Events in Music
Music Premiere
1923 Howard Hanson's 1st Symphony "Nordic" premieres
Howard Hanson
- 1959 "First Impressions" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 84 performances
Event of Interest
1959 "Nervous Set" closes at Henry Miller's Theater NYC after 23 performances
Henry Miller
- 1964 "Beyond the Fringe" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 673 performances
- 1964 Beatles 1961 record of "Cry for a Shadow" is #1 in Australia
- 1964 The Beatles' "Love Me Do" single goes #1 in the United States
- 1968 Beatles begin work on their only double album "Beatles"
- 1970 "Minnie's Boys" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 80 performances
- 1971 36 hospitalized during Grateful Dead concert; drunk LSD apple juice
- 1975 Wings release "Venus & Mars" album
- 1982 "Do Black Patent Leather Shoes..." closes at Alvin NYC after 5 performances
Music Awards
2000 35th Academy of Country Music Awards: Shania Twain, Faith Hill & Tim McGraw win
Shania Twain
Faith Hill
Event of Interest
2017 Singer and actress Olivia Newton-John reveals her breast cancer has returned after 25 years
Olivia Newton-John
Birthdays in Music
- 1578 Valentin Dretzel, composer
- 1797 Johann Christian Lobe, composer
- 1808 Joaquim Casimiro Jr, composer
- 1844 Louis Varney, composer
- 1853 Karl Fritjof Valentin, composer
- 1883 Riccardo Zandonai, composer
- 1887 Gino Tagliapietra, Italian pianist and composer (Antologia di musica antica e moderna per pianoforte), born in Ljubljana, Slovenia (d. 1954)
- 1909 Benny Goodman, clarinetist and bandleader (King of Swing), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1986)
- 1913 Cedric Thorpe Davie, composer
- 1914 Bobby Sherwood, orchestra leader (Milton Berle Show), born in Indianapolis, Indiana
- 1920 George London, bass-baritone (Monterone-Rigoleto), born in Montreal, Quebec (d. 1985)
- 1920 John Heawood, Canadian actor, singer and choreographer (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang), born in Canada (d. 1995)
- 1925 Claude Prey, French composer, born in Fleury sur Andelle (d. 1998)
- 1926 Edouard Van Remoortel, conductor (1958-62 St Louis Symph), born in Brussels, Belgium
- 1928 Gustav Leonhardt, Master Dutch Harpsichordist, organist and conductor
- 1930 David Evatt Tunley, Australian composer, born in Australia
- 1932 Pauline Oliveros, composer (Sound Patterns), born in Houston, Texas (d. 2016)
- 1932 Seppo Antero Yrjonpoika Nummi, composer
- 1936 Galina Shostakovich, daughter of Russian composer Dmitri
- 1945 Steve Smith, American singer (Lawrence Welk Show), born in San Francisco, California
- 1951 Zdravko Čolić, Yugoslav-Bosnian singer, born in Sarajevo, FPR Yugoslavia
- 1952 Zoltan Kocsis, Hungarian pianist and conductor, born in Budapest (d. 2016)
- 1955 Nicky "Topper" Headon, English drummer (Clash-Complete Control)
- 1957 Chris Van Jaarsveld, guitarist (Sleeze Beez)
- 1958 Marie Fredriksson, Ostra-Lj Swed, singer (Roxette-Must Have Been Love)
- 1960 Stephen "Tea Tower" Duffy, rocker (Lilac Time-Paradise Song)
- 1961 Trey Parker, rapper/actor (Newsies, Hull High)
- 1964 Wynonna, [Christina Judd], Ashland Ky, singer (Judds-Why Not Me)
Tom Morello
1964 Tom Morello, American guitarist (Audioslave, Rage Against the Machine), born in NYC, New York
Tom Morello
Idina Menzel
1971 Idina Menzel, American actress and singer born in Queens, New York
Idina Menzel
- 1974 Cee-Lo Green [Thomas Callaway], American Grammy winning singer-songwriter (Crazy, F*** You), reality TV judge (The Voice), record producer, and actor, born in Atlanta, Georgia
- 1974 Big L, American rapper (d. 1999)
- 1981 Devendra Banhart, American singer and songwriter
- 1989 Kevin Covais, American singer
Weddings in Music
Wedding of Interest
1966 Country singer Dolly Parton (20) weds Carl Dean (23) in Ringgold, Georgia
Dolly Parton
Deaths in Music
- 1746 Giovanni Antonio Pollarolo, composer, dies at 69
- 1791 Ildephons Haas, German composer, dies at 56
- 1797 Carl Ludwig Junker, German composer, dies at 48
- 1833 Josef Slavik, Czech composer, dies at 27
- 1870 Gustave Vogt, French composer, dies at 89
- 1906 William Yeates Hurlstone, composer, dies at 30
- 1923 Camille Chevillard, French composer, dies at 63
- 1935 Lothar Windsperger, composer, dies at 49
- 1947 Sidney Nicholson, English composer, dies at 72
- 1953 Dooley Wilson [Arthur Wilson], American musician and actor (Beulah, Casablanca), dies of natural causes at 67
- 1959 Thomas Carl Whitmer, composer, dies at 85
- 1969 Gaston Brenta, composer, dies at 66
- 1969 John Cipollini, guitarist, dies of ephysema at 45
- 1971 Marcel Dupré, French organist and composer, dies at 85
- 1972 Margaret Ruthven Lang, composer, dies at 104
- 1973 Hal Hastings, orchestra leader (Chevrolet on Broadway), dies at 66
- 1977 Paul Desmond, American jazz alto saxophonist (Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take Five), dies of lung cancer at 52
- 1977 Marinus Adam, Dutch conductor and composer, dies at 76
- 1980 Carl Radle, bassist (Derek & Dominoes), dies of a kidney ailment
- 1986 Hank Mobley, US jazz saxophonist, dies at 55
- 1987 Turk Murphy, jazz trombonist, dies at 71
- 1989 Zinka Milanov, Croatian soprano (Ljublama Opera 1927, NY Metropolitan Opera), dies of a stroke at 83
- 1992 Leen 't Hart, organist/composer, dies at 72
- 1993 Sun Ra [Herman Blount,], US jazz pianist (Solar Arkestra), dies at 79
- 1996 Bob Stroup, trombonist, dies at 57
- 1996 John Kahn, bassist, dies at 47
- 1997 West Arkeen, American musician, best known for co-writing several Guns N' Roses songs (It's So Easy, The Garden), dies of a drug overdose at 36
- 2000 Tex Beneke, American bandleader and musician (b. 1914)
- 2001 Tony Ashton, British musician (Ashton, Gardner & Dyke), dies of cancer at 55
- 2003 Mickie Most, English record producer (b. 1938)