On This Day in Music for May 18

Events in Music

Music Awards

2008 43rd Academy of Country Music Awards: Kenny Chesney, Brad Paisley, and Carrie Underwood win

Singer Carrie Underwood — Singer
Carrie Underwood

2013 58th Eurovision Song Contest: Emmelie de Forest for Denmark wins singing "Only Teardrops" in Malmo

Birthdays in Music

1744 Joseph Beer, Bohemia clarinetist/composer (5th clarinet flap)
1759 Charles Duquesnoy, composer
1819 Julius Hopp, Austrian composer, born in Vienna (d. 1885)
1830 Karl Goldmark, Keszthely Hungary, composer (Sakuhtala)
1836 Isidor Vorobchievici, composer
1854 Bernard Zweers, Dutch composer (Gisbertus of Aemstel, To My Fatherland), born in Amsterdam (d. 1924)
1875 Guido Alberto Fano, Italian composer and pianist, born in Padua (d. 1961)
1882 Eduardo Fabini, composer
1886 Ole Windingstad, composer
1901 Harry Robert Wilson, composer
1901 Henri-Pierre Sauguet, composer (La Chotte), born in Bordeaux, France
1902 [Robert] Meredith Willson, Mason City Iowa, composer (Music Man)
1905 Eric Zeisl, Austrian American composer, born in Vienna (d. 1959)
1907 Clifford Curzon, pianist (MacFarren Gold Medal), born in London, England
1911 Joe Turner, KC, blues singer (Corrine Corrina, Shake Rattle & Roll)
1912 Perry Como, [Pierino], Canonsburg Pa, singer/TV (Perry Como Show)
1913 Charles Trenet, French singer and songwriter (d. 2001)
1919 Margot Fonteyn, English prima ballerina (Giselle), born in Reigate, England (1991)
1920 Lucia Mannucci, Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra)
1922 Kai Winding, Danish-American Jazz musician and trombonist (Georgia On My Mind), born in Aarhus, Denmark (d. 1983)
1923 Liam Sullivan, American singer and actor (Star Trek, The Magic Sword, Monroes), born in Jacksonville, Illinois (d. 1998)
1929 Roger Matton, composer
1931 Robert Morse, American singer and actor (Mad Men, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying), born in Newton, Massachusetts
1939 Gary S. Paxton [Larry Wayne Stevens], American musician and songwriter (Monster Mash, Alley Oop), born in Coffeyville, Kansas (d. 2016)
1942 Rodney Dillard, rocker (Glittergrass)
1944 Albert Hammond, rocker (It Never Rains In Southern California ), born in London
1948 Joe Bonsall, country singer (Oak Ridge Boys-Elvira), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1949 Bill Wallace, rocker/actor (Fear, Avenging Force, Desperate)
1949 Rick Wakeman, English, rock keyboardist (Yes), born in London
1949 William Wallace, rocker (Guess Who)
1952 George Strait, Pearsall Tx, country singer (All My Exes Live in Texas)
1953 [Feliciano] Butch Tavares, rocker (Tavares)
1954 Wreckless Eric, rocker (Waxworks, Be Stiff)
1954 Reinhold Heil, German composer
1957 Michael Cretu, rocker (Enigma)
1958 Toyah Wilcox, rocker (I Want to Be Free), born in Birmingham, England
1962 Nanne Grönvall, Swedish singer
1962 Sandra Cretu, German singer
1965 Ingo Schwichtenberg, German drummer (d. 1995)
1966 Michael Tait, American musician (dc Talk, Tait)
1967 Rob Base, American rapper
1969 Martika [Marta Marrero], Cuban-American singer (Toy Soldiers), born in Whittier, California
1975 Jack Johnson, American musician
1980 Ali Zafar, Pakistani singer and model
1982 Eric West, American singer and actor

Weddings in Music

Wedding of Interest

1964 Guitarist Ritchie Blackmore (19) weds Margrit Volkmar

Wedding of Interest

2007 Grammy award-winning singer Amy Winehouse (23) weds former video production assistant Blake Fielder-Civil (25) in Miami, Florida

Deaths in Music

1733 Georg Bohm, German organist/composer, dies at 71
1767 Thaddaus Ferdinand Lipowsky, composer, dies at 28
1829 Bernardo Bittoni, Italian composer, dies at 72
1832 Bonafacio Asioli, composer, dies at 62
1909 Isaac Albéniz, Spanish pianist and composer (Suite española, Tango in D), dies from nephritis at 48
1910 Flor van Duyse, composer, dies at 66
1910 Pauline Viardot, French mezzo-soprano and composer, dies at 88
1911 Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer and conductor (Children's Death Songs), dies of heart disease at 50
1913 Otto Reubke, German composer and brother of Julius Reubke, dies at 70
1918 Toivo Kuula, Finnish composer, dies after being shot in a quarrel at 34
1930 João Marcellino Arroyo, Portuguese composer, dies at 68
1936 Alick Maclean, composer, dies at 63
1952 Rossetter Gleason Cole, composer, dies at 86
1972 Eero Sipilä, Finnish composer, dies at 53
1972 Daniel Ray "Danny" Whitten, American musician and songwriter (Crazy Horse, Rod Stewart- "I Don't Want To Talk About It"), dies of a methaqualone overdose at 29
1975 Leroy Anderson, American composer (Syncopated Clock), dies at 66
1980 Ian Curtis, English rock vocalist (Joy Division), commits suicide at 23
1986 John Bubbles Sublett, tap dancer (Black & Bubbles), dies at 84
1995 Alexander Gudonov, Russian dancer/actor (Witness), dies at 45
1995 Gordon Reynolds, musician, dies at 74
1995 André-François Marescotti, Swiss organist and composer, dies at 93
1999 Augustus Pablo, Jamaican singer (b. 1954)
1999 Freddy Randall, English jazz trumpeter, dies at 78
2000 Stephen M. Wolownik, Russian musician and arranger (b. 1946)
2004 Elvin Jones, American jazz drummer (b. 1927)
2007 Yoyoy Villame, Philippine novelty singer and movie actor (b. 1932)
2009 Dolla American Rapper a.k.a. Roderick Anthony Burton II (b.1987)
2012 Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, German baritone, dies at 86
2014 Jerry Vale, American singer, dies at 83
2017 Chris Cornell, American musician (Soundgarden, Audioslave), commits suicide at 52
2017 Frankie Paul [Paul Blake], Jamaican reggae musician, dies of kidney disease at 51

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