Deaths in Music for Saturday 15th February 2014 1621 - Michael Praetorius, German composer (In Dulce Jubilo), dies at 50 1701 - Adam Drese, German composer, dies at 80 1744 - Frantisek Antonin Mica, composer, dies at 49 1761 - Carlo Cecere, composer, dies at 54 1778 - Johann Gottlieb Gorner, composer, dies at 80 1832 - Hardenack Otto Conrad Zinck, composer, dies at 85 1857 - Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka, Russian composer, dies at 53 1885 - Leopold Damrosch, composer, dies at 52 1887 - Alexander Borodin, composer, dies 1910 - Albert Fuchs, composer, dies at 51 1916 - Nikolay Nikolayevich Lodizhensky, composer, dies at 73 1921 - Hans Haym, composer, dies at 60 1924 - Lionel Monckton, English composer (Country Girl), dies at 62 1942 - Guido Adler, Austrian musicologist, dies at 91 1942 - Stanislav Binicki, composer, dies at 69 1943 - William Victor Harris, composer, dies at 73 1965 - Nat King Cole, singer (Unforgettable, Mona Lisa), dies at 49 1968 - Little Walter, rocker, dies at 37 1971 - Marian Viktorovich Koval, composer, dies at 63 Musician Nat King ColeMusician Nat King Cole (1965) 1974 - Kurt Magnus Atterberg, composer, dies at 86 1979 - Alex Bradford, actor/composer (Your Arms too Short...), dies at 51 1981 - Mike Bloomfield, rocker (Electric Flag), dies of drug overdose at 36 1981 - Thomas Beversdorf, composer, dies at 56 1981 - Karl Richter, German conductor (b. 1926) 1984 - Avon Long, dancer/actor (Roots: Next Generation), dies of cancer at 73 1984 - Ethel Merman, singer/actress (Kid Million), dies in her sleep at 76 1987 - Jimmy Holiday, US singer (Baby I Love You), dies at 42 1987 - Osmo Uolevi Lindeman, composer, dies at 57 1988 - Frederick [Fritz] Loewe, composer, dies 1992 - William H Schuman, US composer (Pulitzer)/Pres of Julliard, dies at 81 1993 - George Wallington, [Giacinto Figlia], Italian bebop-pianist/, dies 1999 - Big L, American rapper (b. 1974) 2005 - Pierre Bachelet, French singer and songwriter (b. 1944) 2007 - Ray Evans, American songwriter (b. 1915) 2009 - Joe Cuba, Puerto-Rican musician (b. 1931)
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