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This topic covers notable events and articles related to **2016 in music**.

## Specific locations

* African music
* American music
* Asian music
* Australian music
* Brazilian music
* British music
* Canadian music
* Chinese music
* Danish music
* European music (Continental Europe)
* Finnish music
* French music
* German music
* Icelandic music
* Indian music
* Irish music
* Japanese music
* Malaysian music
* Mongolian music
* North Korean music
* Norwegian music
* Philippine music
* Polynesian music
* Scandinavian music
* South Korean music
* Swedish music
* Taiwanese music
* Vietnamese music
* World music

## Specific genres

* Classical
* Country
* Electronic
* Jazz
* Latin music
* Heavy metal
* Hip hop
* Opera
* Pop
* Rock

## Significant performances

* March 25 – British rock and roll band, The Rolling Stones become the first foreign rock band to perform in Cuba, which was documented in their 2016 concert film, The Rolling Stones: Havana Moon.

## Bands formed

* AOA Cream
* Astro
* BEJ48
* Black Pink
* Bolbbalgan4
* BoybandPH
* Boys Generally Asian
* CocoSori
* Cosmic Girls
* Dreamcar
* The East Light
* Exo-CBX
* GNZ48
* Gone Is Gone
* Gugudan
* I.B.I
* I.O.I
* Imfact
* Kard
* KNK
* Lovebites
* The Magpie Salute
* Momoland
* National Youth Orchestra of China
* NCT
* NCT 127
* Nice As Fuck
* Nine Muses A
* Ocean Park Standoff
* Pentagon
* Pristin
* Prophets of Rage
* SF9
* Terror Jr
* Victon
* VIMIC
* Voisper
* Vromance
* Why Don't We
* June's Diary

## Bands reformed

* At the Drive-In
* Abandon All Ships
* The Anniversary
* Arab Strap
* Bash & Pop
* Belly
* Blake Babies
* A Different Breed of Killer
* Eric B. & Rakim
* Galactic Cowboys
* Game Theory
* G.R.L
* Guided by Voices
* Jet
* Le Tigre
* Letters to Cleo
* Misfits (featuring Glenn Danzig)
* Nasty Savage
* The Number Twelve Looks Like You
* Piebald
* P.S. Eliot
* Rainbow
* Sechs Kies
* A Thorn for Every Heart
* The Revolution
* The Righteous Brothers
* Spice Girls – GEM
* Super Furry Animals
* Temple of the Dog
* A Thorn for Every Heart
* Thursday
* Tickle Me Pink
* The Union Underground
* The Vapors
* Wolf Parade
* The Zutons

## Bands on hiatus

* Camera Obscura
* Chiodos
* Coal Chamber
* Man Overboard
* Middle Class Rut
* One Direction
* We Are the In Crowd
* Yeah Yeah Yeahs

## Bands disbanded

* 2NE1
* 3rdeyegirl
* 4Minute
* Agalloch
* Allo Darlin'
* Aiden
* Bane
* Blood on the Dance Floor
* Bolt Thrower
* Boom Boom Satellites
* Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
* Dead or Alive
* Dream
* Eagles
* Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate)
* The Enemy
* Fearless Vampire Killers
* Finch
* For Today
* Funeral for a Friend
* FVK
* Giant Sand
* G.L.O.S.S.
* Gnashing of Teeth
* Gossip
* Graveyard
* I, the Breather
* Jack Ü
* Joey + Rory
* Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
* La Ley
* A Lighter Shade of Brown
* Lionheart
* Lush
* Majical Cloudz
* Marion
* Matchbook Romance
* Maybeshewill
* Mischief Brew
* Motion City Soundtrack
* Mudvayne
* Nektar
* Nomeansno
* P.M. Dawn
* The Presidents of the United States of America
* Rainbow (South Korean band)
* Sally Shapiro
* Thee Satisfaction
* School of Seven Bells
* SMAP
* Sockweb
* Sorry About Dresden
* Spirit of the West
* The Stooges
* Suicide
* Transit
* Twisted Sister
* Viola Beach
* Wodensthrone
* You, Me, and Everyone We Know
* Youth Lagoon

