Deaths
- January 10 – Frank Bridge, composer, 61
- January 23 – Dobri Hristov, composer, 65
- February 13 – Blind Boy Fuller, blues musician
- February 15 – Guido Adler, musicologist
- February 19 – Sir Hamilton Harty, conductor and composer, 61
- February 21 – La Bolduc, Québécois singer, 46 (cancer)
- March 11 – Sir Henry Walford Davies, composer, 71
- March 12 – Ernst Décsey, music critic, 70
- March 17 – Wassily Sapellnikoff, pianist
- March 20 – Oskar Baum, music teacher and writer
- March 27 – Primo Riccitelli, Italian composer, 65
- April 6 – Henry Burr, popular singer
- April 17 – Al Bowlly, popular singer
- April 19 – Johanna Müller-Hermann, Austrian composer and teacher
- April 21 – Agustín Bardi, tango composer, pianist and violinist, 56 (heart attack)
- May 1
- Julia Claussen, operatic mezzo-soprano
- Howard Johnson, lyricist
- May 18 – Milka Ternina, Croatian dramatic soprano
- May 23 – Slavko Osterc, Slovenian composer
- June 17 – Johan Wagenaar, organist and composer, 78
- June 29 – Ignacy Jan Paderewski, pianist and composer, former Prime Minister of Poland, 80
- July 5 – Oskar Fried, conductor and composer
- July 8 – Philippe Gaubert, composer and conductor, 62
- July 10 – Jelly Roll Morton, jazz pianist, 55 (asthma
- July 30 – Hugo Becker, cellist, 78
- August 16 – John Coates, operatic tenor
- September 19 – Enrique Saborido, tango pianist and composer, 64
- October 8
- Helen Morgan, US singer and actress, 41 (cirrhosis of the liver)
- Gus Kahn, US lyric writer, 54
- October 26 – Victor Schertzinger, violinist and composer, 53 (heart attack)
- October 29 - Edmée Favart, operatic soprano, 62
- October 30 – Leon "Chu" Berry, jazz saxophonist, 33 (car accident)
- November 1 – Félix Mayol, singer, 68
- November 16 – Miina Härma, organist and composer, 77
- November 25 – Henri Christiné, composer,
- November 29 – Gennaro Papi, Italian opera conductor, 54
- December 3 – Christian Sinding, composer, 85
- December 21 – Peetie Wheatstraw, blues singer, 39 (car accident)
- December 22 – Jurgis Karnavičius, composer, 57
- December 24 – Siegfried Alkan, composer, 83
- date unknown
- Rudy Concepcion, actor and singer
- Amalia Paoli, operatic soprano
- William H. Potstock, music teacher and composer
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
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—Philip Caputo (b. 1941)