Sammy Cahn

A lyricist who helped shape the sound of the Sinatra era, he won four Academy Awards for songs including "Three Coins in the Fountain" and wrote hits for Dean Martin, Doris Day and dozens of others largely out of the recording studios of Los Angeles. His enduring standard "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!," written with Jule Styne in 1945, is still played every winter.