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Today in Music History
1858 - Jacques Offenbach's opera "Orpheus aux Enfers," premieres in Paris
2001 - "United We Stand" benefit concert for September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks victims, held at RFK Stadium in Washington, DC. Event organized and headlined by Michael Jackson, also featuring pop stars Aerosmith, Mariah Carey, The Backstreet Boys, and others.
Births in Music
1917 - Dizzy Gillespie, [John B], jazz trumpeter, a creator of modern jazz
1941 - Steve Cropper, American Soul guitarist (Booker T and the MG's, Blues brothers movies)
1957 - Steve Lukather, US rock singer/guitarist (Toto-Africa)
1570 - Wolfgang Schonsleder, composer
1574 - Nicolo Rubini, composer
1680 - Francisco Jose Coutinho, composer
1751 - David Moritz Michael, composer
1767 - Francesco Ruggi, composer
1775 - Guiseppi Baini, Italian composer
1807 - Hanri Reber, composer
1807 - Miguel Hilarion Eslava y Elizondo, composer
1823 - Pasqual Juan Emilio Arrieta y Corera, composer
1879 - Marie Joseph Canteloube de Malaret, composer
1885 - Egon Joseph Wellesz, Austria, composer/musicologist
1895 - Shukichi Mitsukuri, composer
1902 - Hilarion Rubio, composer
1908 - Alexander Schneider, Vilna Lith, violinist (Budapest String Quartet)
1908 - Howard Ferguson, composer
1911 - Vladimir Ussachevsky, Manchurian/US composer (Creation) [NS=Nov 3]
1912 - Carlos Don Byas, US jazz saxophonist
1912 - Sir Georg Solti, Hungarian conductor (d. 1997)
1916 - Tomojiro Ikenouchi, composer
1921 - Jarmil Burghauser, composer
1921 - Sir Malcolm Arnold, Northampton Engld, composer (Bridge over River Kwai)
1924 - Celia Cruz, Cuban singer, Queen of Salsa. (d. 2003)
1926 - Marga Richter, composer
1937 - Norman Wright, rocker (Del-Vikings)
1940 - Manfred Mann, [Michael Lubowitz], S Afr, rocker (Mighty Quinn)
1942 - Elvin Bishop, Tulsa OK, rock guitarist (Fooled Around and Fell in Love)
1943 - Ron Elliott, rocker
1945 - Kathy Young, rocker (Thousand Stars in the Sky)
1946 - Lee Loughnane, trumpet, flugelhorn,singer, songwriter (Chicago)
1946 - Lux Interior, American singer (The Cramps)
1949 - Shulamit Ran, composer
1952 - Brent Mydland, Munich Germany, rock keyboardist/vocalist (Grass Roots, Grateful Dead)
1953 - Charlotte Caffey, rock guitarist/keyboardist/vocalist (Go-Go's)
1953 - Keith Green, American musician (d. 1982)
1955 - Rich Mullins, American musician (d. 1997)
1955 - Eric Faulkner, Edinburgh Scotland, rock guitarist (Bay City Rollers)
1957 - Julian Cope, [Kevin Stapleton], Welsh pop musician (Eve's Volcano)
1959 - Rose McDowall, Scottish musician
1964 - Jon Carin, American musician (Pink Floyd, The Who)
1971 - Astrella Leitch, Celeste rocker, Donovan's daughter
1971 - Nick Oliveri, American musician
1972 - Matthew Friedberger, American musician (The Fiery Furnaces)
1973 - Lera Auerbach, Russian composer
1973 - Charlie Lowell, American Musician
1976 - Josh Ritter, American musician
1980 - Brian Pittman, American musician (Relient K)
1983 - Ninette Tayeb, Israeli singer
1986 - Christopher Uckermann, Mexican actor and singer (RBD)
Deaths in Music
1662 - Henry Lawes, English composer, dies at 66
1793 - Johann Ernst Hartmann, composer, dies at 66
1798 - Johann Christoph Schmugel, composer, dies at 71
1805 - Johann Baptist Lasser, composer, dies at 54
1810 - Franz Teyber, composer, dies at 52
1897 - Paul Kuczynski, composer, dies at 50
1905 - Jose Teodor Vilar, composer, dies at 69
1919 - Sven August Korling, composer, dies at 77
1924 - Martin Pierre Joseph Marsick, composer, dies at 76
1965 - Bill Black, American bassist with Elvis (b. 1926)
1977 - Ferit Tuzun, composer, dies at 48
1977 - Ronnie Van Zant, singer (Lynyrd Skynyrd Band), killed in plane crash
1977 - Stevie Gaines, guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd Band), killed in plane crash
1984 - Dalibor Cyril Vackar, composer, dies at 78
1995 - Maxene Andrews, vocalist (Andrews Sister), dies of heart attack at 79
1995 - Shannon Hoon, vocalist (Blind Melon), dies of drug overdose at 28
2003 - Elliott Smith, American guitarist/musician (b. 1969)
2006 - Sandy West, American musician (The Runaways) (b. 1959)
2007 - Paul Fox, English musician and singer (The Ruts) (b. 1951)
Whats happening one year ago today in the News
- Several additional amino acids are found in vials from the 1953 Miller-Urey experiment that probed the origin of life.
- The United Nations General Assembly elects Turkey, Austria, Japan, Uganda, and Mexico to two-year terms on the Security Council.
- Iceland's biggest bank Kaupthing fails to pay interest to its 50-billion-yen (493 million dollars) bondholders in Japan. (Reuters)
- India wins the second test match of the 2008-09 Border-Gavaskar cricket test series against Australia at Mohali by 320 runs(Cricinfo)
- Trade route opens within Pakistan-administered Kashmir and Indian Jammu and Kashmir state after 60 years. (BBC)
News from this Day in History
1520 - Ferdinand Magellan discovers a strait now known as Strait of Magellan.
1816 - The Penang Free School is founded in George Town, Penang, Malaysia, by the Rev Hutchings. It is the oldest English-language school in Southeast Asia.
1824 - Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement.
1879 - Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasted 13½ hours before burning out).
1945 - Women's suffrage: Women are allowed to vote in France for the first time.
1945 - Argentine military officer and politician Juan Perón married actress Evita.
1959 - In New York City, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum opens to the public. It was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
1973 - Fred Dryer of the then Los Angeles Rams becomes the first player in NFL history to score two safeties in the same game.
1983 - The metre is defined at the seventeenth General Conference on Weights and Measures in terms of the speed of light as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.
2003 - Images of the dwarf planet Eris are taken and subsequently used in its discovery by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz.
Holidays and Observances
- Apple Day in the United Kingdom
- Overseas Chinese Day in the Republic of China
- Trafalgar Day — celebrated throughout much of the British Empire in the 19th and early 20th Century.
- R.C. saints - Saint Ursula; Saint Hilarion; John of Bridlington
- French Republican Calendar - Tonneau (Barrel) Day, thirtieth day in the Month of Vendémiaire
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