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Born ~ September 1st.
1994: Bianca Ryan (American singer).
1993: Ilona Mitrecey (French singer).
1989: Bill Kaulitz (German singer, guitar; Tokio Hotel)
1987: Dann Hume (New Zealand singer, guitarist, drummer; Evermore).
1985: Camile Velasco (Filipino-American singer).
1984: Joseph Trohman (American musician; Fall Out Boy).
1980: Sean Stewart (US songwriter, musician, model, son of Rod Stewart)
1976: Peter McCarrick Brown (US drummer; Wheatus).
1976: Babydaddy/Scott Hoffman (keyboards/bass; Scissor Sisters)
1975: Natalie Bassingthwaighte (Australian actress and singer).
1975: Omar Rodriguez-Lopez (Puerto Rican guitarist, director, actor, songwriter; The Mars Volta).
1974: Filip Nikolitch (French singer and actor)*16.Sept.2009.
1973: J. D. Fortune/Jason Dean Bennison (Canadian singer; INXS).
1971: Yoshitaka Hirota (Japanese composer).
1971: Lââm/Lamia (French singer).
1970: DJ Spigg Nice (US rapper; Lost Boyz).
1970: Mitsou/Mitsou Annie Marie Gélinas (Canadian singer, TV/radio host, actress).
1970: Vanna/Ivana Ranilovic Vrdoljak (Croatian pop singer).
1965: Craig McLachlan (Australian actor and singer).
1964: Ray D'Arcy (Irish DJ and TV presenter).
1963: Carola Sier-Smit (Dutch singer; BZN aka Band zonder Naam/Band Without a Name).
1960: Joseph Williams (US singer, film score composer; Toto/solo).
1960: Cass/ Richard Keith Lewis (UK bassist, Skunk Anansie).
1958: Armi Aavikko (Finnish singer, beauty queen)*02.Jan.2002.
1957: Gloria Estefan/Gloria María Fajardo García (Cuban-US singer, actress;Miami Sound Machine)
1955: Bruce Foxton (UK bassist, vocals; The Jam, Stiff Little Fingers).
1953: Don Blackman (US jazz-funk pianist, singer-songwriter; Parliament/Funkadelic/others)*11.April.2013.
1951: Boney James/James Oppenheim (US award winning saxophone player).
1950: Peter Hewson (UK vocals; Chicory Tip)
1949: Russ Field (UK guitarist, vocals; Showaddywaddy).
1946: Greg Errico (US drummer, record producer; Sly & The Family Stone/session/guest)
1946: Barry Gibb (UK singer, songwriter, guitar; Bee Gees).
1944: Archie Bell (US vocalist; The Drells).
1944: Leonard Slatkin (US conductor)
1943: Bruce Johnstone (New Zealand baritone jazz saxophonist)
1942: Marc Moulin (Belgian pianist, journalist, radio personality, composer of TV music)*26.Sept.2008.
1935: Seiji Ozawa (Japanese conductor; Boston Symphony Orch/Vienna State Opera/others).
1933: Conway Twitty/Harold Lloyd Jenkins (US country singer, guitarist)*05.June.1993.
1931: Boxcar Willie/Lecil Travis Martin (US hobo/country singer, guitarist, songwriter)*12.April.1999.
1931: Sammy Arena (US singer; The Arena Brothers)*05.Dec.2012
1931: Andrew Arena (US singer; The Arena Brothers)
1927: Tommy Evans (US vocalist; the Drifters)
1925: Art Pepper (American alto saxophonist)*15.June.1982.
1917: Velma Middleton (US singer; Louis Armstrong big bands-small groups)*10.Feb.1961.
1886: Othmar Schoeck (Swiss composer and conductor)*08.March.1957.

September 2nd.
1989: Ishmeet Singh Sodhi (Indian solo singer; winner of Star Voice of India 2007)*29.July.2008.
1987: Spencer Smith (US drummer; Panic! at the Disco).
1984: Danson Tang/Táng Yuzhé (Taiwanese actor, model, singer).
1984: Jack Peñate (UK singer, songwriter).
1983: Aimee Osbourne (UK singer, actress and columnist).
1979: Alex Chu (Canadian born Korean singer; Clazziquai).
1977: Ramiro Muñoz (Colombian music composed for theatre, television).
1977: Sam Rivers (US bassist; Limp Bizkit).
1976: Phil Lipscomb (US bassist; Taproot).
1975: MC Chris/Christopher Brendan Ward IV (American rap artist).
1975: Tony Thompson (US lead singer; Hi-Five)*01.June.2007.
1969: Cedric "K-Ci" Hailey (US singer; K-Ci and JoJo / Jodeci)
1966: Dino Cazares (US guitarist; Fear Factory/ Divine Heresy/Asesino).
1963: Mike Baker (American lead singer; Shadow Gallery)*29.Oct.2008.
1959: Paul Wylie Deakin (US drummer, The Mavericks).
1958: Jerry Augustyniak (US drummer; 10,000 Maniacs).
1957: Steve Porcaro (US keyboards, synthesizer, composer; Toto)
1956: Fritz McIntyre (UK keyboards; Simply Red).
1953: John Zorn (US avant-garde composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist, multi-musician).
1951: Mik Kaminksi (UK Violinist; Electric Light Orchestra/Violinski/ELO part 2)
1950: Michael Rother (German guitarlst, keyboards, multi-musician; Neu!/Kraftwerk/Harmonia/Cluster).
1947: Richard Coughlan (UK drummer, percussionist; Caravan).
1946: Akira "Joe" Yamanaka (Japanese rock singer, actor; Flower Travellin' Band/solo)*07.Aug.2011.
1946: Billy Preston (US singer, songwriter, bandleader)*06.June.2006.
1946: Marty Greb (US keyboardist, horns; Buckinghams/Fabulous Rhinestones/many sessions)
1944: Pete Atkinson (UK rhythm guitarist; The Thunderbeats, David John and the Mood)
1944: Gilles Marchal/Gilles Pastre (French songwriter, singer)*11.April.2013.
1943: Rosalind Ashford (US vocals; Del-Phis/ Vells/ Martha Reeves & the Vandellas)
1943: Ðorde Novkovic (Croatian singer, songwriter, record producer)*06.May.2007.
1943: Joe Simon (US singer).
1941: Bobby Purify/James B. Moore (US soul singer)
1940: Jimmy Clanton (US singer)
1939: Sam Gooden (African-American soul singer; The Impressions)
1935: William 'Liam' Clancy (Irish singer,guitarist; Clancy Bros/Makem & Clancy/solo)*04.Dec.2009.
1931: Clifford Jordan (US jazz saxophone; many big named bands)*27.March.1993.
1928: Horace Silver (US jazz pianist, composer)
1925: Hugo Montenegro (US composer, arranger and conductor)*06.Feb.1981.
1925: Russ Conway/Trevor Stanford (UK pop music pianist, composer)*16.Nov.2000.
1917: Laurindo Almeida (Brazilian classical guitarist)*26.July.1995.
1914: Tom Glazer (US folk singer and songwriter)*21.Feb.2003.

September 3rd.
1982: Andrew McMahon (US singer, songwriter; Something Corporate, Jack's Mannequin).
1982: Kaori Natori (Japanese singer, model).
1980: Cone/Jason McCaslin (Canadian bassist; Sum 41).
1980: B.G./Baby Gangsta/Christopher Dorsey (US rapper; Hot Boys/solo)
1979: Tomo Milicevic (Bosnian-born US guitarist; 30 Seconds to Mars)
1978: Valfar/Terje Bakken (Norwegian lead singer; Windir)*15.Jan.2004.
1973: David Mead (US singer, songwriter).
1973: Norihiko Hibino (Japanese composer, saxophonist).
1973: Jennifer Paige (US singer, songwriter).
1970: Haydain Neale (Canadian award winning singer-songwriter; Jacksoul)*22.Nov.2009.
1965: Vaden Todd Lewis (US guitarist, singer: Toadies).
1964: Junaid Jamshed (Pakistani singer; Vital Signs/solo).
1964: Nigel Rhodes (UK actor, guitarist; AerialDevice).
1963: Jonathan Segel (US composer,multi-musician; Camper Van Beethoven/Dieselhed)
1962: Lester Noel (UK vocalist; Beats International)
1960: Perry Bamonte (UK lead guitarist; The Cure)
1957: Suzanne Freytag (keyboard; Propaganda)
1955: Steve Jones (UK vocals,keyboards,guitarist; Sex Pistols/Neurotic Outsiders/freelance).
1952: Leroy Smith (vocals; Sweet Sensation)
1950: Doug Pinnick (US bassist, singer; King's X/solo/guest).
1948: Donald Brewer (drummer; Grand Funk Railroad)
1947: Eric Bell (Irish guitarist; founder member of Thin Lizzy)
1945: George Biondi (bass; Steppenwolf)
1944: Gary Leeds (drummer, vocals; Walker Brothers)
1942: Jeff Cutler/Roland Jeffries Cutler (Canadian drummer; The Crazy World of Arthur Brown).
1942: Al Jardine (US vocalist, producer, guitar; founder member of The Beach Boys)
1942: Kenneth Pickett (UK singer; The Creation)*10.Jan.1997.
1940: Shadow Morton/George Francis Morton (US record producer, songwriter)*14.Feb.2013.
1934: Freddie King (Afro-American rock blues guitarist, singer)*28.Dec.1976.
1933: Tompall Glaser (US country singer; Tompall & the Glaser Brothers/solo).
1926: Zezé Gonzaga (Brazilian singer)*24.July.2008.
1925: Hank Thompson (American country music singer and songwriter)*06.Nov.2007.
1925: Shoista Mullodzhanova (legendary Tajik Shashmakom singer)*26.June.2010.
1924: Erik Sædén (Swedish operatic bass-baritone)*03.Nov.2009.
1921: Thurston Dart (UK harpsichordist, musicologist, conductor)*05.March.1971.
1918: Donna King Conkling (American singer; The King Sisters)*16.June.2007.
1901: Eduard van Beinum (Dutch conductor, pianist, violin)*13.April.1959.
1887: Frank Christian (American New Orleans jazz trumpeter)*27.Nov.1973.
1695: Pietro Locatelli (Italian composer, violinist)*30.March.1764.

September 4th.
1984: Camila Bordonaba (Argentine actress, singer, composer).
1981: Lacey Sturm/Lacey Mosley (US singer; Flyleaf).
1983: Yuichi Nakamaru (Japanese singer; (member of Kat-Tun).
1981: Beyoncé Knowles (US singer; Destiny's Child/solo).
1980: Dan Miller (US vocalist; O-Town).
1980: Hitomi Shimatani (Japanese singer).
1979: MC Mong/Shin Dong Hyun (South Korean hip hop artist; People Crew/solo).
1979: Pedro Camacho (Portuguese award-winning film and video game composer).
1977: Mark Ronson (UK DJ/Producer, co-founder of Allido Records).
1977: Lucie Silvas/Lucie Joanne Silverman (UK singer, songwriter).
1976: Katreeya English (Thai singer, actress, model).
1975: Richard Wingo (American R&B singer; Jagged Edge).
1970: Daisy Dee/Desiree Rollocks (Curaçaon born singer).
1970: Igor Cavalera (Brazilian drummer; Sepultura)
1974: Carmit Bachar (US singer, dancer; Pussycat Dolls)
1972: Guto Pryce (Welsh bassist; Super Furry Animals)
1971: Ty Longley (US guitar, vocals; Great White/solo)*20.Feb.2003.
1970: Igor Cavalera (Brazilian drummer; Sepultura)
1969: Sasha/Alexander Coe (Welsh producer/mixing/remixing/ DJ)
1966: Bireli Lagrene (French gypsy-style jazz guitarist).
1966: Yanka Dyagileva (Russian poet, singer-songwriter)*09.May.1991.
1964: René Pape (German opera singer).
1963: Sam Yaffa/Sami Takamäki (Finnish bass guitarist; Hanoi Rocks/New York Dolls/Michael Monroe band)
1963: Bobby Jarzombek (US drummer; Halford)
1961: Nick Blinko (UK lead singer, lyricist, guitar player; Rudimentary Peni)
1961: Bernard O'Neill (Irish double bassist, bass; international sessionist/founder member: Zumzeaux).
1960: Kim Thayil (US guitar;Soundgarden)
1958: George Hurley (US drummer; Minutemen/fIREHOSE).
1956: Blackie Lawless/Steven Edward Duren (US rhythm guitarist, lead singer; W.A.S.P).
1951: Martin Chambers (UK drummer; The Pretenders/ Miss World).
1951: Dan Del Santo (US steel guitarist, guitarist, singer-songwriter)*12.Oct.2001.
1950: Ronald LaPread (US bassist; The Commodores)
1948: Joe O'Donnell (Irish mandolin,violin,vocals; East of Eden/Headstone/Mushroom/Granny’s Intentions)b
1946: Gary Duncan (US guitarist; Quicksilver Messenger Service)
1945: Danny Gatton (US guitarist; Redneck Jazz Explosion)*04.Oct.1994.
1944: Gene Parsons (US drummer, banjoist, guitarist, singer-songwriter; Byrds/Flying Burrito Bros/others).
1943: Tony Jarrett (UK bassist; Vanity Fare).
1942: Merald “Bubba” Knight (US soul singer; Gladys Knight & The Pips).
1942: Heiner Stadler (Polish arranger, bandleader, composer).
1937: Gene Ludwig (US jazz organist)*14.July.2010.
1934: Michel Sardaby (French pianist).
1934: Eduard Khil (Russian popular singer)*04.June.2012.
1930: Jerry Ragovoy (US songwriter, arranger, producer)*13.July.2011.
1930: John Cephas (US Piedmont blues guitarist; Cephas & Wiggins)*04.March.2009.
1924: Leonard Rosenman (US film / TV composer)*04.March.2008.
1921: Ariel Ramírez (Argentine composer and pianist)*18.Feb.2010.
1920: Teddy Johnson (UK singer, drummer; solo/Pearl Carr & Teddy Johnson)
1918: Gerald Wilson (US jazz trumpeter)
1907: Jan Savitt/Jacob Savetnick (Russian arranger, bandleader, violinist, and vocalist)*04.Oct.1948.
1905: Meade "Lux" Lewis (American pianist)*07.June.1964.
1894: Darius Milhaud (French composer, teacher; Les Six)*22.June.1974.
1891: Sam Lanin (American bandleader; own bands/session leader)*05.May.1977.
1890: Naima Wifstrand (Swedish actor, operetta singer, troubadour, director, composer)*23.Oct.1968.

September 5th.
1984: Justin "Trey" Hill (US guitarist, singer/songwriter, producer; SONICFLOOd/guest/sessionist).
1982: Sondre Lerche (Norwegian singer, guitarist, songwriter).
1980: Kevin Simm (vocals; Liberty X)
1977: Alexey Harkov (Russian bassist; Kipelov/Sergey Mavrin).
1975: Jamie Madrox/James Spaniolo (US horrorcore rapper; Twiztid/Dark Lotus/Psychopathic Rydas).
1970: Liam Lynch/William Patrick Niederst (US guitarist, puppeteer, musical director).
1969: Dweezil Zappa (US vocalist, guitar, son of Frank Zappa; solo/guest/sessionist).
1968: Brad Wilk (US drummer; Rage Against The Machine/Audioslave).
1966: Ricky Parent (American drummer; Enuff Z'nuff)*27.Oct.2007.
1966: Terry Ellis (American R&B singer; En Vogue).
1964: Kevin Saunderson (US mixer, producer, member of; Reese & Santonio/Inner City/Kreem/Es'Ray).
1963: Juan Alderete (US bassist; The Mars Volta/Racer X).
1961: Marc-André Hamelin (Canadian classical pianist, composer).
1958: Lars Danielsson (Swedish bassist, composer and producer; own band/sessionist).
1956: Roine Stolt (Swedish guitarist; The Flower Kings).
1954: Sal Solo/Charles Peter Smith (lead singer; Classix Nouveaux).
1952: David Glen Eisley (US rock singer, actor; Sorcery/Giuffria/Dirty White Boy/solo/guest)
1951: Jamie Oldaker (US country musician; The Tractors/Eric Clapton Band).
1949: Dave "Clem" Clempson (UK guitarist, keyboards; Colosseum/Humble Pie/guest)
1947: Buddy Miles (US drummer; Ink Spots/Band of Gypsys/session/guest)*26.Feb.2008.
1947: Charles Bobo Shaw (US drummer, co-founder of the Black Artists Group, a musical collective).
1946: Freddie Mercury/Farrokh Bulsara (Zanzibar-born singer, pianist, songwriter; Queen)*24.Nov.1991.
1946: Dean Ford/Thomas McAleese (Scottish lead singer; Marmalade).
1946: Loudon Wainwright III (US singer, songwriter)
1945: Al Stewart (Scottish Vocals, Keyboards, Trumpet, Guitar).
1940: Giancarlo Bigazzi (Italian record producer, composer, lyricist, bandleader; Squallor)*19.Jan.2012.
1939: John Stewart (US singer, songwriter; Kingston Trio/solo)*19.Jan.2008.
1936: Willie Woods (US vocalist, guitar; Junior Walker & the All Stars) *27.May.1997.
1935: Paul Yandell (US country finger style guitarist; Chet Atkins/top sessionist/solo)*21.Nov.2011.
1934: Carol Lawrence (US actress, singer)
1931: Richie Powell (US bebop jazz pianist;The Clifford Brown & Max Roach Quintet)*26.June.1956.
1928: Albert Mangelsdorff (German bandleader and trombonist)*25.July.2005
1927: Nick Ayoub (Canadian tenor saxophone player).
1927: Joki Freund (German aerophone multi-instrumentalist).
1913: Conny Stuart/Cornelia van Meijgaard (Dutch singer, actress)*22.Aug.2010.
1912: John Cage (American composer)*12.Aug.1992.
1910: Ralph Berkowitz (US composer, pianist)*02.Aug.2011.
1892: Joseph Szigeti (Hungarian violinist)*19.Feb.1973.
1494: Hans Sachs (German meistersinger)*19.Jan.1576.

September 6th.
1987: Ramiele Malubay (US singer and former American Idol contestant).
1985: Webbie/Webster Gradney Jr (US rapper, hip-hop artist).
1981: Yumiko Cheng (Hong Kong singer).
1980: Kerry Katona (UK singer; Atomic Kitten).
1978: Foxy Brown/Inga Marchand (US rapper).
1978: Tony Thaxton (US drummer; Motion City Soundtrack)
1978: Marlen Angelidou (Greek singer)
1978: Cisco Adler (US singer, producer; Whitestarr).
1977: Kiyoshi Hikawa (Japanese enka singer).
1976: Hyun Young (South Korean actress, pop singer)
1976: N.O.R.E./Victor Santiago (American rapper and reggaeton performer).
1976: Rodrigo Amarante (Brazilian singer; Little Joy/Los Hermanos)
1974: Nina Persson (Swedish singer; The Cardigans).
1972: Eugene Hütz (Ukrainian singer and composer; Gogol Bordello).
1972: Anika Noni Rose (US actress, singer)
1971: Dolores O'Riordan (Irish singer; The Cranberries).
1971: Kathy Wolfgramm/Kathi Jet (American vocalist; The Jets).
1969: CeCe Peniston (US dance music singer).
1969: Darryl Anthony (American R&B singer; Az Yet).
1968: Paddy Boom/Patrick Secore (US drummer; Scissor Sisters)
1967: Claire Martin (Award winning British jazz singer).
1967: Macy Gray/Natalie Hinds/Natalie Renee McIntyre (US singer-songwriter)
1967: William DuVall (US singer; Alice In Chains)
1963: Mark Chesnutt (US country music singer).
1961: Pål Waaktaar Gamst (Swedish guitarist, songwriter; A-Ha)
1961: Colin Ferrguson (Scottish bassist; H2O)
1960: Perry Bamonte (English-Italian bassist, keyboardist; with The Cure).
1961: Scott Travis (US drummer; Judas Priest/Racer X).
1958: Nigel Westlake (Australian musician, composer).
1958: Buster Bloodvessel/Douglas Trendle (UK singer; Bad Manners).
1957: Joe Smyth (American drummer; Sawyer Brown).
1954: Stella Barker (UK rhythm guitarist; Belle Stars).
1954: Banner Thomas (American bassist for Molly Hatchet).
1952: Buddy Miller (American country music singer-songwriter).
1949: Jimmy Litherland (English guitarist; Colosseum)
1948: Roger Dean (UK avant-garde jazz pianist, double bassist, vibraphonist).
1948: Claydes Charles Smith (US lead guitarist, co-founder of Kool & The Gang)*20.June.2006.
1947: Bent Persson (Swedish international cornet player).
1947: Sylvester James (US disco and soul singer, gay drag performer)*16.Dec.1988.
1943: Roger Waters (UK bass, vocals; Pink Floyd)
1942: Mel McDaniel (American country music singer, member of the Grand Ole Opry).
1942: Dave Bargeron (US trombonist, tuba player; Blood, Sweat & Tears/session/guest)
1942: Mel McDaniel (US country music singer)*31.March.2011.
1941: Micky Waller (UK drummer; Jeff Beck/John Mayall/many more)*29.April.2008 or 06.May.2008.
1940: Jackie Trent (UK songwriter, singer, actress)
1939: Don DeVito (US record producer, music executive, guitarist; Columbia Records)*25.Nov.2011.
1939: David Allan Coe (American country music singer and songwriter/composer).
1937: Bosse Broberg (Swedish trumpeter).
1932: Gilles Tremblay (Canadian composer).
1928: Evgeny Svetlanov (Russian conductor, composer)*03.May.2002.
1926: Aaron Schroeder (American songwriter; Elvis Presley/Roy Orbison/many more)*02.Dec.2009.
1925: Jimmy Reed (US blues singer, guitarist, harmonica)*29.Aug.1976.
1919: Aaron Shearer (American classical guitarist)*21.April.2008.
1903: Pál Kadosa (Hungarian composer)*30.April.1983.
1899: Billy Rose/William Rosenberg (US impresario, theatrical showman, lyricist)*10.Feb.1966.
1891: John Charles Thomas (American baritone vocalist)*13.Dec.1960.
1877: Buddy Bolden/King Bolden (US cornet player, first jazzman)*04.Nov.1930.

September 7th ..
1997: Michelle Creber (Canadian voice actress, singer)
1986: Spectacular Blue Smith (US rapper with R&B Group Pretty Ricky).
1981: Paul McCoy (American lead singer; 12 Stones).
1979: Owen Pallett (Canadian violinist, singer; Final Fantasy).
1972: Slug/Sean Daley (American rapper; Atmosphere).
1970: Chad Ronald Sexton (US drummer for rapcore/punk rock/reggae act 311).
1969: Little Jimmy Urine (American singer; Mindless Self Indulgence).
1966: Christopher John Dyke Acland (UK drummer; Lush)*17.Oct.1996.
1965: Ron Blake (American tenor saxophonist).
1965: Angela Gheorghiu (Romanian opera singer).
1964: Eazy-E/Eric Wright (American rapper; NWA)*26.March.1995.
1963: Brent Liles (US punk rock bassist; Social Distortion)*18.Jan.2007.
1962: Paul Tobey (Canadian jazz pianist).
1961: LeRoi Moore (American saxophonist; Dave Matthews Band)*19.Aug.2008.
1961: Jean-Yves Thibaudet (French Pianist).
1960: Brad Houser (US bassist, woodwinds; Edie Brickell & New Bohemians)
1958: Hamilton Lee (UK drummer; Furniture)
1957: Margot Chapman (US singer; Starland Vocal Band).
1957: Jermaine Stewart (US singer, dancer; backup/solo)*17.March.1997.
1956: Diane Warren (US songwriter)
1956: Michael Feinstein (American archivist, pianist and singer).
1956: Ryszard Riedel (Polish singer; blues-rock band Dzem)*30.July.1994.
1955: Leonard Haze (US rock drummer, songwriter and producer; Y&T)
1954: Dave King (American bassist).
1953: Michael Byron (US composer, editor of contemporary music anthologies)
1953: Marc Hunter (New Zealand rock singer; Dragon)*17.July.1998.
1953: Benmont Tench (US keyboardist, piano, organ; Tom Petty & Heartbreakers).
1952: Allison Rayner (UK bass player with Deirdre Cartwright).
1951: Morris Albert (Brazilian singer).
1951: Chrissie Hynde (US singer, guitarist, songwriter; The Pretenders).
1951: Mark Isham (American composer).
1951: Danny Doriz (French vibraphonist).
1950: Mark 'Moogy' Klingman (US keyboards, producer, songwriter; Rundgren/Utopia/others)*15.Nov.2011.
1949: Gloria Gaynor/Gloria Fowles (US Rhythm & Blues singer).
1946: Alfa Anderson (US member of the band Chic).
1943: Lena Valaitis (Lithuanian-German Schlager singer).
1941: Michael Peter Smith (US singer, songwriter; writer of The Dutchman)
1939: Latimore/Benjamin "Benny" Latimore (US R&B singer, songwriter, pianist).
1936: Buddy Holly/Charles Hardin Holley (US singer, guitar, songwriter; The Crickets)*03.Feb.1959.
1935: Ronnie Dove (US singer; Ronnie Dove & the Belltones)
1934: Waldo de los Ríos (Argentinian composer, arranger)*28.March.1977.
1934: Little Milton/Milton Campbell (US blues singer, guitarist, songwriter)*04.Aug.2005.
1932: Johnny Duncan (US skiffle music star)*July 15th 2000.
1931: Makanda Ken McIntyre/Ken McIntyre (US jazz saxophonist, multi-musician, composer)*13.June.2001.
1931: Charles Camilleri (Maltese composer)*03.Jan.2009.
1931: Helen Gray (Canadian soprano singer; The Travellers).
1930: Sonny Rollins/Theodore Walter Rollins (American jazz tenor saxophonist).
1930: Francis Coppieters (Belgian pianist).
1924: Bridie Gallagher (Irish singer)*09.Jan.2012.
1922: Joe Newman (American composer, trumpeter)*04.July.1992.
1921: Arthur Ferrante (American pianist of Ferrante and Teicher fame).
1920: Al Caiola (American jazz, country, rock, western, and pop guitarist).
1914: Graeme Bell MBE (Australian Dixieland, classical jazz pianist, composer)*13.June.2012.
1908: Max Kaminsky (US jazz trumpeter, band leader; many bands)*06.Sept.1994.
1897: Al Sherman (Russian-American Tin Pan Alley songwriter)*16.Sept.1973.
1883: Theophrastos Sakellaridis (Greek composer, conductor)*02.Jan.1950.

September 8th.
1988: Gustav Schäfer (German drummer; Tokio Hotel).
1987: Wiz Khalifa/Cameron Jibril Thomaz (American hip-hop artist).
1980: Slim Thug/Stayve Jerome Thomas (American rapper).
1979: Pink/Alicia Moore (US singer)
1976: Brendan Kelly (US singer, bassist, background singer; The Lawrence Arms/sessions).
1975: Richard Hughes (UK drummer; Keane).
1973: Troy Sanders (US bassist, frontman; Mastodon).
1971: Andie Rathbourne (US drummer; Mansun).
1971: Vico C/Luis Armando Lozada Cruz (American/Puerto Rican hip-hop and reggaeton artist).
1971: Dustin O'Halloran (American pianist and composer).
1970: Neko Case (US country singer-songwriter, guitarist).
1968: Ray Wilson (Scottish singer, guitarist; Stiltskin/Genesis/others).
1966: Peter Furler (Australian singer, guitarist; Newsboys)
1966: Carola/Carola Maria Häggkvist (Swedish singer).
1965: Darlene Zschech (Australian Christian singer-songwriter).
1964: Jokke/Joachim Nielsen (Norwegian singer, guitarist; Jokke & Valentinerne)*17.Oct.2000.
1962: Jay Ziskrout (US punk bassist, record executive; Bad Religion/Epitaph Records/Arista Records)
1960: Aimee Mann (US singer, bass, guitar; 'Til Tuesday/solo).
1960: David Steele (UK bassist, producer; The {English} Beat/Fine Young Cannibals)
1959: Daler Nazarov (Tajik composer, actor)
1959: Carmen Campagne (Canadian singer, children's entertainer)
1958: Michael Lardie (US keyboards, vocals, guitar; Great White/Night Ranger).
1958: David Lewis (US guitarist, singer;Atlantic Starr)
1956: Fad Gadget/Frank John Tovey (British avant-garde electronic musician)*03.April.2002.
1956: Mick Brown (US drummer; Dokken/Lynch Mob/Xciter)
1951: Nikos Karvelas (Greek composer)
1950: Zachary Richard (US singer and songwriter).
1947: Valery Afanassiev (Russian pianist).
1947: Ben Orr/Bennie Eleven-Letters/Benjamin Orzechowski (US bassist, singer; The Cars)*03.Oct.2000.
1946: Dean Daughtry (US rock keyboardist; Atlanta Rhythm Section)
1945: Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (US vocalist, harmonica, organ, Grateful Dead)*08.March.1973.
1945: Kelly Groucutt (UK bassist, vocals, songwriter; Electric Light Orchestra/ELO spin-offs)*19.Feb.2009.
1944: Peter Franklyn Bellamy (UK guitarist, folk singer; The Young Tradition/solo)*24.Sept.1991.
1942: Brian Cole (US vocalist, bass, clarinet; The Association)*02.Aug.1972.
1942: Sal Valentino/Sal Spampinato (US singer; The Beau Brummels)
1939: Guitar Shorty/David William Kearney (American Blues guitarist).
1934: Peter Maxwell Davies CBE (UK composer, conductor; Master of the Queen's Music).
1933: Eric Salzman (American composer)
1933: Asha Bhosle (Indian singer, Bollywood playback singer).
1932: Patsy Cline/Virginia Patterson Hensley (US country singer)*05.March.1963.
1928: Earl Nelson (US R&B singer; Bob & Earl/The Hollywood Flames/Jackie Lee)*12.July.2008.
1927: Harlan Howard (US country music songwriter)*03.March.2002.
1926: Arthur "Artie" Anton (conga drums, drums, timbales; freelance/guest)*27.July.2003.
1926: Bhupen Hazarika (Indian singer, composer, lyricist, music director, filmmaker)*05.Nov.2011.
1925: Peter Sellers/Richard Henry Sellers (UK comic actor, musician, singer)*24.July.1980.
1918: William Henry "Bill" Graham (US jazz saxophonist).
1897: Jimmie Rodgers/Yodeling Cowboy (US singer, guitar, banjo, songwriter)*26.May.1933.
1896: Howard Dietz (US pop and Broadway lyricist)*30.July.1983.

