death | age | |||
3/9/1706 | johann pachelbel | 52 | ||
7/28/1741 | antonio vivaldi | 63 | internal infection | |
7/29/1750 | johann sebastian bach | 65 | eye surgery | |
7/23/1757 | domenico scarlatti | 71 | ||
4/14/1759 | george frideric handel | 74 | cancer | |
12/5/1791 | wolfgang amadeus mozart | 34 | rheumatic fever | |
5/31/1809 | joseph haydn | 77 | artillery bombardment | |
3/26/1827 | ludwig van beethoven | 56 | lead poisoning | |
11/29/1828 | franz schubert | 31 | mercury treatment for syphilis/ typhoid fever? | |
5/27/1840 | niccolò paganini | 57 | mercury treatment for syphilis/ throat cancer | |
1/11/1843 | francis scott key | 63 | pleurisy | |
11/4/1847 | felix mendelssohn | 38 | strokes | |
10/17/1849 | frédéric chopin | 39 | long illness | |
1/13/1864 | stephen foster | 37 | fever/ fell/ cut/ loss of blood | |
6/3/1875 | georges bizet | 36 | heart attack | |
2/13/1883 | richard wagner | 69 | heart attack | |
7/31/1886 | franz liszt | 74 | pneumonia | |
11/6/1893 | pyotr ilyich tchaikovsky | 53 | cholera | |
4/3/1897 | johannes brahms | 63 | cancer | |
6/3/1899 | johann strauss II | 73 | pneumonia | |
1/27/1901 | giuseppe verdi | 87 | stroke | |
5/1/1904 | antonín dvořák | 62 | after a short illness | |
6/8/1908 | nikolai rimsky-korsakov | 64 | heart failure | |
5/18/1911 | gustav mahler | 50 | failing health | |
9/1/1912 | samuel coleridge-taylor | 37 | pneumonia | |
4/1/1917 | scott joplin | 49 | syphilis | |
3/25/1918 | claude debussy | 55 | colorectal cancer | |
2/8/1921 | george formby, sr. | 45 | bronchitis tuberculosis | |
8/2/1921 | enrico caruso | 48 | pleurisy | |
12/16/1921 | camille saint-saëns | 86 | pneumonia | |
7/27/1924 | ferruccio busoni | 58 | kidney disease | |
11/29/1924 | giacomo puccini | 67 | throat cancer/ radiation/ heart attack | |
12/12/1929 | blind lemon jefferson | 35 | heart attack or murder and/or froze to death | |
8/6/1931 | bix beiderbecke | 28 | alcoholism/ delirium tremens/ seizure | |
3/6/1932 | john phillip sousa | 77 | died in his sleep | |
5/26/1933 | jimmie rodgers | 35 | tuberculosis | |
12/24/1935 | alban berg | 50 | blood poisoning | Second Viennese School |
7/11/1937 | george gershwin | 38 | brain tumor | |
9/26/1937 | bessie smith | 43 | car crash | |
12/28/1937 | maurice ravel | 62 | taxi crash/head injury/ experimental brain surgery | |
8/16/1938 | robert johnson | 27 | murder/strychnine | |
2/18/1940 | rudy wiedoeft | 47 | cirrhosis | |
6/29/1941 | ignaz paderewski | 80 | pneumonia | |
3/2/1942 | charlie christian | 25 | tuberculosis | |
3/28/1943 | sergei rachmaninoff | 69 | melanoma | |
11/22/1943 | lorenz hart | 48 | pneumonia | |
12/15/1943 | fats waller | 39 | pneumonia | |
12/15/1944 | glenn miller | 40 | aircraft lost | |
9/26/1945 | béla bartók | 64 | leukemia | |
6/1/1948 | sonny boy williamson | 34 | mugged | |
12/6/1949 | lead belly | 61 | amyotrophic lateral sclerosis | |
10/23/1950 | al jolson | 64 | heart attack | |
2/3/1951 | ed haley | 65 | heart attack | Appalachian fiddle |
7/13/1951 | arnold schoenberg | 76 | triskaidekaphobia | |
1/1/1953 | hank williams | 29 | morphine | |
3/5/1953 | sergei prokofiev | 61 | stroke | |
5/16/1953 | django reinhardt | 43 | brain hemorrhage | |
12/25/1954 | johnny ace | 25 | pcp/ shot himself | Thornton's "Hound Dog" |
3/12/1955 | charlie parker | 35 | pneumonia/ bleeding ulcer | |
5/4/1955 | george enescu | 63 | composer, violinist, pianist, conductor | |
8/5/1955 | carmen miranda | 46 | toxemia/ heart failure | |
11/5/1956 | art tatum | 47 | kidney failure | |
11/26/1956 | tommy dorsey | 51 | sleeping pills/ asphyxiation | |
1/16/1957 | arturo toscanini | 89 | stroke | |
2/15/1958 | little walter | 37 | alcoholism/ fight injuries/ died in his sleep | |
