1973 in Music - Deaths

Deaths

  • January 16 – Clara Ward, gospel singer, 48 (stroke)
  • January 23 – Kid Ory, jazz trombonist and bandleader, 86
  • February 3 – Andy Razaf, composer, poet and lyricist, 77
  • February 19
    • Joseph Szigeti, violinist, 80
    • Leon Washington, jazz saxophonist, 63 (leukemia)
  • February 28 - Terig Tucci, Argentine composer, violinist, pianist, and mandolinist, 75
  • March 5 – Michael Jeffery, Jimi Hendrix's personal manager
  • March 8 – Ron Pigpen McKernan, musician and songwriter (Grateful Dead), 27 (stomach hemorrhage)
  • March 12 - Esther Ballou, music educator, organist and composer, 57
  • March 19 - Lauritz Melchior, Wagnerian tenor, 82
  • March 26
    • Safford Cape, American composer and musicologist, 66
    • Noël Coward, composer and dramatist, 73
  • March 28 - Gertrude Johnson, coloratura soprano, 78
  • April 18 – Willie 'The Lion' Smith, US jazz pianist, 79
  • May 9 - Mark Wessel, pianist and composer, 79
  • May 21 – Vaughn Monroe, US singer and bandleader, 61
  • May 27 - Ilona Kabos, Hungarian-British pianist and teacher, 79
  • June 4 - Murry Wilson, musician and record producer, 55
  • June 8 - Tubby Hayes, jazz musician, 38 (during heart surgery)
  • July 3
    • Betty Grable, US actress and singer, 56 (lung cancer)
    • Karel Ančerl, conductor, 65
  • July 6 – Otto Klemperer, conductor, 88
  • July 11 – Alexander Mosolov, Russian composer, 72
  • July 15 – Clarence White, guitarist (The Byrds), 29 (road accident)
  • August 2 - Rosetta Pampanini, operatic soprano, 76
  • August 4 - Eddie Condon, jazz banjoist and guitarist, 67
  • August 6 - Memphis Minnie, blues singer and guitarist, 76
  • August 16 - Astra Desmond, operatic contralto, 80
  • August 17
    • Jean Barraqué, French classical composer, 45
    • Paul Williams, baritone singer and co-founder of the Motown group, The Temptations, 34 (suicide by gunshot)
  • August 19 - Brew Moore, jazz saxophonist, 49 (fell downstairs)
  • September 1 - Graziella Pareto, operatic soprano, 84
  • September 6 – Sir William Henry Harris, organist and composer, 90
  • September 10 – Allan Gray, composer, 71
  • September 11 - Martha Angelici, operatic soprano, 66
  • September 16 – Víctor Jara, Chilean folk singer, 40 (murdered)
  • September 17 – Hugo Winterhalter, US conductor and arranger, 53
  • September 19 – Gram Parsons, guitarist/vocalist, 26 (drug overdose)
  • September 20
    • Jim Croce, 30, singer-songwriter (plane crash)
    • Ben Webster, jazz saxophonist, 64
  • October 16
    • Gene Krupa, drummer, 64
    • Jorge Peña Hen, composer, 45
  • October 22 – Pablo Casals, cellist, 95
  • November 10
    • Zeke Zettner (The Stooges), 25 (heroin overdose)
    • David "Stringbean" Akeman, country banjo player and comedian, 57 (murdered)
  • November 18 – Alois Hába, composer, 80
  • November 23 - De De Pierce, jazz trumpeter, 69
  • November 26 - Edith Mason, operatic soprano, 81
  • November 27 – Frank Christian, jazz trumpeter, 85
  • December 13 - Fanny Heldy, operatic soprano, 85
  • December 20 – Bobby Darin, American singer and actor, 37 (heart failure)
  • December 31 – Emile Christian, jazz trombonist, 78
  • date unknown – Cäwdät Fäyzi, Tatar composer and folklorist

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