December 1986 in Music History

Events in Music

Music History

Dec 1 Paul McCartney releases "Only Love Remains"

Dec 27 "Les Miserables" opens at Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C.

Birthdays in Music

Dec 2 Tal Wilkenfeld, Australian musician (Jeff Beck, Prince), born in Sydney, Australia
Dec 8 Kate Voegele, American folk-pop-rock singer songwriter, guitarist, and mandolin player, born in Bay Village, Ohio
Dec 10 Natti Nastasha [Natalia Gutiérrez Batista], Dominican singer (Sin Pijama), born in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic
Dec 24 Edward Southall, British composer, born in Nottingham, United Kingdom
Dec 27 Metrik [Tom Mundell], British electronic dance music producer and re-mixer ("Freefall"; "Gravity"; “Chasing Sunrise”), born in London, England

Ellie Goulding (36 years old)

Dec 30 English singer and songwriter ("Lights", "Anything Could Happen"), born in Hereford, England

Deaths in Music

Dec 1 Horace Heidt, American orchestra leader (Swift Show Wagon), dies at 85
Dec 1 [Irving] Lee Dorsey, American pop and R&B singer (Working in the Coal Mine), dies at 61

Desi Arnaz (1917-1986)

Dec 2 Cuban-American singer ("Babalú"), bandleader, actor (I Love Lucy - "Ricky Riccardo"), and television producer (The Untouchables),r, dies of lung cancer at 69

Dec 3 Bob Howard [Joyner], American swing jazz singer and pianist (Sing it Again), dies at 80
Dec 5 Carmol Taylor, country songwriter, dies at 53 of cancer
Dec 10 Kate Wolf [Allen], American folk singer-songwriter ("Love Still Remains"; "Across the Great Divide"), dies of leukemia at 44
Dec 15 Serge Lifar, Russian-French dancer, choreographer (Paris Opera Ballet), dies at 81
Dec 16 Marcel Quinet, Belgian pianist and composer (Vague et Sillon), dies at 71
Dec 22 Celius Dougherty, American pianist and composer, dies at 84
Dec 27 Lars-Erik Larsson, Swedish composer (God in Disguise (Förklädd gud, Op. 24); Linden), and pedagogue (Stockholm Conservatory; Uppsala University), dies of complications from diabetes at 78
Dec 29 John Antill, Australian composer (Corroboree; New Guinea Patrol), dies at 82
Dec 30 Jiri Jaroch, Czech composer, dies at 66
Dec 31 Lester Trimble, American composer, music critic and educator, dies at 63