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The founder of the avant-garde German electronic group was born in Düsseldorf in 1947 and passed away there on April 21, 2020, due to cancer.

Blinded at the age of 15 due to early and severe cataracts, Amadou was born in his beloved Mali in 1954 and passed away this 4 April at the age of 70.

He was born in 1939 in South Africa at a time when the rights of the black population were nonexistent.

Born in 1946 in Devon (UK) and now, as ever, the guitar slinger of Slade

MC Hammer, born Stanley Kirk Burrell, was born in 1962 in Oakland, California.

His band AC/DC has always been considered Australian, but it was indeed in Glasgow (Scotland) that Angus Young was born in 1955.

Born Lili-Marlene Primilovich, the singer came into the world in Detroit, Michigan, before emigrating to England as a teenager.

It was in Ripley, in the UK, that Eric Clapton was born on March 30, 1945.

Born in the Yonkers neighbourhood of New York in 1948, he, like many other artists, chose a more resonant name, and became Steven Tyler rather quickly.

She was born in 1944 in Detroit, Michigan, a historic dual capital of the automobile industry but more importantly perhaps, the capital of soul with the Motown label.

Born in Middlesex, England in 1947, Reginald Kenneth Dwight (his real name) belongs to the 'baby boom' generation just after the Second World War.

Maseo, also known by his real name, Vincent Mason Jr, was born in 1970 in Brooklyn, New York. He grew up on Long Island where he met the other members of the famous group De la Soul.