11-26: Soulja Slim The Streets Made Me 2001 - Grieg Complete Lyric Pieces / Goldenweiser 1952-1954 - Pierre Vachon | Nicholas d'Alayrac / Loewenguth String Quartet 1959

Not shown above: Friedrich Heine, Edward Julius Biedermann

1717 – Daniel Purcell (English composer & organist, younger brother of Henry)
1778 – Jean-Noël Hamal (Belgian composer)
1809 – Nicolas-Marie d'Alayrac (French composer)
1810 – Nicolas Étienne Framéry (French writer, poet, dramaturge & composer)
1821 – Friedrich Heine (German composer)
1822 – Johann Baptist Henneberg (German composer)
1866 – Adrien-François Servais (Belgian cellist & composer)
1880 – Guilherme António Cossoul (Portuguese cellist & composer)
1925 – Johannes Haarklou (Norwegian composer)
1933 – Edward Julius Biedermann (American organist, teacher & composer)
1956 – Tommy Dorsey (American jazz trombonist & bandleader)
1959 – Albert Ketèlbey (English composer, conductor & pianist)
1961 – Alexander Goldenweiser [Александр Гольденвейзер] (Russian pianist, teacher & composer)
1963 – Amelita Galli-Curci (Italian coloratura soprano)
1966 – Harold Burrage (American blues, R&B & soul singer & pianist)
1982 – Juhan Aavik (Estonian composer, conductor, trumpeter & teacher)
1987 – Emmanuel Bondeville (French composer, organist & radio & opera company administrator)
1994 – Nimrod Workman (American folksinger, coal miner & trade unionist)
1996 – Dame Joan Hammond (Australian soprano & champion golfer)
1997 – Francis Paudras (French artist, author, amateur pianist & jazz patron)
2002 – Polo Montañez (Cuban folk & pop singer, songwriter & guitarist)
2003 – Soulja Slim (American rapper & songwriter)
2005 – Mark Craney (American rock & jazz drummer, Jethro Tull, Tommy Bolin, Jean-Luc Ponty)

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