On This Day in Music: May 2

1924 Birth

Aafje Heynis

Aafje Heynis, Dutch singer was born

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1945 Birth

Bob Henrit

Bob Henrit, English pop drummer (Kinks-Waterloo Sunset) was born

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1933 Birth

Bunk Gardner

Bunk Gardner, rocker (Mothers Of Invention) was born

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1843 Birth

Carl Michael Ziehrer

Carl Michael Ziehrer, composer was born

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1923 Birth

Christina Spierenburg

Christina Spierenburg, Dutch singer was born

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1956 Birth

David Rhodes

David Rhodes, English guitarist was born

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1961 Birth

Doctor Robert

Doctor Robert, [Bruce R Howard], rocker (Blow Monkeys-Wicked Ways) was born

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1915 Birth

Doris Fisher

Doris Fisher, American songwriter (d. 2003) was born

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1929 Birth

Edward Levy Irving

Edward Levy Irving, composer was born

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1936 Birth

Engelbert Humperdinck

Engelbert Humperdinck, [Arnold George Dorsey], Madras India, singer (EH Show) was born

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1859 Birth

Eugene D'Harcourt

Eugene D'Harcourt, composer was born

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1729 Birth

Florian Johann Deller

Florian Johann Deller, composer was born

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1857 Birth

Frederic Cliffe

Frederic Cliffe, composer was born

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1904 Birth

Georgi Dimitrov

Georgi Dimitrov, composer was born

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1945 Birth

Goldy McJohn

Goldy McJohn, rocker (Steppenwolf) was born

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1810 Birth

Hans Christian Lumbye

Hans Christian Lumbye, composer was born

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1900 Birth

Helen Morgan

Helen Morgan, singer/actress (Applause, Frankie & Johnny) was born

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1897 Birth

J. Fred Coots

J. Fred Coots, American songwriter (d. 1985) was born

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1920 Birth

Jacob Gilboa

Jacob Gilboa, composer was born

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1915 Birth

Jan Hanus

Jan Hanus, composer was born

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1955 Birth

Jay Osmond

Jay Osmond, rocker (Osmond Brothers) was born

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1920 Birth

Jean-Marie Auberson

Jean-Marie Auberson, Swiss conductor (d. 2004) was born

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1955 Birth

Joe Callis

Joe Callis, rocker was born

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1944 Birth

John Verity

John Verity, rocker (Argent) was born

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1945 Birth

Judge Dread

Judge Dread, English musician (d. 1998) was born

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1988 Birth

Lara Liang

Lara Liang, Taiwanese-American Singer was born

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1948 Birth

Larry Gatlin

Larry Gatlin, Seminole Tx, country singer (Gatlin Bros-Broken Lady) was born

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1946 Birth

Lesley Gore

Lesley Gore, Tenafly NJ, singer (It's My Party) was born

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1911 Birth

Lillian Rambach

Lillian Rambach, teacher violinist was born

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1985 Birth

Lily Allen

Lily Allen, English singer and songwriter was born

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1929 Birth

Link Wray

Link Wray, American rock guitarist (d. 2005) was born

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1895 Birth

Lorenz Hart

Lorenz Hart, American lyricist (d. 1943) was born

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1937 Birth

Lorenzo Music

Lorenzo Music, Brooklyn New York, American writer/actor/voice (Carlton-Rhoda, Garfield) was born

