Months in Year 1964: January February March April May June July August September October November December
Deaths 1 - 55 of 55
Jan 1st - Otto Emanuel Olsson,
composer, dies at 84
Jan 7th - Colin C McPhee,
composer (H2O, Mechanical Princibles), dies at 62
Jan 7th - Cyril Davies, American musician (b. 1932)
Jan 15th - Weldon John "Jack" Teagarden,
US jazz trombonist/singer, dies at 58
Jan 20th - Jan Rychlik,
composer, dies at 47
Jan 22nd - Marc Blitzstein,
US composer (Cradle Will Rock), dies at 58
Jan 23rd - Louis Horst,
composer, dies at 80
Jan 27th - Lieb Glantz,
composer, dies at 65
Feb 9th - Willie Bryant,
singer (Sugar Hill Times), dies at 55
Mar 1st - Sergius Kagen,
composer, dies at 54
Mar 20th - Jean Rogister,
composer, dies at 84
Mar 29th - Ted Collins,
pianist (Kate Smith Evening Hour), dies at 63
Mar 30th - Willem CN Andriessen,
Dutch composer/pianist (Beethoven), dies at 76
Apr 1st - Bozidar Kunc,
composer, dies at 60
Apr 18th - Albe Vidakovic,
composer, dies at 49
May 6th - Harold Morris,
composer, dies at 74
May 10th - Carol Haney,
dancer (Pantomime Quiz), dies at 35
May 10th - Ignace Lilien, composer, dies at 66
May 25th - Vasily Andreyevich Zolotaryov,
composer, dies at 92
May 28th - John Finley Williamson,
conductor (Westminster Choir), dies at 76
Jun 1st - Rutkowski Bronislaw,
composer, dies at 66
Jun 10th - Louis Gruenberg,
composer, dies at 79
Jun 18th - Alexander Shamil'yevich Melik-Pashayev,
composer, dies at 58
Jun 27th - Daniel Lazarus,
composer, dies at 65
Jun 29th - Milenko Zivkovic,
composer, dies at 63
Jun 29th - Eric Dolphy, American jazz musician (b. 1928)
Jul 1st - Pierre Monteux,
French/US conductor (Concert Bldg Orch), dies at 89
Jul 31st - Jim Reeves,
US country singer, dies in air crash at 39
Aug 2nd - Jose Maria Castro,
composer, dies at 71
Aug 14th - Johnny Burnette,
rocker, drowns at 30
Aug 24th - Maurice Schoemaker,
composer, dies at 73
Aug 27th - Alexey Semyonovich Zhivotov,
composer, dies at 59
Aug 31st - Carole Coleman,
singer (Make Mine Music), dies at 42
Sep 1st - George Georgescu,
composer, dies at 76
Sep 3rd - Joseph Marx,
Austrian composer, dies at 82
Sep 9th - Charles O'Neill,
composer, dies at 82
Sep 14th - Mary Howe,
composer, dies at 82
Sep 26th - Ida Moore,
actress (Mr Music, Johnny Belinda), dies at 82
Sep 28th - George Dyson,
composer, dies at 81
Oct 1st - Ernst Toch,
composer (Melodie Lehre), dies at 76
Oct 10th - Frantisek Picha,
composer, dies at 71
Oct 10th - Russ Case, orchestra leader (Julius La Rosa Show), dies at 52
Oct 10th - Heinrich Neuhaus, Soviet pianist (b. 1888)
Oct 15th - Cole Porter,
composer (Still of the Night), dies at 73
Nov 3rd - John Henry Barbee,
American guitarist and singer (b. 1905)
Nov 5th - Alexander Uriah Boskovich,
composer, dies at 57
Nov 11th - Edward Steuermann,
composer, dies at 72
Nov 16th - Albert Hay Malotte,
composer, dies at 69
Nov 20th - John Tasker Howard,
composer, dies at 73
Nov 30th - Don Redman,
orchestra leader (Sugar Hill Times), dies at 64
Dec 10th - Sam Cooke,
US, singer (Sad Moon), slain at a motel at 33
Dec 11th - Sam Cooke,
rock vocalist, shot to death at 29
Dec 22nd - Bonifacio Gil Garcia,
composer, dies at 66
Dec 23rd - Arrigo Pedrollo,
composer, dies at 86
Dec 29th - Miroslav Krejci,
composer, dies at 73