September 9th.
1992: Damian McGinty (Irish Singer)
1983: Katy Steele (Australian guitarist, singer, songwriter; Little Birdy)
1982: Ai Otsuka (Japanese singer, pianist, songwriter).
1980: Jani Liimatainen (Finish power guitarist; Altaria/Sonata Arctica/Graveyard Shift).
1979: Nikki DeLoach (US actress, singer; Innosense).
1977: Soulja Slim/James Tapp Jr (US rapper; Master P's No Limit/solo)*26.Nov.2003.
1977: Chae Jung An (South Korean actress and singer).
1976: Joey Newman (US film-TV composer, orchestrator, arranger, conductor)
1976: Kristoffer Rygg/Garm/Trickster G/God Head (Norwegian singer, keyboards; Ulver/Borknagar).
1975: Michael Bublé (Canadian/Italian pop jazz singer)
1974: Ana Carolina (Brazilian singer, composer, musician).
1974: Marcos Curiel (US guitarist, songwriter; P.O.D/Accident Experiment/Daylight Division).
1974: Divine Brown (Canadian singer, theatre performer)
1974: Mathias Färm (Swedish guitarist, singer; Millencolin/Franky Lee).
1969: Liam "Skin" Tyson (UK guitarist, Cast)
1967: Chris Caffery (US guitarist, singer; Savatage/Trans-Siberian Orchestra).
1966: Gregory Kane (Scottish singer, pianist, saxophonist, guitarist; Hue and Cry/The Big Dish/sessions)
1962: Mark Linkous (US multi-musician, singer, songwriter; Sparklehorse)*06.March.2010.
1959: Eric Serra (French bass player, film music composer).
1957: Pierre-Laurent Aimard (French classical pianist).
1952: Dave A. Stewart (UK guitarist, songwriter, producer; Eurythmics/Longdancer/solo/guest).
1952: Manuel Göttsching (German Kosmische guitarist, singer; Ash Ra Tempel/solo).
1951: Tom Wopat (American actor and singer).
1950: John McFee (US guitarist; Clover/Elvis Costello/Doobie Brothers).
1948: Miss Pamela/Pamela Des Barres nee Miller (US rock'n'roll groupie, singer, writer; The GTOs).
1947: Morris Pert (Scottish composer, percussionist; freelance/world sessionist)*27.April.2010.
1947: David Rosenboom (US composer).
1947: Freddy Weller (US guitarist, country singer; Paul Revere and the Raiders/solo)
1946: Trevor Oakes (UK guitar; Showaddywaddy).
1946: David Gavin (drums, percussion;Heads Hands & Feet/Vinegar Joe/Freelance).
1946: Bruce Palmer (Canadian bassist; Buffalo Springfield/Neil Young's Trans Band)*01.Oct.2004
1946: Doug Ingle (US organist, vocals, composer; Iron Butterfly)
1946: Billy Preston (US R&B singer, keyboard player)*06.June.2006.
1945: Dee Dee Sharp/Dione LaRue (US R&B singer).
1942: Danny Kalb (US guitarist; Blues Project/Danny Kalb Trio).
1942: Inez Foxx (US lead vocalist; The Inez & Charlie Foxx Duo)
1942: Luther Simmons Jr (soul, R&B, gospel singer; Main Ingredient)
1941: Duffy Power/Raymond Leslie Howard (UK blues, rock n roll singer).
1941: Otis Redding (US soul singer, Bar-Keys)*10.Dec.1967.
1940: Joe Negroni (US baritone vocalist; Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers)*05.Sept.1978.
1929: Claude Nougaro (French singer-songwriter)*04.March.2004.
1927: Elvin Ray Jones (American jazz drummer; John Coltrane/freelance/own bands)*18.May.2004.
1922: Hoyt Curtin (US composer, music producer; Hanna-Barbera animation studio)*03.Dec.2000.
1920: Aldo Parisot (US cellist, teacher)
1901: James Blades (UK percussionist)*19.May.1999.
1894: Arthur Freed/Arthur Grossman (US songwriter, musical film producer)*12.April.1973.

September 10th.
1987: Nana Tanimura (Japanese singer)
1985: Matthew Johnson (UK singer, One True Voice/State Warning/solo).
1985: Aya Kamiki (Japanese rock singer)
1986: Hiroki Uchi (Japanese singer; Kanjani8/NEWS).
1979: Jacob Young (US actor, singer).
1972: Katarína Hasprová (Slovak singer; sang "Modlitba" at the Eurovision Song Contest 1998).
1970: Paula Kelley (US singer-songwriter, multi-musician, orchestral arranger/composer).
1970: Ménélik/MNLK/Albert Tjamag (French rapper).
1969: Ai Jing (Chinese singer)
1968: Big Daddy Kane/Antonio Hardy (American rap artist, producer).
1966: Miles Zuniga (US guitarist, vocals; Fastball).
1966: Robin Goodridge (UK drummer, percussionist Bush/Elyss/Stone Gods).
1964: Cristian Paturca (Romanian composer)*18.Jan.2011.
1964: Yegor Letov (Russian singer, guitarist, songwriter;Grazhdanskaya Oborona/others)*19.Feb.2008.
1963: Bill Stevenson (US drummer, percussionist, music producer; Descendents/sessionist).
1960: Dave Lowery (US singer guitarist; Camper Van Beethoven/Cracker).
1958: Siobhan Fahey (Irish vocals; Bananarama/Shakespear's Sister/solo).
1957: Carol Decker (UK vocalist, songwriter; T'Pau).
1956: Johnny Hickman (US guitarist The Unforgiven/The Dangers/Cracker/solo).
1956: Johnny Fingers/John Moylett (Irish keyboardist; Boomtown Rats/music writer-production in Japan)
1955: Pat Mastelotto (US drummer; Mr Mister/King Crimson/XTC/guest)
1951: Peter Tolson (UK lead guitar; Pretty Things)
1950: Joe Perry (US guitarist; Aerosmith)
1949: Barrie Barlow (UK drummer; Jethro Tull)
1946: Don Powell (UK drummer; founding member of Slade/Slade 2)
1945: Jose Feliciano/José Montserrate Feliciano García (Puerto Rican singer, blind guitarist)
1944: Sir Thomas Allen (English baritone)
1942: Danny Hutton (US vocals, Three Dog Night)
1940: Roy Ayers (US funk, soul, jazz composer, vibraphone player).
1939: Cynthia Lennon (first wife of John Lennon from 23.08.1962 ~ 08.11.1968)
1925: Roy Brown (US jump blues singer, keyboardist)*25.May.1981.
1908: Raymond Scott/Harry Warnow (US composer, bandleader, electronic music pioneer)*08.Feb.1994.
1898: Waldo Semon (US chemist who in 1926, discovered PVC, vinyl for LP & 45 records)*26.May.1998

September 11th.
1978: Ben Lee (Australian singer, guitarist, actor; Noise Addict/solo).
1977: Ludacris/Chris Brian Bridges (US rapper artist, actor).
1977: Jon Buckland (UK lead guitar, Coldplay).
1976: Elephant Man/Energy God/O'Neil Bryan (Jamaican DJ/singer).
1975: Mark Klepaski (US bass player, songwriter; Lifer/Breaking Benjamin).
1975: Brad Fischetti (vocals; LFO)
1971: Richard Ashcroft (UK guitarist, vocals; Verve/solo/guest)
1970: Theodore "Ted" Leo (US singer-songwriter, guitarist; Citizens Arrest/Chisel/Sin-Eaters/the Pharmacists).
1970: Taraji P. Henson (US actress, singer).
1969: Gidget Gein/Bradley Stewart (US bassist; Marilyn Manson/Dali Gaggers)*08.Oct.2008.
1968: Kay Hanley (US vocalist; Letters to Cleo/solo).
1967: Harry Connick Jr. (US singer, actor, composer, pianist).
1965: Moby/Richard Melville Hall (US techno musician, DJ, producer, vocalist).
1964: Victor Wooten (US award winning bassist; sessions/guest/solo).
1962: Victoria Poleva (Ukrainian composer)
1959: Rory Lyons (UK drummer; King Kurt)
1958: Mick Talbot (UK keyboardist; Dexys Midnight Runners/Style Council/Galliano/Gene).
1957: Jon Moss (US drums; Culture Club/ Damned).
1955: Hiram Bullock (American jazz funk and jazz fusion guitarist)*25.July.2008.
1953: Tommy Shaw (US guitarist; STYX/Damn Yankees/Shaw Blades).
1948: John Martyn/Iain David McGeachy OBE (UK singer-songwriter, guitarist)*29.Jan.2009.
1947: Richard Jaeger{some sources Nov 9th 1947}(US percussionist; sessionist/freelance)*27.Aug.2000.
1945: Leo Kottke (US acoustic guitarist).
1946: Dennis Tufano (singer, guitarist; The Buckinghams)
1943: Mickey Hart (UK drummer; percussion; Grateful Dead)
1942: Loletha "Lola" Falana (US singer, dancer, actress).
1940: Bernie Dwyer (UK drummer; Freddie & The Dreamers)*04.Dec.2002.
1938: David Higgins (UK composer, conductor).
1937: Iosif Kobzon (Soviet singer, Russian businessman)
1935: Arvo Pärt (Estonian composer)
1934: Oliver Jones (Canadian jazz pianist).
1925: Harry Somers (Canadian composer)*09.March.1999.
1911: Jerry Scoggins (American singer, guitarist)*07.Dec.2004.
1911: Bola de Nieve/Ignacio Jacinto Villa (Cuban singer-pianist, songwriter)*02.Oct.1971.
1907: Lev Oborin (Russian pianist)*05.Jan.1974.

September 12th.
1988: Amanda Jenssen (Swedish singer)
1986: Emmanuelle Grey "Emmy" Rossum (US actress, singer-songwriter).
1984: September/Petra Eos Marklund (Swedish dance singer).
1983: Carly Smithson/Carly Hennessy (Irish singer-songwriter; solo/Carly Hennessy).
1981: Jennifer Hudson (US actress, singer, model).
1981: Noria Shiraishi (Japanese singer; BeForU/solo).
1980: Gus G/Kostas Karamitroudis (Greek guitarist; Firewind/Dream Evil/others).
1980: Joe Loeffler (US bassist; Chevelle).
1978: Ruben Studdard (US solo singer).
1977: The Yeti/Jeff Irwin (US bassist, multi-musician; freelance/guest sessionist).
1977: James McCartney (UK drummer, guitarist, songwriter, sculptor; son of Sir Paul McCartney).
1977: Idan Raichel (Israeli keyboardist, singer, composer).
1976: Bizzy Bone/Bryon Anthony McCane (US rapper; Bone Thugs-N-Harmony).
1974: Jennifer Nettles (US country singer; Sugarland/solo).
1971: Wes Wehmiller (US bassist;Duran Duran/I,Claudius/others)*30.Jan.2005.
1970: Nathan Larson (US guitarist, composer; Shudder To Think/Hot One).
1969: Sergio Vega (Mexican banda singer)*26.June.2010.
1969: Kenny Thomas (soul & dance singer)
1968: Larry "Ler" LaLonde (US guitarist; Primus)
1967: Jon Stewart (UK guitarist; Sleeper).
1966: Ben Folds (US vocals, piano; Ben Folds Five).
1965: John Norwood Fisher (US bassist; Fishbone).
1962: Dino Merlin/Edin Dervišhalidovic (Bosnian singer-songwriter).
1961: Mylène Farmer (French singer, songwriter).
1961: Kathem Al Saher (Iraqi singer).
1960: Stefanos Korkolis (Greek songwriter, pianist)
1957: Hans Zimmer (German composer)
1956: Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing (Hong Kong singer, actor, director)*01.April.2003.
1956: Brian Robertson (Irish guitar, Thin Lizzy/guest).
1956: Barry Andrews (UK keyboards; XTC/Shriekback)
1954: Christie Allen (Australian pop singer)*12.Aug.2008.
1954: Scott Hamilton (US tenor saxophone, jazz musician; Benny Goodman/leader)
1952: Gerry Beckley (US lead vocals, keyboards, guitars, bass, harmonica; America)
1952: Neil Peart (Canadian drummer; Rush)
1951: Ali-Ollie Woodson/Ollie Creggett (US singer, keyboards; Temptations/others)*30.May.2010.
1948: Luis Lima (Argentinian tenor).
1946: Dickie Peterson (US singer, bassist; Blue Cheer)*12.Oct.2009.
1944: Barry White (US soul singer & producer)*04.July.2003.
1944: Colin Young (lead singer; Foundations)
1943: Maria Muldaur (US Singer, songwriter)
1940: Tony Bellamy (US guitarist, piano and vocals; Redbone)
1938: Judy Clay (US soul and gospel singer)*19.July.2001.
1933: Jewel Akens (US R&B singer)*01.March.2013.
1931: Tommy Moore (UK drummer; The Silver Beatles)*29.Sept.1981.
1931: George "Possum" Jones (US country singer)*26.April.2013.
1898: Salvador Bacarisse Chinoria (Spanish composer)*05.Aug.1963.
1888: Maurice Chevalier (French singer, actor)*01.Jan.1972.

September 13th.
1983: James Bourne (UK lead singer, guitar; Busted/Son of Dork)
1980: Michelle DaRosa/Michelle Nolan (US singer, guitar, piano; Straylight Run/Destry).
1980: Teppei Teranishi (US guitarist, keyboards; Thrice/Black Unicorn).
1979: Geike Arnaert (Belgian singer; Hooverphonic)
1977: Daisuke Han/Daisuke Tsuda (Japanese singer; Maximum the Hormone).
1977: Fiona Apple/Fiona Apple McAfee Maggart (US singer, songwriter).
1977: Ivan De Battista (Maltese actor, singer)
1975: Don Rooney (US guitarist, bassist, mandolin; Rascal Flatts).
1974: MC Do Damage/Keith Murray (US rapper;Def Squad/solo).
1973: Kelly Chen/Vivian Chen Wai Man (Chinese singer, actress).
1971: Manabu Namiki (Japanese video game music composer).
1967: Tim "Ripper" Owens (US singer Beyond Fear/Rising Force/Iced Earth/Judas Priest).
1967: Steve Perkins (US drummmer, percussion; Jane's Addiction/Porno For Pyros)
1965: Zak Starkey (UK drummer, The Face/Guest/Session)
1965: Peter Lehel (German jazz saxophonist, composer).
1961: KK Null/Kazuyuki Kishino (Japanese multi-musicain; Ybo2/ANP/Zeni Geva/freelance/guest).
1961: Dave Mustaine (US lead guitar; Megadeth/Metallica).
1958: Pawel Przytocki (Polish conductor)
1955: John Davey (UK singer; The Fortunes).
1955: Joe Morris (US jazz guitarist; own bands/sessions).
1954: Dennis Hegarty (Irish singer, TV host; Darts)
1954: Steve Kilbey (UK bass guitarist; Australian band The Church)
1952: Don Was/Donald Fagenson (bass, keyboard; Was Not Was/freelance)
1952: Randy Jones (US singer; original "cowboy" in Village People)
1949: Fred "Sonic" Smith (US guitar player; MC5/Sonic's Rendezvous Band)*04.Nov.1994.
1948: Nell Carter (US singer, actress)*23.Jan.2003.
1945: Les Harvey (Scottish guitarist, Cartoone/Stone The Crows/others)*03.May.1972.
1944: Peter Cetera (US singer, songwriter, bass player, Chicago /solo)
1943: Ray Elliot (Northern Irish pianist, saxophonist; Them/Truth)
1941: David Clayton-Thomas (Canadian singer; Blood Sweat & Tears)
1939: Gene Page (Influential US conductor, arranger and record producer)*23.Aug.1998.
1939: Dave Quincy (UK saxophonist; If/Semuta/Dave Quincy Quintet/solo/freelance)
1936: Marifé de Triana/Maria Felisa Martinez Lopez (Spanish copla singer, actress)*16.Feb.2013.
1929: Nicolai Ghiaurov (Bulgarian opera singer)*02.June.2004.
1925: Mel Torme (US jazz singer with a light, high-tenor voice)*05.June.1999.
1924: Maurice Jarre (French film score composer)*28.March.2009.
1924: Harold Blair AM (Australian tenor, Aboriginal activist)*21.May.1976.
1922: Charles Brown (American blues singer and pianist and R&B pioneer)*21.Jan.1999.
1922: Yma Sumac/Zoila Augusta Chávarri del Castillo (Peruvian soprano singer)*01.Nov.2008.
1918: Dick Haymes (Argentine vocalist)*28.March.1980.
1917: Robert Ward (American composer)*02.April.2013.
1911: Bill Monroe (American musician, the Father of Bluegrass; Blue Grass Boys)*09.Sept.1996.
1893: Lawrence James "Larry" Shields (jazz clarinetist;Original Dixieland Jass Band)*21.Nov.1953.

September 14th.
1989: Logan Henderson (US actor, singer; Big Time Rush).
1986: Ai Takahashi (Japanese singer; Morning Musume).
1985: Paolo Gregoletto (US bassist; Trivium).
1985: Aya Ueto (Japanese actress, singer).
1984: Melissa McGhee (US singer).
1984: Farhan Saeed Butt (Pakistani singer; Jal).
1983: Amy Winehouse (UK singer-songwriter)*23.July.1983.
1982: SoShy/Deborah Epstein (French singer, songwriter)
1981: Miyavi/Takamasa Ishihara (Japanese guitarist; S.K.I.N./Dué le Quartz).
1981: Ashley Roberts (US singer, dancer, actress; Pussycat Dolls).
1980: Ayo/Joy Olasunmibo Ogunmakin (German singer)
1978: Danielle Peck (US country music singer).
1973: Nas/Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones (US rapper).
1971: Jeff Loomis (US lead guitarist; Sanctuary/Nevermore).
1971: Andre Matos (Brazilian keyboards, drums; Viper/Angra/Shaman/solo).
1970: Craig Montoya (US bassist; Everclear).
1970: Mark Webber (UK guitarist; Pulp)
1969: DJ Kay Gee/Keir Gist (US rapper; Naughty By Nature)
1967: John Power (UK bassist, vocals; The La's/CAst/solo)
1966: Mike Cooley (US guitarist; Drive-By Truckers).
1959: Morten Harket (Norwegian lead singer; A-Ha).
1958: Beth Nielsen Chapman (US singer-songwriter).
1955: Steve Berlin (US saxophonist, keyboardist, record producer; Los Lobos/Blasters/freelance)
1954: Barry Cowsill (US bassist, vocals; The Cowsills)
1954: Mikey Smith (Jamaican dub poet)*17.Aug.1983.
1953: Tom Cora (US cellist, composer; Ex/Curlew/3rd Person/Skeleton Crew/sessions/solo)*09.April.1998.
1950: Paul Kossoff (UK guitarist, Free/Back Street Crawler/sessions)*19.March.1976.
1949: Steve Gaines (US guitarist; The Ravens/Lynyrd Skynyrd)*20.Oct.1977.
1949: Tommy Seebach Mortensen (Danish musician, singer, producer)*31.March.2003.
1949: Ed King (US guitarist, bassist; Strawberry Alarm Clock/Lynyrd Skynyrd).
1949: Eikichi Yazawa (Japanese singer)
1949: Eikichi Yazawa (Japanese singer-songwriter).
1947: Bowzer J Bowzer/Jon Bauman (American singer, TV host; Sha Na Na).
1946: Pete Agnew (Scottish bassist; Nazareth)
1944: Oliver Lake (US alto saxophonist, flutist, composer and poet).
1944: Joey Heatherton (US actress, singer)
1941: Alberto Naranjo (Venezuelan singer, percussionist, arranger, director)
1940: Roger Beresford Bluck (UK lead guitarist; Davie Jones and the King Bees)?
1938: Franco Califano (Italian lyricist, musician, singer and actor)*30.March.2013.
1930: William R. Berry (US trumpeter; Thad Jones/Mel Lewis orchestra/sessionist)
1925: Mason Thomas (US jazz multi-instrumentalist; many Washington bands/ sessions)*24.Aug.2011.
1918: Israel "Cachao" López (Cuban mambo bassist, composer; "inventor of the mambo")*22.March.2008
1914: Mae Boren Axton (US songwriter/promoter aka 'Queen Mother of Nashville')*09.April.1997
1910: Rolf Liebermann (Swiss composer, music administrator)*02.Jan.1999.
1902: Giorgos Papasideris (Greek country singer, composer, lyricist)*08.Oct.1977.
1887: Pawel Kochanski (Polish violinist, composer, arranger)*12.Jan.1934.

September 15th.
1989: Cheats/Kris Chetan Ramlu (New Zealand percussionist, tabla).
1986: Heidi Montag (TV personality, singer)
1980: Jolin Tsai (Taiwanese pop singer, dancer).
1977: Kiyomi "Angela" Aki (Japanese singer-songwriter).
1976: Paul Thomson (Scottish drummer; Franz Ferdinand).
1976: KG/?? (UK R&B vocalist; MN8).
1976: Ivette Sosa (US singer, dancer; Eden's Crush).
1975: Jamie Stevens (German pop singer).
1972: Kit Chan/Chén Jiéyí (Singaporean popular singer).
1971: Ben Wallers (UK guitarist, vocalist, songwriter; Country Teasers)
1969: Allen Shellenberger (US drummer; Razzle/Stain/Lit)*13.Aug.2009.
1967: Sari Kaasinen (Finnish singer)
1964: Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein/Paul Caiafa (US guitarist; The Misfits).
1960: Mitch Dorge (Canadian drummer, composer, producer; Crash Test Dummies)
1960: Raylene Rankin (Canadian singer; The Rankin Family)*30.Sept.2012.
1958: Tim Whelan (UK guitar; Furniture)
1958: Dr. Know/Gary Miller (US guitarist; Bad Brains/Black Jack Johnson/solo).
1956: George Howard (US jazz soprano saxophonist)*20.March.1998.
1956: Maggie Reilly (Scottish folk singer).
1956: Jaki Graham (UK singer; Ferrari/Medium Wave/UB40/solo)
1953: Paul Piché (Canadian singer, songwriter)
1949: Billy Bryans (Canadian percussionist, songwriter, music producer, DJ)*23.April.2012.
1946: Ola Brunkert (Swedish session drummer; playered on every Abba album)*16.March.2008.
1945: Jessye Norman (US opera singer).
1942: Lee Dorman (US bass, vocals, keyboards; Iron Butterfly/Captain Beyond)*21.Dec.2012.
1941: Verne Langdon (US musician, composer, record producer, make-up artist)*01.Jan.2011.
1941: Les Braid (UK bass, keyboards; founder member of Swinging Blue Jeans)*31.July.2005.
1941: Signe Toly Anderson (US singer; Jefferson Airplane/Carl Smith and the Natural Gas Company).
1928: Cannonball Adderley/Julian Edwin Adderley (US saxophonist, bandleader)*08.Aug.1975.
1924: Bobby Short (US singer, pianist)*21.March.2005
1923: Anton Heiller (Austrian organist)*25.March.1979.
1920: Kym Bonython (Australian radio broadcaster, drummer, speedway driver, promoter)*19.March.2011.
1915: Al Casey (US guitarist, Fats Waller/Harlem Blues & Jazz Band/sessionist)*11.Sept.2005.
1903: Roy Acuff (US country singer, fiddle player, songwriter)*23.Nov.1992.
1890: Frank Martin (Swiss composer)*21.Nov.1974.
1876: Bruno Walter/Bruno Schlesinger (German conductor)*17.Feb.1962.
1870: Ottilie Sutro (US pianist; duo with her sister Ottilie Sutro)*11.Jan.1957.

September 16th.
1992: Nick Jonas (American singer; The Jonas Brothers).
1988: Teddy Geiger (American singer).
1984: Katie Melua (UK singer, guitar, piano, songwriter).
1984: Sabrina Bryan (American actress and singer).
1979: Fanny Biascamano (French singer)
1978: Matthew Rogers (US singer)
1976: Tina Barrett (UK vocalist, S Club 7).
1975: Shannon Noll (Australian singer and songwriter).
1972: James Westman (Canadian Operatic Baritone)
1970: Mark Schultz (American singer, songwriter, piano, guitar).
1969: Justine Frischmann (UK guitar, vocals; Suede/ Elastica).
1968: Marc Anthony/Marco Antonio Muñiz (Puerto Rican-American singer, songwriter).
1964: The Snake/Dave Sabo (US rock guitarist; Skid Row/Scotti Hill)
1963: Richard Marx (US singer, piano, guitar, songwriter; own band/solo/guest).
1962: Stephen Jones (UK singer, guitarist; Babybird).
1961: Bilinda Butcher (UK singer, guitarist; My Bloody Valentine).
1960: Donald "Ean" Wayne Evans (US bassist; Lynyrd Skynyrd/others)*O6.May.2009.
1960: Yianna Katsoulos (French singer)
1957: Anca Parghel (Romanian singer, composer)*05.Dec.2008.
1956: Dave Blood/David Schulthise (US bass guitarist; Dead Milkmen)*10.March.2004.
1955: Yolandita Monge (Puerto Rican singer).
1954: Frank "Tchallah" Reed (US singer; Chi-Lites).
1954: Earl Klugh (American jazz guitarist).
1954: Colin Newman (UK guitarist, vocals; Wire).
1953: Alan Barton (UK lead singer; Black Lace/Smokie)*23rd March 1995.
1950: David Bellamy (US vocals, guitar; Bellamy Brothers).
1948: Ron Blair (US bassist; Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers).
1948: Kenny Jones (UK drummer; Small Faces/Faces/The Who).
1946: Camilo Sesto (Spanish singer).
1945: Dag Frøland (Norwegian comedian, revue artist, singer)*26.Jan.2010.
1944: Winston Grennan (Jamaican drummer; international session player)*27.Oct.2000.
1944: Betty Kelly (US singer; The Velvelettes/Martha And The Vandellas).
1942: Bernie Calvert (UK bass, keyboards; the Hollies).
1941: Ivor Kenneth Knight (UK drummer; The Scorpions{UK band}).
1941: Joseph Campbell Butler (US vocalist, drummer; The Lovin' Spoonful).
1940: Hamiet Bluiett (American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer).
1939: Tony Oakmen (UK guitarist, bass, banjo; Spacemen Skiffle Group/Bruvvers/The Echoes/more)*?.
1936: Gordon Beck (UK jazz pianist, composer; Gyroscope/Allan Holdsworth/ others)*06.Nov.2011.
1934: Dick Heckstall-Smith (UK jazz-blues sax, keyboard; Graham Bond/John Mayall/others)*17.Dec.2007.
1934: Ronnie Drew (Irish folk singer, gutarist; Dubliners/solo/guest)*16.Aug.2008.
1931: Jan Johansson (Swedish jazz pianist)*09.Nov.1968
1928: Ralph Mooney (US steel guitarist; Waylon Jennings/many others)*20.March.2011.
1926: Eric Gross (Austrian-born Australian pianist, composer)*17.April.2011.
1925: B.B. King/Riley B. King (US blues guitarist, vocals).
1925: Charlie Byrd (US jazz and classical guitar virtuoso)*02.Dec.1999
1922: Marcel Mouloudji (French actor and singer)*14.June.1994.
1921: Jon Hendricks (US jazz singer).
1919: Andy Russell/Andrés Rabago Pérez (US popular vocalist)*15.April.1992.
1916: Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi (Indian singer)*11.Dec.2004
1897: Milt Franklyn (US musician)*24.April.1962.

September 17th.
1983: Jennifer Peña (American singer)
1979: Chuck Comeau (Canadian drummer; Simple Plan).
1978: Gifford Noel/DJ Trend/TNT (UK DJ, drum and bass specialist)*17.Sept.2010.
1976: Maile Misajon (US singer; Eden's Crush).
1975: Constantine Maroulis (US singer; Pray for the Soul of Betty).
1974: Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn (US singer-songwriter, guitarist, piano)
1970: Vin Rock/Vincent Brown (US rap artist; Naughty By Nature)
1969: Keith Flint (UK vocals, dancer; Prodigy)
1969: Adam Devlin/Adam Tadek Gorecki (UK guitarist, songwriter; The Bluetones)
1968: Anastacia/Lynn Newkirk (US singer)
1968: Lord Jamar/Lorenzo Dechalus (US hip-hop artist, MC, actor; Brand Nubian)
1968: John Penney (vocals, Neds Atomic Dustbin)
1966: Doug E. Fresh (US rapper, record producer, beatboxer).
1965: Guy Picciotto (US guitarist, vocalist; Rites of Spring/Fugazi).
1963: Steven Dye (UK bassist, keyboards, singer-songwriter; Scarlet Party/Alan Parsons Project).
1962: Baz Luhrmann (Australian filmmaker, executive Producer, director)
1962: BeBe Winans (gospel and R&B singer)
1961: Ty Tabor (US lead guitarist, songwriter, co-lead vocalist; King's X).
1954: Joël-François Durand (French composer).
1953: Steve Williams (Welsh drummer; Budgie)
1950: Fee Waybill/John Waldo Waybill (US vocalist; The Tubes/sessions).
1950: Mike Hossack (US drummer; Doobie Brothers)
1947: Jim Hodder (US drummer; Steely Dan/sessionist)*15.June.1990.
1941: Stavros Damianides (Greek bouzouki soloist)*27.Jan.2001.
1939: King Stitt/Winston Sparkes (Jamaican singer)*31.Jan.2012.
1939: Shelby Flint (American singer).
1939: LaMonte McLemore (US singer; the 5th Dimension).
1930: Lalgudi Jayaraman (Indian violinist)*22.April.2013.
1929: Sil Austin (US tenor saxophone;)*01.Sept.2001.
1926: William Patton "Bill" Black Jr (US: double bass, bass; Elvis Presley)*21.Oct.1965.
1923: Hank Williams (US country star, singer, guitar, songwriter)*01.Jan.1953.
1912: Himie Voxman (US woodwind-reed player, music pedagogue, administrator)*22.Nov.2011.

