1723 Antoine Mouque, Flemish composer, organist and singer, dies at 64
1777 Giuseppe Sellitto, Italian opera composer (Nitocri), dies at 77
1802 Corona Schröter, German singer. and composer, dies at 51
1825 Amos Bull, American hymn composer, dies at 81
1839 Charles Philippe Lafont, French violinist and composer, dies at 57
1878 Adolf Fredrik Lindblad, Swedish lieder and classical composer, dies at 77
1898 Joseph Robinson, Irish singer, organist and composer, dies at 82
1927 Therese Zamara, Austrian harpist and music teacher, dies at 71
1937 Albert Roussel, French composer (Rapsodie Flamande), dies at 68
1943 Paul Zilcher, German pianist, composer, and piano teacher, dies at 88
1944 Nikolay Andreyevich Roslavets, Ukrainian composer, dies at 63
1960 Oscar Hammerstein II, American lyricist (Rodgers & Hammerstein - "Oklahoma!"; "South Pacific"; "The King And I"; " The Sound Of Music"), dies at 65
1962 Irving Fine, American composer (Toccata), dies of heart disease at 47
1963 Glen Gray [Knoblauch], American jazz saxophonist and bandleader (Casa Loma Orchestra), dies of lymphoma, at 63
1970 Nel Roos, Dutch ballerina and dance teacher, dies of a heart attack at 55
1971 Gisela Hernández [Gonzalo], Cuban composer (Diálogo), and music educator, dies at 58
1972 Balys Dvarionas, Lithuanian pianist, composer and educator, dies at 68
1981 (Thaman) "Pete" Daily, American swing and dixieland jazz cornetist and valve trombonist (The Chicagoans), dies at 70
1987 Siegfried Borris, German composer, dies at 80
1989 Helen le Clerq, Dutch dancer and choreographer, dies at 57
1990 David Rose, American Emmy Award-winning composer ("The Stripper"; "Holiday For Strings"), and orchestra leader (The Red Skelton Show), dies at 80
1995 Dwayne Goettel, Canadian keyboardist and industrial-electronic music composer (Skinny Puppy), dies of a heroin overdose at 31
2001 Eric Allandale [Dubuisson], West Indian-British rock and soul trombonist, and songwriter (The Foundations - "Baby Now That I've Found You"), dies at 65
2005 Brock Peters [George Fisher], American actor and singer (Carmen Jones; To Kill a Mockingbird), dies at 78
2005 Harold "Hal" Kalin, American singer (Kalin Twins), dies in a road accident at 71
2006 Jacques Wildberger, Swiss composer (In My End is My Beginning), dies at 84
2006 Maynard Ferguson, Canadian jazz trumpeter and bandleader, dies at 78
2013 David Garrick [Philip Darryl Core], British singer ("Dear Mrs. Applebee"), dies at 67
2015 Asher Ben-Yohanan, Israeli composer, dies at 86
2018 George Theophilus Walker, African-American pianist, composer and teacher (Lilacs; In Praise Of Folly), dies at 96
2019 Mario Davidovsky, Argentine-American electro-acoustic composer (Synchronisms), dies at 85
2020 Charlie Persip, American jazz drummer (Dizzy Gillespie; The Jazz Statesmen; Billy Eckstine), dies at 91
2023 Bob Feldman, American pop songwriter and record producer ("My Boyfriend's Back", "I Want Candy"), dies at 83