- Jan 18 Filippo Marchetti, Italian opera composer, dies at 70
- Feb 1 Salomon Jadassohn, German pianist & composer, dies at 70
- Feb 2 Emanuil Manolov, composer, dies at 42
- Feb 25 Carl Ignaz Franz Umlauf, Austrian zither player and composer, dies at 77
- Mar 17 George William Warren, American hymn composer, dies at 73
- Jul 6 Leopoldo Miguez, Brazilian composer, dies at 51
- Jul 18 John White, American composer, dies at 47
- Aug 3 August Klughardt, German composer, dies at 54
- Sep 2 Iosif Ivanovici, Romanian military band leader and composer (Waves of the Danube), dies (b. 1845)
- Sep 7 Franz Wullner, composer, dies at 70
- Sep 14 Reinhold Finsterbusch, German singer, organist, composer, and choral director (Jesu Tod und Begräbnis), dies at 76