer: group: America, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 10 | Ronnie Hammond singer: group: Atlanta Rhythm Section: So in to You, Imaginary Lover, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 11 | Jim Peterik musician: keyboard: group: Survivor: Eye of the Tiger, Burning Heart; singer: group: Ides of March: Vehicle, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 12 | Barbara Fairchild singer: The Teddy Bear Song, Kid Stuff, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 18 | Graham Parker singer: group: Graham Parker and The Rumour: Between You and Me, Back to Schooldays, Hey Lord Don?t Ask Me Questions, Discovering Japan, Local Girls, Passion is No Ordinary Word, Stupefaction, The Beating of Another Heart; solo: LPs: Another Grey Area, The Real Macaw, Steady Nerves, The Mona Lisa's Sister, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 21 | Livingston Taylor singer; brother of singer James Taylor, is born in Boston MA. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 22 | Steve Miami Van Zandt singer, songwriter, musician: guitar: group: E Street Band, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 22 | Tina (Martina) Weymouth musician: bass: group: Talking Heads: Love Goes to Building on Fire, Psycho Killer, Take Me to the River, I Zimbra, Life During Wartime, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 22 | Little Steven rocker (Springsteen-Born to Run), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 22 | Tina Weymouth rocker (Talking Heads-& She Was), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 01 | Ernest John Moeran British composer, dies at 55. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 02 | John Wesley Ryles singer | Ref: 4 |
Dec 02 | Merrill Ashley St Paul MN, ballerina (NYC Ballet), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 02 | Dino Lipatti composer, dies at 33. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 06 | Daniel Sahuleka Moluks/Dutch singer/guitarist (Viva la Libertad), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 08 | Dan Hartman Harrisburg PA, singer (Sometimes When We Touch), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 09 | Joan Armatrading singer, songwriter: Me, Myself, I, Love and Affection, Down to Zero, Water in the Wine, Drop the Pilot, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 13 | Davey O'List rocker (Roxy Music), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 15 | Robert Muller-Hartmann composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 16 | Otto Vrieslander composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 17 | Carlton Barrett Jamaicans reggae drummer (Bob Marley & Wailers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 18 | Martha Johnson Toronto Ontario, rocker (M+M), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 20 | Walter Damrosch, Prussian-bn.American conductor, dies at age 88. | Ref: 70 |
Dec 22 | Julius Weismann composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 22 | Walter Johannes Damrosch, Prussian-bn.American conductor/composer, dies at age 88. | Ref: 70 |
Dec 23 | Vincenzo Tommasini composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 24 | Libbi Larsen composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 24 | Peter te Bos Dutch singer (Claw Boys Claw), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 26 | Michael Jones rocker (BT Express-Here Comes the Express), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 26 | Emile Enthoven composer, dies at 47. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 27 | Terry Bozzio rock drummer (Missing Persons-Hello I Love You), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 28 | Alex Chilton Memphis TN, rock guitarist/vocalist (Box Tops-Let Me Get Close to You, The Letter), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 31 | Charles Koechlin French composer (Jungle Book), dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
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Jan 01 | Jaco Pastorius rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 03 | Fred Barlow composer, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 06 | Kim Wilson rocker (Fabulous Thunderbirds), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | Paul Dresher composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 09 | Crystal Gayle (Brenda Gail Webb), Kentucky, country singer (Don't it make my brown eyes blue), Loretta Lynns sister, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 09 | Rosalyn Kind Brooklyn, singer ( sister of Barbra Streisand), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Athos Palma composer, dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 12 | Larry Hoppens rocker (Orleans-Still the One, Dance With Me), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 12 | Chris Bell Memphis TN, rock guitarist (Big Star), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 14 | William Risrook rocker (BT Express-Here Comes the Express), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 15 | Martha Davis California, vocalist/guitar (Motels-Only the Lonely, Shame), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 15 | Charo (Maria Rosario Pilar Martinez Molina Baeza) The Hootchy Cootchy Girl: actress: Chico and the Man, Airport 79; singer, is born in Murcia, Spain. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 16 | Richard Thompson rocker (BT Express-Here Comes the Express), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 19 | Dewey Bunnell Yorkshire England, rock guitarist (America-Daisy Jane, Sister Golden Hair), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 19 | Martha Davis vocals/guitar (Motels-Only the Lonely), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 19 | Constantin Nottara composer, dies at 60. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 22 | Eastwood Lane composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 26 | David Briggs rock guitarist (Little River Band-Help is on it's Way), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 26 | Andy Hummell Memphis TN, rock bassist (Big Star), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 27 | Brian Downey musician: drums: group: Thin Lizzy: Still in Love with You, Killer on the Loose, Whiskey in the Jar, The Rocker, Little Girl in Bloom, is born in Washington DC. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 27 | Seth Justman musician: keyboard, singer, composer: group: The J. Geils Band: Give It to Me, Must Have Got Lost, One Last Kiss, Freeze-Frame, Centerfold, Angel in Blue, Land of 1000 Dances, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 28 | William Nelson Jr US bassist (Connections & Disconnections), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 30 | Phil Collins singer, musician: drums: group: Genesis; solo: In the Air Tonight, I Missed Again, You Cant Hurry Love, Sussudio, One More Night, Two Hearts; actor: Oliver, A Hard Days Night, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, is born. | Ref: 68 |
Jan 30 | Marv Ross rocker (Quarterflash), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 30 | Clifford Leon Anderson rocker (Cure), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 31 | Harry Casey [KC], rock vocalist (KC & Sunshine Band-Give It), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 31 | Phil Collins England, singer/drummer (Genesis-Against All Odds), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 31 | Phil Manzanera rock guitarist (Roxy Music-Let's Stick Together), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Alphonso Johnson jazz bassist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Elizabeth Swados Buffalo NY, composer/playwright (1972 TONY), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Crystal Gayle Kentucky, country singer (Don't it make my brown eyes blue), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Rosalyn Kind Brooklyn, singer ( sister of Barbra Streisand), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Dennis "Dee Tee" Thomas saxophonist (Kool & the Gang-Celebration), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 10 | Joseph Bovet composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 12 | Gil "The Bird" Moore rocker (Triumph), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 14 | Michael Doucet singer/musician (Beausoleil), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 15 | Melissa Manchester singer: Dont Cry Out Loud, Midnight Blue, You Should Hear How She Talks About You, is born in Bronx NY. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 17 | Nikoghayos Fadeyi Tigranyan composer, dies at 94. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Kathy Baillie Morristown NJ, country vocalist (Baillie and the Boys-Oh Heart), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Randy California [Wolfe], Los Angeles CA, guitarist (Spirit-I Got a Line on You), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Howard Brockway composer, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 21 | Michael Cotten rock synthesizer (Tubes), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 21 | Vince Welnick rock keyboardist (Tubes), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Steve Harley (Nice) singer: group: Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel: Judy Teen, Mr. Soft, Make Me Smile [Come Up and See Me]; solo LPs: Hobo with a Grin, The Candidate, is born in London England. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 04 | Chris Rea Middlesborough England, rock guitarist (Fool If You Think It Is Over, Heaven), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | John Winter Thompson composer, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 12 | Jack Green rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 16 | Ray Benson Philadelphia PA, country singer (House of Blue Lights), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 16 | Ritchie Teeter rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 17 | Scott Gorham Irish hard rock guitarist (Thin Lizzy-21 Guns, Jailbreak), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 20 | -Rock musician Jimmie Vaughan is born. | Ref: 64 |
Mar 20 | Guy Perry rock guitarist/vocalist (Motels-Only the Lonely), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 20 | Jimmie Vaughan guitarist (Fabulous Thunderbirds), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 20 | John Wetton rocker (Asia, UK, King Crimson), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 20 | Jan Ingenhoven composer, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 20 | Kathleen Lockhart Manning composer, dies at 60. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 21 | Russell Thompkins Jr US soul singer (Stylistics-Sing Baby Sing), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 22 | Howard Reitzes Southgate CA, rocker (Iron Butterfly), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 22 | Dougie Thomson musician: bass: group: Supertramp: Dreamer, Bloody Well Right | Ref: 4 |
Mar 22 | J Willem Mengelberg Dutch conductor (Matthus Passion), dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 24 | Dougie Thompson rocker (Supertramp-Bloody Well Right), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 25 | Bob Pelander rock keyboardist/vocalist (Michael Stanley Band), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 25 | Maisie Williams Montserrat, rock vocalist (Boney M), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 29 | Barry Goudreau rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | Clement D'Hooghe composer, dies at 51. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 02 | -Rock musician Leon Wilkeson (Lynyrd Skynyrd) is born. | Ref: 64 |
Apr 02 | Simon Barere pianist, dies while perfoming at Carnegie Hall. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Mel Schacher bassist (Grand Funk Railroad-Some Kind of Wonderful), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 04 | Steve Gatlin singer: group: The Gatlin Brothers: Sweet Becky Walker, The Bigger They Are, the Harder They Fall, Delta Dirt, Broken Lady, Statues without Hearts, Night Time Magic, Ive Done Enough Dyin Today, All the Gold in California, Take Me to Your Lovin Place, It Dont Get No Better Than This, Sure Feels like Love, Houston [Means Im One Day Closer to You], Denver, is born in Olney TX. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 05 | Everett Morton rocker (English Beat), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 06 | Ralph Cooper drummer (Air Supply-All Out of Love), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 06 | Halfdan Cleve composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 07 | John Dittrich Union NJ, country singer (Restless Heart-Wheels), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 08 | Mel Schachter rocker (Grand Funk Railroad), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 11 | Robbie House rocker (Snuff), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | Alex Briley singer: group: The Village People: YMCA | Ref: 4 |
Apr 12 | Jakson Spires rock drummer/songwriter (Blackfoot), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | Harold Vincent Milligan composer, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 13 | Max Weinberg musician: drummer: E Street Band; bandleader: The Max Weinberg 7 [Late Night with Conan OBrien], is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 13 | Robert (Peabo) Bryson, American singer, Underground Music, I Can Make It Better, Just Another Day, Do It with Feeling, Tonight I Celebrate My Love, If Youre Ever in My arms Again, is born in Greenville SC. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 14 | Matima Kinuani Mpiosso musician, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 16 | John Bentley rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 20 | Luther Vandross singer, songwriter: Never Too Much, How Many Times Can We Say Goodbye, is born in Bronx NY. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 21 | Paul Carrack musician: piano, singer, songwriter: groups: Noise to Go, Mike and the Mechanics, Ace: How Long; Squeeze: Goodbye Girl, Up the Junction, Cool for Cats; solo: LPs: Paul Carrack, Suburban Voodoo, is born in Sheffield England | Ref: 4 |
Apr 21 | Nicoel Barclay rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 25 | Jerzy Fitelberg composer, dies at 47. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 26 | John Alden Carpenter US composer (Sea Drift), dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 27 | Paul Daniel Ace Frehley musician: group: Kiss [the spaceman]: Rock and Roll All Nite, Beth, Forever and I Was Made for Lovin You; formed Frehleys Comet, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 27 | Ace Frehley Bronx NY, heavy metal rocker (Kiss-Beth, Frehley's Comet), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 27 | Boris Kinberg rock percussionist (Mink Deville), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 03 | Christopher Cross [Geppert] San Antonio TX, singer (Sailing, Arthur's Theme), is born. | Ref: 68 |
May 04 | Jackie [Sigmund Esco] Jackson Gary IN, rocker (Jackson 5-ABC), is born. | Ref: 68 |
May 05 | Rex Goh rock guitarist (Air Supply), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 06 | Davey Johnstone musician: guitar, in trio backing Elton John: Rocket Man, Honky Cat, Crocodile Rock, Daniel, Bennie and the Jets, Island Girl, The Bitch is Back, Dont Let the Sun Go Down on Me, Someone Saved My Life Tonight, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 07 | Janis Ian (Janis Eddy Fink) Grammy Award-winning songwriter, singer: At Seventeen [1975]; Societys Child, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 08 | Chris Frantz Fort Campbell KY, rock drummer (Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 08 | Philip Bailey rocker (Earth Wind & Fire-Shining Star, Easy Lover), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 10 | Ron Banks US R&B singer (Dramatics-Whatcha See is Whatcha Get), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 12 | Kid Creole [August Darnell], rocker/actor (Obsession A Taste of Fear), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 13 | Paul Thompson musician: drums: group: Roxy Music: Virginia Plain, Pyjamarama, Do the Strand, Editions of You, In Every Dream a Heartache, Street Life, All I Want is You, Out of the Blue, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 14 | Jay Beckenstein saxophonist (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 15 | Dennis Frederiksen rocker (Toto-Roseanna, Africa), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 16 | Jonathan Richman rocker (Modern Lovers-New England, Egyptian Reggae), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 17 | Karl Heinrich David composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
May 19 | Joey Ramone [Jeffrey Hyman] Forest Hills NY, punk rocker (Ramones-Baby I Love You), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 23 | Judy Rodman Riverside CA, country singer (Girls Ride Horses Too), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 24 | Rob Baker rock drummer (Red Rider), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 25 | Clifford Archer bassist (Atlantic Starr-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | Dimitrios Levidis composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | Josef Bohuslav Foerster composer, dies at 91. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | Robert Kahn composer, dies at 85. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 03 | Christopher Cross Texas, singer (Sailing), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 03 | Deniece Williams singer (Love Wouldn't Let Me Wait), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 06 | Dwight Twilley country singer (Twilley Don't Mind), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 08 | Bonnie Tyler singer: Total Eclipse of the Heart, Its a Heartache, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 09 | Bonnie Tyler [Gaynor Hopkins], rocker (Total Eclipse of the Heart), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 12 | Brad Delp guitarist (Boston-More Than a Feeling), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 12 | Bun Carlos (Brad Carlson) musician: drums: group: Cheap Trick: I Want You to Want Me, Aint That a Shame, Dream Police, Voices, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 13 | Howard Leese musician: guitar, keyboards: group: Heart: Crazy on You, Magic Man, Barracuda, Straight On, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 19 | Ann Wilson, San Diego, singer (Heart-What About Love), is born. | Ref: 68 |
Jun 21 | Nils Lofgren musician: guitar, keyboards, singer, songwriter: Back It Up, Keith Dont Go [Ode to the Glimmer Twin], Beggars Day, No Mercy, Secrets in the Street, Delivery Night; groups: Grin, E Street Band, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 30 | Stanley Clarke bass (New Barbarians-Find Out Hideaway), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 01 | Fred Schneider musician: keyboards, singer: groups: Shake Society, The B-52s: Rock Lobster, Quiche Lorraine, 606 0842, Dance This Mess Around, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 02 | Joe Puerta musician: bass, singer: group: Bruce Hornsby & The Range, Ambrosia: Hold on to Yesterday, How Much I Feel, Youre the Only Woman, Biggest Part of Me, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 05 | Huey Lewis rocker (& the News-Need a New Drug), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 08 | Andy Fletcher rocker (Depeche Mode-Just Can't Get Enough), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 13 | Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian-born American composer, dies at age 76. | Ref: 70 |
Jul 24 | Lynval Golding musician: guitar: groups: The Specials: Gangsters, A Message to You Rudy, Too Much Too Young, Ghost Town; Fun Boy Three: LPs: Fun Boy Three, Waiting, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 25 | Verdine White musician: bass, singer: group: Earth, Wind & Fire: Shining Star, Sing a Song, Got to Get You into My Life, After the Love Has Gone, Boogie Wonderland, Lets Groove, Best of My Love, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 01 | Jim Carroll, musician and writer of The Basketball Diaries, is born. | Ref: 2 |
Aug 02 | Andrew Gold Burbank, rocker (Lonely Boy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 03 | Johnny Graham musician: guitar: group: Earth, Wind & Fire: Shining Star, Sing a Song, Got to Get You into My Life, After the Love Has Gone, Best of My Love, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 13 | Dan Fogelberg Peoria Ill, rocker (Same Auld Lang Syne), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 15 | Artur Schnabel, Austrian pianist and teacher, dies at age 69. | Ref: 70 |
Aug 19 | John Deacon rocker (Queen-Bohemian Rhapsody), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 20 | Philip Parris Lynott musician: bass, singer: [w/Gary Moore]: Parisienne Walkways, Out in the Fields; group: Thin Lizzy: Whiskey in the Jar, The Rocker, Little Girl in Bloom, Still in Love with You, Killer on the Loose; solo: Sarah, Yellow Pearl, Nineteen, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 21 | Constant Lambert, English composer, conductor and critic, dies at age 45. | Ref: 70 |
Aug 23 | Jimi Jamison singer: group: Survivor: I Cant Hold Back, Burning Heart, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 25 | Rob Halford heavy metal rocker (Judas Priest-Got Another Thing), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 28 | Wayne Osmond Ogden Utah, singer (Osmond Brothers, Donnie & Marie), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 04 | Martin Chambers musician: drums: group: The Pretenders: Kid, Brass in Pocket, Back on the Chain Gang, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 07 | Chrissie Hynde musician: guitar, singer, songwriter: group: The Pretenders: Kid, Brass in Pocket, Precious, Private Life, Lovers of Today, 2000 Miles, Back on the Chain Gang, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 13 | David Clayton-Thomas singer (Blood Sweat & Tears-You've Made Me So Very Happy, Spinning Wheel), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 17 | Jimmy Yancey, American blues pianist, dies at age 53. | Ref: 70 |
Sep 22 | David Coverdale singer: groups: Deep Purple, Whitesnake, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 27 | Meat Loaf (Marvin Lee Aday) musician, singer, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 02 | Singer Sting (Gordon Sumner) is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 02 | Mike Rutherford rocker (Genesis-Against All Odds, Mike & Mechanics), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 05 | Bob Geldof pop musician (Boomtown Rats, Band Aid), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 06 | Kevin Cronin singer: group: REO Speedwagon, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 07 | John Cougar Mellencamp Seymour IN, rocker (Jack & Diane), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 08 | Johnny Ramone LI, rock guitarist (Road to Ruin), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 13 | John Ford Coley singer: duo: England Dan and John Ford Coley: Id Really Love to See You Tonight, Its Sad to Belong, Love is the Answer, Gone Too Far, Well Never Have to Say Goodbye Again, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 20 | Al Greenwood musician: keyboard: group: Foreigner, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 25 | Ransom Wilson Tuscaloosa AL, flutist (Soliste NY), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 26 | Bootsy Collins Cin, rocker (Parliaments-We Got the Funk), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 01 | Ronald (Kool) Bell musician: saxophone: group: Kool & The Gang, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 07 | Nick Guilder singer (Hot Child in the City), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 09 | Sigmund Romberg operetta composer: Blossom Time, The Student Prince, The Desert Song, Up in Central Park; songs: When Hearts are Young, Deep in My Heart Dear, Golden Days, Lover Come Back to Me, Softly as in a Morning Sunrise, When I Grow Too Old to Dream; founding member of ASCAP; dies at age 64. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 11 | Paul Cowsill, singer: group: The Cowsills: Hair, Indian Lake, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 14 | Stephen Bishop singer: It Might Be You; musician: guitar; singer, songwriter: On and On, Save It for a Rainy Day, Everybody Needs Love, This is the Night, Living in the Land of Abe Lincoln, theme for Animal House, Dream Girl, theme for China Syndrome: Somewhere In Between, Don?t You Worry, LPs: Careless, Bish, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 27 | Brian Downey rock drummer (Thin Lizzy-Boys are Back in Town), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 27 | Seth Justman Washington DC, rock vocalist/keyboardist (J Geils Band-Centerfold), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 29 | Barry Goudreau musician: guitar: groups: Orion the Hunter, Boston: More Than a Feeling, Long Time, Peace of Mind, Dont Look Back, Man Ill Never Be, LP: Boston, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 01 | Eric Bloom rock vocalist/guitarist (Blue Oyster Cult), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 01 | Jaco Pastorius US jazz guitarist (Weather Report-Word of Mouth), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 01 | Felix Petyrek composer, dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 03 | Mike Stock rocker (Stock, Aitken & Waterman-Road Block), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 04 | Gary Rossington rocker (Lynyrd Skynyrd, Rossington-Collins Band), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 07 | Henk Temming Dutch vocalist/keyboardist (Good Cause), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | Frank Beard US country rock drummer (ZZ Topp), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 13 | Selim Palmgren Finnish pianist/composer (Daniel Hjort), dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 15 | Ken Knox rock vocalist (Chairmen of the Board), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 17 | Wanda Hutchison rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 21 | Nick Gilder (singer: Hot Child in the City), is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 22 | Powell Weaver composer, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 23 | Johnny Contardo singer: group: Sha-Na-Na, formerly Eddie and The Evergreens, Dirty Dozen, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 23 | Alfreds Kalnins composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 24 | Johnny Contardo rocker (Sha Na Na-Shannon), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | Ria Thielsch Dutch singer (Luv), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 26 | Richard Skinner British DJ, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 29 | Laurel Masse Holland MI, jazz singer (Manhattan Transfer-Operator), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 30 | Nancy LaMott singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 31 | Fermin Goytisolo rocker (KC & Sunshine Band-Give It), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 31 | Tom Hamilton Colorado Springs CO, rock bassist (Aerosmith-Dream On), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1952
Jan 02 | Ricky Van Shelton Grit VA, country singer (Wild-Eyed Dream), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Scott Thurston keyboardist/guitarist (Motels-Only the Lonely), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Pat Benetar (Patricia Andrzejewski), singer, is born. | Ref: 17 |
Jan 11 | Lee Ritenour Los Angeles CA, jazz musician, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 12 | Ricky Van Shelton Danville VA, country musician (Somebody Lied, From a Jack to a King, Rockin' Years), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 13 | Cornelius Bumpus keyboardist (Doobie Brothers-Minute by Minute), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 15 | Melvyn Gale rocker (ELO), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 17 | Ryuichi Sakamoto Japan, rocker (Academy Award 1988, Yellow Magic Orchestra), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 19 | Dewey Bunnell singer, musician: guitar: group: America: A Horse with No Name, You Can Do Magic, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 20 | Paul Stanley (Eisen) singer: formed group: Kiss [the clown]: Rock and Roll All Nite, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 20 | Ian Hill bass guitarist (Judas Priest-Breakin the Law), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 20 | Arthur Farwell composer, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 22 | Teddy Gentry Fort Payne AL, country music star (Alabama-Mountain Music, Take Me Down), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 23 | Robin Zander rocker vocalist/guitarist (Cheap Trick-Dream Police), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 27 | Peter Garland composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | Tommy Ramone [Thomas Erdelyi], Budapest Hungary, rock drummer/bassist [Ramones-Rock & Roll High School), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 01 | Rick James [James Johnson], rock/soul/funk vocalist (Super Freak), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Johann Babtist Thaller composer, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 04 | Jerry Shirley rock drummer (Humble Pie-Hot N Nasty, Eat It), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 08 | Hans Van de Lubbe Dutch bassist/singer (Dike), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 13 | Ed Gagliardi New York NY, rock bassist (Foreigner-Cold As Ice), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 13 | Alfred Einstein German/US musicologist/nephew of Albert Einstein, dies at age 71. | Ref: 70 |
Feb 18 | Juice Newton [Judy Cohen], Virginia, singer (Angel of the Morning), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 18 | Veronica "Randy" Crawford US vocalist (One Day I'll Fly Away), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 21 | Jean-Jacques Brunel rock bassist (Stranglers-Dreamtime), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Welsh poet Dylan Thomas records first audio book Child's Christmas in Wales for Caedmon. | Ref: 10 |
Feb 23 | Brad Whitford Massachusetts, rock guitarist (Aerosmith-Jamie Got a Gun), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Henk Westbroek Dutch singer (Good Cause), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Kevin Raleigh rock vocalist/keyboardist (Michael Stanley Band), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 28 | Eddie Manion saxophonist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 03 | Robyn Hitchcock rocker (Moss Elixir), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 05 | Alan Clark, musician: keyboards: group: Dire Straits: Telegraph Road, Private Investigation, Money for Nothing, Walk of Life, The Mans Too Strong, Goin Home, Smooching, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 05 | Vladimir Vladimirovich Scherbachov composer, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 07 | Ernie Isley US vocalist/guitarist (It's Your Thing, Heat is On), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 13 | Wolfgang Hihm composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 14 | David Byrne guitarist/vocalist (Talking Heads-Burning Down the House), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 17 | Susie Allanson singer: Baby Dont Keep Me Hangin On, Baby, Last Night Made My Day, Maybe Baby, We Belong Together, Words, Two Steps Forward and Three Steps Back, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 18 | Chris Brubeck composer, musician: trombone; Dave Brubecks son, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 19 | Chris Brubeck composer, musician: trombone; Dave Brubeck's son | Ref: 4 |
Mar 19 | Derek Longmuir Edinburgh Scotland, rock drummer (Bay City Rollers-Saturday Night), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 21 | Chris O'Connell rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 23 | Elizabeth Schumann, German-born American soprano, dies at age 66. | Ref: 70 |
Mar 27 | Rocky Maffit rocker (Champaign), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | Billy Currie rock keyboardist/violinist (Ultravox-We Came to Dance), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 02 | Leon Wilkerson rocker (Lynard Skynard), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 04 | Dave Hill rock guitarist (Slade-Coz I Love You), is born in England. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 04 | Gary Moore Irish rock guitarist ("Still Got the Blues", Thin Lizzy, Skid Row), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 04 | Peter Haycock rock guitarist (All Along the Watchtower), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 06 | Udo Dirkshneider heavy metal rocker (Accept-Balls to the Wall, Udo), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 08 | Adam Woods rock drummer/pianist (Fixx), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 09 | Magnar Am composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 11 | Wadi' Sabra composer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | J D Nicholas English guitarist (Heatwave, Commodores), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 14 | Kenny Aaronson rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | Jim Scholten Midland MI, country singer (Betty's Bein' Bad), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 19 | Adny Shernoff rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 23 | Narada Michael Walden Kalamazoo MI, rocker/producer (I Don't Want Nobody Else, I Shoulda Loved Ya), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 23 | Elisabeth Schumann, soprano with the Vienna State Opera, dies. | Ref: 68 |
Apr 25 | Cory Day Bronx NY, rock vocalist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 30 | Charles Radoux-Rogier composer, dies. | Ref: 5 |
May 05 | Louis Cortelezzi rock saxophonist (Mink DeVille), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 06 | Alberto Savinio Italian composer (Capitano Ulisse), dies at 60. | Ref: 5 |
May 07 | Derek Taylor rocker (Let it Be, Beatles Anthology), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 10 | Sly Dunbar Kingston Jamaica, reggae drummer (Sly & Robbie), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 11 | Giovanni Tebaldini composer, dies at 87. | Ref: 5 |
May 14 | David Byrne singer: group: Talking Heads: Love Goes to Building on Fire; composer for film: True Stories, is born in Dunbartin Scotand | Ref: 4 |
May 15 | Italo Montemezzi composer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
May 17 | Jody Pijper Dutch (background) singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 18 | George Strait, Pearsall TX, country singer (All My Ex's Live in Texas, Beyond the Blue Neon), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 18 | Rossetter Gleason Cole composer, dies at 86. | Ref: 5 |
May 19 | Grace Jones (Mendoza) singer: Slave to the Rhythm; actress: A View to a Kill, Conan the Destroyer, Deadly Vengeance, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 19 | Barbara Loomis rocker (BT Express), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 20 | Warren Cann musician: drums: group: Ultravox: Vienna, All Stood Still, The Thin Wall, The Voice, Reap the Wild Wind, Hymn, Visions in Blue, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 23 | James Mankey rocker (Concrete Blonde), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 23 | Georg Alfred Schumann composer, dies at 85. | Ref: 5 |
May 30 | Zoltan Kocsis composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 03 | Billy Powell musician: keyboards: group: Lynryd Skynyrd: Sweet Home Alabama, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 11 | Russell Hitchcock rocker (Air Supply-All out of Love), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 11 | Donnie Van Zandt musician: guitar, singer: group: .38 Special: Hold on Loosely, Fantasy Girl, Caught Up in You, You Keep Runnin Away, LPs: Tour De Force, Strength in Numbers, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 12 | Ben E Carlos drummer (Cheap Trick-Dream Police), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 12 | Dale Krantz singer (Crossings-Collis Band), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 12 | Oliver Knussen Glasgow Scotland, composer (Chicara), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 14 | Jim Lea (musician: bass, violin, keyboards, vocals, songwriter: group: Slade: Get Down and Get With It, Coz I Love You, Well Bring Home the Dawn, My Oh My, Run Run Away), is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 16 | Gino Vanelli singer (Living Inside Myself), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 25 | Tim Finn (Te Awamutu) musician: keyboard, singer: group: Split Enz, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 02 | Johnny Colla musician: saxophone, guitar: groups: Soundhole, Huey Lewis & The News: Do You Believe in Love, Heart and Soul, I Want a New Drug, The Heart of Rock & Roll, Walking on a Thin Line, Bad is Bad, If This is It, Power of Love, Trouble in Paradise, Stuck with You, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 12 | Liz Mitchell singer: group: Boney M: Daddy Cool, Brown Girl in the Ring, Rivers of Babylon, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 14 | Chris Cross rock singer (Arthur), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 16 | Stewart Copeland drummer (The Police-Roxanne), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 17 | Nicolette Larson singer: Lotta Love; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 17 | Phoebe Snow singer (Theme from "It's a Different World"), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 19 | Alan Collins guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 23 | Janis Siegel NYC, jazz singer (Manhattan Transfer-Tuxedo Junction), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 06 | Pat MacDonald musician: groups: Essentials, Barbara K, Cats Away, Timbuk 3: The Futures So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades, All I Want for Christmas, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 10 | Ashley Putnam NYC, soprano (NY City Opera 1978), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 16 | Gianna Rolandi NYC, soprano (Der Rosenkavalier), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 20 | Doug Fieger musician: guitar, singer: group: The Knack: My Sharona, Good Girls Dont, Baby Talks Dirty, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 20 | Rudy Gatlin singer: group: The Gatlin Brothers: Night Time Magic, Ive Done Enough Dyin Today, All the Gold in California, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 21 | Joe Strummer (John Mellors) musician: guitar, singer: group: The Clash: 1977, Capital Radio, Career Opportunities, Im So Bored with the USA, Police and Thieves, Complete Control, [White Man] in Hammersmith Palais, English Civil War, Stay Free, Brand New Cadillac, Death or Glory, Jimmy Jazz, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 31 | Rudolf Schenker heavy metal rocker (Scorpions-No One Like You), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 09 | Dave Stewart rocker (Eurythmics-Here Comes the Rain Again), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 11 | Tommy Shaw musician: guitar: group: Styx: Come Sail Away, Miss America, Castle Walls, Superstars, Renegade, Babe, The Best of Times, Too Much Time on My Hands, Mr. Roboto, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 12 | Gerry Beckley singer: Grammy Award-winning [1972] group: America: A Horse with No Name, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 12 | Neil Peart musician: drums: group: Rush: is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 13 | Randy Jones singer: group: The Village People: Y.M.C.A., is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 13 | Karen Wyman Bronx NY, singer (Long & Winding Road), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 18 | Dee Dee Ramone (Douglas Colvin) musician: drums: group: The Ramones: is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 19 | Nile Rogers musician: group: Honeydrippers, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 31 | Bernard Edwards musician: bass: group: Chic: Dance, Dance, Dance, Le Freak, Everybody Dance, I Want Your Love, Good Times, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 02 | Maxine Nightingale singer: Lead Me On; actress: Hair, Jesus Christ Superstar, Godspell; Right Back Where We Started From, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 21 | Lorna Luft singer, actress; daughter of singer-actress Judy Garland and producer Sid Luft; sister of singer-actress Lisa Minelli, is born in Scarsdale NY. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 27 | Peter Garland composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 02 | Michael McDonald St Louis MO, rock keyboardist/vocals (Doobie Brothers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 03 | Don Barnes rock guitarist (38 Special), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 03 | Duane Roland rock guitarist (Molly Hatchet), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 05 | Bobby Barth rocker vocalist/guitarist (Axe), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 08 | Richie Morales drummer (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 09 | Jim Kerr Radio Personality, NY City morning radio for 22 years, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 12 | Neil Peart rocker (Rush), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 14 | Tamara Danz singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 14 | Olav Fartein Vlen Norwegian composer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 17 | Mickey Jones Washington DC, rock bassist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 19 | Jeff Davis, musician: bass: group: Amazing Rhythm Aces, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 19 | Janie Fricke, singer: CMA Female Vocalist of the Year [1982 and 1983], is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 23 | Hans Abrahamsen composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 26 | Andr-Michel Schub Paris France, pianist (Van Cliburn-1981), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 27 | Karla Bonoff rock singer (New World, Restless Nights), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 29 | Gelsey Kirkland dancer: ballerina, author: The Little Ballerina and Her Dancing Horse, Dancing on My Grave: An Autobiography, Shape of Love, is born in Bethlehem PA. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 29 | Beryl Rubinstein, composer, dies at 54. | Ref: 5 |
- 1953
Jan 01 | Alpha Blondy [Seydou Kone], Ivory coast, reggae singer (Jerusalem), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 01 | Kevin Hangon composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 01 | Rochelle S Abramson violinist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 01 | Country singer Hank (Hiram) Williams Senior, 29, died of a drug and alcohol overdose while en route to a concert date in Canton, Ohio. | Ref: 70 |
Jan 01 | Ludomir Rzycki Polish composer/conductor (Casanova), dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 06 | Malcolm Young, musician: guitar: group: AC/DC: Let There Be Rock, Powerage, Highway to Hell, Back in Black, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, For Those About to Rock, Fly on the Wall, Who Made Who, Blow Up Your Video, is born in Glasgow Scotland. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 07 | Earl Wilber Force "Wire" Lindo rocker (Bob Marley & the Wailers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | Heinrich Kaspar Schmid composer, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Pat Benatar [Andrezejewski], Brooklyn NY, singer (Hit Me With Your Best Shot, Hell Is for Children), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Theo Mackeben German pianist/composer (Golden Cage), dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 12 | Simeon Roncal composer, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 15 | Boris Blank rocker (Yello), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 15 | Viktor Patrick Vretblad composer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 17 | Sheila Hutchinson rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 22 | Myung-Whun Chung Seoul South Korea, pianist/conductor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 25 | Malcolm Green rocker (Split Enz-I Got You), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 26 | Bert Heerink Amsterdam, rock vocalist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 26 | Lucinda Williams singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 28 | Michael Day rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 31 | Aart Mol Dutch bassist (Catapult), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Gustav Strube composer, dies at 85. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 10 | Carl Joseph Stone composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 11 | Alan Rubin music figure (Blues Brothers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 14 | Wayne Siegel composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 18 | Derek Pellicci rock drummer (Little River Band-Help Is On It's Way), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 18 | Nico Arzbach rock guitarist/singer (Stampei, Dike), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 18 | Robin Bachman Winnipeg, guitarist (Bachman Turner Overdrive-You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet), is born in Winnipeg, Canada. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Riccardo Chailly Milan Italy, conductor (West Berlin Symphony Orchestra), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 25 | Jesus Garcia Leoz composer, dies at 49. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | Singer Michael Bolton is born in New Haven CT. (TWA, 1998) | Ref: 95 |
Feb 26 | Elisabeth "Ilse" Kuyper Dutch/US (opera)composer, dies. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 02 | William Simmons sax/keyboardist (Midnight Star-No Parking), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 02 | Cowboy (Lloyd) Copas country singer: Alabam, Goodbye Kisses, Signed, Sealed and Delivered; killed in plane crash with singer, Patsy Cline, dies. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 03 | Dave Amato rocker (REO Speedwagon-Can't Fight this Feeling), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | Sergei S Prokoviev Russian composer (Peter & the wolf), dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 05 | Sergey Prokofiev, Russian composer, dies at age 62. | Ref: 68 |
Mar 07 | Jules Shear rock musician, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 12 | Labamba [Richard Rosenberg], rocker (Asbury Jukes), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 17 | Conrado del Campo y Zabaleta composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 18 | Jamie West-Oram rocker (Fixx), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 19 | Billy Sheehan rocker (Mr Big-Lean Into It), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 19 | Ricky Wilson Athens GA, rock guitarist (B-52's-Rock Lobster, Love Shack), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 21 | Robert "Shotgun" Johnson Miami FL, rock drummer (KC & the Sunshine Band-Give it Up), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 23 | Chaka Khan [Yvette Marie Stevens] Great Lakes IL, rocker (Rufus-I'm Every Woman), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Michael Bonagura Newark NJ, country singer (Baille & Boys-Oh Heart), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Albert Spalding composer, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | Narciso Garay composer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | Roderich Mojsisovics-Mojsvar composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 31 | Greg Martin Louisville KY, singer (Kentucky Headhunters-Davy Crockett), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 31 | Sean Hopper, musician: keyboards: groups: Clover; Huey Lewis and The News: Do You Believe in Love, Heart and Soul, I Want a New Drug, The Heart of Rock & Roll, Walking on a Thin Line, Bad is Bad, If This is It, Power of Love, Trouble in Paradise, is born in California. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 02 | David Robinson drummer (Cars), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Huub van der Lubbe Dutch rock singer (Stampei-The Dike), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 09 | Hal Ketchum Greenwich NY, country singer (Small Town Saturday Night), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 10 | Terre Roche rocker (Roches), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 24 | Porter Carroll Jr drummer (Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Coke Time with Eddie Fisher began its TV and radio run on NBC-TV and Mutual radio. Fisher, a popular performer, was seen and heard on more TV and radio stations in 1954 than any other entertainer. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 30 | Merrill Osmond Ogden UT, singer (Osmond Brothers, Donnie & Marie), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 01 | Felix Hanemann rocker (Zebra), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 03 | Bruce Hall Champaign IL, rock bassist (Reo Speedwagon), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 03 | Van McLain rocker (Shooting Star), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 04 | Thomas Tertius Noble composer, dies at 85. | Ref: 5 |
May 05 | Billy Burnette Memphis TN, rock guitarist (Fleetwood Mac), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 10 | Steve Thomas rocker (Shooting Star), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 14 | Tom Cochrane musician: guitar: group: Red Rider: White Hot, Lunatic Fringe, Young Thing, The Untouchable One, Good Times; solo: Life is a Highway, Sinking Like a Sunset, I Wish You Well, is born in Toronto Canada | Ref: 4 |
May 15 | Mike Oldfield England, composer (Tubular Bells), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 16 | Richard Page Los Angeles CA, rocker (Mr Mister), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 17 | George Johnson Los Angeles CA, rocker (Brothers Johnson), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 17 | Eric De Lamarter composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
May 18 | [Feliciano] Butch Tavares rocker (Tavares), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 22 | Vaclav Klicka composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
May 25 | Rich Alves Pleasanton CA, singer (Pirates of the Mississippi-Fred Jake), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | Arto Lindsay rocker/actor (Cookie, Desperately Seeking Susan), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | Danny Elfman Los Angeles CA, composer (Simspon Show Theme), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | Rick Henderson Beaumont TX, singer (Mason Dixon-Karen Comes Around), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 01 | Ronnie Dunn country singer: duo: Brooks & Dunn: LPs: Brand New Man, Hard Workin Man, Waitin on Sundown, Borderline, If You See Her, Tight Rope, Steers & Stripes; songwriter: Boot Scootin Boogie, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 08 | Bonnie Tyler (Gaynor Hopkins), Welsh singer, is born. | Ref: 17 |
Jun 12 | Rocky Burnette Memphis, rocker (Towing the Line), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 18 | Jerome Smith musician: guitar: group: KC & The Sunshine Band: Get Down Tonight, Thats the Way [I like It], [Shake, Shake, Shake] Your Booty, Im Your Boogie Man, Keep It Comin Love, I like to Do It, Boogie Shoes, Its the Same Old Song, Please Dont Go; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 19 | Larry Dunn musician: keyboards: group: Earth, Wind & Fire: Shining Star, Sing a Song, Got to Get You into My Life, After the Love Has Gone, Boogie Wonderland, Lets Groove, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 20 | Cyndi Lauper Brooklyn, singer (Girls Just Want to Have Fun, Vibes), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 20 | Alan Longmuir musician: bass: group: Bay City Rollers: Keep on Dancing, Bye Bye Baby, Give Me a Little Love, Saturday Night, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 22 | Cyndi Lauper (Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper) is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 29 | Colin Hay singer: group: Men at Work: Who Can It Be Now, Down Under; solo: LP: Looking for Jack, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 30 | Hal Lindes musician: guitar: group: Dire Straits: Telegraph Road, Private Investigation, Money for Nothing, Walk of Life, The Mans Too Strong, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 15 | David Pack singer: group: Ambrosia: The Biggest Part of Me, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 29 | Geddy Lee lead singer (Rush-Tom Sawyer), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 31 | Hugh McDowell chelloist (ELO-Telephone Line), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 01 | Robert Cray Columbus Ga, blues singer/songwriter (1987 Grammy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 03 | Ian Bairnson Shetland Isles Scotland, guitarist (Alan Parsons Project, Pilot), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 05 | Samantha Sang singer (Emotion), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 16 | James Taylor rocker (Kool & The Gang-Joanna), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 17 | Kevin Rowlands rocker (Dexy's Midnight Runners-Come on Eileen), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 21 | Joe Strummer [John Mellor], rocker (Clash-Rock the Casbah), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 23 | Bobby Gubby rocker (Bucks Fizz-My Camera Never Lies), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 27 | Alex Lifeson musician: guitar: group: Rush: Rivendell, By-Tor and the Snow Dog, Necromancer, The Fountain of Lamneth, Distant Early Warning, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 21 | Kenny Starr musician: guitar, singer, songwriter: Blind Man in the Bleachers, Me & the Elephant, Tonight I'll Face the Man [Who Made It Happen], is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 25 | John Locke musician: keyboards: group: Spirit: I Got a Line on You, Natures Way, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 27 | Greg Ham musician: saxophone, flute, keyboards: group: Men at Work, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 30 | Deborah Allen (Thurmond), Memphis Tn, country singer (Jim Stafford Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 07 | Tico Torres musician: drums: group: Bon Jovi: You Give Love a Bad Name, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 10 | Midge Ure rocker (Dear God, Ultravox-We Came to Dance), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 15 | Tito Jackson singer (Jackson 5-ABC, Never Can Say Goodbye), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 16 | Tony Carey musician: keyboards: group: Rainbow: LPs: Rainbow Rising, Long Live Rock n Roll, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 20 | Tom Petty, Gainesville Fla, singer (Heartbreakers-Refugee), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 21 | Charlotte Caffey musician: guitar, singer: group: The Go-Gos, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 26 | Julian Keith Strickland musician: drums: group: The B-52s: Rock Lobster, Quiche Lorraine, 606-0842, Dance This Mess Around, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 11 | Andy Partridge guitars/vocal (XTC-Oranges & Lemons), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 14 | Alexander O'Neal (James Hearsky Harris III), British songwriter, singer, personality, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 18 | Herman Rarebell musician: drums: group: Scorpions: LPs: Taken by Force, Tokyo Tapes, Lovedrive, Animal Magnetism, Blackout, Love at First Sting, World Wide Live, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 22 | Craig Hundley musician: pianist: group: Craig Hundley Trio; actor: Tammy and the Millionaire, Days of Our Lives, Knots Landing, Schizoid, The Acorn People, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 27 | Boris Grebenshikov Russian rock musician, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 30 | Shuggie (Johnny) Otis Jr. musician: guitar, bass, harmonica, keyboards: LPs: Here Comes Shuggie Otis, Freedom Flight, Inspiration Information, Omaha Bar-B-Que, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 02 | Meg Griffin DJ (WNEW-FM, WPLJ-FM, WKRK-FM)/VJ (V-1), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 02 | Myung-Whan Chung Seoul Korea, pianist (Chung Sisters), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 04 | Daniel Gregory Mason composer, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 05 | Jonathan Lewis trombonist (Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 12 | Bruce Kulick Brooklyn NY, rocker (Kiss-Beth, Rock and Roll All Nite), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 15 | Kishio Hirao composer, dies at 46. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 17 | Ikue Ile Mori drummer/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 17 | Mark Gane Toronto Ontario, rocker (M+M), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 18 | Elliot Easton (Shapiro) musician: guitar: group: The Cars: My Best Friends Girl, Just What I Needed, Lets Go, You Might Think, Magic, Drive, Tonight She Comes, is born in Brooklyn NY. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 21 | Andras Schiff Budapest Hungary, pianist (Tchaikovsky-1974), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 21 | Betty Wright US gospel/singer/TV hostess (Little Miss Broadway), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 22 | David Leisner composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 28 | Richard Clayderman pianist (Amour, Romantic America), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1954
Jan 01 | Fr David Paris France, rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 03 | Ross The Boss rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 05 | Bryan Hitt rocker (REO Speedwagon-Keep on Loving You), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 09 | Lance Hoppens rocker (Orleans-Still the One, Dance With Me), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Fred Raymond composer, dies at 53. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 11 | Oscar Straus Austrian composer (Brave Soldier), dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 13 | Roland Diggle composer, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 23 | Edward Ka-spel English singer/songwriter (Legendary Pink Dots), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 23 | Franco De Vita Caracas Venezuela, Spanish singer (Extranjero), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 23 | Rick Finch rocker (KC & Sunshine Band-Give It), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 25 | Rick Finch rocker (KC & Sunshine Band-Give It), is born. | Ref: 68 |
Jan 27 | Paul-Marie Masson composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 28 | Shawn Murray rock drummer (Mink Deville), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | Dick Manitoba vocalist (Dictators), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 30 | Alides Hidding singer/guitarist (Time Bandits), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 31 | Adrian Vandenberg Amsterdam Netherlands, rock guitarist (Whitesnake), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 01 | Mike Campbell guitarist (Tom Petty & Heartbreakers-Breakdown), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Theodor Rogalski composer, dies at 52. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 04 | Vaclav Vackar composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Vittorio Gnecchi composer, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 06 | Scott Kempner "Top Ten" rocker (Del Lords), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 07 | Jan Adam Maklakiewicz composer, dies at 54. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Lance Hoppens rocker (Orleans-Still the One, Dance With Me), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 16 | David Lombardo rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 19 | Frances Bucholz rocker (Scorpions-Wind of Change), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 19 | Jamie West-Oram rock guitarist (Fixx), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Jon Brant rock bassist (Cheap Trick), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | Michael Bolton New Haven CT, rock vocalist (How Am I Supposed To Live Without You, That's What Love Is All About), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Neal Schon rock guitarist (Journey-Open Arms, Bad English), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Janis Gill Torrance CA, singer (Sweethearts of Rodeo-Midnight Girl), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 03 | Merrick [Chris Hughes] rock drummer (Adam & The Ants), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | Georg Gohler composer, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | Noel Gay [Richard Moxon Armitage], composer, dies at 55. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 06 | Louis Zimmermann violinist, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 07 | Matt Frenette rock drummer (Loverboy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | Cheryl Baker (Rita Crudgington) singer: group: Bucks Fizz: Making Your Mind Up, Land of Make Believe, My Camera Never Lies, Now Those Days are Gone, If You Cant Stand the Heat; TV host, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 09 | Charmain Elaine Sylvers rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 14 | Jann Browne country singer (Mexican Wind), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 14 | Ludomir Michal Rogowski composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 15 | Arthur Fickenscher composer, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 16 | Jimmy Nail singer/actor (Evita, Spender, Howling II), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 16 | Nancy Wilson (Nancy Lamoureux Wilson) musician: guitar, singer: group: Heart: Crazy on You, Magic Man, Barracuda, Straight On; actress: Fast Times at Ridgemont High, The Wild Life, is born in San Francisco, CA. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 17 | Rena Jones rock vocalist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 17 | Wally Stocker London England, rock vocalist/guitarist (Babys-Missing You), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 19 | Walter Braunfels composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 20 | Jim Seales Hamilton AL, singer (Shenandoah-Sunday in the South), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 21 | Harry Lawrence Freeman composer, dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 31 | Tony Brock England, rock drummer (Babys-Missing You), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | Jeff Porcaro Los Angeles CA, drummer/percussionist (Toto-Roxanne, Africa), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | Stan Ridgeway rocker (Mosquito-Garage Sale), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | Claude Delvincourt composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 09 | Philip Greeley Clapp composer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 11 | Chris Difford rocker (Squeeze), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | Pat Travers Toronto Ontario Canada, rock guitarist (Boom Boom, Out Go The Lights), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 13 | Jimmy Destri rock keyboardist (Blondie-Heart of Glass, Rapture), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 15 | Emmanuel Mxico City Mxico, Spanish singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 15 | Juan Vicente Lecuna composer, dies at 54. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | Kim Stone bassist (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 24 | Captain Sensible [Raymond Burns] Balham London England, rocker (Women & Captains First), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 25 | Rob Crosby Sumter SC, country singer (She's a Natural), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Deborah Iyall rocker (Romeo Void), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 01 | Ray Parker Jr Detroit MI, rock guitarist/vocalist (Ghostbusters-Who You Gonna Call?), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 02 | Pauline de Cock-Manifarges singer, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
