Deaths
- January 14 – Joaquín Turina, composer, 66
- January 19 – Charles Price Jones, hymn-writer, 83
- February 1 – Herbert Stothart, conductor and composer, 63
- February 11 – Giovanni Zenatello, opera tenor, 73
- March 7 – Sol Bloom, music industry entrepreneur, 78
- March 20 – Irving Fazola, jazz clarinetist, 36 (heart attack)
- March 28 – Grigoraş Dinicu, violinist and composer, 59
- April 3 – Basil Harwood, organist and composer, 89
- May 10 - Emilio de Gogorza, operatic baritone, 74
- June 2 – Dynam-Victor Fumet, organist and composer, 82
- June 4 – Erwin Lendvai, composer and conductor, 66
- June 9 – Maria Cebotari, operatic soprano, 39 (cancer)
- July 7 – Bunk Johnson, jazz trumpeter, exact age unknown
- July 9 – Fritz Hart, composer, 75
- July 18 – Vítězslav Novák, composer, 78
- September 5 - Walter Widdop, operatic tenor, 51
- September 8 – Richard Strauss, composer
- September 11 – Michael Hayvoronsky, violinist, conductor and composer (born 1892)
- September 12 – Harry T. Burleigh, composer and singer
- September 19 – Nikos Skalkottas, Greek composer, student of Arnold Schoenberg
- September 24 – Pierre de Bréville, composer, 88
- September 28
- Ivie Anderson, jazz singer, 44 (asthma)
- Nancy Dalberg, Danish composer, 68
- October 1 – Buddy Clark, American singer, 38 (plane crash)
- October 4
- Chris Smith, composer, 69
- Edmund Eysler, Austrian composer, 75
- October 20 – Sam Collins, blues singer and guitarist, 62
- October 27 – Ginette Neveu, violin virtuoso, 30 (plane crash)
- November 25 – Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, American tap dancer, singer and actor
- December 6 – Lead Belly, folk and blues musician, 61
- December 11 – Fiddlin' John Carson, country musician, 81
- date unknown
- Euphemia Allen, composer
- Alice Cucini, operatic contralto
- King Solomon Hill, blues musician (born 1897)
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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.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)
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