8/14/1958 | big bill broonzy | 60 | throat cancer | |
2/3/1959 | ritchie valens | 17 | plane crash | |
2/3/1959 | buddy holly | 22 | plane crash | |
2/3/1959 | the big bopper | 28 | plane crash | |
7/17/1959 | billie holiday | 44 | cirrhosis | |
10/17/1959 | mario lanza | 38 | pulmonary embolism | |
4/21/1960 | eddie cochran | 21 | taxi accident | Summertime Blues |
8/23/1960 | oscar hammerstein II | 65 | stomach cancer | |
11/5/1960 | johnny horton | 35 | car crash | |
3/6/1961 | george formby, jr. | 56 | heart attack | |
4/29/1961 | cisco houston | 42 | stomach cancer | |
4/10/1962 | stuart sutcliffe | 21 | fight injuries/ cerebral paralysis | The Beatles |
3/5/1963 | patsy cline | 30 | plane crash | |
5/24/1963 | elmore james | 45 | heart attack | |
12/14/1963 | dinah washington | 39 | accidental overdose of prescription sleeping medication | |
7/31/1964 | jim reeves | 40 | plane crash | |
8/14/1964 | johnny burnette | 30 | drowned | |
10/1/1964 | ernst toch | 76 | stomach cancer | |
10/15/1964 | cole porter | 73 | kidney failure | |
12/11/1964 | sam cooke | 33 | shot | |
2/15/1965 | nat king cole | 45 | lung cancer | |
10/27/1965 | peter lafarge | 34 | stroke or overdose/or suicide by bleeding | |
11/6/1965 | edgard varèse | 81 | intestinal surgery | |
4/30/1966 | richard fariña | 29 | motorcycle accident | |
7/18/1966 | bobby fuller | 23 | "suicide"/murder | “I Fought the Law” |
7/31/1966 | bud powell | 41 | tuberculosis | |
7/17/1967 | john coltrane | 40 | liver cancer | |
10/3/1967 | woody guthrie | 35 | huntington's disease | |
12/10/1967 | otis redding | 26 | plane crash | |
2/27/1968 | frankie lymon | 25 | heroin | and The Teenagers |
6/22/1969 | judy garland | 47 | seconal | |
7/3/1969 | brian jones | 27 | drowning/ drugs/ murder? | The Rolling Stones |
9/5/1969 | josh white | 55 | failed heart valve surgery | |
3/16/1970 | tammi terrell | 24 | malignant brain tumor | |
9/3/1970 | alan "blind owl" wilson | 27 | barbiturate overdose | Canned Heat |
9/18/1970 | jimi hendrix | 27 | vesperax/ asphyxiation | The Jimi Hendrix Experience |
10/4/1970 | janis joplin | 27 | heroin | |
4/6/1971 | igor stravinsky | 88 | ||
7/3/1971 | jim morrison | 27 | heroin | |
7/6/1971 | louis armstrong | 69 | heart attack | |
7/17/1971 | cliff "ukelele ike" edwards | 76 | cardiac arrest/ arterioscleosis | |
8/13/1971 | king curtis | 37 | stabbed | |
10/12/1971 | gene vincent | 36 | ruptured stomach ulcer | “Be-Bop-A-Lula” |
10/29/1971 | duane allman | 24 | motorcycle crash | Allman Brothers Band, Derek and the Dominos |
12/28/1971 | max steiner | 83 | congestive heart failure | Theme for A Summer Place |
1/16/1972 | david seville | 52 | heart attack | "The Witch Doctor", Alvin and the Chipmunks |
1/27/1972 | mahalia jackson | 60 | diabetes/ heart failure | |
6/13/1972 | clyde mcphatter | 39 | alcohol: heart/liver/ kidney disease | The Drifters |
11/6/1972 | billy murcia | 21 | choked to death | New York Dolls |
11/18/1972 | danny whitten | 29 | heroin | Crazy Horse |
3/8/1973 | ron "pigpen" mckernan | 27 | alcohol/ gastrointestinal hemorrhage | Grateful Dead |
7/14/1973 | clarence white | 29 | hit by drunken driver | The Byrds |
8/17/1973 | paul williams | 34 | shot/ believed to be suicide | The Temptations |
9/19/1973 | gram parsons | 26 | morphine/ alcohol | Byrds, Flying Burrito Brothers |
9/20/1973 | jim croce | 30 | plane crash | |
10/16/1973 | gene krupa | 64 | leukemia and heart failure | |
10/22/1973 | pablo casals | 96 | brief illness | |
12/20/1973 | bobby darin | 37 | prosthetic heart valve clot | |
7/29/1974 | mama cass | 32 | died in her sleep/ heart attack | The Mamas & the Papas |
10/24/1974 | david oistrakh | 66 | heart attack | violin |
11/25/1974 | nick drake | 26 | amitriptyline | |