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1982 Birth

Lorie

Lorie, French singer was born

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1950 Birth

Lou Gramm

Lou Gramm, Rochester NY, rocker (Foreigner-Want to Know What Love Is) was born

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1929 Birth

Luc Ferrari

Luc Ferrari, composer was born

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1752 Birth

Ludwig August Lebrun

Ludwig August Lebrun, composer was born

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1932 Birth

Malcolm Leyland Lipkin

Malcolm Leyland Lipkin, composer was born

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1952 Birth

Mari Natsuki

Mari Natsuki, Japanese singer, dancer and actress was born

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1862 Birth

Marie F M Emmanuel

Marie F M Emmanuel, French composer/musicologist (Salamine) was born

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1906 Birth

Maurice Thiriet

Maurice Thiriet, composer was born

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1936 Birth

Michael Rabin

Michael Rabin, NYC, violinist (In Memorium) was born

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1987 Birth

Nana Kitade

Nana Kitade, Japanese singer was born

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1903 Birth

Oivin Fjeldstad

Oivin Fjeldstad, composer was born

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1660 Birth

Pietro Alessandro Gaspare Scarlatti

Pietro Alessandro Gaspare Scarlatti, Palermo Italy, composer (Tigrane) was born

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1945 Birth

Randy Cain

Randy Cain, US soul singer (4 Gents/Delfonics) was born

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1945 Birth

Robert Henrit

Robert Henrit, England, rocker (Argent) was born

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1978 Birth

Steve Bays

Steve Bays, Canadian musician was born

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1925 Birth

Svatopluk Havelka

Svatopluk Havelka, composer was born

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1919 Birth

Than Wyenn

Than Wyenn, NYC, actor (Pete Kelly's Blues) was born

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1924 Birth

Theodore Bikel

Theodore Bikel, Austrian/US folk singer/actor (Russians Are Coming) was born

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1855 Birth

Theodore Moses Tobani

Theodore Moses Tobani, composer was born

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1915 Birth

Van Alexander

Van Alexander, NYC, orchestra leader (Gordon MacRae Show) was born

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1887 Birth

Vernon Castle

Vernon Castle, English dancer (d. 1918) was born

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1754 Birth

Vicente Martin y Soler

Vicente Martin y Soler, composer was born

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1968 Birth

Ziana Zain

Ziana Zain, Malaysian singer and actress was born

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1817 Birth

Zikmund Michal Kolesovsky

Zikmund Michal Kolesovsky, composer was born

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1846 Birth

Zygmunt Noskowski

Zygmunt Noskowski, composer was born

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1937 Death

Arthur Somervell

Arthur Somervell, composer, dies at 73

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2020 Death

Cady Groves

Cady Groves died

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2020 Death

Cheikh Mwijo

Cheikh Mwijo died

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1864 Death

Giacomo Meyerbeer

Giacomo Meyerbeer, composer, dies at 72

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1985 Death

Hal LeRoy

Hal LeRoy, dancer/actor (Harold Teen), dies at 71 after surgery

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1799 Death

Henri-Joseph Rigel

Henri-Joseph Rigel, composer, dies at 58

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1998 Death

Hideto "hide" Matsumoto

Hideto "hide" Matsumoto, Japanese musician (b. 1964)

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2013 Death

Jeff Hanneman

Jeff Hanneman, American guitarist, dies from liver failure at 49

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1992 Death

Joey Cuevas

Joey Cuevas, dancer, dies at 34

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1985 Death

Larry Clinton

Larry Clinton, American trumpeter and bandleader (b. 1909)

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1627 Death

Lodovico Grossi da Viadana

Lodovico Grossi da Viadana, Italian composer (b. 1560)

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1992 Death

Margareth Wallmann

Margareth Wallmann, Austrian opera director, dies at 88

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1954 Death

Pauline de Cock-Manifarges

Pauline de Cock-Manifarges, singer, dies at 82

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2020 Death

Richie Cole

Richie Cole died

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1955 Death

Tadeusz Jarecki

Tadeusz Jarecki, composer, dies at 66

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1957 Death

Tadeusz Zygfryd Kassern

Tadeusz Zygfryd Kassern, composer, dies at 53

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1963 Death

Tomas Vackar

Tomas Vackar, composer, dies at 17

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1892 Death

Wilhelm Rust

Wilhelm Rust, composer, dies at 69

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1897 Death

William Cleaver Francis Robinson

William Cleaver Francis Robinson, composer, dies at 63

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1990 Death

William Levi Dawson

William Levi Dawson, composer, dies at 90

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1952 Event

John Cage

1st performance of John Cage's "Water Music"

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1979 Event

Kenny Rogers

14th Academy of Country Music Awards: Kenny Rogers & Barbara Mandrell

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1980 Event

Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in Wall (Part II)" is banned in South Africa

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1964 Event

The Beatles

Beatles' "Beatles' 2nd Album" goes #1 & stays #1 for for 5 weeks

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