Events in Music
- 1955 "Almost Crazy" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 16 performances
- 1963 Beatles form "Beatles Ltd" to handle their income
Music Concert
1969 200,000 attend Newport '69', then largest-ever pop concert in Northridge, California. Jimi Hendrix gets $120,000 to appear.
Jimi Hendrix
- 1970 "Ray Stevens Show" debuts on NBC-TV
Event of Interest
1980 Film "Blues Brothers" with Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi opens in 594 theaters
Dan Aykroyd
- 1981 Guitarist Gerry Cott quits Boomtown Rats
Birthdays in Music
- 1585 Lazaro Valvasensi, Italian organist and composer, born in Valvasone, Italy (d. 1661)
- 1615 Salvatore Rosa, Italian baroque painter, poet, musician and actor, born in Arenella, Italy (d. 1673)
- 1730 Nonnosus Madlseder, German composer, born in Merano (d. 1797)
- 1743 Anna Laetitia Barbauld, English poet and writer of hymns (Life! I Know Not What Thou Art), born in Kibworth Harcourt, Leicestershire, England (d. 1825)
- 1756 Joseph Martin Kraus, German composer, born in Miltenberg am Main, Bavaria (d. 1792)
- 1819 Jacques Offenbach, German-French composer (Tales of Hoffmann), born in Cologne, Germany (d. 1880)
- 1861 Arthur Battelle Whiting, American composer and teacher, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts (d. 1936)
- 1883 Giannotto Bastianelli, Italian musician and composer, born in Fiesole, Italy (d. 1927)
- 1896 Wilfred Pelletier, Canadian conductor (Voice of Firestone), born in Montreal, Quebec (d. 1982)
- 1897 Elisabeth Hauptmann, German writer (co-author of The Threepenny Opera), born in Peckelsheim, Westphalia, German Empire (d. 1973)
- 1899 Anthon van der Horst, Dutch organist and composer, born in Amsterdam (d. 1965)
- 1906 Bob Howard, American singer and pianist (Sing it Again), born in Newton, Massachusetts (d. 1986)
- 1907 Jimmy Driftwood, American folk songwriter and musician, born in Mountain View, Arkansas (d. 1998)
- 1914 Friedrich Zipp, German composer, born in Frankfurt, Germany (d. 1997)
- 1924 Chet Atkins, American guitarist (Me & My Guitar), born in Luttrell, Tennessee (d. 2001)
- 1927 John M Dengler, American jazz multi-instrumentalist - bass sax/trumpet/trombone (The Intensely Vigorous Jazz Band), born in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania [1]
- 1928 Eric Dolphy, jazz musician, born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1964)
- 1929 Ingrid Haebler, Austrian pianist (Haydn/Mozart/Schubert), born in Vienna, Austria
- 1931 Arne Nordheim, Larvik Norway, conductor/composer (Aftonland)
- 1934 Cornel Țăranu, Romanian composer (Garlands), born in Cluj. Romania
- 1934 Alain Bancquart, French contemporary classical composer, born in Dieppe, France
- 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
Brian Wilson
1942 Brian Wilson, American singer-songwriter and producer (Beach Boys), born in Inglewood, California
Brian Wilson
- 1945 [Morna] Anne Murray, Canadian popsinger (Snow Bird; You Needed Me), born in Springhill, Nova Scotia Canada,
- 1946 André Watts, American-Hungarian concert pianist and educator, born in Nuremberg, Germany
- 1947 Dolores Brooks, American singer (the Crystals)
- 1948 Alan Longmuir, Scottish pop-rock musician (Bay City Rollers), born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 2018)
- 1949 Bob Andrews, English rock keyboardist and producer (Brinsley Schwarz; The Rumour), born in Leeds, Yorkshire, England
Lionel Richie
1949 Lionel Richie, American singer (Commodores, Hello, Penny Lover), born in Tuskegee, Alabama
Lionel Richie
- 1951 Peter Gordon, composer
- 1954 Michael Anthony [Sobolewski], American rock bassist/singer (Van Halen-Pretty Woman), born in Chicago, Illinois
- 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)
- 1967 [Matthew] Murphy Karges, American bassist (Sugar Ray - "Every Morning"), born in Orange County, California
- 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
Weddings in Music
Wedding of Interest
1962 Singer Jane Froman (54) weds college friend Rowland Smith
Jane Froman
- 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
Deaths in Music
- 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, Austrian violinist, composer and conductor (premiere of Beethoven's 9th), 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, German 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
- 1965 Ira Louvin, country singer (Louvin Brothers), dies at 41
- 1975 Daniel Ayala Perez, composer, dies at 68
- 1980 Allan Pettersson, Swedish composer, dies at 68
- 1984 Hans Studer, Swiss composer, dies at 73
- 1991 Malcolm Frager, American concert pianist, dies at 56
- 1995 Dennis Gomm, British composer and musician, dies at 84
- 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
- 2011 [Anna] Ottilie Patterson, Irish blues and jazz singer (Chris Barber Jazz Band), dies at 79
- 2016 Bill Ham [Billy Mack Ham], American music impresario and manager (ZZ Top), dies at 79
- 2017 Prodigy [Albert Johnson], American rapper (Mobb Deep), dies at 42