May 04 | Julie Budd Brooklyn NY, singer (Child of Plenty), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 05 | Angelo Kimball Boston MA, rock guitarist (Face To Face), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 05 | Peter Erskine jazz drummer (Weather Report), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 11 | Edgar Riley Jr rocker (Axe K), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 11 | Judith Weir composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 16 | Clemens Krauss Austrian conductor (Vienna State Opera), dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
May 18 | Wreckless Eric rocker (Waxworks, Be Stiff), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 19 | Phil Rudd musician: drums: group: AC/DC: LPs: Let There Be Rock, Powerage, Highway to Hell, Dirty Deeds Done Cheap, For Those About to Rock, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 20 | James Henderson country singer (Black Oak Arkansas), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 21 | Janos Hammerschlag composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
May 22 | Robert Zimmerman aka Bob Dylan is Bar Mitzvahed. | Ref: 5 |
May 22 | Jerry Dammers keyboardist (Specials-The Special), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | Achille Longo composer, dies at 54. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 03 | Dan Hill singer: Sometimes When We Touch, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 15 | Terri Gibbs Augusta Ga, blind singer (Somebody's Knockin'), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 25 | David Paich musician: keyboards, singer: group: Toto: Hold the Line, Make Believe, Roseanna, Africa | Ref: 4 |
Jun 28 | Ava Barber Knoxville Tn, country singer (Lawrence Welk Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 02 | Pete Briquette musician: bass, singer: group: The Boomtown Rats: Looking After No. 1, Shes So Modern, Rat Trap, I Dont Like Mondays, Banana Republic, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 06 | Nanci Griffith Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter: LP: Other Voices/Other Rooms [1993]; From a Distance, Love at the Five and Dime, Fly by Night, Daddy Said, Ford Econoline, LP: Theres a Light Beyond These Woods, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 07 | Cherry Boone singer; daughter of singer Pat Boone, sister of singer Debby Boone, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 09 | Debbie Sledge Phila, vocalist (Sister Sledge-We are Family), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 10 | Neil Francis Tennant rocker (Pet Shop Boys-Left to My Own Devices), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 13 | Louise Mandrell Corpus Christi TX, country singer (Mandrell Sisters), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 18 | Ricky Skaggs singer (Toy Hearts, 2 Different Worlds), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 20 | Jay Jay French NYC, guitarist (Twisted Sister-Not Gonna Take It), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 05 | Eddie "Fingers" Ojeda Bx, (Twisted Sister-We're Not Gonna Take It), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 12 | Pat Metheny jazz guitarist (As Wichita Falls), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 25 | Elvis Costello [Declan Patrick McManus], rocker (Allison), is born in London England. (TWA, 1998) | Ref: 5 |
Aug 25 | Martin Jourard keyboardist/vocalist (Motels-Only the Lonely), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 29 | Chet Catallo guitarist (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 06 | Banner Thomas musician: bass: group: Molly Hatchet, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 07 | Benmont Tench musician: keyboards: backed Elvis Costello in live performances; group: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: American Girl, Dont Do Me like That, Jammin Me, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 14 | Barry Cowsill singer: group: The Cowsills: Indian Lake, Hair, The Rain, the Park and Other Things, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 21 | Philthy Animal (Philip Taylor) musician: drums: group: Motorhead, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 26 | Craig Chaquico musician: guitar, singer: group: Jefferson Starship, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 03 | Stevie Ray Vaughan, Grammy Award-winning blues guitarist, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 05 | Bob Geldof, singer, songwriter: group: Boomtown Rats, organizer of Live-Aid (food for Africa) is born in Dublin Ireland. | Ref: 68 |
Nov 03 | Adam Ant (Stuart Goddard) singer: Goody Two Shoes, Prince Charming, Stand and Deliver, Apollo Nine, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 04 | Chris Difford guitarist/vocalist (Squeeze-Tempted), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 08 | Rickie Lee Jones Chicago, singer (Chuck E's in Love), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 09 | Dennis Stratton musician: guitar: group: Iron Maiden: Eddie the Head, Run to the Hills, Running Free; LPS: Number of the Beast, Piece of Mind, Power Slave, Somewhere in Time, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 14 | Yanni (Chrysomallis) musician: piano: LP: Optimystique; music used on broadcasts of: Tour de France, Olympic Games, World Series; swimmer: Greek National Swim Team, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 15 | Tony Thompson musician: drums: group: Chic: Dance Dance Dance, Everybody Dance, Le Freak, I Want Your Love, Good Times; played with Led Zeppelin: Live Aid; drummer with Patti LaBelle, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 19 | Sammy Davis, Jr. was involved in a serious auto accident in San Bernardino, CA. Three days later, Davis lost the sight in his left eye. He later referred to the accident as the turning point of his career. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 27 | Curtis Armstrong actor (Moonlighting), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 27 | Paul-Marie Masson composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 30 | George McArdle musician: bass guitarist: group: Little River Band: Help is on Its Way, Reminiscing, Lady, Lonesome Loser, Cool Change, The Night Owls, Take It Easy on Me, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 30 | June Pointer singer: group: The Pointer Sisters: Fire, Hes So Shy, Slow Hand, Jump [For My Love], Automatic, Neutron Dance, Im So Excited, Dare Me, Yes We Can Can, How Long [Betcha Got a Chick on the Side]; solo: LP: Baby Sister, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 02 | Danielle Alexander Fort Worth TX, country music pianist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 03 | Paul Gregg country singer (Restless Heart-Wheels), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 03 | Enrique Soro Barriga composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 04 | Nina Vasar wife of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, dies. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 06 | Chris Stamey rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 09 | Dmitri Shostakovich appointed honored guest of Swedish Royal Music Academy. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 09 | Jack Hues singer: group: Wang Chung: Everybody Have Fun Tonight, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 09 | Herman Finkers Dutch cabaret performer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 11 | Singer Jermaine Jackson, sister of Michael Jackson, is born in Gary IN. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 13 | John Anderson Apopka FL, country singer/actor (Lone Wolf McQuade), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 13 | Steve Forbert rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 14 | Ib Anderson Copenhagen, ballet dancer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 20 | Emilis Melngailis composer, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | Annie Lennox Aberdeen Scotland, singer (Eurythmics-Sweet Dreams, Here Comes The Rain Again), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | Steve Wariner Noblesville IN, country singer (Small Town Girl), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | Robin Campbell musician: guitar, singer: group: UB40: King, Food for Thought, My Way of Thinking, I Think Its Going to Rain, Dream a Lie, The Earth Dies Screaming, Red Red Wine, Sing Our Own Song, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 25 | Johnny Ace ballad singer, dies at 25 in a game of Russian Roulette. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | Rosario Scalero composer, dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 26 | Peter Woods rocker (Romeo Void-Girl in Trouble), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 28 | Rosie Vela British singer (Zazu, Fools Paradise), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 29 | Roger Voudouris Sacramento CA, rock vocalist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 31 | Peter Van Anrooy conductor/composer (Piet Hein Rhapsodie), dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
- 1955
Jan 04 | Kathy Forester Lookout Mountain GA, country singer (Forester Sister-Men), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 04 | Mark Hollis English pop musician (Talk Talk, Dum Dum Girl), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 04 | Dominicus Johner composer, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 04 | Franois Rasse composer, dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | Mike Reno Vancouver BC Canada, rock vocalist (Loverboy-Get Lucky, Heaven in Your Eyes), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Luci Martin rocker vocalist (Chic), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Michael Schenker heavy metal rocker (McAuley Schenker Groups-Coming on Strong, Scorpions), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 13 | Fred White rocker (Earth Wind & Fire-Shining Star, Easy Lover), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 13 | Trevor Rabin rocker (Yes), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 17 | Steve Earle San Antonio TX, country singer (Guitar Town), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 19 | Simon Rattle England, orchestra conductor (Birmingham Symphony Orchestra), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 20 | Michael Anthony rock bassist/singer (Van Halen-Pretty Woman, Jump, 1984), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 23 | Reginald Calloway trumpet player (Midnight Star-No Parking), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 23 | Alexander O'Neal R&B singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 24 | Julian Holland rocker (Squeeze), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 26 | Eddie Van Halen Grammy Award-winning musician: guitar, singer: group: Van Halen: For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge [1991]; owns recording studio: 5150, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 26 | Lucia Mendez Mexico, Spanish singer (Lucia es Luna Moreno), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 27 | Richard Young Glasgow KY, singer (Kentucky Headhunters-Davy Crockett), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 30 | Michael Thompson guitarist (Afterburn, Fresh, Sahara, Gridlock'd), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 31 | Ford Lee Buck Washington, American jazz musician, dies at age 51. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 13 | Jan de Ligt Dutch saxophonist (I've Got the Bullets), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 13 | Scott Smith rock bassist (Loverboy-Get Lucky), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 14 | Charles Cuvillier composer, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 16 | Jeff Clayton US jazz saxophonist/composer (Groove Shop), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 17 | Otto J Gombosi Hungarian/US musicologist, dies at 52. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 23 | Howard Jones rock pianist/vocalist (Things Can Only Get Better), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 24 | Bob Abrams Ohio, rocker (Buckinghams), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 25 | Marij Kogoj composer, dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Garry Christian singer: group: The Christians, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 28 | Randy Jackson New Orleans LA, guitarist (Zebra-Tell Me What You Want), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Jimmy Fortune Newport News VA, singer (Statler Brothers-Class of '57), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 02 | Dale Bozzio Boston MA, rock vocalist (Missing Persons-Destination Unknown), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 02 | Jay Osmond Ogden UT, singer (Osmond Brothers, Donny & Marie), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 09 | Fernando Bujones Miami FL, ballet dancer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 10 | Bunny DeBarge Grand Rapids MI, rocker (Debarge), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 11 | Jimmy Fortune singer: group: Statler Brothers: LPs: Today, Atlanta Blue, Pardners in Rhyme, Four for the Show, Radio Gospel Favorites, Maple Street Memories, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 12 | Charlie "Bird" Parker, self-taught jazz saxophonist, pioneer of the new "cool" movement, dies in New York NY at age 34. | Ref: 70 |
Mar 14 | Boon Gould musician: guitar: group: Level 42: The Chinese Way, The Sun Goes Down [Living It Up], Hot Water, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 15 | (Long Island) Dee Snider, Massapequa NY, (Twisted Sister-We're Not Gonna Take It), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 16 | Mayhew Lake composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 17 | Paul Overstreet Van Cleave MS, country singer (Daddy's Come Around), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 19 | Derek Longmuir musician: drums: group: The Bay City Rollers: Keep On Dancing, Remember [Sha-La-La], Bye Bye Baby, Give Me a Little Love, Saturday Night, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 26 | Dean Dillon Lake City TN, country singer (Chair), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Reba (Nell) McEntire, McAlester OK, country singer (Can't Even Get the Blues), is born. (also TWA, 1998) | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | Randy Van Warmer Indian Hills CO, vocalist (Just When I Needed You Most), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | Harl McDonald US composer (Santa F Trail), dies at 55. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | Stan Ridway rocker (Wall Of Voodoo), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Mick Mars [Bob Allen Dale], musician: guitar: group: Motley Crue: LPs: Too Fast for Love, Shout at the Devil, Theatre of Pain, is born in Terra Haute IN. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 10 | Oskar Frederik Lindberg composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 13 | Louis Johnson Los Angeles CA, rock bassist/vocalist (Brothers Johnson), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 17 | Pete Shelley (McNeish) musician, singer: group: The Buzzcocks: Totally from the Heart, Alright O.K., Going Steady, Love Bites, What Do I Get, Orgasm Addict, Ever Fallen In Love With Someone You Shouldnt Fall in Love With, I Don't Mind, Promises, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 17 | Rob Bolland Dutch singer/guitarist (Bolland & Bolland), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 22 | Arthur Baker rock producer (Afrika Banbaataa-Planet Rock), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 23 | Captain Sensible bassist (Damned-Happy Talk), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 23 | Mike Smith British DJ, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 28 | Eddie Jobson rock violinist (Zappa, UK, Roxy Music-For Your Pleasure), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 02 | Jay Osmond rocker (Osmond Brothers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 02 | Joe Callis rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 02 | Tadeusz Jarecki composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
May 03 | Steve Jones English pop guitarist (Sex Pistols-Mercy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 04 | Danny Brubeck drummer: Two Generations of Brubeck, In Your Own Sweet Way, The Duke; Dave Brubecks son, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 04 | Georges Enescu Romanian/French violist/composer (Oedipe), dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
May 08 | Rock musician Alex Van Halen (brother of Eddie) is born in Nijmegen Netherlands. | Ref: 68 |
May 11 | Jos Haagmans Dutch singer (Frank Boeijen Group), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 11 | Mark Herndon Springfield MA, drummer (Alabama-Take Me Down), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 12 | Kix Brooks Shreveport LA, singer (Brooks & Dunn-Brand New Man), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 16 | Hazel O'Connor Coventry England, singer/actress (Breaking Glass), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 17 | Francesco Balilla Pratella composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
May 18 | Ballet dancer Alexander Godunov is found dead at age 45. (XDG, p 4A, 5/18/2000) | Ref: 83 |
May 20 | Steve George rock keyboardist (Mr Mister), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 21 | John Glavin rock keyboardist (Molly Hatchet, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 21 | Stan Lynch Gainesville FL, rock drummer (Tommy Petty & Heartbreakers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 22 | Iva Davies musician: guitar, singer: group: Icehouse, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 24 | Rosanne Cash Memphis TN, country singer (Runaway Train, Seven Year Ache, I Wonder), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | Jerry Dengler Colorado Springs CO, singer (Mason Dixon-Karen Comes Around), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | Mike Porcaro rock bassist (Toto-Roseanna, Africa), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 30 | (Nicky) Topper Headon, English musician: drums: group: The Clash: White Man, English Civil War, Stay Free, I Fought the Law, Brand New Cadillac, London Calling, Death or Glory, Jimmy Jazz; songwriter: Rock the Casbah, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 31 | Raoul Gunsbourg composer, dies at 95. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 07 | Joey Scarbury Ontario Calif, singer (Greatest American Hero), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 20 | Rock musician Michael Anthony (Van Halen) is born. | Ref: 68 |
Jun 26 | Mick Jones musician: guitar, singer: groups: Big Audio Dynamite, The Clash: 1977, Capitol Radio, Career Opportunities, Im So Bored with the USA, Police and Thieves, Complete Control, Remote Control, [White Man] In Hammersmith Palais, English Civil War, Stay Free, I Fought the Law, Brand New Cadillac, Death or Glory, Jimmy Jazz, Rock the Casbah, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 03 | Neil Clark musician: guitar: group: Lloyd Cole & The Commotions, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 04 | John Waite singer: Missing You, Tears; group: The Babys: Isnt It Time, Everytime I Think of You, Back on My Feet Again, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 07 | Joey Scarbury singer: The Greatest American Hero [Believe It or Not], is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 18 | Terry Chambers musician: drums: group: XTC: Making Plans for Nigel, Sgt Rock [Is Going to Help Me], Senses Working Overtime, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 21 | Henry Preistman rocker (The Christians-Harvest the World), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 21 | Tacho Ocheriski singer (Putting on the Ritz), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 05 | Carmen Miranda (Maria do Carmo Miranda Da Cunha) Brazilian Bombshell: singer: Mama Eu Quero, The Lady with the Tutti Frutti Hat; dancer, actress: Copacabana, Springtime in the Rockies, Down Argentine Way; Chiquita Banana; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 09 | Benjamin Orr (Orzechowski) musician: bass guitar, singer: group: The Cars: My Best Friends Girl, Just What I Needed, Lets Go, You Might Think, Magic, Drive, Tonight She Comes; solo: LP: The Lace; died Oct 3, 2000 | Ref: 4 |
Aug 11 | Joe Jackson England, singer (Steppin' Out), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 24 | Jeffrey Daniel singer: group: Shalamar: Take that to the Bank, The Lover in You, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 30 | Martin Jackson rocker (Swing Out Sister-Swing Out), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 31 | Anthony Thistlethwaite musician: saxophone: group: The Waterboys, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 01 | Bruce Foxton musician: guitar: band: 100 Men; group: The Jam: Down in the Tube Station at Midnight, David Watts, Eton Rifles, Little Boy Soldiers, Saturdays Kids, Going Underground, Town Called Malice, Beat Surrender, Man in the Corner Shop, Set the House Ablaze, Start, The Planners Dream Gone Wrong, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 10 | Pat Mastelotto musician: drums: group: Mr. Mister, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 25 | Steve Severin (Bailey) musician: bass: group: Siouxsie & The Banshees: | Ref: 4 |
Sep 26 | Carlene Carter singer: I Fell in Love, Every Little Thing, Do It in a Heartache; June Carters daughter, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 02 | Philip Oakey singer: group: The Human League, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 05 | Leo Barnes musician: group: Hothouse Flowers, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 07 | Yo-Yo Ma Paris France, world famous Chinese cellist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 10 | David Lee Roth rock singer (Van Halen-Jump), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 11 | Lindy (Linda) Boone singer: group: The Boone Family; singer Pat Boones daughter, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 21 | Eric Faulkner musician: guitar: group: Bay City Rollers: Saturday Night, Bye Bye Baby, Give Me a Little Love, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 29 | Kevin Dubrow singer: group: Quiet Riot: Cum on Feel the Noize, Bang Your Head [Metal Health], Skweeze Me Pleeze Me, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 12 | Leslie McKeown singer: group: The Bay City Rollers: Bye Bye Baby, Give Me a Little Love, I Only Wanna Be With You, Saturday Night, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 14 | Frankie Banali musician: group: Quiet Riot, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 17 | Peter Cox rocker (Go West-Call Me, Don't Look Down), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 23 | Bruce Hornsby musician: piano, singer: group: The Range, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 24 | Rock musician Clem Burke (Blondie) is born. | |
Nov 27 | Richard Young Glasgow KY, singer (Kentucky Headhunters-Davy Crockett), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 27 | Arthur Honegger composer: film scores: Crime and Punishment; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 30 | Billy Idol (Broad) musician: guitar, singer: Mony, Mony, Eyes Without a Face, Dancing with Myself, White Wedding, Rebel Yell, To Be a Lover, Speed, Cradle of Love; songwriter: Hot in the City, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 04 | Brian Prout Troy NY, singer (Diamond Rio-Meet in the Middle), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 04 | Cassandra Wilson jazz singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 06 | Bill Lloyd Bowling Green Ky, singer (Foster & Lloyd-Crazy Over You), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 06 | Rick Buckler [Paul Richard Buckler] rock drummer (Jam), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 06 | Tish Hinojosa San Antonia TX, country singer (Something in the Rain), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 08 | Jacques Handschin Swiss musicologist, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 11 | Franz Adolf Syberg composer, dies at 51. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 15 | Paul Simonon musician: bass: group: The Clash: 1977, Capital Radio, Career Opportunities, Im So Bored with the USA, Police and Thieves, Complete Control, [White Man] in Hammersmith Palais, English Civil War, Stay Free, Brand New Cadillac, Death or Glory, Jimmy Jazz, Rock the Casbah, Train in Vain [Stand by Me], is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 20 | Ed Kuepper German/Australian, singer/songwriter (Saints), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 23 | Dave Murray English pop guitarist (Iron Maiden-Number of the Beast), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 29 | Jan Pijnenburg Dutch rock drummer (Doe Maar-Bomb), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 29 | Neil Giraldo rocker (Pat Benatar Band), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1956
Jan 03 | Alexander Tikhonovich Gretshaninov Russian/US composer, dies at 91. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 04 | Barney Sumner aka Bernie Albrecht (Dicken) musician: guitar, singer: groups: Joy Division; Transmission: Love Will Tear Us Apart, New Order: Blue Monday, Confusion, Shellshock | Ref: 4 |
Jan 04 | Bernard Albrecht English pop guitarist (Joy Division), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 04 | Alexandr Tikhonovich Grechaninov composer, dies at 91. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 07 | Trudie Styler England, wife of Sting/sponsor (Rainforest Concert), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 13 | Malcolm Foster rock bassist (Pretenders-Mystery Achievement), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 17 | Paul Young rock vocalist/keyboardist (Every Time You Go Away), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 18 | Mark Collie Waynesboro TN, country singer (Another Old Soldier), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 21 | Bob Brill New York City NY, drummer (Berlin-You Take My Breath Away), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 25 | Andy Cox Birmingham England, rock guitarist (Fine Young Cannibals-She Drives Me Crazy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 26 | Lisa Boray [Schulte Nordholt], Dutch singer (Lovers Until the End), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 27 | Erich Kleiber, Austrian conductor and composer, dies at age 65. | Ref: 70 |
Jan 28 | Peter Schilling Stuttgart Germany, rocker (Major Tom-Coming Home), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 31 | Johnny Rotten [John Lydon], rocker (Sex Pistols-God Save the Queen), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 31 | Lloyd Cole rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 04 | Peder Gram composer, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 13 | Peter Hook, English musician: bass: group: Joy Division: Transmission, Love Will Tear Us Apart; New Order: Blue Monday, Confusion, Shellshock, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 16 | James Ingram singer (On the Wings of Love), is born. | Ref: 17 |
Feb 18 | Gustave Charpentier French opera composer (Louise), dies at 95. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 19 | Dave Wakeling rock singer/guitarist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 19 | Peter Holsapple rocker (Continental Drifters), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 21 | Edwin Franko Goldman composer, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Frank Dailey orchestra leader (Music at Meadowbrook), dies at 54. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Gnther Ramin German organist/composer/choir conductor, dies at 57. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 29 | Randy Jackson rocker (Zebra-Tell Me What You Want), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 02 | Mark Evans Melbourne Australia, rock bassist (AC/DC-Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, Warrior Soul-Last Decade of The Century), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 02 | John Cowsill singer: group: The Cowsills: The Rain, The Park and Other Things, We Can Fly, Hair, Indian Lake, is born in Newport RI. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 05 | Erich Itor Kahn composer, dies at 50. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 11 | Sergey Nikiforovich Vasilenko Russian opera composer, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 16 | Joseph John Richards composer, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 17 | Will Rigby rock percussionist (Amy Rigby Diary of a Mad Housewife), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 25 | George Luther Foote composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Charly McClain Jackson TN, country singer (Radio Heart), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Thomas Alexandrovich de Hartmann composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup vocalist, dies of a heart attack. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 29 | LaToya Jackson singer (If You Feel the Funk)/posed for Playboy, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Miguel Bos Aries Panam, Spanish singer (Lo Mejor del Ao)/actor (El Avaro, Queen Margot), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 04 | Evelyn Hart prima ballerina (Royal Winnipeg Ballet), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 10 | Bozidar Sirola composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 10 | Jozef Szulc composer, dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 11 | Neville Staples singer: group: The Specials: Gangsters, A Message to You Rudy, Too Much Too Young, Ghost Town, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 12 | Alexander Briley vocalist (YMCA-Village People), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 20 | Jaap Vranken organist/composer (Stabat mater), dies. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 20 | Lieven Duvosel Flemish music composer (Levensschets), dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Ron Verlin rocker (Shooting Star), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Nemesio Otano y Eugenio composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 30 | Richard Farina folk singer (Reflections in a Crystal Wind), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 05 | Dick Kemper Amsterdam Netherlands, rock vocalist/bassist (Vandenberg), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 12 | Vladimir Ambros composer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
May 13 | Darius Rucker lead vocalist (Hootie & the Blowfish-Let Her Cry), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 14 | Steve Hogarth Kendal England, vocals (Marillion-Clutching at Straws), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 19 | Martyn Ware musician: synthesizer: groups: The Human League: LP: Reproduction; Heaven 17: We Dont Need This Fascist Groove Thang, Temptation, Crushed by the Wheels of Industry, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 21 | Joanna M C "Annemarie" Henselmans singer/cabaretire (School Desk), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 24 | Helen Terry rocker (Now You're Mine), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | LaToya Jackson singer (If You Feel the Funk)/posed for Playboy, is born in Gary IN. (TWA, 2002) | Ref: 95 |
May 29 | Greg R rocker (Bad), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | Larry Blackmon rocker (Cameo-Alligator Woman), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | Hermann Abendroth German conductor (Gewandhausorkest), dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
May 31 | Bart van Poppel Dutch bassist/guitarist/singer (Tambourine), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 05 | Richard Butler Rep Butler singer, songwriter: group: Psychedelic Furs: We Love You, Love My Way, Heaven, Pretty in Pink, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 05 | Kenny G saxophonist (Duotones), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 08 | Russell Christian sax, keyboards, vocals: group: The Christians: LPs: The Christians, Colour, Happy in Hell, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 22 | Green Gartside singer: group: Scritti Politti: LPs: Anomie & Bonhomie, Cupid & Psyche 85, Provision, Songs To Remember, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 22 | Derek Forbes rocker (Simple Minds-Water Front), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 30 | Philip Adrian Wright musician: synthesizer: group: Human League: Dont You Want Me, [Keep Feeling] Fascination, Mirror Man, The Lebanon, Life on Your Own, Louise, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 02 | Jeffrey Cooper guitarist (Midnight Star-No Parking), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 06 | Kenny G (Kenneth Gorelick) jazz musician: saxophone: Songbird, Silhouette, Forever in Love, Everytime I Close My Eyes, Sentimental, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 08 | Russell Christian rocker (The Christians-Harvest the World), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 09 | Marc Almond rocker (Everything I Want Love to Be), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 13 | Mark "Animal" Mendoza rocker (Twisted Sister-We're Not Gonna Take It), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 20 | Paul Cook drummer (Sex Pistols), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 29 | Patty Scialfa singer: backup vocalist for Bruce Springsteen on 1988 tour, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 30 | Singer Brenda Lee recorded her first hit for Decca Records. Jambalaya and Bigelow 6-200 started a new career for the petite 11-year-old from Lithonia, GA (near Atlanta). Brenda Mae Tarpley (Brenda Lee) had been singing professionally since age six. She recorded 29 hit songs in the 1960s and became a successful country singer in 1971. Brenda Lee had a pair of number one tunes with Im Sorry and I Want to be Wanted. She recorded a dozen hits that made it to the top 10. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 30 | Phil Fearon rocker (Galaxy, Kandidate-I Don't Want to Lose You), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 02 | Isabel Pantoja Spain, spanish singer (Genio y Figura), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 03 | Kirk Brandon rocker (Theatre of Hate, Spear of Destiny-Outland), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 06 | Vinnie Vincent heavy metal rocker (Solo-Ashes to Ashes), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 08 | Chris Foreman guitar (Madness-1 Step Beyond), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 08 | David Grant rocker (Heaven Knows), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 14 | Sharon Bryant vocalist (Atlantic Starr Touch a 4 Leaf Clover), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 25 | Matt Aitken rocker (Stock Aitken & Waterman-Road Block), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 27 | Glen Matlock musician: bass: group: The Sex Pistols: Anarchy in the UK, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 07 | Michael J Feinstein pianist (Isn't It Romantic), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 10 | Johnnie Fingers (Moylett) musician: keyboards, singer: group: The Boomtown Rats: Looking After No. 1, Shes So Modern, Rat Trap, I Dont Like Mondays, Banana Republic, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 12 | Barry Andrews musician: keyboards: groups: League of Gentlemen, XTC, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 12 | Brian Robertson musician: guitar: groups: Wild Horses, Thin Lizzy: Still in Love with You, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 13 | Joni Sledge Phila, vocalist (Sister Sledge-We are Family), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 22 | Debby Boone Grammy Award-winning singer: Best New Artist [1977], You Light Up My Life [1977], With My Song I Will Praise Him [1980], Keep the Flame Burning [w/Phil Driscoll 1984]; group: The Boone Family; daughter of singers Pat and Shirley Boone | Ref: 4 |
Oct 02 | Freddie Jackson singer, songwriter, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 12 | Dave Vanian (Letts) singer; group: The Damned, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 19 | Nino DeFranco singer: group: The DeFranco Family, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 23 | Dwight Yoakum country singer (If There Was a Way), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 25 | Mathias Jabs musician: guitar: group: Scorpions, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 31 | Tony Bowers musician: bass: group: Simply Red: Moneys Too Tight to Mention, Holding Back the Years, The Right Thing, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 05 | Art Tatum, black American jazz pianist, dies at age 46 in Los Angeles. | Ref: 70 |
Nov 11 | Ian Craig Marsh musician: keyboards: group: Heaven 17: We Don't Need This Fascist Groove Thang, Ball of Confusion, Temptation, Crushed by the Wheels of Industry, Soul Deep, The Foolish Thing to Do, Steel City; Human League: LP: Reproduction, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 11 | Victor Young orchestra leader (Milton Berle Show), dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 14 | Alec John Such rocker (Bon Jovi-You Give Love a Bad Name), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 26 | Tommy Dorsey, Mahanoy Plane PA, orchestra leader (Stage Show, Mahogany), dies at the age of 51. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 27 | Erich Kleiber Austrian conductor, dies. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 01 | Stuart Kimball rock guitarist (Face To Face), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 04 | Herbert Groenemeyer Germany, rocker (OE, Luxus, Chaos, Spruenge), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 06 | Rick (Paul) Buckler musician: drums, singer: group: The Jam, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 06 | Peter Buck musician: guitar: group: R.E.M.: Stand, So Central Rain, Seven Chinese Brothers, Radio Free Europe, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 06 | Randy Rhoads Santa Monica CA, rocker (Ozzy Osbourne-Flying High Again), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 08 | Warren Cuccurullo rock guitarist (Missing Persons), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 08 | Edgar Leslie Bainton composer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 09 | Sylvia (Sylvia Hutton) singer: Nobody, You Dont Miss a Thing, The Drifter, The Matador, Heart on the Mend, Sweet Yesterday, is born in Kokomo IN. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 09 | Hans Barth composer, dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 12 | Lorenzo Perosi composer, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 21 | Lee Roy Parnell Abilene TX, country singer (Oughta be a Law), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 28 | Kenneth Gant rocker (Midnight Star-Freak-A-Zoid, Operator, No Parking On The Dance Floor), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 28 | Michael Gibbons rocker (Bo Donaldson & Heywoods-Billy Don't be a Hero), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 28 | Nigel Kennedy English violinist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 30 | Suzy Bogguss Aledo IL, singer (I Want to be a Cowboy's Sweetheart), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1957
Jan 04 | Patty Loveless [Ramey], Pikeville KY, singer (Blue Side of Town), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 05 | Vincent Calloway Kentucky, trumpet player (Midnight Star-No Parking), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 07 | Al White choreographer (NBC Comedy Hour), dies. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 09 | Mary Carr Moore composer, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 13 | Don Snow rocker (Squeeze), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 16 | Arturo Toscanini Italy, American conductor, dies in New York City NY at 89. | Ref: 68 |
Jan 17 | John Crawford singer, musician: bass: group: Berlin: Take My Breath Away | Ref: 4 |
Jan 18 | Tom Bailey rock vocalist/keyboardist (Thompson Twins-Doctor Doctor), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 19 | Michael "Mickey" Virtue Birmingham England, rock keyboardist (UB40-Red Red Wine), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 23 | Earl Falconer musician: bass: group: UB40: Food for Thought, If It Happens Again, Red Red Wine, Dont Break My Heart, Sing Our Own Song, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 25 | Edmund Theodore Sylvers rocker (Sylvers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 26 | Eddie Van Halen, Nijmegan Netherlands, rock guitarist (Van Halen-Jump, 1984), is born. | Ref: 68 |
Jan 29 | Irlene Mandrell Corpus Christi TX, country singer (Mandrell Sisters), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | Jac Bico Dutch guitarist/singer (Tambourine), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 03 | Tony Butler rocker (Big Country-Wonderland), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 06 | Jerry Marotta rocker (Orleans-Love Takes Time), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 07 | Rudolph Reti composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Mary Carr Moore composer, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 13 | Tony Butler musician: bass: group: Big Country: Harvest Home, Fields of Fire, In a Big Country, Chance, Wonderland, East of Eden, Where the Rose is Sown, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 13 | Doris King Nashville TN, vocalist (Girls Next Door-Don't Be Cruel), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 15 | Jake E Lee rocker (Badlands-Dreams in the Dark), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 16 | James Ingram singer: [w/Patti Austin]: Baby Come to Me, How Do You Keep the Music Playing; Just Once, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 19 | Falco (Johann Hlzel) singer, songwriter: Rock Me Amadeus, The Sound of Musik, All Vienna, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 19 | Paul Dean guitarist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 25 | Stuart Woody Wood musician: guitar: group: Bay City Rollers: Saturday Night, Bye Bye Baby, Give Me a Little Love, is born in Scotland. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 25 | Kurt von Wolfurt composer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Adrian Smith, musician: guitar: group: Iron Maiden: Run to the Hills, Running Free, LPs: Killers, Number of the Beast, Piece of Mind, Somewhere in Time, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 28 | Phil Gould rock percussionist (Level 42-Hot Water), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 28 | Cindy Wilson Athens GA, rock vocalist (B-52's-Love Shack), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 28 | Ian Stanley keyboardist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Jon Carroll Washington DC, vocalist (Starland Vocal Band-Afternoon Delight), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 05 | Mark E Smith English rock vocalist (Fall-Fall in a Hole), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | Clive Burr musician: drums: group: Iron Maiden [1979-1983]: Eddie the Head, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 08 | Othmar Schoeck composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 12 | Marlon D Jackson Gary IN, singer (Jackson 5-Maybe Tomorrow), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 12 | Steve Harris London England, hard rock bassist (Iron Maiden--Number of the Beast, Gypsy's Kiss), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 18 | Melvin Gentry vocalist/guitarist (Midnight Star-No Parking), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 25 | Fud Livingston composer, dies at 50. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | Billy MacKenzie rock vocalist (The Associates-Affectionate Punch), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 04 | Graeme Kelling British pop guitarist (Deacon Blue-Real Gone Kid), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 09 | Ednita Nazario Ponce PR, spanish singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | Vince Gill Grammy Award-winning singer: When Love Finds You [1994], I Still Believe in You [1992], When I Call Your Name [1990], Restless [w/Steve Wariner and Ricky Skaggs] [1991]; Grammy Award-winning musician: guitar: Red Wing [w/Asleep at the Wheel] [1993]; songwriter: If It Werent for Him [w/Roseanne Cash]; groups: Bluegrass Alliance, Sundance, The Cherry Bombs, Pure Prairie League, is born in Norman OK. (also TWA, 1997) | Ref: 4 |
Apr 13 | Wayne Lewis keyboardist, (Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 19 | [Boaz] Boo Watson keyboardist (Midnight Star-No Parking), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 19 | Belinda Lipscomb vocalist (Midnight Star-No Parking), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 19 | Rod Morgenstein rocker (Winger), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 20 | Richenel [Hubertus R Baars] singer/performer (Dance Around The World), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Richie C Robertson rock bassist/vocalist (Fabulous Poodles), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Otallo Morales composer, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 30 | Ludwig Schiedermair German musicologist (Beethoven), dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
May 01 | Steve Farris musician: guitar: group: Mr. Mister: Broken Wings, Kyrie, Is It love, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 02 | Tadeusz Zygfryd Kassern composer, dies at 53. | Ref: 5 |
May 03 | Cactus Moser Montrose CO, country singer (Highway 101-Cry Cry Cry), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 05 | Thereza Bazaar rocker (Dollar-Love's Gotta Hold on Me), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 05 | Mikhail Fabianovich Gnesin composer, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
May 09 | Ezio F Pinza Italian bass (Scale of Milan, New York Metropolitan Opera), dies at age 64. | Ref: 5 |
May 10 | Punk Rocker Sid Vicious is born. Ref |   |
May 17 | Shalva Azmayparashvili composer, dies at 54. | Ref: 5 |
May 18 | Michael Cretu rocker (Enigma), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 23 | Jimmy McShane Pop singer (Baltimora-Tarzan Boy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 27 | Siouxsie Sioux (Janet Susan Ballion) singer: group: Siouxsie and the Banshees: Helter Skelter, Israel, Lords Prayer, Christine, Happy House, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 29 | George Bacovia [Vasiliu] Romanian poet/composer (Plumb), dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
May 30 | Chris Van Jaarsveld guitarist (Sleeze Beez), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 12 | Jimmy Dorsey, American musician and orchestra leader, dies at age 53. | Ref: 70 |
Jun 19 | Tom Bailey musician, singer, keyboardist: The Thompson Twins: Hold Me Now, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 21 | Mark Brzezicki rocker (Big Country-Wonderland), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 22 | Gary Beers musician: bass, singer: group: INXS: Just Keep Walking, The One Thing, Original Sin, Melting in the Sun, This Time, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 24 | Astro rocker (UB40-Red Red Wine), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 02 | Mike Anger rocker (The Blow Monkeys-Wicked Ways), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 03 | Laura Branigan singer (Gloria), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 11 | Michael Rose rocker (Black Uhuru-Brutal, Positive), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 11 | Pete Murphy rocker (Love Hysteria), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 20 | Phil Hanna singer (Once Upon a Tune), dies at 46. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 30 | Rat Scabies (Chris Millar) musician: drums: group: The Damned: Neat, Neat, Neat, New Rose, Love Song, Grimly Fiendish, Shadow of Love, LP: Phantasmagoria, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 31 | Daniel Ash musician: guitar, singer: groups: Bauhaus, Love and Rockets, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 16 | Tim Farriss rocker (Inxs-Kiss the Dirt), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 18 | Ron Strykert musician: guitar: group: Men at Work: Who Can It Be Now, Down Under, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 21 | Kim Sledge Phila, vocalist (Sister Sledge-We are Family), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 21 | Budgie rocker (Siouxsie & the Banshees-Wild Thing), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 26 | John ONeill musician: guitar: groups: That Petrol Emotion: Keen, V2; The Undertones: Teenage Kicks, Jimmy, Jimmy, Here Comes Summer, My Perfect Cousin, Julie Ocean, Forever Paradise, Its Going to Happen, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 31 | Glenn Tilbrook guitarist/vocalist (Squeeze-Tempted), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 01 | Gloria Estefan (Gloria Maria Milagrosa Fajardo) Queen of Latin Pop, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 02 | Steve Porcaro musician: keyboards, singer: group: Toto: Hold the Line, 99, Make Believe, Rosanna, Africa, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 07 | Margot Chapman Hawaii, vocals (Starland Vocal Band-Afternoon Delight), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 10 | Siobhan Fahey rocker (Bananarama-Venus), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 11 | Jon Moss rocker (Culture Club-Do You Really Want to Hurt Me), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 12 | Hans Zimmer Academy Award-winning composer: The Lion King [1994]; Moonlighting, Wild Horses, Rain Man, Driving Miss Daisy, Bird on a Wire, Days of Thunder, Thelma & Louise, Backdraft, A League of Their Own, Drop Zone, Crimson Tide, Broken Arrow, The Rock, Scream 2, The Prince of Egypt, Gladiator, Mission: Impossible II, Hannibal, Pearl Harbor, Black, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 20 | Jean Sibelius Finnish composer, dies at 91. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 19 | Karl Wallinger musician: keyboards, guitar; group: World Party, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 21 | Julian Cope musician: bass, guitar, singer: groups: Crucial Three, Nova Mob, A Shallow Madness, The Teardrop Explodes: Sleeping Gas, Bouncing Babies, Reward, Treason, You Disappear from View; solo: Competition, World Shut Your Mouth, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 21 | Steve Lukather musician: guitar: group: Toto: Rosanna, Africa, Hold the Line; songwriter: Turn Your Love Around, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 28 | Stephen Morris rocker (New Order-Round & Round), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 01 | Lyle Lovett Grammy Award-winning singer: Best Male Country Vocal [1989]; Cowboy Man, songwriter: This Old Porch [w/Robert Earl Keen], You Cant Resist It, Closing Time, If I Had a Boat; actor: Ready to Wear, Short Cuts, The Player, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 15 | Kevin Eubanks musician: guitar: bandleader: The Tonight Show with Jay Leno; composer: film scores: Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault, Psalms from the Underground, The Dinner, The Week that Girl Died, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 18 | Jenny Burton NYC, rocker (Nobody Loves Me Like You Do), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 20 | Jimmy Brown musician: drums: group: UB40: King, Food for Thought, My Way of Thinking, I Think It's Going to Rain, Dream a Lie, The Earth Dies Screaming, If It Happens Again, Red Red Wine, Don't Break My Heart, Sing Our Own Song, Amandla Awethu [The Power is Ours], is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 21 | Jim Brown rocker (UB40-Red Red Wine), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 22 | Sharon Bailey rocker (Amazulu-Excitable), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 24 | Chris Hayes musician: guitar: group: Huey Lewis & The News: Do You Believe in Love, Heart and Soul, I Want a New Drug, The Heart of Rock & Roll, Walking on a Thin Line, Bad is Bad, If This is It, Power of Love, Trouble in Paradise, Stuck with You, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 30 | John Aston musician: guitar: groups: Photons, Psychedelic Furs: We Love You, Love My Way, Heaven, Pretty in Pink, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 30 | Richard Barbieri musician: drums: group: Japan: Dont Rain on My Parade, The Unconventional, The Tenant, All Tomorrows Parties, Taking Islands in Africa, I Second That Emotion, Cantonese Boy, Bamboo Houses, Forbidden Colours; composer: for Ballet Rambert, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 08 | Phil Collen English rocker (Def Leppard-Hysteria, Rock of Ages), is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 09 | Donny Osmond singer: Go Away Little Girl, Puppy Love; [w/sister, Marie]: Im Leaving It All Up to You; group: Osmond Brothers: One Bad Apple; TV host: Donny and Marie; actor: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, is born in Ogden UT. (also TWA, 1998) | Ref: 4 |
Dec 10 | Paul Hardcastle Jazz musician | Ref: 76 |
Dec 11 | Jerry Lee Lewis weds Myra. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 12 | Jerry Lee Lewis weds his cousin Myra Gale Brown, 13, while still married to his first wife, Jane Mitcham. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 12 | Cy Curnin London England, rock vocalist (Fixx-Sign of Fire), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 12 | Sheila E[scovedo] San Franciso CA, disco drummer (Krushgrove, Holly Rock), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 12 | Robert Frank Kurka composer, dies at 35. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 18 | John Webster rocker (Red Ryder-Light in the Tunnel), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 19 | Doug Johnson rock keyboardist (Loverboy-Get Lucky), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 20 | Billy (Steven) Bragg (songwriter, musician: guitar, singer: The Milkman of Human Kindness, A New England, Man in the Iron Mask, St. Withins Day, Island of No Return, Between the Wars, World Turned Upside Down, Which Side are You On?, Levi Stubbs Tears), is born in Barking Essex England. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 20 | Anita Baker [Ward] Detroit MI, vocalist (Rapture), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 20 | Mike Watt US bassist (Rockband Firehose), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 21 | Eric Coates composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 22 | Ricky Ross British rock vocalist (Deacon Blue-Raintown), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 24 | Ian Burden keyboards: group: Human League: Dont You Want Me, [Keep Feeling] Fascination, Mirror Man, The Lebanon, Life on Your Own, Louise, is born in Sheffield England. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 25 | Jan Rot Dutch composer/writer (Wrong Nights), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | Shane MacGowan songwriter, musician: guitar, singer: group: The Pogues: Transmetropolitan, Streams of Whiskey, Dark Streets of London, The Band Played Waltzing Matilda, Dirty Old Town, Sally MacIennane, A Pair of Brown Eyes, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 26 | Artur Malawski composer, dies at 53. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 29 | Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme were married. They became popular singers on the The Tonight Show with Steve Allen, and as Las Vegas showroom regulars and recording artists. They are still together in one of Hollywoods most enduring marriages. | Ref: 4 |
- 1958
Jan 01 | Grandmaster Flash [Joseph Saddler], New York City, NY, rocker (Message), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 01 | David Broekman musician (Think Fast), dies at 55. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Shawn Colvin singer/guitarist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 11 | Vicki Peterson Los Angeles CA, rock guitarist/vocalist (Bangles), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 11 | Alec Rowley composer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 12 | Arthur Shepherd composer, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 17 | Jez Strode rocker (Kajagoogoo), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 24 | Jools (Julian) Holland musician: keyboard: group: Squeeze: Goodbye Girl, Up the Junction, Cool for Cats; solo: LP: Jools Holland & The Millionaires, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 25 | Gary Brian Tibbs London, rock bassist (Adam & The Ants, Roxy Music-Let's Stick Together), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 26 | Anita Baker Toledo OH, singer (Giving You the Best That I Got), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 26 | B James Lowry rocker (Boys Band), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 26 | Norman Lamont Hassan British reggae musician (UB40-Red Red Wine), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 27 | Charles Waltz rocker (Shooting Star), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 30 | Rob van Zandvoort Dutch rock vocalist/keyboardist (Jack of Hearts), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 31 | Tom Schuman pianist (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 03 | Lee Crystal rocker (Joan Jett & Blackhearts-Ashes in the Wind), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 07 | Manuel Mijares Mexico, Spanish vocalist (Maria Bonita), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 13 | Mark Fox congas/percussionist (Haircut 100-Nobody's Fool), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 16 | Ice-T (Tracy Marrow), rap singer/actor (New Jack City, Tank Girl, Crazy Six), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 21 | Mary Chapin Carpenter Grammy Award-winning singer: LP: Stones in the Road [1994], Shut Up and Kiss Me [1994], Passionate Kisses [1993], I Feel Lucky [1992], Down at the Twist and Shout [1991]; He Thinks Hell Keep Her, LP: Hometown Girl; musician: guitar, songwriter: Girls with Guitars, co-wrote: Sallys Pigeon; daughter of Life magazine executive Chapin Carpenter, is born in Princeton NJ. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 23 | Ria Brieffies Dutch vocalist (Dolly Dots), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 23 | David Sylvian (Batt) musician: guitar, singer: group: Japan: The Unconventional, The Tenant, Taking Islands in Africa, I Second that Emotion, Ghosts, Cantonese Boy, Bamboo Houses, Forbidden Colours, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 24 | Sammy Kershaw Kaplan LA, country vocalist (Cadillac Style), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Nik Kershaw Bristol England, singer/songwriter (Wouldn't it be Good), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 05 | Andy (Andrew Roy) Gibb singer: group: The Bee Gees; solo: Love is Thicker than Water, I Just Want to be Your Everything, Shadow Dancing, [Our Love] Dont Throw It all Away; host of TVs Solid Gold; is born in Manchester England. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 08 | Gary Numan (Webb) singer: Cars, Are Friends Electric, I Die You Die, We Take Mystery to Bed, Music for Chameleons, White Boys and Heroes, Warriors, Sister Surprise, Berserker; songwriter: I Dream of Wires, is born in Hammersmith England. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 09 | Martin Fry singer: group: ABC: Tears are Not Enough, Poison Arrow, Be Near Me, When Smokey Sings, King Without a Crown; founded magazine: Modern Drugs, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 14 | Eugeen Van de Velde Flemish musicologist/critic/composer, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 22 | Pete Wylie Liverpool England, rocker (Sinful), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 25 | Emerson Whithorne, composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | Shaun Cassidy rocker/actor (Hardy Boys, Texas Guns), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | W.C. (William Christopher) Handy composer: Father of the Blues: St. Louis Blues; dies at age 84. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 31 | Pat McGlynn Edinburgh, rock guitarist (Bay City Rollers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 07 | Tony Aire rocker (Adventures-Sea of Love), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 07 | Judge Jackson composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 07 | Klimenty Arkad'yevich Korchmaryov composer, dies at 58. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 10 | Kenneth 'Babyface' Edmonds Indpls IN, singer/producer/songwriter (Boyz II Men, Bobby Brown), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 10 | Dick Clark devoted an hour of his "American Bandstand" afternoon TV show to the memory of Chuck Willis who had died earlier in the day from peritonitis. Willis was from Atlanta, GA and recorded hits that included: "C.C. Rider", "Betty and Dupree", "What Am I Living For" (his biggest hit) and "Hang Up My Rock and Roll Shoes". | Ref: 4 |
Apr 10 | W C Handy composer/musician, dies at 84 in NY. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 11 | [William] Stuart Adamson Manchester England, rock vocalist/guitarist (Big Country-Wonderland), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | Tony James rocker (Sigue Sigue Sputnik-Love Missile F-111), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | Will Sergeant rock guitarist (Echo & Bunnymen-Killing Moon, Heaven Up Here), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 13 | Randy Piper heavy metal rocker (Wasp-Wildchild), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 15 | Matt Reid rock keyboardist (Berlin-Takes Your Breathe Away), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | Les Pattinson Ormskirk Merseyside England, rock bassist (Echo & the Bunnymen-Heaven Up Here), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 25 | Fish [Derek William Dick] Edinburgh Scotland, rock vocalist (Marillion-Real to Reel), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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Apr 27 | Keith Denunzio rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Simon Edwards rocker (Fairground Attraction-Find My Love), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 16 | Glenn Gregory rock vocalist (Heaven 17-Electric Dreams), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 17 | Vincent Henar Surinam, bassist (Fra Fra Sound), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 18 | Toyah Wilcox Birmingham England, rocker (I Want to Be Free), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 19 | Bruno Sturmer composer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
