Deaths
- January 20 - Alexander Chuhaldin, violinist, conductor, composer, and music educator, 58
- February 3 – Fréhel, French singer, actress, 59
- February 9 – Eddy Duchin, pianist and bandleader, 41 (leukaemia)
- February 20 – Howard Brockway, composer, 80
- February 28 – Giannina Russ, operatic soprano, 77
- March 5 – Leo Singer, vaudeville impresario, 73
- March 6 – Ivor Novello, operetta composer, entertainer, 58 (coronary thrombosis)
- March 12 – Harold Bauer, pianist and violinist, 77
- March 25 – Sid Catlett, jazz drummer, 41 (heart attack)
- April 21 – Olive Fremstad, operatic soprano, 80
- May 29
- Fanny Brice, US actress, comedienne and singer
- Josef Bohuslav Foerster, Czech classical composer (born 1859)
- Robert Kahn, composer, 85
- June 4 – Serge Koussevitzky, double-bassist, conductor and composer, 76
- June 26 – Frank Ferera, Hawaiian musician (born 1885)
- July 9
- Giannina Arangi-Lombardi, operatic soprano, 60
- Egbert Van Alstyne, US songwriter
- Jorgen Bentzon, Danish composer
- July 13 – Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian composer, 76
- August 15 – Artur Schnabel, pianist, 69
- August 21 – Constant Lambert, composer, 45 (pneumonia and undiagnosed diabetes)
- September 3 – Leo Sheffield, d'Oyly Carte star, 77
- September 14 – Fritz Busch, conductor, 61
- September 17 – Jimmy Yancey, US jazz pianist
- November 4 - Oscar Natzka, opera singer, 39
- November 9 – Sigmund Romberg, composer
- November 11 – César Vezzani, operatic tenor, 63
- November 13 – Nikolai Medtner, pianist and composer, 71
- December 26 – Vic Berton, jazz drummer, 55
- date unknown
- Edward Joseph Collins, pianist, conductor and composer
- Giuseppina Huguet, operatic soprano (born 1871)
- Margot Ruddock, actress and singer
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