2/4/1975 | louis jordan | 66 | heart attack | |
2/10/1975 | dave alexander | 27 | pulmonary edema | The Stooges |
4/12/1975 | joséphine baker | 69 | natural causes | |
4/24/1975 | peter ham | 27 | suicide by hanging | Bad Finger |
5/13/1975 | bob wills | 70 | strokes | |
5/24/1975 | duke ellington | 75 | lung cancer/ pneumonia | |
8/9/1975 | dmitri shostakovich | 68 | lung cancer | |
12/17/1975 | hound dog taylor | 60 | cancer | |
1/10/1976 | howlin' wolf | 65 | kidney failure | |
1/23/1976 | paul robeson | 77 | stroke | |
2/6/1976 | vince guaraldi | 47 | heart attack | "Cast Your Fate to the Wind", A Charlie Brown Christmas (album) |
2/9/1976 | percy faith | 67 | cancer | "Theme from A Summer Place" |
2/22/1976 | florence ballard | 32 | coronary thrombosis | The Supremes |
3/14/1976 | paul kossoff | 25 | drug-related heart problems | Free |
4/9/1976 | phil ochs | 35 | suicide by hanging | |
5/14/1976 | keith relf | 33 | electrocuted by guitar | The Yardbirds |
6/25/1976 | johnny mercer | 66 | surgery to remove brain tumor/ complications | |
8/29/1976 | jimmy reed | 50 | alcoholism/epilepsy | |
7/24/1977 | utah carl | 57 | carcinoma of lung | |
8/16/1977 | elvis presley | 42 | drugs/ enlarged heart/ heart attack | |
9/16/1977 | maria callas | 53 | heart attack | |
9/16/1977 | marc bolan | 29 | car crash | T.Rex |
10/14/1977 | bing crosby | 74 | heart attack | |
10/20/1977 | ronnie van zant | 29 | air crash | Lynyrd Skynyrd |
10/20/1977 | steve gaines | 28 | air crash | Lynyrd Skynyrd |
10/20/1977 | cassie gaines | 29 | air crash | Lynyrd Skynyrd |
4/21/1978 | sandy denny | 31 | cerebral hemorrhage | |
5/1/1978 | aram khachaturian | 74 | ||
8/4/1978 | frank fontaine | 58 | heart attack | Crazy Guggenheim |
8/24/1978 | louis prima | 67 | brain tumor | |
9/1/1978 | keith moon | 32 | clomethiazole | The Who |
1/5/1979 | charles mingus | 56 | amyotrophic lateral sclerosis | |
1/13/1979 | donny hathaway | 33 | suicide/leapt to his death | |
2/2/1979 | sid vicious | 21 | heroin | The Sex Pistols |
5/11/1979 | lester flatt | 64 | heart failure | Flatt & Scruggs, the Foggy Mountain Boys |
6/29/1979 | lowell george | 34 | heart attack | Little Feat |
7/12/1979 | minnie riperton | 31 | breast cancer | Rotary Connection |
8/25/1979 | stan kenton | 67 | stroke | mellophonium band, jazz educator |
12/30/1979 | richard rodgers | 77 | survived cancer of the jaw/ heart attack/ laryngectomy, then … | |
1/7/1980 | larry williams | 44 | shot/ maybe not a suicide | “Short Fat Fannie”, “Bony Moronie” |
1/29/1980 | jimmy durante | 86 | stroke/ pneumonia | "Good night, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are." |
1/30/1980 | professor longhair | 61 | died in his sleep | |
2/19/1980 | bon scott | 33 | alcohol poisoning | AC/DC |
3/29/1980 | mantovani | 74 | ||
5/18/1980 | ian curtis | 23 | suicide, hanging | Joy Division |
9/25/1980 | john bonham | 32 | alcohol/ asphyxiation | Led Zeppelin |
12/8/1980 | john lennon | 40 | shot | The Beatles |
12/29/1980 | tim hardin | 39 | heroin/morphine | wrote If I Were a Carpenter |
2/15/1981 | mike bloomfield | 37 | heroin | |
5/11/1981 | bob marley | 36 | melanoma | |
7/16/1981 | harry chapin | 38 | car crash | |
12/27/1981 | hoagy carmichael | 82 | heart failure | |
1/30/1982 | lightnin' hopkins | 69 | esophageal cancer/ pneumonia | |
2/17/1982 | thelonious monk | 64 | stroke | |
6/16/1982 | james honeyman-scott | 25 | cocaine | The Pretenders |
10/4/1982 | glenn gould | 50 | stroke | |
12/8/1982 | marty robbins | 57 | heart surgery complications | |
2/4/1983 | karen carpenter | 32 | anorexia nervosa | |
2/12/1983 | eubie blake | 96 | ||
4/17/1983 | felix pappalardi | 43 | shot | “Disraeli Gears”, Mountain |