May 20 | Jane Wiedlin Oconomowoc WI, singer/guitarist (GoGos, Fur, Rush Hour), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 21 | Mike Barson rock keyboardist (Madness), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 23 | Shelly West Cleveland OH, country singer (Red Hot, West by West), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 25 | Paul Weller guitar (Jam-This is the Modern World, Style Council), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 27 | Neil Finn rocker (Split Enz-I Got You, Crowded House), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | Mikulas Schneider-Trvavsky composer, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
May 30 | Marie Fredriksson Ostra-Ljuajak Sweden, singer (Roxette-Must Have Been Love), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 07 | Prince [Rodgers Nelson], rocker/actor (1999, Purple Rain), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 18 | Daniels Koran saxophonist (Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 30 | Esa-Pekka Salonen Helsinki Finland, conductor (Giro), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 04 | Kirk Pengilly Sydney Australia, rocker (Inxs-Kiss the Dirt), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 11 | Ray Dodds rocker (Fairground Attraction-You Send Me), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 16 | Michael Flatley, dancer, performer: Lord of the Dance | Ref: 4 |
Jul 18 | Nigel Twist rocker (The Alarm-In the Summertime), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 20 | Michael McNeill rocker (Simple Minds-Don't You Forget About Me), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 21 | Henry Priestman singer: group: The Christians, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 30 | Kate Bush Plumstead England, singer/songwriter (Wild Things), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 31 | Bill Berry musician: drums: group: R.E.M.: Radio Free Europe, Talk about the Passion, So Central Rain, [Dont Go Back To] Rockville, Seven Chinese Brothers, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 06 | Randy DeBarge musician: bass, vocals: group: DeBarge: Rhythm of the Night, I Like It, All this Love, Time Will Reveal, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 07 | Bruce Dickinson heavy metal rocker (Iron Maiden-Run to Hills), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 09 | Greg Chaisson heavy metal rocker (Badlands-Dreams in the Dark), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 13 | Feargal Sharkey rocker (Undertones-Never Never, Good Heart), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 16 | Madonna (Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone) singer: Material Girl, Like a Virgin; actress: Dick Tracy, Desperately Seeking Susan, Shanghai Surprise, A League of Their Own, is born in Bay City MI. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 17 | Belinda Carlisle Hollywood Ca, (GoGos lead singer, Heaven on Earth), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 21 | Walter Schumann choral director (Ford Show), dies at 44. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 26 | Jet Black (Brian Duffy) musician: drums: group: The Stranglers: Grip, Peaches, No More Heroes, Walk on By, Golden Brown, Skin Deep, Nice in Nice, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 29 | Singer Michael Jackson is born in Gary Indiana. | Ref: 24 |
Sep 02 | Fritz McIntyre musician: keyboards: group: Simply Red: Moneys Too Tight to Mention, Holding Back the Years, The Right Thing, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 08 | Michael Lardie musician: group: Great White, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 08 | David Lewis guitarist (Atlantic Starr-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 11 | Mick Talbot rocker (Style Council-You're the Best Thing), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 05 | Lee Thompson sax (Madness-Baggy Trousers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 10 | Tanya Tucker, Seminole TX, country singer/actress (Follow that Car), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 14 | Thomas Dolby rocker (She Blinded Me With Science), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 17 | Alan Jackson rocker (Don't Rock the Jukebox, Here in the Real World), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 20 | Mark King musician: bass, singer: group: Level 42, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 20 | Ivo Pogorelich Belgrade Yugoslavia, pianist (1978 Casagrande winner), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 27 | Simon LeBon singer: group: Duran Duran, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 27 | Hazell Dean rocker (Always Doesn't Mean Forever), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 08 | Terry Lee Miall musician: drums: group: Adam & The Ants: Goody Two-Shoes, Apollo Nine, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 24 | Carmel (McCourt) England, rocker (Storm, More More More) | Ref: 5 |
Nov 27 | Charles Waltz rocker (Shooting Star), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 28 | David Van Day rocker (Dollar-Loves Gotta Hold on Me), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 06 | Erwin Bodky composer, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | Paul Hardcastle keyboardist (Don't Waste My Time, Just for Money), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 11 | Nikki Sixx (Frank Ferranno) musician: bass: group: Motley Crue: LPs: Too Fast for Love, Theatre of Pain, is born in San Jose CA. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 12 | Leo Kenter Dutch drummer (Trckener Kecks-More! More! More!), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 13 | Dana Strum Washington DC, rock bassist (Slaughter-Stick it Live), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 14 | Mike Scott musician: guitar, singer: group: The Waterboys, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 14 | Jan Dijksma Dutch bassist (Weekend at Waikiki), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 14 | Spider Tracy English rock vocalist (The Pogues), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 17 | Mike Mills musician: bass: group: R.E.M.: Radio Free Europe, Talk About the Passion, So Central Rain, Seven Chinese Brothers, [Dont Go Back to] Rockville, is born. | Ref: 2 |
Dec 19 | Limahl British rocker (Kajagoogoo-Too Shy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 23 | Dave Murray musician: guitar: group: Iron Maiden: Run to the Hills, Running Free: LPs: Killers, Number of the Beast, Piece of Mind, Power Slave, Live After Death, Somewhere in Time, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 26 | Harry Redman composer, dies on 89th birthday. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 28 | Joe Diffie Tulsa OK, country singer/guitarist (Home), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 28 | Mike McGuire Haleyville AL, singer (Shenandoah-Sunday in the South), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 29 | Doris Humphrey US dancer/choreographer (Dances of Women), dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 31 | Gustav Hermann Unger composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
- 1959
Jan 03 | Rusty Golden rocker (Boys Band), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 06 | Kathy Sledge Philadelphia PA, vocalist (Sister Sledge-We are Family), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 06 | Jose Enrique Pedreira composer, dies at 54. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 07 | Kathy Valentine rocker (Go-Go's-We Got the Beat), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 09 | Paul Malengreau composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Don Letts rocker (Big Audio Dynamite), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Kirk & Curtwood musician (Meat Puppets), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 12 | Per Gessle Halmstad Sweden, singer (Roxette-Must Have Been Love), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 14 | Carl Chas Smash Smyth rock bassist (Madness-Our House), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 14 | Geoff Tate vocalist (Queensryche-Breaking the Silence), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 15 | Pete Trewavas Middlesbrough, rock bassist, (Marillion-Clutching at Straws, Real to Reel), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 16 | Sad [Helen Folsade Ady] Ibadan Nigeria, rocker (Smooth Operator, Sweetest Taboo; Grammy 1986-Best new singer), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 17 | Billie Holiday, who is considered to have been one of the great American jazz singers, was born. Following her death on July 17, 1959, her obituary appeared in The Times. (Go to obit. | Other Birthdays) | Ref: 70 |
Jan 18 | Bob Rosenberg rocker (Will To Power), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 21 | Lamar Stringfield composer, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 23 | Earl Falconer British reggae bassist (UB40-Red Red Wine), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 28 | Dave Sharp musician: guitar: group: The Alarm: 68 Guns, Where were You Hiding When the Storm Broke?, The Bells of Rhymney, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 28 | Viktor Joseph Keldorfer composer, dies at 85. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 30 | Jody Watley Chicago IL, dancer (Solid Gold)/singer (Looking For a New Love), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 03 | Lol (Laurence) Tolhurst musician: drums, keyboard: group: The Cure: A Forest, Charlotte Sometimes, Lets Go to Bed, Love Cats, The Caterpillar, In-Between Days, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 03 | "The Day The Music Died". Buddy Holly (22), Ritchie Valens (17), JP (Jiles Perry) Richardson ("The Big Bopper") (28) and the pilot, Roger Peterson, are killed when their small private plane, American Pie, took off from Clear Lake, Iowa, crashed en route to Fargo, N.D. Reportedly, Waylon Jennings gave his seat up to Richardson. Jennings still doesn't talk about that night. Some say Dion didn't want to spend the $35, his pro rata share. What is known is that Valens and Tommy Allsup flipped a coin to see who got the remaining seat on that plane. Valens wins the toss. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 07 | Brian Travers musician: saxophone: group: UB40: King, Food for Thought, My Way of Thinking, I Think Its Going to Rain, Dream a Lie, The Earth Dies Screaming, Red Red Wine; short film producer: Labour of Love, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 07 | Slim [Eddie Jones] Guitar rocker, dies at 32. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Paul Malengreau composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 12 | Omar Hakim drummer (Dire Straits, Weather Report), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 12 | Per Gessle rocker (Roxette-Joy Ride), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 12 | George Antheil US pianist/composer (Ballet Mcanique), dies at 58. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 13 | Ali Campbell rocker (UB40-Red Red Wine), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 13 | William L Axt composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 14 | Baby Dodds, American jazz musician, dies at age 60. | Ref: 70 |
Feb 15 | Ali (Alistair) Campbell musician: guitar, lead singer: group: UB40: Food for Thought, My Way of Thinking, I Think Its Going to Rain, Dream a Lie, Red Red Wine, Dont Break My Heart [w/Chrissie Hynde], Orchestral Dub, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 18 | Alfred Alessandrescu composer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 18 | Eric Zeisl composer, dies at 53. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 18 | Jaroslav Kvapil composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Ray McDonald dancer, dies of barbiturate overdose at 38. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 25 | Mike Peters rocker (Alarm-In the Summertime), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 02 | Andrew Farriss, Australia, rock keyboardist (Inxs-Kiss the Dirt), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 02 | Larry Stewart Paducah KY, country singer (Restless Heart-Wheels), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 02 | Yrl Henrik Kilpinen Finnish composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 11 | Haydn Wood composer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 13 | Ronnie Rogers guitarist (T'Pau-Heart & Soul), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 14 | Patrick Dupond Paris France, dancer (La Bayadere), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 16 | Stan Thorn Kenosha WI, singer (Shenandoah-Sunday in the South), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 17 | Mike Lindup musician: keyboards, singer: group: Level 42: The Chinese Way, The Sun Goes Down [Living It Up], Hot Water, Something About You, Leaving Me Now, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 17 | Raffaele d' Alessandro composer, dies on 48th birthday. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 18 | Terry Hall singer: group: The Specials: Gangsters, A Message to You Rudy, Too Much Too Young, Ghost Town; Fun Boy Three: It Aint What You Do Its the Way That You Do It, Really Saying Something, Tunnel of Love, Our Lips are Sealed, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 19 | Irene Cara singer: Fame, The Dream; actress: Fame, Aint Misbehavin, Caged in Paradiso, City Heat, For Us the Living, Killing Em Softly, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 20 | Richard Drummie rocker (Go West-Call Me, Don't Look Down), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 25 | Billy Mayerl composer, dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | Andrew Farriss musician: keyboards: group: INXS: Just Keep Walking, The One Thing, Original Sin, Me, Melting in the Sun, This Time, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 29 | Sara Wennerberg-Reuter composer, dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 31 | Angus Young musician: guitar: group: AC/DC: LPs: Let There be Rock, Powerage, Highway to Hell, Back in Black, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, For Those about to Rock, Fly on the Wall, is born in Glascow Scotland. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 02 | Dean Townson, St Petersburg FL, singer (Pirates of the Mississippi-Fred Jake), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 09 | Dave Innis Bartlesville OK, country singer (Restless Heart-Wheels), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 10 | (Long Island) Brian Setzer, Massapequa Park NY, rock guitarist/vocalist (Stray Cats), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | Ernest Willem Mulder composer, dies at 60. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 13 | Eduard A van Beinum Dutch musician/conductor, dies at 57. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 17 | Stephen Singleton, musician: saxophone: group: ABC: Tears are Not Enough, Poison Arrow, Be Near Me, When Smokey Sings, King Without a Crown, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 21 | Robert Smith musician: guitar, singer, songwriter: group: The Cure: A Forest, Charlotte Sometimes, Lets Go to Bed, Love Cats, The Caterpillar, Inbetween Days, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 24 | Jef van Hoof composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 25 | Billy Rankin Glasgow, Scotland, rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 27 | Sheena [Shirley Orr] Easton, Belshill Scotland, singer (Morning Train, For Your Eyes Only), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 27 | Marco Pirroni London, rock guitarist (Adam & The Ants), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 30 | Armand Louis Joseph Marsick composer, dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
May 01 | Phil Smith musician: saxophone: group: Haircut 100: Favourite Shirts [Boy Meets Girl], Love Plus One, Fantastic Day, Nobodys Fool, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 02 | Yrl Henrik Kilpinen Finnish composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
May 03 | David Ball musician: keyboards: group: Soft Cell: Tainted Love, Bed Sitter, Torch, What, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 04 | Country singer Randy Travis is born. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
May 05 | Ian McCullough rocker (Echo & The Bunnymen-Heaven Up Here), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 14 | Sidney Bechet US jazz clarinetist/saxophonist/bandleader, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
May 15 | Andrew Eldritch rocker (Sisters of Mercy-Walk Away, Black Planet), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 17 | Paul Di'Anno Chingford London, rocker (Iron Maiden-Run To The Hills), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 22 | [Steven Patrick] Morrissey, Manchester England, rocker (The Smiths-Hand in Glove, & solo artist-November Spawned a Monster), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 26 | Wayne Hussey musician: guitar, singer: group: The Mission: LPs Gods Own Medicine, The First Chapter, Salad Daze, Neverland, Ever After, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 26 | Beverly Lee rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | Leon "The Bop" Klaasse rock drummer/singer (The Pilgrims-Red), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | Mel Gaynor Glasgow Scotland, rock drummer (Simple Minds-Water Front), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 30 | Thomas Carl Whitmer composer, dies at 85. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 01 | Alan "Wild"er rocker (Depeche Mode-Just Can't Get Enough), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 02 | Tony Hadley singer: group: Spandau Ballet: To Cut a Long Story Short, The Freeze, Musclebound, Chant No. 1, Instinction, True, Gold, Only When You Leave, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 05 | Bob Zimmerman graduated from high school in Hibbing, MN. Zimmerman was known as a greaser to classmates in the remote rural community, because of his long sideburns and leather jacket. Soon, Zimmerman would be performing at coffee houses at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, and later, in Greenwich Village in New York City. He would also change his name to Bob Dylan (after poet Dylan Thomas, so the story goes). | Ref: 4 |
Jun 05 | Michael Winans gospel singer (The Winans), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 16 | Sade is born in Ibadan, Nigeria. (TWA, 1998) | Ref: 95 |
Jun 19 | Mark DeBarge rocker (DeBarge-Who's Johnny), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 24 | Andy McCluskey singer: group: Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark: Electricity, Red Frame, White Light, Messages, Enola Gay, The More I See You, Souvenir, Joan of Arc, Genetic Engineering, Talking Loud & Clear, Telsa Girls, Forever [Love & Die], is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 27 | Lorrie (Loretta Lynn) Morgan singer, songwriter; daughter of country singer George Morgan, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 05 | Marc Cohn singer (Walking in Memphis), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 06 | Jon Keeble musician: drums: group: Spandau Ballet: True, To Cut a Long Story Short, The Freeze, Musclebound, Chant No. 1, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 09 | Marc (Peter) Almond singer: duo: Soft Cell: Tainted Love; group: Marc & the Mambas: LP: Torment and Toreros; solo: Stories of Johnny, LP: Mother Fist and Her Five Daughters, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 09 | Jim Kerr rocker (Simple Minds-Don't You Forget About Me), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 11 | Richie Sambora guitarist (Bon Jovi-You Give Love a Bad Name), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 11 | Suzanne Vega rocker (My Name is Luka), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 15 | Ernest Bloch Geneva, Switzerland, composer (MacBeth), dies. | Ref: 68 |
Jul 17 | Billie Holiday blues singer, dies of liver failure at 44 in NYC. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 05 | Pete Burns rocker (Dead or Alive-Spin Me Round), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 06 | Joyce Sims rocker (All & All), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 08 | Rikki Rockett rocker (Poison-Every Rose Has a Thorn), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 09 | Kurtis Blow NYC, rapper (Krushgroove-The Breaks), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 10 | Mark Price bass/vocals (All About Eve, Tin Huey-Contents Dislodged), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 12 | Suzanne Vega musician: folk-guitar, singer, songwriter: Luka, Marlene on the Wall, Small Blue Thing, Calypso, Toms Diner, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 13 | Mark Nevin rocker (Fairground Attraction-Find My Love), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 16 | Wanda A Landowska, Polish-born harpsichordist, dies at age 80. | Ref: 70 |
Aug 19 | Steve Grimmett heavy metal rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 22 | Juan Croucier heavy metal rocker (Ratt-Round & Round), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 29 | Eddi Reader rocker (Fairground Attraction-Find My Love), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 31 | Tony DeFranco singer: group: The DeFranco Family: Heartbeat, Its a Lovebeat, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 11 | Mick Talbot musician: keyboards: group: The Style Council: Speak like a Child, Money Go Round, Solid Bond in Your Heart, Long Hot Summer, My Ever Changing Moods, Youre the Best Thing, Welcome to Milton Keynes, Walls Came Tumbling Down, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 14 | Morten Harket singer: group: a-ha: Take on Me, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 20 | Alannah Currie rocker (Thompson Twins-Doctor, Doctor), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 21 | Corrinne Drewery rocker (Swing Out Sister-Swing Out), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 23 | Lita Ford musician: guitar: group: The Runaways, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 30 | Basia Trzetrzelevska Poland, jazz singer (Time & Life), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 04 | Chris Lowe musician: keyboards: group: Pet Shop Boys: LP: What Have I Done to Deserve This, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 07 | Mario Lanza (Alfred Cocozza) actor: That Midnight Kiss, The Great Caruso, Because Youre Mine, The Student Prince; singer: Be My Love, The Loveliest Night of the Year, Because Youre Mine, dies at 38 of a heart attack. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 10 | Chris Lowe rocker (Pet Shop Boys-Left to My Own Devices), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 13 | Marie (Olive) Osmond singer: Paper Roses, Whos Sorry Now, This is the Way That I Feel; TV host: Donny and Marie, Ripleys Believe It or Not, is born in Ogden UT. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 14 | A.J. Pero Staten Is, drummer (Twisted Sister-Not Gonna Take It), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 16 | Gary Kemp musician: guitar: group: Spandau Ballet: To Cut a Long Story Short, The Freeze, Musclebound, Chant No. 1, True, Gold, Only When You Leave; brother of musician Martin Kemp, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 23 | Singer, comedian Weird Al Yankovic is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 28 | Neville Henry rocker (Blow Monkeys-Wicked Ways), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 01 | Eddie MacDonald musician: bass: group: The Alarm; Guns, Where Were You Hiding When the Storm Broke, The Bells of Rhymney, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 05 | Bryan Adams singer: Heaven, Summer of 69; songwriter: Everything I Do; songwriter: Tears are Not Enough, is born in Vancouver BC, Canada. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 05 | Rob Fisher rocker (Climie Fisher-Love Changes), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 17 | Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian musician and composer, dies at age 72. | Ref: 70 |
Nov 25 | Steve Rothery rocker (Marillion-Real to Reel), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 27 | Charlie Burchill musician: guitar: group: Simple Minds: Changeling, Premonition, The American, Love Song, Dont You [Forget About Me], is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 08 | Paul Rutherford vocalist (Frankie Goes to Hollywood-Relax), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 08 | Marty Raybon Sanford FL, singer (Shenandoah-Sunday in the South), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 12 | Paul Rutherford singer: group: Frankie Goes to Hollywood: Relax!, Two Tribes, The Power of Love, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 12 | Belouis Some rocker (Neville Keighley-Some People), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 14 | Franco Iglesia Cuba, Spanish singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 16 | Steven Irvine rock drummer (Lloyd Cole & The Commotions), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 29 | Robin Humphrey Milford composer, dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 31 | Paul Westerberg singer (The Replacements), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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Jan 04 | Michael Stipe Grammy Award-winning singer: Out of Time [1991]; group: R.E.M.: Losing My Religion [1991], Radio Free Europe, Talk About the Passion, So Central Rain, [Dont Go Back to] Rockville, Seven Chinese Brothers, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 06 | Edith Barstow choreographer (Frankie Laine Time), dies at 52. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 07 | Luis da Costa composer, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 11 | Vicki Peterson Los Angeles CA, rocker (Bangles-Walk Like an Egyptian), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 16 | Sad [Helen Folsade Ady] Ibadan Nigeria, rocker (Smooth Operator, Sweetest Taboo; Grammy 1986-Best new singer), is born. | Ref: 17 |
Jan 17 | John Crawford Palo Alto CA, bass (Berlin-You Take My Breath Away), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 22 | Michael Hutchence Australia, rock vocalist/actor (INXS-Need You Tonight, Dogs in Space), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 28 | Jacques de Menasce composer, dies at 54. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | Cho-Liang Lin Taiwan, violinist (Queen Sophia first prize), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | Eddie Jackson bassist (Queensryche-Breaking the Silence, The Warning), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 31 | Songwriter Adolph Green marries actress/singer Phyllis Newman in New York City NY. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Jeno Huszka composer, dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 03 | Richard Kotzen rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Rudolf Nelson composer, dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 06 | Rhythm-and-blues singer, songwriter Jesse Belvin dies at 26 in a car crash in Little Rock, AR. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 07 | Steve Bronski rock synthesizer (Bronski Beat-Smalltown Boy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Holly Johnson vocalist (Frankie Goes to Hollywood-Relax), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Ernst von Dohnanyi US composer, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 10 | Lionel Cartwright Ohio, country vocalist (I Watched it on the Radio), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 13 | Michael Craig rock bassist (Culture Club-Do You Want to Hurt Me), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 15 | Mikey Craig rock bassist (Culture Club-Do You Really Want to Hurt Me), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 19 | Holly Johnson England, rock vocalist (Frankie Goes To Hollywood), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Mark Reilly [Matt Bianco], rocker (Indio-Big Harvest), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Kee Marcello rocker (Europe-Final Countdown), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Hubert Cuypers composer/choir conductor (Missa Populi), dies at 86. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 24 | Jean Binet composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Paul Humphreys rock keyboardist/synthesizer player (OMD-Crush, Pacific Age), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Bolik Dahan Suriname singer/radio host (Radio KBC), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | Leonard Warren, baritone (Metropolitan Opera 1939-60) dies on stage at age 49. | Ref: 70 |
Mar 13 | Adam Clayton, Oxfordshire, England, rock bassist (U2-I Will Follow), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 21 | Guy Chadwick English singer/songwriter (House of Love), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 22 | Laurie Sargent rock vocalist (Face To Face), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 25 | Steve Norman London England, rock saxophone player (Spandau Ballet-True), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | Ian Whyte composer, dies at 58. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | Joseph Haas German opera composer (Totenmesse), dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 31 | Joseph Haas German (opera)composer (Totenmesse), dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 07 | Simon Climie rock vocalist/keyboardist (Climie Fisher-Love Changes), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 10 | Brian Setzer rock guitarist (Lobos-La Bamba, Stray Cats-Sexy & 17), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 10 | Arthur Benjamin Australian composer/pianist (Devil Take Her), dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 14 | Brian Forster rocker (Partridge Family Drums), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 17 | Eddie (Ray Edward) Cochran Rock and Roll Hall of Famer [1987]: singer, is killed in car crash at age 21. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 23 | Steve Clark musician: guitar: group: Def Leppard: Photograph, Rock of Ages, Foolin, LPs: On Through the Night, HighnDry, Pyromania, Hysteria; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 24 | Paula Yates London England, Mrs Bob Geldof/rocker/writer (Blondes), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 25 | Ilmari Henrik Reinhold Krohn composer, dies at 92. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 26 | Roger Taylor England, rock drummer (Duran Duran-Hungry Like the Wolf), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 28 | Wally Langdon bassist (Bob Color), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Gerard Joling Dutch singer (Love is in Your Eyes), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 05 | Sulho Ranta composer, dies at 58. | Ref: 5 |
May 06 | Bart de Boer Dutch guitarist (Ivy Green), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 06 | Larry Steinbacheck keyboardist (Bronski Beat-Smalltown Boy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 06 | Paul Abraham Hungarian composer (Blume von Hawaii), dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
May 08 | Hugo Alfven Swedish composer (Midsommarvaka), dies at 88. | Ref: 5 |
May 09 | Jim Reilly rocker (Red Rockers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 10 | Bono (Paul Hewson) singer: group: U2: Sunday Bloody Sunday, Pride [In the Name of Love], With You or Without You, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 12 | Cecil Armstrong Gibbs composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
May 20 | Susan Cowsill Newport RI, rock vocalist (Cowsills-We Can Fly), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 23 | Theo Vogelaars pop bassist (Trckener Kecks/Paid Love), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 30 | Stephen "Tea Tower" Duffy rocker (Lilac Time-Paradise Song), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 02 | Tony Hadley rocker (Spandau Ballet-True), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 06 | Steve Vai musician: guitar: group: David Lee Roth Band: California Girls, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 08 | Mick Red Hucknall singer: group: Simply Red: Moneys Too Tight to Mention, Holding Back the Years, The Right Thing, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 20 | John Taylor rocker (Duran Duran-Girls on Film), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 01 | Evelyn "Champagne" King Bronx NY, singer (Shame, I'm In Love), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 15 | Lawrence Tibbett Bakersfield CA, baritone (Metropolitan 1923-50), dies at age 63. | Ref: 70 |
Aug 04 | Robbin Crosby heavy metal rocker (Ratt-Round & Round), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 05 | Mike Nocito rocker (Johnny Hates Jazz-Turn Back the Clock), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 07 | Jacquie O'Sullivan rocker (Bananarama-Venus), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 12 | Morty Black heavy metal rocker (TNT-7 Seas), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 15 | Tommy Aldridge, heavy metal rocker (Ozzy-Diary of a Mad Man), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 22 | Debbi Peterson musician: drums, singer: group: Bangles: Walk like an Egyptian, Manic Monday, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 23 | Oscar (Greeley Clendenning) Hammerstein II, lyricist, songwriter w/Richard Rodgers: OK!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, Flower Drum Song, Sound of Music; dies at age 65 in Doylestown PA. | Ref: 68 |
Aug 26 | Branford Marsalis musician: saxophone: bandleader: The Tonight Show; toured with Sting, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 07 | David Steele rocker (Fine Young Cannibals-Drive Me Crazy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 08 | David Steele musician: keyboards, bass: group: Fine Young Cannibals, The Beat: Stand Down Margaret, Whaappen, Cant Get Used to Losing You, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 09 | Jussi Bjorling, Swedish tenor, dies at age 49. | Ref: 70 |
Sep 10 | Siobhan Fahey singer: group: Bananarama, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 11 | Neal X rocker (Sigue Sigue Sputnik-Love Missile F-111), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 22 | Joan Jett, Philadelphia PA, singer (Blackhearts-I Love Rock 'n Roll), is born. (TWA, 1998) | Ref: 95 |
Oct 13 | Joey Belladonna heavy metal vocalist (Anthrax-Protest & Survive), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 19 | Woody rocker (Voice of the Beehive-Let it Bee), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 01 | Lyle Lovett country singer (Desert Rose Band, Give Back My Heart), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 03 | James Prime (musician: keyboards: group: Deacon Blue), is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 05 | Country and rockabilly artist Johnny Horton dies in an auto accident in Milano TX. | Ref: 68 |
Nov 18 | Kim Wilde England, rocker (You Keep Me Hanging On), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 19 | Rock musician Matt Sorum (The Cult; Guns N' Roses) is born. | |
Nov 22 | Eg White rocker (Brother Beyond-Can You Keep a Secret), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 25 | Amy Grant gospel singer (Glory of Love, Baby Baby), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 25 | Kasey Smith Queens NY, heavy metal artist (Danger Danger-Screw It), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 01 | Ion Vasilescu composer, dies at 57. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 02 | Rick Savage bass player (Def Leppard-Hysteria, Rock of Ages), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 03 | Hermann Stephani composer, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 05 | Les Nemes musician: bass: group: Haircut 100, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 05 | Jack Russell singer: group: Great White, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 12 | Jaap van Sweden Dutch violinist/concert master, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 15 | Doug Phelps Leachville AR, singer (Kentucky Headhunters-Davy Crockett), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 23 | William Sinnot Scottish pop musician (Shamen-Move Any Mountain), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | Amy Grant singer (That's What Love Is, Baby Baby), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 28 | Marty Roe Lebanon OH, singer (Diamond Rio-Meet in the Middle), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 31 | Semyon Semyonovich Bogatiryov composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
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Jan 03 | Erwin Blom Dutch singer/guitarist (Eton Crop), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 06 | Dirk de Vries Dutch pop bassist (Kong-Slauerhoff), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Nadja Salerni-Sonnenberg Rome Italy, concert violinist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Janet Jones-Gretzky dancer, actress: Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach, Dance Fever, The Beastmaster, The Flamingo Kid, A League of Their Own, The Firm: Total Body Low Impact Aerobics; wife of hocky great Wayne Gretzky, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 13 | Graham "Suggs" McPherson Sussex, rock vocalist (Madness-Our House), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 14 | Henry Geehl composer, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 15 | Iris DeMent Paragould AR, country singer (Our Town), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 15 | Francesco Maria Saraceni composer, dies at 49. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 16 | Janos Viski composer, dies at 54. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 21 | John Joseph Becker composer, dies a day before 75th birthday. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 27 | Gillian Gilbert musician: keyboard: group: New Order: Shellshock, Confusion, Blue Monday, is born in Manchester England. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 27 | Martin Degville rocker (Sigue Sigue Sputnik-Love Missile F-111), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 27 | Margo Timmins singer (Cowboy Junkies), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | Eddie Jackson musician: bass, singer: group: Queensryche: LPs: Queensryche, The Warning, Rage for Order, Operation: Mindcrime, Empire, The Promised Land, Operation: Livecrime, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 31 | Lloyd Cole guitar/vocals (& the Commotions-Rattlesnakes), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Adolf Vogl composer, dies at 87. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 06 | Archibald T Davison composer, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 08 | Sammy Llanas rocker (Bodeans), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 08 | Vince Neil [Wharton] California, rock vocalist (Mtley Cre-Girls Girls Girls), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 11 | Becky LeBeau Los Angeles CA, vocalist (Mischief), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 13 | Les Warner rocker (Cult-Fire Woman), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 13 | Henry Rollins US vocalist/poet (Black Flagg, Rollins Band), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 16 | Andy Taylor Dolver-Hampton England, rock guitarist (Duran Duran-Hungry Like the Wolf), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Percy Aldridge Grainger Australian/US composer/pianist, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 21 | Ranking Roger rock vocalist (English Beat-Drowning), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Don Van Spall guitarist (Sleeze Beez), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 24 | Persijn "Dakota" Joling Dutch rock guitarist/singer (Pilgrims-Red), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | John-Jon (John Andrew Foster) musician: group: Bronski Beat: LPs: Age of Consent, Hundreds & Thousands, Truthdare Doubledare, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 28 | Joris Vriamont Flemish writer/music publisher, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 28 | Percy Grainger, Australian-born American composer, pianist and conductor, dies at age 78. | Ref: 70 |
Mar 01 | Davis Daniel Arlington Heights IL, country singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 05 | Dan Stuart US singer/songwriter (Green on Red), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | Thomas Beecham English conductor (Last Night of the Prom), dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 11 | Mike Percy rocker (Dead or Alive-Spin Me Round), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 11 | Bruce Watson musician: guitar: group: Big Country: Harvest Home, Fields of Fire, In a Big Country, Chance, Wonderland, East of Eden, Where the Rose is Sown, is born in Ontario Canada. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 19 | Edric Cundell composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 20 | Slim Jim Phantom [Jim Mcdonnell] rock drummer (Stray Cats-Stray Cat Strut), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 21 | Slim MacDonnell Jim Phantom rock percussionist (Stray Cats), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | Jack Kane orchestra leader (Steve & Eydie, Andy Williams Show), dies at 37. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | Mark White musician: guitar: group: ABC: Tears are Not Enough, Poison Arrow, Be Near Me, When Smokey Sings, King Without a Crown, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 02 | Keren Jane Woodward, Bristol England, rock vocalist (Bananarama-Venus), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 02 | Wallingford Riegger US composer (Bacchangle), dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Melissa Etheridge rock guitarist/vocalist (Come to My Window), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 07 | Jesus Guridi composer, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 07 | Yusef Greiss composer, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 09 | Mark Kelly Dublin Ireland, rock keyboardist (Marillion-Real to Reel), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 11 | Francis de Bourguignon composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | D D Verni heavy metal rocker (Overkill-Hello From the Gutter), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | Nils-Eric Fougstedt composer, dies at 50. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 13 | Tammy Stephens Arlington TX, singer (Girls Next Door-Don't Be Cruel), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | Kelly Hansen heavy metal rocker (Hurricane-I'm on to You), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 21 | James Melton Moultrie GA, opera tenor (Ford Festival), dies at age 57. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 29 | Tenor Luciano Pavarotti makes opera debut in "La Boheme"at Reggio Emilia, Italy. | Ref: 10 |
May 02 | Doctor Robert [Bruce R Howard] rocker (Blow Monkeys-Wicked Ways), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 04 | Jay Aston singer: group: Bucks Fizz: Making Your Mind Up, Land of Make Believe, My Camera Never Lies, Now Those Days are Gone, If You Cant Stand the Heat, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 11 | Cecile Licad Manila Philippines, pianist (Leventritt Award-1981), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 12 | Billy Duffy rocker (The Cult-Hell's Kitchen), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 12 | Ray Gillen Cliffside Park NJ, rocker (Badlands-Dreams in the Dark), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 17 | Enya [Eithne N Bhraonin] Gweedore Ireland, vocalist (Watermark), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 17 | Henri Gagnon composer, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
May 19 | Joe Howard singer (Gay Nineties Revue), dies at 94. | Ref: 5 |
May 20 | Nick Heyward musician: guitar, singer, songwriter: Favourite Shirts [Boy Meets Girl], Love Plus One, Fantastic Day, The Day It Rained Forever, Whistle Down the Wind, Take That Situation; group: Haircut 100, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 20 | Kit Clarke rocker (Danny Wilson-Mary's Prayer), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 21 | Tim Lever keyboard/sax (Dead or Alive-You Spin Me Round), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 22 | Dana Williams Dayton OH, singer (Diamond Rio-Meet in the Middle), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 27 | Singer, Johnny Cash turned TV actor. He appeared on the NBC drama, The Deputy. | Ref: 4 |
May 28 | Roland Gift Birmingham England, rocker (Fine Young Cannibals-She Drives Me Crazy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | David Palmer heavy metal drummer (ABC, AC/DC), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | Melissa Etheridge US singer/songwriter/guitarist (Never Enough), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | Uuno Kalervo Klami composer, dies at 60. | Ref: 5 |
May 30 | Trey Parker rapper/actor (Newsies, Hull High), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 03 | Charles Hart Broadway lyricist: Phantom of the Opera, Aspects of Love, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 04 | El (Eldra) DeBarge singer: group: DeBarge: I Like It, All This Love, Time Will Reveal, Rhythm of the Night, is born. | Ref: 68 |
Jun 06 | Terri Nunn Calif, singer (Berlin-You Take my Breathe Away), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 10 | Maxi Priest rocker (Wide World), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 14 | Boy George (George Alan ODowd) androgynous rock musician & druggie (Culture Club), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 16 | Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defected to the West while his troupe was in Paris. | Ref: 70 |
Jun 22 | Jimmy Somerville musician: keyboards, singer: groups: The Committee, Communards: You are My World, Dont Leave Me This Way; Bronski Beat: Smalltown Boy, Why, It Aint Necessarily So, I Feel Love, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 24 | Curt Smith musician: bass, singer: group: Tears For Fears: Suffer the Children, Mad World, Change, Pale Shelter, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 26 | Terri Nunn singer: group: Berlin: Take My Breath Away, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 03 | Vince Clarke songwriter: group: DePeche Mode: Just Cant Get Enough, See You; musician: keyboards: groups: Yaz: Only You, Dont Go, Nobodys Diary; The Assembly: Never Never; Erasure: Sometimes, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 08 | Andy Fletcher musician: group: Depeche Mode: Enjoy the Silence, New Life, Shake the Disease, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 08 | Graham Jones musician: guitar: group: Haircut 100, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 13 | Lawrence Donegan, musician: bass: Lloyd Cole & The Commotions, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 13 | Arnold Schoenberg Austrian-US composer (Second Quartet), dies at 86. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 21 | Jim Martin musician: guitar: group: Faith No More | Ref: 4 |
Jul 23 | Martin Gore rocker (Depeche Mode-Just Can't Get Enough), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 26 | Gary Cherone Boston, heavy metal vocalist (Extreme-More Than Words), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 26 | Andy Connel rocker (Swingout Sister-Swingout), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 08 | The Edge (Dave Evans) London, rocker (U2-I Will Follow), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 10 | John Farriss rocker (Inxs-Kiss the Dirt), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 12 | Pete De Freitas rocker (Echo & the Bunnymen-Heaven Up Here), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 12 | Roy Hay guitarist (Culture Club-Do You Really Want to Hurt Me), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 15 | Matt Johnson rocker (The The-Infected Soul Mining), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 20 | Rick Rael heavy metal rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 22 | Roland Orzabal singer (Tears for Fears-Shout, Head over Heels), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 24 | Mark Bedford musician: bass: group: Madness: The Prince, Dont Quote Me on That, Our House, My Girl, Baggy Trousers, Embarrassment, Return of the Los Palmos Seven, Cardiac Arrest, House of Fun, Tomorrows Just Another Day, Starvation, Ghost Train, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 25 | Singer Billy Ray Cyrus is born. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
Aug 28 | Kim Appleby rocker (Mel & Kim-Coming to America), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 29 | Tony Macalpine heavy metal rocker (Solo-Edge of Insanity), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 31 | David Chastain heavy metal rocker (Chastain-Rule of Wasteland), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 06 | Bob Dylan gave one of his first performances at the Gaslight Cafe in Greenwich Village. The Gaslight was originally a basket house, where performers were paid from the contents of a basket that had been passed around. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 06 | Paul Waaktaar musician: guitar, singer: group: a-ha, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 02 | Phil Oakey rocker (Human League-Human), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 02 | Robbie Nevil rocker (A Place Like This), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 10 | Martin Kemp rocker (Spandau Ballet-True), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 14 | Mike Tramp Denmark, heavy metal rocker (White Lion-Mane Attraction), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 18 | Wynton Marsalis New Orleans La, jazz trumpeter (Grammy 1983), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 29 | Randy (Steven Randall) Jackson, singer in The Jackson Five, is born. | Ref: 3 |
Oct 31 | Larry Mullen Jr. Grammy Award-winning musician: drums: group: U2, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 01 | Mags Furuholmen Norway, rocker (Aha-Take on Me), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 02 | k.d. (Kathryn Dawn) Lang singer: LPs: Angel with a Lariat, Shadowland, Absolute Torch and Twang, Ingenue, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, All You Can Eat, Drag, Invincible Summer, Live by Request, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 09 | Sandra 'Pepa' Denton Grammy Award-winning rap singer: Pepa of Salt-N-Pepa: None of Your Business [1994]; actress: Oz, First-Time Felon, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 10 | Junior [Norman Giscombe], R&B singer (Mama used to Say), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 18 | Janice Lynn Kuehnemund St Paul MN, rocker (Vixen-Rev It Up), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 27 | Princess rocker (Desirez Heslop, All For Love), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 27 | Martin Degville rocker (Sigue Sigue Sputnik-Love Missile F-111), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 27 | Gillian Gilbert Manchester England, rocker (New Order-Round & Round), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 27 | Margo Timmins singer (Cowboy Junkies), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 03 | Jekabs Graubins composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 08 | William Beatton Moonie composer, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 16 | Boris Semyonovich Shekhter composer, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 16 | Cato Engelen-Sewing Dutch soprano singer/primadonna, dies at 93. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 17 | Sarah Dallin rocker (Bananarama-Venus), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 18 | Ken Foreman rocker (Thrashing Doves-Reprobate's Hymn), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 24 | Guy de Lioncourt composer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 29 | Mark Day musician: guitar: group: Happy Mondays | Ref: 4 |
- 1962
Jan 04 | Martin McAloon rocker (Prefab Sprout-2 Wheels Good), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 09 | Phil Lewis London England, rock vocalist (LA Guns-It's Over Now), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 09 | LeRoy B Shield US pianist/composer (Union Pacific Suite), dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 12 | Richard de Guide composer, dies at 52. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 14 | Patrica Morrison rocker (Sisters of Mercy-Walk Away, Black Planet), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 16 | Jan Koster Dutch drummer (Sleeze Beez-Powertool), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 16 | Paul Webb rocker (TalkTalk), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 18 | Raymond Moulaert composer, dies at 86. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 26 | Tom Keifer rock guitarist/vocalist (Cinderella-Heartbreak Station), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 26 | Fran Lhotka composer, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 27 | Michael Collins clarinettist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | Fritz Kreisler Austria/US violinist/composer, dies at age 86. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 04 | Clint Black, Long Branch NJ, country vocalist (A Better Man), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Tommy Skeoch rock vocalist (Tesla-Five Man Acoustical Jam), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Doug Watkins jazz musician: bass: Pepper-Knepper Quintet, Hank Mobley Quartet, Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers; is killed in a car crash. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Jacques Ibert French composer (Escales), dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 06 | Axl Rose [William Bailey] Lafayette IN, rocker (Guns & Roses), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 07 | David Bryan rock keyboardist (Bon Jovi-You Give Love a Bad Name), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 07 | (Troyal) Garth Brooks, Tulsa OK, country singer (No Fences, Ropin' the Wind), is born. (also TWA, 1998) | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Phil Lewis London England, rock vocalist (LA Guns-It's Over Now), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | LeRoy B Shield US pianist/composer (Union Pacific Suite), dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 10 | Cliff Burton rocker (Metallica), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 11 | Sheryl Crow Kennett MO, singer/songwriter (All I Wanna Do, If It Makes You Happy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 16 | Tony Kiley rocker (Blow Monkeys-Wicked Ways), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 17 | David McComb Australia, vocalist/songwriter (Triffids), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 17 | Bruno Walter symphony conductor (New York Philharmonic), dies at 85. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 19 | Albert Israel Elkus composer, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Joel Ellis rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 23 | Michael Wilton rock guitarist (Queensrche-The Warning), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 24 | Michelle Shocked singer/musician, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 25 | Foster Emerson Sylvers rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | Carl Emil Theodor Ehrenberg composer, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Bill Leen rocker (Gin Blossoms), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 02 | Jon Bon Jovi [Bongiovi], Perth Amboy NJ, rocker (Bon Jovi-You Give Love a Bad Name), is born. (also TWA, 1998) | Ref: 5 |
Mar 05 | Otakar Jeremias composer, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 06 | Rezso Kokai composer, dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 07 | Taylor Dayne [Leslie Wunderman], Long Island NY, vocalist (I'll Always Love You), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 10 | Gary Clark rocker (Danny Wilson-Mary's Prayer), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 15 | Steve Coy rocker (Dead or Alive-Spin Me Round), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 15 | Terrence Trent D'Arby New York NY, rock vocalist (Wishing Well), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 16 | John Owen Jones composer, dies at 85. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 17 | Clare Grogan rocker (Altered Images-Happy Birthday), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 17 | Janet Patricia Gardner Juneau AK, rocker (Vixen-Rev It Up), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 17 | Roxy Dora Petrucci Rochester MN, rock drummer (Vixen-Rev It Up), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Richard Coles rocker (Communards-Don't Leave Me This Way), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Ged Grimes [Danny Wilson], rocker (Mary's Prayer), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | M C Hammer [Stanley Kirk Burrell] Oakland CA, rapper (U Can't Touch This), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 02 | Billy Dean Quincy FL, country singer (Billy the Kid), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | John Gruffith rocker (Red Rockers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Mike Ness rocker (Social Distortion), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Manolis Kalomiris Greek opera composer, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 06 | Stan Cullimore bassist (Housemartins-Happy Hour, Over There), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 08 | Izzy Stradlin [Jeff Isabelle], Lafayette IN, guitarist (Guns N' Roses-Welcome to the Jungle), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 16 | Ian MacKaye rocker (Cyrano de Bergerac), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | Mick Sweda heavy metal (Bulletboys, King Kobra-Ready to Strike), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | Shirlie Hollman rocker (Pepsi & Shirley-All Right Now), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 20 | Arthur Harmat composer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 22 | Solomon Pimsleur composer, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 26 | Graham "Skin" Skinner rocker (Hipsway), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 05 | Gary Daly singer: group: China Crisis: Wishful Thinking, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 05 | Kevin Mooney musician: bass: group: Adam & The Ants: LPs: Kings of the Wild Frontier, Prince Charming, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 09 | Paul Heaton rocker (The Housemartins-Happy Hour, Over There), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 10 | Garry Daley keyboard (China Crisis-Christian), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 14 | C C Deville rocker (Poison-Talk Dirty to Me), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 14 | Ian Astbury, Heswall Merseyside England, rock vocalist (Cult-Fire Woman), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 14 | Martin Rongen Dutch pop drummer (Rowwen Hze-Boem), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 17 | Tracey Bryn rocker (Voice of the Beehive-Let it Bee), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 19 | Iain Harvie Scottish rock guitarist (Nothing Ever Happens), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 26 | Colin Vearncombe rocker (Black-Wonderful Like), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | Roland Gift singer: group: Fine Young Cannibals: Johnny Come Home, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 29 | Barbra Streisand appears on "The Garry Moore Show". | Ref: 5 |
May 31 | Corey Hart Montral Canada, vocalist (I Wear My Sunglasses at Night), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 31 | Eduardo Toldra composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 07 | Paddy McAloon rocker (Prefab Sprout-2 Wheels Good), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 08 | Nick Rhodes (Bates) musician: keyboards: group: Duran Duran: Planet Earth, Hungry like the Wolf, Save a Prayer, Rio, Is There Something I Should Know, Union of the Snake, Wild Boys, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 09 | A decade after making his first hit song, Because of You, singer Tony Bennett debuted in concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 09 | Eddie Lundon rocker (China Crisis-Christian), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 13 | Sir Eugene Goossens composer, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 19 | Paula Julie Abdul Van Nuys CA, singer/choreographer (Straight Up), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 22 | Ruby Turner rocker (No Where to Run), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 30 | Julianne Regan rocker (All About Eve-All About Scarlet), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 07 | Clive "Doctor" Jackson rocker (Dr & the Medics-Laughing at Pieces), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 10 | Dan Donovan rocker (Bad) | Ref: 5 |
Aug 23 | Shaun Ryder singer: group: Happy Mondays, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 25 | Mazzi Rawd heavy metal rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 25 | Vivian Campbel, heavy metal rocker (White Snake-Here I Go Again), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 18 | Joanne Catherall singer: group: Human League, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 26 | Tracey Thorn rocker (Everything But the Girls), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 28 | Luis Enrique spanish singer (Luces del Alma), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 03 | Tommy Lee (Bass) musician: drums: group: Motley Crue, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 05 | Ken Noda NYC, pianist (Rivalry), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 16 | Flea (Michael Balzary) musician: bass guitar: group: The Red Hot Chili Peppers, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 01 | Rick Allen musician: drums: group: Def Leppard, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 01 | Mags Furuholmen musician: keyboards, singer: group: a-ha, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 03 | Marilyn rocker (You Don't Love Me), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 11 | Mic Michaeli musician: keyboard: group: Europe, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 18 | Kirk Hammett musician: guitar: group: Metallica: Enter Sandman, Nothing Else Matters, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 20 | Steve Alexander rocker (Brother Beyond-Can You Keep a Secret), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 24 | John Squire musician: guitar: group: The Stone Roses: Fool's Gold, What the World is Waiting For, Elephant Stone, One Love, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 27 | Calvin Hayes rocker (Johnny Hates Jazz-Turn Back the Clock), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 27 | Charlie Benante Bronx NY, rock drummer (Anthrax-Protest & Survive), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 27 | Michael Collins clarinettist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 06 | Ben Watt rocker (Everything but the Girls-Sir Idlewood), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 07 | Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian soprano, dies at age 67. | Ref: 70 |
Dec 11 | Curtis Williams rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 12 | Yekaterina Geltzer, Russian ballerina, dies at age 86. | Ref: 70 |
