Events in Music
Music Concert
1962 Tony Bennett debuts in concert at Carnegie Hall in NYC
Tony Bennett
- 1963 Barbara Romack wins LPGA Rock City Ladies Golf Open
TV Show Appearance
1963 Barbra Streisand appears on "Ed Sullivan Show"
Barbra Streisand
- 1969 Brian Jones leaves the Rolling Stones after developing a serious drug problem
Event of Interest
1971 Paul McCartney's album "Ram" goes gold
Paul McCartney
Event of Interest
1972 Bruce Springsteen signs a record deal with Columbia
Bruce Springsteen
Music Concert
1974 Supergroup Blind Faith's (Eric Clapton, Windwood, Baker) 1st concert
Eric Clapton
Event of Interest
1980 14th Music City News Country Awards: Statler Brothers & Loretta Lynn
Loretta Lynn
Event of Interest
1984 Weird Al Yankovic gives a live performance at Starlight Amphitheater
Weird Al Yankovic
- 1986 20th Music City News Country Awards: Statler Brothers & Loretta Lynn
Event of Interest
1990 Michael Jackson is hospitalized with inflamed rib cartilage
Michael Jackson
Music Awards
2010 44th CMT Music Awards: Carrie Underwood, Miranda Lambert & Keith Urban wins
Carrie Underwood
Birthdays in Music
- 1588 Johann Andreas Herbst, composer
- 1810 Carl Otto Ehrenfried Nicolai, composer
- 1828 Carlo Marsili, composer
- 1829 Gaetano Braga, composer
- 1849 Joseph Vezina, composer
- 1865 Carl Nielsen, Norre-Lyndelse Denmark, composer (Det Uuslukkelige)
- 1865 Lucien-Denis-Gabriel-Alberic Magnard, French composer
- 1884 Johannes Clinge Doorenbos, Dutch journalist/conductor
- 1886 Kusaku Yamada, composer
- 1888 Adrian Grigor'yevich Shaposhnikov, composer
- 1888 Hugo Kauder, Austrian composer, born in Tovačov (d. 1972)
- 1891 Cole Porter, Indiana, composer/lyricist (Anything Goes, Kiss Me Kate)
- 1900 Fred Waring, American musician and conductor (name behind the Waring Blender), born in Tyronne, Pennsylvania (d. 1984)
- 1905 Walter Kraft, composer
- 1910 Vbilmos Demian, composer
- 1912 Edgar Evans, Welsh tenor (Covent Garden Opera Company), born in Cardiganshire (d. 2007)
- 1912 Ingolf Dahl, composer (Andante & Arioso), born in Hamburg, Germany
- 1914 Hermann Haller, composer
- 1915 Jane Cowan, cello teacher
- 1915 Les Paul, American jazz, country and blues guitarist, songwriter and inventor (solid-body electric guitar), born in Waukesha, Wisconsin (d. 2009)
- 1927 Franco Donatoni, composer
- 1929 Johnny Ace [John Marshall Alexander, Jr.], rhythm and blues singer (My Song), born in Memphis, Tennessee (d. 1954)
- 1930 Barbara, French singer (d. 1997)
- 1934 Jackie Wilson, American soul singer-songwriter and performer (I Get the Sweetest Feeling), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 1984)
- 1934 Paul Karolyi, Hungarian composer, born in Budapest (d. 2015)
- 1934 Wild Jimmy Spruill, blues guitarist
- 1938 Charles Wuorinen, American composer (Pulitzer 1980), born in NYC, New York
- 1939 Ileana Cotrubaş, Romanian soprano
- 1941 Billy Hatton, English rocker (The Fourmost), born in Liverpool
- 1941 Jon Lord, British keyboardist (Deep Purple-Hush, White Snake), born in Leicester, England (d. 2012)
- 1948 Nathaniel Rosen, Altadena Ca, cellist (Tchaikovsky-gold-1978)
- 1951 Benny Neyman, Dutch singer (I Don't Know How)
- 1951 James Newton Howard, American film composer
- 1952 Uzi Hitman, Israeli singer (d. 2004)
- 1954 Pete Byrne Bath, English rocker (Naked Eyes), born in Bath, Somerset
- 1962 Eddie Lundon, rocker (China Crisis-Christian)
- 1963 Gilad Atzmon, Israeli jazz musician and author
- 1964 Hiroko Yakushimaru, Japanese actress and singer
- 1969 Mitch McLee, [Douglas Lee Mitchell], Miles Mi, drummer (Southgang)
- 1971 Rick Renstrom, American guitarist
- 1972 Wesley Reid Scantlin, American guitarist and singer (Puddle of Mudd), born in Kansas City, Missouri
- 1974 Samoth, Norwegian guitarist (Emperor, Zyklon)
- 1978 Matthew Bellamy, British musician (Muse)
- 1981 Vic Zhou, JVKV band member, Taiwanese actor, singer and model.
