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
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
—Philip Caputo (b. 1941)
“Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)