- 1631 Christoph Buel, German composer, dies at 57
- 1743 Francesco Stradivari, Italian violin maker and son of Antonius, dies at 70
- 1819 Kaspar Furstenau, German composer, dies at 47
- 1845 Carl Filtsch, Transylvanian composer and pianist child prodigy, dies of tuberculosis at 14
- 1849 Otto Nicolai, German composer and conductor, dies at 38 of a stroke
- 1907 John Albert Delany, Australian composer, dies at 54
- 1916 Max Reger, German composer, pianist and professor (Leipzig Univ), dies at 43
- 1917 Otto Klauwell, German composer, dies at 66
- 1937 Viliam Figuš-Bystrý, Slovak composer, dies at 62
- 1947 Ture Rangström, Swedish composer, dies at 62
- 1952 Giovanni Tebaldini, Italian composer, dies at 87
- 1970 Johnny Hodges, American saxophonist, dies at 62
- 1976 Camille Schmit, Belgian composer, dies at 68
- 1979 Lester Flatt, American bluegrass guitarist (Flatt & Scruggs - "Foggy Mountain Breakdown"; "Ballad of Jed Clampett"), dies at 64
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Jamaican reggae musician ("Exodus"; "One Love"; "No Woman No Cry"; "Three Little Birds"), dies of brain and lung cancer at 36
- 1982 Piet van Egmond, Dutch organist and conductor (Netherlands Chamber Orchestra), dies at 70
- 1989 Jitka Snížková, Czech composer, music educator and musicologist, dies at 64
- 1994 Danny Overbea, American rock singer and guitarist ("Forty Cups of Coffee"), dies at 68
- 1994 Leonard Friedman, British-Lithuanian violinist (Scottish Baroque Ensemble), dies at 63
- 1995 Tibor Sarai, Hungarian composer, dies at 76
- 1996 Bruce Boyce, Canadian-American baritone singer, and teacher (Royal Academy - London, England), dies at 85
- 1996 Walter Hyatt, American singer-songwriter (Uncle Walt's Band), dies in a plane crash in the Florida Everglades at 46
- 2003 Noel Redding, English bassist (The Jimi Hendrix Experience - "Purple Haze"), dies from cirrhosis of the liver at 57
- 2004 John Whitehead, American songwriter and soul singer (McFadden & Whitehead - "Ain't No Stopping Us Now"), murdered outside of his home at 55
- 2005 Michalis Genitsaris, Greek rebetiko singer, and composer, dies at 88
- 2006 Yossi Banai, Israeli pop and cabaret singer, and actor dies of cancer at 74
- 2008 Dottie Rambo [Joyce Luttrell], American gospel singer, dies when her tour bus crashes at 74
- 2008 John Rutsey, Canadian drummer (Rush, 1968-1974), dies from a heart attack at 55
- 2011 (Eugene) "Snooky" Young, American jazz trumpeter who mastered the plunger mute, dies at 92
- 2013 Oliver "Ollie" Mitchell, American musician and bandleader (The Wrecking Crew), dies of cancer at 86
- 2014 Ed Gagliardi, American bass guitarist (Foreigner, 1976-79 - "Feels Like The First Time"), dies from cancer at 62
- 2016 David King, British graphic designer (album cover art for Jimi Hendrix and The Who), photographer (I Am King), and historian (The Commissar Vanishes), dies at 73
- 2018 Scott Hutchinson, Scottish musician (Frightened Rabbit), found dead after a suffering from mental illness at 36
- 2020 John "Moon" Martin, American rockabilly singer-songwriter and guitarist ("Bad Case Of Loving You"), dies at 74
- 2022 Alexander Toradze, Soviet Georgian-American concert pianist and music professor (University of Indiana, 1991-2017), dies of heart failure at 69
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