Editing 1968 in music (section)

==Deaths==
*[[January 18]] – [[Gribouille]], French chanteuse, 26 (alcohol and drug-related)
*[[February 5]] – [[Luckey Roberts]], ragtime composer and pianist, 80
*[[February 13]]
**[[Ildebrando Pizzetti]], composer, 87
**[[Portia White]], contralto singer, 56
*[[February 15]] – [[Little Walter]], blues singer and harmonica player, 37
*[[February 27]] – [[Frankie Lymon]], American doo-wop singer, 25 (heroin overdose)
*[[February 28]] – [[Doretta Morrow]], dancer, 40 (cancer)
*[[March 6]] – [[Iša Krejčí]], composer and conductor, 63
*[[March 10]] – [[Blind Joe Reynolds]], blues singer-songwriter
*[[March 16]] – [[Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco]], composer, 72
*[[April 15]] – [[Borys Lyatoshynsky]], composer, 73
*[[April 25]] – [[Harald Kreutzberg]], dancer and choreographer, 65
*[[May 15]] – [[Florence Austral]], operatic soprano, 76
*[[May 19]] – [[Coleman Hawkins]], jazz tenor saxophonist, 64
*[[May 24]] – [[Bernard Rogers]], composer, 75
*[[May 26]] – [[Little Willie John]], R&B singer, 30 (heart attack in prison)
*[[June 2]] – [[André Mathieu]], pianist and composer, 39
*[[June 8]] – [[Bumble Bee Slim]], Piedmont blues musician, 63
*[[June 14]] – [[Karl-Birger Blomdahl]], composer and conductor, 51
*[[June 15]] – [[Wes Montgomery]], jazz guitarist, 45 (heart attack)
*[[June 26]] – [[Ziggy Elman]], US trumpet player, 54
*[[July 21]] – [[Ruth St. Denis]], dancer, 89
*[[July 27]] – [[Lilian Harvey]], actress and singer, 62
*[[July 28]] – [[Carl Ravazza]], US violinist, vocalist and bandleader, 58
*[[July 30]] – [[Jón Leifs]], composer, 69
*[[August 5]] – [[Luther Perkins]], guitarist of The Tennessee Two, 40 (burns and smoke inhalation following a house fire)
*[[August 15]] – [[Luis Gianneo]], Argentine composer, pianist and conductor, 71
*[[August 18]] – [[Arthur Marshall (ragtime composer)|Arthur Marshall]], ragtime composer, 86
*[[September 19]] – [[Red Foley]], country singer, 58
*[[October 8]] – [[Frank Skinner (composer)|Frank Skinner]], film composer, 70
*[[October 15]] – [[Franz Reizenstein]], pianist and composer, 57
*[[October 20]] – [[Bud Flanagan]], music hall star, 72
*[[October 30]] – [[Pops Foster]], jazz musician, 77
*[[November 6]] – [[Charles Munch (conductor)|Charles Munch]], French conductor, 77 (heart attack)
*[[November 8]] – [[Kokomo Arnold]], American blues musician, 67
*[[November 9]] – [[Jan Johansson (jazz musician)|Jan Johansson]], Swedish jazz pianist, 37 (car crash)
*[[November 11]] – [[Jeanne Demessieux]], French organist, pianist and composer, 47 (embolism)<ref>{{cite book|first=Don Michael|last=Randel|author-link=Don Michael Randel|title=The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music|location=Cambridge|publisher=Harvard University Press|year=1996|page=209|isbn=978-0-67437-299-3}}</ref>
*[[November 27]] – [[Hans Redlich]], Austrian composer and musicologist, 65
*[[December 1]] – [[Nicolae Bretan]], composer, 81
*[[December 9]] – [[Percy Greenbank]], lyricist, 90
*[[December 14]] – [[Margarete Klose]], operatic mezzo-soprano, 69
*[[December 19]] – [[Tiberiu Brediceanu]], composer, 91
*[[December 31]] – [[Sabin Drăgoi]], composer, 74
*''date unknown''
**[[Juan F. Acosta]], composer and music teacher
**[[Lucille Dompierre]], pianist and arranger
**[[Billy Pigg]], bagpiper
**[[Vincenzo Scaramuzza]], pianist