- Jan 8 Emile Paladilhe, composer, dies at 81
- Jan 15 Enrico Toselli, Italian pianist and composer, dies at 42
- Jan 23 Joseph Carl Breil, American composer (Les amours de la reine Élisabeth), dies at 55
- Feb 5 André Gedalge, French composer (le Petit Savoyard, Phoebé) and Mayor of Chessy, Seine-et-Marne, dies at 69
- Feb 26 Peter Lange-Muller, Danish composer and pianist, dies at 75
- Mar 3 Cyril Metodej Hrazdira, Czech composer and conductor, dies at 58
- Mar 7 Heinrich Kàan-Albest, Bohemian pianist and composer, dies at 73
- May 21 Georgy Catoire, Russian composer, dies at 65
- May 23 Hans Koessler, German composer, conductor and music teacher, dies at 73
- Jun 1 Vasily Mikhaylovich Metallov, composer, dies at 64
- Jun 6 Henry Tate, Australian composer and poet, dies at 52
- Jun 7 Henry Charles Tonking, British organist and composer, dies at 63
- Jun 22 Hermann Suter, Swiss composer, dies at 56
- Jul 12 Charles Wood, Irish composer, dies at 40
- Sep 12 Edmund Jenkins, American clarinetist and composer (Charlestonia; Afram), dies at 32
- Oct 25 Frederick Zech, Jr., American pianist and composer, dies at 68
- Nov 22 Darvish Khan, Iranian classical tar (Persian lute) player, dies in a vehicle accident at 54
- Nov 23 Frederic Ayers, American composer, dies at 50
- Dec 1 Hans Heinrich XIV Hochberg, German composer, dies at 83
- Dec 17 Alexander Kastalsky, Russian composer, dies at 70