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Names of deceased reggae artists A - B

* Augustus Pablo - Died May 18, 1999. (Myasthenia Gravis)
* Alton Black - Died in auto crash early 1990s.
* Alton Ellis - Died on 10 October 2008. (Cancer)
* Alton Irie - Additional information requested.
* Alvin "Seeco" Patterson - (born:Francisco Aloysius Willie, percussionist BM and the Wailers ) - 1 November 2021.
* Aubrey Adams - Additional information requested.
* Baba Brooks - (Oswald F. Brooks)- Additional information requested.
* Baby Wayne - (Wayne Parkinson) - Died October 28th 2005.(Pneumonia)
* Barry Brown - Died in May 2004. (Heart Attack)
* Banana Man - Additional information requested.
* Billy Boyo - (Rumor stated that he was shot dead. Recently reported: died from a brain tumor in 2000)
* Bim Sherman - (Jarrett Tomlinson) - Died November 17th 2000. (Cancer)
* Bingy Bunny - (Eric Lamont) - Died December 31, 1993. (Cancer)
* Bionic Steve - (Steve Townsend) - Died on Jan. 17, 1997. (Stabbed)
* Bob Marley - (Robert Nesta Marley)- Died May 11th 1981. (Cancer)
* Bogle Levy - (Gerald Levy) - Died January 20th, 2005. (fatally Shot)
* Brent Dowe - (the Melodians) - Died January 29, 2006. (Heart Attack)
* Bunny Wailer - (Neville O'Riley Livingston, the Wailers) - Died 2 March 2021. (stroke)
* Byron Lee - (Byron Lee and the Dragonnaires) - Died November 4, 2008. (Cancer)



Names of deceased reggae artists C - D

* Carl Ayton - Died December, 23rd 2001.(stroke)
* Carlton Barrett - Died in 1987.(shot)
* Charlie Ace - Died in 1980's. (Shot)
* Cherry Smith - (Ermine Ortense Bramwell, original Wailers) - Died 24 September 2008.
* Chris Stanley - Died 23rd October 1999.(Stroke)
* Clancy Eccles - Died on June 30, 2005. (Stroke)
* Clint O'Neil - Died Oct. 10th 2004. (Cancer)
* Count Machouki - (Winston Cooper) - Died 1995. (more information requested)
* Count Ossie - (Oswald Williams) - Died October 18th 1976. (Car Crash)
* Cynthia Schloss - (Cynthia Schloss-Blake) - Died February 25th 1999. (Heart Attack)
* Culture (joseph Hill) - Died August 19 2006. (more information requested)
* David "Black Rat" Bingham - Died July 20,2002. (shot)
* Deborah Glasgowe - Died January 25th 1994. (Cancer)
* Delroy Wilson - Died on March 6, 1995. (cirrhosis of the liver)
* Dennis Brown - (Dennis Emmanuel Brown) - Died on July 1, 1999. (respiratory failure)
* Dennis Harris (DIP Records UK) - Died 1990's. (heart attack) more information requested.
* Desmond Dekker - (Desmond Adolphus Dacres) - Died May 24, 2006. (Heart attack)
* Devon Russell - Died 18th June 1997. (Cancer)
* Dhaima - (Sandra Matthews) - Died May 9th 2000. (Drown)
* Dirtsman - (Patrick Thompson) - Died Dec 21, 1993. (shot)
* DJ Village - (Horace Pinnock) - Died November 20th 2001. (Shot)
* Don Drummond - Died May 6th 1969. (Natural causes)
* Don Taylor - Died Novenber 1st, 1999.(Heart attack)
* Drumbago - (Arkland Parks) - Died 1970's. (Natura1 causes) more information requested.
* Duke Reid - (Arthur Reid) - Died in 1975. (Cancer)
* Dwayne Haughton - (Bobby Genius) - Died in 2011 (shot)



