- 1779 Manuel Jeronimo Romero de Avila, Spanish theorist and composer, dies at 62
- 1792 Joseph Martin Kraus, composer, dies at 36
- 1816 Joseph Franz Maximilian Lobkowitz, composer, dies at 44
- 1822 Ferenc Verseghy, Hungarian poet and composer, dies at 65
- 1861 Gualtiero Sanelli, composer, dies at 45
- 1892 Charles Balmer, composer, dies at 75
- 1901 Elias Alvares Lobo, composer, dies at 67
- 1909 Francisco Tarrega y Eixea, composer, dies at 57
Fats Waller
1943 Thomas W "Fats" Waller, jazz pianist (Hot Chocolate), dies at 39 in KC Missouri

Fats Waller
Glenn Miller
1944 Glenn Miller, American bandleader and jazz composer (Glenn Miller Orchestra-In the Mood), dies in a suspected plane crash at 40

Glenn Miller
- 1946 Gordon Frederic Norton, composer, dies at 77
- 1950 Robert Muller-Hartmann, composer, dies at 66
- 1953 Kishio Hirao, composer, dies at 46
- 1972 Herbert Eimert, German composer (Glockenspiel), dies at 75
- 1973 Orest Alexandrovich Evlahkov, composer, dies at 61
- 1974 Erich Walter Sternberg, composer, dies at 83
- 1975 Mukhtar Ashrafi, composer, dies at 63
- 1984 Jan Peerce, [Perelmuth], operatic tenor, dies at 80 following a stroke
- 1986 Serge Lifar, Russian-French dancer, choreographer (Paris Opera Ballet), dies at 81
- 1994 Hans de Jong, musician/conductor (Amsterdams Vrouwenkoor), dies at 86
- 1994 Harry Tobias, songwriter, dies at 99
- 1995 James Geoffrey Cutcliffe Hepburn, tap-dancer/socialist, dies at 88
- 1998 Jan Meyerowitz, German-American composer, dies at 85
- 2001 Rufus Thomas [Mr. Swing], American musician (Do the Funky Chicken), dies at 84