- 1627 Lodovico Grossi da Viadana, Italian composer (b. 1560)
- 1799 Henri-Joseph Rigel, composer, dies at 58
- 1864 Giacomo Meyerbeer, German opera composer (Golt Und Die Natur), dies at 72
- 1892 Wilhelm Rust, composer, dies at 69
- 1897 William Cleaver Francis Robinson, composer, dies at 63
- 1937 Arthur Somervell, composer, dies at 73
- 1954 Pauline de Cock-Manifarges, singer, dies at 82
- 1955 Tadeusz Jarecki, composer, dies at 66
- 1957 Tadeusz Zygfryd Kassern, Polish composer and cultural attache, dies at 53
- 1963 Tomas Vackar, composer, dies at 17
- 1985 Hal LeRoy, dancer/actor (Harold Teen), dies at 71 after surgery
- 1985 Larry Clinton, American trumpeter and bandleader (b. 1909)
- 1990 William Levi Dawson, composer, dies at 90
- 1992 Joey Cuevas, dancer, dies at 34
- 1992 Margareth Wallmann, Austrian opera director, dies at 88
- 1998 Hideto "hide" Matsumoto, Japanese musician (b. 1964)
- 2013 Jeff Hanneman, American guitarist, dies from liver failure at 49
- 2015 Maya Plisetskaya, Russian Ballerina (Bolshoi Ballet), dies at 89
- 2015 Guy Carawan, American folk singer and folklorist (We Shall Overcome") dies at 87