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Musicians Who Died on September 5

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  • 1629 Domenico Allegri, Italian composer (b. c. 1585)
  • 1790 Thomas Norris, English singer and composer, dies at 49
  • 1803 Francois Devienne, composer, dies at 44
  • 1890 Ludwig Deppe, German composer, dies at 61
  • 1910 Franz Xaver Haberl, German priest and musicologist (Magister choralis), dies at 70
  • 1910 Julian Edwards, American composer, dies at 54
  • 1924 Karel Komzák III, Austrian conductor and composer, dies at 46 [1]
  • 1950 Al Killian, American big band and swing jazz trumpeter, and occasional bandleader, murdered by his landlord at 33
  • 1962 Gertrude E. Durden Rush, American composer and playwright (Black Girls Burden). dies at 82
  • 1968 Juan Jose Castro, Argentine composer and conductor, dies at 73
  • 1969 Henk Bijvanck, Dutch composer, dies at 59
  • 1969 Josh White, American blues, folk and gospel musician, dies at 55
  • 1969 Mitchell Ayres, American orchestra leader (Hollywood Palace), dies at 58
  • 1975 Georg Ots, Estonian baritone singer and actor, dies of a brain tumor at 55
  • 1977 George Barnes, American swing-jazz and session guitarist, and electric guitar pioneer, dies of a heart attack at 56
  • 1978 Joe Negroni, American rock vocalist (Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers), dies of a brain hemorrhage at 37
  • 1980 Don Banks, Australian orchestral, jazz, and film score composer, dies of leukemia at 56
  • 1983 Antonio Mairena, Spanish flamenco singer (b. 1909)
  • 1988 Lawrence Brown, American trombonist (Duke Ellington Orchestra), dies at 81
  • 1992 Armen Carapetyan, Americn musicologist and composer, dies at 83
  • 1993 René Klijn, Dutch singer (Mr Blue), dies of AIDS at 30)
  • 1994 Billy Usselton, American big band jazz saxophonist (Les Brown and His Band of Renown), dies at 68
  • 1995 James "Pigmeat" Jarrett, American pianist, dies at 95
  • 1997 Georg Solti [György Stern], Hungarian-British conductor, winner of 31 Grammy awards (Chicago Symphony, 1969-91), dies at 84
  • 1999 Katie Webster [Kathyrne Jewel Thorne], American boogie pianist (The Swamp Boogie Queen), dies of a heart attack at 63
  • 2003 Gisele MacKenzie [LaFlèche], Canadian singer and actress (Your Hit Parade), dies at 76
  • 2003 Ian Hunter, British impresario of classical music, dies at 84
  • 2007 Thomas Hansen Norwegian alternative country musician, found dead at 31
  • 2012 Joe South [Souter], American Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter and guitarist ("Games People Play"; "Walk A Mile In My Shoes"; "Rose Garden"), dies of heart failure at 72
  • 2015 (Frederick) "Denny" Greene, American singer (Sha Na Na, 1968-84), dies from cancer at 66
  • 2015 Jacques Israelievitch, French Canadian classical violinist, concertmaster (St. Louis Symphony, 1978-88; Toronto Symphony, 1988-2008), and music director (Koffler Chamber Orchestra, 2005-14), dies of lung cancer at 67
  • 2017 Holger Czukay [Holger Schüring], German musician (Can), dies at 79
  • 2019 Jimmy Johnson, American session guitarist and co-founder of the Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, dies at 76
  • 2021 Rickie Lee Reynolds, American southern rock guitarist (Black Oak Arkansas - "Jim Dandy (To the Rescue)"), dies of COVID-19 complications, including kidney failure and heart attack at 72
  • 2021 Sarah Harding, British pop singer (Girls Aloud - “Sound of the Underground,” “Love Machine), dies of breast cancer at 39
  • 2022 Lars Vogt, German concert pianist, conductor, and educator, dies of cancer at 51
  • 2023 Charles Gayle, American jazz saxophonist and composer ("Streets"), dies at 84


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