Months in 2004: January February March April May June July August September October November December
Events in Music
Events 1 - 2 of 2
Feb 1st - Janet Jackson's breast is exposed during the half-time show of Super Bowl XXXVIII, resulting in US broadcasters adopting a stronger adherence to FCC censorship guidelines.
Jun 23rd - Bob Dylan accepts honorary doctor of music degree from the University of St Andrews, Scotland's oldest university
Deaths in Music
Deaths 1 - 86 of 86
Jan 4th - Jake Hess,
American singer (b. 1927)
Jan 12th - Randy VanWarmer,
American singer and songwriter (b. 1955)
Jan 14th - Valfar,
Norwegian musician (Windir) (b. 1978)
Jan 17th - Czeslaw Niemen,
Polish musician (b. 1939)
Jan 22nd - Billy May,
American composer and musician (b. 1916)
Jan 22nd - Ann Miller, American actress and dancer (b. 1923)
Feb 1st - May O'Donnell,
American modern dancer and choreographer (b. 1909)
Feb 3rd - Jason Raize,
American musical theatre actor (b. 1975)
Feb 16th - Doris Troy,
American singer (b. 1937)
Feb 23rd - Carl Anderson,
American singer (b. 1945)
Feb 23rd - Don Cornell, American singer (b. 1919)
Mar 4th - John McGeoch,
Scottish musician (b. 1955)
Mar 4th - Claude Nougaro, French singer (b. 1929)
Mar 9th - Rust Epique,
former Crazy Town guitarist (b. 1968)
Mar 10th - Dave Blood,
real name David Schulthise; American musician, bassist for The Dead Milkmen (b. 1956)
Mar 16th - Vilém Tauský,
Czech conductor and composer (b. 1910)
Mar 21st - Ludmilla Tchérina,
French ballet dancer and actress (b. 1924)
Mar 26th - Jan Berry,
American musician (Jan and Dean) (b. 1941)
Mar 27th - Adán Sánchez,
Mexican-American singer (b. 1984)
Mar 30th - Timi Yuro,
American singer (b. 1940)
Apr 1st - Nilo Soruco,
Bolivian songwriter (b. 1927)
Apr 6th - Niki Sullivan,
American guitarist (The Crickets) (b. 1937)
Apr 15th - Ray Condo,
Canadian musician (b. 1950)
May 5th - Ritsuko Okazaki,
Japanese singer-songwriter (b. 1959)
May 6th - Barney Kessel,
American jazz guitarist (b. 1923)
May 11th - John Whitehead,
American singer (McFadden & Whitehead) (b. 1949)
May 18th - Elvin Jones,
American jazz drummer (b. 1927)
May 31st - Robert Quine,
American guitarist (b. 1941)
May 31st - Étienne Roda-Gil, French songwriter and screenwriter (b. 1941)
Jun 3rd - Quorthon,
Swedish musician (Bathory) (b. 1966)
Jun 4th - Steve Lacy,
American saxophonist (b. 1934)
Jun 5th - Iona Brown,
British violinist and conductor (b. 1941)
Musician Ray Charles (Jun 10th)
Jun 10th - Ray Charles,
Grammy winning crooner who blended gospel and blues, dies aged 73
Jun 14th - Eamonn McGirr,
Irish-born singer and entertainer
Jun 24th - Ifigeneia Giannopoulou,
Greek songwriter (b. 1957)
Jun 26th - Naomi Shemer,
Israeli singer and song-writer (b. 1930)
Jul 1st - Todor Skalovski,
Macedonian composer (b. 1909)
Jul 4th - Jean-Marie Auberson,
Swiss conductor (b. 1920)
Jul 6th - Syreeta Wright,
American singer (b. 1946)
Jul 13th - Arthur Kane,
American musician (b. 1949)
Jul 13th - Carlos Kleiber, Austrian conductor (b. 1930)
Jul 21st - Jerry Goldsmith,
American composer (b. 1929)
Jul 22nd - Sacha Distel,
French singer (b. 1933)
Jul 22nd - Illinois Jacquet, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1922)
Jul 23rd - Carlos Paredes,
Portuguese musician and composer (b. 1925)
Jul 23rd - Piero Piccioni, Italian musician, conductor and composer (b. 1921)
Jul 23rd - Serge Reggiani, French singer and actor (b. 1922)
Jul 29th - Rena Vlahopoulou,
Greek actress and singer (b. 1923)
Aug 2nd - Don Tosti,
American musician (b. 1923)
Aug 6th - Rick James,
American musician (b. 1948)
Aug 9th - Tony Mottola,
American guitarist (b. 1918)
Aug 15th - Semiha Berksoy,
first Turkish opera singer (b. 1910)
Aug 18th - Elmer Bernstein,
American composer (b. 1922)
Aug 26th - Laura Branigan,
American singer (b. 1957)
Aug 29th - Hans Vonk,
Dutch conductor (b. 1942)
Aug 31st - Carl Wayne,
English singer (b. 1943)
Sep 11th - Fred Ebb,
American lyricist (b. 1933)
Sep 15th - Johnny Ramone,
American lead singer of the punk rock band The Ramones
Sep 19th - Skeeter Davis,
American singer (b. 1931)
Sep 19th - Ellis Marsalis, Sr., American businessman, musician, and activist
Sep 23rd - André Hazes,
Dutch singer (b. 1951)
Oct 1st - Bruce Palmer,
Canadian musician (Buffalo Springfield) (b. 1946)
Oct 14th - Vlassis Bonatsos,
Greek singer, actor and entertainer (b. 1949)
Oct 17th - Uzi Hitman,
Israeli singer (b. 1952)
Oct 19th - Elliott Smith,
American Singer Songwriter(b. 1969)
Nov 1st - Mac Dre,
American rapper (b. 1970)
Nov 1st - Terry Knight, American music promoter (b. 1943)
Nov 10th - Katy de la Cruz,
Filipino singer (b. 1907)
Nov 13th - John Balance,
English musician and artist (b. 1962)
Nov 13th - Ol' Dirty Bastard, American rapper (Wu-Tang Clan) (b. 1968)
Nov 14th - Michel Colombier,
French composer (b. 1939)
Nov 18th - Cy Coleman,
American composer, songwriter and pianist (b. 1929)
Nov 19th - Terry Melcher,
American musician and record producer (b. 1942)
Nov 20th - Jenny Ross,
English musician (Section 25) (b. 1962)
Nov 24th - Wong Jim,
Hong Kong songwriter (b. 1940)
Dec 4th - Elena Souliotis,
Greek soprano (b. 1943)
Dec 7th - Frederick Fennell,
American conductor (b. 1914)
Dec 7th - Jerry Scoggins, American singer (b. 1913)
Dec 8th - Dimebag Darrell,
heavy metal guitarist in band Pantera is shot & killed while performing onstage in Columbus Ohio by crazed fan Nathan Gale
Dec 11th - M.S. Subbulakshmi,
Indian singer (b. 1916)
Dec 19th - Renata Tebaldi,
Italian soprano (b. 1922)
Dec 26th - Sigurd Køhn,
Norwegian jazz musician, in 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake (b. 1959)
Dec 26th - Aki Sirkesalo, Finnish musician, in 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake (b. 1962)
Dec 26th - Mieszko Talarczyk, Lead singer/Guitarist of grindcore band, Nasum, in 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake (b. 1974)
Dec 27th - Hank Garland,
American musician (b. 1930)
Dec 30th - Artie Shaw,
American jazz clarinetist, composer, and bandleader, dies at 94
