- Jan 30 La Goulue, French Cancan dancer (b. 1866)
- Feb 1 August Otto Halm, composer, dies at 59
- Feb 5 Siegfried Ochs, composer, dies at 70
- Feb 24 Andre-Charles-Prosper Messager, composer, dies at 75
- Feb 27 Manuel Manrique de Lara, Spanish composer (The Oresteia), dies at 65
- Feb 28 John Ebenezer West, English composer, dies at 65
- Mar 15 Clarence "Pinetop" Smith, American jazz pianist and singer (Boogie Woogie Piano), dies of a gunshot wound in a dance-hall fight at 24
- Mar 22 Anton Beer-Walbrun, German composer, dies at 64
- Apr 15 Antonio Smareglia, Italian composer, dies at 74
- Apr 22 Ödön Mihalovich, Hungarian composer, dies at 86
- May 4 Henry Morton Dunham, composer, dies at 75
- May 16 Lilli Lehmann, soprano, dies
- Jul 4 Otto Taubmann, German composer, dies at 70
- Jul 22 Bror Beckman, composer, dies at 63
- Aug 16 Frank Valentine der Stucken, American-Belgian composer, dies at 70
- Aug 19 Sergei P Diaghilev, Russian dance master (Imperial Ballet), dies at 57
- Sep 18 Hermann Gradener, German composer, dies at 85
- Nov 11 Mieczyslaw Soltys, composer, dies at 66
- Nov 19 Arthur H Mann, English composer (Church of England Hymnal), dies
- Nov 26 Michele Esposito, Italian composer who worked in Ireland, dies at 74
- Dec 13 Knut Algot Hakanson, composer, dies at 42
- Dec 19 Lemon Henry "Blind Lemon" Jefferson, American blues singer and guitarist, dies at 36