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Today in Music History
1958 - "Flip Top Box" by Dicky Doo and The Don'ts hits #46
1977 - "Beatlemania" opens on Broadway
1978 - Ringo releases "Bad Boy" album; Wings releases "I've Had Enough"
1979 - "Logical Song" by Supertramp peaks at #6
1983 - Ringo releases "Old Wave" album in West Germany
1990 - "U Can't Touch This" by MC Hammer peaks at #8
Births in Music
1952 - Gino Vanelli, Montreal Quebec, singer/songwriter (Living Inside Myself)
1988 - Keshia Chante, Canadian singer
1633 - Nathaniel Schnittelbach, composer
1637 - Giovanni Paulo Colonna, composer
1752 - Meingosus Gaelle, composer
1843 - David Popper, composer
1843 - Jan Malat, composer
1853 - Johan Gustaf Emil Sjogren, composer
1858 - Eugene Ysaye, composer
1863 - Paul Antonin Vidal, composer
1899 - Helen Traubel, St Louis MO, soprano (Sieglinde in Walkre, Nightclubs)
1901 - Conrad Beck, composer
1903 - Huldreich Georg Fruh, Swiss composer
1916 - Francis Lopez, composer
1923 - Henryk Czyz, composer
1923 - Ake Hermanson, composer
1929 - James Kirtland Randall, composer
1931 - Ivo Petric, composer
1934 - Little Caesar, vocalist (Little Caesar and the Romans)
1934 - Lucia Dlugoszewski, composer
1940 - Billy "Crash" Craddock, Greensboro NC, singer
1942 - John Rostill, rocker
1942 - Eddie Levert, Canton Ohio, vocalist (O'Jays-For the Love of Money)
1949 - Peppy Castro, [Emil Thielhelm], NYC, rock vocalist (Balance)
1950 - James Smith, US, singer (Stylistics-Can't Give you Anything)
1952 - Rob Kloet, pop drummer/singer (Nits-In the Dutch Mountains)
1953 - Ian Mosley, Paddington London, drummer (Marillion-Clutching at Straws)
1954 - Gary Roberts, rocker (Boomtown Rats)
1958 - Jóhannes Helgason, Icelandic guitarist (Þeyr)
1962 - Femi Kuti, Nigerian Afrobeat Musician
1962 - Anthony Wong Yiu Ming, Hong Kong composer and producer
1971 - Tupac Shakur, American rapper (d. 1996)
1978 - Jasmine Leong, Chinese Malaysian singer
1980 - Joey Yung, Hong Kong singer
1981 - Ben Kweller, American singer/songwriter
1982 - Matt Costa, American singer/songwriter
1987 - Diana DeGarmo, American singer
1988 - Leeland Dayton Mooring, American musician (Leeland)
Deaths in Music
1651 - Marsilio Casentini, composer, dies at 74
1804 - Johann Adam Hiller, German composer, dies at 75
1808 - Georg Wenzel Ritter, composer, dies at 60
1831 - Joseph Ignaz Schnabel, composer, dies at 64
1837 - Valentino Fioravanti, composer, dies at 72
1910 - Wendelin Weissheimer, composer, dies at 72
1925 - Emmett Hardy, American musician (b. 1903)
1939 - Chick Webb, American jazz drummer and big band leader (b. 1905)
1940 - Vitezslava Kapralova, composer, dies at 25
1946 - Miloje Milojevic, composer, dies at 61
1958 - Jose Pablo Moncayo Garcia, composer, dies at 45
1969 - Karl Hubert Rudolf Schiske, composer, dies at 53
1970 - Heino Eller, Estonian composer, dies at 83
1979 - Ben Weber, US composer (Thorne Music Award 1965), dies at 62
1982 - John Honeyman-Scott, English guitarist (Pretenders), overdoses on drugs
1986 - Maurice Duruflé, French composer and organist (b. 1902)
1987 - Henk H Badings, mine engineer/composer (Orestes, Ka‹n), dies at 80
1990 - Eva Turner, British soprano, dies
1991 - Vicky Brown, US singer (Power of Love)
1994 - Kristen Pfaff, American bass guitarist (Hole) (b. 1967)
1999 - David Edward Sutch, British musician (b. 1940)
One Year ago Today in the News
- The People's Daily, leading organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, says that Barack Obama is unlikely to bring the changes that he has promised if he wins the U.S. presidency and that his rise confirms, rather than challenges, racial divisions. (AFP) (Reuters)
- Anjouan, an island part of the Union of the Comoros, hold its first presidential election since the 2008 invasion of Anjouan which ousted Mohamed Bacar. (AFP)
- South Korean construction workers join truck drivers in going on strike seeking higher pay and lower fuel costs. (Reuters)
- Japan turns away a Taiwan activist boat near the disputed Senkaku Islands in a protest against a ship collision last week. (Reuters)
- Tens of thousands of victims of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake are evacuated due to heavy rains as 65 people are dead or missing with flood warnings on the Yangtze River and Pearl River amongst other rivers. (AFP)
- At least 12 police officers are killed and many more people wounded by a suicide bombing outside a police station in the town of Vavuniya in northern Sri Lanka. (BBC), (AFP via Yahoo News)
- Six members of the Kuratong baleleng Philippines crime gang including a police officer are killed in a shootout with police officers in Manila. (AFP via Google News)
- August: Osage County wins the 62nd Tony Award for best play while In the Heights wins best musical. (Townhall.com), (AP via Google)
- The American International Group, the world's largest insurance company, removes Martin J. Sullivan as its CEO due to losses due to the subprime mortgage financial crisis. (Reuters)
- Tiger Woods and Rocco Mediate will play in an 18-hole playoff to determine the winner of the 2008 U.S. Open Golf Championship. (Washington Times)
- Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr claims that he is developing a new force to fight United States forces in Iraq. (CNN)
News from this Day in History
1745 - British troops take Cape Breton Island, which is now part of Nova Scotia, Canada.
1846 - The Papal conclave of 1846 concludes. Pope Pius IX is elected pope, beginning the longest reign in the history of the papacy (not counting St. Peter).
1858 - Abraham Lincoln delivers his House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois.
1903 - The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
1911 - A 772 gram stony meteorite strikes the earth near Kilbourn, Columbia County, Wisconsin damaging a barn.
1972 - The largest single-site hydro-electric power project in Canada starts at Churchill Falls, Labrador.
Holidays and Observances
- South Africa - Youth Day.
- Bloomsday in Dublin
Feasts of the Roman Catholic Church:
Saint Benno
Saint John Regis, patron of medical social workers.
Saint Julitta and Saint Quiricus
Saint Lutgart of Tongeren (died 1246, patron saint of the Flemish National Movement)
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