## Deaths

### January

* **1**
	+ Gilbert Kaplan, (74), American conductor and businessman, cancer.
	+ Mark B, (45), British hip-hop record producer.
	+ Gilberto Mendes, (93), Brazilian composer.
* **2** – Rino Salviati, (93), Italian singer, guitarist and actor.
* **3**
	+ Paul Bley (83), Canadian jazz pianist.
	+ Jason Mackenroth (46), American rock drummer (Rollins Band, Mother Superior), prostate cancer.
* **4**
	+ Long John Hunter, (84), American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter.
	+ Achim Mentzel, (69), German musician and television presenter.
* **5**
	+ Pierre Boulez, (90), French composer and conductor.
	+ Nicholas Caldwell, (71), American R&B singer (The Whispers).
	+ Hanna-Marie Weydahl, (93), Norwegian pianist.
* **7**
	+ Kitty Kallen, (94), American singer ("Little Things Mean a Lot").
	+ Troy Shondell, (76), American singer, complications from Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease.
* **8**
	+ Otis Clay, (73), American R&B and soul singer ("Tryin' to Live My Life Without You", "The Only Way Is Up"), heart attack.
	+ Red Simpson, (81), American country singer-songwriter ("I'm a Truck"), complications from a heart attack.
	+ Brett Smiley, (60), American singer-songwriter.
* **10** – David Bowie, (69), English songwriter and artist.
* **17** – Carina Jaarnek (53), Swedish singer and Dansband artist (cerebral haemorrhage).
* **18** – Glenn Frey (67), American guitarist and vocalist (The Eagles).
* **25** – Leif Solberg (101), Norwegian composer and organist.
* **26**
	+ T.J. Tindall (65), American guitarist (MFSB)
	+ Black (53), Pop/new wave singer-songwriter, Traffic accident
* **28**
	+ Signe Toly Anderson (74), American vocalist (Jefferson Airplane).
	+ Paul Kantner (74), American guitarist and vocalist (Jefferson Airplane).

### February

* **3** – Maurice White (74), founder of Earth, Wind and Fire.
* **4** – Ulf Söderblom (85), Finnish conductor.
* **13**
	+ Viola Beach, English indie rock band, car accident.
	+ Kristian "Kris" Leonard (20), Guitar and vocals.
	+ River Reeves (19), Guitar.
	+ Tomas Lowe (27), Bass.
	+ Jack Dakin (19), Drums.
	+ Craig Tarry (32), Band manager.
* **19** – Harald Devold (51), Norwegian saxophonist (cancer).
* **20** – Ove Verner Hansen (85), Danish actor and opera singer (cardiac arrest).
* **22** – Sonny James (87), American country music singer-songwriter.
* **29** – Josefin Nilsson (46), Swedish singer.

### March

* **3** – Gavin Christopher, 66, American R&B singer-songwriter and producer
* **5** – Jimmy Henderson, 61, American guitarist (Black Oak Arkansas)
* **8** – George Martin, (90), English producer.
* **9**
	+ Ray Griff (75), Canadian country singer-songwriter, (aspiration pneumonia).
	+ Naná Vasconcelos (71), Brazilian percussionist.
* **10**
	+ Keith Emerson (71), English pianist and keyboardist (Emerson, Lake & Palmer).
	+ Ernestine Anderson (87), American jazz and blues singer
* **12** – Tommy Brown (84), American R&B singer
* **13** – Sidney Mear, (97), American trumpeter.
* **14** – Peter Maxwell Davies, (81), English composer and conductor
* **22** – Phife Dawg, (45), American rap musician (A Tribe Called Quest), complications from diabetes.
* **23** – James Jamerson, Jr., 58, American bass player (Chanson)
* **26** – David Baker (84) American symphonic jazz composer

