- Mar 15 Louis van Westerhoven, Dutch actor, singer and opera director (Youth), dies at 58
- Apr 30 FrantiĊĦek Kmoch, Czech composer and conductor, dies at 63
- May 26 Jan Blockx, Belgian opera composer (Bride of the Sea), dies at 61
- Aug 13 Jules Massenet, French opera composer (Werther, Manon), dies at 70
- Aug 19 Alfonse Hasselmans, composer, dies at 67
- Sep 1 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, African-British composer (Hiawatha's Wedding Feast), dies at 37
- Sep 30 Mary Frances Allitsen, composer, dies at 63
- Oct 3 Guido Papini, Italian violinist and composer, dies at 65
- Oct 8 Wilhelm Kuhe, German composer, dies at 88
- Oct 30 Jan Karol Gali, composer, dies at 56
- Nov 6 Mykola Lysenko, Ukranian composer, conductor and ethnomusicologist, dies at 70
- Nov 11 Joseph Wieniawski, composer, dies at 75