On This Day in Music: August 19

1987 Birth

Anaïs Lameche

Anaïs Lameche, Swedish singer (Play) was born

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1686 Birth

Antonio Tonelli

Antonio Tonelli, composer was born

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1946 Birth

Beat Raaflaub

Beat Raaflaub, Swiss conductor was born

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1943 Birth

Billy J Kramer

Billy J Kramer, Liverpool, rock vocalist (The Dakotas-Bad to Me) was born

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1972 Birth

Chihiro Yonekura

Chihiro Yonekura, Japanese singer was born

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1969 Birth

Clay Walker

Clay Walker, American singer was born

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1960 Birth

Dan "Woody" Woodgate

Dan "Woody" Woodgate, rocker was born

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1980 Birth

Darius Danesh

Darius Danesh, Scottish singer-songwriter & actor was born

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1979 Birth

Dave Douglas

Dave Douglas, American musician (Relient K) was born

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1944 Birth

Eddy Raven

Eddy Raven, Lafayette La, country singer (Right Hand Man) was born

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1896 Birth

Eino Mauno Aleksanteri Linnala

Eino Mauno Aleksanteri Linnala, composer was born

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1972 Birth

Elizabeth Wolfgramm

Elizabeth Wolfgramm, rocker (Jets) was born

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1970 Birth

Fat Joe

Fat Joe, American rapper was born

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1914 Birth

Fumio Hayasaka

Fumio Hayasaka, composer was born

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1824 Birth

Georg Goltermann

Georg Goltermann, composer was born

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1881 Birth

Georges Enesco

Georges Enesco, [or Enescu], Romania, composer (Romanian Dances) was born

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1947 Birth

Gerard Schwarz

Gerard Schwarz, Weehawken NJ, trumpeter/conductor (LA Chamber Orch) was born

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1939 Birth

Ginger [Peter] Baker

Ginger [Peter] Baker, England, drummer (Cream-White Room) was born

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1951 Birth

Gustavo Santaolalla

Gustavo Santaolalla, Argentine film composer was born

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1945 Birth

Ian Gillian

Ian Gillian, heavy metal rocker (Deep Purple-Knocking at Backdoor) was born

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1905 Birth

Jacques de Menasce

Jacques de Menasce, composer was born

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1918 Birth

James George "Jimmy" Rowles

James George "Jimmy" Rowles, jazz pianist was born

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1967 Birth

Jason Starkey

Jason Starkey, son of Beatle Ringo was born

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1963 Birth

Joey Tempest

Joey Tempest, rocker (Europe-The Final Countdown) was born

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1737 Birth

Johann Georg Christoph Schetky

Johann Georg Christoph Schetky, composer was born

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1951 Birth

John Deacon

John Deacon, British pop guitarist (Queen-Somebody to Love) was born

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1940 Birth

Johnny Nash

Johnny Nash, Houston, Tx, rocker (I Can See Clearly Now) was born

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1980 Birth

Jun Jin

Jun Jin, Korean rapper (Shinhwa) was born

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1966 Birth

Lee Ann Womack

Lee Ann Womack, American musician was born

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1968 Birth

Mark McGuinn

Mark McGuinn, country music singer was born

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1985 Birth

Megan Rochell

Megan Rochell, American singer was born

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1980 Birth

Michael Todd

Michael Todd, American musician (Coheed and Cambria) was born

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1983 Birth

Missy Higgins

Missy Higgins, Australian singer-songwriter was born

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1969 Birth

Nate Dogg

Nate Dogg, American rapper was born

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1920 Birth

Paul Kont

Paul Kont, composer was born

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1886 Birth

Robert Heger

Robert Heger, composer was born

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1989 Birth

Romeo

Romeo, American rapper was born

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1972 Birth

Sammi Cheng Sau Man

Sammi Cheng Sau Man, Hong Kong singer and actress was born

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1959 Birth

Steve Grimmett

Steve Grimmett, heavy metal rocker was born

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1983 Birth

Tammin Sursok

Tammin Sursok, Australian actress & singer was born

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1813 Birth

William Henry Fry

William Henry Fry, composer was born

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1907 Birth

Zygmunt Mycielsky

Zygmunt Mycielsky, composer was born

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1912 Death

Alfonse Hasselmans

Alfonse Hasselmans, composer, dies at 67

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1958 Death

Antonius "Toon" Verhey

Antonius "Toon" Verhey, violin cellist/conductor, dies at 63

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1780 Death

Bernhard Haltenberger

Bernhard Haltenberger, composer, dies at 32

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2001 Death

Betty Everett

Betty Everett, American singer and pianist (b. 1939)

