Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and the Big Bopper. Though many think it really more about Buddy Holly, the album, American Pie, was dedicated to him.
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Jimi Hendrix
GOOD music to most older people arguably died at the turn of the century
classic music such as drum music.
Ritchie Valens died in a tragic plane crash on February 3rd, 1959. It is known as "the day the music died," and fellow musicians Buddy Holly and The Big Bopper were also in the plane at the time.
Alan Mills - music - died in 1977.