1987 in British Music - Deaths

Deaths

  • 3 January - Alex Campbell, folk singer, 61
  • 10 January – Marion Hutton, singer and actress, 67
  • 13 March - Gerald Moore, pianist, 87
  • 18 March - Elizabeth Poston, composer, 81
  • 24 May – Hermione Gingold, actress and singer, 89
  • 24 August - Douglas Byng, comic singer and songwriter, 94
  • 19 October – Jacqueline du Pré, cellist, 42 (multiple sclerosis)
  • 3 December - Marjorie Eyre, operatic soprano, 90

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