1983 in Music - Deaths

Deaths

  • January 5 – Amy Evans, operatic soprano and actress, 98
  • January 7 – Edith Coates, operatic mezzo-soprano, 74
  • January 28 – Billy Fury, singer, 42 (heart attack)
  • January 31 – Lorraine Ellison, soul singer, 51
  • February 4 – Karen Carpenter, singer and drummer, 32 (cardiac arrest due to anorexia nervosa)
  • February 8
    • Charles Kullman, operatic tenor, 80
    • Alfred Wallenstein, cellist, 84
  • February 12 – Eubie Blake, pianist, 96
  • February 18 – Leopold Godowsky, Jr., violinist and chemist, 82
  • February 22 – Sir Adrian Boult, conductor, 93
  • February 23 – Herbert Howells, organist and composer, 90
  • February 28 – Winifred Atwell, pianist, 69
  • March 6 – Cathy Berberian, singer and composer, 57
  • March 7
    • Igor Markevitch, Ukrainian composer and conductor, 70
    • William Walton, British composer, 80
  • April 4 – Danny Rapp (Danny and the Juniors), 41 (suicide by gunshot)
  • April 5 – Cliff Carlisle, country and blues singer, 79
  • April 13 – Dolo Coker, jazz pianist and composer, 55
  • April 14 – Pete Farndon (The Pretenders), 30 (drug overdose)
  • April 17 – Felix Pappalardi, producer and bassist, 43 (gunshot)
  • April 23 – Earl Hines, jazz pianist, 79
  • April 30
    • Muddy Waters, blues singer and guitarist, 70 (heart attack)
    • George Balanchine, choreographer, 79
  • May 23
    • George Bruns, film composer, 68
    • Finn Mortensen, composer and music critic, 61
  • May 25 – Paul Quinichette, saxophonist, 67
  • June 2 – Stan Rogers, folk musician, 33
  • June 25 – Alberto Ginastera, Argentine composer, 67
  • July 4 – Claus Adam, cellist, 66
  • July 5 – Harry James, bandleader, 67
  • July 12 – Chris Wood, rock musician, 39
  • July 23 – Georges Auric, composer, member of Les Six, 84
  • July 27 – Jerome Moross, composer, conductor and orchestrator, 69
  • July 30 – Howard Dietz, lyricist, 86
  • August 2 – James Jamerson, bassist, 47
  • August 3 – Helge Bonnén, pianist and composer, 87
  • August 6 – Klaus Nomi, singer, 39 (complications from AIDS)
  • August 13 – Zdeněk Liška, film composer, 61
  • August 14 – Omer Létourneau, pianist, organist, composer and conductor, 92
  • August 17 – Ira Gershwin, lyricist, 86
  • August 24 – Arkady Filippenko, composer, 71
  • September 5 – John Gilpin, dancer, 53 (heart attack)
  • September 24 – Isobel Baillie, operatic soprano, 88
  • September 25 – Paul Jacobs, pianist, 53 (complications from AIDS)
  • October 16
    • Øivin Fjeldstad, violinist and conductor, 80
    • George Liberace, violinist and arranger, 72
  • November 3 – Alfredo Antonini, conductor, 82
  • November 7 – Germaine Tailleferre, composer, only female member of Les Six, 88
  • November 19 – Tommy Evans, bassist of the rock group Badfinger, 36 (suicide)
  • December 6 – Lucienne Boyer, singer, 80
  • December 11 – Simon Laks, Polish composer and violinist, 82
  • December 28 – Dennis Wilson, member of the Beach Boys, 39 (drowned)
  • date unknown – Pat Smythe, jazz pianist, 59 or 60

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