Birthdays in Music
Fred Astaire
May 10 Fred Astaire [Austerlitz], American stage and screen tap dancer, singer ("Night And Day"; "Cheek To Cheek"; "Let's Call The Whole Thing Off"), and actor (Royal Wedding; Easter Parade; Swingtime), born in Omaha, Nebraska (d. 1987)
Deaths in Music
- May 29 Frantz Jehin-Prume, Canadian violinist and composer, dies at 60