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1738 – Jean-Joseph Mouret (French composer)
1797 – Giovanni Marco Rutini (Italian composer)
1832 – Ishmail Spicer (American composer, publisher & teacher)
1874 – Johann Peter Pixis (German pianist & composer)
1875 – Nikolai Alexeyevich Titov [Николай Алексеевич Титов] (Russian composer, "Father of Russian Song")
1893 – Benedikt Randhartinger (Austrian tenor, conductor & composer, peer of Schubert)
1923 – Arthur H. Bird (American composer)
1939 – Ma Rainey (American blues singer & songwriter)
1941 – Leopoldo Mugnone (Italian conductor)
1950 – Julius Weismann (German composer & conductor)
1950 – Walter Damrosch (German-born American conductor & composer)
1951 – Powell Weaver (American organist & composer, pupil of Respighi)
1964 – Bonifacio Gil García (Spanish folklorist & composer)
1973 – Domingo Julio Gómez García (Spanish composer)
1977 – Johann Nepomuk David (Austrian composer & organist)
1985 – D. Boon (American punk rock singer, songwriter & guitarist, The Minutemen)
1986 – Celius Dougherty (American pianist & composer)
1987 – Leonidas Zoras [Λεωνίδας Ζώρας] (Greek composer & conductor)
1987 – Luca Prodan (Italian-born Argentine rock singer, Sumo)
1988 – Tucker Smith (American actor, singer & dancer, "Ice" in West Side Story)
1990 – Cecil Effinger (American composer, oboist & inventor of the Musicwriter & Tempowatch)
1991 – Ernst Krenek (Czech-born Austrian, later American composer)
1992 – Harry Bluestone (English violinist, soundtrack composer, conductor, producer & author)
1997 – Johnny Coles (American jazz trumpeter, "Little Johnny C")
2002 – Joe Strummer (English punk rock singer, songwriter & guitarist, The Clash)
2003 – Dave Dudley (American country singer)
2006 – Dennis Linde (American country & rock songwriter, singer & multi-instrumentalist)
2006 – Galina Ustvolskaya [Гали́на Уство́льская] (Russian composer, pupil of Shostakovich)
Yes, it's a big day, with one of the great Russian composers of the 20th century (who happens also to have been one of the greatest female composers of the 20th century)... plus one of the greatest vocal icons of early urban blues... plus two great icons of punk rock. It's hard to believe that it's been 10 years since Joe Strummer left us, and maybe even harder to believe that if D. Boon were alive today, he'd be twice the age he was when that van accident took his life back in '85. I don't know about you, but today's a day that makes me feel my age.
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