Deaths
- January 11 – Eva Tanguay, singer, vaudeville star, 67
- January 16
- Sonny Berman, jazz trumpeter, 21 (suspected drug overdose)
- Fate Marable, jazz pianist and bandleader, 56 (pneumonia
- January 26 – Grace Moore, operatic soprano, 48 (plane crash)
- January 28 – Reynaldo Hahn, French composer and conductor, 71
- March 5 – Alfredo Casella, composer, 63
- March 28 – Rudolph Simonsen, composer, 57
- April 22 – Charles Friant, tenor, 57
- May 2 – Louie Henri, singer and actress, 83
- May 6 – Louise Homer, operatic contralto, 76
- May 27 – Claire Croiza, mezzo-soprano and singing teacher, 64
- May 30 – Georg Ludwig von Trapp, head of the singing von Trapp family, 67
- July 1 – Clarence Lucas, composer and conductor, 80
- July 12 – Jimmie Lunceford, jazz saxophonist and bandleader, 45 (cardiac arrest)
- July 13 – Marcel Varnel, Broadway director, 52 (car crash)
- July 15 – Walter Donaldson, songwriter, 54
- July 24 – Ernest Austin, English composer, 72
- September 18 – Bert Kalmar, lyricist, 63
- September 28 – Francisco Santiago, the "Father of Kundiman Art Song", 58
- September 29 – Jan Hambourg, violinist, 65
- October 6
- Janet Fairbank, opera singer, 44 (leukaemia)
- Leevi Madetoja, composer
- November 14 – Joseph Allard, French-Canadian fiddler, 74
- November 28 – Georg Schnéevoigt, conductor and composer, 75
- December 14 – Will Fyffe, Scottish comedian and singer, 62
- December 16 – Cesare Sodero, conductor, 61
- date unknown
- Salvatore Cardillo, songwriter
- Ilia Trilling, Yiddish theatre producer and composer
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