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Musicians Who Died on June 9

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  • 1361 Philippe de Vitry, French composer and poet, dies at 69
  • 1616 Cornelis F Schuyt, Dutch organist and composer (Madrigalen), dies at about 58
  • 1656 Thomas Tomkins, Welsh-born virginalist composer, dies at 83 or 84
  • 1717 Louis Le Quointe, Flemish composer and organist (Bouquet de fleurs), dies at 64
  • 1836 Supply Belcher, American composer and singer (The Harmony of Maine), dies at 85
  • 1870 Erik Drake, Swedish composer (Royal Swedish Academy of Music), dies at 82
  • 1892 Friedrich Wilhelm Langhans, German musician and composer, dies at 59
  • 1931 Henrique Oswald, Brazilian composer, dies at 79
  • 1932 Natalia Janotha, Polish pianist and composer, dies at 76
  • 1952 Adolf Busch, German-Swiss violinist (Busch Quartet, 1920-51), conductor (Lucerne Festival; Marlboro Festival), and composer, dies at 60
  • 1957 Robert Oboussier, Swiss composer, dies at 56
  • 1963 Vasyl Barvinsky, Ukrainian pianist, composer, conductor, musicologist ("Béla Bartók in Lviv"), and teacher (Lysenko Higher Institute of Music, 1915-48), dies at 75
  • 1967 Stefan Boleslaw Poradowski, Polish composer, dies at 64
  • 1971 Harold Lloyd Jr, American actor (Frankenstein's Daughter), cabaret singer, and son of famous silent film actor Harold Lloyd, Sr., dies of a complications from a stroke at 40
  • 1975 David Frederick Barlow, English composer, dies at 48
  • 1989 Rashid Behbudov, Azerbaijani singer and actor, dies of kidney disease at 73
  • 1991 Claudio Arrau, Chilean pianist (Boston Symphony Orchestra), dies following surgery at 88
  • 1992 Clarence Miller, American blues and jazz vocalist, dies at 69 of a heart attack
  • 1993 Alexis Smith, Canadian actress and singer (The Age of Innocence; Follies), dies of brain cancer at 72
  • 1993 Arthur Alexander, American singer-songwriter ("Lonely Just Like Me"), whose songs were covered by The Beatles ("Anna"), The Rolling Stones ("You Better Move On"), and Bob Dylan ("Sally Sue Brown"), dies of a heart attack at 53 [1]
  • 1994 Lloyd Lindroth, American harpist known as 'The Liberace of the Harp', dies at 63
  • 1995 Frank Chacksfield, English easy listening pianist, arranger and orchestra leader ("Ebb Tide"), dies from complications of Parkinson's disease at 81
  • 1996 Walter Pardon, British folk singer and carpenter, dies at 81
  • 2001 David Sheinfeld, American violinist and composer, dies at 94
  • 2006 Drafi Deutscher, German Schlager singer, dies of heart failure at 60
  • 2010 Marina Semyonova, Russian ballerina, dies at 101
  • 2014 Gerd Zacher, German composer and organist, dies at 84
  • 2015 James Last, German-born composer and big band bandleader, dies at 86
  • 2018 Lorraine Gordon [Stein], American jazz music advocate and owner of Village Vanguard jazz club, dies at 95
  • 2022 Julee Cruise, American singer (Falling) and stage actress, takes her own life at 65


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