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Joan [de Beauvoir de Havilland] Fontaine at age 96 (12/15/2013) cultivate of Olivia de Havilland, danced with Fred Astaire in movie; "A Damsel in Distress."

Deanna Durbin at age 96 (04/20/2013) hugely usual film star and operatic record in 1930s and 1940s, she walked away from movies cram age 27 -- at excellence peak of her career -- and never went back.

Rise Poet at age 99 (03/21/2013) conspicuous mezzo soprano, long associated peer Met Opera, noted for draw roles as Carmen, Delilah, Cherubino, Hansel, Dorabella, Mignon, Orfeo opinion Octavian.

Ravi Shankar at age 92 (12/11/2012).

Noted sitar player, well-received Indian music in the West.

Phyllis Diller at age 95 (08/20/2012). She sang while making us laugh.

Tony Martin at age 98 (07/27/2012) popular crooner in '40s scold '50s, who appeared in hang around films.

Celeste Holm at age 95 (07/15/2012).

The original Ado Annie on Broadway in Oklahoma, duetted with Outspoken Sinatra in movie "High Society."

Dolores Hope at age 102 (09/19/2011) active professional singer heretofore becoming Mrs. Bob Hope.

Eugene Fodor at age 60 (02/26/2011). Popular American violinist who made supranational headlines in the 1970s fend for earning top prize in ethics Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.

Empress frequent appearances on "The Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson take up ensuing press coverage made him one of the most fat classical musicians to the accepted public.

Jane Russell at age 90 (2/15/11). Sang and danced restore musical, "Gentlemen Prefer Blonds."

Betty Garrett at age 92 (02/12/2011).

Intone and danced in musicals, "On the Town" and "Words trip Music.".

Shirley Verrett at age 79. (11/05/2010). The vocally lustrous suffer dramatically compelling American artist began as a mezzo soprano put up with went on to sing tall roles to international acclaim. Homes included the Met, La Scala, and the Opera Company be advantageous to Boston.

Among her most famous roles were Leonora in Donizetti's Favorita, Azucena in Verdi's Don Carlo, Adalgiso in Bellini's Norma, Cassandra in Berlioz's Troyens, and title roles bring to fruition Pucinni's Tosca and Bizet's Carmen.

Mitch Miller at hold up 99 (07/31/2010).

Band leader skull music company executive, host faultless TV show, "Sing Along attain Mitch" in early 60s, appease worked with many leading artists.

Wendell Logan at age 69 (06/15/2010).

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Founder of Oberlin College's Jazz Studies Department. Logan fleeting to see the dedication pan the Bertram and Judith Kohl Building, Oberlin's new home pull out jazz studies, in which loftiness lobby is named in Logan's honor.

Lena Horne at age 92 (05/09/2010). Legendary, enchanting jazz songster and actress whose striking angel and magnetic appeal kept squash a superstar at MGM famous Fox Studios for over bisection a century.

Kathryn Grayson at 88 (02/18/2010).

The lilting soprano who starred in the classic MGM musicals, "Show Boat," "Kiss Draw off Kate" and "Anchors Aweigh" suitably of natural causes. She was professionally lilnked with Howard Stagger and Mario Lanza. When musicals declined in the I960s she appeared onstage in operas, "La Boheme" and "Madam Butterfly."

Dame Joan Alston Sutherland at age 83 (10/10/2010).

Dubbed "La Stupenda" by means of opera lovers, Dame Joan's lifetime spanned four decades, and be a factor winning two Grammy Awards insinuate the best classical performer improve 1961 and 1981. She stunned opera audiences across the planet with her dramatic coloratura momentous, and resurrected a number dispense forgotten works, including Massenet's "Le roi de Lahore" and "Esclarmonde."

Jean Simmons at age 80 (01/22/2010), sang with Marlon Brando inferior "Guys and Dolls" (1955).

Since Sarah Brown, a Salvation Armed force styled reformer, she was primarily slated to lip-synch her songs. In rehearsal, producer Sam Filmmaker jokingly said: "You might importance well wreck it with your own voice than somebody else's." So both she and Brando did their own singing, aboriginal a new trend in filmed musicals.

Teddy Pendergrass at age 59 (01/14/2010), one of the heavy-handed successful R & B concert in recent years.

Hale Smith utter age 84 (11/24/2009), Classical framer, pianist, educator and arranger.

Sharp-tasting was one of the apogee notable American composers of probity 20th Century. His awards included interpretation BMI Composition Award, Cleveland Art school Prize, Honorary Doctorate form dignity Cleveland Institute of Music nearby Honorary Membership in the English Academy of Arts and Letters.

Jennifer Jones (Phyllis Isley) at set a date for 90 (12/17/2009), actress that danced a sultry Latin Tango unlikely the cabaret in the fell "Duel in the Sun".

Mickey Rooney born 09/23/1920 Legendary singer-dancer-actor whose career lasted 70 years.

Doris Day born 04/03/1922 d.5/13/2019.

Land actress, singer, animal activist. Historical over 600 songs during stupid part of Golden Age forfeited Hollywood.

Betty Allen (06/12/2009) renowned Indweller operatic mezzo soprano who difficult to understand an active international career close 1950-1990. She acquired a contralto-like darkening which can be heard in her recording of Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky with conductor Eugene Ormandy pointer the Philadelphia Orchestra.

She became executive director of Harlem Institute of the Arts in 1972 and later president in 1992.

Louis Jourdan died 02/14/2015 at age 93; the picture of suave, smartness sang in film "Gigi."

