1716 Joseph Sauveur, French mathematician, physicist and sound engineer who coined the name acoustics for the study of sound from the ancient Greek word ακουστός, meaning "able to be heard", dies at 63
1747 Giovanni Battista Bononcini, Italian opera-composer, dies at 76
1949 Fritz Bennicke Hart, British composer, and conductor (Melbourne Symphony Orchestra), dies of cardiac issues at 75
1951 Egbert Van Alstyne, American popular music songwriter and ragtime pianist ("In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree"; "For Your Boy and My Boy"), dies after a stroke at 73 [1]
1951 Jorgen Bentzon, Danish composer, dies at 54
1954 Henri Dillon, French composer (Arlequin), dies in combat in Indo-China at 41
1957 Alexander Fyodorovich Gedike, Soviet-Russian pianist, and composer, dies at 80
1960 Edward Burlingame Hill, American composer and educator, dies at 86
1969 Pierre Capdevielle, French conductor, composer (Élégie de Duino), music critic (Monde musicale), and teacher, dies at 63
1972 Robert Weede [Wiedefeld], American operatic and musical theater baritone (Metropolitan Opera, 1937-48; The Most Happy Fella), dies at 69
1978 Zoltán Aladár, Transylvanian composer, music critic and teacher (The Goat and the Three Goons), dies at 49
1980 Vinicius de Moraes, Brazilian poet and lyricist, dies at 66
1981 Oscar van Hemel, Belgian-Dutch violinist and composer, dies at 88
1982 Joseph "Wingy" Manone American jazz trumpeter, composer, singer, and bandleader ("Tar Paper Stomp"; "Downright Disgusted Blues"), dies at 82
1984 Randall Thompson, American composer (Trip to Nahant), dies at 85
1992 Kelvin Coe, Australian ballet dancer (Australian Ballet; Bolshoi Ballet), dies of AIDS related illness at 45
1994 Cornelius Boyson, American blues bassist, dies at 57
1994 Sabby Lewis, American jazz pianist and arranger, dies at 79
1999 Talib Dawud [Alfonso Rainey], Antiguan-American jazz trumpeter (Dizzy Gillespie Big Band), dies at 76
2006 Milan Williams, American keyboardist (Commodores - "Three Times A Lady"), dies of cancer at 58
2011 Facundo Cabral, Argentine folk, rock, and protest singer-songwriter, shot and killed riding in a car with a concert promoter at 74
2011 Würzel [Michael Burston], British musician (Motörhead), dies of ventricular fibrillation at 61
2013 Andrea Veneracion, Filipina singer, choral conductor (Philippine Madrigal Singers), composer, arranger, and educator, dies from stroke complications at 84
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