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Ai Kago, Japanese singer was born
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Ai Kago, Japanese singer was born
Alan Lancaster, bassist (Status Quo-Down Down, On the Level) was born
Arthur Collins, singer/comedian (Peerless Quartet) was born
Benedikt Emanuel Schack, composer was born
Brian Travers, rock saxophonist (UB40-Red Wine) was born
Carl August Thielo, composer was born
Crystobal Oudrid y Segura, composer was born
David Bryan, rock keyboardist (Bon Jovi-You Give Love a Bad Name) was born
Dock Boggs, American musician (d. 1971) was born
Earl King [Solomon Johnson], New Orleans, Louisiana, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Come On) was born
Erkki Gustav Melartin, composer was born
Ernst Franck, German composer/conductor was born
Eubie Blake, Baltimore Maryland, US ragtime composer/pianist (Memories of You) (d. 1983) was born
Feliks Nowowiejski, composer was born
Garth Brooks, Tulsa Oklahoma, country vocalist (No Fences, Double Live) was born
Jimmy Greenspoon, LA Cal, rock organist (3 Dog Night-Joy to the World) was born
Joachim Stutschewsky, composer was born
Joaquin y Garbayo Gaztambide, composer was born
John Buller, composer was born
Johnny Jordaan, [Jan van Musscher], Amsterdam folk vocalist was born
Joseph Pouteau, composer was born
Karl Wilhelm Eugen Stenhammer, composer was born
King Curtis, [Curtis Ousley], US vocalist (Memphis Soul Stew) was born
Lawrence Ascott, rocker (Isotope) was born
Mai Hagiwara, Japanese singer was born
Maimi Yajima, Japanese singer was born
Manuel Mijares, Mexico, spanish vocalist (Maria Bonita) was born
Marius Constant, Rumania, Dutch composer/conductor (Paradise Lost) was born
Mark St. John, American musician (Kiss) (d. 2007) was born
Mieczyslaw Soltys, composer was born
Oscar Brand, Winnipeg Canada, folk vocalist (Draw Me a Laugh) was born
Ossip Gabrilovich, composer was born
Quincy Porter, New Haven Ct, composer was born
Ricardo Castro Herrera, composer was born
Richard Cook, British jazz writer (d. 2007) was born
Richard Genee, composer was born
Robert Frank Baksa, composer was born
Sammy Johns, rocker (Politics, Religion & Her), (d. 2013) was born
Sully Erna, American singer (Godsmack) was born
Vasco Rossi, Italian singer was born
Walter Courvoisier, composer was born
Wes Borland, American guitarist (Limp Bizkit) was born
William Boyce, English organist/composer of Cathedral music was born
"Red" McKenzie, blues-jazz singer (played comb-with-tissue-paper), dies
Alexander Sergeyevich Taneyev, composer, dies at 68
Andre Cardinal Destouches, composer, dies at 76
Armand Preud'homme, Flemish organist/lyricist, dies at 81
Bainbridge Crist, composer, dies at 85
Benjamin Edward Woolf, composer, dies at 64
Big Pun, Puerto Rican-American rapper (b. 1971)
Bobby Troup, American musician and actor (b. 1918)
Carl Dean Wilson, musician, dies at 51
Dale Evans, American actress and singer (b. 1912)
Danil Shafran, cellist, dies at 74
Dave Peverett, English musician (Foghat, Savoy Brown) (b. 1943)
Ernst Kunz, composer, dies at 88
Frantisek Jan Skroup, composer, dies at 61
Franz Anton Dimmler, composer, dies at 73
Ion Vidu, composer, dies at 67
Isian Kehinde I K Dairo, musician/academic, dies at 65
Jan Adam Maklakiewicz, composer, dies at 54
Jimmy Van Heusen, composer (Call Me Irresponsible), dies at 77
Lillian Rambach, teacher violinist, dies at 84
Lina Cavalieri, Italian soprano (b. 1874)
Lodovico Giustini, composer, dies at 57
Marcus Antonio da Fonseca Portugal, Portuguese composer, dies at 67
Matt Monro, English singer (b. 1932)
Rudolph Reti, composer, dies at 71
Samuel Adams Holyoke, composer, dies at 57
Slim [Eddie Jones] Guitar, rocker, dies at 32
Stuart Foster, singer (Galen Drake Show), dies at 49
Tiny Winters, musician, dies at 87
William Boyce, composer, dies at 67
Witold Lutosławski, Polish composer (b. 1913)
Wladyslaw Gorski, composer, dies at 68
US opera "Peter Ibbetson" by Deems Taylor premieres at Met Opera NYC
D Cimarosa's opera "Il Matrimonio Segreto" premieres in Vienna
Madonna's "Open Your Heart," single goes #1
Michael Jackson awarded a 4-ft-high platinum disc by CBS
Pink Floyd premiered their live version of "The Wall" in Los Angeles
"Jingle Jangle" hits #10 on the pop singles chart by The Archies
Beatles land at NY's JFK airport, for 1st US tour
21st American Music Award: Whitney Houston wins
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