Deaths
- January – Joseph Kekuku, inventor of the steel guitar (born 1874)
- January 27 – Mortimer Wilson, composer (born 1876)
- February 22 – Johanna Gadski, opera singer (born 1872) (car accident)
- March 1 – Frank Teschemacher, jazz musician (born 1905) (car accident)
- March 3 – Eugen d'Albert, pianist and composer (born 1864)
- March 6 – John Philip Sousa, composer (born 1854)
- March 18 – Chancellor Olcott, songwriter (born 1858)
- March 19 – Richard Specht, musicologist (born 1870)
- April 2 – Hugo Kaun, composer and conductor (born 1863)
- May 5 – Hilda Clark, music hall singer (born 1872)
- May 6 – Roméo Beaudry, pianist, composer and record producer (born 1882)
- May 9 – Emil Hertzka, music publisher (born 1869)
- May 20 – Bubber Miley, jazz trumpeter (born 1903)
- May 28 – Pascual Contursi, singer and guitarist (born 1888)
- June 7 – Emil Paur, conductor (born 1855)
- July 8 – Samuel Castriota, pianist, guitarist and composer (born 1885)
- July 22 – Florenz Ziegfeld, Broadway impresario
- August 16 – Pietro Floridia, composer and conductor (born 1860)
- September 13 – Julius Röntgen, composer (born 1855)
- September 14 – Jean Cras, composer (born 1879)
- September 26 – Pierre De Geyter, composer of The Internationale (born 1848)
- October 19 – Arthur Friedheim, pianist (born 1859)
- October 21 – Al Hopkins, country musician (born 1889)
- November 23 – Percy Pitt, organist and conductor (born 1870)
- November 27 – Evelyn Preer, actress and blues singer (born 1896)
- November 28 – Hubert de Blanck, pianist and composer (born 1856)
- December 1 – Amadeo Vives, composer (born 1871)
- December 24 – Eyvind Alnæs, pianist, organist and composer (born 1872)
- December 25 – Ernst Rolf, actor and singer (born 1891)
- December 26 - Dina Barberini, operatic soprano (born 1862)
- date unknown
- Hugh Blair, organist and composer (born 1864)
- Giulia Novelli, operatic mezzo-soprano (born 1859)
- Emanuele Nutile, composer of Neapolitan songs (born 1862)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)
“Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)
“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)