1928 in Music

Events in Music

Event of Interest

Dec 28 Louis Armstrong makes 78 recording of "West End blues"

Jazz Musician Louis Armstrong — Jazz Musician
Louis Armstrong

Birthdays in Music

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 158

Jan 2 Tiberiu Olah, composer
Jan 9 Domenico Modugno, Italian singer-songwriter, born in Polignano A Mare, Apulia (d. 1994)
Jan 10 Wallace Berry, composer
Jan 12 Ruth Brown, American actress and singer sometimes known as the "Queen of R&B" (So Long, Teardrops from My Eyes), born in Portsmouth, Virginia (d. 2006)
Jan 16 Ezra Sims, American composer of microtonal music, born in Birmingham, Alabama (d. 2015)
Jan 16 Pilar Lorengar, Spanish soprano (d. 1996)
Jan 17 Jean Barraqué, French composer (d. 1973)
Jan 19 Edward Gerard Schurmann, composer
Jan 27 Jean-Michel Damase, composer
Jan 29 Bengt Hambraeus, composer
Jan 30 Harold Prince, US producer/director (West Side Story, Evita)
Jan 30 Mitch Leigh, American musical composer (Man of La Mancha), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2014)
Jan 31 Chuck Willis, American rock vocalist (C C Rider), born in Atlanta, Georgia (d. 1958)
Feb 1 Ursula Mamlok, German American avant-garde composer, born in Berlin (d. 2016)
Feb 2 Alan Fluck, musical educationalist
Feb 11 Raoul Cita, R&B pianist and songwriter (Harptones), born in NYC, New York (d. 2014)
Feb 17 Marta Romero, Puerto Rican actress & singer (La Divina Infiel, The Shadow of the Bat), born in Ponce, Puerto Rico (d. 2013)
Feb 26 Aldonis Kalnins, composer

Fats Domino

Feb 26 Antione "Fats" Domino, American rhythm & blues star of the early rock ’n’ roll era (Blueberry Hill, Blue Monday), born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 2017)

