On This Day in Music: May 28

1981 Birth

Adam Green

Adam Green, American singer and songwriter was born

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1898 Birth

Andy Kirk

Andy Kirk, jazz musician was born

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1953 Birth

Arto Lindsay

Arto Lindsay, rocker/actor (Cookie, Desperately Seeking Susan) was born

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1977 Birth

Ashley Ryan Ruiz Offord

Ashley Ryan Ruiz Offord, Miami Fla, singer (Menudo-Cannonball) was born

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1927 Birth

Bernhard Lewkovitch

Bernhard Lewkovitch, composer was born

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1944 Birth

Billy Vera

Billy Vera, musician (& Beaters-At This Moment, Into the Night) was born

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1965 Birth

Chris Ballew

Chris Ballew, American musician was born

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1985 Birth

Colbie Caillat

Colbie Caillat, American folk singer-songwriter was born

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1943 Birth

Dennis Riley

Dennis Riley, composer was born

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1943 Birth

Elena Souliotis

Elena Souliotis, Greek soprano (d. 2004) was born

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1831 Birth

Eliza Ann Gardner

Eliza Ann Gardner, underground railway conductor was born

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1931 Birth

Ervin Junger

Ervin Junger, composer was born

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1778 Birth

Friedrich Westenholz

Friedrich Westenholz, composer was born

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1945 Birth

Gary Stewart

Gary Stewart, Latcher County Ky, country singer (She's Actin' Single) was born

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1963 Birth

Gavin Harrison

Gavin Harrison, British drummer (Porcupine Tree) was born

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1883 Birth

George Dyson

George Dyson, composer was born

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1841 Birth

Giovanni Sgambati

Giovanni Sgambati, composer was born

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1944 Birth

Gladys Knight

Gladys Knight, Atlanta Ga, singer, leader of Pips (Last Train) was born

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1927 Birth

Gyorgy Ligeti

Gyorgy Ligeti, Transylvania, Romania, composer of contemporary classical music was born

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1940 Birth

Hans Dulfer

Hans Dulfer, tenor saxophonist/director (Paradiso) was born

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1932 Birth

Henning Christiansen

Henning Christiansen, composer was born

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1907 Birth

Henry Ritz

Henry Ritz, comedian/dancer (Ritz Brothers) was born

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1928 Birth

Jacob R Druckman

Jacob R Druckman, composer was born

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1765 Birth

Jean Baptiste Cartier

Jean Baptiste Cartier, composer was born

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1798 Birth

Josef Dessauer

Josef Dessauer, composer was born

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1780 Birth

Joseph Frohlich

Joseph Frohlich, composer was born

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1777 Birth

Joseph-Henri-Ignace Mees

Joseph-Henri-Ignace Mees, composer was born

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1930 Birth

Julian Penkivil Slade

Julian Penkivil Slade, composer was born

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1934 Birth

Julian Slade

Julian Slade, composer was born

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1830 Birth

Karoly Filtsch

Karoly Filtsch, composer was born

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1968 Birth

Kylie Minogue

Kylie Minogue, Melbourne Australia, rock vocalist (Locomotion) was born

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1959 Birth

Leon "The Bop" Klaasse

Leon "The Bop" Klaasse, rock drummer/singer (The Pilgrims-Red) was born

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1844 Birth

Leon Felix Augustin Joseph Vasseur

Leon Felix Augustin Joseph Vasseur, composer was born

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1883 Birth

Luigi Perrachio

Luigi Perrachio, composer was born

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1936 Birth

Maki Ishii

Maki Ishii, composer was born

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1896 Birth

Marius Monnikendam

Marius Monnikendam, Dutch choir composer was born

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1980 Birth

Mark Feehily

Mark Feehily, Irish musician (Westlife) was born

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1886 Birth

Nicolai Sokoloff

Nicolai Sokoloff, near Kiev Ukraine, conductor (Seattle Symph) was born

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1917 Birth

Papa John Creach

Papa John Creach, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, American blues violinist (Hot Tuna, Jefferson Airplane) was born

