OCTOBER: BIRTHDAYS and DEATHS, MUSICIAN BIRTHDATES, CELEBRITY DEATHS

October 1st
1985: Ryo Miyamori (Japanese singer; Orange Range)
1982: Sandra Oxenryd (Swedish singer; won Fame Factory in 2005)
1976: Richard Oakes (guitar; Suede)
1974: Keith Duffy (singer; Boyzone)
1959: Youssou N'dour (world genre singer, drums)
1958: Martin Cooper (sax; Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark)
1955: Howard Hewett (singer; Shalamar)
1948: Cub Koda (Vocals, Harmonica, Guitar; Brownsville Station)*01.July.2000
1948: Mariska Veres (singer; Shocking Blue)
1947: Martin Turner (guitar, Wishbone Ash).
1947: Rob Davis [guitar, Mud]
1945: Donny Hathaway (singer, Keyboards, Piano)*13.Jan.1979
1944: Scott McKenzie (US singer)
1943: Jerry Martini (sax; Sly and The Family Stone)
1942: Herb Fame/Herbert Feemster (singer; Peaches / Herb)
1940: Barbara Parritt (R&B singer; Toys)
1935: Julie Andrews (UK singer, actress)
1932: Albert Collins (legendary blues guitarist, singer)*24.Nov.1993
1931: Sylvano Bussotti (Italian composer of contemporary music, violin)
1930: Sir Richard Harris (actor, singer)*25.Oct.2002
1926: Roger Williams/Louis Wertz (US singer, pianist)
1903: Vladimir Horowitz (Russian piano virtuoso)*05.Nov.1989
1771: Pierre Baillot (French violinist, composer; leader of the Paris Opéra)*15.Sept.1842
1644: Alessandro Stradella (Italian composer; operas/cantatas/oratorios)*25.Feb.1682

October 2nd
1982: George Pettit (Canadian singer; Alexisonfire)
1980: Gil Ribeiro (Portuguese guitarist, singer, lyricist; The Crew)
1978: Ayu/Ayumi Hamasaki (Japanese singer)
1973: Proof/DeShaun Holton (rapper; D12)*11.April.2006
1973: Lene G Nystrom (Norweigan lead singer; Aqua/solo)
1973: LaTocha "Meatball" Scott (singer; Xscape)
1971: James Root (guitarist; Slipknot)
1971: Tiffany/Tiffany Darwisch (US singer)
1969: Badly Drawn Boy/Damon Gough (indie singer/songwriter,guitarist)
1967: Gillian Welch (singer, guitar, songwriter)
1967: Bud Gaugh (drummer; Sublime/Eyes Adrift)
1962: Sigtryggur Baldursson (drums, Sugarcubes)
1956: Freddie Jackson (US soul singer)
1955: Phil Oakey (keyboards, vocals; Human League)
1952: John Otway (singer, songwriter, guitarist; Otway & Barrett/solo)
1951: Romina Power (American born Italian singer, actress)
1951: Sting /Gordon Sumner (singer, bassist, songwriter, actor)
1950: Mike Rutherford (guitar, bass; Genesis/Mike & The Mechanics)
1949: Richard Hell/Richard Meyers (vocals, bass; Voidoids)
1948: Chris LeDoux (singer, guitarist, rodeo performer; Garth Brookes/solo)*09.March.2005
1945: Don McLean (singer, guitarist, songwriter)
1941: Ron Meagher (bassist; Beau Brummels)
1939: Lolly Vegas (guitar, vocals; Redbone)
1925: Phil Urso (US jazz tenor saxophonist and composer)*07.April.2008.
1901: Alice Prin (French nightclub singer, artists' model, actress, painter)*29.April.1953

October 3rd
1987: Kaci (singer)
1984: Ashlee Simpson (US singer)
1979: Shannyn Sossamon (US actress, DJ, appeared videos for Mick Jagger/ Korn)
1977: Jake Shears/Jason Sellards (vocals, songwriter; Scissor Sisters)
1975: India Arie (singer, songwriter, guitar)
1975: Talib Kweli (Rap Artist)
1972: Garrett Dutton (singer, guitarist; G. Love & Special Sauce)
1972: Tariq "Black Thought" Trotter (hip-hop artist; Roots)
1971: Kevin Richardson (singer; Backstreet Boys)
1969: Gwen Stefani (singer; No Doubt/solo)
1969: Tetsu (Japanese bassist; L'Arc~en~Ciel)
1962: Tommy Lee (drummer, Motley Crue)
1961: Robbie Jaymes (singer; Modern Romance]
1960: Gail Greenwood (bass; Belly)
1959: Jack Wagner (actor, singer)
1957: Tim Westwood (UK rap DJ, presenter of the BBC Radio 1 Rap Show)
1954: Stevie Ray Vaughan (guitarist/singer, Double Trouble/solo)*27.Aug.1990
1951: Keb' Mo' /Kevin Moore) (US blues singer, guitarist, songwriter)
1950: Ronald "Ronnie" Laws (sax, flutist; Earth Wind and Fire/solo
1949: Lindsay Buckingham (guitar, vocals; Fleetwood Mac/solo)
1947: John Perry Barlow (US poet, essayist, songwriter; lyricist for the Grateful Dead)
1946: Mike Clarke (US drummer; the Headhunters/sessionist/freelance/guest).
1945: Antonio Martinez (lead guitarist; Los Bravos, Spanish rock band/solo)
1941: Chubby Checker/Ernest Evans (singer; The Checkmates)
1940: Alan O'Day (US songwriter, singer)
1939: Mike Smith/Larry Michael Smith (US songwriter, singer)
1938: Eddie Cochran (singer, Electric Guitar, Drums, Guitar, Bass, songwriter)*17.April.60
1938: Tereza Kesovija (Croatian singer, songwriter, flutist)
1936: Steve Reich (American composer; pioneer of minimalism)
1828: Woldemar Bargiel (German composer, pianist)*23.Feb.1897

October 4th
1984: Lena Katina/Katina Sergeevna (the good girl singer; Tatu)
1971: Friderika Bayer (Hungarian singer; Eurovision Song Contest 1994)
1965: Neil Sims (Drummer, Catherine Wheel)
1962: Jon Secada (Grammy Award-winning Cuban-American singer, songwriter)
1957: Barbara Kooyman (singer, song writer; Timbuk 3)
1947: James Fielder (bass, Blood Sweat & Tears)
1945: Clifton D. Davis (actor,singer, songwriter)
1943: Florian Pittis (Romanian stage & TV actor, folk singer, radio producer)*04.Aug.2007.
1942: Marshall M. Jones (piano/drums; Ike Turner Band)
1937: Lloyd Green (US steel guitar; session musician)
1929: Leroy Van Dyke (C&W vocals)

October 5th
1985: Nicola Roberts (vocals; Girls Aloud]
1980: Paul Thomas (bassist; Good Charlotte)
1978: James Burgon Valentine (guitar; Maroon 5)
1977: Kele Le Roc (UK R&B singer)
1974: Colin Meloy (singer, songwriter, guitar; The Decemberist/solo)
1964: Dave Dederer (guitar, singer; Presidents Of The U.S.A.)
1961: David Bryson (guitar; Counting Crows)
1960: Paul Heard (bass, keyboards; M People)
1957: Lee Thompson (sax, vocals; Madness)
1955: Leo Barnes (saxophone, vocals; Hothouse Flowers)
1953: Russell Craig Mael/Dwight Russell Day (vocals; The Sparks)
1951: Bob Geldof (singer, songwriter, political activist; Boomtown Rats)
1952: Harold Faltermeyer (keyboard, piano, synthesizer,composer, producer; freelance)
1950: "Fast" Eddie Clarke (guitarist; Fastway/Motorhead)
1949: B W Stevenson (US singer, songwriter, guitarist)*28.April.1988
1948: Lucius "Tawl" Ross (rhythm guitar; Funkadelic/solo)
1947: Brian Johnson (vocals; Geordie/AC-DC)
1945: Brian Connolly (singer, Sweet/the New Sweet/Solo)*09.Feb.1997
1944: Gerry Scanlan (bassist, vocals; TNT/Bitter Suite)
1943: Steve Miller (singer, keyboard, guitarist; Steve Miller Band)
1942: Richard Street (vocals; Temptations)
1937: Abi Ofarim/Abraham Reichstadt (singer, guitar; Esther & Abi Ofarim)
1938: Johnny Duncan (country music singer)
1938: Carlo Mastrangelo [baritone vocals; Dion & the Belmonts)
1935: Margie Singleton (US singer, TV Performer)
1907: Mrs Miller/Elva Ruby Connes (US singer)*05.Aug.1997