September 18th.
1974: Xzibit/X to the Z/Alvin Nathaniel Joiner (US hip-hop, rapper artist)
1974: Andrew Hansen (Australian comedian, musical comedy).
1973: Ami "Puffy" Onuki (Japanese singer).
1971: Michael Patrick Walker (US composer and lyricist).
1971: Anna Netrebko (Russian opera singer).
1968: Cappadonna/Darryl Hill (US rapper; solo/Wu-Tang Clan).
1967: Slick/Ricky Bell (US singer; New Edition/Bell Biv Devoe/solo).
1966: Ian Spice (UK drummer; Breathe).
1966: Nigel Clarke (UK vocals, bass; Dodgy).
1965: Thomas Bramerie (French bass player; sessionist/Dick de Graaf/Dee Dee Bridgewater).
1964: Marco Masini (Italian singer-songwriter).
1962: Joanne Catherall (UK vocalist, Human League).
1962: Richard Walmsley (UK member of the electronic band Beatmasters).
1961: Martin Beedle (UK drummer; Cutting Crew).
1959: Manfred Brundl (German bassist; session musician for Bob Brookmeyer).
1958: Lita Ford (UK vocalist; The Runaways).
1957: Emily Remler (US Jazz Guitarist)*04.May.1990.
1951: Dee Dee Ramone/ Douglas Colvin (US bassist, vocals; Ramones)*05.June.2002.
1949: Kerry Livgren (US keyboards, piano, guitar; Kansas).
1946: Alan "Bam" King (UK guitarist; Action/Ace).
1945: P.F. Sloan/Philip Gary Schlein (Vocals, Various Instruments, Producer; Grass Roots)
1944: Rocío Jurado (Spanish singer and actress)*01.June.2006.
1944: Michael Franks (US singer song-writer).
1942: Gabriella Ferri (Italian singer)*03.April.2004.
1942: Martin "Marty" Mooney (Australian reed player).
1941: Priscilla Mitchell (US rockabilly vocalist; collaborated with Connie Smith/Anita Carter).
1940: Lonnie Lee (Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist).
1939: Steve Marcus (US jazz saxophonist; Count's Rock Band/Buddy Rich Band/others)*25.Sept.2005.
1939: Frankie Avalon (US singer/actor)
1936: Big Tom/Tom McBride (Irish country singer; Big Tom and The Mainliners).
1934: Alex Dalgleish (Scottish arranger, composer, trumpeter).
1933: Jimmie Rodgers (American singer, composer).
1932: Maureen Lehane Wishart (British soprano)*27.Dec.2010.
1929: Louis Myers (US guitar, harmonica, vocals; Aces/freelance)*05.Sept.1994
1925: Pieternella "Pia" Beck (Dutch entrepreneur, pianist, vocalist) *26.Nov.2009.
1922: Ray Steadman-Allen (UK composer)
1893: Arthur Benjamin (Australian composer; films opera, orchestral)*10.April.1960.

September 19th.
1984: Eamon/Eamon Doyle (US R&B and hip hop singer-songwriter).
1980: Sara Quin (Canadian singer/songwriter; Tegan and Sara).
1980: Tegan Quin (Canadian singer/songwriter; Tegan and Sara).
1979: Joel Houston (Australian bass guitarist, vocals, acoustic guitar, songwriter).
1977: Ryan Dusick (US drums; Maroon 5)
1976: Jim Ward (American vocalist, guitarist; At the Drive-In/Sparta).
1971: Paul Winterhart (drummer; Kula Shaker)
1970: TMR/T.M.Revolution/Takanori Nishikawa (Japanese pop-rock singer)
1969: Tapio Wilska (Finnish singer; Sethian/Finntroll/Lyijykomppania/Nattvindens Gråt).
1969: Candy Dulfer (Dutch jazz lady, alto saxophonist; Funky Stuff/freelance)
1965: Sabine Paturel (French singer, actress)
1964: Trisha Yearwood (US country singer)
1963: Jarvis Branson Cocker (UK lead singer,songwriter, producer; Pulp)
1958: Lita Ford (UK vocalist, guitar; The Runaways/solo)
1958: Lucky Ali/Maqsood Mehmood Ali (Indian singer, composer, actor)
1957: Rusty Egan (UK drummer; Rich Kids)
1957: Eric Marienthal (US jazz saxophonist; The Rippingtons/many sessions).
1955: Richard Burmer (US composer, engineer, sound designer, musician)*09.Sept.2006.
1955: Rex Smith (US singer and actor).
1952: Tad Jones (US music historian, researcher, author)*01.Jan.2007.
1952: Nile Rodgers (US R&B guitarist; Chic/freelance/guest)
1951: Daniel Lanois (Canadian producer, singer, percussion, guitar; freelance/guest)
1949: Twiggy/Leslie Hornby (UK model, actress, singer)
1948: Mihai Timofti (Moldova-Chisinaun multi-musician, director, actor)
1947: Lol Creme/Lawrence Neil Creme (UK singer, guitar, keyboards; 10CC/Godley & Creme)
1946: John Coghlan (UK drummer; Status Quo)
1945: Freda Payne (US soul singer)
1945: David Bromberg (US guitarist, fiddle, mandolin player; freelance).
1942: Harry Whitaker (US jazz pianist)*17.Nov.2010.
1941: Mama Cass/Cass Elliot/Ellen Naomi Cohen (US singer; Mamas and the Papas/solo)*29.July.1974.
1940: Paul Williams (US composer & songwriter; Carpenters, many others).
1940: Bill Thomas Medley (US singer, songwriter; Righteous Brothers)
1936: "Brother" Gene Dinwiddie (US sax player; Butterfield Blues Band/FullMoon/freelance)*11.Jan.2002.
1934: Carl Davis (US record producer, music executive; Brunswick/Dakar/Chi Sound Records)*09.Aug.2012.
1934: Brian Epstein (UK businessman, Beatles manager)*27.Aug.1967.
1932: George W. Lowen "Lol" Coxhill (UK jazz saxophonist; Carol Grimes/Delivery/sessions)*10.July.2012.
1931: Brook Benton/Benjamin Franklin Peay (US singer)*09.April.1988.
1927: Nick Massi/Nicholas Macioci (US bass singer, bass guitarist; The Four Seasons)*24.Dec.2000
1924: Suchitra Mitra (Indian singer, composer)*03.Jan.2011.
1920: Karen Khachaturian (Russian composer)*19.July.2011.
1918: Blanche Thebom (American mezzo-soprano)*23.March.2010.
1915: Tin-Tan/Germán Valdés (Mexican actor, singer and comedian)*29.June.1973.
1912: Kurt Sanderling (German conductor)*17.Sept.2011.
1887: Lovie Austin/Cora Calhoun (US jazz pianist)*10.July.1972.
1882: Christopher Stone (Britain's first disc jockey)*22.May.1965.

September 20th.
1990: Marilou Bourdon (Quebec pop singer).
1987: Flawless Lawless/Jack Lawless/John Lawless (US drummer; the Jonas Brothers).
1985: David Allen (US composer, writer)
1983: Yuna Ito (Japanese singer, actress)
1981: Keith Semple (UK singer in the ITV popstars band 'One True Voice')
1980: Mehrzad Marashi (German singer)
1979: Rick Woolstenhulme (US drummer; Lifehouse)
1978: Patrizio Buanne (Italian baritone singer).
1978: Sarit Hadad/Sara Hodedtov (Israeli singer).
1977: Namie Amuro (Japanese pop singer).
1976: Yo Hitoto (Japanese pop singer)
1971: Masashi Hamauzu (Japanese composer)
1971: Dominika Peczynski (Swedish singer; Army of Lovers)
1971: Andrew Barker (US percussionist, composer, improviser; Gold Sparkle Band)
1968: Ben Shepherd (US bassist; Soundgarden)
1968: Vikki Foxx/Victor Christopher Cerney (US drummer; Enuff Z'nuff/Vince Neil Band/Veronicas/others)
1968: Tim Rogers (Australian singer, songwriter).
1967: Matthew Nelson (US lead singer, bassist; Nelson. Twin son of Ricky Nelson)
1967: Gunnar Nelson (US lead singer, drums; Nelson. Twin son of Ricky Nelson)
1966: Nuno Bettencourt (Portugese guitar virtuoso; Extreme/Mourning Widows/Population 1)
1964: Randy Bradbury (US bass guitarist; Pennywise)
1960: David Hemmingway (UK drums; Housemartins/Beautiful South)
1960: Keith 'Cowboy' Wiggins (US MC, hip-hop, rapper; Grandmaster Flash & Furious Five)*08.Sept.1989.
1958: Ines Paulke (German rock 'n' roll singer, songwriter)*18.Feb.2010.
1957: Alannah Currie (New Zealand singer, musician; Thompson Twins).
1956: Steve Coleman (US saxophone player, spontaneous composer, composer, band leader).
1952: Harvey James (Australian guitarist; Party Boys/Sherbet/Ariel/Mississippi)*15.Jan.2011.
1948: John Anthony Panozzo (US drummer; Styx)*16.July.1996.
1948: Charles Salvatore "Chuck" Panozzo (US bassist; Styx)
1947: Billy Bang/William Walker (US jazz violinist, composer; String Trio of New York)*11.April.2011.
1947: Mia Martini/Domenica Bertè (Italian singer and song-writer)*12.May.1995.
1946: Mick Rogers/Michael Oldroyd (UK lead guitar, lead singer; Manfred Mann's Earth Band)
1945: Pete Kirtley (UK guitarist; Pentangle/Graham Bell Trend/Alan Price Set/Griffin/Ginger Baker's Airforce).
1945: Sweet Pea Atkinson (singer; The Boneshakers/Was Not Was/solo)
1944: Bruce Finley (Scottish drummer; The Sorrows)
1937: Monica Zetterlund/Monica Nilsson (Swedish actress, singer)*12.May.2005.
1930: Eddie Bo/Edwin Joseph Bocage (American singer and pianist)*18.March.2009.
1927: Johnny Dankworth CBE (UK saxophonist, clarinetist, composer)*06.Feb.2010.
1927: Colette Bonheur (Canadian singer)*15.Oct.1966.
1925: Ulysses B. "Bobby" Nunn (US lead & bass singer; The Coasters/his own Coasters)*05.Nov.1986
1924: Gogi Grant/Myrtle Audrey Arinsberg (US singer).
1922: William Kapell (US classical pianist)*29.Oct.1953.
1921: Bill DeArango (US jazz guitarist; Charlie Parker/Dizzy Gillespie/freelance)*02.Jan.2006
1890: Kathleen Parlow (Canadian violinist)*19.Aug.1963.
1885: Jelly Roll Morton/Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe (US jazz pianist, bandleader, composer)*10.July.1941.

September 21st.
1990: Christian Serratos (US actress, model, singer)
1989: Jason Derulo (US pop singer)
1986: Faris Badwan (UK singer)
1979: James Allan (Scottish singer; Glasvegas)
1976: Jonas Bjerre (Danish singer, guitarist; Mew)
1974: Taral Hicks (US singer, actress)
1972: David Randall Silveria (US drums, Korn)
1972: Liam Gallagher/William John Paul Gallagher (UK lead singer; Oasis)
1971: James Michael 'Jimmy' Constable (UK singer; 911)
1969: Mic Christopher (Irish singer, songwriter; The Mary Janes)*29.Nov.2001.
1968: Trugoy the Dove/Plug 2/David Jude Jolicoeur ( rapper, lyricalist, producer; De La Soul)
1968: Jon Brookes (UK drummmer; The Charlatans UK band)
1967: Timmy T/Timothy Torres (US Freestyle performer, singer, drum machines, keyboards)
1967: Tyler Stewart (Canadian drummer; Barenaked Ladies)
1967: Faith Hill (US singer)
1967: Glen Benton (US vocalist, bassist; Deicide)
1964: Jorge Drexler (Uruguayan singer, composer)
1959: Corinne Drewery (UK singer, lyricalist; Swing Out Sister)
1954: Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor (UK drummer; Motorhead)
1952: Dave Gregory (UK guitarist, keyboard player; XTC)
1947: Don Felder (US guitar, vocals;The Eagles)
1945: George Curtis "G.C." Cameron (US soul and R&B singer; The Spinners/solo)
1944: Jesse Ed Davis (Native American top session guitarist)*22.June.1988.
1941: Roberto Szidon (Brazilian classical pianist)*21.Dec.2011.
1939: Rory Storm/Alan Caldwell (UK singer; Rory Storm and The Hurricanes)*27.Sept.1972.
1936: Dickey Lee (US country singer-songwriter)
1934: Leonard Cohen (Canadian singer, songwriter, poet)
1931: Voki Kostic (Serbian composer, cookery author)*29.Sept.2010.
1929: Shafi Hadi a.k.a. Curtis Porter (US jazz saxophonist; Griffin Brothers/freelance)
1926: Noor Jehan/Allah Wasai (Pakistani singer, actress)*23.Dec.2000.
1921: Sir Jimmy Young (UK singer, BBC radio DJ, interviewer)
1921: Chico Hamilton (US jazz drummer; Count Basie/Lester Young/Lena Horne etc)
1914: Slam Stewart/Leroy Elliot Stewart (US jazz bassist with all the icons 40s- 80's)*10.Dec.1987.
1912: György Sándor (Hungarian pianist)*09.Dec.2005.
1873: Papa Jack/George Vital Laine (American drummer, band leader)*10.June.1966.

September 22nd.
1989: Coeur de pirate/Béatrice Martin (Canadian singer - songwriter)
1989: Hyoyeon/Kim Hyo-yeon (South Korean singer; Girls' Generation)
1988: Adam Lazzara (US lead singer; Taking Back Sunday)
1988: Bethany Dillon/Bethany Adelsberger (US singer-songwriter, guitarist).
1984: Theresa Fu (Hong Kong singer, actress)
1984: Ross Jarman (UK drummer; The Cribs)
1982: Billie Piper/Lianne Paul Piper (UK singer, actress)
1982: Mandy Chiang (Hong Kong singer, actress)
1981: Subaru Shibutani (Japanese singer; Kanjani8)
1979: Emilie Autumn (US singer-songwriter, violinist).
1976: David Berkeley (US singer-songwriter)
1975: Svilen Noev (Bulgarian singer-songwriter).
1974: Yoo Chae-yeong (South Korean singer, actress).
1971: Chesney Hawkes (UK singer)
1970: Mystikal/Michael Tyler (US rapper)
1969: Matt Sharp (US bassist; Weezer, The Rentals).
1966: Moustafa Amar (Egyptian singer).
1965: Andy Cairns (Irish guitarist, vocals, Therapy?)
1962: MIchael Algar (UK guitarist, singer songwriter; The Toy Dolls).
1961: Michael Torke (US composer)
1961: Marq Torien (US rock singer; BulletBoys)
1958: Joan Jett/Joan Marie Larkin (US singer, guitarist, The Runaways)
1958: Nelson (UK bassist: Kip Keino/New Model Army)
1958: Andrea Bocelli (Italian tenor)
1957: Nick Cave (Australian vocals, piano, organ; Birthday Party/The Bad Seeds)
1957: Peter Jones (UK bassist; Cowboys International/Brian Brain/Public Image Ltd)
1957: Johnette Napolitano (lead singer, bassist; Concrete Blonde)
1956: Rhett Forrester (American singer; Riot/other bands/sessions/solo)*22.Jan.1994.
1956: Debby Boone (US singer, daughter of Pat Boone)
1956: Masayuki Suzuki (Japanese singer; Rats & Star)
1954: Eon/Ian Loveday (British rave pioneer)*17.June.2009.
1954: Shari Belafonte (US singer, actor, model)
1953: Richard Fairbrass (UK singer, Right Said Fred)
1952: Mark Panker (guitar, American Music Club)
1952: Gary Holton (UK actor, lead singer)*25.Oct.1985.
1951: David Coverdale (UK vocalist; Deep Purple/Whitesnake)
1950: Kirka Babitzin (Finnish rock singer; The Creatures/The Islanders)*31.Jan.2007.
1948: Jim Byrnes (US actor, singer)
1946: King Sunny Ade/Sunday Adeniyi (Nigerian singer, guitarist)
1943: Toni Basil (US singer, actress, dancer, choreographer)
1942: Brian Keith/Brian O'Shea (Scottish vocalist; Plastic Penny)
1941: Mike Patto/Michael McCarthy (UK singer, keyboardist;Spooky Tooth/Boxer)*04.March.1979.
1930: P. B. Sreenivas (Indian Play-back singer)
1929: Serge Garant (French Canadian conductor)*01.Nov.1986.
1927: Colette Deréal/Colette Denise de Glarélial (French singer, actress)*12.April.1988.
1918: Henryk Szeryng (Polish-born violinist)*08.March.1988.
1915: Grigory Frid (Russian composer, artist, writer)*22.Sept.2012.
1891: Hans Albers (German actor, singer)*24.July.1960.
1870: Arthur Pryor (US trombonist and bandleader)*18.June.1942.

September 23rd.
1990: Kota Yabu (Japanese pop singer).
1985: Maki Goto (Japanese pop singer).
1985: Diana Oritz (US singer; Dream)
1981: Natalie Horler (Anglo-German singer; Cascada)
1980: Matt White (US singer, songwriter).
1979: Erik-Michael Estrada (US singer; O-Town).
1977: Rachael Yamagata (US singer, songwriter).
1977: Susan Tamim (Lebanese singer and actress)*28.July.2008.
1975: Layzie Bone/Steven Howse (US rapper; Bone Thugs-N-Harmony).
1975: Lil Rob/Roberto Flores (Mexican rapper, music producer)
1973: Ingrid Fliter (Argentinian pianist).
1973: Jermaine Dupri Maulidin (US music producer, rapper, songwriter).
1972: Sarah Bettens (Belgian singer; K's Choice)
1970: Ani DiFranco (US singer, guitarist).
1969: Patrick Fiori (French singer).
1964: Koshi Inaba/Hiroshi Inaba (Japanese singer; B'z).
1959: Martin Page (UK singer, songwriter).
1958: Danielle Dax/Danielle Gardner (UK musician; The Lemon Kittens/solo)
1957: Kumar Sanu (Indian playback singer)
1955: Leon Taylor (US drums; The Ventures)
1951: Steven Springer (US guitarist, songwriter; Trinidad Tripoli Steel Band/others)*10.Sept.2012.
1950: George Garzone (US saxophonist, jazz educator; Fringe).
1949: Bruce Springsteen (US singer, songwriter, guitarist)
1947: Jerry Corbetta (US singer; Sugarloaf)
1947: Neal Smith (US drums; Alice Cooper Band/others).
1944: Eric Bogle (Scottish/Australian singer, songwriter).
1943: Duster Bennett/Anthony Bennett (Welsh singer, multi-musician; solo/sessionist)*26.March.1976.
1943: Steve Boone (US bassist; Lovin Spoonful)
1943: Wallace 'Scotty' Scott (singer; The Whispers)
1943: Julio Iglesias (Spanish singer)
1939: Roy Buchanan (US guitarist, singer, songwriter)*14.Aug.1988.
1932: Travis Edmonson (US folk singer-songwriter, guitarist; Bud and Travis/solo)*09.May.2009.
1930: Ray Charles (US pop and jazz pianist, singer, songwriter)*10.June.2004
1929: Wally Whyton (British musician, songwriter and radio and TV personality)*22.Jan.1997.
1928: Frank Foster (US saxophonist, flautist, arranger, composer; Count Basie/others)*26.July.2011.
1926: John William Coltrane (US jazz saxophonist and composer)*17.July.1967.
1923: Samuel Carthorne Rivers (US jazz multi-musician, composer).
1912: György Sándor (Hungarian pianist)*09.Dec.2005.
1909: Blanche Honegger Moyse (Swiss-American violinist, conductor)*10.Feb.2011.

September 24th.
1986: Leah Dizon (US model, singer)
1979: Kim Jong Min (Korean singer)
1976: Dave Weiner (US metal guitarist; Steve Vai Band/solo)
1971: Marty Cintron (US lead vocals; No Mercy)
1971: Peter Salisbury (UK drummer; Verve)
1969: Shawn "Clown" Crahan (US drummer; Slipknot/To My Surprise/Dirty Little Rabbits)
1969: DeVante Swing/Donald DeGrate Jr (US music producer)
1967: William So (Hong Kong singer)
1965: Janet Weiss (US drummer; Sleater-Kinney, Quasi, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks)
1965: Sean McNabb (US bassist; Quiet Riot, Great White, Rough Cutt, House of Lords)
1962: Cedric Dent (US gospel singer; Take 6)
1959: Denis D'Amour aka Piggy (Canadian guitarist; Voivod)*26.Aug.2005.
1957: Tod Howarth (US vocalist, keyboardist, guitarist; Frehley's Comet/Cheap Trick)
1952: Mark Sandman (US multi-musician; Morphine/Sandman/Treat Her Right/Hi-n-Dry)*03.July.1999.
1948: Heinz Chur (German composer)
1946: Carson Van Osten (US bassist; The Nazz)
1946: Jerry Donahue (US guitarist; Fairport Convention)
1946: Kjell Asperud (Norwegian percussionist, vocals; Titanic)
1942: Ilkka Johannes "Danny" Lipsanen (Finnish singer, guitarist).
1942: Gerry Marsden (UK singer, Gerry & The Pacemakers)
1941: Terry Wayne/David Skinner (UK rockabilly singer, guitarist).
1941: Linda McCartney née Eastman (US keyboardist, vocals; Wings)*17.April.1998.
1940: Barbara Allbut (US lead singer; The Angels)
1938: Steve Douglas Kreisman (US saxophone, multi-musician; Wrecking Crew/sessions)*19.April.1993.
1935: James Sheppard (US singer; Heartbeats/Shep & The Limelites)*24.Jan.1970.
1933: Mel Taylor (US drummer, The Ventures)*11.Aug.1996.
1931: Anthony Newley (UK singer, actor, composer)*14.April.1999.
1929: John Wallace Carter (US jazz clarinetist; Clarinet Summit/freelance)*31.March.1991.
1924: Sheila MacRae (UK singer, actress)
1923: Fats Navarro/Theodore Navarro (US jazz trumpet player)*06.July.1950.
1922: Cornell MacNeil (US operatic baritone)*15.July.2011.
1915: Jessica Sanso (US opera singer)*09.Nov.2010.
1913: Herb Jeffries (American jazz singer)

September 25th.
1985: Diana Ortiz (US singer; Dream)
1982: Kany García (Puerto Rican singer, songwriter)
1981: Shane Tutmarc (US singer, songwriter, multi-musician)
1980: T.I./T.I.P/Clifford Joseph Harris Jr (US rapper, founder of Grand Hustle Records)
1978: Ryan Leslie (US music producer, singer)
1978: Joanne Cotton (Canadian pop singer)
1977: Kiyoshi Ijichi (Japanese drummer; Asian Kung-Fu Generation)
1976: Juan Meier (Argentinian rock, blues, jazz and tango guitarist)
1976: Chiara Siracusa (Maltese singer)
1976: Santigold/Santi White (US songwriter, producer, singer)
1975: Declan Donnelly (UK actor, singer, TV Pop Idol presenter; Ant & Dec duo)
1974: Chris Impellitteri (US shred guitarist; Impellitteri)
1974: Daniel Kessler (UK born guitarist, backing vocalist; Interpol).
1974: Wamma/Richie Edwards (UK bassist, vocalist; The Darkness/Stone Gods).
1970: Dean Ween/Deaner/Michael Melchiondo Jr (US guitarist; Ween)
1968: Will Smith (US actor, rapper; D.J. Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince duo)
1964: Chris Impellitteri (US lead guitarist; Impellitteri)
1964: Kikuko Inoue (Japanese singer, voice actress)
1964: Maria Doyle Kennedy (Irish actress, singer)
1958: Randy Kerber (US composer)
1955: Steve Severin (UK bassist; Siouxsie and the Banshees/The Creatures)
1955: Zucchro/Adelmo Fornaciari (Italian blues and rock singer)
1954: Craig Chaquico (US guitarist; Jefferson Starship)
1953: Richard Harvey (UK multi-musician, composer; Gryphon/sessionist)
1948: Kathryn "Kathi" McDonald (US singer, backing singer; Kathi MacDonald & Friends)*03.Oct.2012.
1947: John Fiddler (vocalist, guitarist, piano, drummer; Medicine Head)
1947: Cecil Womack (US singer, musician, producer; Womack & Womack)*01.Feb.2013.
1946: Bryan MacLean (US guitarist, vocals; Love/solo)*25.Dec.1998
1946: Jerry Penrod (US bass player; Iron Butterfly / Rhinoceros).
1945: David ''Biffo'' Beech (UK drummer, vocalist; The Mighty Avengers/Jigsaw/others)*07.June.2007.
1945: Dee Dee Warwick/Delia Mae Warrick (US soul singer)*18.Oct.2008.
1945: Onnie Mcintyre (Scottish vocalist, rhythm guitar; Average White Band)
1943: Gary Alexander (US guitar, vocals; The Association)
1943: John Locke (US keyboard player, songwriter; Spirit)*04.Aug.2006.
1939: Joe 'Jesse' Russell (US lead singer; The Persuasions)
1936: Roosevelt "Booba" Barnes (UK bluesman, harmonica, owner of Barnes' Playboy Club)*08.April.1995
1933: Ian Tyson (Canadian singer-songwriter)
1933: Erik Darling (US songwriter, folk musician; Tarriers/Weavers/Rooftop singers/solo)*03.Aug.2008.
1932: Glenn Gould (Canadian pianist and composer)*04.Oct.1982
1930: Sheldon Silverstein (US songwriter, composer, cartoonist, screenwriter, author)*10.May.1999.
1928: Hassan Kassai (Iranian master player of Ney)*14.June.2012.
1927: Sir Colin Davis (UK conductor)
1924: Diane Lampert (American songwriter)*22.Feb.2013.
1923: Sam Rivers (US jazzman, tenor & soprano sax, flute; own band/freelance/sessions)*26.Dec.2011.
1913: Mary Atanasiu/Maria Tanase (Romanian folkloric and pop singer)*22.June.1963.
1912: Bobby Worth (US songwriter)*17.July.2002.
1906: Dmitri Shostakovich (Russian composer)*09.Aug.1975.
1896: Robert Gerhard (Catalan Spanish composer, musical scholar, writer)*05.Jan.1970.

September 26th.
1988: Mark Simpson (UK clarinetist and composer).
1987: Rosie Munter (Swedish singer; Play).
1985: Lenna Kuurmaa (Estonian singer; Vanilla Ninja).
1984: Keisha Buchanan/Kiesha Kerreece Fayeanne Brown (UK singer; Sugababes).
1983: Samantha Hammel (US record producer, actress, theatre director, choreographer).
1981: Christina Milian (US singer-songwriter, actress, record producer)
1975: Emma Härdelin (Swedish singer, violinist; Garmarna/Triakel).
1974: Boris Cepeda (German-Ecuadorian pianist and diplomat).
1973: Marty Casey (US singer, guitarist; Lovehammers/L.A. Guns)
1972: Paul Draper (US lyricist, vocals, rhythm guitars, keyboards; Mansun).
1972: Shawn Stockman (US singer; Boyz II Men).
1972: Ras Kass/John Austin IV (US rapper; The HRSMN/solo).
1970: David Parland/Blackmoon (Swedish guitarist; Necrophobic/Dark Funeral/others)*19.March.2013.
1969: Anthony Kavanagh (French-Canadian comedian, actor, singer)
1967: Richard Shannon Hoon (US singer, Blind Melon)*21.Oct.1995.
1966: Christos Dantis/Christos Vlahakis (Greek composer, singer).
1964: Nicki French (UK singer).
1964: John Tempesta (US drummer; White Zombie, Helmet, Testament)
1962: Tracey Thorn (Mexican singer; Everything But The Girl)
1961: Cindy Herron (US singer; En Vogue)
1958: Darby Crash/Bobby Pyn/Jan Paul Beahm (US punk-rock singer; The Germs)*07.Dec.1980.
1955: Carlene Carter (US country singer, guitarist).
1954: Cesar Rosas (Mexican singer, guitarist, songwriter; Los Lobos/Los Super Seven).
1953: Dolores Keane (Irish folk singer; De Dannan/solo).
1952: Thom Enright (US blues guitarist; Shakey Legs/Rounder/Young Adults/others)*20.Feb.2012.
1951: Stuart Tosh (Scottish drummer, songwriter; Pilot/10cc/Camel/sessionist)
1948: Olivia Newton-John (Australian singer/actress).
1947: John Foxx/Dennis Leigh (English singer, artist, photographer, teacher; Ultravox)
1947: Philippe Lavil (French singer)
1947: Lynn Anderson (US country singer)
1946: Theodore "Ted" Greene (US fingerstyle jazz guitarist, teacher, music columnist)*23.July.2005.
1945: Bryan Ferry (UK singer, keyboards, piano, harmonica; Roxy Music/solo)
1945: Gal Costa/Maria da Graça Costa Penna Burgos (Brazilian singer).
1941: Salvatore Accardo (Italian violinist, conductor).
1941: Joe Bauer (US drummer; Youngbloods)
1940: Creadel 'Red' Jones (US singer; The Hi-lites/ The Chi-Lites)*25.Aug.1994.
1934: Dick Heckstall-Smith (UK saxophonist; John Mayall/Colosseum/freelance)*17.Dec.2004
1930: Fritz Wunderlich (German tenor)*17.Sept.1966.
1926: Julie London/Gayle Peck (US actress, singer)*18.Oct.2000.
1925: Marty Robbins/Martin David Robinson (US country singer, guitarist)*08.Dec.1982
1918: Harold Gramatges (Cuban composer and pianist)*16.Dec.2008.
1898: George Gershwin/Jacob Gershowitz (US composer, pianist)*11.July.1937.
1891: Charles Münch (French conductor, violinist)*06.Nov.1968.
1869: Komitas Vardapet (Armenian composer, music pedagogue, musicologist)*22.Oct.1935.