Dec 20 | Erik William Gustav Leidzen composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 20 | Luis Abraham Delgadillo composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 21 | Christy Forester Lookout Mountain GA, country singer (Forester Sister-Men), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 24 | Michael Ray rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 30 | Paul Crowder rocker (The Adventures-Sea of Love), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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Jan 03 | Oscar Backing Austria/Netherlands viola player, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 05 | Rick Ambrose singer (Jewel), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 06 | Paul Brindley English pop bassist (Sundays, Can't Be Sure), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Tadeusz Szeligowski composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 13 | Tim Patrick Kelly Trenton NJ, guitarist (Slaughter-Stick it Live), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 14 | Gustav Regler writer, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 16 | Gilardo Gilardi composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 19 | Caron Wheeler English singer (Soul II Soul-Keep on Movin'), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 25 | Carl Fysh rocker (Brother Beyond-Can You Keep a Secret), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 25 | Suzanne Klemann Dutch singer (Los Lane-I Wanna Be), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 26 | Jazzie B (Beresford Romeo) rap artist: group: Soul II Soul, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 26 | Andrew Ridgeley England, rock guitarist (Wham-Wake Me Up), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 28 | Danny Spitz heavy metal guitarist (Anthrax-Protest & Survive), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 30 | Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc, Paris, composer/pianist (Les Biches), dies at age 64. | Ref: 70 |
Jan 31 | (Long Island) Scott Ian Rosenfeld, Bayside NY, rocker (Anthrax-Protest & Survive), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 06 | Werner Erich Josten German composer (Jungle), dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | (James) Travis Tritt Grammy Award-winnning singer: vocal collaboration w/Marty Stuart [1993]; Anymore, Can I Trust You with My Heart, Help Me Hold On; appeared in: Rio Diablo, The Cowboy Way, Sgt. Bilko, Tales From The Crypt, half-time show at 1993s Super Bowl, is born in Marietta GA. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 14 | D'Wayne Wiggins singer (Tony! Toni! Tone!), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 16 | Laszlo Lajtha composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 17 | Dan Reed rocker/actor (HOTS, Lake Consequence), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 19 | Seal, English vocalist/songwriter (Killer, Crazy, Kiss by a Rose), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Ian Brown English rock vocalist (Stone Roses-Made of Stone), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 23 | Robert Collins keyboard player, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 23 | June (Algeria Junius) Clark musician: trumpet; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 01 | Robert James Affuso Newburgh NY, rock drummer (Skid Row-Psycho Love), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | Jason Newsted US heavy-metal bassist (Metallica-Kill 'em All), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | MDV [Michiel de Vos] Dutch pop bassist (Burma Shave-Stash), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 05 | Country singer Patsy Cline (Virginia Petterson Hensley) (31), Cowboy Copas and Hankshaw Hawkins (41) are killed in a plane crash at Camden, TN, near Nashville. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 06 | Suzanne Crough rocker (Partridge Family), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 15 | Bret Michaels Harrisburg PA, guitarist (Poison-Talk Dirty to Me), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 15 | Frans Koenn Dutch rock bassist (Los Lane-Precious), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 17 | William Henry Squire composer, dies at 91. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 20 | Paul Mirkovich rock keyboardist (Nelson-Love & Affection), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 21 | Sharon June Howe Pederson Glencoe MN, rocker (Vixen-Rev It Up), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 22 | Suzanne Sulley Sheffield South Yorkshire, rocker (Human Leauge-Human), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Susan Sulley rocker (Human League-Human), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | Dave Koz saxophonist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Alec A Templeton composer/pianist (Alec Templeton Time), dies at 52. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 29 | M.C. Hammer (Stanley Kirk Burrell) Grammy Award-winning singer: U Cant Touch This [1990], Please Hammer Dont Hurt Em: The Movie [1990]; Ring Em, Adams Groove [Addams Family Theme]; dancer, actor: Amen, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 30 | Alexander Vasil'yevich Gauk composer, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 04 | David Gavurin English pop guitarist/composer (Sundays, Blind), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | Jimmy Osmond singer (Donny & Marie Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | Julius Harrison composer, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 10 | Warren DeMartini heavy metal rocker (Dokken-Alone Again, Ratt), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 16 | Jimmy Osmond, Ogden UT, singer (Donnie & Marie), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 20 | Brett Edward Garsed Victoria Australia, heavy metal artist (Nelson), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 20 | Kal Swan heavy metal rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 24 | Joey Vera heavy metal rocker (Armored Saint-Aftermath), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 24 | Billy Gould Los Angeles CA, rock bassist (Faith No More), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 27 | Arther van Dijk drummer (Ivy Green), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 02 | Tomas Vackar composer, dies at 17. | Ref: 5 |
May 05 | Heinrich Gebhard composer, dies. | Ref: 5 |
May 06 | Alessandra Ferri British ballerina (American Ballet Theater), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 06 | Ted Weems (Wilfred Theodore Weymes) orchestra leader: Ted Weems Orchestra, dies. | Ref: 4 |
May 12 | Stanislaw Wiechowicz composer, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
May 13 | Julian Brookhouse rocker (Curiosity Killed Cat-Keep Your Distance), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 16 | Jimmy Osmond rocker (Osmond Brothers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 19 | Yazz [Yasmin Evans] Mrs Simon La Bon/rocker (Fine Time, The One Way is Up), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 20 | Brian Nash musician: guitar: group: Frankie Goes to Hollywood: Relax!, Two Tribes, The Power of Love, Welcome to the Pleasure Dome, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 24 | Gene Anthony Ray Harlem NY, dancer/actor (Leroy-Fame), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 24 | Elmore James blues guitarist, dies at 45 of a heart attack. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | Vissarion Yakovlevich Shebalin composer, dies at 60. | Ref: 5 |
May 31 | Wendy Smith rocker (Prefab Sprout-2 Wheels Good), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 01 | Mike Joyce rocker (The Smiths-Ask, Panic, London), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 09 | Barbra Striesand appears on "The Ed Sullivan Show". | Ref: 5 |
Jun 22 | Anne-Marie Ruddock rocker (Amazulu-Excitable), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 25 | George Michael (Yorgos Panayiotou) singer: duo: Wham!: Wake Me Up before You Go-Go; Ivor Novello Songwriter of the Year Award [1985]; solo: Careless Whisper, Faith, A Different Corner, I Want Your Sex, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 28 | Andy Cousin rocker (All About Eve-All About Scarlet & Other Stories), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 29 | Anne-Sophie Mutter Rheinfeldin Germany, violinist (Berlin Phil), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 01 | Roddy Bottum musician: keyboards: group: Faith No More, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 03 | Taylor Dayne singer: Dont Rush Me, Love Will Lead You Back; LPs: Tell It to My Heart, Cant Fight Fate, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 07 | Perry Richardson SC, bassist (Firehouse-Love of a Lifetime), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 13 | Bobby Rock Houston TX, rock drummer (Nelson-Love & Affection), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 20 | Dino Esposito singer: I Like It, Romeo, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 24 | Paul Geary Boston Mass, heavy metal drummer (Extreme-More Than Words), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 26 | Andrew C Timmons Scottsdale Az, guitarist (Danger Danger-Screw It), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 31 | Norman Cook rocker (Housemartins-Happy Hour, Over There), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 01 | Coolio (Artis Ivey Jr.) rapper: LPs: It Takes a Thief, Gangstas Paradise, My Soul, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 03 | James Hetfield heavy metal rocker (Metallica-Helpless), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 07 | Marcus Lewis Pontiac Mich, singer (Sing me a Song), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 09 | Whitney Houston Newark NJ, singer (One Moment in Time), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 13 | Tigg Ketler Chula Vista Ca, drummer (Bang Tango-Dancin' on Coals), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 19 | Joey Tempest rocker (Europe-The Final Countdown), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 24 | John Bush heavy metal rocker (Armoured Saint-Can U Deliver), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 29 | Greg Steele rocker (Faster Pussycat-Wake Me When It's Over) | Ref: 5 |
Aug 30 | Axel Stordahl orch leader (Frank Sinatra Show), dies at 50. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 31 | Reb Beach heavy metal rocker (Winger-17), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 10 | Carol Decker rocker (T'Pau-Heart & Soul), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 10 | David Titlow rocker (Blue Mercedes-Rich & Famous), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 16 | Richard Marx, Chicago IL, rocker (Hold on to the Night), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 11 | Edith Piaf (Edith Giovanna Gassion) French cabaret singer, actress; dies at age 47. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 31 | Johnny Marr musician: guitar: group: The Smiths: Hand in Glove, This Charming Man, What Difference Does It Make, Heaven Knows Im Miserable Now, William, It Was Really Nothing, Reel Around the Fountain, Suffer Little Children, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 01 | Rick Allen rocker (Def Leppard-Hysteria, Rock of Ages), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 15 | Fritz Reiner conductor (Chicago Symphony Orchestra), dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 26 | Amelita Galli-Curci opera soprano: "If not the greatest coloratura soprano of all time, she must surely be recognized as among the world?s finest examples of true operatic artistry", dies. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 30 | Rapper Jalil (Whodini) is born. | Ref: 64 |
Dec 05 | Karl Amadeus Hartmann composer, dies at 58. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 07 | Barbara Weathers vocalist (Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | 6 year old Donny Osmond's singing debut on the Andy Williams Show. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 12 | Frank Sinatra Jr returned after being kidnapped. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 14 | Dinah Washington singer, dies of sleeping pill overdose at 39. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 18 | Winifried P I Zillig German composer/conductor (Opfer), dies at 58. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 20 | Paul Constantinescu composer, dies at 54. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 23 | Singer Terry Weeks is born. | Ref: 64 |
Dec 24 | Mary Ramsey singer (10,000 Maniacs), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 26 | Lars Ulrich Gentofte Denmark, rock drummer (Metallica-Unforgiven, Nothing Else Matters), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 28 | Paul Hindemith, German composer: Gebrauchsmusik; operas: Cardillac, Matthias the Painter; concertmaster: Frankfurt Opera; conductor & viola soloist: Amar-Hindemith String Quartet; organized Turkey?s symphony orchestra; teacher: Berlin Conservatory, Yale University, University of Zurich; dies at age 68. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 31 | Scott Ian US heavy metal guitarist (Anthrax-I'm the Man), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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Jan 01 | Otto Emanuel Olsson composer, dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 05 | Ted Harris Poley Englewood NJ, rocker (Danger Danger-Screw It), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 06 | Mark O'Toole bassist/drummer (Frankie Goes to Hollywood-Relax), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 07 | Colin C McPhee composer (H2O, Mechanical Principles), dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Krista Tesreau St Louis MO, actress (Mindy-Guiding Light, Tina-OLTL, Silk Stalkings), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 15 | Weldon John "Jack" Teagarden US jazz trombonist/singer, dies at 58. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 20 | Jan Rychlik composer, dies at 47. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 22 | Marc Blitzstein US composer (Cradle Will Rock), dies at 58. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 23 | Louis Horst, American pianist/composer, dies at age 80. | Ref: 70 |
Jan 27 | Migi [Miguel Drummond] rock (Curiosity Killed Cat-Keep Your Distance), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 27 | Lieb Glantz composer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | Roddy Frame musician: guitar, singer, songwriter: group: Aztec Camera: Oblivious, Walk Out to Winter, All I Need is Everything, Birth of the True, Knife, Just like the USA; solo LP: Love, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 01 | Jani Lane rocker (Warrant-Cherry Pie), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 01 | Dwayne Rudolph Goettel musician, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Duff [Michael] "Rose" McKagan rocker (Guns & Roses-Sweet Child of Mine), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 06 | Skip Ewing Redlands CA, country vocalist (Coast of Colorado), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Rachel Bolan rocker (Skid Row), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Willie Bryant singer (Sugar Hill Times), dies at 55. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 19 | Doug Aldrich rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Terry Ilous rock vocalist (XYZ, Cannibal Jacket), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 23 | John Norum rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Ewen Vernal British pop bassist (Deacon Blue-Your Town), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Jennifer McCarter Sevierville TN, singer (McCarter-The Gift), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Sergius Kagen composer, dies at 54. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 06 | Reniet Vrieze rock singer/guitarist (Pilgrims-White Men), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | Peter Gill musician: drums: group: Frankie Goes to Hollywood: Relax, Two Tribes, The Power of Love, Ferry Cross the Mersey, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 10 | Neneh Cherry (Neneh Mariann Karlsson) songwriter, rap singer: groups: Rip Rig + Panic, The Slits; solo: Buffalo Stance, LPs: Homebrew, Nearly God, Raw Like Sushi, Man, Woman; British Music Awards: Best Single, Best Female Vocalist [1990], Best Video [Woman: 1996]; World Music Awards: Best African Single [7 Seconds: 1995], is born in Stockholm Sweden. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 12 | Tony Terry rock producer (Tony Terry), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 15 | Rockwell (Kennedy William Gordy) singer: Somebodys Watching Me; son of Motown founder, Berry Gordy, is born in Detroit MI. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 20 | Jean Rogister composer, dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 22 | Barbra Streisand appears on the cover of New York Times Magazine section. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 23 | Vassily Vainonen Russian ballet choreographer (Gayaneh), dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | Clark Datchler vocalist (Johnny Hates Jazz-Shattered Dreams), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 29 | Ted Collins pianist (Kate Smith Evening Hour), dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | Tracy Chapman Grammy Award-winning folk, pop singer-songwriter: Fast Car [1989], Give Me One Reason [1997], is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 30 | Willem CN Andriessen Dutch composer/pianist (Beethoven), dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 31 | Erik Turner Omaha NE, rock guitarist (Warrant-Cherry Pie), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | Bozidar Kunc composer, dies at 60. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 06 | Johnny Dee heavy metal drummer (Britny Fox-Boys in Heat, King Kobra), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 08 | Biz Markie rocker (Meteor Man, Townsend Television), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 10 | Alan "Reni" Wren English pop drummer (Stone Roses-Fools Gold), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 10 | Felicia Collins Albany NY, guitarist (David Letterman), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | Philadelphia singer Chubby Checker married former Miss World, Catherina Lodders. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 13 | Bill D'Angelo heavy metal rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 16 | Dave Pirner rocker (Soul Asylum), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | Albe Vidakovic composer, dies at 49. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 23 | Gen [Simon Matthews] English pop drummer (Jesus Jones-Zeroes & Ones), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 24 | Paul Ryder musician: bass: group: Happy Mondays: Step On, Kinky Afro, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 25 | Andy Bell rocker (Erasure-Oh L'Amour), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 01 | Bruno Ravel Paris France, rocker (Danger Danger-Screw It), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 05 | Lorraine McIntosh British pop singer (Deacon Blue-Fellow Hoodlums), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 06 | Harold Morris composer, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
May 08 | Eric Brittingham rocker (Cinderella-Heartbreak Station), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 08 | Peter Gill rocker (Frankie Goes to Hollywood-Relax) [or Mar/Jan 8], is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 10 | Ignace Lilien composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
May 10 | Carol Haney dancer: member of Jack Cole dance company, worked with Bob Fosse; in film: Pajama Game; dies at age 35. | Ref: 4 |
May 13 | Lorraine McIntosh singer: group: Deacon Blue: Dignity, Real Gone Kid, Raintown, Twist And Shout, Your Town, Love And Regret, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 25 | Vasily Andreyevich Zolotaryov composer, dies at 92. | Ref: 5 |
May 26 | Lenny Kravitz singer/guitar (911 is a Joke, Are You Gonna Go My Way?), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | John Finley Williamson conductor (Westminster Choir), dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
May 30 | Wynonna [Christina Judd] Ashland KY, singer (Judds-Why Not Me, Love Can Build A Bridge), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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May 31 | Scotti Hill Manhasset NY, rock guitarist (Skid Row-Psycho Love), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 04 | Chris Kavanagh rocker (Sigue Sigue Sputnik-Love Missile F-111), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 05 | Mags rocker (Fuzzbox-Into Rescue), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 06 | Dee C Lee [Diane Sealey], rocker (Style Council-You're Best Thing), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 22 | Kevin Sargeant rocker (Thrashing Doves-Reprobate's Hymm), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 23 | Joey Allen Ft Wayne Indiana, rock guitarist (Warrant-Cherry Pie), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 29 | Stedman Pearson singer: group: Five Star: System Addict, Can't Wait Another Minute, Rain or Shine, The Slightest Touch, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 01 | Poi Burton rocker (Transvision Vamp-Velveteen), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 01 | Pierre Monteux, French conductor, dies at age 89. | Ref: 70 |
Jul 02 | Dave Parsons rocker (Transvision Vamp, Sham 69-That's Life), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 04 | Mark Allen Slaughter Las Vegas, guitarist (Slaughter-Stick it Live) | Ref: 5 |
Jul 20 | Chris Cornell Grammy Award-winning musician: drums, singer, songwriter: group: Soundgarden: Spoonman [1994], Black Hole Sun [1994], is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 30 | Country Music Hall of Famer Jim Reeves died when his single-engine Beechcraft crashed near Nashville, TN. Gentleman Jim started as a DJ, first at KGRI in Henderson, TX; then at KWKH in Shreveport, LA (the home of the Louisiana Hayride in the early 1950s). His first hit was Mexican Joe in 1953. Reeves became a member of the Grand Ole Opry in 1955. He had his own TV series on ABC in 1957. He was in the 1963 film, Kimberley Jim. Reeves bought a radio station in Henderson, TX, which became very successful. Hits by Jim Reeves include Four Walls, Hell Have to Go, Im Getting Better, Am I Losing You, Welcome to My World and I Guess Im Crazy. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 31 | Country Music Hall of Famer "Gentleman" Jim (James Travis) Reeves died when his single-engine Beechcraft crashed near Nashville, TN. Gentleman Jim started as a DJ, first at KGRI in Henderson, Texas; then at KWKH in Shreveport, LA (the home of the Louisiana Hayride in the early 1950s). His first hit was Mexican Joe in 1953. Reeves became a member of the Grand Ole Opry in 1955. He had his own TV series on ABC in 1957. He was in the 1963 film, Kimberley Jim. Reeves bought a radio station in Henderson, Texas, which became very successful. Hits by Jim Reeves include Four Walls, Hell Have to Go, Im Getting Better, Am I Losing You, Welcome to My World and I Guess Im Crazy. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 01 | Rob Camilletti Cher's boyfriend, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 01 | Nick Christian Sayer rocker (Transvision Vamp-Velveteen), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 03 | (Mary) Flannery O'Connor, novelist and short story writer, dies at age 39. | Ref: 70 |
Aug 11 | Hamish rocker (The Pasedenas-Riding on the Train), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 13 | Ian Haughland heavy metal rocker (Europe-The Final Countdown), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 14 | Johnny Burnette The Master: singer: Dreamin, Youre Sixteen; brother of singer Dorsey Burnette; is killed in a boating accident. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 15 | MCA (Adam Yauch) rocker (The Beastie Boys-You Gotta Fight), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 24 | Pebbles rocker (Girlfriend), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 31 | Carole Coleman singer (Face the Music), dies at 42. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 16 | David Michael Sabo Perth Amboy NJ, rocker (Skid Row-Psycho Love), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 22 | Marq Torien rocker (Bullet Boys-For the Love of Money), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 06 | Matthew Sweet musician: guitar, singer, songwriter: Girlfriend, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 10 | Russ Case orch leader (Julius La Rosa Show), dies at 52. | Ref: 5 |
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Nov 01 | Joe Leste San Diego Cal, rock vocalist (Bang Tango-Dancin' on Coals), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 05 | Buddy (Edwin) Cole pianist: group: The Buddy Cole Trio; sang with Rosemary Clooney: LP: Swing Around Rosie; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 07 | Liam O'Maonlai rocker (Hothouse Flowers-Don't Go), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 14 | Andrew rocker (The Pasadenas-Riding on a Train), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 27 | Migi [Miguel Drummond] rock (Curiosity Killed Cat-Keep Your Distance), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 27 | Lieb Glantz composer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 30 | Don Redman orchestra leader (Sugar Hill Times), dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 07 | Duncan Miller rocker (Blue Mercedes-Rich & Famous), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 07 | Mike Nolan rocker (Bucks Fizz-My Camera Never Lies), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 11 | Justin Currie Scottish rock vocalist/bassist (Del Amitri), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 11 | Sam Cooke US, singer (You Send Me, Sad Moon), is shot to death at a motel at age 33. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 12 | Rockin' Jeff rocker (The Pasadenas-Riding on a Train), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 14 | C[arl] J[eff] Snare Washington DC, vocalist (Firehouse-Love of a Lifetime), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 21 | Ed Jongsma Dutch pop bassist (Sleeze Beez-Look Like Hell), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 22 | Bonifacio Gil Garcia composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 23 | Eddie Vedder (Mueller) songwriter, singer: group: Pearl Jam: LP: Ten | Ref: 4 |
Dec 23 | Arrigo Pedrollo composer, dies at 86. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 29 | Miroslav Krejci composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
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Jan 01 | Juan Bautista Plaza-Alfonzo composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 02 | Staf Gustaf Frans Nees composer, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 04 | David Glasper rocker (Breathe-All I Need), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | Aloys-Henri-Gerard Fornerod composer, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Nathan rocker (Brother Beyond-Can You Keep a Secret), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 12 | Mark Moore rocker (S'Express-Winter Course), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 14 | Vanity [Dee Dee Williams], singer/actress (Action Jackson), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 14 | Jeanette (Anna) MacDonald singer with Nelson Eddy, actress: Love Me Tonight, The Firefly, Cairo, The Cat and the Fiddle, One Hour with You, The Merry Widow, Naughty Marietta, Rose Marie; dies at age 63. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 15 | Derek B rocker (Bullet from a Gun), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 20 | John Michael Montgomery country singer: CMA Single of the Year [I Swear: 1994], ACM Song of the Year [I Love The Way You Love Me: 1994], is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 20 | Alan Freed disc jockey credited with coining the term "rock'n'roll": WJW, Cleveland, WINS & WABC, NY: The Moondoggy Show; fired on air at WABC for alleged involvement in the payola scandal of the late 1950s; dies in Palm Springs, CA. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 21 | Cordell Crockett rocker (Ugly Kid Joe-Mad Man, Too Bad), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 22 | Jazzy Jeff Townes rapper (Parents Just Don't Understand), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 22 | Ray Mayhew rocker (Sigue Sigue Sputnik-Love Missile F-111), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 22 | Steven Adler Cleveland OH, drummer (Guns & Roses-Sweet Child), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 25 | Staff Nees Flemish composer (Maria-oratorio), dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 27 | Theo Uden Marsman Dutch orchestra leader, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 28 | Jef van Durme composer, dies at 57. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | Michael Spisak composer, dies at 50. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Richard Wurz composer, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 13 | Jerry Burke pianist (Lawrence Welk Show), dies. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 14 | Desire-Emile Inghelbrecht French composer/conductor, dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 15 | Nat King Cole (Nathaniel Adams Coles) jazz pianist, bandleader: King Cole Trio; songwriter: Straighten Up and Fly Right; actor: St. Louis Blues; singer: Mona Lisa, Too Young, Unforgettable, Pretend, Ballerina, Ramblin Rose, The Christmas Song; actor: Cat Ballou; first black entertainer to host a national TV show; father of singer, Natalie Cole; dies in Santa Monica, CA at age 45. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 18 | Dr Dre [Andre Young], rap singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 23 | Sylvie Guillem France, ballerina (Royal Ballet), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Boleslav Vomacka composer, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 03 | Carlo Gatti composer, dies at 88. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 06 | Ruvim Pergament composer, dies at 58. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 09 | Anthon van der Horst Dutch organist/composer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 18 | Rolling Stones fined 5 each for public urination. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 18 | Jeff Labarr rocker (Cinderella-Heartbreak Station), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 25 | Giorgio Federico Ghedini composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | Peter O'Toole Irish pop bassist (Hothouse Flowers-People, Home, Don't Go), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 02 | Renzo Bossi composer, dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 04 | Black Francis [Charles Thompson], US singer/songwriter (Pixies), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 04 | Zwart Francis [Charles Thompson] US singer/songwriter (Pixies), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 10 | Tim "Herb" Alexander US funk metal drummer (Primus-Prok soda), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 16 | Gerardo, rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | Contralto Marian Anderson ended her 30-year singing career with a concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 18 | Diana Villegas Mxico, rocker (Triplets-You Don't Have To Go), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | Sylvia Villegas Mxico, rocker (Triplets-You Don't Have To Go), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | Vicky Villegas Mxico, rocker (Triplets-You Don't Have To Go), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 26 | Aaron Avshalomov composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
May 01 | Leo Spies composer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
May 01 | Spike (Lindley Armstrong) Jones musician: drummer; band leader: City Slickers: Cocktails for Two, Der Fuhrers Face; dies at age 53. | Ref: 4 |
May 09 | Ben Volpeliere-Pierrot rocker (Curiosity Killed Cat-Keep Distance), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 17 | Trent Reznor Grammy Award-winning singer, musician: Wish [1992]; LP: Pretty Hate Machine; band: Nine Inch Nails, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 25 | Dave Davies of the Kinks stumbles & is knocked unconscious on stage. | Ref: 5 |
May 25 | Mark Knight California, rock guitarist (Bang Tango-Dancin' on Coals), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 25 | Remco Prins Dutch rock guitarist/vocalist (Burma Shave-Stash), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 25 | Sonny Boy Williamson [Aleck Miller] blues player, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 06 | David Whyte rocker (Brother Beyond-Can You Keep a Secret), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 08 | Robert Platus NYC, rocker (Milli Vanilli-Girl You Know This), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 20 | Ira Louvin country singer (Louvin Brothers), dies at 41. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 22 | Tommy Cunningham rocker (Wet Wet Wet-Wishing I Was), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 09 | Frank Bello Bronx NY, rock bassist (Anthrax-Protest & Survive), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 30 | Tex Axile rocker (Transvision Vamp-Velveteen), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 09 | Kyle Kyle Kensington Pa, rock bassist (Bang Tango-Dancin' on Coals), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 17 | Steve Gorman musician: drums: The Black Crowes, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 17 | Glen Goldsmith rocker (What You See is What You Get), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 28 | Julie Brown MTV VJ (approx), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 27 | Harry Reser orch leader (Sammy Kaye Show), dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 13 | Cherelle rocker (Affair-First Bite), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 15 | Carl Hoff orch leader (Music Hall), dies at 60. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 21 | Bill Black musician: bassist: group: Bill Black Combo: White Silver Sands, Smokie Pt. 2; played in Elvis Presley band, backup for Elvis; dies. | Ref: 10 |
Oct 25 | Nick Thorpe rocker (Curiosity Killed the Cat-Keep Your Distance), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 28 | Earl Bostic alto sax player, bandleader: Flamingo, Sleep, You Go to My Head, Cherokee, Temptation; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 29 | Steven Sweet Wadsworth Ohio, heavy metal artist (Warrant-Cherry Pie), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 31 | Annabella Lwin (Myant Aye) singer: group: Bow Wow Wow, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 14 | Jeanette Jurado singer: group: Expose, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 20 | Mike D (Diamond) rap singer: group: The Beastie Boys: No Sleep Till Brooklyn, She?s On It, [You Gotta] Fight for Your Right [To Party], is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 21 | Bjrk (Gumundsdttir) singer, songwriter: group: The Sugarcubes, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 25 | Dame Myra Hess, English pianist, dies at age 75. | Ref: 70 |
Nov 27 | Fiachna O'Broanain rocker (Hothouse Flowers-Don't Go), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 27 | Theo Uden Marsman Dutch orchestra leader, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 04 | Composer, lyricist, and singer, Jacques Brel made his American debut in concert at Carnegie Hall in NY City. Brel composed Jackie, Youre Not Alone, If You Go Away and more. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 04 | Rob Smits pop drummer (Kong/Phlegm), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | J Mascis, Rock musician, is born. | Ref: 76 |
Dec 10 | Henry (Dixon) Cowell US pianist/composer (Aeolian Harp), dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 14 | Hermann Sandby composer, dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 17 | Tito [Raffaele A] Schipa Italian tenor/composer (Rondine), dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 19 | Chuckii Booker rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 21 | Gabrielle Glaser musician (Luscious Jackson), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 21 | Claude Adonai Champagne composer, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 23 | Rock singer Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam) is born. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
Dec 23 | Slash rocker (Guns N' Roses), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 29 | Kusaku Yamada composer, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
- 1966
Jan 04 | Deana Carter country singer (Strawberry Wine), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 05 | Kate Schellenbach musician (Luscious Jackson), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 09 | Haro Levoni Step'anyan composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 17 | Rexton Gordon "Shabba Ranks" Jamaican dj/rapper (Extra Naked), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 20 | Tracii Guns rock guitarist (LA Guns-It's Over Now), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | Pierre Mercure composer, dies at 38. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 31 | Al Jaworsky [Alan Doughty], pop bassist (Jesus Jones), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 04 | Spike, rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 06 | Rick Astley rock vocalist (Never Gonna Give You Up), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 06 | Johan Algot Haquinius composer, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | James "Rachel" Bolan Point Pleasant NJ, rocker (Skid Row-Psycho Love), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Amanda Roocroft opera singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Sophie Tucker (Abuza) singer, vaudeville: Last of the Red Hot Mamas; Ive been poor, Ive been rich. Believe me, rich is better.; dies at age 79. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 09 | Haro Levoni Step'anyan composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 13 | Freedom Williams rock vocalist (C&C Music Factory-Everybody Dance Now), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 17 | Melissa Brooke-Belland rocker (Voice of the Beehive-Let it Bee), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 18 | Casimir von Paszthory composer, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 19 | Prince Markie D [Mark Morale], rocker (Fat Boys-Jail House Rock), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 21 | Tommy Hendricks rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 21 | Wendy James London England, vocalist (Transvision Vamp-Velveteen), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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Mar 01 | Clinton Gregory singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 02 | Stevie Rachelle rock vocalist (Tuff-What Comes Around Goes Around), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 03 | Anthony Terrell Smith Los Angeles CA, rocker (Tone Loc-Let's Do It), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 03 | Tone-Loc [Anthony Terrell Smith], Los Angeles CA, rocker (Let's Do It), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | Patrick Hannan English pop drummer (Sundays-Can't Be Sure), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | Janis Medins composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 06 | Richard Hageman composer, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 07 | Paul Davis musician: keyboards: group: Happy Mondays, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 10 | Edie Brickell (Mrs Paul Simon)/rocker (& New Bohemians), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 15 | Heinrich Lemacher composer, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 17 | Walter Lang composer, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 18 | Jerry Cantrell US rock guitarist (Alice in Chains-Dirt), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 23 | Marti Pellow rocker (Wet, Wet, Wet-Wishing I Was), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 25 | Jeff Healey Canada, blind pop guitarist (See the Light), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 29 | Harry Daugherty trombonist (Spike Jones & City Slickers), dies at 50. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | Mike McCready musician: guitar: group: Pearl Jam | Ref: 4 |
Apr 11 | Lisa Stansfield singer, songwriter: All Around the World, You Cant Deny It, This is the Right Time, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 12 | Rocker Jan Berry crashes his corvette into a parked truck. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 15 | Graeme Clark bassist (Wet Wet Wet-Angel Eyes, Love is All Around), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 15 | Samantha [Karen] Fox East End London England, singer (Touch Me, I Wanna Have Some Fun), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 30 | Richard Farina rocker, dies on his birthday in a motorcycle accident at age 29. | Ref: 5 |
May 01 | Johnny Colt Cherry Point NC, rock bassist (Black Crowes-Shake Your Money Maker), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 04 | Juan Maria Thomas Sabater composer, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
May 09 | Alfred Mendelsohn composer, dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
May 14 | Fab[rice] Marvan France, Lip Syncher (Milli Vanilli), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 16 | Janet Jackson Gary IN, singer, Michael's sister (Control), is born. (TWA, 2002) | Ref: 95 |
May 18 | Mike Inez US rock bassist (Alice in Chains-Facelift), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 27 | Sean Kinney US rock drummer (Alice in Chains-We Die Young), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 04 | Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano: Rossina [Il barbiere di Siviglia], title role of La Cenerentola, Zerlina [Don Giovanni], Despina and Dorabella [Cosi fan tutte], Susanna and Cherubino [Le nozze fi Figaro], Euridice and Genio in Haydn's Orfeo ed Euridice; in films: Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Mozart: Requiem, La Cenerentola, Cos fan tutte), is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 06 | Claudette Orbison wife of singer Roy, dies in a motorcyle crash. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 08 | Doris Pearson rocker (5 Star-Silk & Steel), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 03 | Joseph Deems Taylor composer: operas: The Kings Henchman, Peter Ibbetson; writer; music critic: New York World [1921-25], New York American [1931-32]; intermission commentator for Sunday radio broadcasts of NY Philharmonic [1936 to 1943]; president of ASCAP; married to poet and playwright Mary Kennedy; dies. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 11 | Mel Appleby rocker (Mel & Kim-Coming to America), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 18 | Bobby Fuller rocker (I Fought the Law), found dead. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 19 | Frank Sinatra married actress Mia Farrow this day. Sinatra, 50, married the 20-year-old actress and was photographed after the ceremony by 14 motion-picture cameras and 37 still cameras. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 29 | Martina McBride country singer: The Time Has Come, The Way I Am, Wild Angels, Evolution, Live from the Crazy Horse [Radio Show], is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 01 | Earl "Bud" Powel, American jazz pianist and composer, dies at age 37. | Ref: 70 |
Aug 22 | Mark Michaels heavy metal guitarist (Teach Yourself Rhythm Guitar), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 28 | Country singer Shania Twain (Eilleen Regina Edwards) is born. (TWA, 2002) | Ref: 95 |
Aug 28 | Jerry Fehily rocker (Hothouse Flowers-Don't Go), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 18 | Spike, vocal/guitar (Ian Spice Breathe, Flash Cadillac-R&R Forever), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 20 | Nuno Bettencourt Azores, rock guitarist (Extreme-More Than Words), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 07 | Johnny Kidd (Frederick Heath) singer, songwriter: Please Dont Touch; group: Johnny Kidd & The Pirates: Youve Got What It Takes, Shakin All Over, Restless, Linda Lu, A Shot of Rhythm and Blues, Ill Never Get Over You, Hungry for Love, Always and Ever; is killed in a car crash near Manchester, England. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 10 | Kevin Paige vocalist (Don't Shut Me Out), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 19 | Sinitta rocker (Omn Sinitta), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 20 | Fred Coury Johnston NY, rocker (Cinderella-Heartbreak Station), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 31 | Ad-Rock [Adam Horowitz], rocker (Beastie Boys-You Gotta Fight), son of playwright Israel Horowitz, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 04 | Kool Rock [Damon Wimbley], rapper (Fat Boys-Jail House Rock), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 25 | Stacy Lattisaw singer: Let Me Be Your Angel, Jump to the Beat, Love on a Two-Way Street, Miracles, Attack of the Name Game, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 05 | Patricia Kaas French pop singer (Mademoiselle Chant), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 06 | Hermann Heiss composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 08 | Siead O'Connor Dublin Ireland, singer (Nothing Compares 2 U), is born in Dublin, Ireland. | Ref: 95 |
Dec 09 | Yury Alexandrovich Shaporin composer, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | Boris Koutzen composer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 11 | Terry Sharpe rocker (The Adventures, Starjets-Starjets), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 17 | Gustaf Paulson composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 18 | Steve Dullaghan rocker (Primitives-Lovely, Lump of Coal), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 18 | Tracy Byrd country singer (Keeper of the Stars), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 20 | Chris Robinson Atlanta GA, rocker (Black Crowes-Shake Your Money Maker), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 24 | Gaspar Cassado Moreu composer, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 26 | Noel Gallon composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
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Jan 01 | Moon Mullican rocker, dies at 58. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 03 | Mary Garden, Scottish-born American opera singer/star, dies at 92. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 06 | Peter Loran Teaneck NJ, rock vocalist (Trixter-Give It To Me Good), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 07 | Carl Schuricht composer, dies at 86. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 09 | Dave Matthews singer/musician (Dave Matthews Band), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Dutch Princess Margret marries Pieter van Vollenhoven. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Mick Hankers Dutch dancer (Josephine, Sound of Motown), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Micky Michelle [Ingrid Hankers], Dutch dancer (Josephine), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Vilem Petrzelka composer, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 14 | Renato Lunelli composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 15 | Lisa Lisa (Velez) rock vocalist (& Cult Jam), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 15 | Albert Szirmai composer, dies at 86. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 16 | Maxine Waters Jones rocker (En Vogue), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 18 | M C Tab [Sharon Richard], New York City NY, rapper, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 20 | Joe Pasquale rocker (Prey), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | Wlodzimierz Pozniak composer, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 30 | Bill Leverty Richmond VA, guitarist (Firehouse-Love of a Lifetime), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 03 | Joe Meek rocker (Tornados)/producer (Telstar), commits suicide. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Dave Matthews singer/musician (Dave Matthews Band), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 12 | Keith Richards, Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithful busted for drugs. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 18 | Manuel Palau Boix composer, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Kurt Cobain rock vocalist (Nirvana)/husband of Courtney Love, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 24 | Franz Waxman German composer (Day at the races), dies at 60. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 28 | Marcus Lillington rock guitarist (Breathe-All I Need), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 03 | Georges Lonque composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 06 | Nelson Eddy US baritone/actor (Phantom of the Opera), dies at 65. | Ref: 68 |
Mar 06 | Zoltn Kodly Hungarian composer (Hry Janos), dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 11 | Geraldine Farrar, American operatic soprano, dies at age 85. | Ref: 70 |
Mar 16 | James Friskin composer, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 17 | Van Conner rocker (Screaming Trees), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 18 | Jimmy Blaine singer (Stop the Music), dies at 42. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 24 | Marc Lavry composer, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 31 | Hieronim Feicht composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 04 | Mischa Elman Ukraine/US violinist, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | Mellow Man Ace [Ulpiano Sergio Reyez] Havana Cuba, Spanish rapper/actor (Only the Strong), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 14 | Barret Martin rocker (Screaming Trees), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 17 | Liz Phair singer, songwriter: LPs: Exile in Guyville, whitechocolatespaceegg | Ref: 4 |
Apr 17 | Henry Allen, American jazz musician, dies at age 59. | Ref: 70 |
Apr 17 | Red Allen, US Dixie-land trumpet player, dies. | Ref: 2 |
Apr 18 | Jayce Fincher Jr heavy metal bassist (Southgang-Tainted Angel), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 23 | Brent Muscat rocker (Faster Pussycat-Wake Me When It's Over), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 30 | Turbo B (Durron Butler) rap singer: group: Snap, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 04 | Bengt Axel von Torne composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
May 08 | Laverne Andrews singer (Andrews Sisters), dies at 51 | Ref: 68 |
May 09 | Philippa Duke Schuyler composer, dies at 35. | Ref: 5 |
May 10 | Keith Richards, Brian Jones & Mick Jagger arrested on drug charges | Ref: 2 |
May 12 | Julius Kalas composer, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
May 15 | Jaromir Fiala composer, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
May 17 | John Wesley Work composer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
May 19 | Elmo Hope musician: piano: group: The Elmo Hope Trio; dies. | Ref: 4 |
May 24 | Heavy D rapper, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 24 | Steve McDonald rocker (Redd Kross), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | Geronimo Baqueiro Foster composer, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
May 31 | Billy Strayhorn, American pianist and composer, dies at age 51. | Ref: 70 |
Jun 07 | 2 Moby Grape members arrested for contributing to deliquency of minors. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 07 | David M. Navarro musician: guitar: Janes Addiction, Red Hot Chili Peppers: LP: One Hot Minute, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 08 | Neil Mitchell rocker (Wet, Wet, Wet-Wishing I Was), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 10 | Human Beatbox (Darren Robinson) rocker (Fat Boys-Jail House Rock), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 20 | Joseph William Cathcart rock guitarist (Nelson-Love & Affection) | Ref: 5 |
Jun 21 | Tim Simenson rocker (Bomb the Bass), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 23 | John Entwistle of the rock group Who weds Alison Wise. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 24 | Jeff Cease musician: guitar: group: The Black Crowes, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 29 | Keith Richards, of the Rolling Stones, is sentenced to 1 year in jail on drugs charge. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 17 | John (William) Coltrane, American jazz saxophonist, bandleader and composer, dies at age 40. | Ref: 70 |
Jul 22 | Jimi Hendrix quits as the open ing act of the Monkees' tour. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 22 | Pat Badger heavy metal bassist (Extreme-More Than Words), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 08 | Lorraine Pearson rocker (5 Star-Silk & Steel), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 10 | Lorraine Pearson singer: group: Five Star, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 18 | Blas Elias Gomez Kennedy TX, rock drummer (Slaughter-Stick it Live), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 18 | Tracy Tracy rocker (Primitives-Lovely, Lump of Coal), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 11 | Harry Connick Jr. Grammy Award-winning singer: We are in Love; actor: Copycat, When Harry Met Sally, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 15 | Jerry Dixon heavy metal bassist (Warrant-Cherry Pie), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 18 | Ricky Bell singer: group: New Edition, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 20 | Rock singers Matthew Nelson and Gunnar Nelson are born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 21 | Faith Hill singer: LPs: Take Me as I Am, It Matters to Me, Faith; sold eleven million records, eight #1 singles, ten #1 videos, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 23 | Harry Connick Jr singer (We Are in Love), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 02 | Grateful Dead members arrested by narcotic agents. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 03 | Woodrow Wilson "Woodie" Guthrie, folk singer, dies at age 55. | Ref: 68 |
Oct 03 | Sir Malcolm Sargent, English orchestra conductor, dies at age 72. | Ref: 70 |
Nov 01 | Sophie B. Hawkins musician, singer: LPs [hit singles]: Tongues and Tails [Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover], Whaler [As I Lay Me Down], Timbre [Walking In My Blue Jeans], is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 02 | Charlie Steele Pennachio (singer: group: Linear:) is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 12 | Charlie Pennaelino Queens NY, rocker (Linear-I Never Felt This Way), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 15 | Mari Fernandez singer: group: Sweet Sensation: If Wishes Came True, Love Child, Purely by Coincidence, Sad Sweet Dreamer, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 17 | Ronnie DeVoe singer: groups: New Edition, Bell Biv DeVoe, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 02 | Singer Jimmie Rodgers (Honeycomb, Kisses Sweeter Than Wine) was found in a car in Los Angeles, near death, suffering from a fractured skull. He had been the victim of a mysterious assault. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 05 | Ren Shuman [Shumans] rockabilly-bandleader/singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 09 | John Mills musician: guitar, singer: bass: group: The Mills Brothers [father of the four Mills brothers, took youngest son John, Jr.s place after his death in 1935]: Paper Doll, You Always Hurt the One You Love, I Love You So Much It Hurts, Ive Got My Love To Keep Me Warm, Someday [Youll Want Me To Want You], Be My Lifes Companion, Glow-Worm; dies. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | Musician, singer Otis Redding, 26, is killed in a private plane crash near Madison, Wisconsin. | Ref: 68 |
Dec 10 | Brazilio da Cunha Luz Itibere composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | Carl Cunningham rocker (Bar-kays), killed in a plane crash. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | Jimmy King rocker (Bar-kays), dies in a plane crash. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | Phalin Jones rocker (Bar-kays), dies in plane crash. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | Ron Caldwell rocker (Bar-kays), dies in a plane crash. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 11 | Richard Stohr composer, dies at 93. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 11 | Victor De Sabata composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 23 | Richard Flury composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 27 | Niels Meijer Dutch rock keyboardist (Bob Color), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 29 | Orchestra leader Paul Whiteman died on this day at the age of 76. Known as the King of Jazz, Whiteman had 28 #1 hits between 1920 and 1934 including, Three O'Clock in the Morning, My Blue Heaven, All of Me and Smoke Gets in Your Eyes. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 29 | Paul Whiteman US orchestra leader (Fabulous Dorseys), dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 30 | Bert Berns US songwriter/producer (Twist & Shout), dies at about 38. | Ref: 5 |
- 1968
Jan 09 | Louis-Franois-Marie Aubert French composer (Habanera), dies at 90. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Josue Teofilo Wilkes composer, dies at 85. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Louis-Franois-Marie Aubert French composer (La Momie), dies at 90. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 14 | L L Cool J [James Todd Smith], St Albans NY, rapper (Bigger & Deffer), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 19 | Whitfield Crane rocker (Ugly Kid Joe-Mad Man, Too Bad), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 27 | Mike Patton singer: group: Faith No More, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 27 | Tracy Lawrence Atlanta TX, country singer (Sticks & Stones), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 28 | Sarah McLachlan folk singer (Fumbling Towards Ecstasy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Chris Barron rocker (Spin Doctors), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Luckey Roberts composer, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 07 | Stuart Foster singer (Galen Drake Show), dies at 49. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Louis-Franois-Marie Aubert French composer (Habanera), dies at 90. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 12 | Chynna Phillips singer: group: Wilson Phillips; daughter of singers John and Michelle Phillips; half-sister of actress Mackenzie Phillips; married to actor Billy Baldwin, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 13 | Ildebrando Pizzetti Italian composer, dies at 87. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 15 | Little Walter rocker, dies at 37. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 16 | Healey Willan composer, dies at 87. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 17 | Patrick Uterwijk pop guitarist (Pestilence, Consuming Impulse), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 19 | Frank Watkins US heavy metal bassist (Obituary, Cause of Death), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Ludvik Podest composer, dies at 46. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Frankie Lymon singer, songwriter: group: Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers: Why Do Fools Fall in Love; dies. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 28 | Frankie Lymon singer, dies at 25. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Country music stars Johnny Cash (36) & June Carter (38) wed. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 04 | Evan Dando rocker (Lemonheads), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | Evan Dando rocker (Lemonheads), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | Alexandre Cellier composer, dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 06 | Isa Krejci composer, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 15 | John Tardy US heavy metalist (Obituary, Slowly We Rot), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 16 | Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 18 | Manuel Gomez Carillo composer, dies at 85. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Little Willie John (William Edward John) singer: convicted of manslaughter, dies in Washington State Prison. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | Celine Dion Qubec Canada, singer (I'm Your Woman), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Sebastian Philip Clerk Bach, Bahamas, rock (Skid Row-Psycho Love), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 15 | Boris Nikolayevich Lyatoshynsky composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 20 | Marion Weeks singer/actress, dies of stroke at 81. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 21 | Norman Demuth composer, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 24 | Aaron Comes rocker (Spin Doctors), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Carnie Wilson Los Angeles CA, rock vocalist (Wilson Phillips-Hold On), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Frankie Lymon rocker (& Teenagers), dies of a drug overdose at 25. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 30 | Paulo Jr Brazilian pop bassist (Sepultura, Morbid Visions), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 30 | Frankie Lymon rocker, dies of a heroin overdose. | Ref: 5 |
May 01 | Mark Scott Paramus NJ, rock drummer (Trixter-Give It To Me Good), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 03 | Jay Darlington London England, keyboardist (Kula Shaker), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 03 | Leonid Leonidovich Sabaneyev composer, dies at 86. | Ref: 5 |
May 16 | Ralph Tresvant Boston MA, singer (New Editon), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 23 | Merle Kendrick orchestra leader (Window on the World), dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
May 24 | Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithfull arrested for drug possession. | Ref: 5 |
May 24 | Bernard Rogers composer (Warrior, Passion), dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
May 26 | William E "Little Willie" John US R&B-singer (Fever), dies at 30). | Ref: 5 |
May 27 | Little Willie John rocker, dies at 30. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | Kylie Minogue Melbourne Australia, rock vocalist (Locomotion), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 30 | Tim Burgess English rock vocalist (Charlatans-Only One I Know), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 01 | Jason Donovan singer: popular in Australia & Great Britain; actor: Neighbours, Rough Diamonds, The Sun, the Moon and the Stars; son of actor, Terence Donovan, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 13 | Deniece (Lisa Marie) Pearson singer: group: Five Star: System Addict, Cant Wait Another Minute, Find the Time, Rain or Shine, Stay Out of My Life, The Slighest Touch, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 15 | Wes (John Leslie) Montgomery jazz guitarist: Windy, Goin Out of My Head, Wes Tune, Sunny; dies of a heart attack at 48. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 21 | Ruth St Denis Newark NJ, ballerina (Dances of the 5 Senses), dies at age 91. | Ref: 70 |