### April

* **2** – Gato Barbieri, (83), Argentine jazz saxophonist, pneumonia.
* **3** – Bill Henderson, (90), American jazz vocalist and actor (*Clue*, *City Slickers*, *White Men Can't Jump*), cancer.
* **6** – Merle Haggard, (79), American singer-songwriter ("Okie from Muskogee", "The Fightin' Side of Me", "Carolyn"), Grammy winner (1984, 1998, 1999), complications from pneumonia.
* **13** – Mariano Mores, (98), Argentine tango composer and pianist.
* **21**
	+ Prince, (57), American musician.
	+ Lonnie Mack, (74), American rock, blues, and country singer-songwriter guitarist, natural causes.
* **24**
	+ Billy Paul, (81), American soul singer.
	+ Papa Wemba, (66), Congolese singer and musician.
	+ Jan Henrik Kayser, (81), Norwegian pianist.

### May

* **1** – Sydney Onayemi (78), Nigerian-born Swedish DJ.
* **4** – Olle Ljungström (54), Swedish singer and guitarist.
* **6** – Candye Kane, (54), American Blues singer and entertainer, pancreatic cancer.
* **9** – Riki Sorsa (63), Finnish singer ("Reggae OK") (cancer).
* **14** – Lasse Mårtenson (81), Finnish singer ("Laiskotellen").
* **16** – Fredrik Norén (75), Swedish jazz drummer. (death announced on this date)
* **17** – Guy Clark, (74), American folk and country Singer-songwriter. Grammy Award for his 2013 album *My Favourite Picture of You*.
* **19** – John Berry, (52), American guitarist (Beastie Boys), frontotemporal dementia.
* **21** – Nick Menza, (51), American instrumentalist. Former drummer for the band Megadeth, heart attack.
* **30** – Thomas Fekete, (27), American guitarist (Surfer Blood), cancer.

### June

* **2** – Freddie Wadling (64), Swedish singer and songwriter.
* **3** – Dave Swarbrick, (75), British folk musician and singer-songwriter (Fairport Convention), emphysema.
* **4** – Bobby Curtola, (73), Canadian singer.
* **5** – Phyllis Curtin, (94), American soprano.
* **6** – Rolf Schweizer, (80), German composer.
* **8**
	+ Vladislav Yankovsky, (64), Russian musician (Novosibirsk Youth Symphony Orchestra).
	+ Terje Fjærn (73), Norwegian orchestra conductor ("La det swinge").
* **9** – J. Reilly Lewis, (71), American choral conductor and Baroque music specialist, heart attack.
* **10**
	+ Habib, (63), Iranian singer, heart attack.
	+ Christina Grimmie, (22), American singer-songwriter (*Find Me*) and talent show participant (*The Voice*), gunshot wound.
* **13** – Chips Moman, (79), American producer, songwriter, guitarist.
* **17** – Attrell Cordes, (46), American musician, producer and rapper, co-founder of P.M. Dawn.
* **18** – Alejandro Jano Fuentes (45), Mexican singer and talent show participant (La Voz... México), gunshot wound.
* **21** – Wayne Jackson (74), American soul and R&B musician (The Mar-Keys), congestive heart failure.
* **22**
	+ Amjad Sabri (39), Pakistani Qawwali singer, gunshot wound.
	+ Jim Boyd (60), Native American singer-songwriter and actor
* **24** – Bernie Worrell, (72), American keyboardist and composer (Parliament-Funkadelic).
* **27** – Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen (83), Danish composer.
* **28** – Scotty Moore (84), American guitarist (Elvis Presley).
* **29** – Rob Wasserman (64), American composer and bass player (RatDog, Lou Reed).

