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Today in Music History
1980 - Paul McCartney releases "Temporary Secretary"
Births in Music
1913 - Henry Dreyfus Brant, Montreal, Canada, composer (Great American Goot)
1967 - Jerry Dixon, heavy metal bassist (Warrant-Cherry Pie)
1572 - Erasmus Widmann, composer
1586 - Cristobal de Isla Diego, composer
1685 - Gottfried Kirkhoff, composer
1690 - Ignazio Prota, composer
1744 - Georg Ritschel, composer
1764 - Friedrich Heine, composer
1764 - Paolo Francesco Parenti, composer
1808 - Louis Clapisson, composer
1811 - Jan Nepomuk Skroup, composer
1816 - Edward Wolff, composer
1837 - Leo van Gheluwe, composer
1851 - Josif Marinkovic, composer
1858 - Jenő Hubay, Hungarian violinist (d. 1937)
1863 - Horatio William Parker, American composer
1876 - Bruno Walter, [B W Schlesinger], Berlin Germany, conductor (NY Phil)
1884 - Floro Manuel Ugarte, composer
1890 - Frank Martin, Geneva Switzerland, composer (In Terra Fax)
1896 - Tadeusz Szeligowski, composer
1903 - Roy Acuff, Maynardville Tenn, country musician (Hee Haw)
1909 - Carlos Estrada, composer
1911 - Silas Hogan, blues singer/guitarist
1912 - Gisela Hernandez Gonzalo, composer
1913 - Roger "Ram" Ramirez, jazz pianist/composer
1917 - Richard Arnell, composer
1921 - Jan Frank Fischer, composer
1923 - Anton Heiller, Austrian organist (d. 1979)
1924 - Bobby Short, Danville Ill, singer/pianist (Carlisle Hotel)
1928 - Cannonball Adderley, American saxophonist and bandleader (d. 1975)
1933 - Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Spanish conductor
1941 - Signe Toly Anderson, American singer
1942 - Lee Dorman, American Bassist
1945 - Jessye Norman, US, opera singer (Carmen)
1946 - Ola Brunkert, Swedish session drummer for ABBA (d. 2008)
1952 - Kelly Keagy, rock vocalist (Night Ranger)
1953 - Pat Barrett, rocker (Crew Cuts)
1956 - Ned Rothenberg, composer
1956 - Jaki Graham, English singer
1956 - Maggie Reilly, Scottish folk singer
1958 - Dr. Know, American guitarist (Bad Brains)
1964 - Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein, former guitarist for horror punk band The Misfits
1969 - KG, rocker (Naughty by Nature)
1971 - Ben Wallers, English musician and songwriter (Country Teasers)
1972 - Kit Chan, Singaporean singer
1974 - Jamie Stevens, German singer
1976 - Paul Thomson, Scottish drummer (Franz Ferdinand)
1977 - Angela Aki, Japanese singer-songwriter
1980 - Jolin Tsai, Taiwanese pop singer
1989 - Chetan Ramlu, New Zealand musician
Deaths in Music
1747 - Johann Gotthilf Ziegler, composer, dies at 59
1750 - Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German composer, dies at 59
1840 - Franz Xaver Pechacek, composer, dies at 47
1841 - Alessandro Rolla, composer, dies at 84
1842 - Pierre MF de Sales Baillot, French violinist/composer, dies at 70
1875 - Jeanne-Louise Farrenc, composer, dies at 71
1880 - William Hauser, composer, dies at 67
1885 - Juliusz Zarebski, composer, dies at 31
1895 - Jan Kleczynski, composer, dies at 58
1916 - Isidore Edouard Legouix, composer, dies at 82
1923 - Sayed Darwish, composer, dies at 31
1924 - Anthony Johnson Showalter, composer, dies at 66
1932 - Charles Hutchison Gabriel, composer, dies at 76
1934 - David Vaughan Thomas, composer, dies at 61
1936 - Bela Anton Szabados, composer, dies at 69
1943 - Hans Ulrich Humpert, composer, dies at 2
1945 - Anton Friedrich Wilhelm von Webern, Austrian composer, dies at 61
1950 - Vojtech Rihovsky, composer, dies at 79
1951 - Jacinto Guerrero, composer, dies at 56
1953 - Jacques Thibaud, French violinist
1956 - Henry Clough-Leiter, composer, dies at 82
1965 - Steve Brown, American musician (b. 1890)
1967 - Hans Haug, composer, dies at 67
1972 - Ulvi Cemal Erkin, composer, dies at 66
1973 - Victor Jara, Chilean musician (b. 1941)
1980 - Bill Evans, US jazz pianist, dies of a bleeding ulcer at 51
