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2002 Stephen Ambrose, historian/writer, Band of Brothers, dies at 66

2000 "Gordon ""Tex"" Beneke", band leader/saxophonist, led the Glenn Miller Orchestra after Miller's death, dies at 86

1998 Alice Faye, actress/singer, Alexander's Ragtime Band, dies at 83

1997 Hastings Kamuzu Band, PM/President of Malawi (1964-66/66-94), dies

1996 Milton "Tippy" Larkin, band leader, dies at 85

1996 David Band, banker, dies at 53

1995 Peter Grant, rock band manager, dies at 60

1995 Sydney Simone, band leader, dies at 80

1995 Tony Secunda, rock band manager, dies at 54

1995 Kevin Eubanks officially becomes band leader of "Tonight Show"

1994 Cab[ell] Calloway, U.S. band leader/actor (Missourians), dies at 86

1994 Anne Shelton, British singer (Glenn Miller Band), dies at 66

1994 Virginia "Ginny" Simms, actress and singer (Kay Kyser Band), dies at 77

1994 Louis Freeman, band leader, dies at 100

1994 Randy Shilts, U.S. journalist (& the band played on), dies of AIDs at 41

1993 Kenneth Nelson, US/English actor (Boys in the Band), dies at 63

1993 Troy Caldwell, country musician (Marshall Tucker Band), dies at 45

1993 Toy Caldwell, guitarist (Marshall Tucker Band), dies at 45

1992 Keith Prentice, U.S. actor (Boys in the Band), dies

1992 Keith Prentice, U.S. actor (Boys in the Band), dies of cancer at 52

1992 Anthony "Tony" Papa, big band leader, dies at 65

1992 Anthony Del Casino, band leader (Charlie Barnet Band), dies at 79

1991 7 of Reba McEntire band members are killed in a plane crash

1991 7 members of Reba McIntire's band, killed in a plane crash

1986 Richard Manuel, rock pianist/vocalist (Band), dies on 41st birthday

1986 Richard Manuel, rock vocalist/pianist (Band), commits suicide at 40

1982 "Centerfold" by J Geils Band hit #1 on pop chart

1981 Bob Eberly, singer (Jimmy Dorsey Band), dies at 65

1980 "Love Stinks" by J Geils Band peaks at #38

1980 Timmy Caldwell, rocker (Marshall Tucker Band), dies

1980 Tommy Caldwell, rocker (Marshall Tucker Band), dies

1979 "Lonesome Loser" by Little River Band peaks at #6

1979 Charlie Daniels Band releases "Devil Went Down to Georgia"

1978 "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" premieres in New York City

1977 Ronnie Van Zant, singer (Lynyrd Skynyrd Band), killed in plane crash

1977 Stevie Gaines, guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd Band), killed in plane crash

1977 "Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band," by Meco hits #1

1977 James Brown's band walks out claiming they were underpaid and overworked

1977 "Dance and Shake Your Tambourine" by Universal Robot Band peaks at #93

1977 "I'm Your Boogie Man" by Kansas City and Sunshine Band peaks at #1

1977 19th Grammy Awards: This Masquerade, Starland Vocal Band

1976 The Band's farewell concert at SF's Winterland Ballroom

1976 Australian band AC/DC begin their 1st headline tour of Britain

1976 Busby Berkeley, U.S. choreographer/dir (Strike Up the Band), dies at 80

1976 Angela Baddeley, actress (Speckled Band), dies at 71

1974 Robbie Mcintosh, drummer (Average White Band), overdoses at 24

1974 Actress Faye Dunaway weds Peter Wolf of J Geils Band

1974 Wings release "Band on the Run" and "Zoo Gang" in UK

1974 Paul McCartney releases "Band on the Run"

1974 "Joker" by Steve Miller Band peaks at #1

1973 Wings release "Band on the Run"

1973 Paul McCartney releases "Band on the Run" album

1973 "We're An American Band" by Grand Funk peaks at #1

1972 Grace Slick maced by police when a band official called cops, pigs

1971 CBS radio cancels Saturday morning band concerts

1970 Freda Payne releases "Band of Gold"

1969 Plastic Ono Band, play their only concert at London's Lyceum Ballroom

1969 Plastic Ono Band's "Cold Turkey" is released in UK

1969 Plastic Ono Band's (John, Yoko and Eric Clapton) 1st live performance

1969 "Give Peace a Chance" by Plastic Ono Band is released in U.K.

