Months in 1999: January February March April May June July August September October November December
Deaths in Music
Deaths 1 - 65 of 65
Jan 6th - ,
ench Jazz piano virtuoso Michel Petrucciani dies in New York following a brief respiratory illness at age 36
Jan 11th - Fabrizio de André,
Italian singer (b. 1940)
Jan 21st - Charles Brown,
American blues singer and pianist (b. 1920)
Jan 23rd - Prince Lincoln Thompson,
Jamaican musician (b. 1949)
Jan 25th - Robert Shaw,
American conductor (b. 1916)
Jan 29th - Lili St. Cyr,
American dancer (b. 1918)
Feb 1st - Barış Manço,
Turkish singer, composer, television producer and celebrity. (b. 1943)
Feb 2nd - David McComb,
Australian musician (The Triffids) (b. 1962)
Feb 7th - Bobby Troup,
American musician and actor (b. 1918)
Feb 14th - Buddy Knox,
American singer and songwriter (b. 1933)
Feb 15th - Big L,
American rapper (b. 1974)
Mar 2nd - Dusty Springfield,
English singer (b. 1939)
Mar 2nd - David Ackles, American singer and songwriter (b. 1937)
Mar 9th - Harry Somers,
Canadian composer (b. 1925)
Mar 12th - Yehudi Menuhin,
American-born violinist (b. 1916)
Mar 13th - Bidu Sayão,
Brazilian born soprano (b. 1902)
Mar 17th - Ernest Gold,
Austrian composer (b. 1921)
Mar 28th - Freaky Tah,
American rapper (Lost Boyz) (b. 1971)
Mar 29th - Joe Williams,
American singer (b. 1918)
Apr 3rd - Lionel Bart,
English pop music composer and writer, dies of liver cancer at 68
Apr 6th - Red Norvo,
American jazz vibraphonist (b. 1908)
Apr 12th - Boxcar Willie,
American singer (b. 1931)
Apr 14th - Anthony Newley,
British actor and singer (b. 1931)
Apr 16th - Skip Spence,
Canadian-born guitarist, singer and songwriter (Jefferson Airplane) (b. 1946)
Apr 21st - Charles 'Buddy' Rogers,
American actor and musician (b. 1904)
Apr 22nd - Apostolos Nikolaidis,
Greek singer (b. 1938)
Apr 26th - Adrian Borland,
English musician (The Sound) (b. 1957)
Apr 27th - Al Hirt,
American trumpeter (b. 1922)
May 10th - Shel Silverstein,
American poet and composer (b. 1930)
May 17th - Bruce Fairbairn,
Canadian record producer and musician (b. 1949)
May 18th - Augustus Pablo,
Jamaican singer (b. 1954)
May 21st - Karnail "Bugz" Pitts,
American rapper (D12) (b. 1979)
May 26th - Paul Sacher,
Swiss conductor (b. 1906)
Jun 2nd - Junior Braithwaite,
Jamaican musician (The Wailers) (b. 1949)
Jun 5th - Mel Tormé,
American singer ("The Velvet Fog"), composer, and actor (b. 1925)
Jun 16th - David Edward Sutch,
British musician (b. 1940)
Jun 21st - Kami,
Japanese drummer (Malice Mizer) (b. 1973)
Jul 1st - Guy Mitchell,
American popular singer dies at 72
Jul 3rd - Mark Sandman,
American musician (b. 1952)
Jul 6th - Joaquin Rodrigo,
Spanish composer (b. 1901)
Jul 11th - Helen Forrest,
American singer (b. 1917)
Jul 16th - Hiromi Yanagihara,
Japanese singer (b. 1979)
Jul 22nd - Gar Samuelson,
American musician (Megadeth) (b. 1958)
Jul 27th - Sweets Edison,
American jazz trumpet player (b. 1915)
Aug 16th - Pee Wee King,
American country musician and songwriter (b. 1914)
Aug 24th - Alexandre Lagoya,
Greek-Italian classical guitarist (b. 1929)
Aug 25th - Rob Fisher,
English musician (b. 1956)
Sep 8th - Moondog,
American composer, musician and poet (b. 1916)
Sep 17th - Frankie Vaughan,
British singer (b. 1928)
Oct 1st - Lena Zavaroni,
Scottish singer and Child star (b. 1963)
Oct 4th - Erik Brødreskift (aka Grim),
Norwegian black metal musician (b. 1969)
Oct 4th - Art Farmer, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1928)
Oct 6th - Amalia Rodrigues,
Portuguese singer and actress (b. 1920)
Oct 9th - Milt Jackson,
American jazz vibraphonist (b. 1923)
Oct 26th - Hoyt Axton,
American actor and country music singer-songwriter (b. 1938)
Nov 8th - Lester Bowie,
American jazz trumpet player (b. 1941)
Nov 13th - Donald Mills,
American singer (Mills Brothers) (b. 1915)
Nov 18th - Doug Sahm,
American musician (b. 1941)
Nov 30th - Charlie Byrd,
American jazz guitarist (b. 1925)
Dec 3rd - Scatman John,
American singer (b. 1942)
Dec 10th - Rick Danko,
Canadian bassist and singer (The Band) (b. 1942)
Dec 17th - Grover Washington,
Jr., American saxophonist (b. 1943)
Dec 17th - Rex Allen, American actor, singer and songwriter (b. 1920)
Dec 20th - Hank Snow,
Canadian singer (b. 1914)
Dec 26th - Curtis Mayfield,
American musician (b. 1942)
