1989 Jo[hanne M Bos-]Vincent, Dutch soprano (Songs for Life), dies at 91
1985 Michael Jackson buys ATV Music (every Beatle songs) for $47 million
1976 Wings release "Silly Love Songs"
1976 "I Write the Songs" by Barry Manilow hits #1
1963 Beatles begin their own music publishing company (Northern Songs)
1954 Dziga Vertov, [Kaufman], Russian dir (3 Songs of Lenin), dies at 58
1954 Elvis Presley pays $4 to a Memphis studio and records his 1st two songs, "Casual Love" and "I'll Never Stand in Your Way"
1951 Raden Mas Noto Suroto, Indonesian poet (Wayang Songs), dies at 63
1950 Richard Strauss' "4 Last Songs" (4 letzte Lieder) in London
1946 Barry Manilow, born in Brooklyn, New York, singer/pianist, Mandy, I Write the Songs
1945 John McCormack, Irish singer (Irish national anthem/folk songs), dies
1942 Paul McCartney, Liverpool, rocker, Beatles, writes silly love songs
1934 Joep Straesser, composer, Blossom songs, Ramasasiri
1930 Friedrich Gulda, Austrian pianist/composer, Hangman's Songs
1924 Joan Aiken, Romania, writer of children's songs
1917 Johnny Andrews, born in Boston, singer and host, Songs at Twilight
1913 Billboard publishes earliest known "Last Week's 10 Best Sellers among Popular Songs" Malinda's Wedding Day is #1
1911 Gustav Mahler, Austr composer (Children's Death Songs), dies at 50
1905 Rudolf Baumbach, writer of German student drinking songs, dies at 64
1895 Jiddu Krishnamurti, India, philosopher, Songs of Life
1895 Jiddu Krishnamurti, India, philosopher, Songs of Life
1894 Bernard Wagenaar, Arnhem Holland, composer, 3 Songs for Chinese
1894 Elizabeth Mae "Bessie" Smith, Empress of Blues, over 200 songs
1890 Claude McKaye, Jamaica/US author, Songs of Jamaica, Banjo
1889 William Allingham, Irish poet (Day and Night Songs), dies at 68
1884 Sara Teasdale, U.S., poet, 1st Pulitzer Prize-1918-Love Songs
1882 Percy Grainger, Melbourne, composer/pianist/conductor, Hill Songs
1873 Nikolay N Tcherepnin, St. Petersburg, composer of ballets, songs
1873 Nikolay N Tcherepnin, St. Petersburg, composer of ballets, songs
1840 Rudolf Baumbach, Thuringia [Germany], writer of student drinking songs
1765 Charles Dibdin, England, composer/author, Sea Songs
1757 William Blake, English poet/painter, Songs of Innocence and Experience
1746 Hieronymus van Alphen, Dutch attorney/poet, church songs
1671 Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French playwright and poet, Sacred Odes and Songs
1593 George Herbert, English metaphysical poet, 5 Mystical Songs
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