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18 June 2020, Dame Vera Lynn, entertainer of the UK forces during World War Two, died (born 20 March 1917).

21/4/2016, The artist Prince, full name Prince Rogers Nelson, born 7 June 1958, died.

1 February 2016, Murray Louis, American dancer and choreographer died (born 1926).

10 January 2016, David Bowie, born in 1947 as David Jones in Brixton, London, died of cancer two days after his 69^th birthday.

25 January 2015, Greek operatic singer Demis Roussos, born 14 June 1946, died. He sold 60 million albums, and was also known for his excess weight, 23 stone at its peak. Because of his weight be began to wear kaftans for his stage performances, reverting to trousers when he began a weight loss programme in 1980.

11 February 2012, Whitney Houston, pop star, died.

23 July 2011, Singer Amy Winehouse died, aged 27.

5 September 2007, Luciano Pavarotti, singer, died aged 71.

27/4/2007, Mstislav Rostropovich, cellist, died (born 27 March 1927).

25 December 2006, Soul singer James Brown died aged 73.

20 December 2006, Mick Mulligan, trumpeter and bandleader, died (born 24 January 1928)

14 December 2006, Ahmet Ertegun, founder of Atlantic Records, died (born 31 July 1923)

9 December 2006, Georgia Gibbs (Freda Lipschitz), singer, died (born 26 August 1919)

8 December 2006, Martha Tilton, singer, died (born 14 November 1915)

25 November 2006, Valentin Elizalde, Mexican singer, died (born 1979)

26 October 2006, Hank Shaw, trumpeter, died (born 23 June 1926)

14 October 2006, Freddy Fender (Baldemar Garza Huerta), country singer, died (born 4 June 1937)

23 August 2006, Maynard Ferguson, trumpeter, died (born 24 May 1928)

21 August 2006, Bismillah Khan, musician, was born.

20 June 2006, Charles Smith, lead guitarist in Kool and the Gang, died (born 6 September 1848)

5 June 2006, Billy Preston, musician, died (born 9 September 1946)

19 May 2006, Freddie Garrity, pop singer, died (born 14 November 1936)

14 May 2006, Eva Norvind, can-can dancer, died (born 7 May 1944)

13 May 2006, Johnnie Wilder, lead singer in pop group Heatwave, died

15 February 2006, Anna Marly, singer, died (born 30 October 1917)

8 February 2006, Akira Ifukube, composer, died (born 31 May 1914)

29 January 2006, Nam June Paik, Korean composer, died aged 73

11 January 2006, DJ Spoon (Markus Loffell), pioneer of trance music, died (born 27 November 1966)

6 January 2006, Lou Rawls, singer, died.

3 January 2006, Margaret Hubicki, composer, died (born 2 July 1915).

24 December 2005, Constance Keen, pianist, died (born 9 February 1921)

20 November 2005, James King, operatic tenor, died (born 22 May 1925)

17 September 2005, Alfred Reed, composer, died.

10 September 2005, Clarence �Gatemouth� Brown, musician, died (born 18/4/1924)

30 August 2005, Andor Kovach, Romanian composer, died aged 90

27 August 2005, Bert Farber, US musician, died aged 92

12 August 2005, Francy Boland, Belgian pianist, died (born 6 November 1929)

3 August 2006, Arthur Lee, rock musician, died (born 3 July 1945)

23 June 2005, Isidore Cohen, violinist, died (born 16 December 1922)

19 June 2005, Chris Griffin, trumpeter, died (born 13 October 1915).

14 June 2005, Carlo Maria Giulini, conductor, died (born 9 May 1914)

13 June 2005, David Diamond, composer, died (born 9 July 1915)

13/4/2005, Tutti Camarata, musician, died (born 11 May 1913).

27 March 2005, Gwydion Brooke, bassoonist, died (born 16 February 1912).

8 March 2005, Kathie Kay, singer, died (born 1919)/

28 February 2005, Chris Curtis, drummer and vocalist with pop group The Searchers, died 9born 8/1941).

15 February 2005, Marcello Viotti, conductor, died (born 29 June 1954).

13 February 2005, Sixten Ehrling, conductor, died (born 3/4/1918)

31 January 2005, The trial of musician Michael Jackson on child molestation charges began. Suspicions were aroused by a documentary from February 2003 by Martin Bashir about the experiences of children at Jackson�s Neverland ranch. Jackson was found not guilty; conviction would have brought a sentence of over 18 years.

29 January 2005, Yutaka Makino, Japanese composer, died aged 74.

28 January 2005, Jim Capaldi, singer and drummer, died (born 2 August 1944)

25 January 2005, June Bronhill, soprano singer, died (born 26 June 1929).

10 January 2005, Margherita Carioso, soprano singer, died (born 8 June 1908).

30 December 2004, Artie Shaw, musician, died.

21 July 2004, Sacha Distel, singer, died.

22 January 2004, Billy May, composer and ,musician, died.

21 October 2003, Elliot Smith, musician, died.

26 September 2003, Robert Palmer, singer, died.

19 September 2003, Slim Dusty, singer, died.

12 September 2003, Johnny Cash, US musician, died (born 1932).

7 September 2003, Warren Zevon, musician, died.

11 July 2003, Barry White, singer, died.

15 May 2003, June Carter Cash, US singer, died.

20 October 2002, Jam Master Ray, rapper, died.

25/4/2002, Lisa �Left-eyes� Lopes, rap artist, died.

7 September 1996, In Las Vegas, Nevada, US rapper Tupac Shakur was shot four times, allegedly by a gang of rival rappers. He died 6 days later, aged 25, and his murderers were never found.

3 November 2002, Loonie Donegan, skiffle musician, died.

24 February 2002, Leo Ornstein, composer and pianist, died.

25 August 2001, Aaliyah, singer, died.

30 June 2001, Chet Atkins, guitarist, died.

20 May 2001, Renato Carosone, musician, died.

12 May 2001, Perry Como, singer, died.

CATS musical

10 September 2000, The final performance on Broadway of Andrew Lloyd Webber�s musical CATS. It premiered on 7 October 1982 and ran for 18 years and 7.485 performances.

26 May 1988, Andrew Lloyd Webber�s musical CATS opened in Moscow with a British and American cast.

7 October 1982, Andrew Lloyd Webber�s musical CATS premiered on Broadway. It ran for 18 years and 7.485 performances, until 10 September 2000.

6 July 1999, Joaquin Rodrigo, composer, died.

5 June 1999, Mel Torme, singer and musician, died.

2 March 1999, Dusty Springfield, singer, died.

2 October 1998, Gene Autry, singer, died.

26 September 1998, Betty Carter, singer, died.

15 May 1998, Frank Sinatra died.

5 May 1998, Syd Lawrence, British bandleader (Syd Lawrence Orchestra), died aged 74.

6/4/1998, Wendy O Williams, singer, died.

24 February 1998, Elton John, pop star, was knighted.

6 February 1998, Carl Wilson, musician (The Beach Boys), died.

26 January 1998, Shinichi Suzuki, Japanese music teacher, died.

1 December 1997, Stephane Grappelli, violinist, died.

22 November 1997, Michael Hutchence, singer (INXS), died.

21 October 1997, Elton John�s �Candle in the Wind�, a tribute to Diana Princess of Wales, sold 31.8 million copies, the best seller ever.

12 October 1997, John Denver, singer, died.

1 August 1997, Sbviatoslav Richter, Russian pianist, died.

11 March 1997, Sir Paul McCartney, musician, was knighted.

3 March 1997, Camila Cabello, singer, was born

17 May 1996, Kevin Gilbert, singer and composer, was born.

8 December 1995, Rock band The Grateful Dead disbanded, 4 months after the death of their lead guitarist Jerry Garcia, 30 years after they formed.

21 November 1995, Jim Eanes, musician, died (born 6 December 1923).

2 September 1995, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum opened in Cleveland, Ohio.

18 July 1995, The oldest known musical instrument, a bear bone with 4 holes made along it, dated to 45,000 years ago, was discovered in the Indrijca River Valley, Slovenia.

4 May 1995, Louis Krasner, violinist, died.

18 November 1994, Cab Calloway, band leader, died.

5/4/1994, US rock star Kurt Cobain, frontman of Nirvana, shot himself aged 27.

18 January 1994, Arthur Altman, songwriter, died aged 83.

4 December 1993, Frank Zappa, US rock musician, died.

21 September 1993, US Grunge band Nirvana released their third and final album In Utero. It topped the charts around the world and sold over 6 million copies

20 June 1993, Benjamin Mascolo, singer, was born

8/4/1993, Marian Anderson, US musician, died.

23 February 1993, Jae Curtis, guitarist, was born.

5 September 1992, Pop star Prince became the highest paid performer to date when he signed a US$ 100 million contract with Warner Bros.

12 August 1992, US composer John Cage died, aged 79.

Blues, Jazz, Ragtime music

5 July 2007, George Melly, jazz musician, died (born 17 August 1926).

22 May 2006, Jack Fallon, pioneer of modern jazz, died (born 13 October 1915)

20 October 2005, Shirley Horn, jazz pianist, died (born 1 May 1934)

11 September 2005, Al Casey, acoustic jazz guitarist, died (born 15 September 1915).

14/4/2005, Benny Bailey, jazz trumpeter, died (born 13 August 1925)

10 June 2004, Ray Charles, pianist, singer and saxophonist, who pioneered a fusion of gospel, jazz, blues and country music, died.

21/4/2003, Nina Simone, jazz and blues singer and songwriter, died aged70

12 September 2000, Stanley Turrentine, US� jazz saxophonist, died aged 66

4 July 1992, Joe Newman, US jazz trumpeter, died (born 1922).

6 January 1992, Dizzy Gillespie, jazz trumpeter, died.

28 September 1991, Miles Davis, US jazz musician, died.

16 October 1990, Art Blakey, jazz drummer, died.

26 February 1989, Roy Eldridge, US jazz musician, died in New York (born 30 January 1911 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)

13 May 1988, Chet Baker, US jazz trumpeter, died.

11 January 1988, Joe Albany, US jazz pianist, died (born 24 January 1924)

2/4/1987, Buddy Rich, US jazz musician, died aged 69 (born 1917).

31 July 1986, Theodore (Teddy) Shaw Wilson, US jazz pianist, died in New Britain, Connecticut (born 24 November 1912 in Austin, Texas)

1 December 1986, Lee Dorsey, US rhythm and blues singer, died in New Orleans (born 24 December 1924 in Portland, Oregon)

13 June 1986, Benny Goodman, US jazz musician, died.

12 November 1985, Wiliam Wells, US jazz trombonist, died in New York (born 10 June 1907 in Centreville, Tennessee)

15 September 1985, Charles Melvin (Cootie) Williams, US jazz trumpeter, died in New York (born 24 July 1908 in Mobile, Alabama)

3 September 1985, Jo Jones, US jazz drummer, died in New York (born 7 October 1911 in Chicago)

30 August 1985, Philly Joe Jones, US jazz drummer, died in Philadelphia (born 15 July 1923 in Philadelphia)

23 February 1985, John Haley, Zoot Sims, US jazz saxophonist, died in New York (born 29 October 1925)

16 November 1984, Vic Dickenson, US jazz trombonist, died in New York (born 6 August 1906 in Xenia, Ohio)

17 October 1984, Alberta Hunter, US blues singer, died in New York (born 1/4 January 1895 in Memphis)

10 September 1984, James Osborne Young, US jazz composer, died in San Jose, California (born 12 January 1912 in Savannah, Georgia)

26/4/1984, William �Count� Basie, US jazz composer, died in Hollywood, Florida (born 21 August 1904 in Red Bank, New Jersey).

19 February 1984, Claude Hopkins, US jazz pianist, died in Riverdale, New York (born 24 August 1903 in Alexandria, Virginia)

30 January 1982, Lightnin� Sam Hopkins, US country blues singer, died in Houston, Texas (born 15 March 1912 in Centreville, Texas)

9 September 1981, Helen Humes, US jazz and blues singer, died in Santa Monica, California (born 23 June 1913 in Louisville, Kentucky)

28 May 1981, Mary Lou Williams, US jazz pianist, died in Durham, North Carolina (born 8 May 1910 in Atlanta, Georgia)

29/4/1981, Cat Anderson, US jazz trumpeter, died (born 12 September 1916)

27 June 1980, Barney Bigard, US jazz composer, died in Culver City, California (born 3 March 1906 in New Orleans).

20 July 1978, Teddy Bunn, US jazz and blues guitarist, died (born 1909 in Freeport, New York).

2 January 1977, Erroll Garner, US jazz pianist, died in Los Angeles (born 15 June 1923 in Pittsburgh)

7 June 1976, Bobby Hackett, US jazz trumpeter, died in West Chatham, Massachusetts (born 31 January 1915 in Providence, Rhode Island)

11 January 1976, Chester Arthur Burnett, US blues singer, died in Hines, Illinois (born 10 June 1910)

16 March 1975, Aaron Thibeaux, US blues singer, died in Los Angeles (born 28 May 1910 in Linden, Texas)

8 October 1974, Harry Carney, US jazz saxophonist, died in New York (born 1/4/1910 in Boston, USA)

24 May 1974, Duke Ellington, jazz musician, died of lung cancer aged 75.

4 August 1973, Eddie Condon, US jazz musician, died in New York (born 16 November 1905 in Goodland, Indiana)

27 August 1971, Lil Armstrong, US jazz pianist, died in Chicago (born 3 February 1898 in Memphis, Tennessee).

6 July 1971, Louis Armstrong, US jazz musician, died aged 69.

11 May 1970, John Cornelius Hodges, US jazz saxophonist, died in New York (born 25 July 1907 in Cambridge, Massachusetts)

19 May 1969, Coleman Hawkins, US jazz saxophonist, died in New York (born 21 November 1901)

29/4/1969, Jazz supremo Duke Ellington was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the USA.

15 February 1969, Charles Ellsworth Russell, US jazz clarinettist, died in Alexandria, Virginia (born 27 March 1906)

15 June 1968, Wes Montgomery, US jazz guitarist, died in Indianapolis (born 6 March 1925 in Indianapolis)

17 May 1967, Henry Allen, US jazz trumpeter, died in New York (born Algiers, Louisiana, 7 January 1908)

12 February 1967, Francis Joseph Spanier, US jazz cornetist, died in Sausalito, California (born 9 November 1906 in Chicago)

4 September 1966, Bireli Lagrene, French jazz guitarist, was born in Alsace, France.

28 June 1965, Red Nichols (Ernest Loring), US jazz cornettist, died in Las Vegas (born 8 May 1905 in Ogden, Utah)

29 June 1964, Eric Dolphy, US jazz saxophonist, died in Berlin (born 20 June 1928 in Los Angeles)

7 June 1964, Meade Lewis, US jazz composer, died in Minneapolis (born 4 September 1905 in Chicago)

1962, Bossa Nova jazz was becoming popular in the USA

22 February 1961, Nick la Rocca, US jazz musician, died in New Orleans (born 11/4/1889 in New Orleans)

30 October 1959, Saxophonists Ronnie Scott and Pete King opened Ronnie Scott�s Jazz Club in Gerrard Street, Soho, London.

15 August 1958, William Lee Conley, US blues singer, died in Chicago (born in Scott Missouri, 26 June 1893)

25 March 1958, Tom Brown, US dixieland jazz trombonist, died aged 69.

15 May 1956, Adrian Rollini, US jazz saxophonist, died in Homestead, Florida (born 28 June 1904 in New York)

4 March 1956, Kermit Driscoll, US jazz bassist, was born.

1955, Jazz music was becoming more Black-oriented.

8 October 1955, Lonnie Pitchford, US blues musician, was born in Lexington, Mississipi (died 1998)

12 March 1955, Jazz saxophonist Charles Parker died.

14 December 1952, John Lurie, US jazz saxophonist (Lounge Lizards), was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

7 May 1950, Bertha Hill, US jazz singer, died in New York (born 15 March 1905 in Charleston, South Carolina)

1949, Rhythm n� Blues music came into fashion.

18 August 1949, Paul Mares, US jazz trumpeter, died in Chicago (born 15 June 1900 in New Orleans)

15 December 1943, US jazz musician Fats Waller died.

22 March 1943, George Benson, jazz musician, was born.

29 September 1942, Jean-Luc Ponty, violinist and jazz composer, was born in Avranches, France.

1941, Bebop, jazz and dance movement, began.

10 July 1941, �Jelly Roll� Morton, jazz band leader and pianist, died.

21 February 1937, Graham Collier, British jazz composer, was born in Tynemouth.

13 July 1936, Albert Ayler, US jazz saxophonist, was born in Cleveland (died in New York 25 November 1970)

1 May 1934, Shirley Horn, jazz pianist, was born (died 20 October 2005)

29 November 1933, John Mayall, blues musician, was born

26 March 1933, Eddie Lang, US jazz guitarist, died in New York (born 25 October 1902 in Philadelphia)

5 March 1932, Bill Takas, US jazz musician, was born.

28 February 1932, Don Francks, Canadian jazz musician; was born in Vancouver (died 2016)

7 August 1931, Jazz musician Bix Beiderbecke died.

17/4/1930, Chris Barber, jazz trombonist, was born.

29 January 1930, Derek Bailey, British jazz guitarist, was born in Sheffield (died 2005)

7 September 1929, Sonny Rollins, US jazz saxophonist, was born in New York

23 September 1926, John Coltrane, jazz musician, was born.

15 September 1926, �Jelly Roll� Morton and his band, the Red Hot Peppers, released their first record. Their blend of ragtime with brass band style was a key stage in the development of jazz.

17 August 1926, George Melly, jazz musician, was born (died 5 July 2007).

25 May 1926, Jazz musician Miles Davis was born.

5/4/1926, Stan Levey, jazz drummer, was born (died 19/4/2005)

4 March 1926, Don Rendell, jazz musician, was born.

1 September 1925, Art Pepper, US jazz saxophonist, was born in Gardena, California (died 15 June 1982 in Los Angeles)

15 August 1925, Oscar Peterson, jazz pianist, was born.

13 August 1925, Benny Bailey, jazz trumpeter, was born (died 14/4/2005)

25 November 1924, Paul Desmond, US jazz saxophonist, was born in San Francisco.

1923, A slow version of The Blues became popular in the UK, but was supplanted by the faster Foxtrot.

8 August 1923, Jimmy Witherspoon, US blues singer, was born in Gurdon, Arkansas.

13 August 1922, Tom Turpin, US ragtime pianist, died in St Louis (born 1873 in Savannah, Georgia)

6 August 1921, Buddy Collette, US jazz saxophonist, was born in Los Angeles.

24 July 1921, Billy Taylor, US jazz pianist, was born in Greenville, North Carolina

20/4/1921, Tony Jackson, US jazz composer, died in Chicago (born 5 June 1876 in New Orleans)

10 October 1920, Thelonious Monk, US jazz musician, was born (died 1982)

29 August 1920, Charlie Parker, jazz musician, was born.

26 May 1920, Peggy Lee, jazz singer, was born.

13 August 1919, George Shearing, jazz pianist, was born.

25/4/1918, Ella Fitzgerald, US jazz singer, was born (died 1996).

20 March 1918, Marian McPartland, US jazz musician, was born in Slough, England (died 2013)

21 October 1917, Dizzie Gillespie, US jazz musician, was born (died 1993).

11 October 1917, Thelonius Sphere Monk, US jazz pianist, was born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina (died 17 February 1982 in Englewood, New Jersey)

10 October 1917, Thelonius Monk, jazz pianist, was born.

7 March 1917. The Dixie Band One-Step was the world�s first jazz record to be released. Ironically it was by the all-white Original Dixieland Jazz Band.

14 January 1917, Billy Butterfield, US jazz trumpeter, was born in Middleton, Ohio (died 18 March 1988 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida)

1915, The Foxtrot dance arrived in the UK.

16 December 1915, Turk Murphy, US jazz composer, was born in Palermo, California (died 30 May 1987)

10 October 1915, Harry Edison, US jazz trumpeter, was born in Columbus, Ohio.

3 September 1915, Slim Memphis (Peter Chapman), US blues singer, was born in Memphis, Tennessee.

7/4/1915, Billie Holiday, US jazz singer, was born.

27 March 1915, Robert Lockwood Jr, blues guitarist, was born (died 21 November 2006).

16 May 1913, Woody Herman, US jazz musician, was born (died 1987).

1912, The Blues, a style of Jazz characterised by a slow melancholic tempo and flattened 3^rd and 7ths, was developed from Black southern USA secular songs, around 1905, and now entered popular music culture. After World War One jazz spread outwards from the Deep South and New Orleans to reach New York, Chicago and other large US cities by the 1920s. There was a �Jazz Age�, usually reckoned as being from 1919 to 1929 (from the Armistice to the Stock Market Crash).

24 November 1912, Theodore (Teddy) Shaw Wilson, US jazz pianist, was born in Austin, Texas (died 31 July 1986 in New Britain, Connecticut)

12 January 1912, James Osborne (Trummy) Young, US jazz trombonist, was born in Savannah, Georgia (died 10 September 1984 in San Jose, California)

19 December 1911, Lu Watters, US jazz trumpeter, was born in Santa Cruz, California (died 5 November 1989 in Santa Rosa, California)

7 October 1911, Jonathan Jones, US jazz drummer, was born in Chicago (died 3 September 1985 in New York)

13 October 1910, Art Tatum, US jazz pianist, was born.

28 May 1910, Aaron Thibeaux (T-Bone) Walker, US blues singer, was born in Linden., Texas (died 16 March 1975 in Los Angeles)

1/4/1910, Harry Carney, US jazz saxophonist, was born in Boston (died in New York 8 October 1974)

17 January 1910, Sidney Catlett, US jazz drummer, was born in Evansville, Indiana (died 24 March 1951 in Chicago)

1909, The term jazz, for a form of ragtime dance, came into use. The term jazz music was first used in 1913. It was much played by Black musicians in the southern USA. Ragtime itself, short for �ragged time�, was a syncopated rhythm popular between 1890 and 1920; jazz replaced ragtime.

