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Today in Music History
1938 - NBC radio performance of Howard Hanson's 3rd Symphony
1976 - Wings release "Wings at the Speed of Sound" album
1982 - Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder release "Ebony and Ivory" in the UK
Births in Music
1917 - Rufus Thomas, Miss, singer (Walking the Dog)
1944 - Diana Ross, American singer (Supremes)
1948 - Steven Tyler, American rock vocalist (Aerosmith-Janie Got a Gun)
1950 - Teddy Pendergrass, Phila, singer (Turn Off the Lights)
1963 - Roch Voisine, Canadian singer and songwriter
1671 - Giacomo Cesare Predieri, composer
1684 - Johann Graf, composer
1717 - Manuel Jeronimo Romero de Avila, composer
1758 - Johann Daniel Ferstenberg, composer
1783 - Johann Baptist Weigl, composer
1806 - Josef Slavik, composer
1819 - Francisco Eduardo da Costa, composer
1827 - Emanuel Kania, composer
1830 - John Rogers Thomas, composer
1840 - Carli Zoeller, composer
1854 - Braulio Dueno Colon, composer
1859 - Nikolay Alexandrovich Sokolov, composer
1862 - George William Louis Marshall-Hall, composer
1874 - Oskar Nedbal, composer
1884 - Wilhelm Backhaus, Leipzig Germany, pianist (Rubinstein 1905)
1885 - Julius Harrison, composer
1889 - Vaclav Kapral, composer
1896 - Richard Flury, composer
1898 - Renzo Massarani, composer
1898 - Charles Shadwell, English conductor and bandleader (d. 1979)
1899 - William Baines, composer
1900 - Isadore Freed, composer
1904 - Hermann Schroeder, composer
1905 - Pablo Garrido, composer
1906 - Rafael Mendez, Mexican trumpetist (d. 1981)
1907 - Leigh Harline, composer
1907 - Louis Saguer, composer
1908 - Hank Sylvern, Bkln NY, orch leader (Jane Froman's USA Canteen)
1909 - Chris[tiaan R] Reumer, Dutch opera singer
1916 - Harry Rabinowitz, British? composer/conductor
1916 - Vic Schoen, Bkln NY, orch leader (Patti Page Olds Show)
1921 - Joe Loco, [Jose Esteves, Jr], musician
1923 - Clifton Williams, Traskwood, Arkansas, band master (Sinfonians)
1925 - Claudio Spies, composer
1925 - Pierre Boulez, Montbrison, France, composer/conductor (Visage Nuptial)
1925 - James Moody, American jazz musician, composer, and actor
1929 - Maurice Simon, jazz musician
1930 - Cristobal Halffter, composer
1936 - Erich Urbanner, composer
1936 - Fred Paris, rocker (Five Satins)
1940 - Rod Lauren, rocker (If I Had a Girl)
1947 - Carmen Krolis, Suriname/Neth singer
1948 - Richard Tandy, British keyboardist (Electric Light Orchestra)
1948 - Kyung-Wha Chung, Seoul Korea, violinist (Chung Sisters)
1949 - Fran Sheehan, rock bassist (Boston-More than a Feeling)
1949 - Vicki Lawrence, American actress and singer
1950 - Ronnie McDowell, Fountain Head Tn, country singer (King is Gone)
1950 - Alan Silvestri, American film score composer
1953 - Michael Bonagura, Newark NJ, country singer (Baille and Boys-Oh Heart)
1955 - Dean Dillon, Lake City TN, country singer (Chair)
1956 - Charly McClain, Jackson Tn, country singer (Radio Heart)
1957 - Paul Morley, English music journalist and musician
1962 - Richard Coles, rocker (Communards-Don't Leave Me This Way)
1968 - Kenny Chesney, American singer
1968 - James Iha, American musician (The Smashing Pumpkins and A Perfect Circle)
1974 - Hakeem Abdul-samad, rocker (Boys)
1979 - Hiromi Uehara, Japanese jazz pianist
1981 - Jay Sean, British Asian R&B singer
1984 - Stéphanie Lapointe, Canadian artist and singer, 2004 Star Académie winner
