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1996 Death - Gwen Catley, soprano, dies at 90

1994 Death - Herva Nelli, soprano, dies at 85

1994 Death - Eugene Ionesco, playwright (Rhinoceros, Bald Soprano), dies at 84

1994 Death - Jarmila Novotna, Czechoslovakian/U.S. soprano, 'Madame Butterfly', dies at 86

1993 Death - Lucia Popp, Czechoslovakia/Austria soprano (Vienna Opera), dies at 54

1993 Death - Arleen Auger, U.S. soprano (Matthaus Passion), dies at 53

1992 Death - Dorothy Kirsten, U.S. soprano, dies from stroke at 82

1992 Death - Noemie Perugia, French mezzo soprano, dies

1990 Death - Eva Turner, British soprano, dies

1989 Death - Jo[hanne M Bos-]Vincent, Dutch soprano (Songs for Life), dies at 91

1976 Death - Lotte (Krause-)Lehmann, German soprano (More than singing), dies at 88

1976 Death - Lily Pons, French/U.S. soprano/opera diva (Met Opera), dies at 71

1967 Death - Geraldine Farrar, soprano/actress (Such Sweet Compulsion), dies at 85

1965 Death - Jeanette MacDonald, soprano (When I'm Calling You), dies at 63

1963 Death - Amelita Galli-Curci, Italian soprano, dies

1962 Death - Kirsten Flagstead, Norwegian soprano (Wagner), dies at 67

1961 Death - Cato Engelen-Sewing, Dutch soprano singer/primadonna, dies at 93

1961 Birthday - James Gandolfini, born in Westwood, New Jersey, actor, famous role of Tony Soprano in HBO series, 'The Sopranos', movies include, 'The Mexican', 'Get Shorty'

1952 Birthday - Gianna Rolandi, New York City, soprano, Der Rosenkavalier

1952 Birthday - Ashley Putnam, born in New York City, soprano, New York City Opera 1978

1950 Death - Antonina Neshdanova, Russian soprano (Bolshoi Theater), dies

1950 Birthday - Maria Ewing, born in Detroit, Michigan, opera singer, soprano, mezzo-soprano, debuted at the Metropolitan Opera in 'The Marriage of Figaro', 1976

1949 Birthday - Rosalind Plowright, British soprano, Aida, Senta

1949 Birthday - Emma Kirkby, British soprano

1948 Birthday - Leona Mitchell, Enid Oklahoma, soprano, Musetta-La Boheme

1948 Birthday - Kathleen Battle, born in Portsmouth, Ohio, soprano, Shephard-Tannhauser

1948 Birthday - Catherine Malfitano, born in New York City, soprano, Metropolitan Opera

1948 Birthday - Kathleen Battle, U.S. soprano, Tannhauser

1947 Birthday - Felicity Lott, English soprano, We come to the river

1947 Death - Anna Bahr-von Mildenburg, Austrian soprano/director, dies at 74

1947 Death - Grace Moore, U.S. soprano/actress (1 Night of Life), dies at 45

1947 Death - Grace Moore, soprano/actress (One Night of Love), dies at 45

1946 Birthday - Carol Neblett, Modesto California, soprano, New York City Opera

1945 Birthday - Ole Buck, born in Copenhagen, Denmark, composer, pianist, wrote Calligraphy for soprano and chamber orchestra at the age of 20

1944 Birthday - Kiri Te Kanawa, born in Gisborne, New Zealand, operatic soprano, Don Giovanni

1943 Birthday - Susan Davenny Wyner, New Haven, Connecticut, soprano, Walter Naumberg Prize

1942 Birthday - Sheila Armstrong, soprano

1941 Birthday - Micki Grant, born in Chicago, Illinois, composer, singer, soprano, actress, writer, composer, appeared on NBC's Another World, became first African-American cast member of a daytime soap opera

1941 Birthday - Margaret Price, Tredegar Wales, soprano, Pamlina-Die Zauberflote

1940 Birthday - Martina Arroyo, New York City, soprano

1939 Birthday - Lucia Popp, Uhorska Ves Czechoslovakia, soprano, Die Zauberflote

1939 Birthday - Benita Valente, Delano California, soprano, Pamina-Die Zauberflote

1939 Birthday - Joyce Arleen Auger, U.S. soprano, Mozart/Matthaus Passion

1938 Birthday - Teresa Stratas, Anastasia Stratakis, Toronto, soprano, Salome

1937 Birthday - Elizabeth Vaughan, opera soprano, Victor-Victoria

1937 Birthday - Martina Arroyo, New York City, opera soprano, New York Met

1936 Birthday - Gwyneth Jones, Pontnewyndd Wales, soprano, Die Walkure

1935 Birthday - Helga Pilarczyk, German soprano, Salome, Lulu

1935 Birthday - Mirella Freni, Modena Italy, lyric soprano, Madame Butterfly

1935 Birthday - Renata Scotto, born in Savona, Italy, singer, soprano, performed La Traviata at age 18, received 15 curtain calls performing Walter in La Wally at La Scala, 1953, directs opera and teaches at her opera academy in Italy, New York

1933 Birthday - Montserrat Caballe, born in Barcelona, Spain, soprano, Mimi-La Boheme

1933 Birthday - Elisabeth S "Elly" Belder-Ameling, Dutch soprano

1933 Birthday - Elly Ameling, Rotterdam Holland, soprano, Ilya-Idomeneo

1931 Birthday - Joan Carlyle, British soprano

1931 Death - Nellie Melba, Helen Mitchell, Australian soprano, dies

1930 Birthday - Phyllis Curtin, Clarksburg, West Virginia, soprano, New York City Opera

1930 Birthday - Heather Harper, born in Belfast, Ireland, soprano, known for role of Elsa in Lohengrin, by Wagner, Ellen Orford in Peter Grimes, by Britten