September 27th.
1984: Avril Lavigne (Canadian singer)
1983: Travis MacRae (Canadian folk-blues singer, songwriter, guitar, harmonica)
1982: Lil Wayne/Dwayne Michael Carter Jr (US rapper; Hot Boys/solo)
1980: Ehron VonAllen (US singer)
1978: Mihaela Ursuleasa (Romanian concert pianist)*02.Aug.2012.
1977: Patrick Bourque (Canadian bass guitarist; Emerson Drive)*26.Sept.2007.
1976: Dean Butterworth (UK drummer; Morrissey, Good Charlotte)
1975: Thanos Petrelis (Greek Laiko singer)
1973: Trick Daddy/Maurice Young (US rapper, producer).
1973: Lee Brennan (lead vocalist; 911)
1972: Lhasa de Sela (American singer-songwriter)*01.Jan.2010.
1970: Mark Calderon (singer; Color Me Bad).
1964: Stephan Jenkins (US singer, songwriter, guitarist; Third Eye Blind)
1961: Andy Lau (Hong Kong actor, singer)
1958: Shaun Cassidy (US singer, actor, TV producer, David's half brother)
1953: Greg Ham (Australian sax, flute, keyboards, harmonica, vocals; Men At Work)*19.April.2012.
1953: Robbie Shakespeare (bassist; Riddim Twins/Sly & Robbie/freelance)
1951: Michel Rivard (Canadian singer, composer; Beau Dommage)
1950: William ''Bill'' Bonham Jr (UK organist, bassist, sax; sessionist/The Answer/Obbs-Tweedle/others).
1950: Linda Lewis/Linda Ann Fredericks (UK vocalist, songwriter, guitarist, keyboards)
1949: Jahn Teigen (Norwegian singer, guitarist)
1947: Liz Torres (US actress and singer
1947: Barbara Dickson OBE (Scottish singer)
1947: Meat Loaf/Marvin Lee Aday (US singer)
1943: Randy Bachman (Canadian guitarist, singer; Guess Who/Bachman Turner Overdrive)
1942: Shane Fenton/Alvin Stardust/Bernard William Jewry (uk singer; The Fentones/solo)
1941: Gay Kayler Ashcroft (Australian country music singer)
1931: Freddy Quinn/Franz Eugen Helmut Manfred Niedl-Petz (Austrian singer)
1924: Earl Rudolph "Bud" Powell (US jazz pianist)*31.July.1966.
1909: Jean Berger (German pianist, educator and composer)*28.May.2002.
1898: Vincent Youmans (US composer and producer)*05.April.1946.

September 28th.
1988: Esmée Denters (Dutch singer).
1987: Hilary Duff (US actress, singer)
1985: Shindong/Shin Dong-hee (Korean singer; Super Junior)
1984: Melody Thornton (US singer, dancer; Pussycat Dolls).
1982: Nolwenn Leroy (French singer).
1981: Iracema Trevisan Carneiro (Brazilian bassist; CSS).
1978: Bushido/Sonny Black/Anis Mohamed Youssef Ferchichi (German rapper).
1977: Young Jeezy/Jay Jenkins (US rapper; United Streets Dopeboyz of America/Boyz n da Hood)
1973: Jori Hulkkonen (Finnish DJ, producer of house music).
1972: Dita Von Teese (American burlesque artist).
1971: Joseph Arthur (US singer-songwriter).
1969: Éric Lapointe (Canadian singer, guitar virtuoso).
1968: Sean LeVert (American R&B singer)*30.March.2008.
1968: Michelle Meldrum (American rock guitarist; Phantom Blue, Meldrum)*21.May.2008.
1967: Moon Unit Zappa (US singer, actress, singer on her father Frank's record "Valley Girl").
1966: Maria Canals Barrera (US actress, singer)
1966: Ginger Fish/Kenny Wilson (US drummer; freelance/Marilyn Manson).
1962: Peter Hooton (UK lead singer; Farm)
1962: Chuck Taylor (US music journalist)
1960: Jennifer Rush (US pop singer).
1959: Edith Bliss (Australian pop singer, television presenter)*03.May.2012.
1957: C.J. Chenier/Clayton Joseph Thompson (US Zydeco musician, singer, accordion, saxophone)
1954: George Lynch (US lead guitarist; Dokken/solo)
1952: Andy Ward (US drummer;Camel/Chrys&themums/Marillion)
1951: Norton Buffalo (US singer, harmonica player; many bands/Steve Miller Band/sessionsist)*30.Oct.2009.
1951: Jim Diamond (Scottish singer)
1950: Laurie Lewis (US bluegrass fiddle player, guitarist)
1950: Paul Burgess (drums; 10cc/The Invisible Girls/The Soul Company)
1947: Ludvigsen/Gustav Lorentzen (Norwegian singer, guitarist; Knutsen & Ludvigsen/solo)*21.April.2010.
1947: Peter Hope Evans (harmonica, jew's harp, mouthbow player; Medicine Head)
1946: Helen Shapiro (Uk singer)
1943: Nick St.Nicholas/Klaus Karl Kassbaum (German bassist; Steppenwolf/World Classic Rockers)
1942: Tim Maia/Sebastião Rodrigues Maia (Brazilian singer)*15.March.1998.
1942: Mike Osborne (UK jazz alto saxophonist, pianist, clarinetist;sessions/freelance)*19.Sept.2007.
1940: Sirone/Norris Jones (US jazz bassist, composer)*21.Oct.2009.
1938: Ben E. King/Benjamin Earl Nelson (US soul singer;Drifters/solo)
1933: Johnny "Country" Mathis (US singer-songwriter; Jimmy & Johnny/solo )*27.Sept.2011.
1932: Víctor Jara (Chilean folk singer and activist)*15.Sept.1973.
1929: Lata Mangeshkar (Indian playback singer)
1925: Cromwell Everson (South African composer)*11.June.1991.
1924: Rudolf Barshai (Russian conductor, viola player)*02.Nov.2010.
1928: Koko Taylor/Cora Walton (American blues singer)*03.June.1928.
1901: Ed Sullivan (TV music show presenter)*13.Oct.1974.

September 29th.
1988: Justin Nozuka (Canadian/American singer-songwriter).
1987: Josh Farro (US lead guitarist, songwriter; Paramore).
1982: Rob Smith (Irish singer-songwriter, former street busker).
1980: Suzanne Shaw (US singer, Hear'Say)
1980: Dallas Green (Canadian singer, guitarist; Alexisonfire, City and Colour)
1979: Gaitana/Gaita-Lurdes Essami (Ukrainian singer, songwriter)
1978: Kurt Nilsen (Norwegian singer).
1978: Gunner McGrath/Christopher Leslie McGrath (US guitarist; Much the Same)
1977: Debelah Morgan (US R&B singer).
1973: Scout Niblett/Emma Louise Niblett (UK singer-songwriter).
1971: Sibel Tüzün (Turkish singer).
1970: AMG/Jason Lewis (US rap artist)
1969: Aleks Syntek (Mexican singer)
1969: DeVante Swing/Donald Earle DeGrate Jr (record producer, songwriter, singer; Jodeci)
1968: Alex Skolnick (US guitarist; Testament/Savatage/Alex Skolnick Trio).
1968: Brad Smith (bassist; Blind Melon)
1968: Matt Goss (lead singer; Bros)
1968: Luke Goss (UK singer, actor; Bros/Band Of Thieves)
1967: Brett Anderson (lead singer; Suede/The Tears/solo)
1966: Tony Foster (electric guitar, bass, acoustic; Olive)
1965: Iain Baker (Keyboards, programming; Jesus Jones)
1963: Leslie Edward "Les" Claypool (lead singer, bassist; Primus)
1962: Al Pitrelli (US guitarist; Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Megadeth, Savatage, Blue Öyster Cult).
1960: Alan McGee (British music industry mogul, DJ, club owner, writer)
1960: Jennifer Rush (US singer)
1958: Mick Harvey (drums, piano, guitar, bass, organ; Birthday Party/Nick Cave/freelance)
1957: Sokratis Malamas (Greek singer, composer)
1956: Suzzy Roche (US singer; Four Bitchin' Babes/The Roches)
1949: George Dalaras (Greek singer)
1948: Mark Farner (US vocals, guitar; Grand Funk Railroad/solo/guest)
1948: Mike Pinera (guitar, vocals; Iron Butterfly/Blues Image)
1948: Theo Jörgensmann (German jazz clarinetist)
1945: Kyriakos Sfetsas (Greek composer)
1944: Mike Post (US composer)
1943: Terry Brace (Uk bassist; East of Eden).
1942: John Kirby Wolland (UK-born vocalist; The Cherokees/New York Public Library)*25 May 2007.
1942: Jean-Luc Ponty (French jazz violinist)
1941: Ralph Mercado (American promoter of Latin American music)*10.March.2009.
1940: Tilahun Gessesse (Ethiopian popular singer)*19.April.2009.
1940: Nicola Di Bari (Italian singer)
1939: Tommy Boyce (US songwriter noted for the The Monkees songs; Boyce & Hart)*23.Nov.1994
1937: Joe 'Guitar' Hughes (US blues guitarist, singer)*19.May.2003.
1943: Manuel Fernandez (Spanish electric organist; Los Bravos)*20.May.1967.
1935: Jerry Lee Lewis (US country & rock n roll singer, songwriter, pianist)
1930: Billy Strange (US singer, songwriter, guitarist, top sessionist)*22.Feb.2012.
1907: Gene Autry (US singer, guitar, actor, singing cowboy)*02.Oct.1998.
1910: Virginia Bruce/Helen Virginia Briggs (US actress, singer)*24.Feb.1982.
1899: Robert Gilbert/Robert David Winterfeld (German composer, lyricist, singer, actor)*20.March.1978.

September 30th.
1987: Denise Laurel (Filipino actress, singer).
1985: T-Pain/Faheem Rasheed Najm (US singer-songwriter, rapper, record producer, actor; Nappy Headz)
1984: Keisha Buchanan (vocals, Sugababes).
1979: Clio-Danae Othoneou (Greek actress, musician and pianist).
1979: Vince Chong Ying-Cern (Malaysian singer-songwriter).
1977: Nick Curran (US blues/rock & roll singer-guitarist; Fabulous Thunderbirds/others)*06.Oct.2012.
1975: Georges-Alain Jones (French singer).
1972: Shaan/Shantanu Mukherjee (Indian singer)
1972: John Campbell (US bassist; Lamb of God)
1964: Trey Anastasio/Ernest Joseph Anastasio III (US guitarist, singer; Plish/solo)
1964: Robby Takac (US vocals, bass; Goo Goo Dolls)
1963: Raúl Abzueta (Venezuelan singer, guitarist, columnist)*25.Feb.2012.
1963: David Barbe (US singer, guitarist, bassist; Sugar/Mercyland/Buzz Hungry)
1962: Brian Bonhomme (UK vocalist, guitar; Roman Holliday)
1962: Marley Marl/Marlon Williams (US rapper, record producer)
1961: Sally Yeh/Sin-Man Yip (Hong Kong singer, actress)
1958: Marty Stuart (US country music singer).
1959: Hilde Heltberg (Norwegian singer, guitarist, songwriter)*04.Sept.2011.
1959: Basia/Barbara Trzetrzelewska (Polish jazz-pop singer)
1954: Patrice Rushen (US R&B singer, songwriter, composer, pianist)
1954: Lesley Beach (saxophonist; Amazulu)
1954: Basia/Barbara Trzetrzelewska (Polish singer-songwriter, record producer).
1953: Deborah Allen/Deborah Lynn Thurmond (US country music singer-songwriter).
1952: John Lombardo (US guitarist; 10,000 Maniacs)
1950: Renato Zero/Renato Zero (Italian singer-songwriter).
1947: Marc Bolan/Toby Tyler/Mark Feld (UK guitaist, singer-songwriter; T. Rex)*16.Sept.1977.
1946: Sylvia Peterson (US singer; Chiffons)
1946: Héctor Lavoe (Puerto Ricann salsa and latin singer)*29.June.1993.
1944: Diane Dufresne (French Canadian singer).
1943: Marilyn McCoo (US singer; 5th Dimension).
1942: Dewey Martin/Walter Milton Dwayne Midkiff (Canadian drummer; Buffalo Springfield)*31.Jan.2009.
1942: Frankie Lymon (US lead singer, Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers)*28.Feb.1968.
1942: Gus Dudgeon (UK record producer, engineer; Elton John/others)*21.July.2002.
1937: Valentin Silvestrov (Ukrainian composer).
1935: Johnny Mathis/John Royce Mathis (Legendary US Singer)
1935: Z. Z. Hill/Arziel Hill (US soul-blues singer)*27.April.1984.
1934: Udo Jürgen Bockelmann (Austrian composer, singer of popular music)
1933: Cissy Houston (US soul singer; Sweet Inspirations/mother of Whitney)
1933: Tony Cennamo (US disc jockey; Boston University's WBUR)*08.June.2010.
1925: Tetsuro Hoshino/Arichika Tetsuro (Japanes lyricist)*15.Nov.2010.
1923: Donald Swann (Welsh composer, musician, entertainer)*23.March.1994.
1922: Rafael Rincón González (Venezuelan singer, composer, bandleader, teacher)*15.Jan.2012.
1922: Albert Raisner (French TV presenter, harmonica player; The Trio Raisner)*01.Jan.2011.
1920: Aldo Parisot (Brazilian-American musician and cellist)
1919: Patricia Neway (American soprano)*24.Jan.2012.
1917: Buddy Rich/Bernard Rich (US jazz drummer; noted as "the world's greatest drummer")*02.April.1987
1912: Kenny Baker (US singer and actor)*10.Aug.1985.
1908: David Oistrakh (Ukrainian violinist)*24.Oct.1974.
1806: Mireille Hartuch (French singer, actress)*29.Dec.1996.
1852: Charles Villiers Stanford (Irish composer, resident in England)*29.March.1924.

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September 1st.
1957: Dennis Brain (36) British virtuoso horn player born in London; he debuted in October 1938, playing second horn under his father with the Busch Chamber Players at the Queen's Hall, then at at aged 21, Brain was appointed to the first horn position in the National Symphony Orchestra. He went on to be credited for popularizing the horn as a solo classical instrument with the post-war British public. Brain produced a radio program entitled The Early Horn in 1955. In it, he emphasized the importance of the player over the instrument in the production of the perfect tone. With the collaboration of Herbert von Karajan and the Philharmonia Orchestra, he produced what many still consider to be the definitive recordings of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's horn concerti (Tragically killed in a car accident will driving home to London after performing the Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6, Pathetique with the Philharmonia at the Edinburgh Festival.) b. May 17th 1921.
1977: Ethel Waters (80) American blues vocalist Chester, Pennsylvania; on Halloween night in 1913, she attended a party in costume at a nightclub on Juniper Street and was persuaded to sing two songs, and impressed the audience so much that she was offered professional work at the Lincoln Theatre in Baltimore, Maryland and toured on the black vaudeville circuit. After which she frequently performed jazz, big band, and pop music, on the Broadway stage and in concerts. Her best-known recording was her version of the spiritual, "His Eye is on the Sparrow", and she was the second African American ever nominated for an Academy Award. Three recordings of Ethel's were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, "Am I Blue?", "Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All The Time)" and "Dinah" (heart disease) b. October 31st 1896.
1996: Vagn Holmboe (86) Danish composer and teacher born in Horsens, Jutland, he recieved his formal music training at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen. He went on to composed about two hundred works, including thirteen symphonies, three chamber symphonies, four symphonies for strings, twenty string quartets, numerous concertos, one opera, and the late series of preludes for chamber orchestra, as well as much choral and other music, in addition to some early works. His last work, the twenty-first string quartet, Quartetto sereno, was completed by his pupil Per Nørgård. (?) b. December 20th 1909.
2001: Sil Austin (71) American sax player, born in Dunnellon, Florida, and taught himself to play at 12 year old. He won the Ted Mack Amateur Hour in St. Petersburg, Florida in 1945, playing "Danny Boy". His performance brought him a recording contract with Mercury Records, and he moved to New York, where he studied for a time at the Juilliard School of Music. His biggest successes in an overtly commercial rather than jazz vein, a great showman on stage, and had a big, ripe, blues-inflected tenor sound which was ideally adapted to hard-driving rhythm and blues, but was also highly persuasive on ballads. (prostate cancer) b. September 17th 1927
2004: Raful Neal (68) American blues singer, guitar, harmonica, composer; born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, he took up the blues harp at age 14. Neal's first band, the Clouds, also included the guitarist, Buddy Guy. He debuted on vinyl in 1958 with a single "Sunny Side of Love". His debut album, was Louisiana Legend. He toured around the world and in 1997 he contributed harp to a couple of tracks on Tab Benoit's Live: Swampland Jam record. Neal's next LP, Old Friends, appeared in 1998. Nine of his eleven children are also blues musicians, and several performed with him on his later releases (Sadly died after a long battle with cancer) b. June 6th 1936.
2005: R.L.Burnside/Robert Lee Burnside (78) American blues singer-songwriter, guitarist and storyteller; he was first inspired to play guitar in his early twenties, after hearing the John Lee Hooker's "Boogie Chillen". He learned music largely from Mississippi Fred McDowell, and also cited his cousin-in-law, Muddy Waters, as an influence. Robert's music is pure country Delta juke joint blues, heavily rhythm-oriented and played with a slide. Although one of the greatest of the "delta" bluesmen, it wasn't until the 1990's that he began hitting full stride, he had done short tours, and in the late '80s he was invited to perform at several European blues festivals. In 1992, he was featured alongside his friend Junior Kimbrough, in a documentary film, Deep Blues. His debut recording, Bad Luck City, was released that same year on Fat Possum Records. Burnside has a second record out on the Oxford-based Fat Possum label, Too Bad Jim 1994. In the mid 1990s, he attracted the attention of Jon Spencer, the leader of the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, touring and recording with this group and gaining a new audience in the process. He toured into his last years, with Kenny Brown on second guitar and his grandson, Cedric Burnside, on drums (He suffered a heart attack in 2000 and underwent bypass surgery. He never fully recovered & passed away in a Memphis, TN hospital) b. November 23rd 1926.
2008: Jerry Reed/Jerry Reed Hubbard (71) American country music singer, country guitarist, session musician, songwriter, and actor born in Atlanta, Georgia. As a singer, his hits included "Soldier's Joy"; "East Bound and Down"; "Guitar Man"; "She's Got the Goldmine (I Got the Shaft)"; "The Bird"; "Lord, Mr. Ford (What Have You Done)"; "Amos Moses"; "When You're Hot, You're Hot," for which he received the Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance in 1972; and "East Bound and Down," the theme song for the film Smokey and the Bandit, in which he also co-starred. He appeared in over a dozen films including 3 Smokey and The Bandit films, The Survivors, Stand Alone, What Comes Around, Bat*21, and The Waterboy. He teamed up with country stars Waylon Jennings, Mel Tillis, and Bobby Bare in the group Old Dogs. They recorded one album, in 1998, entitled Old Dogs. (sadly died of complications from emphysema) b. March 20th 1937.
2009: Jake Brockman (53) British keyboardist with Echo & the Bunnymen; Jake had been a touring member of the band for several years in the mid '80s, and a contributor to the 1987 self titled album Echo & the Bunnymen, which reached No.4 in the UK charts. He was promoted to a full member in the late 80s, and recorded Reverberation in 1990. Jake had left the band before their next album in 1999 (died in a motorcycle accident on the Isle of Man, the band's first drummer Pete De Freitas died in a similar crash) b. ??.1956.??.
2009: Wycliffe "Steely" Johnson (47) Jamaican Reggae musician, singer, producer and composer; born in Kingston, Jamaica, he first surfaced with Sugar Minott's Youth Promotion organization, playing keyboards on Minott's classic Ghetto-ology in 1978. After a period with the Generation Gap, he joined the Roots Radics, earning a reputation for hard work and innovation. Also in the late 70s, Steely met Cleveland "Clevie" Browne during sessions for Augustus Pablo at Lee Perry's Black Ark studio. The pair's relationship was enhanced by contrasting characters, Clevie the studious, mild musician, and Steely the louder, ragga character. When they took up residence as house band at King Jammy's studio in 1986, Steely And Clevie worked with many artists such as Cocoa Tea, Dennis Brown, Admiral Bailey and Lieutenant, cutting 10 singles a week plus albums at its peak in 1987. The duo also gigged for most of the other influential producers in Jamaica; hence, they knew virtually everyone when they began their own label "Steely And Clevie" in 1988. They immediately hit with a debut release from Johnny P., making the DJ a star. Their formula of brash, unusual beats and strong melodies also worked for Foxy Brown; Tiger; Anthony Red Rose; Anthony Malvo and Little Twitch; Gussie Clarke and revived older acts such as Dillinger and Johnny Osbourne. Steely And Clevie recorded a series of "one rhythm" albums on their own label: Limousine, Bursting Out, Real Rock Style and Can't Do The Work. Broader attention followed with work for former Soul II Soul singer Caron Wheeler, Maxi Priest, Aswad and J.C. Lodge (Heart failure, Steely was suffering from pneumonia after having had surgery for a blood clot in the brain shortly before he died in hospital in East Patchogue, New York) b. August 18th 1965.
2012: Harold "Hal" David (91) American lyricist, born in New York City and best known for his collaborations with composer Burt Bacharach and his association with Dionne Warwick, as well as for The Carpenters, Dusty Springfield, B. J. Thomas, Gene Pitney, Tom Jones, Jackie DeShannon and others. Bacharach and Hal's hits included "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head", "This Guy's in Love with You", "I'll Never Fall in Love Again", "Do You Know the Way to San Jose", "Walk On By", "What the World Needs Now Is Love", "(There's) Always Something There to Remind Me", "I Say a Little Prayer", "One Less Bell to Answer", and "Anyone Who Had a Heart". The duo's film work includes the Oscar-nominated title songs for "What's New Pussycat?" and "Alfie", "The Look of Love", from Casino Royale; and the Oscar-winning "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. In addition, "Don't Make Me Over", "(They Long to Be) Close to You", and "Walk On By" have been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. Hal and Bacharach were awarded the 2011 Gershwin Prize for Popular Song bestowed by the Library of Congress, the first time a songwriting team was given the honor. Hal's work with other composers includes Willie Nelson and Julio Iglesias's "To All the Girls I've Loved Before", with Albert Hammond; Sarah Vaughan's "Broken Hearted Melody", with Sherman Edwards; the 1962 Joanie Sommers hit "Johnny Get Angry". also with Edwards; and "We Have All the Time in the World", written with John Barry and sung by Louis Armstrong for the 1969 James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service. With Paul Hampton, David co-wrote the country standard "Sea of Heartbreak", a hit for Don Gibson and others (sadly Hal died with complications from a stroke) b. May 25th 1921.

September 2nd.
1934: Russ Columbo/Ruggiero Eugenio di Rodolpho Colombo (26) American singer, violinist and actor, born in Camden, New Jersey. He is most famous for his signature tune, "You Call It Madness, But I Call It Love," his compositions "Prisoner of Love" and "Too Beautiful For Words", and the legend surrounding his early death (shot by his longtime friend, photographer Lansing Brown. Columbo was visiting him at the studio, in lighting a cigarette, Brown lit the match by striking it against the wooden stock of an antique French dueling pistol. The flame set off a long-forgotten charge in the gun, and a lead pistol ball was fired. The pistol ball ricocheted off a nearby table and hit Columbo in the left eye, killing him almost instantly. Columbo's death was ruled an accident, and Brown exonerated from blame) b. January 14th 1908.
1934: Alcide Patrick Nunez (50) America jazz clarinetist, also known as Yellow Nunez and Al Nunez, he was born in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana and moved to New Orleans in his childhood. He initially played guitar, then switched to clarinet in about 1902. He soon became one of the top hot clarinetists in the city. He was a regular in Papa Jack Laine's band, as well as playing with trombonist Tom Brown and leading bands of his own. In early 1916 he went to Chicago with Stein's Dixie Jass Band, which was to become famous as the Original Dixieland Jass Band, but Nunez left the band shortly before they made their first recordings.(?) March 17th 1884.
1957: Louis Mitchell (71) American bandleader and drummer who began performing in vaudeville revues and minstrel shows from around the turn of the century, playing drums and bandoline. After moving to New York City in 1912, he founded his own group, the Southern Symphonists' Quartet. Louis sang and drummed for James Reese Europe in 1918, and the following year founded a new group, which he called Louis Mitchell's Jazz Kings. Toward the end of the decade, Mitchell began touring Europe as well as the United States, concentrating on the United Kingdom and France. He remained in France into the 1940s, branching into casino, restaurant and nightclub management in addition to music. He moved back to the United States after World War II, but played little in his last decade (?) b. December 17th 1885.
1994: Roy Castle (62) English singer, jazz trumpet player and TV presenter, born in Scholes, Yorkshire. Between 1958 and 1969, he recorded numerous singles and three LPs. Only one of these LPs has seen a CD release so far: Songs For A Rainy Day was recorded in 1966 for Columbia. In 1972 he first presented Record Breakers, a children's TV show, and he remained host for nearly 20 years. He recorded the theme song for the show himself. While presenting the show he broke nine world records himself (lung cancer) b. August 31st 1932.
1996: Otto Clarence Luening (96) German-American composer and conductor, and an early pioneer of tape music and electronic music. Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to German parents, at 12, his family moved to Munich, where he studied music at the State Academy of Music. At age 17, he moved to Switzerland and attended the Municipal Conservatory of Music in Zurich and University of Zurich, where he studied with Ferruccio Busoni and Philipp Jarnach, and was also an actor and stage manager for James Joyce's English Players Company. He returned to the United States in 1924, and appeared mainly as a conductor of operas, in Chicago and the Eastman School of Music. His conducting premieres included Virgil Thomson's The Mother of Us All, Gian Carlo Menotti's The Medium, and his own Evangeline. He also set songs to words by Oscar Wilde, Emily Dickinson, Lord Byron, Walt Whitman, William Blake, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Sharpe, Naidu, Hermann Hesse, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (?) b. June 15th 1900.
2001: Jay Migliori (70) American saxophonist, later noted for being a founding member of Supersax, a tribute band to Charlie Parker. He made his first recording in 1955, and soon joined up with Woody Herman's band, after which he relocated to LA, where he became a session musician playing on an estimated 4,000 commercial recordings. Some artists he recorded with include The Beach Boys, Frank Sinatra, Maynard Ferguson, and Frank Zappa. Jay also played live with thousands of musicians including Charlie Parker and Miles Davis. He and Supersax debuted with 'Supersax Plays Bird' in 1972 (sadly died from colon cancer) b. November 14th 1930.
2004: Roquel Billy Davis (72) American songwriter, record producer, and singer, best known as a songwriter for a number of soul musicians, and as a writer/producer of commercial jingles, including Coca-Cola's "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony)"/'I'd Like To Buy The World A Coke'. He also wrote and produced other jingles such as "It's the Real Thing" and "Things Go Better With Coke", "Country Sunshine" also for Coca-Cola, and "If You've Got the Time" for Miller Beer. Early in his career, he worked with an early version of The Four Tops called "The Four Aims", which included his cousin Lawrence Payton. In the late-1950s, he and collaborator Berry Gordy wrote a number of hit songs for Jackie Wilson. The most notable of these was "Lonely Teardrops", written by himself , Gordy, and Gordy's sister Gwen, who was Davis's girlfriend at the time. He and Gwen later founded the Anna record label, which was the distributor of the early singles from Berry Gordy's Tamla (later Motown) label. After which, he moved to Chess Label, where he wrote and produced for many artists, including Etta James, The Dells, Billy Stewart, Jackie Ross, and Fontella Bass, whose 1965 "Rescue Me" was Davis' biggest hit. Many artists including Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Jackie Wilson, The Supremes and Gladys Knight have also all recorded his songs (sadly died after a long illness) b. July 11th 1932.
2007: Fritz Fryer/David Roderick Carney Fryer (62) British lead guitarist born in Lancashire; in his early teens he played in the Fables, a guitar duo with schoolmate Mike Wilsh, they added singer Lionel Morton and drummer Alan Buck, the group renamed itself the Four Pennies, inspired by Blackburn's Penny Street. After winning a local talent competition, they were signed to Philips . Thier hits included "Do You Want Me To," "I found Out the Hard Way", their 1964 No.1 "Juliet", "Until It's Time for You to Go", "Trouble Is My Middle Name" and Black Girl" which showcased Fritz's guitar skills. After the band's break up, he formed "Fritz, Mike and Mo", before his production career, producing records for Motörhead, Clannad, the Bothy Band, Stackridge, and Horslips among others. He eventually retired to Portugal (pancreatic cancer) b. December 6th 1944.
2008: Dompan/Arne Domnérus (83) Swedish jazz alto saxophonist and clarinetist; best known for his recordings with visiting American players such as James Moody, Art Farmer Clifford Brown and playing with Charlie Parker when he made his tour of Sweden 1950. He also worked with the Swedish Radio Big Band from 1956 to 1978, as well as writing for television and films at this time. He also recorded extensively with Bengt Hallberg. Together with fellow Swedes Bengt-Arne Wallin, and two former members of Duke Ellington's band, Rolf Ericson and Ake Persson, he participated at the Jazz Workshops, organised for the Ruhrfest in Recklinghausen by Hans Gertberg from the Hamburg radio station (?) b. December 20th 1924.
2009: Guy Babylon (52) American keyboardist and composer, noted for his work with Elton John. Born in New Windsor, Maryland, he attended Francis Scott Key High School and then moved on to the University of South Florida, earning a BFA in music composition. He moved to LA, California and in 1988, he joined Elton John's studio and touring band, appearing on the album Sleeping With the Past. In 1990, he appeared with the group Warpipes, a side project of fellow Elton John member Davey Johnstone. 2001 Guy won an Grammy Award for his contributions on the Elton John-Tim Rice musical Aida. Guy also worked extensively on the Elton John-Bernie Taupin musical "Lestat," Until his death, he was a member of Elton John's six-member touring and recording band (Guy died of a heart attack while swimming in his pool) b. December 20th 1956.
2009: Jon Eydmann (41) British band manager, probably best known for his work with Suede, the alternative rock band of the 1990s and the early 2000s that helped start the Britpop musical movement and he was instrumental in Suede’s first deal with Saul Galpern’s indie Nude Records in 1992. He went on to work with Luke Haines’ The Auteurs and the Mega City 4. He also worked in an A&R capacity with Fire Records. Over his career Jon has worked many other bands including Spitfire, Perefect Disaster, TVP'S, Spacemen 3, Sparks Lights and Flames, Kubrick, Midget, Libido, Novociane, Headswim, and Hondo Maclean, some in a management role and some in an A&R capacity. (Jon suffered a heart attack after he dived from his boat in to Lake Como while on holiday in Italy with his family. He died two days later in hospital after being on a life support machine) b. 1968.
2011: Khale kaka/Shrinivas Khale (85) Indian composer born in Parali in Kokan-Raigad zilla of Maharashtra; after his lessons from legendary Guru Pt. Madhusudan Joshi, Khale kaka started as a music director in All India Radio in 1945. After his first Gujarati recording of Talat Mahmood in 1950, there was no looking back, he became one of the most highly regarded artistes in the Marathi melodies commerce for over 6 decades. He has worked with Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosale, Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, Vasantrao Deshpande, Pandit Ulhas Kashalkar, Talat Mehmood, Dr Balamurli Krishnan, Hridaynath Mangeshkar, Manna Dey, Bhupender Singh, Mahendra Kapoor, Suresh Wadkar, and Arun Date among many others. He has noted 141 ‘Bhavgeets’ and created melodies for 6 Marathi movies. ‘Bheti lagi Jeeva’, ‘Ya chimnyano’, ‘Bhaglyanchi maal phule’, Gori Gori pot phula sarkhi chaan’ are some of his most well renowned compositions. Khale also wrote melodies to theatrical performances like Paanigrahan, Vidushak and Devache paay. Also his interviews were broadcast on Voice of America-1988 and Radio Sydney, Australia-2000. In 2009 Datta Marulkar wrote a book "Antaryami Surr Gavasala" portraying Kaka's journey and in 2010 he was honored with the Padma Bhushan Award, the last of many awards (?) b. April 30th 1926.
2012: Emmanuel Nunes (71) Portuguese composer born in Lisbon, where he studied composition, first from 1959 to 1963 at the Academia de Amadores de Música with Francine Benoit, and then with Fernando Lopes Graça at the University 1962–64. He then attended courses at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse 1963–65, and in 1964 moved to Paris. In 1971 he was awarded the Premier Prix d´Esthetique Musicale in the class of Marcel Beaufils at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris, then in 1999 he won the UNESCO Composition Prize, and in 2000 was the winner of the Prémio Pessoa. From 1992 until 2006 Emmanuel was Professor of Composition at the Paris Conservatory (?) b. August 31st 1941.
2012: Mark Abrahamian (46) American musician born in San Francisco, California; he started to teach himself guitar at the age of 10 and when he was 17, he went to GIT (The Musicians Institute). It was during this period that he discovered such players as John Mclaughlin, Allan Holdsworth, Jeff Beck, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Al De Meola, jazz, funk, blues and classical all intrigued and inspired him. Upon graduation he began playing with local bands as well as taking on 50 students a week teaching his own method. He became a member of the rock band Starship as their lead guitarist in 2000, playing between 100 to 125 concerts a year worldwide (tragically Mark collapsed after a concert in Norfolk, Nebraska and died of a heart attack) b. February 23rd 1966.