October 6th
1982: MC Lars/Andrew Robert Nielsen (US white hip-hop artist)
1966: Tommy Stinson (bass, vocal; Replacements/Guns N' Roses)
1964: Matthew Sweet (singer, guitarist; Thorns/solo]
1961: Tim Burgess (drums; T'Pau)
1960: Richard Jobson (lead singer, TV Presenter, film-maker; Skids)
1958: Tim Mooney (drums; American Music Club)
1954: David Hidalgo (singer, songwriter; Los Lobos/Los Super Seven)
1951: Gavin Sutherland (singer, songwriter; The Sutherland Brothers & Quiver)
1949: Bobby Farrell (singer; Boney M)
1951: Kevin Cronin (singer, guitarist; REO Speedwagon/Kevin Cronin)
1950: Thomas McClary (lead guitar, singer; Commodores)
1946: Little Millie/Millicent Dolly May Small (Jamacain singer)
1945: Robin Shaw (vocals, bass; Flowerpot Men/White Plains/First Class)
1917: Bob Neal (DJ, agent)
1886: Edwin Fischer (Swiss pianist and conductor)*24.Jan.1960
1820: Jenny Lind (Swedish soprano often known as the Swedish Nightingale)*02.Nov.1887

October 7th
1978: Alesha Dixon (UK dancer, singer; Mis- Teeq/solo)
1974: Charlotte Perrelli nee Nilsson (Swedish singer; won 1999 Eurovision Song Contest)
1968: Leeroy Thornhill (dancer for The Prodigy, now a DJ)
1968: Thom Yorke (vocals, guitar, keyboards; Radiohead)
1967: Toni Braxton (US R&B singer)
1964: Sam Brown (UK solo and backing singer; Deep Purple/David Gilmour/Jules Holland Band)
1960: Kyosuke "Himurock" Himuro/Osamu Teranishi (singer, guitar; BOØWY/solo/guest)
1960: Viktor Lazlo/Sonia Dronier (Belgian singer)
1959: David Taylor (singer; an original member of Edison Lighthouse)
1959: Simon Cowell (record executive, producer, judge on Pop Idol and American Idol)
1957: Michael W. Smith/Smitty (keyboard, vocals; Higher Ground/Amy Grant/freelance)
1955: Yo-Yo Ma (French-Chinese celloist; rated one of the best in the world)
1954: Kenneth Atchley (American composer, noise artist)
1953: Tico Torres (drummer, percussionist; Bon Jovi)
1951: John Cougar (guitarist, singer, songwriter; solo)
1949: David Hope (bassist, now an Anglican priest; Kansas)
1946: Georg Danzer (Austrian singer, songwriter)*21.June.2007.
1945: Kevin Godley (drums, percussion; 10cc/Godley And Creme)
1944: Judee Sill (US guitarist, singer, songwriter)*23.Nov.1979
1941: Martin Murray (lead guitar; Honeycombs)
1941: Tony Silvester (singer; Main Ingredient)
1939: Colin Francis Cooper (UK vocalist, saxophone; Climax Blues Band)*July 3rd 2008.
1994: Dino Valente/Chester William Powers Jr (US singer, guitar,songwriter)*16.Nov.1994.
1937: George Young (Jazz Saxophonist)
1927: Al Martino/Alfred Cini (Italian-American singer, actor)
1911: Vaughn Monroe (US baritone singer, trumpet, big band leader)*21.May.1973.
1835: Felix Draeseke (German composer of the "New German School")*26.Feb.1913

October 8th
1985: Eiji Wentz (German-Japanese singer; WaT)
1972: DJ Q-Ball/Harry Dean Jr (DJ, singer; Bloodhound Gang)
1968: Leeroy Thornhill (dancer, keyboard; The Prodigy)
1967: Teddy Riley (singer, Blackstreet)
1964: CeCe Winans (US gospel and R&B singer; BeBe & CeCe Winans)
1959: James Johnstone (alto saxophone, guitar; Pigbag)
1948: Johnny Ramone (guitar, The Ramones)*15.Sept.2004
1950: Robert "Kool" Bell (bass, singer; Kool & the Gang)
1949: Hamish Stewart (Vocals, Guitar, Bass; Average White Band)
1949: Harry Bowens (lead singer; Was Not Was)
1947: Tony Wilson (bass, songwriter; Hot Chocolate)
1945: Ray Royer (guitar; Procol Harum/Freedom)
1944: Susan Raye (US country singer)
1941: George Bellamy (rhythm guitar; The Tornados, father of Matthew Bellamy of Muse)
1941: Dave Arbus (virtuoso violinist, flautist; East Of Eden/freelance)
1940: Fred Cash (African-American soul singer, The Impressions)
1930: Pepper Adams/Park Adams III (jazz baritone sax player; leader/guest)*10.Sept.1986
1898: Clarence Williams (jazz pianist, composer, promoter, theatrical producer)*06.Nov.1965
1834: Walter Kittredge (singer/songwriter, violin, seraphine; Hutchinson Family)*08.July.1905
1870: Louis Vierne (French organist, composer)*02.June.1937.

October 9th
1978: Nicholas Byrne (vocals: Westlife)
1975: Anders Göthberg (Swedish guitarist; Broder Daniel/Honey Is Cool)*30.March.2008
1975: Sean Lennon (singer, songwriter, bassist, son of John and Yoko; own band/solo)
1973: Fabio Lione (Italian singer; Rhapsody Of Fire/Labyrinth/Vision Divine/Athena)
1969: PJ Harvey/Polly Harvey (guitar, vocals)
1968: Vickie Perks (Vocals: We've Got A Fuzzbox And We're Gonna Use It)
1967: Mat Osman (bassist: Suede/Mista Brown)
1960: Kenny Garrett (US jazz saxophonist; Miles Davis/Mercer Ellington Orchestra/own
1959: Thomas Wydler (drummer: Bad Seeds)
1957: Ini Kamoze (reggae artist, singer, guitar)
1954: James Fearnley (accordion: Pogues)
1952: Sharon Osbourne (Ozzy's wife and manager, TV host)
1948: Jackson Browne (singers, keyboards, piano, guitar, songwriter)
1947: France Gall (French singer, songwriter, art direction, vocal arrangement)
1944: Nona Hendryx (singer: Labelle/solo)
1944: John Entwistle (bass, vocals, keyboards; The Who)*27.June.2002
1941: Chucho Valdés (Cuban pianist, musical director; Irakere)
1940: John Lennon (singer/songwriter, guitarist: The Beatles)*08.Dec.1980
1937: Pat Burke (flautist/saxman: The Foundations)
1936: Richard Kapp (US conductor and founder of the Philharmonia Virtuosi)*04.June.2004.
1873: Carl Flesch (Hungarian violinist,teacher)*14.Nov.1944
1835: Camille Saint-Saëns (French composer of all genres)*16.Dec.1921
1585: Heinrich Schütz (German composer)*06.Nov.1672

October 10th
1984: Stephanie Cheng (Hong Kong singer)
1979: Mya/Marie Harrison (US singer, songwriter; Ghetto Superstar/Fallen)
1978: Matthew Jay (UK singer, song writer, not Matt of Busted)*25.Sept.2003.
1973: Scott Morriss (bass; Bluetones)
1971: Evgeny Kissin (Russian classical pianist)
1970: Corinna May (German singer)
1970: Maja Tatic (Serbian singer)
1967: Mike Malinin (drums; Goo Goo Dolls)
1965: Toshi (Japanese singer; X Japan)
1964: Graham Crabb (drums, front man; Pop Will Eat Itself)
1963: Anita Mui (Hong Kong singer)*29.Dec.2003
1963: Jim Glennie (bass; James)
1963: Jonny Male (guitar, Republica)
1963: Anita Mui (popular Hong Kong pop singer and actress)*30.Dec.2003.
1961: Martin Kemp (bassist, actor; Spandau Ballet)
1960: Eric Martin (singer; Mr Big/solo)
1960: Al Connelly (guitar; Glass Tiger)
1959: Kirsty MacColl/Mandy Doubt (singer; Drug Addix/solo)*18.Dec.2000
1958: Tanya Tucker (US country singer)
1955: David Lee Roth (vocals; Van Halen)
1953: Midge (James) Ure (guitar, vocals, producer; Slik/Ultravox/solo)
1951: Keith Grimes (guitarist/solo/session)
1948: Séverine (French singer)
1946: Ben Vereen (singer, dancer, actor, Broadway star)
1946: John Prine (singer, songwriter, guitarist)
1946: Jerry Lacroix (vocals; Blood Sweat & Tears)
1945: Alan Cartwright (bassist; Procol Harum)
1943: Jerry LaCroix (US singer; Boogie Kings/White Trash/Edgar Winters/own band).
1935: Paul Humphrey (Jazz session drummer)
1917: Thelonious Monk (US jazz pianist; pioneer of bebop)*17.Feb.1982
1813: Giuseppe Verdi (Italian Romantic composer, mainly of opera)*27.Jan.1901.

