On This Day in Music for June 20

Events in Music

1969 150,000 attend Newport '69, Jimi Hendrix gets $120,000 to appear

1980 "Blues Brothers" with Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi opens in 594 theaters
1981 Guitarist Gerry Cott quits Boomtown Rats

1585 Lazaro Valvasensi, composer
1615 Salvatore Rosa, Italian baroque painter, poet, musician and actor, born in Arenella, Italy (d. 1673)
1730 Nonnosus Madlseder, composer
1756 Joseph Martin Kraus, German composer, born in born in Miltenberg am Main, Bavaria (d. 1792)
1819 Jacques Offenbach, French composer (Tales of Hoffmann), born in Cologne, Germany
1861 Arthur Battelle Whiting, composer
1883 Giannotto Bastianelli, composer
1899 Anthon van der Horst, Dutch organist/composer
1900 Ernest White, composer
1906 Bob Howard, singer/pianist (Sing it Again), born in Newton, Massachusetts
1907 Jimmy Driftwood, American songwriter and musician (d. 1998)
1914 Friedrich Zipp, composer
1924 Chet Atkins, Luttrell Tenn, guitarist (Me & My Guitar)
1927 John M Dengler, jazz bass sax/trumpet/trombone
1928 Robert Satanowski, composer
1928 Eric Dolphy, jazz musician, born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1964)
1929 Ingrid Haebler, Austrian pianist (Haydn/Mozart/Schubert)
1931 Arne Nordheim, Larvik Norway, conductor/composer (Aftonland)
1934 Cornel Taranu, composer
1936 Billy Guy, American singer (The Coasters-Young Blood), born in Itasca, Texas (d. 2002)
1937 Jerry Keller, rocker/actor (If Ever I See You Again)
1938 Nikolay Avksentevich Martinov, composer

1942 Brian Wilson, American singer-songwriter and producer (Beach Boys), born in Inglewood, California

1949 Lionel Richie, American singer (Commodores, Hello, Penny Lover), born in Tuskegee, Alabama

1951 Peter Gordon, composer
1953 Alan Longmuir, Scottish pop-rock musician (Bay City Rollers), born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 2018)
1954 Michael Anthony, rock bassist/singer (Van Halen-Pretty Woman)
1958 Kelly Johnson [Bernadette], Edmonton, London, guitarist (Girlschool), (d. 2007)
1960 John Taylor, English musician (Duran Duran), born in Solihull, Warwickshire
1963 Amir Derakh, American musician (Orgy)
1967 Joseph William Cathcart, rock guitarist (Nelson-Love & Affection)
1971 Jeordie White, American musician (Marilyn Manson)
1973 Chino Moreno, American musician (Deftones)
1976 Jerome Fontamillas, Filipino American musician (Switchfoot)
1979 Charlotte Hatherley, English guitarist (Ash)
1980 Tony Lovato [Anthony John Lovato], American singer and guitarist (Mest), born in Blue Island, Illinois

1962 Singer Jane Froman (54) weds college friend Rowland Smith

2004 Former Dallas Cowboys running back Eddie George (30) weds R&B group "SWV" member Tamara Johnson (33) at the Rockleigh Country Club in Rockleigh, New Jersey

1787 Carl Friedrich Abel, German/British viola player/composer, dies at 63
1833 Philip Knapton, composer, dies at 44
1837 Giovanni Furno, composer, dies at 89
1842 Michael Umlauf, composer, dies at 60
1888 Cesare Dominiceti, Italian composer, dies at 66
1890 Theodore Lajarte, French writer on music and composer, dies at 63
1922 Vittorio Monti, composer, dies at 54
1923 Joseph Leopold Rockel, composer, dies at 85
1925 Wilhelm Posse, composer, dies at 72
1940 Jehan Alain, French organist/composer, dies in battle at 29
1948 George Frederick Boyle, Australian-American composer, dies at 61
1964 Edgar Barrier, American actor (Phantom of the Opera, Macbeth, Rocky, Cornered), dies from a heart attack at 57
1965 Ira Louvin, country singer (Louvin Brothers), dies at 41
1975 Daniel Ayala Perez, composer, dies at 68
1980 Gustaf Allan Pettersson, composer, dies at 68
1984 Hans Studer, Swiss composer, dies at 73
1995 Dennis Gomm, British composer and musician, dies at 84
1996 Jim Ellison, American musician (Material Issue), commits suicide at 32
1997 Lawrence Payton, rocker (4 Tops-I'll Be There), dies at 59
2006 Claydes Charles Smith, American musician (Kool & The Gang), dies at 57
2011 Jerome Rosen, American composer, dies at 89
2017 Prodigy [Albert Johnson], American rapper (Mobb Deep), dies at 42
2018 Alan Longmuir, Scottish pop-rock musician (Bay City Rollers), dies at 70