Events in Music
- "Yours Is My Heart", an adaptation of Franz Lehar's operetta "The Land of Smiles", opens at Shubert Theater, NYC; runs for 36 performances
Birthdays in Music
- Dean Ford (Thomas McAleese), Scottish singer-songwriter (Marmalade), born in Coatbridge, Scotland (d. 2018) [1]
Freddie Mercury
Freddie Mercury [Farrokh Bulsara], British singer-songwriter (Queen - "Bohemian Rhapsody"), born in Stone Town, Sultanate of Zanzibar (d. 1991)
Freddie Mercury
- Loudon Wainwright III, American folk singer-songwriter ( "Dead Skunk (in the Middle of the Road)" ), actor, and humorist, born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina