R.I.P. Chester Bennington (Linkin Park) and Caleb Palmiter (The Jayhawks)

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You must have all heard that Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington committed suicide today (Thursday), just before 9am. Bennington was 41.

tmz.com broke the news, stated that it was suicide by hanging. This was only two months after his close friend Chris Cornell ... who also hung himself. Today (July 20th) would have been Cornell’s 53rd birthday.

ALSO! Jayhawks co-founder Caleb Palmiter is dead at the age of 53, according to startribune.com. Palmiter suffered heart failure after some years of poor health.

Below are more deaths for the month of July - for the full death list: Musicians who died in 2017.

July (34)

[20 Jul 2017] Chester Bennington (American singer for Linkin Park), 41, suicide

[20 Jul 2017] Caleb Palmiter (American guitarist for Jayhawks), 53, heart failure

[19 Jul 2017] María Amuchástegui (Argentine television fitness presenter and singer), 64, stroke and lung cancer

[19 Jul 2017] Blaoui Houari (Algerian singer), 91

[19 Jul 2017] Fenwick Smith (American flutist for Boston Symphony Orchestra), 69

[19 Jul 2017] Graham Wood (Australian jazz pianist), 45, bile duct cancer

[17 Jul 2017] Peter Principle (bassist for Tuxedomoon), 63, heart attack

[16 Jul 2017] Roland Cazimero (American guitarist for The Brothers Cazimero), 66

[16 Jul 2017] Thor Lindsay (American record producer Tim/Kerr), 59

[16 Jul 2017] George Romero (American-Canadian film director and screenwriter, directed Night of the Living Dead), 77, lung cancer

[16 Jul 2017] Wilfried (Austrian singer), 67

[14 Jul 2017] Dave Z (American bass player from Adrenaline Mob and Trans-Siberian Orchestra), car accident

[14 Jul 2017] Mahi Beamer (American singer), 88

[14 Jul 2017] Clara (Cuqui) Nicola (Cuban guitarist), 90-91, cardiorespiratory arrest

[14 Jul 2017] Mahi Beamer (American singer), 88

[13 Jul 2017] Fresh Kid Ice (American rapper from 2 Live Crew), 53

[13 Jul 2017] Egil Kapstad (Norwegian jazz pianist, arranger and composer), 76

[12 Jul 2017] Ray Phiri (South African jazz musician), 70, lung cancer

[11 Jul 2017] Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini (Italian organist, harpsichordist, musicologist and composer), 78

[09 Jul 2017] Paquita Rico (Spanish singer and actress), 87

[08 Jul 2017] Seiji Yokoyama (Japanese composer for Space Pirate Captain Harlock), 82, pneumonia

[07 Jul 2017] Pedro Aunion (Spanish acrobatic at Mad Cool Festival), 42, fall

[07 Jul 2017] Claude Hall (American journalist and writer for Billboard)

[07 Jul 2017] Egil Monn-Iversen (Norwegian composer and pianist), 89

[06 Jul 2017] Melvyn "Deacon" Jones (American blues musician), 73

[05 Jul 2017] Pierre Henry (French composer), 89

[05 Jul 2017] Nic Ritter (American drummer for Warbringer), 37, loudwire.com

[04 Jul 2017] John Blackwell (American funk and jazz drummer for Prince), 43, brain tumor

[04 Jul 2017] David Yewdall (American sound editor for The Thing, Escape from New York), 66, pancreatic cancer

[04 Jul 2017] Jay Morgenstern (American music publisher), 87

[03 Jul 2017] Rudy Rotta (Italian blues guitarist and singer), 66

[03 Jul 2017] Zdeněk Juračka (Czech guitarist), 70

[02 Jul 2017] Chris Roberts (German singer and actor), 73, cancer

[01 Jul 2017] Karunamaya Goswami (Bangladeshi musicologist), 74

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