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| Aside from Mr. Presley, ordered chronologically clockwise from top left. Tagged image is here. |
1518 – Loyset Compère (Franco-Flemish composer)
1748 – Pier Giuseppe Sandoni (Italian composer, harpsichordist & organist)
1786 – Henri-Jacques de Croes (Belgian composer & violinist)
1799 – Vincenzo Manfredini (Italian composer, harpsichordist & music theorist)
1831 – Eduard Brendler (German-born Swedish composer)
1870 – Edmund Passy (Swedish pianist, composer & organist)
1910 – Charles Lenepveu (French composer & teacher, winner Grand Prize, 1866 Prix de Rome)
1929 – Frank Van der Stucken (American composer & conductor, founder of Cincinnati Symphony)
1938 – Robert Johnson (American blues singer, songwriter & guitarist)
1944 – Roman Padlewski (Polish composer, pianist, musicologist & music critic)
1945 – Nico Richter (Dutch composer, perished at Dachau)
1959 – Wanda Landowska (Polish-born French harpsichordist)
1965 – Vasily Petrovich Shirinsky (Russian composer)
1972 – John Barnes Chance (American composer & percussionist)
1977 – Elvis Presley (American rock, country & gospel singer, actor & guitarist)
1984 – György Kósa (Hungarian composer)
1988 – Milton Adolphus (American pianist & composer)
1992 – Mark Heard (American folk-rock singer-songwriter, guitarist/mandolinist & producer)
1995 – Bobby Debarge (American R&B singer & songwriter, Switch)
1997 – Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (Pakistani Sufi Qawwali singer)
2005 – Vassar Clements (American jazz & bluegrass violinist)
2005 – Vicky Moscholiou (Greek pop & entechno singer)
2007 – Max Roach (American jazz drummer & composer)
2008 – Ronnie Drew (Irish folk singer & guitarist, The Dubliners)
2008 – Dorival Caymmi (Brazilian singer, songwriter, actor & poet)
Yes, I know, I KNOW. I'm a whole day late now. Been busy a lot with insurance companies and doctors the past few days. Damned pill-pushers. And speaking of pills, Elvis. Another thing that hasn't helped me get this post done faster is that The King picked a day that's the death anniversary of several other musical luminaries on which to poop. HAHA, get it... "poop"? You know, 'cause of how they found him? Heehee... heh... hurr........ hyoooo....
Too soon?
But the good thing about people like Elvis Presley and Robert Johnson being on the list, is that they're so famous, I don't have to spend a lot of time telling you things about them. Actually, since I'm running so late, I'm not going to tell you anything about them. In fact, I've already told you too much about them by telling you I'm not telling you anything about them! But there are a few other interesting figures I'd like to tell you something about. See you on the other side of the crossroads...
Too soon?
But the good thing about people like Elvis Presley and Robert Johnson being on the list, is that they're so famous, I don't have to spend a lot of time telling you things about them. Actually, since I'm running so late, I'm not going to tell you anything about them. In fact, I've already told you too much about them by telling you I'm not telling you anything about them! But there are a few other interesting figures I'd like to tell you something about. See you on the other side of the crossroads...