October 11th
1973: Brendan Brown (guitar, vocals; Wheatus)
1973: Mike Smith (guitarist, vocals; theStart/Limp Bizkit/Evolver)
1971: Petra Haden (singer, violin;The Rentals)
1971: MC Lyte (US female rapper)
1970: U-God/Lamont Hawkins (US rapper; Wu-Tang Clan)
1962: Scott Johnson (guitar; Gin Blossoms)
1962: Andy McCoy (Swedish guitarist; Hanoi Rocks)
1961: Amr Diab (Egyptian pop-star, singer)
1961: Steve Young/Youngblood (filmmaker, designer, publisher, guitarist, songwriter)
1957: Blair Cunningham (drums, Haircut 100)
1957: Chris Joyce (drums; Durutti Column/Simply Red)
1955: LindyBoone (singer; The Boone Family)
1954: Danny Sugerman (US music manager, author; Doors/Iggy Pop)*05.Jan.2005.
1951: Jean-Jacques Goldman (French singer, guitarist;Tai Phong/freelance/solo)
1950: Andre Woolfolk (flute, saxophone, percussion; Earth Wind and Fire)
1946: Daryl Hall (singer, piano; Hall and Oates)
1946: Gary Mallaber (drum, percussion, keyboard; Steve Miller Band)
1936: Billy Higgins (American jazz drummer;Omette Coleman/freelance)*03.May.2001.
1932: Dottie West/Dorothy Marie Walsh (C&W singer, guitarist)
1919: Art Blakey/Abdullah Ibn Buhaina (American jazz drummer)*16.Oct.1990
1895: Jakov Gotovac (Croatian composer, conductor)*16.Oct.1982

October 12th
1984: Matthew Dewey (Australian composer,singer)
1982: Molly Bennett (Irish folk singer)
1979: Jordan Pundik (lead singer; New Found Glory)
1977: Young Jeezy (African-American rapper)
1969: Martie Seidel (violinist, singer; Dixie Chicks)
1968: Hugh Jackman (Australian actor, singer, songwriter)
1966: Brian Kennedy (singer, songwriter; Van Morrison band/solo)
1966: Harry Allen (saxophone, tenor; Harry Allen-Joe Cohn Quartet)
1961: Bob Mould (guitar, vocals; Hüsker Dü)
1957: Attila The Stockbroker/John Baine (poet, musician and songwriter; Brainstorming)
1956: David Vanian/David Letts (vocals; The Damned)
1955: Jane Siberry (Canadian singer, songwriter, keyboards, guitar)
1948: Rick Parfitt (singer, rhythm guitar; Status Quo)
1942: Melvin Franklin/David Melvin English (bass singer; Temptations)*23.Feb.1995
1935: Luciano Pavarotti (Italian tenor singer)*06.Sept.2007.
1935: Sam Moore (singer; Sam & Dave)
1895: Tubby Hall (US jazz drummer; Louis Armstrong and many others)*13.May.1945
1872: Ralph Vaughan Williams (English composer; many genres)*26.Aug.1958
1490: Bernardo Pisano/Pagoli (Italian composer, priest, singer)*23.Jan.1548

October 13th
1980: Ashanti (US singer, songwriter)
1975: Brandon Casey (vocals; Jagged Edge)
1975: Brian Casey (vocals; Jagged Edge)
1962: Rob Marche (guitar, Jo Boxers)
1960: Joey Belladonna (lead singer; Anthrax)
1959: Marie Osmond (singer, TV Host; The Osmonds)
1959: Gerry Darby (drummer; Carmel)
1952: Henry Padovani (guitar; Police/Electric Chairs/Flying Padovanis)
1950: Simon Nicol (guitar, dulcimer, vocals; Fairport Convention)
1948: John Ford Coley (vocals, pianist, guitarist, actor; England Dan & John Ford Coley)
1948: Peter Spencer (vocals, drums, saxophone; Smokie)
1948: Lacy J. Dalton/Jill Byrem (US C&W singer, songwriter, guitar)
1947: Sammy Hagar (guitar,singer; Van Halen)
1944: Robert Lamm (singer, keyboards, piano; Chicago)
1941: Neil Aspinall (Roadie, personal assistant, record producer/executive; Beatles/Apple)*24.March.2008
1941: Paul Simon (singer, guitar, composer; Simon and Garfunkel)
1940: Chris Farlowe (singer; Colosseum/Atomic Rooster/solo)
1934: Nana Mouskouri (Greece singer)
1926: Ray Brown (US jazz double bassist; own bands/TV orchestras/freelance)*02.July.2002
1917: George Osmond (US patriarch of the Osmond singing family)*06.Nov.2007.
1909: Art Tatum (American jazz pianist)*05.Nov.1956

October 14th
1994: Bryan Allen Breeding/Lil B (singer; B5)
1981: Akon (R&B singer, producer, remix producer)
1978: Usher (US R&B singer)
1975: Shaznay Lewis (vocals; All Saints)
1974: Natalie Maines (singer, songwriter, guitarist; Dixie Chicks/solo)
1968: Jay Ferguson (Canadian rhythm guitar, bass, drums; Sloane).
1965: Karyn White (US singer)
1965: Constantine Koukias (Australian composer)
1958: Thomas Dolby (vocals,keyboards,guitar,synthesizer; Lovich band/session/freelance).
1952: Chris Amoo (singer, Real Thing)
1948: Ivory Tilmon (singer, guitar; Detroit Emeralds)
1947: Norman Harris (guitarist, writer, producer; MFSB/Baker-Harris-Young)*20.March.1987
1946: Justin Hayward (guitarist, singer; Moody Blues)
1946: Dan McCafferty (lead singer; Nazareth)
1945: Marcia Barrett (singer; Boney M)
1945: Colin "bomber" Hodgkinson (bassist; Whitesnake/Spencer Davis/freelance)
1943: Dennis D'Ell/Denis James Dalziel (lead singer, harmonica; Honeycombs)*06.July.2005
1942: Billy Harrison (guitar; Them)
1940: Cliff Richard/Sir Harry Roger Webb (UK singer)
1938: Melba Montgomery (US singer)
1935: La Monte Young (American composer)
1932: Enrico di Giuseppe (American operatic tenor)*31.Dec.2005.
1931: Nikhil Banerjee (Indian sitarist, composer, teacher)*27.Jan.1986
1914: Leo Addeo (US sax, clarinet, orchestrator for Hugo Winterhalter)*04.May.1979
1908: Allan Jones (US actor, singer, father of Jack Jones)*27.June.1992

October 15th
1990: Jordan Johnson (pop/rock singer, songwriter)
1984: Shayne Ward (UK singer; winner of X Factor 2005)
1977: Erin McKeown (multi-instrumentalist, folk-rock singer, songwriter)
1972: Sandra Kim (Belgian singer; Eurovision Song Contest winner in 1986)
1975: Ginuwine (US rapper)
1967: Eric Benét Jordan (US R&B and gospel singer)
1966: Dave Stead (drums; Beautiful South)
1966: Douglas Vipond (drums; Deacon Blue)
1953: Tito Jackson/Toriano Adaryll Jackson (US singer, guitar; Jackson Five)
1950: Chris de Burgh (Irish singer, songwriter)
1946: Richard Carpenter (keyboards, composer, singer Carpenters)
1942: Chris Andrews (UK singer, songwriter)
1942: Don Stevenson (drummer; Moby Grape]
1938: Marv Earl Johnson (US R&B singer; Motown)*15.May.1993.
1938: Fela Anikulapo Kuti (Nigerian multi-instrumentalist musician,composer)*02.Aug.1997
1935: Barry McGuire (singer, songwriter; New Christy Minstrels/solo)

