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Events in Music

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1941 - H Martin/R Blanes musical "Best Foot Forward," premieres in NYC

1962 - Brian Epstein signs a contract to manage Beatles through 1977

1967 - Pink FLoyd's 1st US tour (arrives in NYC)

1970 - 63 arrest in riot to buy Rolling Stone tickets in Milano Italy



Birthdays in Music

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1644 - Alessandro Stradella, Italian violinist/composer

1644 - Jean Rousseau, composer

1724 - Giovanni Battista Cirri, composer

1735 - Johann Baptist Christoph Toeschi, composer

1771 - Pierre MF de Sales Baillot, French violinist/composer

1808 - Fryderyk Edward Sobolewski, composer

1820 - Gustav Adolf Heinze, composer

1832 - Henry Clay Work, composer

1841 - Anatol' Vakhnyanyn, composer

1865 - Paul Dukas, French composer (d. 1935)

1881 - Leonid Leonidovich Sabaneyev, composer

1890 - Constantin Nottara, composer

1893 - Cliff Friend, American songwriter (d. 1974)

1894 - Ricardo Castillo, composer

1898 - Karl Ranki, composer

1899 - Lajos Bardos, composer

1904 - Vladimir Horowitz, Kiev Ukraine, pianist (Carmen)

1907 - Oedoen Partos, composer

1908 - Herman David Koppel, composer

1911 - Irwin Kostal, Chicago Ill, orchestra leader (Garry Moore Show)

1918 - Antonio Iglesias Alvares, composer

1922 - Hector Campos-Parsi, composer

1926 - Roger Williams, American pianist

Actor/Singer Richard Harris (1930)

1930 - Richard Harris, Ireland, actor (Man Called Horse)/singer (MacArthur Park)

1931 - Sylvano Bussotti, Italian composer

1932 - Albert Collins, Leona TX, blues guitarist (Frosty, Showdown)

1933 - Olga Pozzi Escot, composer

1935 - Julie Andrews, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, actress/singer (Sound of Music, Mary Poppins)

1936 - Edward Villella, Bayside Queens, ballet dancer (NYC Ballet)

1943 - Jerry Maitini, US saxophonist (Sly & Family Stone-Sex Machine)

1943 - Jim Martini, rocker (Sly & Family Stone-Everyday People)

1944 - Barbara Parritt, US soul singer (Toys-Lover's Concerto)

1944 - Herbert "Tubo" Rhoad, US singer (Persuasions-Spread the Word)

1944 - Scott McKenzie, rock vocalist (If You Come to SF)

1945 - Donny Hathaway, Chicago, singer/songwriter (Where is the Love)

1947 - Mariska Veres, Dutch singer (Shocking Blue)

1947 - Martin Turner, rocker (Wishbone)

1947 - Rob Davis, rocker

Actress/Singer Julie Andrews (1935)

1948 - Cub Koda, rocker (Brownsville Station)

1948 - Ellen McIlwaine, Nashville, blues singer (Honky Tonky Angel)

1950 - Jeane Manson, American singer and actress

1951 - Brian Greenway, Montreal, rock guitarist/vocalist (April Wine)

1955 - Howard Hewett, Akron Oh, rock vocalist (Shalamar)

1955 - Phillip Oakey, rocker (Human League)

1958 - Masato Nakamura, Japanese musician

1959 - Youssou N'dour, Senegalese singer (Shaking the tree)

1969 - Ori Kaplan, Israeli jazz musician

1974 - Keith Duffy, Dublin Ireland, Irish singer (Boyzone)

1982 - Sandra Oxenryd, Swedish singer

1985 - Ryo Miyamori, Japanese singer

1986 - Sayaka, Japanese singer

1987 - Hiroki Aiba, Japanese actor, singer



Deaths in Music

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1602 - Hernando de Cabezon, composer, dies at 61

1609 - Gianmatteo Asola, Italian composer

1708 - John Blow, composer (Venus & Adonis), dies at 59

1770 - Louis-Gabriel Guillemain, composer, dies at 64

1876 - Henri-Jerome Bertini, composer, dies at 77

1881 - Frantisek Matej Hilmar, composer, dies at 78

1927 - Wilhelm Harteveld, composer, dies at 68

1930 - Ricardo Drigo, composer, dies at 84

1964 - Ernst Toch, composer (Melodie Lehre), dies at 76

1970 - Hans Poser, composer, dies at 52

1970 - Petar Konjovic, composer, dies at 87

1975 - Al Jackson, rock drummer (Booker T & The MG's), dies at 39

1979 - Roy Harris, US composer, dies at 81

1992 - Harry Milton Ray, singer/actor (Avanti!), dies of stroke at 45

1994 - Scott Dunbar, bluse vocalist/guitarist, dies at 90

1996 - Joonas Kokkonen, composer, dies at 74

1998 - Pauline Julien, French Canadian singer (b. 1928)

1999 - Lena Zavaroni, Scottish singer and Child star (b. 1963)

2000 - Robert Allen, American pianist and songwriter (b. 1928)

2004 - Bruce Palmer, Canadian musician (Buffalo Springfield) (b. 1946)

2007 - Ronnie Hazlehurst, English conductor and theme song composer (b. 1928)