Musicians Who Died in June 1980

  • Jun 4 Charles Miller, American rock-funk flutist, saxophonist, and singer (War - "Why Can't We Be Friends?"; "Low Rider"), stabbed to death during a mugging in Los Angeles at 41
  • Jun 8 Ernst Busch, German singer and actor, dies at 80
  • Jun 20 Allan Pettersson, Swedish violist and composer (Symphony No. 7), dies at 68
  • Jun 21 Bert Kaempfert, German orchestra leader, songwriter ("Strangers in the Night"; "Danke Schoen"), and record producer (The Beatles first recordings), dies of a stroke at 56
  • Jun 27 Albany "Barney" Bigard, Creole-American jazz clarinetist (Duke Ellington Orchestra, 1927-42 - "Mood Indigo"), dies at 74
  • Jun 28 José Iturbi, Spanish concert pianist and conductor who appeared in nearly a dozen 1940s MGM musicals, dies at 84
  • Jun 28 Yoshiro Irino, Japanese composer, dies at 58