27 August 1909, Lester Willis Young, US jazz saxophonist, was born (died 15 March 1959 in New York)

30 May 1909, Benny Goodman, US jazz band leader, was born.

12/4/1909, Lionel Hampton, US jazz musician, was born in Louisville, Kentucky

27 March 1909, Benjamin Francis Webster, US jazz saxophonist, was born in Kansas City (died 20 September 1973 in Amsterdam)

8 August 1907, Benny Carter, US jazz saxophonist, was born in New York

11 May 1906, Jack Higginbotham, US jazz trombonist, was born in Social Circle, near Atlanta (died 26 May 1973 in New York)

27 March 1906, Pee Wee (Charles Elsworth) Russell, US jazz clarinettist, was born (died15 February 1969 in Alexandria, Virginia)

23 January 1906, Charles W Hunter, US ragtime composer, died in St Louis, Missouri (born 16 May 1876 in Columbia, Tennessee)

21 August 1904, William �Count� Basie, US jazz composer, was born in Red Bank, New Jersey (died 26/4/1984 in Hollywood, Florida)

1 August 1904. Birth of American jazzman Count Basie.

26 August 1902, Jimmy Rushing, US jazz and blues singer, was born in Oklahoma City (died 8 June 1972 in new York)

3 January 1902, Preston Jackson, US �jazz trombonist, was born in New Orleans, Louisiana (died 1983).

21 November 1901, Coleman Hawkins, US jazz saxophonist, was born.

13 February 1900, Wingy Manone, US jazz trumpeter, was born in New Orleans (died 9 July 1982 in Las Vegas)

25 January 1899, John Adam Estes, US blues singer, was born in Ripley, Tennessee (died 5 June 1977 in Brownsville, Tennessee)

14 May 1898, Zutty Singleton, US jazz drummer, was born in Bunkei, Louisiana (died 14 July 1975 in New York)

11 March 1898, Miff Mole, US jazz trombonist, was born in Long Island, New York (died 29/4/1961 in New York)

3 February 1898, Lil Armstrong, US jazz pianist, was born in Memphis (died 27 August 1971 in Chicago).

25 November 1897, William Smith, US jazz pianist, was born in Goshen, New York (died 18/4/1973 in New York)

14 May 1897, Sidney Bechet, US jazz musician, was born in New Orleans (died in Paris 14 May 1959).

25 March 1896, Ida Cox, US blues composer, was born in Toccoa, Georgia (died in Knoxville, Tennessee)

12 March 1896, Jesse Fuller, US blues singer, was born in Jonesboro, Georgia (died 29 January 1976 in Oakland, California)

1/4/1895, Alberta Hunter, US blues singer, was born in Memphis (died 17 October 1984 in New York)

12/4/1892, Johnny Dodds, US jazz clarinettist, was born.

1890-1920, Jazz developed, mainly then as a White musical form

27 February 1890, Freddie Keppard, US jazz cornetist., was born in New Orleans (died 15 July 1933 in Chicago)

17 December 1889, Bunk Johnson, US jazz trumpeter, was born in New Orleans (died 7 July 1949 in New Iberia, Louisiana)

11/4/1889, Nick la Rocca, US jazz musician, was born in New Orleans (died 22 February 1961 in New Orleans)

26/4/1886, Ma Rainey, US blues singer and composer, was born in Columbus, Georgia (died 22 December 1939 in Columbus)

1 January 1884, Oscar Phillip Celestin, US jazz trumpeter, was born in Napoleonville, Louisiana (died 15 December 1954 in New Orleans)

7 February 1883, Eubie Blake, jazz musician, was born in Baltimore (died 12 February 1983 in Brooklyn, New York).

12 February 1885, James Sylvester Scott, US ragtime composer, was born (died 30 August 1938 in Kansas City)

5 June 1876, Tony Jackson, US jazz composer, was born in New Orleans (died 20/4/1921 in Chicago)

16 May 1876, Charles W Hunter, US ragtime composer, was born in Columbia, Tennessee (died 23 January 1906 in St Louis)

16 November 1873, William Christopher Handy, band leader, �Father of the Blues�, was born.

28/4/1992, French composer Olivier Messiaen died aged 83. Also this day English painter Francis Bacon died in Madrid, aged 82.

17/4/1992, Hank Penny, country music singer, died aged 73 of heart failure

26 March 1982, Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder released the single �Ebony & Ivory� in the UK

24 March 1992, Jeremy Rosado, US singer, was born.

15 February 1992, US composer William Schuman died, aged 81.

30 May 1991, First performance, in London, of Harrison Birtwistle�s opera Gawain, based on the mediaeval legend.

24 March 1991, Madonna was awarded an Oscar in Los Angeles.

14 October 1990, Leonard Bernstein, US composer, died aged 72.

25 June 1990, Peggy Glanville-Hicks, Australian composer, died aged� 77

6 June 1990, Joe Loss, British bandleader, died in London (born 22 June 1909 in London)

24 February 1990, Johnnie Ray, singer, died.

8 February 1990, US pop singer Del Shannon shot himself.

28 October 1989, Henry Hall, British composer, died in Eastbourne (born 2 May 1898 in Peckham, London)

22 October 1989, Ewan MacColl, folk songwriter, died in London (born 25 January 1915 in Auchterarder, Perthshire)

29 September 1989, Georges Ulmer, French composer died (born 1919)

20 September 1989, Musical �Miss Saigon� premiered in London.

9 February 1989, Gia Farrell US pop singer-songwriter, was born in Suffern, New York.

6 January 1989, James Durbin, US pop singer, was born.

6 December 1988, US rock star Roy Orbison died of a heart attack, aged 52.

19 October 1988, Son House, musician, died.

7 October 1988, Billy Daniels, US singer, died in Los Angeles (born 12 September 1915 in Jacksonville, Florida)

23 September 1988, Arwel Hughes, Welsh composer, died aged 79.

12 July 1988, Joshua Lockwood Logan, US composer, died in New York (born 5 October 1908 in Texarkana, Texas)

28 May 1988, Melvin James Oliver, US composer, died in New York (born 17 December 1910 in Battle Creek, Michigan)

17 March 1988, Grimes, Canadian musician, was born.

24 February 1988, Peter Chatman, Slim Memphis, died in Paris (born 3 September 1915 in Memphis, Tennessee)

14 February 1988, Frederick Loewe, composer, died in Palm Springs, Florida (born 10 June 1901 in Vienna)

5 February 1988, 3.8 million plastic noses were sold for the first ever Comic Relief Red Nose Day. �15 million was raised.

1987, Garage music, a New York variety of House Music, with heavy Soul influence, became popular. It had a strong vocal and lyrics element. It was named after Paradise Garage, a Manhattan dance club.

28 October 1987, Woody Herman, US composer, died in Los Angeles (born 16 May 1913 in Milwaukee)

28 September 1987, Hilary Duff, pop star, was born.

10 July 1987, John Hammond, US record producer, died in New York (born 15 December 1910 in New York)

30 June 1987, Boudleaux Bryant, US songwriter, died in Gatlinbiurg, Tennessee (born 13 February 1920 in Shellman, Georgia)

30 May 1987, Turk Murphy, US jazz trombonist, died (born 16 December 1915 in Palermo, California)

2 May 1987, Larry Clinton, US composer, died in Tucson, Arizona (born 17 August 1909 in Brooklyn, New York)

28 March 1987, Maria von Trapp, singer, died.

14 February 1987, Bola Sete, guitarist, died aged 63.

4 February 1987. Death of US pianist Liberace, unofficially of AIDS. The official cause of death was a brain tumour.

1986, House music became popular. It featured drum machines and a heavy bass, alongside sparse reoetitive vocals and a fast beat.

6 December 1986, Dan Donovan, British singer, died.

13 November 1986, Rudolph Schock, German singer, died in Berlin (born 9/4/1915 in Duisburg)

9 October 1986, The musical play Phantom of the Opera opened at her Majesty�s Theatre, London

27 September 1986, Cliff Burton, musician (Metallica), died.

10 September 1986, Pepper Adams, US composer, died (born 8 October 1930)

20 August 1986, Thad Jones, musician, died in Copenhagen (born 28 March 1923 in Pontiac, Michigan)

26 July 1986, Vincente Minnelli, US musicals director, died in Los Angeles (born 28 February 1909 in Chicago)

3 July 1986, Rudy Vallee, singer, died.

17 June 1986, Kathryn Elizabeth, US singer, died in Raleigh, North Carolina (born 1 May 1907 in Greenville, Virginia)

14 June 1986, Alan Jay Lerner, singer� in Camelot and My Fair Lady, died.

11 March 1986, Saunders Terrell, US country blues singer, died in New York (born 24 October 1911 in Greenboro, North Carolina)

20 February 1986, Francisco Paolo Mignone, composer, died aged 88.

31 December 1985, Ricky Nelson, musician, died.

5 September 1985, Reginald Dixon, British organist, died in Blackpool (born 1905 in Sheffield).

1 August 1985, Sam Wooding, US bandleader, died in new York (born 17 June 1895 in Philadelphia)

12 February 1985, Leslie Sarony, British singer, died in London (born 22 January 1897 in Surbiton, Surrey)

7 February 1985, Matt Monro, British singer, died in Ealing, London (born 1 December 1930 in London)

9 January 1985, Anton Karas, Austrian composer, died in Vienna (born 7 July 1906 in Vienna)

9 November 1984, Delta Goodrem, singer and songwriter, was born.

3 October 1984, Ashlee Simpson, singer, was born.

27 September 1984, Avril Lavigne, singer, was born.

6 September 1984, Ernest Dale Tubb, US country singer, died in Nashville, Tennessee (born 9 February 1914 near Crisp, Texas)

11 August 1984, Percy Mayfield, US singer, died in Los Angeles (born 12 August 1920)

6 August 1984, Pop star Prince released Purple Rain. The album spend 24 consecutive weeks at number one in the Billboard Charts, and sold over 13 million copies in the USA alone.

28 June 1984, Mischa Spoliansky, composer, died in London (born 1898 in Bialystock)

15 June 1984, Meredith Wilson, composer, died.

24/4/1984, Gordon Jenkins, US composer, died in Malibu, California (born 12 May 1910)

20/4/1984, Mabel Mercer, singer, died in Pittsfield, Massachusetts (born 3 February 1900 in Burton on Trent, UK)

1/4/1984, Marvin Gaye, US soul singer, died.

28 March 1984, Carmen Dragon, US composer, died in Santa Monica, California (born 28 July 1914 in Antioch, California)

24 March 1984, First performance of Philip Glass�s opera, Akhnaten.

21 January 1984, Jackie Wilson, US rock singer, died in Mount Holly, New Jersey (born 9 June .1934 in Detroit)

1983, Gothic Music, called simply Goth from 1986, became popular. Its adherents adopted stark white and black face make up, black clothing and heavy metallic jewellery, with mystical or apocalyptic lyrics. A style of rock music derived from punk.

28 December 1983, Dennis Wilson, musician, died.

25 November 1983, Anton Dolin, English ballet dancer, died aged 79.

20 October 1983, Merle Travis, US country singer, died in Tahlequah, Oklahoma (born� 29 November 1917 in Rosewood, Kentucky

1 October 1983, Freddy Martin, US saxophonist, died in Newport Beach, California (born 9 December 1906 in Cleveland)

17 August 1983, Ira Gershwin, singer, died.

30 July 1983, Howard Dietz, US songwriter, died in New York (born in New York 8 September 1896)

5 July 1983, Harry James, US bandleader, died in Las Vegas (born 15 March 1916 in Albany, Georgia)

7 June 1983, Daniele Amphitheatrof, Russian composer, died (born 29 October 1901)

30/4/1983, George Balanchine, Russian dance director, died aged 79.

23 February 1983, Sir Adrian Boult, English conductor, died in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, aged 93.

12 February 1983, Winifred Atwell, Trinidadian pianist, died (born 27/4/1914)

28 January 1983, Billy Fury (Ronald Wycherly), British rock singer, died in London (born 17/4/1941 in Liverpool)

1982, Thrash (Thrash Metal from 1985) became popular. It was a style of loud, fast, harsh-sounding rock music combining Heavy Metal with Punk.

1982, Break Dancing, a style popular witrh Black people in the USA, began. It comprised a loud heavy beat to which energetic actrobatic dancing was performed. Body Popping was an alternative similar style originating in Los Angeles in the late 1970s.

20 December 1982, Artur Rubenstein, Polish-American pianist, died aged 95.

7 November 1982, Salvador Contreras, Mexican composer, died aged 71

6 November 1982, Sowelu, Japanese pop singer, was born in Tokyo, Japan.

29 September 1982, Albert Lancaster Lloyd, ethnomusicologist, died in Greenwich, London (born 29 February 1908 in London)

23 September 1982, Jimmy Wakeley, US composer, died (born 16 February 1914 in Mineola, Arkansas

28 July 1982, LeAnn Rimes, singer, was born.

15 June 1982, Arthur Edward (Art) Pepper, US jazz saxophonist, died in Los Angeles (born 1 September 1925 in Gardena, California)

1981, The British pop group Bananarama was formed.

2 December 1981, Britney Spears, pop singer, was born.

28 October 1981, The band Metallica was formed in San Francisco. They became the most successful metal band ever, selling over 100 million albums.

27 October 1981, Nico Dostal, Austrian composer, died in Vienna (born 27 November 1895 in Korneuberg)

4 September 1981, Beyonce Knowles, singer, was born.

19 August 1981, Jessie Matthews, British singer, died in London (born 11 March 1907 in London)

17 August 1981, Robert Russell Bennett, US composer, died in New York (born 15 August 1894 in Kansas City)

25 August 1981, In the USA, John Chapman was jailed fror life (minimum 25 years) for the murder of John Lennon.

16 July 1981, Harry Chapin, US songwriter, died in New York (born 7 December 1942 in New York)

25 May 1981, Roy James Brown, US composer, died in Pacoima, California (born 10 September 1925 in New Orleans)

11 May 1981, Bob Marley, reggae musician, died of cancer aged 36.

27/4/1981, Paul McCartney's solo rock band Wings broke up

21/4/1981, Eddie Sauter, US composer, died in New York (born 2 December 1914 in Brooklyn, New York)

5 March 1981, Thursday (+13,085) EY Harburg, US songwriter, died in Los Angeles (born 8/4/1898 in New York)

27 February 1981, Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder recorded the single �Ebony & Ivory�

19 February 1981, Frank Merrik, composer, died aged 94.

23 January 1981, Samuel Barber, US composer, died aged 70.

4 January 1981, The Broadway show Frankenstein opened and closed on this night, losing US$ 2 million.

23 December 1980, Alec Wilder, US composer, died in Gainesville, Florida (born 16 February 1907 in Rochester, New York)

8 December 1980. John Lennon, born 9 October 1940 in Liverpool during an air raid, was shot dead in New York by Mark David Chapman. See 26 May 1969.

15 September 1980, Paul McCartney releases his single �Temporary Secretary�

16 August 1980, Robert Hardy, musician, was born.

21 June 1980, Bert Kaempfert, German orchestra leader and songwriter, died of a stroke aged 56

1 May 1980, John Jacob Niles, US folk musician, died in Lexington, Kentucky (born 28/4/1892 in Louisville, Kentucky)

22 March 1980, Shannon Bex, US singer, was born.

28 January 1980, Nick Carter, singer, was born.

16 January 1980, David Whitfield, British singer, died in Sydney (born 2 February 1925 in Hull)

1979, Rap Music, Black music characterised by rapid rhythmic improvised speech over an instrumental backing, first appeared.

30 December 1979, Richard Rodgers, US composer, died aged 77

11 October 1979, Dimitri Tiomkin, composer, died in London (born 10 May 1894 in St Petersburg, Russia)

25 August 1979, Stan Kenton, US composer, died in Los Angeles (born 15 February 1912 in Wichita, Kansas)

9 September 1979, Norrie Paramor, British composer, died in London (born 1914)

8 September 1979, Pink, singer, was born

6 September 1979, Ronald Binge, British composer, died in Ringwood (born 15 July 1910 in Derby)

15 August 1979, Peter Shukoff, US comedian and musician, was born.

11 May 1979, Lester Flatt, US singer, died in Nashville (born in Overton County, Tennessee, 28 June 1914).

6/4/1979, Milton Ager, US composer, died in Los Angeles (born 6 October 1893 in Chicago).

14 January 1979, John Reuben, American singer, was born in Columbus, Ohio.

9 January 1979, Avery Claflin, composer, died aged 80.

1978, Pop group Duran Duran formed.

18 November 1978, Lennie Tristano, US jazz pianist, died in New York (born 19 March 1919 in 19 March 1919)

28 October 1978, George Scott-Wood, British composer, died in London (born 27 May 1903 in Glasgow)

24 August 1978, Louis Prima, US trumpeter, died in New Orleans (born 7 December 1911 in New Orleans)

2 December 1978, Nelly Furtado, pop singer, was born.

9 October 1978, Jacques Brel, musician, died.

7 September 1978, Keith Moon, drummer, died.

14 August 1978, Victor Silvester, British author, died in Le Lavandou, France (born 25 February 1900 in Wembley, Middlesex)

21 June 1978, The musical Evita, score by Andrew Lloyd Webber.� premiered at London�s Prince Edward Theatre.

12 March 1978, Tolchard Evans, British composer, died in London (born 1901 in London)

6 February 1978, Turner Layton, US composer, died in London (born 1894 in Washington DC)

1977, The Police, British rock group, was formed.

1977, Irish rock band U2 formed in Dublin

1977, The US rock group Dire Straits was formed.

1977, The electronic pop group Human League formed.

25 December 1977, Charlie Chaplin died in Switzerland, aged 88.

14 November 1977, Richard Addinsell, British composer, died in London (born 13 January 1904 in Oxford)

5 November 1977, Guy Lombardo, band leader, died.

17 September 1977, Operatic singer Maria Callas died.

13 September 1977, Leopold Stokowski, organist and conductor, died in Nether Wallop, Hampshire.

6 September 1977, Guido Pannain, composer, died aged 85.

20 August 1977. Julius, or Groucho Marx, US comedian of the famous Marx Brothers, died in Los Angeles.

18 August 1977, Regine Chassagne, Canadian musician, was born in Montreal, Quebec

23 January 1977, Dick Burnett, US musician, died aged 93

1976, Mike Oldfield released Portsmouth

20 December 1976, Ned Washington, US singer, died in Beverly Hills, California (born 15 August 1901 in Scranton, Pennsylvania)

4 December 1976. Death of composer Benjamin Britten, aged 63.

9/4/1976, Phil Ochs, US singer, died in Far Rockaway, New York (born 19 December 1940 in El Paso, Texas)

9 February 1976, Percy Faith, musician and composer, died.

28 January 1976, Ray Willis Nance, US jazz trumpeter, died in New York (born 10 December 1913)

19 January 1976, Jean Lenoir, French composer, died (born 1891)

1975, Mike Oldfield released Omnadawn.

1975, British rock group Sex Pistols was formed.

1975, The Salsa, a Latin American dance, appeared.

11 December 1975, Lee Wiley, US singer, died in New York (born 9 October 1915 in Port Gibson, Oklahoma)

28 October 1975, Edward (Oliver Nelson, US composer, died in Los Angeles (born 4 June 1932)

9 August 1975. Death of the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovitch.

14 July 1975, Zutty Singleton, US jazz drummer, died in New York (born 14 May 1898 in Bunkei, Louisiana)

27 March 1975, Arthur Bliss, English composer, died aged 83.

19 February 1975, Italian composer Luigi Dallapiccola died in Florence aged 71.

10 November 1974, Niko Hurme, Finnish musician, was born in Karkkila, Finland.

25 October 1974, Nick Drake, songwriter, died.

24 October 1974, Russian violinist David Oistrakh died in Amsterdam, aged 66.

9 September 1974, Mathias Farm, guitarist was born in Orebro, Sweden.

27 June 1974, Cliff Friend, US composer, died in las Vegas (born 1 October 1893 in Cincinnati)

4 May 1974, Gerald Bright, British bandleader, died in Vevey, Switzerland (born 10 August 1904 in London)

2 May 1974, Eric Winstone, British composer, died in Pagham, Sussex (born 1 January 1915)

1 May 1974, The musical Billy opened in Drury lane, London

17/4/1974, Victoria Beckham, singer, was born.

7/4/1974, Pete Wendling, US composer, died in New York (born 6/66/1888)

6/4/1974, Abba won the Eurovision Song Contest with the song Waterloo.

1973, Swedish pop group Abba were formed. They broke up in 1983.

22 March 1974, Sam Donahue, US musician, died in Reno, Nevada (born 8 March 1918 in Detroit).

3 February 1974, Om Kalsoum, famous Arab singer, died aged 77.

2 February 1974, Jean Absil, Belgian composer, died aged 80.

21 January 1974, Joseph Washburne, US singer, died in Santa Ana, California (born 28 December 1904 in Houston, Texas)

17 January 1974, Clara Edward, US singer, died aged 93

5 January 1974, Lev Oborin, Russian pianist and composer died aged 66

1973, Heavy Metal music appeared; a loud vigorous rock music with electronically-amplified instruments anfd a fast beat.

1973, Mike Oldfield released Tubular Bells

10 November 1973, Nick Lachey, musician, was born.

6 November 1973, After singer Gram Parsons died of a drugs overdose (23 September 1973), his manager Phil Kaufman took his body to the Joshua Tree Desert where he poured petrol over it and cremated it, in accordance with Gram�s last wishes. Kaufman was charged with stealing and burning� a coffin, as it was not a crime to steal a body.

22 October 1973, Pablo Casals, Spanish composer, died aged 96.

19 September 1973, Gram Parsons, musician, was born.

6 July 1973, Otto Klemperer, Jewish-German composer, died aged 88.

16 June 1973, First performance of Benjamin Britten�s opera Death in Venice.

5/4/1973, Pharrell Williams, musician, was born.

27 March 1973, Boyan Georgiev Ikonomov, Bulgarian composer, died aged 72

23 February 1973, Andre Tannenberger, disc jockey, was born.

3 February 1973, Andy Razaf, US singer, died in Hollywood (born 16 December 1895 in Washington DC)

16 January 1973, Edgar Sampson, US composer, died in Englewood, New Jersey (born 31 August 1907 in New York)

12 November 1972, Rudolf Friml, Bohemian-US composer, died in Los Angeles (born 7 December 1879 in Prague)

3 November 1972, Harry Richman, US composer, died in Hollywood (born 10 August 1895 in Cincinnati, Ohio)

2 November 1972, Phil Baxter, US composer, died in Dallas (born 5 September 1896 in Navarro County Texas)

25 September 1972, Friedrich Schroder, German composer, died in Berlin (born 6 August 1910)

24 September 1972, Esther Budiardjo, Indonesian pianist was born in Jakarta

19 September 1972, Robert Casadesus, French pianist, died aged 73

29 August 1972, Amanda Meta Marshall, Canadian pop-rock singer, was born.

14 August 1972, Oscar Levant, US composer, died in Beverly Hills, California (born 27 December 1906 in Pittsburgh)

8 August 1972, The musical Jesus Christ Superstar premiered at the Palace Theatre, London.

5 August 1972, Milton Mesirow, US musician, died in Paris (born 9 November 1899 in Chicago)

13 June 1972, Clyde McPhatter, US singer, died� in Tea Neck, New Jersey (born 15 January 1933 in Durham, North Carolina)

6 June 1972, David Bowie�s album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars was released, starting the era of Glam Rock.

27 May 1972, Jack Strachey, British composer, died in London (born 25 September 1894 in London)

20 May 1972, Busta Rhymes, singer and rapper, was born.

24/4/1972, Chad Ginsburg, US musician, was born.

21/4/1972, Severina Vuckovic, Croatian singer, was born.

27 January 1972, Mahalia Jackson, US gospel singer, died in Evergreen Park, Illinois (born 26 October 1911 in New Orleans)

1971, Punk Rock appeared.