September 3rd.
1960: Joseph Francis Lamb (72) American composer of ragtime music, born in Montclair, New Jersey. He taught himself to play the piano, inspired by early ragtime publications of Scott Joplin. In 1907, when buying the latest Joplin and James Scott sheet music in the New York City offices of John Stark & Son when he met his idol Scott Joplin. He was impressed with Joseph's compositions, and recommended him to classical ragtime publisher John Stark, who published Joseph's music for the next decade, starting with "Sensation". In 1912 Joseph also worked as an arranger for the J. Fred Helf Music Publishing Company. When the decline of ragtime came he stopped publishing his music playing and composing only as a hobby. With the revival in ragtime in the 1950s, Joseph shared his memories of Joplin and other early ragtime figures with music historians. He also composed some new rags, brought out some of his old compositions that had never been published, and made some recordings. Joseph, was the only non-African American of the "Big Three" composers of classical ragtime, the other two being Scott Joplin and James Scott (sadly died of a heart attack ) b. December 6th 1887.
1970: Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson (27) American guitarist, harmonica player and songwriter born in Boston, Massachusetts. He majored in music at Boston University and often played the Cambridge coffeehouse folk-blues circuit, before forming the blues-rock/boogie band Canned Heat. Alan played guitar, harmonica and wrote most of the songs for Canned Heat. After Eddie 'Son' House's 'rediscovery' in 1964, the producer John Hammond Sr. asked Alan, who was just 22 years old, to teach "Son House how to play like Son House," because Alan had such a good knowledge of the blues styles. The album "The Father of Delta Blues - The Complete 1965 Sessions" was the result. Son House played with Alan live and can be heard on the album "John - the Revelator: The 1970 London Sessions". With Canned Heat, Alan performed at two legendary concerts, the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 and Woodstock in 1969. Canned Heat appeared in the film Woodstock, and the band's "Going Up the Country," which Alan sang, has been referred to as the festival's unofficial theme song (found dead of a drug overdose in fellow band-member Bob Hite's garden in Topanga Canyon, LA) b. July 4th 1943.
1985: Papa Jo Jones/Jonathan David Samuel Jones (73) American jazz drummer, born in Chicago, and moved to Alabama as a youngster. He worked as a drummer and tap-dancer at carnival shows until joining Walter Page's band, the Blue Devils in Oklahoma City in the late 1920s. He recorded with trumpeter Lloyd Hunter's Serenaders in 1931, and later joined pianist Count Basie's band in 1934. Jo, Basie, guitarist Freddie Green and bassist Walter Page were sometimes billed as an 'all-American Rhythm section', he remained with Basie until 1948. Jo was one of the first drummers to promote the use of brushes on drums and shifting the role of timekeeping from the bass drum to the hi-hat cymbal and he had a major influence on later drummers such as Buddy Rich, Kenny Clarke, Roy Haynes, Max Roach, and Louie Bellson. He also starred in several films, most notably the musical short Jammin' the Blues. He was on some Jazz at the Philharmonic tours and recorded in the '50s with Illinois Jacquet, Billie Holiday, Teddy Wilson, Lester Young, Art Tatum, and Duke Ellington, among many others; Jo appeared at the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival with both Basie and the Coleman Hawkins-Roy Eldridge Sextet. In later years he performed regularly at the West End jazz club at 116th and Broadway in New York City. In 1979, Jo was inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame and was the 1985 recipient of an American Jazz Masters fellowship awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts (?) b. October 7th 1911.
1985: Johnny Marks (75) American singer and songwriter, born in Mount Vernon, New York, a graduate of McBurney School, Colgate and Columbia Universities, and later he studied in Paris. He earned a Bronze Star and 4 Battle Stars as a Captain in the 26th Special Service Company during World War II. Although he was Jewish, he specialized in Christmas songs and wrote many standards, including "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer", a hit for Gene Autry and others , "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree",a hit for Brenda Lee, "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" first recorded by Bing Crosby, and "A Holly Jolly Christmas" recorded by the Quinto Sisters, then Burl Ives. Johnny founded St. Nicholas Music in 1949, and he served as director of ASCAP from 1957 to 1961 (He died in New York City) b. November 10th 1909.
1987: Morton Feldman (61) American composer, born in New York City. A major figure in 20th century music, he was a pioneer of indeterminate music, a development associated with the experimental New York School of composers. Morton's works are characterized by notational innovations which he developed to create his characteristic sound: rhythms which seem to be free and floating; pitch shadings which seem softly unfocussed; a generally quiet and slowly evolving music; recurring asymmetric patterns. (died after a three month battle with pancreatic cancer) b. January 12th 1926.
1994: Major Lance (55) American soul singer, founder of The Floats, solo artist, and he later became a featured dancer on local TV. Born in Winterville, Mississippi, but as a child, he relocated with his family to Chicago, attending Wells High School, took up boxing and also sang as a member of the Five Gospel Harmonaires. After a number of solo US hits in the 1960s, including "The Monkey Time" and "Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um", he became an iconic figure in Britain in the 1970s among followers of Northern soul. Back in the US after recording briefly for the Motown Records subsidiary label Soul, he was convicted of cocaine possession in 1978 and served a four year prison term. On his release, he found that his recordings had become popular on the beach music circuit in the Carolinas, where he continued to undertake live performances. His career was slowed by a heart attack in 1987, and he made no recordings. In 1994, he gave his final triumphant performance at the Chicago Blues Festival. (heart attack) b. April 4th 1939.
2000: Tommy Burton (65) English jazz multi-instrumentalist, playing piano, alto saxophone, clarinet, guitar, and a singer. Born in Bilston, near Wolverhampton, he began taking piano lessons at the age of eight, and, after hearing his first jazz in a Birmingham club in 1950, determined to take up the clarinet, and then the alto saxophone. At 15, he started out professionally, on the back of a truck at Bilston carnival with a local band, Pete Young and his Chitterling Twisters. He later joined Johnny Fenton and the Fentones as band pianist. While serving in the RAF from 1953 to 1958, Tommy led several unit dance bands, made his first broadcast, with Humphrey Lyttelton, and formed his own group, Thunderfoot Burton's Celestial Three. Tommy played at jazz clubs and traditional-jazz festivals, was a regular radio performer and did a long stint on BBC televisions's Pebble Mill At One. At the end of the 60s he returned to jazz piano, with his Sporting House Quartet, and was a sell-out attraction for nine successive new year's eve shows at London's 100 Club and was also a regular visitor to New Orleans, and enjoyed the respect of many of its old-time musicians. In 1990, he played alto sax with the Olympia Brass Band for the funeral of trombonist Louis Nelson. He also performed regularly at Fritzel's Jazz Pub on Bourbon Street. Tommy was still performing at festivals the week he died (?) b. January 10th 1935.
2001: Dave Myers (74) American guitarist and bass player with The Four Aces. Born in Byhalia, Mississippi, he moved to Chicago in 1941 and the Four Aces were formed by 1945, fronted by Junior Wells on vocals and harp. They were the first electric Blues band in the city. Little Walter joined the band in '52 and worked with Dave for the next three years. Dave went on to became one of Chicago's top session bassists (complications from diabetes) b. October 30th 1926.
2007: Carter Albrecht (34) American keyboardist for Edie Brickell & New Bohemians since 1999. Originally from Kansas and a 1995 graduate of Southern Methodist University with a degree in piano performance, he was a pianist with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and taught piano in the mid-1990s. He joined the Texas band Sorta, playing keyboards, guitar, and providing vocals. He also fronted his own popular Dallas band, Sparrows, prior to Sparrows, he played guitar in another popular local band, The Limes (Carter was shot in the head and killed by a Dallas neighbour, who was ostensibly firing a "warning shot" at a man banging on his door) b. June 23rd 1973.
2007: Janis Martin (67) American rockabilly singer; one of the few female rock & roll artists to be making records, proving to the male-dominated rock & roll industry that women too could sell a large amount of records and score rock & roll hits and opened doors for other rock & roll singers to come, like Brenda Lee. Born in Suther-lin, Oregon, she began playing guitar at the age of 4 and was soon winning statewide talent contents. By the age of 11 she had become a member of the WDVA Barndance in Danville, Virginia. She was nicknamed The Female Elvis, for her impressive dance moves on stage. In 1956, Janis released her debut record "Will You Willyum", backed by her own composition, "Drugstore Rock'n Roll". The song became the biggest hit of her career, selling 750,000 records and hitting the country and pop charts. Soon she was performing on American Bandstand, The Today Show and the Tonight Show. She also appeared on Jubilee USA, and the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee, becoming one of the younger performers to ever appear. Billboard named her Most Promising Female Vocalist that year. In 1960 Janis retired from music to devote herself to being a wife and mother. She reemerged in the late 70s when she joined a “rockabilly revival” tour of Europe, and her records were reissued. She continued touring with her band as Janis Martin and the Variations until March 2007, when she was found to have cancer. (cancer) b. March 27th 1940.
2010: Noah Howard (67) American free jazz alto saxophonist, born in New Orleans, he first learnt the trumpet and later switched to alto sax. Influenced by John Coltrane and Albert Ayler, he recorded two sessions as a leader in 1966 for ESP Records, before moving to Europe. In 1969 he appeared on Frank Wright's album One For John, and as leader recorded The Black Ark with Arthur Doyle among others. In 1971 he recorded Patterns with Misha Mengelberg and Han Bennink. He moved to Paris in 1972 and then in 1982 to Brussels, where he ran a jazz club and his own record label, AltSax. He recorded steadily through the 1970s and 1980s, exploring funk in the latter decade and recording for AltSax. In the 1990s he returned to free jazz. His last two albums were influenced by Indian, Latin American and Middle Eastern music, Desert Harmony, with Omar al Faqir in 2008 and Voyage in 2010, both reflected his interest in World Music (?) b. April 6th 1943.
2010: Mike Edwards (62) English cellist, bass viol and an original member of the Electric Light Orchestra aka ELO, from their first live gig in 1972 until he left in January 1975, to become a Buddhist. He changed his name to Deva Pramada because of his religious convictions. His eccentric cello playing, fingering the cello strings with an orange or grapefruit, and bizarre costumes were a major ingredient of the early ELO touring band. His live "party piece" was The Dying Swan, where he would perform a cello solo and ultimately his cello would explode through the use of pyrotechnics. His cello playing contributed to the albums ELO II, On the Third Day, The Night The Light Went On (In Long Beach) and Eldorado. He was later replaced as cellist by Melvyn Gale. In later years, Mike's work involved stage plays and arrangements. (Mike was tragically killed on the A381 between Harbertonford and Halwell in Devon, when a circular hay bale weighing 600 kilograms rolled down a hillside and collided with the van he was driving) b. May 31st 1948.

September 4th
1907: Edvard Grieg (64) Norwegian composer and pianist; in the late 1860s and early 1870s he worked with Franz Liszt on Violin Sonata No.1, and later his h Piano Concerto. From 1874–76, he composed incidental music for the premiere of Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt, at the request of the author. Many of the pieces from this work became very popular in the orchestral suites or piano and piano-duet arrangements. He had close ties with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, and later became Music Director of the orchestra from 1880–1882. In the spring 1903, he made nine 78-rpm gramophone recordings of his piano music in Paris; all of these historic discs have been reissued on both LPs and CDs and, despite limited fidelity, show his artistry as a pianist. Grieg also made live-recording player piano music rolls for the Welte-Mignon reproducing system, all of which survive today and can be heard (sadly died after a long illness) b. June 15th 1843.
1972: Francisco Caruso (?) American Concessionaire (brutally killed during a Wishbone Ash concert in Texas after refusing to give a fan a free sandwich) b.????
1983: Louis "King" Garcia (78) Puerto Rican jazz trumpeter; early in his life he played in the Municipal Band of San Juan, before moving to the US early in the 20s, where he played with the Original Dixieland Jazz Band and Emil Coleman. In the 1930s he did work in the studios, including his important association, which was with Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey. He also played with Vic Berton, Richard Himber, Nat Brandwyne, Amanda Randolph, and Louis Prim. In the 1940s he returned to play with Coleman again, and led his own Latin ensemble that decade. By the 1960s he had moved to California and essentially retired due to failing health (?) b. August 25th 1905.
1990: Irene Dunne (97) American actress and singer, as well as her acting career, Irene made her Broadway debut in 1922 in Zelda Sears's The Clinging Vine. The following year, she played a season of light opera in Atlanta, Georgia. By 1929 she had a successful Broadway career playing leading roles such as the role as Magnolia Hawks in Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's Show Boat. (She later re-created her role as Magnolia in what is considered the classic first film version of Show Boat, directed by James Whale in 1936). But she eventually agreed to marry Dr. Francis Griffin and on his wishes she left the theatre, after which she became a film herione, appearing in dozens of movies, her first being Leathernecking in 1930, an early musical. She sang "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" in the 1935 Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers film version of the musical Roberta. Her career spanned seven decades of musical theater, the silver screen, Broadway, radio and television (cardiac arrest at her Holmby Hills home in LA) b. December 20th 1898.
1995: Chuck Greenberg (45) American musical artist, composer and producer, born in Chicago, Illinois. Chuck worked with local bands before he formed and led the new age, electronic musical group, Shadowfax in 1972. They relocated to LA, California in 1978. Chuck's work on the lyricon, the first electronic wind instrument, which he helped develop with engineer Bill Bernardi, became the signature sound of Shadowfax. This ground-breaking sound and work combining jazz, rock, folk, and world music elements into a singular musical vision won Shadowfax a Grammy in 1988 for Best New Age Performance for thier 6th album "Folksongs for a Nuclear Village". Live performances included the Carnegie Hall, Red Rocks, Montreux, Ravinia, The Greek Theater, Wolftrap, and the Universal Theatre, among many others. Chuck's final work was a live Shadowfax recording and full-length concert from Santa Cruz, California. (Chuck sadly died from a heart attack) b. March 25th 1950.
1991: Dottie West (58) American country singer, one the genre's most influential and groundbreaking female artists. Dottie's career started in the early 60s, with her Top 10 hit, "Here Comes My Baby Back Again", which won her the first Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance in 1965. In the 1960s, she was one of the few female country singers working in what was then a male-dominated industry, influencing other female country singers like Lynn Anderson, Crystal Gayle, Barbara Mandrell, Dolly Parton, and Tammy Wynette. She continued touring an recording throughout the 70s and 80s, collecting 14 awards on her journey. She recorded her last song in July 1991 called "As For Me", a duet with Norwegian country singer Arne Benoni. She had planned to record and release an album with friends like Kenny Rogers and Roger Miller. Tanya Tucker and Tammy Wynette were planning on recording a single with her (Dottie died as a result of a car accident several days earlier on her way to a performance at the Grand Ole Opry, in their car park. She underwent three operations to stop her liver from bleeding; but sadly died during her third operation) b. October 11th 1932.
1991: Charles Daly Barnet (77) American jazz saxophonist, composer, and bandleader; he was at the height of his popularity from the late 30s and through the 40s, a period that began with his hit version of "Cherokee", followed by "Skyliner" "The Wrong Idea", "Scotch and Soda", and "Southland Shuffle". In 1947, he started to switch from swing music to bebop. His band had included musicians such as Buddy DeFranco, Roy Eldridge, Neal Hefti, Lena Horne, Barney Kessel, Dodo Marmorosa, Oscar Pettiford, Maynard Ferguson, Doc Severinsen, Billy May, Clark Terry,and Art House. Charles retired from music in 1949, and was inducted into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame in 1984 (?) b. October 26th 1913
2000: David Brown (53) American musician, primary bass guitar player for the band Santana from 1966-71 and again from 1973 to 76. He played with Carlos Santana at Woodstock in 1969, and is on most early Santana albums. David also played on Boz Scaggs' 1971 debutalbum 'Moments', for which he also penned two of its sadder songs, and on the two subsequent Scaggs albums Boz Scaggs & Band in 1971 and My Time in 1972. (sadly David died from liver and kidney failure) b. February 15th 1947.
2003: Tibor Varga (82) Hungarian violinist and conductor, born in Gyor. He studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest with Carl Flesch and Jenö Hubay and made his first public appearance at the age of six; performed the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto at the age of 10; made his first recordings at the age of 13 and began touring Europe when he was 14. He moved to London in 1947, where he became a British citizen. In 1955, Tibor Varga settled in Switzerland, though maintaining his position in Detmold. In 1964, he founded the Tibor Varga Festival in Sion, the capital of the Canton of Valais in Switzerland, and founded an International Academy of Music in connection with it, specializing in interpretation (or "master") classes for accomplished young players conducted by leading soloists during the summer (?) b. July 4th 1921.
2004: Kevin Patrick Westlake (57) Irish drummer born in Dublin and moved to Wales at aged 9 where he played drums in the school band. He enrolled at Cardiff College of Art, where he played with fellow students and musicians Dave Edmunds and Andy Fairweather Low. In 1967, Kevin did a short stint with the Blossom Toes and in 1968 he released a single, ‘Every Day/Green’ with Gary Farr, leader of the T-Bones. By this time he had also become a greatly in demand as a session player. In 1971 he joined Ronnie Lane’s new band, Slim Chance, for which he and Ronnie wrote the hit single, ‘How Come’, and also ‘Silk Stockings’. In 1976 Kevin released his own solo album ‘Stars Fade (In Hotel Rooms)’, produced by Tony Meehan, the former drummer of the Shadows. In the same year, under the pseudonym Abercrombie Fraser, he released the single ‘Marie’s Wedding’/’The Edinburgh Music Box’; and two years later, under another pseudonym, the Frankies, he released the single ‘Yoyo’ ft Caroline Quentin on vocals. Throughout the 80s till his death, dividing his time between Herefordshire, Montgomeryshire and London, Kevin continued to play numerous sessions and gigs and write many songs. He was also spending more and more time drawing. He produced a large quantity of highly original, very funny, sometimes savage, drawings and cartoons and staged several exhibitions in London and elsewhere (?) b. March 5th 1947.
2008: Waldick Soriano (75) Brazilian singer born in Bahia; best known as a composer and singer of songs in the brega style. Waldick moved to São Paulo in 1959, where he began working at Rádio Nacional. His first album released in 1960, became popular throughout Brazil. He went on to record dozens of albums and scored many hits in his native country. (prostate cancer) b. May 13th 1933
2010: Rudolf Pellar (87) Czech actor, singer, teacher and translator; born in Púchov, Slovakia, he studied acting at the Brno Conservatory, graduating in 1946. He was soon working in Horácké Theatre in Jihlava and Silesian National Theatre in Opava. After which he worked first in SKNeumanna Theatre, then the Karlin Music Theatre , where he remained until 1960. Another 30-year period from 1960 until 1991 he worked at the Prague Municipal Theatres. He also studied singing after arriving in Prague appearing in operettas and musicals in both Musical Theatre Karlin and the ABC Theatre. His best known hits include Such a snow it crashes, Small bar, Paris Boulevards, Atomic tale, Sorry I must, The bowler in hand, Bamboo and river, Bill Buffalo. From 1970 until 2001 he also taught chanson singing at the conservatory in Prague.Rudolf also featured in many films including The Brothers Grimm Movie, The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Children of Dune, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Last Butterfly, and The Death Of Tarzan. He was awarded the National Award for lifetime work of translation ib 1997 and the Crystal Rose for interpreting speech in 2000 (?) b. February 28th 1923.
2011: A Produce/Barry Craig (59) American guitarist, keyboard player, producer and composer from Glendale, California. He started out as a guitarist, performing and recording with the mid-80s new wave group After Image. After which he moved away away from guitar, to synthesizers and their possibility to create landscapes of sound. The early results can be heard on his 1988 debut album, The Clearing. Since The Clearing, he has released dozens of CDs on his own Tranceport label as well as the Hypnos label and was featured heavily on Echoes Radio (sadly Barry has died of natural causes) b. ????
2011: Hilde Heltberg (51) Norwegian singer, guitarist and songwriter, born in Oslo; she started her career in the late 70s when she entered a talent competition judged by Stein Ove Berg, who became her mentor. She later joined the Uncle John's Band, and, in 1982, X-tra. She released her first, self-titled, solo album in 1982, but found a more individual style in 1983 with På bare bein/ On bare feet. Over her her solo career Hilde released 12 albums and also participated in the Norwegian qualification for the Eurovision Song Contest three times as an artist: in 1980, 1984 and 1985, and as a songwriter in 2000. Her last single, titled "Elske fritt" /Free love, was released in 2009 (Hilde sadly died while fighting cancer) b. September 30th 1959.

September 5th
1975: Georg Ots (55) Estonian opera singer, born in Petrograd, Russian SFSR, to the renowned tenor Karl Ots. Georg was a welcomed performer in all the major opera houses of the former Soviet Union, being especially popular at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. His repertoire included the roles of: Eugene Onegin, Yeletzky, Escamillo, Renato, Don Giovanni, Papageno, Rigoletto, Iago, Porgy, Figaro, and the title role in Kabalevsky's Colas Breugnon. Ots sang in Estonian, Russian, Finnish, German, Italian and French, and was fluent in all six languages. Ots's most famous role, with which he is often identified with, was the leading character in Anton Rubinstein's opera The Demon. He also performed successfully in various European countries. His solo opera debut was a tiny part in Eugene Onegin in 1944. He soon became one of the most revered singers with this opera company, with whom he sang from 1951 until his death. In November 2005, a musical Georg based on Georg Ots' life was premiered in Tallinn, and on October 5th 2007, Georg, a fiction film based on his life was released. (Died in Tallinn, Estonia. After his death, the Tallinn Music School was named after him, now called Georg Otsa nimeline Tallinna Muusikakool) b. March 21st 1920.
1977: George Barnes (56) American jazz and blues guitarist, he claimed he played the first electric guitar in 1931, preceding Charlie Christian by six years. Born in South Chicago Heights, Illinois, he started his career accompanying blues vocalists such as Big Bill Broonzy. In the mid 30s, George toured throughout the Midwest. By 1938, he was working as a musician on the staff of NBC studios. After a stint in the Army, George recorded with his octet and worked as a studio musician for Decca. In 1940, he released his first recording under his own name, "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" backed with "I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me". He recorded several albums with Bucky Pizzarelli, their partnership lasted through the early 1970s. He also worked as a session musician for The Jodimars in the late 1950s (?) b. July 17th 1921.
1978: Joe Negroni (37) American baritone vocalist born in Manhattan. In the early 1950s Joe and friends Herman Santiago, Jimmy Merchant and Sherman Garnes got together and formed a group calling themselves The Ermines with Joe as lead singer. They changed their name to Coupe de Villes and later to The Premiers with Herman taking over as lead. A 12 year old Frankie Lymon heard The Premiers at a talent show and soon after he was jamming together. Impressed with the sound of Frankie's high tenor/soprano voice, in 1955 they had invited him to join the group, singing first tenor behind Herman's lead. They signed with Gee Records who changed their name to The Teenagers. On their debute single "Why Do Fools Fall In Love" Frankie took over lead as Herman was ill. Mr. Goldner of Gee Records then changed the group's name to "Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers" and released the record. The song became an instant hit in the United States and in the United Kingdom it also became the first UK No.1 by an American vocal group. They also had hits with "I Want You to Be My Girl", "Who Can Explain?" and "The ABC's of Love". Alan Freed signed them for two movies and while touring the UK they played at the London Palladium. In 1993, Joe Negroni, Herman Santiago, Frankie Lymon, Jimmy Merchant and Sherman Garnes, the original members of "the Teenagers", were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and in 2000 into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame. In the 1998 film "Why Do Fools Fall In Love" the role of Joe was played by actor Jon Huertas (brain haemorrhage) b. September 9th 1940.
1990: Charley Charles (?) English drummer; after many sessions and years in the studios, in 1974, Radio Caroline boss Ronan O'Rahilly set up a group called The Loving Awareness Band, comprising of Charley on the drums, John Turnbull playing guitar, keyboardist Mickey Gallagher and funkie bassist Norman Watt-Roy. In 1976, The Loving Awareness Band released their only album, Loving Awareness, after which the band broke up in 1977. Charlie and Norman then joined up with Ian Dury to form the Blockheads scoring several hit singles, including "What a Waste", "Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick", which was a UK number one at the beginning of 1979, selling just short of a million copies, "Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3", and the rock and roll anthem, "Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll" (sadly lost his battle with cancer) b.????
1994: Louis Myers (64) American guitarist, harmonica player, vocalist and founder of The Aces, one of the earliest and most influential of the electric Chicago blues band in the 1950's; born in Byhalia, MS, he moved to Chicago in 1941 with his family. Their new next door neighbour was blues great Lonnie Johnson, who was a huge inspiration to Louis. Louis started out doing house-party gigs before he and his brother David on guitar and young harpist Junior Wells to form the Three Deuces, the first line-up of the Aces. In 1950, drummer Fred Below came on board. In 1952 Jr Wells left to go with Muddy Waters and Muddy's harpist Little Walter moved into the front man role with the Aces, renaming them the Jukes to capitalize on his current hit single "Juke". Louis and the Aces backed Little Walter on "Mean Old World," "Sad Hours," "Off the Wall," and "Tell Me Mama" and at New York's Apollo Theatre before Louis left in 1954. This resulted in the Jukes' gradual break up, but freeing them reform again as The Aces to back acts such as Otis Rush, Earl Hooker among others. During the '60s, '70s and '80s the Aces reunited on many occasions for recordings, tours, festivals and visited Europe, as well as following their separate careers. Sadly Louis was hampered by the effects of a stroke while recording his last album 1991's Tell My Story Movin'. He courageously completed the disc but was limited to playing harp only. His health soon took a turn for the worse, ending his distinguished musical career (heart attack) b. September 18th 1929
1995: Salil Chowdhury (72) Indian music composer, poet, writer, filmmaker and played several musical instruments, including flute, piano, and esraj. He mainly composed for Bengali, Bollywood and Malayalam films. His first Bengali film "Paribortan"/Transformation was released in 1949. "Mahabharati" released in 1994 was the last of his 41 Bengali films. Salil debute in the Hindi Film Industry came in 1953 as the Music Director for Do Bigha Zamin by Bimal Roy. The film was the cinematic version of Salil Chowdhury's short story named "Ricksawala", and it became the first film to win the Filmfare Best Movie Award and won the international Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. After about 20 years in Bengali and Hindi films, Salil entered Malayalam films in 1964 with Chemmeen. Almost all of his Malayalam songs became popular irrespective of the performance of the films they were made for. He went on to compose for over 75 Hindi films, 41 Bengali films, around 26 Malayalam films, and several Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Gujarati, Oriya and Assamese films (?) b. November 19th 1922.
2003: Gisèle MacKenzie (76) Canadian-American singer, most famous for her performances on the popular television program Your Hit Parade. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, she studied violin and voice at The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, Ontario. She had her own Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio program, Meet Gisèle, before moving to LA, California, in 1951 and she became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1955. In 1953 she reached No.6 in the UK Singles Chart, with "Seven Lonely Days", her biggest selling song was "Hard To Get" in 1955. Gisèle sang frequently on early television shows such as The Jack Benny Program, The Dinah Shore Chevy Show, The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom, The Ed Sullivan Show and appeared often at Las Vegas venues and in numerous North America concerts. In later years, she performed widely in musical theatre in such shows as Mame, Gypsy, The Sound of Music, and Hello, Dolly! Gisèle has a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame at 1601 Vine (sadly died after a brave battle with colon cancer) b. January 10th 1927.
2006: Astrid Varnay (88) Swedish-born Hungarian-American dramatic soprano, who did most of her work in the US and Germany. She was one of the five best-known Wagnerian heroic sopranos of her generation (the other four were Kirsten Flagstad, Gertrude Grob-Prandl, Birgit Nilsson, and Martha Mödl). Her voice on record is readily recognisable by its seemingly-limitless upper register. By the age of 22 she knew Hungarian, German, English, French and Italian and her repertoire consisted of 15 leading dramatic soprano roles, eleven of which were Wagnerian parts. She also had formidable mezzo-soprano capability, which she displayed in performances as Ortrud in Lohengrin and Klytemnestra in Elektra. She made her sensational debut at the Metropolitan Opera on December 6th 1941 in a broadcast performance singing Sieglinde in Wagner's Die Walküre, substituting for the indisposed Lotte Lehmann with almost no rehearsal. This was her first appearance in a leading role, and it was a triumph. Among her 1000s of appearances, the role of Herodias in Salome became her most often performed role with 236 performances. After a marvellous career Astrid made her last appearance on stage was in Munich in 1995, fifty-five years after her Metropolitan debut. In 1998 she published her autobiography Fifty-Five Years in Five Acts: My Life in Opera, written with Donald Arthur (?) b. April 25th 1918.
2007: Saint Thomas/Thomas Hansen (31) Norwegian alt-country singer and guitarist; his biggest break came shortly after Norway's Quart Festival in 1999, where he got signed to Racing Junior. His first album, I'm Coming Home, was preceded by "The Cornerman EP," which was a summer chart success in Norway in 2001. The album then received international releases throughout 2002. He has since released three other albums, and also toured Europe with Lambchop and the United States in 2005 with Of Montreal. His next album, Children Of The New Brigade, was released in August 2005 in Norway. In August 2006, Saint Thomas released a new album, officially his sixth, There's Only One of Me on his own label. (The cause of death was determined to be an "unfortunate combination of prescribed drugs") b. February 13th 1976.
2009: Mickie Jones (?) American bassist from Washington, DC; along with guitarist friend Punky Meadows he formed the band Bux, in early 1973, Capitol Records signed the band, but balked on the deal and dropped the band. After which Mickie and Punky founded the flamboyant 70s glam rock-metal band Angel. They called themselves 'Sweet Mama From Heaven' inspired by a Jimi Hendrix song before changing their name to Angel. The band was discovered by Gene Simmons the bassist from Kiss, while performing at a nightclub and was soon signed to Kiss’s label Casablanca. They debuted with a self titled album in '75, the first track "Tower" was used widely during the late 70's and early 80's by Album Rock stations for various advertising purposes. Their second album Helluva Band followed in 1976. ‘On Earth As It Is In Heaven’ the band’s third album included the tracks ‘Can You Feel It’, ‘On The Rocks’ and ‘White Lightnin’. This was Mickie's last album before he left the band and went on to work in the Hollywood film industry (died after a long bave battle with liver cancer) b. ??
2011: Salvatore Licitra (43) Italian operatic tenor, born in Bern, Switzerland, to Sicilian parents, Licitra grew up in Milan. He trained for 8 years at the Music Academy of Parma and the Corsi Verdiani before enrolling at Carlo Bergonzi's voice academy in Busseto. He debuted in Un ballo in maschera in Parma in 1998, in a performance for Bergonzi's students. His success led to a contract as cover in Ballo, Rigoletto and Aida in Verona, and he ended up singing them all. He then auditioned for Riccardo Muti at La Scala, who hired him for Alvaro in a new production of La forza del destino. After which he sang in Tosca and Madama Butterfly at the Arena di Verona in June and July, then Tosca at La Scala in March 2000, again with Muti. Salvatore went on to sing in many of the world's top opera houses. He had an unexpected debut at The Metropolitan Opera, New York City, on May 12th 2002 when he appeared in Tosca, substituting for Luciano Pavarotti, who had cancelled the performance two hours before curtain time. Salvatore, was not scheduled to debut there until 2004 (tragically Salvatore died from severe injuries of a motor scooter accident which had left him in a coma for nine days) b. August 10th 1968.
2012: Joe South/Joseph Alfred Souter (72) American singer-songwriter and guitarist born in Atlanta, Georgia, started his pop career in July 1958 writing the novelty hit "The Purple People Eater Meets the Witch Doctor". In 1959, he wrote 2 songs which were recorded by Gene Vincent: "I Might Have Known" and "Gone Gone Gone". He began his recording career with the National Recording Corporation, where he was staff guitarist along with other NRC artists Ray Stevens and Jerry Reed. He was also a prominent sideman, playing guitar on the likea of Aretha Franklin's "Chain of Fools", Tommy Roe's "Sheila", and Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde album. His 1969 "Games People Play", a hit on both sides of the Atlantic was accompanied by a lush string sound, organ, and brass, the production won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Song and the Grammy Award for Song of the Year. His compositions have been recorded by many artists, including Billy Joe Royal's songs "Down in the Boondocks", "I Knew You When", "Yo-Yo", later a hit for the Osmonds, and "Hush" later a hit for Deep Purple and Kula Shaker. Joe's most commercially successful composition was Lynn Anderson's 1971 monster hit "(I Never Promised You A) Rose Garden", which was a hit in 16 countries and translated into many languages. Anderson won a Grammy Award for her vocals, and Joe won a Grammy Award for writing the song. Joe was inducted into Georgia Music Hall of Fame On September 13th 2003 (sadly he died from heart failure) b. February 28th 1940.

