Months in 2009: January February March April May June July August September October November December
Deaths in Music
Deaths 1 - 56 of 56
Jan 13th - Mansour Rahbani,
Lebanese composer and lyricist (b. 1925)
Jan 20th - David Newman,
American jazz musician, nicknamed "Fathead" (b. 1933)
Jan 24th - Gérard Blanc,
French singer (b. 1947)
Jan 28th - Billy Powell,
American musician (b. 1952)
Jan 29th - John Martyn,
Scottish singer and songwriter (b. 1948)
Feb 4th - Lux Interior,
Frontman of the garage rock band The Cramps (b. 1946)
Feb 11th - Estelle Bennett,
American singer (b. 1941)
Feb 15th - Joe Cuba,
Puerto-Rican musician (b. 1931)
Feb 19th - Kelly Groucutt,
Bass guitarist and singer for the band Electric Light Orchestra (b.1945)
Feb 19th - Miika Tenkula, Finnish guitarist for the band Sentenced (b.1974)
Feb 20th - Larry H. Miller,
American businessman and owner of the Utah Jazz (b. 1944)
Mar 4th - Joseph Bloch,
American concert pianist and professor of piano literature (b. 1917)
Mar 4th - John Cephas, American Piedmont blues guitarist (b. 1930)
Mar 14th - Alain Bashung,
French singer, songwriter, comedian and actor. (b. 1947)
Mar 19th - Ion Dolănescu,
Romanian singer and politician (b. 1944)
Mar 20th - Mel Brown,
American/Canadian Blues Guitarist (b. 1939)
Mar 29th - Maurice Jarre,
French composer (b.1924)
Mar 29th - Andy Hallett, American actor and singer (b.1975)
Apr 25th - Beatrice Arthur,
American comedian, actress, and singer, (b. 1922)
Apr 27th - Frankie Manning,
an American dancer, instructor, choreographer, and one of the founding fathers of Lindy Hop. (b. 1914)
Apr 28th - Valeria Peter Predescu,
Romanian singer (b. 1947)
May 12th - Antonio Vega,
Spanish pop singer-songwriter (b. 1957)
May 18th - ,
lla American Rapper a.k.a. Roderick Anthony Burton II (b.1987)
May 24th - Jay Bennett,
American guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, engineer, producer, and singer-songwriter (b. 1963)
Jun 3rd - Koko Taylor,
American blues musician, popularly known as the "Queen of the Blues." (b. 1928)
Jun 3rd - Sam Butera, American jazz musician (b. 1927)
Jun 5th - Jeff Hanson,
American singer-songwriter (b. 1978)
Jun 7th - Kenny Rankin,
American singer (b. 1940)
Jun 7th - Hugh Hopper, British musician (b. 1945)
Jun 14th - Ivan Della Mea,
Italian singer-songwriter (b. 1940)
King of Pop Michael Jackson (Jun 25th)
Jun 25th - Michael Jackson,
American recording artist, entertainer and King of Pop music (The Jackson 5, Thriller, Dangerous) dies of cardiac arrest aged 50
Jun 27th - Fayette Pinkney,
African American singer (The Three Degrees) (b. 1948)
Jul 4th - Drake Levin,
American rock musician (b. 1946)
Jul 4th - Jim Chapin, American drummer (b.1919)
Jul 6th - Johnny Collins,
British folk and maritime music singer (b. 1938)
Jul 20th - Ria Brieffies,
Dutch singer (b. 1957)
Aug 7th - Mike Seeger,
American folk musician (b. 1933)
Aug 12th - Les Paul,
American musician (b. 1915)
Aug 20th - Larry Knechtel,
American keyboard player and bassist (b. 1940)
Aug 21st - Dean Turner,
Australian musician (b. 1972)
Sep 14th - Patrick Swayze,
American actor, dancer, and songwriter (b. 1952)
Sep 14th - Henry Gibson, American actor and songwriter (b. 1935)
Sep 16th - Mary Travers,
American singer (Peter, Paul, and Mary) (b. 1936)
Sep 25th - Alicia de Larrocha,
Catalan pianist (b. 1923)
Oct 4th - Mercedes Sosa,
Argentinian singer (b. 1935)
Oct 10th - Stephen Gately,
Irish singer (Boyzone) (b. 1976)
Oct 12th - ,
ckie Peterson American musician (b. 1948)
Oct 17th - Vic Mizzy,
American composer (themes to Green Acres and The Addams Family) (b. 1916)
Oct 26th - George Na'ope,
American musician (b. 1928)
Dec 1st - Gustavo Adolfo Palma,
Guatemalan singer (b. 1920)
Dec 2nd - Eric Woolfson,
Scottish singer and producer (The Alan Parsons Project) (b. 1945)
Dec 8th - Luis Días,
Dominican Composer (b. 1952).
Dec 25th - Vic Chesnutt,
American singer and songwriter (b. 1964)
Dec 26th - Felix Wurman,
American cellist and composer (b. 1958)
Dec 28th - James Owen "The Rev" Sullivan,
American musician drummer of Avenged Sevenfold (b. 1981)
Dec 30th - Rowland S. Howard,
Australian guitarist (The Birthday Party) (b. 1959)
