This Day in Music

W de Basil, [US Voskresenski], Russia, ballet dancer, dies

Theodore Chanler, composer, dies at 59

Bernhard Paumgartner, Austrian conductor/composer, dies at 83

Lightning Slim, blues singer (Nothing But the Devil), dies at 61

Aasan Ferit Alnar, composer, dies at 72

[John] Willem van Otterloo, conductor/composer (Symphonic), dies at 70

Ray Harrison, dancer (American Song), dies at 64

Leroy Holmes, orchestra leader (Tonight Show, 1956-57), dies at 72

Bobby Day, rocker (Rockin' Robin), dies of cancer at 58

Bobby Day, American singer (b. 1928)

Doris Mae Akers, gospel singer/songwriter, dies at 72

Miklos Rozsa, Hung movie composer (Atomic Cafe, Fedora), dies at 88

Sweets Edison, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1915)

Leon Wilkeson, American guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (b. 1952)

Horst Stein, German conductor (b. 1928)

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