Months in Year 1969: January February March April May June July August September October November December
Deaths 1 - 68 of 68
Jan 4th - Montague Fawcett Phillips,
composer, dies at 83
Jan 9th - Ladislav Vycpalek,
composer, dies at 86
Jan 16th - Vernon Duke,
composer, dies at 65
Jan 17th - Grazyna Bacewicz,
composer, dies at 59
Jan 23rd - Jaroslav Kricka,
composer, dies at 86
Jan 24th - Pauline Hall,
composer, dies at 78
Jan 25th - Irene Castle,
English dancer (b. 1887)
Jan 27th - Hanns Jelinek,
composer, dies at 67
Jan 31st - Alexander Mikhaylovich Dzegelyonok,
composer, dies at 77
Feb 2nd - Giovanni Martinelli,
opera singer (NY Met), dies at 83
Feb 7th - Bainbridge Crist,
composer, dies at 85
Feb 20th - Ernest Ansermet,
Swiss conductor/composer, dies at 85
Feb 23rd - Joseph Messner,
composer, dies at 75
Mar 19th - Theodor Schaefer,
composer, dies at 65
Mar 25th - Billy Cotton,
British bandleader & entertainer (b. 1889)
Apr 8th - Arthur Walter Kramer,
composer, dies at 78
Apr 11th - Ludvig Irgens Jensen,
composer, dies at 74
Apr 23rd - Krzystzof Komeda,
composer, dies at 37
Apr 28th - Johannes Rontgen,
composer, dies at 70
May 3rd - Imre Vincze,
composer, dies at 42
May 19th - Coleman Hawkins,
US jazz musician/composer, dies
May 23rd - Jimmy McHugh,
composer (Can't Give You Anything But Love), dies at 74
May 30th - Gaston Brenta,
composer, dies at 66
May 30th - John Cipollini, guitarist, dies of ephysema at 45
Jun 16th - Karl Hubert Rudolf Schiske,
composer, dies at 53
Jun 27th - Richard Vance Maxfield,
composer, dies at 42
Jun 29th - Shorty Long,
soul singer/pianist (Here Comes the Judge), dies at 29
Jun 29th - Vesselin Stoyanov, composer, dies at 67
Jun 30th - Jan Evangelista Zelinka,
composer, dies at 76
Jul 3rd - Brian Jones,
guitarist (Rolling Stones), drowns to death at 25
Jul 3rd - Hermann Grabner, composer, dies at 83
Jul 5th - Wilhelm Backhaus,
German pianist (Rubinstein-1905), dies at 85
Jul 7th - Gladys Swarthout,
US mezzo-soprano (La Gioconda), dies at 69
Jul 9th - Pierre Capdevielle,
composer, dies at 63
Jul 20th - Roy Hamilton,
American rocker, dies at 40 (b. 1929)
Jul 25th - Douglas Stuart Moore,
composer, dies at 75
Jul 28th - Ernst Tittel,
composer, dies at 59
Jul 28th - Frank H Loesser, US songwriter/composer (Guys & Dolls), dies at 59
Jul 28th - Gabriel von Wayditch, composer, dies at 80
Aug 2nd - Clarence Dickinson,
composer, dies at 96
Aug 7th - Joseph Kosma,
composer, dies at 63
Aug 7th - Russ Morgan, orchestra leader (Welcome Aboard), dies at 65
Aug 18th - Laci Boldemann,
composer, dies at 48
Aug 31st - Ottmar Gerster,
composer, dies at 72
Sep 1st - William Flanagan,
composer, dies at 46
Sep 5th - Henk Bijvanck,
composer, dies at 59
Sep 5th - Mitchell Ayres, orchestra leader (Hollywood Palace), dies at 58
Sep 18th - Rudolph Wagner-Regeny,
composer, dies at 66
Oct 3rd - Skip James,
American blues musician (b. 1902)
Oct 4th - Natalino Otto,
Italian singer (b. 1912)
Oct 22nd - Giovanni Martinelli,
Ital opera singer (NY Met), dies on 84th birthday
Oct 23rd - Tommy Edwards,
rocker, dies at 47
Oct 24th - Otto Jochum,
composer, dies at 71
Oct 25th - Rudolf Forster,
actor (Threepenny Opera, Tonio Kroeger), dies at 84
Oct 27th - Jaime Pahissa,
composer, dies at 89
Oct 30th - Pops Foster,
American musician (b. 1892)
Oct 31st - Hugo Pfister,
composer, dies at 55
Nov 4th - Ferenc Szabo,
composer, dies at 66
Nov 6th - Augustin Lara,
composer, dies at 69
Nov 18th - Leon Jongen,
composer, dies at 85
Nov 18th - Ted Heath, British musician and bandleader (b. 1902)
Nov 22nd - Acario Cotapos,
composer, dies at 80
Dec 1st - Magic Sam,
American blues guitarist and singer (b. 1937)
Dec 4th - Alceo Toni,
composer, dies at 85
Dec 8th - Vincenzo Davico,
composer, dies at 80
Dec 10th - Franco Capuana,
composer, dies at 75
Dec 10th - Leigh Harline, composer, dies at 62
Dec 31st - Salvatore Baccaloni,
opera singer/actor (Full of Life), dies at 69
