Months in Year 1996: January February March April May June July August September October November December
Deaths 1 - 150 of 161
Jan 1st - Hamish Imlach,
folk singer/comic, dies at 55
Jan 5th - Joseph Daniel White,
singer/bandleader, dies at 84
Jan 6th - Robert Russell "Chubby" Wise,
musician, dies at 80
Jan 8th - William Mac Lance "Tiny" McCloud,
musician/songwriter, dies at 52
Jan 8th - Howard Taubman, American music and theater critic (b. 1907)
Jan 11th - Ike Isaacs,
guitarist, dies at 76
Jan 14th - Pamelo Mounk'a,
musician, dies at 50
Jan 15th - Les Baxter,
singer/orchestra leader/composer (Born Again), dies at 73
Jan 16th - Marcia Davenport,
American author and music critic (b. 1903)
Jan 17th - Robert Covington,
drummer/singer, dies at 54
Jan 17th - Mostafa Sid Ahmed, Sudanese singer (b. 1953)
Jan 20th - Buster Benton,
singer/guitarist, dies at 63
Jan 20th - Gerald Joseph Mulligan, baritone saxophonist/composer, dies at 68
Jan 20th - Peter Stadlen, pianist/critic, dies at 85
Jan 25th - Jonathan Larson,
composer, dead Aortic aneurysm at 35
Jan 26th - Henry Jay Lewis,
conductor, dies at 63
Jan 26th - Stevie Plunder, Australian musician (b. 1963)
Feb 2nd - Gene Kelly,
actor/dancer (Singing in the Rain), dies at 83
Feb 3rd - Wild Jimmy Spruill,
blues guitarist, dies at 61
Feb 5th - Antonio Ruiz Soler,
spanish dancer, dies at 74
Feb 5th - Gianandrea Gavazzeni, conductor, dies at 86
Feb 7th - Isian Kehinde I K Dairo,
musician/academic, dies at 65
Feb 7th - Lillian Rambach, teacher violinist, dies at 84
Feb 7th - Tiny Winters, musician, dies at 87
Feb 8th - Mercer Kennedy Ellington,
trumpeter bandleader/composer, dies at 76
Feb 13th - Daniel K Womack,
singer/guitarist, dies at 91
Feb 16th - Walter Brown "Brownie" McGhee,
American blues singer/guitarist, dies at 80
Feb 17th - [Elsie] Evelyn Laye,
actress/singer (Sun Child), dies at 95
Feb 20th - Toru Takemitsu,
composer, dies at 65
Feb 21st - Morton Gould,
composer, dies at 82
Feb 23rd - George Alan Dawson,
jazz drummer/teacher, dies at 66
Feb 24th - Laurence Richard Deniz,
jazz guitarist, dies at 71
Feb 29th - Wes Farrell,
songwriter, dies at 56
Mar 6th - Herbert "Herb" Hall,
clarinetist/saxophonist, dies at 88
Mar 8th - Paul Lewis Harrhy,
actor/opera singer (Intelligence Park), dies at 38
Mar 9th - George Burns,
American actor and singer (b. 1896)
Mar 15th - Olga Rudge,
violinist, dies at 100
Mar 16th - Joseph Lee Pope,
singer, dies at 62
Mar 17th - Terry Stafford,
American singer (b. 1941)
Mar 19th - Christopher John Magenis Headington,
musician, dies at 65
Mar 20th - Alan Ridout,
composer, dies at 61
Mar 22nd - Don Murray,
American musician (The Turtles) (b. 1945)
Mar 24th - Maria Lucia Beltran Alcayaga,
singer, dies at 66
Mar 31st - Jeffrey Lee Pierce,
musician, dies at 37
Apr 1st - Edwin H "Buddy" Morris,
music publisher, dies at 89
Apr 3rd - Roosevelt "Booba" Barnes,
bluesman, dies at 59