4/30/1983 | muddy waters | 70 | died in his sleep | |
5/6/1983 | kai winding | 60 | brain tumor | trombone |
7/5/1983 | harry james | 67 | lymphatic cancer | |
8/17/1983 | ira gershwin | 86 | died in his sleep/ heart disease | |
11/19/1983 | tom evans | 36 | suicide by hanging | Badfinger |
12/28/1983 | dennis wilson | 39 | alcohol-related drowning | The Beach Boys |
1/21/1984 | jackie wilson | 49 | heart attack | |
2/15/1984 | ethel merman | 76 | brain tumor/ found dead/ natural causes | |
4/1/1984 | marvin gaye | 44 | shot | |
4/26/1984 | count basie | 79 | pancreatic cancer | |
7/4/1984 | jimmie spheeris | 36 | motorcycle crash | |
7/25/1984 | big mama thorton | 57 | alcohol abuse/ liver and heart complications | |
9/6/1984 | ernest tubb | 70 | emphysema | |
9/20/1984 | steve goodman | 36 | leukemia | |
3/29/1985 | the singing nun | 51 | suicide/barbiturates and alcohol | |
10/6/1985 | nelson riddle | 64 | liver ailments | Route 66 Theme, Nat King Cole, Sinatra, Garland, Ronstadt |
10/12/1985 | ricky wilson | 32 | aids | B-52's |
11/24/1985 | big joe turner | 74 | heart attack | |
12/12/1985 | ian stewart | 47 | respiratory problems/ heart attack | The Rolling Stones |
12/31/1985 | ricky nelson | 45 | air crash | |
1/4/1986 | phil lynott | 36 | heart failure and pneumonia | |
3/4/1986 | richard manuel | 42 | suicide by hanging | The Band |
3/11/1986 | sonny terry | 74 | natural causes | |
6/13/1986 | benny goodman | 77 | heart attack | |
6/17/1986 | kate smith | 79 | diabetes | |
7/3/1986 | rudy vallée | 84 | cancer | |
12/2/1986 | desi arnaz | 69 | lung cancer | |
2/4/1987 | liberace | 67 | aids | |
3/21/1987 | dino martin | 35 | air crash | |
4/2/1987 | buddy rich | 69 | heart failure following surgery for malignant brain tumor | |
4/17/1987 | carlton barret | 36 | murder/shot | The Wailers |
5/4/1987 | paul butterfield | 44 | alcohol/drug abuse/heart attack | |
6/2/1987 | andrés segovia | 94 | heart attack | |
12/10/1987 | jascha heifetz | 86 | violin | |
12/12/1987 | clifton chenier | 62 | diabetes-related kidney disease | Zydeco |
3/5/1988 | andy gibb | 30 | cocaine/ myocarditis | |
4/28/1988 | b.w. stevenson | 38 | heart valve surgery | |
5/13/1988 | chet baker | 58 | heroin/cocaine/ head wounds | jazz trumpet, flugelhorn, singer |
6/22/1988 | jesse ed davis | 43 | drug overdose | guitar |
9/14/1988 | roy buchanan | 48 | suicide by hanging | |
10/19/1988 | son house | 86 | cancer of the larynx | |
12/6/1988 | roy orbison | 52 | heart attack | |
2/1/1989 | blaze foley | 39 | shot | |
2/4/1989 | jethro burns | 68 | prostate cancer | mandolin |
5/7/1989 | ron wilson | 43 | brain aneurysm | The Surfaris, "Wipe Out" |
9/22/1989 | irving berlin | 101 | heart attack | |
11/5/1989 | vladimir horowitz | 86 | stroke | |
1/23/1990 | allen collins | 37 | chronic pneumonia complication of the paralysis | Lynyrd Skynyrd |
2/8/1990 | del shannon | 55 | suicide/shot | |
4/3/1990 | sarah vaughan | 66 | lung cancer | |
5/16/1990 | sammy davis, jr. | 64 | throat cancer | |
6/2/1990 | stiv bators | 40 | hit by taxi/ died in his sleep from untreated injuries | The Dead Boys, The Lords of the New Church |
8/27/1990 | stevie ray vaughn | 35 | helicopter crash | |
10/14/1990 | leonard bernstein | 72 | tobacco | |
10/16/1990 | art blakey | 71 | lung cancer | |
4/20/1991 | steve marriott | 44 | fire | Humble Pie |
4/23/1991 | johnny thunders | 38 | drug-related causes/ possible foul play | New York Dolls |
5/24/1991 | gene clark | 46 | alcohol/ bleeding ulcer | The Byrds |
6/1/1991 | david ruffin | 50 | cocaine | The Temptations |
6/6/1991 | stan getz | 64 | liver cancer | |
9/4/1991 | dottie west | 58 | car crash | |
9/18/1991 | robin tyner | 46 | heart attack | MC5 |
