- 1678 Giovanni Maria Bononcini, composer, dies at 36
- 1771 Giuseppe de Majo, Italian composer and organist, dies at 73
- 1822 Anton Teyber, Austrian composer, dies at 66
- 1841 Georg Christoph Grosheim, German composer, dies at 77
- 1852 Anton Bernhard Furstenau, composer, dies at 60
- 1887 Eduard Marxsen, German pianist and composer, dies at 81
- 1887 Heinrich Panofka, German violist and composer, dies at 80
- 1951 Václav Kálik, Czech composer, dies at 60
- 1951 Will Vodery, African-American theater and film arranger, orchestrator (Showboat; Ziegfeld's Follies; Blackbirds), and composer (From Dixie to Broadway), dies at 66
- 1953 Ruth Crawford Seeger, American modernist classical and folk music composer (String Quartet, 1931; Rissolty, Rossolty), dies at 52
- 1966 Bela Tardos, Hungarian composer, dies at 56
- 1969 Léon Jongen, Belgian organist, composer, and academic, dies at 85
- 1969 Ted Heath, British jazz trombonist, composer, and big bandleader, dies at 67
- 1970 Hal Dickinson, American singer (Modernaires), dies at 56
- 1971 (Herman) "Junior" Parker, American blues and soul singer and musician (Mystery Train), dies during brain tumor surgery at 39
- 1972 Danny Whitten, American rock guitarist and songwriter (Crazy Horse; Rod Stewart - "I Don't Want To Talk About It"), dies of a methaqualone overdose at 29
- 1972 Segundo Luis Moreno Andrade, Ecuadorian composer and musicologist, dies at 90
- 1978 Lennie Tristano, American jazz pianist (The New Tristano), dies of a heart attack at 59
- 1986 Lajos Bárdos, Hungarian conductor, composer, musicologist and professor, dies at 87
- 1990 Peter Schilperoort, saxophonist/clarinetist, dies
- 1992 Dorothy Kirsten, American operatic soprano (Time to Sing, Chevy Show), dies from stroke at 82
Cab Calloway (1907-1994)
American singer, bandleader ("Minnie the Moocher"; "The Jumpin' Jive"), writer, radio host, and actor (The Blues Brothers), dies at 86
Doug Sahm (1941-1999)
American roots-rock and Tex-Mex musician (Sir Douglas Quintet - "Mendocino"; Texas Tornadoes - "Adios Mexico"), dies of a heart attack at 58
- 1999 Paul Bowles, American novelist (The Sheltering Sky), translator, and composer, dies at 88
- 2003 Michael Kamen, American composer and arranger (film scores to Brazil and Mr. Holland's Opus; Pink Floyd), dies from a heart attack at 55
- 2004 Cy Coleman [Seymour Kaufman], American jazz pianist, songwriter ("Witchcraft"; "The Best Is Yet to Come"), and Tony Award-winning composer (The Will Rogers Follies; Sweet Charity), dies of cardiac arrest at 75
- 2009 Bill Narum, American counter-culture figure, illustrator and rock poster and album art designer (ZZ Top), dies at 62
- 2012 Philip Ledger, British organist, composer, conductor, and academic (King's College Cambridge), dies of cancer at 74
- 2014 Dave Appell, American musician, arranger, musical director (Ernie Kovacs), record producer (Charlie Gracie; The Orlons; Tony Orlando and Dawn), and songwriter, dies at 92
- 2015 Erik Lotichius, Dutch composer (Anaitalrax), dies at 86
- 2016 Sharon Jones, American soul singer (Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings), dies of cancer at 60
- 2017 Malcolm Young, Scottish guitarist and songwriter (founding member of AC/DC), dies at 64
- 2021 Slide Hampton [Locksley Wellington Hampton], American jazz trombonist, composer and arranger, dies at 89
- 2022 Ned Rorem, American Pulitzer Prize-winning composer (Air Music: Ten Etudes for Orchestra; Evidence of Things Not Seen), and author (The Paris Diary), dies at 99 [1]
- 2023 David Del Tredici, American pianist, Neo-Romantic composer, and 1980 Pulitzer Prize winner (In Memory of a Summer Day), dies of Parkinson's disease at 86 [1]
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