1995 Death Marshall Royal, jazz Sax/Clarinet, dies at 82 1994 Death Joe Daley, jazz tenor/clarinet/flute player, dies at 75 1950 Event Hindemiths Concerto for clarinet, premieres 1918 Birthday Joe Daley, jazz tenor/clarinet/flute player 1914 Birthday Sid Weiss, born in America, musician, jazz double-bassist, played clarinet, violin, tuba as a child, began playing bass as a teenager, worked with Louis Prima, Artie Shaw, Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman 1912 Birthday Marshall Royal, jazz sax/clarinet 1909 Birthday Alfred Uhl, born in Austria, composer, professor, studied at Vienna Music Academy with Franz Schmidt, vibrant style combined neo-classicism, atonality, serialism, works include concerto for clarinet and orchestra 1899 Birthday Edward Pollock, saxophone/clarinet 1744 Birthday Joseph Beer, Bohemia clarinetist/composer, 5th clarinet flap 1690 Event Clarinet invented, in Nurnberg, Germany 1655 Birthday Johann Christoph Denner, inventor, clarinet