Names of deceased reggae artists E - F

* Earl Belcher - (Founder of Jah Love Music Sound System) Died June 11th 1999. (stroke)
* Early B - (Earlando Neil) - The Doctor, Died September 11th 1994. (shot)
* Earl Wilberforce "Wire" Lindo - (member of BM and the Wailers) - Died 4 September 2017. (abdominal complications)
* Eddie Lovette - Died May 1998. (more information requested)
* Eggie Evans - (Egbert Evans) - Died July 2, 2009. (Heart Attack)
* Errol Scorcher - (Errol Archer) - Died in 1982. (shot)
* Errol "ET" Thompson - Died in 1983.(more information requested)
* Everton DaSilva - Died in 1979. (shot)
* Fathead - (Vernon Rainford) - (more information requested)
* Freddie McKay - Died in 1987. (Heart attack)
* Frederick Nathaniel "Toots" Hibbert - (Toots and the Maytals, inventor word 'reggae') - Died Sep 11, 2020. (covid)
* Free I - (Jeff Dixon) - Died Sep 11, 1987. (Shot)
* Fuzzy Jones - (Alty Salmon) - (more information requested)



deceased reggae artists G - H

* Garnett Silk - (Garnett Smith) - Died on Dec. 10, 1994. (Killed by Fire)
* Gene Rondo - (Winston Lara) - Died in 1994. (Heart attack)
* Gregory Anthony Issacs - Died in 2010. (lung cancer)
* General Echo - (Errol Robinson) - Died November 22nd 1980.(shot)
* Gladstone Anderson - (Gladdy, renowned musician keys) Died 3 December 2015.
* Gregory Isaacs - (Cool Ruler) - Died 25 October 2010. (cancer)
* Gregory Peck - (Gregory Williams) - more information requested.
* Gurney Man - (Thomas Heath) - Died in May 2001. (more info requested)
* Hortense Ellis - Died October 18, 2000. (Respiratory complications)
* Hugh Mundell - more information requested.
* I-Roy - (Roy Reid) - Died Nov 30, 1999. (Heart attack)
* Jack Ruby - (Lawrence Lindo) - Died in 1989. (Heart attack)
* Jackie Edwards - Died August 15th 1992. (Heart attack)
* Jackie Mittoo - Died December 16, 1990. (Cancer)
* Jackie Opel - (Dalton Sinclair-Bishop) - (Car crash) more information requested.
* Jacob Miller - aka 'Killer Miller' - Died March. 23, 1980. (Car crash. With son who died too) * Jah Jerry - (Jerome Hines/Haynes) - Died August 13, 2007. (more information requested)
* Jah Stitch - (Melbourne James) - Died 28 April 2019.
* Jah Lloyd - (Pat Francis) - Died in 1999. (Shot)
* Jennifer Lara - Died June 11, 2005. (Brain hemorrhage)
* Joe Gibbs - (Joel A. Gibson) - Died 21st February 2008. (Heart attack)
* Joe Higgs - Died December 18, 1999. (Heart attack)
* John Jones - Died October 23, 2000.(Heart attack)
* Johnny 'Dizzy' Moore - (John Arlington 'Dizzy' Moore) -Died August 16 2008. (Cancer)
* Judge Dread - (Alex Hughes) - Died in 1994. (Heart attack)
* Jungo Lawes - (Henry Lawes) - Died June 13th 1999.(Shot)-(Founder of the Volcano label)
* Junior Braithwaite - (the Wailers) - Died June 2, 1999. (Shot)
* Junior Delgado - (Oscar Hibbert) - Died on April 10, 2005.(Natural Causes)
* Justin Hinds - Died March 16th 2005.(Cancer)
* Justin Yap - Died December 1999. (Natural Causes)



deceased reggae artists K - N

* Keith Hudson - Died in 1984.(Cancer)
* Ken Khouri - (Kenneth Khouri) - Died Sept. 20th, 2003. (Natural Causes)
* King Tubby - (Osbourne Ruddock) - Died in 1989. (Shot)
* Lacksley Castell - more information requested.
* Lee Copthall - Died May 29th 1997. (more informationn requested)
* Lee Van Cliff - more information requested.
* Lee "Scratch" Perry ( Rainford Hugh Perry) - died 29 August 2021. (unspecified illness)
* Lennie Hibbert - Died mid 1980's. (more information requested)
* Leslie Kong - (Chinese-Jamaican reggae producer) 9 August 1971 (Heart attack)
* Lloyd Campbell - (Blues Busters) - Died January 1992.
* Louise Fraser-Bennett - Died Oct. 12th 2003.
* Lucky Dube - (Ermelo Dube) - Died October 18, 2007. (Shot)
* Lui Lepke - more information requested.
* Lynford "Hux" Brown - (Toots and the Maytals) - Died 18 June 2020. (Shot)
* Major Worries - Died in 1987. (Shot)
* Margurita - Died Jan 2, 1965. (murdered by Don Drummond)- (Stabbed)
* Mao Chung - (Geoffery Chung) - Died November 1995. (kidney failure)
* Michael Smith - Died in 1980. (Stoned to Death)
* Michael Leopold Williams - (Zap Pow) - Died August 9, 2005. (natural causes)
* Mikey Dread - (Michael George Campbell) - Died March 15, 2008.(Cancer)
* Mickey Simpson - more information requested.
* Mikey Wallace - Died July 6, 1999. (Shot)
* Nicky Thomas - more information requested.
* Nicodemus - (Cecil Wellington) - Died Aug 26, 1996.(Natural Causes)
* Nitty Gritty - Died in 1991. (shot)



