1969 Richard Maxfield, American instrumental, electro-acoustic, and electronic music composer, jumps to his death from a hotel window at 42
1974 Cliff Friend, American pianist and songwriter, dies at 80
1980 Albany "Barney" Bigard, Creole-American jazz clarinetist (Duke Ellington Orchestra, 1927-42 - "Mood Indigo"), dies at 74
1986 (Otis W.) "Joe" Maphis, American session and country music guitarist ("Dim Lights"), dies of lung cancer at 75
1986 Zoltán Gárdonyi, Hungarian composer, dies at 80
1992 Allan Jones, American actor and singer (A Day at the Races; Showboat), dies at 84
1992 Stefanie Ann Sargent, American guitarist (7 Year Bitch), dies of alcohol and heroin overdose at 24
1995 Efrem Kurtz, Russian conductor (Houston Symphony, 1948-54), dies at 94
1995 Prez "Kidd" Kenneth, American blues singer and guitarist, dies at 61
1999 Brian O'Hara, English rock guitarist and singer (The Foremost - "A Little Loving"), commits suicide at 57
1999 Einar Englund, Finnish composer, dies at 83
2000 Rudy Cafaro, American jazz guitarist, dies at 80
2002 John Entwistle, English rock bassist (The Who - "Boris The Spider"), dies in his sleep of a cocaine fueled heart attack in his Las Vegas hotel room at 57
2002 Russ Freeman, American classically trained bebop and cool jazz pianist and composer (Art Pepper; Charlie Parker; Chet Baker; Clifford Brown; Shelly Manne), dies at 76
2005 Frank Harte, traditional Irish singer and song collector, dies of a heart attack at 72
2008 Leonard Pennario, American concert pianist (Rózsa's Piano Concerto with L.A. Philharmonic), dies of complications from Parkinson's disease at 83
2009 Fayette Pinkney, American pop and disco singer (The Three Degrees, 1963-76 - "TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)"; "When Will I See You Again?"), and psychologist, dies of acute respiratory failure at 61
2009 Gale Storm [Josephine Owaissa Cottle], American singer ("I Hear You Knockin'"), and actress (My Little Margie; The Gale Storm Show), dies at 87
2013 Henrik Otto Donner, Finnish trumpeter, and avant garde and film score composer, dies at 73
2014 Bobby Womack, American R&B singer, guitarist, songwriter, and producer ("It's All Over Now"; "Woman's Got to Have It"; "Across 110th Street"), dies at 70
2015 Chris Squire, British progressive rock bassist, founding and longest serving member of Yes, 1969-2014 ("The Fish (Schindleria Praematurus)"), dies of acute erythroid leukemia at 67
2015 Denis Vigay, British cellist (BBC Symphony; Academy of St Martin in the Fields; Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band), dies at 89
2016 Harry Halbreich, German-Belgian musicologist (Arthur Honegger, Bohuslav Martinů), dies at 85
2016 Mack Rice, American musician and songwriter ("Mustang Sally"; "Respect Yourself"), dies at 82
2017 Geri Allen, American jazz pianist, bandleader, composer, and educator, dies of cancer at 60 [1]
2020 (Jesse) "Pete" Carr, American session guitarist (Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section), dies at 70
2020 (Lionel) Frederick "Freddy" Cole, American jazz singer and pianist, dies at 88 [1]
2020 Johnny Mandel, American composer, arranger and musician (M*A*S*H theme), dies at 94
2021 Arturo "Chico" O'Farrill, Cuban Latin and Afro-Cuban jazz composer, arranger, and conductor, dies of pneumonia at 79
2022 Eileen Barton, American singer (Broadway Open House; "If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake"), dies of ovarian cancer at 81
2023 Bobby Osborne, American bluegrass mandolin player (The Osborne Brothers - "Rocky Top"), dies at 91
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