- Jan 3 Stephane Raoul Pugno, composer, dies at 62
- Jan 13 Valentin de Zubiaurre y Unionbarrenechea, composer, dies 76
- Jan 20 Emil Liebling, German-American composer, dies at 62
- Jan 20 Henry Southwick Perkins, composer, dies at 80
- Jan 22 Frederik Rung, Danish composer, dies at 60
- Mar 1 Tor Bernhard Vilhelm Aulin, composer, dies at 47
- Mar 28 Hanus Trnecek, composer, dies at 55
- Apr 12 Josef Nešvera, Czech composer, dies at 71
- May 7 Edward Mollenhauer, American composer, dies at 87
- May 25 Paolo Giorza, composer, dies at 81
- May 28 Adolf Sonnenfeld, Polish violinist and composer, dies at 76
- Jun 21 Glauco Velasquez, composer, dies at 30
- Jul 20 Leo van Gheluwe, composer, dies at 76
- Aug 2 Gabriel Édouard Xavier Dupont, French composer, dies of tuberculosis at 36
- Aug 7 Boleslaw Dembinski, composer, dies at 81
- Aug 15 Anatoly Liadov, Russian composer (Baba yaga), dies at 59
- Aug 28 Anatol Konstantinovich Lyadov, composer (Baba Yaga), dies at 59 [NS]
- Aug 28 Anatoli Liadov, composer, dies at 59
- Sep 3 Lucien-Denis-Gabriel-Alberic Magnard, composer, dies at 49
- Sep 28 Stevan Mokranjac, composer, dies at 58
- Oct 15 Aleksander Rozycki, composer, dies at 69
- Oct 28 Richard Heuberger, composer, dies at 64
- Nov 25 Davorin Jenko, Slovene-Serbian composer, dies at 79
- Dec 14 Giovanni Sgambati, composer, dies at 73
- Dec 16 Ivan Zajc, Croatian composer and conductor, dies at 82