Year 1995 in Music History (Part 2)

Events in Music

Event of Interest

Dec 6 Michael Jackson collapses while rehearsing for an HBO special

King of Pop Michael Jackson — King of Pop
Michael Jackson

Dec 7 American rock band The Grateful Dead break up
Dec 14 Musical "Les Miserables" opens at Cable Hall, Helsinki
Dec 17 "School after Scandal" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 23 performances
Dec 20 "Paul Roebson" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 14 performances
Dec 31 "Danny Gans on Broadway" closes at Neil Simon NYC
Dec 31 "Having Our Say" closes at Booth Theater NYC after 308 performances
Dec 31 "Heiress" closes at Cort Theater NYC after 340 performances
Dec 31 "Paul Roebson" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 14 performances
Dec 31 "Racing Demon" closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC after 48 performances
Dec 31 "Tempest" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 71 performances

Birthdays in Music

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Weddings in Music

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Deaths in Music

Deaths 101 - 200 of 253

May 25 Dick Curless, singer/songwriter, dies at 63
May 26 Ron Weatherburn, jazz pianist, dies at 61
May 27 C W Stubblefield, music promoter, dies at 64
May 27 Ulysses Simpson Kay, American composer (Of New Horizons: Overture), dies at 78
May 27 László Kalmár, Hungarian composer (Triangles), dies at 63
May 28 Henning Kronstam, Danish dancer, dies at 60
May 31 Pavel Sivic, Slovenian composer, dies at 87
Jun 1 Prudence Hyman, dancer, dies at 80
Jun 2 Harper MacKay, American orchestra leader (NBC Follies), dies at 73
Jun 4 Ernest Borneman, German sexual researcher, psychotherapist, musician and writer (Bang, You're Dead), dies at 80
Jun 5 Bettina Vernon-Warren, dancer, dies at 75
Jun 5 Jan Decadt Flemish composer, dies at 81
Jun 6 Imam Elissa, singer, dies at 76
Jun 7 Sheikh Imam, Egyptian singer and composer, dies at 76
Jun 9 Frank Chacksfield, English, pianist, arranger and orchestra leader, dies at 81
Jun 11 Lovelace Watkins, American singer known as "The Black Sinatra" (The Big, Big Voice of Lovelace Watkins), dies at 58
Jun 12 Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, pianist, dies at 75
Jun 13 David Parry, guitarist, dies 53
Jun 14 Rory Gallagher, Irish rock guitarist (See Here), dies at 47
Jun 14 Els Aarne, Estonian composer, dies at 78
Jun 19 Murray Dickie, Scottish opera singer and director, dies at 71
Jun 20 Dennis Gomm, British composer and musician, dies at 84
Jun 23 Jack Schroer, British saxophonist & pianist (The Caledonia Soul Orchestra), dies at 51
Jun 27 Prez "Kidd" Kenneth, American blues singer and guitarist, dies at 61
Jun 27 Efrem Kurtz, Russian conductor (Houston Symph 1948-54), dies at 94
Jun 30 Phyllis Hyman, American jazz singer (Prime of My Life), committed suicide at 45
Jul 3 Brad Lee Sexton, bass guitarist, dies at 47
Jul 4 Eva Gabor, Hungarian-born American actress, comedian, singer and socialite (Green Acres, Gigi), dies at 76
Jul 6 Ivor Keys, musician/teacher, dies at 76
Jul 8 Günter Bialas, German composer, dies at 87
Jul 12 Alan David Marks, pianist/composer, dies at 49
Jul 12 Earl Coleman, American jazz singer, dies at 69
Jul 12 Ernie Furtado, bassist, dies at 72
Jul 15 Willie George "Bill" Woodruff Sr, vocalist, dies at 66
Jul 16 Charles Bruck, Hungarian/French/US conductor (Dutch Opera), dies at 83
Jul 16 Travis Kemp, dancer/teacher, dies at 91
Jul 17 Rainer Kunad, German composer, dies at 58
Jul 17 Carlos Sánchez Málaga, Peruvian composer, dies at 91
Jul 19 Sydney Lipton, British dance band leader, dies at 89
Jul 20 Natalia Dmitrevna Shpiller, singer, dies at 85
Jul 21 Edwin "Russell" House, saxophonist, dies at 65
Jul 22 Dave Clark, music promoter/songwriter, dies at 85
Jul 22 Percy Humphrey, American jazz trumpet player and bandleader in New Orleans, Louisiana, dies at 90
Jul 23 Floyd McDaniel, blues singer/guitarist, dies at 80
Jul 24 Jerry Lordan, English singer and composer (Wonderful Land), dies at 61
Jul 25 Charlie Rich, American country singer (Lonely Weekends), dies at 62
Jul 25 Osvaldo Pugliese, Argentine musician and composer, dies at 89
Jul 26 Laurindo Almeida, Brazilian classical, jazz and Latin guitarist and composer (developed bossa nova), dies of leukemia at 77
Jul 27 Doris Mae Akers, American gospel singer-songwriter (Sky Pilot Choir - Sweet, Sweet Spirit), dies at 72
Jul 27 Miklós Rózsa, Hungarian-American classical and film music composer (Spellbound; A Double Life; Ben-Hur), dies at 88
Jul 30 Biggie Tembo [Rodwell Marasha], Zimbabwean musician (Bhundu Boys), takes his own life at 36
Aug 1 Robert L. "Bob" Talley, American jazz and blues pianist and composer, dies at 75
Aug 2 Irwin Bazelon, American composer (Duo for Viola), dies at 73
Aug 3 Carl Donnell "Kansas" Fields, American jazz drummer, dies at 79
Aug 3 Jose B M Barreto y Casanova, pianist vocalist bandleader, dies at 88
Aug 6 André Fleury, French organist and composer, dies at 92
Aug 6 Youly Algaroff, Russian-French ballet dancer, dies at 77

