Musicians Who Died on January 24

  • 1473 Conrad Paumann, German blind organist and composer, dies
  • 1666 Johann Andreas Herbst, German composer, dies at 77
  • 1728 Johann Philipp Käfer, German composer, 55
  • 1805 Giacomo Conti, Italian composer, dies at 50
  • 1812 Eligio Celestino, Italian violinist and composer, dies at 72
  • 1851 Gaspare Luigi Pacifico Spontini, Italian opera composer and conductor (La Vestale), dies at 76
  • 1864 Otto Jonas Lindblad, Swedish composer (Kungssången - Royal Anthem), dies at 54
  • 1883 Friedrich von Flotow, German composer, dies at 70
  • 1884 Johann Christian Gebauer, Danish composer, dies at 75
  • 1901 Simon Hassler, German-American composer, dies at 68
  • 1904 Franz Coenen, Dutch violinist and composer, dies at 77
  • 1911 Carl Eilhardt, German composer and conductor, dies at 67
  • 1913 Gustav Luders, German-American conductor and stage musical composer (The Prince of Pilsen), dies at 47
  • 1940 Emile van Bosch, Belgian revue, operetta and opera singer, dies at 52
  • 1960 Edwin Fischer, Swiss concert pianist and conductor, dies at 73
  • 1969 Pauline Hall, Norwegian composer, dies at 78
  • 1970 James "Shep" Shepherd, American R&B singer-songwriter (The Heartbeats - "One Thousand Miles"; Shep & Limelites - "Daddy's Home"), beaten to death in a robbery at 34
  • 1986 Gordon MacRae, American singer and actor (Oklahoma!, Carousel), dies of pneumonia at 64
  • 1991 Harold "Shot" Jackson, American country dobro player, and pedal steel guitarist (Roy Acuff), and guitar designer and builder (Sho-Bud), dies after his second stroke at 70
  • 1995 David Cole, American songwriter ( C+C Music Factory - "Gonna Make You Sweat"), and record producer (Mariah Carey, Aretha Franklin, James Brown), dies at 32
  • 1998 Justin Tubb, American country singer (Grand Ole Opry), dies at 62
  • 1998 Walter Bishop, Jr, American bebop jazz pianist, music theorist, and educator, dies of a heart attack at 70
  • 2001 Leif Thybo, Danish composer and organist, dies at 78
  • 2005 June Bronhill, Australian stage and opera singer, dies at 75
  • 2005 Robert Stevens Baker, American organist, composer, and educator (Union Theological Seminary, 1961-72; Institute of Sacred Music at Yale, 1973-75), dies at 88
  • 2006 Fayard Nicholas, American tap dancer, one-half of The Nicholas Brothers and actor (The Five Heartbeats), dies of pneumonia and complications from a stroke at 91
  • 2009 Gérard Blanc, French pop singer ("Une Autre Histoire"), dies at 61
  • 2009 Leonard Gaskin, American jazz bassist (Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis), dies at 88
  • 2011 Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, Indian khayal (romance) and devotional (bhajan and abhangsad) singer, dies at 88
  • 2012 Patricia Neway, American opera and musical theatre singer, dies at 83
  • 2016 Yvonne Chouteau, Native American dancer (one of the "five Moons" of Oklahoma), dies at 86
  • 2017 Butch Trucks, American rock drummer (The Allman Brothers Band), dies at 69
  • 2018 Mark E. Smith, British rock vocalist (The Fall, The Post-Nearly Man), dies after a long illness at 60