9/28/1991 | miles davis | 65 | stroke/pneumonia/ respiratory failure | |
11/24/1991 | freddie mercury | 45 | aids caused bronchial pneumonia | Queen |
1/14/1992 | jerry nolan | 45 | meningitis pneumonia stroke | The New York Dolls |
1/29/1992 | willie dixon | 76 | heart failure | |
5/17/1992 | lawrence welk | 92 | pneumonia | |
8/12/1992 | john cage | 79 | stroke | chance music |
10/25/1992 | roger miller | 56 | lung and throat cancer | King of the Road |
1/6/1993 | dizzy gillespie | 75 | pancreatic cancer | bebop |
3/8/1993 | billy eckstine | 78 | ||
4/8/1993 | marian anderson | 96 | heart failure | contralto |
11/24/1993 | albert collins | 61 | lung cancer | |
12/4/1993 | frank zappa | 52 | prostate cancer | |
12/19/1993 | michael clarke | 47 | alcohol/ liver failure | The Byrds |
1/15/1994 | harry nilsson | 52 | heart failure | |
2/22/1994 | papa john creach | 76 | heart attack/ pneumonia | Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna, Jefferson Starship |
2/24/1994 | dinah shore | 77 | ovarian cancer | |
4/5/1994 | kurt cobain | 27 | suicide/shot | Nirvana |
6/14/1994 | henry mancini | 70 | pancreatic cancer | |
9/6/1994 | nicky hopkins | 50 | intestinal surgery | Kinks, Who, Stones, Beatles, L. Ron Hubbard |
10/4/1994 | danny gatton | 49 | suicide/shot | |
11/10/1994 | carmen mcrae | 74 | empheysema/ stroke | |
11/19/1994 | cab calloway | 86 | stroke | |
11/23/1994 | tommy boyce | 55 | suicide/shot | The Monkees |
2/18/1995 | bob stinson | 35 | alcohol and drug abuse | The Replacements |
3/31/1995 | selena | 23 | murder/shot | |
8/9/1995 | jerry garcia | 53 | heart attack | Grateful Dead |
8/30/1995 | sterling morrison | 53 | non-Hodgkin's lymphoma | The Velvet Underground |
10/21/1995 | shannon hoon | 28 | cocaine | Blind Melon |
11/23/1995 | junior walker | 64 | cancer | |
12/25/1995 | dean martin | 78 | lung cancer | |
2/16/1996 | brownie mcghee | 80 | stomach cancer | |
3/31/1996 | jeffrey lee pierce | 37 | brain hemorrhage | The Gun Club |
5/11/1996 | walter hyatt | 46 | air crash | Uncle Walt's Band |
6/15/1996 | ella fitzgerald | 79 | diabetes | |
7/17/1996 | chas chandler | 57 | heart condition | The Animals, Jimi Hendrix Experience |
9/9/1996 | bill monroe | 84 | stroke | |
9/13/1996 | tupac shakur | 25 | shot | |
11/2/1996 | eva cassidy | 33 | melanoma | |
11/30/1996 | tiny tim | 64 | heart attack | |
12/10/1996 | faron young | 64 | suicide/shot | |
1/1/1997 | townes van zandt | 52 | post-surgical pulmonary embolism | |
1/2/1997 | randy california | 45 | drowned | Spirit |
3/9/1997 | notorious b.i.g. | 24 | shot | |
3/10/1997 | lavern baker | 67 | coronary complications | |
4/8/1997 | laura nyro | 49 | ovarian cancer | The Velvet Underground |
5/9/1997 | georg solti | 84 | sudden death | |
5/29/1997 | jeff buckley | 30 | drowned | |
6/4/1997 | ronnie lane | 51 | multiple sclerosis/ pneumonia | The Faces, The Small Faces |
6/20/1997 | lawrence payton | 59 | cancer | The Four Tops |
6/26/1997 | iz kamakawiwo'ole | 38 | weight-related respiratory illness | |
8/1/1997 | sviatoslav richter | 82 | heart attack | |
10/12/1997 | john denver | 53 | plane crash | |
11/22/1997 | michael hutchence | 37 | suicide by hanging or autoerotic asphyxiation | INXS |
12/1/1997 | stéphane grappelli | 89 | complications from hernia surgery | |
1/19/1998 | carl perkins | 65 | strokes/ throat cancer | |
2/6/1998 | carl wilson | 51 | tobacco/lung and brain cancer | |
4/6/1998 | wendy o. williams | 48 | suicide/shot | Plasmatics |
4/17/1998 | linda mccartney | 56 | breast cancer | Wings |
5/14/1998 | frank sinatra | 82 | heart attack | |
7/6/1998 | roy rogers | 86 | congestive heart failure | |
9/26/1998 | betty carter | 69 | pancreatic cancer | |
10/2/1998 | gene autry | 91 | colon cancer | |
