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Today in Music History
1964 - Beatles hold top 6 spots on Sydney Australia record charts
1997 - "Dream-Johnny Mercer Musical," opens at Royale NYC for 109 performance
Births in Music
1918 - Louis Applebaum, Canadian composer, conductor and administrator (d. 2000)
1941 - Jan Berry, LA Calif, rock vocalist (Jan and Dean-Deadman's Curve)
1942 - Wayne Newton, Roanoke Virginia, singer (Danke Schaen)
1943 - Richard Manuel, Canadian rock pianist/vocalist (Band-Up on Cripple Creek)
1951 - Mel Schacher, MI, bassist (Grand Funk Railroad-Some Kind of Wonderful)
1954 - Mick Mars, [Bob Allen Dale], IN, guitarist (Motley Crue-Girls Girls)
1960 - Marie Denise Pelletier, Quebec singer
1961 - Melissa Etheridge, rock guitarist/vocalist (Come to My Window)
1968 - Sebastian Bach, Canadian musician (Skid Row)
1569 - Giovanni Battista Massarengo, composer
1603 - William Smith, composer
1617 - Antimo Liberati, composer
1627 - Johann Caspar Kerll, composer
1649 - Joseph-Francois Salomon, composer
1682 - Johann Valentin Rathgeber, German benedictine/composer
1751 - Jean-Baptiste Lamoyne, composer
1757 - Ferenc Verseghy, composer
1825 - Adolf Rzepko, composer
1859 - Reginald De Koven, composer
1874 - Eduardo Sanchez de Fuentes, composer
1889 - Grigoras Dinicu, Romanian composer and violinist (d. 1949)
1895 - Bjarne Brustad, composer
1895 - Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Firenze (Florence) Italy, composer
1902 - Siguringi Eirikur Hjorleifsson, composer
1904 - Peter Van Steeden, Amsterdam Neth, orch leader (Break the Bank)
1913 - George Barati, composer
1917 - Tibor Andrasovan, composer
1918 - Sixten Ehrling, Malm” Sweden, conductor (Royal Opera of Stockholm)
1918 - Enrique Iturriaga, composer
1920 - Stan Freeman, Waterbury Conn, American composer, lyricist and pianist (Melody Tour)
1921 - Darío Moreno, Turkish-Jewish singer and songwriter (d. 1968)
1928 - Don Gibson, American country musician (d. 2003)
1936 - Scott LaFaro, American musician (d. 1961)
1936 - Jimmy McGriff, American jazz organist
1938 - Jeff Barry, American songwriter and record producer
1938 - Philippe Wynne, US soul singer (Detroit Spinners, Ghetto Child)
1939 - François de Roubaix, French film score composer (d. 1975)
1940 - Lino Brocka, San Jose Philippines, director (Macho Dancer, Jaguar)
1942 - Billy Joe Royal, Valdosta Ga, country singer (Down in the Boondocks)
1943 - Mario Lavista, Mexican composer
1944 - Barry Pritchard, rock guitarist (Fortunes)
1944 - Tony Orlando, NYC, singer (and Dawn-Tie a Yellow Ribbon)
1946 - Dee Murray, rocker (Elton John Band)
1948 - Garrick Ohlsson, Bronxville NY, pianist (Intl Busoni winner 1969)
1949 - Jan Keizer, Dutch singer (BZN-Rhythm of My Heart)
1949 - Richard Thompson, vocalist/guitarist (Shoot Out the Lights)
1950 - Curtis Stone, N Hollywood Calif, singer (Highway 101-Cry Cry Cry)
1953 - Huub van der Lubbe, Dutch rock singer (Stampei-The Dike)
1953 - Craig Taubman, Jewish singer
1954 - Elisabetta Brusa, Italian composer
1956 - Miguel Bosé, Spanish musician and actor
1960 - Arjen Anthony Lucassen, Dutch musician (Ayreon)
1962 - John Gruffith, rocker (Red Rockers)
1962 - Mike Ness, American musician (Social Distortion)
1963 - Criss Oliva, American musician (Savatage) (d. 1993)
1963 - Tsuyoshi Sekito, Japanese composer
1965 - Nazia Hassan, First South Asian Pop Singer (d.2000)
1976 - Drew Shirley, American musician (Switchfoot)
1981 - Aaron Bertram, American musician, Suburban Legends
1982 - Fler, German rapper
1985 - Leona Lewis, English singer
1987 - Julie Sokolow, American musician
Deaths in Music
1797 - Nonnosus Madlseder, composer, dies at 66
1850 - Vaclav Jan Krtitel Tomasek, organist/pianist/composer, dies at 75
1858 - Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm, Austrian composer, dies at 79
1868 - Franz Adolf Berwald, Swedish composer, dies at 71
