Months in Year 1971: January February March April May June July August September October November December
Deaths 1 - 66 of 66
Jan 8th - Adriano Lualdi,
composer, dies at 85
Jan 9th - Giannis Christou,
Greek composer (b. 1926)
Jan 13th - Robert Still,
composer, dies at 60
Jan 13th - Robert Still, English composer (b. 1910)
Jan 14th - Ethel Glenn Hier,
composer, dies at 82
Jan 19th - Harry Shields,
American musician (b. 1899)
Feb 15th - Marian Viktorovich Koval,
composer, dies at 63
Feb 21st - Adolph Weiss,
composer, dies at 79
Feb 22nd - Rudolf Mauersberger,
composer, dies at 82
Feb 26th - Joseph Berg,
composer, dies at 43
Mar 9th - Jean-Pierre Guezek,
composer, dies at 36
Mar 10th - Mabel Wheeler Daniels,
composer, dies at 92
Mar 13th - Piero Coppola,
composer, dies at 82
Mar 23rd - Armin Loos,
composer, dies at 67
Mar 28th - Felix Wolfes,
composer, dies at 78
Apr 6th - Igor F Strawinsky,
Russ composer (Le Sacre du Printemps), dies at 88
Apr 12th - Wynton Kelly,
American jazz pianist (b. 1931)
Apr 17th - Roberto Lupi,
composer, dies at 62
Apr 18th - Masao Oki,
composer, dies at 69
Apr 25th - Max Drischner,
composer, dies at 80
May 10th - Mihail Jora,
composer, dies at 79
May 10th - Shukichi Mitsukuri, composer, dies at 75
May 13th - Valerian Mikhaylovich Bogdanov-Berezovsky,
composer, dies 67
May 19th - Bernard Wagenaar,
Neth/US composer, dies at 76
May 25th - Mark Brunswick,
composer, dies at 69
May 29th - Max Trapp,
composer, dies at 83
May 30th - Marcel Dupré,
French organist and composer (b. 1886)
Jun 6th - Arnold Elston,
composer, dies at 63
Jun 23rd - Walter Schulthess,
composer, dies at 76
Jun 26th - Guillermo Uribe Holguin,
composer, dies at 91
Jun 26th - Inia Te Wiata, opera singer, dies
Jun 26th - Juan Manen, composer, dies at 88
Jul 2nd - Edward Ballantine,
composer, dies at 84
Jul 3rd - Jim Morrison,
rock singer (Doors), dies of heart failure at 27
Jul 4th - Don McPherson,
rocker, dies at 29
Jul 6th - Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong,
jazz musician (Hello Dolly), dies at 71
Jazz Trumpeter Louis Armstrong (Jul 6th)
Jul 6th - Louis Armstrong, American jazz trumpeter and singer, dies at 69
Jul 8th - Charlie Shavers,
American jazz trumpet player (b. 1920)
Jul 17th - Cliff Edwards,
"Ukulele Ike", singer (54th Street Revue), dies at 76
Jul 24th - Alan Rawsthorne,
composer, dies at 66
Jul 25th - Leroy Robertson,
composer, dies at 74
Jul 27th - Bernhard Paumgartner,
Austrian conductor/composer, dies at 83
Aug 5th - Josef Stanislav,
composer, dies at 74
Aug 13th - King Curtis,
[Curtis Ousley], US musician, murdered at 37
Aug 23rd - Gisela Hernandez Gonzalo,
composer, dies at 58
Aug 25th - Ted Lewis,
[Theodore L Friedman], bandleader, dies at 80
Aug 25th - Ted Lewis, American musician and entertainer (b. 1890)
Aug 26th - Francesco Santoliquido,
composer, dies at 88
Sep 22nd - Yvonne St Clair,
dancer, dies at 57
Oct 2nd - Bola de Nieve,
Cuban singer, pianist, and songwriter (b. 1911)
Oct 3rd - Sean O Riada,
composer, dies at 40
Oct 8th - Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman,
composer, dies at 79
Oct 12th - Gene Vincent,
rocker, dies of bleeding ulcers at 36
Oct 24th - Carl Ruggles,
US composer (Evocations), dies at 95
Oct 24th - Fernand Quinet, Belgian composer/conductor (Guerre), dies at 73
Oct 28th - Yves de La Casiniere,
composer, dies at 74
Oct 29th - Duane Allman,
rock guitarist, dies in a motorcycle accident at 24
Oct 30th - Osvald Chlubna,
composer, dies at 78
Nov 18th - Junior Parker,
rocker, dies during brain operation at 44
Nov 27th - Jakabs Medins,
composer, dies at 86
Nov 29th - Heinz Tiessen,
composer, dies at 84
Dec 6th - Hugo Godron,
composer, dies at 71
Dec 23rd - Carlo Jachino,
composer, dies at 84
Dec 25th - Byron Arnold,
composer, dies at 70
Dec 28th - Maximilian Raoul Walter Steiner,
composer, dies at 83
Dec 30th - Jan Mul,
composer, dies at 60
