Music Artists Who Were Born or Who Died on August 2 in History: Music History Today Segment August 2

On this podcast segment from the full Music History Today Podcast for August 2, we tell you which music artists were either Born or died on August 2 in Music History:

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Born on this date:
singer songwriter Charli XCX
Brittany Hargest of Jump 5
* Zelma Davis of C and C Music Factory
* Pete De Freitas of Echo and the Bunnymen
* singer Andrew Gold
* Ted Turner of Wishbone Ash
* Jim Capaldi of Traffic
* Kathy Lennon of the Lennon Sisters
* Doris Kenner-Jackson Coley of the Shirelles
* Andrew Steele of the Herd
* Edward Patten of Gladys Knight and the Pips
* Garth Hudson of the Band
* country singer Hank Cochran
* singer Helen Morgan
* Jimmy Pop of the Bloodhound Gang
* singer Mojo Nixon
rapper Mark Lee
guitar player Steve Hilage of Gong & also System 7
Joe Lyn Turner of Rainbow
producer Jonas Blue
singer Bahja Rodriguez
singer Britt Nicole
singer Cai Xukun
rapper Bankroll Fresh
composer Jacob Collier
rapper Ambjaay
* singer and actress Myrna Loy
Jazz bassist Albert Stinson
Brian Cole of the Association
Lee Mavers of the La's
David Yow of Scratch Acid
Neal Morse of Spock's Beard
Les Dudek of the Steve Miller Band
Andy Fairweather-Low of Amen Corner
Patricia Kotero aka Apollonia
trumpet player Carl Saunders
singer Massiel
singer & dancer Chris Bennett
steel guitarist Hank DeVito of The Notorious Cherry Bombs
singer-songwriter Graham Dye of Scarlet Party and also The Alan Parsons Project
drummer John Stanier of Helmet
guitarist Richard Hallebeek
singer Justyna Steczkowska
singer Ben Nichols of Lucero
drummer Devon Glenn of Buckcherry
percussionist Naná Vasconcelos
trombonist Roy Crimmins
composer Joe Harnell
trombonist Werner Müller
composer Karl Amadeus Hartmann
singer & composer Lorenzo Herrera

1792 composer Nathanael Gruner at 60
1827 composer James Hewitt at 57
1873 composer Frank Mori at 53
1914 composer Gabriel Édouard Xavier Dupont of tuberculosis at 36
1916 composer Hamish MacCunn at 48
pianist Martin Krause in 1918 at 65
opera singer Enrico Caruso in 1921 at 48
1945 composer Emil von Reznicek at 85
1945 composer Pietro Mascagni at 81
21 year old country singer Betty Jack Davis of the Davis Sisters in a car crash in 1953, which also severely injured fellow group member Skeeter Davis
1954 pianist Rene Amengual at 42
1959 composer Prospero Bisquertt at 78
1964 composer José María Castro at 71
1965 composer Milton B Babbitt at 49
saxophonist Boyd Raeburn in 1966 at 52
1969 composer Clarence Dickinson at 96
1972 Brian Cole of the Association of overdose at 29
1972 conductor of the St. Louis Symphony from 1921 - 1927 and professor at the Chicago Musical College from 1928- 1954, Rudolph Ganz at 95
1978 conductor Carlos Chávez at 79
1982 composer Rudolf Maros at 65
1983 session bass guitarist for Motown Records session band the Funk Brothers James Jamerson of alcohol-related complications at 47
David Martin of Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs in 1987 of a heart attack at 50
1988 composer Roger Vuataz at 90
1992 singer-songwriter Michel Berger of a heart attack at 44
1995 composer Irwin Bazelon at 73
1997 Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti of an AIDS related illness at 58
2001 Ron Townson of The 5th Dimension of kidney failure at 68
2003 singer and actor Don Estelle at 70
2004 musician Don Tosti at 81
Rockabilly artist Billy Lee Riley in 2009 at 75
2011 gospel singer DeLois Campbell at 85
2012 opera soprano Marguerite Piazza at 86
2012 singer-songwriter Jimmy Jones at 75
2014 Rosetta Hightower of The Orlons at 70
2020 conductor of the Annapolis Symphony Leon Fleisher of cancer at 92
AND Ray Majors of Mott the Hoople and British Lions in 2022 at 73