11/22/1998 | irving berlin | 101 | heart attack | |
3/2/1999 | dusty springfield | 59 | breast cancer | |
3/12/1999 | yehudi menuhin | 82 | bronchitis | |
6/5/1999 | mel tormé | 73 | stroke | |
6/16/1999 | screaming lord sutch | 58 | suicide by hanging | |
10/9/1999 | milt jackson | 76 | liver cancer | |
10/16/1999 | bruce cameron | 43 | murder/ suicide? | |
10/26/1999 | hoyt axton | 61 | strokes/ heart attack | |
11/18/1999 | doug sahm | 58 | died in his sleep/ heart attack | Sir Douglas Quintet |
12/10/1999 | rick danko | 56 | died in his sleep/ heart failure | The Band |
12/20/1999 | hank snow | 85 | ||
12/26/1999 | curtis mayfield | 57 | diabetes | The Impressions |
2/12/2000 | screamin' jay hawkins | 70 | after surgery for aneurysm | |
5/31/2000 | tito puente | 77 | failed to recover from heart surgery | |
8/25/2000 | jack nitzsche | 63 | recurring bronchial infection/cardiac arrest | too numerous to mention |
10/18/2000 | julie london | 74 | stroke | Cry Me a River |
10/30/2000 | steve allen | 78 | auto accident-caused haemopericardium | |
12/31/2000 | eddy shaver | 38 | heroin | Eddy Metal |
3/18/2001 | john phillips | 65 | heart failure | The Journeymen, The Mamas & the Papas |
4/15/2001 | joey ramone | 49 | lymphoma | The Ramones |
5/12/2001 | perry como | 88 | died in his sleep | |
6/4/2001 | john hartford | 63 | non-hodgkin's lymphoma | |
6/21/2001 | john lee hooker | 83 | died in his sleep | |
6/30/2001 | chet atkins | 77 | colon cancer | |
7/27/2001 | leon wilkeson | 49 | liver and lung disease | Lynyrd Skynyrd |
8/25/2001 | aaliyah | 22 | plane crash | |
9/22/2001 | isaac stern | 81 | congestive heart failure | |
11/3/2001 | champ hood | 49 | lung cancer | The Mighty Contenders, Uncle Walt's Band |
11/29/2001 | george harrison | 58 | lung cancer | The Beatles |
12/15/2001 | rufus thomas | 84 | heart failure | |
12/16/2001 | stuart adamson | 43 | self-strangulation | Big Country |
1/15/2002 | red river dave | 87 | Amelia Earhart's Last Flight | |
1/21/2002 | peggy lee | 81 | diabetes and heart attack | |
2/10/2002 | dave van ronk | 65 | colon cancer | |
4/5/2002 | layne staley | 34 | heroin plus cocaine | Alice in Chains |
6/5/2002 | dee dee ramone | 49 | heroin | The Ramones |
6/27/2002 | john entwistle | 57 | cocaine induced heart attack | The Who |
6/29/2002 | rosemary clooney | 74 | lung cancer | |
8/31/2002 | lionel hampton | 94 | congestive heart failure | |
11/13/2002 | mike stewart | 57 | suicide | We Five, Joel's Piano Man |
12/13/2002 | zal yanovsky | 57 | congestive heart failure | The Lovin Spoonful |
12/22/2002 | joe strummer | 50 | congenital heart defect | The Clash |
1/12/2003 | maurice gibb | 53 | twisted intestine | The Bee Gees |
1/23/2003 | nell carter | 54 | diabetes/obesity heart disease | |
3/2/2003 | hank ballard | 76 | throat cancer | |
4/10/2003 | little eva | 59 | cervical cancer | |
4/21/2003 | nina simone | 70 | breast cancer/ died in her sleep | |
5/11/2003 | noel redding | 57 | found dead/ no cause given | The Jimi Hendrix Experience |
6/15/2003 | june carter cash | 73 | heart valve replacement surgery complications | |
7/4/2003 | barry white | 58 | renal failure | |
7/16/2003 | celia cruz | 77 | cancerous brain tumor | |
8/9/2003 | gregory hines | 57 | liver cancer | |
9/7/2003 | warren zevon | 56 | mesothelioma | |
9/12/2003 | johnny cash | 71 | diabetes/ autonomic neuropathy | |
9/16/2003 | sheb wooley | 82 | leukemia | “The Purple People Eater”, Wilhelm scream |
9/26/2003 | robert palmer | 54 | heart attack | |
11/5/2003 | bobby hatfield | 63 | cocaine | The Righteous Brothers |
11/19/2003 | greg ridley | 56 | pneumonia | Humble Pie |
2/3/2004 | cornelius bumpus | 58 | heart attack | Doobie Brothers, Steely Dan |