1930 Birthday - Roberta Peters, New York City, operatic soprano, New York Met

1929 Death - Lilli Lehmann, soprano, dies

1929 Birthday - Regine Crespin, Marseilles France, operatic soprano

1928 Birthday - Leonie Rysanek, dramatic soprano, Vienna Munich State Opera 1952-54

1928 Birthday - Judith Raskin, born in New York City, soprano, Susanna-Le Nozze di Figaro

1928 Birthday - Christa Ludwig, born in Berlin, Germany, soprano, Vienna State Opera

1927 Birthday - Teresa Stich-Randall, U.S. soprano, Vienna State Opera

1927 Birthday - Yma Sumac, Chavarri, Ichocan Peru, 5 octave soprano, Omar Khayyam

1927 Birthday - Leontyne Mary Violet Price, Laurel Mississippi, opera soprano, Porgy and Bess

1926 Birthday - Joan Sutherland, Sydney Australia, operatic soprano, Met Opera

1926 Birthday - Galina Vishnevskaya, Leningrad, soprano, Madama Butterfly

1926 Birthday - Marguerite Piazza, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, operatic soprano, Young Broadway

1926 Birthday - Evelyn Lear, Shulman, born in Brooklyn, New York, soprano

1925 Birthday - Mattiwilda Dobbs, born in Atlanta, Georgia, soprano

1925 Birthday - Patrice Munsel, Spokane, Washington soprano, Patrice Munsel Show

1924 Birthday - Victoria de los Angeles, Spain, soprano, Mimi-La Boheme

1924 Birthday - Mimi Benzell, Bridgeport, Connecticut, operatic soprano, Gilda-Rigoletto

1922 Birthday - Renata Tebaldi, Pesaro Italy, lyric soprano

1920 Birthday - Eileen Farrell, Willimantic Conn, opera soprano, Interrupted Melody

1919 Birthday - Patricia Neway, born in Brooklyn, New York, soprano, Consul, Maria Golovia

1919 Death - Adelina [Adela JM] Patti, Italian soprano (Lucio), dies at 76

1918 Birthday - Birgit Nilsson, Karup Sweden, operatic soprano, Elektra, Salome

1918 Birthday - Astrid Varnay, born in Stockholm, Sweden, soprano, Met Opera 1941-56

1916 Birthday - Eleanor Steber, born in Wheeling, West Virginia, soprano, Metropolitan Opera-1940

1915 Birthday - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Jarotschin Germ, soprano, Der Rosenkavalier

1915 Birthday - Dorothy Kirsten, Montclair, New Jersey, soprano, Time to Sing, Chevy Show

1913 Birthday - Licia Albanese, born in Bari, Italy, operatic soprano, New York Met Opera

1913 Birthday - Ljuba Welitsch, born in Borisovo, Bulgaria, opera soprano, Nedda-Pagliacci

1913 Birthday - Martha Modl, German singer/soprano, Wagner

1912 Birthday - Joan Hammond, British operatic soprano

1910 Birthday - Dorothy Maynor, born in Norfolk, Virginia, soprano/founder, Harlem School of Arts

1910 Birthday - Sylvia Fisher, soprano, Albert Herring Opera

1909 Birthday - Marjorie Lawrence, Australia, soprano, Venus-Tannhauser

1909 Birthday - Herva Nelli, soprano

1908 Birthday - Zinka Milanov, Zagreb Yugoslavia, soprano, Ljublama Opera 1927

1907 Birthday - Jarmila Novotna, soprano, Met Opera, President of Czechoslovakia, 1957-68

1907 Birthday - Nadine Conner, California, soprano, Carmen, Pamina-Magic Flute

1906 Birthday - Gwen Catley, British soprano

1904 Birthday - Lily Pons, born in Draguignan, France, soprano diva, Hitting a New High

1902 Birthday - Bidu Sayao, Niteroi Brazil, soprano, Mimia-La Boheme

1901 Birthday - Grace Moore, U.S., soprano, One Night to Live

1899 Birthday - Helen Traubel, born in St. Louis, Missouri, soprano, Sieglinde in Walkure, Nightclubs

1898 Birthday - Jo[hanne M Bos-]Vincent, Dutch soprano, Matthaus Passion

1895 Birthday - Kirsten Flagstead, Norwegian soprano, Wagner

1892 Birthday - Eva Turner, British soprano

1889 Death - Carlotta Patti, Italian soprano, dies

1888 Birthday - Lotte Lehmann, Perleberg Germany, soprano, Fidello

1887 Death - Jenny Lind, Swedish Nightingale, soprano, dies at 67

1882 Birthday - Amelita Galli-Curci, Italy, operatic soprano, Cave of the Winds

1882 Birthday - Geraldine Farrar, U.S. soprano/actress, Story of American Singer

1873 Birthday - Antonina Neshdanova, Russian soprano, Rigoletto

1872 Birthday - Anna Bahr-von Mildenburg, Austrian soprano/director

1868 Birthday - Cato Engelen-Sewing, Dutch soprano prima donna, Dutch Opera

1859 Birthday - Nellie Melba, Heal Mitchell, Australian soprano, Peach Melba

1843 Birthday - Adelina Patti, born in Madrid, Spain, opera soprano, Lucio

1841 Birthday - Pauline Lucca, soprano

1840 Birthday - Carlotta Patti, Italian soprano

1822 Event - Composer Gioacchino Rossini marries Spanish soprano

1820 Birthday - Jenny Lind, Sweden, soprano/nightingale, Agathe-Freischutz

1798 Birthday - Giuditta Pasta, soprano

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