1996 in music

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Deaths

• January 25 - Jonathan Larson, composer
• February 7 - Boris Tchaikovsky, composer (b. 1925)
• February 17 - Evelyn Laye, 95, English actress and singer
• February 20 - Toru Takemitsu, composer
• February 26 - Moisei Vainberg, composer (b. 1919)
• March 4 - Minnie Pearl (84)
• March 15 - Olga Rudge (101), violinist
• March 22 - Don Murray, The Turtles
• April 18 - Bernard Edwards, Chic, pneumonia
• May 8 - Celedonio Romero, leader of the Romeros guitar quartet,
• May 25 - Brad Nowell, lead singer and guitarist for Sublime
• June 15 - Ella Fitzgerald, jazz singer
• July 16 - John Panozzo, 48, drummer for Styx and brother of Chuck Panozzo
• July 17 - Marcel Dadi 45, French country and western guitarist died in crash of TWA flight 800
• July 29 - Jason Thirsk, bass member of Pennywise
• August 13 - David Tudor, pianist and composer
• August 14 - Sergiu Celibidache, orchestral conductor
• August 23 - Jurriaan Andriessen, Danish composer
• September 1 - Vagn Holmboe, Danish composer (b. 1909)
• September 13 - Tupac Shakur, rapper, poet, actor
• November 30 - Tiny Tim, musician
• December 29 - Mireille, French singer