1960: A.P. Carter/Alvin Pleasant Delaney Carter (68) Country musician; despite dying in relative obscurity, A. P. Carter was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970. In 1993, his image appeared on a U.S. postage stamp honoring the Carter Family. In 2001 he was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Honor.()
1964: Jasper Taylor (70) American drummer; Young Buffalo Bill's Wild West show/ Original Washboard Band; he joined the military during World War I and served in France with the 365th Infantry Band. The 365th Infantry were nicknamed the "Buffalo Soldiers," the enlisted personnel were almost entirely African-American soldiers from Texas and Oklahoma. In the early 1920s he went to Chicago and worked with the greats ()
1983: Germaine Tailleferre (91) French composer
1991: Carter Cornelius (43) American R&B musician (Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose)
1994: Shorty Rogers (70) American jazz musician
2004: Howard Keel/Harry Clifford Leek (85) US singer, actor; starred in many of the classic film musicals of the 1950s, such as Oklahoma and Carousel.(colon cancer)
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