Events in Music
Event of Interest
Oct 1 Dmitri Shostakovich evacuated by plane to Moscow
Dmitri Shostakovich
- Oct 1 H Martin/R Blane's musical "Best Foot Forward" premieres in NYC
- Oct 29 Cole Porter's musical "Let's Face It" premieres in New York City
Birthdays in Music
- Oct 2 Ron Meagher, American rock bassist (The Beau Brummels), born in Oakland, California
Chubby Checker
Oct 3 Chubby Checker [Ernest Evans], American singer-songwriter (The Twist, Limbo Rock), born in Spring Gully, South Carolina.
Chubby Checker
- Oct 7 Martin Murray, English rocker (Honeycombs), born in London, England
- Oct 7 Larry Young [Khalid Yasin], American jazz musician (Unity), born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 1978)
- Oct 9 Chucho Valdés [Jesús Valdés Rodríguez], Cuban musician (Orquesta Cubana de Música Moderna), born in Quivicán, Cuba
- Oct 11 Lester Bowie, American jazz trumpeter, born in Frederick, Maryland (d. 1999)
- Oct 13 Paul Simon, American singer-songwriter and actor (Kodachrome; One Trick Pony), born in Newark, New Jersey
- Oct 13 Neil Aspinall, British music executive (The Beatles), born in Prestatyn, Wales (d. 2008)
- Oct 16 Derek David Bourgeois, composer
- Oct 16 Erkki Jokinen, composer
- Oct 17 Alan Howard, rock bassist (Brian Poole & The Tremeloes)
- Oct 17 Earl Thomas Conley, country singer (Too Many Times), born in Portsmouth, Ohio
- Oct 17 James Seals, Sidney Tx, singer (Seals & Crofts-Summer Breeze)
- Oct 18 William "Billy" Cox, Guitarist (performed with Jimi Hendrix), born in Wheeling, West Virginia
- Oct 21 Steve Cropper, TN, guitarist/songwriter (Booker T & MGs)
- Oct 25 Helen Reddy, Australian rock vocalist (I Am Woman), born in Melbourne, Victoria
- Oct 28 Curtis Lee, American singer (Pretty Little Angel Eyes), born in Yuma, Arizona (d. 2015)
- Oct 28 Glen Moore, American jazz bassist and composer, born in Portland, Oregon
- Oct 28 Hank Marvin [Brian Rankin], English rocker (the Shadows), born in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England
- Oct 30 Otis Williams [Otis Miles], American singer and songwriter (The Temptations), born in Texarkana, Texas
