On This Day in Music: July 2

1880-07-02 Birth

Albert Szirmai

Albert Szirmai, composer was born

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1793-07-02 Birth

Antoine Prumier

Antoine Prumier, composer was born

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1985-07-02 Birth

Ashley Tisdale

Ashley Tisdale, American actress and singer was born

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1814-07-02 Birth

Atale Therese Annette Wartel

Atale Therese Annette Wartel, composer was born

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1926-07-02 Birth

Billy Usselton

Billy Usselton, saxophonist was born

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1927-07-02 Birth

Brock Peters

Brock Peters, NYC, actor/singer (Carmen Jones, To Kill a Mockingbird) was born

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1904-07-02 Birth

Carl Weinrich

Carl Weinrich, composer was born

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1819-07-02 Birth

Charles-Louis Hanon

Charles-Louis Hanon, French composer (d. 1900) was born

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1714-07-02 Birth

Christoph Willibald Gluck

Christoph W Ritter von Gluck, Austria composer (Il re pastore) was born

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1970-07-02 Birth

Colin Edwin

Colin Edwin, Australian musician (Porcupine Tree) was born

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1636-07-02 Birth

Daniel Speer

Daniel Speer, composer was born

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1964-07-02 Birth

Dave Parsons

Dave Parsons, rocker (Transvision Vamp, Sham 69-That's Life) was born

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1933-07-02 Birth

David Benjamin Lewin

David Benjamin Lewin, composer was born

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1979-07-02 Birth

Diana Gurtskaya

Diana Gurtskaya, Georgian singer was born

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1910-07-02 Birth

Earl Hawley Robinson

Earl Hawley Robinson, composer was born

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1975-07-02 Birth

Erik Ohlsson

Erik Ohlsson, Swedish guitarist (Millencolin) was born

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1857-07-02 Birth

Francesco Spetrino

Francesco Spetrino, composer was born

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1737-07-02 Birth

Francois Leonard Rouwyzer

Francois Leonard Rouwyzer, composer was born

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1914-07-02 Birth

Frederick Fennell

Frederick Fennell, Cleveland Ohio, conductor (Time & Winds) was born

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1948-07-02 Birth

Gene McFadden

Gene McFadden, American songwriter (d. 2006) was born

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1922-07-02 Birth

Genrikh Matusovich Vagner

Genrikh Matusovich Vagner, composer was born

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1935-07-02 Birth

Gilbert Kalish

Gilbert Kalish, Brooklyn NY, pianist/professor (SUNY Stony Brook) was born

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1589-07-02 Birth

Guillaume van Messaus

Guillaume van Messaus, composer was born

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1746-07-02 Birth

Hardenack Otto Conrad Zinck

Hardenack Otto Conrad Zinck, composer was born

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1918-07-02 Birth

Imam Elissa

Imam Elissa, singer was born

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1892-07-02 Birth

Jack Hylton

Jack Hylton, English orchestra leader/impresario (Crazy Passage Show) was born

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1945-07-02 Birth

James Orville Fulkerson

James Orville Fulkerson, composer was born

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1956-07-02 Birth

Jeffrey Cooper

Jeffrey Cooper, rock guitarist (Midnight Star-No Parking) was born

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1969-07-02 Birth

Jenni Rivera

Jenni Rivera, Long Beach, California, singer-songwriter (Jenni, 2008), (d. 2012) was born

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1951-07-02 Birth

Joey Puerta

Joey Puerta, rocker (Ambrosia) was born

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1581-07-02 Birth

Johann Staden

Johann Staden, composer was born

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1952-07-02 Birth

Johnny Coila

Johnny Coila, rocker was born

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1925-07-02 Birth

Marvin Rainwater

Marvin Rainwater, Wichita Ks, country singer (Ozark Jubilee), (d. 2013) was born

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1983-07-02 Birth

Michelle Branch

Michelle Branch, American singer (The Wreckers) was born

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1957-07-02 Birth

Mike Anger

Mike Anger, rocker (Blow Monkeys-Wicked Ways) was born

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1970-07-02 Birth

Monie Love

Monie Love, English rapper was born

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1939-07-02 Birth

Paul Williams

Paul Williams, rocker (Temptations-My Girl) was born

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1763-07-02 Birth

Peter Ritter

Peter Ritter, composer was born

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1924-07-02 Birth

Rick Besoyan

Rick Besoyan, composer was born

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1906-07-02 Birth

Robert Levine Sanders

Robert Levine Sanders, composer was born

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1974-07-02 Birth

Rocky Gray

Rocky Gray, American musician was born

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1949-07-02 Birth

Roy Bittan

Roy Bittan, rocker (E Street Band) was born

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1932-07-02 Birth

Sammy Turner

Sammy Turner, Paterson NJ, vocalist (Lavender Blue) was born

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1918-07-02 Birth

Sheikh Iman

Sheikh Iman, player/singer was born

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1941-07-02 Birth

Stéphane Venne

Stéphane Venne, French Canadian songwriter was born

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1952-07-02 Birth

Wayne Haner

Wayne Haner, rock bassist (Axe) was born

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1910-07-02 Birth

William Douglas Denny

William Douglas Denny, composer was born

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1925-07-02 Birth

Yasushi Akutagawa

Yasushi Akutagawa, composer was born

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1940-07-02 Death

Bertram Shapleigh

Bertram Shapleigh, composer, dies at 69

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2007-07-02 Death

Beverly Sills

Beverly Sills, American operatic soprano (b. 1929)

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1992-07-02 Death

Edith Valckaert

Edith Valckaert, Belgian violinist, dies at 42

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1971-07-02 Death

Edward Ballantine

Edward Ballantine, composer, dies at 84

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1911-07-02 Death

Felix Mottl

Felix Mottl, composer, dies at 54

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1878-07-02 Death

Francois-Emmanuel-Joseph Bazin

Francois-Emmanuel-Joseph Bazin, composer, dies at 61

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1794-07-02 Death

Franz Xaver Thomas Pokorny

Franz Xaver Thomas Pokorny, composer, dies at 65

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1952-07-02 Death

Henriette H Bosmans

Henriette H Bosmans, Dutch cello player/pianist/composer, dies at 56

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1778-07-02 Death

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, composer, dies at 66

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1992-07-02 Death

Jose Monje

Jose Monje, [Camaron de la Isla], Spanish flamenco singer, dies

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1994-07-02 Death

Marion Williams

Marion Williams, gospel singer, dies of diabetes at 66

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2008-07-02 Death

Natasha Shneider

Natasha Shneider, Russian-born musician (b. 1956)

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1982-07-02 Death

Poul Rovsing Olsen

Poul Rovsing Olsen, composer, dies at 59

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1984-07-02 Death

Ramiro Cortes

Ramiro Cortes, composer, dies at 50

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2002-07-02 Death

Ray Brown

Ray Brown, American jazz double bassist, dies in his sleep at 75

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1990-07-02 Death

Snooky Lanson

Snooky Lanson, singer, dies at 76

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1663-07-02 Death

Thomas Selle

Thomas Selle, composer, dies at 64

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1591-07-02 Death

Vincenzo Galilei

Vincenzo Galilei, Italian composer (b. 1520)

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1895-07-02 Death

William Rockstro

William Rockstro, composer, dies at 72

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1980-07-02 Event

Grateful Dead

Grateful Dead's Bob Weir & Mickey Hart are arrested for incitement

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1964-07-02 Event

The Beatles

Cilla Black records the Beatle's "Its For You," McCartney plays piano

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