1997 Jermaine Stewart, American R&B singer (We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off), dies of cancer at 37
1998 Bernarr Rainbow, English historian of music education, organist, and choir master, dies at 83
1999 Ernest Gold, Austrian-born American film composer (Exodus), dies at 77
2005 (Eduardo) "Lalo" Guerrero, American guitarist, Chicano singer-songwriter (Los Carlistas), and women's rights activist, dies at 88
2006 Bob Blue, American singer/songwriter (b. 1948)
2006 Chuck Tharp, American rock vocalist (The Fireballs - "Sugar Shack"), dies of cancer at 65
2007 Roger Bennett, American Southern Gospel performer (b. 1959)
2010 Alex Chilton, American rock guitarist, vocalist, songwriter, and producer (Box Tops - "The Letter"; Big Star - "Thirteen"), dies of a heart attack at 59
2010 Charlie Gillett, British pop-rock and world music radio presenter and writer (The Sound of the City), dies at 68
2011 Ferlin Husky, American country singer (Born to Lose, Gone), dies at 85
2014 Joseph Kerman, American educator and musicologist (Contemplating Music: Challenges to Musicology), dies at 89
2019 Barbara Benary, American composer (Gamelon Son Of Lion), dies at 73
2019 [Zephire] Andre Williams, American R&B musician ("Jailbait"; "Shake a Tail Feather"), dies at 82
2021 Freddie Redd, American hard-bop jazz pianist, organist, and composer, dies at 92
2023 Clarence "Fuzzy" Haskins, American pop, R&B, and funk singer-songwriter (Parliament-Funkadelic - "Knee Deep"), dies at 81 [1]