- 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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