1 – Al Aronowitz, American music journalist, 77 August 4 – Little Milton, blues musician, 70 August 6 Ibrahim Ferrer, Afro-Cuban singer, 78 Carlo Little, British studio musician, drummer, 67 August 13 – Arnold Cooke, British composer, 98 August 16 – Vassar Clements, fiddler, 77 August 21 – Robert Moog, electronic music pioneer, 71 August 22 – Luc Ferrari, composer, 76 August 26 – Denis D'Amour, guitarist of Voivod, 45 September–October September 1 R. L. Burnside, blues musician, 78 Barry Cowsill, member of The Cowsills (ruled to have drowned during Hurricane Katrina, date of death approximate), 50 September 10 – Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, blues musician, 81 September 15 Jeronimas Kačinskas, Lithuanian-born composer and conductor, 98 Sidney Luft, ex-husband of Judy Garland, father of Lorna Luft, and producer of A Star Is Born'', 89 September 17 – Alfred Reed, American composer of concert band music, 84 September 18 Joel Hirschhorn, American songwriter, 66 September 19 Willie Hutch, singer, songwriter and producer, 60 William Vacchiano, trumpet player, 93 October 1 – Paul Pena, singer, songwriter and guitarist, 55 October 2 – Hamilton Camp, singer, songwriter and actor, 70 October 10 – Nick Hawkins, guitarist (Big Audio Dynamite II), 40 October 12 – Baker Knight, songwriter and musician, 72 October 18 – Marshall Rohner, guitarist for T.S.O.L., The Cruzados, 42 October 20 – Shirley Horn, jazz singer and pianist, 71 October 22 – Franky Gee (Captain Jack), 43 (cerebral haemorrhage) October 31 – John "Beatz" Holohan, drummer for Bayside, 31 (road accident) November–December November 4 – Mana Nishiura, drummer (Shonen Knife, DMBQ), 34 (car accident) November 5 – Link Wray, rock and roll guitarist and singer, 76 November 6 – Minako Honda, Japanese singer, 38 (leukemia) November 10 – Gardner Read, American composer, 92 November 20 Fritz Richmond, jug and washtub bass musician, 66 Chris Whitley, singer-songwriter, 45 (lung cancer) November 26 Mark Craney, drummer (Jethro Tull, Jean-Luc Ponty), 53 Joe Jones, 79 November 28 – Tony Meehan, former drummer of The Shadows, 62 November 29 – Deon van der Walt, tenor, 47 (shot) December 8 – Danny Williams, singer, 63 December 9 – Mike Botts, drummer, 61 December 14 – Gordon Duncan, bagpiper and composer, 41 December 24 – Constance Keene, American pianist, 84 December 25 Derek Bailey, guitarist, 75 Birgit Nilsson, Swedish soprano, 87 Awards ARIA Music Awards of 2005 2005 BRIT Awards 2005 Country Music Association Awards Eurovision Song Contest