On This Day in Music: May 23

1923 Birth

Alicia de Larrocha

Alicia de Larrocha, Copenhagen Denmark, pianist (Orquesta Sinfonica) was born

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1741 Birth

Andrea Lucchesi

Andrea Lucchesi, composer was born

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1952 Birth

Anne-Marie David

Anne-Marie David, French singer was born

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1851 Birth

Antoni Stolpe

Antoni Stolpe, composer was born

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1759 Birth

Antonio da Silva Leite

Antonio da Silva Leite, composer was born

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1910 Birth

Artie Shaw

Artie Shaw, [Arthur Arshawsky], NYC, bandleader (Come'on my House) was born

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1911 Birth

Boris Kremenliev

Boris Kremenliev, composer was born

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1918 Birth

Bulent Arel

Bulent Arel, composer was born

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1918 Birth

Bumps Blackwell

Bumps Blackwell, rocker was born

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1983 Birth

Cristiano Bilanzola

Cristiano Bilanzola, Canadian musician and film-maker was born

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1901 Birth

Edmund Rubbra

Edmund Rubbra, Northampton England, composer (Morning Watch) [or 3/23] was born

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1958 Birth

François Feldman

François Feldman, French singer was born

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1944 Birth

General George Norman Johnson

General George Norman Johnson, US singer (Down at the Beach Club) was born

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1753 Birth

Giovanni Battista Viotti

Giovanni Battista Viotti, violonist/composer was born

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1981 Birth

Gwenno Saunders

Gwenno Saunders, Former Welsh dancer, now singer with The Pipettes was born

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1983 Birth

Heidi Range

Heidi Range, English singer (Sugababes) was born

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1920 Birth

Helen O'Connell

Helen O'Connell, Lima Ohio, singer (Green Eyes, Anapola) was born

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1906 Birth

Hellmuth Christian Wolff

Hellmuth Christian Wolff, composer was born

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1921 Birth

Humphrey Lyttelton

Humphrey Lyttelton, jazz musician/actor (It's Great to Be Young) was born

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1936 Birth

Ingeborg Hallstein

Ingeborg Hallstein, German opera singer was born

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1794 Birth

Isaak-Ignaz Moscheles

Isaak-Ignaz Moscheles, composer was born

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1941 Birth

Jackson Hill

Jackson Hill, composer was born

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1952 Birth

James Mankey

James Mankey, rocker (Concrete Blonde) was born

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1974 Birth

Jewel Kilcher

Jewel Kilcher, Payson, Utah, American singer-songwriter (Pieces of You) was born

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1957 Birth

Jimmy McShane

Jimmy McShane, Pop singer (Baltimora-Tarzan Boy) was born

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1696 Birth

Johann Caspar Vogler

Johann Caspar Vogler, composer was born

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1889 Birth

José Padilla

José Padilla, Almería, Spanish composer and pianist (La Violetera - City Lights, Ça c'est Paris - Moulin Rouge) was born

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1951 Birth

Judy Rodman

Judy Rodman, Riverside California, country singer (Girls Ride Horses Too) was born

