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1765 – Antonio Tonelli (Italian cellist & composer)
1842 – Bedřich Diviš Weber [Friedrich Dionys Weber] (Czech composer & musicologist, first director of the Prague Conservatory)
1845 – Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach (German composer, grandson of Johann Sebastian)
1848 – Johann Erik Nordblom (Swedish composer & conductor)
1883 – Marek Konrad Sokołowski (Polish guitarist & composer)
1904 – Per Jonas Fredrik Vilhelm Svedbom (Swedish composer & teacher)
1921 – Hans Huber (Swiss composer)
1922 – Alphonse Goovaerts (Belgian composer & author)
1930 – Harvey Worthington Loomis (American composer associated with Indianist movement)
1936 – Pierre Maurice (Swiss composer & stage actor)
1942 – Vojislav Vučković (Yugoslavian composer, musicologist & conductor)
1943 – Ilona Durigo (Hungarian contralto)
1943 – R. Huntington Woodman (American composer)
1954 – Rosario Scalero (Italian violinist, teacher & composer)
1954 – Johnny Ace (American R&B singer)
1957 – Charles Pathé (French pioneer of film & record industries)
1971 – Byron Arnold (American musicologist & folklorist)
1977 – Charlie Chaplin (English actor, film director & composer)
1980 – Louis Neefs (Belgian pop singer & television & radio presenter)
1985 – George Rhodes (American television music director, arranger, conductor & composer, NBC, Sammy Davis, Jr.)
1995 – Dean Martin (American pop singer, actor, comedian & television personality)
1995 – Nicolas Slonimsky (Russian-born American composer, conductor, pianist, music critic, lexicographer & author)
1998 – Bryan MacLean (American rock guitarist, singer & songwriter, the Grass Roots, Love)
2005 – Derek Bailey (English free-jazz guitarist)
2005 – Birgit Nilsson (Swedish dramatic soprano)
2006 – James Brown (American soul singer, songwriter & multi-instrumentalist, "Godfather of Soul", "Mr. Dynamite", etc.)
2007 – Mighty King Kong [Paul Otieno Imbaya] (Kenyan reggae musician)
2008 – Eartha Kitt (American actress & pop singer)
2009 – Vic Chesnutt (American folk, country & rock singer, songwriter & guitarist)
2011 – Jim Sherwood ["Motorhead"] (American rock saxophonist, singer & percussionist, Frank Zappa, The Mothers of Invention)
Merry Christmas!
Not quite done yet, though! We still have to hear the fat lady sing...
Oh, and I forgot I was going to mention... I do believe, looking at this list, that there were more big-name celebrities that died on Christmas Day than on any other day we've looked at so far. Also, that Dean Martin died 10 years to the day after George Rhodes, the music director of Martin's old pal and fellow Rat Pack-er Sammy Davis, Jr. Just another one of those little coincidences we see around here all the time, babe.
Oh, and I forgot I was going to mention... I do believe, looking at this list, that there were more big-name celebrities that died on Christmas Day than on any other day we've looked at so far. Also, that Dean Martin died 10 years to the day after George Rhodes, the music director of Martin's old pal and fellow Rat Pack-er Sammy Davis, Jr. Just another one of those little coincidences we see around here all the time, babe.
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