- 1764 Christoph Stoltzenberg, composer, dies at 74
- 1775 Egidio Romoaldo Duni, Italian composer, dies at 67
- 1808 Giovanni Battista Cirri, Italian cellist and composer, dies at 83
- 1896 Friedrich Gottlieb Schwencke, German organist and composer, dies at 72
- 1900 Charles Swinnerton Heap, English composer, dies at 53
- 1924 Theodore Dubois, French composer, dies at 86
- 1955 Marcel Samuel-Rousseau, French organist and opera composer (Le Bon Roi Dagobert), dies at 72
- 1975 Floro Ugarte, Argentine composer (From My Land; Saika), and educator, dies at 90
- 1976 Folke Eriksberg [Eriksberger], Swedish jazz and session guitarist and composer, dies at 65
- 1981 Albert Markos, Romanian composer (Torso I), dies at 66
- 1990 Clyde McCoy, American jazz trumpeter ("Sugar Blues"; the wah-wah sound), bandleader and co-founder of "Down Beat" magazin, dies at 86
- 1995 Lovelace Watkins, American singer known as "The Black Sinatra" (The Big, Big Voice of Lovelace Watkins), dies of leukemia at 58
- 1996 Ulysses Dove, American dancer (Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater), and choreographer (Red Angels), dies of AIDS-related illness at 49
- 2001 Amalia Mendoza, Mexican singer (Échame a mi la culpa), dies at 77
- 2003 William Marshall, American stage and screen actor, director, and operatic singer (Frederick Douglass: Slave and Statesman; Blacula; Scream Blacula Scream), dies from Alzheimer's disease at 78
- 2005 Ghena Dimitrova, Bulgarian operatic soprano, dies of cancer at 64
- 2011 Seth Putnam, American extreme heavy metal guitarist and vocalist, dies of a heart attack at 43
- 2013 Johnny Smith, American cool jazz guitarist ("Moonlight In Vermont"; "Walk, Don't Run"), dies from injuries sustained in a fall at 90
- 2014 Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Spanish conductor, dies of cancer at 80
- 2015 Jim Ed Brown, American country music singer-songwriter ("Here Today and Gone Tomorrow"; "Pop a Top"), and radio and television host (Nashville on the Road), dies of lung cancer at 81
Ornette Coleman (1930-2015)
American jazz saxophonist and composer (Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation), dies of a heart attack at 85
- 2015 Ron Moody [Moodnick], British stage and screen actor, singer (Oliver!; The Twelve Chairs), and composer dies at 91
- 2016 Alberto Remedios, British opera and concert singer, dies at 81
- 2017 Rosalie Sorrels, American traditional folk singer-songwriter ("Up Is A Nice Place To Be"; "Nevada Moon"), dies at 83
- 2021 John Gabriel [Jack Monkarsh], American stage and screen actor (Ryan's Hope), singer, lyricist, and producer, dies at 90
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