1945: Jerome Kern ( 60 ) American composer
1972: Berry Oakley (24) bass player; Allman Brothers (motorcycle accident at the same intersection as former band member Duane Allman, who had died a year earlier)
1974: Alfonso Leng ( 80 ) Chilean composer
1977: Greta Keller (74) Vienna-born cabaret singer and actress; her voice appeared in the Oscar-winning movie, Cabaret, for which she sang the song, "Heirat" ()
1979: Dimitri Tiomkin (85) Ukrainian-born composer
1988: William Ifor Jones ( 88 ) Welsh conductor & organist
1993: Erskine Hawkins (79) trumpet player and big band leader; dubbed "The 20th Century Gabriel". He is most remembered as the composer of the jazz standard, "Tuxedo Junction" (1939), which became a popular hit during World War II. In 1978 he became one of the first five artists inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame.()
1998: Paddy Clancy (76) Singer; Clancy Brothers
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