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
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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)
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
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What we do is not beautiful
hurts no one makes no one desperate
we do not break the panes of safety glass
stretching between people on the street
and the deaths they hire.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)