- Dec 13 George Frederick Bristow, American composer (Rip Van Winkle), dies at 72
- Dec 16 Pavel Tretyakov, Russian businessman and art collector, dies at 65
- Dec 24 Eugeniusz Pankiewicz, Polish composer, dies at 41
- Dec 24 Sharbel Makhluf, Lebanese monk canonized in 1977 by Pope Paul VI, dies at 70 (b. 1828)
- Dec 29 Georg Goltermann, German cellist and composer, dies at 74