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1931 Birth

Peter Talbot Westergaard

Peter Talbot Westergaard, composer was born

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1906 Birth

Phil Regan

Phil Regan, singer (My Wild Irish Rose) was born

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1964 Birth

Phil Vassar

Phil Vassar, American country music singer was born

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1938 Birth

Prince Buster

Prince Buster, Jamaican reggae musician/producer (Madness) was born

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1948 Birth

Ray Laidlaw

Ray Laidlaw, British rock drummer (Jack the Lad) was born

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1934 Birth

Rob du Bois

Rob du Bois, composer was born

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1961 Birth

Roland Gift

Roland Gift, UK, rocker (Fine Young Cannibals-She Drives Me Crazy) was born

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1904 Birth

Shalva Mikhaylovich Mshvelidze

Shalva Mikhaylovich Mshvelidze, composer was born

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1910 Birth

T-Bone Walker

T-Bone Walker, Linden Tx, blues guitarist (Funky Town, Well Done) was born

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1900 Birth

Tommy Ladnier

Tommy Ladnier, American musician (d. 1939) was born

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1943 Birth

Tony Mansfield

Tony Mansfield, [Anthony Bookbinder], rock drummer (Billy J Kramer) was born

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1949 Birth

Wendy O. Williams

Wendy O. Williams, American musician (The Plasmatics) (d. 1998) was born

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1915 Birth

Wolfgang Schneiderhan

Wolfgang Schneiderhan, violinist was born

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1954 Birth

Youri Egorov

Youri Egorov, Soviet classical pianist (d.1988) was born

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1954 Death

Achille Longo

Achille Longo, composer, dies at 54

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1914 Death

Adolf Gustaw Sonnenfeld

Adolf Gustaw Sonnenfeld, composer, dies at 76

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2025 Death

Al Foster

Al Foster died

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1836 Death

Anton Reicha

Anton Reicha, composer, dies at 66

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1883 Death

August Freyer

August Freyer, composer, dies at 79

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2020 Death

Bob Kulick

Bob Kulick died

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1922 Death

Carl Teike

Carl Teike, composer, dies at 58

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2020 Death

Claude Heater

Claude Heater died

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2023 Death

George Cassidy

George Cassidy died

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1650 Death

Gilles Hayne

Gilles Hayne, composer, dies at 59

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1973 Death

Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt

Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, Germ composer/conductor (Hassan), dies at 73

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1995 Death

Henning Kronstam

Henning Kronstam, dancer, dies at 60

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2022 Death

Janine Charbonnier

Janine Charbonnier died

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2002 Death

Jean Berger

Jean Berger, German-born composer (b. 1909)

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1977 Death

Jiri Reinberger

Jiri Reinberger, composer, dies at 63

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1833 Death

Johann Christian Friedrich Haeffner

Johann Christian Friedrich Haeffner, composer, dies at 74

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1787 Death

Johann Georg Leopold Mozart

Johann Georg Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer, dies at 67

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1964 Death

John Finley Williamson

John Finley Williamson, conductor (Westminster Choir), dies at 76

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1791 Death

Joseph Schmitt

Joseph Schmitt, composer, dies at 57

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2022 Death

Juan José Mosalini

Juan José Mosalini died

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2020 Death

Lennie Niehaus

Lennie Niehaus died

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1981 Death

Mary Lou Williams

Mary Lou Williams, black musician, dies at 71 in Durham NC

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1958 Death

Mikulas Schneider-Trvavsky

Mikulas Schneider-Trvavsky, composer, dies at 77

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1805 Death

Ridolfo Luigi Boccherini

Ridolfo Luigi Boccherini, Ital composer/cellist (Minuet), dies at 62

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1940 Death

Theodor Streicher

Theodor Streicher, composer, dies at 65

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1838 Death

Thomas Busby

Thomas Busby, composer, dies

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1890 Death

Viktor Ernst Nessler

Viktor Ernst Nessler, composer, dies at 49

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1963 Death

Vissarion Yakovlevich Shebalin

Vissarion Yakovlevich Shebalin, composer, dies at 60

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2021 Event

DMX

DMX released the album 'Exodus'

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1940 Event

Irving Berlin

Irving Berlin's musical "Louisiana Purchase," premieres in NYC

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1906 Event

Julian Edwards

Shields/Cobbs musical "His honor, the Mayor", premieres in NYC

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1959 Event

Lionel Bart

Johnson & Bart's musical "Lock up your daughters" premieres in London

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1938 Event

Paul Hindemith

Hindemiths opera "Mathis der Maler," premieres in Zurich

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1974 Event

Stephen Schwartz

Stephen Schwartz' musical "Magic Show," premieres in NYC

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