Deaths
- February 7
- Clara Novello Davies, singer, mother of Ivor Novello, 81
- Sigrid Arnoldson, operatic soprano, 82
- February 17 - Armand J. Piron, jazz violinist, bandleader and composer, 54
- March 7 - Alma Moodie, violinist, 44 (drug overdose)
- March 8 - Alice Nielsen, Broadway performer and opera tic soprano, 70
- March 19 - Abel Decaux, composer, 74
- March 28
- Ben Davies, operatic tenor, 85
- Sergei Rachmaninoff, composer, 69
- April 29 - Joseph Achron, violinist and composer, 56
- April 30 - René Blum, founder of the Ballet de l'Opera at Monte Carlo, 65 (in Auschwitz concentration camp)
- May 28 - Vaughn De Leath, US singer and radio pioneer, 48 (alcohol-related)
- June 16 - Sigrid Onégin, opera singer, 54
- June 26 - Ruby Elzy, African American soprano Porgy and Bess, 35 (post-operative complications)
- July 13 - Lorenzo Barcelata, songwriter, 44
- July 20 - Maria Gay, opera singer, 64
- September 1 - August Brunetti-Pisano, Austrian composer, 72
- September 7
- Frank Crumit, US singer, 53
- Karlrobert Kreiten, pianist
- September 21 - Trixie Smith, blues singer, 48
- October 5 - Leon Roppolo, jazz musician, 41
- October 23 - Ben Bernie, US jazz violinist and bandleader, 52
- October 31 - Max Reinhardt, theatre director, 70
- November 22 - Lorenz Hart, lyricist, 48 (pneumonia)
- November 26 - Winnaretta Singer, musical patron, 78
- November 28 - Arthur Catterall, violinist, orchestra leader and conductor, 60
- December 15 - Fats Waller, jazz pianist and singer, 39 (pneumonia)
- December 18 - Joseph McCarthy, composer, 58
- date unknown
- Jane Avril, can-can dancer
- Max Bouvet, operatic baritone
- Edoardo Garbin, operatic tenor
- Harry Kandel, bandleader
- Erhard Wechselmann, operatic baritone, 48 (killed in Auschwitz concentration camp)
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“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.”
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