- Jan 28 Augusta Holmes, French composer, dies at 55
- Jan 28 Jean Robert Planquette, French composer (Bells of Corneville), dies at 54
- Feb 3 Frederick Kitziger, German-American reform movement composer, dies at 59
- Feb 11 Henryk Szulc, Polish violinist and composer, dies at 67
- Feb 17 Joseph Parry, Welsh composer and musician, dies at 61
- Feb 22 Hugo Filipp Jakob Wolf, Austrian composer (Corregidor), dies at 42
- Feb 23 Albert Cahen, French composer, dies at 57
- Feb 23 Friedrich Grutzmacher, composer, dies at 70
- May 1 Luigi Arditi, Italian violinist and composer, dies at 80
- May 16 Eduard Rappoldi, composer, dies at 72
- Jun 29 Rentaro Taki, Japanese pianist and composer, dies at 23
- Jul 7 José Augusto Ferreira Veiga, Viscount of Arneiro, Portuguese composer, dies at 64
- Jul 13 August Reissmann, Prussian composer, dies at 77
- Aug 28 August Labitzky, Bohemian composer, dies at 70
- Sep 4 Hermann Zumpe, German composer, dies at 53
- Sep 18 Theodore Furchtegott Kirchner, German composer, dies at 79
- Sep 19 Sydir Vorobkevych, Ukrainian composer, poet, newspaper editor, and Orthodox priest, dies at 67
- Sep 28 Jesús de Monasterio, Spanish violinist, conductor, composer, and pedagogue (Madrid Conservatory, 1857-1903), dies at 67
- Oct 3 Benedetto Junck, Italian composer, dies at 51
- Oct 26 Herbert Oakeley, English composer, dies at 73
- Oct 26 Victorin de Joncières, French composer (Dimitiri), and music critic, dies at 64
- Nov 24 Charles Dupee Blake, American composer, dies at 56
- Dec 2 Victor Roger, French vaudeville-opérette composer (Les vingt-huit jours de Clairette), dies at 50
- Dec 6 Frederick Grant Gleason, composer, dies at 54
- Dec 20 Gavriil Musicescu, Romanian composer of choral music, conductor, and musicologist, dies at 56
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