Events in Music
Album Release
Oct 27 Taylor Swift releases her 5th studio album “1989” (2015 Billboard Album of the Year, Grammy Award for Album of the Year 2016)
Weddings in Music
- Oct 18 "The Vampire Diaries" actress Candice Accola (27) weds "The Fray" guitarist Joe King (34) in New Orleans, Louisiana
Deaths in Music
- Oct 1 Lynsey de Paul, British singer and actress (Sugar Me), dies from a brain hemorrhage at 66
- Oct 4 Konrad Boehmer, German-Dutch composer, dies at 73
- Oct 4 Paul Revere [Dick], American rock organ player and pianist (Paul Revere & Raiders - "Kicks": "Indian Reservation"), dies of cancer at 76
- Oct 5 Geoffrey Holder, Trinidadian-American actor, choreographer, singer, director and painter (Annie; The Wiz), dies at 84
- Oct 10 Curtis Otto Bismark Curtis-Smith, American pianist, composer, and educator, dies at 73
- Oct 11 Mats Rondin, Swedish cellist, conductor, and educator, dies at 54
- Oct 14 Ikey Owens ,American keyboardist (The Mars Volta; Jack White), and producer, dies of a heart attack at 39
- Oct 16 Tim Hauser, American jazz singer, dies from cardiac arrest at 72
- Oct 18 Joanne Borgella, American plus-sized model and singer, dies of cancer at 32
- Oct 19 Raphael Ravenscroft, British session saxophone player (Gerry Rafferty - "Baker Street"; Maxine Nightingale; Roger Waters), dies at 60
- Oct 19 Stephen Paulus, American composer (To Be Certain of the Dawn) and co-founder of the American Composers Forum, dies of stroke complications at 65
- Oct 20 Pavle Merku, Italian-Slovene composer and ethnomusicologist, dies at 87
- Oct 23 Alvin Stardust [Bernard Jewry], English rock singer("Jealous Mind"), dies of prostate cancer at 72
- Oct 25 Jack Bruce, Scottish bassist and singer-songwriter (Cream - "White Room"), dies at 71
- Oct 31 Käbi Laretei, Estonian-Swedish concert pianist, dies at 92
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