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1726 – Domenico Zipoli (Italian Jesuit missionary & composer, active in Paraguay)
1740 – Johann Georg Weichenberger (Austrian lutenist & composer)
1780 – Johann Ludwig Krebs (German organist & composer, pupil of Bach)
1789 – Franz Joseph Leonti Meyer von Schauensee (Swiss organist & composer)
1803 – Franz Ignaz von Beecke (German harpsichordist & composer, pupil of Gluck)
1915 – Karl [Károly, Carl] Goldmark (Hungarian composer, music critic & violinist)
1924 – Sabine Baring-Gould (English priest, author, folksong collector & hymn lyricist, "Onward, Christian Soldiers")
1941 – Mischa Levitzki (Ukrainian-born American pianist & composer)
1950 – Theophrastos Sakellaridis [Θεόφραστος Σακελλαρίδης] (Greek composer & conductor)
1965 – Staf Gustaf Frans Nees (Belgian organist & composer)
1970 – Piotr Rytel (Polish composer)
1974 – Tex Ritter (American country singer, guitarist & actor)
1977 – Erroll Garner (American jazz pianist & composer, "Misty")
1990 – Vladimir Ussachevsky (Manchurian-born American composer of Russian ancestry, known for electronic works)
1993 – Karl Ahrendt (American violinist, conductor & composer)
1997 – Randy California [Wolfe] (American rock guitarist, singer & songwriter, Spirit)
1999 – Rolf Liebermann (Swiss composer)
2000 – Nat Adderley (American jazz cornetist, trumpeter & composer, brother of "Cannonball")
2002 – Armi Aavikko (Finnish singer, Miss Finland 1977)
2003 – Eric Jupp (English-born Australian pianist, composer, arranger & conductor)
2012 – Ian Bargh (Scottish-born Canadian jazz pianist & composer)
2012 – Helmut Müller-Brühl (German conductor, founder of Cologne Chamber Orchestra)
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Too bad about Randy California, though. His final act on this earth was saving his son from drowning. A rock hero, and a hero in real life...
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