1969 Mick Taylor leaves John Mayall Band and joins Rolling Stones

1969 The Band (formerly The Hawks), perform their 1st concert

1968 Mart Crowley's "Boys in the Band," premieres in New York City

1968 Beatles' "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" wins Grammy

1967 Beatles' "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," goes #1 for 15 weeks

1967 Beatles release Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in U.S. and goes gold

1967 Dave Matthews, singer/musician, Dave Matthews Band

1963 John Cameron Mitchell, born in El Paso, Texas, actor, Misplaced, Band of the Hand

1961 Beatles 1st gig as house band of Liverpool's Cavern Club

1960 Steve Vai, guitarist, Frank Zappa, David Lee Roth Band, Whitesnake

1959 "Russian Band Stand" by Spencer and Spencer hits #91

1959 Rusty Golden, rocker, Boys Band

1958 B James Lowry, rocker, Boys Band

1956 Dan Powers, rock guitarist, Michael Stanley Band

1955 Neil Giraldo, rocker, Pat Benatar Band

1955 Michael Gismondi, rock saxophonist, Michael Stanley Band

1954 George McArdle, rock bassist (Little River Band Melbourne

1953 Peter Bergman, actor, All My Children, Starland Vocal Band

1952 Tommy Dobeck, rock drummer, Michael Stanley Band

1952 Larken Collins, rocker, Rossington-Collins Band

1952 Dale Krantz, singer, Crossings-Collis Band

1952 Kevin Raleigh, rock vocalist/keyboardist, Michael Stanley Band

1951 Gary Rossington, rocker, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Rossington-Collins Band

1951 Nils Lofgren, Chicago, guitarist, singer and songwriter, East Street Band

1951 Max Weinberg, rock drummer, E Street Band, Conan O'Brien Show

1951 Bob Pelander, rock keyboardist/vocalist, Michael Stanley Band

1950 Greg Gordon, rock vocalist, Boys Band

1950 Steve Ferrone, Sussex, rock drummer, Average White Band

1950 Richard Hughes, rocker, Johnny Winter Band

1950 Ted McKenna, rocker, Alex Harvey Band

1950 Danny Federici, rocker, E Street Band

1949 Hugh McKenna, rocker, Alex Harvey Band

1949 Garry W Tallent, rocker, E Street Band

1949 Hamish Stuart, Scotland, guitarist/singer, Average White Band

1949 Michael Rose, rocker, Average White Band

1949 "Fat" Larry James, U.S. drummer, Fat Larry's Band

1949 Roy Bittan, rocker, E Street Band

1949 Zal Cleminson, rocker, Alex Harvey Band

1949 Nigel Olsson, rock guitarist/drummer, Elton John Band

1949 Derek Holt, rocker, Climax Blues Band

1948 Beeb Birtles, [Gerard Birtlekamp], rock guitarist, Little River Band

1948 Byron Allred, Logan, Utah, rocker, Steve Miller Band

1948 Ty Grimes, rocker (Capt Beefheart Band Drums

1948 Michael Stanley, born in Cleveland, Ohio, rocker, Michael Stanley Band

1948 Randy Hobbs, rocker, Johnny Winter Band, McCoys

1948 Jimmy Fadden, born in Long Beach, California, singer, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

1948 Jacques Kloes, singer, Dizzy Man's Band

1947 Gregg Allman, Nashville, guitarist and vocalist, Allman Brothers Band

1947 Bob Weir, born in San Francisco, California, guitarist, Grateful Dead-Uncle Joe's Band

1947 Graham Goble, Adelaide, Australia, rock guitarist, Little River Band

1947 Dennis Cowan, London, rocker, Bonzo Dog Band

1947 Jimmy Ibbotson, Penn, country singer, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

1946 Alan Gorrie, Scotland, rock bassist and singer, Average White Band

1946 Bill Danoff, Springfield Massachusetts, vocalist, Starland Vocal Band

1946 Dee Murray, rocker, Elton John Band

1945 John McEuen, rocker, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

1945 Owen "Onnie" McIntyre, Scotland, guitarist, Average White Band

1945 Freda Payne, born in Detroit, Michigan, vocalist, Band of Gold

1945 Malcolm "Mollie" Duncan, Scotland, saxophonist, Average White Band

