1835 Willem G F Bentinck, earl/politician/organist, dies at 73
1859 Louis Spohr, German violin virtuoso and composer (Faust), dies at 75
1881 Janis Cimze, Latvian composer, Father of Latvian choir music, dies at 67
1889 Olivier Métra, French composer of balletss, light opera, and popular waltzes (Esperance!), and conductor, dies at 59
1935 Komitas [Soghomon Soghomonian], Armenian priest, composer (Patarag), and musicologist, dies at 66
1937 Frank Damrosch, German-born American author and music teacher (founded New York Musical Institute of Musical Art, later Julliard), dies at 88
1938 May Irwin, Canadian comedienne and singer (Hot Time in the Old Town), dies at 76
1943 Josef Venantius von Woss, Austrian composer, dies at 80
1973 Pablo Casals [Pau Casals i Defilló], Spanish cellist, conductor and composer, dies at 96
1979 Nadia Boulanger, French composer and conductor (1st woman to conduct Boston Symphony), dies at 92
1984 Harold Laurence Walters, American composer, dies at 66
1985 Viorica Ursuleac, Romanian operatic soprano, dies at 91
1986 Jane Dornacker, American stand-up comic, songwriter, rock vocalist (The Tubes), and ill-fated traffic reporter, dies in a helicopter crash at 39
1989 Ewan MacColl [James Miller], Scottish folk singer-songwriter ("The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"), dies of complications following heart surgery at 74 [1]
1992 Josef Veselka, Czech choral conductor (Prague Philharmonic Choir, 1959-81), and pedagogue, dies at 82
1993 Luis Felipe Ramón y Rivera, Venezuelan musician and composer, dies at 80
1994 David Buchan, Scottish ethnomusicologist, dies at 55
1994 James "Jimmy" Miller, American record producer and musician (The Rolling Stones), dies of liver failure at 52
1996 John Bauldie, British music journalist, dies at 47
1997 Harry Goodman, American jazz bassist, and sometimes tuba player, dies at 91
2001 Cliff Adams, British singer (The Stragazers; The Cliff Adams Singers), dies at 78
2005 Franky Gee [Francisco Gutierrez], American-German rapper and pop singer ("Captain Jack"), dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 43
2011 Karl-Heinz Köper, German conductor, and composer (Tuba-Tabu; Pop Corn Concerto), dies at 84
2017 George Young, Scottish-Australian musician, songwriter and record producer (the Easybeats, Flash and the Pan), dies at 70
2019 Hans Zender, German composer and conductor (Stephen Climax; Chief Joseph), dies at 82
2019 Ramon Zupko, American classical and electro-acoustic composer (Fluxus), and educator (Western Michigan University, 1971-96), dies at 86
2019 Raymond Leppard, British-American harpsichordist, conductor (Indianapolis Symphony, 1987-2001; BBC Northern Symphony, 1973-80), and composer (Lord Of The Flies), dies at 93
2020 Derek Quinn, British guitarist (Freddie and the Dreamers - "I'm Telling You Now"), dies at 68
2021 Jay Black [David Blatt], American pop singer (Jay and the Americans - “Come A Little Bit Closer”; “This Magic Moment”), dies of pneumonia and complications from dementia at 82