On This Day in Music: September 18

1885 Birth

Abdul Muslim Mahomayev

Abdul Muslim Mahomayev, composer was born

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1928 Birth

Adam Walacinski

Adam Walacinski, composer was born

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1946 Birth

Alan "Bam" King

Alan "Bam" King, rocker was born

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1917 Birth

Alan Ande Anderson

Alan Ande Anderson, opera director was born

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1860 Birth

Alberto Franchetti

Alberto Franchetti, composer was born

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1973 Birth

Ami Onuki

Ami Onuki, Japanese singer (Puffy AmiYumi) was born

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1971 Birth

Anna Netrebko

Anna Netrebko, Russian opera singer was born

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1893 Birth

Arthur Benjamin

Arthur Benjamin, Sydney Australia, composer (Jamaican Rumba) was born

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1968 Birth

Cappadonna

Cappadonna, American rapper was born

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1980 Birth

Cradle of Filth

Charles Hedger - British musician (Cradle of Filth) was born

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1951 Birth

Dee Dee Ramone

Dee Dee Ramone, Virg, [Douglas Colvin], rock bassist (Ramones) was born

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1587 Birth

Francesca Caccini

Francesca Caccini, Italian composer (d. circa 1640) was born

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1940 Birth

Frankie Avalon

Frankie Avalon, Phila, actor (Beach movies)/singer (Venus) was born

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1941 Birth

Haflidi Magnus Hallgrimmson

Haflidi Magnus Hallgrimmson, composer was born

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1947 Birth

Hans Vermeulen

Hans Vermeulen, singer/guitarist (Sandy Coast) was born

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1933 Birth

Jimmie Rodgers

Jimmie Rodgers, WA, singer/guitarist (Jimmie Rodgers Show, Honey Comb) was born

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1962 Birth

Joanne Catherall

Joanne Catherall, Sheffield England, rock vocalist (Human League) was born

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1752 Birth

Johann Anton Sulzer

Johann Anton Sulzer, composer was born

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1684 Birth

Johann Gottfried Walther

Johann Gottfried Walther, Erfurt Germany, composer/Musicographer was born

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1910 Birth

Josef Tal

Josef Tal, composer was born

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1877 Birth

Jozef de Voght

Jozef de Voght, Flemish priest/songwriter (Under the Snow) was born

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1949 Birth

Kerry Livgren

Kerry Livgren, Kansas, rock guitarist (Kansas) was born

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1910 Birth

Leon Stein

Leon Stein, composer was born

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1883 Birth

Lord Berners

Lord Berners, [Gerald Tyrwhitt], England, composer (1st Childhood) was born

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1929 Birth

Louis Myers

Louis Myers, blues guitarist /harmonica player was born

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1933 Birth

Manfred Niehaus

Manfred Niehaus, composer was born

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1772 Birth

Martin-Pierre Dalvimare

Martin-Pierre Dalvimare, composer was born

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1944 Birth

Michael Franks

Michael Franks, rocker was born

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1943 Birth

Michael Vetter

Michael Vetter, composer was born

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1950 Birth

Mike Hossack

Mike Hossack, Patterson NJ, rock drummer (Doobie Brothers), (d. 2012) was born

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1939 Birth

Naresh Kumar Sohal

Naresh Kumar Sohal, composer was born

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1937 Birth

Norman Dinnerstein

Norman Dinnerstein, composer was born

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1765 Birth

Oliver Holden

Oliver Holden, composer was born

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1897 Birth

Pablo Sorozabal Marialcurrena

Pablo Sorozabal Marialcurrena, composer was born

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1636 Birth

Pietro Sanmartini

Pietro Sanmartini, composer was born

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1922 Birth

Ray Steadman-Allen

Ray Steadman-Allen, English composer was born

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1967 Birth

Ricky Bell

Ricky Bell, Boston Mass, rock vocalist (New Edition, Bell Biv Devoe) was born

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1944 Birth

Rocío Jurado

Rocío Jurado, Spanish singer and actress (d. 2006) was born

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1966 Birth

Spike

Spike, guitarist (Ian Spice Breathe, Flash Cadillac) [or Feb 4] was born

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1890 Birth

Vladimir Ambros

Vladimir Ambros, composer was born

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1974 Birth

Xzibit

Xzibit, American rapper was born

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2025 Death

Brett James

Brett James died

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1918 Death

Ernest Bristow Farrar

Ernest Bristow Farrar, composer, dies at 33

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2025 Death

Fausto Amodei

Fausto Amodei died

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1966 Death

Fernand Lamy

Fernand Lamy, composer, dies at 85

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1929 Death

Hermann Gradener

Hermann Gradener, composer, dies at 85

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1903 Death

Isidor Vorobchievici

Isidor Vorobchievici, composer, dies at 67

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1966 Death

Jeno Vecsey

Jeno Vecsey, composer, dies at 57

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1970 Death

Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix, rock guitarist (Purple Haze), dies of a drug overdose at 27

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1997 Death

Jimmy Witherspoon

Jimmy Witherspoon, singer, dies at 65

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2021 Death

Julos Beaucarne

Julos Beaucarne died

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1857 Death

Karol Kazimierz Kurpinski

Karol Kazimierz Kurpinski, composer, dies at 72

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2024 Death

Nick Gravenites

Nick Gravenites died

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2007 Death

Pepsi Tate Bassist from the glam-rock band

Pepsi Tate Bassist from the glam-rock band, tigertailz (b. 1965)

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1831 Death

Peter Hansel

Peter Hansel, composer, dies at 60

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1969 Death

Rudolph Wagner-Regeny

Rudolph Wagner-Regeny, composer, dies at 66

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1911 Death

Russian Premier Peter Stolypin (1906-11)

Russian Premier Peter Stolypin (1906-11), shot and murdered at the Kiev Opera House aged 49

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1903 Death

Theodore Furchtegott Kirchner

Theodore Furchtegott Kirchner, German composer, dies at 79

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1945 Death

Willie Johnson

"Blind" Willie Johnson, American blues/spiritual singer and guitarist (b. 1897)

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2024 Death

Zulya Kamalova

Zulya Kamalova died

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2020 Event

Alanis Morissette

Alanis Morissette released the album 'Such Pretty Forks in the Road'

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2020 Event

Alicia Keys

Alicia Keys released the album 'Alicia'

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1985 Event

Andrew Lloyd Webber

"Song & Dance" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 474 performances

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2020 Event

Ava Max

Ava Max released the album 'Heaven & Hell'

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1897 Event

Gustave Adolph Kerker

Gustave Kerker/Hugh Martin's musical "Belle of NYC," premieres in NYC

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2020 Event

Napalm Death

Napalm Death released the album 'Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism'

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1979 Event

The Who

The Who opens NYC concerts at Madison Square Garden

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