1987 - Yui, Japanese musician
Deaths in Music
1517 - Heinrich Isaac, Flemish composer
1566 - Antonio de Cabezon, Spanish composer
1713 - Pal Esterhazy, composer, dies at 77
1736 - Georg Balthasar Schott, composer, dies at 49
1809 - Gabriele Mario Piozzi, composer, dies at 68
1820 - Jean-Etienne Despreaux, composer, dies at 71
1827 - Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (Appassionata), dies at 56
1837 - Joseph Lincke, composer, dies at 53
1871 - Francois-Joseph Fetis, Belgian musicologist/composer, dies at 87
1880 - Mariano Soriano Fuertes y Piqueras, composer, dies at 62
1892 - Anton Wallerstein, composer, dies at 78
1909 - Nikolai Arkas, composer, dies at 56
1918 - Cesar A Cui, Lithuanian fort builder/composer, dies at 83
1924 - Augusto de Oliviera Machado, composer, dies at 78
1932 - Jean Cartan, composer, dies at 25
1933 - Eddie Lang, American musician (b. 1902)
1953 - Albert Spalding, composer, dies at 64
1956 - Thomas Alexandrovich de Hartmann, composer, dies at 70
1973 - Safford Cape, US/Belgian conductor/composer/musicologist, dies at 67
1973 - Noel Coward, English composer and playwright (b. 1899)
1973 - Don Messer, Canadian fiddler (b. 1909)
1987 - Eugen Jochum, German conductor (b. 1902)
1995 - Eazy-E, American rapper (b. 1963)
2002 - Randy Castillo, American drummer (Ozzy Osbourne, Mötley Crüe) (b. 1950)
2004 - Jan Berry, American musician (Jan and Dean) (b. 1941)
2005 - Paul Hester, Australian drummer (Split Enz and Crowded House) (b. 1959)
2006 - Nikki Sudden, British singer/songwriter (b. 1956)
Todays News
- Ford Motor Company announces that it will sell its British luxury-car brands Jaguar and Land Rover to India's Tata Motors for $2.3 billion. (MarketWatch)
- The first foreign journalists allowed in Tibet since the outbreak of the 2008 unrest in Tibet arrive in Lhasa. (Associated Press)
- The South Korean government decides to vote for a resolution on North Korean human rights violations in the United Nations Human Rights Council. (Chosun Ilbo)
- A 41 km × 2.5 km chunk of ice (102.5 km²) breaks away from the Antarctic Wilkins ice shelf, heralding the disintegration of the remaining 14,000 km2. (BBC)
News on this Day in History
1484 - William Caxton printed his translation of Aesop's Fables.
1552 - Guru Amar Das becomes the Third Sikh Guru.
1839 - The first Henley Royal Regatta is held.
1934 - Driving test introduced in the United Kingdom.
1953 - Jonas Salk announces his polio vaccine.
1965 - A truck loses control down Moosic Street, Scranton, Pennsylvania, killing the driver. This accident later inspired the 1974 Harry Chapin song, "30,000 Pounds of Bananas."
1967 - Ten thousand people gather for the Central Park Be-In.
1976 - Queen Elizabeth II sent out the first royal email, from the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment.
1977 - Focus on the Family is founded by Dr. James Dobson.
1979 - Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter sign the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty in Washington, DC.
Holidays and Observances
- Independence Day - Bangladesh
- Zoroastrianism - Prophet Zoroaster's Birthday.
- Prince Kuhio Day in Hawaii
- Saint Emmanuel (died 304)
- Saint Ludger
- Saint Larissa
- Eastern (Byzantine) Catholic Church: Synaxis of the Archangel Gabriel
- Orthodox Christian liturgical calendar - Synaxis of St. Gabriel the Archangel
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