### July

* **16**
	+ Alan Vega (78), American vocalist and visual artist (Suicide).
	+ Bonnie Brown (77) American country music singer, member of The Browns.
* **18** – Karina Jensen, Danish singer (Cartoons) (cancer).
* **19** – Tamás Somló (73), Hungarian musician, singer, artist and composer (Locomotiv GT), cancer.
* **26**
	+ Sandy Pearlman (72), American producer (Blue Öyster Cult, The Clash), songwriter, educator, complications from cerebral hemorrhage.
	+ Roye Albrighton (67), German musician (Nektar), unspecified illness.
* **27**
	+ Pat Upton (75), American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Spiral Starecase).
	+ Einojuhani Rautavaara (87), Finnish composer.
* **31** – Mike Mohede (32), Indonesian singer and talent show participant (Indonesian Idol), heart attack.

### August

* **3** – Ricci Martin (62), American musician.
* **4**
	+ Patrice Munsel (91), American coloratura soprano.
	+ Snaffu Rigor (69), Filipino singer and songwriter, lung cancer.
* **5**
	+ Richard Fagan (69), American songwriter and musician, liver cancer.
	+ Vander Lee (50), Brazilian singer-songwriter.
* **6** – Guillermo Anderson (54), Honduran singer, thyroid cancer.
* **7**
	+ B. E. Taylor (65), American musician ("Vitamin L"), brain cancer.
	+ Dolores Vargas (80), Spanish singer, complications of leukemia.
	+ Ruby Winters (74), American soul singer ("Make Love to Me", "I Will").
* **9**
	+ Pádraig Duggan (67), Irish musician (Clannad, The Duggans).
	+ Jimmy Levine (61/62), American R&B musician and record producer.
* **11** – Glenn Yarbrough (86), American folk singer ("Baby the Rain Must Fall", "It's Gonna Be Fine", "San Francisco Bay Blues").
* **12** – Ruby Wilson (68), American blues, soul and gospel singer, heart attack.
* **13** – Connie Crothers (75), American jazz pianist, cancer.
* **14** – James Woolley (49), American keyboard and synthesizer player (Nine Inch Nails, 2wo).
* **15** – Bobby Hutcherson (75), Jazz vibraphonist, emphysema.
* **19** – Horacio Salgán (100), Argentine tango musician.
* **20**
	+ Matt Roberts (38), American rock guitarist (3 Doors Down), drug overdose.
* **22**
	+ Toots Thielemans (94), Belgian jazz musician.
	+ Gilli Smyth (83), English musician (Gong).
* **28** – Juan Gabriel (66), Mexican singer and songwriter, heart attack.

