Weddings in Music
- Dec 11 "Good Charlotte" lead vocalist Joel Madden (31) weds fashion designer and actress Nicole Richie (30) at Beverly Hills, California
Wedding of Interest
Dec 19 Guitar legend Carlos Santana (63) weds rock drummer Cindy Blackman (51) in Maui, Hawaii

Carlos Santana
Divorces in Music
- Dec 8 "Heart" rock singer Nancy Wilson (56) divorces "Almost Famous" and "Elizabethtown" director Cameron Crowe (53) due to irreconcilable differences after 24 years of marriage
- Dec 28 Film and record company executive Justin Siegel (23) divorces actress-singer Emmy Rossum due to irreconcilable differences after a year-and-a-half of marriage
Deaths in Music
- Dec 9 James Moody, American jazz musician (b. 1925)
- Dec 13 Enrique Morente, Spanish flamenco singer (b. 1942)
- Dec 17 Captain Beefheart, American musician (b. 1941)
- Dec 19 Trudy Pitts, American jazz organist, pianist, and vocalist (b. 1932)
- Dec 24 Eino Tamberg, Estonian composer (b. 1930)
- Dec 26 Teena Marie, American singer and composer (b. 1956)
- Dec 28 Billy Taylor, American musician (b. 1921)
- Dec 28 Agathe von Trapp, Austrian-born American singer (oldest von Trapp child), dies at 97
- Dec 30 Bobby Farrell, Aruban singer (Boney M) (b. 1949)