Events Published popular music "Silver Threads Among the Gold" by Hart Pease Danks & Eben Eugene Rexford "The German Polka" by Gus Williams "Home on the Range" by Daniel Kelly & Brewster M. Higley "I'se Gwine Back to Dixie" by Charles A. White "Good Sweet Ham" by Henry Hart Births February 27 - Enrico Caruso August 11 - J. Rosamond Johnson, US composer and singer September 21 - Papa Jack Laine November 16 - W. C. Handy Tom Turpin Deaths
Published popular music "Silver Threads Among the Gold" by Hart Pease Danks & Eben Eugene Rexford "The German Polka" by Gus Williams "Home on the Range" by Daniel Kelly & Brewster M. Higley "I'se Gwine Back to Dixie" by Charles A. White "Good Sweet Ham" by Henry Hart Births February 27 - Enrico Caruso August 11 - J. Rosamond Johnson, US composer and singer September 21 - Papa Jack Laine November 16 - W. C. Handy Tom Turpin Deaths
