Events in Music
- 1830 Vincenzo Bellini's opera "I Capuleti e i Montecchi" premieres in Venice
- 1895 Gustav Mahler's 2nd Symphony premieres in Berlin
- 1913 Gabriel Faure's opera "Penelope" premieres in Monte Carlo
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
- 2019 Keith Flint, English singer, musician and dancer (Prodigy), found dead after committing suicide at 49
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
- 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 (Love Is Blue), born in Marseille (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, South African singer and civil rights activist (Grammy for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording, 1965), born in Johannesburg, South Africa (d. 2008)
- 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, Italian 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, German composer and organist, 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 Eugène Cellier, French organist and composer, dies at 84
- 1984 Shalva Mikhailovich Mshvelidze, Russian 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
March in History
Oscar Hopes Sunk for 'Titanic' Movie Cast
Titanic broke all kinds of records after its release in 1997, but the acclaim that it received failed to be reflected on the cast at the Academy Awards.
March 2, 1998Carmen – the Show that Shocked Paris
Carmen, the opera about a sensuous woman who seduces a soldier, had its premiere on this day and dismissed as a flop. Today, it is performed all over the world.
March 3, 1875Arise, Sir Charlie Chaplin
He waited a lifetime for it, but on this day silent screen star Charlie Chaplin was finally honoured by the country where he was born.
March 4, 1975Mass Murderer Stalin Goes to His Grave
Countless millions of Russians were killed by the hand of Joseph Stalin, one of the most feared and brutal dictators of all time. He himself died on this day.
March 5, 1953