3/26/2004 | jan berry | 62 | seizure/stroke | Jan and Dean |
3/30/2004 | timi yuro | 63 | cancer of the thoat | |
4/1/2004 | paul atkinson | 58 | liver and kidney disease | The Zombies |
5/31/2004 | robert quine | 61 | heroin/grief | Richard Hell & the Voidoids, Lou Reed (The Blue Mask), Brian Eno ( Nerve Net), John Zorn, Ikue Mori, Marc Ribot, Marianne Faithfull (Strange Weather), Lloyd Cole, Tom Waits (Rain Dogs), Matthew Sweet, Odds, Jody Harris {Escape}, Lester Bangs. |
6/10/2004 | ray charles | 73 | liver cancer | |
7/13/2004 | arthur "killer" kane | 55 | leukemia | New York Dolls |
8/6/2004 | rick james | 56 | drug abuse/ diabetes/pulmonary and cardiac failures | “Superfreak” |
8/26/2004 | laura branigan | 47 | brain aneurysm | |
9/15/2004 | johnny ramone | 55 | prostate cancer | The Ramones |
9/19/2004 | skeeter davis | 72 | breast cancer | |
2/6/2005 | merle kilgore | 70 | lung cancer/ congestive heart failure | |
3/26/2005 | paul hester | 46 | depression/ suicide by hanging | Crowded House |
7/1/2005 | luther vandross | 54 | diabetes/ hypertension/ stroke | |
7/1/2005 | obie benson | 68 | cancer | The Four Tops |
7/21/2005 | long john baldry | 64 | severe chest infection | |
8/13/2005 | allen damron | 66 | pneumonia complications | Texas Folk hero |
11/1/2005 | skitch henderson | 87 | natrural causes | The Tonight Show |
11/5/2005 | link wray | 76 | heart failure | |
1/6/2006 | lou rawls | 72 | lung and brain cancer | |
1/19/2006 | wilson pickett | 64 | heart attack | |
2/7/2006 | elton dean | 60 | heart and liver | Soft Machine |
3/7/2006 | jesse taylor | 55 | hepatitis c and cirrhosis | |
4/5/2006 | gene pitney | 66 | found dead/ atherosclerosis | |
6/6/2006 | billy preston | 59 | kidney disease/ malignant hypertension | |
7/7/2006 | syd barrett | 60 | diabetes/ pancreatic cancer | Pink Floyd |
9/20/2006 | don walser | 72 | diabetes | |
9/21/2006 | boz burrell | 60 | heart attack | King Crimson, Bad Company |
10/14/2006 | freddy fender | 69 | lung cancer | |
12/25/2006 | james brown | 73 | congestive heart failure/ pneumonia | |
2/2/2007 | eric von schmidt | 75 | throat cancer/ stroke | |
3/9/2007 | brad delp | 55 | suicide/ carbon monoxide | Boston |
4/27/2007 | mstislav rostropovich | 80 | intestinal cancer | |
4/28/2007 | tommy newsom | 78 | cancer | The Tonight Show |
7/2/2007 | beverly sills | 78 | lung cancer | |
7/3/2007 | boots randolph | 80 | brain hemorrhage | |
9/6/2007 | luciano pavarotti | 71 | pancreatic cancer | |
10/28/2007 | porter waggoner | 80 | lung cancer | |
10/30/2007 | robert goulet | 73 | idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis | |
12/12/2007 | ike turner | 76 | cardiovascular disease/ emphysema/ cocaine overdose | |
12/16/2007 | dan fogelberg | 56 | prostate cancer | |
12/23/2007 | oscar peterson | 82 | renal failure | |
1/19/2008 | john stewart | 68 | stroke or aneurysm | “Daydream Believer”, Kingston Trio |
2/26/2008 | buddy miles | 60 | congestive heart failure | Band of Gypsys |
4/17/2008 | danny federici | 58 | melanoma | E Street Band |
4/17/2008 | chris gaffney | 57 | liver cancer | Hacienda Brothers |
5/1/2008 | jim hager | 66 | heart attack | The Hager Twins |
5/8/2008 | eddy arnold | 89 | lengthy illness | |
5/11/2008 | john rutsey | 55 | diabetes | Rush |
5/21/2008 | michelle meldrum-norum | 39 | cystic growth on her brain | Phantom Blue and Meldrum |
5/23/2008 | utah phillips | 73 | complications from heart disease | |
6/2/2008 | bo diddley | 79 | heart attack/ stroke/ heart failure | |
8/10/2008 | isaac hayes | 65 | stroke | |
8/23/2008 | steve foley | 49 | accidental overdose of prescription | The Replacements |
9/1/2008 | jerry reed | 71 | emphysema | “Guitar Man”, Smokey and The Bandit |
9/15/2008 | rick wright | 65 | cancer | Pink Floyd |
