- 1629 Girolamo Giacobbi, composer, dies at 61
- 1693 Johann Kaspar von Kerll, German composer, dies at 65
- 1724 Francisco Jose Coutinho, composer, dies at 43
- 1741 Johann Joseph Fux, Austrian composer/music theorist, dies at about 80
- 1814 Augustin Holler, composer, dies at 69
- 1849 Christian Rummel, composer, dies at 61
- 1896 Karl Reinthaler, composer, dies at 73
- 1917 Joel Angel, Russian musicologist/composer, dies at 48
- 1952 Alfred Einstein, German/US musicologist, dies at 71
- 1959 William L Axt, composer, dies at 70
- 1965 Jerry Burke, pianist (Lawrence Welk Show), dies
- 1968 Ildebrando Pizzetti, Italian composer, dies at 87
- 1975 Eric Harding Thiman, composer, dies at 74
- 1976 Lily Pons, French/US soprano/opera diva (Met Opera), dies at 71
- 1995 Wilton “Bogey” Gaynair, saxophonist, dies at 68
- 1996 Daniel K Womack, singer/guitarist, dies at 91
- 1997 Mark Krasnosel’skii, Russian-Ukrainian mathematician (b. 1920), Jessica Browne, singer and dancer
- 2002 Waylon Jennings, American musician (b. 1937)
- 2008 Roger Voisin, Trumpet player, Boston Symphony (b. 1918)
- 2010 John Reed, British singer of Gilbert & Sullivan (b. 1916)
- 2015 John McCabe, British composer and pianist, dies at 75
