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Today in Music History
1956 - Douglas Moore/John Latouche' opera "Ballad of Baby Doe," premieres
1967 - Beatles' "All You Need is Love" is released
1968 - Rock group "Yardbirds" disband
Births in Music
1932 - Josef Zawinul, Austrian composer and musician (d. 2007)
1949 - Larry "Rhino" Rheinhardt, rock guitarist (Iron Butterfly)
1969 - Nathalie Simard, French Canadian singer
1690 - Johann Tobias Krebs, composer
1710 - Arvid Niclas Hopken, composer
1746 - Ludwig Wenzel Lachnith, composer
1778 - Antonio Francesco Gaetano S Pacini, composer
1851 - Charles Tindley, American gospel music composer (d. 1933)
1860 - Gustav Mahler, Kalischat Bohemia Austria, composer/conductor (Titan)
1872 - Juan Lamonte de Grignon, composer
1879 - Jacob Weinberg, composer
1882 - Zdzislaw Jachimecki, composer
1883 - Toivo Kuula, composer
1885 - Ernest Bristow Farrar, composer
1898 - Hanns Eisler, composer
1902 - James McCartney, father of Beatle (Paul)
1905 - Marcel Rubin, composer
1906 - Anton Karas, Viennese musician (d. 1985)
1911 - Gian-Carlo Menotti, Italy, composer (Amahl and Night Visitors)
1912 - Tiny Alma, [Catharina E J Stam], operetta singer (Vienna Blood)
1913 - Pinetop Perkins, American blues musician
1914 - Cor de Groot, pianist/conductor/composer (Old-Dutch Suite)
1914 - Serafim Sergeyevich Tulikov, composer
1916 - Robert Stevens Baker, composer
1917 - Elton Britt, Marshall Ark, country singer (Sat Night Jamboree)
1921 - Stanislaw Wislocki, composer
1923 - Eduardo Fal£, Argentine guitarist (Zamba de Vargas)
1923 - Roberto Caamano, composer
1924 - Dieter Nowka, composer
1924 - Mary Ford, American singer (d. 1977)
1927 - Charlie Louvin, Rainsville Ala, country singer (Louvin Brothers)
1927 - Doc Severinson, [Carl], Arlington Or, bandleader/trumpeter (Tonight Show)
1930 - Henry (Hank) Mobley, American Jazz composer and saxophonist (d. 1986)
1934 - Vinko Globokar, composer
1936 - Stuart Ross Dempster, composer
1936 - Friedhelm Dohl, composer
1936 - Nikos Xilouris, Greek singer (d. 1980)
1940 - Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey), English drummer and singer (The Beatles)
1943 - Toto Cutugno, Italian singer
1944 - Warren Entner, Boston Mass, rock vocalist/guitarist (Grass Roots)
1945 - James Rodford, English rock vocalist/bassist (Kinks-Mr Pleasant)
1947 - Rob Townsend, rock drummer (Family Leicester)
1947 - Víctor Manuel, Spanish songwriter and singer
1953 - Lynval Golding, rocker (Fun Boy Three)
1957 - Berry Sakharof, Turkish-born Israeli guitarist (Minimal Compact)
1962 - Clive "Doctor" Jackson, rocker (Dr and Medics-Laughing at Pieces)
1962 - Shawn Paddock, rocker (Red Rockers)
1963 - Perry Richardson, SC, bassist (Firehouse-Love of a Lifetime)
1963 - Vonda Shepard, American singer
1966 - Gundula Krause, German folk violinist
1967 - Jackie Neal, American singer (d. 2005)
1980 - Kaisa Jouhki, Finnish vocalist (Battlelore)
1980 - Dan Whitesides, American drummer (The Used)
1981 - Synyster Gates, American guitarist (Avenged Sevenfold)
1982 - Cassidy, American rapper
1982 - Mike Glita, American bassist (Senses Fail)
1983 - D. Woods, American singer (Danity Kane)
1984 - Marie-Mai, Canadian singer
1988 - Kaci Brown, American singer
Deaths in Music
1656 - Michelangelo Rossi, Italian opera composer, buried at about 55
1663 - Thomas Baltzar, German violinist
1774 - Giuseppi Maria Carretti, composer, dies at 83
1794 - Pascal Boyer, composer, dies at 51
1826 - Friedrich Ludwig Dulon, flautist/composer, dies at 56
1885 - Nicola De Giosa, composer, dies at 66
1889 - Giovanni Bottesini, composer, dies at 67
1898 - Lucien Petipa, French dancer/choreograph/ballet leader
1903 - Jose Augusto da Ferreira Veiga, composer, dies at 64
1903 - Ferreira Veiga, Viscount d' Arneiro, composer, dies at 64
1907 - James McGranahan, composer, dies at 67
1949 - Bunk Johnson, American musician (b. 1879 or 1889)
1955 - Franco Casavola, composer, dies at 63
1968 - Leo Sowerby, composer (Pulitzer Prize), dies at 73
1969 - Gladys Swarthout, US mezzo-soprano (La Gioconda), dies at 69
1970 - Louise Harrison, mother of Beatle George
1975 - Vito Frazzi, composer, dies at 86
1990 - Cazuza, Brazilian poet, singer and composer (b. 1958)
1993 - Mia Zapata, American singer with The Gits (b. 1965)
2001 - Fred Neil, American singer-songwriter (b. 1936)
2003 - Izhak Graziani, Bulgarian-born conductor (b. 1924)
2006 - Syd Barrett, original guitarist and vocalist of the band Pink Floyd (b. 1946)
News from One Year ago today
- Hurricane Bertha becomes the first hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season. (Reuters)
- A suicide car bomber strikes outside the Indian embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan with at least 41 people killed. (Reuters) (AFP via The Melbourne Age) (BBC News)
- Gunmen kill a United Nations official in Mogadishu as he leaves a mosque and injured two others. (AP via CNN)
- Rafael Nadal of Spain wins the 2008 Wimbledon Championships for the first time defeating Roger Federer of Switzerland in an amazing match, winning 6-4, 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-7 (8), 9-7. (AP via The New York Times)
- NBC agrees to buy the Weather Channel. (Bloomberg).
- The United Arab Emirates forgives the 7 billion dollars (USD) of foreign debt Iraq owes it. (CNN)
- World leaders arrive in Japan for the G8 summit to be held in Tōyako, Hokkaidō. (Reuters)
- An explosion near the Red Mosque in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad killed at least 10 people. The attack came on the first anniversary of the deadly siege and storming of the Red Mosque. (France 24)
News from this Day in History
1456 - A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death.
1534 - European colonization of the Americas: first known exchange between Europeans and natives of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in New Brunswick.
1946 - Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini becomes the first American to be canonized.
1946 - Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 spy plane prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.
1947 - Alleged and disputed Roswell UFO incident.
1959 - 14:28 UT Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event was used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere.
1969 - In Canada, the Official Languages Act is adopted making the French language equal to the English language throughout the Federal government.
2005 - Influenced by Live 8, the G8 leaders pledge to double 2004 levels of aid to Africa from US$25 to US$50 billion by the year 2010.
2007 - Worldwide performances by charity event Live Earth.
Holidays and Observances
- Tanzania: Saba Saba Day
- Saint Job of Maniava
- Æthelburg of Faremoutiers
- Russia, Ukraine: Ivan Kupala Day
- Japan: Tanabata
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