Aug 10 | Michael Bivins singer: groups: New Edition, Bell Biv DeVoe, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 18 | Cy Walter pianist (3's Company), dies at 52. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 28 | Nick Castle choreographer (Dinah Shore, Judy Garland), dies at 58. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 07 | Kyle Stevens NJ, rock guitarist (Bang Tango-Dancin' on Coals), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 10 | Big Daddy Kane rap artist, songwriter: Long Live the Kane, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 21 | Trugoy the Dove (David Jolicoeur) musician: group: De La Soul, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 29 | Luke Goss rocker (Bros-I Owe You Nothing), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 29 | Matt Goss rocker (Bros-I Owe You Nothing), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 24 | Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithful busted for pot, released on 50 bail. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 31 | Vanilla Ice (Robert Van Winkle) singer: Ice Ice Baby; first rap singer to have a #1 song on the Billboard singles chart, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 06 | Charles Munch, German-born conductor, dies at age 77. | Ref: 70 |
Nov 11 | Ronnie Devoe singer: group: New Edition, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 11 | Jo Kittsee Germany, rocker (Fuzzbox-Into Rescue), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 11 | Wyatt Pauley Ecuador, rocker (Linear-I Never Felt This Way, Lies), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 21 | Rhythm-and-blues singer Chauncey Hannibal (BLACKstreet) is born. | Ref: 64 |
Nov 27 | Mike Patton Eureka CA, rocker (Faith No More-The Real Thing), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 27 | Tracy Lawrence Atlanta TX, country singer (Sticks & Stones), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 29 | Jonathan (Rashleigh) Knight singer, dancer: group: New Kids on the Block: You Got It (The Right Stuff), This Ones for the Children, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 09 | Michael Foster Richmond VA, drummer (Firehouse-Love of a Lifetime), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 12 | Tatianna, Philadelphia PA, Spanish singer (Baile Commigo, Chicad de Hoy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 13 | Siegfried Reda composer, dies at 52. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 31 | George Louis Francis Lewis composer, dies at 16. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 31 | Sabin V Dragoi composer, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
- 1969
Jan 03 | Nikki Nelson Topaz Lake NV, country singer (Highway 101-Cry Cry Cry), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 04 | Montague Fawcett Phillips composer, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 05 | Marilyn Manson (Brian Warner) rock singer/performer: is born. I picked Marilyn Manson as the fakest stage name of all to say that this is what show business is, fake. Marilyn Monroe wasnt even her real name, Charles Manson isnt his real name, and now, Im taking that to be my real name. But whats real? | Ref: 4 |
Jan 08 | R Kelly singer (I Wish I Could Fly), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 09 | Ladislav Vycpalek composer, dies at 86. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Doug E Doug rapper/comedian (Operation Dumbo Drop, Jungle Fever), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 14 | Dave Grohl drummer (Nirvana, Foo Fighters), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 16 | Vernon Duke composer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 17 | Grazyna Bacewicz composer, dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 23 | Jaroslav Kricka composer, dies at 86. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 24 | Pauline Hall composer, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 25 | Jesse Harte Rome GA, heavy metal vocalist (Southgang-Tainted Angel), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 25 | Heidi Wolfgramm rocker (Jets), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 25 | Irene Castle (Foote) dancer, costume designer, actress: The Whirl of Life, The First Law, The Broadway Bride, French Heels, Broadway After Dark; subject of movie: The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle [1939]; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 27 | Hanns Jelinek composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 31 | Alexander Mikhaylovich Dzegelyonok composer, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 01 | Jim Morrison arrested for exposing himself in concert. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Giovanni Martinelli opera singer (New York Met), dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 07 | Bainbridge Crist composer, dies at 85. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Ladislav Vycpalek composer, dies at 86. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 15 | Pee Wee Russell, American jazz clarinetist, dies at age 62. | Ref: 70 |
Feb 20 | Ernest Ansermet Swiss conductor/composer, dies at 85. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 23 | Joseph Messner composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 28 | Elisa Fiorillo singer (Forgive Me For Dreaming), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | Chastity Bono Los Angeles CA, daughter of Sonny & Cher, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 10 | Ricky Seagall rocker (Partridge Family), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 12 | Graham Coxon singer (Blur), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 19 | Theodor Schaefer composer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Cheryl "Salt" James rocker (Salt 'n' Pepa-Shake Ya Thang), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 29 | James Atkin rocker (EMF-Unbelievable), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 29 | Perry Farrell rocker (Jane's Addiction, Porno For Pyros), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | Marco Foddis pop drummer (Pestilence), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 08 | Arthur Walter Kramer composer, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 11 | Ludvig Irgens Jensen composer, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 13 | Harold Pruett rocker (Outsiders-Time Won't Let Me), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 19 | Casper Hweler music critic, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 22 | Craig Logan Scotland, rock bassist (Brothers Front, Bon Jovi-New Jersey), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 23 | Krzystzof Komeda composer, dies at 37. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 27 | Mica Paris rocker (So Good), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 28 | Johannes Rontgen composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Sir Duke, Duke Ellington, celebrated his 70th birthday. He was honored with the presentation of the Medal of Freedom, the U.S. governments highest civilian honor. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 30 | Joey Restivo Brooklyn, rocker (Linear-I Never Felt This Way, Lies), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 01 | Roy Rosello singer (Menudo-Cannonball), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 03 | Imre Vincze composer, dies at 42. | Ref: 5 |
May 14 | David William Wood Boston MA, rocker (New Kids-Lovin' You Forever), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 16 | The Who's Pete Townsend & Roger Daltrey charged with assault. | Ref: 5 |
May 16 | Barbra Streisand appears at a Friars Club Tribute. | Ref: 5 |
May 18 | Martika [Marta Marrero] Whittier CA, singer (Toy Soldiers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 19 | Coleman Hawkins, the pioneering American jazz saxophonist, dies. | Ref: 68 |
May 23 | Jimmy McHugh composer (Can't Give You Anything But Love), dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
May 24 | Rich Robinson Atlanta GA, rocker (Black Crowes-Shake Your Money Maker), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 30 | Gaston Brenta composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
May 30 | John Cipollini guitarist, dies of ephysema at 45. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 04 | Nicky Hopkins quits rock & rolls, Jeff Beck Group. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 06 | Douglas Lee Mitchell Miles Mi, heavy metal artist (Southgang), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 08 | Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor replaces Brian Jones | Ref: 5 |
Jun 09 | Brian Jones quits the Rolling Stones. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 09 | Mitch McLee [Douglas Lee Mitchell], Miles Mi, drummer (Southgang), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 16 | John Scott rocker with the Pretenders, dies at 25. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 17 | Kevin Thornton vocalist (Color Me Badd-I Want to Sex You Up), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 22 | Aretha Franklin arrested in Detroit for creating a disturbance. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 02 | Brian Jones founder of the Rolling Stones, drowns. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 03 | Brian Jones (Lewis Hopkin-Jones) singer, musician: rhythm guitar: group: The Rolling Stones: [I Cant Get No] Satisfaction; drowns to death at age 25. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 06 | Michael Grant vocalist (Musical Youth), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 20 | Roy Hamilton singer: Youll Never Walk Alone, If I Loved You, Ebb Tide, Unchained Melody, Dont Let Go, You Can Have Her; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 22 | Aretha Franklin arrested for disturbing the peace in Detroit. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 28 | Frank Loesser songwriter: Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition, Baby Its Cold Outside, On a Slow Boat to China, Once in Love with Amy, Luck Be a Lady, Thumbelina; dies at age 59. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 07 | Russ Morgan orch leader (Welcome Aboard), dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 17 | Donald E Wahlberg Jr, Boston, rocker (New Kids-Hangin' Tough) | Ref: 5 |
Sep 05 | Dweezil Zappa musician: guitar: MTV; son of musician Frank Zappa, brother of singer Moon Unit Zappa, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 05 | Josh White The Singing Christian: blues/folk singer, guitarist; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 05 | Mitchell Ayres orch leader (Hollywood Palace), dies at 58. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 11 | Leon Payne country artist, songwriter: I Love You Because, Lost Highway, Theyll Never Take Her Love, I Heard My Heart Break Last Night, The Blue Side of Lonesome; dies. | Ref: 2 |
Sep 16 | Kathi Wolfgram Minneapolis, rocker (Jets-You Got it All), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 18 | Tiny Tim announces his engagement to Miss Vicki Budinger on the Tonight Show. The couple were wed on December 17th. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 16 | Wendy Wilson singer: group: Wilson Phillips: daughter of Beach Boys singer, Brian Wilson, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 22 | Giovanni Martinelli opera singer: tenor: with Metropolitan Opera for 30 seasons; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 23 | Brooke Theiss CA, actress (Wendy-Just the 10 of Us, Good & Evil), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 09 | Pepa rocker (Salt 'n' Pepa-Shake Ya Thang), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 14 | Butch Walker Rome GA, heavy metal guitarist (Southgang-Tainted Angel), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 16 | Bryan Abrams vocalist (Color Me Badd-I Want to Sex You Up), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 18 | Ted (Edward) Heath musician: trombone, bandleader: played big band concerts every Sunday at the Palladium in the 1940s and 1950s; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 27 | Hanns Jelinek composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 04 | Alceo Toni composer, dies at 85. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 08 | Vincenzo Davico composer, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 09 | Jakob Dylan NY NY, singer/guitarist/Bob Dylan's son (The Wallflowers-One Headlight), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | Franco Capuana composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | Leigh Harline composer, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 24 | Kenny "Damn" Kelly Paterson NJ, rapper (Riff-Judy had a Boyfriend), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 31 | Salvatore Baccaloni opera singer/actor (Full of Life), dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
- 1970
Jan 02 | Piotr Rytel composer, dies at 85. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 05 | Roberto Gerhard composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | Jani Christou composer, dies on 44th birthday. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 17 | Billy Stewart singer (I Do Love You), dies in auto-accident at 32. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 24 | James "Shep" Shepherd rocker (Shep & Limelites), beaten to death. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 28 | Donald Tardy US, death metal drummer (Obituary, Cause of Death), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 31 | Slim Harpo [James Moore], rocker, dies at 28. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 01 | Blaz Arnic composer, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Jaroslav Vogel composer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 11 | Emil Abranyi composer, dies at 87. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 12 | Andre Souris composer, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 15 | Gloria Trevi Mexico, sexy Spanish vocalist (A Gatas), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 17 | Alfred Newman US composer, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Albert Louis Wolff composer, dies at 86. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | Ethel Leginska composer, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 13 | Rick Besoyan composer, dies at 45. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 16 | Tammi Terrell singer (Ain't No Mountain High Enough, You're All I Need), dies from brain tumor at 23. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 18 | Queen Latifah [Dana Owens] Newark NJ, rap singer/actress (Khadijah James-Living Single), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul & Mary) pleads guilty to "taking immoral liberties" with a 14 year old girl | Ref: 2 |
Mar 27 | Mariah Carey New York NY, singer (Vision of Love, Love Takes Time, Hero), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | Jacob H "Jaap" Stotijn oboist/conductor, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 11 | Delroy Pearson Romford Essex England, rocker (Five Star-Between the Lines), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 13 | Greek composer Mikis Theordorakis is freed. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 19 | Luis Miguel Vera Cruz Mxico, Spanish singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 30 | Hall Johnson composer, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
May 03 | Candelario Huizar composer, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
May 07 | Carlos Estrada composer, dies at 60. | Ref: 5 |
May 09 | Percy Brier composer, dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
May 11 | Johnny Hodges, American jazz saxophonist; soloist in Duke Ellington's orchestra, dies at age 63. | Ref: 70 |
May 15 | Prince Be rapper (PM Dawn), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 17 | Jordan Nathaniel Marcel Knight, Worcester MA, rocker (New Kids on the Block-Hangin' Tough), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 24 | Peter Queen quits Fleetwood Mac to join a religious cult. | Ref: 5 |
May 24 | Tommy Page West Caldwell NJ, singer (I'll Be Your Everything), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 11 | Earl Grant singer: [At] The End [Of a Rainbow], Ebb Tide; is killed in car crash. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 23 | Rocker Chubby Checker arrest for marijuana pocession. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 24 | Glenn Medeiros singer: [w/Bobby Brown]: She Aint Worth It, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 12 | Janis Joplin debuts in Kentucky. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 13 | Steven J Brown Hackensack NJ, guitarist (Trixter-Give It To Me Good) | Ref: 5 |
Jul 17 | Mandy Smith England, rocker (I Just Can't Wait) wife of Bill Wyman, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 18 | Patrick Dancy TV rocker (Guys Next Door-I Was Made For You) | Ref: 5 |
Jul 19 | Barry Wood singer (Your Hit Parade), dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 23 | Sam Waters vocalist (Color Me Badd-I Want to Sex You Up), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 29 | Sir John Barbirolli, English conductor and cellist, dies at age 70. | Ref: 70 |
Jul 30 | George Szell, Hungarian-born American conductor, pianist and composer, dies at age 73. | Ref: 70 |
Aug 04 | Jim Morrison arrested for drunkenness. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 07 | Christine McVie joined Fleetwood Mac as the groups first female member. McVie was married to bass player John McVie. She quit touring with the group in 1991. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 17 | Donnie Wahlberg singer: group: New Kids on the Block; brother of Marky Mark, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 19 | M.C. Eric rap artist: group: Technotronic, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 31 | Debbie Gibson Brooklyn NY, singer (Only in My Dreams), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 03 | Al Blind Owl Wilson musician: guitar, harmonica, singer: group: Canned Heat: On the Road Again, Going Up the Country, Lets Work Together; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 18 | Jimi (James Marshall) Hendrix musician, singer: Foxy Lady, Purple Haze, All Along the Watch Tower, The Wind Cries Mary, Manic Depression, Spanish Castle Magic; dies from an overdose of sleeping pills in London at age 27. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 27 | Mark Caldero vocalist (Color Me Badd-I Want to Sex You Up), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 04 | Janis Joplin died from a drug overdose in her Hollywood hotel room. She was 27. Joplin, known for her passionate, bluesy, vocal style, was the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company. She became a superstar with hits like, Down on Me, Pearl (her nickname) and Every Little Piece of My Heart; but Me and Bobby McGee was her only certified top 40 hit. The Bette Midler movie, The Rose, was based on Joplins life. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 20 | Tiffany [Renee Darwisch], rocker (I Think We are Alone Now) | Ref: 5 |
Oct 23 | Lady Soul, Aretha Franklin, won a gold record for Dont Play that Song. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 11 | Derry Brownson rock keyboardist (EMF-Unbelievable), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 18 | Hal Dickinson singer (Modernaires), dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 30 | Desree singer: I Aint Movin, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 02 | Dora Paulen German/Dutch cabaretire, dies at about 72. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 09 | David Kersh Humble TX, country singer (If I Never Stop Loving You), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | Kevin Sharp Country singer, is born. | Ref: 76 |
Dec 19 | Zac Foley rock bassist (EMF-Unbelievable), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 29 | John de Mol Dutch accordionist, dies at 58. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 31 | Michel Brunet Gatineau Qubec, ice dancer (1996 Canadians-2nd), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 31 | Cyril M Scott English composer/author (Alchemist), dies at 91. | Ref: 5 |
- 1971
Jan 08 | Adriano Lualdi composer, dies at 85. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 11 | Mary J Blige singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 13 | Henri Tomasi French composer (Don Juan de Maara), dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 13 | Robert Still composer, dies at 60. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 14 | Ethel Glenn Hier composer, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 25 | China Slick rocker (daughter of Grace Slick), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 15 | Marian Viktorovich Koval composer, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 21 | Adolph Weiss composer, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Lea Salonga Manila Philippines, singer/actress (Miss Saigon), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Rudolf Mauersberger composer, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | Erykah Badu singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 09 | Jean-Pierre Guezek composer, dies at 36. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 10 | Mabel Wheeler Daniels composer, dies at 92. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 12 | Rolling Stone Mick Jagger marries Bianca Prez Morena de Macias. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 13 | Piero Coppola composer, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 23 | Armin Loos composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Felix Wolfes composer, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 06 | Igor (Fedorovich) Stravinsky composer: The Firebird, Petrouchka, The Rite of Spring, The Wedding, The Soldiers Tale; dies in New York City at age 88. | Ref: 68 |
Apr 16 | Selena [Quintanilla Perez] Lake Jackson TX, tejano singer (Grammy-1994), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 17 | Roberto Lupi composer, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | Masao Oki composer, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 25 | Max Drischner composer, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
May 08 | Chris Wolf actor/musician (Guys Next Door), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 10 | Mihail Jora composer, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
May 10 | Shukichi Mitsukuri composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
May 12 | Rolling Stone Mick Jagger weds Bianca Perez Morena de Macias at St Tropez Town Hall. | Ref: 5 |
May 13 | Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane seriously injured in a car accident. | Ref: 5 |
May 13 | Valerian Mikhaylovich Bogdanov-Berezovsky composer, dies 67. | Ref: 5 |
May 14 | Danny Wood singer: group: New Kids on the Block: Hangin Tough, Please Don't Go Girl, Ill Be Loving You Forever, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 14 | Raphael Wiggins Oakland CA, rapper (Lifelines), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 19 | Bernard Wagenaar Netherlands/US composer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
May 25 | Mark Brunswick composer, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | Max Trapp composer, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
May 30 | Marcel Dupr, French organ virtuoso and influential teacher, dies at age 85. | Ref: 70 |
Jun 05 | Mark Wahlberg musician: guitar, singer: group: Marky Mark and The Funky Bunch: Good Vibrations; actor: Renaissance Man, Calvin Klein commercials | Ref: 4 |
Jun 07 | Mark Wahlberg Mass, rapper, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 18 | Nathan Morris [Alex Vanderpool], Phila Pa, rapper (Boyz II Men), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 03 | Jim (James Douglas) Morrison The Lizard King: singer: group: The Doors: Light My Fire, Love Her Madly, Riders on the Storm, When the Musics Over, People are Strange, Love Me Two Times, Touch Me; dies of drug overdose in Paris at age 27. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 06 | (Daniel) Louis Armstrong Satchmo: jazz musician: trumpet; Grammy Award-winning singer: Hello, Dolly! [1964], Lifetime Achievement Award [1971]; Its a Wonderful World, Mack the Knife, Blueberry Hill; appeared in films: The Five Pennies, The Glenn Miller Story, Hello Dolly!, High Society; American ambassador of good will; inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame [1990]; dies at age 70. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 09 | Bobby Leslie TV rocker (Guys Next Door-I Was Made For You), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 17 | Cliff Edwards "Ukulele Ike", singer (54th Street Revue), dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 07 | Homer (Henry D. Haynes), comedy singer of Homer and Jethro, dies. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 25 | Ted Lewis (Theodore Leopold Friedman) clarinettist, singer, bandleader: Ted Lewis & His Band: Somebody Stole My Gal, Alexanders Ragtime Band; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 22 | Chesney Lee Haskes England, singer (Feels So Alive) | Ref: 5 |
Oct 02 | "Tiffany" Renee Darwich Norwalk Cal, singer (I Think We're Alone Now), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 12 | Gene Vincent (Craddock) singer: Be-Bop-A-Lula, Lotta Lovin, Dance to the Bop; actor: The Girl Cant Help It; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 17 | Chris Kirkpatrick singer: group: *N Sync, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 21 | Jade Jagger, daughter of Mick Jagger, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 25 | Midori (Goto) musician: violin; created Midori and Friends foundation [musicians travel to NY public schools to give concerts and classes], is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 29 | Musician Duane Allman (of the Allman Brothers Band) is killed in motorcycle crash in Macon GA. He was 24 years old. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 13 | John Francis Zingg Boston MA, rocker (4 Fun-Unbelievable Fun Boys), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 06 | Hugo Godron composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | Scot Alexander, Rock musician (Dishwalla), is born. | Ref: 76 |
Dec 13 | Miguel Angel Martinez Soto mariachi, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 16 | Michael S McCary [Boss] Philadelphia PA, rapper (Boyz II Men), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 23 | Carlo Jachino composer, dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 24 | Ricky Martin Puerto Rico, singer (Menudo)/actor (General Hospital), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | Noel Hogan musician (Cranberries), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | Byron Arnold composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 28 | Maximilian Raoul Walter Steiner composer, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 30 | Jan Mul composer, dies at 60. | Ref: 5 |
- 1972
Jan 01 | Maurice (Auguste) Chevalier actor, singer: Gigi, Fanny, Can-Can; dies at age 83. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 03 | Deborah Carter WNBA forward (Utah Starzz), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 03 | Jacques Wildberger composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 04 | Carl-Olof Anderberg composer, dies at 57. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 05 | John Denver received a gold record for the album, Aerie, this day. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 10 | Al Goodman Russian/US orchestra leader (NBC Comedy Hour), dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Sverre Jordan composer, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 16 | David Seville (Ross Bagdasarian) (of the Chipmunks) dies in Beverly Hills, CA at age 52. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 18 | Rudolf Wittelsbach composer, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 27 | Mahalia Jackson singer: Gods Gonna Separate the Wheat from the Tares, Move on Up a Little Higher, The Lords Prayer; in film: St. Louis Blues; LP: I Sing Because Im Happy, The Worlds Greatest Gospel Singer; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 30 | Karel Boleslav Jirak, composer, dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 31 | Howard Barlow conductor (Voice of Firestone), dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 31 | Istvan Szelenyi composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Norbert Rosza Hungarian swimmer (100 meter freestyle record), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 14 | Mayne One rocker (Young Nation), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 14 | Lambertus "Bertus" van Lyre composer/conductor (Dike), dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 17 | Billie Joe Armstrong singer/musician (Green Day), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 17 | Gavril Nikolayevich Popov composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Herbert Menges composer, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 23 | Michael Taube composer, dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Victor Babin composer, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 05 | Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis leaves communist party. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 05 | Nils Bjorkander composer, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Ferde Ferdinand Rudolph von Grof composer (Grand Canyon Suite), dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 04 | Stefan Wolpe German composer (Zeus & Elidco), dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | Henri Potiron composer, dies at 89. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 13 | Jeroen Thesseling pop bassist (Pestilence, Spheres), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 26 | Margaret A R Bonds US pianist/composer/arranger, dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
May 03 | Les Harvey rocker, dies. | Ref: 5 |
May 05 | Reverend Gary David vocalist, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
May 16 | Maxime Dumoulin composer, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
May 18 | Eero Aukusti Sipila composer, dies at 53. | Ref: 5 |
May 21 | The Notorious B.I.G. (Christopher Wallace) rapper: LPs: Ready to Die, Life After Death, Born Again; shot and killed in Los Angeles Mar 9, 1997 [his killer has not been identified], is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 30 | Margaret Ruthven Lang composer, dies at 104. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 05 | Maureen McGovern quit her job as a full-time secretary for a new career as a full-time singer. Maureen was part of a trio before recording as a solo artist in July, 1973. Her first song, The Morning After, from the movie, The Poseidon Adventure, was a million-seller. She also sang the theme, Different Worlds, from ABC-TVs Angie, and Can You Read My Mind from the movie, Superman. Ms. McGovern starred in Pirates of Penzance for 14 months on Broadway. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 08 | P(eter) J(ason) Farley Hackensack, bass (Trixter-Give It To Me Good) | Ref: 5 |
Jun 10 | Sammy Davis Jr. earned his place at the top of the popular music charts for the first time, after years in the entertainment business. His number one song, The Candy Man, stayed at the top for three consecutive weeks. The Candy Man was truly a song of fate for Sammy. He openly did not want to record the song, but did so as a favor to MGM Records head Mike Curb, since it was to be used in the film, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Davis said he would give the tune one take, "and thats it!" Sure enough, in that one-time recording, Sammy nailed it. The Candy Man stayed on the pop charts for 16 weeks. The best the legendary performer had done before was 12 weeks for Love Me or Leave Me in 1955 and 11 weeks for Ive Gotta Be Me (from Golden Rainbow) in 1969. After The Candy Man became a hit, Davis included it in his stage shows and concerts -- and collected huge royalties from it. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 13 | Clyde (Lensley) McPhatter singer: Treasure of Love, Long Lonely Nights, A Lovers Question, Lover Please; groups: Dominoes: Do Something for Me, Sixty Minute Man, Have Mercy Baby; Drifters: Money Honey, Such a Night/Lucille, Honey Love; dies of a heart attack. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 23 | Elton Britt country singer (Sat Night Jamboree), dies at 54. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 16 | Mindy Carson NYC, vocalist (Club Embassy, Ford Star Revue) | Ref: 5 |
Jul 24 | Bobby Ramirez drummer (White Trash), killed at 23 in bar brawl. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 28 | Helen Traubel opera singer: St. Louis Symphony, New York Metropolitan Opera [The Mets premier Wagnerian soprano.]; actress: Deep in My Heart, The Ladies Man, Gunn; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 02 | Brian Cole rocker with the Association, dies of heroin OD at 28. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 06 | Geri Halliwell singer: group: Spice Girls: is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 04 | Merald Knight Atlanta Ga, singer (Gladys Knights & Pips), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 26 | Shann Stockman [Slim], Phila Pa, rapper (Boyz II Men) | Ref: 5 |
Sep 27 | Rory Storm lead singer of Rory Storm & Hurricane, commits suicide. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 17 | Eminem (Marshall Bruce Mathers III) (rapper), is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 20 | Snoop Doggy Dogg (Cordozar Broadus) rapper, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 24 | Louis Michael Anthony Sassin Boston, rocker (4 Fun-Unbelievable Fun), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 30 | Alan Roth orch leader (Milton Berle Show), dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 03 | Singers Carly Simon and James Taylor were married in Carlys Manhattan apartment. The couple was said to be the highest-paid couple in the world -- next to Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Carly and Sweet Baby James would divorce years later, but we hear they are still good friends. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 11 | Berry Oakley musician: bass: group: The Allman Brothers Band: Ramblin Man; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 12 | (Charles) Rudolf Friml, American musician, composer; dies at age 92. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 13 | Shom-Rock rocker (Young Nation), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 13 | T-Haxx rocker (DYC), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 27 | Mahalia Jackson gospel singer (He Got the Whole World), dies at 60. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 02 | Jos Limn Mexican/US dancer (moor's pavane), dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | Puff Johnson, Singer, is born. | Ref: 76 |
Dec 15 | Herbert Eimert German composer (Glockenspiel), dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 17 | Erwin Dressel composer, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | Fantasia [Tonya Manley] Detroit MI, dancer/actress (Pump it Up), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 29 | Fritz Behrend composer, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 31 | Joe [Joseph Mulrey] McIntyre rocker (New Kids on the Block-Lovin You Forever), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1973
Jan 11 | Rudolf Kubin composer, dies a day after 64th birthday. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 15 | Jef Alpaerts Flemish pianist/conductor, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 16 | Clara Ward gospel singer: group: Clara Ward Gospel Troupe; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 18 | Crispian Mills London, vocalist/guitarist (Kula Shaker), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 23 | (Edward) Kid Ory, US musician, exponent of New Orleans jazz, dies. | Ref: 17 |
Jan 29 | Johannes Paul Thilman composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Sergio Gonzalez rocker (Menudo-Cannonball), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 03 | Edward Lockspeiser composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Max Yasgur owner Woodstock-festival farmland, dies at 53. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 12 | Benjamin Frankel composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Joseph Szigeti Hungarian/US violinist, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 24 | James Michael Kennedy Boston, rocker (4 Fun-Unbelievable Fun Boys), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | "Pooh" Clark rocker (High-5), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Lucijan Marija Skerjanc Yugoslav composer/conductor, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 06 | Paul Klecki/Kletzki Polish violinist/composer/conductor, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | Ron "Pigpen" McKernan rocker (Grateful Dead, Grass Roots), dies at 27. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 10 | Eva Herzigova Litvinov Czechoslovakia, model (Guess Jeans, Wonderbra), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 12 | Esther Williamson Ballou composer, dies at 57. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 18 | Lauritz L H Melchior, Danish baritone/actor (Luxury Liner), (Lebrecht Hommel) opera: "The Heroic Tenor", "The Premier Heldentenor of the 20th Century"; dies at age 82. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 21 | Antoni Szalowski composer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Safford Cape US/Belgian conductor/composer/musicologist, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead) stopped for speeding & LSD possession. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | Boyan Georgiev Ikonomov composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 31 | Kurt George Hugo Thomas composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 07 | Nick Stuart bandleader, dies of cancer at 69. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 16 | Istvn Kertsz Hung/German conductor (London Symphony), dies at 43. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Manfred Gurlitt composer, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
May 06 | Ernest MacMillan composer, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
May 07 | Kristian Lundin record producer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 14 | Shanice [Wilson] Pittsburgh PA, vocalist (Discovery, Loving You), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 21 | Vaughn Monroe singer/orchestra leader (Vaughn Monroe Show), dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt German composer/conductor (Hassan), dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
May 30 | Hal Hastings orchestra leader (Chevrolet on Broadway), dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 04 | Murray Wilson father of beachboys Brian, Carl & Dennis, dies at 55. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 26 | John Cranko, South African-born dancer and director of the Stuttgart Ballet, dies at age 45. | Ref: 70 |
Jul 06 | Otto Klemperer, who was one of the foremost German conductors, dies. | Ref: 70 |
Jul 14 | Clarence White guitarist (Byrds), killed by a car. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 15 | Ray Davies, announces retirement from Kinks then attempts suicide. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 29 | Wanya Morris [Squirt], Phila Pa, rapper (Boyz II Men) | Ref: 5 |
Jul 31 | Jerry Rivera Puerto Rico, spanish singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 04 | Albert Eddie Condon musician: guitar, bandleader, promoter of Dixieland Jazz; dies at age 68. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 17 | Paul Williams singer: groups: The Primes, The Temptations: The Way You Do the Things You Do, My Girl, Its Growing, Get Ready, Beauty is Only Skin Deep, [I Know] Im Losing You, Youre My Everything, All I Need, I Wish It Would Rain, Cloud Nine, Runaway Child, Running Wild, I Cant Get Next to You, Just My Imagination; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 19 | Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge were married in Los Angeles, CA. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 17 | Hugo Winterhalter (orchestra leader: Canadian Sunset, Rhapsody in Blue) dies. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 19 | Gram Parsons (Cecil Ingram Connors) singer: group: The Byrds: LP: Sweetheart of the Rodeo; The Flying Burrito Brothers: LP: The Gilded Palace of Sin, Burrito Deluxe; songwriter: She, How Much Ive Lied, The New Soft Shoe, Grievous Angel, Hickory Wind, Las Vegas, In My Hour of Darkness; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 20 | Ben Webster, American jazz musician, dies at age 64. | Ref: 70 |
Sep 20 | Singer Jim Croce, 30, (Time In A Bottle, Bad Bad Leroy Brown), his lead guitarist, Maury Muehleisen, and four others died when their plane crashed into a tree while taking off for a concert in Sherman, Texas. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 06 | Gene Krupa drummer: Sing Sing Sing; bandleader: Let Me Off Uptown, Knock Me a Kiss, Chickery Chick, Boogie Blues; films: Some Like it Hot, Ball of Fire, The Gene Krupa Story; died Oct 6, 1973 | Ref: 5 |
Oct 11 | Stringbean [David Akeman], banjoist/comedian (Hee Haw), dies at 58. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 16 | Gene Krupa, American jazz drummer, dies at age 64. | Ref: 70 |
Oct 22 | Spanish cellist, conductor and composer Pablo Casals dies in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, at age 96. | Ref: 68 |
Nov 10 | Khiry Abdulsamad Los Angeles CA, rocker (Boys-Dial My Heart, Lucky Charm) | Ref: 5 |
Nov 11 | Stringbean (David Akeman), 58, country comedian: Grand Old Opry, Ozark Jubilee, Hee-Haw; Akeman and wife, Estelle, are murdered in their home by burglars. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 18 | Steve Christopher Petree OK, rocker (PC Quest-Can You See), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 19 | Dancer-choreographer Savion Glover is born. | Ref: 68 |
Nov 20 | Allan Sherman (Copelon) comedian: Hello Mudduh, Hello Fadduh!; associate producer: Ive Got a Secret; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 21 | Allan Sherman singer, dies at 48 (Goodbye Muddah, Goodbye Faddah). | Ref: 5 |
Dec 06 | Justus Hermann Wetzel composer, dies at 94. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 14 | Yitzhak Edel composer, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 15 | Orest Alexandrovich Evlahkov composer, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 17 | Patrick Hadley composer, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 18 | Giulio Cesare Brero composer, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 20 | Singer Bobby Darin died following open-heart surgery at the age of 37. He left a legacy of memories in rock n roll and pop tunes, as well as on television and in movies (even an Oscar nomination for his role in Captain Newman, M.D.). The story of Darin being groomed to replace Frank Sinatra at Capitol Records is absolutely true. Unfortunately, Capitol didnt think the grooming was going so well, and withheld many of Darins songs for many years; releasing them in a compilation CD in 1995. Good stuff to listen to: Splish Splash, Queen of the Hop, Dream Lover, Mack the Knife, Beyond the Sea, If I Were a Carpenter, etc. At the end, Darin, who had recorded for Atco, Capitol and Atlantic Records had just begun recording for Motown. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 20 | Singer Bobby Darin (Cassotto) dies following open-heart surgery at the age of 37. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 22 | Domingo Julio Gomez Garcia composer, dies at 87. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 30 | Henri-Paul Busser composer, dies at 101. | Ref: 5 |
- 1974
Jan 04 | Karel Janacek composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 05 | John Drew Nichols Oklahoma, rocker (PC Quest-Can You See), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 05 | Roy Bargy orchestra leader (Jimmy Durante Show), dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 12 | Melanie Jayne Chisholm "Sporty Spice", Widnes, vocalist (Spice Girls), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 15 | Karel Salmon composer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 25 | Jonathan Bryan Colling Boston MA, rocker (4 Fun-Unbelievable Fun Boys), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 26 | Wiktor Labunski composer, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Jean Absil Belgian composer (Bndictions), dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 04 | Mihail Andricu composer, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 15 | Kurt Magnus Atterberg composer, dies at 86. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 16 | Kimberly Dawn Whipany Oklahoma, rocker (PC Quest-Can You See), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | After a decade of marriage, Cher filed for separation from husband Sonny Bono. Not long afterwards, she filed for divorce and the accompanying alimony. This time she sang, I Got You Babe, for real ... before becoming a successful solo singer and movie actress in films such as Moonstruck (Best Actress Oscar in 1987). | Ref: 4 |
Feb 20 | David Monrad Johansen composer, dies at 85. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 23 | Harry Ruby (Rubinstein) musician: composer: Duck Soup; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 25 | Julian Dash jazz musician: tenor sax: No Soap, Midnight Stroll, Double Shot, Gin Mill Special, Weddin Blues, My Silent Love, Long Moan, Creamin, Goin Along; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 05 | Leon Blum, Russian-born impresario; popularized classical ballet and music in America, dies at age 86. | Ref: 70 |
Mar 05 | Solomon I "Sol" Hurok, Russian-born American impresario; popularized classical ballet and music in America dies at age 86. | Ref: 70 |
Mar 10 | Quinto Maganini composer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Hakeem Abdul-samad rocker (Boys), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Dorothy Fields US singer (Way you Look Tonight), dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | Alfred Ernest Whitehead composer, dies at 86. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 17 | Herbert Elwell US composer (Happy Hypocrite), dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 17 | Vinnie Taylor rocker (Canned Heat), dies of a drug overdose. | Ref: 5 |
May 04 | Israel Citkowitz composer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
May 08 | Graham Bond rocker, dies jumping under a train. | Ref: 5 |
May 09 | Lyubomir Pipkov composer, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
May 15 | Ahmet Rodan Zappa son of Frank/rocker (Z, 2 Hip 4 TV), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 23 | Jewel [Kilcher] St George UT, folk/rock vocalist (Pieces of You), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 24 | Duke Ellington, jazz composer, band leader and pianist, dies at age 75. | Ref: 68 |
May 25 | Pam Morrison wife of Door's vocalist Jim, dies of drug overdose. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 08 | Keyboardist Rick Wakeman quits the rock group "Yes". | Ref: 5 |
Jun 18 | Georgi Zhukov Russian Marshal (WW II), dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 27 | Lightning Slim blues singer, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 29 | Mama Cass Elliott (Ellen Naomi Cohen) singer: group: The Mamas & The Papas: CA Dreamin, Monday, Monday, Creeque Alley; solo: Dream a Little Dream of Me, Its Getting Better, Make Your Own Kind of Music; group: The Mugwumps; chokes to death at 30 in London. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 03 | Guitarist Jeff Baxter quits Steely Dan & joins Doobie Brothers. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 07 | Musician Peter Wolf married actress Faye Dunaway in Beverly Hills, CA. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 30 | Matt Bongiovi heavy metal rocker (cousin of Jon Bon Jovi) is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 14 | Natalie Maines singer: group: Dixie Chicks, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 24 | David Oistrakh, Russian violin virtuoso, dies at age 66. | Ref: 70 |
Nov 08 | Ivory Joe Hunter singer, musician: piano: Since I Met You Baby, I Almost Lost My Mind, I Need You So; songwriter: Aint That Loving You Baby, My Wish Come True, Blues at Sunrise; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 02 | Sofie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatte composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 08 | Hugues Panassi French jazz saxophonist/author, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 09 | Jorge Croner de Vasconcelos composer, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 15 | Erich Walter Sternberg composer, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 20 | Andr Jolivet French composer (L'eunuque), dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 26 | Knudage Riisager composer, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 26 | Robert Levine Sanders composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
- 1975
Jan 03 | Ren Thomas jazz guitarist: LPs: Guitar Groove, Who Cares?, The Italian Session; A musician for musicians.; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 08 | Richard Tucker [Reuben Ticker], US tenor (La Gioconda), dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Shannon Kavanaugh Boston MA, rocker (Ivory Soul), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 12 | Chase Hampton Oklahoma City OK, rocker (Party-Rodeo, That's Why), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 20 | Franz Andr Belgian conductor, dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 30 | Boris Blacher German composer (Purloined Letter), dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 03 | Robert Evett composer, dies at 52. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 04 | Louis (Thomas) Jordan, American singer, saxophonist and bandleader, dies at age 66. | Ref: 70 |
Feb 13 | Eric Harding Thiman composer, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 18 | Luigi Dallapiccola composer, dies. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 19 | Paul Frey Boston MA, dance skater (& Ponte-1995 Eastern Jr champion), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 19 | Luigi Dallapiccola Italian 12-tone composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Brian (Thomas) Littrell singer: group: Backstreet Boys: LPs: Backstreet Boys, Star Profile, Millennium, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 20 | Edgar "Cookie" Fairchild bandleader (Jerry Colonna Show), dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Gregory Maddalone Schenectady NY, dance skater (& Demkowski), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 28 | Istvan Kardos composer, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 02 | Jean Kurt Forest composer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 03 | Albert Fields Gary IN, rocker (Party-Rodeo, That's Why), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 10 | Leopold Samuel composer, dies at 91. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 11 | Philip Bezanson composer, dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 11 | Sammy Spear orchestra leader (Dom Deluise Show), dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 16 | T-Bone Walker blues guitarist (Funky Town, Well Done), dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 21 | Berend Giltay composer, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 24 | Oscar Rasbach composer, dies at 86. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | Arthur Bliss English composer/conductor (Checkmate), dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Renzo Massarani composer, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 02 | Deedee Magno rocker (Party-Rodeo, That's Why) | Ref: 5 |
Apr 06 | Damon Phillip Pampolina rapper/drummer (Party), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 07 | Victoria Adams "Posh Spice", Hertfordshire, vocalist (Spice Girls), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | Josephine Baker, American-born French dancer and singer, dies at age 69. | Ref: 70 |
Apr 21 | Jack Allan Westrup composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 23 | Pete Ham rocker (Badfinger), commits suicide by hanging himself at 27. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 25 | Ruben Gomez rocker (Menudo-Cannonball), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 04 | Pablo Ruiz Buenos Aires Argentina, Spanish singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 13 | Bob Wills, fiddler, composer, bandleader: Light Crust Doughboys, Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys: San Antonio Rose; inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame [Early Influence category: Mar 15, 1999]; dies at age 69. | Ref: 4 |
May 17 | Mick Jagger punches a restaurant window, gets 20 stitches. | Ref: 5 |
May 18 | Leroy Anderson, American conductor, arranger and composer, dies at age 66. | Ref: 70 |
May 20 | Jacques Stehman composer, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | Melanie Janine Brown "Scary Spice", Leeds, vocalist (Spice Girls), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 06 | Damon Pampolina rocker (Party-Rodeo, That's Why), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 23 | Rocker Alice Cooper falls of stage in Vancouver, breaks 6 ribs. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 27 | Sonny and Cher (Bono) called it quits as husband and wife. They were divorced soon after their CBS-TV variety show was canceled. Sonny went on to become mayor of Palm Springs and then a US Congressman from CA. (He was killed Jan. 5, 1998 in a skiing accident.) Cher married rocker Gregg Alman just days after saying bye-bye to Sonny. She continued her recording career and became an Academy Award-winning actress. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 30 | Cher married rock star Greg Allman. Cher announced her divorce from Allman just days after the couple tied the knot. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 07 | George Morgan singer: Candy Kisses, Rainbow in My Heart, Room Full of Roses, Crybaby Heart, Im in Love Again; DJ: WSM, Nashville; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 10 | Cher files for divorce from rocker Greg Allman, just ten days after the couple had married. She said that Allman had been moonlighting with an old flame. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 15 | Charles Weidman, American dancer and choreographer, dies at age 73. | Ref: 70 |
Jul 19 | Lefty (William Orville) Frizzell Country Music Hall of Famer: If Youve Got the Money, Ive Got the Time, Always Late, Saginaw Michigan; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 30 | Tifini Hale Palm Springs Calif, rocker (Party-Rodeo, That's Why), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 01 | Julian "Cannonball" Alderly sax player, dies of a stroke. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 08 | Julian Cannonball Adderly musician: Alto/Soprano Saxophone: Mercy, Mercy, Mercy; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 09 | Dimitri Shostakovich, composer: Symphony No.5, No. 7, No. 11, No. 13, dies at age 68. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 20 | Vincent Lopez bandleader: played at NYCs Astor Hotel, some of the greats started with him: Artie Shaw, Buddy Morrow, Buddy Clark; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 01 | Al Jackson Jr. drummer: groups: Booker T. and the M.G.s, Roy Milton Band; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 27 | Rocker Bruce Springsteen appeared on the cover of both TIME and Newsweek. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 29 | John Scott Trotter orch leader (George Gobel Show), dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 01 | Nick Kenny US columnist/songwriter (Nick Kenny Show), dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 15 | Mukhtar Ashrafi composer, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 17 | Noble Sissle jazz musician, dies at 86. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 19 | Casual [Jon Owens] rapper, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 20 | Vincent Lopez orchestra leader (Welcome Aboard), dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 24 | Bernard Herrmann US movie composer, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 31 | Donal Michalsky composer, dies at 47. | Ref: 5 |
- 1976
Jan 03 | Mateusz Glinski composer, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 05 | Georges E Migot French composer, dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Howlin Wolf (Chester Burnett) blues musician: rhythm guitar, singer: How Many More Years, Smoke Stack Lightning, Evil; dies following brain surgery at 65. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 21 | Emma Lee Bunton "Baby Spice", Finchley London, vocalist (Spice Girls), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 23 | Paul Robeson singer: Ol Man River; actor: The Emperor Jones, Show Boat, Othello, Porgy and Bess, The Hairy Ape, King Solomons Mines, Song of Freedom; dies in Philadelphia at age 77. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 24 | Shae-Lynn Bourne Chatham Ontario, ice dancer (Bourne & Kraatz 1995 World Champions-4th), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 28 | Chris Kenner rocker (I Like it Like That), dies. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 30 | Jesse "Lone Cat" Fuller San Francisco Blues Great, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 30 | Mance Lipscomb rocker, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Maurice Jacobson composer, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 04 | Edward Benjamin Britten composer, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 06 | Vince Guaraldi jazz pianist (Charlie Brown TV specials), dies at 43. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Percy Faith, singer, Grammy Award-winning orchestra leader, composer: The Theme from "A Summer Place" [1960]; My Heart Cries for You [Guy Mitchell hit], Delicado, Song from Moulin Rouge, Theme for Young Lovers; dies in Los Angeles CA. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 12 | James Clifton Williams composer/band master (Sinfonians), dies at 52. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 13 | Lily (Alice) Pons, French/US soprano/opera diva (Met Opera), dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 18 | Eddie Dowling composer (Anywhere USA), dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Florence Ballard rocker (Supremes), dies in Detroit MI of a heart attack at age 32. (TWA, 1977) | Ref: 95 |
Feb 24 | Charles Wilfred Orr composer, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 25 | Chris Pitman rocker (Zaum, Tool), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Jean Martinon French conductor/composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 03 | Alfred Sendrey composer, dies at 92. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 07 | Erwin Kroll composer, dies at 90. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 17 | Stephen Gately Dublin Ireland, Irish singer (Boyzone), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 18 | Robert de Roos composer, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 19 | Paul Kossoff musician: guitar: group: Free: All Right Now; dies of heart failure at 25. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 19 | George Sklavos composer, dies at 87. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | Miroslav Ponc composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Maurice Johnstone composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 08 | Phil Ochs rock producer (Joe Hill), dies at 35. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 09 | Phil Ochs, folk singer, songwriter: There But for Fortune, Doesnt Lenny Live Here Anymore?, Heres to the State of Richard Nixon; commits suicide at age 35. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 09 | Akio Yashiro composer, dies at 46. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 22 | Frutuoso de Lima Viana composer, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Wilhelm Maler composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 30 | Edvard Fliflet Braein composer, dies at 51. | Ref: 5 |
May 09 | Raymond Chevreuille Belgian composer, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
May 09 | Valentino Bucchi composer, dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
May 11 | Camille Schmit composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
May 12 | Singer Melanie "Sporty Spice" Chisholm (Spice Girls) is born. |   |
May 14 | Keith Relf rock vocalist (Yardbirds), electrocuted while tuning his guitarat 33. | Ref: 5 |
May 21 | Sulo Nikolai Salonen composer, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 02 | Adrian Carlos Olivares Mexico City, singer (Menudo-Cannonball), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 25 | Johnny (John Herndon) Mercer Academy Award-winning composer, lyricist: On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe [1946], In the Cool Cool Cool of the Evening [w/Hoagy Carmichael] [1951], Moon River [1961], Days of Wine and Roses [1962]; Autumn Leaves, One for My Baby, Charade, Satin Doll, You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby, Come Rain or Come Shine, Hooray for Hollywood, Jeepers Creepers, I?m An Old Cowhand, Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive; wrote or co-wrote over a thousand songs; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 16 | Rock duo Loggins & Messina break-up after 6 years. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 06 | Gregor Piatigorsky Russian-born cellist: performed worldwide; teacher: Univ. Southern California; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 08 | J.C. Chasez singer: group: N Sync: I Want You Back, Tearin Up My Heart, Merry Christmas, Happy Holiday, God Must Have Spent A Little More Time On You, I Drive Myself Crazy, Music Of My Heart, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 11 | Keith Moon, drummer for the Who, collapses & is hospitalized in Miami. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 26 | Lotte Lehmann, German opera singer, dies at age 88. | Ref: 70 |
Sep 16 | Andres Javier Blazquez PR, singer (Menudo-Cannonball), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 30 | Mary Ford (Iris Colleen Summers) singer w/Les Paul: How High the Moon, Vaya Con Dios, The World is Waiting for the Sunrise; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 02 | Quentin Butter Jackson musician: trombone: played with Duke Ellington; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 04 | Alexander Gray singer (This is Music), dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 10 | Connee Boswell singer (Pete Kelly's Blue), dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 11 | Connie Boswell singer: dies. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 12 | Walter Piston, American composer/teacher, dies at age 82. | Ref: 70 |
Dec 04 | Tommy Bolin rock guitarist (Deep Purple), dies of heroin overdose. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 04 | Benjamin Britten Lowestoft Suffolk England, composer (Beggar's Opera), dies at age 63. | Ref: 70 |
