Editing 1995 in music (section)

== Deaths ==
*[[January 1]] – [[Ted Hawkins]], soul blues singer-songwriter, 58
*[[January 24]] – [[David Cole (record producer)|David Cole]], producer ([[C+C Music Factory]]), 32
*[[January 31]] – [[George Abbott]] US librettist and director, 107
*[[February 6]] – [[Art Taylor]], jazz drummer, 65
*[[February 12]] – [[Tony Secunda]], [[Marc Bolan]]'s former manager, 54 (heart attack)
*[[February 18]]
**[[Bob Stinson]], guitarist ([[The Replacements (band)|The Replacements]]), 35 (complications caused by drug and alcohol abuse)
**[[Denny Cordell]], English record producer, 51
*[[February 23]] – [[Melvin Franklin]], [[The Temptations]], 52 (brain seizure)
*[[March 5]] – [[Vivian Stanshall]], eccentric British musician, 51 (house fire)
*[[March 9]] – [[Ingo Schwichtenberg]], [[Helloween]], 29 (suicide)
*[[March 16]] – [[Heinrich Sutermeister]], Swiss composer, 84
*[[March 17]] – [[Sunnyland Slim]], blues pianist, 88
*[[March 26]] – [[Eazy-E]], rapper ([[N.W.A.]]) and co-founder of [[Ruthless Records]], 31 (AIDS)
*[[March 28]] – [[Mogens Ellegaard]], accordionist, 60
*[[March 29]]
**[[Jimmy McShane]], singer ([[Baltimora]]) (AIDS)
**[[List of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds members|Roland Wolf]], keyboardist ([[Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds]], [[Einstürzende Neubauten]]), 29 or 30 (car accident)
*[[March 30]] – [[Paul A. Rothchild]], American record producer, 59
*[[March 31]] – [[Selena]], singer, 23 (murdered)
*[[April 4]] – [[Priscilla Lane]], US singer and actress, 79 (lung cancer)
*[[April 6]] – [[Delroy Wilson]], reggae artist, 46 (cirrhosis of the liver)
*[[April 14]] – [[Burl Ives]], singer and actor, 85
*[[April 25]] – [[Ginger Rogers]], US actress, dancer and singer, 83
*[[May 6]] – [[Barbarito Diez]], Cuban singer and bandleader, 85
*[[May 8]] – [[Teresa Teng]], singer, 42
*[[May 16]] – [[Lola Flores]], Spanish singer and dancer, 72
*[[May 25]] – [[Dick Curless]], country singer. 63
*[[June 4]] – [[Ernest Bornemann]], jazz musician and critic, 80
*[[June 12]] – [[Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli]] pianist, 75
*[[June 14]] – [[Rory Gallagher]], Irish blues/rock guitarist, 47 (complications from liver transplant)
*[[June 30]]
**[[Phyllis Hyman]], R&B, soul and jazz singer, 45 (suicide by overdose of barbiturates)
**[[Nazariy Yaremchuk]], Ukrainian singer, 43
*[[July 1]] – [[Wolfman Jack]], disc jockey, 57<ref>{{cite news|work=[[The New York Times]]|title=Wolfman Jack, Raspy Voice Of the Radio, Is Dead at 57|first=David M.|last=Herszenhorn|date=July 2, 1995|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/02/obituaries/wolfman-jack-raspy-voice-of-the-radio-is-dead-at-57.html}}</ref>
*[[July 2]] – [[Zdeněk Košler]], conductor, 67
*[[July 8]] – [[Günter Bialas]], composer, 87
*[[July 23]] – [[Miklós Rózsa]], film score composer, 88
*[[July 25]] – [[Charlie Rich]], country singer and musician, 62
*[[July 28]] – [[Eddie Hinton]], songwriter and session musician, 51
*[[August 9]] – [[Jerry Garcia]], [[Grateful Dead]], 53 (diabetes-related)
*[[August 11]]
**Allan McCarthy, Canadian singer of [[Men Without Hats]], 38
**[[Herbert Sumsion]], English church musician, 96
*[[August 16]] – [[Bobby DeBarge]], lead singer of [[Switch (band)|Switch]], 39 (AIDS)
*[[August 18]] – [[Alan Dell]] [[BBC Radio 2]] disc jockey, 71
*[[August 19]]
**[[John Gilmore (musician)|John Gilmore]], jazz saxophonist, 63
**[[Pierre Schaeffer]], composer and pioneer of [[Musique concrète]], 85
*[[August 23]] – [[Dwayne Goettel]], industrial keyboard player ([[Skinny Puppy]]), 31 (drug overdose)
*[[August 26]] – [[Ronnie White]], [[the Miracles]], co-writer of [[the Temptations]] hit "My Girl" (with [[Smokey Robinson]]), 57 [[leukemia]].
