Update July 9, Ralph Lundsten added to the sad list.
Electronic Musicians and Electronic Music fans lost too many of their favorite pioneers and musicians. Therefore we created this page as a memorial to these great musicians, whom without we never would have joyed Electronic Music.
Help us with this list….
We would like to make this list as complete as possible. If you could help us add names of artists and pioneers we lost in the past years, please let us know. Preferrably with dates of birth and death. We will then try to make this list as complete as possible.
2023

Ralph Lundsten
October 6, 1936 – July 5, 2023

Ryuichi Sakamoto
January 17, 1952 – March 28, 2023

Yukihiro Takahashi
Yellow Magic Orchestra drummer, vocalist
June 6, 1952 – January 14, 2023
2022

Eduard Nikolayevich Artemyev
Edward Artemiev
November 30, 1937 – December 29, 2022

Manuel Göttsching
9 september 1952 – 4 december 2022

Herbert Arnold Deutsch
Herb Deutsch
February 9, 1932 – December 9, 2022

Mark Shreeve
June 2, 1957 – August 31, 2022

Don Lewis
March 26, 1941 – November 6, 2022

Andrew Fletcher
July 8, 1961 – May 26, 2022

Dave Smith
April 2, 1950 – May 31, 2022

Klaus Schulze
August 4, 1947 – April 26, 2022

Evanghelos Odysseas Papathanasiou
Vangelis
March 29, 1943 – May 17, 2022

Toshi Ichiyanagi
February 4, 1933 – October 7 – 2022

Peter Frohmader
May 9, 1958 – May 2, 2022

Steve Smith
??, 1953 -December 22, 2022

Rob Hordijk
?? – September 6, 2022

Thomas Fanger
May 16, 1962 – March 2, 2022
2021

Tony Sawford
?? – December 2021

Chick Corea
June 12, 1941 – February 2, 2021

Peter Zinovieff
January 1, 1933 – June 23, 2021

Richard Harold Kirk
March 21, 1956 – September 21, 2021

Manfred Fricke
?? – June 17, 2021
2020

Chris Hugget
1949 – October 22, 2020

Florian Schneider-Esleben
April 7, 1947 – April 21, 2020
2019

Alan R. Pearlman
June 7, 1925 – January 5, 2019

Gert van Santen
?? – March 21, 2019

Ingo Bischof
January 2, 1951 – January 26, 2019
2018
2017

Holger Schüring
Holger Czukay
March 24, 1938 – September 5, 2017

Klaus Hoffman (-Hoock)
Cosmic Hoffman
January 30, 1951 – October 14, 2017
2016

Keith Noël Emerson
November 2, 1944 – March 10, 2016

Don Buchla
April 17, 1937 – September 14, 2016

Isao Tomita
April 22, 1932 – May 5, 2016
2015

Edgar Froese
June 6, 1944 – January 20, 2015

Dieter Moebius
January 16, 1944 – July 20, 2015

Patrick Wille – de Wael
Patrick Kosmos
July 15, 1959 – February 2, 2015

Rainer Bloß
??, 1946 – December 10, 2015
2014
2013
2012

Peter Kuhlman
Pete Namlook
November 25, 1960 – November 8, 2012
2011

Bob de Jong
?? – December 7, 2011

David Vickeman Bedford
August 4, 1937 – October 1, 2011
2010
2009
2008

Klaus Dinger
March 24, 1946 – March 21, 2008
2007
2006

Richard Burmer
September 19, 1955 – September 9, 2006
2005

Robert Arthur Moog
May 23, 1934 – August 21, 2005
2004

Michael Garrison
November 28, 1956 – March 24, 2004

Neil Richard Ardley
May 26, 1937 – February 2, 2004

Daphne Oram
?? – ?, 2003
2003
2002

Thomas Dinger
October 28, 1952 – April 9, 2002

Peter Bardens
June 19, 1944 – January 22, 2002
2001

Florian Fricke
February 23, 1944 – December 29, 2001
2000

Rüdiger Lorenz
September 1, 1941 – January 31, 2000
Before 2000

Tim Souster
January 29, 1943 – March 1, 1994

Bob Stohl
1955 – March 1990

Walter Bachauer
?, 1942 – ? February, 1989

Paul Henry Beaver jr.
August 14, 1925 – January 16, 1975
Dates to be completed

Ivo Keers
??-??