1971, Paul McCartney set up the pop group Wings after the break up of The Beatles

1971, British rock group Queen was formed

28 December 1971, Max Steiner, Austrian composer (Gone With The Wind), died agedt 83

25 December 1971, Dido, singer, was born.

22 November 1971, Zez Confrey, US composer, died in Lakewood, New Jersey (born 3/4/1895 in Peru, Illinois)

9 November 1971, Ivy St Helier, British composer, died in London (born 1890 in St Helier, Jersey)

20 October 1971, Dannii Minogue, singer, and Snoop Dogg, rapper, were born.

25 August 1971, Ted Lewis, US composer, died in New York (born 6 June 1892 in Circleville, Ohio)

21 August 1971, Liam Howlett, musician, was born.

8 August 1971, Joseph Santley, US actor, died in Los Angeles (born 10 January 1889 in Salt Lake City, Utah)

22 July 1971, Ted Fiorito, US composer, died in Scottsdale, Arizona (born in Newark, New Jersey, 20 December 1900)

12 June 1971, Bert Ambrose, British violinist, died in Leeds (born 1897 in London).

7 June 1971, Ben Pollack, US drummer, died in Palm Springs, California (born 22 June 1903 in Chicago)

29 May 1971, Max Trapp, composer, died.

6 May 1971, Dickie Valentine, British singer, died in Wales (born 4 November 1929 in London)

17/4/1971, Carmen Lombardo, Canadian composer, died in North Miami, Florida (born 16 July 1903 in London, Ontario)

6/4/1971. Igor Stravinsky, Russian-born composer, died in New York City aged 88.

1/4/1971, Method Man, rap artist, was born.

17 February 1971, Martyn Bennett, musician, was born (died 31 January 2005).

1970, Roxy Music, British rock group, was formed.

14 December 1970, Elmer Schoebel, US composer, died in Miami, Florida (born 8 September 1896 in East St Louis, Illinois)

16 November 1970, Laurent Wold (Debuire), French musician, was born.

4 November 1970, Diddy Combs, rap artist, was born.

18 September 1970, Rock musician Jimi Hendrix died of a drugs overdose.

20 August 1970, Fred Durst, singer with Limp Bizkit, was born.

7 May 1970, Carlos Estrada, composer, died aged 60.

4 October 1970, Janis Lyn Joplin, US singer, died in Hollywood (born 19 January 1943 in Port Arthur, Texas).

27 March 1970, Mariah Carey, singer, was born.

17 February 1970, Alfred Newman, US composer, died in Hollywood (born 17 March 1900 in New Haven, Connecticut)

13 January 1970, Harry Woods, US composer, died in Phoenix (born� 4 November 1896 in North Chelmsford, Massachusetts)

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30 December 1969, Jay Kay, singer (Jamiroquai) was born.

4 December 1969, Jack Payne, British bandleader, died in London (born 22 August 1988 in Leamington Spa)

25 November 1969, John Lennon returned his MBE to Buckingham Palace, in protest at British involvement in the Biafra civil war in Nigeria.

23 November 1969, Spade Cooley, US musician, died in Oakland, California (born 17 December 1910 in Back Saddle Creek, Oklahoma)

22 November 1969, Acario Cotapos, Chilean composer, died aged 80

18 November 1969, Edward Heath, British composer, died in Virginia Water, Surrey (born 30 May 1900 in Wandsworth, London).

16 November 1969, Bryan Abrams, US singer was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

9 November 1969. Allison Wolfe, US musician, was born in Memphis, Tennessee

27 October 1969, Eric Maschwitz, British songwriter, died in Ascot, Berkshire (born 10 June 1901 in Birmingham)

9 October 1969, PJ Harvey, musician, was born.

3 October 1969, Gwen Stefani, singer, was born.

5 September 1969, Joshua Daniel White, US blues singer, died in Manhasset, New York (born 11 September 1915 in Greenville, South Carolina)

31 August 1969, Bob Dylan starred in a pop festival on the Isle of Wight, drawing in 150,000 fans.

7 August 1969, Joseph Kosma, composer, died near Paris (born 22 October 1905 in Budapest)

3 July 1969, Elmo Jones (Lewis Brian Hopkin-Jones) of the Rolling Stones died in Sussex

18 June 1969, Milt Herth, US organist, died in New York

5 June 1969, Vinton Freedley, US musician, died in New York (born 5 November 1891 in Philadelphia)

24 May 1969. The Black and White Minstrel Show at London�s Victoria Palace closed after 4,354 performances over seven years. It was the longest running musical show in Britain.

23 May 1969, Jimmy McHugh, US composer, died in Beverly Hills, California (born 10 July 1894 in Boston)

16/4/1969. Desmond Dekker became the first Jamaican artist to top the UK charts with The Israelites.

15/4/1969, The Woodstock music festival began in Bethel, New York.

2/4/1969, Jim Morrison, of pop group �The Doors� was arrested in the USA.

27 February 1969, John Boles, US singer, died in San Amgelo, Texas (born 27 October 1900 in Greeneville, Texas).

7 February 1969, Marvin Gaye�s I Heard It Through The Grapevine was released.

12 January 1969, British hard rock band Led Zeppelin released their first album.

5 January 1969, Marilyn Manson, singer, was born.

1968, British rock group Yes was formed

1968, Reggae Music, from Jamaica, began to become popular. Also about this time Ska Music, also Jamaican in origin, appeared. By 1990 this genre had given rise to Ragga, incorporating faster-beat styles from hip-hop and techno.

23 December 1968, Quincy Jones III, Swedish-US musician, was born in Wimbledon, London.

1968, Led Zeppelin, pop group, was formed

28 October 1968, Ben Harper, musician, was born.

20 October 1968, Bud Flanagan, British singer, died in London (born 14 October 1896 in London)

17 October 1968, Ziggy Marley, musician, was born.

28 May 1968, Kylie Minogue, singer, was born.

30/4/1968, Frankie Lymon, US pop star, died of a heroin overdose.

30 March 1968, Celine Dion, singer, was born.

23 February 1968, Tom Jones released his song Delilah.

11 February 1968, Howard Lindsay, US musician, died in New York (born 29 March 1889 in Waterford, New York)

5 February 1968, Charles Roberts, US composer, died in New York (born 7 August 1887 in Philadelphia)

28 January 1968, Sarah McLachlan, singer, was born.

14 January 1968, LL Cool, rap singer, was born.

1967, British rock group Genesis was formed

1967, British rock band Status Quo was formed (formerly, the Spectres and Traffic Jam)

10 December 1967, Otis Redding, US singer, died.

10 November 1967, The Moody Blue�s single, Nights in White Satin was released.

17 October 1967, The Rock Musical Hair by James Rado and Gerome Ragni opened on Broadway.

21 September 1967, Faith Hill, singer, was born.

11 September 1967, Harry Connick Jr., singer, was born.

7 September 1967, Rex Stewart, US jazz cornettist, died in Los Angeles (born 22 February 1907 in Philadelphia)

26 August 1967, Andres Sas, Belgian-Peruvian composer, died aged 67

29 May 1967, Geronimo Baqueiro Foster, composer, died aged 69.

8 May 1967, Laverne Andrews, US musician, died (born 6 July 1915 in Minneapolis).

5/4/1967, Mischa Elman, Russian-US violinist, died in New York (born 20 January 1891 in Talnoye, Russia).

23 March 1967, Pete Johnson, US pianist, died in Buffalo, New York (born 24 March 1904 in Kansas City)

11 March 1967, Geraldine Farrar, US opera singer, died in Ridgefield, Connecticut (born in Melrose, Massachusetts, 28 February 1882).

6 March 1967, Hungarian composer Zoltan Kodaly died.

24 February 1967, Franz Waxman, composer, died in Los Angeles (born 24 December 1906 in Konigshutte, Germany)

20 February 1967, Kurt Cobain, guitarist, was born.

15 January 1967, Albert Sirmay, composer, died in New York (born 2 July 1918 in Budapest)

The Beatles 1962-74

29 November 2001, George Harrison, musician for The Beatles, died.

30 December 1999, Former Beatle member George Harrison was stabbed several times in the chest by an intruder who broke into his house in Oxfordshire, England. He survived and lived another 2 years before dying of ;lung cancer.

25 January 1980, The US ordered the deportation of Beatle Paul McCartney after keeping him in prison for 9 days following the discovery of marijuana in his luggage.

18 October 1979, The Beatles staged a compilation show, Beatlemania, at the Astoria, London.

24 December 1974. The Beatles� legal partnership was formally dissolved.

8 May 1970. The Beatles� final album, Let It Be, was released.

9/4/1970, The Beatles pop group disbanded. There had been issues within the group since theor manager Brian Epstein�s death on 27 August 1967.� A new manager, Alan Klein, had been appointed but Paul McCartney and him did not get on well.

20 March 1969. The Beatle John Lennon married Yoko Ono in Gibraltar.

12 March 1969, Beatle Paul McCartney married Linda Eastman at Marylebone Registry Office, London.

30 January 1969. The Beatles performed together for the last time.

30 August 1968, The single Hey Jude was released by The Beatles.

5 December 1967. The Beatles opened their Apple store on Baker Street.

27 August 1967, Brian Epstein, who managed The Beatles rise to rock stardom, died in a swimming pool accident.

1 June 1967, The Beatles released their famous album, Sgt Pepper�s Lonely Hearts Club Band.

17 February 1967, The Beatles� hit, Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever single was released.

28 February 1966, The Cavern Club, where The Beatles first played, went into liquidation.

26 October 1965. The Beatles went to Buckingham Palace to be presented with their MBE�s.

12 June 1965. The Beatles were made MBEs in the Queen�s birthday honours.� A number of other holders of the medal returned theirs in disgust.

8 February 1964, The Beatles began their first US tour.

7 February 1964, 25,000 fans gathered at Kennedy Airport to greet the Beatles on their first visit to America.

1 February 1964. EMI�s managing director announced that The Beatles were making over �500,000 a month.

13 January 1964. The Beatles entered the US Charts at no. 45 with I Wanna Hold Your Hand.

13 October 1963, The Beatles (John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr) appeared on British TV in Saturday Night at the Palladium. Their popularity soared.

23 August 1963, The Beatles single She Loves You was released.

3 August 1963. The Beatles played in The Cavern, Liverpool, for the last time.

26 December 1962. The Beatles, an obscure group from Liverpool, just made no.17 in the charts with their single Love Me Do.

5 October 1962, The Beatles released their first hit, Love Me Do.

11 September 1962, The Beatles recorded their debut single Love Me Do at EMI studios, London.

16 August 1962, The Beatles manager, Brian Epstein, sacked the drummer, Pete Best, and replaced him with Ringo Starr.

9 May 1962, The Beatles signed a recording contract with EMI�s Parlophone label.

8 March 1962, The Beatles performed live on BBC for the first time, on the show Teenager Turn.

21 January 1962 The Beatles and Cliff Richard were making the charts.

1 January 1962. The Beatles had their first audition with a record company in London. Their manager, Brian Epstein, was told, guitar groups are out, this group won�t make it, go back to Liverpool.

21 March 1961, The Beatles performed for the first time at the Cavern Club, Liverpool.

6 July 1957, John Lennon (16) and Paul McCartney (15) meet for the first time as Lennon's rock group Quarrymen perform at St. Peter's, Woolton's Parish Church in Liverpool

24 February 1943, George Harrison, musician (The Beatles), was born.

18 June 1942, Paul McCartney of The Beatles pop group was born in Liverpool.

19 September 1934, Brian Epstein, manager of The Beatles, was born.

The Rolling Stones 1962-2006

19 February 2006, The Rolling Stones held the world�s largest concert on Copacabana beach, Rio de Janiero, brazil. Over one million people attended.

12 March 2003, China ordered the Rolling Stones to cut 4 songs from their concerts in Shanghai and Beijing. The songs were, Brown Sugar, Honky Tonk Woman, Beast of Burden, and Let�s Spend the Night Together.

4 September 1973. The Rolling Stones played in London for the first time in 2 � years, and then attended a party at Buckingham Palace which Mick Jagger described as �very dull�.

6 December 1969. A free concert given by the Rolling Stones, at Altamont, California, ended in tragedy when Hell�s Angels stabbed a man to death.

2 July 1969, Brian Jones, member of the Rolling Stones rock group, died.

24 May 1968, The Rolling Stones hit, Jumpin� Jack Flash was released.

1 November 1967, Rolling Stone Magazine started publication, the first Rock�n�roll periodical in the USA.

10 August 1964. An emergency casualty station had to be set up in Brighton to deal with a constant stream of hysterical girls overcome during a performance of the Rolling Stones.

16 July 1964, The Rolling Stones had their first UK No.1 hit� with It�s All Over Now.

3 June 1964, The Rolling Stones began their first US tour.

17/4/1964, The Rolling Stones released their first LP.

21 July 1962. The Rolling Stones made their first appearance at the Marquee Club in London.

1961, The British rock group Rolling Stones was formed.

1 June 1947, Ron Wood, guitarist for the Rolling Stones, was born.

26 July 1943, Mick Jagger, English rock singer (The Rolling Stones), was born as Michael Philip Jagger in Dartford

1966, The Grateful Dead, US rock band, was formed

1966, British rock group Slade was formed

1966, British rock group Procul Harum was formed

1966, Pink Floyd, British psychedelic rock band, was formed in Cambridge

8 December 1966, Sinead O�Connor, singer, was born.

17 November 1966, Jeff Buckley, musician, was born.

14 November 1966, Desmond Cox, British composer, died in London.

20 October 1966, Mohamed Fawzi, Egyptian composer who wrote the music adopted in 1963 as the National Anthem of Algeria, died aged 48.

10 October 1966, Simon and Garfunkel released their album Parsley Sage Rosemary and Thyme.

22 August 1966, GZA, rapper, was born,

20 August 1966, Dimebag Durrell, musician, was born.

4 June 1966, Cecelia Bartoli, mezzo-soprano singer, was born.

1 June 1966. Folk music fans at the Albert Hall booed Bob Dylan for performing with an electric guitar.

9 May 1966, Alfred Mendelsohn, composer, died.

9 February 1966, Sophie Tucker, last of the �red hot mamas�, died.

6 February 1966, Rick Astley, singer, was born.

2 February 1966, Go-Set, Australia's first pop music newspaper, was launched in Melbourne.

16 January 1966, Clarice Mayne, British singer, died in London (born 21 June 1886 in London)

1965, Simon and Garfunkel released �The Sound of Silence�.

23 December 1965, Eddie Vedder, rock singer (Pearl Jam) was born.

21 November 1965, Bjork Gudmundsdottir, singer, was born.

6 November 1965, US composer Edgar Varese died.

5 October 1965, Gustaf Adolf Tiburtius Bengtsson, composer, died aged 79.

12 September 1965, John Norwood Fisher, American ska-funk bassist (Fishbone), was born in California

30 August 1965, Bob Dylan released his Highway 61 Revisited album.

1 May 1965, Spike Jones, US bandleader, died in Los Angeles (born 14 December 1911 in Long Beach, California)

2 March 1965, The Sound of Music went on release in the USA. It was an instant hit.

1964, The British rock group Moody Blues was set up.

1964, The Who, British rock group, were discovered playing in a pub in Shepherds Bush, London.

2 December 1964, Sammy H Stept, composer, died in Los Angeles (born 18 September 1897 in Odessa)

30 November 1964, Don Redman, US composer, died in New York (born 29 July 1900 in Piedmont, West Virginia)

29 November 1964, Don Cheadle, US actor, was born in Kansas City, Missouri

19 September 1964, Trisha Yearwood, singer, was born.

1 August 1964, Johnny Burnette, US composer, died (born 25 March 1934 in Memphis, Tennessee)

19 July 1964, Mark Wigglesworth, conductor, was born

17 May 1964, Bob Dylan made his first major London appearance, at the Royal Albert Hall.

23/4/1964, Gianandrea Noseda, Italian pianist, was born.

15 March 1964, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton married in Montreal.

30 December 1963, German-born composer Paul Hindemith died.

14 December 1963, Dinah Washington, US singer, died in Detroit (born 29/4/1924 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama)

5 December 1963, Lynn Udall, US composer, died in Downey, California (born 4 February 1870 in Council Bluffs, Iowa)

30 November 1963, Phil Baker, US musician, died in Copenhagen (born 24 August 1896 in Philadelphia).

30 September 1963, J Russell Robinson, US composer, died in Palmdale, California (born 8 July 1892 in Indianapolis)

9 August 1963, Whitney Houston, US singer, was born.

13 July 1963, Fatboy Slim, musician, was born.

29 June 1963, Anne Sophie Mutter, violinist, was born.

25 June 1963, George Michael, British pop musician, was born.

22 June 1963, Maria Tanase, Romanian folk singer, died aged 49.

6 May 1963, Ted Weems, US bandleader, died in Tulsa, Oklahoma (born 26 September 1901 in Pitcairn, Pennsylvania)

16/4/1963, Jimmy Osmond, US singer, was born.

11/4/1963, Nigel Pulsford, English guitarist, was born.

31 March 1963, Harry Akst, US composer, died in Hollywood (born in New York, 15 August 1894)

28 March 1963, Alec Templeton, composer, died in Greenwich, Connecticut (born in Cardiff, Wales, 4 July 1909)

5 March 1963, Patsy Kline, singer, died.

25 January 1963, Marcello Giordani, Italian tenor singer, was born in Augusta, Sicily (died 2019)

24 January 1963, Otto Harbach, US singer, died in New York (born 18 August 1873 in Salt Lake City)

6 January 1963, Lina Arbanell, German singer, died (born 7 February 1895).

7 December 1962, Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian opera singer, died aged 67.

3 October 1962, Tommy Lee, musician (Motley Crue) was born.

6 September 1962, Hanns Eisler, composer, died.

23 July 1962, Victor Moore, US actor, died in East Islip, New York (born 24 February 1876 in Hammonton, New Jersey)

28 May 1962, Jesse Crawford, US organist, died in Sherman Oaks, California (born 2 December 1895 in Woodland, California)

16/4/1962, Ian MacKaye, musician, was born.

11 February 1962, Sheryl Crow, singer and musician, was born.

7 February 1962, Garth Brooks, singer, was born.

6 February 1962, Axl Rose, singer for Guns N� Roses, was born.

1961, British Merseyside rock group Gerry and the Pacemakers was formed

1961, Soul Music, of Black origin, combining Rhythm and Blues with Gospel Music, appeared.

1961, The US pop group Beach Boys was formed.

20 December 1961, Moss Hart, US musician, died in Palm Springs (born 24 October 1904)

11 November 1961, Jan Kuehnemund, US guitarist, was born.

7 October 1961, Brian Mannix, Australian rock singer, was born in Melbourne, Australia.

9 November 1961, Jill Dando, British journalist and BBC television presenter, was born in Weston-super-Mare (murdered 1999).

11 October 1961, Chico Marx, the piano-playing member of the Marx Brothers comedy team, died.

26 September 1961, Peter Dawson, Australian composer, died in Sydney (born 31 January 1882 in Adelaide)

25 August 1961, Billy Ray Cyrus, singer, was born.

8 August 1961, The Edge, musician, was born.

18 June 1961, Alison Moyet, pop singer, was born.

15 June 1961, Miguel Anga Diaz, Cuban musician, was born (died 9 August 2006)

14 June 1961, Boy George, singer (Culture Club), was born

7 June 1961, Dave Catching, US musician, was born in Memphis, Tennessee

2 June 1961, George Kaufman, US playwright, died in New York (born 14 November 1889 in Pittsburgh)

19 May 1961, Joe Howard, US composer, died in Chicago (born 12 February 1878 in New York)

2 March 1961, Simone Young, conductor, was born.

14 January 1961, Henry Ernest Geehl, British composer, died in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire (born 28 September 1881 in London)

18 November 1960, Kim Wilde, singer, was born.

13 October 1960, Joey Belladonna, US heavy metal singer, was born in Oswego, New York.

4 October 1960, Afrika Baambaataa, musician, was born.

8 September 1960, Aimee Mann, musician, was born.

3 September 1990, Joseph Lamb, US composer, died in Brooklyn, New York (born 6 December 1887 in Montclair, New Jersey)

23 August 1960, Oscar Hammerstein, US theatrical producer, died aged 65.

14 August 1960, Sarah Brightman, English singer, was born in Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire.

14 June 1960, Frank Silver, US composer, died in Brooklyn (born 8 September 1896 in Brooklyn)

11 June 1960, First performance in Aldeburgh of Benjamin Britten�s opera A Midsummer Night�s Dream.

10 June 1960, The musical Oliver opened at the Wimbledon Theatre, London. It moved to the West End on 30 June 1960

10 May 1960, Paul Hewson, singer with U2, was born.

2 May 1960, WLS-AM of Chicago became the first large radio station in the US Midwest to switch over to a rock 'n roll format

26/4/1960, Roger Taylor, English rock drummer (Duran Duran - "Hungry Like The Wolf"), was born in Birmingham, England

23/4/1960, Steve Clark, English rock guitarist (Def Leppard), was born in Hillsborough, England (died 1991)

18/4/1960, Eddie Cochrane, US rock and roll star, was born.

12/4/1960, musician Ray Charles won Best Male Vocalist Grammy award.

15 February 1960, Mikey Craig, rock bassist, was born.

22 January 1960, Michael Hutchence, musician, was born.

29 November 1959, Louise Winter, mezzo-soprano singer, was born

27 November 1959, Viktoria Mullova, violinist, was born

22 November 1959, Sam M Lewis, US singer, died in New York (born 25 October 1885 in New York)

16 November 1959, The Sound of Music, with Mary Martin and Theodore Bikel, opened at Lunt Fontaine Theatre, New York, USA.

13 October 1959, Marie Osmond, singer, was born.

28 August 1959, George W Meyer, US composer, died in New York (born 1 January 1884 in New York)

17 July 1959, Billie Holliday, US singer, died.

16 July 1959, James MacMillan, composer, was born.

2 June 1959, Lydia Lunch, US singer, was born.

28 May 1959, The Mermaid Theatre opened in the City of London.

30 March 1959, Sabine Meyer, German clarinet player, was born.

11 March 1959, Haydn Wood, British composer, died in London (born 25 March 1882 in Slathwaite, Yorkshire)

27 February 1959, Frederic Durieux, French composer, was born

18 February 1959, Erich Zeisl, US composer, born 18 May 1905, died.

3 February 1959, Buddy Holly, US musician, was killed in an air crash in Iowa.

16 January 1959, Sade, singer, was born.

1958, The Jive Dance became popular, a twisting of the hips dance, as successor to the Jitterbugging dance. Its simplicity made it popular with teenagers and adults in the 1960s.

1958, The Shadows music group was formed.

