- Jan 15 Eduard Lassen, Belgian-Danish composer, dies at 73
- Jan 24 Franz Coenen, Dutch violinist and composer, dies at 77
- Jan 27 Adam Münchheimer [Minchejmer], Polis composer, dies at 73
- Feb 20 Gustav Adolf Heinze, Dutch composer, dies at 83
- May 1 Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer (Slavonic Dances; New World Symphony; Cello Concerto in b, Op. 104), dies at 62
- May 14 Richard Hol, Dutch composer, organist and conductor, dies at 78
- Aug 4 Arnold Krug, German composer, dies at 54
- Aug 6 Eduard Hanslick, German music critic, dies at 78
- Aug 30 Kate Fanny Loder, English composer and pianist, dies at 79
- Sep 30 Sigurd Lie, Norwegian composer and conductor, dies of tuberculosis at 33
- Oct 17 Nikolai Amani, Russian composer, dies at 32
- Oct 20 Henry Hiles, English organist and composer, dies at 77
- Oct 25 Teresa Milanollo, Italian composer, dies at 77
- Nov 3 Gaston Serpette, French composer, dies at 57
- Nov 30 Aldine Silliman Kieffer, American composer, dies at 64
- Dec 25 Vilhelm Svedbom, Swedish composer, dies at 61
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