- 1744 Carlo Arrigoni, Italian composer and musician, dies at 46
- 1780 Bernhard Haltenberger, composer, dies at 32
- 1795 Friedrich Hartmann Graf, composer, dies at 67
- 1812 Vincenzo Righini, composer, dies at 56
- 1813 Johann Carl Friedrich Rellstab, composer, dies at 54
- 1813 Josef Blazej Smrcek, composer, dies at 61
- 1822 Melchor Lopez Jimenez, composer, dies at 62
- 1851 Gioseffo Catrufo, composer, dies at 80
- 1872 Eugene-Prosper Prevost, composer, dies at 63
- 1881 Joseph Labitzky, composer, dies at 79
- 1892 Frantisek Zdenek Xavier Alois Skuhersky, composer, dies at 62
- 1900 Jean-Baptiste Accolay, Belgian composer, dies at 67
- 1912 Alfonse Hasselmans, composer, dies at 67
- 1922 Felipe Pedrell, composer, dies at 81
- 1929 Sergei P Diaghilev, Russian dance master (Imperial Ballet), dies at 57
- 1936 Federico Garcia Lorca, Spanish poet/composer, murdered at 37 or 38
- 1944 Henry Wood, British conductor associated with London's promenade "Proms" concerts (Gentle Art of Singing), dies following an illness at 75
- 1944 Henry J Wood, English conductor (My Life of Music, Proms), dies at 75
- 1963 Kathleen Parlow, Canadian violinist (b. 1890)
- 1976 Jeno Kenessey, composer, dies at 70
- 1979 Dorsey Burnette, American rockabilly singer (The Rock and Roll trio), dies at 46
- 1995 Pierre Schaeffer, composer/radio innovator, dies at 85
- 2001 Betty Everett, American singer and pianist (b. 1939)
- 2008 LeRoi Moore, American saxophonist (Dave Matthews Band), dies at 46
- 2017 Bea Wain, American singer and radio host (Deep Purple, Heart and Soul), dies at 100