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1971 – Max Steiner (Austrian-born American film music composer, Gone With The Wind, King Kong)
1976 – Freddie King (American blues guitarist & singer, "The Texas Cannonball")
1982 – Frederick Douglass Hall (American composer)
1983 – Dennis Wilson (American rock & pop drummer, singer & songwriter, The Beach Boys)
1992 – Mort Greene (American popular songwriter for film & television, "Sioux City Sue")
1997 – Henry Barraud (French composer, musicologist, author & music director of French public radio from 1945-65)
2009 – The Reverend Tholomew Plague [James Owen Sullivan] (American metal drummer & singer, Avenged Sevenfold)
2010 – Billy Taylor (American jazz pianist, composer, broadcaster & teacher)
I'm not exactly sure who Frederick Douglass Hall was. But I do know he shares his name with a building on the campus of Howard University. Frederick Douglass Hall the building (and possibly also Frederick Douglass Hall the composer) was of course named after just plain-old Frederick Douglass the social reformer, abolitionist, author, and orator. Just another example of how tricky online research can often be. Almost as tricky as locating viable downloads under current circumstances.
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