### September

* **1**
	+ Fred Hellerman, (89), American folk singer (The Weavers), guitarist, producer and songwriter.
	+ Kacey Jones, (66), American singer-songwriter ("I'm the One Mama Warned You About"), producer and humorist, cancer.
* **2**
	+ Jerry Heller, (75), American music manager (N.W.A.).
	+ Gary D., (52), German trance producer and DJ, pulmonary embolism.
* **3**
	+ Fred McFarlane, (55), American songwriter ("Show Me Love", "Don't Wanna Go Home"), record producer and musician.
	+ Johnny Rebel, (77), American country singer.
* **7**
	+ Clifford Curry, (79), American beach music and R&B singer ("She Shot a Hole in My Soul").
	+ Farhang Sharif, (85), Iranian musician and tar player.
	+ Graham Wiggins, (53), American musician.
* **8** – Prince Buster, (78), Jamaican ska musician ("One Step Beyond", "Al Capone").
* **10** – Chris Stone, (81), American recording studio owner (Record Plant) and entrepreneur, heart attack and stroke.
* **12** – Hidayat Inayat Khan, (99), English-French composer and conductor.
* **16**
	+ Jerry Corbetta, (68), American musician (Sugarloaf), Pick's disease.
	+ Trisco Pearson, (53), American R&B singer (Force MDs), cancer.
	+ Qiao Renliang, (28), Chinese singer and actor, suicide.
* **19** – Bobby Breen, (88), Canadian-born American actor and singer, natural causes.
* **20** – Micki Marlo, (88), American singer and model.
* **21**
	+ Shawty Lo, (40), American hip-hop musician (D4L), traffic collision.
	+ John D. Loudermilk, (82), American singer and songwriter ("Tobacco Road", "Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye", "Indian Reservation"), bone cancer.
* **24** – Buckwheat Zydeco, (68), American accordionist and zydeco musician
* **25**
	+ Kashif, (59), American musician (B.T. Express) and record producer.
	+ Hagen Liebing, (55), German musician (Die Ärzte).
	+ Jean Shepard, (82), American honky tonk singer-songwriter ("A Dear John Letter", "Slippin' Away"), Parkinson's disease.
* **26**
	+ Joe Clay, (78), American rockabilly musician.
	+ Ioan Gyuri Pascu, (55), Romanian singer, producer, actor and comedian, heart attack.
* **27**
	+ Template:Interlanguage link multi, (46), Romanian folk singer, cancer.
	+ Template:Interlanguage link multi, (80), Swedish singer.
* **29**
	+ Lecresia Campbell (53), American gospel singer, pulmonary embolism.
	+ Nora Dean (72), Jamaican singer.
	+ Royal Torrence (82), American soul music singer (Little Royal and The Swingmasters).
* **30**
	+ Oscar Brand (96), Canadian-born American folk singer-songwriter, author and radio broadcaster (WNYC).
	+ Michael Casswell (53), English guitarist.
	+ Lilleba Lund Kvandal (76), Norwegian opera singer.

### October

* **1** – Toni Williams (77), Cook Islands-born New Zealand singer.
* **2**
	+ Steve Byrd (61), English guitarist (Gillan, Kim Wilde), heart attack.
	+ Sir Neville Marriner (92), English conductor and violinist
	+ Thomas Round (100), British opera singer.
* **3**
	+ Ljupka Dimitrovska, (70), Macedonian-born Croatian singer.
	+ K. David van Hoesen (90), American bassoonist.
	+ Joan Marie Johnson (72), American singer (The Dixie Cups), heart failure.
* **4** – Caroline Crawley (53), British singer and musician (Shelleyan Orphan, This Mortal Coil).
* **5** – Pompeiu Hărășteanu (81), Romanian opera singer.
* **7** – Anne Pashley (80), British athlete and opera singer, Olympic silver medalist (1956).
* **8** – Don Ciccone (70), American singer-songwriter and musician (The Critters, The Four Seasons, Tommy James and the Shondells).
* **9**
	+ Bored Nothing (26), Australian musician, suicide.
	+ Michiyuki Kawashima (47), Japanese musician (Boom Boom Satellites), brain tumor.
	+ Quique Lucca (103), Puerto Rican musician, founder of La Sonora Ponceña.
	+ Template:Interlanguage link multi, (82), Canadian jazz drummer.
	+ Template:Interlanguage link multi (71), Romanian jazz musician, cancer.
* **10** – Issa Bagayogo,= (54), Malian musician.
* **11** – Peter Reynolds, (58), Welsh composer.
* **12**
	+ Robert Bateman, (80), American songwriter and record producer ("Please Mr. Postman"), heart attack.
	+ Sonny Sanders (77), American songwriter, arranger and record producer.
* **15**
	+ Danny Champagne (65), Jamaican music producer, complications from stroke.
	+ Robert Edwards (74), American singer (The Intruders), heart attack.
* **20**
	+ Achieng Abura, Kenyan musician.
	+ Mieke Telkamp (82), Dutch singer.
* **23** – Pete Burns, (57), British singer (Dead or Alive)
* **24** – Bobby Vee (73) American pop singer who was a teen idol in the early 1960s
* **30** – Curly Putman, (85), American singer-songwriter. D-I-V-O-R-C-E, Green, Green Grass of Home and the subject of Paul McCartney & Wings song Junior's Farm.

