- 1690 Miguel Gomez Camargo, composer, dies at 71
- 1760 Ernst Gottlieb Baron, German baroque composer, dies at 64
- 1788 Carl Joseph Toeschi, composer, dies at 56
- 1788 Carlo Antonio Campioni, composer, dies at 67
- 1797 Josef Antonin Stepan, Bohemian composer, dies at 71
- 1814 Charles Burney, English music historian, dies at 88
- 1872 Nikolaos Mantzaros, Greek composer (b. 1795)
- 1896 Alexander Ritter, German composer, dies at 62
- 1909 Hermann Kotzschmar, German-American composer, dies at 79
- 1914 Josef Nesvera, composer, dies at 71
- 1922 Frantisek Ondricek, composer, dies at 64
- 1951 Harold Vincent Milligan, American musician and composer, dies at 62
- 1959 Ernest Willem Mulder, composer, dies at 60
- 1961 Nils-Eric Fougstedt, Finnish composer (Angoscia, Trittico sinfonico), dies at 50
- 1971 Wynton Kelly, American jazz pianist (b. 1931)
- 1972 Henri Potiron, composer, dies at 89
- 1981 Hans Chemin-Petit, composer, dies at 78
- 1981 Hendrik F Andriessen, Dutch organist/composer (Te Deum), dies at 88
- 1989 Herbert Mills, American Singer (The Mills Brothers), dies at 77
- 1992 Joe Medwick, vocalist, dies at 61
- 1994 Q T Macon, blues vocal/guitar, dies at 60
- 1995 Chris Pyne, trombonist, dies at 56
- 1999 Boxcar Willie [Travis Martin], American soldier (USAF) and singer (King of the Road), dies of leukemia at 67
- 2006 Rajkumar [Singanalluru Puttaswamayya Muthuraju], Indian actor and singer in Kannada cinema and cultural icon, dies at 76
- 2008 Danny Davis [George Nowlan], American country musician (Nashville Brass), dies at 83
- 2016 Alan Loveday, New Zealand and British violinist, dies at 88