Deaths in Music on 16th June

Deaths 1 - 21 of 21

1651 - Marsilio Casentini, composer, dies at 74
1804 - Johann Adam Hiller, composer, dies at 75
1808 - Georg Wenzel Ritter, composer, dies at 60
1831 - Joseph Ignaz Schnabel, composer, dies at 64
1837 - Valentino Fioravanti, composer, dies at 72
1910 - Wendelin Weissheimer, composer, dies at 72
1925 - Emmett Hardy, American musician (b. 1903)
1939 - Chick Webb, American jazz drummer and big band leader (b. 1905)
1940 - Vitezslava Kapralova, composer, dies at 25
1946 - Miloje Milojevic, composer, dies at 61
1958 - Jose Pablo Moncayo Garcia, composer, dies at 45
1969 - Karl Hubert Rudolf Schiske, composer, dies at 53
1970 - Heino Eller, composer, dies at 83
1975 - Don Robey, US gospel/impresario/producer, dies at 71
1979 - Ben Weber, US composer (Thorne Music Award 1965), dies at 62
1982 - John Honeyman-Scott, guitarist (Pretenders), overdoses on drugs
1986 - Maurice Duruflé, French composer and organist (b. 1902)
1990 - Eva Turner, British soprano, dies
1991 - Vicky Brown, US singer (Power of Love), dies
1994 - Boris Alexandrov, conductor (Red Army Song/Dance Ensemble, dies at 88
1999 - David Edward Sutch, British musician (b. 1940)

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