### November

* **1**
	+ Nico Carstens (90), South African accordionist and songwriter
	+ Pocho La Pantera (65), Argentine cumbia singer
* **3** – Kay Starr (94), American pop and jazz singer, complications of Alzheimer's disease.
* **4**
	+ Eddie Harsch, 59, Canadian keyboardist (The Black Crowes)
	+ Jean-Jacques Perrey, 87, French electronic music producer
* **7** – Leonard Cohen (82), Canadian singer-songwriter
* **11**
	+ Victor Bailey (56), American jazz bass guitarist
	+ Esma Redžepova-Teodosievska, (73), Macedonian vocalist, songwriter, and humanitarian of Romani ethnicity.
* **12** – Jacques Werup (71), Swedish musician and writer.
* **13** – Leon Russell (74), American musician and songwriter
* **15**
	+ Holly Dunn (59), American country singer-songwriter
	+ Mose Allison (89), American pianist and singer.
* **18** – Sharon Jones (60), American soul and funk singer
* **24** – Pauline Oliveros (84), American composer
* **29** – Allan Zavod (71), Australian keyboardist and composer
* **30** – Ivar Thomassen (62), Norwegian folk singer, songwriter, and jazz pianist.

### December

* **2** – Mark Gray (64), American singer-songwriter (Exile)
* **4** – Ralph Johnson (67), American singer (The Impressions)
* **7** – Brian Bennett (65), American garage-rock keyboardist (The Cherry Slush)
* **8**
	+ Greg Lake (69), English progressive-rock vocalist and multi-instrumentalist
	+ Junaid Jamshed (52), Pakistani singer-songwriter (Vital Signs), flight collision
* **11** – Joe Ligon (80), American gospel singer (Mighty Clouds of Joy)
* **24** – Rick Parfitt (68), English musician and songwriter (Status Quo)
* **25** – George Michael (53), English singer-songwriter (Wham!)

## See also

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* Timeline of musical events
* Women in music

