May 1936 in Music

Events in Music

May 2 Michael Rabin, American violinist (In Memorium), born in NYC, New York (d. 1972)
May 2 Engelbert Humperdinck [Arnold George Dorsey], British singer, born in Madras, India
May 5 Patrick Gowers, British film scores composer (Hamlet), born in Islington, England (d. 2014)
May 7 Cornelius Cardew, British composer (Scratch Orchestra), born in Winchcombe, Gloucestershire (d. 1981)
May 7 Jimmy Ruffin, American soul singer (What Becomes of the Brokenhearted), born in Collinsville, Mississippi (d. 2014)
May 12 Klaus Doldinger, German jazz saxophonist (Passport) and composer for film, born in Berlin
May 14 Bobby Darin [Walden Robert Cassotto], American singer (Mack the Knife), born in The Bronx, New York (d. 1973)
May 15 Anna Maria Alberghetti, Italian singer/actress (Cinderfella)
May 15 Jean Balissat, composer
May 17 Philippe Boesmans, composer
May 23 Ingeborg Hallstein, German opera singer
May 24 Harold Budd, American avant-garde composer, born in Los Angeles
May 25 Tom T. Hall, American country singer and writer (Harper Valley PTA), born in Olive Hill, Kentucky
May 28 Maki Ishii, Japanese composer, born in Tokyo (d. 2003)
May 30 Galina Shostakovich, daughter of Russian composer Dmitri