Musicians Who Died in 1960

Apr 13 Beverly Kenney American jazz singer ("I Hate Rock n' Roll"; "Born To Be Blue"), takes her on life at 28
Apr 17 Eddie Cochran, American rock vocalist and guitarist ("Summertime Blues"; "C'Mon Everybody"), dies in a English taxi-car crash at 21
Apr 25 Ilmari Krohn, Finnish composer, dies at 92
May 5 Sulho Ranta, Finnish composer, dies at 58
May 6 Paul Abraham, Hungarian composer (Blume von Hawaii), dies at 67
May 8 Hugo Alfvén, Swedish violinist, conductor, and composer (Midsommarvaka - Midsummer Vigil), dies at 88
May 12 (Cecil) Armstrong Gibbs, English composer, dies of pneumonia at 70
Jun 14 Vladimir Nikolayevich Kryukov, Russian composer, dies at 57
Jun 30 Clarence Cameron White, American concert violinist, and composer (Elegy; Ouanga!), dies from cancer at 79
Jul 3 Alfred Henry Ackley, American composer, dies at 73
Jul 9 Edward Burlingame Hill, American composer and educator, dies at 86
Jul 15 Lawrence Tibbett, American baritone (Metropolitan Opera, 1923-50), dies after surgery at 63
Jul 24 Carl Deis, American composer, dies at 77
Jul 31 Karl Hasse, German composer, dies at 77
Aug 7 Väinö Hannikainen, Finnish composer and harpist, dies at 60

Aug 20 Rudolf Moser, composer, dies at 68
Aug 23 Oscar Hammerstein II, American lyricist (Rodgers & Hammerstein - "Oklahoma!"; "South Pacific"; "The King And I"; " The Sound Of Music"), dies at 65
Aug 26 Mark Hambourg, Russian-British composer, dies at 81
Aug 28 Anton Lajovic, Slovenian composer, dies at 81
Sep 3 Joseph Lamb, American ragtime pianist and composer ("Bohemia Rag"), dies of a heart attack at 72 [1] [2]
Sep 9 Armas Maasalo, Finnish composer, organist (St. John's Lutheran Church, 1926-58), and pedagogue (Helsinki Church Music Institute, 1914-51), dies at 75
Sep 9 Jussi Björling, Swedish operatic tenor, dies from cardiomegaly (enlarged heart) complications at 49
Sep 12 Jules Buffano, American composer and pianist (Jimmy Durante Show), dies at 62
Sep 13 Leó Weiner, Hungarian composer (Toldi), and music educator (Budapest Academy of Music, 1912-60), dies at 75
Sep 16 José Sancho Marraco, Spanish composer, organist and chapel master (Cathedral of Barcelona, 1923-57, dies at 81
Sep 20 Michel Brusselmans, Belgian composer, dies at 74
Sep 24 Mátyás Seiber, Hungarian-British classical and jazz composer (Scherzando), dies at 55
Oct 2 Jaroslav Doubrava, Czech composer, dies at 51
Oct 19 Günter Raphael, German composer (Busskantate), dies at 57
Oct 25 José Padilla, Spanish composer and pianist (La Violetera - City Lights; Ça c'est Paris - Moulin Rouge), dies at 71

Oct 26 (Francis Drake) "Pat" Ballard, American songwriter ("Mr. Sandman", "Love Is Mine"), lyricist, script writer, and columnist, dies of a heart attack at 61
Oct 30 Alfred Hill, Australian-New Zealand composer and conductor (Hinemoa), dies at 90
Nov 2 Dimitri Mitropoulos, Greek-American pianist, conductor (Minneapolis Symphony, 1937-49; New York Philharmonic, 1949-58), and composer, dies of heart failure at 64
Nov 5 Johnny Horton, American country and rockabilly singer ("The Battle of New Orleans"), dies in a car accident at 33
Nov 7 A. P. Carter, American country-folk and gospel singer-songwriter, and guitarist (The Carter Family), dies at 68
Nov 10 Isadore Freed, Belarusian-American composer, pedagogue, and musicologist (Harmonizing the Jewish Modes), dies at 60
Nov 22 Fred Van Eps, American banjoist and banjo maker, dies at 81
Dec 1 Ion Vasilescu, Romanian composer, dies at 57
Dec 3 Hermann Stephani, German organist, and musicologist, dies at 83
Dec 7 Clara Haskil, Swiss pianist (b. 1895)
Dec 31 Semyon Bogatyrev, Russian and Soviet musicologist and composer (completed a symphony abandoned by Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky), dies at 70
Dec 31 Semyon Semyonovich Bogatiryov, composer, dies at 70