Dec 28 | Freddie King rocker, dies at 42. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 30 | The Smothers Brothers, Tom and Dick, played their last show at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas and retired as a team from show business. Each continued as a solo artist. They reunited years later for another stab at TV (on NBC) plus concert appearances that proved very successful. | Ref: 70 |
- 1977
Jan 02 | Erroll Garner ASCAP Award-winning jazz pianist: Misty [1984]; Dreamy, Thats My Kick, Moments Delight, Solitaire; dies at age 53. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 09 | Alexey Kozlovsky composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 18 | Paul Nordoff US composer (Frog Prince), dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 21 | John Vincent composer, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 21 | Zoltan Vasarhelyi composer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 28 | Joey Fatone Jr. singer: group: N Sync: I Want You Back, Tearin Up My Heart, Merry Christmas, Happy Holiday, God Must Have Spent A Little More Time On You, I Drive Myself Crazy, Music Of My Heart, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 09 | Alexey Kozlovsky composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 10 | Grace Mary Williams composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 14 | Nathan Osmond Utah, vocalist (Osmond Boys), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 15 | Brook Wackman rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 24 | Alexis Jose Grullon New York NY, singer (Menudo-Cannonball), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | Bukka White rocker, dies at 43. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | Maxime Jacob composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Keith Richards gets suspended sentence for heroin possession, Canada. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 28 | Debbie Koegel Norristown PA, dance skater (& Oleg Fediukov), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 03 | Ronan Keating Bayside Dublin Ireland, Irish singer (Boyzone), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 05 | Lockrem Johnson composer, dies at 52. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 05 | Moses Pergament composer, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 10 | E Power Biggs English organist/composer (CBS), dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 23 | Bennie Green trombonist, lyricist: The Diamond and the Goose; journalist; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 24 | Saburo Moroi composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | Lodewijk de Vocht composer, dies at 89. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Angelo Garcia Brooklyn NY, singer (Menudo-Cannonball), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | Levko Mykolayevich Revutsky composer, dies at 88. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 04 | Jeno Zador composer, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 22 | Charles Sanford orchestra leader (Your Show of Shows), dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 30 | Clive Martin Douglas composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
May 07 | Irwin Fischer composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
May 09 | Walter Kraft composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
May 22 | Marius Monnikendam Dutch choir composer, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
May 26 | William Powell rocker (O'Jays), dies of cancer at 35. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | Ashley Ryan Ruiz Offord Miami FL, singer (Menudo-Cannonball), is born. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | Jiri Reinberger composer, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | Goddard Lieberson composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
May 30 | Paul Desmond US jazz saxophonist, dies at 52. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 10 | Norman Paris orch leader (For Your Pleasure), dies at 41. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 22 | Tony Orlando announced his retirement from show business. Orlando was performing in Cohasset, MA when he said that he had finally decided to call it quits. Orlando had two solo hits in 1961 (Halfway to Paradise and Bless You) and 14 hits with his backup singers (known as Dawn) through the mid-1970s. He also hosted a weekly TV variety show with Dawn (Telma Hopkins and Joyce Vincent) from 1974-1976. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 27 | Milt Buckner musician: piano, organ, composer: Hamps Boogie Woogie, The Lamplighter, Counts Basement; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 13 | Fiona Apple,singer, songwriter: LPs: Tidal, When The Pawn, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 13 | Leopold Stokowski symphonic conductor, dies in England, at 95. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 16 | Maria Callas, the American-born prima donna famed for her lyric soprano and fiery temperament, died in Paris at age 53. | Ref: 70 |
Sep 16 | Maria Callas (Calogeropoulous) singer: opera: dramatic soprano; dies in Paris at 53. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 16 | Marc Bolan (Feld) singer: group: T. Rex: Bang a Gong; is killed in car crash. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 29 | Alexander Tcherepnin St Petersburg Russia, composer, dies. | Ref: 68 |
Oct 14 | Crooner Bing (Harry Lillis) Crosby der Bingle suffered a fatal heart attack while playing golf at a course near Madrid, Spain. Crosby, 73, had just completed a tour of England that had included a sold-out engagement at the London Palladium. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 16 | Milt (Milton W.) Raskin pianist, composer: Twenty Mule Train [Death Valley Days], Exotic Percussion [Kapu], Look Out Up There [w/Pete Rugolo], I Never Wanna Look Into Those Eyes [w/Johnny Mercer], Mileka; arranger: Naked City, The Fugitive, The Agony and the Ecstacy, Lawrence of Arabia; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 20 | Three members of the rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, including Ronnie Van Zandt, were killed in the crash of a chartered plane near McComb, Miss. | Ref: 70 |
Nov 05 | Guy Lombardo orchestra leader (Auld Lang Syne), dies in Houston at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 18 | Teddi King singer: Mr. Wonderful; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 19 | Sonny (William) Criss musician: saxophone: LP: The Bop Masters, Saturday Morning, Criss Craft, Out of Nowhere, Warm and Sonny; dies. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 04 | Andre Eglevsky, Russian-born American ballet dancer and instructor, dies at age 59. | Ref: 70 |
Dec 22 | Johann Nepomuk David composer, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 26 | Ivan Rezak composer, dies at 53. | Ref: 5 |
- 1978
Jan 10 | Don Gillis US composer (Symphony #5), dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Zeb Turner country-rock performer (Chew Tobacco Rag), dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 12 | Nancy Spungen stabbed to death by boyfriend Sid Vicious. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 14 | Robert Heger composer, dies at 91. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 18 | Ivan Ivonovich Dzerzhinsky composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 23 | Vic Ames (Urick) singer: group: The Ames Brothers: You, You, You are the One, Rag Mop, Sentimental Me, Undecided, You, You, You, The Man with the Banjo, The Naughty Lady of Shady Lane, Tammy, Melodie dAmour; is killed in a car crash. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 27 | Marguerite Canal composer, dies at 87. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 28 | Ted Nugent autographs a fan's arm with his knife. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Vadim Nikolayevich Salmanov composer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 03 | Douglas Osmond Provo UT, vocalist (Osmonds 2ndG) | Ref: 5 |
Mar 12 | Tolchard Evans composer/conductor, dies. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 13 | David McKinley Williams composer, dies at 91. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 04 | Gino Contilli composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 06 | Nicolas Nabokov composer (Holy Devil), dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 07 | Ernest Kanitz composer, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 17 | Bilal Abdul-samad rocker (Boys), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 21 | Sandy Denny country singer, dies at 37. | Ref: 5 |
May 01 | Aram (Ilyich) Katchaturian Russian composer (The Earth), dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
May 09 | Fee Waybill of the Tubes breaks a leg falling off stage. | Ref: 5 |
May 22 | Bjarne Brustad composer, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
May 26 | Tamara Karsavina, Russian-English ballerina, dies at age 93. | Ref: 70 |
May 30 | Krassmira Todorava Miss Bulgaria Universe (1997), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 31 | Enoch Light orch leader (Gulf Road Show with Bob Smith), dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 05 | Queenie Smith actress/dancer (Funny Side), dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 24 | Louis Prima musician: trumpet, bandleader: Louis Prima and His New Orleans Gang, Gleeby Rhythm Orchestra; songwriter: Sing, Sing, Sing, Christopher Columbus, Its the Rhythm in Me, Sunday Kind of Love, Robin Hood, Bell-Bottom Trousers, Civilization, Oh, Babe; singer: [w/wife Keely Smith]: Just a Gigolo, That Old Black Magic, I Aint Got Nobody, Ive Got You Under My Skin; solo: Wonderland by Night; voice of Orangutan: The Jungle Book; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 07 | Keith Moon, singer, drummer with The Who, dies in London England. | Ref: 68 |
Oct 09 | Jacques Brel singer, songwriter: Jackie, Next, If You Go Away, Im Not Afraid; appeared in his own French version of Man of La Mancha and in film: Montdragon; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 10 | Ralph Marterie Caruso of the trumpet: musician, bandleader: Pretend, Caravan, Skokiaan; dies. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 16 | Abel Talamantez TX, singer (Menudo-Cannonball), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 22 | Dorothy Shay (Sims) The Park Avenue Hillbilly: singer: Feudin and Fightin; actress: Comin Round the Mountain; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 23 | Mother Maybelle Carter (Addington), musician: played melody on bass strings of guitar, rhythm on treble, singer: group: The Carter Family: Keep on the Sunny Side, Foggy Mountain Top; member Grand Ole Opry: A Jilted Love, Dont Wait; dies at age 69. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 26 | Frank Rosolino musician: trombone: with Stan Kenton, Harold Land, Bob Cooper, Clarke-Boland Big Band; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 27 | Marguerite Canal composer, dies at 87. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 03 | William Grant Still, American composer and conductor, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 08 | Kate Robinson Peoria IL, dance skater (& Peter Breen) | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | Kuniva, Rapper (D12), is born. | Ref: 76 |
Dec 12 | Clifton Chenier US accordionist (Bayou Blues), dies at 53. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 16 | Blanche Calloway US singer/dancer/radio hostess, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 17 | Don Ellis Grammy Award-winning jazz musician: trumpet, composer: Theme from the French Connection [1973]; New Nine, 3-3-2-2-2-1-2-2-2, Tears of Joy, Milos Theme, Star Children; soloist: NY Philharmonic; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 18 | Naomi Lang Arcata CA, dance skater (& Peter Tchernyshev), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 27 | Chris Bell rock guitarist (Big Star), dies at 27 in car crash. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 27 | Bob Luman singer: Lets Think About Living, Every Day I Have to Cry Some, The Pay Phone, Proud of You Baby; dies. | Ref: 4 |
- 1979
Jan 02 | Wayne Walker songwriter: first big hit: I've Got a New Heartache [performed by Ray Price]; Are You Sincere, Leaving on Your Mind, Memory No. 1; dies. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 04 | Charles Mingus jazz bassist, dies of heart attack. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 05 | Charles Mingus US jazz bassist/composer/orchestra leader, dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 06 | Marjorie Lawrence opera soprano: One of the truest Wagnerian interpreters of our time, unchallenged for the stirring magnificence of her Brunnhilde and the tender simplicity of her Sieglinde, or the stately loveliness of her Elsa and the compelling malevolence of her Ortrud.; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 07 | Zbigniew Turski composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 09 | Avery Claflin composer, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 09 | Sara Carter vocalist/guitarist (Carter Family), dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Chris H E Smith [Daddy Mack], Atlanta, rapper (Kris Kross-Warm it Up), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 13 | Donny Hathaway Chicago IL, rocker (Ghetto), commits suicide at 33. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 15 | Donny Hathaway singer: Where is the Love, Youve Got a Friend, The Closer I Get to You [w/Roberta Flack]; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 16 | Fred Elizalde composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 18 | Cyril Mockridge composer, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 30 | Diva Zappa daughter of Frank, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Punk rock musician Sid Vicious [John Simon Ritchie] of the Sex Pistols died at age 31 of a drug overdose (suicide?) in New York. | Ref: 70 |
Feb 09 | Avery Claflin composer, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Sara Carter vocalist/guitarist (Carter Family), dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 11 | Brandy Norwood, Grammy Award-winning singer: The Boy Is Mine [w/Monica: 1999]; I Wanna Be Down, Baby, Best Friend, Brokenhearted, Sittin Up in My Room, Never S-A-Y Never, Top of the World, Have You Ever?, Almost Doesnt Count, U Dont Know Me (Like U Used To), What About Us? is born. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 21 | Ray Whitley composer, dies. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 05 | Vicente Ascone composer, dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 07 | Guiomar Novaes pianist (Brazilian Order of Merit), dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 07 | Klaus Egge Norwegian composer (Fanitullen), dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 15 | Leonide Massine, Russian dancer and choreographer of over 50 ballets, dies at age 82. | Ref: 70 |
Mar 25 | Anton Heiller composer, dies at 55. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 06 | Milton Ager US composer, dies at 85. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 10 | Nino Rota Italian composer (Torquemada), dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 28 | Feliks Roderyk Labunski composer, dies at 86. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Julia A Perry US composer/conductor (Soul Symphony), dies at 55. | Ref: 5 |
May 01 | Elton John becomes first pop star to perform in Israel. | Ref: 5 |
May 04 | Lance Bass singer: group: N Sync: I Want You Back, Tearin Up My Heart, Merry Christmas, Happy Holiday, God Must Have Spent A Little More Time On You, I Drive Myself Crazy, Music Of My Heart, is born. | Ref: 4 |
May 09 | Lan Adomian composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
May 11 | Lester Raymond Flatt, bluegrass musician (Flatt & Scruggs-Ballad of Jed Clampett), dies at 64. | Ref: 68 |
May 19 | Guitarist Eric Clapton marries Patti Boyd. | Ref: 5 |
May 23 | Rocker Tom Petty files chapter 11 bankruptcy | Ref: 5 |
Jun 07 | Rocker Chuck Berry is charged with tax evasion. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 29 | Lowell George rocker (Mothers of Invention. Little Feat), dies at 34. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 10 | Conductor Arthur Fiedler, who had led the Boston Pops orchestra for a half-century, died in Brookline, Mass., at age 84. | Ref: 70 |
Jul 12 | Minnie Ripperton singer (Lovin' You), dies of cancer at 30. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 23 | Keith Godchaux rocker (Grateful Dead), dies in a car accident at 32. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 19 | Dorsey Burnette singer: Tall Oak Tree, Hey Little One; brother of singer Johnny Burnette; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 20 | Singer Vikki Carr & Michael Nilsson wed. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 24 | B.B. King celebrated his 30th year in show business at a special celebration held at the Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles, CA. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 25 | Stan (Stanley Newcomb) Kenton, the American bandleader who was an innovator in the progressive jazz style of the 1950's, dies at age 57. | Ref: 70 |
Aug 31 | Sally Rand (Helen Gould Beck) dancer, stripper: inventor of the fan dance; actress: The TX Bearcat, Bachelor Brides, The Night of Love, Getting Gerties Garter, Bolero, Sunset Murder Case; dies. | Ref: 68 |
Sep 09 | Yusef Islam (Cat Stevens) weds Fouzia Ali at Kensington Mosque. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 18 | Bolshoi Ballet dancers Leonid & Valentina Kozlov defect. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 19 | Lou Busch (Joe Fingers Carr) musician: piano, arranger, composer: Sams Song, Down Yonder, Portuguese Washerwoman; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 08 | [Gregory] Chad Petree Shawne Okla, rocker (PC Quest-Can You See), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 10 | Fleetwood Mac receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 10 | Mya (Marie Harrison) singer: LPs: Mya, Fear Of Flying; in films: Bulworth, The Rugrats Movie, Moulin Rouge!, Atlantis: The Lost Empire), is born. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 11 | Dimitri Tiomkin conductor, composer: film scores: The Alamo, Dial M for Murder, Friendly Persuasion, High Noon, Its a Wonderful Life, Lost Horizon, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington; dies. | Ref: 2 |
Nov 19 | Chuck Berry released from prison on income tax evasion. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 02 | Vasily Pavlovich Solov'yov-Sedoy composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 30 | Richard Rodgers Academy Award-winning composer: half of Rodgers and (Lorenz) Hart and Rodgers and (Oscar) Hammerstein: dies at age 77. | Ref: 4 |
- 1980
Jan 02 | Singer Larry Williams (Lawrence E. Williams) (Short Fat Fannie, Bony Maronie, Dizzy Miss Lizzie) dies at age 44. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 03 | Amos Milburn rocker, dies at 52. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 07 | Carl White rocker, dies. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 13 | Andre Kostelanetz music conductor: with Perry Como: Prisoner of Love; arranger: Broadway show tunes; dies at age 79. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 19 | Richard Franko Goldman composer, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 28 | Nick Carter singer (Backstreet Boys), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | Antonio Molina composer, dies at 85. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 30 | Professor Longhair king of New Orleans music, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 07 | Ernst Kunz composer, dies at 88. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 17 | Jerry Fielding orchestra leader (Bewitched, Hogan's Heroes, Lively Ones), dies at 57. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 19 | Bon Scott Australian rock vocalist (AC/DC-Whole Lotta Rosie), dies at 33. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Patti Smith & MC5 guitarist Fred Sonic Smith wed in Detroit MI. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | John Jacob Niles composer, dies at 87. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 13 | Tauno Kullerve Pylkkanen composer, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 17 | Rudolf G Escher Dutch composer (Vrai Visage de la Paix), dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 21 | Gideon Fagan composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Jon-Jon Poulos rocker (Buckinghams), dies from drugs at 32. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Dick (Richard Benjamin) Haymes singer: Ill Get By, It Cant Be Wrong, Youll Never Know, Till the End of Time, Mamselle, Little White Lies; actor: State Fair, All Ashore, Irish Eyes are Smiling; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 29 | [Annunzio Paolo] Mantovani orchestra leader, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 22 | (Ellen) Jane Froman singer: I Only Have Eyes for You, Ill Walk Alone, I Believe; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 23 | Jane Froman US singer (JF's USA Canteen), dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 28 | Tommy Caldwell rocker (Marshall Tucker Band), dies. | Ref: 5 |
May 14 | Wilhelm Weismann composer, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
May 16 | Brian May of rock group Queen collapses on stage with hepatitis. | Ref: 5 |
May 16 | Former Buggles members Geoff Downes & Trevor Horn replace Jon Anderson & Rick Wakeman in Yes. | Ref: 5 |
May 18 | Ian Curtis English rock vocalist (Joy Division), commits suicide at 23. | Ref: 5 |
May 20 | Drummer Peter Criss quits Kiss. | Ref: 5 |
May 30 | Carl Radle bassist (Derek & Dominoes), dies of a kidney ailment. | Ref: 5 |
May 30 | Timmy Caldwell rocker (Marshall Tucker Band), dies. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 01 | Barbra Striesand appears at an ACLU Benefit in CA | Ref: 5 |
Jun 21 | Bert Kaempfert musician: Wonderland by Night, Red Roses for a Blue Lady, Three OClock in the Morning; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 27 | Steve Peregrin Took percussionist (T-Rex), dies at 31. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 28 | Jos Iturbi musician, pianist, conductor: Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 02 | Grateful Dead's Bob Weir & Mickey Hart are arrested for incitement | Ref: 5 |
Jul 30 | John Phillips of the Mamas & Papas is arrested on drug charges | Ref: 5 |
Jul 31 | John Phillips of the Mamas & Papas is arrested on drug charges. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 04 | Duke Pearson composer, band leader, musician: piano: How Insensitive; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 17 | Harold Adamson lyricist: Time on My Hands, Daybreak, dies. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 25 | Gower Champion, American choreographer, dancer and director, dies at age 59. | Ref: 70 |
Sep 25 | John Bonzo Bonham musician: drums: group: Led Zeppelin: Whole Lotta Love, Stairway to Heaven, Immigrant Song; dies of alcohol poisoning. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 15 | Robert Squirrel Lester singer: groups: The Moonglows, The Flamingos, The Chi-Lites; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 25 | Virgil Fox organ virtuoso: credited for bringing the organ to the forefront among classical concert instruments.; dies. | Ref: 70 |
Nov 17 | Clarke Isaac Hanson Tulsa OK, guitarist-Hanson (MMMBop) | Ref: 5 |
Dec 07 | Darby Crash rocker, dies at 22. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | Sarah Chang, violinist, is born. | Ref: 76 |
Dec 18 | Christina Aguilera, Staten Island, NY, singer (Genie in a Bottle, What A Girl Wants) | Ref: 5 |
Dec 24 | Alec Lafayette Chew Wilder composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | Louis Neefs Belgian singer, dies at 43. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 29 | Tim Hardin, US singer, composer: If I Were a Carpenter, Reason to Believe, Hang on to a Dream, Misty Roses, Tippy-Toein, dies of a drug overdose at age 39. | Ref: 5 |
- 1981
Jan 02 | David Lynch singer (Platters-My Prayer), dies at 51. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 07 | Jose Ardevol composer, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 09 | Kazimierz Serocki composer, dies at 58. | Ref: 5 |
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Jan 23 | Bobby Sherwood orchestra leader (Milton Berle Show), dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 23 | Samuel Barber US composer (School for Scandal), dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 27 | Jonny Lang blues musician, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | Cozy Cole rocker (Topsy Part II), dies. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 31 | Cozy (William Randolph) Cole musician: drums: played w/Cab Calloway, Louie Armstrong; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 01 | Ernst Pepping composer, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 01 | Nils Geirr Tveitt composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 06 | Orchestra leader Hugo Montenegro died in Palm Springs, California of emphysema. His arrangement of the spaghetti western theme The Good, the Bad and the Ugly went to #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 June 1, 1968. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 09 | Bill Haley (William John Clifton Haley Jr.) musician, singer: group: Bill Haley and His Comets: Rock Around the Clock, Mambo Rock, Dim, Dim the Lights, Shake, Rattle and Roll, Crazy Man Crazy, See You Later Alligator; dies at age 55 in Harlingen TX of a heart attack. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 09 | Kazimierz Serocki composer, dies at 58. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 15 | Mike Bloomfield rocker (Electric Flag), dies of drug overdose at 36. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 15 | Thomas Beversdorf composer, dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 16 | Howard Hanson composer, dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 19 | Frank Merrik composer, dies at 94. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | Lyricist E.Y. Yip Harburg dies in an auto accident in Hollywood, CA at the age of 82. Two of his most successful hits were Over the Rainbow from The Wizard of Oz and Its Only a Paper Moon, popularized by Nat King Cole and many others. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 07 | Kirill Petrovich Kondrashin Russian conductor/composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | Bob "Bear" Hite rocker (Canned Heat), dies of a heart attack at 36. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 06 | Bob "The Bear" Hite singer (Canned Heat-Goin' up the Country), dies. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 11 | Valerie Bertinelli marries Eddie Van Halen. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | Hans Chemin-Petit composer, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | Hendrik F Andriessen Dutch organist/composer (Te Deum), dies at 88. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 19 | Ernst Levy composer, dies at 85. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 20 | Rocker Papa John Phillips arrested for drug possession. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 21 | Eddie Sauter musician: drums, trumpet, arranger: for Benny Goodman: Superman, Benny Rides Again, All the Cats Join In, Clarinet A La King; for Artie Shaw: The Maid with the Flaccid Air, composer; orchestra leader: Sauter-Finegan Orchestra; dies. | Ref: 5 |
May 07 | Mieczyslaw Kolinski composer, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
May 11 | Bob Marley, Jamaican musician who popularized reggae music, dies of brain & lung cancer at age 36 in a Miami hospital. | Ref: 5 |
May 13 | Carl Weinrich composer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
May 16 | Pretenders' Martin Chambers weds Tracy Atkinson. | Ref: 5 |
May 17 | Hugo Freidhofer composer, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
May 25 | Rosa Ponselle, American coloratura soprano, dies at age 84. | Ref: 70 |
May 25 | Roy James Brown rocker (Good rockin' tonight), dies of a heart attack at 55. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | Mary Lou Williams black musician, dies at 71 in Durham NC. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 20 | Pee Wee (George) Erwin musician: trumpet: Tommy Dorsey Band, Isham Jones Band; dies. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 16 | Harry Chapin, 38, songwriter, singer: Taxi, W-O-L-D, Cats in the Cradle; Recipient of Special Congressional Gold Medal: Worldwide Humanitarian for the Hungry, Needy and Homeless; is killed when his car was struck by a tractor-trailer on NY's Long Island Expressway. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 27 | Ray Harrison dancer (American Song), dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 18 | Robert Russell Bennett musician: orchestration: Victory at Sea series; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 27 | Joan Edwards singer (Joan Edwards Show), dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 22 | Harry Warren (Salvatore Guaragna) composer: Song Writers Hall of Famer: Best Song Oscars: Lullaby of Broadway [1935], Youll Never Know [1943], On the Atcheson, Topeka and Santa Fe [w/Johnny Mercer-1946]; You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby, Thats Amore; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 02 | Hazel Scott singer/pianist (Hazel Scott), dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 05 | Jud Strunk singer/comedian (Laugh-In), dies at 48. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 17 | Bob Eberly (Robert Eberle) singer: The Breeze and I, Besame Mucho [w/Kitty Kallen]; sang w/Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra & on TVs Top Tunes; brother of singer Ray Eberle; dies at age 65. | Ref: 68 |
Nov 27 | Jonny Lang blues musician | Ref: 5 |
Nov 27 | Lotte Lenya (Karoline Blamauer) Tony Award-winning singer, actress, dies at age 81. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 02 | Britney Jean Spears, Kentwood, LA, singer (Baby One More Time, You Drive Me Crazy, Oops I Did It Again), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 02 | Hershy Kay composer, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 02 | Hershy Kay composer, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 08 | Walter "Shakey" Horton harmonica stylist (Everybody's Fishin'), dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 09 | Tonny Til rocker, dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 13 | Cornelius Cardew composer, dies at 45. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 27 | Hoagy (Hoagland Howard) Carmichael, Nashville Songwriters Hall of Famer: Stardust, Lazybones, Two Sleepy People, Skylark, Georgia on My Mind, Ole Buttermilk Sky, Rockin? Chair, [Up a] Lazy River, One Morning in May, The Nearness of You, Lamplighter?s Serenade, How Little We Know, Memphis in June, In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening, New Orleans; singer, piano player, band leader, attorney; dies at age 82. | Ref: 17 |
Dec 31 | Frantisek Chaun composer, dies at 60. | Ref: 5 |
- 1982
Jan 09 | Vido Musso musician: reed instruments, played with Benny Goodman; bandleader: Stan Kenton was his pianist; dies. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Lazar Weiner composer, dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 18 | Burnet Corwin Tuthill US composer (Laurentia), dies at 93. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 30 | Lightning Hopkins rocker, dies of cancer at 69. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 30 | Riccardo Nielsen composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 11 | Eleanor Powell tap dancer/wife of Glenn Ford, dies of cancer at 69. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 17 | Thelonious (Sphere) Monk composer, jazz musician: piano: dies of a stroke in Englewood, NJ at age 64. | Ref: 68 |
Feb 20 | Singer Pat Benatar married musician-producer Neil Geraldo in Hawaii. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 26 | Gabor Szabo Hungarian jazz pianist (Perfect Circle), dies at 45. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Malika A Sabirova Russian dancer, dies at 39. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 07 | Charles Borromeo Mills composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 13 | Albert Weisser composer, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 14 | Kirill Vladimirovich Molchanov composer, dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 18 | Singer Teddy Pendergrass' spinal cord severed in a car accident. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 19 | Randy Rhoads heavy metal guitarist (Ozzy Osbourne), dies in plane crash at 25. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 29 | Ray Bloch orchestra leader: TV shows: Blind Date, The Ed Sullivan Show, The Gay Nineties Revue, The Jackie Gleason Show, The Larry Storch Show, Songs for Sale; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 29 | Carl Orff German composer (Mouth, Antigonae), dies at 86. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 31 | Jessica Joseph Royal Oak MI, dance skater (& Butler-1997 National) | Ref: 5 |
Apr 04 | Tsvetan Tsvetanov composer, dies at 50. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 09 | Wilfred Pelletier symph conductor (Voice of Firestone), dies at 85. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 15 | Mark Mizzark [Marlis Pugh], Akron OH, rapper (Another Bad Creation) | Ref: 5 |
Apr 15 | Mark Pugh rocker (Another Bad Creation), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 26 | Rod Stewart is mugged, the gunman steals his $50,000 Porsche. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 28 | Bert van Dongen [Abraham J Cohen], Dutch singer/actor, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
May 05 | Cal Tjader (Callen Radcliffe Tjader Jr.) Grammy Award-winning musician: vibes, piano, percussion; composer: Cast Your Fate to the Winds [1962], La Onda VA Bien [1980]; soundtracks for Peanuts TV cartoons; dies. | Ref: 4 |
May 11 | Piet van Egmond organist/conductor, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
May 13 | Kara Abulfazogli Karayev composer, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
May 13 | Renzo Rossellini Italian composer, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 16 | John Honeyman-Scott guitarist of the Pretenders, overdoses on drugs | Ref: 5 |
Jun 26 | Marie Osmond marries Steve Craig. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 09 | Wingy (Joseph Matthews) Manone musician: trumpet: Tar Paper Stomp; singer, bandleader: Nickel in the Slot, Flat Foot Floogie, Annie Laurie; dies. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 15 | Bill (William E.) Justis (Jr.) musician: saxophone: Raunchy; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 29 | Andy Taylor of rock group Duran Duran weds Tracie Wilson. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 04 | Glenn (Herbert) Gould pianist, composer: films: Spheres, Slaughterhouse-Five, The Wars; wrote piano essay about Petula Clark; , dies at age 50. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 01 | Dorothy James composer, dies on 81st birthday. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 02 | David Blue rocker, dies while jogging in Greenwich Village at 41. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 08 | Marty Robbins (Robertson) Country Music Hall of Famer; Grammy Award Winner: El Paso [1960], My Woman, My Woman, My Wife [1970]; A White Sport Coat, Dont Worry, Devil Woman; actor: Road to Nashville, Ballad of a Gunfighter, Hell on Wheels, The Drifter; last Grand Ole Oprey singer to perform in Ryman Auditorium, first to perform in new Opryland; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 09 | Paul Godwin [Goldfein] Polish/Dutch violist, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 09 | Roger Danneels Flemish accordionist, dies at 55. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | Roy Webb composer, dies at 94. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 17 | Leonid B Kogan Russian violist, dies at 58. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 17 | Philipp Jarnach composer, dies at 90. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 18 | Tibor de Machula Hungary/Netherlands cellist, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 19 | Jean-Jacques Grunenwald French organist/composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 19 | Lawrence Collingwood composer, dies at 95. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 20 | Artur Rubinstein American pianist: played solo for the Berlin Symphony at the age of 12; , dies in Geneva Switzerland at 95. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 23 | Norman Dinnerstein composer, dies at 45. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 28 | Frederick Douglass Hall composer, dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
- 1983
Jan 02 | Bernard George Stevens composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Sam Chatman elder statesman of the blues, dies. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 04 | Singer/drummer Karen Carpenter (of The Carpenters) dies at her parents home at age 32 in Los Angeles of heart failure caused by chronic anorexia nervosa. Her death, at the age of 32, brought about more public awareness of the disease, characterized by a loss of appetite brought on by mental illness. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 12 | Eubie (James Hubert) Blake, ragtime composer/pianist (I'm Just Wild About Harry, Memories of You), dies at age 100. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 22 | Christina E "Christine" Auwen singer/wife of John Kelly, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 23 | Sir Adrian Boult, English conductor; led the B.B.C. Symphony, dies at age 94. | Ref: 70 |
Feb 24 | Herbert Norman Howells composer, dies at 90. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 07 | Igor Markevich composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | Sir William T Walton, English composer (Belhazzar's feast), dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 14 | Jordan Taylor Hanson Tulsa OK, singer-Hanson (MMMBop), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | Janis Ivanovs composer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | Pl Kadosa Hungarian composer/pianist, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | Danny Rapp singer: group: Danny & The Juniors: At the Hop, Rock and Roll is Here to Stay; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 14 | Pete Farndon rock bassist (Pretenders), dies. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 14 | Willem F Bon Dutch composer, dies at 42. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 17 | Felix Pappalardi rocker (Cream, Mountain), dies. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 17 | Peter Potter DJ (Peter Potter Show, Juke Box Jury), dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 20 | George Balanchine, Russian-bn. American choreographer, dies at age 79. | Ref: 70 |
Apr 22 | Earl `Fatha' Hines musician: piano: classic duet with Louis Armstrong: Weather Bird; songwriter: Blues in Thirds, A Monday Date; bandleader; dies. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 26 | Bronislaw Kaper composer, dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 30 | George Balanchine (Georgi Balanchivadze) choreographer: Apollo, Orpheus, Firebird, Swan Lake, The Nutcracker; founded School of American Ballet and New York City Ballet; dies at age 78. | Ref: 5 |
May 04 | Nino Sanzogno composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
May 06 | Kai Winding jazz musician: trombone: More [theme from Mondo Cane]; dies. | Ref: 4 |
May 16 | Carel Brons composer, dies at 52. | Ref: 5 |
May 21 | Finn Einar Mortensen composer, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
May 27 | Arnoldus Christian Vlok van Wyk composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 26 | Walter O'Keefe songwriter/TV host (Mayor of Hollywood), dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 30 | Bo Gentry songwriter/producer dies. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 05 | Harry (Haag) James trumpeter, bandleader: Sweet Georgia Brown, Chiribiribin, And the Angels Sing, Two Oclock Jump, You Made Me Love You, Music Makers, Strictly Instrumental, Ill Get By; married to Betty Grable (second of four wives); dies in Las Vegas at age 67. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 13 | Joe Tex (Arrington, Jr.) singer: I Gotcha, Hold What Youve Got, Skinny Legs and All, Aint Gonna Bump No More (With No Big Fat Woman; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 17 | Ira Gershwin (Israel Gershvin) lyricist: Lady Be Good, The Man I Love, The Man That Got Away, Someone to Watch Over Me, I Got Rhythm; dies in Beverly Hills CA at age 86. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 15 | LeRoy Prinz choreographer, dies at 88. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 15 | Willie Bobo jazz drummer (Cos), dies at 49. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 30 | Freddy Martin Mr. Silvertone: musician: tenor sax; bandleader: Ive Got a Lovely Bunch of Cocoanuts, April in Portugal, I Saw Stars, Then Ill Be Tired of You, Isle of Capri, Piano Concerto in B Flat, Tonight We Love, Bumble Boogie, Sabre Dance Boogie, Warsaw Concerto, Rose ODay, Miss You, dies at age 76. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 16 | George Liberace musician: violinist, conductor; administrator of Liberace Museum; brother of pianist/entertainer Liberace; dies at age 72. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 20 | Merle Travis songwriter: 16 Tons, Smoke, Smoke, Smoke That Cigarette, Petal from a Faded Rose, Cincinnati Lou, Information Please; singer: Re-enlistment Blues in From Here to Eternity, John Henry Junior, Barbara Allen; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 03 | Alfredo Antonini conductor (Jane Froman Canteen), dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 02 | Fifi D'Orsay "French Bombshell" (Dixie Jamboree), dies cancer at 79. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 11 | Szymon Laks composer, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 27 | Walter Scott rocker, dies. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 28 | The Beach Boys Dennis Wilson, 39, drowns in Marina Del Ray, CA while diving at the location where his boat Harmony was docked. Autopsy reports showed Wilson was legally drunk. He had been diving to bringing up personal items that he had previously thrown overboard. Some accounts say that Dennis brought up a wedding photo of him and ex-wife Karen Lamm from their first wedding, and then he dove again, but didnt resurface. | Ref: 4 |
- 1984
Jan 01 | Alexis Korner musician: guitar, singer: Whole Lotta Love; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 11 | Fritz Geissler composer, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 14 | Paul Ben Haim composer, dies at 86. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 20 | Jackie Wilson rocker, dies at 49 from a heart attack. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 21 | Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Jackie Wilson dies. On Sep 29, 1975, while performing at the Latin Casino near Cherry Hill, New Jersey, Wilson had suffered a massive heart attack that left him in a coma. He remained hospitalized until his death this day, at the age of forty-nine. Wilsons first hit was Reet Petite, written by a then-unknown Berry Gordy, who would later create the Motown Records empire. Jackie Wilsons biggest hit was his 1960 double-sided smash Doggin Around b/w Night. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 23 | Samuel Gardner composer, dies at 92. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 27 | Michael Jacksons hair catches fire during the filming of a Pepsi commercial in Los Angeles. Pyrotechnics did not operate on cue, injuring the singer. Jackson was hospitalized for a few days and fans from around the world sent messages of concern. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 09 | Balasaraswathi, Indian classical dancer, dies in Madras. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 14 | British rocker Elton John married sound engineer Renate Blauel in Sydney, Australia on this day. (The couple divorced Nov 18, 1988.) | Ref: 4 |
Feb 15 | Ethel Merman (Zimmerman) singer/actress (Kid Million), dies in her sleep at 76. | Ref: 68 |
Feb 19 | Ina Ray Hutton orchestra leader (Ina Ray Hutton Show), dies at 66. | Ref: 68 |
Feb 20 | Fikret Dzhamil Amirov composer, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | Shalva Mikhaylovich Mshvelidze composer, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 05 | Harry Salter orchestra leader (Stop the Music), dies at 85. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 05 | Tito Gobbi Italian baritone (Scarpia in Tosca), dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 06 | Pierre Cochereau composer, dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 18 | Paul Frances Webster lyricist, dies of Parkinson's disease at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Carmen Dragon classical music conductor, bandleader; father of singer, Captain Daryl Dragon; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 01 | Marvin Gaye shot to death by his father Marvin Gaye Sr in Los Angeles CA at age 44. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 06 | Ral Donner [Ralph Stuart], singer (Starfires), dies at age 41. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 06 | Jimmy Kenndy British songwriter (South of the Border), dies. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 10 | Nate Nelson R&B-singer (Flamingos-I'll Be Home), dies on 52 birthday. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 13 | Ralph Kirkpatrick, American musicologist and harpsichordist, dies at age 72. | Ref: 70 |
Apr 18 | Michael Jackson faced surgery in Los Angeles. Doctors performed scalp surgery to repair damage done after the megastars hair caught fire during the filming of a Pepsi commercial on January 27. Jackson was hospitalized and recuperated for months before he could return to work. His single recording of Thriller had been certified platinum in February, 1984. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 20 | Mabel Mercer English/US singer (Fly me to the moon), dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 23 | Red Garland jazz musician: reeds, pianist: ,Alone with the Blues Red Alone; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 26 | William "Count" Basie, American band leader and composer, dies at age 78. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 29 | Marvin Gaye rocker (Sexual Healing), shot dead by his father at 45. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 30 | Muddy Waters blues singer/guitarist (Hoochie Coochie Man), dies at 68. | Ref: 68 |
May 01 | Gordon Jenkins orchestra leader (NBC Comedy Hour), dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
May 14 | Larry Stock songwriter (Blueberry Hill), dies. | Ref: 5 |
May 25 | Piet Ketting Dutch pianist/conductor/composer, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 15 | Meredith Wilson (Reiniger) composer: The Music Man, The Unsinkable Molly Brown; dies at age 82. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 19 | Emil Coleman orchestra leader (Arthur Murray Party), is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 09 | Randall Thompson, American composer of choral music, dies at age 85. | Ref: 70 |
Jul 16 | Billy Williams singer (Your Show of Shows), dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 17 | J Delos Jewkes singer/actor, dies of a heart attack at 89. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 07 | Little Esther Phillips (Esther Mae Jones) pianist, singer: Release Me, What a Diffrence a Day Makes; Grammy nomination: Best female R & B vocalist [1973], Aretha Franklin won but gave award to Esther; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 10 | Ilona Massey, Hungarian movie actress and singer, dies at age 64. | Ref: 70 |
Sep 05 | Country-music star Ernest Tubb, the TX Troubadour, dies at the age of 70. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 06 | Ernest Tubb Country Music Hall of Famer: Walking the Floor Over You; headlined first country music show at Carnegie Hall; dies at age 70. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 12 | Country singer Barbara Mandrell is badly injured in a car accident | Ref: 5 |
Sep 19 | June Preisser dancer/actress, dies at 61 in an auto accident. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 26 | Shelly Manne composer, musician: drummer: Peter Gunn score; actor: Man with the Golden Arm; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 09 | Lew Christensen, American dancer, teacher and choreographer, dies at age 75. | Ref: 70 |
Dec 15 | Jan Peerce [Jacob Pincus Perlemuth] operatic tenor, dies at age 80 following a stroke. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 19 | Michel Magne composer, dies at 54. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 29 | Leo Robin, lyricist, dies of heart failure at 84. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 31 | Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen loses his arm in a car crash. | Ref: 5 |
- 1985
Jan 03 | Lucien Cailliet composer, dies at 93. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 07 | Johnny Guarnieri musician: piano: played with Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw; played at the Tail O The Cock in LA for a decade; dies at age 67. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 20 | Jo Juda Dutch musician, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 21 | Barbara Cowsill rocker (Cowsills), dies of emphysema. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 25 | Kenny Clarke, American drummer, dies at age 71. | Ref: 70 |
Feb 11 | Heinz Eric Roemheld composer, dies of pneumonia at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 11 | Ulysses Sipmson Kay composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 18 | Willy Alberti [Carel Verbruggen], Dutch singer, dies at 58. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Efrem A Zimbalist Russian/US composer/violinist, dies at 95. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Liza Minnelli enters Betty Ford Drug Center. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Eugene List US concert pianist, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 07 | George Schick Czechoslovakian conductor (Chicago Symphony), dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 12 | Eugene Ormandy (Jeno Blau), Hungarian-born American conductor, dies at age 85. | Ref: 70 |
Mar 16 | Roger Huntington Sessions US composer (Black Masks), dies at 88. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 18 | Jack Miller orchestra leader (Kate Smith Evening Hour), dies at 89. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 21 | Boy George said he would never marry, settle down, or become a father because he was "too eccentric!" He made this revealing statement in, what else? Women's World magazine! | Ref: 4 |
Mar 21 | Salvador Ley composer, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 23 | Singer Billy Joel married supermodel Christie Brinkley in private ceremonies held in New York City. (They were divorced Aug 25, 1994.) | Ref: 4 |
Mar 23 | Zoot (John Haley) Sims musician: tenor/alto sax: groups: Benny Goodman Band, Woody Herman Orchestra, Stan Kenton, Gerry Mulligan, Birdland All-Stars, Jazz at Carnegie Hall; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 14 | Reginald Beane pianist (Starlit Time, Once Upon a Tune), dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
May 02 | Hal LeRoy dancer/actor (Harold Teen), dies at 71 after cardiac surgery. | Ref: 5 |
May 02 | Larry Clinton bandleader: Deep Purple, My Reverie, On a Slow Boat to China; composer: The Dipsy Doodle, Satan Takes a Holiday, Tap Dancers Nightmare, Dusk in Upper Sandusky; dies. | Ref: 4 |
May 08 | Karl Marx German composer/conductor, dies at 87. | Ref: 5 |
May 13 | The Boss, Bruce Springsteen, married actress/model Julianne Phillips in ceremonies in Lake Oswego, OR. The couple went their separate ways in 1989. Springsteens hit, Im on Fire, was in the top ten when the couple tied the wedding knot. Springsteen remarried in June of 1991, this time to a member of his E Street Band, Patti Scialfa. Despite his popularity, Springsteen has never had a number one song. His closest to the top of the pop music charts was a four-week stay at number two with Dancing in the Dark (June/July, 1984). Springsteen has had 11 hits in the top ten. | Ref: 4 |
May 18 | Alexander Godunov (Boris Alexandrovich Godunov) ballet dancer; actor; dies. | Ref: 4 |
May 25 | Harold Hecht choreographer, dies at 77 of cancer. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 15 | Philly Joe Jones, American jazz percussionist, dies at age 62. | Ref: 70 |
Jul 16 | Wayne King The Waltz King: saxophonist, bandleader: The Waltz You Saved for Me; dies at age 84. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 17 | Wynn Stewart singer: Its Such a Pretty World Today, Wishful Thinking, After the Storm; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 23 | Kay (James King Kern) Kyser bandleader: Kay Kyser and His Kollege of Musical Knowledge: Three Little Fishes, Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition; dies. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 16 | Singer Madonna weds actor Sean Penn. | Ref: 24 |
Sep 03 | Papa Jo (Jonathan) Jones musician: drums: the first to minimize use of bass drum, keeping time on top cymbal; piano, reeds, trumpet: played with Count Basie, Bennie Goodman sextet, led trio: LPs: The Essential Jo Jones, The Drums, The Main Man, Our Man Papa Jo; dies at age 73. | Ref: 70 |
Sep 06 | Johnny Desmond (Giovanni Alfredo de Simone), singer, dies. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 06 | Jane Frazee singer/actress (Alice-Beulah), dies at 67 of pneumonia. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 06 | Little Brother Montgomery, American jazz pianist and vocalist, dies at age 79. | Ref: 70 |
Sep 15 | Cootie (Charles) Williams musician: trumpet: Echoes of Harlem, Concerto for Cootie, Carelessly [w/Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman]; band leader: Cootie Williams Sextet and Orchestra: Tess Torch Song, Cherry Red Blues; dies at age 77. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 05 | Orchestra leader Nelson Riddle dies at age 64 in Los Angeles. (TWA, 1986) | Ref: 95 |
Oct 06 | Nelson Riddle Grammy Award-winning orchestra leader: Cross Country Suite; Lisbon Antigua; arranger: for Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 11 | Tex Williams country-western singer, dies at 68 of cancer. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 22 | Zachary Walker Hanson Tulsa OK, drummer-Hanson, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 25 | Morton Downey singer (Star of the Family), dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 24 | Big Joe (Joseph Vernon) Turner rhythm & blues singer: Corrine Corrina, Cherry Red, Still in the Dark, Chains of Love, Sweet Sixteen; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 04 | Marcel Boereboom Belgian musicologist, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 12 | Ian Stewart keyboardist/road manager (Rolling Stones), dies at 47. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | George Rhodes orchestra leader (Sammy Davis Jr Show), dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 31 | Ricky (Eric Hilliard) Nelson, his fiancee, Helen Blair, and five members of the Stone Canyon Band were killed in a plane crash a mile southeast of DeKalb, TX. Nelson was 45. Fire in the pasenger cabin forced the pilots of Nelsons DC-3 to attempt an emergency landing in a field. The aircraft hit wires and a pole, then crashed into trees where it was extensively damaged by impact and fire. The crew escaped through the cockpit windows, but none of the pasengers got out. | Ref: 4 |
- 1986
Jan 01 | Barbra Streisand & Jon Peters relationship breaks up. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 01 | Alexa Ray Joel daughter of Billy Joel & Christie Brinkley, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 03 | Jens Bjerre composer, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 04 | Phil Lynott rocker (Thin Lizzy), dies of overdose at 34. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 24 | Gordon MacRae singer (Oklahoma, Carousel), dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 30 | Ticker Freeman pianist (Dinah Shore Show), dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 01 | Singer Diana Ross marries Norwegian businessman Arne Naess in Switzerland. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 07 | Armand Preud'homme Flemish organist/lyricist, dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 12 | Guy Douglas Hamilton Warrack composer, dies at 86. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Francisco Paolo Mignone composer, dies at 88. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 21 | Charlotte Church singer: LPs: Voice of an Angel, Charlotte Church, Dream a Dream, Enchantment, is born. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 04 | Richard Manuel rock vocalist/pianist (Band), commits suicide at 40. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 12 | Sonny Terry (Saunders Terrell) singer, harmonica player: LPs: Sonnys Story, Sonny is King, At the Second Fret, At Sugar Hill, Back to New Orleans, Midnight Special, California Blues; Spirituals to Swing concerts at Carnegie Hall; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 14 | Benno Ammann composer, dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 14 | Jozef Kresanek composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 31 | OKelly Isley singer: Grammy Award-winning group: The Isley Brothers: Its Your Thing [1969]; Shout, Twist and Shout, That Lady, This Old Heart of Mine, dies of heart attack at 48. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | Erik Bruhn ballet dancer, choreographer; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 03 | Peter Pears English tenor (Death in Venice), dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Richard Manuel rock pianist/vocalist (Band), dies on 41st birthday. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 19 | Dag Ivar Wiren composer, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 23 | Harold Arlen (Hyman Arluck) composer w/Ted Koehler: Stormy Weather, Its Only a Paper Moon; w/Gershwin & Mercer: That Old Black Magic; Oscar-winning songwriter: Somewhere Over the Rainbow [1939]; is murdered at age 81. | Ref: 4 |
May 05 | Jon William Haussermann Jr composer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
May 05 | Rui Coelho composer, dies at 94. | Ref: 5 |
May 10 | Tommy Lee drummer of Motley Cre marries Heather Locklear | Ref: 2 |
May 18 | John Bubbles (John William Sublett) actor: Porgy and Bess [1935 Broadway version], films: Cabin in the Sky, Variety Show, A Song is Born, No Maps on My Taps; dancer: credited with creating rhythm tap; dies at age 84. | Ref: 5 |
May 20 | Bernard Naylor composer, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
May 24 | Country Singer Garth Brooks marries Sandy Mahl. | Ref: 5 |
May 30 | Hank Mobley US jazz saxophonist, dies at 55. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 03 | Dame Anna Neagle, English actress and dancer, dies at age 81. | Ref: 70 |
Jun 12 | Tony Desimone combo leader (Ernie in Kovacsland), dies at 66 | Ref: 5 |
Jun 13 | Benny Goodman, the clarinet playing King of Swing, dies in NY at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 14 | Alan Jay Lerner Broadway librettist, dies in NY at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 17 | Kate Smith singer (God Bless America), dies in Raleigh NC at 78. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 27 | (Otis W.) Joe Maphis country singer with wife, Rose Lee: entertainer: Hometown Jamboree, Town Hall Party, Hee Haw; songwriter: Dim Lights Thick Smoke and Loud, Loud Music; dies. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 03 | Mikhail Baryshnikov, considered by many to be the worlds greatest ballet dancer, became a US citizen in ceremonies at Ellis Island, NY Harbor. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 03 | Rudy (Hubert Prior) Vallee singer: My Time is Your Time; actor: Live a Little, Love a Little, The Admiral was a Lady, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Second Fiddle; dies at age 84. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 27 | Leroy Holmes orch leader (Tonight Show, 1956-57), dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 31 | Teddy Wilson jazz pianist: Carelessly, Where the Lazy River Goes By, My Melancholy Baby, Remember Me?, You Can't Stop Me from Dreaming, Honeysuckle Rose, Ain't Misbehavin'; bandleader, arranger; dies. | Ref: 2 |
Aug 20 | Thad Jones (Thaddeus Joseph Jones) musician: trumpet, cornet, flugelhorn: played with Count Basie, Thelonious Monk; bandleader: Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra; composer: A Child is Born; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 17 | Dorothy Alexander, American ballet dancer, choreographer and founder of the Atlanta Ballet, dies at age 82. | Ref: 70 |
Nov 22 | Scatman Crothers [Benjamin], Terre Haute IN, actor (Zapped, Shining), dies. | Ref: 68 |
Dec 01 | Horace Heidt bandleader: Horace Heidt and His Musical Knights; radio show host: Pot O Gold; talent show host: Youth Opportunity; dies at age 85. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 02 | Lee Dorsey R&B singer, dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 05 | Carmol Taylor country songwriter, dies at 53 of cancer. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | Kate Wolf folksinger (Back Roads), dies of leukemia at 44. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 15 | Kenny Rogers cut himself a deal with the Dole Food Company. The singer became the highest-paid celebrity pitchman, doling out nice words about pineapple and other Dole products for 17 million dollars. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 17 | Wayne Danke Schoen Newton won a $19.2 million judgment against NBC News, which had aired reports linking Newton to mob figures. The reports were proven to be false. | Ref: 2 |
Dec 22 | Celius Dougherty composer, dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 27 | Cliff Burton bass player (Metallica), dies in a bus crash at 24. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 27 | Lars-Eric Vilner Larsson composer, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 29 | John Antill composer, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 30 | Jiri Jaroch composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 31 | Lester Albert Trimble composer, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
- 1987
Jan 07 | Larry Carr pianist (Flight to Rhythm), dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 15 | Dolores Hawkins singer (Guy Mitchell Show), dies at 58. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 25 | Emil Hlobil composer, dies at 85. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | Ivo Lhotka-Kalinski composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Alfred Lion record founder (Blue Note), dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Patrick "Spike" Hughes British jazz musician (Cinderella), dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 04 | (Wladziu Valentino) Liberace pianist (Liberace Show, Evil Chandell-Batman), dies in Palm Springs CA at age 67 of AIDS. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 07 | David Savoy Jr rock manager (Hsker Du), commits suicide at 24. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 14 | Bola Sete guitarist, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 14 | Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky composer, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 15 | Jimmy Holiday US singer (Baby I Love You), dies at 42. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 15 | Osmo Uolevi Lindeman composer, dies at 57. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 16 | Dmitri Borisovich Kabalevsky composer, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 17 | Dmitri B Kabalevsky St Petersburg Russia, composer (In the Fire), dies. | Ref: 68 |
