1994 in Music - Deaths

Deaths

  • January 6 – Harold Sumberg, violinist, 88
  • January 15 – Harry Nilsson, singer, songwriter, 52 (heart attack)
  • January 17 – Georges Cziffra, pianist, 72
  • February 5 - Tiana Lemnitz, operatic soprano, 96
  • February 7 – Witold Lutosławski, composer, 81
  • February 8 - Raymond Scott, composer and bandleader, 85
  • February 22 - Papa John Creach, blues violinist, 76
  • February 24 – Dinah Shore, singer, actress, 77
  • March 6 – Yvonne Fair, African-American singer, 51
  • March 13 – Danny Barker, jazz musician and composer, 85
  • March 16 – Nicolas Flagello, composer, 66
  • March 18 - Ephraim Lewis, soul and R&B singer, 26
  • March 22 – Dan Hartman, singer, 42 (brain tumour)
  • March 23 – Donald Swann, pianist, composer and entertainer (Flanders and Swann), 70
  • April 5 – Kurt Cobain, singer & guitarist (Nirvana), 27 (self-inflicted shotgun wound)
  • April 7 - Lee Brilleaux, R&B singer, 41 (cancer)
  • April 19 - Larry Davis, blues singer and guitarist, 57
  • May 23 - Joe Pass, jazz guitarist, 65 (liver cancer)
  • May 25 - Eric Gale, jazz guitarist, 55 (lung cancer)
  • May 26 - Sonny Sharrock, jazz guitarist, 53
  • May 27 - Red Rodney, bop trumpeter, 66
  • May 29 - Oliver Jackson, jazz drummer, 61
  • May 31 - Herva Nelli, operatic soprano, 85
  • June 4 - Earle Warren, saxophonist, 79
  • June 11 – Robert Beadell, composer, 68
  • June 14 – Henry Mancini, composer, 70
  • June 15 – Manos Hadjidakis, composer, 68
  • June 16 – Kristen Pfaff, bass guitarist (Hole), 27 (heroin overdose)
  • June 25
    • Kin Vassy, songwriter, performer, co-lead singer and guitarist of The First Edition 1969–72 (lung cancer), 50
    • DJ Train, producer (smoke inhalation)
  • June 29 – Kurt Eichhorn, conductor, 85
  • July 2 - Marion Williams, gospel singer, 66
  • July 31 – Anne Shelton, British singer, 70
  • August 6 – Domenico Modugno, Italian singer and songwriter, 66
  • September 2 – Roy Castle, musician and all-round entertainer, 62 (lung cancer)
  • September 3 - Major Lance, R&B singer, 55
  • September 6
    • Nicky Hopkins, session musician, keyboardist, 50 (complications from intestinal surgery)
    • Max Kaminsky, jazz trumpeter and bandleader, 85
  • September 13 – John Stevens, jazz musician
  • September 20 – Jule Styne, songwriter, 88
  • September 24 – Urmas Alender, singer, 40 (drowned in MS Estonia sinking)
  • September 29 – Cheb Hasni, Algerian Raj musician, 26 (murdered)
  • October 4 - Danny Gatton, guitarist, 49
  • October 19 – Martha Raye, singer and comedienne, 88
  • October 22
    • Jimmy Miller, record producer, 52
    • Shlomo Carlebach, Jewish songwriter
  • October 26 - Wilbert Harrison, R&B singer, pianist, guitarist and harmonica player, 65
  • October 27 - Robert White, Motown session guitarist, 57
  • October 31 - Lester Sill, record executive, 76
  • November 4 – Fred "Sonic" Smith, MC5 guitarist, 45 (heart attack)
  • November 7 – Shorty Rogers, jazz trumpeter, 70
  • November 11 – Elizabeth Maconchy, composer, 87
  • November 18 – Cab Calloway, jazz and scat singer, 86
  • November 28 – Vic Legley, Belgian violist and composer of French birth, 79
  • December 8 – Antonio Carlos Jobim, bossa nova composer and songwriter
  • December 10 – Garnett Silk, reggae singer, 28 (house fire)

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