Mata Hari (1876-1917)
Dutch exotic dancer, courtesan and convicted German WWI spy, executed by firing squad at 41
- 1955 Fumio Hayasaka, Japanese film score composer (Rashomon; Seven Samurai), dies of tuberculosis at 41
Cole Porter (1891-1964)
American composer and lyricist ("Anything Goes"; "Night And Day"; "I've Got You Under My Skin"), dies of kidney failure at 73
- 1965 Carl Hoff, American orchestra leader (Music Hall), dies at 60
- 1968 Franz Reizenstein, German-British pianist, composer, and educator (Concerto Popolare), dies at 57
- 1985 Ted Steele, American orchestra leader (Cavalcade of Stars), dies at 68
- 1988 Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji [Leon Dudley Sorabji], Parsi-British pianist and composer (Opus clavicembalisticum), dies of heart failure at 96
- 1993 Ken E. Jones, musician (New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra), dies of AIDS at 34
- 2006 Pete Graves [Alexander Walton], American pop and R&B vocalist (The Moonglows - "Blue Velvet"), dies at 70
- 2008 Edie Adams [Edith Enke], American businesswoman, singer, actress and comedian (Murial Cigar), dies at 81
- 2011 Elizabeth "Betty" Driver, British singer and actress (Coronation Street; Pardon the Expression), dies from pneumonia at 91
- 2012 Axel Borup-Jørgensen, composer (Nordisk Sommerpastorale; Thalatta! Thalatta!), dies at 87
- 2013 Gloria Lynne [Wilson], American jazz vocalist (Dell Tones), dies of a heart attack at 83
- 2019 Hossein Dehlavi, Persian composer, conductor and teacher (Sarbaz; Plectrum Orchestra), dies of Alzheimer complications at 92
- 2020 Gordon Haskell, British pop, rock and blues musician (Fleur De Lys; King Crimson, 1970; Harry's Bar), dies of cancer at 74
- 2022 Joyce Sims, American R&B singer-songwriter ("All and All"; "Come into My Life"), dies at 63
- 2022 Mikaben [Michael Benjamin], Haitian zouk and dancehall singer-songwriter, dies onstage in Paris of a heart attack at 41
- 2023 Carmen Petra-Basacopol, Romanian composer and educator Bucharest Conservatory (1962-2003), dies at 97