deaths
March 4, 1954
Noel Gay, English composer and songwriter (born 1898)

Noel Gay
Reginald Moxon Armitage known professionally as Noel Gay. was a British composer of popular music of the 1930s and 1940s whose output comprised 45 songs as well as the music for 28 films and 26 London shows. Sheridan Morley has commented that he was "the closest Britain ever came to a local Irving Berlin". He is best known for the musical, Me and My Girl.