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)