- Jan 18 Filippo Marchetti, composer, dies at 70
- Feb 1 Salomon Jadassohn, German pianist and composer, dies at 70
- Feb 2 Emanuil Manolov, composer, dies at 42
- Feb 25 Carl Ignaz Franz Umlauf, Austrian composer, dies at 77
- Mar 17 George William Warren, composer, dies at 73
- Jul 6 Leopoldo Miguez, composer, dies at 51
- Jul 18 John White, American composer, dies at 47
- Aug 3 August Friedrich Martin Klughardt, composer, dies at 54
- Sep 7 Franz Wullner, composer, dies at 70
- Sep 14 Reinhold Finsterbusch, composer, dies at 76
- Sep 29 Iosif Ivanovici, composer, dies
- Oct 24 Władysław Zaremba, Ukrainian composer, dies at 69
- Oct 31 Jean-Baptist Colyns, composer, dies at 67
- Nov 22 Septimus Winner, composer, dies at 75
- Dec 5 Henry Stephen Cutler, American composer, dies at 78