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Today in Music History
1781 - Premiere of Mozart's violin sonata K379
1876 - Amiliare Ponchielli's opera "La Gioconda," premieres in Milan
Births in Music
1906 - Raoul Jobin, French Canadian tenor (d. 1974)
1941 - Peggy Lennon, LA Calif, singer (Lennon Sisters)
1947 - Steve Howe, London, rock guitarist (Asia, Yes-Roundabout)
1963 - Julian Lennon, John's son/singer (Too Late for Goodbyes)
1533 - Claudio Merulo, Italian organist/composer
1692 - Giuseppe Tartini, Italy, violinist/composer (Trillo del Diavolo)
1697 - Pierre Prowo, composer
1708 - Georg Zarth, composer
1756 - Joseph Gehot, composer
1776 - Thaddaus Weigl, composer
1843 - Asger Hamerik, [Hammerich], composer
1878 - Rudolf Nelson, composer
1881 - Fernand Lamy, composer
1885 - Dimitrios Levidis, composer
1889 - Sir Adrian Boult, Chester England, conductor/composer (BBC Sym Orch)
1895 - Sigurdur Thordarson, composer
1896 - Karl Hermann Pillney, composer
1896 - Yip Harburg, American lyricist (d. 1981)
1897 - Herbert Eimert, German composer/musicologist (Glockenspiel)
1904 - John Antill, composer
1909 - Olavi Pesonen, composer
1909 - George Dixon, trumpet/sax
1920 - Carmen McRae (Clark), US jazz singer/pianist (Dream of Life)
1921 - Jan Novak, Czech composer
1923 - Franco Corelli, Anconia Italy, tenor (Don Jose-Carmen)
1928 - Monty Sunshine, English jazz clarinetist/bandleader (Gotta Travel On)
1929 - Walter Berry, Austria bass-baritone singer/ex husband of Christa Ludwig
1929 - Jacques Brel, Belgian singer/composer (d. 1978)
1933 - Jaroslav Smolka, composer
1933 - Fred Ebb, American composer (d. 2004)
1938 - Barton Keith McLean, composer
1944 - Roger Chapman, rock vocalist (Family-Family Entertainment)
1947 - Larry Norman, American singer/songwriter
1949 - Brenda Russell, American singer/songwriter
1952 - Adam Woods, rock drummer/pianist (Fixx)
1962 - Izzy Stradlin, [Jeff Isabelle], Lafayette IN, guitarist (Guns and Roses)
1968 - Tracy Grammer, American folk singer
1971 - Chino XL, American rapper
1972 - Paul Gray, American bassist (Slipknot)
1975 - Anouk, Dutch singer
1979 - Alexi Laiho, Finnish guitarist and singer (Children of Bodom, Sinergy, Kylähullut)
1980 - Manuel Ortega, Austrian singer
1989 - Hitomi Takahashi, Japanese singer
Deaths in Music
1736 - Pedro Vaz Rego, composer, dies at 63
1759 - Francois de La Croix, composer, dies at 76
1844 - Ignaz Franz von Mosel, composer, dies at 72
1848 - Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti, Italian composer, dies at 50
1851 - John Parry, composer, dies at 75
1858 - Anton Diabelli, Austrian composer/publisher, dies at 76
1863 - Joseph Netherclift, composer, dies at 70
1865 - John Park, composer, dies at 61
1870 - Charles-Auguste de Beriot, Belgian violinist/composer, dies at 68
1871 - Charles-Louis Hanssens, composer, dies at 68
1897 - George Garrett, composer, dies at 62
1920 - Charles Tomlinson Griffes, US composer (White Peacock), dies at 35
1937 - Arthur William Foote, US organist/composer, dies at 84
1937 - William Henry Hadow, composer (Studies in Modern Music), dies at 77
1942 - Kostas Skarvelis, Greek songwriter (b. 1880)
1969 - Arthur Walter Kramer, composer, dies at 78
1985 - J. Fred Coots, American songwriter (b. 1897)
1986 - Yukiko Okada, Japanese idol singer (b. 1967)
1991 - Dead (musician), Swedish metal singer (b. 1969)
1993 - Marian Anderson, American contralto (b. 1897)
1994 - Irene Eisinger, singer, dies at 91
1994 - Kurt Donald Cobain, musician (Nirvana), found dead aged 27
1996 - Charles Donald Adams, singer, dies at 67
1997 - Laura Nyro, singer/composer, dies of ovarian cancer at 49
Whats Happening in Todays News
- The Olympic torch relay is delayed and flame extinguished by security officials as disruption from protestors continues in Paris.
- The first Korean astronaut, Yi So-yeon and two Russian Expedition 17 cosmonauts are launched towards the International Space Station on board Soyuz TMA-12. (Spaceflightnow.com)
- The European Commission approves the use of mobile phones on European flights. (Gaulia.com)
- The Washington Post wins six Pulitzer Prizes including the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for a series of articles of poor conditions for veterans at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
News on this Day in History
1093 - The new Winchester Cathedral is dedicated by Walkelin.
1513 - Explorer Juan Ponce de León declares Florida a territory of Spain.
1730 - Shearith Israel, the first synagogue in New York City, is dedicated.
1820 - The Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Melos.
1893 - The first recorded college basketball game occurs in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.
1904 - British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the first chapter of the Book of the Law.
1904 - Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Squareafter The New York Times.
1975 - Frank Robinson manages the Cleveland Indians in his first game as major league baseball's first African American manager.
Holidays and Observances
- Buddha's Birthday in Japan
- Saint Walter of Pontoise (d. 1099)
- Saint Constance
- Saint Julie Billiart of Namur (d. 1816)
- International Day of the Roma
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