24 December 1958, Nicholas Brodszky, Russian-born composer, died in London.

9 December 1958, Rikk Agnew, US guitarist, was born in Newport Beach, California.

6 December 1958, Jose Collins, British actress, died in London (born 23 May 1887 in London)

26 November 1958, Tiny Bradshaw, US singer, died in Cincinatti (born 23 September 1905 in Youngstown, Ohio)

3 November 1958, Harry Revel, US composer, died in New York (born 21 December 1905 in London)

22 October 1958, Bobby Blotzer, US rock drummer was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

30 September 1958, Biggie Tembo, Zimbabwean musician was born in Chinhoye, Mashonaland, Zimbabwe (died 1995)

29 September 1958, Robert Mason Carlisle, US singer, was born.

22 September 1958, Andrea Bocelli, tenor singer, was born.

26 August 1958, Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer, died aged 85.

22 August 1958, Vernon Reid, musician, was born.

16 August 1958, Madonna, US singer, was born.

8 August 1958. Columbia Records signed up a 17-year-old singer called Cliff Richard.

25 July 1958, Thurston Moore, US guitarist, was born in Coral Gables, Florida.

30 July 1958, Alexander Albrecht, composer, died aged 72.

21 June 1958, Ford T Dabney, US composer, died in New York (born 15 March 1883 in Washington DC)

7 June 1958, Prince, American singer, was born.

18 May 1958, Toyah Wilcox, singer, was born.

17 May 1958, Ivor Bolton, conductor, was born.

28 March 1958, William Christopher Handy, US composer, died aged 84.

8 March 1958, Gary Numan [Webb], British new wave rock musician ("Cars"), was born in Hammersmith, England

16 February 1958, Ice-T, rapper and songwriter, was born.

Elvis Presley

21 January 1997, Colonel Tom Parker, manager of Elvis Presley, died.

16 August 1977. The rock and roll star Elvis Presley died in Memphis, Tennessee, aged 42. He died in the bathroom of his home although he was actually pronounced dead at 3.30 pm in the emergency room of the Baptist Hospital, Memphis. Overweight, he died of heart failure. He was buried in Memphis on 18 August 1977. He was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, the survivor of twin boys, on 8 January 1935.

26 June 1977. Elvis Presley made his last ever live stage appearance at the Market Square Arena in Indianopolis.

20 December 1957. At the height of his career, Elvis Presley received his call-up papers.

2 November 1957, Elvis Presley set a record with 8 simultaneous UK top 30 entries.

19 March 1957, Elvis Presley paid the US$ 1,000 deposit on a mansion called Graceland, being sold by Mrs Ruth Brown-Moore.

13 January 1957, Elvis Presley recorded All Shook Up in a Hollywood studio.

9 September 1956, Elvis Presley appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time. By his 3rd appearance, the moralistic Ed Sullivan would only show him from the waist up, concerned about his hip-thrusting.

6/4/1956, Paramount Pictures signed Elvis for a three-film, five-year contract worth $450,000.

22 February 1956, Elvis Presley entered the Charts for the first time with Heartbreak Hotel.

10 February 1956, Elvis Presley walked into a recording studio and made his first record, Heartbreak Hotel.

13 May 1955, A riot took place at an Elvis Presley concert in Jacksonville, Florida, USA.

21 December 1957, Eric Coates, British composer, died in Chichester (born in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, 27 August 1886)

9 December 1957, Donny Osmond, singer, was born.

29 November 1957, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, composer, died in Hollywood, USA (born 29 May 1897 in Brno, Czechoslovakia)

20 September 1957 Jean Sibelius, composer, died.

13 September 1957. The Mousetrap became Britain�s longest running play, reaching its 1,998^th performance.

16 August 1957, Madonna Louise Cicerone (�Madonna�), musician, was born.

11 August 1957, First performance, in Munich, of Paul Hindemith�s opera Die Harmonie der Welt (the Harmony of the World). A symphony from this opera had premiered in 1951.

3 July 1957, Laura Branigan, singer, was born.

9 May 1957, Ezio Pinza, Italian baritone singer, died in Stamford Connecticut (born 18 May 1892 in Rome)

24 March 1957, Carson J Robison, US composer, died in Pleasant Valley, New York (born 4 August 1890 in Chetopa, Kansas)

25 February 1957, Gene Buck, US songwriter, died in Great Neck, New York (born 8 August 1895 in Detroit)

19 January 1957, Micky Virtue, musician, was born.

28 December 1956, Nigel Kennedy, violinist, was born.

7 December 1956, Henry Fillimore, US composer, died in Miami, Florida (born 2 December 1881 in Cincinatti)

30 November 1956, Jean Schwartz, composer, died in Sherman Oaks, California (born 4 November 1878 in Budapest)

26 November 1956, Tommy Dorsey, band leader, died.

10 November 1956, Victor Young, US composer, died in Palm Springs, California (born 8 August 1900 in Chicago)

19 October 1956, Isham Jones, US composer, died in Florida (born 31 January 1894 in Coalton, Ohio)

1 October 1956, Albert Von Tilzer, US composer, died in Los Angeles (born 29 March 1878 in Indianapolis)

26 June 1956, Chris Isaak, singer, was born.

30 May 1956, Valaida Snow, US singer, died in New York (born 2.6/1900 in Washington DC)

21 March 1956, Ann Mackay, soprano singer, was born

26 February 1956, Keisuke Kuwata, singer, was born.

20 May 1956, Andre Charlot, French theatre director, died in Woodland, California (born in Paris 26 July 1882)

21 February 1956, Edwin Franko Goldman, US composer, died in new York (born 1 January 1978 in Louisville, Kentucky)

17 January 1956, Paul Young, singer, was born.

3 December 1955, Charles Edward Davenport, US composer, died in Cleveland (born 23/4/1894 in Anniston, Alabama)

27 November 1955, Arthur Honegger, Swiss composer, died aged 63.

25 November 1955, Bruno Tonioli, Italian dancer, was born.

29 October 1955, Dmitri Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No. 1, originally completed in 1948, was premiered by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra.

19 September 1955, Richard Burmer, US composer, was born in Owosso, Michigan (died 2006)

3 September 1955, Steve Jones, musician with the Sex Pistols, was born.

25 August 1955, Tom Costello, British music hall comedian, was born in London.

28 June 1955, John C Spikes, US songwriter, died in Pasadena, California (born 22 July 1882)

4 May 1955, Georges Enescu, Romanian composer and violinist, died in Paris, France (born 19 August 1881 in Liveni, Romania.

10/4/1955, Easter Sunday. Lesley Garrett, soprano singer, was born.

14 February 1955, Charles Cuvillier, French composer, died in Paris (born 24/4/1877 in Paris)

26 January 1955, Eddie van Halen, musician, was born.

19 January 1955, Simon Rattle, conductor, was born.

25 December 1954, Annie Lennox, singer, was born.

13 December 1954, Raymond Hubbell, US composer, died in Miami (born 1 June 1879 in Urbana, Ohio)

11 December 1954, Jermaine Jackson, singer, was born.

11 November 1954, John Rosamond Johnson, US composer, died in new York (born 11 August 1873 in Jacksonville, Florida)

8 November 1954, Rickie Lee Jones, singer and songwriter, was born.

24 October 1954, Jozef Raz, Slovak musician and singer, was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia.

5 October 1954, Bob Geldof, rock musician and charity fundraiser, was born in Dublin.

25 August 1954, Elvis Costello, English musician, was born.

11 August 1954, Joe Jackson, singer, was born.

29 June 1954, Marcello Viotti, conductor, was born (died 15 May 2005).

5 June 1954, Nicko McBrain, musician (Iron Maiden), was born.

19 May 1954, Charles Ives, US composer died (born 1874).

11 May 1954, Judith Weir, composer, was born.

1 May 1954, Ray Parker Jr., singer and songwriter, was born.

26 March 1954, Louis Silvers, US composer, died in Hollywood (born 6 September 1889 in New York)

3 March 1954, Noel Gay, British composer, died in London (born 15 July 1898 in Wakefield)

10 January 1954, Fred Raymond, Austrian composer, died in Uberlingen (born 20/4/1900 in Vienna)

1953, The Drifters group was formed,

24 October 1953, Ernest Irving, British composer, died in London (born 6 November 18777 in Godalming, Surrey)

20 October 1953, Fred E Ahlert, US composer, died in New York (born in New York 19 September 1892)

15 October 1953 Youth culture was yet to arrive, as was the word �teenager�. Top of the pop charts were Mantovani, Doris Day, and Dean Martin.

14 October 1953, Arthur Wimperis, British author, died in London (born 3 December 1874 in London)

7 September 1953, Benmont Tench, musician, was born.

22 June 1953, Cyndi Lauper, singer, was born.

17 May 1953, Leon Xanraf, French composer, died in Paris (born 9 December 1867 in Paris)

16 May 1953, Django Reinhardt, Belgian jazz guitarist, died in Fontainebleau (born 23 January 1910 near Charleroi)

23/4/1953, Peter de Rose, US composer, died in New York (born 10 March 1900 in New York)

19 March 1953, Irene Bordoni, singer, died in New York (born in Corsica, 16 January 1895)

17 March 1952, Percy Wenrich, US composer, died in New York (born 23 January 1880)

5 March 1953. Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer, died.

26 February 1953, Michael Bolton, singer, was born.

28 December 1952, Fletcher Henderson, US composer, died in New York (born 18 December 1897 in Cuthbert, Georgia)

27 December 1952, David Knopfler, musician, was born.

14 November 1952, Charts for pop singles were published in Britain for the first time, in New Musical Express.

9 October 1952, Sharon Osbourne, music manager, was born.

24 August 1952, Carlo Curley, organist, was born

21 August 1952, Joe Strummer, musician, was born.

17 July 1952, Phoebe Snow, singer, was born.

16 July 1952, Stewart Copeland, drummer with The Police, was born

12 June 1952, Oliver Knussen, composer, was born.

14 May 1952, David Byrne, US rock musician, was born in Dumbarton, Scotland

22 March 1952, Dave Macon, US country singer, died in Readyville, Tennessee (born 7 October 1870 in Readyville)

5 March 1952, Vladimir Scherbachov, composer, died aged 63.

29 January 1952, Tommy Ramone, musician and record producer, was born,

21 January 1952, Billy Ocean, musician, was born.

1 December 1951, First performance, in London, of Benjamin Britten�s opera Billy Budd.

17 November 1951, George H Clutsam, Australian composer, died in London, UK (born 26 September 1866 in Sydney)

9 November 1951, Sigmund Romberg, composer, died in New York (born in Hungary, 29 July 1887)

7 October 1951, John Cougar Mellencamp, singer, was born.

2 October 1951, Sting, musician, was born.

15 September 1951, Jacinto Guerrero, Spanish musician and composer, died aged 56

10 September 1951, Giuseppe Mule, Italian composer, died aged 66

6 September 1951, Melih Kibar, Turkish composer, was born (died 2005).

16 August 1951, Louis Jouvet, French theatre director., died.

13 July 1951, Austrian-born composer Arnold Schoenberg died.

8 June 1951, Herman Hupfield, US composer, died in Montclair, New Jersey (born 1 February 1894 in Montclair)

4 May 1951. Sigmund Esco, musician (Jackson Five), was born in Gary, Indiana.

2 May 1951, John Glascock, British bass guitarist and singer, was born in Islington, England (died 1979)

27/4/1951, Ace Frehley, musician in KISS, was born

26/4/1951, John Alden Carpenter, US composer, died aged 75.

24/4/1951, Nigel Harrison, British rock musician, was born in Stockport, Cheshire.

7/4/1951, Janis Ian, singer, was born.

24 March 1951, Sidney Catlett, US jazz drummer, died in Chicago (born 17 January 1910 in Evansville, Indiana)

6 March 1951, Ivor Novello, Welsh composer, died aged 58.

9 February 1951, Eddy Duchin, US composer, died on New York (born 1/4/1910 in Cambridge, Masachusetts)

31 January 1951, Phil Collins, rock musician, was born.

9 December 1950, Joan Armatrading, singer, was born.

25 November 1950, Yvonne Kerry, opera singer, was born

20 October 1950, Tom Petty, musician, was born.

14 October 1950, Florence Aylward, English composer, died in St Leonards on Sea (born 10 March 1862 in Brede, East Sussex)

22 June 1950, Julio Fonseca, Costa Rican composer, died aged 65.

17 June 1950, Phoebe Snow, US musician, was born.

9 June 1950, Joe Burke, US composer, died in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania (born 18 March 1884)

13 May 1950, Stevie Wonder, US singer, was born.

3/4/1950, Kurt Weill, German composer, died in New York (born 2 March 1900 in Dessau)

26 February 1950, Sir Harry Lauder, Scottish comedian and singer, died aged 79.

15 February 1950. John Adams, composer, was born.

4 February 1950, Philip Ehart, rock drummer, was born.

1949, Sreel bands, from Trinidad, were becoming popular.

22 December 1949, Robin and Maurice Gibb, musicians, were born.

7 December 1949, Tom Waits, singer and songwriter, was born.

6 December 1949, Huddie William Ledbetter, US folk and blues singer, died in New York (born 10 January 1889 in Mooringsport, Louisiana.

2 December 1949, Albert Ammons, US pianist, died in Chicago (born 23 September 1907 in Chicago).

22 October 1949, Stiv Bators, musician, was born.

11 October 1949, Daryl Hall, musician, was born.

4 October 1949, Edmund Eysler, Austrian composer, died in Vienna (born 12 March 1874 in Vienna)

24 September 1949, Pierre Breville, composer, died aged 88.

22 September 1949, David Coverdale, English rock musician, was born.

28 August 1949, Imogen Cooper, concert pianist, was born

27 August 1949, Ann Murray, mezzo-soprano singer, was born

12 August 1949, Mark Knopfler, musician, was born.

26 July 1949, Roger Taylor, drummer in Queen, was born.

15 July 1949, John Casken, composer, was born.

29 May 1949, Francis Rossi, musician, was born.

21 May 1949, Rosalind Plowright, soprano singer, was born.

18 May 1949, Rick Wakeman, British composer, was born in Perivale, Middlesex

9 May 1949. Billy Joel, American singer and songwriter, was born in the Bronx, New York.

10/4/1949, Fred Thompson (Frederick James), British singer, died in London (born 24 January 1884 in London)

26 February 1949, Emma Kirkby, soprano singer, was born.

11 February 1949, George Botsford, US composer, died in New York (born 24 February 1874 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota)

31 December 1948, Donna Summer, US singer, was born.

25 December 1948, Barbara Mandrell, US country singer, was born in Houston

11 October 1948, Daryl Hall, rock singer, was born in Pottstown, Pennsylvania

4 October 1948, Jan Savitt, composer, died in Sacramento, California (born 4 September 1908 I St Petersburg, Russia)

9 October 1948, Jackson Browne, musician, was born.

8 October 1948, Johnny Ramone, musician, was born.

26 September 1948, Olivia Newton John, singer, was born.

24 August 1948, Jean Michel Jarre, musician, was born

21 August 1948, Professor Derek Avis, cellist, was born.

21 July 1948, Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens), songwriter and musician, was born.

16 July 1948, Pinchas Zukerman, violinist, was born

29 May 1948, Linda Esther Gray, opera singer, was born.

12 May 1948, Steve Winwood, rock musician, was born.

27 August 1948, Oley Speaks, US composer, died in new York (born 28 June 1874 in Canal, Winchester, Ohio)

17/4/1948, Jan Hammer, composer, was born.

4 March 1948, Shakin� Stevens (Michael Barratt), British rock and roll singer, in Ely, Wales.

26 March 1948, Kyung Wha Chung, violinist, was born.

22 March 1948, Andrew Lloyd Webber, British composer, was born.

28 March 1948, Easter Sunday. Milan Williams, keyboard player with the Commodores, was born (died 8 July 2006)

6 March 1948, Stephen Lawrence Schwartz, US composer, was born in New York

5 March 1948, Elaine Page, singer, was born.

11 January 1948, Eva Tanguey, vaudeville star, was born in Marbleton, Quebec.

7 February 1948, William �Red� McKenzie, US blues musician, died in New York (born 14 October 1899 in St Louis).

23 January 1948, Anita Pointer, singer, was born.

31 December 1947, Burton Cummings, musician, was born.

18 October 1947, Laura Nyro, US composer, was born in New York.

3 October 1947, Kevin Richardson, rock guitarist, was born

3 September 1947, Susan Milan, flautist, was born

24 August 1947, The Edinburgh International Festival of Music and Drama was launched. It was an antidote to the prevailing austerity.

5 August 1947, Angry Anderson, singer, was born.

2 August 1947, Maria Santamaria, Spanish singer, was born in Madrid

23 July 1947, David Essex, singer, was born.

15 July 1947, Walter Donaldson, US composer, died in Santa Monica, California (born 15 February 1893 in Brooklyn, New York)

10 July 1947, Arlo Guthrie, musician, was born.

20 June 1947, First performance, at Glyndebourne, of Benjamin Britten�s opera Albert Herring.

3 June 1947, First performance, in Paris, of Francis Poulenc�s opera Mamelles de Tiresias (Breasts of Tiresias), based on Guillaume Apollinaire�s surrealist play

28/4/1947, Nicola leFanu, composer, was born

22/4/1947, Barry Guy, English composer and double bass player, was born in London.

25 March 1947. Elton John, British musician, was born in Pinner, London, as Reginald Kenneth Dwight.

10 March 1947, Andrew Parrott, conductor, was born.

8 March 1947, Carol Bayer Sager, singer and songwriter, was born.

7 March 1947, Jane Relf, singer, was born in Richmond, Surrey, England

5 March 1947, Alfredo Casella, Italian composer, pianist and conductor, died aged 63

4 March 1947, Peter Skellern, composer, was born.

15 February 1947, John Coolidge Adams, composer, was born.

28 January 1947, Reynaldo Hahn, Venezuelan-French composer, died in Paris (born 9 August 1875 in Caracas)

15 January 1947, Pete Waterman, record producer, was born.

8 January 1947. David Bowie, British musician and rock star, was born in London as David Jones.

28 December 1946, Carrie Jacobs Bond, US singer, died in Glendale, California (born 11 August 1862 in Janesville, Wisconsin)

21 December 1946, Carl Wilson, of The Beach Boys group, was born

15 December 1946, Frederic Norton, British composer, died in Holford, Somerset (born 1875 in Manchester)

16 November 1946, Mahasti, Iranian pop singer; was born in Tehran (died 2007)

1 November 1946, Ernie Erdman, US songwriter, died in Rockford, Illinois (born 23 October 1879 in Pittsburgh)

29 October 1946, Peter Green, guitarist, was born in London

18 October 1946, Howard Shore, composer, was born.

17 October 1946, Sir Cameron Mackintosh, musical producer, was born.

15 October 1946, Richard Carpenter, composer, was born.

14 October 1946, Justin Hayward, singer, was born

3 October 1946, Tim James Brymn, US composer, died in New York (born 5 October 1881 in Kinston, North Carolina)

5 September 1946, Freddie Mercury, pop star with Queen, was born.

3 September 1946, Karl Emil Paul Lincke, German composer, died near Gottingen (born 7 November 1866 in Berlin).

25 July 1946, Linda Ronstadt, singer, was born.

15 July 1946, Linda Ronstadt, singer, was born.

9 July 1946, Bon Scott, singer for AC/DC, was born.

17 June 1946, Barry Manilow, American singer and songwriter, was born in New York City.

15 June 1946. Demis Roussos, Greek operatic singer, was born; see 25 January 2015.

7 June 1945, First performance in London of Benjamin Britten�s opera, Peter Grimes, a story of frustrated homosexuality based on the 1810 poem The Borough by George Crabbe.

12/4/1946, Teddy Brown, US musician, died (born 1900)

6 January 1946, Syd Barrett, founder of Pink Floyd, was born (died 7 July 2006)

30 November 1945, Roger Glove, Welsh bass player songwriter, was born.

26 November 1945, John McVie, bassist, was born in London

23 October 1945, Kim Larsen, rock musician, was born in Copenhagen, Denmark.

2 October 1945, Don McLean, songwriter, was born.

24 September 1945, John Rutter, composer, was born

26 September 1945. Bela Bartok, composer, died.

20 June 1945, Anne Murray, singer, was born in Springhill, Nova Scotia, Canada

6 June 1945, Bob (Robert Nesta) Marley, reggae musician,� was born in Jamaica.

19 May 1945, Pete Townshend, musician in The Who, was born,

16 May 1945, Nicky Chinn, songwriter, was born in London

1 March 1945, Roger Daltry, musician, was born.

10 February 1945, Juan de Hernandez, composer, died aged 63.

10 January 1945, Rod Stewart, British rock singer, was born in London.

11 December 1944, Brenda Lee, US singer, was born in Lithonia, Georgia.

24 June 1944, Rio Gebhardt, German composer, died aged 36

1 March 1944, Roger Daltry, rock singer, was born.

10 February 1944, Peter Allen, musician, was born

13 January 1944, Johnny Noble, Hawaiian composer, died in Manoa (born 17 September 1892 in Honolulu)

18 December 1943, Keith Richards, musician, was born.

30 November 1943, Oscar Harris, Surinamese singer, was born.

24 November 1943, Robin Williamson, musician, was born in Glasgow

14 July 1943. Jules Bledsoe, US composer, died in Hollywood (born 29 December 1898 in Waco, Texas)

26 June 1943, Georgie Fame, singer, was born.

17 June 1943, Barry Manilow, musician, was born.

30/4/1943, Bobby Vee, singer, was born.

25/4/1943, Easter Sunday. Tony Christie, singer, was born.

28/4/1943, Sergei Rachmaninov, Russian composer, died in Beverley Hills, California.

7 December 1942, Harry Chapin, singer and songwriter, was born.

17 October 1942, Gary Puckett, musician, was born.

20 August 1942, Isaac Hayes, singer, was born.

30 July 1942, Jimmy Blanton, US jazz bass-player, died in Monrovia, California.

19 July 1942, Vikki Carr, US singer, was born in El Paso, Texas

24 June 1942, Mick Fleetwood, drummer, was born.

29 May 1942. Bing Crosby recorded the bestseller White Christmas for the soundtrack of the film Holiday Inn.

11 May 1942, Ian Drury, singer, was born.

19/4/1942, Alan Price, British singer, was born near Jarrow.

25 March 1942, Aretha Franklin, US singer, was born.

4 March 1942, Yuliya Lazarevna Veysberg, composer, died aged 62.

25 February 1942, Leo Ascher, Austrian composer, died in New York (born 17 August 1880 in Vienna)

13 February 1942, Peter Tork, musician, was born.

10 February 1942, American bandleader Glen Miller was presented with a gold record of his popular tune �Chattanooga Choo Choo�; the tune was the first to hit one million sales.

5 November 1941, Art Garfunkel, of Simon and Garfunkel, was born in New York.

2 November 1941, Bruce Welch, guitarist, was born.

28 October 1941, Hank Marvin, guitarist, was born.

26 October 1941, Victor Schertzinger, US composer, died in Hollywood (born 8/4/1880 in Mahanoy, Pennsylvania)

20 February 1941, Buffy Sainte-Marie, musician was born in Qu'Appelle Valley, Saskatchewan, Canada

21 January 1941, Placido Domingo, Spanish operatic tenor, was born in Madrid.

20 January 1941, Pierre Lalonde, Canadian singer, was born.

26 December 1940, Oley Speaks, US composer, was born in New York

24 December 1940, Billy Hill, US composer, died in Boston (born 14 July 1899 in Boston)

23 December 1940, Eugene Record, lead singer of the band Chi-Lites, was born (died 22 July 2005)

4 December 1940, John Cale, musician, was born.

9 October 1940. John Lennon, songwriter and musician in The Beatles pop group, was born in Liverpool.� He was the son of a ship�s steward.