Feb 26 Monique Leyrac, French Canadian singer and actress (Lights of My City, Act of the Heart), born in Montreal, Quebec
Feb 29 Alan Loveday, New Zealand and British violinist, born in Palmerston North, New Zealand (d. 2016)
Mar 4 Samuel Adler, composer
Mar 6 Ronald Stevenson, composer
Mar 8 Frank Michael Beyer, composer
Mar 8 Judy Johnson, singer (Your Show of Shows), born in Norfolk, Virginia
Mar 9 Keely Smith [Dorothy Keely], American jazz and popular music singer (Mrs Louie Prima), born in Norfolk, Virginia (d. 2017)
Mar 10 Sara Montiel, Spanish actress and singer (The Last Torch Song, The Violet Seller), born in Campo de Criptana, Ciudad Real, Spain (d. 2013)
Mar 12 Aldemaro Romero, Venezuelan musician (d. 2007)
Mar 15 Nicolas Flagello, composer
Mar 16 Christa Ludwig, soprano (Vienna State Opera), born in Berlin, Germany
Mar 16 Ramon Barce, Spanish composer, born in Madrid (d. 2008)
Mar 17 Edino Krieger, composer
Mar 19 Alam Thomas "Tom" Paley, American folk musician (New Lost City Ramblers), born in NYC, New York (d. 2017)
Mar 21 Evelyn Ruth Anderson, composer
Mar 24 Byron "Yanks" Janis, McKeesport Pa, pianist (NBC Symphony Orchestra)
Mar 26 Carole Carr [Carless], British singer and actress (Down Among the Z Men), born in London, England (d. 1997)
Mar 28 Jose Luis de Delas, Spanish composer, born in Barcelona
Mar 29 Vaclav Felix, composer, born in Prague (d. 2008)
Mar 30 John Heddle Nash, English operatic singer, born in London (d. 1994)
Mar 30 Diether de la Motte, composer
Apr 2 Serge Gainsbourg, Russian-French singer (Ford Mustang), born in Paris (d. 1991)
Apr 3 Don Gibson, American country musician (Sweet Dreams), born in Shelby, North Carolina (d. 2003)
Apr 4 Monty Norman, English singer and film composer (James Bond Theme), born in London
Apr 5 David Farquhar Andress, New Zealand composer, born in Cambridge, New Zealand (d. 2007)
Apr 5 Tony Williams, American singer (Platters-Only You, Harbor Lights), born in Elizabeth, New Jersey (d. 1992)
Apr 6 Will Gaines, American-British tap dancer, born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 2014)
Apr 8 Monty Sunshine, jazz bandleader (Gotta Travel On)
Apr 8 Fred Ebb, American composer, born in Manhattan, NYC (d. 2004)
Apr 9 Tom Lehrer, American musician, satirist and mathematician (That Was The Week That Was), born in NYC, New York
Apr 18 Jean-Francois Pailliard, Vitry-le-Francois France, conductor
Apr 19 Alexis Korner, musician (Blues Inc-Bootleg Him), born in Paris, France
Apr 24 Gustav Krivinka, composer
Apr 29 Big Jay McNeely, R&B saxophonist, born in Los Angeles, California
Apr 29 Carl Gardner, rock vocalist (Coasters-Searchin), born in Tyler, Texas
May 3 Dave Dudley, American country singer (Six Days on the Road), born in Spencer, Wisconsin (d. 2003)
May 4 Maynard Ferguson, Verdun Quebec, jazz trumpeter (Roulette)
May 8 William Jay Sydeman, composer
May 9 Pall Pampichier Palsson, composer
May 12 Burt Bacharach, composer (I'll Never Fall in Love Again), born in Kansas City, Missouri
May 12 Henry Cosby, African-American songwriter (d. 2002)
May 14 Will "Dub Jones, American singer (The Coasters) (d. 2000)
May 22 Roscoe Robinson, US gospel singer
May 23 Rosemary Clooney, Kentucky, singer/paper towels spokeswoman (Coronet)
May 23 Pauline Julien, French Canadian singer (d. 1998)
May 25 Frigyes Hidas, composer
May 27 Thea Musgrave, Scottish composer (Mary Queen of Scots, Pontalba), born in Barnton, Edinburgh
May 30 Gustav Leonhardt, Master Dutch Harpsichordist, organist and conductor
May 31 Jacob Lateiner, pianist/professor (Juiliard), born in Havana, Cuba
Jun 7 Charles Louis Strouse, composer
Jun 8 Jiri Dvoracek, composer
Jun 12 Richard Sherman, composer/lyricist (Mary Poppins)
Jun 12 Vic Damone, [Vito Farinola], singer (Street Where You Live), born in Brooklyn, New York
Jun 16 Sergiu Comissiona, Buch Romania, conductor (Haifa Symph 1959-64)
Jun 20 Robert Satanowski, composer
Jun 20 Eric Dolphy, jazz musician, born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1964)
Jun 21 Judith Raskin, American soprano (Susanna-Le Nozze di Figaro), born in NYC, New York
Jun 25 William Joseph Russo, composer
Jun 25 Jacob Druckman, American composer (Animus I Auerole), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1996)
Jun 28 Andrew Gordon Speedie-Pask, English cybernetician stage producer and lyricist, born in Derby (d. 1996)
Jul 1 Volker Wangenheim, composer
Jul 4 Cathy Berberian, Armenia, US singer
Jul 4 Lloyd Lambert, bassist
Jul 8 Norma Donaldson, American singer and actress (Poetic Justice, 5 Heartbeats), born in Harlem, New York (d. 1994)
Jul 11 Robert Washburn, composer
Jul 12 Barbara Cowsills, singer and mother of The Cowsills (d. 1985)
Jul 13 Donal Michalsky, composer
Jul 13 Leroy Vinnegar, American jazz bassist
Jul 14 Ole Schmidt, Danish composer and conductor, born in Copenhagen (d. 2010)
Jul 14 Pierre Olaf [Trivier], French actor (Camelot, Don't Drink the Water, Kraft Music Hall), born in Caudéran, Bordeaux (d. 1995)
Jul 16 Bella Davidovich, Baku Russia, pianist (Chopin, Beethoven, Ravel)
Jul 16 Ticho Parly, Danish tenor (d. 1993)
Jul 17 Vince Guaraldi, American jazz musician and composer (peanuts TV specials), born in San Francisco (d. 1976)
Jul 20 Peter Ind, jazz musician
Jul 22 Georg Dreyfus, German-born Australian composer, born in Elberfeld
Jul 22 Keter Betts, American jazz bassist (d. 2005)
Jul 23 Leon Fleisher, pianist and conductor (Annapolis Symph 1973-77), born in San Francisco, California
Jul 26 Hans Haselbock, composer
Jul 26 Tadeusz Baird, Polish composer (Giocosa)
Jul 27 Sakari Mononen, composer
Jul 28 Adrian Ratiu, composer

Weddings in Music

Wedding of Interest

Aug 25 Architect Frank Lloyd Wright (61) weds dancer and writer Olga Ivanovna

Deaths in Music

Jan 8 Dumitru Kiriac-Georgescu, composer, dies at 61
Feb 16 Eddie Foy Sr. [Edwin Fitzgerald], Irish-American actor, singer and dancer (A Favorite Fool), dies at 71
Mar 1 Albert Herbert Brewer, composer, dies at 62
Mar 1 Jacob Adolf Hagg, composer, dies at 77
Mar 27 Leslie Stuart, composer, dies at 64
Mar 28 Giuseppe Ferrata, composer, dies at 63
Apr 13 Luis Iruarrizaga Aguirre, composer, dies at 36
Apr 18 Henryk Melcer-Szczawinski, composer, dies at 58
Apr 24 Ferdinand Hummel, German composer, dies at 72
May 7 Alexander Afanasii Spendiaryan, composer, dies at 56
May 9 Constantin Dimitrescu, composer, dies at 81
May 19 Henry Franklin Belknap Gilbert, American composer, dies at 59
Jun 6 Heinrich Gottlieb Noren, composer, dies at 67
Jun 13 Damaso Ledesma, composer, dies at 60
Jun 23 Thomas H Rollinson, composer, dies at 84
Aug 6 William Henry Grattan Flood, composer, dies at 68
Aug 12 Leoš Janáček, Czech composer (b. 1854)
Aug 13 Fernand de La Tombelle, composer, dies at 74
Oct 30 Oscar George Theodore Sonneck, American musicologist, dies at 55
Nov 19 Achille Simonetti, composer, dies at 71
Dec 18 Lucien Capet, composer, dies at 55

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