- Jan 3 Stephane Raoul Pugno, composer, dies at 62
- Jan 13 Valentin Zubiaurre Spanish composer (Ferdinand Set), and educator, dies at 76
- Jan 20 Emil Liebling, German-American composer, dies at 62
- Jan 20 (Henry Southwick) H.S. Perkins, American hymn composer, lyricist, conductor, and teacher, dies at 80
- Jan 22 Frederik Rung, Danish composer, dies at 60
- Mar 1 Tor Aulin, Swedish 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, Italian-Australian composer, dies at 81
- May 28 Adolf Sonnenfeld, Polish violinist and composer, dies at 76
- Jun 21 Glauco Velasquez, Brazilian composer, dies at 30
- Jul 20 Leo van Gheluwe, Belgian composer, dies at 76
- Aug 2 Gabriel Édouard Xavier Dupont, French composer, dies of tuberculosis at 36
- Aug 7 Boleslaw Dembinski, Polish composer, dies at 81
- Aug 15 Anatoly Liadov, Russian composer (Baba yaga), dies at 59
- Aug 28 Anatoly Lyadov, Russian composer (From the Apocalypse; Bewitched Lake), conductor, and pedagogue (St. Petersburg Conservatory, 1878-1914), dies at 59
- Sep 3 Albéric Magnard, French composer (Guercœur) dies defending his property against invading Germans in WWI at 49
- Sep 28 Stevan Mokranjac [Stojanović], Serbian cellist, educator and composer of choral music (Garlands), dies at 58
- Oct 15 Aleksander Różycki, Polish pianist, composer, and music teacher dies at 59
- Oct 28 Richard Heuberger, composer, dies at 64
- Nov 25 Davorin Jenko, Slovene-Serbian composer, dies at 79
- Dec 14 Giovanni Sgambati, Italian pianist & composer, dies at 73
- Dec 16 Ivan Zajc, Croatian composer and conductor, dies at 82