Musicians Who Died on February 14

  • 1681 Francesco Nigetti, Italian composer, dies at 77
  • 1760 François Colin de Blamont, French composer, dies at 69
  • 1790 Capel Bond, English composer and organist, dies at 59
  • 1841 Antun Sorkocevic, writer and composer from Dubrovnik, dies at 65
  • 1857 Johannes Bernardus van Bree, Dutch violinist, composer and conductor, dies at 56
  • 1873 Charles Samvei Bovy-Lysberg, Swiss pianist and composer, dies at 51
  • 1891 Giulio Roberti, Italian composer, dies at 61
  • 1901 Edward John Hopkins, English organist and composer, dies at 82
  • 1908 Georges Jean Pfeiffer, French composer, dies at 72
  • 1937 Erkki Melartin, Finnish composer (Juhlamarssi; Summer Symphony; Fantasia Apocaliptica), dies at 62
  • 1943 Dora Gerson, German-Jewish actress, cabaret singer, and Holocaust victim (Caravan of Death), dies in Auschwitz concentration camp at 43
  • 1955 Charles Cuvillier, French composer of operetta (The Naughty Princess), dies at 77
  • 1959 Warren "Baby" Dodds, American jazz drummer, dies at 60
  • 1965 Désiré Inghelbrecht, French composer, conductor and writer, dies at 84
  • 1972 (Lambertus) "Bertus" van Lyre, Dutch composer and conductor (Dike), dies at 65
  • 1980 Luitkonwar Rudra Baruah, Assamese composer and actor
  • 1982 Henk Schaer [Hendricus Schaareman], Dutch actor and conductor (Majoor Barbara, Lijmen), dies at 79
  • 1986 Edmund Rubbra, English composer (Morning Watch), dies after a stroke at 86
  • 1987 Bola Sete, Brazilian guitarist, dies at 63
  • 1988 Frederick 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
  • 1998 Claude Prey, French composer, dies at 72
  • 1999 Buddy Knox, American singer and songwriter (Party Doll, Lovey Dovey), dies at 65
  • 2002 Mick Tucker, English rock drummer (Sweet - "Ballroom Blitz"), dies of leukemia at 54
  • 2006 Darry Cowl, French musician and actor, dies at 80
  • 2006 Hans Olof “Putte” Wickman, Swedish jazz clarinetist, dies at 81
  • 2006 Lynden David Hall, British singer (b. 1974)
  • 2006 Shoshana Damari, Israeli singer and actress (b. 1923)
  • 2007 Gareth Morris, British flautist (b. 1920)
  • 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