1970 James "Shep" Shepherd, American R&B singer-songwriter (The Heartbeats - "One Thousand Miles"; Shep & Limelites - "Daddy's Home"), beaten to death in a robbery at 34
1986 Gordon MacRae, American singer and actor (Oklahoma!, Carousel), dies of pneumonia at 64
1991 Harold "Shot" Jackson, American country dobro player, and pedal steel guitarist (Roy Acuff), and guitar designer and builder (Sho-Bud), dies after his second stroke at 70
1995 David Cole, American songwriter ( C+C Music Factory - "Gonna Make You Sweat"), and record producer (Mariah Carey, Aretha Franklin, James Brown), dies at 32
1998 Justin Tubb, American country singer (Grand Ole Opry), dies at 62
1998 Walter Bishop, Jr, American bebop jazz pianist, music theorist, and educator, dies of a heart attack at 70
2001 Leif Thybo, Danish composer and organist, dies at 78
2005 June Bronhill, Australian stage and opera singer, dies at 75
2005 Robert Stevens Baker, American organist, composer, and educator (Union Theological Seminary, 1961-72; Institute of Sacred Music at Yale, 1973-75), dies at 88
2006 Fayard Nicholas, American tap dancer, one-half of The Nicholas Brothers and actor (The Five Heartbeats), dies of pneumonia and complications from a stroke at 91
2009 Gérard Blanc, French pop singer ("Une Autre Histoire"), dies at 61
2009 Leonard Gaskin, American jazz bassist (Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis), dies at 88
2011 Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, Indian khayal (romance) and devotional (bhajan and abhangsad) singer, dies at 88
2012 Patricia Neway, American opera and musical theatre singer, dies at 83
2016 Yvonne Chouteau, Native American dancer (one of the "five Moons" of Oklahoma), dies at 86
2017 Butch Trucks, American rock drummer (The Allman Brothers Band), dies at 69
2018 Mark E. Smith, British rock vocalist (The Fall, The Post-Nearly Man), dies after a long illness at 60