1801 – Carl Stamitz [Karel Stamic] (German-Czech composer, violinist & violist)
1829 – Jean Xavier Lefèvre (Swiss-born French clarinettist & composer)
1897 – Moritz Heuzenroeder (German-born Australian composer, teacher & conductor)
1911 – Edmund Schuecker (German harpist & composer)
1927 – Ole Olsen (Norwegian composer, conductor & music critic)
1951 – Sigmund Romberg (Hungarian-born American theatrical composer)
1951 – Resurrección María de Azkue (Basque priest, musician, poet, writer, sailor & teacher)
1959 – Frederick Preston Search (American cellist, conductor & composer)
1968 – Jan Johansson (Swedish jazz pianist, organist, guitarist & accordionist)
1974 – Egon Wellesz (Austrian-born British composer, teacher & musicologist, specialist in Byzantine music)
1978 – Otto Siegl (Austrian composer, teacher, music theorist & conductor)
1993 – Stanley Myers (English film composer, The Deer Hunter)
2009 – Jerry Fuchs (American indie rock drummer, writer & artist, Turing Machine, !!!, Maserati, LCD Soundsystem)
Jerry Fuchs did not meet a typical end for a died-too-young rock drummer. He fell down an elevator shaft when trying to jump from a broken elevator while he was in New York to play a benefit for starving children in India. Seems like he was one heck of a guy. He was sure one heck of a drummer.
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