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1995 Lavad "Dr. Hepcat" Durst, vocal/piano, dies at 82

1994 Eddie Boyd, blues vocal/pianist, dies at 79

1994 Q T Macon, blues vocal/guitar, dies at 60

1994 Gary "BB" Coleman, blues vocal/guitarist/producer, dies at 47

1990 Actor Joseph Cotton undergoes vocal cancer operation at 84

1977 19th Grammy Awards: This Masquerade, Starland Vocal Band

1976 Jan Kunc, composer, writer, pedagogue, composed chamber music, piano, solo vocal, dies at 93 in Brno, Czech Republic

1975 Rock vocal Neil Young undergoes throat surgery

1959 Beverly Lee, born in Passaic, New Jersey, singer, member, trademark holder for The Shirelles, an all girl vocal pop group

1958 David Sylvian, vocal/guitar, Sylvian Sylvian, Japan-Adolescent Sex

1957 Margot Chapman, born in Hawaii, vocals, Starland Vocal Band-Afternoon Delight

1957 Jon Carroll, born in Washington D.C., vocalist, Starland Vocal Band-Afternoon Delight

1955 Pete Shelley, vocal/guitar, Buzzcocks-Going Steady, Love Bites

1953 Peter Bergman, actor, All My Children, Starland Vocal Band

1950 Patrick Simmons, guitarist/vocal, Doobie Brothers-Minute by Minute

1949 John Miles, vocal/guitar/keyboards, John Miles Band-Rebel, Zaragon

1949 Kalevi Aho, born in Forssa, Finland, composer, large-scale works, symphonies, vocal works, concertos, operas, including 'The Key', 'Insect Life'

1948 Peter Ruzicka, born in Dusseldorf, Germany, professor, composer, conductor, composes stage, orchestral, chamber, piano, vocal music

1947 Gary "BB" Coleman, blues vocal/guitarist/producer

1946 Bill Danoff, Springfield Massachusetts, vocalist, Starland Vocal Band

1944 Kathy "Taffy" Danoff, Washington D.C., vocalist, Starland Vocal Band

1941 Jackson Hill, born in Birmingham, Alabama, composer, vocal music, teacher, Ph.D. Musicology, teacher, Duke University, Bucknell University

1938 David Borden, born in Boston, Massachusetts, composer, minimalist music, jazz pianist, founded Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Company, the world's first synthesizer ensemble, wrote vocal, chamber ensemble, music, style similar to Phillip Glass, Terry Riley

1934 Q T Macon, blues vocal/guitar

1928 Colleen Summers, born in Pasadena, California, vocal overdubber

1926 Betsy Jolas, born in Paris, France, composer, studied at the Conservatoire national superieur de Musique, wrote vocal music, works recorded on EMI, Erato, performed by London Sinfonietta

1923 Milt Okun, born in Brooklyn, New York, orchestra leader, Starland Vocal Band Show

1921 Kan Ishii, born in Tokyo, Japan, composer, famous for Symphonia Ainu, inspired by national primitivism, wrote orchestral and vocal music for film and stage, including music for science-fiction film Gorath

1914 Eddie Boyd, blues vocal/pianist, Mississippi

1913 Lavad "Dr. Hepcat" Durst, vocal/piano

1901 Conrad Beck, born in Lohn, Switzerland, composer, studied with Jacques Ibert, head of Radio Basel music department for 30 years, composed concertos, symphonies, oratorio, elegy, instrumental, vocal music, and one ballet

1883 Jan Kunc, born in Doubravice na Svitavou, Czech Republic, composer, writer, pedagogue, composed chamber music, piano, solo vocal


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