October 16th
1982: Vincy Wing-yee Chan (Award winning Chinese singer)
1977: John Mayer (singer-songwriter, guitarist)
1972: Tomas Lindberg/Goatspell (singer; At The Gates/Lock Up/The Great Deciever)
1960: Marc Reign (German drummer; thrash metal trio Destruction).
1969: Wendy Wilson (singer; The Honeys. Daughter of Brian Wilson)
1965: Simon Bartholomew (guitarist, vocals; Brand New Heavies)
1962: Flea/Michael Peter Balzary (Bassist, Red Hot Chili Peppers)
1959: Gary Kemp (guitar, singer, songwriter; Spandau Ballet]
1953: Tony Carey (keyboards; Rainbow/Blessings/Planet P Project/solo)
1952: Cordell "Boogie" Mosson (bassist; United Soul/Parliament-Funkadelic)
1947: Bob Weir (guitar, vocals; Grateful Dead)
1943: C F 'Fred' Turner (bassist; Bachman Turner Overdrive)
1942: Dave Loveday (drummer, sometimes vocals; Fourmost)
1939: Joe Dolan (Irish singer of pop and easy listening)*26.Dec.2007.
1938: Nico/Christa Päffgen (spooky vocalist; Velvet Underground)
1937: Emile Ford/Emile Sweetman (Frontman, singer; The Checkmates)
1922: Max Bygraves (UK singer, songwriter)
1923: Bert Kaempfert (German producer, arranger, composer, bandleader)*21.June.1980
1911: Mahalia Jackson [26th Oct?](gospel singer;Johnson Brothers)*27.Jan.1972

October 17th
1977: Nicole Cabell (American soprano)
1971: Chris Kirkpatrick (vocals; 'N Sync]
1972: Eminem (rap artist, songwriter)
1972: Wyclef Jean (rap artist, guitar; Fugees/solo)
1968: Ziggy Marley (raggae singer; Ziggy Marley & the Melody Makers)
1967: Rene Dif/MEGA-Aqua (vocalist; Aqua)
1962: Anne Rogers (bass, Popinjays)
1958: Alan Jackson (C&W singer, guitar,songwriter)
1949: William "Bill" Louis Hudson (singer, songwriter; The Hudson Brothers)
1947: Michael "David Ivor St Hubbins" McKean/ (actor, singer, guitarist; Spinal Tap]
1946: Jim Tucker (rhythm guitarist, Turtles)
1942: Gary Puckett (singer;The Union Gap/solo)
1941: Jim 'James' Seals (guitar, sax, fiddle; Seals & Croft)
1941: Alan Howard (bass; Tremeloes)
1935: Michael Eavis (UK dairy farmer: founder of the Glastonbury Festival)
1934: Rico Rodrigues (Jamaica's greatest ska trombonist)
1933: Jeanine Deckers/The Singing Nun (singer, guitar, songwriter)*31.March.1985
1927: Scott Murray/Murray Schaff (US sax player; His own Aristocrats/own trio)*26.Oct.1996.
1923: Barney Kessel (American jazz guitarist; Columbia Pictures/world sessionist)*06.May.2004.

October 18th
1994: Alessandro Iannella (Italian singer, classical, classic comedy)
1974: Peter Svensson (Swedish guitarist; Cardigans)
1971: Mark Morriss (lead singer, songwriter; Bluetones/solo)
1961: Wynton Marsalis (trumpet; Jazz Messengers/solo/freelance)
1956: Dick Crippen (bassist;Tenpole Tudor)
1952: Keith Knudson (drums; Doobie Brothers)*08.Feb.2005
1949: Joe Egan/Seosamh MacAodhagain (singer, songwriter; Stealers Wheel)
1949: Gary Richrath (guitarist, songwriter; REO Speedwagon)
1947: Laura Nyro (singer, guitar, piano, songwriter)*08.April.1997
1938: Ronnie "Mr Bass Man" Bright (bass singer; Coasters)
1926: Chuck Berry/Charles Edward Anderson Berry (US singer, guitar)
1923: Jessie Mae Hemphill (award winning blues musician, guitarist, songwriter)*19.July.2006
1919: Anita O'Day/Anita Belle Colton (US jazz singer)*23.Dec.2006
1918: Bobby Troup (US jazz & swing blues pianoist, singer, composer)*07.Feb.1999
1898: Lotte Lenya (Austrian singer and actress)*27.Nov.1981

October 19th
1990: Janet Leon (Swedish singer; Play)
1980: Khia Edgerton aka K-Swift (US pioneering Baltimore female Hip Hop DJ)*19.July.2008.
1972: Prakazrel "Pras" Michel (rap artist; Fugees)
1960: Daniel Woodgate (drummer, Madness)
1960: Jennifer Holliday (US singer)
1966: 'Sinitta' Brown (US rhythm & blues singer)
1957: Karl Wallinger (keyboardist;The Waterboys, guitarist; World Party)
1956: Nino DeFranco (US singer; The DeFranco Family)
1950: Patrick Simmons (guitar; Doobie Brothers)
1947: Wilbert Hart (singer; Delfonics)
1946: Keith Reid (Lyricist, Group Member; Procol Harum)
1945: Sharon Redd (US singer, disco diva)*01.May.1992.
1945: Jeannie C. Riley (US country singer)
1944: Peter Tosh/Stepping Razor (Reggae singer, guitarist: Wailers/Solo)*11.Sept.1987
1944: George McCrae (C&W singer)
1916: Emil Gilels (Soviet pianist)*14.Oct.1994
1913: Vinicius de Moraes (Brazilian poet and international songwriter)*09.June.1980
1909: Cozy Cole (American jazz drummer: all jazz bands, own quntet)*29.Jan.1981
1908: Geirr Tveitt (Norwegian pianist, composer)*01.Feb.1981
1907: Roger Wolfe Kahn (US musician, composer, and bandleader)*12.July.1962

October 20th
1988: Risa Niigaki (Japanese singer; Morning Musume)
1981: Casey Calvert (US guitarist; Hawthorne Heights)*24.Nov.2007.
1977: Nick Hodgson (drummer; Kaiser Chiefs)
1976: Tom Wisniewski (US guitarist; MxPx)
1972: Snoop Dogg/Calvin Broadus (rapper, hip hop; Dr Dre/solo)
1971: Dannii Minogue (Australian singer)
1967: Dann Gillen (drums; international freelancer)
1965: Norman Blake (Scottish guitarist & vocals; Teenage Fanclub/BMX Bandits)
1964: David Ryan (drummer; Lemonheads)
1964: Jim "Soni" Sonefild (drums, percussion, piano; Hootie & The Blowfish)
1958: Mark King (bass, vocals; Level 42)
1956: Martin Taylor (Scottish jazz guitarist; freelance/solo)
1951: Al Greenwood ( keyboards; Foreigner)
1950: Tom Petty (guitar, vocals, songwriter; Heartbreakers/Traveling Wilburys)
1945: Ric Lee (drummer; Ricky Storm & The JaybirdsTen Years After)
1942: John Carter/John Shakespeare (uk singer; Ivy League)
1940: Ray Jones (Original bass player with Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas)*20.Jan.2000.
1940: Kathy Kirby/Kathleen O'Rourke (UK soprano pop singer)
1939: Jay Siegel (vocals, Tokens)
1937: Wanda Jackson (US singer, songwriter)
1934: Bill Chase (US trumpet player; jazz-rock fusion Bill Chase Band)*09.Aug.1974
1925: Tom Dowd (record producer, engineer)*27.Oct.2002
1913: Louis Marshall "Grandpa" Jones (country & gospel singer, banjo player)*19.Feb.1998
1890: Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton (jazz pianist, composer, pioneer)*10.July.1941

