- 1736 Giovanni Battista Pergolesi [Draghi], Italian Baroque organist, composer (Il Prigioniero Superbo; La serva padrona (The Maid Turned Mistress); Stabat Mater), dies from tuberculosis at 26 [some sources indicate date as 17th]
- 1806 Giuseppe Colla, Italian composer, dies at 74
- 1819 Nicolas Séjan, French organist and composer, dies at 73
- 1867 Benjamin Hanby, composer, dies at 33
- 1887 Emanuel Kania, Polish composer, dies at 59
- 1919 Sigurd von Koch, Swedish composer, dies at 39
- 1955 Mayhew Lake, composer, dies at 75
- 1956 Joseph John Richards, American composer, dies at 77
- 1962 John Owen Jones, Welsh organist, violist, and composer, dies at 85
- 1967 James Friskin, composer, dies at 80
- 1968 Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Italian composer, dies at 72
- 1970 Tammi Terrell, American soul singer (You're All I Need; with Marvin Gaye - Ain't No Mountain High Enough), dies of a brain tumor at 24
T-Bone Walker (1910-1975)
American blues guitarist ("Funky Town"; "Well Done"), dies of bronchial pneumonia at 64
- 1984 Evencio Castellanos, Venezuelan pianist, and composer, dies at 68
Roger Sessions (1896-1985)
American Pulitzer Prize winning composer (Concerto for Orchestra; The Black Maskers), musicologist, and educator (Princeton, 1936-45, 53-65; Berkeley, 1945-53), dies at 88
- 1990 Ernst Bacon, American composer, dies at 91
- 1993 Johnny Cymbal [Blair], American pop-rock singer-songwriter ("Mr. Bass Man"), and record producer, dies of a heart attack at 48
- 1994 (Charles) Russell Woolen, American classical keyboardist and composer (In Martyrum Memoriam), dies at 71
- 1994 Nicolas Flagello, American composer (The Judgement of St. Francis; The Passion of Martin Luther King), and conductor (Orchestra da Camera di Roma), dies at 66
- 1995 Sydney Simone, bandleader, dies at 80
- 1996 Joseph Lee Pope, singer, dies at 62
- 1999 Eric Norman Stokes, American composer, dies in an auto accident at 68
- 2004 Vilém Tauský, Czech conductor (BBC Concert Orchestra, 1956-66), opera director and educator (Guildhall School of Music and Drama, 1966-92), and composer, dies at 93
- 2008 Ola Brunkert, Swedish pop, rock and jazz drummer (ABBA), dies from injuries after a fall at 61
- 2013 Bobby Smith, American pop and R&B singer (The Spinners, 1954-2013 - "Working My Way Back To You"), dies from complications of influenza and pneumonia at 76
- 2014 Mitch Leigh, American musical composer (Man of La Mancha), dies at 86
- 2015 Andy Fraser, English bass guitarist (Free), dies at 62
- 2016 Frank Sinatra, Jr., American singer and bandleaderr, dies at 72
- 2017 James Cotton, American blues vocalist and harmonica player, dies at 81
- 2018 Buell Neidlinger, American pop, jazz, and classical session cellist and double bassist (Cecil Taylor; Frank Zappa; Duane Eddy), dies at 82
- 2019 Dick Dale [Richard Anthony Mansour], American surf-rock guitarist ("Miserlou"; "Let's Go Trippin'"; "Pipeline"), dies at 81
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