Today's Deaths in Music
- 1648 Thomas Ford, composer, dies
- 1770 Gian Francesco de Majo, composer, dies at 38
- 1826 Louise Reichardt, German composer, dies at 47
- 1856 William Knyvett, composer, dies at 77
- 1862 Alexey Nikolayevich Verstovsky, composer, dies at 63
- 1931 Georgi Atanasov, Bulgarian composer (Gergana), dies at 50
- 1936 Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Austrian contralto (b. 1861)
- 1943 Paul Charles Rene Landormy, composer, dies at 74
- 1955 James P. Johnson, American jazz composer and pianist (Charleston), dies at 64
- 1959 Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer/pianist/conductor, dies at 72
- 1976 Victor Alessandro, composer, dies at 60
- 1981 Bob Eberly, American singer (Jimmy Dorsey Band), dies at 65
- 1982 Eduard Tubin, composer, dies at 77
- 1987 Irene Wicker, singer/actress (Singing Lady), dies at 81
- 1989 Emerson Buckley, composer, dies at 73
- 1995 Alan Hull, singer/composer, dies at 50
- 1995 Peter John Welding, record producer, dies at 60
- 1997 Wilfred Josephs, English composer, dies at 70
- 2001 Michael Karoli, German guitarist (b. 1948)
- 2003 Arthur Conley, American singer (b. 1946)
- 2003 Don Gibson, American country musician (Sweet Dreams), dies at 75
- 2006 Flo Sandon's, Italian singer (won Sanremo Music Festival-Viale d'autunno), dies at 82
- 2006 Ruth Brown, American actress and singer sometimes known as the "Queen of R&B" (So Long, Teardrops from My Eyes), dies at 78
- 2008 George Stephen Morrison, American admiral and father of The Doors' lead singer Jim Morrison
- 2014 Jimmy Ruffin, American soul singer (What Becomes of the Brokenhearted), dies at 78
- 2017 William Mayer, American composer (A Death in the Family, Brief Candle), dies from heart failure at 91