October 21st
1980: Brian Pittman (bassist; Inhale Exhale/Relient K)
1971: Nick Oliveri (singer, bassist; Kyuss/Queens of the Stone)
1971: Jade Jagger (daughter of Mick and Bianca)
1970: Tony Mortimer (singer, song writer; East 17)
1959: Rose McDowell (Scottish singer; Strawberry Switchblade)
1957: Juilian Cope (guitar, organ, vocals; Teardrop Explodes]
1957: Steve Lukather (guitar; Toto)
1955: Rich Mullins (singer, songwriter of Christian music)*19.Sept.1997
1953: Eric Faulkner (guitarist, songwriter, singer; Bay City Rollers)
1953: Charlotte Caffey (guitarist, songwriter; Go-Go's/The Graces/Ze Malibu Kids)
1953: Keith Green (Gospel singer, songwriter, pianist; Last Days Ministries)*28.July.1982
1952: Brent Mydland (keyboards, songwriter; Grateful Dead)*26.July.1990
1948: John "Rabbit" Bundrick (keyboard, piano; Free/freelance)
1947: Jerry Bergonzi (US saxophonist, composer, educator; Dave Brubeck/freelance/guest).
1947: Tetsu Yamauchi (Japanese drummer; Faces /Free/sessionist)
1946: Lee Loughnane (trumpet; Chicago)
1943: Ron Elliott (vocals, guitar; Beau Brummels)
1942: Elvin Bishop (rock-blues guitarist, singer; Butterfield/solo)
1941: Steve Cropper (guitarist; Booker T and the MG's)
1940: Manfred Mann/Michael Lubowitz (singer, keyboardist; Manfred Mann/Earth Band)
1937: Norman Wright (vocals; Vikings)
1936: Sheila Jones (singer; Kaye Sisters).
1935: Derek Bell (oboist, hammer dulcimer, harpist; The Chieftains)*17.Oct.2002
1925: Isaiah "Doc" Ross (US blues and boogie man, guitar, harmonica, singer)*28.May.1993.
1924: Celia Cruz (Cuban singer; Sonora Matancera's band/solo)*16.July.2003
1917: John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (US jazz trumpeter, bandleader)*06.Jan.1993

October 22nd
1985: Zachary Walker "Zac" Hanson (drums; Hanson)
1974: Tim Kinsella (US singer; Cap'n Jazz/Sky Corvair, Make Believe/Owls/Friend-Enemy)
1967: Rita Guerra (Portuguese singer,actress; soundtracks Lion King, Hercules + more)
1968: Shaggy/Orville Richard Burrell (Jamaican reggae singer)
1968: Shelby Lynne (US country singer, fiddle, songwriter)
1965: John Wesley Harding (anglo-US folk/pop singer, songwriter, author)
1964: Toby Mac/Toby McKeehan (US christian rap singer, songwriter; dc Talk/Solo)
1952: Greg Hawkes (keyboard/sax; Cars)
1949: Stiv Bators(singer, guitar; Dead Boys/Whores of Babylon/Wanderers )*02.June.1990.
1945: Eddie Brigati (lead singer, tambourine; Young Rascals/the Rascals).
1945: Leslie West (singer, rock guitarist; Mountain/freelance)
1943: Bobby Fuller (vocals, guitar; Bobby Fuller Four)*18.July.66
1942: Annette Funicello (US actress, singer)
1939: Ray Jones (original bassist, Dakotas)*20.Jan.2000
1925: Dory Previn (US singer-songwriter and poet)
1921: Georges Brassens (French singer-songwriter)*29.Oct.1981

October 23rd
1990: Stevie Brock (American pop singer)
1987: Faye Hamlin (Swedish lead singer; Play)
1964: Robert Trujillo (US bassist; Suicidal Tendencies/Metallica)
1959: 'Weird Al' /Alfred Matthew Yankovic (singer, comedian, accordionist, tv producer)
1957: Kelly Marie (British disco singer)
1956: Dwight Yoakam (country songwriter, singer, actor)
1953: Pauline Black (lead singer; Selecter)
1951: Charly Garcia (Argentine singer; Serú Girán/solo)
1949: Michael Burston (lead guitar; Motorhead]
1943: Greg Ridley (bass player; Humble Pie/Spooky Tooth )
1940: Ellie Gaye/Eleanor Greenwich (songwriter)
1939: Charlie Foxx (guitar, vocals; The Inez & Charlie Foxx Duo)*18.Sept.1998
1927: William "Sonny" Criss (alto saxophonist; Howard McGhee's Band/freelance)*19.Nov.1977
1923: Ned Rorem (composer, diarist)

October 24th
1980: Monica Arnold (US R&B singer)
1979: Ben Gillies (Australian drummer; Silverchair)
1971: Ed Chester (drums; Bluetones)
1970: Alonza Bevan [bassist; Kula Shaker)
1969: Rob Green (drummer; Toploader)
1962: Debbie Googe (bassist; My Bloody Valentine/Snowpony)
1959: 'Weird Al' Yankovic (US comedy pop singer, actor, writer)
1954: Tiny/Perry Lee Tavares (vocals;Tavares/solo).
1950: Steven Greenberg (composer,songwriter, label owner, producer)
1948: Barry Ryan/Barry Sapherson (UK singer; Marion Ryan's twin son)
1948: Paul Ryan/ Paul Sapherson (UK singer; Marion Ryan's twin son)
1948: Dale "Buffin" Griffin (drums; Mott The Hoople)
1947: Edgar Broughton (vocals, guitar, keyboards; Edgar Broughton Band)
1946: Rob Van Leeuwen (guitar, mandoline; Shocking Blue/Motions)
1946: Jerry Edmonton/Jerry McCrohan (drummer; Sparrow/Steppenwolf)*28.Nov.1993
1945: Elton Dean (UK saxophonist; Long John B./Keith Tippett/Soft Machine)*08.Feb.2006.
1944: Ted Templeman (singer; The Tikis/Harpers Bizarre)
1941: Bill Wyman (bass; Rolling Stones)
1938: Odean Pope (American jazz tenor saxophonist).
1937: Santo Farina (steal guitar; Santo & Johnny)
1935: Malcolm Bilson (American pianist, music professor)
1930: The Big Bopper/Jiles Perry Richardson (US singer, DJ, songwriter)*03.Feb.1959
1927: Jean-Claude Pascal (French singer)*05.May.1992.
1927: Gilbert Bécaud (French singer, composer, actor)*18.Dec.2001.
1911: Sonny Terry (blues singer, harmonica; Jook House Rockers/Buckshot Five)*11.March.1986

October 25th
1970: Ed Robertson (Canadian singer, guitar; Barenaked Ladies).
1968: Todd Thomas (rap artist; Arrested Development).
1964: Nick Thorp (UK bassist; Curiosity Killed The Cat).
1963: John Leven (Swedish bassist; Europe).
1961: Chad Smith (drummer; Red Hot Chili Peppers).
1959: Christina Amphlett (Australian singer; Divinyls).
1957: Robbie McIntosh (guitar; The Pretenders/PaulMcCartney/freelance).
1956: Matthias Jabs (German guitarist; Scorpions).
1951: Richard Lloyd (guitar; Television/solo/sessionist).
1950: Chris Norman (uk singer; Smokie/solo).
1947: Glenn Tipton (guitar, keyboards; Judas Priest).
1946: John Hall (uk drummer, The Equals).
1944: Taffy Danoff/Taffy Nivert (singer, songwriter; Starland Vocal Band/solo).
1944: Jon Anderson (singer; Wariors/Yes/Jon & Vangelis).
1942: Helen Reddy (Australian singer, songwriter, actress).
1937: Jeanne 'Gloria' Black (US singer).
1927: Barbara Cook (actress, Broardway singer).
1926: Jimmy Heath (jazz sax player; Heath Brothers/freelance).
1912: Minnie Pearl/Sarah Ophelia Colley (US comedienne, singer)*05.March.1996.
1838: Georges Bizet (French composer of piano and opera)*03.June.1875.
1825: Johann Strauss II /Jr (Vienna's greatest composer of light music)*03.June.1899.

October 26th
1981: Guy Sebastian (Australian singer; winner of 1st Australian Idol in 2003)
1978: Mark Barry (vocals, bagpipes, hurdy gurdy; BBMak)
1974: Lisa/Elizabeth Sakura Narita (Japanese-Colombian singer, writer, producer; m-flo)
1971: Anthony Rapp (US singer, actor; Mark Cohen in the Broadway production 'Rent')
1967: Keith Urban (New Zealand country singer, guitar; married Nicole Kidman)
1965: Aaron Kwok Fu-Shing (Hong Kong singer, dancer, actor)
1965: Judge Jules/Julius O'Riordan (UK remixer, producer, dance music DJ)
1963: Natalie Merchant (singer, piano, songwriter; 10,000 Maniacs)
1962: Steve Wren (drummer; Then Jerico)
1953: Keith Strickland (guitar; B-52's)
1952: David Was/David Weiss (flute, producer; Was Not Was)
1951: Maggie Roche (Singer, hammered dulcimer, multi musician, songwriter)
1951: Bootsy Collins (bassist, Pacesetters/Funkadelic/Bootsy's Rubber Band)
1946: Keith Hopwood (guitar; Herman's Hermits)
1944: Michael Piano (singer; Sandpipers)
1941: Charlie Landsborough (UK singer, songwriter, guitarist).
1929: Neal Matthews (singer; Jordanaires/The Oak Ridge Boys)*21.April.2000.
1927: Warne Marsh (saxophone tenor; solo/Supersax).
1919: James E. Myers (US songwriter, actor, producer, raconteur)*09.May.2001.
1911: Mahalia Jackson [16th Oct?](gospel singer;Johnson Brothers/solo)*27.Jan.1972.
1685: Domenico Scarlatti (Italian composer, harpsicord, organ, piano)*23.July.1757.

