- Feb 19 Gerónimo Giménez, Spanish composer, dies at 68
- Mar 5 (Theodora) "Dora" Pejačević, Croatian countess and composer (Symphony in F-sharp minor, Op. 41), dies of kidney failure at 37
- Apr 19 Thomas Payne Westendorf, American songwriter ("I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen"), dies at 75
- May 30 Camille Chevillard, French composer, dies at 63
- Jun 20 Joseph Leopold Rockel, composer, dies at 85
- Jun 29 Gustave Kerker,German-American composer, dies at 66
- Jun 30 Claude Terrasse, French operetta composer (Ubu Roi; Miss Alice des P.T.T), dies at 56
- Jul 13 Asger Hamerik [Hammerich], Danish composer, and educator (Peabody Institute, 1878-91), dies at 80
- Jul 14 Louis Ganne, French conductor and operetta composer (Les saltimbanques (The Acrobats)), dies at 61
- Sep 15 Sayed Darwish, Egyptian singer-songwriter and "father of Egyptian popular music" (Ana Haweet), dies at 31
- Oct 14 George Elbridge Whiting, American composer, dies at 83
- Dec 2 Tomás Bretón, Spanish conductor and composer (La Dolores; La verbena de la Paloma), dies at 72
- Dec 8 Dom Joseph Pothier, French monk and musicologist, dies at 88
- Dec 14 Giuseppe Gallignani, Italian composer and conductor, takes his own life at 72
- Dec 16 Kacsóh Pongrác, Hungarian composer, dies at 50
- Dec 22 Arthur H. Bird, American composer, dies at 67