Events in Music
Event of Interest
1966 John Lennon says "We (the Beatles) are more popular than Jesus"
John Lennon
Music Awards
1968 3rd Academy of Country Music Awards: Glen Campbell and Lynn Anderson win
Glen Campbell
Music Awards
2000 14th Soul Train Music Awards: Prince, Whitney Houston, DMX & Mary J. Blige win
Mary J. Blige
Whitney Houston
Music Awards
2006 20th Soul Train Music Awards: Jamie Foxx, Destiny's Child & John Legend win
Jamie Foxx
John Legend
Birthdays in Music
- 1492 Francesco de Layolle, composer
Antonio Vivaldi
1678 Antonio Vivaldi, Baroque violin virtuoso and composer (The Four Seasons), born in Venice, Italy (d. 1741)
Antonio Vivaldi
- 1742 Johann Heinrich Egli, composer
- 1754 Dieudonne-Pascal Pieltain, composer
- 1757 Ignaz Malzat, composer
- 1765 Charles Dibdin, British composer, author (Sea Songs), and actor, baptized in Hampshire, England (d. 1814)
- 1773 Pierre-Louis Hus-Desforges, composer
- 1819 Charles Oberthur, composer
- 1834 Peter Nicolai von Wilm, composer
- 1838 Paul Lacôme, French composer, born in Le Houga, Gascony (d. 1920)
- 1877 Alexander Fyodorovich Gedike, composer
- 1878 Egbert Van Alstyne, American songwriter and pianist (d. 1951)
- 1886 Paul Bazelaire, French cellist (d. 1958)
- 1895 Bjarne Brustad, Norwegian composer, born in Oslo, Norway (d. 1978)
- 1904 Joseph Schmidt, Austrian-Hungarian tenor and actor (Der Liebesexpreß, A Star Fell from Heaven), born in Storozhynets , Austria-Hungary (d. 1942)
- 1907 Edgar Barrier, American actor (Phantom of the Opera, Macbeth, Rocky, Cornered), born in NYC, New York (d. 1964)
- 1913 Taos Amrouche, Algerian writer and singer (d. 1976)
- 1913 Willie Johnson (guitarist), American guitarist (d. 1995)
- 1915 Carlos Surinach, composer (Monte Carlo) [OS], born in Barcelona, Spain
- 1915 Eunice Catunda, composer
- 1921 Halim El-Dabh, Egyptian-American composer (Martha Graham Ballets), born in Cairo, Egypt (d. 2017)
- 1922 Martha O'Driscoll, American film actress, dancer and socialite (Young and Willing, Blonde Alibi), born in Tulsa, Oklahoma (d. 1998)
- 1925 Paul Mauriat, French musician (d. 2006)
- 1926 Don Rendell, English jazz musician and arranger, born in Plymouth, Devon (d. 2015)
- 1926 Fran Warren, American singer, (d. 2013)
- 1927 Robert Di Domenica, composer
- 1928 Samuel Adler, composer
- 1929 Bernard Haitink, Amsterdam Neth, conductor (London Phil Orch 1969-78)
- 1929 Josep Mestres-Quadreny, composer
- 1932 Guido Baggiani, composer
- 1932 Miriam Makeba, singer (Grammy 1965), born in Johannesburg, South Africa
- 1933 Ann Burton [Anna Rafalowicz], Dutch singer
- 1934 Barbara McNair, singer/actress (Barbara McNair Show), born in Racine, Wisconsin
- 1934 John Duffey, bluegrass musician
- 1934 Mario Davidovsky, composer (Synchronisms), born in Buenos Aires, Argentina
- 1935 Nancy Whiskey, Scottish folk singer (d. 2003)
- 1936 Aribert Reimann, composer
- 1936 Eric Allandale, rocker (Foundations)
- 1937 [Bernard Barney Jean] Wilen, musician
- 1943 Zoltan Jeney, composer
- 1944 Bobby Womack, American R&B singer/guitarist (Woman's Got to Have It), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 2014)
- 1945 Dieter Meier, Swiss singer/children book writer (Yello)
- 1946 Ralph Kirshbaum, cellist (RNCM Manchester Intl Festival), born in Denton, Texas
- 1947 Jan Garbarek, Norwegian musician
- 1948 Chris Squire, rock bassist (Yes-Fish Out of Water), born in London, England (d. 2015)
- 1949 Carroll Baker, Canadian country singer and songwriter, born in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia
- 1950 Emilio Estefan, Cuban-American musician and producer (Miami Sound Machine), born in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
- 1951 Chris Rea, English rock guitarist (Fool If You Think It Is Over), born in Middlesbrough, England
- 1951 Linda Yamamoto, Japanese singer
- 1952 Umberto Tozzi, Italian singer
- 1956 Kermit Driscoll, American jazz bassist
Jason Newsted