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1962: Hanns Eisler (64) German-Austrian composer born in Leipzig, in 1925 Hanns moved to Berlin, then a hothouse of experimentation in music, theatre, film, art and politics. There he became a member of the Communist Party of Germany and became involved with the November Group and in 1928, he taught at the Marxist Worker's School. He wrote music for several Brecht plays, including The Decision - 1930, The Mother - 1932 and Schweik in the Second World War - 1957. They also collaborated on protest songs that intervened in the political turmoil of Weimar Germany in the early 1930s. Their Solidarity Song became a popular militant anthem sung in street protests and public meetings throughout Europe, and their Ballad of Paragraph 218 was the world's first song protesting laws against abortion. A promising career in the U.S. was interrupted by the Cold War. He was one of the first artists placed on the Hollywood blacklist by the movie studio bosses. In two interrogations by the House Committee on Un-American Activities, the composer was accused of being "the Karl Marx of music" and the chief Soviet agent in Hollywood. Among his accusers was his sister Ruth Fischer, who also testified before the House Committee that her other brother, Gerhart, was a major Communist agent. The Communist press denounced her as a "German Trotskyite." Among the works that Eisler composed for the Communist Party was the "Comintern March", "The Comintern calls you / Raise high Soviet banner / In steeled ranks to battle / Raise sickle and hammer". His supporters, including his friend Charlie Chaplin and the composers Igor Stravinsky, Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein, organized benefit concerts to raise money for his defense fund, but he was deported early in 1948. Folksinger Woody Guthrie protested the composer's deportation in his lyrics for "Eisler on the Go" (Hanns sadly died from a second heart attack) b. July 6th 1898.
1978: Tom Wilson (47) American record producer, best known for his work in the 1960s with Bob Dylan, Frank Zappa, Simon and Garfunkel and The Velvet Underground. He worked for Columbia Records, then went to Verve Records (heart attack) b. March 25th 1931.
1984: Ernest Dale Tubb (70) American singer and songwriter, nicknamed the "Texas Troubadour", one of the pioneers of country music. His biggest career hit song "Walking the Floor Over You" in 1941 marked the rise of the honky-tonk style of music (sadly emphysema stole his breath away) b. February 9th 1914.
1985: Johnny Desmond/Giovanni Alfredo De Simone (65) American singer; As a boy, he sang on a local radio station, before attending the Detroit Conservatory of Music briefly and playing the nightclub circuit, playing piano and singing. In 1939 he formed his own singing group, the Downbeats, but after being hired to work with Bob Crosby's big band in 1940, it was renamed the Bob-O-Links. The group appeared on fifteen commercial recordings by the Crosby Orch, including two charted hits, "You Forgot About Me" and "Do You Care?". After the war he took a job on The Breakfast Club, a radio variety program out of Chicagoand had a string of hits: "C'est si bon", "Don't You Remember Me?", "Guilty", "Don't Cry, Joe", "Just Say I Love Her" , "The Picnic Song", "Because of You", and "Woman". In 1953 he joined with Don Cornell and Alan Dale to record "The Gang that Sang 'Heart of My Heart'". On Broadway, Johnny appeared in Say, Darling in 1958 and as Nicky Arnstein in Funny Girl, after Sydney Chaplin left the cast (cancer) b. November 14th 1919.
1985: Little Brother Montgomery/Eurreal Wilford Montgomery (79) American jazz-blues pianist and singer born in Kentwood, Louisiana. Mainly self taught, he started playing piano at 4, and by age 11 he was playing at various barrelhouses in Louisiana. His musical influences were Jelly Roll Morton who used visit the Montgomery household. Early on he played at African American lumber and turpentine camps in Louisiana and Mississippi, then with the bands of Clarence Desdunes and Buddy Petit. He first went to Chicago from 1928-31, where he made his first recordings. From 1931 through 1938 he led a band in Jackson. In 1942 he moved back to Chicago, which would be his base for the rest of his life, with various tours to other United States cities and Europe. His repertoire alternated between blues and traditional jazz. He played Carnegie Hall with Kid Ory's Dixieland band in 1949 and by the late 1950s he had been "discovered" by wider white audiences. He toured with Otis Rush in 1956. Eurreal formed his own record label, FM Records in 1969. He appeared at many blues and folk festivals and was considered a living legend, a link to the early days of blues and New Orleans. Among his original compositions are "Farrish Street Jive", "Shreveport Farewell", and "Vicksburg Blues". (?) b. April 18th 1906.
1990: Tom Fogerty (49) American guitarist, backing vocals and founder member of the rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival. The band has sold 26 million albums in the United States alone and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993. Tom player on all but one fof their albums Creedence Clearwater Revival-1968, Bayou Country-1969, Green River-1969, Willy and the Poor Boys-1969, Cosmo's Factory-1970, and Pendulum -1970, producing such hits as "Proud Mary", "Bad Moon Rising", "Down on the Corner", "Green River", "Fortunate Son", "Travelin' Band" and "Who'll Stop the Rain". Tom left the CCR in 1971, the year before the band split. He began a solo career and worked with the likes of Jerry Garcia, Merl Saunders, and old band mates Stu Cook and Doug Clifford. Tom's 1974 solo album Zephyr National was the last to feature the four original band members of CCR. A few of the songs sound much in the Creedence style, particularly the aptly-titled "Joyful Resurrection". All four members did play on the song, but John recorded his part to the mix separately. (complications from AIDS acquired during a blood transfusion) b. November 9th 1941.
1994: Nicky Hopkins (50) English pianist and organist born in NE London; Nicky recorded and performed on noted British and American popular music recordings of the 60s and 70s as a session musician. At the start of the 60s started out as the pianist with Screaming Lord Sutch's Savages, after which he joined The Cyril Davies R&B All Stars. Due to suffering from Crohn's disease he mainly focused on studio work in London. He worked extensively for leading UK independent producers Shel Talmy and Mickie Most and performed on albums and singles by The Kinks, The Move, Alun Davies, Jon Mark, The Who, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Donovan, John Lennon, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, Jeff Beck, Art Garfunkel, the New Riders of the Purple Sage, Carly Simon, McGuinness Flint, Bill Wyman and Peter Frampton.and many others. In 1967 he joined The Jeff Beck Group, formed by former Yardbirds guitarist Jeff Beck, with vocalist Rod Stewart, bassist Ronnie Wood and drummer Micky Waller, playing on their influential LPs Truth and Beck-Ola. He also helped define the "San Francisco sound", playing on albums by Jefferson Airplane, New Riders of the Purple Sage, and Steve Miller Band. He briefly joined Quicksilver Messenger Service and performed with Jefferson Airplane at the Woodstock Festival. In 1968 he played piano with the Swedish psychedelic group Tages on the single "Halcyon Days", produced in Abbey Road Studio. Nicky joined the Rolling Stones live line-up on the 1971 Good-Bye Britain tour, as well as their 1972 North American Tour and the early '73 Winter Tour of Australia and New Zealand. He recorded a few solo albums but remained one of the most important rock 'n' roll session musicians of his time (Nicky sadly died in Nashville, Tennessee, of complications from intestinal surgery) b. February 24th 1944.
1994: Max Kaminsky (85) American jazz trumpeter and bandleader of his own orchestra, The Max Kaminsky Orchestra. He started his career in Boston in 1924 and by 1928 worked in Chicago with George Wettling and Frank Teschemacher at the Cinderella Ballroom and in New York for a brief period in 1929 with Red Nichols. He was primarily known for Dixieland. At one time he played for the Original Dixieland Jass Band. For the next five years he worked in commercially oriented dance bands, at the same time recording with Eddie Condon and Benny Carter's Chocolate Dandies in 1933 and with Mezz Mezzrow 1933–34. He played with Tommy Dorsey 1936-38 and Artie Shaw in 1938, performed and recorded with Bud Freeman 1939–40 and worked again with Shaw 1941–43, who led a navy band with which Max toured the South Pacific. He also worked in the 1940s with Sidney Bechet, George Brunis, Art Hodes, Joe Marsala, Willie "The Lion" Smith, and Jack Teagarden. He went on to work in television, and led Jackie Gleason's personal band for several seasons, toured Europe with Teagarden's and Earl Hines' All Stars, and performed at the Metropole and Ryan's in New York, at intervals from the late 1960s to 1983. In 1963 he published My Life in Jazz with V. E. Hughes. In 1975-76 he made recordings as a leader that well illustrate his style (?) b. September 7th 1908.
1996: Esther Soré (81) Chilean singer and the main singer of Chilean melodies and folk of the 20th century. She recorded the successful Pretty Chile, of Clara Solovera. Ester was popular in the radio, as a recording artist, on tour and in the movies. (?) May 27th 1915.
2001: Carl Crack/Carl Böhm (30) German musician born in Swaziland; he later became a member of a the Berlin based digital hardcore band Atari. He also appeared on Cobra Killer's 2002 album, The Third Armpit and also was part of Firewire and Whatever (found dead in his apartment due to a drug overdose) b. May 5th 1971.
2005: Eric Roche (37) Irish fingerstyle guitarist, born in New York City, but his family soon moved to Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland. He studied classical guitar in 1992 at the London Musician's Institute. Eric went on to play many genres on solo guitar such as classical, Celtic, folk, jazz, blues, rock and pop, also gifted guitarist-composer, and well known for his solo guitar arrangements of other artists' tunes. Some of these solo arrangements include:'Jump' by Van Halen, 'Higher Ground' by Stevie Wonder, 'Killer' by Seal, 'Blue in Green' by Miles Davis, 'She Drives Me Crazy' by the Fine Young Cannibals, 'Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)' and 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps' by the Beatles,'Take Five' by Dave Brubeck, 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' by Nirvana and many more (throat cancer) b. December 4th 1967.
2007: Luciano Pavarotti (71) Italian Opera singer; He was probably the most successful post-war classical performer bridging the worlds of opera and pop culture, through his association with fellow singers Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras as the Three Tenors, as well as charity work with such pop icons as U2. "Nessun dorma", from Puccini's opera Tosca, is now forever associated with soccer's World Cup, thanks to Pavarotti's grand appearance at the 1990 Games >>> READ MORE <<< (pancreatic cancer) b. October 12th 1935.
2011: Wardell Quezergue (81) American singer, guitarist, bandleader, music arrange and producer, known among New Orleans musicians as the “Creole Beethoven”. Born into a musical family in New Orleans he took up music at a very early age. After playing with Dave Bartholomew’s band from the late 1940s and serving as an army musician in Korea, he emerged as a bandleader in his own right in the mid-1950s with his Royal Dukes of Rhythm who became a welcome fixture on the New Orleans music scene. With the drummer Smokey Johnson, he wrote the 1964 instrumental “It Ain’t My Fault,” a New Orleans song later sampled by Mariah Carey, the rapper Silkk the Shocker and others. As well as his band and songwriting career, Wardell worked mainly as a producer and arranger with the cream of New Orleans musicians, such as Professor Longhair and Fats Domino, which included the songs “Big Chief” by Professor Longhair, “Iko Iko” by the Dixie Cups, “Groove Me” by King Floyd, “Barefootin’ ” by Robert Parker, “Mr. Big Stuff” by Jean Knight and “Misty Blue” by Dorothy Moore. He later worked as an arranger on the albums “Fiyo on the Bayou” for the Neville Brothers; “Orchid in the Storm” for Aaron Neville; “Goin’ Back to New Orleans” for Dr. John; “Deacon John’s Jump Blues” for Deacon John Moore; and two albums for the blues singer Clarence (Gatemouth) Brown, “Gate Swings” and “American Music, Texas Style” among so many others. In 2009 he released his own album, “Music for Children Ages 3 to 103: The St. Agnes Sessions” (sadly Wardell died form heart failure) b. March 12th 1930.

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1929: Frederic Weatherly (80) English lawyer, author, and lyricist, born in Portishead, Somerset. He is estimated to have written the lyrics to at least 3,000 popular songs, among the best-known of which are the sentimental ballad "Danny Boy", the religious "The Holy City", and the wartime song "Roses of Picardy". Others include "Three for Jack"; "Bhoy I Love"; "The Blue Dragoons"; "The Midshipmite"; "Our Little Home"; "They all love Jack"; "Polly"; "When Noah Went-a-sailing"; "Time to go"; "Chumleigh Fair"; "Douglas Gordon"; "Sleeping Tide"; "The Star of Bethlehem"; "Beauty’s Eyes"; and "In Sweet September". He also worked in opera, making English translations of Pagliacci and Cavalleria rusticana, for Covent Garden and writing the lyrics for the 1894 premiere of Mirette at the Savoy Theatre (sadly died after a short illness) b. October 4th 1848.
1957: Raul Sanchez Reinoso (48) Argentinian guitarist, banjo, bandleader (?) b. Dec 18th 1908
1978: Cecil Aronowitz (62) British viola player; born in King William's Town, South Africa he was a founding member of the Melos Ensemble, a leading chamber musician and an influential teacher at the Royal College of Music and the Royal Northern College of Music (Cecil suffered a stroke in a performance of Mozart's String Quintet in C major and sadly died in Ipswich, England, the following morning) b. March 4th 1916.
1978: Keith Moon (32) Legendary UK drummer; he gained notoriety for exuberant drumming and his destructive lifestyle. He joined The Who in 1964, playing on all albums from their debut, 1965's My Generation, to 1978's Who Are You, which was released two weeks before his death. He is known for innovative, dramatic drumming, often eschewing basic back beats for a fluid, busy technique focused on fast, cascading rolls across the toms and cymbal crashes. He was one of the first to play drums as a lead instrument in an era when drums were supposed only to keep the back beat. (overdose of heminevrin prescribed to combat alcoholism. A post-mortem confirmed there were 32 tablets in his system, 26 of which were undissolved) b. August 23rd 1946.
1989: Mikhail Goldstein aka Mikhailo Mykhailovsky (71) Soviet violinist, composer and autor, born in Odessa. He was the author of the celebrated musical hoax "Ovsianiko-Kulikovsky's Symphony No. 21" as well as several others, notably "Expromt", "Albumblatt" etc. He concentrated on composition after his career as a violinist was curtailed by a hand injury. He was a winner of three prizes at the 1963 All-Union Composers' Competition, apparently he submitted his entries under pseudonyms. He took a teaching position in East Berlin in 1964. He moved to Vienna and Jerusalem in 1967, moved to London in 1968, and finally to Hamburg, Germany in 1969, where he died. He gave concerts with Galina Kowal and Michael Minsky. His musical and civic activities were recognized in Germany with the Bundesverdienstkreuz medal (?) b. November 8th 1917.
1993: Lefty Dizz/Walter Williams (56) American powerful blues guitarist born in Arkansas, the nickname was given him by Hound Dog Taylor & the HouseRockers. Dizz started playing guitar at age 19 entirely self-taught, he played a standard right-handed model flipped upside down, without reversing the strings. His sound was raw and distorted and his style owed more to the older bluesmen than to the hipper West Side players like Otis Rush and Buddy Guy working in the B.B. King mode. Dizz graduated from Southern Illinois University and served in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War. After which he moved to Chicago, where in 1964 he became a member of Junior Wells's band, recording and touring Africa, Europe, and Southeast Asia with him until the late '60s. At various times during the '60s and early '70s, he'd also moonlight as a guitarist with Chicago stalwarts J.B. Lenoir and Hound Dog Taylor, while sitting in everywhere and playing with seemingly everyone, Dizz was always welcome on anyone's bandstand. He also fronted his band own band Shock Treatment, playing and singing with an unbridled enthusiasm, and flamboyant of blues men (sadly we lost him to cancer) b. April 29th 1937
2001: Igor Buketoff (86) American conductor born in Hartford, CT; he was educated at the University of Kansas 1931-32, the Juilliard School in New York 1935-41, and from 1941-47 he was Music Director of the Chautauqua Opera Association and taught at Columbia University 1941-47. In 1941 he won the first Ditson Conductor's Award. In the early part of his career he conducted a range of orchestras in the US, which included the New York Philharmonic in the Young People's Concerts 1948-53, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra 1948-66. He taught at Butler University 1953-63 and was later associated with the Festival of Neglected Romantic Music held there. He taught at the University of Houston 1977-79 and conducted the Texas Chamber Orchestra 1980-81. At the request of Sophie Satin, Rachmaninoff's sister-in-law, Igor orchestrated Act I of Rachmaninoff's unfinished opera Monna Vanna, which was premiered in a concert performance at Saratoga, New York in 1984, with the Philadelphia Orchestra (?) b. May 29th 1915
2002: Erma Franklin (64) American soul, RnB and pop singer born in Shelby, Mississippi and was reared in Detroit; her best known record is the original version of "Piece of My Heart" since been covered by many top artists. When sister Aretha became a recording artist, Erma provided backing vocals and toured with Aretha. Among her most notable back up performances for her sister was on Aretha's signature tune, "'Respect". (sadly died while fighting throat cancer) b. March 13th 1938
2003: Warren William Zevon (56) American Grammy Award-winning rock singer-songwriter and multi-musician, born in Chicago, is noted for his offbeat, sardonic view of life which was reflected in his dark, often humorous songs, which sometimes incorporated political or historical themes. Worked with a huge list of mega artists. His best-known compositions include "Werewolves of London", "Lawyers, Guns and Money", "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner" and "Johnny Strikes Up The Band", all of which are featured on his 1978 sophomore release, Excitable Boy. Other well-known songs written by Warren have been recorded by other artists, including "Carmelita", "Accidentally Like a Martyr", "Mohammed's Radio", and "Hasten Down the Wind". He was a frequent guest on Late Night with David Letterman and the Late Show with David Letterman. Letterman later performed guest vocals on "Hit Somebody! (The Hockey Song)" with Paul Shaffer and members of the CBS Orchestra. (sadly lost his battle with lung cancer) b. January 24th 1947.
2005: Sergio Endrigo (72) Italian singer-songwriter, born in Pola, Istria, Italy, now Pula, Croatia; he won the Sanremo Music Festival in 1968 with the song "Canzone per te," sung with Roberto Carlos. The same year he represented Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest 1968 with the song "Marianne." (?) b. June 15th 1933.
2008: Witchhunter/Chris Dudek (42) German drummer; an early member of the thrash metal band Sodom, formed in Gelsenkirchen, in 1981, Chris took over on drums from Bloody Monster as the band was forming, before any recordings. He can be heard on their first 5 albums "Obsessed by Cruelty", "Persecution Mania", "Agent Orange", "Better Off Dead", and 1992's "Tapping the Vein". Unfortunately by this time Chris was suffering badly from the effects of drug and alcohol abuse. But he was the special guest drummer on Sodom's 2007 album, "The Final Sign of Evil". (sadly died unexpectedly from the functional deterioration of his organic system) b.1966
2008: Dino Dvornik (44) Croatian singer, songwriter, music producer, actor and reality television star; born in Split, he and his brother Dean founded Kineski zid, a pop band named after the building in which he lived at that time in Split. It was the first domestic funk record released in Croatia. His popularity was built on a combination of intelligent song lyrics and energetic, wild stage performances. At Zagreb Fest in 1988 Dino first made a name for himself when he received the award for best debutant for his song "Tebi pripadam" (I Belong To You). He had been a perfectionist by reputation, who would lock himself in the studio for months and would rearrange parts on his tracks until everything was the way he thought was well enough to be shared with his fans. His most notable collaborations with other music artists in his country include those with Croatian music diva Josipa Lisac, and his Montenegrin counterpart and close friend, Rambo Amadeus. In his last years, Dino would often get behind the turntables and deejay in various clubs (tragically he overdosed on tablets for Hepatitis C which he was suffering from. He was also severely depressed) b. August 20th 1964.
2008: Nagi Noda (35) Japanese pop artist and director; among her works are the short film Mariko Takahashi's Fitness Video for Being Appraised as an "Ex-fat Girl", the half-panda-half-something-else Hanpanda life-sized figures, and the video for Japanese singer Yuki's song "Sentimental Journey". Other works include direction of a television advertisement for Coca-Cola (with music by Jack White), collaboration with Medicom Toy to produce Nagi Noda Be@rbrick, the video for the Scissor Sisters song "She's My Man", and the video for "Hearts On Fire" by Cut Copy, was the last music video she made (tragically she died after surgical complications from injuries sustained in a traffic accident the previous year) b. 1973
2009: Fred Mills (70) Canadian musician and music professor born in Guelph, Canada; while studying at the Juilliard School of Music he was invited to join the Houston Symphony Orchestra as Principal Trumpet and in 1961 he was a founding member of the American Symphony Orchestra in New York City. While living in NYC, Fred played with the Symphony of the Air, Musica Aeterna Orchestra, NYC Ballet Orchestra, Marlboro Festival Orchestra and Casals Festival Orchestra and recorded with Morton Gould, Robert Shaw, Igor Stravinsky, Steinberg and Stokowski. For six years Fred was principal trumpet with the New York City Opera. In 1968 Fred returned to Canada to play with the National Arts Centre Orchestra. In 1972 he joined the Canadian Brass and for 24 years Fred played over 3500 concerts in Asia, Europe, and North America with the CB. As a member of the renowned Canadians, Fred made over 40 CDs for RCA, Sony, Philips and BMG. During this time Fred contributed more than 50 transcriptions and arrangements to the Brass repertoire. While with the CB, Fred made numerous TV apperances on PBS, CBC, NHK, BBC and American Networks and was a Grammy award nominee in 1992. In 1996 he joined University of Georgia music professor, which he continued the reast of his life. Besides teaching trumpet, he coached a graduate brass quintet, The Bulldog (He died in a car crash in Walton County between Atlanta and Athens as he returned home from a trip overseas to perform) b. ????
2011: Eddie Marshall (73) American jazz drummer born in Springfield, Massachusetts, he played in his father's swing group and in R&B bands while in high school and moved to New York City in 1956. Two years later he played in the quartet of Charlie Mariano and with Toshiko Akiyoshi; after two years' service in the Army, he returned to play with Akiyoshi again in 1965. He worked with Mike Nock for a year in the house band of the New York nightclub The Dom, and also worked with Stan Getz and Sam Rivers, and accompanied Dionne Warwick on tours. In '67 Eddie joined fusion group The Fourth Way, then worked with Jon Hendricks and The Pointer Sisters in the early 70s, before joining the group Almanac, releasing one album in 1977. He also recorded with Art Pepper that same year. In the 1980s he worked in the project Bebop & Beyond, who recorded tribute albums to Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk. In the 2000s he worked on the San Francisco Arts Commission (sadly Eddie died from a heart attack) b. April 13th 1938.
2012: Dorothy McGuire (84) American singer born in Middletown, Ohio and grew up in Miamisburg, she is famed for being the middle sister of the trio, The McGuire Sisters. They performed for five Presidents of the United States: Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush and for Queen Elizabeth II. In 1958, their mother appeared as a guest challenger on the television game show To Tell the Truth. The sisters maintained a busy television schedule, making frequent appearances on popular variety hours hosted by Ed Sullivan, Dean Martin, Danny Kaye, Milton Berle, Andy Williams, Perry Como and Red Skelton. The trio was dressed and coiffed identically and performed their synchronized body movements and hand gestures with military precision. Their recordings of "Sincerely," "Picnic," and 1958's "Sugartime" all sold more than one million copies. (sadly Dorothy died of Parkinson's disease and dementia) b. February 13th 1928.
2012: Maestro Reverendo/Ángel Muñoz-Alonso (57) Spanish pianist and composer, born in Madrid. He started playing the piano at the school of Escolapios; he earned the nickname Reverendo when he worked as an organist in the church of San Antón. He began his rock career in the 1970s in the band Desmadre 75, famous for its song Saca el güiski, cheli; later, with the group Paracelso, he won the first two editions of the Rock Villa de Madrid Awards in 1978 and 1979. During the 1980s he collaborated with bands like Siniestro Total or Los Ronaldos and played with Miguel Ríos. He composed themes and soundtracks in Galician for Televisión de Galicia. His artistic career was linked from the late 1970s to El Gran Wyoming, including his time in the satirical program Caiga quien caiga. (sadly he died while fighting cancer) b. 1955.
2012: Rollin "Oscar" Sullivan (93) American country music entertainer and mandolin player born in Edmonton, Kentucky; he and his brother Johnny Sullivan toured together in the 1930s; they made their professional debut on WTJS-AM in Jackson, in 1939. In 1942, Rollin joined Paul Howard’s Arkansas Cotton Pickers playing an electric mandolin, where he received the nickname Oscar. In the summer of 1944, Rollin, with WSM-AM’s Grand Ole Opry, played tent shows with Eddy Arnold. By 1945, the Sullivan brothers joined George with Arnold's show. They played a comedy act called Cicero and Oscar, opening shows for Arnold and His Tennessee Plowboys. He went to star on the “Grand Ole Opry” as one half of the duo Lonzo & Oscar where his brother became Lonzo, for 38 years. (sadly died in hospice care in Madison) b. January 9th 1919.

