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Lionel John Alexander Monckton (18 December 1861 – 15 February 1924) was an English composer of musical theatre. He became Britain's most popular composer of Edwardian musical comedy in the early years of the 20th century.
July 16 – Franz von Blon, composer (died 1945) August 11 – Anton Arensky, pianist and composer (d. 1906) August 19 – Sadie Martinot, actress and soprano singer (d. 1923) September 7 – Thomas Whitney Surette, composer (died 1941) November 3 – Thomas O'Brien Butler, composer (died 1915) November 19 – Theodor Mannborg, organ maker ...
The transcontinental telegraph was completed on Oct. 24, 1861, making possible instant communication between the coasts possible for the first time. It rendered the Pony Express obsolete.
Ada Ruth Habershon was born in Marylebone, England, on 8 January 1861.She was the youngest of four children. [1] Her father, Samuel Osborne Habershon, was a noted physician; her mother was Grace Habershon. [2]
Focusing on Americana (he wrote a book, Americans and Their Songs, published in 1942), he made an album of Civil War songs entitled Songs of the North and the South in the War between the States (1861-1865) which he and Zora Layman sang with the Century Quartet, [14] songs of early New York, songs of old California, Gay Nineties songs, Irish ...
Listen to Cliff! is the third studio album by singer Cliff Richard and fourth album overall. It was released through EMI Columbia Records in April 1961. [1] The album reached No. 2 in the UK album chart, charting for 26 consecutive weeks and re-entering twice. Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, no singles were officially released from the album ...
June 13 – William Butler Yeats, lyricist (died 1939) June 14 – Auguste Sérieyx, composer (died 1949) July 8 – Rita Strohl, composer (died 1941) July 21 – Robert Kahn, composer (d. 1951) August 10 – Alexander Glazunov, composer (d. 1936) October 1 – Paul Dukas, composer (d. 1935) October 13 – Jón Laxdal, Icelandic composer (d. 1928)
The Times reported his sixteen-hour ride, "An Extraordinary Velocipede Feat" the following day. [12] Mayall's wife Eliza died in Brighton in 1870. The following year, on 14 December 1871 at St George's Bloomsbury, he married Celia Victoria Hooper (1838–1922), widow of timber merchant Henry Morgan Hooper and daughter of surgeon William Gardner ...