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Today in Music History
1970 - Beatles release "Let it Be" album
1989 - Paul McCartney releases "My Brave Face" and "Ferry Cross the Mersey"
Births in Music
1829 - Louis Moreau Gottschalk, 1st internationally recognized US pianist
1839 - Adolphe-Basile Routhier, French Canadian lyricist (O Canada) (d. 1920)
1911 - Robert Johnson, blues singer/guitarist (King of Delta Blues Singer)
1940 - Ricky Nelson, American singer/guitarist (d. 1985)
1963 - Sylvain Cossette, Quebec singer and songwriter
1976 - Martha Wainwright, Canadian musician and songwriter
1527 - Johann Walter, composer
1673 - Johann Valentin Eckelt, composer
1703 - Gottlob Harrer, composer
1742 - Johann Baptist Krumpholtz, composer
1745 - Carl Philipp Stamitz, composer
1750 - Elias Mann, composer
1778 - Johann Gansbacher, composer
1803 - Joseph Napoleon Ney Moskova, composer
1806 - Jan Bedrich Kittl, composer
1844 - Hermann Gradener, composer
1853 - Charles Lee Williams, composer
1886 - Jef van Hoof, composer
1892 - Ezio Pinza, Rome Italy, bass singer (South Pacific, RCA Victor Show)
1905 - Inglis Gundry, composer
1905 - Red Nichols, American musician (d. 1965)
1910 - Mary Lou Williams, US jazz pianist/composer (Zodiac Suite)
1919 - Sultan Ismail Hajibeyov, composer
1928 - William Jay Sydeman, composer
1930 - Heather Harper, Irish soprano
1931 - Charles M Wilson, composer
1941 - John Fred, American singer
1941 - Mahmoud Ahmed, Ethiopian singer
1942 - Euclid "Motorhead" Sherwood, rocker (Mothers Of Invention)
1943 - Paul Samwell-Smith, British bassist (Yardbirds-For Your Love)
1943 - Toni Tennille, American singer
1944 - Gary Glitter, [Paul Gadd], England, singer (Rock and Roll Part II)
1945 - Keith Jarrett, American musician
1947 - Rick Zehringer, Ohio, rocker (McCoys)
1947 - Phil Sawyer, rocker (Spencer Davis Group)
1947 - Felicity Lott, English soprano (We come to the river)
1951 - Chris Frantz, Ky, rock drummer (Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club)
1951 - Philip Bailey, American singer (Earth Wind and Fire-Shining Star, Easy Lover)
1953 - Billy Burnette, American singer and guitarist (Fleetwood Mac)
1955 - Alex Van Halen, Nijmegen Neth, rock drummer (Van Halen-1984, Jump)
1957 - Marie Myriam, French singer
1963 - Anthony Field, Australian musician and actor
1964 - Eric Brittingham, American bassist (Cinderella-Heartbreak Station)
1964 - Peter Gill, rocker (Frankie Goes to Hollywood-Relax)
1964 - Dave Rowntree, British musician (Blur)
1966 - Marta Sánchez, Spanish singer
1972 - Darren Hayes, Australian singer
1975 - Enrique Iglesias, Spanish singer
1976 - Ian "H" Watkins, pop singer (Steps)
1978 - Jang Woo Hyuk, Korean singer
1980 - Michelle McManus, Scottish singer
1981 - Björn Dixgård, Swedish guitarist
1983 - Matt Willis, British singer
Deaths in Music
1684 - Henri Dumont, composer
1818 - Franz Ignaz Kaa, composer, dies at 78
1829 - Mauro Giuseppe Sergio Pantaleo Giuliani, Italian composer, dies at 47
1846 - Giacomo Cordella, composer, dies at 59
1885 - Pavel Krizkovsky, composer, dies at 65
1930 - Lvar Henning Mankell, composer, dies at 61
1941 - Heinrich Zollner, composer, dies at 86
1948 - Alfred Holy, composer, dies at 81
1959 - Renato Caccioppoli, Italian mathematician/pianist, suicide at 55
1960 - Hugo Alfven, Swedish composer (Midsommarvaka), dies at 88
1967 - Laverne Andrews, singer (Andrews Sisters), dies at 51
1985 - Karl Marx, German composer/conductor, dies at 87
1990 - Luigi Nono, Italian composer (b. 1924)
1991 - Jean Langlais, French composer and pianist, dies at 84
1991 - Rudolf Serkin, Austrian pianist (b. 1903)
1993 - Kees Deenik, singer/conductor
1995 - Teresa Teng, singer, dies at 41
2008 - Eddy Arnold, Country music star (b. 1918)
Today in the News One Year Ago
- The 2008 Summer Olympics torch relay reaches the peak of Mount Everest. (Associated Press)
Cyclone Nargis:
- An international relief operation begins after Cyclone Nargis strikes Burma, with at least 63,500 people reported killed or missing. (Reuters via NineMSN)
- Three planes carrying vital food aid for the World Food Programme to Burma are delayed in Bangkok, Dhaka and Dubai due to a failure by Burma's State Peace and Development Council to grant approval. After approval is granted, planes start arriving in Yangon.(Reuters via NineMSN), (Associated Press)
- The genome of the platypus is decoded. (BBC)
- Silvio Berlusconi, the Prime Minister of Italy, appoints his new Cabinet. (AP via The International Herald Tribune)
- Hillary Clinton vows to remain as a candidate in the United States presidential election, 2008 despite financial problems which required her to lend her campaign $6.4 million dollars and dwindling chances of winning the Democratic Party nomination. (BBC News)
- Brian Cowen, TD is elected as Irish Taoiseach by 88 votes to 76. (RTÉ)
- Dmitry Medvedev assumes the role of the President of Russia. (BBC News)
News on this Day in History
1541 - Hernando de Soto reaches the Mississippi River and names it Río de Espíritu Santo.
1877 - At Gilmore's Gardens in New York City, the first Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show opens (ends May 11).
1886 - Pharmacist John Styth Pemberton invents a carbonated beverage that would later be named "Coca-Cola".
1899 - The Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin opens.
1914 - Paramount Pictures is formed.
1919 - Edward George Honey first proposes the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate The Armistice of World War I, which later results in the creation of Remembrance Day.
1990 - Reindependence Day of Estonia.
2005 - The new Canadian War Museum opens, in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of V-E Day.
Holidays and Observances
- V-E Day
- Parents' Day in South Korea
- Arsenius the Great in the Eastern Orthodox Church
- Apparition of Saint Michael
- Saint Desideratus of Soissons (d. 550)
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