- Jan 16 Jaroslav Jeremiáš, Czech pianist and composer, dies at 19
- Feb 2 Xavier Henry Napoleon Leroux, French composer, dies at 55
- Feb 21 Giovanni Bolzoni, Italian composer and violinist, dies at 77
- Feb 24 Josephine McGill, composer, dies at 41
- Mar 5 Jozef Surzynski, composer, dies at 67
- Mar 8 Auguste Tolbecque, French cellist and composer, dies at 88
- Mar 11 Harald Fryklöf, Swedish composer, dies at 36
- Mar 16 Sigurd von Koch, Swedish composer, dies at 39
- Apr 3 Paul Geisler, German conductor, composer, and pedagogue, dies at 62
- Apr 6 Stefan Surzynski, Polish conductor and composer, dies at 63
- May 9 James Reese Europe, American ragtime and early jazz arranger, composer, and bandleader in New York, and with the military in France during WWI, dies of a stab wound (received during an argument with one of his drummers), at 38
- May 9 Ludwig Bösendorfer, Austrian piano builder, dies at 84
- May 17 Bohumil Pazdírek, Czech composer, dies at 80
- Jun 2 Ernest Ford, English composer, dies at 61
- Jun 8 Jacob Christian Fabricius, Danish composer, dies at 78
- Aug 9 Ruggero Leoncavallo, Italian composer (Pagliacci; Zazà), dies at 62
- Sep 27 Adelina Patti, Italian soprano (Lucio), dies at 76
- Oct 3 Daniel Brink Towner, American hymn composer ("He's A Friend of Mine"; "Though the Fig Tree Shall Not Blossom"), and music director, dies at 69
- Oct 5 Jean Louis Nicodé, Prussian pianist and composer, dies at 66
- Oct 16 Charles Harford Lloyd, British organist and composer, dies on his 70th birthday
- Oct 21 Sven August Körling, Swedish composer, dies at 77
- Dec 13 Amintore Galli, Italian composer, dies at 74
- Dec 16 Luigi Illica, Italian poet and opera librettist (Giacomo Puccini's "La bohème", "Tosca", and "Madama Butterfly"; Umberto Giordano's "Andrea Chénier"), dies at 62
- Dec 18 Horatio Parker, American organist and composer, dies at 56
- Dec 27 Achilles Alferaki, Russian composer, dies at 73
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