7 July 1940, Ringo Starr, drummer in the Beatles pop group, was born Liverpool as Richard Starkey.

8 June 1940, Nancy Sinatra, daughter of singer Frank Sinatra, was born.

13/4/1940, Lester Chambers, American rock and soul singer, was born.

12/4/1940, Herbie Hancock, composer, was born.

19 February 1940, Smokey Robinson, musician, was born.

26 November 1939, Tina Turner, singer, was born.

19 August 1939, John Patrick Harrington, British composer, died in London (born 1 May 1865 in London).

3 August 1939, Eugust Enna, composer, died aged 80.

25 July 1939, Richard Akre Trythall, US composer, was born in Knoxville, Tennessee

20 July 1939, Daniel Eyers Godfrey, British musician, died (born 20 June 1868).

18 July 1939, Dion DiMucci, singer, was born in the Bronx, New York

13 July 1939. Frank Sinatra made his first record, �From the Bottom of my Heart� with the Harry James band.

3 July 1939, Brigitte Fassbaender, mezzo-soprano singer, was born.

16 June 1939. Chick Webb, US composer, died in Baltimore (born 10 February 1909 in Baltimore)

6 June 1939, Giacomo Aragall, tenor singer, was born

27 May 1939, Don Williams, country singer, was born.

1 May 1939, Judy Collins, US folk singer, was born in Denver, Colorado.

21/4/1939, Edna Savage, UK singer, was born (died 31 December 2000).

16/4/1939, Dusty Springfield (Mary O�Brien), British singer, was born in Hampstead, London

10/4/1939, Glen Miller recorded Little Brown Jug.

2/4/1939, Marvin Gaye, soul singer, was born.

13 March 1939, Neil Sedaka, singer and composer, was born.

1 March 1939. Leo Brouwer, composer and guitarist, was born in Havana, Cuba

11 February 1939, Gerry Goffin, US singer, was born in New York.

19 January 1939, Phil Everly, musician, was born.

9 January 1939, Johan III Strauss, musician, died in Berlin (born 16 February 1866 in Vienna)

20 December 1938, John Harbison, composer, was born in Orange, New Jersey.

12 December 1938, Connie Francis, singer, was born.

5 December 1938, JJ Cale, musician, was born.

6 November 1938, PJ Proby, singer, was born

3 October 1938, Eddie Cochran, US singer, was born.

16 August 1938, Robert Johnson, US blues singer, died in Greenwood, Missouri (born 8 May 1911 in Hazlehurst, Missouri)

2 August 1938, Bjarni Thorsteinsson, Icelandic composer, died aged 76

27 July 1938, James Thornton, composer, died in Astoria, New York (born 5 December 1861 in Liverpool� UK)

21 June 1938, Don Black, singer, was born.

13 June 1938, Gwynne Howell, opera singer, was born

12 June 1938, Ian Partridge, tenor singer, was born.

5 June 1938, Moira Anderson, Scottish singer, was born in Kirkintilloch.

29/4/1938, Klaus Voormann, rock bassist, was born in Berlin, Germany

17 March 1938. Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev born in Irkutsk, Siberia.

8 March 1938, Edgar McPhail Smith, US actor, died in Bayside, New York (born 9 December 1857 in Brooklyn, New York)

16 February 1938, John Corigliano, US composer, was born.

10 February 1938, Richard A Whiting, US composer, died in Beverly Hills, California (born 12 November 1891 in Peoria)

28 December 1937, Maurice Ravel, composer, died.

7 November 1937, Mary Allin, pop-folk musician, was born.

21 August 1937, Kenny Rogers, US country music singer, was born in Houston

11 July 1937, US composer George Gershwin died, aged 38.

15 June 1937, Waylon Jennings, US composer, was born in Littlefield, Texas.

11 May 1937, Viliam Figus, composer, died aged 62.

4 May 1937, Marisa Robles, harpist, was born.

6/4/1937, Merle Haggard, US country and western singer, was born in Bakersfield, California.

31 March 1937, Herb Alpert, US composer, was born in Los Angeles.�

24 March 1937, Benjamin Luxon, baritone singer, was born.

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31 January 1937, Philip Glass, US composer, was born.

19 January 1937, Giovanna Marini, singer, was born in Rome, Italy

8 January 1937, Shirley Bassey, British singer and entertainer, was born in Cardiff, Wales.

11 November 1936, Edward German, British composer, died in London (born in Whitchurch, Shropshire, 17 February 1862)

24 October 1936, Bill Wyman, musician, was born

10 October 1936, Nana Mouskouri, Greek singer, was born in Athens.

7 September 1936, Buddy Holly, US singer songwriter, was born.

7 August 1936, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, US jazz musician, was born in Columbus, Ohio (died 5 December 1977 in Bloomington, Indiana).

22 June 1936, Kris Kristofferson, US country singer, was born in Brownsville, Texas.

25 May 1936, Tom Hall, US country singer, was born in Olive Hill, Kentucky.

20 May 1936, Rufus Harley, musician, was born (died 1 August 2006)

23/4/1936, Roy Orbison, singer, was born.

22/4/1936, Glen Campbell, US country singer, was born in Delight, Arkansas.

22 March 1936, Roger Whittaker, British singer, was born in Nairobi, Kenya (son of an emigrant Staffordshire grocer)

15 March 1936, Howard Greenfield, songwriter, was born in Brooklyn, New York (died 1986)

9 February 1936, William Rimmer, British composer, died in Southport (born 2862 in Southport)

1 February 1936, Alex Hill, US composer, died in Little Rock, Arkansas (born 19/4/1906 in Little Rock, Arkansas)

7 January 1936, Guy d�Hardelot, French singer, died in Shepperton, Middlesex (born 1858 at Chateau d�Hardelot, Boulogne sur Mer.

1935, The Conga dance, Latin American but of Black origin, became popular.

24 December 1935, Alban Berg, composer, died in Vienna.

5 December 1935, Richard Little, US rock singer, was born in Macon, Georgia.

24 June 1935, Carlos Gardel, Uruguayan singer, died in Medellin, Colombia (born 11 December 1887 in Tacuarembo)

10 May 1935, Larry Williams, US rhythm and blues singer, was born in New Orleans (died 2 January 1980 in Los Angeles)

24/4/1935, Dan Stuart Godfrey, British musician, died (born 21 May 1893)

2/4/1935, Bennie Moten, US composer, died in Kansas City (born 13 November 1894 in Kansas City)

22 January 1935, Sam Cooke, US composer, was born in Chicago (died 11 December 1964 in Los Angeles)

24 November 1934, Alfred Schnittke, German composer, was born (died 1998).

13 October 1934, Nana Mouskouri, singer, was born in Chania, Crete, Greece.

17 July 1934, Philippe Capdenat, French composer, was born in Bordeaux, France

15 July 1934, Sir Harrison Birtwistle, composer, was born

10 June 1934, British composer Frederick Delius died in France.

28 May 1934, The first Glyndebourne Festival began in Sussex, with Mozart�s opera Le Nozze di Figaro. The festival was begun by John Christie, husband of the opera singer Audrey Mildmay.

25 May 1934. composer Gustav Holst, who wrote The Planets, died aged 59. He was buried in Chichester Cathedral.

2 May 1934, Philip Braham, British composer, died in London.

29/4/1934, Otis Rush, musician, was born.

24/4/1934, Laurens Hammond filed a patent for an "electrical musical instrument" known today as the Hammond organ.

11 March 1934, John D Burgess, piper, was born (died 29 June 2005)

24 February 1934, Renata Scotto, soprano singer, was born

23 February 1934. Sir Edward Elgar, English composer, (born 2 June 1857), died of pneumonia in Worcester. On 10 November 1910 he conducted the first performance of his violin concerto, played by Fritz Kreisler, at the Queen�s Hall, London Applause was described as worthy of the Battle of Trafalgar.

18 February 1934, Yoko Ono, the widow of Jon Lennon, was born.

23 November 1933, Krzyszrof Penderecki, composer, was born

3 November 1933, John Barry, composer, was born.

18 October 1933, Ben Bagley, US musician, was born in Hardwick, Vermont.

10 September 1933, Adrian Ross, British singer, died in London (born 23 December 1859 in Lewisham, London)

11 August 1933, Tamas Vassary, pianist and conductor, was born.

8 August 1933, Joe Tex, (Joseph Arrington), US soul singer, was born in Baytown, Texas (died 13 August 1982 in Navasota, Texas)

15 July 1933, Julian Bream, guitarist, was born.

10 July 1933, Jerry Herman, US composer, was born in New York.

4 May 1933, James Brown, musician, was born.

29/4/1933. Rod McKuen, US composer, was born in Oakland, California

16/4/1933, Easter Sunday. Dusty Springfield, singer, was born.

12/4/1933, Montserrat Cahalle, opera and concert singer, was born.

21 February 1933, Nina Simone, singer, was born.

29 January 1933, Sacha Distel, French composer, was born in Paris.

6 January 1933, Vladimir de Pachmann, 84, renowned Russian pianist, died aged 84

1 December 1932, Amadeo Vives, Spanish composer, died in Madrid (born 18 November 1871 near Barcelona)

27 November 1932, James Ord Hume, British composer, died in London (born 14 September 1864 in Edinburgh)

15 November 1932, Petula Clark, singer, was born.

16 October 1932, Henry Lewis, US musician, was born.

11 October 1932, Dottie West, US country singer, was born in McMinnville, Tennessee

28 September 1932, Sir Jeremy Isaacs, Director-General, Royal Opera House, was born

13 September 1932, Bengt Hallberg, Swedish pianist and composer, was born.

10 September 1932, Percy E Fletcher, British composer, died in London (born in Derby 12 December 1879).

27 June 1932, Hugh Wood, composer, was born.

21 June 1932, Lalo Schifrin, US composer, was born in Buenos Aires

29 May 1932, Karl Ridderbusch, German musician, was born.

8/4/1932, Fred Ebb, US singer, was born in New York.

9/4/1932, Carl Perkins, musician, was born.

1/4/1932, Debbie Reynolds, US actress, was born in El Paso, Texas

6 March 1932, John Philip Sousa, composer, died.

4 March 1932, Miriam Makeba, singer, was born.

26 February 1932, Johnny Cash, US singer, was born.

8 February 1932, John Williams, composer and conductor, was born.

7 February 1932, Henry E Pether, British songwriter, was born in London

11 January 1932, Mary Rodgers, US composer, was born in New York

1931, The Rumba dance became popular in New York. It is Cuban-African in origin, and was being played in Madrid in the mid-1800s.

20 December 1931. Skeeter Davis, US country singer, was born in Dry Ridge, Kentucky.

3 October 1931. Death of the Danish composer Carl Nielsen.

8 September 1931, Jimmy Glover, British composer, died in Hastings (born 18 June 1861 in Kingstown, Dublin)

28 August 1931, John Shirley-Quirke, bass baritone singer, was born.

1 August 1931, Jack Elliott, US folk singer, was born in Brooklyn, New York.

7 May 1931, Teresa Brewer, US singer, was born in Toledo.

4 May 1931, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, conductor, was born.

27/4/1931 Igor Oistrakh, violinist, was born.

13/4/1931, Anita Cerquetti, Italian soprano, was born (died 2014).

6/4/1931, Joan Carlyle, soprano singer, was born.

23 March 1931, Dame Nellie Melba, Australian singer, died.

5 March 1931. Barry Tuckwell, horn player and conductor, was born.

29 January 1931, Leslie Bricusse, composer, was born.

22 January 1931, Sam Cooke, singer, was born.

22 December 1930, Charles Kassell Harris, US composer, died in New York (born 1 May 1867 in Poughkeepsie, New York State).

3 December 1930, Andy Williams, US singer, was born.

1 December 1930, Matt Monro, British singer, was born in London (died 7 February 1985 in Ealing, west London)

22 November 1930, Marjorie Kennedy-Fraser, Scottish composer, died in Edinburgh (born 1.10/1857 in Perth).

12 October 1930, Cyril Tawney, British composer, was born in Gosport, Hampshire.

8 October 1930, Pepper Adams, US composer, was born in Highland, Michigan (died 10/0/1096 in New York)

11 August 1930, Heinz Werner Zimmermann, composer

3 July 1930, Carlos Kleiber, conductor, was born.

28 May 1930, Julian Penkivil Slade, composer, was born.

22 May 1930, Kenny Ball, trumpeter, was born.

11 May 1930, Gordon Langford, British composer, was born in Edgware, Middlesex

8 May 1930, Heather Harper, soprano singer, was born.

12/4/1930, First performance, in Brno, of Leon Janacek�s opera From the House of the Dead/

9 March 1930, First performance, in Leipzig, of Kurt Weill�s opera Aufsteig und Fall der Stadt Mahogany (Rise and Fall of the City of Mahogany).

22 March 1930, Stephen Sondheim, composer, was born.

2 March 1930, Stephen Sondheim, US composer, was born.

26 February 1930, Lazar Berman, pianist, was born (died 6 February 2005)

12 January 1930, First performance, in Leningrad, of Dmitri Shostakovich�s opera The Nose, based on Gogol�s short story.

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1929, The British Federation of Banjoists, Mandolinists and Guitarists was founded.

23 December 1929, Chet Baker, US singer, was born in Yale, Oklahoma (died 13 May 1988 in Amsterdam)

28 November 1929. Berry Gordy, US musician, was born in Detroit

2 November 1929, The first News Theatre Cinema opened in New York, the Embassy.

12 October 1929, Magnus Magnusson, British writer and TV presenter, was born in Reykjavik, Iceland.

29 September 1929, Lata Mangeshkar, musician, was born.

19 August 1929, Sergei Diaghilev, Russian impresario, died.

11 August 1929, Professor Alun Hoddinott, composer, was born.

10 August 1929, John Aldis, conductor, was born.

13 May 1929, Burt Bacharach, composer, was born,

3 February 1929, Val Doonican, singer, was born.

30 July 1929, Christine McGuire, American singer, was born.

26 July 1929, Alexis Weissenberg, Bulgarian pianist, was born in Sofia (died 2012)

23 June 1929, June Carter Cash, singer, was born.

26 May 1929, Bodewalte J Lampe, composer, died in New York (born in Ribe, Denmark, 8 November 1869)

25 May 1929, Beverly Sills, soprano singer, was born.

2 May 1929, Fred Lincoln Wray, rock guitarist, was born (died 5 November 2005)

17/4/1929, James Last, composer, was born.

8/4/1929, Jacques Brel, Belgian composer, was born in Brussels (died 9/10.1978 in Bobigny, Paris).

21 March 1929, First performance in London of Ralph Vaughan William�s opera Sir John in Love, based on Shakespeare�s play The Merry Wives of Windsor.

24 February 1929, Andre Messager, French composer, died in Paris (born 30 December 1853 in Montlucon)

10 February 1929, Jerry Goldsmith, US composer, was born in Los Angeles.

28 January 1929, Acker Bilk, British clarinettist, was born in Pensford, Somerset.

31 December 1928, Ross Barbour, US musician, was born.

30 December 1928, Bo Diddley, US rock singer, was born in McComb, Missouri.

18 December 1928, Galt McDermot, Canadian composer, was born in Montreal

3 December 1928, Andy Williams, US singer, was born in Wall Lake, Iowa.

23 November 1928, Jerry Bock, US composer, was born in New Haven, Connecticut.

18 November 1928, Otar Gordeli, Georgian composer, was born in Tbilisi (died 1994)

27 October 1928, Cleo Laine, British singer, was born in Southall, near London

23 September 1928, Frank Foster, saxophonist, was born.

12 September 1928, Howard Talbot, British composer, died in Reigate, Surrey (born 9 March 1865 in Yonkers, New York)

31 August 1928, First performance in Berlin of the opera Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), with music by Kurt Weill, adapting John Gay�s The Beggar�s Opera (1728) to the setting of 1920s Soho, London.

26 August 1928, Actress Barbara Stanwyck and vaudeville comedian Frank Fay were married in St. Louis.

22 August 1928, Karlheinz Stockhausen, composer, was born

12 August 1928, Leos Janacek, Czech composer, died aged 74.

27 July 1928, Sakari Mononen, Finnish composer, was born in Korpiselka (died 1997)

25 June 1928, Bill Russo, US composer, was born in Chicago

12 June 1928, Vic Damone, US singer, was born in Brooklyn, New York.

27 May 1928, Thea Musgrave, composer, was born.

23 May 1928, Rosemary Clooney, US singer, was born in Maysville, Kentucky.

27 March 1928, Leslie Stewart, British composer, died in Richmond, Surrey (born 15 March 1864 in Southport, Lancashire)

15 March 1928, Bob Wilber, US musician, was born in New York

26 February 1928, Fats Domino, US pianist, was born.

8 February 1928, Oslan Ellis, harpist, was born.

1927, First instance of tap dancing.

1927, The first all-electric jukeboxes were produced in Chicago. Mass production of them began in 1934 and by 1939 there were 350,000 of them in US bars and restaurants.

27 December 1927, First performance in New York of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II�s musical Show Boat.

3 December 1927, Andy Williams, singer, was born.

1 November 1927, Florence Mills, US singer, died in new York (born 25; January 1895 in Washington DC)

24 October 1927, Gilbert Becaud, French composer, was born in Toulon.

25 September 1927, Colin Davis, conductor, was born

14 September 1927, US dancer Isadora Duncan, aged 49, was strangled to death when her long scarf became tangled in the rear wheel of a sports car.

13 August 1927, Hermann� Albert, German musicologist, died in Stuttgart (born 25 March 1871, Stuttgart).

11 August 1927, Raymond Leppard, conductor, was born

19 June 1927, Karel Kupka, Czech composer, was born in Rychvald.

3 May 1927, Ernest R Ball, US composer, died in Santa Ana, California (born 21 July 1878 in Cleveland, Ohio)

27 March 1927, Mstislav Rostropovich, cellist, was born (died 27/4/2007).

18 March 1927, John Harold Kander, US composer, was born in Kansas City

1 March 1927, Harry Belafonte, singer, was born.

10 February 1927, Leontyne Price, soprano singer, was born.

27 January 1927, Nina Milkina, Russian-born pianist, was born (died 29 November 2006)

9 November 1926, Piero Cappuccilli, baritone singer, was born (died 12 July 2005)

7 November 1926, Dame Joan Sutherland, opera singer, was born.

28 October 1926, Jon Vickers, tenor singer, was born

18 October 1926, Chuck Berry, US singer, was born.

19 September 1926, Arthur Wills, composer, was born

22 August 1926, Bob Flanigan, US musician, was born.

14 August 1926, Buddy Greco, singer, was born

2 July 1926, Hans Werner Henze, composer, was born.

23 June 1926, Hank Shaw, trumpeter, was born (died 26 October 2006)

26 May 1926, Joseph Horowitz, composer, was born in Vienna

25/4/1926, First performance in Milan of Giacomo Puccini�s opera Turandot.

9 March 1926, Jerry Ross, US composer, was born in New York (died 11 November 1955 in New York)

10 January 1926, Derek Hammond-Stroud, operatic baritone singer, was born.

19 December 1925, Robert B Sherman, US songwriter, was born in New York

14 December 1925, First performance in Berlin of Alban Berg�s opera Wozzeck.

23 November 1925, Johnny Mandel, US composer, was born in New York

11 November 1925, Gunther Schuller, US composer, was born in Jackson Heights, New York

13 September 1925, Mel Torme, US composer, was born in Chicago.

10 September 1925, Roy Brown, US composer, was born in New Orleans (died in Pacoima, California, 25 May 1981)

30 August 1925, Donald O�Connor, US singer, was born in Chicago

29 July 1925, Mikis Theodorakis, Greek composer, was born in Chios

6 July 1925, Bill Haley, musician, was born.

28 May 1925, Dietrich Fisher Dieskau, baritone singer, was born

25 May 1925, Henry Petrie, US composer, died in Paw Paw, Michigan (born 4 March 1857 in Bloomington, Illinois)

17 February 1925, Ron Goodwin, British composer, was born in Plymouth.

2 February 1925, David Whitfield, British singer, was born in Hull (died 16 January 1980 in Sydney)

1924, The Quick Time Foxtrot Dance developed from the Foxtrot, becoming known as the Quickstep by 1927.

29 November 1924, Composer Puccini died in Brussels.

16 November 1924, Edward Everett Rice, US composer, was born in Brighton, Massachusetts.

26 October 1924, Lew Dockstader, US singer, died (born 1856).

13 September 1924, Maurice Jarre, French composer, was born in Lyons

7 September 1924, Leonard Rosenman, US composer, was born in New York

29 August 1924, Dinah Washington, US singer, was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama (died14 December 1963 in Detroit)

25 August 1924, Heinrich Berte, Hungarian composer, died in Vienna (born 8 May 1858 in Galgocz)

20 August 1924, Jim Reeves, US country singer, was born in Galloway, Texas (died 31 July 1964 in Tennessee)

14 August 1924, Lee Adams, US musician, was born in Mansfield, Ohio.

2 July 1924, Rick Besoyan, US composer, was born in Reedley, California (died in Sayville, Long Island, 13 March 1970)

17 June 1924, Sir Edward Downes, conductor, was born.

25 May 1924, Theodore F Morse, US composer, died in New York (born 13/4/1873 in Washington DC)

18/4/1924, Clarence �Gatemouth� Brown, musician, was born (died 10 September 2005)

27 March 1924, Sarah Vaughan, US singer, was born in Newark, New Jersey (died 3/4/1990 in Los Angeles)

4 March 1924, Happy Birthday to You, a song written by two US teachers, the sisters Patty and Mildred Hill, first appeared in print in a book by Robert H Coleman.

27 February 1924, Trevor Duncan, English composer, was born in Cornwall.

2 February 1924, Elfi von Dassanowsky, singer and pianist, was born in Vienna, Austria (died 2007)

6 January 1924, Earl Scruggs, US country banjoist, was born.

6 December 1923, Jim Eanes, musician, was born (died 21 November 1995).

2 December 1923, Maria Callas, Greek-US soprano singer, was born.

1 November 1923, Victoria de los Angeles, soprano singer, was born (died 14 January 2005).

17 September 1923, Hank Williams, musician, was born.

1 August 1923, Yoshinao Nakada, Japanese composer, was born in Shibuya, Tokyo (died 2000)

29 June 1923, Gustav Kerker, composer, died in new York (born 28 February 1857 in Herford, Germany)

26 June 1923, Syd Lawrence, British bandleader, was born in Shotton, near Chester

12 June 1923, Fa�ade was performed at the Aeolian Hall, London. English poet Edith Sitwell recited her poems to William Walton�s accompanying music.