1945 Rod Evans, rocker, Deep Purple-Come Taste the Band

1944 Glenn Miller, U.S. band leader/jazz composer, dies at 40

1944 Rodney Desborough Slater, rocker, Bonzo Dog Band

1944 Kathy "Taffy" Danoff, Washington D.C., vocalist, Starland Vocal Band

1944 Robbie Robertson, [Jamie], born in Toronto, Canada, rock guitarist, Band

1944 Glenn Shorrock, born in Sydney, Australia, rock vocalist, Little River Band

1944 Boz Scaggs, born in Dallas, Texas, rocker, Steve Miller Band

1944 Roger Ball, Scotland, saxophonist, Average White Band

1943 Robin Williamson, rocker, Incredible String Band

1943 Roger Ruskin Spear, born in London, England, saxophonist, Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band

1942 David Band, banker

1942 Garth Hudson, rock keyboardist, The Band

1942 Jerry Garcia, SF, rocker, Grateful Dead-Uncle Joe's Band

1942 Levon Helm, drummer/singer, Band

1942 Hughie Flint, born in London, England, rock drummer, Bonzo Dog Band

1942 John London, bassist, Michael Nesmith band

1942 Clarence Clemons, rock saxophonist, Bruce Springsteen's E St. Band

1941 Willy Lewis' U.S. jazz band performs in Switzerland

1941 Robert Hicks, rocker, Paul Butterfield Blues Band

1940 "Strike Up Band," opens

1940 Tony Secunda, rock band manager

1939 Colin Cooper, rocker, Climax Blues Band

1938 Benny Goodman refuses to play Carnegie Hall when black members of his band were barred from performing

1936 Cliff Gorman, Jamacia, New York, actor, Boys in the Band, Angel

1936 Mart Crowley, playwright, Boys in the Band

1935 Peter Grant, rock band manager

1934 Dick Heckstall-Smith, rocker, Alexis Korner Band

1929 Arthur S. Taylor, Jr., U.S. drummer and band leader, Taylor's Wailers

1924 Margaret Whiting, big band singer

1923 Milt Okun, born in Brooklyn, New York, orch leader, Starland Vocal Band Show

1923 Clifton Williams, born in Traskwood, Arkansas, band master, Sinfonians

1920 Alice Childress, U.S. playwright/actress, Wedding Band

1919 Anita O'Day, Chicago, big band jazz singer, Gene Krupa, Stan Kanton

1919 Art Blakey, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, drummer, Billy Eckstine Band, Jazz Messengers

1917 Bill Finegan, born in Newark, New Jersey, Sauter-Finegan Band, Sat Night Revue

1917 1st jazz record "Dixie Jazz Band One Step," recorded by Nick LaRocca Original Dixieland Jazz Band, released by RCA Victor in Camden NJ

1916 Bob Eberly, Mechanicsville, New York, singer, Jimmy Dorsey Band

1916 Virginia Ginny Simms, actress and singer, Kay Kyser Band

1916 Pancho Villa leads Mexican band raid on Columbus NM, killing 12

1914 Eddie Sauter, Brooklyn, musician, Sauter-Finegan Band, Sat Night Revue

1913 Tyrone Power, Cleveland, actor, Mark of Zorro, Alexander's Ragtime Band

1912 Titanic sinks at 2:27 AM off Newfoundland as band plays on

1910 Milton "Tippy" Larkin, band leader

1908 Paul Lavalle, born in Beacon, New York, bandleader, Cities Service Band of America

1905 Jack [Weldon J] Teagarden, U.S. trombonist/actor, Meet Band Leaders

1902 William D Revelli, Spring Gulch Colorado, band leader

1897 Sidney Bechet, U.S., jazz clarinetist/saxophonist/band leader

1893 Louis Freeman, band leader

1892 1st public appearance of John Philip Sousa's band (NJ)

1883 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Speckled Band"

1880 John Philip Sousa becomes new director of U.S. Marine Corps Band

1869 Tyrone Power Sr, born in London, England, actor, Alexanders Ragtime Band

1845 Rubber band patents

1845 Rubber band patented by Stephen Perry of London

1727 Tommaso MFS Traetta, Ital's opera composer/band leader, Farnace

1705 Henri-Jacques de Croes, Flemish composer/band master



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