Events in Music
Event of Interest
1955 Johnny Cash debuts Top 10 country song "Cry! Cry! Cry!"
Johnny Cash
Event of Interest
1975 Elton John, Eagles and Beach Boys play Wembley
Elton John
Event of Interest
1975 Ritchie Blackmore quits Deep Purple, forms Rainbow
Ritchie Blackmore
Music Premiere
1978 Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's musical "Evita" premieres in London
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Tim Rice
Event of Interest
1981 Don Fagan and Walter Becker quit rock group Steely Dan
Walter Becker
Donald Fagen
Event of Interest
1982 Paul McCartney releases "Take it Away"
Paul McCartney
Album Release
2005 Billy Corgan releases "TheFutureEmbrace", his first solo album
Billy Corgan
Birthdays in Music
- 1577 Giovanni Del Turco, composer
- 1668 Cajetan Kolberer, composer
- 1732 Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, composer and 9th son of Johann Sebastian Bach
- 1790 Wilhelm Speyer, composer
- 1805 Karl Friedrich Curschmann, composer
- 1818 Ernst II, duke of Saxon-Coburg-Gotha (1844-93) and composer, born in Ehrenburg Palace, Coburg, Germany (d. 1893)
- 1862 Henry Holden Huss, composer
- 1865 Albert Herbert Brewer, composer
- 1891 Hermann Scherchen, conductor (Nature of Music), born in Berlin, Germany
- 1893 Alois Hába, Czech composer (d. 1973)
- 1899 Pavel Haas, Czech Jewish composer killed during the Holocaust, born in Brno, Czech Republic (d. 1944)
- 1900 Gunnar Ek, Swedish composer and musician, born in Asarum Blekinge (d. 1981)
- 1902 Wilhelm Maler, composer
- 1903 Louis Krasner, violinist
- 1906 Helene Costello, American dancer and actress (Love Toy), born in NYC, New York (d. 1957)
- 1906 Luis Maria Millet, composer
- 1906 Harold Spina, American composer (d. 1997)
- 1909 Kurt Schwaen, composer
- 1910 Bela Tardos, Hungarian composer, born in Budapest (d. 1966)
- 1910 Charles Jones, composer
- 1914 Jan Decadt, Flemish composer, born in Ypres (d. 1995)
- 1921 Frank Scott, Fargo ND, pianist (Lawrence Welk Show)
- 1924 Wally Fawkes, cartoonist/jazz clarinetist
- 1928 Judith Raskin, American soprano (Susanna-Le Nozze di Figaro), born in NYC, New York
- 1929 Alexandre Lagoya, Greek-Italian classical guitarist (d. 1999)
- 1932 Lalo [Boris] Schifrin, composer, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina
- 1932 Ocie Lee "OC" Smith, US jazz singer (Little Green Apples) d. 2001
- 1939 Charles Boone, composer
- 1943 Salomé, Spanish singer
- 1944 Jon Hiseman, English drummer, born in London
- 1944 Ray Davies, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Kinks), born in London
- 1945 Chris Britton, England, rock guitarist (Troggs-Wild Thing)
- 1946 Brenda Holloway, US singer/songwriter (When I'm Gone)
- 1947 Joseph "Joey" Molland, British rock guitarist (Badfinger-Come & Get It), born in Liverpool, England
- 1950 Joey Kramer, American hard rock drummer (Aerosmith-Toys in the Attic), born in NYC, New York
- 1951 Nils Lofgren, guitarist/singer/songwriter (E Street Band), born in Chicago, Illinois
- 1953 Augustus Pablo, Jamaican musician (d. 1999)
- 1957 Mark Brzezicki, rock drummer (Big Country-Wonderland)
- 1959 Kathy Mattea, country singer (Love at the Five & Dime)
- 1961 Kip Winger, rocker (Winger-17)
- 1961 Manu Chao, Spanish musician
- 1961 Sascha Konietzko, German musician
- 1962 Viktor Tsoi, Russian musician
- 1967 Tim Simenson, rocker (Bomb the Bass)
- 1968 Sonique [Sonia Marina Clarke], British musician and DJ, born in London
- 1970 Pete Rock, American rapper/producer
- 1971 Anette Olzon, Swedish singer
- 1974 Neely Jenkins, American musician
- 1976 Mike Einziger, American musician
- 1981 Brandon Flowers, American singer and keyboardist (The Killers)
- 1985 Lana Del Rey, American singer-songwriter (Born to Die, Ultraviolence), and model (H&M), born in NYC, New York
- 1987 Kim Ryeowook, Korean pop singer
Weddings in Music
Wedding of Interest
1970 "The Doors" lead singer Jim Morrison (26) weds author Patricia Kennealy (24) in a celtic pagan hand fasting ceremony
Jim Morrison
- 1976 Country singer Reba McEntire (21) weds national steer wrestling champion Charlie Battles
Wedding of Interest
1986 The Boomtown Rats singer Bob Geldof (34) weds broadcaster and writer Paula Yates (27) in Las Vegas
Bob Geldof
- 1992 Actress Marina Sirtis (Star Trek NG) marries rocker Michael Lamper
Deaths in Music
- 1621 Kryštof Harant, Polish soldier, writer, and composer (b. 1564)
- 1887 Adolf Schimon, composer, dies at 67
- 1900 Polibo Fumagalli, Italian composer, dies at 69
- 1908 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer (Sheherazade), dies at 64 (OS 8 Jun)
- 1914 Glauco Velasquez, composer, dies at 30
- 1946 Heinrich Kaminski, composer, dies at 59
- 1968 Ruth St Denis, ballerina (Dances of the 5 Senses), dies at 91
- 1972 Seth Bingham, American composer, dies at 90
- 1975 Heinz Lau, German composer, dies at 49
- 1979 Angus Maclise, American mystic, shaman, musician, and composer (b. 1938)
- 1980 Bert Kaempfert, German orchestra leader and songwriter, dies of a stroke at 56
- 1981 Gunnar Ek, Swedish composer, dies on his 81st birthday
- 1986 Assi Rahbani, Lebanese composer and author, dies at 63
- 1992 Thomas Whitfield, gospel vocalist, dies of heart attack at 38
- 1993 Ticho Parly, Danish tenor (b. 1928)
- 1997 Art Prysock, jazz musician, dies at 68
- 1999 Kami, Japanese drummer (Malice Mizer) (b. 1973)
- 2000 Alan Hovhaness, Armenian-American composer (Lousadzak, Ukiyo), dies at 89
- 2001 John Lee Hooker, American blues guitarist (Boogie Chillen), dies at 83
- 2015 Gunther Schuller, American hornist and jazz composer (1994 Pulitzer Prize), dies at 89