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56. ↑ Renowned soprano and longtime Tanglewood teacher Phyllis Curtain passes away at 94
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65. ↑ Amjad Sabri: Pakistani Sufi singer shot dead in Karachi | World news | The Guardian
66. ↑ NEKROLOG: En stor original i dansk musik er død (in Danish)
67. ↑ Dansk sangerinde er død af kræft Archived 2016-09-10 at the Wayback Machine (in Danish)
68. ↑ Blue Öyster Cult, The Clash Producer Sandy Pearlman Dead at 72: Report
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70. ↑ Musician, Geraldine native Pat Upton dies at 75
71. ↑ Finnish composer Rautavaara dies at 87
72. ↑ Ricci Martin Dies: Entertainer & Youngest Son Of Dean Martin Was 62
73. ↑ Famed opera singer Patrice Munsel, who left Spokane for Met fame, dies at 91
74. ↑ Snaffu Rigor, 69
75. ↑ Songwriter Richard Fagan Dead at 69
76. ↑ Aos 50 anos, morre o cantor Vander Lee, em Minas Gerais Archived 2016-08-10 at the Wayback Machine (in Portuguese)
77. ↑ Para compartir esta nota utiliza los íconos que aparecen en el sitio. (in Spanish)
78. ↑ B.E. Taylor, known for Christmas concerts, dies at 65
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81. ↑ Jimmy Levine Dies...
82. ↑ Singer Glenn Yarbrough dead at 86
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84. ↑ Connie Crothers, Jazz Pianist, Composer and Instructor, Dies at 75
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87. ↑ "Fred Hellerman, 89, the last of the Weavers". *Connecticut Post*. Retrieved 22 October 2016.
88. ↑ "Singer-Comedian Kacey Jones Dead at 66". *Rolling Stone*.
89. ↑ Jerry Heller, Early N.W.A Manager, Dies at 75
90. ↑ Techno-Szene trauert Hamburger DJ Gary D. ist tot (in German)
91. ↑ R.I.P. R&B superproducer and musician Fred McFarlane
92. ↑ Clifford Joseph Trahan Obituary
93. ↑ "R&B singer Clifford Curry dies at 79". *The Tennessean*.
94. ↑ استاد تار ایران درگذشت (in Persian)
95. ↑ Graham Wiggins, a.k.a. Dr. Didg, Passes Away
96. ↑ Prince Buster dead: Ska and rocksteady pioneer dies at 78
97. ↑ Christopher Stone, Dead at 81
98. ↑ Passing of Murshid Hidayat Inayat Khan (as) 12 September, 2016, Munich Germany
99. ↑ Jerry Corbetta, Lead Singer for Sugarloaf, Dies
100. ↑ Force MD's member Trisco Pearson has passed away
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103. ↑ Micki Marlo, Popular 1950s Singer and Nightclub Performer, Dies at 88
104. ↑ Atlanta rapper Shawty Lo killed in fiery crash
105. ↑ Nashville Songwriters Hall Of Fame Member John D. Loudermilk Dies At 82
106. ↑ Producer Kashif, Whitney Houston Collaborator and B.T. Express Member, Dead at 59
107. ↑ Ehemaliger Ärzte-Bassist Hagen Liebing ist tot (in German)
108. ↑ Country Music Hall of Famer Jean Shepard dead at 82
109. ↑ Joe Clay, a Gretna musician with a rockabilly sound, has died
110. ↑ Divertis actor Ioan Gyuri Pascu dies of heart attack in Bucharest. He was 55
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112. ↑ Dödsannons (in Swedish)
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114. ↑ Nora Dean dead at 72
115. ↑ Little Royal
116. ↑ Remembering WNYC Host Oscar Brand
117. ↑ Michael Casswell R.I.P
118. ↑ Nekrolog: Lilleba Lund Kvandal (in Norwegian)
119. ↑ Country crooner Toni Williams dies
120. ↑ Steve Byrd (1955–2016)
121. ↑ World class Gilbert and Sullivan tenor dies, aged 100
122. ↑ Preminula pevačica Ljupka Dimitrovska Kalogjera (in Bosnian)
123. ↑ Karl David Van Hoesen
124. ↑ Joan Marie Johnson Faust, founding member of The Dixie Cups, dies
125. ↑ R.I.P. Caroline Crawley
126. ↑ Basul Pompeiu Harasteanu a murit la varsta de 81 de ani (in Romanian)
127. ↑ Anne Pashley, Olympic athlete and opera singer – obituary
128. ↑ Obituary: Don Ciccone 1946 – 2016
129. ↑ Bored Nothing, Melbourne musician Fergus Miller, dies aged 26 after battle with depression
130. ↑ Boom Boom Satellites' Vocalist Michiyuki Kawashima Passes Away
131. ↑ Fallece el creador de La Sonora Ponceña Quique Lucca (in Spanish)
132. ↑ 'King of drums' Guy Nadon dies at 82
133. ↑ A murit cunoscutul muzician Marin Pechea Petrache (in Romanian)
134. ↑ Malian music in mourning: Techno Issa Issa Bagayogo said bows
135. ↑ Peter Reynolds 1958 – 2016 Archived 2016-11-29 at the Wayback Machine
136. ↑ Motown songwriter Robert Bateman dies at 80
137. ↑ R.I.P. legendary Chicago soul hitmaker Sonny Sanders
138. ↑ Producer Danny Champagne has died
139. ↑ Robert 'Big Sonny' Edwards of The Intruders Dies at 74.
140. ↑ Songstress Achieng Abura dies at Kenyatta National Hospital
141. ↑ Mieke Telkamp (82) overleden (in Dutch)
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