Famous Dead Musicians: Recent Musician Deaths and Obituaries
Over 10,000 obituaries of famous dead musicians. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
Linda Hopkins
American actress and blues and gospel singerDied on Tuesday April 11th 2017
Yuushi Matsuyama
Japanese composer and film scorerDied on Monday April 10th 2017
Louis Sarno
American musicologist and authorDied on Sunday April 9th 2017
María Luisa Ozaita
Spanish composerDied on Sunday April 9th 2017
Ryo Kagawa
Japanese folk singerDied on Saturday April 8th 2017
Leo J. Baroi
Bangladeshi singerDied on Friday April 7th 2017
David Peel
American singer and political activistDied on Friday April 7th 2017
Brenda Jones
American R&B singer (The Jones Girls)Died on Thursday April 6th 2017
L.A. Dre
American record producer and keyboardistDied on Thursday April 6th 2017
Kishori Amonkar
Indian classical singerDied on Monday April 3rd 2017
Elyse Steinman
American hard rock guitarist (Raging Slab)Died on Monday April 3rd 2017
Lonnie Brooks
American blues guitarist and singerDied on Sunday April 2nd 2017
Rosie Hamlin
American singer (Rosie and the Originals)Died on Sunday April 2nd 2017
Vivienne de Silva Boralessa
Sri Lankan singerDied on Sunday April 2nd 2017
Gabriel Mafa
Romanian musician (Negură Bunget)Died on Saturday April 1st 2017
Clarece Candamio
American organistDied on Thursday March 30th 2017
Rainer Kussmaul
German violinistDied on Thursday March 30th 2017
Aldo Guibovich
Peruvian singer of Latin pop group Los Pasteles VerdesDied on Wednesday March 29th 2017
Arthur Blythe
American jazz alto saxophonist and composerDied on Tuesday March 28th 2017
Roberta Knie
American operatic sopranoDied on Tuesday March 28th 2017
Věra Špinarová
Czech singerDied on Monday March 27th 2017
Edward Grimes
American post-rock drummer (Rachel'sDied on Monday March 27th 2017
Jimmy Dotson
82 American musicianDied on Monday March 27th 2017
Clem Curtis
Trinidadian-born British singer (The Foundations)Died on Monday March 27th 2017
Vincent Falcone
American conductor (Frank Sinatra)Died on Sunday March 26th 2017
Louis Frémaux
French conductorDied on Saturday March 25th 2017
Avo Uvezian
American jazz pianist and cigar manufacturerDied on Saturday March 25th 2017
Peter Shotton
British musician (The Quarrymen) and businessman (Fatty Arbuckle'sDied on Friday March 24th 2017
Roy Fisher
British poet and jazz pianistDied on Thursday March 23rd 2017
Tony Terran
American trumpeter and session musicianDied on Thursday March 23rd 2017
Sven-Erik Magnusson
Swedish musician (Sven-Ingvars)Died on Wednesday March 22nd 2017
Jim Fuller
guitarist (The Surfaris)Died on Monday March 20th 2017
Chuck Berry
American rock and roll musician ("Johnny B. Goode"Died on Saturday March 18th 2017
Phil Garland
New Zealand folk musicianDied on Thursday March 16th 2017
Fiora Corradetti Contino
American opera conductorDied on Thursday March 16th 2017
Ileana Ciuculete
Romanian folklore singerDied on Tuesday March 14th 2017
Don Warden
American country musician and managerDied on Tuesday March 14th 2017
Tommy LiPuma
American music producerDied on Tuesday March 14th 2017
Jonathan Strasser
American violinist and conductorDied on Tuesday March 14th 2017
Francis Thorne
American composerDied on Monday March 13th 2017
John Lever
British drummer (The Chameleons)Died on Monday March 13th 2017
Winfried Schrammek
German musicologistDied on Monday March 13th 2017
Marek Dmytrow
Polish guitaristDied on Monday March 13th 2017
Paul Abler
American jazz guitaristDied on Monday March 13th 2017
Lucho Macedo
Peruvian musicianDied on Monday March 13th 2017
Evan Johns
American guitarist (The LeRoi Brothers)Died on Sunday March 12th 2017
Joni Sledge
American singer (Sister Sledge)Died on Sunday March 12th 2017
Ángel Parra
Chilean singer and songwriterDied on Saturday March 11th 2017
Barbara Helsingius
Finnish singerDied on Friday March 10th 2017
Tony Lorenzo
American guitarist (Sons of Azrael)Died on Friday March 10th 2017
Gido Kokars
Latvian conductorDied on Friday March 10th 2017
Kamran Aziz
Turkish Cypriot musician and pharmacistDied on Thursday March 9th 2017
Alberto Zedda
Italian conductor and musicologistDied on Tuesday March 7th 2017
Kalika Prasad Bhattacharya
Indian folk singerDied on Tuesday March 7th 2017
Ric Marlow
American songwriter and Grammy winner ("A Taste of Honey")Died on Tuesday March 7th 2017
Lars Diedricson
Swedish songwriter Take Me to Your Heaven (winner Eurovision Song Contest 1999)Died on Monday March 6th 2017
Edi Fitzroy
Jamaican reggae singerDied on Sunday March 5th 2017
Tommy Page
American singerDied on Saturday March 4th 2017
Alice Ludes
American singerDied on Saturday March 4th 2017
Misha Mengelberg
Dutch jazz pianist and composerDied on Friday March 3rd 2017
Wally Pikal
American musician and entertainerDied on Friday March 3rd 2017
Hiroshi Kamayatsu
Japanese musician (The Spiders)Died on Thursday March 2nd 2017
Eva Maria Zuk
71 Polish-born Mexican pianistDied on Thursday March 2nd 2017
Toshio Nakanishi
Japanese musician (Plastics)Died on Tuesday February 28th 2017
Jórunn Viðar
Icelandic pianist and composerDied on Tuesday February 28th 2017
Helmut Brenner
Austrian musicologistDied on Tuesday February 28th 2017
Eric Miller
American record producerDied on Tuesday February 28th 2017
Deanna Summers
American songwriterDied on Monday February 27th 2017
Graciela Paraskevaidis
Argentine writer and composerDied on Monday February 27th 2017
Fumio Karashima
Japanese jazz pianistDied on Monday February 27th 2017
Don Markham
American musician (The Strangers)Died on Sunday February 26th 2017
Chuckie Bush
American musician (Manchild)Died on Friday February 24th 2017
Huang Feili
Chinese musician and conductorDied on Wednesday February 22nd 2017
Leah Adler
American pianistDied on Wednesday February 22nd 2017
Stanisław Skrowaczewski
Polish-American conductor and composerDied on Tuesday February 21st 2017
Elric Pronce
Belgian pianist and 3D-designerDied on Tuesday February 21st 2017
Larry Coryell
American jazz guitaristDied on Monday February 20th 2017
Pericoma Okoye
Nigerian singerDied on Sunday February 19th 2017
Clyde Stubblefield
American drummer (James Brown)Died on Saturday February 18th 2017
Maurice Vander
French music composer and pianistDied on Saturday February 18th 2017
Tibério Gaspar
Brazilian musician and composerDied on Thursday February 16th 2017