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popular name: Billy Joe Royal

date_of_death: October 6, 2015

age: 73

cause_of_death: Died in his sleep

claim_to_fame: Music

best_know_for: Billy Joe Royal was a Georgia-born singer who debuted on Columbia Records with "Down in the Boondocks" in 1965, which reached No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100. But he struggled to match his initial success with his subsequent records and starting in the late 1980s, he reinvented himself as a country singer. He was known for songs like "I'll Pin a Note on Your Pillow," ''Tell it Like it is" and "Till I Can't Take it Anymore" and was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in 1988. Upon his death, he was laid to rest at Greenwood Cemetery in Morehead City, NC.

popular name: Leopold Auer

date_of_death: July 15, 1930

age: 85

cause_of_death: Pneumonia

claim_to_fame: Music

best_know_for: Leopold Auer was a renown Hungarian violinist, academic, conductor and composer, best known as an outstanding violin teacher. Many notable virtuoso violinists including Jascha Heifetz, Mischa Elman, and Efrem Zimbalist were among his students and "some of the greatest violinists" of the twentieth century. Admission to Auer's class was a privilege won by talent. Remaining there was a test of endurance and hard work. While Auer pushed his students to their limits, he also remained devoted to them. He used his influence in high government offices to obtain residence permits for his Jewish students. Auer wrote a small number of works, including the Rhapsodie hongroise for violin and piano. He also wrote a number of cadenzas for other composers' violin concertos including those by Beethoven, Brahms, and Mozart's third.

popular name: Stan Kenton

date_of_death: August 25, 1979

age: 67

cause_of_death: Stroke

claim_to_fame: Music

best_know_for: As a pianist, composer, arranger and band leader, Stan Kenton led an innovative and influential jazz orchestra for almost four decades performing such jazz standards as Tampico, Adventures in Jazz and West Side Story.