1648: Thomas Ford () English composer
1936: Ernestine Schumann-Heink (75) Austrian contralto
1955: James P. Johnson (61) American pianist and composer
1959: Heitor Villa-Lobos (72) Brazilian composer
1979: John Glascock (28) Bass player with The Gods, Carmen, Jethro Tull also sessioned and freelance with many other bands (congenital heart defect).
1982: Eduard Tubin (77) Estonian composer
1982: Leonid Borisovitch Kogan (58) Russian violinist
1987: Irene Wicker/The Singing Lady (80) singer and actress ()
1995: Alan Hull (50) founder, leader, guitarist, keyboards, singer, songwriter of Lindisfarne; he was hailed as the most innovative songwriter since Bob Dylan (died suddenly of what was determined to be a heart thrombosis)
2001: Michael Karoli (53) German guitarist; guitarist and founding member of the German Krautrock band "Can". (cancer)
2003: Arthur Conley (57) soul singer-songwriter; he sang and, with mentor Otis Redding, co-wrote the 1967 classic "Sweet Soul Music," arguably the finest record ever made about the genre it celebrates.(cancer)
2003: Don Gibson (75) country music legend (natural causes)
2006: Ruth Brown (78) US blues singer; known as "Queen Mother of the Blues", you can hear her influence in everyone from Little Richard to Etta James, Aretha Franklin, Janis Joplin and in today's divas like Christina Aguilera (complications from a stroke and heart attack).
2006: Flo Sandon's (84) Italian singer
2007: Hy Lit/Hyman Litsky (73) American radio disc jockey; Philadelphia-area DJ since the 1950s, with WIBG-AM, WDAS-AM/FM, WKBS-TV, WSNI/WPGR. He also hosted the nationally syndicated "Hy Lit Show," from WKBS-TV in Philadelphia which aired in more than 30 markets nationwide (suffered with Parkinson's disease, but died of kidney and heart failure at Paoli Memorial Hospital from what his son termed "bizarre complications" after a knee injury).
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