- Jan 12 Koos van de Griend, Dutch composer, dies at 44
- Feb 10 Armen Tigran Tigranyan, Armenian music composer and conductor, dies at 70
- Feb 19 Edyth Walker, American opera singer, dies at 82
- Feb 26 Harry Lauder, Scottish comedian and singer ("Roamin' in the Gloamin'"), dies at about 75
- Mar 8 Jaroslav Kocián, Czech composer and teacher, dies at 67
- Apr 3 Adolf Wiklund, Swedish composer, dies at 70
- Apr 3 Kurt Weill, German-American composer and collaborator of Bertolt Brecht (Die Dreigroschenoper - The Threepenny Opera), dies after a heart attack at 50
- Apr 8 Vaslav Nijinsky, Ukrainian legendary ballet dancer and choreographer, dies in London at 60
- Apr 19 Lord Berners [Gerald Tyrwhitt], English composer (1st Childhood), dies at 66
- Apr 27 Adam Tadeusz Wieniawski, Polish composer (Lalita), and pedagogue, dies at 70
- Apr 27 Karl Straube, German organist and conductor, dies at 77
- May 7 Bertha "Chippie" Hill, American blues and vaudeville singer (King Oliver's Jazz Band), struck and killed by a car in New York City at 45
- May 17 Eduardo Fabini, composer, dies at 67
- May 26 Antonina Nezhdanova, Russian soprano (Bolshoi Theater), dies at 77
- Jun 22 Julio Fonseca, Costa Rican composer, dies at 65
- Jun 28 Henry Balfour Gardiner, English composer and musician, dies at 72
- Jul 1 Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, Swiss musician and educator (Dalcroze erythmics), dies at 84
- Jul 6 Theodore "Fats" Navarro, American jazz trumpet player, dies from poor health following long-term heroin addiction, tuberculosis, and a weight problem, at 26
- Jul 11 Timotei Popovici, Romanian priest, choral director, and composer, dies at 79
- Jul 21 Albert Riemenschneider, American pianist, educator, musicologist, and founder of America'a oldest Bach Festival, dies at 71
- Aug 8 Nikolai Myaskovsky, Russian composer (Kirov is With Us), dies at 69
- Sep 5 Al Killian, American big band and swing jazz trumpeter, and occasional bandleader, murdered by his landlord at 33
- Sep 11 Rudolf Palm, Curaçaoan pianist and composer, dies at 70
- Sep 15 Vojtěch Říhovský, Czech composer, dies at 79
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Oct 23 American-Lithuanian jazz singer and silent film actor (Mamie, Swanee), dies at 64
- Nov 19 Thomas Wood, English composer, dies at 57
- Nov 20 Francesco Cilea, Italian orchesztral and opera composer (L'arlesiana; Adriana Lecouvreur), dies at 84
- Dec 1 Ernest John Moeran, British composer, dies at 55
- Dec 2 Constantin "Dinu" Lipatti, Romanian classical pianist and composer, dies of Hodgkins disease complications at 33
- Dec 15 Robert Müller-Hartmann, German composer, dies at 66
- Dec 16 Otto Vrieslander, German composer and musicologist, dies at 70
- Dec 22 Julius Weismann, German pianist, conductor, and composer (Schwanenweiß), dies at 70
- Dec 22 Walter Damrosch, German-American conductor (New York Symphony, 1885-1928; commissioned Gershwin's Piano Concerto), and composer (The Man Without A Country), dies at 88
- Dec 23 Vincenzo Tommasini, Italian composer (Le donne de buon umore), dies at 72
- Dec 26 Emile Enthoven, Dutch composer and lawyer, dies at 47
- Dec 31 Charles Koechlin, French composer (The Jungle Book), dies at 83
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