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1974: Wolfgang Windgassen (60) German operatic tenor internationally known for his performances in Wagner operas. He made his début at Pforzheim as Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly. He sang at all the important opera houses all over the world. He was invited to perform at the reopening of the Bayreuth Festival in 1951 and continued to appear there till 1970, singing all the great Wagner tenor roles: Erik, Tannhäuser, Lohengrin, Loge, Tristan, Walter, Siegmund, both Siegfrieds and Parsifal, his debut role in 1951 (?) b. June 26th 1914
1989: Keith 'Cowboy' Wiggins (29) American rapper, hip hop artist and original member and Emcee of the Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five, an influential American hip-hop group formed in the South Bronx of New York City in 1978. In 2007, they became the first rap group ever to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. It wasn’t called Emceeing back then , but Cowboy was the first to get on mic and do the crowd response. Keith Cowboy laid the foundation for the call & response tactics that we have seen almost every Emcee use since the 70s. Everytime you hear “throw your hands in the air” , “Say hoooo” etc. etc. you are listening to the creations of Cowboy. Also Cowboy has been credited with coining the term hip hop in 1978 while teasing a friend who had just joined the US Army, he joked with them saying “Hip-Hop-Hip-Hop" and “Hip Hip Hop bop bop ya don’t stop” in a way that mimicked the rhythmic cadence of marching soldiers, phrases which he brought into his crowd excitement act (so sadly died from a heart attack as result of his crack addiction just days before his 30th birthday) b. September 20th 1960.
1989: Barry Sadler (48) American author and singer; born in Carlsbad, New Mexico, Barry served as a Green Beret medic and Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War. Most of his works have military themes, and he billed himself under his military rank as SSgt Barry Sadler. He recorded his famous No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 hit, "The Ballad Of The Green Berets," a patriotic song in ballad style which sold a million copies in the first five weeks of its release. In 1966 he also released the hit "The A-Team". Soon after he took up writing books and moved to Guatemala City in the mid 1980s (It was in Guatemala City that he was shot in the head while in a taxi cab. He was airlifted to the States by friends from the Soldier of Fortune Magazine, where he was hospitalized and remained in a coma for several months. He died little more than a year later in his mother's home in Murfreesboro, Tennessee) b. November 1st 1940.
1991: Alex North/Isadore Soifer (80) American composer born in Chester, Pennsylvania, who wrote the first jazz-based film score "A Streetcar Named Desire" and one of the first modernist scores written in Hollywood "Viva Zapata!". Nominated for 14 Oscars but unsuccessful each time, Alex and Ennio Morricone are the only film composers to receive the Lifetime Achievement Academy Award. He was also nominated for a Grammy Award for his score for the 1976 television miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man. He won the 1968 Golden Globe award for his music to The Shoes of the Fisherman. He composed the much covered "Unchained Melody" for the theme to the prison film Unchained in 1955. Other well known film scores include The Rainmaker-1956, Spartacus-1960, The Misfits-1961,The Children's Hour-1961, Cleopatra-1963, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?-1966, The Devil's Brigade-1968, and Dragonslayer-1981, just a few of many. His classical works include a Rhapsody for Piano, Trumpet obbligato and Orchestra (?) b. December 4th 1910.
1995: Erich Kunz (86) Austrian operatic bass-baritone, particularly associated with the roles of Papageno and Beckmesser. He studied in Vienna with Lierhammer and Duhan, and made his stage debut in Opava, as Osmin, in 1933. He then sang in Plauen 1936–37, Breslau 1937–41. He made his debut at the Vienna State Opera in 1940, where he quickly established himself as a specialist of Mozart roles such as Papageno, Leporello, Guglielmo and Figaro roles, he also sang at the Salzburg Festival and Aix-en-Provence Festival. He was also renowned for his portrayal of Beckmesser, which he sang at the Bayreuth Festival in 1943 and 1951. He made guest appearances at the Paris Opéra, and sang at the Metropolitan Opera in New York 1952–54. He can be seen as Faninal in Herbert von Karajan's movie of Der Rosenkavalier with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (?) b. May 20th 1909
1997: Derek Taylor (67) UK journalist, author; publicist for The Beatles; he first met the band after reviewing their stage performance. Instead of the anticipated negative review of a rock-n-roll group, Derek gave their act the highest praises. Invited to become acquainted with the Beatles camp, he soon became a confidant, and gained his share of exclusives on them. As the Beatles gained national attention in Britain, Derek's editors conceived of a running column by a Beatle to boost circulation, under their byline but to be ghostwritten by Taylor. George Harrison was the member chosen. Initially given only the right to approve or disapprove of the content, Harrison's dissection of the first draft turned the column into an ongoing collaboration between him and Derek, with Harrison providing the stories and Derek giving them polish. Brian Epstein hired Derek away from his newspaper job, putting him in charge of Beatles press releases and playing media liaison to himself and the band. He also became Epstein's personal assistant. In 1964 Derek co-wrote A Cellarful of Noise, Epstein's autobiography, then departed, moving to California. In 1965 he started his own public relations company, managing the PR for bands like Paul Revere and the Raiders, The Byrds and The Beach Boys. He was a co-creator and producer of the historic Monterey Pop Festival in 1967. In 1968, he returned to England to work for the Beatles again, as the press officer for the newly created Apple Corps. As a VIP at Apple, he had a major role in the company's ups and downs, making or enforcing many crucial business and personal decisions, for the Beatles and Apple's staff, and witnessing many key moments in the latter days of both. In 1980, he collaborated again with George Harrison, helping to complete I Me Mine, Harrison's autobiography as he did with many other books about The Beatles. He worked at Apple until his death (cancer) b. May 7th 1935.
1999: Moondog/Louis Thomas Hardin (83) American composer, musician, cosmologist, poet, and inventor of several musical instruments. Born in Marysville and bought up in Wyoming, where he would sit on Chief Yellow Calf's lap and played the buffalo skin tomtom as a child. He played drums in Hurley High School in 1929 and there he lost his sight in his early teens when a dynamite cap exploded. He studied music and finished high school at the Iowa School for the Blind, where he studied counterpoint and harmony and learnt how to play the piano, pipe organ, violin and viola. After he graduated he studied privately with Burnet Tuthill at the Memphis Conservatory of Music. In 1933 he studied braille at the Missouri School for the Blind in St. Louis. Then, in 1943, he took a bus to New York City, which he made his beloved home for the next three decades. In 1947, after he wrote his earliest pieces and he announced that he was now "Moondog," and soon became a fixture in the city's cultural life. He got his musical inspiration from the sounds of New Your, the tube, the river, the boats, the traffic, the hussle and bussle. Moondog removed himself from society by making his home on the streets of New York for approximately twenty of the thirty years he spent in the city. Only in the final decades of Moondog's life did the public begin to appreciate the extent of this man's talents, mainly because of his stubborn refusal to wear anything other than his own home-made clothes, all based on his own interpretation of the Norse god Thor. He was known for much of his life as 'The Viking of 6th Avenue'. In a search for new sounds, he invented several musical instruments, including a small triangular-shaped harp known as the "Oo", another which he named the "Ooo-ya-tsu", and the "Trimba", a triangular percussion instrument. Moondog had an idealised view of Germany "The Holy Land with the Holy River", the Rhine, where he settled in 1974. A German student, Ilona Goebel helped him set up a primary holding company for his artistic endeavors and hosted him, first in Oer-Erkenschwick, and later on in Münster in Westphalia, Germany, where he spent the remainder of his life. Moondog visited America briefly in 1989, for a tribute in which Phillip Glass asked him to conduct the Brooklyn Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, at the New Music America Festival in Brooklyn, stimulating a renewed interest in his music. He recorded many albums, and toured in the U.S. France, Germany and Sweden. His work has influenced many musicians over the decades from Jimmy McGriff to Elvis Costello and among the covers, the UK pop group Prefab Sprout included the song "Moondog" on their album "Jordan: The Comeback" released in 1990 and Janis Joplin covered his song "All Is Loneliness" on the '67 album Big Brother and the Holding Company (?) b. May 26th 1916.
2008: Bheki Mseleku (53) South African-born British jazz musician; he was a saxophonist, pianist, composer, and arranger. His 1991 album, Celebration, which featured Courtney Pine among a number of British players as guests, was nominated for a Mercury Music Prize. After this he was taken up by the major Verve label for several albums. The first of these featured a number of American players including Joe Henderson, Abbey Lincoln and Elvin Jones. (diabetes) b. 1955
2010: Jenny Alpha (100) Martinique-born French actress and singer, born in Fort de France, Martinique, and moved to Paris in 1929 to pursue a career in teaching but followed her passion for the theatre. As well as appearing in theatre, Jenny soon found herself performing as a successful singer, appearing alongside the likes of Duke Ellington and Joséphine Baker. During the war she played an active role in the French Resistance before meeting her husband Noël Villard, a prominent French poet. Late in life, in 2005, she appeared in the film Monsieur Étienne, and in 2008 aged 98, she recorded a final album, La sérénade du muguet. On January 1, 2009 she was granted the title of chevalier de la légion d'honneur by the French government (?) b. April 22nd 1910.
2010: Hadley Caliman (78) American jazz tenor saxophonist After studying at the Jefferson High School in L.A. with trumpeter Art Farmer and fellow saxophonist Dexter Gordon, he went on to perform, record and tour with musicians such as Freddie Hubbard, Gerald Wilson, Carlos Santana, Dexter Gordon, Elvin Jones, Don Ellis, Flora Purim, Mongo Santamaria, Joe Pass, The Grateful Dead, Joe Henderson, Phoebe Snow, Bobby Hutcherson and many others. Hadley remained active on the jazz scene until late-August this year (2010), performing regularly in the Northwest in the busy music scene around his home in Seattle, in support of his recent releases 'Reunion' and 'Straight Ahead' (sadly lost his 2 year battle with liver cancer) b. January 12th 1932.
2010: Rich Cronin (35) American singer and songwriter, raised in Kingston, Massachusetts, he attended Sacred Heart High School, class of 1993. He formed a pop group Kwadwo, before founding Lyte Funky Ones aka LFO the pop/rap group with Brian Gillis (replaced by Devin Lima), and Brad Fischetti in 1995. Their debut hit "Summer Girls", written by Rich in 1999, reached No.3 on Billboard's Hot 100 and No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Single Sales chart for six weeks. The single also went platinum in the US with sales of over 1,000,000 units. The members of LFO broke up in 2002 to pursue other projects. In 2007, Rich was a cast member for the VH1 Reality Show Mission: Man Band. The show also starred Chris Kirkpatrick of 'N Sync, Jeff Timmons of 98 Degrees and Bryan Abrams of Color Me Badd. The four came together in Orlando, Florida recording with producer Brian Michael Cox, VH1 chronicled their month long endeavor in 8 episodes. In 2006 Rich formed a rap duo with Doug Ray called Loose Cannons, releasing one album "Life Goes On". They performed shows together until 2008. Also in 2008, Rich released his first solo album 'Billion Dollar Sound', and made an appearance on the Howard Stern Show in January 2009 (sadly died from a stroke, related to acute myelogenous leukemia) b. August 30th 1975.

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1960: Johan Jonatan "Jussi" Björling (49) Swedish tenor born in Borlänge, Dalarna. One of the leading operatic singers of the 20th Century, appearing frequently at the Metropolitan Opera in New York as well as most other leading opera houses around the world. Jussi was won a Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Performance in 1960 (On March 15, 1960, Björling suffered a heart attack before a performance at London's Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. However, he still performed that night. He died of heart-related causes six months later in Siarö, Sweden) b. September 9th 1960.
1981: Helen Humes (68) American jazz and blues singer born in Louisville, Kentucky; she was spotted by the guitarist Sylvester Weaver and made her first recordings in 1927, her young voice consorting oddly with bizarre material like "Garlic Blues". She moved to New York City in 1937 and became a recording vocalist with Harry James' big band. Her swing recordings with James included "Jubilee", "I Can Dream Can't I", "It's The Dreamer In Me", and "Song of the Wanderer". Helen joined the Count Basie Orchestra in 1938, replacing Billie Holliday as lead female vocalist. Her vocals with Basie's band included "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" and "Moonlight Serenade". During the 1940s and 1950s, she became a solo performer and worked with different bands and other vocalists including Nat King Cole. In 1950 she recorded Benny Carter's "Rock Me to Sleep". She managed to bridge the gap between big band jazz swing and rhythm and blues and appeared at the Monterey Jazz Festival in 1960. She moved to Hawaii and then to Australia in 1964, returning to the US in 1967 to take care of her ailing mother. She was out of the music industry for several years but made a full comeback in 1973 at the Newport Jazz Festival, and stayed busy up until her death, performing all over Europe, including at the prestigious Nice Jazz Festival in the mid-70s. Helen received the Music Industry of France Award in 1973, and the key to the city of Louisville in 1975 (Sadly Helen died fighting cancer) b. June 23rd 1913.
1993: Helen O'Connell (73) American singer, actress, and dancer, born in Lima, Ohio; she joined the Jimmy Dorsey band in 1939 and achieved her best selling records in the early 1940s with "Green Eyes", "Amapola," "Tangerine" and "Yours". She was selected by Down Beat readers as best female singer in 1940 and 1941 and won the 1940 Metronome magazine poll for best female vocalist. Helen retired from show business in 1943 until 1951, achieving some chart success and appearances on television. She was one of the first "girls" on NBC's The Today Show, and at one point had her own NBC program, Here's Hollywood. Helen sang duets with Bing Crosby, Johnny Mercer, and Dean Martin. Her 1942 recording of Brazil with the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra was a 2009 addition to the Grammy Hall of Fame (sadly died following a brave battle with cancer) b. May 23rd 1920.
1996: William Smith "Bill" Monroe (84) American musician, The Father of Bluegrass, who helped develop the style of music known as bluegrass, which takes its name from his band, the "Blue Grass Boys". Born in Rosine, Kentucky, his performing career spanned 60 years as a singer, instrumentalist, composer and bandleader. Bill tended to recruit promising young musicians who served an apprenticeship with him before becoming accomplished artists in their own right, including singer/guitarists Clyde Moody, Lester Flatt, Jack Cook, Mac Wiseman, Jimmy Martin, Carter Stanley, Del McCoury, Peter Rowan, Roland White, Roland Dunn and Doug Green; banjo players Earl Scruggs, Don Reno, Sonny Osborne, and Bill Keith; and fiddlers Tommy Magness, Chubby Wise, Vassar Clements, Byron Berline, Kenny Baker, Bobby Hicks, Gordon Terry, and Glen Duncan. Bill was made an honorary Kentucky colonel in 1966. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1970, the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1971, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (as an "early influence") in 1997. As the "father of bluegrass," he was also an inaugural inductee into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Honor in 1991. In 1993, he received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and he was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1995. He kept up with a hectic working schedule well into the 90s. (Bill suffered a stroke in April 1996, ending his touring and playing career, he died 5 months later) b. September 13th 1911.
1998: Lucio Battisti (55) Italian singer-songwriter; he is considered to be one of the most influential musicians and authors in Italian pop/rock music history. He wrote many, many, songs for other artists such as "Il Paradiso", become a No.1 hit in the UK for Amen Corner as "If Paradise Is Half as Nice", and The Hollies recorded a Lucio's song "Non prego per me" in Italian. From 1969 to 1994 he released 18 albums. His first great hit was "Acqua azzurra, acqua chiara", in 1969, which won the Festivalbar. That same year, he released his self-titled debut album. A significant part of his work was translated into Spanish and one album Images in 1977 was translated into English. He found he was becoming extremley stage shy and in 1976 announced he would only be heard through his studio albums, completely disappearing from the public scene. He recorded his last album "Hegel" in 1994 (lost his life to cancer) b. March 5th 1943
2004: Ernie Ball (74) American entrepreneur, musician, and innovator, widely acclaimed as a revolutionary in the development of guitar-related products. He began playing professionally in South Central Los Angeles beer bars. By age 19 he joined the Tommy Duncan Band playing pedal steel guitar. He went on to become a local television musician and small business entrepreneur, eventually building an international business in guitars and accessories that would gross US$40 million a year. He also developed the guitar strings called ‘Slinkys’ specifically designed for rock and roll electric guitar. (died after a long illness) b. 1930
2006: Richard S. Burmer (59) American composer, engineer, sound designer and musician. His work with electronic music combined with musical styles and instruments from around the world he had formed his own unique and distinct sound. Born in Owosso, Michigan, as a youth, he was introduced to the music of India, the Middle East, contemporary orchestral composers, and electronic music. Influences also came from The Moody Blues, King Crimson, and Pink Floyd. After spending time in college studying music theory and composition, Richard moved to Los Angeles where he became a sound designer for E-mu Systems in Santa Cruz and engineer/synth programmer for EFX systems in Burbank. He worked with the likes of Eleanor Academia, Kevin Braheny, Paul Delph, Bob Gaudio, Dan Hill, Michael Hoppe, Diana Hubbard, Hank Medress, Steve Roach, Jimmie Spheeris, Don Swanson and Tim Wheater among others and many of his compositions are featured on his solo albums "Mosaic", "Bhakti Point", "On the Third Extreme", "Invention" and "Treasures in the Blood of Saints". One of his contributions to American Gramaphone's/Chip Davis' "Day Parts" series became one of his most sought after tracks, "Across the View." A 2007 Hearts of Space radio show episode entitled "Across the View" was dedicated to his memory (Richard sadly died from heart disease) b. September 19th 1955.
2007: Hughie Thomasson (55) American guitarist and singer best known for his work with Southern rock band The Outlaws, which he founded in '67. He wrote most of the songs for the Outlaws, including "Hurry Sundown", "There Goes Another Love Song," and "Green Grass and High Tides". After They disbanded he joined Lynyrd Skynyrd as a third guitarist from 1996 until 2005, when he left to reform The Outlaws. Hughie contributed to writing of many of Lynyrd Skynyrd's songs on their 2009 album God & Guns, including the single "Still Unbroken." (sadly died of a heart attack) b. August 13th 1952
2008: Richard "Popcorn" Wylie (69) American pianist, producer, band director, songwriter. Worked on Motown's early '60 hits as sessionist and as Popcorn & the Mohawks with James Jamerson. Had his own record labels Pameline and Soulhawk. He wrote and produced dozens of hits in his long career >>> READ MORE <<< (Popcorn sadly died after suffering 5 years from congestive heart problems) b. June 6th 1939
2012: Roberto Silva (92) Brazilian singer and composer of samba, born in Copacabana, but raised in Inhaúma, he came from a long line of noble singers. He began singing as a boy inspired initially by the great Orlando Silva. He worked on Radio National, before he migrated to Tupi, where he spent 17 years, soon earning the name "Prince of Samba", a name he became known as throughout his life. His great successes include "Maria Teresa", "Notícia" and "Samba rubro-nebro" He dedicated nearly 75 years to music and in 2002, he joined the cast of the show "The samba is my nobility" in which he stood alongside new sambistas such as Pedro Miranda and Pedro Paulo Malta, gaining a new generation of fans (sadly died from multiple organ failure) b. April 9th 1920

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1986: Pepper Adams (55) American jazz baritone saxophone player born in Highland Park, Michigan. His family moved to Rochester, New York when he was young, but when he was sixteen he moved back to Detroit, Michigan, where he met several musicians who would later be important to his career, including trumpeter Donald Byrd. He also spent time in a United States Army band, and briefly had a tour of duty in Korea. He later moved to New York City, where he played on the album Dakar by John Coltrane, played with Lee Morgan on The Cooker, and briefly worked with Benny Goodman's band in 1958. During this time, he also began working with Charles Mingus, performing on one of Mingus's finest albums from this period, Blues & Roots. Thereafter he recorded with Mingus sporadically until the latter's death in 1979. He later became a significant member of the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Big Band from 1965 to 1978, and continued to record Jones's compositions on many of his own albums. Pepper also co-led a quintet with trumpeter Donald Byrd, with whom he recorded a live date, 10 to 4 at the 5 Spot, featuring Elvin Jones. He has prominently influenced nearly every jazz baritone sax player of note (lung cancer) b. October 8th 1930.
1996: Ray Coleman (59) British music journalist, editor of the UK music weekly Melody Maker. He also wrote for other music magazines including Disc, Black Music, and Musicians Only, and was a contributor to magazines such as Billboard. He was the first journalist to be awarded a Gold Badge of Merit by the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors for services to British music. He wrote many biographies including Lennon, The Definitive Biography; McCartney, Yesterday and Today; Frank Sinatra, A Celebration; The Carpenters: The Untold Story; Clapton, The Authorised Biography of Eric Clapton; Stone Alone , The Definitive Story of the Rolling Stones (co-written with Bill Wyman); Brian Epstein, The Man Who Made The Beatles; Rod Stewart, The Biography; Gary Numan, The Authorised Biography; I'll Never Walk Alone (co-written with Gerry Marsden); and Phil Collins, The Definitive Biography (sadly lost his battle with cancer) b. June 15th 1937.
1999: Alfredo Kraus Trujillo (71) Spanish tenor of partly Austrian descent, born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands of Spain. He made his professional operatic debut in Cairo during 1956 as the Duke in Rigoletto, which became one of his signature roles and went on to perform at most of the major opera houses. He Alfredo was particularly known for the artistry he brought to opera's bel canto roles. He was also considered an outstanding interpreter of the title role in Massenet's opera Werther, and especially of its famous aria, "Pourquoi me réveiller?" (died in Madrd after a long illness) b. November 24th 1927.
2001: "DJ Uncle Al/Albert Moss (31) American DJ, born in Miami, Florida; known for his trend setting and innovative abilities in music producing and broadcasting as well as his philosophy of "peace in the hood" and non-violence in the community. The "DJ Uncle Al "Peace in the Hood" Festival" is an annual festival that is held in the Liberty City area of Miami, in honor of Al and promote his philosophy of "Peace In The Hood." (tragically he was murdered) b. August 14th 1969.
2005: Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown (81) American blues artist and multi musician born Vinton, Louisiana; he played an impressive array of instruments such as guitar, fiddle, mandolin, viola as well as harmonica and drums. His professional musical career began in 1945, playing drums in San Antonio, Texas. He was nicknamed the "Gatemouth" handle by a high school instructor who accused him of having a "voice like a gate". During his long career, he recorded over 30 records, winning a Grammy Award for Traditional Blues Album in 1982 for his album, Alright Again! >>>READ MORE<<<(he sadly died from lung cancer at his brother's home in Orange, Texas, just after his home in Slidell, Louisiana was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina) b. April 18th 1924.
2008: Vernon "Tod" Handley (77) UK conductor; he attended Balliol College, Oxford, where he read English philology and the Guildhall School of Music, where his performing instrument was the double bass. He was inspired and learned some of his conducting technique by watching Sir Adrian Boult. In 1962 he was appointed the musical director of the newly formed Guildford Philharmonic Orch, he also directed the Tonbridge Philharmonic orchestra. In 1983 he was appointed associate conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra. He was Principal Conductor of the Ulster Orch from 1985 to 1989, and had the title of Conductor Laureate from 2003 until his death. From 1986 to 1988, he was chief conductor of the Malmö Symphony Orchestra. He was Conductor Emeritus of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, and conducted a number of others in concert, for broadcast and for recording and was appointed Principal Conductor of the English Symphony Orch in January 2007. Vernon was honoured with many awards, such as The Gramophone magazine's Special Achievement Award in 2003; and the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Classical BRIT Awards on 3 May 2007 at the Royal Albert Hall. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2004 Queen's Birthday Honours and held an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Surrey and was a Fellow of the Royal College of Music (Vernon died at his home in Monmouthshire) b. November 11th 1930
2011: Graham Collier (74) English jazz bassist, bandleader, composer, arranger and producer, born in in Tynemouth, Northumberland. In 1963 he was the first British graduate of Berklee College of Music, Boston where he studied after winning a Down Beat magazine scholarship at a time when in the UK there was no formal major conservatoire study of jazz. After which he was commissioned by festivals, groups and broadcasters across Europe, North America, Australia and the Far East. He produced 19 albums including Deep Dark Blue Centre, Darius and Songs For My Father, and CDs of his music and also worked in a wide range of other media: on stage plays and musicals, on documentary and fiction film, and on a variety of radio drama productions. In 1986 Graham established the jazz degree course at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and was also involved in workshops that led to the formation of the influential Loose Tubes big band by a young collective of musicians whose members included Django Bates and Iain Ballamy. He stayed at the Academy until his retirement in 1999 when he moved to Spain and later Greece. Graham was awarded an OBE in 1987 (?) b. February 21st 1937.
2012: Steven Springer (60) American guitarist and songwriter, he grew up in Port of Spain, Trinidad and attended St. Mary's College. He started a band while in high school, and quickly became a popular and sought after guitarist, and was a regular fixture at local dances and parties. He left Trinidad to attend college at the Mayfield College, Sussex, England. He became best known for being a member of the Trinidad Tripoli Steel Band and for playing with Sir Lancelot Pinard, Arizona-based band Sanctuary, also, for his charitable works, as well as founding the musical project Tropicooljazz (sadly died while fighting lung cancer) b. September 23rd 1951.

September 11th
1971: Curtis Jones (65) American blues pianist, born in Naples, Texas; the origins of the blues standard "Tin Pan Alley" can be traced directly back to pianist Curtis Jones. Curtis played guitar as a boy, but switched to piano after a move to Dallas. In 1936 he relocated to Chicago, where he recorded between 1937 and 1941 on Vocalion Records, Bluebird Records, and Okeh Records. Among his best-known tunes from these recordings were the hit "Lonesome Bedoom Blues" and the song "Tin Pan Alley". World War II interrupted his recording career, until 1953, when Al Benson released a single of his, "Wrong Blues"/"Cool Playing Blues", on Parrot Records, featuring L. C. McKinley on guitar. Curtis's first full-length appeared in 1960, by which time he had become a noted performer on the Chicago folk music scene. A solo album appeared in 1962, but by that time he had moved to Europe, where he spent the rest of his life, apart from a couple of years living in Morocco. He made further albums in the UK, the last in 1968 (?) b. August 18th 1906.
1987: Peter Tosh/Stepping Razor/Winston Hubert McIntosh (42) Jamaican guitarist and singer in the original Wailing Wailers and Bob Marley & the Wailers; born in Petersfield, he was a pioneer reggae musician, as the original guitarist for The Wailers, he is considered as one of the originators of the choppy, syncopated reggae guitar style, and as trailblazer for the Rastafari movement and fight to legalise cannabis, he was a target for the police and underwent many beatings. In the early 60s Winston met Bob Marley and Bunny Wailer through his vocal teacher, Joe Higgs. While perfecting their sound, the trio would often play together on street corners in a slum called Trenchtown. In '62, he was the driving force behind the formation of The Wailing Wailers with Junior Braithwaite and backup singers Beverley Kelso and Cherry Smith. They recorded several successful singles, including a huge ska hit single, "Simmer Down". In 1967 Winston, Bob Marley and Bunny became heavily involved in the Rastafari movement and formed The Wailers, but left The Wailers in '74 not long after a horrific car accident and started a solo career under the name of Peter Tosh. He released his solo debut, Legalize It, in 1976 which became an anthem for supporters of cannabis legalization. Tosh put together a backing band, Word, Sound and Power, who accompanied him on tour over the next few years. He also performed in the international opposition to South African apartheid by appearing at Anti-Apartheid concerts and by reflecting his stance in various songs like "Apartheid" in 1977, re-recorded 1987, "Equal Rights" in 1977, "Fight On" in 1979, and 1983's "Not Gonna Give It Up". In 1991 Stepping Razor - Red X was released, a film - documentary based upon a series of spoken-word recordings of Tosh himself, which chronicled the story of the artist's life, music and untimely death. (He had been awarded a Grammy for Best Reggae Performance in 1987 for No Nuclear War. On his return to Jamaica, Winston was brutally shot dead in his home at Kingston, by armed robbers who had demanded money from him) b. October 19th 1944.
1987: Lorne Greene/Lyon Himan Green (72) Canadian actor and singer born in Ottawa, Ontario; as well as his vast career in films and television, in the 1960s, Lorne capitalized on his Bonanza, Ben Cartwright image, by recording several albums of country-western/folk songs, which he performed in a mixture of spoken word and singing. In 1964, he had a No.1 hit with his ballad, "Ringo" (prostate cancer) b. February 12th 1915
1985: William Alwyn [Smith] CBE (79) English composer, conductor, and music teacher born in Northampton and as a child began to learn to play the piccolo. He went on to be a virtuoso flautist and for a time was a flautist with the London Symphony Orchestra. William served as professor of composition at the Royal Academy of Music from 1926 to 1955 and wrote over 70 film scores from 1941 to 1962. His classic film scores included Odd Man Out, Desert Victory, Fires Were Started, The History of Mr Polly, The Fallen Idol, The Black Tent and Crimson Pirate. (died in Southwold, Suffolk) b. November 7th 1905.
1993: Erich Leinsdorf (81) Austrian-American conductor in Vienna, and was studying music at a local school by the age of 5. He studied conducting at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, and later at the University of Vienna and the Vienna Academy of Music. From 1934 to 1937 he worked as an assistant to the noted conductors Bruno Walter and Arturo Toscanini at the Salzburg Festival. In November 1937, he travelled to America to take up a position as assistant conductor at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. He went on to work with the Cleveland Orchestra, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra from 1947 to 1955, New York City Opera, Boston Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic and also served from 1978 to 1980 as principal conductor of the (West) Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (sadly lost his battle with cancer) b. February 4th 1912.
2004: Fred Ebb (71) American musical theatre lyricist born in Manhattan, he had dozens of very successful collaborations with composer John Kander. The Kander and Ebb team frequently wrote for such performers as Liza Minnelli and Chita Rivera and musicals such as Cabaret, which won eight of the 11 Tony Awards for which it was nominated. The team also had two works produced outside New York. Over & Over, an adaptation of the Thornton Wilder play The Skin of Our Teeth, was performed at the Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia in 1999 and has been revamped for a 2007 staging by the Westport Country Playhouse under the title All of Us. The Visit, starring Chita Rivera and John McMartin , was presented by the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. The team’s last original work to reach Broadway during Fred's life opened in 1997. Steel Pier. Fred himself wrote the book for Shirley MacLaine’s Broadway solo revue in 1976. (heart attack) b. April 8th 1928.
2005: Albert "Al" Casey (89) African American swing guitarist born in Louisville, Kentucky, but grew up in New York City. He joined Thomas Fats Waller's band in the early 1930s, and worked with Waller until he died in 1943 and can be heard on hundreds of recordings. Al also composed the well known tune Buck Jumpin recorded by Waller. In 1944, he briefly recorded with Louis Armstrong. He also worked with Clarence Profit's band that same year. In 1959 he contributed to an album called 'Paul Curry Presents The Friends Of Fats' on the Golden Crest label. Between stints with Waller, Al worked with Teddy Wilson from 1939 to 1940. He recorded with Billie Holiday, Frankie Newton, and Chuck Berry, and even led his own a trio for a short time. Al freelanced over decades working with King Curtis from 1957 to 1961, where he played Rhythm and Blues. He continued playing into his late 80's with The Harlem Blues & Jazz Band which he joined in 1981 (sadly died 5 days before his 90th birthday of colon cancer) b. September 15th 1915.
2007: Willie Tee/Wilson Turbinton (63) American singer, songwriter and producer with the band The Wild Magnolias . He secured his place as a New Orleans music legend by arranging, co-writing and leading the band on the Wild Magnolias' self-titled 1974 debut album. He made his first recordings for the local AFO Records in 1962 while still a teenager. Three years later, he cut "Teasin' You", a soulful, mid-tempo composition for Atlantic Records. His "Walking Up a One-Way Street" and "Thank You John" were also popular hits. In the late 1960s, Willie Tee & the Souls performed everywhere from the Apollo Theater in Harlem to the Ivanhoe on Bourbon Street. After hearing the band at the Ivanhoe in 1968, jazz musician Cannonball Adderley encouraged Tee to record an instrumental album. The album was never released, but the master tapes were recently rediscovered in the vaults of Capitol Records. In April 2007, The Louisiana Music Hall of Fame honored Willie Tee for his contributions to Louisiana music with an induction. (colon cancer) b. February 6th 1944.
2007: Joe Zawinul (75) Austrian jazz keyboardist, composer and founder of Weather Report; born in Vienna, First coming to prominence with saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, Zawinul went on to play with trumpeter Miles Davis, and to become one of the creators of jazz fusion, an innovative musical genre that combined jazz with elements of rock and world music >>> READ MORE <<< (sadly died of cancer) b. July 7th 1932.
2010: Kei Tani/Yasuo Watanabe (78) Japanese jazz trombonist and comedian, born in Tokyo; Kei made his name in the entertainment industry in the 1950s as a trombonist in the comic-jazz band Crazy Cats. The band found fame with appearances in popular TV shows through the early 1970s. (tragically died after injuring his head in an accident at his home) b. ????
2010: Gunnar Hoffsten (86) Swedish composer, bandleader and jazz musician playing both trumpet and piano. Gunner is the father of the singer Louise Hoffsten, the artist Lars Hoffsten and also brother of the actress Rut Hoffsten (?) b. December 7th 1923.
2010: King Coleman/Carlton Coleman (78) American rhythm and blues singer, born in Tamper, Florida, known for providing the vocals for the 1959 hit single, "(Do The) Mashed Potatoes", recorded with James Brown's band. Over the course of his singing career, he released numerous singles including "Mashed Potato Man" and "The Boo Boo Song" that have been re-released on compilation albums, as well as the 2003's "It's Dance Time". He performed with many other rhythm and blues legends, such as B.B. King and Jackie Wilson, performing at venues all over the country, including the legendary Apollo Theater in New York. He performed on stage as recently as 2005 at the age of 73 on a tour of the U.S. East Coast. King also worked as a radio disc jockey, first at Tampa's WTMP, then Miami's WFEC and eventually WMBM, where he was one of the city's most popular DJs in the late 1950s. In more recent years, he hosted a six-hour nightly radio show entitled "Nothing But Love", also on WMBM, now a gospel station (sadly died of heart failure at a Miami hospice) b. January 20th 1932.
2012: Homer Joy (67) American songwriter; he was originally signed with Buck Owens Enterprises and Blue Book Music in 1970 as a singer/songwriter. During the first 2 years with Blue Book Music, Homer's songs were recorded by major artists Suzan Raye, Buck Owens, Tony Booth and Freddie Hart and sold 3 million records and, Blue Book Music won the CMA "Publisher of the Year" Award in 1973. Homer wrote what has become one of the longest running hit songs in Country Music history, "Streets of Bakersfield", originally recorded by Homer himself in 1972, on Capitol Records. Buck Owens followed by including "Streets of Bakersfield" >>> READ MORE <<< (sadly Homer died of complications from heart transplant) b. April 12th 1945.
2012: Johnny Perez (69) American songwriter, drummer and founder member of the rock band Sir Douglas Quintet which came out of San Antonio, Texas. However, once their career was more established, the band relocated to the West Coast. Perhaps their best known hit was their 1965 single "She's About a Mover", which was followed this with "The Rains Came". After the group disbanded during the early 1970s, he went onto become the proprietor of a recording studio in the Topanga, northwest of L.A. Bob Dylan, Jackson Browne and T-Bone Burnett, just to name a few, all recorded there over the years (sadly Johnny died from complications of cirrhosis of the liver) b. 1943.

