Famous Dead Musicians: Recent Musician Deaths and Obituaries
Over 10,000 obituaries of famous dead musicians. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
Jimmy Beaumont
American singer (The Skyliners)Died on Sunday October 8th 2017
Jan Arvid Johansen
Norwegian musicianDied on Sunday October 8th 2017
Monojit Datta
Indian musicianDied on Sunday October 8th 2017
Wolfgang Michels
German musician (Percewood's Onagram)Died on Saturday October 7th 2017
Borislav Oslovčan
Serbian musician (Pekinška Patka)Died on Saturday October 7th 2017
Jerry Ross
American songwriter and producerDied on Saturday October 7th 2017
Bunny Sigler
American songwriter and record producerDied on Friday October 6th 2017
Alvin DeGuzman
American guitarist (The Icarus Line)Died on Friday October 6th 2017
Skip Haynes
American musician and songwriterDied on Friday October 6th 2017
Lionel Ames
American actor and singer (Thundering JetsDied on Thursday October 5th 2017
Donald Mitchell
British musicologistDied on Wednesday October 4th 2017
Klaus Huber
Swiss composer and academic teacherDied on Tuesday October 3rd 2017
Azra Kolaković
Bosnian singerDied on Monday October 2nd 2017
Donna Ares
Bosnian singerDied on Monday October 2nd 2017
Elaine Hoffman Watts
American drummerDied on Sunday October 1st 2017
Gérard Palaprat
French singerDied on Saturday September 30th 2017
Dmitry Smolsky
Belarusian composerDied on Friday September 29th 2017
CeDell Davis
American blues musicianDied on Thursday September 28th 2017
Joy Fleming
German singer (Eurovision Song Contest 1975)Died on Thursday September 28th 2017
Hiromi Hayakawa
Mexican actress and singerDied on Wednesday September 27th 2017
Folke Rabe
Swedish composerDied on Wednesday September 27th 2017
Frank Capp
American jazz drummerDied on Wednesday September 27th 2017
Guy Villari
American singer (The Regents)Died on Tuesday September 26th 2017
Caesar Giovannini
American composer and pianistDied on Tuesday September 26th 2017
Johnny Burke
Canadian country singerDied on Sunday September 24th 2017
Corrosion of Conformity
American singer (Corrosion of Conformity)Died on Sunday September 24th 2017
Leonid Mikhailovich Kharitonov
Russian opera singerDied on Sunday September 24th 2017
Ammon Tharp
American drummer and singer (Bill Deal and the Rhondels)Died on Sunday September 24th 2017
Tsisana Tatishvili
Georgian opera singerDied on Saturday September 23rd 2017
Eric Eycke
American singer (Corrosion of Conformity)Died on Saturday September 23rd 2017
Charles Bradley
American singerDied on Saturday September 23rd 2017
André Van den Meersschaut
Belgian singer and guitarist (The Cousins)Died on Friday September 22nd 2017
Cees Bergman
Dutch singer and music producerDied on Friday September 22nd 2017
Mark Selby
American musicianDied on Thursday September 21st 2017
Rosa Judge
Maltese musicianDied on Wednesday September 20th 2017
Johnny Sandlin
American record producerDied on Tuesday September 19th 2017
Da Real Gee Money
American rapperDied on Monday September 18th 2017
Zurab Sotkilava
Georgian-Russian football player (Dinamo Tbilisi) and opera singer (People's Artist of the USSR)Died on Monday September 18th 2017
Laudir de Oliveira
Brazilian musician and producerDied on Sunday September 17th 2017
Brenda Lewis
American operatic soprano and theatre actressDied on Sunday September 17th 2017
Grant Hart
American singerDied on Thursday September 14th 2017
Alla Tarán
Ukrainian violinist and teacherDied on Thursday September 14th 2017
Jessi Zazu
American musician (Those Darlins)Died on Wednesday September 13th 2017
Siegfried Köhler