deceased reggae artists O - R

* Oneil Edwards- Died May 26, 2010. (shot)
* Oral Desulme - Died July 11, 2002. (shot)
* Pablo Stewart - (Paul Stewart) - Died July 2002. (Cancer)
* Pan Head - October, 1993. (Shot)
* Papa Pilgrim - Died Oct. 5th 2003. (Stroke)
* Paul Tyrell - Died Febuary. 24th 2004. (Shot)
* Peter Tosh - (Peter McIntosh) - Died Sep 11, 1987. (Shot)
* Phillip James - (Blues Busters) - Died in New York 1989. more information requested.
* Phillip Linton - Died March 4, 2004. (Shot)
* Phyllis Dillon - Died April 15th 2004. (Cancer)
* Pops Laing - Denzil (Keith) Laing - Died August 4th, 1989.
* Prince Far I - Died September 15, 1983. (Shot)
* Prince -Croaking Lizard- Jazzbo - (Linval Roy Carter) - Died 11 September 2013. (cancer) On my homepage > NOMAD
* Puma Jones - (Sandra Jones) - Died Jan 28, 1990. (Cancer)
* Raleigh Gordon - (the Maytals) - Died Dec 1994.
* Ras Pidow - Died March 2001.
* Robbie Shakespeare (Robert Warren Dale Shakespeare) died 8 December 2021. (medical complications)
* Roland Alphonso - Died November 20, 1998. (medical complications)
* Roman Stewart - Died 25 January 2004. (Heart attack)
* Roy Shirley - (Ainsworth Roy Rushton) - Died July 17, 2008.
* Ruddy Thomas - Died June 10, 2006. (Heart attack)



deceased reggae artists S - T

* Sidney Wolfe - Died in 1998. (more information requested)
* Simpleton - (Christopher Harrison) - Died November 14th 2004.
* Sir Coxone Dodd - (Clement Dodd) - Died May 4th 2004. (Heart attack)
* Sonia Pottinger - Died in 2010 (Alzheimer's disease)
* Sir J.J. - (Carl Johnson) - Died in 1971. (Shot)
* Slim Smith - (Keith Smith) - Died in 1972. (suicide)
* Stephen Taylor - (the Ethiopians) - Died in 1975. (Car crash)
* Sugar Minott - Died 10 July 2010. (Heart complications)
* Tabby Diamond -(Donald Orlando Shaw) - March 29th 2022 ( drive-by shooting)
* Tennessee Brown - (Clinton Brown) - Died March 1999. (Heart attack)
* Tenor Saw - (Clive Bright) - Died August 1988. (killed by a speeding car in Houston)
* Theophilus Beckford - Died February 19, 2001. (Chopped)
* Tommy McCook - Died May 4, 1998. (Heart attack)
* Toyan - more information requested.
* Trevor Sparks - Died March 25 2004. (Stroke)
* Tyrone Evans - (the Paragons) - Died October 19, 2000. (more information requested)
* Tyrone Taylor - Died December 1, 2007. (Cancer)



deceased reggae artists U - W

* U-Roy - (Ewart Beckford) - 17 February 2021. (medical complications)
* Victor Cross - Died September 2000. (Car crash)
* William A.A. "Bunny Rugs" Clark, OD - (singer early Third World) - Died 2 February 2014. (cancer)
* Winston Grennan - Died October 27th 2000. (Cancer)
* Winston Wright - (famous Hammond organ) - Died March 18,1993. (Heart attack)
* Yabby You - Died March 2010. (stroke)