- Jan 4 Frantisek Pivoda, Czech composer, dies at 73
- Jan 11 Gaetano Capocci, Italian organist and composer (Responsori), dies at 86
- Jan 23 W. A. Remy [Wilhelm Mayer], Austro-Bohemian composer, dies at 66
- Jan 28 Alexandru Flechtenmacher, Romanian composer, violinist and teacher, dies at 74
- Apr 21 Louis Théodore Gouvy, French-German composer, dies at 78
- Jun 3 Nikolai Afanisev, Russian violinist and composer, dies at 77
- Jul 7 Lucien Petipa, French dancer/choreograph/ballet leader, dies
- Jul 18 Emil Hartmann, Danish organist and composer (Towards The Light), dies at 62
- Jul 20 Yuri Karlovich Arnold, Russian composer, dies at 86
- Aug 17 Carl Johann Adam Zeller, Austrian composer, dies at 56
- Aug 21 Niccolò van Westerhout, Italian composer, dies at 40
- Aug 23 Joseph Robinson, Irish singer, organist and composer, dies at 82
- Sep 11 Adolphe-Abraham Samuel, Belgian composer, dies at 74
- Nov 4 (Charles) Jerome Hopkins, American composer, pianist, critic, and musical education advocate, dies of a brain hemorrhage at 62
- Dec 13 George Frederick Bristow, American composer (Rip Van Winkle), dies at 72
- Dec 24 Eugeniusz Pankiewicz, Polish composer, dies at 41
- Dec 29 Georg Goltermann, German cellist and composer, dies at 74
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