1976 in music

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Deaths

• January 8 - George Baker, singer
• January 10 - Howlin' Wolf, blues musician
• January 23 - Paul Robeson
• January 30 - Mance Lipscomb
• January 31 - Evert Taube, composer and singer
• February 9 - Percy Faith
• February 12 - Sal Mineo, actor and singer, murdered
• February 13 - Lily Pons, coloratura soprano
• February 22 - Florence Ballard, The Supremes
• March 14 - Busby Berkeley
• March 19 - Paul Kossoff, Free, Back Street Crawler, cerebral and pulmonary oedema
• April 8 - Phil Ochs, suicide
• May 12 - Rudolf Kempe, conductor
• May 14 - Keith Relf, The Yardbirds, Renaissance, Medicine Head, Armageddon, cardiac arrest due to electrocution
• May 15 - David Munrow, early music performer, suicide
• June 25 - Johnny Mercer
• June 28 - Yakov Zak, pianist and music teacher
• August 26 - Lotte Lehmann, opera singer
• August 27 - Mukesh, Indian singer
• October 3 - Victoria Spivey, US singer, pianist and composer
• October 11 - Connee Boswell, US singer, member of the Boswell Sisters
• October 11 - Alfredo Bracchi, Italian lyricist
• November 12 - Walter Piston, composer
• December 4 - Benjamin Britten
• December 4 - Tommy Bolin
• December 28 - Freddie King, blues musician