Musicians Who Died on December 2

Vincent d'Indy (1851-1931)

French composer (Symphony on a French Mountain Air), and teacher, dies at 80

1933 Josef Gruber, Austrian organist and composer, dies at 78
1942 Karen Jønsson née (Pedersen), Danish jazz singer, pianist, songwriter, composer, and actress, dies of pneumonia at 33
1949 Albert Ammons, American jazz, blues, and boogie-woogie pianist, dies at 42
1950 Constantin "Dinu" Lipatti, Romanian classical pianist and composer, dies of Hodgkins disease complications at 33
1972 José Limón, Mexican-American dancer and choreographer (The Moor's Pavane; I, Odysseus), dies of cancer at 64
1979 Vasily Pavlovich Solov'yov-Sedoy, Russian composer, dies at 72
1980 Richard Pindle Hammond, American composer dies at 83
1981 Hershy Kay, American composer (Olympic Hymn, A Chorus Line), dies at 62
1981 Wallace Harrison, American architect (Metropolitan Opera House, United Nations complex), dies at 86
1982 David Blue [Cohen], American folk musician, dies of a heart attack while jogging in Greenwich Village at 41
1982 Isador Goodman, South African-Australian composer, dies at 73
1983 Fifi D'Orsay [Yvonne Lussier] Canadian-American vaudeville and film actress and singer known as the "French Bombshell" (The Life Jimmy Dolan; Dixie Jamboree), dies from cancer at 79

Desi Arnaz (1917-1986)

Cuban-American singer ("Babalú"), bandleader, actor (I Love Lucy - "Ricky Riccardo"), and television producer (The Untouchables),r, dies of lung cancer at 69

1988 Ilona Fehér, Hungarian-Israeli violinist, and pedagogue, dies at 87
1988 Tata Giacobetti, Italian jazz singer and lyricist (Quartetto Cetra), dies at 66

Aaron Copland (1900-1990)

American composer (Billy the Kid, Fanfare for Common Man), dies of Alzheimer's disease and respiratory failure at 90

1997 Michael Hedges, American new-age guitarist, composer, and singer (Aerial Boundaries), dies in a car accident at 43
1998 Bob Haggart, American dixieland, swing jazz, and session double bass player, and composer ("What's New?"), dies at 84
1999 Charlie Byrd, American jazz and bossa nova guitarist (Desfinado), dies of lung cancer at 74
2004 Alicia Markova, English ballerina and choreographer (Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, 1925-32), dies aged 94
2004 Kevin Coyne, English rock musician, songwriter, and poet, dies of pulmonary fibrosis at 60
2006 Dave Mount, English rock drummer (Mud), dies in apparent suicide at 59
2006 Mariska Veres [Ender], Dutch rock singer (Shocking Blue), dies of gallbladder cancer at 59
2008 Odetta [Odetta Holmes], American folk singer (Sanctuary), actress and civil rights activist, dies of heart disease at 77
2008 Renato de Grandis, Italian composer, dies at 81
2009 Eric Woolfson, Scottish singer and producer (The Alan Parsons Project), dies at 64
2011 Howard Tate, American soul singer and songwriter ("Ain't Nobody Home"; "Get It While You Can"), dies of complications of multiple myeloma and leukemia at 72
2014 Bobby Keys, American session and touring rock saxophonist (Rolling Stones; Harry Nilsson; John Lennon), dies of liver cancer at 70
2015 John Charles Eaton, American composer, dies at 80
2023 Mike Maxfield, British rock guitarist and songwriter (Billy J Kramer & The Dakotas - "The Cruel Sea"), dies at 79