October 27th
1984: Kelly Osbourne (singer, celebrity girl; Osbournes TV Show)
1980: Tanel Padar (Estonian singer; winner the Eurovision Song Contest 2001)
1980: Jeku/Jake Jensen (Canadian guitarist, piano, Jew's harp, theremin; solo)
1978: Puma Washington/Sabrina Washington (UK singer, dancer; Mis- Teeq)
1978: Vanessa-Mae (Singapore/UK violinist, piano, actress; Philharmonia Orchestra/solo)
1972: Marika Krook (Finnish singer, actress)
1970: Adrian Erlandsson (Swedish heavy metal drummer; Cradle of Filth)
1967: Scott Weiland (lead singer: Stone Temple Pilots/Velvet Revolver)
1958: Simon Le Bon (lead singer, lyricist; Duran Duran/solo)
1956: Hazell Dean (UK singer, composer, producer)
1953: Peter Dodd (guitar, Thompson Twins)
1951: Ken "K.K." Downing [guitar; Judas Priest]
1949: Garry Tallent (bass player; Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band)
1949: Byron Allred (keyboards, producer; Steve Miller Band)
1944: Donald Partridge (UK folk singer with hits such as 'Rosie' & 'Blue Eyes').
1933: Floyd Cramer (US Hall of Fame pianist)*31.Dec.1997
1782: Nicolo Paganini (violin virtuoso, composer)*27.May.1840.

October 28th
1982: Mai Kuraki (Japanese pop singer)
1979: Aki Hakala (Finnish drummer, The Rasmus)
1969: Ben Harper (vocals, guitar, steel guitar: NOT Yellowcard B.H)
1963: Eros Ramazzotti (Italian singer)
1959: Neville Henry (saxophone; Blow Monkeys)
1958: William Reid/Lazycame (guitar; Jesus and Mary Chain/solo)
1957: Stephen Morris (drums, New Order)
1948: Telma Hopkins (singer, anctress; Tony Orlando and Dawn)
1947: George Glover (keyboards; Climax Chicago Blues Band)
1945: Wayne Fontana (singer; Wayne Fontana & the Mindmenders)
1941: Hank Marvin/Brian Robson Rankin (guitar; The Shadows)
1941: Curtis Lee (US singer)
1937: Graham Bond (UK vocalist, sax, organ; Graham Bond Organisation)*08.May.1974.
1936: Charlie Daniels (Sth.rock & jazz singer, guitar, fiddle)
1927: Cleo Laine/Clementina Dinah Campbell (UK jazz singer)
1892: Oliver "Dink" Johnson (jazz pianist, clarinetist, drums)*29.Nov.1954

October 1st
1708: John Blow (59) British composer and organist of Westminster Abbey and writer of over 100 anthems. He also wrote for the king and was appointed Composer to the Chapel Royal (He died at his house in Broad Sanctuary, and was buried in the north aisle of Westminster Abbey).
1975: Al Jackson (39) drummer with the legendary Stax band, Booker T and the MG's, he designed the groove and thats what the band played to (murdered after confronting an intruder in his home).
1983: Freddy Martin (76) American bandleader and tenor saxophonist (lingering illness?).
1986: Andy McVann (21) drummer in Soul of Socialism, an early incarnation of The Farm(car crash during a police chase).
1992: Harry Ray (45) Lead singer with The Moments and Ray,Goodman & Brown, he also recorded a duet with Sylvia Robinson. The Moments had a total of 27 R&B chart hits, but his biggest hit came with Ray,Goodman & Brown's "Special Lady",(died suddenly from a stroke).
1999: Lena Zavaroni (35) UK singer, guitarist, she suffered badly from anorexia since the age of 14 (after a tragic short life, she died from pneumonia three weeks after an operation for leukotomy).
2004: Bruce Palmer (58) Canadian bassist; Buffalo Springfield/Neil Young's Trans Band (heart attack).
2005: Paul Pena (55) US multi-genre singer, songwriter, pianist, and guitarist, who performed Mississippi Delta blues, jazz, flamenco, folk, rock and roll and Tuvan throat-singing he died in his San Francisco, California apartment after a long battle with diabetes and pancreatitis).

October 2
1976: Quentin "Butter" Jackson (57) American jazz trombonist (?).
1989: "Cousin Joe" Pleasant/Pleasant Joseph (81) American blues vocalist and guitarist ().
1998: Gene Autry (91) singer, guitar, actor; America's singing cowboy (lymphoma).

October 3
1966: Dave Lambert (49) jazz singer, drums; Gene Krupa's Orchestra, Lambert, Hendricks & Ross, Buddy Sterat, Charlie Parker. (hit by a car while changing a tyre).
1967: Woody Guthrie (55) US folk singer, guitarist, noted for his identification with the common man, and for his abhorrence of fascism, politicians, hypocritical people and economic exploitation. (Huntington's Chorea disease).
2000: Benjamin Orr (53) Bassist and vocals in the band Cars and his allstar band Big People (pancreatic cancer).

October 4
1970: Janis Joplin (27) US blues singer fronting the Big Brother and The Holding Company; she lived fast and died young, an American icon and souvenir of the 1960s (died at the Landmark Hotel, Hollywood after an accidental heroin overdose).
2005: Mike Gibbins (56) drummer, Badfinger (died in his sleep at home in Florida).

October 5
1985: Brian Keenan (42) UK drummer of The Chambers Brothers from 1965 to 1971, also played with the pre-"Doo Wah Diddy Diddy" Manfred Mann group in England. His group, The Losers, was the house band at Ondine, the first discotheque in New York City (heart attack).
1992: Eddie Kendricks (52) lead singer with The Temptations, he is noted for his distinctive falsetto singing style (lung cancer).
2004: Rodney Dangerfield/Jacob Cohen (82) "Rappin' Rodney", wrote songs for the cartoon "Rover Dangerfield", appeared on TV's Johnny Carson's Tonight Show over 70 times and was in the movies, Natural Born Killers and Caddyshack. (Complications after a heart surgery. He underwent surgery Aug. 25 2004 to replace a heart valve. He later fell into a coma and never recovered).

October 6
1762: Francesco Manfredini (78) Italian Baroque composer, violinist, and church musician; he became musical director at St. Philip's Cathedral in his home town of Pistoia. Much of his music is presumed to have been destroyed after his death; only 43 published works and a handful of manuscripts are left ().
1978: Johnny O'Keefe (43) He was a pioneering Australian rock and roll singer of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. He had his own one-hour live TV show "Six O'Clock Rock", featuring many local artists. (heart attack).
1985: Nelson Riddle (64) American bandleader, arranger and orchestrator whose long career spanned from the 1940s until the 1980s, providing jazzy big-band style arrangements to accompany such as Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Nat King Cole, Judy Garland, Peggy Lee, Ella Fitzgerald, Shirley Bassey, Matt Monro, Linda Ronstadt, and many others. (liver ailments). b. June 1st 1921.
1999: Amália da Piedade Rodrigues (79) Portuguese singer, actress. She was known as the "Queen of Fado" and was most influential in introducing fado to the world outside of Portugal. She was unquestionably the most important figure in the genre’s development (died in her home at Lisbon, in Rua de São Bento which is now a museum).
2006: Claude Luter (83) French clarinet player, soprano saxophone; best known for being an accompanist to Sidney Bechet when he was in Paris, but he also worked with Barney Bigard and French writer and musician Boris Vian ().

