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Sir John Phillip William Dankworth (20 September 1927 – 6 February 2010), known in his early career as Johnny Dankworth, was an English jazz composer, saxophonist and clarinetist. He was the husband of jazz singer Dame Cleo Laine, who surviv...
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Muddy Donald Waters

04/04/1913 - 04/04/1983

McKinley Morganfield, known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician, generally considered the Father of modern Chicago blues. A major inspiration for the British blues explosion in the 1960s, Muddy was ranked #17...
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Jacques Offenbach

06/20/1819 - 05/10/1880

Jacques Offenbach (20 June 1819 – 5 October 1880) was a Prussian-born French composer, cellist and impresario. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s–1870s and his uncompleted operaThe Tales of H...
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Eddy Duchin

04/04/1909 - 02/09/1951

Eddy Duchin (April 1, 1909 or April 10, 1910 – February 9, 1951) was an American popular pianist and bandleader of the 1930s and 1940s, famous for his engaging onstage personality, his elegant piano style, and his fight a...
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Al Jolson

05/26/1886 - 10/23/1950

Al Jolson (May 26, 1886 – October 23, 1950) was an American singer, comedian and actor. In his heyday, he was dubbed "The World's Greatest Entertainer". He was born in the Russian Empire (the part which is n...
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Curtis Lee Mayfield

06/03/1941 - 12/26/1999

Curtis Lee Mayfield was an American soul, R&B, and funk singer, songwriter, and record producer best known for his anthemic music with The Impressions and for composing the soundtrack to the blaxploitation ...
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Jo Elizabeth Stafford

11/12/1917 - 06/16/2008

Jo Elizabeth Stafford (November 12, 1917 – July 16, 2008) was an American singer of traditional pop music and jazz standards whose career ran from the late 1930s to the early 1960s. Stafford was greatl...
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Tupac Amaru Shakur

06/16/1971 - 09/13/1996

Tupac Amaru Shakur (June 16, 1971 – September 13, 1996), known by his stage names 2Pac (or simply Pac) and Makaveli, was an American rapper. Shakur has sold over 75 million albums worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists i...
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Carl Spencer Albert

05/13/1962 - 05/22/1995

Carl Spencer Albert (May 13,1962–May 22,1995), simply known as Carl Albert, was an American musician, the lead singer of the band Vicious Rumors from late 1986 until 1995.

Louie Bluie (Howard Donald Armstrong)

03/04/1909 - 07/30/2003

Howard "Louie Bluie" Armstrong was an African American string band and cantry blues musician who played fiddle, mandolin and guitar and also sang. He was also a notable visual artist and raconteur.

Dusty Springfield

04/16/1939 - 03/02/1999

Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien (16 April 1939 – 2 March 1999) known professionally as Dusty Springfield, was an English singer whose career extended from the late 1950s to the 1990s. With her distinctive sensual sound, she was...
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Eunice Kennedy Shriver

07/10/1921 - 08/11/2009

Eunice Kennedy Shriver, (July 10, 1921 – August 11, 2009) a member of the Kennedy family, sister to President John F. Kennedy and Senators Robert F. Kennedy and Edward Kennedy, was the founder in 1962...
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Eva Narcissus Boyd

06/29/1943 - 04/10/2003

Eva Narcissus Boyd (June 29, 1943 – April 10, 2003), known by the stage name of Little Eva (after a character from Uncle Tom's Cabin), was an American pop singer.

Jerome David Kern

01/27/1885 - 11/11/1945

Jerome David Kern (January 27, 1885 – November 11, 1945) was an American composer of musical theatre and popular music. One of the most important American theatre composers of the early 20th century, he wrote more than 700 songs, used in ove...
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Earl Kenneth Hines

12/28/1903 - 04/22/1983

Earl Kenneth Hines, universally known as Earl "Fatha" Hines, (December 28, 1903 – April 22, 1983) was "one of a small number of pianists whose playing shaped the history of jazz

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