1984 Wladimir Rudolfovich Vogel, composer, dies at 88
1988 Zdeněk Blažek, Czech composer and music theorist (Verchovina), dies at 83
1990 Antonio Martinez, Spanish rock guitarist (Los Bravos - "Black Is Black", dies in a motorcycle accident at 44
1995 Murray Dickie, Scottish opera singer and director, dies at 71
1996 Ande Anderson, English opera director, dies at 78
1996 Vivian Ellis, English composer, dies at 91
1997 Bobby Helms [Robert Lee Helms], American country music singer (Jingle Bell Rock), dies at 63
2003 Michael "Peanuts" Hucko, American big band jazz and session clarinetist (Glenn Miller's Army-Air Force Band; Lawrence Welk Show), dies at 85
2006 Duane Roland, American southern-rock guitarist (Molly Hatchet - Flirtin' With Disaster), dies at 53
2007 Antonio Aguilar [Barraza], Mexican singer, producer and actor (Emiliano Zapata) who popularized the Mexican equestrian sport la charrería, dies of pneumonia at 88
2007 El Fary, Spanish singer and actor, dies at 69
2009 Ali Akbar Khan, Indian classical sarod player, composer, and music educator, dies of kidney failure at 87
2013 Bojidar Dimov, Bulgarian pianist and composer (Die Hochzeit von Susa), dies at 61
2013 Filip Topol, Czech singer-songwriter (Psí vojáci - Dog Soldiers), dies at 48
2013 Slim Whitman, American country singer (Rose Marie), dies from heart failure at 90
2014 Gerry Goffin, American Hall of Fame lyricist, dies at 75
2018 Lenore Engdahl, American classical pianist, and educator (Boston University School of Music, 1972–83), dies at 100
2019 Anthony Hedges, British light music and orchestral composer (Humberside Cantata), dies at 88
2022 Brett Tuggle, American session and touring rock keyboard player (David Lee Roth, 1986-94; Fleetwood Mac, 1997-2017), dies of cancer at 70
2023 Max Morath, American ragtime piano revivalist, composer, and musicologist, dies at 96