Deaths in Music
- Oct 21 Elliott [Steven] Smith, American musician (Oscar nominee for "Miss Misery" from Good Will Hunting), dies from stab wounds at 34 [1]
- Oct 23 Tony Capstick, English actor, comedian, and musician (b. 1944)
- Oct 25 Robert Strassburg, American composer, conductor and educator (Leaves of Grass: A Choral Symphony), dies at 88
- Oct 26 Roberto Garcia Morillo, Argentine composer and music critic, dies at 92
- Oct 29 Franco Corelli, Italian tenor, dies after suffering a stroke at 82
- Oct 30 Abel Ehrlich, Israeli composer, dies at 88
- Oct 31 Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, Indian Carnatic vocalist, dies at 95
- Nov 1 Kent Kennan, American composer, dies at 90
- Nov 5 Bobby Hatfield, American singer (Righteous Brothers), dies at 63
- Nov 8 Guy Speranza, American singer, original Riot frontman (b. 1956)
- Nov 12 Tony Thompson, American session and touring drummer (Chic; LaBelle; The Power Station), dies of renal cancer at 48
- Nov 14 Gene Anthony Ray, American dancer and actor (Leroy-Fame), dies at 41
- Nov 15 Speedy West, Country Music Hall of Fame Steel Guitarist (b. 1924)
- Nov 15 Dorothy Loudon, American actress and singer (Annie), dies of cancer at 78
- Nov 17 Arthur Conley, American singer (b. 1946)
- Nov 17 Don Gibson, American country musician (Sweet Dreams), dies at 75
- Nov 17 Surjit Bindrakhia [Bains], Punjabi Bhangra singer ("Lakk Tunoo Tunoo"), dies of cardiac arrest at 41
- Nov 18 Michael Kamen, American composer and arranger (film scores to Brazil and Mr. Holland's Opus; Pink Floyd), dies from a heart attack at 55
- Nov 19 Greg Ridley, British rock bassist (Spooky Tooth; Humble Pie), dies of pneumonia at 56
- Nov 21 Teddy Randazzo, American pop singer-songwriter (I'm on the Outside Looking In), dies at 68
- Nov 26 Soulja Slim [James Adarryl Tapp Jr.], American rapper (Slow Motion), shot to death by an assailant at 26
- Nov 27 Riccardo Malipiero, Italian composer, dies at 89
- Dec 6 Hans Hotter, German bass-baritone (b. 1909)
- Dec 8 Rubén González, Cuban pianist (Buena Vista Social Club) (b. 1919)
- Dec 16 Gary Stewart, American country singer (She's Actin' Single), commits suicide by shooting himself in the neck at 59
- Dec 22 Dave Dudley, American country singer (Six Days on the Road), dies at 75
- Dec 22 Rose Hill, British actress and operatic soprano ('Allo 'Allo!, Nicholas Nickleby, Shot in the Dark), dies at 89
- Dec 30 Anita Mui, Hong Kong Cantopop singer and actress, "Madonna of the East", dies of cancer at 40