Months in Year 1982: January February March April May June July August September October November December
Deaths 1 - 77 of 77
Jan 10th - Lazar Weiner,
composer, dies at 84
Jan 18th - Burnet Corwin Tuthill,
US composer (Laurentia), dies at 93
Jan 19th - Elis Regina,
Brazilian singer (b. 1945)
Jan 30th - Lightning Hopkins,
rocker, dies of cancer at 69
Jan 30th - Riccardo Nielsen, composer, dies at 73
Jan 30th - Lightnin' Hopkins, American musician (b. 1912)
Feb 4th - Alex Harvey,
Scottish musician (b. 1935)
Feb 11th - Eleanor Powell,
tap dancer/wife of Glenn Ford, dies at 69 of cancer
Feb 17th - Thelonious Monk,
American jazz pianist and composer, dies at 64
Feb 21st - Murray "the K" Kaufman,
NYC DJ (5th Beatle), dies at 60
Feb 24th - Virginia Bruce,
actress (Born to Dance, Great Ziegfield), dies at 71
Feb 26th - Gabor Szabo,
Hungarian jazz pianist (Perfect Circle), dies at 45
Feb 27th - Malika A Sabirova,
Russian dancer, dies at 39
Mar 7th - Charles Borromeo Mills,
composer, dies at 68
Mar 13th - Albert Weisser,
composer, dies at 64
Mar 14th - Kirill Vladimirovich Molchanov,
composer, dies at 59
Mar 19th - Randy Rhoads,
heavy metal guitarist (Ozzy Osbourne), air crash at 25
Mar 29th - Carl Orff,
German composer (Mouth, Antigonae), dies at 86
Apr 4th - Tsvetan Tsvetanov,
composer, dies at 50
Blues Singer Lightnin' Hopkins (Jan 30th)
Apr 9th - Wilfred Pelletier,
symph conductor (Voice of Firestone), dies at 85
Apr 28th - Bert van Dongen,
[Abraham J Cohen], Dutch singer/actor, dies at 66
Apr 30th - Lester Bangs,
American music journalist, author, and musician (b. 1949)
May 11th - Piet van Egmond,
organist/conductor, dies at 70
May 13th - Kara Abulfazogli Karayev,
composer, dies at 64
May 13th - Renzo Rossellini, Italian composer, dies at 74
Jun 10th - Addie "Micki" Harris,
US singer (Shirelles-Mama Said), dies at 42
Jun 15th - Art[hur E] Pepper,
US, alto saxophonist, dies at 56
Jun 16th - John Honeyman-Scott,
guitarist (Pretenders), overdoses on drugs
Jun 26th - Andre Tchaikowsy,
pianist/composer, dies
Jun 28th - Harry Mills,
US, singer (Mills Brothers), dies at 70
Jul 1st - John Everett Watts,
composer, dies at 51
Jul 2nd - Poul Rovsing Olsen,
composer, dies at 59
Jul 10th - Maria Jeritza,
[Jedlicka], Aust/US, singer (Metropolitan Opera), dies
Jul 14th - George Amadee Tremblay,
composer, dies at 71
Jul 15th - Bill Justis,
American musician and producer (b. 1926)
Jul 18th - Lionel Daunais,
French-Canadian singer and composer (b. 1902)
Jul 28th - George Kleinsinger,
US composer (Tubby the Tuba), dies at 68
Aug 2nd - Rudolf Maros,
composer, dies at 65
Aug 8th - Ferre Grignard,
Belgian pop singer/painter (Crucified Jesus), dies
Aug 8th - Kurt Edelhagen, West German jazz pianist, dies at 62
Aug 12th - Helvi Lemmikke Leiviska,
composer, dies at 80
Aug 12th - Joe Tex, rocker, dies at 49
Aug 13th - Joe Tex,
[Joseph Arrington Jr], singer (Getting Scarce), dies at 49
Aug 13th - Joe Tex, American singer and songwriter (b. 1933)
Aug 28th - Nini de Boel,
Flemish operetta singer (White Horse), dies at 84
Aug 29th - Lehman Engel,
US composer (Streetcar Named Desire), dies at 71
Aug 30th - Leo[nhard] Pappenheim,
conductor, dies at 86
Sep 1st - Clifford M Curzon,
England, pianist, dies at 75
Sep 14th - Christian Ferras,
French violinist (b. 1933)
Sep 17th - Manos Loïzos,
Greek composer (b. 1937)
Sep 19th - Samuel L M Barlow,
composer, dies at 90
Sep 23rd - Jimmy Wakely,
country western singer, dies of heart failure at 68
Oct 4th - Glenn H Gould,
Canadian pianist, dies at 50
Oct 12th - Chris[tiaan R] Reumer,
Dutch opera singer, dies at 73
Oct 16th - Jacov Gotovac,
composer, dies at 86
Oct 16th - Mario del Monaco, Italian opera singer (Verdi/Puccini), dies at 67
Oct 23rd - Jacques Klein,
Brazilian pianist, dies at 52
Nov 1st - Leighton Lucas,
composer, dies at 79
Nov 14th - Joachim Stutschewsky,
composer, dies at 91
Nov 17th - Eduard Tubin,
composer, dies at 77
Nov 22nd - Max Deutsch,
composer, dies at 90
Nov 26th - Juhan Aavic,
composer, dies at 98
Nov 27th - Philipp Kutev,
composer, dies at 79
Dec 1st - Dorothy James,
composer, dies on 81st birthday
Dec 2nd - David Blue,
rocker, dies while jogging in Greenwich Village at 41
Dec 8th - Marty Robbins,
country singer, dies at 57
Dec 8th - Shakey, [Walter Horton], rocker, dies at 72
Dec 9th - Fritz Usinger,
German writer (Song against Death), dies at 87
Dec 9th - Marty Robbins, country singer, dies
Dec 10th - Roy Webb,
composer, dies at 94
Dec 17th - Philipp Jarnach,
composer, dies at 90
Dec 18th - Tibor de Machula,
Hungary/Neth cellist, dies at 70
Dec 19th - Jean-Jacques Grunenwald,
French organist/composer, dies at 71
Dec 19th - Lawrence Collingwood, composer, dies at 95
Dec 20th - Artur Rubinstein,
pianist (My Young Years), dies in Geneva at 95
Dec 23rd - Norman Dinnerstein,
composer, dies at 45
Dec 28th - Frederick Douglass Hall,
composer, dies at 84
