Months in Year 1976: January February March April May June July August September October November December
Deaths 1 - 69 of 69
Jan 3rd - Mal Evans,
Beatles' roadie, dies
Jan 3rd - Mateusz Glinski, composer, dies at 83
Jan 5th - Georges E Migot,
French composer, dies at 84
Jan 10th - Chester Arthur Burnett,
US blues pianist/harmonica player, dies at 65
Jan 10th - Howlin' Wolf, singer/guitarist, dies following brain surgery at 65
Jan 23rd - Paul Robeson,
athlete/lawyer/singer, dies in Philadelphia at 77
Jan 28th - Chris Kenner,
rocker (I Like it Like That), dies
Jan 30th - Mance Lipscomb,
rocker, dies at 80
Feb 2nd - Maurice Jacobson,
composer, dies at 80
Feb 4th - Edward Benjamin Britten,
composer, dies at 62
Feb 5th - Rudy Pompilli,
American musician (Bill Haley and His Comets) (b. 1926)
Feb 6th - Vince Guaraldi,
jazz pianist (Charlie Brown TV specials), dies at 43
Feb 9th - Percy Faith,
Canadian musician (b. 1908)
Feb 12th - James Clifton Williams,
composer (Sinfonians), dies at 52
Feb 13th - Lily Pons,
French/US soprano/opera diva (Met Opera), dies at 71
Feb 18th - Eddie Dowling,
composer (Anywhere USA), dies at 81
Feb 21st - Florence Ballard,
rocker (Supremes), dies at 32
Feb 22nd - Florence Ballard,
rocker (Supremes), dies of a heart attack at 32
Feb 24th - Charles Wilfred Orr,
composer, dies at 82
Mar 1st - Jean Martinon,
French conductor/composer, dies at 66
Mar 3rd - Alfred Sendrey,
composer, dies at 92
Mar 7th - Erwin Kroll,
composer, dies at 90
Mar 18th - Robert de Roos,
composer, dies at 69
Mar 19th - George Sklavos,
composer, dies at 87
Mar 19th - Paul Kossoff, rock guitarist (Free), dies of heart failure at 25
Apr 1st - Freddie Lennon,
father of John Lennon (Beatles), dies at 63
Apr 1st - Miroslav Ponc, composer, dies at 73
Apr 3rd - Maurice Johnstone,
composer, dies at 75
Apr 9th - Akio Yashiro,
composer, dies at 46
Apr 9th - Phil Ochs, singer (Draft Dodger Rag), commits suicide at 35
Apr 22nd - Frutuoso de Lima Viana,
composer, dies at 79
Apr 29th - Wilhelm Maler,
composer, dies at 73
Apr 30th - Edvard Fliflet Braein,
composer, dies at 51
May 9th - Raymond Chevreuille,
Belgian composer, dies at 74
May 9th - Valentino Bucchi, composer, dies at 59
May 11th - Camille Schmit,
composer, dies at 68
May 14th - Keith Relf,
rock vocalist (Yardbirds), electrocuted at 33
May 21st - Sulo Nikolai Salonen,
composer, dies at 77
Jun 7th - Bobby Hackett,
jazz cornetist/orchestra leader (Air time '57), dies at 61
Lyricist and Songwriter Johnny Mercer (Jun 25th)
Jun 25th - Johnny Mercer,
US songwriter (That old Black Magic), dies at 66
Jul 13th - Max Butting,
composer, dies at 87
Aug 6th - Gregor Piatigorsky,
Russian cellist, dies at 73
Aug 9th - Max Vredenburg,
composer, dies at 72
Aug 19th - Jeno Kenessey,
composer, dies at 70
Aug 22nd - Gina Bachauer,
Greek pianist (b. 1913)
Aug 24th - Michael Dewar Head,
composer, dies at 76
Aug 26th - Lotte (Krause-)Lehmann,
German soprano (More than singing), dies at 88
Aug 27th - Mukesh,
Indian playback singer (b. 1923)
Aug 29th - Jimmy Reed,
rocker, dies of epileptic seizure at 50
Aug 29th - Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet, musician, revolutionary and philosopher (b. 1899)
Sep 8th - Assen Karastoyanov,
composer, dies at 83
Sep 8th - Joaquin Zamacois Soler, composer, dies at 81
Sep 11th - Jan Kunc,
composer, dies at 93
Sep 20th - Johan Boskamp,
opera singer/actor, dies at 83
Sep 30th - Louis Fourestier,
composer, dies at 84
Oct 4th - Alexander Gray,
singer (This is Music), dies at 74
Oct 7th - Nikolai Lopatnikoff,
composer, dies at 73
Oct 10th - Connee Boswell,
singer (Pete Kelly's Blue), dies at 68
Oct 10th - Silvana Armenulic, Yugoslavian folk singer (b. 1939)
Oct 23rd - Leonard Lee,
US R&B-singer (Shirley & Lee-I'm Gone), dies at 40
Oct 24th - Richard Sturzenegger,
composer, dies at 70
Oct 26th - Deryck Victor Cooke,
composer, dies at 57
Nov 12th - Walter Hamor Piston,
US composer, dies at 82
Nov 17th - Victor Alessandro,
composer, dies at 60
Nov 28th - Robert Fleming,
composer, dies at 55
Dec 4th - Benjamin Britten,
British composer (Beggar's Opera), dies at 63
Dec 4th - Tommy Bolin, rock guitarist (Deep Purple), dies of heroin overdose
Dec 12th - Vinko Zganec,
Croatian ethnomusicologist (b. 1890)
Dec 28th - Freddie King,
rocker, dies at 42
