Musicians Who Died on January 14
- 1676 Pier Francesco Cavalli, Italian opera composer, dies at 73
- 1786 Michael Arne, English composer (b. 1740 or 1741)
- 1802 Marie Allard, French ballerina (Auguste Vestris), dies at 59
- 1817 Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, French composer, dies at 87
- 1888 Stephen Heller, Hungarian composer and pianist, dies at 74
- 1889 Ema Puksec, Croatian singer (b. 1834)
- 1890 Francesco D'Arcais, Italian composer, dies at 59
- 1907 Karl von Perfall, German composer, dies at 82
- 1935 Heinrich Schenker, Austrian musicologist (Urlinie) know for his Schenkerian analysis of music, dies at 66
- 1943 Adolf Sandberger, German composer and musicologist, dies at 78
- 1945 Sándor Vándor, Hungarian Jewish composer, murdered in the Holocaust at 43 [1]
- 1949 Joaquín Turina, Spanish pianist and composer (Rima), dies at 66
- 1952 Artur Kapp, Estonian composer (Peace Symphony; Paradise and Peri), and educator, dies at 73
- 1961 Henry Geehl, English composer, dies at 79
- 1965 Jeanette MacDonald, American soprano (When I'm Calling You), dies at 63
- 1967 Renato Lunelli, Italian organist, composer, and musicologist, dies at 71
- 1971 Ethel Glenn Hier, American composer, dies at 82
- 1978 Robert Heger, German conductor and composer, dies at 91
- 1984 Paul Ben Haim [Frankenburger], Israeli composer, dies at 86
- 1986 Daniel Balavoine, French singer-songwriter, dies in a helicopter crash at 33
- 1987 Alton Purnell, American Dixieland jazz pianist, and singer, dies at 75
- 1995 Alexander Gibson, British conductor and founder of the Scottish Opera, dies at 68
- 1995 Ruby Starr [Constance Henrietta Mierzwiak], American rock singer (Black Oak Arkansas), dies of a brain tumor at 44
- 1996 Pamelo Mounk'a, Congolese musician, dies at 50
- 2004 Valfar, Norwegian heavy metal musician (Windir), dies in a snowstorm at 25
- 2011 Trish Keenan, lead vocalist of English band Broadcast (b. 1968)
- 2014 Flavio Testi, Italian composer and musicologist, dies at 91
- 2016 René Angélil, Canadian music executive, actor and director (Omertà, L'apparition), and husband of Céline Dion, dies of throat cancer at 73
- 2018 François Morel, Canadian pianist, conductor, and composer (Antiphonie; Me duele España), dies at 91
- 2018 Marlene VerPlanck [Pampinella], American jazz and pop vocalist, dies of pancreatic cancer at 84
- 2022 Dallas Frazier, American country music songwriter ("Alley Oop"; "Elvira"; "There Goes My Everything"), dies from stroke complications at 82
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