1967 in Music - Deaths

Deaths

• January 1 – Moon Mullican, country singer, 57 (heart attack)
• January 3 – Mary Garden, operatic soprano, 93
• January 7 – Carl Schuricht, conductor, 86
• January 15 – Albert Szirmai, composer, 86
• January 27 – Luigi Tenco, singer-songwriter and actor, 28 (suicide by gunshot)
• January 31 – Geoffrey O'Hara, composer, 84
• February 12 – Muggsy Spanier, jazz cornettist, 60
• February 15 – Li Jinhui, composer and songwriter, 75
• February 16 – Smiley Burnette, singer and songwriter, 55 (leukaemia)
• February 24 – Franz Waxman, composer, 60
• February 25 – Fats Pichon, jazz pianist, bandleader, 60
• March 6
  • Zoltán Kodály, composer, 84
  • Nelson Eddy, US singer and actor, 65
• March 7 – Willie Smith, alto saxophonist, 56 (cancer)
• March 11 – Geraldine Farrar, operatic soprano, 85
• March 22 - Luigi Piazza, operatic baritone, 82
• March 23 – Pete Johnson, jazz pianist, 62
• March 29 – Cheo Marquetti, singer-songwriter, 57
• April 5 – Mischa Elman, violinist, 76
• April 12 – Buster Bailey, jazz musician, 64
• April 15 – Totò, songwriter, 69
• April 17 – Red Allen, jazz trumpeter
• April 20 - Anna Fitziu, operatic soprano, 80
• April 29 – J. B. Lenoir, blues musician, 38 (heart attack)
• April 30 – Jef Le Penven, composer, 47
• May 9 – Philippa Schuyler, pianist and child prodigy
• May 10 - Arthur Carron, operatic tenor, 66
• May 17 – John Wesley Work III, composer, 65
• May 21 – Ilona Eibenschütz, pianist, 95
• May 31 – Billy Strayhorn, composer and pianist, 51 (esophageal cancer)
• June 3 – André Cluytens, conductor, 62
• June 24 – Lionel Belasco, pianist and bandleader, about 85
• June 26 - Françoise Dorléac, actress and singer, 25 (car accident)
• June 29 – Jayne Mansfield, actress, violinist and sometime singer, 34 (car accident)
• July 17 – John Coltrane, jazz musician, 40 (liver cancer)
• July 26 – Matthijs Vermeulen, composer, 79
• July 30 – Marios Varvoglis, composer, 81
• August 5 - Evelyn Scotney, coloratura soprano, 71
• August 8 – Jaromír Weinberger, composer, 71
• August 27 – Brian Epstein, manager of The Beatles, 32
• September 15 – Hans Haug, primitivist composer, 67
• September 25 – Stuff Smith, jazz violinist, 58
• October 3
  • Woody Guthrie singer, songwriter, 55(Huntingtons Disease)
  • Sir Malcolm Sargent, conductor, 72
• November 10 – Ida Cox, blues singer, 71
• November 13 – Harriet Cohen, pianist, 71
• November 16 – Roshan, Bollywood composer, 50 (heart attack)
• November 22 – Edvin Kallstenius, composer, 86
• November 23 – Otto Erich Deutsch, musicologist, 84
• November 24 – Raúl Borges, guitarist and composer, 85
• November 25 – Dawid Engela, broadcaster, composer and musicologist, 36 (road accident)
• November 30 – Heinz Tietjen, conductor, 86
• December – Roger Penzabene, Motown songwriter (suicide)
• December 4 – Bert Lahr, vaudeville performer, 72
• December 6 – Lillian Evanti, operatic soprano, 77
• December 10 (in plane crash):
  • Otis Redding, soul singer, 26
  • Four of six members of soul group The Bar-Kays :
    • Ronnie Caldwell, 18
    • Phalon Jones, 18
    • Jimmy King, 18
    • Carl Cunningham, 18
• December 11 – Victor de Sabata, conductor and composer, 75
• December 19 - Carmen Melis, operatic soprano, 82
• December 28 - Maria Nemeth, operatic soprano, 70
• December 29 – Paul Whiteman, bandleader, 77
• date unknown
  • Stanley R. Avery, composer
  • Texas Gladden, folk singer
  • Knud Harder, composer
  • Barsegh Kanachyan, composer of the Armenian national anthem
  • Nino Marcelli, conductor and composer