September 12th
1970: Ottilie Sutro (98) American pianist born in Baltimore, she was one half of a piano duo with her sister Rose Sutro. They both studied in Berlin at the Royal Hochschule für Musik under Karl Heinrich Barth, and made their debut in London in July 1894. Their American debut was with the Seidl Society in Boston on 13 November of the same year, in a Bach concerto. They toured in the United States and Europe (?) b. January 4th 1872.
1971: Jaikishan Dayabhai Panchal (41) Indian music composer duo with Shankar Singh Raghuvanshi in the Hindi film industry, working together from 1949–71. S-J wrote among may others "everlasting" and "immortal melodies" in 50's and 60's. Their best work was noted for being "raga-based and having both lilt and sonority". During their career, S-J won Filmfare Best Music Director Awards for a record nine times. The last three awards were won in three successive years, thereby making S-J the first composers to score a hat trick of these awards. S-J also came out tops in Binaca Geetmala, the legendary countdown radio program on Hindi film music, where their compositions were declared the most popular on six occasions. a record later equaled by Laxmikant Pyarelal. These songs were Mera joota hai japani in '55, Teri pyari pyari surat ko in '61, Ehsaan tera hoga mujh par in '62, Bol radha bol in '64, Baharon phool barsaao in '66, and Zindagi ek safar hai suhana in '71. In 1968 S-J was honoured with the Padmashri by the Government of India (cirrhosis of liver) b. November 4th 1929.
1982: Federico Moreno Torroba (91) Spanish composer, born in Madrid; he is often associated with the zarzuela, a traditional Spanish musical form. Directing several opera companies, he helped introduce the zarzuela to international audiences. He also composed several operas, of which La Virgen de Mayo and El Poeta are his best known. However, he is probably best known for his compositions for the classical guitar, many of which were dedicated to either Maria Angélica Funes or Andrés Segovia. He achieved his greatest success in the 1930s with the zarzuelas Luisa Fernanda-1932 and La Chulapona-1934 (?) b. March 3rd 1891.
1997: Stig 'Stikkan' Erik Leopold Anderson (66) Swedish manager-producer of Abba, and founder of Polar Music record label. Born in Hova, Sweden, before ABBA Stig had a huge number of hits on the Swedish lists with the biggest Swedish artists at that time. So much so that he had the nickname "The Business" since he most often had several artists in the Top 10 with whom he had both written, published and recorded the songs. During the 1960s he was also one of Sweden's most prolific songwriters, producing more than 3,000 published titles. Stig also founded Sweden Music in 1960, as well as several other companies before Polar Music record label. In the early stages of ABBA, Stig co-wrote a large part of the songs' lyrics, among them some of the band's biggest hits, such as "Ring Ring"-1973, "Waterloo"-1974, "Honey, Honey"-1974, "I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do"-1975, "Mamma Mia"-1975, "S.O.S"-1975, "Fernando"-1976, "Dancing Queen"-1976, "Knowing Me, Knowing You"-1977 and "The Name of the Game"-1977 (heart attack) b. January 25th 1931.
2000: Stanley William Turrentine (66) American jazz tenor saxophonist also known as "Mr. T" or "The Sugar Man", was born in Pittsburgh's Hill District. He began his prolific career with blues and rhythm and blues bands, and was at first greatly influenced by Illinois Jacquet. In the 1950s he went on to play with the groups of Lowell Fulson, Earl Bostic, and at the turn of the decade, Max Roach. He married the organist Shirley Scott in 1960 and played frequently with her. In the 1960s he started working with organist Jimmy Smith, and made many soul jazz recordings both with Smith and as a leader. In the 1970s, after his professional split and divorce from Shirley, he turned to jazz fusion. He worked with Milt Jackson, Bob James, Richard Tee, Idris Muhammad, Ron Carter, and Eric Gale, to name a few. He returned to soul jazz in the 1980s and into the 1990s. (sadly died of a stroke in New York City) b. April 5th 1934.
2003: Johnny Cash/J. R. Cash (71) American singer songwriter; one of the most imposing and influential figures in post-World War II country music. With his deep, baritone and spare, percussive guitar, he had a basic, distinctive sound. Born in Kingsland, Arkansas, he was given the name "J.R." because his parents could not agree on a name, only on initials. When he enlisted in the US Air Force, the military would not accept initials as his name, so he adopted John R. Cash as his legal name. In a career that spanned almost 5 decades John received multiple Country Music Association Awards, Grammys, and other awards, in categories ranging from vocal and spoken performances to album notes and videos. His diversity is evidenced by his presence in three major music halls of fame: the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1977, the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1980, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992, only Hank Williams Sr., Jimmie Rodgers, and Bill Monroe share the honor being in all three. His signature songs include "I Walk the Line", "Folsom Prison Blues", "Ring of Fire", "Get Rhythm" and "Man in Black". He also recorded humorous numbers, such as "One Piece at a Time" and "A Boy Named Sue", a duet with future wife June Carter called "Jackson", as well as railroad songs including "Hey Porter" and "Rock Island Line" (complications from diabetes and respiratory failure) b. February 26th 1932
2004: Kenny Buttrey (59) American influential session drummer born in Nashville, Tennessee. He became a professional musician at the age of 11 working with Charlie McCoy and went on his first world tour at the age of 14 with Chet Atkins. He went on to play with two of his own groups, Barefoot Jerry and Area Code 615, best known for its song "Stone Fox Chase," which was the theme song for the BBC music programme The Old Grey Whistle Test in the 1970s. His is noted for his work with Bob Dylan, Neil Young, and Jimmy Buffett and was quoted as saying he is most proud of his drumming on Bob Dylan's "Lay Lady Lay". He appears on Dylan's Blonde on Blonde, Nashville Skyline, and John Wesley Harding albums; Niel Young's albums Tonight's the Night, Harvest, and Harvest Moon; and Jimmy Buffett's Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes, including the iconic "Margaritaville". He also worked with Bob Seger, Gordon Lightfoot, Elvis Presley, Donovan, George Harrison, Joan Baez, Dan Fogelberg and Kris Kristofferson. In 1979, Kenny provided the drumming for Chuck Berry's final studio album Rock It. In addition to studio work, he was a member of Neil Young's touring band, the Stray Gators and played in the group Rig. Also in 1979, Kenny played drums on contemporary Christian singer Don Francisco's "Got to Tell Somebody" album. (Sadly died in Nashville after a battle with cancer) b. April 1st 1945.
2007: Bobby Byrd (73) US soul/funk singer and songwrier, best known as James Brown's long time sideman and co-vocalist. Born in Toccoa, Georgia, Bobby was the original leader and founder of both The Avons and The Famous Flames, the vocal group with which James Brown first found fame. Bobby Byrd is actually the man who discovered James Brown. James Brown and the Famous Flames, with Byrd as a member, recorded many hit singles, including "Please, Please, Please","Try Me", "Think", "Bewildered", "Oh Baby, Don't You Weep", "I Don't Mind","Shout and Shimmy" , " I'll Go Crazy", and many more. He also recorded many solo funk tracks, most famously "I Know You Got Soul" in 1971 (sadly lost his battle with cancer) b. August 15th 1934.
2007: Ross Kettle (64) Australian country singer, songwriter, guitarist with the highly acclaimed Singing Kettles. He was born and raised in the small town of Lilydale, Tasmania and started his singing career at church socials and school functions with his brothers Bill and Max, eventually calling themselves The Singing Kettles. Their first recording "Judy" was released in 1961, it was not only the first recording but it was also the first release for the brand new Hadley record label. Max tragically died from a massive asthma attack in 1971. Bill and Ross continued as duo that toured Australia for the next 17 years and inducted into "Hands of Fame" in Tamworth in 1978. After the duo split in 1988, Ross continued a solo career (cancer) b. April 24th 1943.
2008: Charlie Walker (81) American country music singer; his 1958 classic "Pick Me Up On Your Way Down" reached No.2 in the charts. His other hits include "Only You, Only You", "Who Will Buy the Wine", "Wild as a Wildcat", "Don't Squeeze My Sharmon", and "I Wouldn't Take Her To A Dog Fight Even If I Thought That She Could Win". A member of the Grand Ole Opry since 1967, he was inducted into the Country Radio DJ Hall of Fame in 1981 and portrayed country singer Hawkshaw Hawkins in the 1985 Patsy Cline biographical film 'Sweet Dreams (colon cancer) b. Nov 2nd 1926.
2010: Big John Russell (67) Dutch soul singer (?) b. 1933.
2010: Swarnalatha (37) Indian playback singer, born in Chittur, Palakkad; she had been singing since 1989 with many music directors and has rendered songs in Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Hindi, Malayalam, Urdu, Badaga. She won the National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer for her rendition of the famous song "Porale Ponnuthayi" from the film Karuththamma. The song was composed by A. R. Rahman, with whom she had given lot of memorable songs (lung infection) b. 1973.
2011: Wade Mainer (104) American bluegrass singer and banjoist, originally from North Carolina, and his main influences came from the mountain music of his family. In a career that began in 1934 and spanned almost six decades, with his band, the Sons of the Mountaineers, he is credited with bridging the gap between old-time mountain music and Bluegrass and is sometimes called the "Grandfather of Bluegrass". In addition, he innovated a two-finger banjo fingerpicking style, which was a precursor to modern three-finger bluegrass styles. In 1942, he and his band were invited to the White House by Eleanor Roosevelt, they played tunes, including "Down in the Willow Garden", a song personally requested by President Franklin Roosevelt. In 1987, president Ronald Reagan bestowed upon him a National Heritage Fellowship for his contributions to American music. In 1996 he received the Michigan Heritage Award and the Michigan Country Music Association and Services' Lifetime Achievement Award. In 1998 both he and his wife were inducted into the Michigan Country Music Hall of Fame, while Wade received North Carolina’s Surry Arts Council Lifetime Achievement (sadly died of heart failure) b. April 21st 1907.
2011: Don Wayne (78) American songwriter from Nashville, Tennesse, he got his songwriting break when George Morgan cut ‘Lonesome Waltz’ in 1953. His songwriting career was punctuated by a stint in the Army, when he was drafted in 1954 and posted to Germany, where he was stationed for 17 months. In 1963 he signed with Tree Publishing where his tune ‘Saginaw, Michigan’ recorded by Lefty Frizzell topped the country charts. His biggest hit, ‘Country Bumpkin, became the CMA and ACM ‘Song of the Year’ when it was released back in 1973. Wayne, was inducted in the Nashville Songwriter’s Hall of Fame in 1978 (?) b. May 30th 1933.

September 13th
1977: Leopold Stokowski/Antoni Stanislaw Boleslawowicz (95) British-born American orchestral conductor, known for his free-hand performing style that spurned the traditional baton and he obtained a characteristically sumptuous sound from many of the great orchestras he conducted. In America, he performed with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the NBC Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra and the Symphony of the Air. He was also the founder of the All-American Youth Orchestra, the New York City Symphony, the Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra and The American Symphony Orchestra. He conducted the music for and appeared in Disney's Fantasia along with being portrayed by Bugs Bunny in the 1949 Looney Tunes episode Long-Haired Hare (heart attack) b. April 18th 1882.
1994: John William Stevens (54) English drummer in Brentford, Middlesex; he was one of the most significant figures in early free improvisation, and a founding member of the Spontaneous Music Ensemble (SME). John played alongside a large number of prominent free improvisors in the SME, including Derek Bailey, Peter Kowald and Julie Tippetts, but from the 1970s, the make-up of the SME began to settle down to a regular group of himself, Nigel Coombes playing violin, and Roger Smith playing guitar.From 1983, John was involved with Community Music (CM), an organisation through which he took his form of music making to youth clubs, mental health institutions and other unusual places. Notes taken during these sessions were later turned into a book for the Open University called Search and Reflect (1985). In the late 70s and early 80s John was a regular performer at the Bracknell Jazz Festival (?) b. June 10th 1940
1996: 2Pac/Makaveli /Tupac Amaru Shakur (25) American hip hop artist, poet and actor, born in East Harlem, Manhattan, New York . He is is one of the best-selling music artists in the world with 37.5 million albums sold in the United States and over 75 milion albums worldwide. In addition to his status as a top-selling rap artist, 2Pac was a promising actor and a social activist. Most of 2Pac's songs are about growing up amid violence and hardship in ghetto's, racism, problems in the society and conflicts with other rappers. 2Pac's work is known by many for often advocating egalitarianism. 2Pac was initially a roadie and backup dancer for the alternative hip hop group Digital Underground. (died six days after being shot while driving through Las Vegas in part of East and West Coast Gang wars. 13 bullets were fired into his BMW) b. June 16th 1971.
2010: Jaroslaw Kukulski (66) Polish composer (lost his long battle with cancer) b. May 26th 1944.
2010: Gus Williams (73) Australian country music singer and Aboriginal leader, from Hermannsburg in Central Australia. He was an Arrernte man, who was born in Alice Springs, famed for songs such as Storm In My Heart, I'm Not Trying To Forget, My Kind Of Heaven, Southern Cross, Straight From The Heart, and Through The Years.
In 1983 he was given a Medal of the Order of Australia for services to country music and Aboriginal people. In 2000 he was an inductee into the Country Music Hands Of Fame in Tamworth. He was given a Deadly in 2001 for Outstanding Contribution to Aboriginal Music. Gus Williams was in 2004 presented with a Country Music Centenary Medal from CMAA for service to Australian society through Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander music. In 2005 Williams was inducted into the hall of fame at Music NT's Indigenous Music Awards () b. June 20th 1937.
2011: Wilma Lee Cooper nee Leary (90) American bluegrass based country music singer and guitarist; born in Valley Head, West Virginia, she sang from a young age with her family's gospel music group, The Leary Family. In 1939, she married fiddler-vocalist Stoney Cooper, and they formed their bluegrass group, Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper and the Clinch Mountain Clan. For ten years they were regulars on Wheeling, West Virginia's WWVA-AM's beginning in 1947 before joining the Opry in 1957. They scored seven hit records between 1956 and 1961, with four top ten hits on Billboard charts, notably "Big Midnight Special" and "There's a Big Wheel" as well as recording popular gospel songs like "The Tramp on the Street" and "Walking My Lord Up Calvary's Hill". She had been a member of the Opry since 1957, her last solo performance on the Opry was at the Ryman Auditorium on Feb. 24th 2001 and she joined the Opry cast at the grand re-opening of the Opry House on Sept 28th 2010 for a group sing-along (Wilma died from natural causes) b. February 7th 1921.
2011: DJ Mehdi/Mehdi Favéris-Essadi (34) French hip hop and electro musician and producer, born in Hauts-de-Seine, Paris. He was a former disc jockey of the groups Different Teep, ex-group of Manu Key & Lil Jahson, Ideal J and former member of the collective the Mafia K'1 Fry. After having been recognized for his efforts and budding into one of the French underground hip hop music scene’s premier producers, DJ Mehdi henceforth pushed boundaries by mixing hip hop and electronic music. He collaborated with such notable artists as Daft Punk, Cassius, MC Solaar, Futura 2000, Asian Dub Foundation and Chromeo among others. He released his first full-length LP in 2002 The Story of Espion, followed by his second album, Lucky Boy, in August 2006. His single "I Am Somebody" was used in a 2007 American commercial for XM radio (Mehdi was on the roof of his home in Paris with a group of friends celebrating the birthday of his friend Riton. Mehdi was tragically killed after the roof collapsed. Three others were hospitalized) b. January 20th 1977.
2012: Obo Addy (76) Ghanaian drummer and dancer who was one of the first native African musicians to bring the fusion of traditional folk music and Western pop music known as worldbeat to Europe and then to the Pacific Northwest of the United States in the late 1970s. He taught music at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. He founded the Homowo African Arts and Cultures organization, which sponsors the annual Homowo Festival of African Arts in Oregon. He was awarded a Master's Fellowship from the Oregon Arts Commission and Regional Arts & Culture Council, and the Oregon Governors Award for the Arts. In 1996, he became the first native African to win a National Heritage Fellowship Award from Federal government of the United States' National Endowment for the Arts. (sadly Obo died of liver cancer) b. January 15th 1936.
2012: William Duckworth (69) American composer who also was an author, educator and Internet pioneer. He wrote more than 200 pieces of music and is credited with the composition of the first postminimal piece of music, The Time Curve Preludes 1977-78, for piano. His other notable compositions include Thirty-One Days 1987, for alto saxophone, and Southern Harmony 1980-81, a choral work which uses certain features of shape note singing. (sadly died while battling pancreatic cancer) b. January 13rth 1943.

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1951: Fritz Busch (61) German conductor born in Siegen; he held posts conducting opera at Aachen, Stuttgart and Dresden. In '33 he was dismissed from his post at Dresden because of his opposition to the Nazi government of Germany. He went on to work in Sth America and Scandinavia before becoming the music director of the Glyndebourne summer festival in England. He remained at Glyndebourne until the outbreak of WW II. After this he focused on work in Sth America and at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. From 1934-1951 Fritz was principal guest conductor of Danish National Symphony Orchestra in Copenhagen (died in London, UK) b. March 13th 1890
1981: Walter 'Furry' Lewis (88) American blues guitarist, a recognized giant in the world of blues, first to play with a bottleneck. He was also one of the first of the old-time blues musicians of the 1920s to be brought out of retirement and given a whole new lease of recording life by the folk blues revival of the 60s and 70s, as well as opening twice for the Rolling Stones, appearing on Johnny Carson's The Tonight Show, having a part in a Burt Reynolds movie, W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings in 1975, and had a profile in Playboy magazine. Walter was born in Greenwood, Mississippi, but moved to Memphis aged 7. By 1908, he was playing solo for parties, in taverns, and on the street. He also was invited to play several dates with W. C. Handy's Orchestra. His travels exposed him to a wide variety of performers including Bessie Smith, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and Alger "Texas" Alexander. In 1927, Lewis cut his first records in Chicago for the Vocalion label. A year later he recorded for the Victor label at the Memphis Auditorium in a session with by the Memphis Jug Band, Jim Jackson, Frank Stokes, and others. He again recorded for Vocalion in Memphis in 1929. The tracks were mostly blues but included two-part versions of "Casey Jones" and "John Henry". He sometimes fingerpicked, sometimes played with a slide. He recorded many successful records in the late 1920s including "Kassie Jones", "Billy Lyons & Stack-O-Lee" and "Judge Harsh Blues" later called "Good Morning Judge"). Like his contemporary Frank Stokes, he tired of the road and Walter took a permanent job, as a street sweeper for the City of Memphis, which allowed him to remain active in the Memphis music scene, until his huge global success later in life (Walter sadly contracted pneumonia in 1981, which led to his death from heart failure) b. March 6th 1893.
1982: Christian Ferras (48) French violinist born at Le Touquet. He entered the Conservatoire de Nice as a student of Charles Bistesi in 1941, and in 1943 obtained the First Prize. In 1944 he went to the Conservatoire de Paris. In 1946 he won the First Prize in both disciplines (violin and chamber music), and started his performing career with the Pasdeloup Orchestra under Albert Wolff, and later Paul Paray. He worked with Romanian violinist and composer George Enescu, who also acted as an instructor. Ferras premiered the Violin Concerto by Federico Elizalde, under the direction of Gaston Poulet. In 1948 Ferras won First Prize at the international Scheveningen Festival; Yehudi Menuhin was among the judges. He premiered Arthur Honegger's Sonata for Solo Violin in the Salle Gaveau on November 16, 1948. In 1949, Ferras won the second prize (the first prize was not awarded) in the international Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud Competition. He went on touring, performing and recording worldwide and gave his last concert in Vichy on August 25th 1982 (Christian struggled with severe lifelong depression, sadly he committed suicide) b. June 17th 1933.
1989: Perez Prado (72) Cuban-Mexican bandleader, singer, organist, pianist, and composer, commonly referred to as the "King of the Mambo" and the single most important musician involved in the hugely popular Latin dance craze. Born in Matanzas, Cuba, he studied classical piano in his early childhood, and later played organ and piano in local clubs. Later he worked with casino orchestras in Havana for most of the 1940s, and gained a reputation for being an imaginative and loud player, his solo playing style predated bebop by at least five years. In 1948, he moved to Mexico to form his own band specializing in mambos, an upbeat adaptation of the Cuban danzón. Pérez mambos stood out among the competition, with their fiery brass riffs and strong sax counterpoints, and most of all, his trademark grunts, actually saying "¡Dilo!", or "Say it!",mostly. In 1950, Sonny Burke heard "Que rico mambo" while on vacation in Mexico and recorded it back in the US as "Mambo Jambo". The single was a hit and led to a tour the U.S, his appearances in 1951 were sell-outs. He went on to have many global hits with tracks such as "Mambo No. 5","Mambo No. 8", the cha-cha version of "Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White" and exciting the world with albums including "The Voodoo Suite", "Havana 3 A.M" and "Prez". In the world of Mambo, Perez's orchestra was always on the top, the most popular; his son, Perez Prado, Jr., continues to direct the Pérez Prado Orchestra in Mexico City (sadly died from a stroke in Mexico City) b. December 11th 1916.
1998: Johnny Adams (66) American blues singer from New Orleans, known for the amazing range of his singing voice and his gospel influenced style. He began his career singing gospel, changing over to secular music in 1959, and scored the hit single "I Won't Cry", followed by a string of regional hits in the 1960s which included "Release Me" and "Reconsider Me". As a veteran R&B vocalist he tackled an exceptionally wide variety of material in his later years and in the 1980s and 1990s, Johnny recorded several award-winning albums for Rounder Records. (died in Baton Rouge, Louisiana after a long battle with stomach cancer) b. January 5th 1932.
2001: Stylianos "Stelios" Kazantzidis (70) Greek singer, a leading singer of Greek popular music, or Laïkó, he collaborated with many of Greece's foremost composers. Born in Athens he made his first public appearance at a Kifissia night club in the early 1950s and soon after, in July 1952, made his first studio recording with a song entitled "I'm going for a swim". He went on to t collaborate with some of the biggest names in Greek music, among them Manolis Chiotis, Manos Hadjidakis, Mikis Theodorakis, and Stavros Xarhakos. He and Marinella became a legendary duo. In 1965, in the peak of his career, decided to stop public appearances. He didn't sing in public again for the rest of his life. For the next ten years, he only released studio albums. The following year he divorced Marinella, and they recorded their last duets "Mh Mou Lete Gia Authn", "Apopse Se Eho Stin Agalia Mou," "I Kardia Tis Manas" (died of a brain tumor) b. August 29th 1931.
2003: John Serry Sr/Giovanni Serrapica (88) American accordionist virtuoso, arranger, composer, organist and educator born in Brooklyn, New York. He started his musical career in the 30s and over the next 70 years he performed in thearte, films, on the CBS Radio and CBS Television networks appearing on the likes of The Jackie Gleason Show, The Ed Sullivan Show, The Frank Sinatra Show; he appeared in musicals including Cabaret (musical);La Grosse Valise; The Happy Time at The Broadway Theatre and Fiddler On The Roof. As a concert artist and soloist he elevated the use of the accordion within a full range of professional orchestral ensembles. His concerts featured classical and contemporary works by such composers as: Johann Sebastian Bach, Beethoven, Leonard Bernstein, John Denver, Charles Gounod, Handel, Felix Mendelssohn, Jean-Joseph Mouret, Mozart, Johann Pachelbel, Henry Purcell, Rachmaninoff, Franz Schubert, Tchaikovsky, Eric Satie, Antonio Vivaldi, Richard Wagner, Charles Widor, and Andrew Lloyd Webber (died after a brief illness) b. January 29th 1915.
2002: Paul "Hucklebuck" Williams (87) American blues and rhythm and blues saxophone player and band leader famous for "The Hucklebuck"; after performing with Clarence Dorsey and King Porter he formed his own band in 1947, having his 1949 hit "The Hucklebuck", a twelve-bar blues that also spawned a dance craze. The single went to No.1 on the R&B chart, after which he used Paul Williams and his Hucklebuckers as his billing name. In his Honkers and Shouters, Arnold Shaw credits Paul as one of the first to employ the honking tenor sax solo that became the hallmark of rhythm and blues and rock and roll in the 1950s and early 1960s. Along with Tiny Grimes, he co-headlined the first "Moondog Coronation Ball", promoted by Alan Freed in Cleveland on March 21st 1952, often claimed as the first rock and roll concert, where he saw crazed fans crash through the ticket gates. The show was halted, but not before Paul had a chance to perform. Later he worked in the Atlantic Records house band and was musical director for Lloyd Price and James Brown (?) b. July 13th 1915.
2006: Norman Brooks/Norman Joseph Arie (78) Canadian singer, born in Montreal, best known for his ability to sound like Al Jolson. He played Jolson in the 1956 film, The Best Things in Life Are Free. He also performed in nightclubs and on television in the US and Canada during the 1950s and 1960s. He played himself in the 1960 film Ocean's Eleven. His records "Hello Sunshine" and "You Shouldn't Have Kissed Me The First Time" for the Zodiac label were national hits in 1953 (?) b. August 19th 1928.
2009: Bobby Graham/Robert Francis Neate (69) British session drummer; born in Edmonton, North London, as a boy he took lessons with Ronnie Verrell, a veteran drummer with Ted Heath's band. As a teenager in the mid '50s to late '60s he played in various amateur and semi-professional bands and played a summer season at Butlins with Billy Gray and the Stormers. Through the 60s he was one of the busiest session drummers in England, he was chosen by the top producers of the day to record hit after hit for the big name groups such as The Kinks, The Animals and Dave Clark. He was Brian Epstein's choice to replace Pete Best in The Beatles, but Bobby declined the offer. He has played on over 15,000 titles and is said to be the most recorded drummer in the UK. By the '70s Bobby was on a downward spiral, he was suffering the effects of the rock 'n' roll life style. He battled through it and went on to teaching and lecturing schoolchildren about the skiffle boom, rock and roll and the swinging sixties (stomach cancer) b. March 11th 1940.