1973 June Hutton [Cowan], American pop vocalist (Charlie Spivak Orchestra; The Pied Pipers, 1944-50 - "I'll Never Smile Again"; Afterglow), dies at 52 [1]
1985 Hal LeRoy [John LeRoy Schotte], American vaudeville, Broadway and film dancer (Ziegfeld's Follies of 1931), dies at 71 after surgery
1985 Larry Clinton, American trumpeter and bandleader, dies at 75
1990 William L. Dawson, American choir director, composer (Negro Folk Symphony), educator, and musicologist, dies at 90
1990 William Levi Dawson, American composer, choirmaster, and musicologist, dies at 90
1992 Joey Cuevas, American movie dancer, dies at 34
1992 Margareth Wallmann, Austrian opera director, dies at 88
1998 Hide [Hideto Matsumoto], Japanese rock guitarist, singer-songwriter and record producer (X Japan; Zilch), takes his own life at 33
2003 George Wyle [Bernard Weissman], American composer ("The Ballad of Gilligan's Island"; "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year"), and orchestra leader (The Flip Wilson Show), dies at 87
2012 Zvi Zeitlin, Russian-American classical violinist and music professor (Eastman School, 1967-2012), dies at 90
2013 Jeff Hanneman, American haevy metal guitarist (Slayer), dies from liver failure at 49
2014 Jessica Cleaves, American soul singer and songwriter (The Friends of Distinction - "Grazing In The Grass"; Earth, Wind & Fire; Parliament Funkadelic), dies of complications from a stroke at 65
2015 Guy Carawan, American folk singer and folklorist (We Shall Overcome), dies at 87
2015 Ma Shui-long, Taiwanese classical composer (The Peacock Flies Southeast), dies at 75
2015 Maya Plisetskaya, Russian prima ballerina (Bolshoi Ballet), dies at 89
2016 Alan Elsdon, British jazz trumpeter, flugelhorn player (Midnite Follies Orchestra), and bandleader, dies at 81
2017 (Mary) Norma Procter, British contralto singer, dies of Parkinson's Disease at 89
2017 Grigori Zhislin, Russian concert violinist, and viola player, dies at 71
2018 Herman Krebbers, Dutch violinist, concert master, and music teacher, dies at 94
2018 Tony Cucchiara, Italian folk singer and songwriter ("Cain and Abel"), dies at 80
2021 Jacques d'Amboise, American ballet dancer, and choreographer (NYC Ballet Company, 1949-84), actor (Seven Brides For Seven Brothers), and educator (founded National Dance Institute, 1976), dies from stroke complications at 86 [1]
2021 Joel Chadabe, American electronic music composer, dies at 82
2021 Ram Da-Oz [Abraham Daus], Israeli composer, dies at 91
2021 Tommy West [Picardo], American record producer (Jim Croce; Anne Murray), and singer-songwriter, dies of complications from Parkinson's disease at 78
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