Musicians Who Died on June 22

  • 1735 Pirro Capacelli, Italian aristocrat and composer, dies at 71
  • 1741 Joseph-Hector Fiocco, Belgian composer, dies at 38
  • 1745 Hubert Renotte, Flemish composer and organist, dies at 41
  • 1754 Nicholas Siret, French baroque composer and organist, dies at 91
  • 1843 Gabriele Prota, Italian composer, dies at 88
  • 1885 Mahdi [Muhammad Ahmed], Sudanese music reviewer, dies
  • 1926 Hermann Suter, Swiss composer, dies at 56
  • 1950 Julio Fonseca, Costa Rican composer, dies at 65
  • 1963 Maria Tănase, Romanian singer of traditional and popular music (b. 1913)
  • 1967 Adrian Grigor'yevich Shaposhnikov, composer, dies at 79

Judy Garland (1922-1969)

American actress (The Wizard of Oz; Meet Me In St. Louis; Easter Parade), and singer ("Over The Rainbow"); dies at 47; coroner determines cause as unintentional, incautious overdose of prescription barbiturates

  • 1973 Jacques Wolfe, Romanian-American composer, dies at 77

Darius Milhaud (1892-1974)

French composer (Maximilien), dies at 81

  • 1977 Peter Laughner, American singer, songwriter and guitarist (Rocket From the Tombs; Pere Ubu), dies of acute pancreatitis at 24
  • 1979 (Walter) "Pee Wee" Hunt, American jazz trombonist (Casa Loma Orchestra, 1929-43; "Twelfth Street Rag", "Oh!"), and bandleader, dies at 72
  • 1984 (Dillwyn) "Dill" Jones, Welsh jazz stride pianist, dies of throat cancer at 60
  • 1986 Matti Rautio, Finnish classical composer (The Blue Heron), dies at 64 

Fred Astaire (1899-1987)

American stage and screen tap dancer, singer ("Night And Day"; "Cheek To Cheek"; "Let's Call The Whole Thing Off"), and actor (Royal Wedding; Easter Parade; Swingtime), dies of pneumonia at 88

  • 1988 Burrill Phillips, American classical composer (Play Ball; Perspectives in a Labyrinth), pianist, and educator, dies after a heart attack at 80
  • 1988 Dennis Day [Owen Patrick Eugene McNulty], Irish-American tenor ("Danny Boy"), radio and television comic actor (Jack Benny Program; A Day in the Life of Dennis Day), dies of ALS at 72
  • 1988 Jesse Ed Davis, Native American session and touring guitarist (Taj Mahal; Concert for Bangladesh; The Faces), dies of a drug overdose at 43
  • 1989 Bengt Johansson, Finnish composer, dies at 74
  • 1989 Henri Sauguet [Poupard], French organist and composer (Symphonie Expiatoire), dies at 88
  • 1996 Arthur "T-Boy" Ross, American songwriter, brother of Diana, found murdered at 47
  • 1996 George Barati, Hungarian-American cellist, composer, and conductor (Honolulu Symphony, 1950-67), dies at 83
  • 1997 Ted Gärdestad, Swedish singer (b. 1956)
  • 1999 Lubos Fiser, Czech composer, dies at 63
  • 2007 Derek Simpson, British cellist (Aeolian String Quartet, 1956-81; Beatles - "Strawberry Fields Forever), and teacher, dies at 79
  • 2009 Steve Race, British composer, jazz pianist and radio and television presenter (BBC's "My Music", 1967-94), dies at 88
  • 2014 Teenie Hodges, American rhythm and blues guitarist, dies from complications from emphysema at 68
  • 2015 James Horner, American Academy Award-winning film composer (Titanic; Apollo 13; Avatar), dies in a plane crash at 61
  • 2015 Joseph de Pasquale, American violist (Boston Symphony, 1949-64: Philadelphia Orchestra, 1964-96), and educator (Curtis Institutu, 1965-2015), dies at 95
  • 2017 Jimmy Nalls, American session and touring rock-jazz-fusion guitarist (Sea Level), dies of complications from Parkinson's disease at 66
  • 2017 Norman Ayrton, English actor and opera director (Royal Shakespearean Acad - UK), dies at 92
  • 2018 Vinnie Paul [Abbott], American heavy metal drummer (Pantera), dies of a heart condition at 54
  • 2023 Peter Brötzmann, German free jazz saxophonist and clarinet player, dies at 82 [1]