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1744 Death

Carlo Arrigoni

Carlo Arrigoni, composer, dies at 46

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1979 Death

Dorsey Burnette

Dorsey Burnette, rocker, dies at 46 of a heart attack

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1872 Death

Eugene-Prosper Prevost

Eugene-Prosper Prevost, composer, dies at 63

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1936 Death

Federico Garcia Lorca

Federico Garcia Lorca, Spanish poet/composer, murdered at 37 or 38

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1922 Death

Felipe Pedrell

Felipe Pedrell, composer, dies at 81

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1892 Death

Frantisek Zdenek Xavier Alois Skuhersky

Frantisek Zdenek Xavier Alois Skuhersky, composer, dies at 62

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1795 Death

Friedrich Hartmann Graf

Friedrich Hartmann Graf, composer, dies at 67

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1851 Death

Gioseffo Catrufo

Gioseffo Catrufo, composer, dies at 80

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2023 Death

Gloria Coates

Gloria Coates died

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1944 Death

Henry J Wood

Henry J Wood, English conductor (My Life of Music, Proms), dies at 75

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1900 Death

Jean-Baptiste Accolay

Jean-Baptiste Accolay, Belgian composer (b. 1833)

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1976 Death

Jeno Kenessey

Jeno Kenessey, composer, dies at 70

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1813 Death

Johann Carl Friedrich Rellstab

Johann Carl Friedrich Rellstab, composer, dies at 54

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1813 Death

Josef Blazej Smrcek

Josef Blazej Smrcek, composer, dies at 61

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1881 Death

Joseph Labitzky

Joseph Labitzky, composer, dies at 79

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1963 Death

Kathleen Parlow

Kathleen Parlow, Canadian violinist (b. 1890)

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2023 Death

Kazuo Fukushima

Kazuo Fukushima died

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2008 Death

LeRoi Moore

LeRoi Moore, American musician (Dave Matthews Band) (b.1961)

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1822 Death

Melchor Lopez Jimenez

Melchor Lopez Jimenez, composer, dies at 62

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1995 Death

Pierre Schaeffer

Pierre Schaeffer, composer/radio innovator, dies at 85

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1929 Death

Sergei P Diaghilev

Sergei P Diaghilev, Russia, dance master (Imperial Ballet), dies at 57

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2021 Death

Sonny Chiba

Sonny Chiba died

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2022 Death

Ted Kirkpatrick

Ted Kirkpatrick died

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2023 Death

Vašo Patejdl

Vašo Patejdl died

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1812 Death

Vincenzo Righini

Vincenzo Righini, composer, dies at 56

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2022 Death

Warren Bernhardt

Warren Bernhardt died

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2021 Event

Cravity

Cravity released the album 'The Awakening: Written in the Stars'

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2022 Event

Demi Lovato

Demi Lovato released the album 'Holy Fvck'

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1955 Event

Fats Domino

WINS radio, announces it will not play "copy" white cover versions of R&B (DJs must play Fats Domino's "Ain't It A Shame," not Pat Boone's)

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2022 Event

Five Finger Death Punch

Five Finger Death Punch released the album 'AfterLife'

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1918 Event

Irving Berlin

Irving Berlin's musical "Yip Yip Yaphank," premieres in NYC

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2022 Event

Panic! at the Disco

Panic! at the Disco released the album 'Viva Las Vengeance'

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2022 Event

Soilwork

Soilwork released the album 'Övergivenheten'

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1967 Event

The Beatles

Beatles' "All You Need is Love," single goes #1

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