1983 - Willie Bobo, jazz drummer (Cos), dies at 49
1985 - Cootie Williams, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1910)
1994 - Haywood Frank Henry, sax player, dies at 81
2003 - Jack Brymer, English clarinetist (b. 1915)
2004 - Johnny Ramone, American guitarist (The Ramones) (b. 1948)
2007 - Aldemaro Romero, Venezuelan musician (b. 1928)
2008 - Richard Wright, founding member of Pink Floyd (b. 1943)
Today in the News
- At least 11 spectators die in a stampede at a club football match in Butembo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, following a riot incited when a goalkeeper proceeded to use an animist spell in an attempt to rally his team. (Radio Okapi via ESPN)
- 12 tourists are killed and 37 injured when a coach collides with a delivery truck outside of Ras Sidr in Egypt. Reports suggest 7 of the 12 dead are foreign nationals (Sky News)
- A power sharing agreement between Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai is officially signed, making Tsvangirai prime minister of Zimbabwe and chair of cabinet meetings. Mugabe maintains his position as president and remains in control of the country's army (Telegraph)
- Nigerian Oil Crisis: Nigeria's main rebel group claim to have destroyed an oil installation owned by Shell in the Rivers State region in the south of the Country. (BBC)
- A stampede in the Indonesian town of Pasuruan leaves 21 people dead, most of whom are thought to be women (BBC)
- At least 1 person has died and 26 are missing after a Ro-ro ferry sinks near the Turkish city of Bandirma . (Sky News)
- Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy resulting from the subprime mortgage crisis. (New York Times)
- Six men have been found guilty of terrorism-related offences in Melbourne, Australia. Abdul Nacer Benbrika was found guilty of intentionally directing the activities of a terrorist organisation while five other men were found guilty of being members of the same organisation. Four other men were aquitted and the jury is still considering its verdict on two men. (ABC News Australia)
- The remnants of Ike are blamed for 13 more deaths in the Midwestern United States. (Boston Herald)
- More than one million households in the Midwestern United States are left without electricity due to high winds. (Columbus Dispatch)
News from this Day in History
1616 - The first non-aristocratic, free public school in Europe is opened in Frascati, Italy.
1835 - The HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches the Galápagos Islands.
1928 - Tich Freeman becomes the only bowler to take 300 wickets in an English cricket season.
1944 - Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet in Quebec as part of the Octagon Conference to discuss strategy.
1947 - RCA releases the 12AX7 vacuum tube.
1959 - Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the United States.
1968 - The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.
2004 - NHL commissioner Gary Bettman announces a lockout of the players union and cessation of operations by the NHL head office.
Holidays and Observances
- International Day of Democracy.
- In ancient Greece, the second day of the Eleusinian Mysteries, when the priests of Demeter declared the public start of the rites.
- Catholic Calendar of Saints - Feast day of Our Lady of Sorrows.
- The United Kingdom - the British commemorate the Battle of Britain on the day of the last massive Luftwaffe attack in 1940.
- Japan - Respect for the Aged Day before 2003; beginning in 2003, Respect for the Aged Day is held on the third Monday of September.
- Thailand - Silpa Bhirasri Day.
- In India - Engineer's Day celebrated on birthday of Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya.
- Slovenia - Restoration of Primorska to the Motherland Day
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