Apr 4th - Joy Newton,
dancer, dies at 82
Apr 4th - Larry Laprise, songwriter, dies at 83
Apr 8th - Charles Donald Adams,
singer, dies at 67
Apr 14th - Gaylord Birch,
drummer (Pointer Sisters, Herbie Hancock), dies at 50
Apr 16th - Lucille Bremer,
dancer/actress (Ziegfeld Follies), dies at 73
Apr 16th - Raymond Earl Hill, saxophonist, dies at 62
Apr 23rd - Leonard Kuntstat,
blues discographer, dies at 70
May 1st - William Mitchell Byers,
musician, dies on 79th birthday
May 11th - Bruce Boyce,
singer/teacher, dies at 85
May 11th - Walter Hyatt, #Musician, dies at 46
May 15th - George M Tindley,
songwriter/vocalist, dies at 57
May 17th - Johnny "Guitar" Watson,
musician, dies at 61
May 17th - Kevin Gilbert, American singer, composer and instrumentalist (b. 1966)
May 20th - Jack Wyngaard,
dancer, dies at 37
May 21st - Peter Fletcher,
music teacher, dies at 60
May 24th - Jacob R Druckman,
composer, dies at 67
May 26th - Matima Kinuani Mpiosso,
musician, dies at 45
May 27th - Albert "Pud" Brown,
clarinetist/saxophonist, dies at 79
May 29th - James George "Jimmy" Rowles,
jazz pianist, dies at 77
May 29th - Tamara Toumanova, dancer, dies at 77
May 30th - Bob Stroup,
trombonist, dies at 57
May 30th - John Kahn, bassist, dies at 47
May 31st - Elsbeary Hobbs,
singer, dies at 59
Jun 1st - Don Grolnick,
jazz musician, dies at 48
Jun 9th - Walter Pardon,
carpenter/traditional singer, dies at 81
Jun 11th - Ulysses Dove,
dancer/choreographer, dies at 49
Jun 14th - Thomas Edward Montgomery,
drummer, dies at 73
Jazz Singer Ella Fitzgerald (Jun 15th)
Jun 15th - Ella Fitzgerald,
singer, dies at 78
Jun 15th - Helen Sinclair Glatz, musician, dies at 88
Jun 19th - Alan Ande Anderson,
opera director, dies at 78
Jun 19th - Vivian Ellis, composer, dies at 91
Jun 28th - Willard F. McMurry,
musician, dies at 89
Jul 8th - James Woodie Alexander,
songwriter/vocalist, dies at 80
Jul 11th - Louis Gottlieb,
musician, dies at 72
Jul 12th - Gottfried von Einem,
composer, dies at 78
Jul 12th - Jonathan Melvoin, keyboardist (Smashing Pumpkins), dies of heorin OD
Jul 16th - John Panozzo,
drummer, dies at 48
Jul 17th - Amancio D'Silva,
musician, dies at 60
Jul 17th - Bryan Chas Chandler, musician/manager, dies at 57
Jul 17th - Chris Komar, dancer, dies at 48
Jul 19th - Emmanual Tettey Mensah,
musician, dies at 77
Jul 22nd - Tamara Danz,
singer, dies at 43
Jul 26th - Evelyn Levine,
composer, dies at 94
Jul 28th - Harold C Fox,
Fashion designer/musician, dies at 86
Jul 29th - Jason Thirsk,
American bassist (Pennywise) (b. 1967)
Jul 31st - Seagram Miller,
American rapper (b. 1970)
Aug 1st - Frida Boccara,
French singer (b. 1940)
Aug 8th - Didi Duprat,
French guitarist, dies at 69
Aug 11th - Mel Taylor,
drummer, dies at 63
Aug 11th - Rafael Jeronym Kubelik, conductor, dies at 82
Aug 13th - David Tudor,
composer, dies at 70
Aug 14th - Sergiu Celibidache,
conductor, dies at 84
