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1599 – Luca Marenzio (Italian madrigal composer)
1831 – John Joseph White (English composer)
1879 – Friedrich August Kummer (German cellist, oboist, teacher & composer)
1893 – Duke Ernst II of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (German sovereign & composer)
1901 – Gunnar Wennerberg Swedish poet, composer & politician)
1922 – Sofia Scalchi (Italian operatic alto/mezzo-soprano)
1942 – Henry Eichheim (American composer, conductor, violinist, organologist & ethnomusicologist)
1942 – Michel Fokine (Russian choreographer & dancer, Ballets Russes)
1951 – Georg Maikl (Austrian operatic tenor)
1966 – Apolinary Szeluto (Polish composer, pianist & lawyer)
1967 – Paola Novikova (Russian-born American soprano, taught Helen Donath & Nicolai Gedda)
1970 – Richard Frank Donovan (American organist & composer)
1976 – Gina Bachauer (Greek pianist)
1984 – Charles Whittenberg (American composer & teacher)
2000 – Rina Gigli (Italian operatic soprano)
2002 – Ernst-Theo Richter (German actor, director & baritone)
2003 – Imperio Argentina (Argentinian-born Spanish singer and actress)
2004 – Al Dvorin (American bandleader & talent agent, "Elvis has left the building.")
2005 – Luc Ferrari (French electroacoustic composer & pianist)
2006 – Bruce Gary (American rock drummer, The Knack)
2011 – Jerry Leiber (American lyricist, Leiber & Stoller, "Hound Dog", "Jailhouse Rock", "Kansas City")
2011 – Nick Ashford (American R&B singer, songwriter & producer, Ashford & Simpson)
Still in ketchup mode. Check back next week for the full write-up. Since Nick Ashford just passed away, we'll be paying particular attention to Ashford & Simpson. Jerry Leiber also just passed - as you see above, that makes two noted Elvis associates now who've passed away within less than a week of the King's death anniversary.
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