- Jan 28 Augusta Holmes, French composer, dies at 55
- Jan 28 Jean Robert Planquette, French composer (Bells of Corneville), dies at 54
- Feb 3 Frederick E Kitziger, composer, dies at 59
- Feb 11 Henryk Szulc, Polish composer, dies at 67
- Feb 17 Joseph Parry, Welsh composer and musician, dies at 61
- Feb 22 Hugo Filipp Jakob Wolf, Austrian composer (Corregidor), dies at 42
- Feb 23 Albert Cahen, composer, dies at 57
- Feb 23 Friedrich Grutzmacher, composer, dies at 70
- May 1 Luigi Arditi, Italian violinist and composer, dies at 80
- May 16 Eduard Rappoldi, composer, dies at 72
- Jun 29 Rentaro Taki, Japanese pianist and composer, dies at 23
- Jul 7 José Augusto Ferreira Veiga, Viscount of Arneiro, Portuguese composer, dies at 64
- Jul 13 August Reissmann, composer, dies at 77
- Aug 28 August Labitzky, Bohemian composer, dies at 70
- Sep 4 Hermann Zumpe, German composer, dies at 53
- Sep 18 Isidor Vorobchievici, Romanian composer, dies at 67
- Sep 18 Theodore Furchtegott Kirchner, German composer, dies at 79
- Sep 28 Jesus Monasterio, Spanish composer, dies at 67
- Oct 3 Benedetto Junck, Italian composer, dies at 51
- Oct 26 Herbert Oakeley, English composer, dies at 73
- Oct 26 Victorin de Joncières, French composer, dies at 64
- Nov 24 Charles Dupee Blake, American composer, dies at 56
- Dec 2 Victor Roger, composer, dies at 50
- Dec 6 Frederick Grant Gleason, composer, dies at 54
- Dec 20 Gavriil Musicescu, composer, dies at 56