Today's Deaths in Music
- 1648 Christoph Thomas Walliser, composer, dies at 79
- 1703 Georg Christoph Leuttner, composer, dies at 58
- 1785 Karl Siegmund von Seckendorff, composer, dies at 40
- 1827 Bernardo Ottani, composer, dies at 90
- 1865 Charles J Sax, Belgium musician and father of Adolphe Sax inventor of the saxophone, dies at 74
- 1907 Pietro Platania, Italian composer, dies at 79
- 1922 Hans Sommer, German theatre composer, dies at 84
- 1924 Josef Labor, Austrian composer, dies at 82
- 1951 John Alden Carpenter, US composer (Sea Drift), dies at 75
- 1965 Aaron Avshalomov, composer, dies at 70
- 1972 Margaret A R Bonds, US pianist/composer/arranger, dies at 59
- 1983 Bronislaw Kaper, Polish film composer and Academy Award winner (Green Dolphin Street, Lili), dies at 81
- 1984 William "Count" Basie, American jazz musician and bandleader, dies at 79
- 1987 Shankar, Of Noted Bollywood Music Director Duo Shankar-Jaikishan (b. 1922)
- 1991 Carmine Coppola, American composer and conductor (The Godfather Part II), and father of Francis Ford Coppola, dies at 80
- 1991 Leo Arnaud, French-American composer (b. 1904)
- 1991 Hans Holewa, Austrian-born Swedish composer, dies at 85
- 1997 Gene [Eugene] Ames, singer (Ames Brothers), dies of cancer at 73
- 1999 Adrian Borland, English musician (The Sound) (b. 1957)
- 2013 George Jones, American country musician (Golden Rings, Oh Lonesome Me), dies from hypoxic respiratory failure at 81