Aug 20th - Rio Reiser,
rock singer, dies at 46
Aug 25th - Sylvia Fisher,
opera Singer, dies at 86
Aug 30th - Louise Brown,
dancer/teacher, dies at 89
Aug 31st - Ljuba Welitsch,
opera singer, dies at 83
Aug 31st - Milton "Tippy" Larkin, band leader, dies at 85
Sep 1st - Vagn Holmboe,
composer, dies at 86
Sep 2nd - Cyril Reuben,
violinist, dies at 69
Sep 2nd - Otto Luening, composer, dies at 96
Sep 7th - Niccolo Castiglioni,
composer, dies at 64
Sep 9th - Bill Monroe,
bluegrass vocalist (created bluegrass music), dies at 84
Sep 9th - William Smith Monroe, bluegrass musician, dies at 84
Sep 13th - Silas Roy Crain,
singer/songwriter, dies at 85
Rapper Tupac Shakur (Sep 13th)
Sep 13th - Tupac Shakur, rap star/actor (Juice, Bullet), killed in drive by at 25
Sep 14th - Juliet Prowse,
actress/dancer (Mona McCluskey), dies at 59
Sep 16th - Gene Nelson,
actor/dancer (SOB, Purple Hills, Starlift), dies at 76
Sep 17th - Jessie "Ooh Poo Pah Doo" Hill,
jazz musician, dies at 63
Sep 20th - Paul Draper,
dancer, dies at 87
Sep 20th - Paul Weston, bandleader, dies at 84
Sep 22nd - Ludmilla Chiraeff,
ballet dancer, dies at 72
Sep 28th - Bob Gibson,
folk singer, dies at 64
Oct 1st - Joonas Kokkonen,
composer, dies at 74
Oct 2nd - Frideswide Frances Emma Knight,
musician/socialist, dies at 85
Oct 8th - Harold Watkins Shaw,
musicologist, dies at 85
Oct 11th - Johnny Costa,
jazz pianist (Mr Rogers), dies at 74
Oct 12th - Vernon Elliott,
musician/composer, dies at 84
Oct 16th - James Wild,
music teacher, dies at 68
Oct 17th - Berthold Goldschmidt,
composer/conductor, dies at 93
Oct 17th - Christopher Acland, musician, dies at 30
Oct 22nd - John Bauldie,
music journalist/Dylanologist, dies at 47
Oct 23rd - Alexander Kelly,
pianist/teacher, dies at 67
Oct 25th - Eugene Polyakov,
dancer, dies at 95
Oct 27th - Belinda Quirey,
dance historian/teacher, dies at 84
Oct 27th - John Gregory, dancer, dies at 82
Nov 2nd - Eva Cassidy,
American singer (b. 1963)
Nov 5th - Eddie Harris,
saxophonist/composer, dies at 62
Nov 5th - Paula Hinton, dancer, dies at 72
Nov 12th - Gwen Catley,
soprano, dies at 90
Nov 13th - William Ballard Doggett,
jazz musician, dies at 80
Nov 16th - Jack Popplewell,
composer/playwright, dies at 87
Nov 19th - Edward Kassner,
music publisher, dies at 76
Nov 21st - Bernard William George Rose,
organist, dies at 80
Nov 23rd - Art Porter,
saxophonist, dies at 35
Nov 24th - Edison Vasalievich Denisov,
composer, dies at 67
Nov 26th - Euphemia MacDonald May Moxon,
dance producer, dies at 91
Nov 26th - Joan Hammond, singer, dies at 84
Nov 28th - Anna Pollak,
mezzo-soprano, dies at 84
Dec 1st - Irving Gordon,
songwriter, dies at 81
Dec 5th - Peter Hall,
folklorist/musician, dies at 60
Dec 5th - Wilf Carter, country singer, dies at 91
Dec 9th - Faron Young,
country singer, commits suicide at 64
Dec 9th - Patty Donahue, American singer (The Waitresses) (b. 1956)
