May 3 - Lloyd Brevett, 80, Jamaican musician, complications from a stroke.

I gave them some money to go make a record, which was unheard of since Jamaican musicians at that time had a bandit mentality.

Also it is reported that around the same time (1940) a solid body was created by Jamaican musician and inventor, Hedley Jones.

In the early 1970s they acted as a backing band to touring Jamaican musicians.

Buster Pearson, 71, Jamaican musician, father and manager of Five Star.

Jamaican musicians sometimes refer to the second and fourth beats as the "afterbeat".

Byron Lee, 73, Jamaican musician and record producer, bladder cancer.

Winston Riley, 65, Jamaican reggae musician and producer, complications of shooting.

October 25 - Gregory Isaacs, 59, Jamaican musician, lung cancer.

Jones continued to build guitars for other Jamaican musicians in the years that followed.