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The musicians of the Titanic were an octet orchestra who performed chamber music in the first class section aboard the ship. The group is notable for playing music, intending to calm the passengers for as long as they possibly could, during the ship's sinking in the early hours of April 15, 1912 in which all of the members perished.
Five days later, on 15 April 1912, the ship hit an iceberg and he and the other musicians famously continued to play as the Titanic sank. Their final tune was, according to some survivor accounts, "Nearer, My God, To Thee". All members of the band, including his friend Jock Hume, drowned, and the body of Wesley Woodward was never recovered.
Wallace Henry Hartley (2 June 1878 – 15 April 1912) was an English violinist and bandleader on the Titanic during its maiden voyage. He became famous for leading the eight-member band as the ship sank on 15 April 1912. He and the rest of the band did not survive the sinking.
Celebrated composer James Horner, best known for his Oscar-winning score for Titanic, died in a tragic plane crash on Monday. Horner was 61. A plane registered to Horner crashed in North Ventura ...
Pages in category "Musicians killed in aviation accidents or incidents" The following 40 pages are in this category, out of 40 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
First person to die while piloting a powered airplane and the second person to be killed in an airplane crash Wright Model A: Port-Aviation (Juvisy), France Crashed from 20 feet Raymonde de Laroche: France 1919 First woman to earn a pilot's license experimental Caudron: Le Crotoy, France Leif Holger Larsen: Norway 2015 Diplomat Mil Mi-17
Horner, who was an avid pilot, was killed in a single-fatality crash while flying his Short Tucano turboprop aircraft. He was 61 years old. [ 7 ] The scores for his final three films, Southpaw (2015), The 33 (2015) and The Magnificent Seven (2016), were all completed and released posthumously.
The Titanic Musicians' Memorial is a memorial in Southampton, United Kingdom, to the musicians who died in the RMS Titanic disaster on 15 April 1912. The original Titanic Musicians' Memorial was unveiled by the Mayor of Southampton, H Bowyer on 19 April 1913, and was located in the old Southampton library.