Feb 20 | Ivan Brkanovic composer, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 28 | Nora Kaye, American ballerina, dies at age 67. | Ref: 70 |
Mar 13 | Finn Videro composer, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 13 | Gerald Moore England, pianist (Am I Too Loud), dies at 87. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 20 | Norman Harris guitarist (O'Jays), dies at 39 of heart failure. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 23 | Dean Paul Martin musician/tennis pro, killed in plane crash at 29. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Maria von Trapp, whose life inspired the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "The Sound of Music," dies in Morrisville VT, at age 82. | Ref: 70 |
Apr 02 | Buddy Rich drummer/orchestra leader (Away We Go), dies at age 69. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 07 | Maxine Sullivan (Marietta Williams) singer: Loch Lomand, Cockles and Mussels, If I Had a Ribbon Bow; films & stage: Goin Places, St. Louis Blues, Swingin the Dream, Midsummer Nights Dream [w/Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman]; dies at age 75. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 08 | Francis C Denebrink US Naval officer (WW I, WW II, Korea) dies at 90. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 14 | Karl Holler composer, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 16 | Anthony Tudor dancer/choreographer (American Ballet Theater) dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 17 | Carlton Barrett Jamaican reggae drummer (No woman no cry), dies at 36. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 20 | Antony Tudor, English-born American dancer, teacher and choreographer, dies at age 79. | Ref: 70 |
May 04 | Paul Butterfield singer/harmonica player, dies of drug abuse at 44. | Ref: 5 |
May 12 | Victor Feldman pianist/drummer, dies at 53. | Ref: 5 |
May 16 | Rocker David Crosby weds Jan Dance in Los Angeles. | Ref: 5 |
May 22 | Mario Zafred composer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
May 23 | Karel Albert Flemish composer (Marieken van Nymeghen), dies at 86. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | Michael Jackson attempts to buy Elephant Man's remains. | Ref: 5 |
May 30 | Turk Murphy (Melvin Edward Alton Murphy) trombonist: first to play jazz version of Mack the Knife; dies at age 71. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 02 | Sammy Kaye bandleader: Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye: Too Young, "A" Youre Adorable, Harbor Lights; dies at age 77. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 02 | Ands Segovia, Spanish classical guitarist, dies at age 94. | Ref: 70 |
Jun 22 | Fred Astaire (Frederick Austerlitz), American dancer and actor, dies at age 88. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 23 | The first celebrity cover girl to grace Cosmopolitan magazine since Elizabeth Taylor in 1969 was Madonna and she did it on this day. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 02 | Michael Bennett, American dancer, choreographer, and stage director, dies of AIDS at age 44. | Ref: 70 |
Aug 01 | Bananarama's Siobhan Fahey marries Eurythmics Dave Stewart. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 22 | Norman Luboff choral leader: The Norman Luboff Choir; dies. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 23 | Bob (Robert Louis) Fosse, Oscar Award-winning director: Cabaret [1972]; Tony Award-winning choreographer: Big Deal [1986], Dancin [1978], Sweet Charity [1966], Little Me [1963], Bob Fosse [1959], Damn Yankees [1956], The Pajama Game [1955]; director/choreographer: Pippin [1973]; Emmy Award-winning director: Singer Presents Liza with a Z [1972-73]; autobiographical film: All That Jazz; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 17 | Dana Suesse songwriter (You Ought to be in Pictures), dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 19 | Jacqueline du Pre, British cellist, dies. | Ref: 18 |
Oct 25 | Willis Gator Jackson composer, tenor sax: invented the gator horn: Chucks Chuckles, Dance of the Lady Bug, Back Door, Later Gator; married to singer Ruth Brown; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 29 | Woody (Woodrow Charles) Herman, bandleader/composer (Thundering Herds), dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 02 | Entertainer Lola Falona is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 17 | Irene Wicker singer/actress (Singing Lady), dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 05 | "Fat" Larry James US drummer (Fat Larry's Band-Zoom), dies at 38. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | Jascha Heifetz, Russian born-US violinist, dies at age 86. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 12 | Louis de Meester composer, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 22 | Leonidas Zoras composer, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 22 | Motley Crue's Nikki Sixx overdoses from Heroin. | Ref: 5 |
- 1988
Jan 14 | Jordy French singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | Bantcho Bantchevsky US opera singer, commits suicide. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | Rogier van Otterloo Dutch composer/conductor, dies at 46. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Al Cohn jazz composer, musician: tenor sax; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 09 | Kurt Adler, Austrian-born American conductor and administrator of the San Francisco Opera, dies at age 82. | Ref: 70 |
Feb 13 | The King of Pop, Michael Jackson, purchased a Santa Ynez CA ranch. He later named it Neverland and it now houses an amusement park, a full size movie theatre, and a zoo. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 14 | Frederick Loewe US composer (My Fair Lady), dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 15 | Frederick [Fritz] Loewe composer, dies. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 18 | Joe Loco (Jose Esteves Jr.) jazz musician, arranger: credited with introducing the mambo [Tenderly: 1951] and cha-cha-cha [1953] to the US; dies. | Ref: 70 |
Mar 06 | Konstantin Iliev composer, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 10 | Andy (Andrew Roy) Gibb singer: group: The Bee Gees; solo: Love is Thicker than Water, I Just Want to be Your Everything, Shadow Dancing, [Our Love] Dont Throw It all Away; host of TVs Solid Gold; dies in Oxford, England, at age 30 of heart inflammation. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 10 | William Brocklesby Wordsworth composer, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 18 | Billy Butterfield (Charles William Butterfield) musician: trumpet; founding member of Worlds Greatest Jazz Band; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 20 | Gil Evans Canadian/US jazz composer (Out of the Cool), dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 25 | Robert Joffrey (Khan) choreographer: The Joffrey Ballet; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 31 | Talib Rasul Hakim composer, dies at 48. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 07 | Cesar Bresgen Austrian composer/organist, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 09 | Brook Benton (Benjamin Franklin Peay) singer, dies at age 56 of meningitis. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 09 | Dave Prater rocker (Sam & Dave), dies in a car crash at 50. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 11 | David Prater US singer (Sam & Dave-Soul Man), dies in car crash at 50. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | Sonny Bono elected mayor of Palm Springs CA. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 14 | Herbert Reynolds Inch composer, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 14 | Johan Franco composer, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 25 | Boris Kremenliev composer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 25 | Carolyn Franklin singer/songwriter/son of Aretha, dies at 43. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | James McCracken, American operatic tenor, dies at age 61. | Ref: 70 |
Apr 29 | Jan Kapr composer, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 30 | James McCracken US tenor, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
May 08 | Nappy (Hilton Napoleon) Lamare (musician: guitar: group: Bob Cats; solo: Nickel in the Slot) dies. | Ref: 4 |
May 13 | Chet Baker jazz trumpeter, falls to death out of a hotel window at 59. | Ref: 5 |
May 27 | Melvin J "Cy" Oliver US jazz composer/orchestra leader, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | Sy (Melvin James) Oliver trumpeter, singer, arranger, bandleader, composer: Easy Does It, Swing High, Well, Git It, Opus No. 1; dies. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 17 | Bruce Springsteen seperates from Juliette Phillips. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 19 | Danny Spitz, heavy metal artist (Anthrax), weds Valerie. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 08 | Stevie Wonder announces he will run for mayor of Detroit in 1992. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 29 | Ellin Berlin (MacKay) Mrs Irving Berlin, dies at 86 | Ref: 5 |
Aug 02 | Raymond Acevedo is retired from singing group Menudo. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 11 | Jean-Pierre Ponnele opera director (Carmina Burana), dies at 56 | Ref: 5 |
Aug 18 | Sir Frederick Ashton, English choreographer and director of the Royal Ballet, dies at age 83. | Ref: 70 |
Aug 30 | Julianne Philips files for divorce from Bruce Springsteen. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 30 | Screamin' Jay (Jalacy) Hawkins R&B singer, pianist: I Put a Spell on You [Rolling Stone magazine voted it one of 50 greatest songs of the 1950s]; died Feb 12, 20001931 - 'Papa Dee' (Thomas) Allen musician: keyboards: group: War: LPs: All Day Music, The World is a Ghetto, Why Can't We Be Friends?; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 30 | Papa Dee (Thomas) Allen musician: keyboards: group: War: LPs: All Day Music, The World is a Ghetto, Why Cant We Be Friends?; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 11 | Peter Tosh reggae singer shot dead at 43 in Jamacia | Ref: 5 |
Oct 07 | Billy Daniels singer, dies of cancer at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 09 | Elmer J. Mousey Alexander musician: drums: group: Alexanders the Great; died Oct 9, 1988 | Ref: 4 |
Nov 13 | Antal Dorati symphony orchestra conductor; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 25 | Chuck Berry pays $250 fine to resolve NYC assault charges. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 06 | Roy Orbison US Rock singer (Pretty Woman, Only the Lonely), dies of a massive heart attack at 52. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 06 | Bill Harris US guitarist (Clovers-Love Potion No 9), dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 08 | Herbert "Tubo" Rhoad US singer (Persuasions-Good news), dies at 44. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 15 | James Brown, charged with numerous offences, including illegal possession of drugs and firearms, aggravated assault and failure to stop for the police, was sentenced to six and a half years imprisonment. He was released from the South Carolina prison in 1991, having reportedly written new material while locked up. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 22 | Tucker Smith singer/dancer (Cool-West Side Story), dies. | Ref: 5 |
- 1989
Jan 02 | Eddie Heywood Jr. pianist, composer: Canadian Sunset; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 08 | Johnny Jordaan [Jan van Musscher], Dutch folk singer, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 31 | Yasushi Akutagawa composer, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 04 | Jethro (Kenneth C. Burns) entertainer, musician: mandolin, banjo: Homer & Jethro: The Battle of Kookamonga, Dont Let the Stars Get in Your Eyeballs; dies at age 69. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 05 | Joe Raposa composer/songwriter (Sesame Street), dies at 51. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 17 | Whitesnake's rocker David Coverdale weds actress Tawny Kitaen. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | (David) Roy Little Jazz Eldridge trumpeter: soloist with Gene Krupas Band; Let Me Off Uptown [w/Anita ODay]; U.S. President Carters White House jazz party [1978], dies at age 78. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 01 | Julianne Phillips & Bruce Springsteen divorce. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | Herbert Mills singer: group: The Mills Brothers: Paper Doll, You Always Hurt the One You Love, Glow-Worm; dies. | Ref: 4 |
May 09 | Keith Whitley country singer (Don't Close Your Eyes), dies at 33. | Ref: 5 |
May 12 | Marcelle de Manziarly composer, dies at 89. | Ref: 5 |
May 15 | John Waldo Green composer, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
May 30 | Zinka Milanov Metropolitan Opera Diva, dies of a stroke at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 02 | Rolling Stones Bill Wyman marries Mandy Smith. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 03 | Country singer Rebe McEntire weds her manager Narvel Blackstone. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 12 | Robin Howard, English balletomane; promoted modern dance in Britain, dies at age 65. | Ref: 70 |
Jun 12 | Lou Monte singer: Pepino the Italian Mouse, Lazy Mary, At the Darktown Strutters Ball; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 14 | Rocker Carol King gets a star in Hollywood's walk of fame. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 05 | Rod Stewart hits his head while on stage & knocks himself out | Ref: 5 |
Jul 16 | Herbert von Karajan, Austrian-born conductor, dies at age 81. | Ref: 70 |
Jul 28 | Songstress Anne Murray opened the Anne Murray Centre in her hometown of Springhill, Nova Scotia. Packed with awards, photographs, memorabilia and audio-visual highlights of her life and career, the Centre is open every day from mid-May to mid-October. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 03 | Antonia Brico, Dutch-born American conductor and pianist, dies at age 87. | Ref: 70 |
Sep 14 | (Damaso) Perez Prado musician: piano, organ: Patricia, Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White, Mambo No. 5, Mambo No. 8 dies. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 16 | Singer Natalie Cole marries record producer Andre Fisher. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 22 | Irving Berlin, Russian-born American composer for stage and screen musicals, dies in NY City at age 101. | Ref: 70 |
Sep 30 | Virgil Thompson, American composer (Four Saints in Three Acts, The Mother of Us All), at age 92. | Ref: 70 |
Nov 05 | Balladeer Barry Sadler ("The Ballad of the Green Berets"), dies at 49 in Murfreesboro Tn. | Ref: 24 |
Nov 05 | Vladimir Horowitz, the Russian-born pianist considered one of the most accomplished players of the 20th century, dies. | Ref: 70 |
Nov 06 | Dickie Goodman (Richard Dorian Goodman) parody singer: group: Buchanan and Goodman: Flying Saucer [Parts 1 & 2], Mr. Jaws; dies. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 01 | Alvin Ailey Jr., American choreographer and dancer; founded Ailey American Dance Theater, dies at age 58. | Ref: 70 |
Dec 05 | John M Pritchard British conductor, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 06 | Sammy Fain (Samuel Feinberg) Oscar-winning musician, composer: Secret Love [1953], Love is a Many-Splendored Thing [1955]; April Love, A Certain Smile, A Very Precious Love, Tender is the Night, Ill Be Seeing You, I Can Dream Cant I, Let a Smile be Your Umbrella [most w/Irving Kahal]; dies at age 87. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 21 | Jan Cikker composer, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 23 | Josef Alexander composer, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 26 | Lennox Berkeley composer, dies at 86. | Ref: 5 |
- 1990
Jan 02 | Vladimir Alexis Ussachevsky Manchuria composer (Creation), dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | Georgie Auld (John Altwerger) musician: saxophones: bandleader; actor: The Rat Race, dubbed soundtrack for Robert DeNero in New York, New York; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 08 | Boris Kochno, Russian-born French ballet librettist, dies at age 86. | Ref: 70 |
Jan 12 | Paul Amadeus Pisk composer, dies at 96. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 15 | Dame Peggy van Praagh, English-born ballet dancer; founder of the Australian Ballet, dies at age 79. | Ref: 70 |
Jan 18 | Melanie Appleby rocker (Mel & Kim), dies of liver cancer at 23. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 20 | Miloslav Istvan composer, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 23 | Allen Collins musician: guitar: group: Lynyrd Skynyrd: Freebird, Sweet Home AL; dies of respiratory failure due to a 1986 car crash which killed his girfriend and left him paralyzed. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 07 | Jimmy Van Heusen (Edward Chester Babcock) Academy Award-winning composer: Swinging on a Star [1944], All the Way [1957], High Hopes [1959], Call Me Irresponsible [1963]; wrote the music to over 75 songs for Frank Sinatra with lyricists Johnny Burke and Sammy Cahn: My Kind of Town, Second Time Around, dies at age 77. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 08 | Singer Del Shannon (Charles Westover), 55, shot himself in the head with a .22 caliber rifle at his home in Santa Clarita, California. He was 50. Shannons first and biggest hit was Runaway, which hit number one in the U.S. April 24, 1961. His other top-20 singles included Hats Off to Larry, Little Town Flirt and Keep Searchin (Well Follow the Sun). | Ref: 4 |
Feb 24 | Johnnie Ray Dallas OR, pop singer (Cry), dies of liver failure at age 61in Los Angeles CA. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 25 | On a BBC taped interview, rock star Stevie Nicks breaks down, saying that she will never have children & no man can stand her for long. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | Cornell Gunther US musician (Coasters, Poison Ivy), dies at 53. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 26 | Scott Jarvis musician (Great Expectationa), dies. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 07 | Max Neuhaus composer, dies at 50. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 16 | Ernst Bacon composer, dies at 91. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 17 | Rick Grech rocker (Blind Faith, Traffic), dies at 44. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 20 | Singer Gloria Estefan breaks her collarbone in a bus accident. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | Guns & Roses' Duff divorces Mandy Brix, lead singer for Lame Flames. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Sarah Vaughan The Divine One: jazz singer: Broken-Hearted Melody; Make Yourself Comfortable, Whatever Lola Wants, Passing Strangers [w/Billy Eckstine]; Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award [1989]; dies at age 66 of lung cancer. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 04 | Gloria Estefan released from the hospital after her accident. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 04 | Sarah Vaughn jazz singer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 25 | Dexter Gordon jazz saxophonist, dies in Philadelphia of kidney failure at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 26 | Danny Wood of New Kids, steps on a stuffed animal & twists his ankle. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 28 | Guns & Roses' Axl Rose marries Erin Everly (annulled same year). | Ref: 5 |
May 01 | Sergio Franchi, tenor, dies in Stonington CT at age 57. (TWA, 1991) | Ref: 95 |
May 02 | William Levi Dawson composer, dies at 90. | Ref: 5 |
May 04 | Angela Bowie reveals that ex husband David slept with Mick Jagger. | Ref: 5 |
May 05 | Sir Reginald Goodall, English opera conductor, dies at age 88. | Ref: 70 |
May 09 | Luigi Nono Italian composer (Intolleranza), dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
May 14 | Andre Ameller composer, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
May 31 | Liberty Irene Kasem daughter of Casey & Jean Kasam | Ref: 5 |
May 31 | Art Lund singer: Mamselle, actor: The Most Happy Fella, Donnybrook, Black Caesar, Bucktown, The Last American Hero; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 07 | Michael Jackson hospitalized for chest pains | Ref: 5 |
Jun 10 | Two members of the band 2 Live Crew are arrested in Hollywood, FL for obscenity. They, and a third member of the band, are later acquitted. (XDG, p 4A, 6/10/2000) | Ref: 83 |
Jun 21 | Little Richard gets a star on Hollywood's walk of fame. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 21 | June Christy (Shirley Luster) singer: My Heart Belongs to Only You; sang with Stan Kenton band; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 02 | Snooky Lanson (Roy Landman) singer: By the Light of the Silvery Moon; vocalist on Your Hit Parade on radio and TV; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 15 | Troy Dixon rapper (Trouble T-Roy of Heavy D), dies at 22 from a fall. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 23 | Joe Turner jazz pianist, dies at 82 of cardiac arrest | Ref: 5 |
Jul 24 | Evan James Springsteen LA CA, rocker Bruce Springsteen's son is born. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 25 | Evan James Springsteen son of Bruce | Ref: 5 |
Jul 26 | Brian Mydland keyboardist (Grateful Dead), dies at 38 | Ref: 5 |
Jul 27 | Bobby Day (Byrd) singer: Rockin Robin; groups: Hollywood Flames, Bob & Earl; dies of cancer at age 60. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 13 | Soul singer/songwriter Curtis Mayfield ("Superfly", "Freddies Dead") is paralyzed from the neck down after a lighting tower fell on him at a concert in Brooklyn, New York. Mayfield died Dec 26, 1999. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 15 | Lew Dewitt singer: group: The Statler Brothers: Flowers on the Wall, Bed of Roses; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 23 | David Rose Grammy Award-winning [22] composer: The Stripper; scores: Little House on the Prairie, Bonanza, Sea Hunt, Highway Patrol; David Rose and His Orchestra: The Red Skelton Show, The Tony Martin Show; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 27 | Stevie Ray Vaughan, Grammy Award-winning blues guitarist, is killed in a helicopter crash at age 35. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 06 | Tom Fogerty musician, songwriter, singer: group: Creedence Clearwater Revival: Bad Moon Rising, Down on the Corner, Proud Mary, Lookin? Out My Back Door, Up Around the Bend; solo: Goodbye Media Man, Lady of Fatima, Beauty is Under the Skin, Joyful Resurrection; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 19 | Hermes Pan, choreographer, dies in Beverly Hills CA at age 79. (TWA, 1991). | Ref: 95 |
Sep 28 | Marvin Gaye gets a star on Hollywood's walk of fame. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 08 | B.J. (Barrie James) Wilson musician: drummer: group: Procol Harum: Whiter Shade of Pale; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 14 | Composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein died in New York at age 72. | Ref: 70 |
Oct 16 | Art Blakey musician: drums, bandleader: Messengers, Jazz Messengers; composer [w/Benny Golson]: film score: Des Femmes Disparaissente; dies of cancer at age 71. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 27 | Xavier Cugat (Francisco de Ass Javier Cugat Mingall de Brue y Deulofeo) violinist, composer, band leader: The Lady in Red, Perfidia, Brazil, Begin the Beguine; married to Abbe Lane, Charo; dies from heart failure at age 90. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 31 | Carl (Robert) Belew country singer: Welcome Back to My World, songwriter: Am I That Easy to Forget?, Stop the World and Let Me Off, Lonely Street, Whats He Doing in My World?; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 01 | (Elsie) Lisa Kirk singer, actress: The Producers, Gypsy; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 11 | (Elsie) Lisa Kirk singer, actress: The Producers, Gypsy; dies. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 16 | Lee Castle (Castaldo) trumpet, bandleader: led Jimmy Dorseys band during time of smash hit: So Rare; dies. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 01 | Russell Markert choreographer: founded, directed: Radio City Music Hall Rockettes; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 02 | Composer Aaron Copland died in North Tarrytown, N.Y., at age 90. | Ref: 70 |
Dec 07 | Dee (Delectus) Clark singer: Just Keep It Up, Raindrops, Ride a Wild Horse; dies. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 08 | Pony Sherrell Metcalf New York, singer, dies of heart attack. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 15 | Rocker Rod Stewart marries super model Rachel Hunter. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 18 | Paul Tortelier composer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 22 | Cecil Effinger composer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
- 1991
Jan 04 | Leo N Wright US saxophonist (I Left My Heart in San Francisco), dies at 57. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | Steve Clark guitarist (Def Leppard-Hysteria), dies at age 30. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | Jan Od Dutch pianist/director Sweelinck Conservatory, dies. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 21 | Dame Margot Fonteyn ballet dancer: Sadler Wells Company; danced with Rudolph Nureyev, dies of cancer at age 71. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 24 | Country music star Webb Pierce died in Nashville of cancer at age 65. The official cause of death was heart failure, but he also suffered from pancreatic cancer. Pierce racked up 13 #1 singles on the Billboard country chart, with 97 singles on the chart between 1952 and 1982. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 27 | Singer James Brown is released from prison. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | H J of Royen manager Dutch (Concertgebouw Orchestra), dies at 52. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Scott Huston composer, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 02 | Serge Gainsbourg composer/actor (Fury of Hercules), dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 03 | Arthur Murray dance instructor, dies at 95 of pneumonia. | Ref: 68 |
Mar 08 | Harry Hamlin & Nicollette Sheridan wed. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 12 | Jimmy McPartland jazz musician: cornetist; played for the Wolverine Orchestra, Embassy Four; bandleader; actor: The Magic Horn; played at Newport Jazz Festival with wife, Marian; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 13 | Jimmy McPartland US, jazz cornetist, dies. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 14 | Howard Ashman song writer (Under the Sea), dies of AIDs at 40. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 14 | Jerome "Doc" Pomus lyricist (Save Last Dance for Me), dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 15 | Budd [Lawrence] Freeman US jazz saxophonist (Eel), dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 16 | Wolfgang Van Halen, son of Eddie Van Halan & Valerie Bertinelli, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 16 | Seven members of country singer Reba McEntire's band are killed in a plane crash near San Diego. (XDG, p 4A, 3/16/2001) | Ref: 83 |
Mar 20 | Conor Clapton, 5, son of Eric Clapton, falls out of 53rd floor window. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 22 | Dave Guard, singer, founder of the Kingston Trio, dies at age 56. (TWA, 1992) | Ref: 95 |
Mar 25 | Eileen Joyce pianist, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 25 | Lee Donn pianist, dies of stroke at 96. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | New Kids on the Block's Donnie Wahlberg arrested on arson charges in Kentucky. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | Elinor Remick Warren composer, dies at 91. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 31 | John Carter US jazz clarinetist (Roots & folklore), dies. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | Martha Graham modern dancer: Denishawn dance school and performing troupe, Graham company, established school of modern dance at Bennington College; choreographer: Cave of the Heart, Appalachian Spring; The center of the stage is where I am.; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 07 | Ruth Page, American dancer and choreographer, dies at age 92. | Ref: 70 |
Apr 20 | Steve Marriott singer, songwriter, musician: guitar: groups: The Small Faces: Watcha Gonna Do, Hey Girl, All or Nothing, My Minds Eye, Swinging London, Itchycoo Park, Tin Soldier, Lazy Sunday, Moments, Humble Pie, Packet of Three; child actor: Oliver!; is killed in an Essex, England house fire at age 44. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 21 | Willi Boskovsky Austrian conductor (new years concert), dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 26 | Carmine Coppola composer/father of Francis Ford Coppola, dies. | Ref: 5 |
May 03 | Andy Williams weds Debbie Hass. | Ref: 5 |
May 04 | Dennis Crosby son of Bing, commits suicide at 54 | Ref: 5 |
May 08 | Rudolf Serkin, Austrian-born American pianist and teacher, dies at age 88. | Ref: 70 |
May 08 | Jean Langlais composer, dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
May 09 | Rudolf Serkin concert pianist: An artist of unusual and impressive talents in possession of a crystalline technique, plenty of power, delicacy, and tone pure and full.; A masterly musician a scholar of profound art without pedantry, with the loftiest conceptions of beauty, whose every thought and emotion is for the glory of his art.; dies, | Ref: 4 |
May 13 | Jimmy McPartland jazz cornetist, dies of cancer at 83. | Ref: 5 |
May 15 | Bud Freeman jazz tenor saxophonist, dies of cancer at 84. | Ref: 5 |
May 20 | Julian Orbon De Soto composer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
May 23 | William Sinnot Scottish pop musician (Shamen), dies at 30. | Ref: 5 |
May 24 | Gene Clark singer, musician: guitar: group: The Byrds: Turn, Turn, Turn; New Christy Minstrels; dies at age 49. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 01 | David Ruffin (Davis Eli Ruffin) lead singer: group: The Temptations; solo: My Whole World Ended [The Moment You Left Me], Walk Away from Love, Stand By Me [w/brother, Jimmy]; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 06 | Stan Getz (Stanley Gayetzby) jazz musician: The Girl from Ipanema [w/Astrud Gilberto]; 17-time winner of Down Beat mags top tenor saxophone poll; dies at age 64. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 07 | Singer Jimmy Osmond weds Michelle Larson | Ref: 5 |
Jun 17 | Country entertainer Minnie Pearl suffers a stroke at 78 | Ref: 5 |
Jul 27 | Rocker Jani Lane, (Warrant-Cherry Pie) marries model Bobbie Brown. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 02 | Funk singer Rick James, arrested on sexual torture charges. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 02 | Jeri Southern (Genevieve Hering) singer: You Better Go Now, When I Fall in Love, Fire Down Below; dies. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 08 | Carlos Santana pleads no contest to marijuana possession charge. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 17 | Actress-singer Pearl Bailey died in Philadelphia at age 72. | Ref: 68 |
Aug 19 | Richard Maltby bandleader: Theme from The Man with the Golden Arm, St. Louis Mambo; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 20 | Lenore Strunsky Gershwin widow of Ira Gershwin, dies at 90. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 30 | Dottie West (Dorothy Marie Marsh) Grammy Award-winning singer: Here Comes My Baby, Country Sunshine, Is this Me?, Would You Hold It Against Me, Paper Mansions; [w/Don Gibson]: Rings of Gold, Theres a Story Goin Round; [w/Kenny Rogers]: All I Ever Need is You, Every Time Two Fools Collide, What are We Doin in Love; sustains fatal injuries in an auto crash. She dies on Sep 4, 1991. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 04 | Dottie West (Dorothy Marie Marsh) Grammy Award-winning singer:died Sep 4, 1991 [of injuries suffered in Aug 30, 1991 auto crash], at age 58. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 04 | Charlie Barnet musician: saxophone; bandleader, dies of pneumonia at age 77. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 07 | Harry Hamlin weds Nicollette Sheridan. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 08 | Alex North music composer (Spartacus), dies at 80 of cancer | Ref: 5 |
Sep 17 | Zino (Rene) Francescatti French concert violinist (NY Phil-1939), dies. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 28 | Jazz musician Miles (Dewey) Davis III, dies at 65 from pneumonia in Santa Monica CA. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 17 | Tennessee Ernie Ford country singer (16 Tons), dies at 72 | Ref: 5 |
Oct 25 | Bill Graham rock concert promoter (Filmore), dies at 60 | Ref: 5 |
Nov 23 | Freddie Mercury lead singer of Queen, dies of aids at 46 | Ref: 5 |
Nov 24 | Freddie Mercury (Bulsara) singer: I was Born to Love You; Queen: Another One Bites the Dust, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, We are the Champions; dies in London at age 45 of pneumonia brought on by AIDS. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 25 | Bill Graham rock promoter, dies | Ref: 5 |
Nov 30 | Rob Pilatus, 27, of Milli-Vanilli attempts suicide. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 06 | Headman Tshabalala South Afr singer (Ladysmith Black Mambazo), dies. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 08 | Buck Clayton, US jazz trumpeter/orchestra leader, dies at age 80. | Ref: 70 |
Dec 11 | Headman Tshabala musician (Ladysmith Black Mambazo), slain at 44. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 12 | Lex Karsemeijer Dutch tenor/choral director (Sweet 16, Pro Musica), dies. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 22 | Ernst Krenek Austrian/US composer (Orpheus & Eurydike), dies at 91. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 22 | Beaver Harris (William Godwin Harris) musician: drums: co-led 360 Degree Music Experience [w/Roswell Rudd, Marion Brown, Grachan Moncur III]; dies. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 27 | Edward M Love choreographer/dancer, dies of AIDS at 43. | Ref: 5 |
- 1992
Jan 01 | Constantin Poustochkine jazz critic, dies. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 01 | Corky Geil dancer, dies in Long Beach CA at 64. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 03 | Anthony Del Casino band leader (Charlie Barnet Band), dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 03 | Lewis Michael Friedman pianist, dies at 47 of AIDS. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | Johnny [Jan] Meijer Dutch king of accordions (Body & Soul), dies. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 17 | Charlie Ventura musician: tenor sax: played w/Gene Krupa, Stan Kenton, Charlie Parker, Count Basie; band leader: LPs: Charlie Boy, In Chicago, Bop for the People, Euphoria, Charlie Ventura Quintet in Hi-Fi, Chazz; dies of cancer at age 75. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 21 | William T "Champion Jack" Dupree US boxer/pianist, dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 25 | Nico Schuyt Dutch composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 25 | Vernon William Reed Sr singer, dies after a long illness at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 28 | Clark Tippet dancer/choreographer, dies at 37. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | Willie Dixon blues musician: bass: Big Three Trio; songwriter, producer: 1950s Chicago sound; dies at age 76. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 02 | IRS & Willie Nelson settle on $9 million tax bill (of $16.7 million). | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Andrew Schenck conductor, dies of melanoma at 51. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 21 | Eva A Jessye US singer/actress (Eva Jessye Choir), dies at 97. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 21 | Jane Pickens Langley Hoving singer, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | Rockers Kurt Cobain (Nirvana) & Courtney Love (Hole), wed. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 28 | Emilla Sherman choreographer/rockette, dies. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 28 | La Lupe Cuban singer, dies of a heart attack in the Bronx at 53. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | Mary Osborne jazz guitarist, dies at 70 of liver cancer. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | Red Callender US jazz bassist (Unfinished dream), dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 13 | Clarence Wright singer, dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 20 | Frank Westbrook dancer/choreographer, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 20 | Georges Delerue French composer (Hiroshima, My Love), dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 25 | Nomie Perugia French mezzo soprano, dies. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | Rocker Billy Idol fined $2,000 for hitting a woman. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 02 | Country singer Wynonna Judd's 1st appearance as a single act | Ref: 5 |
Apr 02 | Paula Kelly singer/actress (Sweet Charity), dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 04 | Sy Kramer singer/comedy writer dies of cancer at 59. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | Anthony "Tony" Papa big band leader, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 11 | Country singer Lee Greenwood weds Miss Tennessee 1989 (Kimberly Payne). | Ref: 5 |
Apr 11 | Adele Dixon singer/actress (Uneasy Virtue), dies of pneumonia at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | Joe Medwick vocalist, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 14 | Sammy Price US boogie-woogie pianist, dies. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 16 | Andy Russell drummer/vocalist (Your Hit Parade), dies of stroke at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 17 | Hank Penny country music singer, dies at 73 of heart failure. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | Frances Bean Cobain daughter of Kurt Cobain & Courtney Love, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 19 | Robert F Clayton drummer (Jody Grind), dies at 26 in a car crash. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 19 | Robert Paul Haynes bassist (Jody Grind), dies at 26 in a car crash. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 20 | Madonna signs $60-million deal with Time Warner. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 20 | Johnny Shines Delta blues singer/guitarist, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 24 | David Bowie marries model Iman in Switzerland. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 25 | Brian Macleod Canadian musician, dies of cancer at 39. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 25 | Yutaka Ozaki Japanese rock artist, dies at 26 of pulmonary edema. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 27 | James Duke Mason son of singer Belinda Carlisle & Morgan Mason, is born. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 27 | Olivier Messiaen French composer, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 28 | Olivier Messiaen French composer (St Franois d'Assise), dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Country singer Doug Stone, 35, undergoes quadruple bypass surgery. | Ref: 5 |
May 02 | Joey Cuevas dancer, dies at 34. | Ref: 5 |
May 03 | Elizabeth Lennox radio singer, dies of heart seizure at 98. | Ref: 5 |
May 05 | Country singer Tammy Wynette hospitalized with bile duct infection. | Ref: 5 |
May 10 | Sylvia Syms singer: worlds greatest saloon singer; dies at age 74. | Ref: 4 |
May 10 | Joan Merrill vocalist, dies of a stroke at 74. | Ref: 5 |
May 13 | Floyd Arceneaux trumpeter, dies at 58. | Ref: 5 |
May 15 | Barbara Lee (Jones) singer: group: The Chiffons: Hes So Fine, One Fine Day, Sweet Talkin Guy; dies. | Ref: 4 |
May 17 | Lawrence Welk bandleader: Calcutta, Tonight You Belong to Me, Weary Blues, Moritat; TV: The Lawrence Welk Show; developer: senior citizen retreat near San Diego, The Lawrence Welk Theater; dies at age 89. | Ref: 4 |
May 17 | Leonardo del Ferro [Keyser] US epic tenor, dies. | Ref: 5 |
May 18 | Lawrence Welk bandleader (L Welk Show), dies of pneumonia at 89. | Ref: 5 |
May 23 | Atahualpa Yupanqui Argentine singer/composer/poet/guitarist, dies. | Ref: 5 |
May 27 | Glen White dancer/actor (Graft, Camille), dies of AIDS at 42. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | Peter John "Ollie" Halsall guitarist, dies of a heart attack at 43. | Ref: 5 |
May 30 | Paul Simon weds Edie Brickell. | Ref: 5 |
May 30 | Leen 't Hart organist/composer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 10 | Nat Pierce musician: jazz rhythm pianist; cobandleader: Capp-Pierce Juggernaut; dies. | Ref: 70 |
Jun 27 | Allan Jones singer: The Donkey Serenade; actor: Showboat, Rose Marie, Firefly, One Night in the Tropics, A Night at the Opera, A Day at the Races; father of singer, Jack Jones; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 18 | Americas reigning pop princess Whitney Houston wed R&B artist/bad boy Bobby Brown. The ceremony was held in a gazebo on Houston's Mendham, New Jersey estate. Among the 800 guests: Ray Charles, Dionne Warwick, Quincy Jones, Patti LaBelle, Aretha Franklin, Isiah Thomas, Donald Trump. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 26 | Mary Wells (singer: My Guy, Two Lovers, You Beat Me to the Punch, The One Who Really Loves You) dies | Ref: 4 |
Aug 12 | John Cage composer: experimental music and performance with non-traditional instruments: Bacchanal, Anthems of the Sun, Living Room, Water Music, Third Construction, 453"; dies. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 14 | Tony Williams singer: group: The Platters: Only You, The Great Pretender, Twilight Time, My Prayer, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, Harbor Lights; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 04 | Carl Butler country entertainer, songwriter: Dont Let Me Cross Over, I Never Got Over You, Loving Arms, Just Thought Id Let You Know; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 05 | Eddie Kendricks singer: group: The Temptations: My Girl, I Cant Get Next To You; solo: Keep on Truckin, Boogie Down, Shoeshine Boy; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 16 | Sinead OConnor was booed off the stage at a show honoring Bob Dylan at Madison Square Garden (famous for booing folks off the stage), NY. The crowd was acting in disapproval of OConnors tearing up a picture of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live October 3, 1992. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 24 | Roger Miller Fort Worth TX, country singer (King of the Road, Dang Me), is born. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 25 | Roger Miller songwriter: King of the Road, Invitation to the Blues, You Dont Want My Love; singer: Dang Me, Chug-a-Lug; 11 Grammys in 1964-65; wrote hit musical: Big River; dies of throat cancer. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 18 | Dorothy Kirsten, American opera singer, dies at age 82. | Ref: 70 |
Nov 23 | Roy Acuff The King of Country Music: Country Music Hall of Famer: Wabash Cannonball, Pins and Needles [In My Heart], Night Train to Memphis, The Great Speckled Bird, Freight Train Blues; group: Smoky Mountain Boys; publisher: Acuff-Rose Publishing; dies at age 89. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 02 | Gary Mascaro choreographer, dies at 43. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 13 | Bernard Drukker Dutch pianist/orchestra leader (duivelswiel), dies. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 16 | Nathan Milstein, Russian-born violin virtuoso, dies at age 88. (TWA, 1994) | Ref: 95 |
Dec 21 | Albert King, US blues singer/guitarist (Crosscut Saw), dies at 71. | Ref: 68 |
Dec 21 | Nathan Milstein Ukrainian/US violist (Beethoven, Bach), dies at 87. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 23 | Eddie Hazel US pop guitarist (Funkadelic-Knee Deep), dies at 42. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 26 | Nikita Magaloff Russian/Swiss pianist, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 28 | Mort Greene US songwriter (My Grandfather's Clock), dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
- 1993
Jan 05 | Leonce Gras Flemish singer/conductor, dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 06 | Musician, trumpeteer, Dizzy (John Birks) Gillespie dies of cancer in Englewood, N.J at age 75. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 06 | Rudolf Nureyev (Rudolf Hametovich Nureyev), Russian ballet dancer: defected to U.S. [1961]; danced with Dame Margot Fonteyn, the Martha Graham Dance Company; was artistic director of the Paris Opera Ballet, dies of AIDS in Paris at age 54. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 08 | Theo Bruins Dutch pianist/composer (Syncope), dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Diana Adams ballerina, dies. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 15 | Sammy Cahn [Cohen], US songwriter (Bei Mir Bist Du Schn), dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 21 | Nigerian singer Fela Kuti arrested on suspicion of murder. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 23 | Thomas A Dorsey jazz pianist (Take My Hand, Precious Lord), dies. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | Michel Renault French ballet dancer (Giselle), dies. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | The U.S. Internal Revenue Service agreed to accept nine million dollars from singer Willie Nelson to settle his $17-million tax debt. And the Feds said they would take proceeds from sales of Nelsons Wholl Buy My Memories? - The IRS Tapes, plus any judgment he might get in a lawsuit against his former accountant. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 03 | Karel Goeyvaerts Flemish composer (8 Horse Bet), dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 12 | Eubie Blake ragtime composer/pianist (I'm Just Wild About Harry, Memories of You), dies at age 100. | Ref: 70 |
Feb 14 | Buddy Pepper composer, dies of heart failure at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 24 | Toy Caldwell guitarist (Marshall Tucker Band), dies at 45. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 25 | John D Boeke organist/conductor, dies. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 25 | Troy Caldwell country musician (Marshall Tucker Band), dies at 45. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 03 | Carlos Montoya, the Spanish-American guitarist who popularized flamenco guitar music, dies at age 89. | Ref: 70 |
Mar 04 | Bobbi Kristina Brown daughter of Whitney Houston & Bobby Brown | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | Art Hodes Russian/US jazz/blues pianist/editor (Jazz Record), dies. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 07 | Arnold Franchetti Ital/US composer, dies. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 07 | Earl Wrightson singer/actor (Pinafore), dies of heart failure at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | Nigerian singer Fela Kuti arrested again on suspicion of murder. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 08 | Billy Eckstine jazz singer (Fools Rush In), dies at 78 of stroke. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 09 | Bob Crosby, swing-era bandleader (Bobcats), brother of Bing Crosby, dies of cancer at 79. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 11 | Edgar Nelson Barclift dancer, dies after lengthy illness at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 12 | June Valli singer (Crying in the Chapel), dies of cancer at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 19 | Jeff Ward drummer (9 Inch Nails), commits suicide at 30. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 22 | Gret Palucca German dancer/choreographer (Entartet), dies at 91. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 22 | Phia [Sophia R] Berghout Dutch harpist, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Luis Falco US choreographer (Fame, Angel Heart), dies at 50. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | Clifford Jordan tenor saxophonist, dies of cancer at 61. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 04 | Bep [Alberta B] Ogterop [Rita la Roche] singer, dies. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 08 | Marian Anderson US contralto (My Lord, What a Morning), dies at 96. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | David Lee Roth arrested in New York NY for purchasing marijuana for $10. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 21 | Rolling Stone Bill Wyman weds Suzanne Accosta on French Riveria. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 23 | Mtley Cre's Mike Mars files for divorce from Emi-Canyn. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Mick Ronson English guitarist/producer (Mott the Hoople), dies at 46. | Ref: 5 |
May 08 | Kees Deenik singer/conductor, dies. | Ref: 5 |
May 16 | Marv Johnson, US soul singer (You Got What it Takes), dies at 54. | Ref: 5 |
May 22 | Mieczyslaw Horszowski Polish/US pianist (Carnegie Hall), dies at 100. | Ref: 5 |
May 26 | Cor de Great pianist/conductor/composer (Vernissage), dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
May 30 | Sun Ra (Herman Blount) jazz musician: piano, organ, synthesizer; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 05 | Conway Twitty (Harold Lloyd Jenkins) songwriter: Walk Me to the Door; singer: Its Only Make Believe, Danny Boy, Lonely Boy Blue, What Am I Living For, Next In Line, Hello Darlin, 15 Years Ago, Youve Never been this Far Before, Dont Cry Joni; CMA Male Vocalist of the Year [1975], Grammy Award-winner [w/Loretta Lynn]: After the Fire is Gone [1971]; owns ooking agency, music publishing company, Twitty Burgers, Twitty City theme park; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 17 | Allegations of child abuse prompted Los Angeles police to investigate entertainer Michael Jackson. This, after the 13-year-old son of a Beverly Hills dentist told his therapist that Jackson had sexually abused him. Jackson claimed the allegations followed a failed attempt by the dentist to extract 20 million dollars from the singer. No criminal charges were filed against Jackson, but a civil suit was. It was settled out of court in January 1994. Michael Jackson, meanwhile, cancelled or postponed several dates on his Dangerous world tour, citing illness or exhaustion. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 09 | Helen OConnell singer: Green Eyes, Amapola, Tangerine; married to bandleader, Frank DeVol; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 07 | Agnes de Mille, American dancer and choreographer, dies at age 88. | Ref: 70 |
Nov 24 | Albert Collins Grammy Award-winning musician: dies. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 28 | Jerry Edmonton musician: drums: group: Steppenwolf: Born to be Wild, Magic Carpet Ride, Rock Me; duo: Manbeast; is killed in car crash. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 30 | David Houston Grammy Award-winning singer: Almost Persuaded [1966]; Mountain of Love, Livin in a House Full of Love, With One Exception, You Mean the World to Me, Have a Little Faith, Already Its Heaven, Baby Baby [I Know Youre a Lady], So Many Ways; actor: Carnival Rock, Cottonpickin Chickenpickers; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 04 | Frank Zappa musician, songwriter, singer: group: Mothers of Invention; Valley Girl [w/daughter Moon]; dies at age 52. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 05 | Douglas Hopkins guitarist (Gin Blossoms), dies of gun shot at 32. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 19 | Michael Mike Clarke (Michael Dick), 49, the original drummer for The Byrds, dies of liver failure at his Treasure Island (St. Petersburg FL) home. Clarke, the youngest of the Byrds, joined the group at its inception in 1964, and stayed with the band through the end of 1967. He had sparked a lawsuit from other original band members in 1989 when he started performing under the Byrds name. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 22 | Singer Michael Jackson, fighting back against child molestation allegations, issues a video statement in which he said he was "totally innocent of any wrongdoing". (XDG, p 4A, 12/22/2003) | Ref: 83 |
Dec 23 | Ronnie Scott (Schatt) jazz musician: tenor sax, bandleader; jazz club owner in London; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 30 | Singer Deni Hines (22) weds INXS guitarist Kirk Pengilly (35). | Ref: 5 |
Dec 30 | Mack David US songwriter (Bachelor in Paradise), dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
- 1994
Jan 05 | Victor van Os Dutch jazz guitarist, dies at 39. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 07 | Bobby Pratt jazz Trombone/Piano Player, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 07 | Jay Blackton broadway Conductor (Oklahoma!), dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 07 | Lynn Blessing vibes Player, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | Jay Blackton US conductor/arranger (Oklahoma!), dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 09 | Silas Hogan blues singer/guitarist, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 11 | Roger "Ram" Ramirez jazz piano player/composer, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 13 | Frederick William Sternfield musicologist, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 15 | Gyrgy Cziffra Hungarian/French pianist (Chopin/Liszt), dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 15 | Harry (Edward) Nilsson III, rock vocalist (Without You, Everybody's Talkin'), dies at 52. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 15 | Philippe Brun jazz trumpeter, dies at 85. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 17 | Grady "Fats" Jackson tenor sax Player, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 17 | Noel Chiboust trumpeter/sax, dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 18 | Arthur Altman songwriter, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 27 | Eddie Calhoun jazz Bassist, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 27 | Stanley Adams songwriter, dies at 86. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 30 | Byron "Wild Child" Gipson blues Singer, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 30 | Ernestine "Tiny" Davis jazz vocalist/trumpeter, dies at 86. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | John Wesley Funchess Littlejohn blues guitarist/singer, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Willie Mae Ford Smith gospel Singer/Songwriter, dies at 89. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Zilner T Randolph jazz Trumpeter/ Arranger, dies at 95. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Kenneth "Buddy" Scott blues guitarist/Singer, dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 06 | Ignace Strasfogel Polish/US pianist/conductor/composer, dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 06 | Norman Del Mar conductor/writer (Conducting Brahms), dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 08 | Raymond Scott composer (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), dies at 85. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Silas Hogan blues singer/guitarist, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Jarmila Novotna Czechoslovakia/US soprano (Madame Butterfly), dies at 86. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Louis Kaufman US violinist/conductor (Gone with the Wind), dies at 88. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 14 | Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia (51) weds Deborah Koons. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 14 | Gary "BB" Coleman blues vocal/guitarist/producer, dies at 47. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 22 | "Papa" John Creach US jazz musician (Papa Blues), dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 24 | Dinah (Frances Rose) Shore Emmy Award-winning singer, entertainer: The Dinah Shore Show [1951], Dinahs Place [1970]; Daytime Emmy: Dinahs Place [1970], Dinah! [1974]; The Dinah Shore Chevy Show, Oh, God!, Death Car on the Freeway; singer: Yes, My Darling Daughter, The Breeze and I, Blues in the Night, Ill Walk Alone, Buttons and Bows; sponsored Dinah Shore Classic pro golf tournament for over twenty years; died Feb 24, 1994 | Ref: 4 |
Feb 24 | Donald Phillips pianist/composer, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 24 | Jean Sablon crooner, dies at 87. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 28 | Elbert "Skippy" Williams tenor Sax player, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Timothy Andrew James Souster composer Musician, dies at 51. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 01 | Walter Kent US composer (I'll Be Home for Christmas), dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 03 | Karel Kryl folk singer, dies at 49. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 05 | Singer Grace Slick arrested for pointing a gun at a cop. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 05 | Joe Daley jazz tenor/clarinet/flute player, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 06 | Leighton Noble singer/Bandleader, dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 06 | Moses Rascoe blues singer, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 09 | Louis Freeman band leader, dies at 100. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 09 | Maurice "Moe" Purtill jazz drummer, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 13 | Danny Barker US banjo player/guitarist (Bourbon St Black), dies at 85. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 22 | Dan Hartman US singer/songwriter (Love Sensations), dies at 42. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 24 | Tommy Benford jazz drummer, dies at 88. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Jan Bor Dutch violinist/painter, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | Eugene Ionesco playwright: The Bald Soprano, The Chairs; dies at age 84. | Ref: 68 |
Mar 30 | Sid Weiss bassist, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 04 | Ginny Simms singer, actress: Thats Right Youre Wrong [1939], Seven Days Leave [1942], Broadway Rhythm [1944], Disc Jockey [1951]; dies. | Ref: 68 |
Apr 04 | Olga Lowina Dutch yodeler (Edelweisskapel), dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 05 | Roy Smeck guitarist/banjoist, dies at 94. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 06 | Dick Cary jazz musician: trumpet, arranger; first pianist in Louis Armstrongs All-Stars [1947-48]; dies at age 77. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 07 | Singer Percy Sledge pleads guilty to tax evasion. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 07 | Lee Brilleaux British R&B-singer/guitarist (Stupidity), dies at 41. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 08 | Kurt Cobain, singer and guitarist for the grunge band Nirvana, was found dead in Seattle from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound; he was 27. (also TWA, 1995) | Ref: 4 |
Apr 08 | Irene Eisinger singer, dies at 91. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 09 | Singer Wayne Newton (52) weds attorney Kathleen McCrone (30). | Ref: 5 |
Apr 10 | James L Lyons jazz promoter, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | Q T Macon blues vocal/guitar, dies at 60. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 14 | Billy Joel & Christie Brinkley announce plans to divorce. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 16 | Singer Harry Connick Jr (26) weds model Jill Goodacre (30). | Ref: 5 |
Apr 19 | Larry Davis blues Singer/Guitarist, dies at 57. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 22 | Jack Alexander Bently trombonist, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
May 03 | Milford Dolliole pioneer jazz drummer, dies at 90. | Ref: 5 |
May 04 | Courtney Love cleared of drug charges. | Ref: 5 |
May 05 | Joseph Lichtman Layton, dancer/director/choreographer (Richard Pryor Live on Sunset Strip), dies at age 63. | Ref: 68 |
May 06 | Haskell "Cool Papa" Sadler blues singer/guitarist, dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
May 11 | Danny Overbea blues singer/guitarist, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
May 11 | Leonard Friedman violinist, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
May 15 | Frederik baron van Pallandt Danish singer (Nina & F), murdered at 61. | Ref: 5 |
May 15 | Ronnie Potsdammer singer/song/text writer/programmer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
May 17 | Donald Keith Falkner singer, dies at 94. | Ref: 5 |
May 21 | Country singer Trisha Yearwood (29) weds Robert Reynolds (32). | Ref: 5 |
May 23 | Joe Pass US jazz guitarist (The Trio), dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
May 24 | Poison singer Bret Michaels gets into a car crash. | Ref: 5 |
May 24 | Sandor Lakatos Hungarian violist/orchestra leader, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
May 25 | Eric Gale guitarist, dies at 55. | Ref: 5 |
May 26 | Warren Harding "Sonny" Sharrock US free-jazz Guitarist, dies at 53. | Ref: 5 |
May 27 | Red Rodney [Albino Red/The Red Arrow] bebop-trumpeter, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | Oliver "Bops Junior" Jackson drummer, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
May 31 | Emmanuel "Manny" Klein trumpeter, dies at 86. | Ref: 5 |
May 31 | Herva Nelli soprano, dies at 85. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 05 | Ish Kabibble (Merwyn Bogue) (comic singer: Three Little Fishies; sang and played trumpet with Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge; big bandleader; combo: The Shy Guys), dies. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 14 | Henry Mancini (Enrico Nicola Mancini) Academy Award-winning composer: Moon River [1961], Days of Wine and Roses [1962], Breakfast at Tiffanys score [1961], Victor/Victoria score [1982]; composed themes for The Pink Panther, Mr. Lucky, Peter Gunn, Charade, NBC Mystery Movie, NBC Nightly News, Love Theme from Romeo & Juliet; 20 Grammy Awards; dies at age 70. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 21 | Dorothy Collins (Marjorie Chandler) singer: My Boy Flattop, Your Hit Parade, sang with Benny Goodman band; actress: Follies; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 25 | Singer Billy Joel and supermodel Christie Brinkley are divorced after 8 years of marriage. | Ref: 5 |
Sep 07 | Dennis Morgan (Stanley Morner) singer; actor: 21 Beacon Street, Pearl of the South Pacific, Its a Great Feeling, Christmas in Connecticut, The Great Ziegfeld, Two Guys from Milwaukee, Desert Song, Kitty Foyle, My Wild Irish Rose; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 20 | Jules Styne, American songwriter, dies at age 88. | Ref: 70 |
