You can now subscribe to our newsletter to enjoy personalized deathpulse updates delivered to your inbox!
Looking to doomscroll? Check out all the death that came in 2025.
Louis Jordan
Wikidata: american jazz, blues and rhythm and blues musician, songwriter and bandleader (1908–1975).
Born July 8th, 1908 in Arkansas. [ref]
Died February 4th, 1975 at 66 years old in Los Angeles (myocardial infarction). [ref]
Occupations
actor, jazz musician, saxophonist, singer
Wikipedia
When we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings. Sogyal Rinpoche