10/1/2008 | nick reynolds | 75 | acute respiratory disease | The Kingston Trio |
10/15/2008 | edie adams | 81 | cancer and pneumonia | |
10/17/2008 | levi stubbs | 72 | long illness | The Four Tops |
10/31/2008 | frank navetta | 46 | short illness | The Descendents |
11/1/2008 | jimmy carl black | 70 | lung cancer | The Mothers of Invention |
11/12/2008 | mitch mitchell | 62 | died in his sleep of natural causes | The Jimi Hendrix Experience |
11/22/2008 | alan gordon | 64 | cancer | Happy Together |
11/23/2008 | richey edwards | 41(?) | officially presumed dead; disappeared on 2/1/ 1995 | Manic Street Preachers |
12/2/2008 | odetta | 77 | heart disease | |
12/7/2008 | dennis yost | 65 | respiratory failure | Classics IV |
12/23/2008 | clint ballard, jr. | 77 | “You're No Good”, "Game of Love" | |
12/25/2008 | eartha kitt | 81 | colon cancer | actress, singer |
12/27/2008 | delaney bramlett | 69 | complications of gall bladder surgery | Delaney & Bonnie and Friends |
12/29/2008 | freddie hubbard | 70 | November 26 heart attack complications | |
1/5/2009 | sam taylor | 74 | heart disease | guitar, song writer, rock, rhythm and blues |
1/6/2009 | ron asheton | 60 | heart attack | The Stooges |
1/9/2009 | jon hager | 67 | found dead in his sleep | The Hager Twins |
1/9/2009 | dave dee | 67 | prostate cancer | Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich |
1/11/2009 | andy demize | 25 | auto accident | Nekromantix and The Rocketz |
1/20/2009 | david "fathead" newman | 75 | pancreatic cancer | saxophone |
1/21/2009 | mickey gee | 64 | emphysema | Dave Edmunds, Shakin' Stevens |
1/23/2009 | george perle | 93 | twelve-tone tonality | |
1/29/2009 | john martyn | 60 | double pneumonia | Father of Trip-Hop |
1/28/2009 | billy powell | 56 | heart attack | Lynyrd Skynyrd |
1/31/2009 | dewey martin | 68 | natural causes | Buffalo Springfield |
2/3/2009 | tom brumley | 73 | after a heart attack | steel guitar, Bakersfield sound |
2/3/2009 | max neuhaus | 69 | sound art | |
2/4/2009 | lux interior | 62 | aortic dissection | The Cramps |
2/7/2009 | blossom dearie | 84 | natural causes | jazz |
2/11/2009 | estelle bennett | 67 | colon cancer | The Ronnettes |
2/25/2009 | randy bewley | 53 | heart attack | Pylon |
3/8/2009 | willie king | 65 | heart attack | Freedom Creek, I Am The Blues |
3/18/2009 | kent henry | 60 | head injury related seizures | Steppenwolf, Blues Image |
5/9/2009 | stephen bruton | 60 | throat cancer | guitar, song writer, producer |
5/24/2009 | jay bennett | 45 | accidental overdose of fentanyl | Wilco |
5/26/2009 | ean evans | 48 | cancer | Lynyrd Skynyrd |
6/03/2009 | koko taylor | 80 | complications from surgery for gastrointestinal bleeding | |
6/07/2009 | kenny rankin | 69 | lung cancer | |
6/10/2009 | huey long | 105 | 105 | The Ink Spots |
6/14/2009 | bob bogle | 75 | non-Hodgkin's lymphoma | The Ventures |
6/16/2009 | tina marsh | 55 | breast cancer | jazz |
6/17/2009 | eon | 54 | pneumonia | rave |
6/25/2009 | sky saxon | 71 | heart failure | The Seeds |
6/25/2009 | michael jackson | 50 | acute propofol intoxication | The Jackson 5 |
7/17/2009 | gordon waller | 64 | cardiac arrest | Peter & Gordon |
8/12/2009 | les paul | 94 | pneumonia | invented the electric guitar |
10/9/2009 | rusty wier | 65 | cancer | Don't It Make You Wanna Dance |
1/18/2010 | kate mcgarrigle | 63 | clear-cell sarcoma | folk |
3/17/2010 | alex chilton | 59 | heart attack | The Box Tops, Big Star |
5/9/2010 | lena horne | 92 | heart failure | Stormy Weather |
6/13/2010 | jimmy dean | 81 | natural causes | Big Bad John |
7/31/2010 | mitch miller | 99 | died after a short illness | Sing Along with Mitch |
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