Jerry Garcia

Aug 9 Jerry Garcia, American rock musician (Grateful Dead - "Uncle John's Band"), dies of a heart attack at 53

Aug 10 Peter Lancelot Williams, English dance journalist, dies at 81
Aug 11 Herbert Whitton John Sumsion, organist/composer, dies at 96
Aug 11 Phil Harris [Wonga Philip], American actor and singer (Anything Goes, Robin Hood), dies of heart failure at 91
Aug 13 Jesse Thomas, blues singer, dies at 84
Aug 15 Erbie Bowser, American blues and jazz pianist, dies at 77
Aug 16 Robert "Robby" Debarge, R&B Musician, dies at 36
Aug 17 William Strethan "Wild Bill" Davis, American musician, dies at 76
Aug 19 Pierre Schaeffer, French electronics engineer and composer, dies at 85
Aug 20 John E Gilmore, tenor Saxophonist, dies at 63
Aug 20 Paul Foster, American singer (Soul Stirrers), dies at 75
Aug 20 Orville "Red" Rhodes, American session pedal steel guitarist, dies at 64
Aug 21 Anatole Fistoulari, Ukrainian conductor, dies at 88
Aug 21 James Truitte, dancer, dies at 72
Aug 23 Dwayne Rudolph Goettel, musician, dies at 31
Aug 23 Dwayne Goettel, Canadian keyboardist and industrial-electronic music composer (Skinny Puppy), dies of a heroin overdose at 31
Aug 24 Gary Crosby, singer/actor (Operation Bikini, Mardi Gras), dies at 61
Aug 25 R B Hudmon, R&B/Soul Singer, dies at 41
Aug 25 Doug Stegmeyer, American rock bassist (Billy Joel Band, 1976-87), dies of a self-inflicted gun wound at 43
Aug 26 Ronald "Ronnie" White, American singer (The Miracles - "Shop Around"), dies of leukaemia at 57
Aug 27 Marty Paich, American jazz pianist, conductor, producer and arranger (Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin, Michael Jackson), dies of colon cancer at 70
Aug 30 Sterling Morrison, American musician (Velvet Underground), dies at 53
Sep 1 Benay Venuta [Benvenuta Rose Crooke], American actress, singer and dancer (Annie Get Your Gun, Call Me Mister), dies of lung cancer at 84
Sep 2 Vaclav Neummann, conductor, dies at 74
Sep 4 Chuck Greenberg, new age musician (Shadowfax), dies at 45
Sep 5 James "Pigmeat" Jarrett, American pianist, dies at 95
Sep 9 Ida Carroll, English musician and administrator, dies at 89
Sep 12 Lawrence Bernard "Larry" Gales, bassist, dies at 59
Sep 19 Louis "Mr Bo" Collins, blues SInger, dies at 63
Sep 21 Vernell Townsend, blues/gospel singer, dies at 64
Sep 22 Dorothy "Dolly" Ann Collins, folk musician/composer, dies at 62
Sep 23 Lawrence "Booker T." Laury, American boogie-woogie and blues pianist and singer, dies at 81
Sep 25 Dorothy Dickson, American actress and dancer (Paying the Piper, Danny Boy), dies at 102
Sep 27 Christopher Shaw, British composer, dies at 71
Sep 27 Alexander "Sasha" Argov [Abramovich], Israeli composer, dies at 80
Sep 29 Seger Pillot Ellis, American jazz pianist and vocalist, dies at 91
Oct 5 Dick Henry Jurgen, bandleader, dies at 85
Oct 6 Hughie Charles, English songwriter and impresario, dies at 88
Oct 6 Walter "Crash" Morgan, drummer, dies at 35
Oct 6 Lillian Fuchs, American violist and composer, dies at 91
Oct 8 Christopher Keene, musician, dies at 48
Oct 12 Eleanor Aller, cellist, dies at 78
Oct 13 Golfredo Corradetti, conductor, dies at 79