1988Frederick Loewe [Friedrich Löwe], Austrian-American musical theater composer (with Alan Jay Lerner: My Fair Lady; Camelot; Brigadoon), dies at 86
1989 Vincent Crane [Cheesman], British rock Hammond organist, and songwriter (The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - "Fire"), dies of deliberate painkiller overdose at 45
1990 Tony Holiday, German singer, dies of complications from AIDS at 38
1991 Roy Lanham, American western swing and jazz guitarist (The Whippoorwills; Sons of the Pioneers, 1961-86), dies at 68
1993 Buddy Pepper, American pianist and composer ("Vaya Con Dios"), dies of heart failure at 70
1994 Gary "BB" Coleman, American blues singer, guitarist and producer, dies at 47
1996 Taiguara [Chalar da Silva], Brazilian singer and songwriter, dies at 50
2009 Louie Bellson, American jazz drummer and orchestra leader (Pearl Bailey Show), dies at 84
2010 Doug Fieger, American singer–songwriter (The Knack - "My Sharona"), dies of cancer at 57
2011 George Shearing, British-American blind jazz pianist (Lullaby of Birdland), dies at 91
2012 Dory Previn, American singer-songwriter, dies at 86
2016 Steven Stucky, American Pulitzer Prize-winning composer (Silent Spring; August 4, 1964; Los Angeles Philharmonic, 1988-2009), conductor (Ensemble X, 1997-2006), educator, and musicologist, dies of brain cancer at 66
2021 Peter Martinček van Grob, Slovakian contemporary classical composer and conductor, dies at 58
2022 Sandy Nelson, American rock drummer ("Teen Beat"; "Let There Be Drums"), dies of stroke complications at 83
2023 Friedrich Cerha, Austrian composer (Baal) and conductor (Ensemble Die Reihe), dies at 96