Deaths in Music on 16th December

Deaths 1 - 28 of 28

1673 - Juan de Padilla, composer, dies at 68
1781 - Georg Simon Lohlein, composer, dies at 56
1783 - Johann Adolf Hasse, Dutch operatic composer (Sesostrate), dies at 84
1790 - Ludwig August Lebrun, composer, dies at 38
1816 - Vincenzo Galeotti, [Tomazelli], Ital dancer/choreographer, dies at 73
1833 - Friedrich August Kanne, composer, dies at 55
1852 - Henri-Jean Rigel, composer, dies at 80
1861 - Karol Joseph Lipinski, composer, dies at 71
1870 - Stanislaw Duniecki, composer, dies at 31
1914 - Ivan Zajc, composer, dies at 82
1921 - Charles Camille Saint-Saens, French composer, dies at 86
1923 - Pongrac Kacsoh, composer, dies at 50
1927 - Hugh Archibald Clarke, composer, dies at 88
1940 - William Wallace, composer, dies at 80
1944 - Glenn Miller, US jazz composer/orchestra leader (Danny boy), dies at 40
1950 - Otto Vrieslander, composer, dies at 70
1961 - Boris Semyonovich Shekhter, composer, dies at 61
1961 - Cato Engelen-Sewing, Dutch soprano singer/primadonna, dies at 93
1978 - Blanche Calloway, US singer/dancer/radio hostess, dies at 76
1988 - Sylvester, American singer (b. 1948)
1994 - Samuel Lipman, music critic, dies at 60
1995 - Nina Verchinina, dancer choreographer/teacher, dies at 85
1997 - Nicolette Larson, singer (Lotta Love), dies from brain seizure at 45
2001 - Stuart Adamson, English-born Scottish musician (The Skids, Big Country) (b. 1958)
2003 - Gary Stewart, American musician and songwriter (b. 1945)
2006 - Taliep Petersen, South African singer and composer (b. 1950)
2006 - Pnina Salzman, Israeli pianist (b. 1922)
2007 - Dan Fogelberg, American singer/songwriter (b. 1951)

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