*[[August 30]] – [[Sterling Morrison]], [[The Velvet Underground]] guitarist, 53 (Non-Hodgkin [[lymphoma]])
*[[September 5]] 
** [[Salil Chowdhury]], Indian film composer and poet, 71
** [[Benyamin Sueb]], Indonesian actor, comedian and singer, 56 (heart attack)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tokohindonesia.com/biografi/article/285-ensiklopedi/60-seniman-betawi-serba-bisa |title=Seniman Betawi Serba Bisa |access-date=October 2, 2011 |work=tokohindonesia.com |archive-date=February 4, 2013 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130204235203/http://www.tokohindonesia.com/biografi/article/285-ensiklopedi/60-seniman-betawi-serba-bisa |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*[[September 27]] – [[Alison Steele]], American disc jockey, 58
*[[October 19]] – [[Don Cherry (jazz)|Don Cherry]], jazz trumpeter, 58 (liver cancer)<ref>{{cite web | last=Olsher | first=Dean | url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-28472712.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105200708/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-28472712.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=2013-11-05 | title=The Jazz World Remembers Trumpeter Don Cherry | work=[[All Things Considered]] | publisher=[[NPR]] | date=1995-10-20 | access-date=2012-09-28|via=[[HighBeam Research]]}}</ref>
*[[October 21]]
**Maxene Andrews, singer, member of [[The Andrews Sisters]], 79
**[[Shannon Hoon]], lead singer of group [[Blind Melon]], 28 (drug overdose)
**[[Hans Helfritz]], German composer, 93
*[[October 26]] – [[Gorni Kramer]], Italian bandleader and songwriter, 82
*[[October 31]]
**[[Alan Bush]], composer, pianist and conductor, 94
**[[Erika Morini]], violinist, 91
*[[November 2]] – [[Florence Greenberg]], music executive and producer, 82
*[[November 3]] – [[Isang Yun]] (Yun I-sang), composer, 78
*[[November 7]] – Jerry Daniels, [[The Ink Spots]], 79
*[[November 8]] – [[Ion Baciu]], conductor, 64
*[[November 17]] – [[Alan Hull]], singer-songwriter and founder of Lindisfarne, 50 (heart thrombosis)
*[[November 21]]
**[[Peter Grant (music manager)|Peter Grant]], manager of [[The Yardbirds]], [[Led Zeppelin]], [[Bad Company]], 60 (myocardial infarction)
**[[Matthew Ashman]], guitarist of [[Adam and the Ants]], [[Bow Wow Wow]], 35
*[[November 23]] – [[Junior Walker]], R&B and soul musician, 64
*[[November 26]] – [[David Briggs (producer)|David Briggs]], record producer, 51
*[[December 10]] – [[Darren Robinson (rapper)|Darren Robinson]], rapper ([[The Fat Boys]]), 28
*[[December 25]]
**[[Dean Martin]], singer and actor, 78 (cancer)
**[[Nicolas Slonimsky]], Russian-born conductor and composer, 101
*[[December 27]] – [[Shura Cherkassky]], American classical pianist, 86
*[[December 29]] – [[Hans Henkemans]] Dutch composer, 82