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Musicians Who Died on February 7

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  • 1609 Ferdinand I de' Medici, Italian Grand Duke of Tuscany (1587-1609), made Tuscany prosperous, introduced opera to Europe, dies at 59
  • 1725 Louis Bouteiller, French composer, dies at 77
  • 1743 Lodovico Giustini, Italian composer, dies at 57
  • 1749 Andre Cardinal Destouches, French composer (Les élémens), dies at 76
  • 1779 William Boyce, English organist/composer (Cathedral Music), dies from gout at about 69
  • 1820 Samuel Adams Holyoke, American composer, dies at 57
  • 1827 Franz Anton Dimmler, German composer, dies at 73
  • 1830 Marcus Antonio da Fonseca Portugal, Portuguese composer, dies at 67
  • 1862 František Jan Škroup, Czech composer (Kde domov můj? - Czech national anthem), dies at 61
  • 1871 Henry Steinway [Heinrich Steinweg], German American piano manufacturer (Steinway & Sons), dies at 73
  • 1894 Adolphe Sax, Belgian musician and instrument inventor (saxophone, saxtromba, saxtuba), dies at 79
  • 1901 Benjamin Edward Woolf, British-American violinist, composer (The Mighty Dollar), playwright, and journalist, dies at 64
  • 1915 Władysław Górski, Polish violinist, composer and teacher, dies at 68
  • 1918 Alexander Sergeyevich Taneyev, Russian composer, dies at 68
  • 1931 Ion Vidu, Romanian composer and conductor, dies at 67
  • 1944 Lina Cavalieri, Italian dramatic soprano, and silent film actress, killed during WWII Allied bombing near here home in Florence, Italy at 69
  • 1948 Red McKenzie, American jazz singer (played comb-with-tissue-paper), dies at 48
  • 1954 Jan Maklakiewicz, Polish composer, chiefly of choral music (Kołysanka - Lullaby; Ave Maria), conductor, and educator, dies at 54
  • 1957 Rudolph Reti, Serbian composer, dies at 71
  • 1959 Guitar Slim [Eddie Jones], American blues guitarist (The Things That I Used to Do), dies at 32
  • 1968 Stuart Foster, American singer (Galen Drake Show), dies at 49
  • 1969 Bainbridge Crist, American composer, dies at 85
  • 1971 Morgan Lee "Dock" Boggs, American folk and blues singer and banjo player, dies on his 73rd birthday
  • 1979 Herbert "Peanuts" Holland, American swing jazz trumpeter, dies at 68
  • 1980 Ernst Kunz, Swiss composer, dies at 88
  • 1985 Matt Monro [Terence Parsons], English pop singer ("Softly As I Leave You"), dies from liver cancer at 54
  • 1986 Armand Preud'homme, Belgium organist and composer (Kempenland), dies at 81
  • 1994 Witold Lutosławski, Polish pianist, composer, and conductor (Musique funèbre; Trois poèmes d'Henri Michaux), dies of cancer at 81
  • 1995 William Harry "Billy" Jones, American rock guitarist (The Outlaws), dies of self-inflicted gunshot at 45
  • 1996 Tiny Winters [Frederick Gittens], English jazz bassist and singer, dies at 87
  • 1996 [Isian Kehinde] I. K. Dairo, Nigerian Jùjú musician and academic, dies at 65
  • 1997 Danil Shafran, Soviet-Russian concert cellist, dies at 74
  • 1999 Robert "Bobby" Troup, American jazz pianist and actor (Emergency, Acapulco), dies of a heart attack at 80
  • 2000 "Lonesome Dave" Peverett, British rock singer and musician (Foghat, Savoy Brown), dies of complications from cancer at 56
  • 2000 Big Pun [Christopher Rios], Puerto Rican-American rapper ("I'm Not A Player"), dies of a heart attack at 28
  • 2001 Dale Evans, American actress and singer (Roy Rogers Show), dies at 88
  • 2006 Jack Montrose, American "cool jazz" tenor saxophonist and arranger, dies at 78
  • 2007 Bobby Rosengarden, American jazz and session drummer, and bandleader, dies of Alzheimer's disease at 82
  • 2008 (Wilhelmus) "Benny" Neyman, Dutch pop singer ("I Don't Know How"; "Waarom fluister ik je naam nog"), dies of cancer at 56
  • 2008 Leona Wood, American surrealist painter and ballet and folk dancer dies at 86
  • 2009 Blossom Dearie, American jazz singer and pianist, dies of natural causes at 84
  • 2015 Joe B. Mauldin, American rock double-bass player (The Crickets), songwriter, and recording engineer (Gold Start Studios), dies of cancer at 74
  • 2017 Svend Asmussen, Danish jazz violinist, known as "The Fiddling Viking" (The Swe-Danes), dies at 100
  • 2018 John Perry Barlow, American lyricist (Grateful Dead - "Estimated Prophet"; "I Need A Miracle"; "Cassidy"), essayist, internet pioneer, and activist, dies at 70
  • 2018 Mickey Jones, American musician and actor (Home Improvement, Justified), dies at 76
  • 2020 Nexhmije Pagarusha, Albanian singer ‘the Nightingale of Kosovo’ and actress, dies at 86
  • 2020 Steve Weber, American psychedelic folk guitarist, (The Holy Modal Rounders - "Bird Song"; "You've Got the Right String but the Wrong Yo-Yo"),dies at 76
  • 2021 Elliot Mazer, American audio engineer and record producer (Chubby Checker; Neil Young), dies of a heart attack at 71
  • 2024 Henry Fambrough, American pop and R&B singer (The Spinners, 1954-2023 - "Could It Be I'm Falling in Love?"; "The Rubberband Man"), dies at 85 [1]
  • 2024 Mojo Nixon [Neill McMillan, Jr.], American musician ("Elvis Is Everywhere") and actor, dies of cardiac event at 66 [1]


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