German conductor (Hessisches Staatstheater WiesbadenDied on Tuesday September 12th 2017
Riem de Wolff
Dutch-Indonesian singer (The Blue Diamonds)Died on Tuesday September 12th 2017
Virgil Howe
British drummer (Little Barrie)Died on Tuesday September 12th 2017
Michael Friedman
American composer and lyricist (Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson)Died on Sunday September 10th 2017
Josh Schwartz
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Beachwood SparksDied on Saturday September 9th 2017
Derek Bourgeois
English composerDied on Friday September 8th 2017
Troy Gentry
American country music singer (Montgomery Gentry)Died on Friday September 8th 2017
Don Williams
American Hall of Fame singer and songwriterDied on Friday September 8th 2017
Leo Cuypers
Dutch jazz pianistDied on Wednesday September 6th 2017
Rick Stevens
American R&B singer (Tower of Power)Died on Wednesday September 6th 2017
Holger Czukay
German musicianDied on Tuesday September 5th 2017
Earl Lindo
Jamaican reggae musicianDied on Tuesday September 5th 2017
John Byrne Cooke
American author and musicianDied on Monday September 4th 2017
Hedley Jones
Jamaican musicianDied on Monday September 4th 2017
Dave Hlubek
American musician (Molly Hatchet)Died on Sunday September 3rd 2017
Halim El-Dabh
Egyptian composer and ethnomusicologistDied on Sunday September 3rd 2017
Walter Becker
American musician (Steely Dan)Died on Sunday September 3rd 2017
Larry Marshall
Jamaican ska musician (Larry & Alvin)Died on Sunday September 3rd 2017
Pete Kuykendall
American bluegrass musicianDied on Sunday September 3rd 2017
Novella Nelson
American actress and singer (A Perfect Murder)Died on Saturday September 2nd 2017
Larry Elgart
American jazz bandleaderDied on Thursday August 31st 2017
Tormod MacGill-Eain
Scottish comedian and singerDied on Thursday August 31st 2017
Seija Simola
Finnish singerDied on Thursday August 31st 2017
Janne “Loffe” Carlsson
Swedish actor and musician (drums)Died on Thursday August 31st 2017
Winston Samuels
Jamaican ska musician (The Aces)Died on Thursday August 31st 2017
Skip Prokop
Canadian drummerDied on Wednesday August 30th 2017
L. N. Shastri
Indian playback singerDied on Wednesday August 30th 2017
Abdul Jabbar
Bangladeshi singerDied on Wednesday August 30th 2017
Melissa Bell
British singer (Soul II Soul)Died on Tuesday August 29th 2017
Denis Richard
Canadian singerDied on Monday August 28th 2017
René Tuček
Czech opera singer and educatorDied on Monday August 28th 2017
Wilson das Neves
Brazilian percussionist and singerDied on Sunday August 27th 2017
Aloys Kontarsky
German pianistDied on Thursday August 24th 2017
John Abercrombie
American jazz guitaristDied on Wednesday August 23rd 2017
Margot Hielscher
German singer and film actressDied on Tuesday August 22nd 2017
Wilhelm Killmayer
German composerDied on Monday August 21st 2017
Fredell Lack
American violinistDied on Monday August 21st 2017
Concha Valdés Miranda
Cuban composerDied on Sunday August 20th 2017
Nati Mistral
Spanish actress and singer (Currito of the CrossDied on Sunday August 20th 2017
Sonny Burgess
American country music singerDied on Saturday August 19th 2017
Zhu Jian’er
Chinese composerDied on Saturday August 19th 2017
Robert Yancy
American musician and son of Natalie ColeDied on Friday August 18th 2017
Arthur Boyars
British poet and musicologistDied on Thursday August 17th 2017
Durga Fuckendale
American singer-songwriterDied on Wednesday August 16th 2017
Pavel Egorov
Russian pianistDied on Wednesday August 16th 2017
Benard Ighner
American musician and songwriterDied on Wednesday August 16th 2017