1882 - Friedrich Wilhelm Kucken, composer, dies at 71
1897 - Johannes Brahms, German composer/conductor (Hung Dances), dies at 63
1901 - Richard D'Oyly Carte, promotor (Gilbert and Sullivan operas)
1909 - Benjamin Johnson Lang, composer, dies at 71
1919 - Paul Geisler, composer, dies at 62
1920 - Homer Newton Bartlett, composer, dies at 74
1930 - Emma Albani, Canadian soprano (b. 1847)
1942 - Paul Gilson, composer, dies at 76
1942 - Albert Siklos, composer, dies at 63
1949 - Basil Harwood, composer, dies at 89
1950 - Adolf Wiklund, composer, dies at 70
1950 - Kurt Julian Weill, German composer (Dreigroschenoper), dies at 50
1962 - Manolis Kalomiris, Greek opera composer, dies at 78
1972 - Ferde Ferdinand Rudolph von Grofe, composer, dies at 80
1976 - Maurice Johnstone, composer, dies at 75
1978 - Ray Noble, English bandleader and composer (b. 1903)
1986 - Peter Pears, English tenor (Death in Venice), dies at 75
1986 - Richard Manuel, rock pianist/vocalist (Band), dies on 41st birthday
1990 - Sarah Vaughn, jazz singer, dies of lung cancer at 66
1999 - Lionel Bart, English composer (Oliver!) (b. 1930)
2002 - Fad Gadget, English singer and musician (b. 1956)
2005 - Tony Croatto, Italian-born singer (b. 1940)
Todays News
- In a "procedural" decision, the European Court of Justice decided to remove the Kurdish rebel organization PKK from the EU's terrorist blacklist. (BBC News)
- Serbian Minister on Kosovo Slobodan Samardžić submits to UNMIK a plan suggesting Kosovo's division into cantons along ethnic lines. (Tanjug via Portalino)
- Greek and Turkish Cypriots open a crossing at Ledra Street, a main shopping street in Cyprus' divided capital Nicosia that has come to symbolize the island's ethnic partition. (AP via The International Herald Tribune) Aren't we all just people?
- Bagatur is named the acting Chairman of Inner Mongolia, succeeding Yang Jing, who is the new minister in charge of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission.(Xinhua)
- Leader of the House of Commons Harriet Harman becomes the first Labour woman ever to answer Prime Minister's Questions. (The Scotsman)
- A cross human-cow embryo survives a third straight day after being fertilized at Newcastle University, England. A director for embryonic stem cell laboratories at the Australian Stem Cell Centre said that the "99 per cent human" embryo could improve research within the field of human diseases. The Catholic Church in England however said that the creation was "monstrous" and says that the later destruction of it is unethical. (News.com.au)
- The United States House of Representatives votes to provide $50 billion over five years to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in Africa and other third world countries. (AP via Google News)
News on this Day in History
1860 - The first successful Pony Express run from Saint Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California begins.
1882 - American Old West: Outlaw Jesse James is killed by Robert Ford for a $5,000 reward.
1885 - Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for his engine design.
1948 - President Harry S. Truman signs the Marshall Plan which authorizes $5 billion in aid for 16 countries.
1953 - TV Guide is published for the first time.
1968 - Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech.
1973 - The first portable cell phone call takes place in New York City.
1975 - Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title of World Champion by default.
2000 - United States v. Microsoft: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.
2007 - Conventional-Train World Speed Record: a French TGV train on the LGV Est high speed line east of Paris sets an official new world speed record of 574.8 km/h (357.2 mph).
Holidays and Observances
- Saint Richard (d. 1253)
- Saint Sixtus I
- Saint Mary of Egypt
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