Deaths
- January 4 - Michael Coleman, fiddle player (born 1893)
- January 17 - Malcolm McEachern, operatic bass (born 1883)
- January 30 - Herbert L. Clarke, Cornet Virtuoso and composer (born 1867)
- February - David Beigelman, violinist, orchestra leader, and composer (born 1887)
- February 5 - Volga Hayworth, showgirl (born c. 1898)
- February 25 - Mário de Andrade, writer and musicologist (born 1893)
- February 7 - Aldo Finzi, composer (born 1897)
- February 11 - Al Dubin, songwriter (born 1891)
- March - Joseph Fournier de Belleval, operatic baritone and music teacher (born 1892)
- March 2 - Jean-Baptiste Lemire, composer (born 1867)
- March 3 - Blanche Arral, operatic soprano (born 1864)
- April 15 - Raffaello Squarise, violinist, conductor and composer (born 1856)
- April 19 - Alois Burgstaller, operatic tenor (born 1872)
- April 25 - Teddy Weatherford, jazz pianist (born 1903) (cholera)
- April 29 - Dezső Antalffy-Zsiross, Hungarian organist and composer (born 1885)
- May 31 - Gustave Huberdeau, operatic bass-baritone (born 1874)
- June 26 - Nikolai Tcherepnin, composer (born 1873)
- June 28 - Jonny Heykens, Dutch composer and orchestra leader (born 1884)
- July 24 - Rosina Storchio, operatic soprano (born 1876)
- August 2
- Pietro Mascagni, composer (born 1863)
- Emil von Reznicek, composer (born 1860)
- August 19 - Carl Wilhelm Kern, pianist and composer (born 1874)
- August 23 - Leo Borchard, conductor (born 1899) (shot)
- August 31 - Elsa Stralia, operatic soprano (born 1881)
- September 8 - Leo Rich Lewis, composer (born 1865)
- September 15 - Anton Webern, composer (born 1883) (shot)
- September 16 - John McCormack, tenor (born 1884)
- September 18 - Blind Willie Johnson, gospel singer and guitarist (born 1897) (pneumonia)
- September 25 - Julius Korngold, music critic (born 1860)
- September 26 - Béla Bartók, composer (born 1881)
- October 16 - James V. Monaco, Italian-born US composer (born 1885)
- November 3 - Alessandro Longo, composer and musicologist (born 1864)
- November 7 - Gus Edwards, Prussian-born US songwriter, entertainer and producer (born 1879)
- November 11 - Jerome Kern, composer (born 1885) (cerebral haemorrhage)
- December 24 - Adelina Stehle, operatic soprano (born 1860)
- December 30 - France Ačko, Slovenian organist and composer (born 1904)
- date unknown - Viktor Selyavin, operatic tenor (born 1875)
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