Events in Music
Event of Interest
Dec 21 Singer Elton John and David Furnish register their civil partnership at Windsor Town Hall, on the first day they come into law in England and Wales
Elton John
Weddings in Music
Wedding of Interest
Dec 10 Country music artist Garth Brooks (43) weds singer Trisha Yearwood (41) in Claremore, Oklahoma
Garth Brooks
- Dec 17 "Modern Day Drifter" country singer Dierks Bentley (30) weds Cassidy Black in Mexico
- Dec 17 Australian country singer Kasey Chambers (29) weds singer-songwriter Shane Nicholson in Avoca, New South Wales
- Dec 23 Soccer star player Kaka (23) weds Brazilian singer Caroline Celico (18) at Igreja Renascer em Cristo in Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Dec 23 "Jurassic Park" actress Laura Dern (38) weds musician Ben Harper (36) in Los Angeles
- Dec 31 "One Tree Hill" actress Bethany Joy Lenz (24) weds "Enation" musician Michael Galeotti in Hillsboro, Oregon
Divorces in Music
Divorce of Interest
Dec 16 American singer-songwriter and TV personality Jessica Simpson (25) divorces singer-songwriter Nick Lachey (31) due to irreconcilable differences
Jessica Simpson
- Dec 20 Actress Renee Zellweger (36) annuls her marriage to country-music singer Kenny Chesney (37) citing fraud, after 4 months of marriage
Deaths in Music
- Dec 4 Gloria Lasso, French-Spanish singer (b. 1922)
- Dec 6 Danny Williams, South African-born singer (b. 1942)
- Dec 9 György Sándor, Hungarian pianist, dies at 93
- Dec 13 Timothy Jordan II, American musician (The All American Rejects, Jonezetta) (b. 1981)
- Dec 25 Derek Bailey, English guitar virtuoso (b. 1930)
- Dec 25 Birgit Nilsson, Swedish singer (b. 1918)
- Dec 26 Muriel Costa-Greenspon, American mezzo-soprano (b. 1937)
- Dec 31 Enrico di Giuseppe, American tenor, dies at 73