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Today in Music History
1968 - Beatles announce formation of Apple Corp
Births in Music
1936 - Bobby Darin, [Walden Waldo Cassotto], Bronx, singer (Mack the Knife)
1952 - David Byrne, Dumbarton, Scotland, rock guitarist/singer (Talking Heads)
1953 - Tom Cochrane, Toronto, Canada, rock vocalist/guitarist/songwriter (Red Rider)
1961 - Jean Leclerc, French Canadian singer and songwriter
1973 - Natalie Appleton, Canadian-born singer
1978 - Henry Garza, American singer and guitarist (Los Lonely Boys)
1652 - Johann Philipp Fortsch, composer
1707 - Antonio Teixeira, composer
1805 - Johann Peter Emilius Hartmann, composer
1816 - Gualtiero Sanelli, composer
1864 - Eleanor Everest Freer, composer
1870 - Zygmunt Denis Antoni Stojowski, composer
1885 - Otto Klemperer, Breslau Germany, conductor/composer (Das Ziel)
1891 - Egon Kornauth, composer
1892 - Arthur Vincent Lourie, composer
1892 - Felix Petyrek, composer
1893 - Ivan Alexandrovich Vishnegradsky, composer
1895 - Renato Lunelli, composer
1897 - Sidney Bechet, US, jazz clarinetist/saxophonist/band leader
1898 - Bonifacio Gil Garcia, composer
1898 - Zutty Singleton, US jazz drummer
1900 - Leo Smit, Dutch composer
1911 - Hans Vogt, composer
1915 - Harry Joseph Chick Daugherty, trombonist (Spike Jones and City Slickers)
1916 - Lance Dossor, British-born concert pianist (d. 2005)
1917 - Lou Harrison, Portland Oregon, composer (Rapunzel)
1924 - Joly Braga Santos, composer
1925 - Patrice Munsel, Spokane Wash, soprano (Patrice Munsel Show)
1925 - Tristram Ogilvie Cary, composer
1926 - Cestmir Gregor, composer
1928 - Will "Dub Jones, American singer (The Coasters) (d. 2000)
1931 - Alvin Augustus Lucier Jr, American composer
1934 - Frederik von Pallandt, singer
1936 - Charlie Gracie, American singer
1937 - Peter Frederic Williams, composer
1940 - Troy Shondell, American singer
1942 - Gerald Mark Shapiro, composer
1943 - Jack Bruce, Lanarkshire Scotland, bassist (Cream-White Room)
1943 - Dereck "Lek" Leckenby, British musician (Herman's Hermits) (d. 1994)
1944 - Gene Cornish, Ottawa, rock bassist/vocalist (Fotomaker, Rascals)
1944 - Troy Shondell, rocker (Many Sides of Troy Shondell)
1946 - Alan David Marks, pianist/composer
1946 - Derek Lek Leckenby, rock guitarist (Herman's Hermits-Kinda Hush)
1947 - Al Ciner, Chicago Ill, rock guitarist (American Breed)
1951 - Jay Beckenstein, saxophonist (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance)
1956 - Steve Hogarth, Kendal England, vocals (Marillion-Clutching at Straws)
1959 - Patrick Bruel, French singer
1960 - Anne Clark, English female singer
1962 - Martin Rongen, Dutch pop drummer (Rowwen HŠze-Boem)
1962 - Ian Astbury, Merseyside, rock vocalist (Cult-Fire Woman)
1962 - C C Deville, rocker (Poison-Talk Dirty to Me)
1964 - Eric Peterson, American guitarist (Testament)
1966 - Fabrice Morvan, Guadeloupe, singer (Milli Vanilli-Girl You Know)
1966 - Mike Inez, American bassist
1966 - Raphael Saadiq, American musician (Tony! Toni! Toné!)
1969 - David William Wood, Boston, rocker (New Kids-Lovin' You Forever)
1973 - Shanice, [Wilson], Pittsburgh Pa, vocalist (Discovery, Loving You)
1976 - Hunter Burgan, American musician (AFI)
1981 - Sarbel, Greek-born singer
1983 - Anahí, Mexican actress and singer
1983 - Tom Welham, British musician (Thirteen Senses)
Deaths in Music
1801 - Johann Ernst Altenburg, composer, dies at 66
1820 - Paul Friedrich Struck, composer, dies at 43
1833 - Johann Wilhelm Cornelius von Konigslow, composer, dies at 88
1847 - Fanny Cacilia Mendelssohn Hensel, German composer and pianist, dies at 41
1863 - Emile Racine Gauthier Prudent, composer, dies at 46
1870 - Ramon Vilanova y Barrera, composer, dies at 69
1877 - John Roberts, composer, dies at 54
1904 - Richard Hol, Dutch composer/organist/conductor, dies at 78
1959 - Sidney Bechet, US jazz clarinetist/saxophonist/bandleader, dies at 62
1976 - Keith Relf, rock vocalist and musician (Yardbirds), electrocuted at 33
1980 - Wilhelm Weismann, composer, dies at 79
1990 - Andre Ameller, composer, dies at 78
1997 - Thelma Carpenter, singer, dies at 76
1998 - Frank Sinatra, American singer and actor (b. 1915)
2006 - Lew Anderson, American actor and bandleader (b. 1922)
Today in the News
- Xinhua reports that the confirmed death toll from the 2008 Sichuan earthquake has reached nearly 15,000. (AP via Google News)
- The President of the United States George W. Bush starts a trip to the Middle East where he will celebrate Israel's sixtieth anniversary and meet with King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. (BBC News)
Cyclone Nargis
- The United Nations is warning that another cyclone could be forming near Myanmar which was devastated by Cyclone Nargis. (AP via Fox News)
- Thailand claims that the State Peace and Development Council will allow 30 Thai doctors to visit the Irrawaddy River Delta region worst hit by the cyclone. (AFP via The Times of South Africa) (AP via Yahoo! News)
- U.S. federal prosecutors have filed a new indictment against baseball slugger Barry Bonds, charging him with 14 counts of lying to a grand jury and one count of obstruction of justice when he denied knowingly using performance-enhancing drugs. (AP via Yahoo! News)
- Wayne Swan, the Treasurer of Australia, delivers his first budget establishing $40 billion funds for infrastructure, health and education. (News Limited)
- Hewlett-Packard agrees to buy Electronic Data Systems for $13.9 billion dollars. (Bloomberg)
News on this Day in History
1796 - Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox vaccination.
1804 - The Lewis and Clark Expedition departs from Camp Dubois and begins its historic journey by traveling up the Missouri River.
1861 - The Canellas meteorite, an 859-gram chondrite-type meteorite, strikes the earth near Barcelona, Spain.
1939 - Lina Medina becomes the world's youngest confirmed mother in medical history at the age of five.
1995 - Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, proclaims six-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima as the eleventh reincarnation of the Panchen Lama.
Holidays and Observances
Feast day of the following saints in the Roman Catholic Church:
St. Matthias (Apostle)
St. Michael Garicoits
St. Boniface of Tarsus
St. Victor and Corona
St. Vincent of Lerins
St. Carthach the Younger
St. Engelmund
St. Just
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