1995 in Music - Deaths

Deaths

• January 1 - Ted Hawkins, soul blues singer-songwriter, 58
• January 24 – David Cole, producer (C+C Music Factory), 32
• January 31 – George Abbott US librettist and director, 107
• February 6 - Art Taylor, jazz drummer, 65
• February 12 – Tony Secunda Marc Bolan's former manager, 54 (heart attack)
• February 18
  • Bob Stinson, guitarist (The Replacements), 35 (complications caused by drug and alcohol abuse)
  • Denny Cordell, English record producer, 51
• February 23 – Melvin Franklin, The Temptations, 52 (brain seizure)
• March 5 – Vivian Stanshall, eccentric British musician, 51 (house fire)
• March 9 – Ingo Schwichtenberg, Helloween, 29 (suicide)
• March 16 – Heinrich Sutermeister, Swiss composer, 84
• March 17 - Sunnyland Slim, blues pianist, 88
• March 26 – Eazy-E, rapper and record producer, 31 (AIDS)
• March 29
  • Jimmy McShane, singer (Baltimora) (AIDS)
  • Roland Wolf, keyboardist (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Einstürzende Neubauten), 29 or 30 (car accident)
• March 30 - Paul A. Rothchild, American record producer, 59
• March 31 – Selena, singer, 23 (murdered)
• April 4 – Priscilla Lane, US singer and actress, 79 (lung cancer)
• April 6 – Delroy Wilson, reggae artist, 46 (cirrhosis of the liver)
• April 14 – Burl Ives, singer and actor, 85
• April 25 – Ginger Rogers, US actress, dancer and singer, 83
• May 8 – Teresa Teng, singer, 42
• May 16 – Lola Flores, Spanish singer and dancer, 72
• May 25 – Dick Curless, country singer. 63
• June 4 – Ernest Bornemann, jazz musician and critic, 80
• June 12 – Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli pianist, 75
• June 14 – Rory Gallagher, Irish blues/rock guitarist, 47 (complications from liver transplant)
• June 30
  • Phyllis Hyman, R&B, soul and jazz singer, 54 (suicide)
  • Nazariy Yaremchuk, Ukranian singer, 43
• July 1 - Wolfman Jack, disk jockey, 57
• July 2 – Zdeněk Košler, conductor, 67
• July 8 – Günter Bialas, composer, 87
• July 23 – Miklós Rózsa, film score composer, 88
• July 25 – Charlie Rich, country singer and musician, 62
• July 28 - Eddie Hinton, songwriter and session musician, 51
• August 9 – Jerry Garcia, Grateful Dead, 53 (diabetes-related)
• August 11 – Allan McCarthy, Canadian singer of Men Without Hats, 38
• August 16 – Bobby DeBarge, lead singer of Switch, 39 (AIDS)
• August 18 – Alan Dell BBC Radio 2 disc jockey, 71
• August 19
  • Pierre Schaeffer, composer and pioneer of Musique concrète, 85
  • John Gilmore, jazz saxophonist, 63
• August 23 – Dwayne Goettel, (Skinny Puppy), 31 (drug overdose)
• August 26 – Ronnie White, the Miracles, co-writer of the Temptations hit "My Girl" (with Smokey Robinson), 57 leukemia.
• August 30 – Sterling Morrison, The Velvet Underground guitarist, 53 (Non-Hodgkin lymphoma)
• September 27 - Alison Steele, American disc jockey, 58
• October 19 – Don Cherry, jazz trumpeter, 58
• October 21
  • Maxene Andrews, singer, member of The Andrews Sisters, 79
  • Shannon Hoon, lead singer of group Blind Melon, 28 (drug overdose)
  • Hans Helfritz, German composer, 93
• October 26 – Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader and songwriter, 82
• October 31 – Erika Morini, violinist, 91
• November 2 - Florence Greenberg, music executive and producer, 82
• November 7 – Jerry Daniels, The Ink Spots, 79
• November 8 – Ion Baciu, conductor, 64
• November 17 – Alan Hull, singer-songwriter and founder of Lindisfarne, 50 (heart thrombosis)
• November 21
  • Peter Grant, manager of The Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin, Bad Company, 60 (myocardial infarction)
  • Matthew Ashman, guitarist of Adam and the Ants, Bow Wow Wow, 35
• November 23 – Junior Walker, R&B and soul musician, 64
• November 26 - David Briggs, record producer, 51
• December 10 - Darren Robinson, rapper (The Fat Boys), 28
• December 25
  • Dean Martin, singer and actor, 78 (cancer)
  • Nicolas Slonimsky, Russian-born conductor and composer, 101
• December 27 – Shura Cherkassky, American classical pianist, 86
• December 29 – Hans Henkemans Dutch composer, 82