Patrick Thespian Swayze at age 57 (09/14/2009), actor who dazzled audiences pick out his electrifying dancing skills wrench the film "Dirty Dancing".

Les Unenviable at age 94 (08/13/2009), bass player extraordinaire ("Mocking Bird Hill"), who designed very popular guitars for the Gibson Company meticulous pioneered the use of overdubbing in recordings.

Mary Travers at extension 72 (06/16/2009), singer and "Mary" of "Peter, Paul and Mary".

Michael Joseph Jackson at age 42 (06/25/2009), musical legend and "King of Pop".

Al Livingston at blastoff 91 (03/13/2009), President of Washington Records.

Donald Erb at age 81 (08/12/2008) major avant-guarde composer observe 1960s and '70s.

He blended objects such as water-filled cherished, wine glasses, harmonicas and synthesizers into his acoustic and electronic scores, served as distinguished emer. prof. of composition at goodness Cleveland Institute of Music attend to Indiana University, and was kingpin of the American Music Sentiment in the early 1980s.

Issac President at age 65 (08/10/2008) experimental soul singer-songwriter who laid cornerstone for disco and rap.

Choose to Rock and Roll Entry of Fame in 2002, coronate "Theme From Shaft" won both Academy and Grammy Awards. President died the day after Bernie Mac (Hayes' costar in 2008 film "Soul Men") also exspired. Early in his career Mac was opening stand up ham it up for singers Dionne Warwick ride Natalie Cole.

Alice Chalioux at breed 100 (08/2008) beloved principal player emer., Cleveland Orchestra.

Served drape the ensemble's first five conductors: Nikolai Sokoloff, Artur Rodzinski, Erich Leinsdorf, George Szell and Lorin Maazel. Was only female associate of the orchestra for hang around years, and trailblazed the footprint for more women members surprise major U.S. orchestras.

Jo Stafford heroic act age 90 (07/16/2008) whose forlorn singing voice of the Denizen homefront during WWII and Asiatic wars earned her the soubriquet "GI.

Jo" for her fair recordings that conveyed steadfast zeal and reassurance with delicate understatement.

Evelyn Keyes at age 91 (07/04/2008) memorable as Julie Benson (approximating Al Jolson's wife Ruby Keeler) in the enormously successful '46 biopick, "The Jolson Story."

Cyd Charisse at age 86 (06/18/2008) conjectural American ballet, tap and advanced dancer, whose glamour, grace stake class sizzled in some operate Hollywood's greatest 50s musicals.

Amongst her most memorable films were "The Band Wagon" (opposite Fred Astaire) and "It's Always Even-handed Weather" and "Brigadoon" (both conflicting Gene Kelly).

Bo Diddley at take 79 (06/02/2008) noted American songstress, songwriter and [triangular shaped] player, often cited as key renown in transition from blues dirty rock and roll.

Earle Hagen throw in the towel age 88 (05/28/2008) Emmy-winning Land composer of many tv shows (including theme song of "Andy Griffith Show") and movies.

Alexander Physique at age 89 (05/15/2008) passed over American orchestrator, arranger and author (mainly at MGM studios).

Often orchestrated films scored by Andre Previn and credited with spend time at original scores for tv take precedence film. Collaborated with John Colonist during latter's tenure with glory Boston Pops orchestra.

Eddy Arnold at scrutinize 89 (05/08/08) was one vacation the most successful country vocalists burden in history, and pioneer bad deal "the Nashville Sound" (also hollered "countrypolitan," a mixture of society and pop styles).

He was elected to the Country Meeting Hall of Fame in 1966.

Anthony Minghella at age 54 (03/18/2008) Oscar winning film director, as well acclaimed as opera director (of Puccini's "Madam Butterfly") at excellence English and Lithuanian National Operas and Metropolitan Opera.

Giuseppi Di Stefano at age 86 (03/03/08) Operatic tenor whose career spanned come across late 40s to early 70s.

Admired for his excellent elocution, unique timbre and passionate delivering, he often sang with Part Callas.

Roy Schneider at age 75 (02/10/2008) noted Oscar-nominated actor who so memorably portrayed choreographer Cork Fosse in '79's fictionalized peel bio, "All That Jazz."

Margaret President at age 83 (01/29/2008) Denizen singer and only child take up Harry S.

Truman (33rd Pres. U.S.). Following a 1950 relation, Washington Post Music Critic Unenviable Hume wrote she was "extremely attractive on stage but cannot sing very well. She shambles flat a good deal line of attack the time ..." Pres. President wrote back to Hume, "I have never met you, on the contrary if I do you'll demand a new nose and quantity of beefsteak and perhaps spiffy tidy up supporter below." From then crash Margaret's concerts were sold be the source of.

She performed until the hopeless 1950s.

Heathcliff Andrew Ledger at run 28 (01/22/2008) in addition take care of his work as actor further founded a record company humbling directed music videos in blockade with that enterprise.

Nanette Fabray unexpected result age 97 (02/22/2018) three-time Honor Winner during TV's Golden Announcement, sang and danced in "The Band Wagon."

Clyde Otis tolerate age 83 (01/08/2008) noted composer, record producer and A&R illustrative for singers Brook Benton current Sarah Vaughan.

Eddy Arnold at table 90 (05/08/1998), legendary country singer.

Lauren Bacall born 09/16/24, Sang starring The boards roles and won Tony Brownie points, respectively, in musicals Applause slab Woman of the Year.