1995 in music

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Deaths

• January 31 - George Abbott, US librettist and director
• February 18 - Bob Stinson, The Replacements, complications caused by drug and alcohol abuse
• February 23 - Melvin Franklin, The Temptations, brain seizure
• March 5 - Vivian Stanshall, eccentric British musician
• March 9 - Ingo Schwichtenberg, Helloween, suicide
• March 26 - Eazy-E (31), AIDS
• March 29 - Baltimora, singer
• March 31 - Selena, singer
• April 4 - Priscilla Lane, US singer and actress, lung cancer
• April 14 - Burl Ives, singer, actor
• April 25 - Ginger Rogers, US actress, dancer and singer
• May 8 - Teresa Teng, singer
• May 16 - Lola Flores, singer and dancer
• June 4 - Ernest Borneman, jazz musician and critic
• June 12 - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, pianist
• June 14 - Rory Gallagher, Irish blues/rock guitarest
• July 23 - Miklós Rózsa, film score composer
• August 9 - Jerry Garcia, The Grateful Dead
• August 18 - Alan Dell, Radio 2 DJ
• August 19 - Pierre Schaeffer, composer and pioneer of Musique concrète
• August 23 - Dwayne Goettel, Skinny Puppy, drug overdose
• August 26 - Ronnie White (57),the Miracles, cowriter of the Temptations hit "My Girl" (with Smokey Robinson), leukemia.
• August 30 - Sterling Morrison (53), The Velvet Underground guitarist, Non-Hodgkin lymphoma
• October 19 - Don Cherry, jazz trumpeter
• October 21 - Maxene Andrews, singer, member of The Andrews Sisters
• October 21 - Shannon Hoon, member of group Blind Melon
• October 21 - Hans Helfritz, composer
• October 26 - Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader and songwriter
• November 17 - Alan Hull, formerly of Lindisfarne
• November 21 - Peter Grant, manager of The Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin, Bad Company, myocardial infarction
• November 23 - Junior Walker, musician
• December 25 - Dean Martin, singer,actor
• December 25 - Nicolas Slonimsky, conductor and composer
• December 27 - Shura Cherkassky, pianist