October 7
1959: Mario Lanza/Alfredo Arnold Cocozza (38) Legendary American tenor and Hollywood movie star who enjoyed success in 1940s and 1950s. His voice was considered by some to rival that of Enrico Caruso, whom Lanza portrayed in the 1951 film The Great Caruso. He was able to sing all types of music. (died in Rome from a pulmonary embolism).
1966: Johnny Kidd/Frederick Heath (30) UK frontman and singer with Johnny Kidd & the Pirates; hit songs from the late 1950s to the late 1960s, and are remembered for appearing onstage in pirate costumes, complete with eye-patches. He was one of the pre-Beatles British rock and rollers to achieve worldwide fame (car crash; near Radcliffe, Manchester, while on tour).
1966: Smiley Lewis/Overton Amos Lemons (53) New Orleans R&B singer (stomach cancer).
2000: Dennis Sandole (87) American guitarist sharing the stage with such acts as Tommy Dorsey and a highly respected sessionist, appearing on numerous film soundtracks and records by Billie Holiday and Frank Sinatra, among others (died in his Philadelphia, PA, home).

October 8
1772: Jean Joseph de Mondonville (60) French composer, violinist. Violinist of the Royal Chapel and Chamber, Paris ().
1834: François-Adrien Boïeldieu (58) French composer. The most significant composer in France in the early decades of the nineteenth century, he wrote comic operas that were among the best-known and most-performed of his day (cancer of the larynx).
1986: Emmanuel "Manny" Sayles (78) American jazz banjoist and guitarist ()

October 9
1941: Helen Morgan (41)American singer and actress; she toured extensively in vaudeville and starred in many films, including the 1929 Showboat (cirrhosis of the liver).
1978: Jacques Brel (49) French singer, songwriter; major influence on English-speaking writers and performers including Leonard Cohen and David Bowie, while translations of his songs were recorded by a wide range of performers from the Kingston Trio to Frank Sinatra. (cancer).
1988: Clifton 'Cliff' Gallup (58) guitarist, Gene Vincent And The Blue Caps (heart attack).
1999: Milt Jackson (76) US vibraphonist; very expressive player, Jackson differentiated himself from other vibraphonists in his attention to variations of dynamics and rhythm. He was particularly fond of the 12-bar blues at slow tempos. He preferred to set the vibraphone's oscillator to a low 3.3 revolutions per second for a more subtle vibrato.().
2003: Carl Fontana (75) trombonist and bandleader. He has long been regarded as the most fluid, innovative trombonist after J. J. Johnson, a modern trombonist with exceptional technique and ideas.(Alzheimer's disease).
2003: Don Lanphere (75) jazz saxophonist; ranked with some of the top jazz musicians of his time before he was 20, recording with such bebop trumpet legends as Fats Navarro and Max Roach in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He played gigs with Woody Herman and Charlie Parker and with big-ticket big bands such as Artie Shaw's. (liver failure).
2007: Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge (38) American rock musician with the video art and music group Psychic TV; they they released fourteen live albums in eighteen months, enough to earn them a record in the Guinness Book of World Records (undiagnosed heart condition which is thought to have been connected with her long-term battle with stomach cancer. Lady Jaye collapsed and died in the arms of her heartbroken "other half" Genesis Breyer P-Orridge).

October 10
1964: Eddie Cantor (72) an American vaudeville performer, comedian, singer, actor, songwriter. Known to Broadway, radio and early television audiences as Banjo Eyes (heart attack).
1978: Ralph Marterie (63) Italian trumpet player , big-band leader (?).
2002: Teresa Graves (54) African-American actress and singer. As the star of Get Christie Love! (1974), she was the first African American woman to play the lead in a police film and TV show. (died in a fire at her home).
2003: Eugene Istomin (77) American classical pianist, he won the Leventritt award, the Philhadelphia Youth Award and also a GrammyAward in 1970.(liver cancer).
2005: Nick Hawkins (40) guitarist with Big Audio Dynamite aka Bad (heart attack).

October 11
1963: Édith Piaf/Edith Giovanni Gassion (47) French singer and actress; one of the most popular French singers of the 1940s and '50s, internationally famous for her husky, mournful voice and her songs of loneliness and despair (cancer).
1993: Jess Thomas (66) US lyric and Wagnerian tenor; the Metropolitan Opera ().
2007: Werner von Trapp (91) Austrian-born musician and singer, member of the Trapp Family Singers who inspired The Sound of Music.(?)

October 12
1956: Don Lorenzo Perosi (83) Italian composer; the most significant Italian composer of sacred music at the turn of the twentieth century ().
1971: Gene Vincent/Vincent Eugene Craddock (36) US singer, pioneer of rock 'n' roll (perforated ulcer).
1978: Nancy Spungen (20) paranoid schizophrenic girlfriend of Sex Pistol's Sid Vicious (she was found sprawled on the bathroom floor of their hotel room clad in a black bra and panties. She had bled to death from a single stab wound to the abdomen, later traced to a knife owned by Sid Vicious. Sid died of an overdose while on bail before he could be tried for murder).
1985: Ricky Wilson (32) original guitarist with the B-52's (aids).
1997: John Denver (53) US singer songwriter (killed when the light aircraft he was piloting crashed into Monterey Bay, California).
2002: Ray Conniff (85) trombone, strings, orchestra director, Bunny Berigan's Orchestra and Bob Crosby's Bobcats; popularized wordless vocal choruses and light orchestral accompaniment on a mix of popular standards and contemporary hits of the 1960s, easy listening.(passed away after falling down and hitting his head).
2006: Al Thompson (59) former Motown drummer, longtime drummer for Gladys Knight & The Pips, Stevie Wonder, Natalie Cole ().

October 13
1974: Ed Sullivan (73) TV host, band leader. Famous for introducing new musical acts on his TV show, The Ed Sullivan Show (cancer).
2000 : Britt Woodman (80) jazz trombonist; perhaps best known for his work with Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus.().
2001: Peter Doyle (52) singer, songwriter. New Seekers (throat cancer).

October 14
1959: Alphonse Trent (54)American jazz pianist; he led one of the most fabled of the territory bands, an outfit that recorded just eight titles, but was quite legendary during the 1930's ().
1977: Bing Crosby/Harry Lillis Crosby (74) US singer, actor; singer of "White Christmas", starred in the "On the Road" films with Bob Hope (He died of a heart attack on a golf course in Spain, having just completed the 18th hole).
1985: Emil Gilels (77) Soviet pianist; first Soviet artist to be allowed to travel extensively in the West. After the war, he toured Europe starting from 1947 as a concert pianist, and made his American debut in 1955 playing Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 in Philadelphia (he was killed accidentally by the Russian doctor after a medical check-up).
1990: Leonard Bernstein (72) Composer, pianist, conductor, the first conductor born in the United States of America to receive world-wide acclaim, and is known for both his conducting of the New York Philharmonic, and his multiple compositions, including West Side Story, Candide and On The Town (emphysema).
1998: Frankie Yankovic (83) singer, accordian; America's undisputed Polka King, the first polka artist to score a million-selling single with 1948's "Just Because", the first to perform on television, and the first to win a Grammy for Best Polka Album (he suffered a fall at his home and a died a few days later).
2006: Freddy Fender/Baldemar Huerta (69) singer, songwriter and guitarist; Texas Tornados, Los Super Seven, solo. The first and biggest pioneer in Tex Mex music, one of the most important musicians in Tejano Music History, he is documented as The First American Hispanic and Hispanic Rock & Roll Recording Artist In Anglo Latino Musical History. (lung cancer).
2007: Big Moe (33) American rapper; began his career free styling on DJ Screw's mix tapes before being signed to Wreckshop Records, releasing his debut album, City of Syrup in 2000 (died of an apparent heart attack while in a coma. This is not the official cause of death).

October 15
1964: Cole Porter (73) Singer, multi-musician, composer, songwriter; he learned the violin at age 6, the piano at 8, and wrote his first operetta at 10. His works include the musical comedies Kiss Me, Kate, Fifty Million Frenchmen and Anything Goes, as well as songs like "Night and Day", "I Get a Kick Out of You" and "I've Got You Under My Skin" (kidney failure).
1973: Gene Krupa (64) US jazz & big band drummer; Sal Mineo starred as Krupa in the Columbia Pictures movie The Gene Krupa Story in 1959. He was the first drummer inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1978 (leukemia and heart failure).
1980: "Bobby Lester" Dallas (50) US lead singer with the Moonglows; the different styles defined the Moonglows 2 lead singers, Harvey Fuqua favored the up-tempo R&B/rock numbers while Lester sung more of the romantic ballads (Cancer).
2004: Dave Godin (68) UK Writer, Critic. Founder of the record labels, Soul City and Deep Soul - He coined the term, Northern Soul. (lung cancer).

