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

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