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January 3 –
Medeniyet Shahberdiyeva, Turkmen opera singer and music educator, 87 •
January 15 –
Sujud Sutrisno, 64, Indonesian street drummer and singer, 64 •
January 16 –
Shammi Akhtar, Bangladeshi playback singer, 60 (breast cancer) •
January 22 –
Ceylon Manohar, Indian actor and playback singer, 73 •
January 25 –
Sabar Koti, Indian singer, 58 •
January 31 –
Hwang Byungki, South Korean
gayageum player, 81 •
February 5 –
Jockie Soerjoprajogo, 63, Indonesian musician and songwriter •
March 1 –
Arabinda Muduli, 56, Indian musician and singer •
May 2 –
Vadim Mulerman, 79, Soviet singer •
May 4 –
Abi Ofarim, 80, Israeli singer and dancer •
May 6 •
Arun Date, 84, Indian singer •
Gurukrushna Goswami, 84, Indian lyricist •
May 16 –
Hideki Saijo, 63, Japanese singer (heart failure) •
July 30 –
Khayyam Mirzazade, 82, Azerbaijani composer and academic •
August 1 –
Umbayee, 66, Indian
ghazal singer (cancer) •
August 5 –
Ellen Joyce Loo, 32, Canadian-born Hong Kong singer (fall) •
September 19 –
Buren Bayaer, 58, Chinese singer and journalist (heart attack) •
October 2 –
Balabhaskar, 40, Indian violinist, composer and record producer (cardiac arrest) •
October 9 –
Nitin Bali, 47, Indian singer (traffic collision) •
October 13 –
Annapurna Devi, 91, Indian classical musician •
October 14 •
Aziza Niyozmetova, 46, Uzbekistani singer • , 57, Malaysian singer (traffic collision) •
October 16 –
Du Yuwei, 19, Chinese singer (suicide) •
October 18 –
Ayub Bachchu, 56, Bangladeshi singer-songwriter •
October 30 •
Rico J. Puno, 65, Filipino pop singer (heart failure) •
Yashwant Dev, 91, Indian poet and composer •
November 14 –
Masahiro Sayama, 64, Japanese pianist. •
November 22 –
Imrat Khan, 83, Indian sitar player •
November 27 –
Mohammed Aziz, 64, Indian playback singer (heart attack) •
December 22 – Indonesian musicians killed in the
Sunda Strait tsunami: •
Windu Andi Darmawan, drummer (
Seventeen). •
Muhammad Awal Purbani, bassist (
Seventeen). •
Herman Sikumbang, 36, guitarist (
Seventeen). == By country ==