- Jan 18 Filippo Marchetti, Italian opera composer, dies at 70
- Feb 1 Salomon Jadassohn, German pianist and composer, dies at 70
- Feb 2 Emanuil Manolov, Bulgarian composer (Siromahkinia - 1st Bulgarian opera), dies at 42
- Feb 25 Carl Ignaz Franz Umlauf, Austrian zither player and composer, dies at 77
- Mar 17 George William Warren, American hymn composer, dies at 73
- Jul 6 Leopoldo Miguez, Brazilian composer, dies at 51
- Jul 18 John White, American organist and composer based in Germany, dies at 47
- Aug 3 August Klughardt, German composer, dies at 54
- Aug 31 Mathilde Wesendonck (née Luckemeyer), German writer, poet (Tagebuchblatter), and object of composer Richard Wagner's infatuation, dies at 73
- Sep 2 Iosif Ivanovici, Romanian military bandleader and composer (Waves of the Danube), dies (b. 1845)
- Sep 7 Franz Wüllner, German conductor and composer, dies at 70
- Sep 14 Reinhold Finsterbusch, German singer, organist, composer, and choral director (Jesu Tod und Begräbnis), dies at 76
- Oct 24 Władysław Zaremba, Polish pianist and composer, dies at 69
- Oct 31 Jean-Baptist Colyns, Belgian violinist and composer, dies at 67
- Nov 22 Septimus Winner, American songwriter ("Listen To The Mockingbird"), dies at 75
- Dec 5 Henry Stephen Cutler, American composer, dies at 78
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