- Jan 10 Kārlis Baumanis, Latvian composer (b. 1835)
- Jan 20 Stanislaw Pilinski, French pianist and composer, dies at 65
- Feb 10 Ignacy Krzyzanowski, composer, dies at 78
- Mar 19 Makar Grigori Ekmalyan, composer, dies at 49
- Apr 23 Karel Komzák II, Viennese composer, dies at 54
- Apr 29 Ignacio Cervantes, composer, dies at 57
- May 9 Ernst Pauer, Austrian composer and pianist, dies at 78
- May 29 Leon Francis Victor Caron, composer, dies at 55
- Jun 4 Carl Albert Löschhorn, German composer, dies at 85
- Jul 8 Walter Kittredge, American musician during American Civil War, dies at 70
- Sep 2 Walter Cecil Macfarren, English pianist and composer, dies at 79
- Oct 21 Jose Teodor Vilar, composer, dies at 69
- Dec 9 Henry Holmes, English violinist and composer, dies at 66