Music History Events: Births
November 14, 1805 Composer and pianist Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel is born in Hamburg, Germany.
December 11, 1803 Composer Louis-Hector Berlioz is born in Isere, France. Known for his Symphonie fantastique and Grande messe des morts.
November 3, 1801 Italian opera composer Vincenzo Bellini is born in Catania, Sicily.
January 31, 1797 Austrian composer Franz Schubert is born in Vienna.
June 16, 1792 Francis Johnson, an African American musician and composer during the Antebellum era, is born in Martinique in the West Indies.
September 5, 1791 Opera composer Giacomo Meyerbeer is born Jacob Liebmann Beer near Berlin, Germany.
November 18, 1786 German composer Carl Maria von Weber is born in Eutin, Holstein.
October 27, 1782 Niccolò Paganini, composer and violin virtuoso, is born in Genoa (which was then part of an independent state, Republic of Genoa), Italy.
August 1, 1779 Francis Scott Key is born in Carroll County, Maryland.
January 27, 1756 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is born in Salzburg, Austria.
July 2, 1714 Opera composer Christoph Willibald Gluck is born in what is now Bavaria, Germany.
January 17, 1712 English composer John Stanley is born in London.
December 23, 1689 Baroque composer Joseph Bodin de Boismortier is born in Thionville, France.
October 26, 1685 Baroque composer Domenico Scarlatti is born in Naples, Italy.
March 31, 1685 Johann Sebastian Bach is born in Germany.
September 25, 1683 Baroque composer Jean-Philippe Rameau is born in Dijon, France.
March 4, 1678 Antonio Vivaldi, composer of "The Four Seasons," is born in Venice.
September 18, 1587 Francesca Caccini, composer and performer in the early Baroque era, is born in Florence, Tuscany, Italy.
December 30, 1536 Italian lutenist/composer Alessandro Piccinini is born in Bologna.
May 4, 2020 Grimes has a baby boy she names X Æ A-12. The father is entrepreneur Elon Musk.
August 22, 2018 Vampire Weekend lead singer Ezra Koenig and his girlfriend, Rashida Jones, have a son, Isaiah. His grandfather is Quincy Jones, Rashida's dad.
June 13, 2017 Beyoncé and her husband Jay-Z welcome twins, a girl named Rumi and a boy named Sir.
June 23, 2016 Alanis Morissette and husband Mario "Souleye" Treadway welcome their second child, a daughter named Onyx Solace.
February 20, 2016 Ne-Yo marries Crystal Renay Williams, who is pregnant with their son Shaffer.
August 12, 2015 66-year-old Billy Joel becomes a father for the second time when his fourth wife, Alexis, gives birth to a baby girl, Della Rose.
April 11, 2015 Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel welcome their first child, a son named Silas Randall.
January 29, 2015 Shakira gives birth to her second child, baby boy Sasha, with Spanish soccer player Gerard Pique.
December 27, 2014 Alicia Keys gives birth to a second son, Genesis Ali Dean, with husband Swizz Beatz.
February 28, 2014 Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale have their third child: Apollo Bowie Flynn.
August 29, 2013 Fergie and her husband Josh Duhamel have their first child: a boy named Axl. She says the name came to her in a dream where she was watching Axl Rose perform.
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