1971 in music

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Deaths

• February 7 - Dock Boggs, banjo player
• March 21 - Nan Wynn, US singer
• March 31 - Karl King, composer and bandleader
• April 17 - Carmen Lombardo, US singer, composer and saxophonist
• May 2 - Edith Day, US actress, singer and dancer
• May 30 - Marcel Dupré, organist and composer
• June 11 - Ambrose, English bandleader and violinist
• June 18 - Libby Holman, US singer and actress
• July 6 - Louis Armstrong
• July 3 - Jim Morrison
• August 13 - King Curtis, jazz and blues musician (murdered)
• August 17 - Tab Smith, saxophonist
• August 25 - Ted Lewis
• August 27 - Lil Hardin Armstrong, wife and musical collaborator of Louis Armstrong
• October 3 - Sean Ó Riada, composer and bandleader
• October 12 - Gene Vincent, singer
• October 24 - Carl Ruggles, composer
• October 29 - Duane Allman of The Allman Brothers
• November 18 - Junior Parker, blues musician
• November 22 - Zez Confrey, popular composer and pianist
• December 28 - Max Steiner, composer