Oct 26 | Wilbert Harrison singer: Kansas City, Lets Work Together; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 07 | Shorty Rogers (Milton Rajonsky) musician: trumpet, bandleader, songwriter: Keen and Peachy, Martians Go Home, Sweetheart of Sigmund Freud; composer, arranger: film: That Certain Girl; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 10 | Carmen McRae jazz singer: The Next Time It Happens, Skyliner; dies at age 74. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 18 | Cab Calloway (Cabell Calloway III) Highness of Hi-De-Ho: bandleader, singer: Minnie the Moocher, Blues in the Night; films: Stormy Weather, St. Louis Blues; The Cotton Club Comes to the Ritz; dies in Hockessin, Del., at age 86. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 18 | Michael Somes, English ballet dancer, dies at age 76. | Ref: 70 |
Nov 27 | Eddie Calhoun jazz Bassist, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
Nov 27 | Stanley Adams songwriter, dies at 86. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 08 | Antonio Carlos Jobim Brazil composer (Girl From Ipanema), dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 09 | Garnet Silk Jamaican raggae-singer, dies at 28. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | George G F van Renesse concert pianist/music director, dies at 85. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | Garnett Silk vocalist, dies at 28. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 14 | Mary Ann McCall singer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 15 | Hans de Jong musician/conductor (Amsterdams Vrouwenkoor), dies at 86. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 15 | Harry Tobias songwriter, dies at 99. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 16 | Davy Jones (Monkees), charged with DWI | Ref: 5 |
Dec 16 | Samuel Lipman music critic, dies at 60. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 19 | Noel Pointer jazz violinist, dies at 39. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 20 | J C "Jody" Bateman fiddler, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 23 | Charles Shirley jazz arranger, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 24 | Jimmy Buddy Lee Land Ace singer, dies at 57. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 28 | Billy Ray Cyrus (Achy Breaky Heart) weds Leticia Finley. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 28 | Tammy Wynette admitted to the hospital with bile duct infection. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 29 | Eugene Tanner Jr singer, dies at 58. | Ref: 5 |
- 1995
Jan 01 | Jess Stacy US jazz pianist (Great Gatsby), dies at 90. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 01 | Ted Hawkins US blues singer (Watch Your Step), dies at 58. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 03 | Al Duncan drummer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 04 | Eduardo Mata Mexican conductor, dies in air crash at 52. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 04 | Leonard Hirsch British violinist/conductor (BBC Empire Orchestra), dies at 92. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 05 | Francis Lopez French dentist/operetta composer (Andalousie), dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 06 | James Clay saxophonist, dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 07 | Arthur Leavins violinist, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | Louis "Loulou" Gast guitarist/composer (Doggy in the Window), dies at 88. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 11 | Willem N "Pim" Koot pianist (Concert Building), dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 12 | Francis Lopez songwriter, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 13 | Ruby Starr vocalist (Grey Ghost), dies of brain tumor at 44. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 14 | Alexander Gibson British conductor/founder (Scottish Opera), dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 15 | Sollie McElroy singer, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 16 | William Dillard trumpeter/singer, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 18 | Charles Baskerville vocalist, dies at 54. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 22 | Christopher Francis Palmer orchestrater/author, dies at 48. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 26 | Geoffrey Penwill Parsons Australian/British piano accompanist, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 30 | George Richard James saxophonist, dies at 88. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 03 | Turner Fodrell blues singer/guitarist, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 04 | Betty Davis British dance teacher of Dame Margot Fonteyn, dies. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Frederick Craig Riddle violinist, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 06 | Beachboy Brian Wilson wed Melinda Ledbetter. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 06 | Arthur S Taylor Jr US drummer/author (Notes on notes), dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 12 | Earring George Mayweather blues harmonica player, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 12 | Tony Secunda rock band manager, dies at 54. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 13 | Wilton "Bogey" Gaynair saxophonist, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 17 | Jan Bart Klaster music editor (The Slogan), dies at 50. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 17 | Uta Graf singer/teacher, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 18 | Denny Cordel rock music producer-Laverack, dies at 51. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 18 | Eddie Williams blues/Jazz Bassist, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 18 | John Rhea "Yank" Lawson US jazz trumpeteer (Stormy weather), dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 23 | David Melvin English Franklin singer, dies at 52. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 24 | Richard Nicholson musician, dies at 89. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 25 | Terence Weil cellist/teacher, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 28 | Herman "Ace" Wallace blues guitarist/singer, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 28 | Max Rudolf conductor, dies at 92. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 02 | Hugo Cole musician/critic, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 04 | Eden Ahbez songwriter, dies at 86. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 05 | Vivian Stanshall British musician (Magical Mystery Tour), dies at 51. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 06 | Delroy George Wilson singer, dies at 46. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 07 | John Arthur Neill Lambert composer teacher organist, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 10 | Hendrik W van Leeuwen Dutch musician, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 11 | Carel Birnie found Utrecht Opera/Dutch Dance Theater, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 13 | Lorraine Macleod dancer (Girls Just Want to Have Fun), dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 14 | Gerard Thomas Victory composer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 16 | Sydney Simone band leader, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 17 | Sunnyland Smart jazz/blues singer/pianist (Delta Blues), dies at 87. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 18 | Charles Drain singer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 18 | Heinrich Sutermeister Swiss composer (Raskolnikov), dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 19 | Kenneth Norman Joseph Loveless priest folk musician, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 21 | Norman Schwartz record Producer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 23 | Alan Barton singer (Smokie, Black Lace), dies in a bus crash. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 23 | Daniel George "Danny" Apolinar composer/songwriter, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 23 | Ripley L Ingram singer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 24 | Joey Long blues/cajun guitarist, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 26 | Rapper-E (Eazy Eric Wright) dies at 31. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 27 | Chet Gierlach music publisher/composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 29 | Carl E Jefferson record company owner, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 29 | Eddie Williams Wiggins alto saxophone/comedian, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | Paul A Rothchild record producer, dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 30 | Rozelle Claxton pianist/arranger, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 31 | Carl M Story fiddler, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | Francisco Moncion dancer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 02 | Julius Arthur Hemphill saxophonist, dies at 57. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 04 | Kenny Everett disc Jockey, dies at 50. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 10 | Joseph Anthony "Joe" Richards singer/actor (Colorado Ranger), dies at 44. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 12 | Chris Pyne, trombonist, dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 14 | James Daniel "Danny" Turner saxophonist, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 14 | Burl (Icle Ivanhoe) Ives singer: A Holly Jolly Christmas, A Little Bitty Tear, Funny Way of Laughin, Call Me Mr. In- Between; Academy Award winning actor: The Big Country [1958], Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, East of Eden, Smokey, Our Man in Havana, The Bold Ones, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer; radio series: The Wayfaring Stranger [1944]; dies at age 85. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 15 | Cleo Brown pianist, dies at 91. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 19 | "King" Herbert Whitaker tenor sax, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 22 | Don Pullen pianist/composer, dies at 53. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 23 | Lonesome Sundown blues singer/guitarist, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
May 04 | Louis Krasner violinist, dies at 91. | Ref: 5 |
May 05 | Thomas Eden Binkley musician, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
May 06 | Leanoard "Red" Truss R&B singer, dies at 47. | Ref: 5 |
May 07 | Ray McKinley musician: drummer: Big Boy, Hard-Hearted Hannah, Red Silk Stockings and Green Perfume, You Came Along Way [from St. Louis]; led Glenn Miller Band for estate [1956-66]; dies at age 84. | Ref: 4 |
May 08 | Carroll Best bluegrass banjo, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
May 08 | Teresa Teng singer, dies at 41. | Ref: 5 |
May 09 | Marshall Royal jazz Sax/Clarinet, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
May 10 | Jimmy Raney jazz guitarist, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
May 15 | Johnny Van Derrick jazz violinist, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
May 15 | Perry Lederman folk singer, dies at 52. | Ref: 5 |
May 16 | Lola Flores singer/actress (Kuma Ching, Faraona), dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
May 17 | Nathan "Dambuza" Mdledle singer, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
May 18 | Alexander Godunov (Boris Alexandrovich Godunov) ballet dancer who defected in 1979; actor: Die Hard, The Money Pit, Witness; is found dead at age 45. | Ref: 4 |
May 18 | Gordon Reynolds musician, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
May 24 | Mike Pyne jazz Pianist, dies at 54. | Ref: 5 |
May 25 | Dick Curless One-Eyed Baron of Trucker Country: singer: A Tombstone Every Mile, Six Times a Day, All of Me Belongs to You, Big Wheel Cannonball, Losers Cocktail; dies at age 63. | Ref: 4 |
May 26 | Ron Weatherburn jazz pianist, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
May 27 | C W Stubblefield music Promoter, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
May 27 | Ulyses Simpson Kay composer, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | Henning Kronstam dancer, dies at 60. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 30 | Garth Brooks buried the glass master of his LP The Hits beneath his star on the legendary Hollywood Walk of Fame. It was the first time something like this had been done and, as far as we know, the last. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 01 | Wolfman Jack (Robert Smith), 57, collapsed and died of a heart attack at his home in Belvidere, in northeastern North Carolina. He had just returned from a whirlwind tour promoting his autobiography Have Mercy!: Confessions of the Original Rock n Roll Animal. Fans first learned to love the Wolfman in 1963 on 250,000-watt XERF (Del Rio TX - Ciudad Acuna, Mexico), heard all over North America. You may also remember him as, that's right, Wolfman Jack, in the 1973 movie American Graffiti. And he's the same Wolfman The Guess Who sings about in their 1974 hit Clap for the Wolfman. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 25 | Charlie Rich The Silver Fox: Grammy Award-winning singer: Behind Closed Doors [1973]; Lonely Weekends, The Most Beautiful Girl; dies. (also TWA, 1996) | Ref: 4 |
Jul 26 | Laurindo Almeida, Grammy Award-winning composer, musician: guitar: Guitar from Ipanema [1964]; Viva Bossa Nova; underscore: Viva Zapata; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 29 | Les Elgart musician: lead trumpet, bandleader: w/brother Larry; dies at age 77 in Dallas TX. (TWA, 1996) | Ref: 95 |
Aug 09 | Jerry Garcia, lead singer of the Grateful Dead, died in San Francisco of a heart attack at age 53. (TWA, 1996) | Ref: 95 |
Aug 11 | Phil Harris, band leader, voice of Baloo in Disney's "Jungle Book", dies at age 91 in Rancho Mirage CA. (TWA, 1996) | Ref: 95 |
Aug 12 | Marty Paich pianist, composer, arranger with/for: Peggy Lee, Shorty Rogers Giants, Dorothy Dandridge, Shelley Manne, Art Pepper, Shorty Rogers, Dave Pell, Mel Torme, Ray Brown, Anita ODay, Stan Kenton, Terry Gibbs, Ella Fitzgerald, and Buddy Rich; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 19 | Pierre Schaeffer, French composer, acoustician and electronics engineer, dies at age 85. | Ref: 70 |
Sep 10 | Cyndi Lauper won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her performance as Mary Ann in "Mad About You". | Ref: 4 |
Sep 10 | Darren Robinson (Human Beatbox: rap artist: group: Fat Boys: LPs: Fat Boys, Fat Boys are Back, Big and Beautiful, Krush on You, All Meat No Filler; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 21 | Maxene (Angelyn) Andrews singer [w/sisters LaVerne and Patti]: group: The Andrews Sisters: Why Talk About Love?, A Simple Melody, Bei Mir Bist Du Schn, Rum and Coca Cola; solo: I Suppose; on Broadway with Patti: Over Here; dies at age 79. | Ref: 68 |
Dec 06 | Michael Jackson collapses while rehearsing for an HBO special. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 06 | [Schaff] Claire Polin composer, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | Darren Robinson (Human Beatbox: rap artist: group: Fat Boys: LPs: Fat Boys, Fat Boys are Back, Big and Beautiful, Krush on You, All Meat No Filler; dies at age 28. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 12 | Mary Bruce dance Teacher, dies at 95. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 13 | Nancy LaMott singer, dies at 43. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 14 | Don Anthony bandleader/songwriter, dies at 85. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 15 | James Geoffrey Cutcliffe Hepburn tap-dancer/socialist, dies at 88. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 16 | Nina Verchinina dancer choreographer/teacher, dies at 85. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 25 | Singer Dean (Dino Crocetti) Martin died at his Beverly Hills home at age 78. | Ref: 70 |
Dec 25 | Nikolai [Nicolas Leonidovich] Slonimsky musicologist, dies at 101. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 27 | Shura Cherkassky pianist, dies at 86. | Ref: 5 |
- 1996
Jan 01 | Hamish Imlach folk singer/comic, dies at 55. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 02 | Sydney Thompson rock Climber, dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 04 | Ramon Vinay operatic tenor/baritone, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 05 | Joseph Daniel White singer/bandleader, dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 05 | Lincoln Kirstein, American dance impresario; director of the New York City Ballet (1948-89), dies at age 88. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 05 | Richard Versaille tenor, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 06 | Robert Russell "Chubby" Wise musician, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | William Mac Lance "Tiny" McCloud musician/songwriter, dies at 52. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 11 | Ike Isaacs guitarist, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 14 | Pamelo Mounk'a musician, dies at 50. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 15 | Les Baxter singer/orchestra leader/composer (Born Again), dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 16 | Jimmy Buffetts sea plane The Flying Boat was shot at by Jamaican police who mistook him for a drug smuggler. U2s Bono was in the plane with Buffett at the time. Jimmy wrote a song about the incident, Jamaica Mistaica, that appears on the album Banana Wind. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 17 | Robert Covington drummer/singer, dies at 54. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 20 | Buster Benton singer/guitarist, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 20 | Gerald Joseph Mulligan baritone saxophonist/composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 20 | Liesbeth Askonas concert agent, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 25 | Jonathan Larson composer, dead Aortic aneurysm at 35. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 25 | Ruth Berghaus choreographer/director, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 26 | Henry Jay Lewis conductor, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 30 | Bob Thiele record producer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Dancer, actor and choreographer Gene Kelly dies at age 83 at his Beverly Hills, California, home from complications from two strokes. | Ref: 68 |
Feb 03 | Wild Jimmy Spruill blues guitarist, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Antonio Ruiz Soler Spanish dancer, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Gianandrea Gavazzeni conductor, dies at 86. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 07 | Isian Kehinde I K Dairo musician/academic, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 07 | Tiny Winters musician, dies at 87. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 08 | Mercer Kennedy Ellington, only son of Duke Ellington, trumpeter bandleader/composer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 13 | Daniel K Womack singer/guitarist, dies at 91. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 16 | Brownie McGhee blues guitarist, dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 16 | Walter Brown "Brownie" McGhee blues singer/guitarist, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 18 | Nicholas Beriozoff ballet master, dies at 89. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 20 | Toru Takemitsu composer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 23 | George Alan Dawson jazz drummer/teacher, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 24 | Laurence Richard Deniz jazz guitarist, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 29 | Wes Farrell songwriter, dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 06 | Herbert "Herb" Hall clarinetist/saxophonist, dies at 88. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 15 | Olga Rudge violinist, dies at 100. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 16 | Joseph Lee Pope singer, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 19 | Christopher John Magenis Headington musician, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 20 | Alan Ridout composer, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 23 | Jay D Miller record producer, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 24 | Maria Lucia Beltran Alcayaga singer, dies at 66 | Ref: 5 |
Mar 28 | David Band banker, dies at 53. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 31 | Jeffrey Lee Pierce musician, dies at 37. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 01 | Edwin H "Buddy" Morris music publisher, dies at 89. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 03 | Roosevelt "Booba" Barnes bluesman, dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 04 | Joy Newton dancer, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 04 | Larry Laprise songwriter, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 07 | Ian Spurling ballet designer, dies at 59 | Ref: 5 |
Apr 08 | Charles Donald Adams singer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 14 | Gaylord Birch drummer (Pointer Sisters, Herbie Hancock), dies at 50. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 14 | Manuel A "Manny" Greenhill record producer, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 16 | Lucille Bremer dancer/actress (Ziegfeld Follies), dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 16 | Raymond Earl Hill saxophonist, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | Michael Leander Farr record producer, dies at 55. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 18 | Bernard Edwards musician: bass: group: Chic: Dance, Dance, Dance, Le Freak, Everybody Dance, I Want Your Love, Good Times; dies in Tokyo, Japan of pneumonia at age 43. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 19 | Bernard Edwards bass player, dies at 44. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 23 | Leonard Kuntstat blues discographer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 25 | John Lorne Campbell folklorist, dies at 90. | Ref: 5 |
May 01 | William Mitchell Byers musician, dies on 79th birthday. | Ref: 5 |
May 08 | Jane Cowan cello teacher, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
May 11 | Bruce Boyce singer/teacher, dies at 85. | Ref: 5 |
May 11 | Walter Hyatt Musician, dies at 46. | Ref: 5 |
May 15 | George M Tindley songwriter/vocalist, dies at 57 | Ref: 5 |
May 19 | Johnny "Guitar" Watson musician, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
May 20 | Jack Wyngaard dancer, dies at 37. | Ref: 5 |
May 21 | Peter Fletcher music teacher, dies at 60 | Ref: 5 |
May 24 | Jacob R Druckman composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
May 26 | Matima Kinuani Mpiosso musician, dies at 45. | Ref: 5 |
May 27 | Albert "Pud" Brown clarinetist/saxophonist, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
May 27 | Ivan Sutton concert Promotoer, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | James George "Jimmy" Rowles jazz pianist, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | Tamara Toumanova dancer, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
May 30 | Bob Stroup trombonist, dies at 57. | Ref: 5 |
May 30 | John Kahn bassist, dies at 47. | Ref: 5 |
May 31 | Elsbeary Hobbs singer, dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 15 | Ella Fitzgerald, the "first lady of song," dies in Beverly Hills, CA, at age 78. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
Jul 16 | John Panozzo musician: drums: group: Styx: Lady, Suite Madame Blue, Come Sail Away, Miss America, Castle Walls, Superstars, Renegade, Babe, The Best of Times, Too Much Time on My Hands, Mr. Roboto; dies. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 31 | Alanis Morissette, born in Ottawa, kicked off her first big-time Canadian tour with a show before 15,000 at General Motors Place, Vancouver. The concert had sold out in less than an hour two months earlier. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 07 | Rappers Tupac Shakur and Marion Suge Knight, were shot after leaving the Tyson/Seldon prizefight. A white Cadillac with four people inside pulled alongside Shakur and Knight at a Las Vegas intersection and someone opened fire. Tupac was hit 4 times (he died 6 days later), while Suge escaped with minor injuries. One theory about who orchestrated the shootings is that it was a result of rivalry between the US East-Coast and West- Coast rappers. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 09 | Bill Monroe Father of Bluegrass Music: Country Music Hall of Famer: singer: Blue Moon of Kentucky; band: The Bluegrass Band; songwriter: Kentucky Waltz, A Letter from My Darling; dies at age 84. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 13 | Rapper Tupac Shakur died at a Las Vegas hospital six days after he was wounded in a drive-by shooting; he was 25. | Ref: 70 |
Sep 14 | Juliet Prowse dancer, actress: Can-Can, G.I. Blues, Mona McCluskey; LEggs commercials; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 20 | Paul Weston (Wetstein) orchestra leader, arranger: Nevertheless [Im in Love with You], Theme from Shane; songwriter: I Should Care, Shrimp Boats for wife: Jo Stafford; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 27 | Bob Gibson singer, songwriter, leader of folk music movement in late '50s: John Riley, Old Blue, Daddy Roll 'Em, Wayfaring Stranger; duo: Gibson and [Bob] Camp; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 14 | Singer/entertainer Madonna gave birth to her daughter, Lourdes Maria, in Los Angeles, CA. The father is Carlos Leon, her former fitness-trainer. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 24 | Motown Records founder Berry Gordy received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Gordy helped launch the careers Stevie Wonder, The Temptations, Diana Ross, Smokey Robinson, Michael Jackson and many others. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 13 | Bill Doggett musician: Honky Tonk, Slow Walk; dies. | Ref: 68 |
Nov 15 | Michael Jackson marries Debbie Rowe. | Ref: 24 |
Nov 30 | Tiny Tim (aka Darry Dover, Larry Love) (Herbert Butros Khaury) ukulele playing, falsetto singer: Tiptoe Through the Tulips, Sonny Boy; film: You Are What You Eat, TV: Laugh In; dies at age 64. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 01 | Irving Gordon songwriter, dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 05 | Peter Hall folklorist/musician, dies at 60. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 05 | Wilf Carter country singer, dies at 91. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 09 | Faron Young country singer, commits suicide at 64. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | John Duffey bluegrass musician, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | Faron Young country singer: Hello Walls; actor: The Young Sheriff, Daniel Boone Hidden Guns; founder/publisher: Music City News magazine [Nashville], commits suicide at age 34. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 13 | Mae Barnes singer, dies at 89. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 17 | Francesco Siciliani opera administrator, dies at 85. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 17 | Irving Caesar songwriter, dies at 101. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 17 | Ruby Murray singer, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 18 | Arthur Jacobs musicologist, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 23 | Rina Ketty singer, dies at 85. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 23 | Ronnie Scott (Schatt) jazz musician: tenor sax, bandleader; jazz club owner in London; dies at age 69. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 29 | Mireille Hartuch singer/songwriter, dies at 90. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 31 | Frederico Davia opera singer, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
- 1997
Jan 01 | Townes Van Zandt musician, dies at 52. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 02 | Randy California [Wolfe], rock guitarist, dies at 45 in a swimming accident off Molokai HI. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 03 | Burton Lane composer, dies at 84 | Ref: 5 |
Jan 05 | Burton Lane (Levy) composer: How Are Things in Glocca Morra, That Old Devil Moon, Look to the Rainbow, How About You, I Hear Music, Come Back to Me, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, How Could You Believe Me?; Broadway musicals: Finians Rainbow [collaboration with Yip Harburg], On a Clear Day You Can See Forever [collaboration with Alan Jay Lerner] contributed songs to over 30 films: Babes on Broadway, Royal Wedding, Ship Ahoy, St. Louis Blues; credited with discovering Judy Garland; dies. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 07 | Sandor Vegh violinist teacher/conductor, dies at 84 | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | George Handy (George Joseph Hendleman) George Joseph Hendleman) (pianist, composer, arranger: Boyd Raeburn band, Alvino Rey band, Paramount Studios; dies at age 76. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 09 | Heart attacks sends Frank Sinatra back to hospital. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 10 | Alvinio Misciano Italian tenor, killed in a fall from a window. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 11 | Cavan O'Connor singer, dies at 97. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 16 | Charlie Alfred Galbraith jazz trombonist, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 18 | Myfanwy Piper librettist, dies at 85. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 20 | Rhythm-and-blues singer Ron Holden, best known for his hit single Love You So, died in Mexico at age 57. Love You So was Holdens only hit, reaching number seven on Billboard June 13, 1960. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 22 | Rhythm-and-blues singer Ron Holden, best known for his hit single Love You So, died in Mexico at age 57. "Love You So" was Holdens only hit, reaching number seven on Billboard June 13, 1960. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 22 | Irwin Levine composer (Tie a Yellow Ribbon), dies at 58. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 22 | Wally Whyton musician/broadcaster, dies at 66 | Ref: 5 |
Jan 23 | Charles Craig opera singer, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 23 | Richard Berry lyricist (Louie Louie), dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 02 | Chico Science Francisco Franca musician, dies at 40. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 07 | Danil Shafran cellist, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 09 | Heart attacks sends Frank Sinatra back to hospital. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 10 | Brian Connolly singer: group: The Sweet: Little Willy, Funny Funny, Co-Co, Wig Wam Bam, Blockbuster, Jell Raiser, Ballroom Blitz, Teenage Rampage, Fox on the Run; dies at age 47. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 11 | Michael Jackson Jr son of Michael Jackson | Ref: 5 |
Feb 18 | Eric William Fenby musician, dies at 90. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 23 | Tony Williams jazz musician, dies at 51. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 25 | Tony Williams jazz drummer (Miles Davis), dies at 51. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 27 | Singer Sade (Helen Folasade), arrested in Jamaica for disobeying a cop. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 09 | The Notorious B.I.G. (Christopher Wallace) rapper: LPs: Ready to Die, Life After Death, Born Again; is shot and killed in Los Angeles. His killer has not been identified. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 10 | LaVern Baker, singer: Tweedle-Dee, I Cried a Tear, Jim Dandy; second woman [Aretha Franklin was first] inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame [1991], is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 08 | Laura Nyro singer, dies of ovarian cancer at 49 | Ref: 5 |
Apr 13 | Laura Nyro, singer, dies in Danbury CT at age 49. (TWA, 1998) | Ref: 95 |
Apr 16 | Mae Boren Axton song writer (Heartbreak Hotel), dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
Apr 29 | Keith Ferguson blues (Fabulous Thunderbirds), dies of overdose at 50. | Ref: 5 |
May 14 | Thelma Carpenter singer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
May 28 | Bob Dylan hospitalized in England with histoplasmosis. | Ref: 5 |
May 29 | Jeff Buckley musician, drowns at 30. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 13 | Alexandra Danilova, Russian ballerina, dies at age 93. | Ref: 70 |
Aug 17 | The old CN (Canadian National) train station in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, home town of country singing legend Hank Snow, was dedicated as the Hank Snow Country Music Centre. The Centre features personal memorabilia of Nova Scotias "native son", including his 1947 Cadillac and pieces from other Canadian country music stars (including Carroll Baker, Wilf Carter, Ronnie Prophet, George Hamilton IV, Lucille Starr). Snow died December 20, 1999 at the age of 85. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 02 | Sir Rudolf Bing manager: Metropolitan Opera House [1950-1972]; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 05 | Sir Georg Solti orchestra leader: Chicago Symphony Orchestra; first complete recording of Wagners Der Ring des Nibelungen; dies at age 84. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 18 | Jimmy Witherspoon singer: Aint Nobodys Business, Some of My Best Friends are the Blues, Youre Next; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 12 | Singer John Denver (Deutschendorf), piloting an experimental, amateur-built Long-EZ airplane, crashed into Monterey Bay, CA. Witnesses said the plane, made of fiberglass with a single engine and two seats, was flying about at about 500 feet when it just sort of dropped unexpectedly into the ocean. When it hit the water it broke into numerous parts. Denver, age 53 and the only occupant of the plane, was killed. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 20 | Henry Vestine musician: guitar: group: Canned Heat: On the Road Again, Going Up the Country; sideman for Frank Zappa; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 22 | Michael Hutchence, singer for INXS, commits suicide in Sydney Australia at age 37. (TWA, 1999) | Ref: 95 |
Dec 01 | Stephane Grappelli French jazz violinist, dies at 89 | Ref: 5 |
Dec 06 | Eliot Daniel composer (I Love Lucy theme), dies at 89 | Ref: 5 |
Dec 09 | Tamara Geva dancer, dies at 91 | Ref: 5 |
Dec 10 | Violet Carlson stage dancer/singer, dies at 97 | Ref: 5 |
Dec 16 | Nicolette Larson singer (Lotta Love), dies from brain seizure at 45. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 22 | Johnny Coles trumpeter, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 24 | Anthea Joseph music producer, dies at 57. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 27 | Ewart G Abner Jr president (Motown Records), dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 28 | Ewart G Abner Jr president (Motown Records), dies at 74 | Ref: 5 |
Dec 31 | Floyd Cramer pianist (Nashville Sound), dies of cancer at 64 in Nashville TN. | Ref: 5 |
- 1998
Jan 03 | Grandpa Jones, country musician and "Hee-Haw" regular, suffers a stroke | Ref: 5 |
Jan 04 | John Gary singer, dies at 65 | Ref: 5 |
Jan 05 | Georgi Sviridov composer, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | Michael Tippett composer, dies at 93. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 08 | Sir Michael Tippett composer: String Quartet No. 1, A Child of Our Time, The Midsummer Marriage, Fourth Symphony, The Mask of Time, The Rose Lake; writer: Those Twentieth Century Blues [autobiography], Tippett on Music, Calibans Song, dies. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 09 | Michael Tippett British composer (Royal College of Music), dies at 93 | Ref: 5 |
Jan 11 | Klaus Tennstedt conductor, dies at 71 | Ref: 5 |
Jan 15 | Amos "Junior" Wells blues harpist, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 16 | David "Junior" Kimbrough blues musician, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 19 | Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Carl Perkins dies in Jackson TN at age 65 after a series of strokes. Perkins was a Tennessee sharecroppers son. His first guitar was made from a cigar box and broom handle, and his "Blue Suede Shoes" was written on a potato sack. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 24 | Justin Tubb singer: Looking Back to See, Sure Fire Kisses; songwriter: Lonesome 7-7203, Love is No Excuse, Keeping Up with the Joneses; Ernest Tubbs son; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 25 | Spice Girl Victoria Adams (Posh) & soccer David Beckham get engaged. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 26 | S P Leary Texan Blues drummer (Muddy Waters), dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
Jan 29 | Singer Bobby Brown found guilty of DWI in Fort Lauderdale FL. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 05 | Tim Kelly guitarist, dies at 34 | Ref: 5 |
Feb 06 | Carl Wilson musician: guitar, group: The Beach Boys: I Get Around, Help Me Rhonda, Good Vibrations, CA Girls, Surfin USA, Little Deuce Coupe, Surfer Girl, Be True to Your School; brother of Brian and Dennis; original group: Carl and the Passions; dies of lung cancer at 51. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 06 | [Johann Hoelzel] Falco singer (Rock Me Amadeus), dies at 40. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 07 | It was announced that Carl Wilson, a founding member of the Beach Boys, had died in Los Angeles from complications of lung cancer at age 51. | Ref: 70 |
Feb 09 | Michael Tippett British composer (Royal College of Music), dies at 93 | Ref: 5 |
Feb 17 | Bob Merrill songwriter: If I Knew You Were Comin Idve Baked a Cake, Doggie in the Window, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Funny Girl [w/Jules Styne]; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 18 | Robert Merrill songwriter (Funny Girl), commits suicide at 76. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 19 | Country Music Hall of Famer, Grandpa (Louis Marshall) Jones dies at age 84. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 22 | Grandpa [Louis Marshall] Jones country singer (Hee Haw), dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
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Feb 25 | Pamela Lee has husband Tommy Lee arrested on battery charges. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 05 | Mariah Carey divorces Tommy Mottola. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 21 | Galina Sergeyevna Ulanova, one of the greatest ballet dancers of the 20th century, dies. | Ref: 70 |
Apr 02 | Robert Pilatus performer, lip-syncer: group: Milli Vanilli: Girl You Know Its True, Blame It on the Rain; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 06 | Country singer Tammy Wynette (Virginia Wynette Pugh) dies at her Nashville, TN, home at age 55. (TWA, 1999) | Ref: 95 |
Apr 24 | Mel Powell pianist, composer: Mission to Moscow for Benny Goodman; music educator: Dean of Music at California Institute of Arts; dies. | Ref: 4 |
May 14 | Frank [Francis Albert] Sinatra singer/actor, dies from heart & kidney disease, bladder cancer, senility at 82. | Ref: 5 |
May 15 | Johnny Green songwriter: Coquette, Body and Soul, Im Yours, [You Came Along From] Out of Nowhere, I Cover the Waterfront, Easy Come, Easy Go; won five Oscars for work on MGM films: Easter Parade, West Side Story, Oliver, An American in Paris, Bye Bye Birdie, High Society, Raintree County, The Great Caruso, Summer Stock, Brigadoon; dies. | Ref: 4 |
May 19 | Dorothy Donegan jazz pianist: At the Embers; appeared in film: Sensations of 1945; dies. | Ref: 5 |
Jun 29 | Horst Jankowski pianist: A Walk In The Black Forest; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 01 | Singer/actress/diva Barbra Streisand and actor/director James Brolin were married at her Malibu, California home. It was her second marriage (she was previously married to actor Elliot Gould) and his third (he was married to casting agent Jane Agee and actress Jan Smithers). The couple honeymooned on a boat in the nearby Channel Islands off the Santa Barbara coast. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 28 | Jerome Robbins, American choreographer, dies at age 79. | Ref: 70 |
Sep 26 | Betty Carter (Lillie Mae Jones) jazz singer: toured with Lionel Hampton & Miles Davis; dies in NY. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 14 | Frankie Yankovic Grammy Award-winning musician: accordion: Just Because, Blue Skirt Waltz; bandleader: polka band; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 10 | Svetlana Beriosova, Lithuanian-born prima ballerina, dies at age 66. | Ref: 70 |
Nov 11 | Pappy Wade Ray country entertainer/musician: Grand Ol Opry; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 25 | Damita Jo (DuBlanc) singer: Ill Save the Last Dance for You, If You Go Away; dies. | Ref: 4 |
- 1999
Jan 11 | Barry Pritchard musician: guitar, singer: group: The Fortunes: You've Got Your Troubles; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 25 | Robert Shaw conductor: Robert Shaw Chorale; music director of Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus; dies at age 83. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 02 | Dusty Springfield (Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette OBrien) singer: Wishin and Hopin, You Dont Have to Say You Love Me, The Look of Love, Son-of-a-Preacher Man, The Windmills of Your Mind, A Brand New Me; group: The Springfields: Silver Threads and Golden Needles; inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame [3-15-99]; dies of breast cancer at age 59. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 12 | Yehudi Menuhin violinist: child prodigy: solo with San Francisco Orchestra at age of 7, played with New York Symphony Orchestra at ten; dies in Berlin at age 82. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 29 | Joe Williams (Joseph Goreed) jazz singer: Every Day [I Have the Blues], Party Blues, Goin to Chicago; sang with Count Basie: LP: Count Basie Swings, Joe Williams Sings; actor: The Bill Cosby Show; is born. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 12 | Boxcar Willie (Lecil Martin) The Singing Hobo: songwriter, singer: Not the Man I Used to Be; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 16 | Alexander Skip Spence musician: drummer: Jefferson Airplane; guitar, singer: group: Moby Grape; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 27 | Al Hirt musician: trumpet: Java, Sugar Lips, Flight of the Bumble Bee as theme song for TVs The Green Hornet; played in singer Don Gibsons band; a regular on: Make Your Own Kind of Music, Fanfare; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 30 | Darrel Sweet musician: drums, singer: group: Nazareth: LPs: Love Hurts, Snaz; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 05 | Jazz and pop singer Mel Torme died in Los Angeles at age 73. (TWA, 2000) | Ref: 95 |
Jun 27 | Brian OHara musician: guitar, singer: group: The Fourmost: Hello Little Girl, Im in Love, A Little Loving, Baby I Need Your Loving; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 01 | Guy Mitchell (Al Cernick) singer: Singing the Blues, Heartaches by the Number, My Heart Cries for You, My Truly Truly Fair, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; actor: Red Garters; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 05 | Mel Torme The Velvet Fog: Grammy Award-winning singer: LP: An Evening with George Shearing and Mel Torme [1982]; Comin Home Baby, Careless Hands, Bewitched; songwriter: The Christmas Song; died June 5, 1999 | Ref: 4 |
Aug 24 | Warren Covington bandleader: trombone: played with Horace Heidt and His Musical Knights; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 10 | Alfredo Kraus, opera singer: tenor, dies. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 17 | Frankie Vaughn (Abelson) singer: Garden of Eden, Tower of Strength; dies. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 04 | Art Farmer musician: trumpet, flugelhorn: worked w/Horace Henderson, Johnny Otis, Lionel Hampton Band; recorded be-bop classic Farmers Market; developed musical instrument called flumpet; dies. | Ref: 5 |
Oct 09 | Milt Jackson musician: Bags: vibes: group: The Modern Jazz Quartet: LP: Opus de Funk, Ballads and Blues, Plenty, Plenty Soul, Bags and Flutes, Soul Brothers [w/Ray Charles], Bean Bags, Bags and Trane [w/John Coltrane], Ballad Artistry of Milt Jackson [w/Quincy Jones string arrangement], Bags Meets Wes [w/Wes Montgomery]; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 16 | Ella Mae Morse singer: Cow Cow Boogie, Shoo Shoo Baby, House of Blue Lights, The Blacksmith Blues; first artist to record for Capitol Records; dies. | Ref: 2 |
Oct 26 | Singer-songrwiter Hoyt Axton ("Joy To The World") dies of a heart attack at age 61. | Ref: 9 |
Oct 27 | Frank DeVol bandleader, songwriter: themes: The Brady Bunch, My Three Sons, The Love Boat; scores: The Dirty Dozen, Hush Hush, Sweet Charlotte, Pillow Talk [more than 50 films]; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 13 | Donald Mills singer: group: The Mills Brothers: Tiger Rag, Nobodys Sweetheart, Dinah, Paper Doll, Glow Worm, You Always Hurt the One You Love, Cab Driver; dies. (TWA, 2001) | Ref: 95 |
Nov 18 | Doug Sahm singer: group: founded Sir Douglas Quintet: Shes about a Mover; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 30 | Charlie Byrd musician: guitar: dies. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 10 | Rock singer-musician Rick Danko of The Band died at age 56. | Ref: 70 |
Dec 10 | Rock singer-musician Rick Danko of The Band died at age 56. | Ref: 70 |
Dec 17 | Grover Washington Jr. musician: saxophone: Just the Two of Us [w/Bill Withers]; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 17 | Rex Allen The Arizona Cowboy: entertainer: rodeo star; singer; songwriter: published over 300 songs; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 20 | Hank Snow (Clarence Eugene) Country Music Hall of Famer: singer, songwriter dies. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 21 | Country singer Hank Snow dies at age 85. | Ref: 9 |
Dec 26 | Soul singer and songwriter Curtis Mayfield died in Roswell, Ga., at age 57. | Ref: 70 |
- 2000
Jan 02 | Nat Adderley musician: cornet, mellophone, French horn, trumpet: Sermonette, Work Song; brother of Cannonball Adderley: dies. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 20 | Don Abney jazz pianist, studio musician; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 31 | Si (Simon) Zentner bandleader, trombonist: Boyd Raeburn Orchestra; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 04 | Doris Kenner-Jackson singer: group: The Shirelles: dies. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 06 | Derroll Adams folk musician: banjo; singer: Feelin Fine [w/Wiz Jones]; songwriter: Portland Town, Wish I was a Rock; in film: Dont Look Back; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 12 | Oliver (Swofford), singer: Jean, Good Morning Starshine; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 12 | Screamin Jay (Jalacy) Hawkins R&B singer, pianist: I Put a Spell on You [Rolling Stone magazine voted it one of 50 greatest songs of the 1950s]; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 14 | Tommy Collins (Leonard Sipes) singer: You Better Not Do That, It Tickles, If You Cant Bite, Dont Growl, I Made the Prison Band; songwriter: If You Aint Lovin then You Aint Livin, You Gotta Have a License; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 27 | Ian Dury singer: Rough Kids, Billy Bentley, Upminster Kid; songwriter: What a Waste, Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick, Sink My Boats, This is What We Find, Reasons to be Cheerful, Delusions of Grandeur, Dance of the Crackpots, The Body Song, Spasticus Autisticus, Profoundly in Love with Pandora; group: Ian Dury & The Blockheads: Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, Sweet Gene Vincent, Billericay Dickie, Paistow Patricia; actor: No. 1, Pirates, King of the Ghetto, Talk of the Devil, Rocinante, Hearts of Fire; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 07 | Heinz Burt musician: bass: group: The Tornados: Telstar, Globetrotter; solo: Just like Eddie; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 30 | Jonah Jones (Robert Elliott Jones) musician: trumpet, singer: played with Cab Calloway; threw spitball that got Dizzy Gillespie fired from band; dies. | Ref: 5 |
May 14 | Tommy Collins (Leonard Sipes) singer, dies. | Ref: 4 |
May 20 | Jean-Pierre Rampal musician: flutist: recitals world wide; played with New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Indpls, Houston, Minnesota, San Francisco, San Diego and Cincinnati symphony orchestras; dies. | Ref: 4 |
May 30 | Gordon "Tex" Beneke, a singer and sax player with the Glenn Miller Orchestra, died in Costa Mesa, CA, at age 86. (TWA, 2001) | Ref: 95 |
May 31 | Bandleader Tito Puente dies in New York at age 77. | Ref: 70 |
Jun 01 | Tito (Ernest) Puente jazz musician, bandleader: Abanaquito, Para Los Rumberos, Jumpin with Symphony Sid, Fancy Feet; dies. | Ref: 5 |
Jul 03 | Harold Nicholas, the younger half of the legendary tap-dancing Nicholas Brothers, died at age 79. (TWA, 2001) | Ref: 95 |
Jul 28 | Jerome Smith musician: guitar: group: KC & The Sunshine Band: Get Down Tonight, Thats the Way [I like It], [Shake, Shake, Shake] Your Booty, Im Your Boogie Man, Keep It Comin Love, I like to Do It, Boogie Shoes, Its the Same Old Song, Please Dont Go; is killed in a bulldozer accident. | Ref: 5 |
Aug 02 | Ron Townson singer: group: The 5th Dimension: Up Up and Away, Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In, One Less Bell to Answer, [Last Night] I Didnt Get to Sleep at All; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 16 | Alan Caddy musician: guitar: groups: The Tornados: Telstar, Johnny Kidd and The Pirates: Shakin All Over; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 12 | Stanley Turrentine, jazz musician: tenor sax; one of the Pittsburgh Brethren; played with Tommy Turrentine [his brother], Lowell Fulson, Tadd Dameron, Earl Bostic, Max Roach; his hits included: The Look of Love, Midnight Special, Look Out, Pieces of a Dream, Straight Ahead, Wonderland, La Place; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 03 | Benjamin Orr (Orzechowski) musician: bass guitar, singer: group: The Cars: My Best Friends Girl, Just What I Needed, Lets Go, You Might Think, Magic, Drive, Tonight She Comes; solo: LP: The Lace; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 18 | Julie London (Peck) singer: Cry Me a River; actress: Emergency; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 12 | (Franck) Frank Pourcel (composer, violinist: group: The French Fiddles: Only You) dies. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 23 | Victor Borge (Borge Rosenbaum) pianist, comedian: phonetic punctuation: "bpft"; dies in Greenwich, Conn., at age 91. | Ref: 5 |
Dec 24 | Nick Massi (Macioci) musician: bass, singer: group: The Four Seasons: dies. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 31 | Jos Greco flamenco dancer, actor: Ship of Fools, The Proud and the Damned; dies. | Ref: 4 |
- 2001
Jan 04 | Orchestra leader Les Brown, known for his "Band of Renown," died at age 88. | Ref: 70 |
Jan 04 | Les Brown bandleader: Les Brown and His Band of Renown: Sentimental Journey My Dreams are Getting Better All the Time; Leap Frog, Ive Got My Love to Keep Me Warm; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Jan 23 | Lou Levy pianist: band: Supersax; recorded with Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Nancy Wilson, Anita ODay; dies. | Ref: 5 |
Feb 04 | J.J. (James Louis) Johnson musician: trombone, composer, bandleader; one of first to use the trombone in modern jazz; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 04 | Singer Glenn Hughes (the biker of The Village People) dies. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 07 | Frankie Carle (Carlone) pianist, bandleader [w/Horace Heidt], led own band: Saturday Night is the Loneliest Night of the Year, wrote: Oh What It Seemed to Be, Falling Leaves, Lovers Lullaby; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Mar 18 | Pop musician, singer and songwriter John Phillips (the Mamas and the Papas) died in Los Angeles at age 65. | Ref: 70 |
Apr 15 | Punk rock musician Joey Ramone (Jeffrey Hyman) dies in New York at age 49. | Ref: 70 |
May 12 | Perry (Pierino) Como, Grammy Award-winning singer; former barber; dies. | Ref: 4 |
May 25 | Brian Pendleton musician: guitar: group: The Pretty Things; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 04 | John Hartford Grammy Award-winning songwriter: Gentle on My Mind [1966]; musician: banjo, fiddle, guitar: Glenn Campbells Good Time Comedy Hour; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 21 | Blues musician John Lee Hooker died at age 80. | Ref: 70 |
Jun 30 | Joe Henderson composer/musician: tenor sax: played in sextet at San Franciscos Keystone Korner; also played with Blood Sweat and Tears; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 30 | Chet (Chester Burton) Atkins Grammy Award-winning guitarist: made over 100 albums; elected to Country Music Hall of Fame [1973]; dies at age 77 in Nashville TN. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 05 | Ernie K-Doe (Ernest Kador Jr.) singer/songwriter: Mother-In-Law; dies, | Ref: 4 |
Aug 06 | Larry Adler, US-born harmonica virtuoso (Harmonicats), dies at age 87 in London England. (TWA, 2002) | Ref: 95 |
Aug 25 | R&B singer Aaliyah was killed with eight others in a plane crash in the Bahamas at age 22. | Ref: 70 |
Sep 01 | Sil Austin musician, tenor saxophone: Slow Walk; composer: Ping-Pong; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 22 | Violinist Isaac Stern died in NY at age 81. | Ref: 70 |
Sep 27 | Billy Maxted, pianist, songwriter, arranger: many arrangements for Ray Eberle, Red Nichols, Will Bradley, Benny Goodman; bandleader: LP: Bourbon Street Billy Blues [w/Manhattan Jazz Band]; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 16 | Jazz vocalist Etta Jones died in NY at age 72. | Ref: 70 |
Oct 17 | Jay Livingston composer: To Each His Own, Mona Lisa, Tammy; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 21 | Ralph Burns musician: piano; composer, arranger: Apple Honey; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 16 | Stuart (William) Adamson musician: guitar, singer: group: Big Country: Harvest Home, Fields of Fire, In a Big Country, Chance, Wonderland, East of Eden, Where the Rose is Sown; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 25 | Joe Olivier musician: guitar: group: Bill Haley and His Comets [1957, 1958]; solo as Cappy Bianco; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 31 | Flemenco dancer Jose Greco died in Lancaster, Pa., at age 82. (TWA, 2002) | Ref: 95 |
- 2002
Jan 21 | Singer Peggy Lee (Norma Delores Egstrom), dies in Bel Air, Calif., at age 81. | Ref: 70 |
Feb 13 | Country singer Waylon Jennings died in Chandler AZ, at age 64. | Ref: 70 |
Feb 16 | Mick Tucker musician: drums: group: Sweet: Funny Funny, Co-Co, Little Willy, Wig Wam Bam, Blockbuster, Hell Raiser, Ballroom Blitz, Teenage Rampage, Fox on the Run; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 24 | Arthur Lyman jazz musician: vibraphone: Yellow Bird; played w/Martin Denny Orchestra; dies. | Ref: 5 |
Mar 03 | Country songwriter Harlan Howard dies in Nashville TN at age 74. (XDG, p 4A, 3/03/2003) | Ref: 83 |
Mar 23 | Eileen Farrell soprano: 1940s radio performer; San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Metropolitain Opera; also successful singing, recording popular music and jazz; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 25 | Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, a member of the Grammy-winning trio TLC, died in a car crash in Honduras at age 30. | Ref: 70 |
Jun 05 | Dee Dee Ramone (Douglas Colvin) musician: drums: group: The Ramones: dies. | Ref: 4 |
Jun 06 | Dee Dee Ramone, bass player for the pioneer punk band the Ramones, died in Los Angeles at age 50. | Ref: 70 |
Jun 27 | John Entwistle, the bass player who co-founded The Who, was found dead in a Las Vegas hotel room at age 57. | Ref: 70 |
Jun 29 | Rosemary Clooney singer: Hey There, Come On-A My House, This Ole House, Bye Bye Blackbird; actress: White Christmas, Deep in My Heart, Red Garters, Mangos, The Rosemary Clooney Show; aunt of actor George Clooney; sister of Nick Clooney, TV news anchor; dies in Beverly Hills CA at age 74. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 03 | Lionel Hampton singer, songwriter, jazz musician: vibes, drums, piano, bandleader: On the Sunny Side of the Street, Hey! Hot Mallets, Ba-Ba-Re-Bop, Rag Mop; played with Benny Goodman; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 31 | Jazz musician and bandleader Lionel Hampton died in New York City at age 94. | Ref: 70 |
Sep 29 | Ellis Larkins pianist: favorite accompanist of: Mildred Bailey, Ella Fitzgerald, Joe Williams; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 12 | Ray Conniff choral/orchestra director: theme from Dr. Zhivago; LP: Swonderful, Somewhere My Love; musician: trombone; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 23 | Broadway librettist Adolph Green died in New York at age 87. | Ref: 70 |
Nov 06 | A jury in Beverly Hills, Calif., convicted Winona Ryder of stealing $5,500 worth of high-fashion merchandise from Saks Fifth Avenue, but a prosecutor said she would not seek to put the actress behind bars. | Ref: 70 |
Nov 19 | Singer Michael Jackson makes an appearance outside his Berlin hotel and briefly holds his youngest child, Prince Michael II, over a fourth floor balcony in front of dozens of fans below. (XDG, p 4A, 11/19/2003) | Ref: 83 |
Dec 13 | Zal Yanovsky, musician: guitar, singer: group: The Lovin' Spoonful, dies. | Ref: 4 |
Dec 22 | Joe Strummer, lead singer of the legendary British punk band The Clash, died at age 50. | Ref: 70 |
- 2003
Jan 12 | Maurice Gibbdies, singer (of the BeeGees), dies in Miami FL at age 53. (TWA, 2004). | Ref: 95 |
Jan 13 | Rock musician Pete Townshend of The Who was arrested in London on suspicion of possessing indecent images of children. (Though he acknowledged accessing a Web site that advertised child pornography, Townshend denied the charge and was later cleared.) | Ref: 70 |
Feb 01 | Mongo (Ramon) Santamaria bandleader, composer, musician: conga drums: Afro Blue, Watermelon Man; appeared in film: Made in Paris; played with Perez Prado and Tito Puente; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Feb 04 | Opera singer Jerome Hines died in New York at age 81. | Ref: 70 |
Feb 06 | ABC's "20/20" aired a British documentary on Michael Jackson in which the singer revealed he sometimes let children sleep in his bed. | Ref: 70 |
Feb 18 | Johnny Paycheck (Donald Eugene Lytle) country singer: Take This Job and Shove It, The Lovin Machine, [Dont Take Her] Shes All I Got, Someone to Give My Love To, Mr. Lovemaker, Song and Dance Man, For a Minute There, Slide Off Your Satin Sheets, Friend, Lover, Wife, Heartbreak Tennessee, Motel Time Again, Jukebox Charlie, The Cave; songwriter: Apartment No. 9, Touch My Heart; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Apr 09 | Vera Zorina (Eva Brigitta Hartwig) dancer, actress: Star-Spangled Rhythm; died April 9, 2003 | Ref: 4 |
Apr 20 | (Theodore Marcus) Teddy Edwards jazz musician: tenor sax: Me and My Lover; dies. | Ref: 4 |
May 13 | Noel Redding musician: bass: Noel Redding Band; group: The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Hey Joe, Purple Haze, The Wind Cries Mary, Burning of the Midnight Lamp, All Along the Watchtower; dies. | Ref: 4 |
May 15 | June Carter Cash, Maces Spring Va, country singer (Johnny Cash Show), dies. | Ref: 4 |
May 20 | The Godfather of Soul, James Brown, is pardoned by South Carolina state officials for past legal problems, primarily drug charges and weapons convictions. (USA Today, p 3D, 5/22/2003) | Ref: 13 |
Jul 01 | Herbie Mann (Soloman) jazz musician, flautist: Hijack, Superman, Comin Home Baby, Bang! Bang!, Violets Dont be Blue; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 04 | Barry White singer: Im Gonna Love You Just a Little More Baby, Never, Never Gonna Give You Up, Cant Get Enough of Your Love, Babe, Loves Theme [w/Love Unlimited Orchestra]; played piano on Jesse Belvins Goodnight My Love [1955]; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 12 | Benny Carter jazz musician: Honeysuckle Rose, Crazy Rhythm; arranger: Im Putting All My Eggs in One Basket, One, Two, Button Your Shoe; composer: Jazz Cocktail, When Lights are Low; LPs: Benny Carters All Stars, American Jazz Orchestra, Central Cities Sketches, Somebody Loves Me; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Jul 28 | (Samuel) Aaron Bell jazz musician: bass: played w/Duke Ellington, Stan Kenton, Andy Kirk, Lucky Millinder, Teddy Wilson, Lester Young; composer, teacher; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Aug 09 | Gregory Hines dancer, actor: Renaissance Man, Tap, The Cotton Club, Eubie!; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 05 | Gisele MacKenzie (Marie LaFeche) singer: Your Hit Parade, Hard to Get; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 07 | Warren Zevon singer, songwriter: Werewolves of London, She Quit Me Man, Hasten Down the Wind, Poor, Poor Pitiful Me, Roland, the Headless Thompson Gunner, The Envoy; died Sep 7, 2003 | Ref: 4 |
Sep 12 | Singer Johnny Cash, 71, dies from respiratory complications from diabetes at about 3AM in Baptist Hospital, Nashville TN. (XDG, p 3A, 9/13/2003) | Ref: 83 |
Sep 16 | Sheb Wooley CMA comic of the Year [1968]; singer, songwriter: The Purple People Eater, Are You Satisfied, Hee Haw theme; actor: Rawhide, High Noon, Rocky Mountain, Giant, Hoosiers; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Sep 19 | Australia singer Slim Dusty (aka David Gordon Kirkpatrick) dies of cancer at age 76. (XDG, p 3A, 9/20/2003) | Ref: 83 |
Sep 26 | Robert Palmer singer, guitarist: Sneakin Sally through the Alley, Hey Julia, Addicted to Love, Every Kinda People, I Didnt Mean to Turn You On, It Could Happen To You; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Oct 10 | Marie Marcus, jazz pianist and protegee of Fats Waller, dies in Hyannis MA at age 89. (NY Times, p 30, 10/19/2003) |   |
Oct 14 | James R Lawson, master carillonneur (a carillon is the world's largest musical instrument that plays bells in size from a few ounces to 200 pounds or more) dies in a nursing home in Cody WY at age 84. (NY Times, p 30, 10/19/2003) |   |
Oct 21 | Singer/songwriter Elliott Smith dies in Los Angeles at age 34, apparently from suicide. It appeared he stabbed himself in the chest. (USA Today, p 1D, 10/23/2003) | Ref: 13 |
Nov 05 | Bobby Hatfield, the tenor half of the Righteous Brothers, dies at age 63 in his hotel room in Kalamazoo MI. (WSJ, p A1, 11/07/2003) | Ref: 33 |
Nov 17 | Arthur Conley singer: Sweet Soul Music; dies. | Ref: 4 |
Nov 20 | Singer, performer Michael Jackson is arrested on child-sex charges in Los Angeles. (Dayton Daily News, p 1, 11/21/2003) |   |
Dec 08 | Musician Ozzy Osbourne, 55, is hospitalized with a fractured collarbone, eight fractured ribs and a neck vertabrae when a 600-ATV he was driving rolls on top of him. A full recovery is expected. (USA Today, p 3D, 12/24/2003) | Ref: 13 |
Dec 17 | Country singer Gary Steward, 59, is found dead in his home in Fort Pierce KY from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. (USA Today, p 1D, 12/18/2003) | Ref: 13 |
Dec 18 | Pop singer Michael Jackson, 45, is charged with seven counts of felony child molestation in Santa Maria, CA. (USA Today, p 1A, 12/19/2003) | Ref: 13 |
- 2004
Jan 03 | Singer Britney Spears marries a childhood friend and then has it annulled. (USA Today, p 11A, 1/09/2004) | Ref: 33 |
Mar 26 | Jan Berry, songwriter, singer: group: Jan and Dean: The Little Old Lady from Pasadena, Dead Mans Curve, Heart and Soul, Linda, Baby Talk, Surf City; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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