October 2013 in Music History

Events in Music

Oct 4 German singer Helene Fischer releases "Farbenspiel", most successful album ever by a German female artist, over 2.4 million sold

Weddings in Music

Pharrell Williams

Oct 12 American Grammy Award-winning "Happy" singer-songwriter and record producer Pharrell Williams (40) weds model Helen Lasichanh at the Kampong National Tropical Botanical Gardens in Coconut Grove, i, Florida

Oct 12 Former Guns N' Roses Matt Sorum (52) weds singer and dancer Adriane Harper in Palm Springs, California

Kristen Bell

Oct 16 American actress and singer Kristen Bell (30) weds American actor Dax Shepard (38) at the Beverly Hills County Clerk's Office in California

Kelly Clarkson

Oct 20 American singer and television personality Kelly Clarkson (31) weds talent manager Brandon Blackstock at Blackberry Farm in Walland, Tennessee; divorce 2021

Oct 24 Country music singer-songwriter Ashley Monroe (27) weds MLB pitcher John Danks (28) at Blackberry Farm in Walland, Tennessee

Deaths in Music

Oct 2 Bob Rozario, American pianist (Louis Prima), and orchestra leader (Bobby Darin; Tony Orlando; Donny & Marie), dies of cancer at 80
Oct 4 Akira Miyoshi, Japanese composer (Conversations; A Diary of the Sea), dies at 80
Oct 6 Will Ogdon, American composer, dies at 92
Oct 7 Patrice Chéreau, French opera director and actor (Danton), dies from lung cancer at 68
Oct 8 Larry Verne, American novelty song singer (Mr. Custer), dies of heart failure at 77
Oct 8 Philip Chevron, Irish musician (Pogues - "Peace & Love"), dies from esophageal cancer at 56
Oct 10 Janice Lynn Kuehnemund, American rock guitarist (Vixen - "Edge of a Broken Heart"), dies of cancer at 59
Oct 13 Tommy Whittle, British jazz tenor saxophonist (Ted Heath; BBC Show Band), and bandleader, dies of pneumonia on his 87th birthday
Oct 15 Gloria Lynne [Wilson], American jazz vocalist (Dell Tones), dies of a heart attack at 83
Oct 19 Noel Harrison, British singer and actor, dies of a heart attack at 79
Oct 19 Ronald Shannon Jackson, American avant-garde jazz and funk drummer, and composer (Cecil Taylor; Last Exit; Decoding Society), dies of leukemia at 73
Oct 19 Roy Elihu Travis, American composer (Passion of Oedipus), dies at 91
Oct 24 Héctor Quintanar, Mexican composer, dies at 77
Oct 27 Lou Reed, American rock singer-songwriter (Velvet Underground - "Sweet Jane"; solo -"Take A Walk On The Wild Side"), dies from liver disease at 71
Oct 29 Rudolf Kehrer, Soviet classical pianist of German heritage, dies at 90
Oct 30 Frank Wess, American jazz flutist, saxophonist ((Duke Ellington, 1953-64; New York Jazz Quartet, 1974-82) and composer, dies of a heart attack related to kidney failure at 91
Oct 30 Pete Haycock, British blues-rock guitarist, vocalist, and composer (Climax Blues Band - "Couldn't Get It Right"), dies of a heart attack at 62