- Mar 15 Louis van Westerhoven, Dutch actor, singer and opera director (Youth), dies at 58
- Apr 30 František Kmoch, Czech composer and conductor, dies at 63
- May 26 Jan Blockx, Belgian opera composer (Bride of the Sea), dies at 61
Jules Massenet
Aug 13 Jules Massenet, French opera composer (Werther, Manon), dies at 70
Jules Massenet
- Aug 19 Alphonse Hasselmans, Belgian-French harpist, composer (La Source), and educator (Paris Conservatoire, 1884-1912), 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 Gall, Polish conductor and composer of mostly vocal pieces (Mizerna, cicha), dies at 55
- Nov 6 Mykola Lysenko, Ukrainian composer (Taras Bulba), conductor and ethno-musicologist, dies at 70
- Nov 11 Józef Wieniawski, Polish pianist, composer, conductor and teacher, dies at 75