28 May 1923, Gyorgy Ligeti, Hungarian composer, was born (died 2006).

27 February 1923, Dexter Gordon, US jazz saxophonist, was born in Los Angeles (died 25/4/1990 in Philadelphia)

19 February 1923, Jeronomo Gimenez, Spanish composer, died in Madrid (born 10 October 1854 in Seville)

10 November 1922, John Crook, British composer, died in London (born 1852 in Manchester).

11 August 1922, Ron Grainer, Australian composer, was born in Atherton, Queensland (died 1981 in London)

27 July 1922, Bob Thiele, US songwriter, was born in Brooklyn, New York

28/4/1922, Phil Tate, bandleader, was born (died 9 December 2005)

22/4/1922, Charles Mingus, musician, was born.

8/4/1922, Carmen McRae, US singer, was born in New York

26 January 1922, Luigi Denza, Italian composer, died in London (born 24 February 1846 in Castellamare di Stabia).

3 January 1922, Siegmund Nissel, German musician, was born.

28 December 1921, Johnny Otis, US singer, was born in Vallejo, California.

16 December 1921, French composer and organist Camille Saint-Saens died aged 86.

22 October 1921, Georges Brassens, French singer, was born in Sete (died 30 October 1981 in Sete).

27 September 1921, German composer Engelbert Humperdinck died.

2 August 1921. Death of the Italian tenor Enrico Caruso, whose funeral in Naples was attended by 50,000 people.

13 July 1921, Ernest Gold, Austro-US composer, was born in Vienna.

26 May 1921, Hal David, musician, was born.

17 May 1921, Bob Merrill, US composer, was born in Atlantic City

20 November 1920, Armin Schibler, Swiss composer, was born.

13 October 1920, Albert Hague, US composer, was born in Berlin.

12 August 1920, Percy Mayfield, US singer, was born (died 11 August 1984)

26 June 1920, Leonid Hambro, pianist, was born (died 23 October 2006)

18 June 1920, Ian Carmichael, British actor, was born in Hull.

23 May 1920, Helen O'Connell, US singer was born in Lima, Ohio (died 1993)

29 July 1919, Vic Lewis, British bandleader, was born in London.

30 August 1919, Kitty Wells, singer, was born.

26 August 1919, Georgia Gibbs (Freda Lipschitz), singer, was born (died 9 December 2006)

1 June 1919, Manuel Klein, US composer, died in New York (born in London, UK, 6 December 1876)

18 May 1919, Margot Fonteyne, English ballerina, was born (died 1991).

16 May 1919. Waldzin Valentino Liberace was born in Wisconsin. His father wanted him to be an undertaker.

9 May 1919, James Reese Europe, US musician, died in Boston, Massachusetts (born 22 February 1881 in Mobile, Alabama)

17 March 1919, Nat King Cole, singer, was born.

13 March 1919, Amy Woodforde-Finden, British composer, died in London (born 1860 in Valparaiso, Chile)

20 January 1919, Stepan Lucky, composer, was born.

1918, The Shimmy Dance became fashionable. It was a type of foxtrot, and remained popular through the 1920s.

16 October 1918, Felix Arndt, composer, died aged 29.

19 August 1918, Orville Gibson, US musician, died in Ogdensburg, New York.

6 August 1918, Norman Granz, US musician, was born in Los Angeles.

3 August 1918, Les Elgart, US bandleader, was born in New Haven, Connecticut

2 July 1918, Albert Sirmay, composer, was born in Budapest (died 15 January 1967 in New York)

24 May 1918, First performance of Bela Bartok�s opera A Kekszakallu Herceg Vara (Duke Bluebeard�s Castle) in Budapest.

17 May 1918, Birgit Nilsson, Swedish opera singer, was born (died 1999)

3/4/1918, Sixten Ehrling, conductor, was born (died 13 February 2005)

25 March 1918, Claude Debussy, French composer, died of cancer in London aged 55.

18 November 1917, Pedro Infante, Mexican actor and singer, was born.

30 October 1917, Anna Marly, singer, was born (died 15 February 2006)

8 October 1917, George Webb, British pianist, was born in London

13 September 1917, Robert Ward, American composer, was born (died 2013)

22 August 1917, John Lee Hooker, singer, was born.

21 May 1917, Dennis Day, US singer, was born in New York (died 22 May 1988 in Brentwood, California)

1/4/1917, Scott Joplin, American composer, died in poverty in an asylum.

23 March 1917, Jerry Guarnieri, US jazz composer, was born in New York (died 7 January 1985 in New York)

20 March 1917. Dame Vera Lynn was born.

20 January 1917, John Raite, baritone singer, was born (died 20 February 2005).

28 December 1916, Eduard Strauss, Austrian composer, died in Vienna (born 15 March 1835 in Vienna)

2 December 1916, Paolo Tosti, Italian composer, died (born 1846)

6 November 1916, Ray Conniff, US trombonist, was born in Attleboro, Massachusetts.

22/4/1916, Yehudi Menuhin, US violinist, was born.

4 January 1916, Slim Gaillard, US musician, was born in Detroit.

1915, The Foxtrot dance was becoming popular in the USA.

9 December 1915, Elizabeth Schwarzkopf, singer, was born.

2 December 1915, Adolph Green, US singer, was born in New York

30 November 1915, Brownie McGhee, US blues singer, was born in Knoxville, Tennessee

29 November 1915, Billy Strayhorn, US composer, was born in Dayton Ohio (died� 31 May 1967 in New York)

28 October 1915, The first performance of Richard Strauss�s �Alpine Symphony� in Berlin.

24 October 1915, Tito Gobbi, Italian baritone singer, was born (died 1984)

4 October 1915, George Edwardes, British musician, died in Clee, Lincolnshire (born 4 October 1855 in London)

12 September 1915, Billy Daniels, US singer, was born in Jacksonville, Florida (died 7 October 1988 in Los Angeles)

28 March 1915, Jay Livingstone, US composer, was born in McDonald, Pennsylvania.

31 July 1915, George Forest Chichester, US composer, was born in Brooklyn, New York.

15 June 1915, Eleanor Warren, cellist, was born (died 25 August 2005).

9/4/1915, Rudolph Schock, German singer, was born in Duisburg (died13 November 1986 in Berlin)

28 February 1915, Zero Mostel (Joel Samuel), US actor, was born in Brooklyn, New York.

3 February 1915, Richard Bales, composer, was born.

27 January 1915, Jack Brymer, English musician, was born� in South Shields, England (died 2003)

10 January 1915, Buddy Johnson, US composer, was born in Darlington, South Carolina (died 9 February 1977 in New York)

9 November 1914, Jean-Baptiste Faure, French opera singer, died.

7 October 1914, Alfred Drake, US singer, was born

31 May 1914, Akira Ifukube, composer, was born (died 8 February 2006)

24 May 1914, Harry Parr-Davies, British composer, was born in Briton Ferry, Glamorganshire (died 14 October 1955 in London)

16 February 1914, Jimmy Wakely, US composer, was born in Mineola, Arkansas (died� 23 September 1982)

13 February 1914, ASCAP, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers was formed in New York, to protect the interests of music composers and publishers.

12 February 1914, Tex Beneke, US saxophonist, was born in Fort Worth, Texas.

11 February 1914, Matt Dennis, US composer, was born in Seattle

10 February 1914, Larry Adler, US composer, was born in Baltimore.

9 February 1914, Ernest Dale Tubb, US country singer, was born near Crisp, Texas (died 6 September 1984 in Nashville, Tennessee)

10 December 1913, Morton Gould, US composer, was born in Richmond Hill, New York

22 November 1913, Benjamin Britten, English composer, was born in Lowestoft, Suffolk.

27 October 1913, Boyd Raeburn, US band leader, was born in Faith, South Dakota (died 2 August 1966 in New York)

25 August 1913, Stephen Adams, English composer, died in Buxton (born 31 January 1884 in Liverpool)

1 August 1913, Jerome Moross, US composer, was born in Brooklyn, new York (died 25 July 1983 in Miami)

18 June 1913, Sammy Cahn, US singer, was born in New York

16 June 1913, CW Murphy, British composer, died in London.

11 May 1913, Tutti Camarata, musician, was born (died 13/4/2005).

1 May 1913, Walter Susskind, conductor, was born.

25/4/1913, Earl Bostic, US composer, was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma (died in Rochester, New York, 28 October 1965)

4/4/1913. Frances Langford, US singer, was born in Lakeland, Florida

24 March 1913, The Palace Theater, New York, opened on Broadway, 47th Street.

26 January 1913, James Van Heusen, US composer, was born in Syracuse, New York (died 6 February 1990 in Rancho Mirage, California)

25 January 1913, Witold Lutosławski, Polish composer, was born in Warsaw (died 1994)

24 January 1913, Gustav Luders, US composer, died in Chicago (born 13 December 1865 in Bremen, Germany)

22 December 1912, Tony Martin, US singer, was born in Oakland, California.

5 September 1912, Composer John Cage was born

27 August 1912, Tarzan of the Apes, by Edgar Rice Burroughs, first went into print as a magazine serial.

26 July 1912, Samuel Goldberg Clark, US singer, was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts (died 1 October 1949 in Los Angeles)

14 July 1912, Woody Guthrie, US folk singer, was born in Oklahoma.

1 July 1912, The first Royal Command Performance took place at the Palace Theatre, London, watched by King George V and Queen Mary.

9 June 1912, Edgar Evans, tenor singer, was born.

24 May 1912, Joan Hammond, New Zealand soprano singer, was born.

13 May 1912, Gil Evans, Canadian jazz pianist, was born on Toronto (died 20 March 1988 in Mexico)

7/4/1912, Easter Sunday. Jack Lawrence, US composer, was born in New York

19 February 1912, Saul Chaplin, US composer, was born in Brooklyn, New York

16 February 1912, Gwydion Brooke, bassoonist, was born (died 27 March 2005).

2 February 1912, Burton Lane, US composer, was born in New York

1911, The Quickstep (ballroom) Dance became popular.

21 December 1911, Paul Burkhard, Swiss composer, was born in Zurich (died in Zell, near Zurich, 6 July 1977)

3 December 1911, Nino Rota, Italian composer, was born in Rome (died 10/4/1979 in Rome)

26 October 1911, Mahalia Jackson, gospel singer, was born.

13 September 1911, Bill Monroe, US country guitarist, was born in Rosine, Kentucky.

6 July 1911, Laverne Andrews, singer, was born.

14 June 1911, Johan Svendsen, Norwegian composer, died aged 70.

13 June 1911, First performance of Stravinsky�s ballet, Petrushka.

18 May 1911, The composer Gustav Mahler died of heart disease in Austria, aged 51.

13 May 1911, Maxine Sullivan, US singer, was born in Homestead, Pennsylvania (died 7/4/1987 in New York)

5 May 1911, James A Bland, US composer, died in Philadelphia (born 22 October 1854 in Flushing, New York)

10/4/1911, Charles Zwar, Australian composer, was born in Broadford, Victoria (died 2 December 1989 in Oxford)

2 February 1911, Jussi Bjoerling, Swedish operatic singer, was born (died 1960).

29 January 1911, Bernard Hermann, US composer, was born in New York (died 24 December 1975 in Los Angeles)

4 January 1911, Noro Sanabia Morales, Puerto Rican composer, was born in San Juan (died 4 January 1964 in San Juan).

17 December 1910, Spade Cooley, violinist, was born in Oklahoma (died 23 November 1969 in Oakland, California)

15 December 1910, John Hammond, US record producer, was born in New York (died 10 July 1987 in New York)

7 December 1910, Edmundo Ros, bandleader, was born in Venezuela.

4 December 1910, Alex North, US composer, was born.

5 September 1910, Julian Edwards, British composer, died in Yonkers, New York (born 11 December 1855 in Manchester)

3 September 1910,� Samuel Barber, US composer, was born.

7 August 1910, Frederic Charles Slack, US composer, was born in Lacrosse, Wisconsin (died 10 August 1965 in Hollywood)

6 August 1910, Friedrich Schroder, composer, was born in Naefels, Switzerland (died 25 September 1972 in Berlin)

15 July 1910, Ronald Binge, British composer, was born (died 6.9/1979).

29 June 1910, Frank Loesser, US composer, was born in New York (died 28 July 1969)

23 June 1910, Jean Anouilh, French dramatist, was born (died 1987).

23 May 1910, Artie Shaw, US composer, was born in New York.

9 May 1910, Leslie Julian Jones, British composer, was born in London.

2 May 1910, Lottie Collins, British comedienne, died in London

9/4/1910, Alan Melville, British songwriter, was born in Berwick on Tweed (died 27 December 1983 in London)

25 March 1910, Magda Olivero, Italian opera soprano, was born in Saluzzo (died 2014)

23 January 1910, Django Reinhardt, Belgian jazz guitarist, was born near Charleroi (died 16 May 1953 in Fontainebleau)

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3 December 1909, Dana Suesse, US composer, was born in Kansas City.

20 October 1909, Adelaide Hall, US singer, was born in Brooklyn., New York

6 October 1909, Dudley Buck, US composer, died (born 10 March 1839).

30 September 1909, Benny Goodman, US bandleader, was born in Chicago (died in New York 13 June 1986)

25 August 1909, Ruby Keeler, US actress, was born in Halifax, Nova scotia.

17 August 1909, Larry Clinton, US composer, was born in Brooklyn, New York (died 2 May 1987 in Tucson Arizona)

13 August 1909, Skinnay Ellis, US singer, was born in Salisbury, North Carolina (died 3 June 1963 in nBeverly Hills, California)

10 August 1909, Claude Thornhill, US composer, was born in Terre Haute, Indiana (died 1 July 1965 in Caldwell, New Jersey)

4 July 1909, Alec Templeton, pianist, was born in Cardiff, Wales (died 28 March 1963 in Greenwich, Connecticut)

22 June 1909, Joe Loss, British bandleader, was born in London (died 6 June 1990 in London)

14 June 1909, Burt Ives, musician, was born.

10 May 1909, Maybelle Addington Carter, US musician, was born (died 23 October 1978)

1 May 1909, George Melachrino, British composer, was born in London (died 18 June 1965 in London)

25/4/1909, Jaroslav Doubrava, composer, was born in Chrudim, Czech Republic (died 1960)

10 February 1909, Chick (William Henry) Webb, US composer,was born in Baltimore (died 16 June 1939 in Baltimore)

13 January 1909, Danny Barker, US composer, was born in New Orleans.

3 January 1909, Victor Borge, musician, was born.

12 December 1908, Fred Elizalde, Spanish composer, was born in Manila, Philippines (died 16 January 1969 in Madrid)

11 December 1908, Elliott Carter, US composer, was born.

2 November 1908, Bunny Berigan, US trumpeter and bandleader, was born in Hilbert, Wisconsin (died 2 June 1942 in New York)

19 October 1908, Spike Hughes (Patrick Cairns), British composer, was born in London (died2 February 1987 in London)

11 October 1908, Armen Carapetyan, US and composer, was born in Isfahan, Iran (died 1992)

10 October 1908, John Green, US composer, was born in New York (died 15 May 1989 in Los Angeles)

4 September 1908, Jan Savitt, composer, was born in St Petersburg, Russia (died 4 October 1948 in Sacramento, California)

10 September 1908, Raymond Harry Warnow Scott, US composer, was born in Brooklyn, New York.

30 August 1908, Willie Bryant, US bandleader, was born in New Orleans

26 August 1908, Tony Pastor, US entertainer, died in New York (born 28 May 1837 in New York)

29 June 1908, Leroy Anderson, US composer, was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts (died 18 May 1975 in Woodbury, Connecticut).

21 June 1908, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer, died at Lyubensk.

20 June 1908, Frederico Chueca, Spanish composer, died in Madrid (born 5 May 1846 in Madrid)

8 June 1908, Margherita Carioso, soprano singer, was born (died 10 January 2005).

27 May 1908, Harold Rome, US composer, was born in Hartford, Connecticut

13 May 1908, Eugen Kapp, Estonian composer, was born.

31 March 1908, Kenneth Norville, US musician, was born in Beardstown, Illinois.

26 March 1908, Louis Chauvin, US composer, died in Chicago (born St Louis, Missouri, 13 March 1881)

8 March 1908, Will Hudson, US composer, was born in Barstow, California

27 February 1908, Elisabeth Welch, US actress, was born in New York

28 January 1908, Jimmy Shand, Scottish bandleader, was born in east Wemyss, Fife.

24 January 1908, Edward MacDowell, US composer, died (born 18 December 1861).

25 December 1907, Cab Calloway, band leader, was born.

3 December 1907, Connee Boswell, US singer, was born in New Orleans (died 11 October 1976 in New York).

4 November 1907, Bennie Benjamin, West Indian composer, was born in Sat Croix, Virgin Islands.

19 October 1907, Roger Wolfe Kahn, bandleader, was born.

23 September 1907, Albert Ammons, US pianist, was born in Chicago (died 2 December 1949 in Chicago)

4 September 1907, Edward Greig, Norwegian composer, died in Bergen.

28 June 1907, Jimmy Mundy, US musician, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio.

10 May 1907, Walter (Pee Wee) Hunt, US trombonist, was born in Mount Healthy, Ohio (died22 June 1979 in Plymouth, Massachusetts)

18/4/1907, Miklos Rosza, composer, was born in Budapest.

26 March 1907, Leigh Harline, US composer, was born in Salt Lake City (died 10 December 1969 in Long Beach, California)

22 January 1907, In London, a strike by music hall artists disrupted theatre performances.

16 January 1907, Henk Badings, Dutch opera composer, was born in Bandung, Java, Dutch East Indies (died 1987)

7 January 1907, Anton Urspruch, German composer, died aged 56.

27 December 1906, Oscar Levant, US composer, was born in Pittsburgh (died 14 August 1972 in Beverly Hills, California)

10 December 1906, Harold Adamson, US singer, was born (died 17 August 1980)

4 November 1906, Arnold Cooke, composer, was born (died 13 August 2005).

15 October 1906, Victoria Regina Spivey, US composer, was born in Houston, Texas (died 3 October 1976 in new York)

25 September 1906, Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer, was born.

26 August 1906, Eugen Gura, German singer, died (born 1824).

19 August 1906, Eddie Durham, US guitarist, was born in San Marcos, Texas (died 6 March 1987 in New York)

6 August 1906, Vic Dickenson, US jazz trombonist, was born in Xenia, Ohio (born 16 November 1984 in New York)

3 August 1906, Robert Emmett Dolan, US composer, was born in Hartford, Connecticut (died in California 26 September 1972)

18 June 1906, Kay Kyser, US bandleader, was born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina (died 23 July 1985 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina)

6/4/1906, Poet Laureate, John Betjeman, was born in London.

31 March 1906, David Heneker, British composer, was born in Southsea.

30 January 1906, Paul Dresser, US composer, died in New York (born 21/4/1857 in Terre Haute, Indiana)

5 January 1906, William Edward Davison, US jazz musician, was born in Defiance, Ohio (died 14 November 1989 in Santa Barbara, California)

4 January 1906, Sidney Lipton, British bandleader, was born in London.

31 December 1905, Jule Steyne, US composer, was born in London.

29 December 1905, Fred Hartley, British composer, was born in Dundee

8 December 1905, Charles Cushing, American composer, was born in Oakland, California (died 1982)

2 December 1905, Osvaldo Pugliese, Argentine composer, was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina (died 1995)

24 November 1905, Harry Barris, US composer, was born in New York (died 13 December 1962 in Burbank, California).

17 November 1905, Josef Marais, South African composer, was born (died 27/4/1978 in Los Angeles)

15 November 1905, Annunzio Paolo Mantovani, British composer, was born in Venice (died in Tunbridge Wells, 30 March 1980)

23 September 1905, Myron �Tiny� Bradshaw, US singer, was born iu Youngstown, Ohio (died 26 November 1958 in Cincinatti)

12 September 1905, Boris Arapov, Russian composer, was born in St. Petersburg, Russia (died 1992)

1 September 1905, Gervase Hughes, English composer, was born in Birmingham (died 1984)

29 August 1905, Jack Teagarden, US jazz trombonist, was born in Vernon, Texas (died 15 January 1964 in New Orleans)

4 July 1905, Dante Fiorillo, US composer, was born in New York City (died 1970)

22 June 1905, Leigh Walter, British composer, was born in London (died 12 June 1942 in Tobruk)

22 May 1905, Emile Jonas, French composer, died in St Germaine en Laye (born 5 March 1827 in Paris)

29/4/1905, Rudolf Schwartz, Viennese conductor who survived the Nazi concentration camps to become conductor of the BBC Symphony orchestra, was born.

6 March 1905, James Robert Wills, US country singer, was born near Kosse, Texas (died 13 March 1975 in Fort Worth, Texas)

15 February 1905, Harold Arlen, musician, was born in New York.

2 January 1905, Michael Tippett, English composer, was born.

9 December 1904, Elsie Randolph, British actress, was born in London (died 15 October 1981 in London)

20 November 1904, Alexandra Danilova, Russian ballerina, was born in Petergof, Russia (died 1997)

29 October 1904, Vivian Ellis, British composer, was born in Hampstead, London

20 October 1904, Anna Neagle, British actress, was born in London (died 3 June 1986 in London)

29/4/1904, Morgan Russ, US composer, was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania (died 7 August 1969 in Las Vegas)

10 August 1904, Gerald Bright, bandleader, was born in London (died 4 May 1974 in Vevey, Switzerland0

5 July 1904, The composer Edward Elgar was knighted.

28 June 1904, Daniel Decatur Emmett, US composer, died in Mount Vernon (born 29 October 1815 in Mount Vernon, Ohio)

26 May 1904, George Formby, British musician, was born in Wigan (died 6 March 1961 in Penwortham)

1 May 1904. Czech composer Antonin Dvorak died.

3 March 1904, GW Hunt, British composer, died in London

1 March 1904, Glenn Miller, US trombonist, was born in Clarinda, Indiana.

29 February 1904, Jimmy Dorsey, musician, was born.

4 February 1904, Predrag Milosevic, Serbian composer and conductor; was born in Knjazevac, Serbia (died 1988)

19 January 1904, Leo Soileau, US Cajun musician, was born in Ville Platte, Louisiana (died 1980)

15 January 1904, Eduard Lassen, Belgian-Danish composer, died (born 1830)

13 January 1904, Richard Addinsell, British composer, was born in Oxford (died 14 November 1977 in London)

9 January 1904, George Balanchine, ballet choreographer, was born (died 1983).

16 January 1904, Phil Harris, US singer, was born in Linton, Indiana

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29 December 1903, Clyde McCoy, US trumpeter, was born in Ashfield, Kentucky

13 December 1903. Carlos Montoya, Spanish flamenco guitarist, was born in Madrid, Spain (died. 1993)

26 October 1903, Victorin Joncieres, French composer, died (born 12/4/1839).

11 October 1903, Teddy Weatherford, US pianist, was born in Bluefield, West Virginia (died 25/4/1945 in Calcutta)

29 September 1903, Marie Geistinger, Polish singer, died in Rastenfeld (born in Graz, Styria, 26 July 1833)

15 September 1903, Roy Acuff, Country and Western musician, was born in Maynardsville, Tennessee.

27 May 1903, George Scott-Wood, British composer, was born in Glasgow (died 28 October 1978 in London)

18 July 1903, Bozidar Kunc, composer, was born.

30 June 1903, Daniel Godfrey, military musician, died in Beeston, Nottingham (born 4?9/1831 in London)

22 June 1903, Ben Pollack, US bandleader, was born in Chicago (died 7 June 1971 in Palm Springs, California)

12 May 1903, Lennox Berkeley, English composer, was born (died 1989).

3/4/1903, James Wesley Miley, US singer, was born (died 20 May 1932)

11 March 1903, Lawrence Welk, US musician, was born in Strasburg, North Dakota.

31 January 1903, Wilhelm Meyer Lutz, German composer, died in London.

28 January 1903, Jean Robert Planquette, French composer, died in Paris (born 31 March 1848 in Paris)

20 January 1903, The first showing of the musical, The Wizard of Oz, at the Majestic Theatre, New York.

27 December 1902, Sam Coslow, US composer, was born in New York

4 December 1902, Peter Yorke, British composer, was born in London (died 10 February 1966 in London)

25 September 1902, Al Hoffman, US composer, was born in Derevno, near Minsk (died 21 July 1960 in New York)

31 August 1902, Phil Carig, US composer, was born in New York (died 21 July 1960 in New York)

6 August 1902, Luis Carl Russell, US pianist, was born in Panama (died 11 December 1963 in New York)

17 June 1902, Sammy Fain, US composer, was born in New York (died in Los Angeles, 6 December 1989)

18 May 1902, Meredith Wilson, US composer, was born in mason City, Iowa (died 15 June 1984 in Santa Monica, California)

11/4/1902, Fred Gaisberg, of the Gramophone Company, made the first recordings of Caruso.

