Necrology
Year: 1916
George Butterworth
Born: July 12th, 1885
Died: August 5th, 1916
Famous For: English Composer, Musicologist, Put Music to the Poetry of A.E. Housman
Cause of Death: Shot through the head by a German sniper during the Battle of the Somme, France
Burial Place: Body was never recovered
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