Deaths

William ("Bud") Abbott, 78, famed as half of comedy team Abbott and Costello, 24 April 1974.

Julian ("Cannonball") Adderley, 46, jazz saxophonist, 8 August 1975.

Kurt Adler, 70, Czech-born pianist-conductor for the Metropolitan Opera, 21 September 1977.

Samuel Adler, 81, abstract painter and sculptor, 12 November 1979.

Conrad Aiken, 84, poet, 17 August 1973.

Duane Allman, 24, rock guitarist with the Allman Brothers Band, 29 October 1971.

Eddie ("Rochester") Anderson, 71, radio and film performer, 28 February 1977.

Leroy Anderson, 66, composer-conductor, 18 May 1975.

William ("Bronco Billy") Anderson, 88, star of Western silent films, 20 January 1971.

Louis Armstrong, 71, New Orleans jazz trumpeter and bandleader known to the world as Satchmo, 6 July 1971.

W. H. Auden, 66, Pulitzer Prize-winning...

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