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1914 Birth

Leo Lerman

Leo Lerman, actor/manager/critic (Dance Magazine) was born

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1737 Birth

Louis Francois Chambray

Louis Francois Chambray, composer was born

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1864 Birth

Louis Glass

Louis Glass, composer was born

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1916 Birth

M Jean Francaix

M Jean Francaix, composer was born

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1925 Birth

Mac Wiseman

Mac Wiseman, American musician was born

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1982 Birth

Malene Mortensen

Malene Mortensen, Danish singer was born

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1902 Birth

Mark Lothar

Mark Lothar, composer was born

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1939 Birth

Michel Colombier

Michel Colombier, French composer and songwriter (d. 2004) was born

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1945 Birth

Misty Morgan

Misty Morgan, country keyboardist (duo with Jack Blanchard) was born

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1974 Birth

Mónica Naranjo

Mónica Naranjo, Spanish singer was born

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1756 Birth

Nicolas-Joseph Hullmandel

Nicolas-Joseph Hullmandel, composer was born

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1943 Birth

Norman Johnson

Norman Johnson, singer/songwriter was born

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1928 Birth

Pauline Julien

Pauline Julien, French Canadian singer (d. 1998) was born

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1843 Birth

Pedro Miguel Marques y Garcia

Pedro Miguel Marques y Garcia, composer was born

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1944 Birth

Ramon "Tiki" Fulwood

Ramon "Tiki" Fulwood, US drummer (Funkadelic, Knee Deep) was born

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1928 Birth

Rosemary Clooney

Rosemary Clooney, Kentucky, singer/paper towels spokeswoman (Coronet) was born

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1919 Birth

Ruth Fernandez

Ruth Fernandez, Ponce, Puerto Rico, singer (When you Return), politician, (d. 2012) was born

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1978 Birth

Scott Raynor

Scott Raynor, American drummer (formerly of blink-182) was born

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1958 Birth

Shelly West

Shelly West, Cleve OH, country singer (Red Hot, West by West) was born

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1871 Birth

Sigurd Lie

Sigurd Lie, composer was born

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1644 Birth

Thomas Eisenhut

Thomas Eisenhut, composer was born

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1799 Birth

Thomas Hood

Thomas Hood, English poet/composer (Song of the Shirt) was born

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1914 Birth

Travis Kemp

Travis Kemp, dancer/teacher was born

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1982 Birth

Tristan Prettyman

Tristan Prettyman, American musician was born

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1940 Death

Andrej N Rimski-Korssakov

Andrej N Rimski-Korssakov, Russian musicologist/son of Nikolai, dies

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1992 Death

Atahualpa Yupanqui

Atahualpa Yupanqui, Argentine singer/composer/poet/guitarist, dies

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1834 Death

Charles Wesley

Charles Wesley, composer, dies at 76

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2021 Death

Cristóbal Halffter

Cristóbal Halffter died

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1952 Death

Georg Alfred Schumann

Georg Alfred Schumann, composer, dies at 85

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1926 Death

Hans Koessler

Hans Koessler, composer, dies at 73

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1891 Death

Ignace Xavier Joseph Leybach

Ignace Xavier Joseph Leybach, composer, dies at 73

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1304 Death

Jehan de Lescurel

Jehan de Lescurel, French poet and composer

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1969 Death

Jimmy McHugh

Jimmy McHugh, composer (Can't Give You Anything But Love), dies at 74

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1994 Death

Joe Pass

Joe Pass, US jazz guitarist (The Trio), dies at 65

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1875 Death

Johann Wilhelm Mangold

Johann Wilhelm Mangold, composer, dies at 78

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1987 Death

Karel Albert

Karel Albert, Flemish composer (Marieken van Nymeghen), dies at 86

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1887 Death

Ludwig Mathias Lindeman

Ludwig Mathias Lindeman, composer, dies at 74

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1968 Death

Merle Kendrick

Merle Kendrick, orchestra leader (Window on the World), dies at 72

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2026 Death

Philip Aaberg

Philip Aaberg died

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1941 Death

Slavko Osterc

Slavko Osterc, composer, dies at 45

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1991 Death

Wilhelm Kempff

Wilhelm Kempff, German pianist and composer (b. 1895)

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1991 Death

William Sinnot

William Sinnot, Scottish pop musician (Shamen), dies at 30

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1970 Event

Grateful Dead

Grateful Dead's 1st performance outside of US (England)

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1921 Event

Noble Sissle

"Shuffle Along" 1st black musical comedy, opens in NYC

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1968 Event

The Beatles

Beatles open 2nd Apple Boutique at 161 New Kings Road, London

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1969 Event

The Who

Who release rock opera "Tommy"

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1979 Event

Tom Petty

Rocker Tom Petty files chapter 11 bankruptcy

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