1987 in music

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Deaths

• January 10 - Marion Hutton, singer and actress
• January 15 - Ray Bolger, actor, of cancer
• February 4 - Liberace, US pianist
• March 3 - Danny Kaye, actor, singer, dancer and comedian
• March 15 - Don Gant, singer/songwriter, record producer
• March 21 - Dean Paul Martin, singer and actor
• March 21 - Robert Preston, star of The Music Man, Mame, etc.
• March 28 - Maria von Trapp, subject of The Sound of Music
• April 2 - Buddy Rich, brain tumor
• April 7 - Maxine Sullivan, US singer
• May 2 - Larry Clinton - US bandleader and songwriter
• May 3 - Dalida commits suicide
• May 4 - Paul Butterfield, drug overdose
• May 11 - Peter Tosh is murdered
• May 14 - Rita Hayworth, dancer and film star
• May 24 - Hermione Gingold, actress and singer
• June 3 - Andrés Segovia, guitar virtuoso
• June 18 - Kid Thomas Valentine, jazz trumpeter & bandleader
• June 22 - Fred Astaire, dancer, actor and singer
• June 25 - Boudleaux Bryant, Hall of Fame songwriter
• July 1 - Snakefinger, guitarist
• August 14 - Vincent Persichetti, composer
• September 21- Jaco Pastorius, jazz bassist
• September 23 - Bob Fosse, dancer, choreographer and director of musicals
• October 19 - Jacqueline Du Pré, English cellist
• October 28 - Woody Herman, US bandleader
• December 10 - Jascha Heifetz, violinist
• December - Conny Plank, record producer