Deaths
- January 9 - Johanna Beyer, pianist and composer (b. 1888)
- January 29 - Carl Aeschbacher, choirmaster and composer (b. 1886)
- February 4 - Yvette Guilbert, cabaret singer and actress (b. 1865)
- February 7 - Lina Cavalieri, opera singer (b. 1874)
- April 4 - Alma Rosé, violinist and composer (b. 1906) (food poisoning or typhoid at Auschwitz concentration camp)
- April 13 - Cecile Chaminade, pianist (b. 1857)
- April 19 - Jimmie Noone, jazz musician (b. 1895)
- April 23 - Marion Harris, jazz singer (b. 1857) (hotel fire)
- May 9 - Dame Ethel Smyth, composer (b. 1858)
- May 16 - Leone Sinigaglia, composer (b. 1868)
- May 20 - Vincent Rose, Italian-born US bandleader and composer
- June 2 - Zikmund Schul, composer (b. 1916) (tuberculosis)
- June 5 - Riccardo Zandonai, opera composer (b. 1883)
- June 10 - Sylvio Lazzari, composer (b. 1857)
- June 25 - Lucha Reyes (Mexican singer) (b. 1906) (suicide)
- July 4 - Alice Burville, singer and actress (b. 1856)
- July 14 - Asmahan, Syrian singer and actress (b. 1912) (drowned)
- July 19 - Will Marion Cook, violinist and composer (b. 1869)
- August 1 - Cecil Mack, songwriter and music publisher (b. 1883)
- August 7 - Agustin Barrios, composer (b. 1885)
- August 8 - Aino Ackté, operatic soprano (b. 1876)
- August 12 - James Simon, pianist, composer and musicologist (b. 1880) (killed at Auschwitz concentration camp)
- August 19 - Sir Henry Wood, conductor (b. 1869)
- October 1 - Carlo Sigmund Taube, pianist, conductor and composer (b. 1897) (killed at Auschwitz concentration camp)
- October 16 - Hans Krása, Czech-German composer (b. 1899) (gassed in Auschwitz)
- November 14 - Carl Flesch, violinist (b. 1873)
- November 26 - Florence Foster Jenkins, soprano famous for her lack of musical ability (b. 1868)
- November 27 - Margarete Dessoff, conductor, singer and voice teacher (b. 1874)
- November 30 - Antoine Mariotte, conductor and composer (b. 1875)
- December 2 - Josef Lhévinne, pianist (b. 1874)
- December 15 - Glenn Miller, trombonist, composer and bandleader (b. 1904) (missing in action)
- December 27 - Amy Beach, composer and pianist (b. 1867)
- date unknown - Lalla Miranda, coloratura soprano (b. 1874)
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“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“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)