1960 in Music - Deaths

Deaths

  • January 2 – Leila Megane, mezzo-soprano, 68
  • January 5 – Jakob van Domselaer, composer, 69
  • January 18 – Gladys Bentley, blues singer, 52 (pneumonia)
  • January 24 – Edwin Fischer, pianist and conductor, 73
  • January 25 – Rutland Boughton, composer, 82
  • February 2 – Jenő Huszka, composer of operettas, 84
  • February 3
    • Ace Brigode, bandleader, 67
    • Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer, musician and songwriter, 38 (car accident)
  • February 6 – Jesse Belvin, singer, pianist and songwriter, 27 (car accident)
  • February 9 – Ernő Dohnányi, pianist, conductor and composer, 82
  • February 12 – Bobby Clark, US comedian and singer, 71
  • March 4 – Leonard Warren, baritone, operatic baritone (cerebral hemorrhage)
  • March 16 – Billy Garland, blues guitarist, singer and songwriter, 41 (car accident)
  • March 30 – Fabian Andre, composer, 50
  • April 10 – Arthur Benjamin, composer, 66
  • April 17 – Eddie Cochran, rock & roll singer, 21 (road accident)
  • April 24 – Carl Braun, operatic bass, 73
  • May 8 – Hugo Alfvén, violinist, conductor and composer, 88
  • May 12 – Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, composer, 70
  • May 13 – Gid Tanner, country music star, 74
  • May 14 – Lucrezia Bori, operatic soprano, 72
  • July 18 – Foster Reynolds, instrument manufacturer, 75 (heart attack at work)
  • July 24 – Hans Albers, actor and singer, 69
  • August 9 – Louis Cahuzac, clarinettist and composer, 80
  • August 23 – Oscar Hammerstein II, librettist and director of many musicals, 65
  • September 3 – Joseph Lamb, ragtime composer, 72
  • September 8 – Oscar Pettiford, jazz musician and composer, 37
  • September 9 – Jussi Björling, operatic tenor, 49 (heart attack)
  • September 13 – Leo Weiner, music teacher, 75
  • September 24 – Mátyás Seiber, composer, 55 (car accident)
  • October 19 – Günter Raphael, composer, 57
  • October 20 – Denise Orme, music hall performer, 75
  • October 30 – Alfred Hill, composer and conductor, 90
  • November 2 – Dimitris Mitropoulos, pianist, conductor and composer, 64
  • November 5 – Johnny Horton, American country singer, 35 (car accident)
  • December 4 – Walter Goehr, composer, 57
  • December 7 – Clara Haskil, pianist, 65
  • December 10 – Mado Robin, singer, 41 (cancer)
  • date unknown
    • Lawrence Duhé, jazz musician
    • Oliphant Chuckerbutty, organist and composer
    • Lorenzo Herrera, singer and composer

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