Deaths
- January - Sudhin Dasgupta, music director, lyricist, and singer, 52
- January 16 - Harald Agersnap, Danish classical musician, 92
- January 17 – Tommy Tucker, songwriter, 48 (carbon tetrachloride poisoning)
- January 19 - Elis Regina, Brazilian singer, 36
- January 30
- Stanley Holloway, English actor and singer, 91
- Lightnin' Hopkins, blues singer, 69
- February 4 - Alex Harvey, rock singer and guitarist, 46
- February 17 – Thelonious Monk, jazz pianist, 64
- February 18 – Nathaniel Shilkret, composer and musician, 92
- February 21 – Murray the K, disc jockey, 60
- February 25 - Chao Yuen Ren, composer, 89
- March 5 – John Belushi, entertainer of The Blues Brothers fame, 33 (drug overdose)
- March 19 – Randy Rhoads, guitarist, 25 (plane crash)
- March 24 – Aileen Stanley, singer, 84 or 85
- March 26 - Ferdinando Garimberti, violin maker, 88
- March 29 – Carl Orff, German composer, famous for the choral work Carmina Burana, 86
- April 2 – Sam Coslow, songwriter and singer, 79
- May 1 – William Primrose, violist, 77
- May 5 - Cal Tjader, Latin jazz musician, 56
- May 8 – Neil Bogart, owner of Casablanca Records, 39 (cancer)
- May 12 - Humphrey Searle, composer, 66
- May 13 - Renzo Rossellini, film composer, 74
- May 15 – Joëlle Mogensen, French singer, 29 (drug overdose)
- May 16 – Adriano Correia de Oliveira, Portuguese composer and singer, 40
- May 26 - Nanny Larsén-Todsen, operatic soprano, 97
- May 30 - Leon René, songwriter, 80
- June 15 – Art Pepper, jazz saxophonist, 56 (brain hemorrhage)
- June 16 - James Honeyman-Scott, guitarist, 25 (heart failure from cocaine use)
- July 9 – Wingy Manone, jazz trumpeter, 82
- July 10 - Maria Jeritza, operatic soprano, 96
- July 22 - Sonny Stitt, jazz saxophonist, 58
- July 28 – Keith Green, gospel singer, 28 (plane crash)
- August 13 - Joe Tex, Southern soul singer, 49
- September 1 – Clifford Curzon, pianist, 75
- September 12 - Federico Moreno Torroba, composer, 91
- September 14 - Christian Ferras, French violinist, 49 (suicide)
- September 17 – Manos Loïzos, Greek composer, 44
- October 4 – Glenn Gould, pianist, 50 (stroke)
- October 16
- Jakov Gotovac, composer and conductor, 87
- Mario del Monaco, operatic tenor, 67
- October 29 – William Lloyd Webber, British organist and composer, 68
- November 16 – Al Haig, jazz pianist, 58
- December 2 - David Blue, folk singer, 41
- December 8 - Marty Robbins, country singer, 57
- December 10 - Roy Webb, film composer, 94
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“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
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they waste their deaths on us.”
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