Today's Deaths in Music
- 1691 Christian de Placker, composer, dies at 77
- 1789 Johann Christoph Oley, composer, dies at 50
- 1798 Christian Cannabich, German composer/royal chaplain master, dies at 66
- 1830 Michal Bogdanowicz, composer, dies at 50
- 1838 Pierre-Louis Hus-Desforges, composer, dies at 64
- 1857 Edward Francis Fitzwilliam, English composer, dies at 32
- 1859 Bettina Brentano, composer, dies at 73
- 1859 Bettina von Arnim, German writer and composer of the Romantic era (This Book Belongs to the King), dies at 73
- 1890 Franz Paul Lachner, German composer, dies at 86
- 1905 Stanislaw Pilinski, French pianist and composer, dies at 65
- 1914 Emil Liebling, German-American composer, dies at 62
- 1914 Henry Southwick Perkins, composer, dies at 80
- 1943 Giacomo Benvenuti, composer, dies at 57
- 1952 Arthur Farwell, American composer, dies at 74
- 1964 Jan Rychlik, Czech composer, dies at 47
- 1975 Franz Andre, Belgian conductor, dies at 81
- 1979 Gustav Winckler, Danish singer, dies at 53
- 1985 Jo Juda, Dutch musician (1st concertmaster of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra), dies at 75
- 1989 Halsey Stevens, American composer (Triskelion), dies at 80
- 1990 Miloslav Istvan, composer, dies at 61
- 1990 Hayedeh, Persian singer (b. 1942)
- 1996 Buster Benton, American blues singer and guitarist, dies at 63
- 1996 Gerald Joseph Mulligan, baritone saxophonist/composer, dies at 68
- 1996 Peter Stadlen, pianist/critic, dies at 85
- 2002 Carrie Hamilton, American actress (Fame), dies at 38
- 2009 David Newman, American jazz musician, nicknamed "Fathead" (b. 1933)
- 2012 Etta James [Jamesetta Hawkins], American singer, dies from leukaemia at 73
- 2013 Bob Engemann, American singer, (The Lettermen), dies at 77
- 2014 Claudio Abbado, Italian composer and conductor (London Symph-1982), dies at 80
- 2015 Edgar Froese, German musician (Tangerine Dream), dies at 70
- 2018 James "Jim" Rodford, English rock vocalist and bassist (The Kinks, Argent, Zombies), dies after a fall at 76