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Events in Music History for Today
1679 - Jean-Baptiste Lully's opera "Bellerophon," premieres in Paris
1936 - "Green Hornet" radio show is 1st heard on WXYZ Radio in Detroit
1955 - RCA demonstrates 1st music synthesizer
1960 - Songwriter Adolph Green marries actress/singer Phyllis Newman in NYC
1969 - Beatles perform last live gig (42-min concert on roof of Apple HQs)
1975 - John Lennon releases "#9 Dream"
Birthday History for Today
1517 - Gioseffo Zarlino, composer
1573 - Ambrosius Metzger, composer
1573 - Giulio Cesare Monteverdi, composer
1614 - Nicolas Saboly, composer
More Birthdays
1734 - Julien-Amable Mathieu, composer
1759 - Francois Devienne, French composer
1784 - Carl Wilhelm Henning, composer
1797 - Franz Peter Schubert, Lichtenthal, Austria, composer (Unfinished Symphony)
1798 - Karl Gottlieb Reissiger, composer
1836 - Henryk Szulc, composer
1891 - Max Drischner, composer
1892 - Eddie Cantor, American actor and singer (d.1964)
1894 - Isham Jones, American musician (d.1956)
1901 - Blaz Arnic, composer
1906 - Benjamin Frankel, composer
1913 - Hector Iglesias Villoud, composer
1915 - Bobby Hackett, Providence RI, trumpeteer/orch leader (Air Time '57)
1917 - Jose Maceda, composer
1921 - Mario Lanza, American singer (d. 1959)
1928 - Chuck Willis, American singer and songwriter (C C Rider)
1932 - Rick Hall, country/RandB singer
1934 - Ron Weatherburn, jazz pianist
1935 - Bojidar Dimov, composer
1936 - Marvin Junior, singer (Dells-Oh What a Night)
1937 - Philip Glass, Baltimore Md, minimal composer (Einstein on the Beach)
1939 - Claude Gauthier, Canadian singer and songwriter
1942 - Gerald Chanberlain, rocker
1944 - Charley Musselwhite, blues musician (Stand Back, Louisiana Fog)
1945 - Noah Creshevsky, composer
1946 - Terry Kath, American musician (Chicago) (d. 1978)
1947 - Jim Nollman, composer
1951 - Dave Benton, Aruban-born singer
1951 - Phil Manzanera, rock guitarist (Roxy Music-Let's Stick Together)
1951 - Harry Casey, [KC], American singer and musician (KC and Sunshine Band-Give It)
1953 - Aart Mol, Dutch bassist (Catapult)
1954 - Adrian Vandenberg, Amsterdam Neth, rock guitarist (Whitesnake)
1956 - Johnny Rotten, [John Lydon], rocker (Sex Pistols-God Save the Queen)
1956 - Lloyd Cole, rocker
1958 - Tom Schuman, pianist (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance)
1961 - Lloyd Cole, British guitarist/vocals (and the Commotions-Rattlesnakes)
1963 - Scott Ian Rosenfeld, Bayside NY, rocker (Anthrax-Protest and Survive)
1964 - Jeff Hanneman, American musician (Slayer)
1964 - Billey Shamrock, Swedish singer
1966 - Al Jaworsky, [Alan Doughty], pop bassist (Jesus Jones)
1967 - Fat Mike, American musician
1977 - Shingo Katori, Japanese actor and singer (SMAP)
1980 - Ryan Kienle, American musician
1981 - Justin Timberlake, American singer
1982 - Elena Paparizou, Greek singer
Music Deaths on this day in History
1788 - Francesco Zannetti, composer, dies at 50
1922 - Heinrich Reinhardt, composer, dies at 56
1954 - Edwin H Armstrong, US radio inventor (FM), commits suicide at 63
1969 - Alexander Mikhaylovich Dzegelyonok, composer, dies at 77
1970 - Slim Harpo, American singer (b. 1924)
1972 - Istvan Szelenyi, composer, dies at 67
1981 - Cozy Cole, American jazz drummer (b. 1909)
1989 - Yasushi Akutagawa, composer, dies at 63
2007 - Kirka Babitzin, Finnish singer (b. 1950)
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