September 23

Events

 * 1962 – The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City opens with the completion of the first building, the Philharmonic Hall (now Avery Fisher Hall) home of the New York Philharmonic.

Births

 * 1926 –, American saxophonist (d. 1967)
 * 1929 –, English musician (d. 1997)
 * 1930 –, American musician (d. 2004)
 * 1939 –, American guitarist (d. 1988)
 * 1943 –, Spanish singer
 * 1947 –, American singer and musician (Sugarloaf)
 * 1947 –, American musician (Alice Cooper)
 * 1949 –, American singer and songwriter
 * 1959 –, English singer and songwriter
 * 1964 –, Japanese singer (B'z)
 * 1969 –, French singer
 * 1970 –, American musician
 * 1972 –, American music producer and rapper
 * 1975 –, American rapper (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony)
 * 1975 –, British radio personality
 * 1977 –, American singer and songwriter
 * 1977 –, Lebanese singer and actress (d. 2008)
 * 1980 –, American singer
 * 1985 –, Japanese pop singer
 * 1990 –, Japanese pop singer

Deaths

 * 1835 –, Italian composer (b. 1801)
 * 1970 –, French actor and singer (b. 1917)
 * 1974 –, Scottish musician (Average White Band) (b. 1950)
 * 2003 –, American rockabilly musician (b. 1939)
 * 2004 –, Dutch singer (b. 1951)
 * 2006 –, English composer and professional trumpeter (b. 1921)
 * 2006 –, American blues guitarist (b. 1913)