- Jan 30 Jakab Gyula Major, Hungarian pianist and composer, dies at 66
- Feb 20 Marco Enrico Bossi, Italian concert organist, composer and teacher, dies aboard an ocean liner while returning from a concert tour of America at 54
- Feb 21 Alfred Baldwin Sloan, American composer, dies at 52
- Mar 4 Moritz Moszkowski, Polish-German composer, dies at 70
- Mar 11 Andreas Hallen, composer, dies at 78
- Apr 1 Francis William Davenport, English composer, dies at 77
- Apr 22 André Caplet, French composer and conductor (Conte Fantastic, Le miroir de Jesus), dies from WWI gas attack issues at 45
- Apr 25 George Stephănescu, Romanian composer, dies at 81
- May 12 Artur Napoleão dos Santos, Portuguese pianist, composer, and music publisher, dies at 82
- Jun 4 Gheorghe Dima, Romanian composer, dies at 77
- Jun 16 Emmett Hardy, American jazz cornetist, dies of tuberculosis at 22
- Jun 20 Wilhelm Posse, German composer, dies at 72
- Jul 1 Erik Satie, French pianist and composer (Music In The Shape OF A Pear; Dreamy Fish), dies at 59
- Jul 5 Hjalmar Borgstrom, composer, dies at 61
- Sep 15 Leonard Borwick, English concert pianist, dies at 57
- Sep 16 Leo Fall, Austria operetta composer (That Pink von Stambul), dies at 52
- Oct 7 Hubert Main, American hymn composer, dies at 86
- Oct 23 Vyacheslav Gavrilovich Karatigin, Russian composer and music critic, dies at 50
- Oct 27 Wilhelm Gericke, Austrian composer, dies at 80
- Nov 12 Roman Statkowski, Polish composer, dies at 65
- Nov 14 Agnes Zimmermann, German composer, dies at 78
- Nov 26 Johannes Haarklou, Norwegian organist, composer, and educator, dies at 78
- Nov 29 Karl Flodin, Finnish composer, dies at 67
- Dec 1 Vicente Arregui Garay, Spanish composer, dies at 54
- Dec 2 Juli Garreta, Spanish-Catalan composer (Sardanes; Les illes Medes), dies at 50
- Dec 9 Eugène Gigout, French organist (St Augustin de Paris, 1863-1925), and composer (10 pièces pour orgue), dies at 81
- Dec 19 José Ignacio Quintón, Puerto-Rican composer (El coquí; Requiem por Angel Mislán), dies at 44
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