- 1706 Guillaume Poitevin, French serpent (now obscure bass wind instrument) player, maître de chapelle and composer, dies at 59
- 1795 Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, German composer and 5th son of Johann Sebastian Bach, dies at 62
- 1798 Christian Gottlob Neefe, German composer, conductor and tutor of Ludwig van Beethoven, dies at 49 [some sources give date as 28th]
Zitkála-Šá (1876-1938)
Native American (Yankton Dakota) writer, violinist, librettist (The Sun Dance Opera), educator, and political activist, dies at 61
- 1947 Grace Moore, American soprano and actress (One Night of Love), dies at 48
- 1948 Ignaz Friedman, Polish pianist and composer, dies at 65
- 1962 Fran Lhotka, Czech composer, dies at 78
- 1973 Jay C. Higginbotham, American swing jazz trombonist (Luis Russell'; Red Allen;, Benny Carter), dies at 67
- 1974 Wiktor Labunski, Polish-American composer, dies at 78
- 1975 Lubov Orlova, Russian actress (Moscow Laughs; Man of Music; Tanya), dies at 74
- 1990 Miloslav Ištvan, Czech composer, dies at 61
- 1991 Karen Young, American disco singer ("Hot Shot"), dies at 39
- 1991 Orestes López, Cuban band leader and composer (co-inventor of 'mambo' with his brother, Cachao), dies at 82
- 1995 Geoffrey Parsons, Australian piano accompanist, dies at 65
- 1996 Henry Jay Lewis, American double-bassist and conductor (Los Angeles Philharmonic 1948-65), dies of a heart attack at 63
- 1996 Stevie Plunder, Australian musician (b. 1963)
- 1998 S. P. Leary, Texan blues drummer (Muddy Waters), dies at 67
- 1998 Shinichi Suzuki, Japanese music teacher (Suzuki Method), dies at 99
- 2003 John Browning, American pianist (Leventritt Award-1956), dies at 69
- 2007 Witold Silewicz, Polish-Austrian classical double bassist (Tonkünstler Orchestra), arranger, and composer, dies at 85
- 2011 Charlie Louvin [Loudermilk], American country singer-songwriter, and guitarist (Louvin Brothers - "The Only Way Out (Is to Walk Over Me)"), dies of cancer at 83
- 2011 Gladys Horton, American pop singer (The Marvelettes- "Please Mr. Postman"; "Too Many Fish In The Sea"), dies at 65 [or 66]
- 2012 Clare Fischer, American musician, composer and arranger, dies at 83
- 2013 Edwin London, American horn player, conductor (Cleveland Chamber Orchestra; Ineluctable Modality Choir), and composer (Dream Thing on Biblical Episodes), dies at 83
- 2016 Colin Vearncombe, British singer-songwriter (Black - "Wonderful Life"), dies from injuries in a car accident at 53
- 2018 Francisco Savín, Mexican conductor and composer (Quasar I), dies at 88
- 2018 Igor Zhukov, Russian pianist, conductor (Moscow Chamber Orchestra), and sound engineer, dies at 80
- 2019 Michel Legrand, French composer, film score arranger and jazz musician (Summer of '42; "Windmills of Your Mind"), dies at 86
- 2019 Wilma Lipp, Austrian soprano (Vienna Opera, 1945-81; Mozart's Die Zauberflöte - "Queen of the Night"), dies at 93
- 2020 Bob Shane, American folk vocalist (Kingston Trio - "Tom Dooley"), dies at 85
- 2022 Janet Mead, Australian Catholic nun and pop-rock singer (The Lord's Prayer), dies of cancer at 84
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