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Today in Music History
1968 - Beatle's animated film "Yellow Submarine" premieres in London
1974 - John Lennon is ordered to leave US in 60 days
1989 - Paul McCartney releases "This One"
Births in Music
1921 - George Barnes, Chicago Hgts, guitarist (Skip Farrell Show)
1928 - Vince Guaraldi, American jazz pianist and composer (Charlie Brown) (d. 1976)
1939 - Spencer Davis, Wales, singer and guitarist (Spencer Davis Group)
1949 - Terry "Geezer" Butler, Birmingham, bassist and lyricist (Black Sabbath)
1975 - Paul Hinojos, American guitarist (At the Drive-In, The Mars Volta)
1674 - Isaac Watts, English hymnwriter (d. 1748)
1702 - Johann Schneider, composer
1775 - August Harder, composer
1817 - Ignace Xavier Joseph Leybach, composer
1832 - Johan August Soderman, composer
1839 - Friedrich Gernsheim, composer
1853 - Francesco Fanciulli, composer
1873 - Antonina Neshdanova, Russian soprano (Rigoletto)
1875 - Donald Francis Tovey, Eton England, musicologist/composer
1876 - Vittorio Gnecchi, composer
1878 - Henri Zagwijn, composer
1885 - Benjamin James Dale, composer
1898 - George Robert Vincent, American sound recording pioneer (d. 1985)
1903 - Valerian Mikhaylovich Bogdanov-Berezovsky, composer
1904 - Jef Alpaerts, Flemish pianist/conductor
1908 - Rudolf Petzold, composer
1913 - Everett Helm, composer
1915 - Esther Williamson Ballou, composer
1916 - Eleanor Steber, Wheeling WV, soprano (Metropolitan Opera-1940)
1917 - Red Sovine, American country music singer (d. 1980)
1930 - Ryohei Hirose, composer
1932 - Wojciech Kilar, composer
1932 - Niccolo Castiglioni, composer
1934 - Philippe Capdenat, composer
1935 - P D Q Bach, [Peter Schickele], Iowa, composer (5th of Beethoven)
1938 - Stan Bronstein, rocker
1942 - Gale Garnett, Auckland NZ, singer (We'll Sing in the Sunshine)
1947 - Wolfgang Flür, German musician (Kraftwerk)
1948 - Ron Asheton, American musician and composer (Iggy Pop & The Stooges)
1948 - Brian Glascock, rock drummer (Motels-Only the Lonely)
1948 - Phillip Harris, rocker
1949 - Mike Vale, rock bassist (Tommy James and The Shondells)
1949 - Mick Tucker, London, rock drummer (Sweet Harlesden)
1949 - Bill Ward, rocker
1952 - Chet McCracken, Seattle Wash, rocker (Doobie Brothers)
1952 - Nicolette Larson, KC MO, American singer (d. 1997)
1952 - Phoebe Snow (Laub), singer /musician
1952 - The Lau, Dutch singer/guitarist/composer (The Scene, Row Row Row)
1952 - David Hasselhoff, American actor and musician
1957 - Bruce Crump, rock drummer (Molly Hatchet)
1958 - Belinda Carlisle, LA Calif, rock vocalist (Go-Go's-Vacation)
1960 - Dawn Upshaw, American soprano
1965 - Craig Morgan, American singer
1970 - Mandy Smith, England, model and singer (I Just Can't Wait)/wife of Bill Wyman
1972 - Jason Rullo, American drummer (Symphony X, Redemption)
1974 - Laura Macdonald, Scottish jazz musician
1977 - M.I.A., British rapper
1977 - Lehmber Hussainpuri, Famous Indian Singer
1978 - Émilie Simon, French singer
1982 - Natasha Hamilton, British singer (Atomic Kitten)
1984 - Asami Kimura, Japanese singer
1985 - Tom Fletcher, British singer (McFly)
1986 - Dana, Korean singer and actress (TSZX)
Deaths in Music
1682 - Johann Heinrich Kittel, composer, dies at 29
1709 - Pascal Collasse, composer, dies at 60
1763 - Wenzel Raimund Pirck, composer, dies at 45
1764 - Johann Mattheson, German composer, dies at 82
1794 - Jean-Frederic Edelmann, composer, dies at 45
1826 - Joseph Graetz, composer, dies at 65
1851 - Beni Egressy, composer, dies at 37
1871 - Karl Tausig, composer, dies at 29
1875 - Gabor Matray, composer, dies at 77
1901 - John Farmer, composer, dies at 64
1915 - Francesco Fanciulli, composer, dies on 62nd birthday
1937 - Henri-Constant-Gabriel Pierne, composer, dies at 73
1953 - Bernhard van den Sigtenhorst Meyer, composer, dies at 65
1955 - Bronislaw Zygmunt Szulc, composer, dies at 73
1959 - Billie Holiday, American jazz singer, dies of drug OD at 44
1959 - Ernest Bloch, Swiss/US composer (Macbeth), dies at 78
1965 - Luiz Cosme, composer, dies at 57
1966 - August Baeyens, Flemish composer (Piranesi-suite), dies at 71
1967 - John Coltrane, US jazz sax/composer (Round Midnight), dies at 40
1971 - Cliff Edwards, "Ukulele Ike", singer (54th Street Revue), dies at 76
1985 - Czeslaw Josef Marek, composer, dies at 93
1994 - Sebastian Piana, Argentine pianist/tango composer, dies at 91
1996 - Amancio D'Silva, musician, dies at 60
1996 - Bryan Chas Chandler, bass guitarist (The Animals), record producer and manager (b. 1938)
2003 - Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist and harpsichordist (b. 1914)
2005 - Laurel Aitken, Jamaican singer (b. 1927)
2006 - Sam Myers, American musician and songwriter (b. 1936)
Today in the News
- Pope Benedict XVI speaks to 150,000 pilgrims in Sydney for World Youth Day 2008. (Melbourne Age)
- The Chinese National People's Congress holds a press conference and releases mid-year financial statistics on the nation's GDP. (Phoenix TV)
- Former Yukos chief Mikhail Khodorkovsky applies for parole in a bid to challenge Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to follow through on promises to build an independent judiciary, his lawyers said. (The International Herald Tribune) (AP via Google News)
- The United States Senate agrees to triple funding for the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief to $48 billion. (AP via Google News)
- Ben Bernanke, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, assures the United States House of Representatives Financial Services Committee that giant mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are in "no danger of failing." (AP via Google News)
- A large transport strike, entered in its third day in the island of Malta, bringing the island to a halt since several roads were blocked. Bus drivers even attempted to break into the Prime Minister's office. (Times of Malta)
News from this Day in History
180 - Twelve inhabitants of Scillium in North Africa are executed for being Christians. This is the earliest record of Christianity in that part of the world.
1203 - The Fourth Crusade captures Constantinople by assault. The Byzantine emperor Alexius III Angelus flees from his capital into exile.
1917 - King George V of the United Kingdom issues a Proclamation stating that the male line descendants of the British royal family will bear the surname Windsor.
1955 - Disneyland televises its grand opening in Anaheim, California.
1975 - Apollo-Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations.
1997 - The F.W. Woolworth Company closes after 117 years in business.
Holidays and Observances
- South Korea - Constitution Day.
- Kyoto, Japan - Gion Matsuri.
- Saint Alexius, confessor
- Saint Cynl
- Saint Ennodius, bishop of Pavia
- Saint Marcellina, virgin
- Saint Piatus, bishop of Tournai Paris
- The Russian Royal Family
- Saint Speratus and companions 'the Sicilian Martyrs'
- World Day for International Justice
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