Months in Year 1974: January February March April May June July August September October November December
Deaths 1 - 58 of 58
Jan 2nd - Tex Ritter,
country singer (5 Star Jubilee), dies at 67
Jan 4th - Karel Janacek,
composer, dies at 70
Jan 5th - Roy Bargy,
orchestra leader (Jimmy Durante Show), dies at 79
Jan 5th - Lev Oborin, Russian pianist (b. 1907)
Jan 15th - Karel Salmon,
composer, dies at 76
Jan 26th - Wiktor Labunski,
composer, dies at 78
Feb 2nd - Jean Absil,
Belgian composer (Benedictions), dies at 80
Feb 4th - Mihail Andricu,
composer, dies at 79
Feb 15th - Kurt Magnus Atterberg,
composer, dies at 86
Feb 20th - David Monrad Johansen,
composer, dies at 85
Feb 23rd - Harry Ruby,
American composer and writer (b. 1895)
Mar 1st - Bobby Timmons,
American jazz pianist (b. 1935)
Mar 2nd - Barbara Ruick,
actress/singer (Jerry Colonna Show), dies at 41
Mar 7th - Alberto Rabagliati,
Italian singer and actor (b. 1906)
Mar 10th - Quinto Maganini,
composer, dies at 76
Mar 28th - Dorothy Fields,
US singer (Way you Look Tonight), dies at 68
Mar 28th - Arthur Crudup, American blues singer and guitarist, dies of heart attack at 68
Apr 1st - Alfred Ernest Whitehead,
composer, dies at 86
Apr 13th - Stanley Smith,
actor (Honey, King of Jazz, Soup to Nuts), dies at 71
Apr 15th - Giovanni D'Anzi,
Italian songwriter (b. 1906)
Apr 17th - Herbert Elwell,
US composer (Happy Hypocrite), dies at 75
Apr 17th - Vinnie Taylor, rocker (Canned Heat), dies of a drug overdose
May 4th - Israel Citkowitz,
composer, dies at 65
May 8th - Graham Bond,
rocker, dies jumping under a train
May 9th - Lyubomir Pipkov,
composer, dies at 69
May 24th - Duke Ellington,
blues singer, dies of cancer at 75
May 25th - Pam Morrison,
wife of Door's vocalist Jim, dies of drug overdose
Jun 14th - Knud Christian Jeppesen,
composer, dies at 81
Jun 22nd - Darius Milhaud,
French composer (b. 1892)
Jul 6th - Carlos Isamitt,
composer, dies at 87
Jul 27th - Lightning Slim,
blues singer (Nothing But the Devil), dies at 61
Jul 29th - Cass Elliot,
singer (Mamas & Papas), dies from heart attack in London at 32
Jul 30th - Lev Konstantinovich Knipper,
composer, dies at 75
Aug 6th - Gene Ammons,
American jazz saxophonist (b. 1925)
Aug 9th - Bill Chase,
American trumpet player and bandleader (b. 1934)
Aug 10th - Ilona Massey,
actress/singer (Ilona Massey Show), dies at 64
Aug 11th - Vicente Emilio Sojo,
composer, dies at 86
Sep 3rd - Harry Partch,
American composer (b. 1901)
Sep 9th - Sultan Ismail Hajibeyov,
composer, dies at 55
Sep 20th - Robert Herberigs,
Flemish composer (La Chanson d'Eve), dies at 88
Sep 23rd - Robbie Mcintosh,
drummer (Average White Band), overdoses at 24
Oct 12th - Joseph Frederick Wagner,
composer, dies at 74
Oct 16th - Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar,
noted Carnatic musician (b. 1895)
Oct 24th - David Oistrach,
Russian violinist, dies at 65
Nov 8th - Ivory Joe Hunter,
rocker, dies at 60
Nov 9th - Egon Joseph Wellesz,
Austria, composer/musicologist, dies at 89
Nov 11th - Alfonso Leng,
composer, dies at 80
Nov 19th - George Brunies,
American musician (b. 1902)
Nov 21st - Frank Martin,
Swiss composer (In Terra Fax), dies at 84
Nov 23rd - Pall Isolfsson,
composer, dies at 81
Nov 25th - Nick Drake,
rocker, dies of a drug overdose at 26
Dec 2nd - Sofie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatte,
composer, dies at 72
Dec 9th - Jorge Croner de Vasconcelos,
composer, dies at 64
Dec 15th - Erich Walter Sternberg,
composer, dies at 83
Dec 20th - Andre Jolivet,
French composer (L'eunuque), dies at 69
Dec 26th - Knudage Riisager,
composer, dies at 77
Dec 26th - Robert Levine Sanders, composer, dies at 68
Dec 26th - Farid al-Atrash, Arab composer, singer, virtuoso oud player, and actor (b. 1915)
