June
• Big Pokey (Milton Powell) - Houston-born rapper; suffered heart attack while performing on stage; 48
• Blackie Onassis (John Rowan) - Illinois-born drummer with Urge Overkill; 59
• Astrud Gilberto - Brazilian singer who helped popularize bossa nova worldwide with songs like "The Girl from Ipanema" (No. 5, 1964); 83
• Jack Lee - L.A. based singer-songwriter who wrote Blondie's "Hanging on the Telephone" (1978) and co-founded the Nerves; cancer; 71
• Phillipe Marcade - New York-based frontman of The Senders; pancreatic cancer; 68
• Tony McPhee - frontman of British band, The Groundhogs; 79
• William Lee Rauch - drummer with Megadeath and several other metal bands; 58
• Ryan Siew - guitarist with Australian metal band Polaris;
• Gerald Sims - Chicago-based session guitarist noted for his session work at Chess Records; 83
• Choi Sung-bong (Sungbong Choi) - South Korean pop singer; suicide; 33
• Teresa Nervosa (nee Taylor) - Texas-born drummer with Buttholes Surfers; also appeared in Slacker; lung disease; 60
• Cynthia Weil - New York-born songwriter who teamed up with Barry Mann on such hits as "You've Lost That Loving Feeling," "On Broadway," "Walking in the Rain" and "Blame It on the Bossa Nova"; 82
• George Winston - Grammy-winning Michigan-born pianist associated with New Age music; cancer; 74