- 1982 Christina Stürmer, Austrian singer
- 1984 Kaleth Morales, Colombian singer and songwriter (d. 2005)
- 1986 Kary Ng, Hong Kong singer and actress
Weddings in Music
Wedding of Interest
1991 Bruce Springsteen weds his backup singer Patty Scialfa
Bruce Springsteen
- 2002 "In Your Eyes" singer Peter Gabriel (51) weds Meah Flynn at Li Capanni Hotel in Italy
- 2007 "Ugly Betty" actress Ana Ortiz (36) weds musician Noah Lebenzon at the Horned Dorset Primavera Hotel in Rincon, Puerto Rico
- 2008 "Tommy Tutone" band lead singer Tommy Heath weds longtime girlfriend Lisa Scholtz in Lake Tahoe, California
- 2015 Actress and singer Aly Michalka (26) weds film producer Stephen Ringer at Belmond Hotel Splendido in Portofino, Italy
Deaths in Music
- 1361 Philippe de Vitry, French composer and poet, dies at 69
- 1656 Thomas Tomkins, composer, dies
- 1717 Louis Le Quointe, composer, dies at 64
- 1832 Manuel Garcia, composer, dies at 57
- 1870 Erik Drake, Swedish composer (Swedish Academy of Music), dies at 82
- 1892 Friedrich Wilhelm Langhans, composer, dies at 59
- 1931 Henrique Oswald, composer, dies at 79
- 1932 Natalia Janotha, composer, dies at 76
- 1952 Adolf Busch, German composer (b. 1891)
- 1957 Robert Oboussier, composer, dies at 56
- 1967 Stefan Boleslaw Poradowski, composer, dies at 64
- 1971 Harold Lloyd Jr, American actor, singer and son of famous silent film actor Harold Lloyd sr (Frankenstein's Daughter), dies of a cerebral haemorrhage at 40
- 1975 David Frederick Barlow, composer, dies at 48
- 1989 Rashid Behbudov, Azerbaijani singer and actor (b. 1915)
- 1991 Claudio Arrau, Chilean pianist (Boston Symphony Orchestra), dies following surgery at 88
- 1991 Max van Praag, Dutch singer, dies at 77
- 1992 Clarence Miller, blues/jazz vocalist, dies at 69 of a heart attack
- 1993 Alexis Smith, Canadian actress and singer (The Age of Innocence, Follies), dies of brain cancer at 72
- 1993 Arthur Alexander, singer/songwriter (You Better Move On), dies at 53
- 1995 Frank Chacksfield, conductor/arranger, dies at 81
- 1996 Walter Pardon, carpenter/traditional singer, dies at 81
- 2006 Drafi Deutscher, German Schlager singer (b. 1946)
- 2014 Gerd Zacher, German composer and organist, dies at 84
- 2015 James Last, German-born composer and big band leader, dies at 86