- Jan 8 Luis Villalba Munoz, composer, dies at 48
- Jan 12 Gervase Elwes, English tenor (b. 1866)
- Jan 23 Wlasyslaw Zelenski, Polish composer, dies at 83
- Jan 25 Mykola Leontovych, Ukrainian composer, dies at 43
- Feb 2 Luigi Mancinelli, Italian conductor, cellist and composer, dies at 72
- Feb 3 Max Wilhelm Zach, Polish-American violinist and conductor (Boston Symphony 1896-1907; St. Louis Symphony, 1907-21), dies at 56
- Feb 15 Hans Haym, German conductor, dies at 60
- Mar 2 Henryk Pachulski, Polish pianist, composer, and educator (Moscow Conservatory, 1886-1917), dies at 61
- Mar 24 Déodat de Séverac, French composer (Cerdaña), dies at 48
- Apr 5 Alphonsus J M Diepenbrock, Dutch composer (Missa), dies at 58
- Apr 20 Tony Jackson, American ragtime pianist and singer-songwriter ("Pretty Baby"), dies of cirrhosis of the liver at 38
- May 1 Louis Campbell-Tipton, American composer, dies at 43
Enrico Caruso (1873-1921)
Aug 2 Italian operatic tenor (Faust), dies of pleurisy at 48
- Sep 27 Engelbert Humperdinck, German opera composer (Hansel and Gretel), dies at 67
- Nov 29 Ivan Caryll [Félix Tilkin], Belgian composer of operetta and musical comedy (The Shop Girl; The Spring Chicken; The Pink Lady), dies at 60
- Dec 10 Viktor Jacobi, Hungarian operetta composer (Szibill), dies at 38
- Dec 16 Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (Samson et Dalila; Organ Symphony), dies of a heart attack at 86
- Dec 25 Hans Huber, Swiss composer and pedagogue, dies at 69
- Dec 25 Vladimir Korolenko, Russian writer (The Blind Musician), dies at 68