October 16
1945: James Vincent Monaco (60) Italian-born American composer of popular music; he worked as a ragtime player in Chicago before moving to New York, writing songs for musicals, Al Jolson, Judy Garland, Bing Crosby and others (?).
1982: Jakov Gotovac (87) Croatian composer, conductor of classical music. He is the author of the most famous Croatian nationalist opera, the comic Ero s onoga svijeta "Ero the joker" ().
1969: Leonard Chess (52) The founder of the Chess record label, played a pivotal role in the birth of the Chicago electric blues movement of the postwar era, launching the careers of legends ranging from Muddy Waters to Howlin' Wolf to Little Walter (heart attack).
1990: Art Blakey/Abdullah Ibn Buhaina (70) US jazz drummer; one of the inventors of the modern, bebop style of drumming. He was known as a powerful musician and a ferocious groover. He is undoubtedly one of the most influential jazz musicians ever; his brand of bluesy, funky hard bop was (and remains) profoundly influential on mainstream jazz.
2001: Etta Jones (72) US jazz singer; critical success and relative commercial obscurity earned her a reputation in her lifetime as a "jazz musician's jazz singer". A highly underrated singer who rarely received the recognition she so richly deserved (cancer).
2005: David Reilly (34) US singer, songwriting, multi-musician, production partner in the electro-rock band God Lives Underwater /GLU (complications of a coma brought on by pain medication for an abscessed tooth).
2006: John Thomas Johnson (71) was an American orchestral tuba player. He performed on more than 2,000 film soundtracks, most notably John Williams' Jaws score, in which he played a high-register tuba solo as the melodic theme for the shark (cancer and kidney failure).
2007: Todor "Toše" Proeski (26) Macedonian singer songwriter; a regurlar at the Eastern European festivals and represented Macedonia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2004. He was called "Elvis Presley of the Balkans" Todor also held humanitarian concerts throughout the Republic of Macedonia. He was awarded with the Mother Theresa Humanitarian Award and in 2003 he became a Regional UNICEF Ambassador.(died near Nova Gradiška, Croatia, as a passenger in a car accident when the airbags failed to activate).

October 17
1849: Frederic Francois Chopin (39) composer, pianist; a child prodigy, performing in elegant salons & beginning to write his own pieces at the age of 8 (died of tuberculosis in Paris).
1991: Tennessee Ernie Ford (72) American singer and television performer; his booming baritone voice is best known for his grim coal-mining song "Sixteen Tons," (liver problems).
1996: Chris Acland/Christopher John Dyke Acland (30) Drummer of the band Lush (Tragically, committed suicide by hanging. His bandmates were devastated and disbanded after a long period of mourning).
2001: Jay Livingston (86) Songwriter, piano, composer; he earned three Academy Awards for Best Song during the 1940s and '50s ().
2002: Chuck Domanico (58) US bass player; West Coast sessionist; worked with Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Carmen McRae, Joni Mitchell, Taj Mahal, Diane Schuur, Natalie Cole, Manhattan Transfer, Chet Baker, Shelly Manne, Oliver Nelson, John Klemmer, Roger Kellaway, Barney Kessel, Art Pepper, and many more.(lung cancer).
2002: Bashful Brother Oswald/Beecher Ray Kirby (90)vocals, banjo, dobro with Roy Acuff's Smoky Mountain Boys; for nearly 60 years, he was one of the most influential and talented dobro players in country music ().
2002: Derek Bell M.B.E. (66) oboist, hammer dulcimer, harpist; BBC Northern Ireland Orchestra and Chieftains, he was the only member of the band to wear a tie at every public performance. (cardiac arrest following minor surgery).
2004: Uzi Hitman (52) Israeli singer, songwriter, composer and TV personality (heart attack).
2007: Teresa Brewer (76) American pop and jazz singer; one of the most popular female singers of the 1950s, re-emerging as a jazz vocalist in the 1980's and 1990's. Altogether, she recorded nearly 600 song titles.(died of a neuromuscular disease).
2007: Clarence "Tater" Tate (76) Bluegrass fiddle player and bassist, a member of Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys and over the course of a 60-year-plus career, he lent support to many of the leading figures in the genre, from Bill Monroe to Jimmy Martin (long struggle with lung cancer).

October 18
1944: Orwill "Hoppy" Jones (39) jazz cello player, bass singer in the Ink Spots where he was an important and the stablising member, after his unexpected and sudden death the band split (collapsed on stage and died after being taken home. It turned out that he had been having cerebral hemorrhages for over a year).
1994: Lee Allen (68) saxophonist; played 4 decades on dozens of hits and many hundreds of sides, by artists including Fats Domino, Lloyd Price, Little Richard, Stray Cats and the Blasters ().
2000: Julie London (74) US actress and singer who was known for her smoky, sensual voice (stroke).
2007: Lucky Philip Dube (43) South African reggae musician; he recorded 22 albums in Zulu, English and Afrikaans in a 25 year period and was South Africa's biggest selling reggae artist (killed in the the Rosettenville suburb of Johannesburg. Police reports suggest he was shot dead by carjackers).

October 19
1989: Alan Murphy (35) UK guitarist; Kate Bush/Go West/Long John Baldry/Level 42/freelanced with many other great artists (weakened by the AIDS virus, he died of pneumonia).
1995: Don Cherry (58) jazz musician (liver failure).
1997: Glen E.Buxton (49) Lead guitarist, founder member of the Alice Cooper Band (pneumonia).
2007: LaLa Brown/Yolanda Brown (21) American R&B singer and protégé of Lyfe Jennings. She was best known for being featured on his Top 10 R&B single S.E.X. (La La & her producer, JeTannue Clayborn, were found dead in their Milwaukee Loud Enuff Productionz recording studio, both had gunshot wounds and had been dead at least a day before being discovered) b. May 20th 1986.

October 20
1977: Ronnie Van Zant (29) US singer; lead vocalist, primary lyricist, and a founding member of the Southern Rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. He was the oldest brother of .38 Special founder and vocalist Donnie Van Zant and current Lynyrd Skynyrd lead vocalist Johnny Van Zant. (4 band members were killed along with the pilot, Walter McCreary and co-pilot, William Gray when the band's rented plane, a Convair 240, ran out of fuel and crashed into a swamp in Gillsburg, Missouri) b. Jan 15th 1948.
1977: Steve Gaines (27) US guitarist and vocalist with the Lynyrd Skynyrd band. He played with RIO Smokehouse, The Ravens, Rusty Day, Detroit and Crawdada, before joining the Lynyrd Skynyrd band, replacing guitarist Ed King in 1976. His skills were a major contribution to the band, as proven on the 1977 album Street Survivors. (same aircrash as above) b. Sept 14th 1977.
1977: Cassie Gaines (29) US singer; a member of female gospel vocal trio The Honkettes, who in 1975 became the backup singers for Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd (air crash as abvove) b. Jan 9th 1948.
1977: Dean Kilpatrick (?) assistant road manager of the Lynyrd Skynyrd band (air crash as abvove)
1983: Merle Travis (65) US country music singer, songwriter; his lyrics often discussed the exploitation of coal miners. (died of a massive heart attack at his Tahlequah, Oklahoma home).
1984: Albert "Budd" Johnson (73) American tenor saxophonist; made his recording debut while working with Louis Armstrong's band in 1932-1933, but is more known for his work with Earl Hines. It is contended that he led Hines to hire "modernists."().
1997: Henry "The Sunflower" Vestine (52) guitarist: Mothers of Invention/Canned Heat; (died from heart and respiratory failure in a hotel outside Paris after the band had completed a tour of France).
2005: Shirley Horn (71) jazz singer, pianist; toured and recorded with jazz artists Miles Davis, Branford Marsalis, Wynton Marsalis, and Toots Thielemans, among others (complications from diabetes).
2007: Paul Raven (46) UK rock bassist with bands Ministry and Killing Joke (heart attack).

October 21
1965: Bill Black (39) US: bass and double bass player with Elvis Presley, also bandleader of The Bill Black's Combo (died four months after surgery to remove a brain tumour).
1969: Jack Kerouac (47) beatnik writer; considered by some as the King of the Beatniks as well as the Father of the Hippies (cirrhosis of the liver).
1990: Jo Ann Kelly (46) US blues singer, acoustic guitarist; Delta style rather than rocking