Deaths 2022

Deaths 2021

Deaths 2020

Deaths 2019

Deaths 2018

Deaths 2017

Deaths 2016

Deaths 2015

Deaths 2014

Deaths 2013

Deaths 2012

Deaths 2011

Deaths 2010

Deaths 2009


Full list by date of death

Dick Dale

Musician/actor

Born - 4 May 1937, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Died - 16 March 2019

Dark, lean musician, an accomplished, feverishly fast guitarist who, often with his band, The Deltones, appeared in several of the 'Beach' movies of the early 1960s, and became known as the 'King of Surf Guitar'. After impersonating Elvis Presley in Let's Make Love (1960), he was seen in Beach Party (1963), A Swingin' Affair (1963), Muscle Beach Party (1964), Locked In! (1964), Back to the Beach (1987), The Treasure (1990), An American Vampire Story (1997), Local Boys (2002) and Hollywood's Magical Island: Catalina (2003), his last.