1651 – Jacob Praetorius (German organist & composer, pupil of Sweelinck)
1764 – Jean-Marie Leclair l'aîné (French violinist & composer, founder of French Violin School)
1802 – Samuel Arnold (English composer & organist at the Chapel Royal & Westminster Abbey)
1813 – August Harder, composer, dies at 38
1859 – Louis Spohr (German composer, violinist & conductor)
1881 – Jānis Cimze (Latvian teacher, arranger & promulgator of Latvian folk song & choral singing)
1889 – Olivier Métra (French composer & conductor, l'Opéra-Comique & Folies Bergère, Paris)
1935 – Komitas Vardapet [Սողոմոն Գևորգի Սողոմոնյան] (Armenian priest, composer, choir director, singer & ethnomusicologist)
1943 – Josef Venantius von Wöss (Austrian composer & harmony teacher, made piano transcriptions of Mahler symphonies)
1969 – Tommy Edwards (American R&B, jazz & pop singer & songwriter)
1969 – Giovanni Martinelli (Italian operatic tenor)
1973 – Pablo Casals (Spanish cellist & conductor)
1979 – Nadia Boulanger (French composer, composition teacher, pianist & organist)
1985 – Viorica Ursuleac (Romanian operatic soprano)
1986 – Jane Dornacker (American musician, actress & traffic reporter for WNBC Radio)
1989 – Ewan MacColl (English folk singer, songwriter, socialist, actor, poet, playwright & record producer)
1994 - David Buchan (American ethnomusicologist)
2005 – Franky Gee [Captain Jack] (American R&B singer)
Write-up and list still need some work.
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