Today's Deaths in Music
- 1678 Juan García de Zéspedes, Mexican musician and composer (b. 1619)
- 1778 Thomas Linley the younger, English composer and musician "English Mozart", dies at 22
- 1856 Robert Lucas Pearsall, English composer, dies at 61
- 1863 Adolf Friedrich Hesse, German composer, dies at 53
- 1891 Henry Litolff, French composer and pianist, dies at 73
- 1907 Gentil Theodoor Antheunis, Flemish poet, dies at 66
- 1910 Wojciech Gawronski, Polish composer, dies at 42
- 1916 George Butterworth, English composer, dies at 31
- 1916 Nikolay Ivanovich Kazanli, Russian composer, dies at 46
- 1955 Carmen Miranda, singer/actress (Down Argentine Way), dies at 42
- 1958 Joseph Holbrooke, English pianist, conductor and composer (3 Blind Mice), dies at 80
- 1963 Salvador Bacarisse, Spanish composer, dies at 64
- 1968 Luther Perkins American guitarist
- 1971 Josef Stanislav, composer, dies at 74
- 1976 Betty Clooney, American singer (Jack Paar Show), dies at 45
- 1987 Zygmunt Mycielsky, composer, dies at 79
- 1992 Jeff Porcaro, drummer (Toto-Africa), dies of cardiac arrest at 38
- 1993 Randy Hobbs, American rock musician (Johnny Winter Band, McCoys), dies of heart failure at 45
- 1993 Eugen Suchoň, Slovak composer, dies at 84
- 2008 Reg Lindsay, Australian country and western singer/songwriter (b. 1929)
- 2008 Robert Hazard [Rimato], American singer-songwriter (Girls Just Want to Have Fun), dies after surgery at 59
- 2013 George Duke, American Grammy-Award winning musician, dies from chronic lymphocytic leukemia at 67
- 2018 Charlotte Rae, American character actress, comedian, singer and dancer (Edna-Facts of Life), dies at 92