Deaths
- January 8 - Richard Tauber, operatic tenor, 56 (lung cancer)
- January 15 - Jack Guthrie, popular singer, 32 (tuberculosis)
- January 21 - Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, composer of comic operas, 72
- January 26 - Ignaz Friedman, pianist and composer, 65
- February 21 - Frederic Lamond, pianist, 80
- April 21 - Carlos López Buchardo, composer, 66
- April 24 - Manuel Maria Ponce, composer, 65
- April 25 - Fritz Crome, composer and music writer, 68
- May 17
- Olga Samaroff, pianist and music critic, 67
- David Evans, composer, 74
- June 1 - José Vianna da Motta, pianist and composer
- June 6 - Henrik Lund, lyricist
- June 17 - Beryl Wallace, singer, dancer and actress
- June 20 - George Frederick Boyle, composer, 61
- June 27 - George Templeton Strong, composer, 92
- August 10
- Lucille Bogan, blues singer, 51
- Emmy Hennings, cabaret performer, 63
- August 13 - Elaine Hammerstein, Broadway star, 51 (car accident)
- August 20 - David John de Lloyd, composer, 65
- September 3 - Mutt Carey, jazz trumpeter, 61
- September 12 - Rupert D'Oyly Carte, impresario, 70
- September 15 - Vernon Dalhart, US singer, 65
- October 10 - Mary Eaton, dancer, 47 (liver failure)
- October 24 - Franz Lehár, composer, 78
- November 12 - Umberto Giordano, composer, 81
- December 2 - Chano Pozo, percussionist, 33 (murdered)
- December 5 - Kerry Mills, US violinist and songwriter, 79
- December 14 - R. O. Morris, British composer and teacher, 62
- December 18 - William Arms Fisher, music historian, 87
- December 22 - Donald Brian, actor, dancer and singer, 71
- date unknown - Boris Fomin, Russian folk composer (b. 1900)
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