Deaths 1 - 27 of 27
1553 - Caspar Othmayr,
composer, dies at 37
1590 - Gioseffo Zarlino,
composer, dies at 73
1781 - Josef Myslivecek,
composer, dies at 43
1816 - Meingosus Gaelle,
composer, dies at 63
1834 - Amelie Julia Candielle,
composer, dies at 66
1854 - Carl Ludwig Cornelius Westenholz,
composer, dies at 66
1895 - Faustina Hasse Hodges,
composer, dies at 71
1896 - Henry David Leslie,
composer, dies at 73
1927 - Thomas Linnemann Laub,
composer, dies at 74
1944 - Yvette Guilbert,
French singer and actress (b. 1867)
1954 - Vaclav Vackar,
composer, dies at 72
1956 - Peder Gram,
composer, dies at 74
1974 - Mihail Andricu,
composer, dies at 79
1975 - Louis Jordan,
American musician (b. 1908)
1976 - Edward Benjamin Britten,
composer, dies at 62
1982 - Alex Harvey,
Scottish musician (b. 1935)
1983 - Karen Carpenter,
rock drummer (Carpenters), dies of anorexia at 32
1987 - Liberace,
pianist (Liberace Show, Evil Chandell-Batman), dies at 67
1989 - Kenneth "Jethro" Burns,
country singer (Homer & Jethro), dies at 69
Pianist Liberace (1987)
1995 - Betty Davis,
British dance teacher of Dame Margot Fonteyn, dies
2000 - Doris Coley,
American singer (Shirelles) (b. 1941)
2001 - J. J. Johnson,
American jazz trombonist and composer (b. 1924)
2001 - Iannis Xenakis, Greek composer and architect (b. 1922)
2003 - Charlie Biddle,
Canadian jazz bassist (b. 1926)
2007 - Barbara McNair,
American singer and actress (b. 1934)
2009 - Lux Interior,
Frontman of the garage rock band The Cramps (b. 1946)
2013 - Reg Presley,
English rocker, dies from lung cancer at 71