29 March 1902, Sir William Walton, English composer, was born in Oldham, Lancashire, to musical parents.

21 January 1902, Webster Booth, British singer, was born in Lincoln (died 22 June 1984 in Llandudno)

6 January 1902, Mark Brunswick, composer, was born.

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1901, The Pianola was coined as the brand name of a device that could be attached to a piano and automatically play tunes. It became obsolete when gramophone records were available.

22 November 1901, Joaquin Rodrigo, composer, was born.

22 October 1901, Frederic Archer, 63, English-born American composer and organist, died aged 63.

13 October 1901, �Jolly� John Nash, British music hall singer, was born in London.

7 October 1901, Ralph Rainger, US composer, was born in New York (died 23 October 1942 in Beverly Hills, California)

26 September 1901, Ted Weems, US bandleader, was born in Pitcairn, Pennsylvania (died 6 May 1963 in Tulsa, Oklahoma)

17 August 1901, Edmond Audrun, French composer, died in Tierceville (born 12/4/1842 in Lyons).

15 August 1901, Ned Washington, US singer, was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania (died 20 December 1976)

28 July 1901, Rudy Vallee, US composer, was born in Island Pond, Vermont (died 3 July 1986 in Hollywood)

30 May 1901, Frankie Trumbauer, US saxophonist, was born (died11 June 1956 in Kansas City)

23 May 1901, Edward Rubbra, composer, was born (died 1986)

17 May 1901, Werner Egk, German composer, was born (died 1983)

3 May 1901, Hugo Wilhelm Friedhofer, US composer, was born in San Francisco (died 17 May 1981 in Los Angeles)

3/4/1901, Richard D�Oyly Carte. British singer, died in London (born 3 May 1844 in London)

8 March 1901, Peter Benoit, composer, died in Antwerp (born in Flanders 17 August 1834).

1 March 1901, Tommy Jarrell, US fiddler and banjo player who attained nationwide recognition in the 1960s, was born.

17 February 1901, Ethelbert Nevin, US composer, was born (died 17 February 1901 in New Haven, Connecticut)

16 February 1901, Wayne King, US composer, was born in Savannah, Illinois (died 16 July 1985)

27 January 1901, Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi died in Milan aged 87. His works included La Traviata and Il Travatore.

20 December 1900, Ted Florito, US composer, was born in Newark, new Jersey (died 22 July 1971 in Scottsdale, Arizona)

8 December 1900, Henry Russell, British composer, died in London (born 24 December 1812 in Sheerness)

25 November 1900, Arthur Schwartz, US composer, was born in Brooklyn, new York (died 3 September 1984 in Kintnersville, Pennsylvania)

23 November 1900, Rosetta Duncan, was born in Los Angeles (died in Chicago 4 December 1959)

22 November 1900, Arthur Sullivan, British composer, died in London (born 13 May 1842 in London)

8 November 1900, Georges Lonque, Belgian composer, was born in Ghent, Belgium

15 October 1900, In the US the Boston Symphony Hall opened. The first concert was given there on 16 November 1900.

27 September 1900, Isidore Godfrey, English conductor, was born in London (died12 September 1977 in Sussex)

5 September 1900, Monte Rey, British singer, was born near Glasgow.

29 July 1900, Don Redman, US composer, was born in Piedmont, West Virginia (died 30 November 1964 in New York)

13 July 1900, George Lewis, US jazz musician, was born in New Orleans (died 31 December 1968 in New Orleans)

9 June 1900, Fred Waring, US composer, was born in Tyrone, Pennsylvania (died 29 July 1984 in Danville, Pennsylvania)

21/4/1900, Charles Beecher, US composer, died in Georgetown, Massachusetts (born in Litchfield, Connecticut 7 October 1815).

17 March 1900, Alfred Newman, US composer, was born in New Haven, Connecticut (died 17 February 1970 in Hollywood)

10 March 1900, Peter de Rose, US composer, was born in New York (died 23/4/1953 in New York).

2 March 1900, Kurt Weill, German-US composer, was born.

25 February 1900, Victor Sylvester, British author, was born in Wembley, Middlesex (died 14 August 1978 in Le Lavandou, France)

4 February 1900, James Lyman Molloy, British composer, died in Henley on Thames (born in Kings County, Ireland, 19 August 1837)

3 February 1900, Mabel Mercer, singer, was born in Burton on Trent, Staffordshire (died 20/4/1984 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts)

30 January 1900, Isaak Dunayevsky, Russian composer, was born near Poltava, Ukraine (died 25 July 1955 in Moscow)

26 January 1900, Karl Ristenpart, conductor of the Chamber Orchestra of the Saar, was born in Kiel (died 1967)

14 January 1900, Puccini�s opera Tosca premiered at Teatro Costanzi, now the Rome Opera House.

12 January 1900, Harry Roy, British bandleader, was born in London (died 1 February 1971 in London)

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31 December 1899, Karl Millocker, Austrian composer, died in Baden Bei Wien (born 29/4/1842 in Vienna)

21 December 1899, Charles Lamoureux, French violinist, died (born 28 September 1834).

22 November 1899, Hoagy Carmichael, US composer, was born in Bloomington, Indiana (died 28 December 1981 in Palm Springs, California)

9 November 1899, Milton Mesirow, US musician, was born in Chicago (died 5 August 1972 in Paris)

10 October 1899, Billy Ternent, British composer, was born in North Shields (died 23 March 1977 in London)

11 September 1899, Jimmie Davis, composer, was born.

22 August 1899, Jack Payne, British bandleader, was born in Leamington Spa (died 4 December 1969 in London)

14 July 1899, Billy Hill, US composer, was born in Boston (died 24 December 1940 in Boston)

3 June 1899, Johann Strauss the Younger, Austrian composer, violinist, and conductor, who wrote The Blue Danube waltz, died in Vienna.

28 May 1899, Lew Stone, British composer, was born in London (died 13 February 1969 in London)

10 May 1899, Fred Astaire, singer, was born.

7 January 1899, Al Bowlly, South African singer, was born in Maputo, Mozambique (died 17/4/1941 in London).

1898, The English Folk Dance and Song Society was formed

29 December 1898, Jules Bledsoe, US composer, was born in Waco, Texas (died 14 July 1943 in Hollywood).

20 December 1898, Irene Dunne, US actress, was born in Louisville, Kentucky (died 4 September 1990 in Los Angeles)

14 October 1889, Spencer Williams, US composer, was born in New Orleans (died 14 July 1965 in Flushing, New York)

8 October 1898, Clarence Williams, US composer, was born in Planquemines, Louisiana (died 6 November 1965 in Queens, New York)

27 September 1898, Vincent Youmans, US composer, was born in New York (died 5/4/1946 in Denver)

26 September 1898, George Gershwin, composer, was born.

7 September 1898, Robert MacGimsey, US composer, was born (died 13 March 1979)

1 September 1898, Marilyn Miller, US actress, was born in Evansville, Indiana (died 7/4/1936 in New York)

15 August 1898, Charles Tobias, US composer, was born in New York (died 7 July 1970 in New York)

26 July 1898, Hubert Fields, US musician, was born in New York (died 24 March 1958 in New York).

15 July 1898, Noel Gay, British composer, was born in Wakefield (died 3 March 1954 in London)

2 May 1898, Henry Hall, British composer, was born in Peckham, London (died 28 October 1989 in Eastbourne)

10 January 1898, Arthur James Johnston, US composer, was born in New York (died 1 May 1954 in Coorona del Mar, California)

9 January 1898, Gracie Fields, singer and music hall star, was born in Rochdale, Lancashire, as Gracie Stansfield.

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20 September 1897, Karel Bendl, Bohemian composer, died in Prague (born in Prague 16/4/1838).

18 September 1897, Sammy H Stept, composer, was born in Odessa, Russia (died 2 December 1964 in Los Angeles)

11 September 1897, Gus Arnheim, US bandleader, was born in Philadelphia (died 19 January 1955 in Los Angeles).

8 September 1897, Jimmie Rodgers, US country and folk singer, was born (died 26 May 1933 in New York)

24 August 1897, Fred Rose, US composer, was born in Evansville, Indiana 9died 1 December 1954 in Nashville)

4 August 1897, Abraham Lyman, US composer, was born in Chicago (died 23 October 1957 in Beverly Hills, California)

27 June 1897, Maceo Pinkard, US composer, was born in Bluefield, West Virginia (died 21 July 1062 in New York)

29 May 1897, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, composer, was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia (died 29 November 1957 in Hollywood)

18 May 1897, John Winterbottom, bassoonist, died in Putney (born 1817)

10 May 1897, William Best, English organist, died in Liverpool (born 13 August 1826 in Carlisle).

2 May 1897, Fred J Coots, US composer, was born in Brooklyn, New York

28/4/1897, Felix Bernard, US composer, was born in Brooklyn, New York (died 20 October 1944 in Hollywood).

3/4/1897, Johannes Brahms, German composer, died at his home in Vienna, aged 64.

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6 December 1896, Ira Gershwin, songwriter, was born.

1 December 1896, Ray Henderson, US composer, was born in Buffalo, New York (died 31 December 1970 in Greenwich, Connecticut)

4 November 1896, Harry Woods, US composer, was born in North Chelmsford, Massachusetts (died� 13 January 1970 in Phoenix)

31 October 1896, Ethel Walters, US singer, was born in Chester, Pennsylvania (died 1 September 1977 in Chatsworth, California)

18 October 1896, Frederick Hollander, composer, was born in London (died in Munich, 18 January 1976)

14 September 1896, James C Johnson, US composer, was born in Chicago (died 27 February 2981 in New York)

5 September 1896, Phil Baxter, US composer, was born in Navarro County Texas (died in Dallas 2 November 1972).

23 August 1896, Wendell Woods Hall, US composer, was born in St George, Kansas (died 2/4/1969 in Fairhope, Alaska)

7 August 1896, Ernesto Leucona, Cuban composer, was born (died 29 November 1963)

28 June 1896, Jenny Hill, British music hall singer, died in Brixton, London (born 1848).

10/4/1896, Edith Day, US actress, was born in Minneapolis (died 2 May 1971 in London)

22 February 1896, Nacio Herb Brown, US composer, was born in Deming, New Mexico (died 28 September 1964 in Beverly Hills, California).

1 February 1896, The opera La Boheme premiered in Turin, Italy.

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30 December 1895, George Ware, British composer, died in London (born 1829 in London)

16 December 1895, Andy Razaf, US singer, was born in Washington DC (died 3 February 1973 in Hollywood)

28 November 1895, Jose Iturbi, Spanish pianist and conductor, was born in Valencia, Spain (died 1980).

25 October 1895, Sir Charles Halle, English pianist and conductor, died (born 11/4/1819).

6 October 1895 Sir Henry Wood�s promenade concerts began at Queen�s Hall, London.

17 September 1895, William McKinney, US bandleader, was born in Cynthia, Kentucky (died 14 October 1969 in Detroit)

10 August 1895, Harry Richman, US composer, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio (died3 November 1972 in Hollywood)

25 July 1895, Yvonne Printemps, French actress, was born (died 18 January 1977 in Paris)

13 July 1895, John Carrodus, violinist, died (born 20 January 1836)

12 July 1895, Oscar II Hammerstein, US songwriter, was born in New York (died 23.8/1960 in Doylestown, Pennsylvania)

10 July 1895, Carl Orff, composer, was born.

4 July 1895, Irving Caesar, US songwriter, was born in New York

17 June 1895, Sam Wooding, US bandleader, was born in Philadelphia (died 1 August 1985 in New York)

15 June 1895, Franz Friedrich Richard Genee, Polish composer, died in Baden (born 7 February 1823 in Danzig)

14 June 1895, Cliff Edwards, US singer, was born.

21 May 1895, Franz von Suppe, composer, died in Vienna (born 18/4/1819 in Split)

2 May 1895, Lorenz Milton Hart, US songwriter, was born in New York (died 22 November 1943 in New York)

6 March 1895, Henry Lazarus, British clarinettist, died (born 1 January 1815).

17 February 1895, The ballet Swan Lake by Tchaikovsky was first performed in full length at St Petersburg, Russia.

7 February 1895, Irving Aaronson, composer, was born in New York, USA (died 10 May 1963).

16 January 1895, Irene Bordoni, singer, was born in Corsica (died 10 March 1953 in New York).

10 January 1895, Benjamin Godard, French composer, died (born 18 August 1849).

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13 November 1894, Bennie Moten, US composer, was born in Kansas City, Missouri (died 2/4/1935 in Kansas City)

3 November 1894, Max Darewski, British composer, was born in Manchester (died 26 September 1929 in London)

27 October 1894, Alphons Czibulka, Hungarian composer, died in Vienna (born 14 May 1842 in Szepes Varallya)

25 September 1894, Jack Strachey, British composer, was born in London (died 27 May 1972 in London)

22 September 1894, Dave Dreyer, US composer, was born in New York.

13 September 1894, French composer Alexis Chabrier died (born 18 January 1841).

15 August 1894, Harry Akst, US composer, was born in New York (died 31 March 1963 in Hollywood).

14 August 1894, Ada Beatrice Smith, US singer, was born in Alderson, West Virginia (died 31 January 1984 in New York)

14 July 1894, Ted Koehler, US musician, was born in Washington DC (died 17 January 1973 in Santa Monica, California)

10 July 1894, James McHugh, US composer, was born in Boston (died 23 May 1969 in Beverly Hills, California)

15 June 1894, Robert Russell Bennett, US composer, was born in Kansas City (died in New York, 17 August 1981).

10 May 1894, Dimitri Tiomkin, composer, was born in St Petersburg, Russia (died 11 November 1979 in London)

23/4/1894, Charles Edward Davenport, US composer, was born in Anniston, Alabama (died 3 December 1955 in Cleveland)

19 February 1894, Francisco Asenjo Barbieri, Spanish composer, died in Madrid (born 3 August 1823 in Madrid).

1 February 1894, Herman Hupfeld, US composer, was born in Montclair, New Jersey (died 8 June 1951 in Montclair)

31 January 1894, Isham Jones, US composer, was born in Coalton, Ohio (died 19 October 1956 in Florida)

Saxophone invented

9 February 1894, Adolphe Sax, the Belgian musical instrument maker who invented the Saxophone, died in Paris.

23 June 1848. Adolfe Sax, born on 6 November 1814 in Dinant, Belgium, was awarded a patent for the saxophone.

30 July 1845, The French Army introduced the saxophone to its band.

6 November 1814, Adolphe Sax, Belgian musician and instrument-maker who invented the Saxophone and Saxhorn, was born.

24 December 1893, Harry Warren, US composer, was born in Brooklyn, New York (died 22 September 1981 in Los Angeles)

10 December 1893, Lew Brown, US singer, was born in Odessa (died in New York 5 February 1958).

6 November 1893. Composer Peter Illich Tchaikovsky, born.7 May 1840, died of cholera, after drinking infected water.

9 October 1893, Sir George Elvey, composer, died (born 27 March 1816)

31 August 1893, Leslie Bridgewater, British composer, was born in Halesowen, Worcestershire (died� 19 March 1975 in Hong Kong).

16 March 1893, Abel Baer, US composer, was born in Baltimore (died 5 October 1976 in New York).

15 February 1893, Walter Donaldson, US composer, was born in Brooklyn, New York (died 15 July 1947 in Santa Monica, California)

14 February 1893, Perry Bradford, US composer, was born in Montgomery, Alabama (died 20/4/1970 in New York).

28 January 1893, Julius Eichberg, German composer, died (born 13 June 1824).

28 November 1892, Harry Carroll, US composer, was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey (died in Santa Barbara, California, 26 December 1962)

3 November 1892, Herve, French composer, died in Paris (born 30 June 1825 in Houdain, near Arras)

28 October 1892, Oliver (Dink) Johnson, US musician, was born in Biloxi, Missouri (died 29 November 1954 in Portland, Oregon)

24 October 1892, Robert Franz, German composer, died (born� 28 June 1815).

24 September 1892, Patrick Gilmore, US bandmaster, died (born 1829).

19 September 1892, Fred E Ahlert, US composer, was born in New York (died in New York, 20 October 1953).

4 September 1892, Darius Milhaud, composer, was born.

8 July 1892, Russell, J Robinson, US composer, was born in Indianapolis (died 30 September 1963 in Palmdale, California)

2 July 1892, Jack Hylton, British bandleader, was born in Great Lever, Lancashire (died 29 January 1965 in London)

10 June 1892, Martin Broones, US composer, was born in New York (died 10 August 1971 in Beverly Hills, California).

6 June 1892, Ted Lewis, US composer, was born in Circleville, Ohio (died 25 August 1971 in New York)

18 May 1892, Ezio Pinza, Italian baritone singer, was born in Rome (died 9 May 1957 in Stamford, Connecticut)

16 May 1892, Richard Tauber, compose, was born in Linz, Austria (died 8 January 1948 in London)

28/4/1892, John Jacob Niles, US composer, was born in Louisville, Kentucky (died 1 May 1980 in Lexington, Kentucky)

23/4/1892, Edouard Lalo, French composer, died.

9 February 1892, Peggy Wood, US actress, was born in Brooklyn, New York (died 18 March 1978 in Stamford, Conecticut)

8 January 1892, Phyllis Monkman, British comedienne, was born in London (died 2 December 1976 in London)

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28 December 1891, Alfred Cellier, English composer, died (born 1 December 1844).

15 December 1891, Alvin Pleasant Carter, collector of Irish and English folk songs, was born in the USA.

21 November 1891, Charlie Johnson, US bandleader, was born in Philadelphia (died 13 December 1959 in New York)

12 November 1891, Richard A Whiting, US composer, was born in Peoria, Illinois (died 10 February 1938 in Beverly Hills, California)

5 November 1891, Vinton Freedley, US musicals producer, was born in Philadelphia 9died5 June 1969 in new York)

29 October 1891, Fanny Brice, singer, was born.

18 June 1891, Conrad K Dober, US composer, was born in New York (died 28 September 1938 in Van Nuys, California)

13 June 1891, Richard Jones, US composer, was born (died 8 December 1945 in Chicago)

10 June 1891, Albert Dubin, US singer, was born in Zurich, Switzerland (died 11 February 1945 in New York)

9 June 1891, Cole Porter, composer, was born.

4 June 1891, Ermo Rapee, composer, was born in Budapest (died 26 June 1945 in New York)

30 May 1891, Ben Bernie, US bandleader, was born in Bayonne, New Jersey (died 20 October 1943 in Beverly Hills, California).

