1942: George M. Cohan (64) American musician, actor, writer, composer (abdominal cancer).
1956: Arthur "Art" Tatum, Jr. (47) American jazz pianist (complications of uraemia as a result of kidney failure).
1960: Johnny Horton (35) US country & western singer; was one of the best and most popular honky tonk singers of the late '50s, managing to infuse honky tonk with an urgent rockabilly underpinning. His career may have been cut short by a fatal car crash in 1960, but his music reverberated throughout the next three decades. (car crash).
1964: Buddy Cole (47) US jazz pianist and bandleader; played behind a number of pop singers, including Rosemary Clooney, Jill Corey, and The Four Lads (heart attacks).
1967: Robert Lee McCollum/Robert Lee McCoy/Robert Nighthawk (57) US guitarist & slide guitarist (heart attack).
1970: Albert Ayler (34) American jazz saxophonist, singer and composer (It is said November 5, 1970, he took the ferry to the Statue of Liberty and jumped off as the boat neared Liberty Island. He was found dead in New York City's East River on November 25, a presumed suicide. Rumours circulated that he had been murdered, possibly due to his involvement in the black power movement. There was no autopsy).
1977: Guy Lombardo (75) Canadian conductor
1986: Billy Nunn (61) lead and bass singer in The Coasters/his own Coasters (heart failure)?
1989: Vladimir Horowitz (86) Ukrainian pianist of world wide fame, he married Wanda Toscanini (he died in New York of a heart attack and was buried in the Toscanini family tomb in Cimitero Monumentale, Milan, Italy).
1989: Lucius "Lu" Watters (77) trumpeter and band leader in the "West Coast revival" of Dixieland music. This is relational to trad jazz as the musicians tended to be white and had little or no actual connections to New Orleans (?)
1996: Eddie Harris (62) American saxophonist
1997: Epic Soundtracks/Kevin Paul Godfrey (37) piano, drums, singer, songwriter; The Swell Maps/Crime and the City Solution/solo. Although working with many heavy bands, his solo records came closest to representing his personality, soft-spoken and rumpled, with a dry humour (died in his sleep, suicide was suspected).
2002: Billy Guy/Frank William Phillips (66) US singer comedy singer but better known for being lead singer and baritone singer with The Coasters (?)
2003: Bobby Lee Hatfield (63) singer, one half of the duo The Righteous Brothers. (He was found dead in hotel room in Michigan 30 minutes before he was due on stage, an overdose of cocaine had precipitated a fatal heart attack).
2005: Frederick Lincoln "Link" Wray (76) singer, guitarist; inspired Bob Dylan, Marc Bolan, Pete Townsend, Bruce Springsteen, countless others, credited with inventing 'fuzz' guitar after punching a hole in a speaker (heart failure).
2005: Virginia MacWatters (93) American soprano
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