Aug 2 Betty Jack Davis, American country singer (with Skeeter Davis in The Davis Sisters), killed in car crash at 21 Aug 13 Dmitri Arakishvili, Soviet and Georgian composer, dies at 80 Aug 27 Nicolai Berezowsky, Russian-American composer, dies at 53 Aug 28 Nikolai Golovanov, Russian conductor and composer (Bolshoi Opera), dies at 61 Aug 30 Dimitar Nenov, Bulgarian composer, pianist and architect, dies at 51 Jul 1953 Deaths in Music by Year Sep 1953 Famous Singers Country Singers Jazz Singers Opera Singers Pop Singers Rappers Rock Singers
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