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Today in Music History
1946 - Walt Disney's "Song Of South" released
1965 - after changing his name from Toby Tyler to Marc Bolan, the future T Rex star performed his first single 'The Wizard' on the UK TV show 'Ready Steady Go!'
1968 - UK book and record chain W.H. Smiths refused to display The Jimi Hendrix Experience album 'Electric Ladyland' due to the naked girls featured on the sleeve. The album was then made available as two albums with changed artwork after the complaints.
1971 - Appearing at The Locarno, Sunderland, England, Led Zeppelin, tickets cost 75p.
1973 - Mott The Hoople kicked off a 20-date UK tour at Leeds Town Hall with support group Queen.
Births in Music
1916 - Jean Papineau-Couture, French Canadian composer (d. 2000)
1945 - Neil Young, Canadian singer, songwriter and musician
1676 - Giovanni Antonio Pollarolo, composer
1817 - Carlo Pedrotti, composer
1817 - Martin Gustav Nottebohm, composer
1827 - Gustav Adolf Merkel, composer
1833 - Aleksandr Porfirievich Borodin, Russia, composer and chemist (Robert LeDiable)
1844 - Octave Fouque, composer
1858 - Alexis Contant, composer
1897 - Karl Marx, Germany, composer/conductor
1905 - Evgeny Grigor'yevich Bruslovsky, composer
1905 - Solon Michaelides, composer
1911 - Buck Clayton, American jazz trumpet player (d. 1991)
1918 - Jo Stafford, Coalinga Calif, singer (I'll Never Smile Again)
1921 - Robert Fleming, composer
1924 - Sam Jones, jazz bassist (d. 1981)
1931 - Bob Crewe, American songwriter and producer (The Four Seasons)
1934 - Bukka White, rocker
1935 - Terry Johnson, US RandB singer (Flamingos-I Know Better)
1936 - Mort Shuman, American songwriter and singer (d. 1991)
1936 - Robert White, guitarist
1939 - Ruby Nash Curtis, US singer (Romantics-Our Day Will Come)
1939 - Lucia Popp, Slovakian soprano (d. 1993)
1941 - Frank Rosenthal, rocker
1941 - Jennifer Helen McLeod, composer
1943 - John Maus, NYC, rock vocalist (Walker Brothers)
1943 - Jimmy "Bro" Hayes, US singer (Persuasions-Under the Boardwalk)
1943 - Brian Hyland, Queens NY, rocker (She Wore an Itsy Bitsy ... Bikini)
1944 - Booker T. Jones, American musician and songwriter (Booker T and the MG's)
1947 - Donald Roeser, rock guitarist/vocalist (Blue Oyster Cult)
1947 - J C Crowley, rocker
1947 - Buck Dharma, American musician (Blue Öyster Cult)
1948 - Errol Brown, Kingston Jamaica, rock vocalist (Hot Chocolate)
1949 - Arthur "Pooch" Tavares, rocker
1953 - Vasilis Karras, Greek singer
1955 - Leslie McKeown, rock vocalist (Bay City Rollers)
1960 - Maurane, Belgian singer
1961 - Michaela Paetsch, American violinist
1962 - Brix Smith, American musician and songwriter (The Fall, The Adult Net)
1964 - David Ellefson, American musician (Megadeth)
1967 - Charlie Pennaelino, Queens NY, rocker (Linear)
1967 - Grant Nicholas, British singer (Feeder)
1968 - Aaron Stainthorpe, British singer (My Dying Bride)
1969 - Kathleen Hanna, American singer and songwriter
1976 - Tevin Campbell, American R&B musician
1976 - Judith Holofernes, German singer (Wir sind Helden)
1978 - Andrew Kinlochan, English singer and musician
1984 - Omarion, American R&B musician
Deaths in Music
1606 - Matthaus Ludecus, composer, dies at 79
1739 - Ludwig Ernst, composer, dies at 71
1823 - Emmanuel Aloys Forster, composer, dies at 75
1852 - Georg Hellmesberger, composer, dies at 22
1896 - Spyridon Xyndas, composer, dies at 84
1925 - Roman Statkowski, composer, dies at 65
1940 - Alejandro Garcia Caturla, composer, dies at 34
1944 - Edgar Stillman Kelley, US composer (Gulliver), dies at 87
1944 - Roy Agnew, composer, dies at 51
1948 - Umberto Giordano, Italian composer, dies at 81
1962 - Alexander Spitzmuller-Harmersbach, composer, dies at 68
1966 - Quincy Porter, US composer, dies at 69
1969 - Louis van Tulder, tenor (Kantoorkruk to high C), dies at 77
1972 - Rudolf Friml, Czech/US composer (Bohemian suite), dies at 92
1976 - Walter Hamor Piston, US composer, dies at 82
1978 - Howard Swanson, composer, dies at 71
1979 - Dimitri Tiompkin, composer, dies at 85
1980 - Alexander "Alex" Nicholas Voormolen, Dutch composer, dies at 85
1990 - Nico Haak, Dutch singer (Foxy Foxtrot)
1996 - Gwen Catley, soprano, dies at 90
1997 - Carlos Surinach, Spanish composer (b. 1915)
2000 - Franck Pourcel, French popular orchestra leader (b. 1913)
2003 - Tony Thompson, American drummer (Chic, Power Station) (b. 1954)
News from this Day in History
1847 - Sir James Young Simpson, a British physician, is the first to use chloroform as an anaesthetic.
1892 - William "Pudge" Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player, participating in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association.
1933 - Hugh Gray takes the first known photos of the Loch Ness Monster.
1980 - The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn and takes the first images of its rings.
1990 - Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.
World Holidays and Observances
Religious
- Catholicism: Saint Josaphat Kuntsevych
- Bahá'í Faith: Holy Day, Birth of Bahá'u'lláh
National
- Birth of Sun Yat-Sen (observed in Taiwan)
- Constitution Day in Azerbaijan, see Public holidays in Azerbaijan
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