Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179)
German Benedictine nun, magistra, writer, and 1st western composer whose works survive (Ordo virtutum), dies at 81
- 1604 Lucas Osiander, German composer, dies at 69
- 1702 Olof Rudbeck, Swedish scientist, writer and composer, dies at 71
- 1732 Josef Antonín Plánický, Czech composer, dies at 40
- 1762 Francesco Geminiani, Italian violinist and composer, dies at 74
- 1803 Franz Xaver Sussmayr, Austrian composer and conductor, dies (b. 1766)
- 1820 Henri Hamal, Belgian composer, dies at 76
- 1824 Giacomo Tritto, Italian composer, dies at 91
- 1846 Francesco Giuseppe Pollini, Italian composer, singer, and pupil of Mozart, dies at 84
- 1884 Louis Schubert, German, violinist, composer, and pedagogue, dies at 56
- 1907 Ignaz Brull, Moravian-born pianist and composer, dies at 60
- 1934 Edmund van der Straeten, German composer, dies at 79
- 1948 Ferruccio Giannini, Italian-American operatic tenor (one of the first to be recorded), teacher, and impresario (Verdi Opera House, Philadelphia), dies at 79
- 1951 Jimmy Yancey, American boogie-woogie jazz and blues pianist, dies somewhere between age 50 and 57 - (birth year documentation uncertain)
- 1953 Henry Holden Huss, American composer, dies at 91
- 1958 Herbie Fields [Bernfeld], American jazz saxophonist and bandleader ("Dardanella"), dies from an intentional overdose of sleeping pills at 39
- 1966 Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor (Stuttgart 1955-58), dies at 35
- 1973 Hugo Winterhalter, American composer, dies at 63
- 1977 Lou Hooper, Canadian jazz pianist, and educator, dies at 83
- 1979 Miloslav Kabeláč, Czech composer, dies at 71
- 1982 Manos Loïzos, Greek composer (Ta Tragoudia Mas) and well known leftist critic of the Greek military junta, dies after suffering several strokes at 44
- 1991 René-Charles "Zino" Francescatti, French concert violinist (NY Philharmonic-1939), dies at 89
- 1994 John DeLaFose, American French speaking zydeco musician, dies at 55
- 1996 Jessie Hill, American jazz musician (Ooh Poo Pah Doo), dies at 63
- 1998 William Hugh Albright, American composer and musician, dies at 53
- 1999 Frankie Vaughan, British pop singer ("Give Me the Moonlight, Give Me the Girl"), dies of heart failure at 71
- 2002 (Michael) "Dodo" Marmarosa, American big band and bebop jazz pianist, composer, and arranger (Artie Shaw), dies at 76
- 2003 Ljubica Marić, Serbian composer (Songs Of Space; Octoïcha), pianist, and pedagogue, dies at 94
- 2005 Alfred Reed, American classical composer, music editor, and educator, dies at 84
- 2006 Alvin Wayne "Al" Casey, American rock and session guitarist (Duane Eddy: The Wrecking Crew), dies at 69
- 2009 Leon Kirchner, American contemporary classical composer (Pulitzer Prize for Music 1967), dies of congestive heart failure at 90
- 2013 Marvin Rainwater, American country and rockabilly singer, dies from heart failure at 88
- 2014 George Hamilton IV, American country musician, dies from complications from a heart attack at 77
- 2015 David Willcocks, English conductor and composer (Kings College choir), dies at 95
- 2017 Laudir de Oliveira, Brazilian percussionist (Sérgio Mendes; Chicago, 1973-81), dies on stage in Rio de Janeiro, of a heart attack at 77
- 2019 Harold Mabern Jr., American post-bop jazz pianist and composer, dies at 83
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