Months in Year 1958: January March April May June July August September October November December
Deaths 1 - 43 of 43
Jan 1st - David Broekman,
musican (Think Fast), dies at 55
Jan 11th - Alec Rowley,
composer, dies at 65
Jan 12th - Arthur Shepherd,
composer, dies at 77
Mar 14th - Eugeen Van de Velde,
Flemish musicologist/critic/composer, dies at 64
Mar 25th - Emerson Whithorne,
composer, dies at 73
Mar 25th - Tom Brown, American musician (b. 1888)
Mar 28th - William Christopher Handy,
US conductor/composer (St Louis Blues), dies at 84 in New York
Apr 7th - Judge Jackson,
composer, dies at 75
Apr 7th - Klimenty Arkad'yevich Korchmaryov, composer, dies at 58
Apr 10th - Chuck Willis,
rocker, dies at 30
May 19th - Bruno Sturmer,
composer, dies at 65
May 28th - Mikulas Schneider-Trvavsky,
composer, dies at 77
Jun 6th - Lily Theresa Strickland,
composer, dies at 71
Jun 16th - Jose Pablo Moncayo Garcia,
composer, dies at 45
Jun 23rd - Edvard Armas Jarnefeldt,
composer, dies at 88
Jul 1st - Rudolf von Laban,
Czech/Ger choreographer (modern dance), dies at 78
Jul 15th - Julia Lennon,
mother of Beatle John, dies in an auto accident
Jul 30th - Alexander Albrecht,
composer, dies at 72
Aug 2nd - Joseph Holbrooke,
English pianist/composer (3 Blind Mice), dies at 80
Aug 5th - Joseph Holbrooke,
English pianist/composer (3 Blind Mice), dies at 80
Aug 9th - Felipe Boero,
composer, dies at 74
Aug 14th - Big Bill Broonzy,
rocker, dies of cancer at 65
Aug 15th - William L C "Big Bill" Broonzy,
US blues singer/guitarist, dies at 65
Aug 17th - Florent Schmitt,
French composer/critic (Jardin Secret), dies at 87
Aug 19th - Antonius "Toon" Verhey,
violin cellist/conductor, dies at 63
Aug 21st - Stevan Hristic,
composer, dies at 73
Aug 24th - Kenneth Leighton,
composer, dies at 28
Aug 24th - Leo Blech, composer, dies at 87
Aug 26th - Ralph Vaughan Williams,
English composer, dies at 85
Aug 28th - Nikolay Semyonovich Golovanov,
composer, dies at 67
Sep 11th - Robert Lach,
composer, dies at 84
Sep 29th - Aare Merikanto,
composer, dies at 65
Oct 13th - Alexander Moiseyevich Veprik,
composer, dies at 59
Oct 14th - Jean Poveigh,
composer, dies at 82
Oct 24th - Martin Fallas Shaw,
composer, dies at 83
Nov 2nd - Adam von Ahn Carse,
composer, dies at 80
Nov 3rd - Harry Revel,
movie composer (Sitting Pretty, Gay Divorcee), dies
Nov 6th - Francis George Scott,
composer, dies at 78
Nov 27th - Artur Rodzinski,
Polish conductor/composer, dies at 66
Dec 6th - Erwin Bodky,
composer, dies at 62
Dec 26th - Harry Redman,
composer, dies on 89th birthday
Dec 29th - Doris Humphrey,
US dancer/choreographer (Dances of Women), dies at 63
Dec 31st - Gustav Hermann Unger,
composer, dies at 72
