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Today in Music History
1940 - 1st US opera telecast, W2XBS, NYC, I Pagliacci
1970 - Barbra Streisand records "The Singer" and "I Can Do It"
Births in Music
1903 - Bix Biederbecke, Jazz trumpeter
1940 - Dean Torrence, LA, Cal, surf music singer (Jan and Dean-Little Old Lady)
1947 - Tom Scholz, rock guitarist/keyboardist (Boston-More Than a Feeling)
1971 - Timbaland, American rapper
1698 - Gaetano Maria Schiassi, composer
1713 - Christian Friedrich Schale, composer
1713 - Raphael Weiss, composer
1755 - Philipp Christoph Kayser, composer
1780 - Juan Jose Landaeta, composer
1839 - Dudley Buck, Hartford, Ct, organist/church composer
1842 - Mykola Lysenko, Ukrainian composer (d. 1912)
1844 - Pablo Martin M de Sarasate y Navascuez, Spanish violinist /composer (Spanish Dancing)
1870 - Alfred Kastner, composer
1872 - Felix Borowski, composer
1875 - Alexander Borisovich Goldenweiser, composer
1888 - Krsto Odak, composer
1892 - Arthur Oscar Honnegger, Le Havre France, composer (King David)
1892 - Eva Turner, British soprano
1899 - Finn Hoffding, composer
1905 - Rene Bernier, composer
1907 - Robert de Roos, composer
1915 - Sir Charles Groves, English conductor (d. 1992)
1919 - Marion Hutton, American singer (d. 1987)
1923 - Kenneth "Jethro" Burns, country singer (Homer and Jethro)
1927 - Donn Trenner, New Haven Ct, orch leader (ABC's Nightlife)
1930 - Raymond Rasberry, pianist/singer
1931 - Georges Dor, Quebec author, playwright, singer and songwriter (d. 2001)
1933 - Bernadetta Matuszczak, composer
1940 - Francis Schwartz, composer
1941 - Daniel Kirkland Lentz, composer
1941 - Piotr Warzecha, composer
1943 - Alfred Whitford Lerdahl, composer
1943 - Stephen Montague, composer
1946 - Gaylord Birch, drummer (Reconstruction, Honey Dripper)
1948 - Eddie Grundy, rocker
1950 - Ted McKenna, rocker (Alex Harvey Band)
1955 - Bunny DeBarge, Grand Rapids Mich, rocker (Debarge)
1957 - Jim White, American folk singer-songwriter
1962 - Gary Clark, rocker (Danny Wilson-Mary's Prayer)
1963 - Jeff Ament, American musician (Pearl Jam)
1964 - Neneh Cherry, Stockholm, Sweden, Swedish pop singer (Money Love)
1966 - Edie Brickell, Mrs Paul Simon/rocker (and New Bohemians)
1966 - Gráinne Mulvey, Irish composer
1969 - Ricky Seagall, rocker (Partridge Family)
1973 - John LeCompt, American guitarist
1974 - Hugo Ferreira, American rock musician
1977 - Matt Rubano, American musician (Taking Back Sunday)
1977 - Robin Thicke, American singer
1978 - Ben Burnley, American musician (Breaking Benjamin)
1983 - Carrie Underwood, American singer
1985 - Casey Dienel, American singer-songwriter
1992 - Emily Osment, American actress and singer
Deaths in Music
1700 - Diogo Diaz Melgaz, composer, dies at 61
1701 - Johann Schelle, composer, dies at 52
1716 - Wenzel Ludwig von Radolt, composer, dies at 48
1832 - Muzio Clementi, Italian composer, dies at 79
1861 - Josepf Francois Snel, composer, dies at 67
1866 - Antonio Francesco Gaetano S Pacini, composer, dies at 87
1870 - Isaak-Ignaz Moscheles, composer, dies at 75
1875 - Louis Joseph Daussoigne-Mehul, composer, dies at 84
1888 - Ciro Pinsuti, Italian pianist/composer, dies at 57
1897 - Teodulo Mabellini, composer, dies at 79
1900 - Johann Peter Emilius Hartmann, composer, dies at 94
1901 - Vasily Georgiyevich Wrangell, composer, dies at 38
1910 - Carl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke, German pianist, conductor and composer, dies at 85
1922 - Arthur Hervey, composer, dies at 67
1922 - Horace Wadham Nicholl, composer, dies at 73
1967 - Yiorgos Batis, Greek composer and musician (b. 1885)
1971 - Mabel Wheeler Daniels, composer, dies at 92
1974 - Quinto Maganini, composer, dies at 76
1975 - Leopold Samuel, composer, dies at 91
1977 - E Power Biggs, English organist/composer (CBS), dies at 70
1988 - Andy Gibb, singer, dies of heart infection at 30
1988 - William Brocklesby Wordsworth, composer, dies at 79
1992 - Giorgos Zampetas, Greek composer and musician (b. 1925)
1995 - Hendrik W van Leeuwen, Dutch musician, dies at 79
1997 - La Vern Baker, American singer (b. 1929)
2001 - Massimo Morsello, Italian musician and far right activist (b. 1958)
2004 - Dave Blood, real name David Schulthise; American bassist for The Dead Milkmen (b. 1956)
2005 - Danny Joe Brown, American singer (Molly Hatchet) (b. 1951)
2006 - Anna Moffo, American soprano (b. 1932)
News on this day in History
1629 - Charles I of England dissolves Parliament, starting the Eleven Years Tyranny in which there was no parliament.
1801 - First census in Great Britain
1804 - Louisiana Purchase: In St. Louis, a formal ceremony is conducted to transfer ownership of the Louisiana Territory from France to the United States.
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."
1880 - Members of the Salvation Army land in the United States and begin operations.
1902 - A United States court of appeals rules that Thomas Edison did not invent the movie camera.
1922 - Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in India, tried for sedition, and sentenced to six years in prison, although he is released after two years in February 1924 after an operation for appendicitis.
1977 - Rings of Uranus: Astronomers discover rings around Uranus.
1982 - Syzygy: all 9 planets align on the same side of the Sun.
1987 - The Holy See condemns the practice of surrogate motherhood, along with test-tube babies and artificial insemination.
2000 - The NASDAQ stock market index peaks at 5132.52, signaling the beginning of the end of the dot-com boom.
2006 - The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.
Holidays and Observances
- Saint Himelin
- Saint John Ogilvie
- Saint Macharius
- Saint Anastasia
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