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 1 Alojz Srebotnjak, Slovenian composer, dies at 79
- Dec 6 Hugues Cuénod, Swiss tenor and musical educator, dies at 108
- Dec 9 James Moody, American jazz musician (b. 1925)
- Dec 13 Enrique Morente, Spanish flamenco singer (b. 1942)
- Dec 13 Stuart "Woolly" Wolstenholme, British keyboardist and vocalist (Barclay James Harvest), commits suicide at 63
- Dec 17 Captain Beefheart [Don Van Vliet], American rock musician, complications from multiple sclerosis at 69
- Dec 19 Trudy Pitts, American jazz Hammond B-3 organist, pianist, and vocalist, dies of pancreatic cancer at 78
- Dec 20 Jean-Louis Martinet, French composer, dies at 98
- Dec 24 Eino Tamberg, Estonian composer (Joanna tentata), dies at 80
- Dec 26 Teena Marie, American singer and composer (b. 1956)
- Dec 28 Agathe von Trapp, Austrian-born American singer (oldest von Trapp child), dies at 97
- Dec 28 Billy Taylor, American jazz pianist (Birdland), orchestra leader (David Frost Show) and broadcaster (NPR), dies after a heart attack at 89 [1]
- Dec 30 Bobby Farrell, Aruban singer (Boney M) (b. 1949)