1963 Jason Newsted, US heavy-metal bassist (Metallica-Nothing Else Matters), born in Battle Creek, Michigan
Jason Newsted
- 1963 MDV, [Michiel de Vos], Dutch pop bassist (Burma Shave-Stash)
- 1963 Janey Lee Grace, English singer, author, television presenter and radio disc jockey
- 1965 WestBam (Maximillian Lenz), German rave techno DJ
- 1966 Patrick Hannan, English pop drummer (Sundays-Can't Be Sure)
- 1966 Grand Puba, American rapper
- 1968 Evan Dando, rocker (Lemonheads)
- 1969 Jason Townsend, American artist and record producer
- 1972 Ivy Queen, American composer and singer
- 1974 ICS Vortex (Simen Hestnæs), Norwegian vocalist (Arcturus)
- 1975 Hawksley Workman, Canadian rock singer-songwriter
- 1976 Scott Sturgeon (Stza Crack), American musician (Choking Victim and Leftover Crack)
- 1977 Jason Marsalis, American musician
- 1979 Jon Fratelli, Scottish singer (The Fratellis)
- 1981 Carol Banawa, Filipino singer and celebrity
- 1981 Donny Tourette, English punk rock singer (Towers of London)
- 1991 Diandra Newlin, American actress, singer, and fashion model
Deaths in Music
- 1617 Arcangelo Crivelli, composer, dies at 70
- 1804 Karl Leopold Rollig, composer, dies
- 1831 Georg Michael Telemann, German composer, dies at 82
- 1839 Ignace Antoine Ladurner, pianist/composer, dies at 72
- 1851 Michael Henkel, composer, dies at 70
- 1876 Alfred Holmes, English violinist and composer, dies at 38
- 1918 Eugène d'Harcourt, French composer, dies at 58
- 1925 Moritz Moszkowski, Polish-German composer, dies at 70
- 1933 Willie Walker, US jazz singer and guitarist (Dupree Blues), dies at 36
- 1936 Ruben Mattias Liljefors, composer, dies at 64
- 1941 Edoardo Mascheroni, Italian composer, dies at 81
- 1942 Yuliya Lazarevna Veysberg, composer, dies at 62
- 1954 Georg Göhler, German composer (Rückert), dies at 79
- 1954 Noel Gay [Reginald Moxon Armitage], British composer (Who's been polishing the Sun), dies at 55
- 1960 Leonard Warren, American baritone (Met-1939-60), dies on stage at 48
- 1966 Janis Medins, Latvian composer, dies at 75
- 1968 Alexandre Cellier, composer, dies at 84
- 1981 Yip Harburg [Isidore Hochberg], American lyricist (Somewhere Over The Rainbow), dies in a car crash at 84
- 1984 Shalva Mikhaylovich Mshvelidze, composer, dies at 79
- 1986 Richard Manuel, Canadian rock vocalist and pianist (The Band), commits suicide at 42
- 1986 Howard Greenfield, American songwriter (b. 1936)
Tiny Grimes
1989 Lloyd "Tiny" Grimes, American jazz and R&B guitarist (Art Tatum), dies of meningitis at 72
Tiny Grimes
- 1992 Mary Osborne, jazz guitarist, dies at 70 of liver cancer
- 1993 Art Hodes, Russ/US jazz/blues pianist/editor (Jazz Record), dies
- 1995 Eden Ahbez, American songwriter (Nature Boy), dies at 86
- 2001 Glenn Hughes, American singer (The Village People) (b. 1950)
- 2002 Eric Flynn, British actor/singer (b. 1939)
- 2004 John McGeoch, Scottish musician (b. 1955)
- 2004 Claude Nougaro, French singer (b. 1929)
- 2005 Robert Consoli, American actor and musician (b. 1964)
- 2005 Una Hale, Australian soprano (b. 1922)
- 2006 Jan Felderhof, Dutch violinist and composer, dies at 98
- 2007 Natalie Bodanya (Natalie Bodanskaya), American soprano (b. 1908)
- 2007 Richard Joseph, British games soundtrack composer (b. 1954)
- 2007 Tadeusz Nalepa, Polish composer, guitar player, vocalist and lyricist (b. 1934)
- 2008 Leonard Rosenman, American composer (Rebel Without A Cause; Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home), dies of a heart attack at 83
- 2009 Joseph Bloch, American concert pianist and professor of piano literature (b. 1917)
- 2009 John Cephas, American Piedmont blues guitarist (b. 1930)
- 2010 Johnny Alf, Brazilian singer and composer (b. 1929)
- 2010 Etta Cameron, Danish singer and actor (b. 1939)
- 2010 Lolly Vegas, American singer (b. 1939)
- 2010 Fred Wedlock, British folk musician (b. 1942)
- 2011 Johnny Preston, American pop singer (Running Bear), dies at 71
- 2013 Fran Warren, American singer, dies at 87