14 May 1891, Grant Clarke, US singer, was born in Akron, Ohio (died 16 May 1931)

5 May 1891, New York�s Carnegie Hall opened on west 57th Street. Until 1962 it was the city�s premier concert hall.

21 February 1891, Karl King, US composer, was born in Painterville, Ohio (died 31 March 1971 in Fort Dodge, Iowa)

12 February 1891, Maurice Yvain, French composer, was born in Paris (died 28 July 1965 in Paris)

16 January 1891, Clement Delibes, French composer, died (born 21 February 1836).

5 January 1891, Emma Abbot, US opera singer, died in Salt Lake City.

21 December 1890, Niels Gade, Danish composer, died (born 22 February 1817).

2 December 1890, Fate Marable, US bandleader, was born in Paducah, Kentucky (died 16 January 1947 in St Louis, Missouri)

8 November 1890, Cesar Franck, French composer, died (born 10 December 1822).

12 August 1890, Alfred Goodman, US composer, was born in Nikopol, Russia (died 20 January 1972 in New York)

28 May 1890, Victor Neszler, German composer, died.

21 May 1890, Harry Austin Therney, US composer, was born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey (died 22 March 1965 in New York)

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3 December 1889, Charles Handel Rand Marriott, British composer, died in Hastings (born in London 3 November 1831)

24 November 1889, Frederic Clay, English composer, died (born 3 August 1838).

10 October 1889, Adolf von Henselt, German composer, died (12 May 1814).

26 September 1889, Frank Crumit, US composer, was born� in Jackson, Ohio (died 7 September 1943 in Longmeadow, Massachusetts)

6 September 1889, Louis Silvers, US composer, was born in New York (died 26 March 1954 in Hollywood)

10 July 1889, Noble Sissle, US bandleader, was born in Indianapolis (died 17 December 1975 in Tampa, Florida)

7 July 1889, Giovanni Bottesini, Italian composer, died in Parma (born in Lombardy 24 December 1823).

4 July 1889, Joe Young, US singer, was born in New York (died 21/4/1839 in New York)

20 May 1889, Felix Arndt, US composer, was born in New York (died 16 October 1918 in Harmon on Hudson, New York State).

29 March 1889, Howard Lindsay, US singer, was born in Waterford, New York (died 11 February 1968 in new York)

20 January 1889, Huddie William Ledbetter, US folk and blues singer, was born (died 6 December 1949 in New York)

31 January 1889, Josef Gung�l, Hungarian composer, died (born 1 December 1810).

16 August 1888, Armand Piron, US composer, was born in New Orleans (died 17 February 1943 in New Orleans)

21 May 1888, May Aufderheide, US composer, was born in Indianapolis (died 1 September 1972 in Pasadena, California).

10 May 1888, Max Steiner, composer, was born in Vienna (died 28 December 1971 in Beverly Hills, California)

26 March 1888, Francis Bache, composer, died in London (born 14.9/1833 in Birmingham)

22 February 1888, Jean Alard, French violinist, died in Paris (born 8 May 1815 in Bayonne).

15 February 1888, Horatio Nicholls, British composer, was born in Leicester (died 19 May 1964 in London)

21 February 1888, Harry Archer, US composer, was born in Creston, Iowa (died 23/4/1960 in New York).

14 January 1888, Stephen Heller, Austrian composer, died (born 15 May 1815)

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11 December 1887, Carlos Gardel, Uruguayan singer, was born in Tacuarembo (died 24 June 1935 in Medellin, Colombia)

6 December 1887, Joseph Francis Lamb, US musician, was born in Montclair, New Jersey (died 3 September 1960 in Brooklyn, New York)

28 November 1887, Louis Achille Hirsch, US composer, was born in New York (died 13 May 1924 in New York)

9 November 1887, Euday Bowman, US composer, was born in Fort Worth, Texas (died 26 May 1949 in New York)

7 August 1887, Charles Roberts, US composer, was born in Philadelphia (died 5 February 1968 in New York)

31 March 1887, Thursday (-21,222) Jose Maria Usandizaga, Spanish composer, was born in San Sebastian (died 6 October 1915 in Yanti)

28 February 1887, Alexander Borodin, Russian composer, died in St Petersburg.

5 January 1887, Clifford Grey, British songwriter, was born in Birmingham (died 25 September 1941 in Ipswich)

1886, The Glockenspeil was invented by Auguste Mustel,

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25 December 1886, Edward Ory, US jazz trombonist, was born in La Place, Louisiana (died 23 January 1973 in Hawaii)

9 November 1886, Ed Wynn, US actor, was born in Philadelphia (died 19 June 1966 in Beverly Hills, California)

7 August 1886, Nelson Keys, British actor, was born in London (died 26/4/1939 in London)

31 July 1886, Franz Liszt, Hungarian composer, died aged 74, in Bayreuth, Bavaria.

26 May 1886, Charles Louis Napoleon D�Albert, German composer, died in London (born 25 February 1809 in Nienstetten, Hamburg)

24 February 1886, Harry Welchmann, British actor, was born in Barnstaple, Devon (died 3 January 1966 in London)

21 January 1886, Joseph Tunbridge, British composer, was born in London (died 28 December 1961 in London)

31 December 1885, Edgar Leslie, US composer, was born in Stamford, Connecticut.

13 November 1885, Montague Fawcett Phillips, British composer, was born in London (died 4 January 1969 in Esher)

25 October 1885, Sam M Lewis, US singer, was born in New York (died 22 November 1959 in New York)

8 August 1885, Gene Buck, US singer, was born in Detroit (died 25 February 1857 in Great Neck, New York)

12 July 1885, Oscar Hammerstein II, singer, was born.

5 June 1885, Sir Julius Benedict, composer, died in London (born in Stuttgart 27 November 1804).

31 May 1885, Fred Barnes, British singer, was born in Birmingham (died 23 October 1938 in Southend).

12 May 1885, Ferdinand Hiller, German composer, died (born 24 October 1811).

11 May 1885, Joseph Oliver, US composer, was born (died 10/4/1938 in Savannah, Georgia)

31 March 1885, Franz Abt, German composer, (born 22 December 1819 in Eilenburg, Saxony) died in Weisbaden.

14 March 1885, The Mikado opera by Gilbert and Sullivan opened at The Savoy Theatre, London.

21 February 1885, Joseph Fields, US musician, was born in New York (died 3 March 1966 in New York)

10 February 1885, George Baker, British singer, was born in Birkenhead (died 8 January 1976 in Pontrilas, Hereford).

27 January 1885, Jerome David Kern, US composer, was born in New York (died 11 November 1945 in New York)

23 November 1884, Guy Bolton, British musician, was born in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire (died 6 September 1979).

27 November 1884, Fanny Essler, Austrian dancer, died (born 23 June 1810).

3 November 1884, GH Elliott, British singer, was born in Rochdale, Lancashire (died 1 November 1962 in Brighton)

8 June 1884, Henry Clay Work, US composer, died in Hartford, Connecticut (born 1 October 1832 in Middletown, Connecticut)

26 May 1884, Charles Winninger, US actor, was born in Athens, Wisconsin (died 19 January 1969 in Palm Springs California)

12 May 1884, Bohemian composer Bedrich Smetana died in an asylum for the insane.

29/4/1884, Sir Michael Costa, British composer, died (born 14 February 1808).

18 March 1884, Joe Burke, US composer, was born in Philadelphia (died 9 June 1950 in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania).

16 February 1884, Bert Kalmar, US songwriter, was born in New York (died 18 September 1947 in New York)

24 January 1884, Fred Thompson, british singer, was born in London (died 10/4/1949 in London)

10 November 1883, Dave Stamper, US composer, was born in New York (died 18 September 1963 in Poughkeepsie, New York)

6 November 1883, Hubert Bath, British composer, was born in Barnstaple (died 24/4/1945 in Harefield).

17/4/1883, Herman Darewski, British composer, was born in Minsk (died 21 June 1947 in London)

18 March 1883, Maurice Abrahams, US composer, was born in Russia (died 13/4/1931).

15 March 1883, Ford T Dabney, US composer, was born in Washington DC (died 21 June 1958 in New York)

Richard Wagner

18 February 1883, Funeral of the composer Wagner held at Bayreuth.

26 July 1882, Richard Wagner�s opera Parsifal premiered in Bayreuth,

13 January 1882, Richard Wagner completed his opera Parsifal.

17 August 1876, Wagner�s opera Gotterdammerung premiered at Bayreuth.

13 August 1876, The Bayreuth Festepeilhaus opened with the first complete performance of Richard Wagner�s Ring Cycle.

22 May 1872, In Germany, the foundation stone of the Bayreuth Theatre was laid. It was built specially for the performance of Wagner�s works.

25 August 1870, German composer Richard Wagner, then aged 57, married Cosima Liszt, daughter of Franz Liszt, in Lucerne, Switzerland.

26 June 1870, Richard Wagner�s opera Valkyrie premiered in Munich.

22 September 1869, Richard Wagner�s opera Das Rheingold premiered in Munich.

21 June 1868, First performance, in Munich, of Wagner�s opera Die Meistersinger von Nuremberg

10 June 1865, First performance, in Munich, of Wagner�s opera �Tristan und Isolde

19 October 1845, Wagner�s opera �Tannhauser� was first performed at Dresden.� Wagner�s music inspired either wonder or loathoing, and he was highly anti-semitic.

2 January 1843, Richard Wagner�s opera The Flying Dutchman premiered in Dresden.

22 May 1813, Richard Wagner, German operatic composer, was born in Leipzig.

24 January 1883, Friedrich Flotow, German composer, died (born 27/4/1812).

24 December 1882, John Blockley, British composer, died in London (born in London 1800).

24 October 1882, Emmerich Kalman, Hungarian composer, was born in Siofok (died 30 October 1953 in Paris)

28 August 1882, Adolphus Frederick Godfrey, military musician, died in London.

22 July 1882, John C Spikes, US songwriter, was born in Dallas (died 28 June 1955 in Pasadena, California)

17 June 1882, Igor Stravinsky, composer, was born.

17/4/1882, Artur Schnabel, pianist, was born.

25 March 1882, Haydn Wood, British composer, was born in Slaithwaite, Yorkshire (died11 March 1959 in London)

5 March 1882, Egbert Anson Van Alstyne, US composer, was born in Chicago (died 9 July 1951)

11 February 1882, Joe Jordan, US composer, was born in Cincinnati (died 9 September 1971 in Tacoma)

7 February 1882, Wilbur C Sweatman, US composer, was born (died 9 March 1961 in New York)

31 January 1882, Peter Dawson, Australian composer, was born in Adelaide (died 26 September 1961 in in Sydney)

20 November 1881, Arthur Marshall, US composer, was born (died 18 August 1968 in Kansas City)

5 October 1881, James Tim Brymn, US composer, was born in Kinston, North Carolina (died 3 October 1946 in New York).

28 September 1881, Henry Ernest Geehl, British composer, was born in London (died 14 January 1961 in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire)

15 August 1881, Ted Snyder, US composer, was born in Freeport, Illinois (died 16 July 1965 in Woodland Hills, California)

28 March 1881, Modest Mussorgsky, Russian composer, died of chronic alcoholism aged 42.

25 March 1881, Bela Bartok, Hungarian composer, was born.

25 February 1881, Kenneth J Alford, British composer, was born in London (died 15 May 1945 in Reigate).

22 February 1881, James Reese Europe, US pianist, was born in Mobile, Alabama (died 9 May 1919 in Boston, Massachusetts)

5 October 1880, Jacques Offenbach, composer, died in Paris.

17 August 1880, Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist, died (born 5 February 1810).

10 May 1880, Sir John Goss, English composer, died (born 27 December 1800).

8/4/1880, Victor Schertzinger, US composer, was born in Mahanoy, Pennsylvania (died 26 October 1941 in Hollywood)

23 January 1880, Percy Wenrich, US composer, was born (died 17 March 1952 in New York)

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7 December 1879, Rudolf Friml, Bohemian-US composer, was born in Prague (died 12 November 1972 in Los Angeles)

23 October 1879, Ernie Erdman, US songwriter, was born in Pittsburgh (died 1 November 1946 in Rockford, Illinois)

22 September 1879, Charles Borel-Clerc, French composer, was born in Pau (died 9/4/1959 in Cannes)

18 August 1879, Gus Edwards, US composer, was born in Prussia (died 7 November 1945 in Hollywood)

22 July 1879, Harry Armstrong, US composer, was born in Somerville, Massachusetts (died 28 February 1951 in New York)

9 July 1879, Ottorino Respighi, composer, was born.

6 July 1879, Henry Smart, English organist, died (born 26 October 1813).

1 June 1879, Raymond Hubbell, US composer, was born in Urbana, Ohio (died 13 December 1954 in Miami)

29/4/1879, Sir Thomas Beecham, English conductor, born.

30 March 1879, Teodoro Cottrau, Italian composer, died in Naples (born 27 November 1827 in Naples)

23 December 1878, Wilfrid Sanderson, British composer, was born in Ipswich (died 10 December 1935 in Nutfield, Surrey)

4 November 1878, Jean Schwartz, composer, was born in Budapest (died 30 November 1956 in Sherman Oaks, California)

15 August 1878, Harold Fraser-Simson, British composer, was born in London (died 19 January 1944 in London)

21 July 1878, Ernest R Ball, US composer, was born in Cleveland, Ohio (died 3 May 1927 in Santa ana, California).

25 May 1878, Bill �Bojangles� Robinson, tap dancer, was born

12/4/1878, Charles Neil Daniels, US composer, was born in Leavenworth, Kansas (died 23 January 1943 in Los Angeles)

29 March 1878, Albert Von Tilzer, US composer, was born in Indianapolis (died 1 October 1956 in Los Angeles)

24 January 1878, Percy Greenbank, British singer, was born in London (died 19 December 1968 in Rickmansworth)

6 November 1877, Ernest Irving, British composer, was born in Godalming, Surrey (died 24 October 1953 in London)

6 September 1877, Charles Bolden, US bandleader, was born in New Orleans (died 4 November 1931 in Jackson, Louisiana.

1 September 1877, Frank E Tours, British composer, was born in London (died 2 February 1963 in London)

16 August 1877, Karl Hoschna, US composer, was born in Kuschwarda, Bohemia (died 22 December 1911 in New York)

27 July 1877, Ernst von Dohnanyi, Hungarian pianist (died New York, 9 February 1960) was born in Pozsony, Hungary.

4 March 1877, Tchaikovsky�s ballet Swan lake was first performed, at the Bolshoi theatre, Moscow.

17 February 1877, Donald Brian, Canadian singer, was born in St Johns, Newfoundland (died 22 December 1948 in Great Neck, New York)

6 December 1876, Manual Klein, composer, was born in London (died 1 June 1919 in New York)

4 December 1876, Hermann Goetz, German composer, died (born 17 December 1840).

3 December 1876, Charles Leslie Johnson, US composer, was born in Kansas City (died 28 December 1950 in Kansas City)

29 August 1876, Felicien David, French composer, died (born 13/4/1810).

6 July 1876, Will D Cobb, US singer, was born in Philadelphia (died 20 January 1930 in New York)

28 June 1876, August Wilhelm Ambros, Austrian musician, died in Vienna (born 1816).

14/4/1876, Florrie Forde, Australian music hall singer, was born in Fitzroy, near Melbourne (died 18/4/1940 in Aberdeen)

13 March 1876, Joseph von Fuhrich, Austrian painter, died (born 9 February 1800).

30 September 1875, Fred Fisher, US composer, was born in Cologne (died 14 January 1942 in New York)

9 August 1875, Reynaldo Hahn, Venezuelan-French composer, was born in Caracas (died 28 January 1947 in Paris)

3 June 1875, Georges Bizet, French composer of the opera Carmen, died in Bougival near Paris.

29/4/1875, Paul A Rubens, British composer, was born in London (died 25 February 1917 in Falmouth)

4/4/1875, Joseph Szulc, Polish composer, was born in Warsaw (died 10/4/1956 in Paris)

7 March 1875, Maurice Ravel, French composer, was born in Ciboure in the Basque Country.

3 March 1875, George Bizet�s opera Carmen was first performed for the first time, in Paris.

15 February 1875, Sir William Bennett, English composer, died in St Johns Wood, London (born in Sheffield 13/4/1816).

24 January 1875, Arthur Wood, British composer, was born in Heckmondwike, Yorkshire (died 18 January 1953 in London)

26 November 1874, Vesta Victoria, British music hall singer, was born in Leeds (died 7/4/1951 in London)

12 November 1874, Bert Williams, US actor, was born in Antigua (died 4 February 1922 in New York)

29 September 1874, Bert Feldman, British music publisher, was born in Hull (died 25 March 1945 in Blackpool)

21 September 1874, Gustav Holst, English composer, who wrote The Planets, was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, as Gustavus Theodore von Holst, of Swedish origin.

13 September 1874, Arnold Schoenberg, composer, was born.

19 August 1874, Abraham Holzmann, US composer, was born in New York (died 16 January 1939 in East Orange, New Jersey)

28 June 1874, Oley Speaks, US composer, was born in Canal Winchester, Ohio (died 27 August 1948 in New York)

30 March 1874, Ned Wayburn, US musicals director, was born in Pittsburgh (died 2 September 1942 in New York)

20 March 1874, Hans Christian Lumbye, Danish composer, died in Copenhagen (born 2 May 1810 in Copenhagen)

12 March 1874, Edmund Eysler, Austrian composer, was born in Vienna (died4 October 1949 in Vienna)

14 October 1873, Jose Simeon Serrano, Spanish composer, was born in Sueca, Valencia (died 8 March 1943 in Madrid)

18 August 1873, Otto Harbach, US singer, was born in Salt :Lake City (died 24 January 1963 in New York City)

11 August 1873, Rosamond Johnson, US composer, was born in Jacksonville, Florida (died 11 November 1854 in New York)

1/4/1873, Sergei Rachmaninov, last of the great Russian romantic composers, was born in Oneg, Nijni Novgorod. He later settled in the USA.

25 February 1873, Enrico Caruso, Italian operatic tenor, was born in Naples.

4 February 1873, Reverend George Bennard, US composer, was born in Youngstown, Ohio (died 10 October 1958 in Reed City, Michigan)

4 November 1872, Herman Finck, British composer, was born in London (died 21/4/1939 in London)

12 October 1872, Ralph Vaughan Williams, composer, was born.

28 August 1872, Alfred Baldwin Sloane, US composer, was born in Baltimore (died 21 February 1926 in red Bank, New Jersey)

11 August 1872, Lowell Mason, US musician, died.

8 July 1872, Harry Von Tilzer, US composer, was born in Detroit (died 10 January 1946 in New York)

8/4/1872, Thurland Chattaway, US composer, was born in Springfield, Massachusetts (died 12 November 1947 in Milford, Connecticut)

24 December 1871, First performance in Cairo of Verdi�s opera Aida. It was commissioned by the Khedive of Egypt, not to commemorate the opening of the Suez Canal or of the Cairo Opera House.

18 November 1871, Amadeo Vives, Spanish composer, was born near Barcelona (died 1 December 1932 in Madrid)

15 October 1871, Frederick Knight Logan, US composer, was born in Oskaloosa, Iowa (died 11 June 1928 in Oskaloosa)

8 August 1871, William Henry Squire, British composer, was born in Ross, Hereford (died 17 March 1963 in London)

26 March 1871, Francois Fetis, Belgian composer, died (born 25 March 1784)

20 October 1870, Michael Balfe, Irish composer, died (born in Dublin 13 May 1808).

22 July 1870, Josef Strauss, composer, died

21 July 1870, Charles Sloman, British composer, died in London (born 1808 in London)

30/4/1870, Franz Lehar, composer, was born in Komorn, Hungary (died 24 October 1948 in Bad Ischl, Austria)

6/4/1870, Oscar Strauss, Austrian composer, was born in Vienna 9died 11 January 1954 in Ischl)

10 March 1870, Ignaz Moschelles, Bohemian pianist, died (born 30 May 1794).

12 February 1870, Marie Lloyd, British comedienne, was born in Hoxton, London (died 7 October 1922 in Golders Green, London)

4 February 1870, Lynn Udall, US composer, was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa (died 5 December 1963 in Downey, California)

18 December 1869, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, US composer, died in Rio de Janiero (born 8 May 1829 in New Orleans)

29 November 1869, Giulia Grisi, Italian opera singer, died (born 1811).

8 November 1869, Bodewalte J Lampe, US composer, was born in Ribe, Denmark (died 26 May 1929 in New York)

2 July 1869, Harry Fragson, composer, was born in London (died 30 December 1913 in Paris)

20/4/1869, Johann Lowe, German composer, died (30 November 1796).

8 March 1869, French composer Berlioz died in Paris.

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28 November 1868, Frantisek Drdla, Czech composer, was born

28 September 1868, Arthur Eugene Godfrey, British composer, was born in London (died in London 23 February 1939)

11 August 1868, Halfdan Kjerulf, Norwegian composer, died (born 15 September 1815).

7 August 1868, Sir Granville Bantock, British composer, was born in London (died 16 October 1946)

20 June 1868, Daniel Eyers Godfrey, Brit8ish musician, was born in London (died 20 July 1939 in Bournemouth)

22 February 1868, Ren Shields, US writer, was born in Chicago (died 25 October 1913 in Massapequa, New York)

23 September 1867, John Lomax, folk song expert, was born (died 26 January 1948)

20 September 1867, Michael Lacy, Irish musician, died in London.

10 September 1867, Simon Schechter, composer, died

30 August 1867, Anne Caldwell, US actress, was born in Boston (died 22 October 1936 in Hollywood)

21 January 1867, John W Bratton, US composer, was born in Wilmington, Delaware (died 7 February 1947 in Brooklyn, New York)

1 January 1867, Lew Fields, US actor, was born in New York (died 20 July 1941 in Beverly Hills, California)

19 November 1866, Hugo Felix, Austrian composer, was born in Vienna (died 24 August 1934 in Hollywood)

13 November 1866, Rossini, Italian composer, died in Passy, France, aged 76.

7 November 1866, Karl Emil Paul Lincke, German composer, was born in Berlin (died 3 September 1946 near Gottingen)

26 September 1866, George H Clutsam, Australian composer, was born in Sydney (died 17 November 1951 in London)

16 February 1866, Johann III Strauss, musician, was born in Vienna (died 9 January 1939)

13 December 1865, Gustav Luders, composer, was born in Bremen, Germany (died 24 January 1913 in Chicago)

8 December 1865, Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer, was born in Hameenlinna, the son of a surgeon.

6 December 1865, Sebastian de Yradier, Spanish composer, died in Vittoria (born 20 January 1809 in Lanciego, Alva)

8 October 1865, Heinrich Ernst, German composer, died (born 1814).

1 October 1865, Paul Dukas, French composer, was born in Paris, France (died 17 May 1935 in Paris).

10 September 1865, George Linley, British composer, died in London (born 1798 in Leeds)

10 August 1865, Alexander Glazunov, Russian composer, was born.

6 July 1865, Emile Jacques Dalcroze, inventor of eurhythmics dancing, was born.

9 March 1865, Howard Talbot, composer, was born in Yonkers, New York (died 12 September 1928 in Reigate, Surrey)

20 January 1865, Yvette Guilbert, French singer, was born in Paris (died 3 February 1944 in Aix en Provence)

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14 September 1864, James Ord Hume, British composer, was born near Edinburgh (died 27 November 1932 in London)

15 July 1864, Marie Tempest, British actress, was born in London (died 15 October 1942 in London)

11 June 1864, Richard Strauss, composer, was born in Munich, Germany

18 May 1864, Milton Aborn, US operatic singer, was born (died 12 November 1933).

5/4/1864, Basil Hood, British songwriter, was born in Yorkshire (died 7 August 1917 in London)

15 March 1864, Leslie Stuart, British composer, was born in Southport, Lancashire (died 27 March 1928 in Richmond, London)

13 January 1864, Stephen Foster, musician, died in New York (born 4 July 1926)

7 December 1863, Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer, was born.

31 July 1863, Richard Aldrich, US music critic, was born (died 1937).

6 June 1863, Leo Dryden, British singer, was born in London (died 21/4/1939 in London)

2 May 1863, Giacomo Meyebeer, German composer, died (born 5 September 1791).

25/4/1863, George Lashwood, British music hall singer, was born in Birmingham (died in Wychbold, near Droitwich, 20 January 1942)

25 November 1862, Ethelbert Nevin, US composer, was born in Edgeworth, Pennsylvania (died 17 February 1901 in New Haven, Connecticut)

20 September 1862, Robert A King, US musician, was born in New York (died 14/4/1932 in New York)

22 August 1862, Composer Claude Debussy was born in St Germain en Laye, France.

11 August 1862, Carrie Jacobs Bond, US singer, was born in Janesville, Wisconsin (died 28 December 1946 in Glendale, California)

11 July 1862, Liza Lehmann, British composer, was born in London (died 19 September 1918 in Pinner, Middlesex)

5/4/1862, Louis Ganne, French composer, was born (died 13 July 1923 in Paris)

10 March 1862, Florence Aylward, English composer, was born in Brede, West Sussex (died14 October 1950 in St Leonards on Sea

17 February 1862, Edward German, British composer, was born in Whitchurch, Shropshire (died 11 November 1936 in London)

29 January 1862, Frederick Delius, English composer, born in Bradford, Yorkshire.

18 December 1861, Edward MacDowell, US composer, was born (died 24 January 1908).

5 December 1861, James Thornton, composer, was born in Liverpool (died 27 July 1938 in Astoria, New York)

8 August 1861