Paul Kantner RIIP

The Deaths in 2016 site lists under January 28:

• Paul Kantner, 74, American musician (Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, KBC Band), multiple organ failure

• Paul Lorin Kantner (March 17, 1941 – January 28, 2016)   

• After their debut LP was completed in March 1966, Skip Spence quit the band and he was eventually replaced by Spencer Dryden, who played his first show with the Airplane at the Berkeley Folk Festival on July 4, 1966. 

• The origin of the group's name is disputed. "Jefferson airplane" is slang for a used paper match splint to hold a marijuana joint that is too short to hold without burning the fingers – an improvised roach clip.^[3] A popular conjecture suggests this was the origin of the band's name, but band member Jorma Kaukonen has denied this and stated that the name was invented by his friend Steve Talbot as a parody of blues names such as Blind Lemon Jefferson  

• "Blind" Lemon Jefferson (born Lemon Henry Jefferson; September 24, 1893 – December 19, 1929)
• Thomas Jefferson (April 13 [O.S. April 2] 1743 – July 4, 1826) 

• John William "Jack" Casady (born April 13, 1944)
• Grace Barnett Slick (née Wing; born October 30, 1939)
• Marty Balin (born Martyn Jerel Buchwald; January 30, 1942)
• Jorma Ludwik Kaukonen, Jr. (born December 23, 1940)
• Spencer Dryden (April 7, 1938 – January 11, 2005)
• Signe Toly Anderson (born September 15, 1941)
• Alexander Lee "Skip" Spence (April 18, 1946 – April 16, 1999) 
• John Henry Creach (May 28, 1917 – February 22, 1994) 
• Joseph "Joey" Edward Covington (June 27, 1945 – June 4, 2013)  
• John "Johny" Barbata (born April 1, 1945)
• David Freiberg (born August 24, 1938)