Malcolm Sargent
By the mid-1960s Sargent was suffering from cancer.  He was too ill to conduct the Proms in 1967, but on 16 September, at the Last Night, to everyone’s astonishment, he appeared at the end of the concert to talk to his audience.  He gave his baton to Colin Davis who took over his job.  Sargent looked very ill, and died two weeks later.