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Wesley Lawrence Willis (May 31, 1963 – August 21, 2003) was an American musician and visual artist. Diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1989, Willis began a career as an underground singer-songwriter in the outsider music tradition.
The following is a list of notable performers of rock and roll music or rock music, and others directly associated with the music as producers, songwriters or in other closely related roles, who have died in the 1960s. The list gives their date, cause and location of death, and their age.
Monument at the crash site of the airplane carrying Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens; "The Day the Music Died". The following is a list of notable performers of rock and roll music or rock music, and others directly associated with the music as producers, songwriters or in other closely related roles, who have died. The list ...
Badiane died in a car crash. [27] Mirsada Bajraktarević: 1951 1976 25 years Bosnian singer car Ford Granada: Kolari, Smederevo, Yugoslavia: The car was reportedly travelling 130 km/h (80 mph), when it collided with a FAP truck. Her sister, Silvana Armenulić, died in the same crash. Tarnia Baker: 1967 2017 50 years South African politician ...
On 3 May, Indian film actor Alummoodan died of a heart attack while performing at the sets of Adwaitham. He died on the arms of co-star Mohanlal while filming. [42] On 10 May, jazz/cabaret singer Sylvia Syms died of a heart attack during a set at New York City's Oak Room at the Algonquin Hotel. [43] 1993:
The plane suffered a severe structural failure and decompression before crashing into two ridges of Mount Takamagahara in Ueno, Gunma, a disaster that remains the deadliest single-aircraft accident in history with 520 people killed, including Sakamoto. [9] He was interred at Chōkoku-ji Temple in the central Minato-ku area in Tokyo.
Bob Dylan (legally Robert Dylan; [3] born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter.Considered one of the greatest songwriters of all time, [4] [5] [6] Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture over his 60-year career.
May 12 – Charles Pettigrew, American soul singer (Charles & Eddie) (d. 2001) May 19 – Yazz, English singer; May 21 – Gilles Apap, violinist; June 4 – Sandeep Bhagwati, Indian classical musician and composer; June 5 – Joe Rudán, Hungarian heavy metal singer; June 7. Roberto Alagna, operatic tenor; Gordon Gano, singer & guitarist ...