Oct 3 Arnold Bax, British composer known for his orchestral music (Tintagel), and memoirist (Farewell My Youth), dies of heart failure at 69 Oct 8 Kathleen Ferrier, English contralto singer (Orfeo Ed Evridice), dies of cancer at 41 Oct 18 Federico Gerdes, composer, dies at 80 Oct 24 Ernest Irving, English composer, dies at 74 Oct 27 Zdzislaw Jachimecki, Polish composer and music historian, dies at 71 Oct 29 William Kapell, American concert pianist and recording artist, dies in a plane crash at 31 Oct 30 Emmerich Kálmán, Hungarian composer of operettas, dies at 71 Sep 1953 Deaths in Music by Year Nov 1953 Famous Singers Country Singers Jazz Singers Opera Singers Pop Singers Rappers Rock Singers
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