Deaths
- January 10 - Albert Becker, composer, 64
- February 4 - Eduard Holst, Danish composer, playwright, actor, dancer and dance master, 52
- April 17 - Hans Balatka, composer, 72
- May 29 - Frantz Jehin-Prume, violinist, composer, and music educator, 60
- June 3 - Johann Strauss II, composer, 73
- June 10 - Ernest Chausson, composer, 44 (bicycle accident)
- June 16 - August Winding, composer, 64
- August 17 - Erik Bøgh, journalist, dramatist and songwriter, 77
- October 10 - Allan James Foley, operatic bass, 62
- October 13 - Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, organ-builder, 88
- October 15 - Johann Nepomuk Fuchs, conductor and composer, 57
- October 22 - Ernst Mielck, composer, 21 (tuberculosis)
- October 23 - Ludwig Straus, violinist, 64
- October 31 - Hugh Talbot, singer and actor, 54
- November 16 - Vincas Kudirka, lyricist of the Lithuanian national anthem, 40 (tuberculosis)
- November 25 - Robert Lowry, hymn writer, 73
- December 7 - Anton de Kontski, pianist and composer, 82
- December 10 - Hans von Milde, operatic baritone, 78
- December 18 - Gussie Davis, songwriter, 36
- December 21
- Joseph Dupont, violinist, theatre director and conductor, 61
- Charles Lamoureux, conductor and violinist, 65
- December 23 - Marietta Piccolomini, operatic soprano, 65
- December 31 - Karl Millöcker, conductor and composer, 57
- date unknown - Romain Bussine, poet, baritone, and voice teacher
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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.”
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“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
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