1993 in Music - Deaths

Deaths

• January 6
  • Dizzy Gillespie, jazz trumpet virtuoso and co-founder of bebop, 76
  • Rudolf Nureyev, ballet dancer, 54
• January 15 – Sammy Cahn, songwriter, 79
• February 3 – Karel Goeyvaerts, composer, 69
• February 25 - Toy Caldwell, guitarist (The Marshall Tucker Band), 45
• February 26 – Pina Carmirelli, violinist, founder member of the Boccherini Quintet, 78
• March 3 – Carlos Montoya, guitarist, 89
• March 31 – Mitchell Parish, 92, US lyric writer
• April 19 - Steve Douglas, saxophonist, 54
• April 23 – Daniel Jones, composer, 80
• April 30 – Mick Ronson, guitarist, 46 (liver cancer)
• May 22 – Juice Wilson, jazz violinist, 89
• May 30 – Sun Ra, jazz composer, 79
• June 5 – Conway Twitty (real name: Harold Jenkins) country rock singer, 59
• June 9 - Arthur Alexander, country soul singer, 53
• June 13 - John Campbell, blues guitarist, 41 (heart failure)
• June 28 - GG Allin, punk singer, 36 (heroin overdose)
• July 7 – Mia Zapata (The Gits), 27 (murdered)
• July 14 – Léo Ferré, French singer, songwriter and composer, 76
• July 19 – Szymon Goldberg, Polish-born American violinist and conductor, 84
• July 21 - Richard Tee, pianist and singer, 49 (prostate cancer)
• August 5 – Eugen Suchoň, Slovak composer, 84
• August 7 – Roy Budd, jazz pianist and film composer, 46 (brain haemorrhage)
• August 10 – Øystein Aarseth, aka Euronymous, black metal guitarist of Mayhem fame, 25 (murdered)
• August 17 - Phil Seymour, drummer, guitarist and singer, 41 (cancer)
• August 21 - Tatiana Troyanos, operatic mezzo-soprano, 54 (breast cancer)
• August 25 - Janna Allen, songwriter, 36 (leukemia)
• August 26 - Rockin' Dopsie, zydeco accordionist and singer, 61
• September 9 – Helen O'Connell, singer, actress and dancer, 73
• September 22 – Maurice Abravanel, conductor, 90
• October 23 – Elena Nicolai, opera singer, 88
• October 31 – River Phoenix, actor and singer of Aleka's Attic, 23 (drug overdose)
• November 3 – Léon Theremin, inventor of the Theremin musical instrument, 97
• November 6 – Torsten Fenslau, (Culture Beat), 29 (car accident)
• November 11 - Erskine Hawkins, trumpet player and bandleader, 79
• November 22 – Anthony Burgess, composer and polymath best known as a novelist, 76
• November 24 - Albert Collins, blues guitarist and singer, 61 (cancer)
• November 26 – César Guerra-Peixe, violinist and composer, 79
• November 30 – David Houston, singer 57
• December 1 – Ray Gillen, former vocalist of Black Sabbath and Badlands, 34 (AIDS-related)
• December 4 – Frank Zappa, "Mothers of Invention" musician/composer, 52 (prostate cancer)
• December 5 – Doug Hopkins, guitarist and songwriter for Gin Blossoms, 32 (suicide)
• December 12 – Joan Cross, operatic soprano, 93
• December 19 - Michael Clarke, drummer (The Byrds), 47