1992 in Music - Deaths

Deaths

• January 14 - Jerry Nolan, drummer for The New York Dolls, 45
• January 15 – Dee Murray, bassist for Elton John, 45 (cancer)
• January 17 – Charlie Ventura, tenor saxophonist and bandleader, 75
• January 27 – Allan Jones, singer and actor, 84
• January 29 – Willie Dixon, blues singer-songwriter & musician, 76
• February 12 – Stella Roman, operatic soprano, 87
• February 21 – Jane Pickens Langley of the Pickens Sisters
• March 4 – Mary Osborne, jazz guitarist, 70 (liver cancer)
• March 10 – Giorgos Zampetas, Greek composer, 67
• March 20 – Georges Delerue, composer, 66
• March 21 – Shaik Dawood Khan, tabla virtuoso, 75
• March 27 – Harald Sæverud, composer
• April 4 – Arthur Russell, cellist and disco musician, 40 (AIDS)
• April 20 – Johnny Shines, guitarist
• April 25 – Yutaka Ozaki, Japanese singer, 26 (pulmonary edema)
• April 27 – Olivier Messiaen, composer, 83
• April 30 – Toivo Kärki, composer, arranger and producer, 76
• May 7 – Tiny Timbrell, guitarist
• May 17 – Lawrence Welk, accordion player and bandleader, 89
• May 23 – Joyce Barker, operatic soprano, 60
• June 3 – Ettore Campogalliani, music teacher and composer, 89
• June 8 – Alfred Uhl, composer, 83
• June 18 – Peter Allen, Australian songwriter, 48 (AIDS)
• June 20 – Sir Charles Groves, conductor, 77
• July 4 – Ástor Piazzolla, tango musician and composer
• July 21 – Aloys Fleischmann, composer and musicologist
• July 25 – Alfred Drake, US singer and actor, 77
• July 26 – Mary Wells, Motown singer, 49 (laryngeal cancer)
• July 29 – William Mathias, composer, 57
• August 2 – Michel Berger, French composer and songwriter, 44 (heart attack)
• August 5 – Jeff Porcaro, drummer, Toto, 38 (heart attack)
• August 12 – John Cage, U.S. composer
• August 16 – Mark Heard, U.S. singer, 40 (heart attack)
• September 19 – Sir Geraint Evans, operatic baritone, 70
• October 3 – Peter Klein, lyric tenor, 85
• October 5 – Eddie Kendricks, singer, (The Temptations) 52 (lung cancer)
• October 7 – Harold Truscott, composer, pianist, broadcaster and writer on music, 78
• October 25 – Roger Miller, singer, 56 (lung cancer)
• November 10 – Hilda Hölzl, operatic soprano, 65
• November 13 – Ronnie Bond (The Troggs), 52
• November 14 – Teddy Riley, New Orleans jazz trumpeter and bandleader
• November 21 – Severino Gazzelloni, flautist
• November 23 – Roy Acuff, "King of Country Music", fiddler, 89
• November 27 – Daniel Santos, singer and composer of bolero
• November 29 – Paul Ryan, singer, songwriter and record producer, 44 (cancer)
• December 9 – Cesar Gonzmart, violinist, 72
• December 10 - Kate Buchdahl, violinist, 28 (Hodgkin's lymphoma)
• December 15 – Otto Lington, composer, orchestra leader and violinist, 89
• December 21
  • Philip Farkas, horn player, 78
  • Albert King, blues guitarist and singer, 69
  • Nathan Milstein, violinist, 88
• December 26 - Nikita Magaloff, pianist, 80