Deaths
- January 5 - Colonel Charles Gerard Conn, instrument manufacturer (born 1884)
- January 21 - Felix Blumenfeld, pianist, conductor and composer (born 1863)
- January 23 - Anna Pavlova, ballerina (born 1881)
- February 16 - Dirk Schäfer, pianist and composer (born 1873)
- February 23
- Mario Ancona, bel canto baritone (born 1860)
- Dame Nellie Melba, operatic soprano (born 1861)
- April 4 - George Whitefield Chadwick, composer
- May 8 - Bertha Lewis, singer and actress with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company (born 1887) (car accident)
- May 12 - Eugène Ysaÿe, violinist and composer (born 1858)
- May 13 - Josif Marinković, composer (born 1851)
- June 18 - Fanny Holland, singer and actress (born 1847)
- June 21 - Jimmy Blythe, jazz pianist (born 1901)
- July 2 - Charles Quef, organist and composer (born 1873)
- July 4 - Buddy Petit, jazz cornet player (born c. 1890)
- August 6 - Bix Beiderbecke, jazz musician (born 1903)
- August 11 - Linda Loredo, dancer (born 1907)
- August 22 - Joseph Tabrar, songwriter (born 1857)
- August 26 - Heinrich Grünfeld, cellist (born 1855)
- August 28 - Jane Green singer (born 1897)
- September 3 - Franz Schalk, conductor (born 1863)
- September 20 - Ugo Falena, opera librettist (born 1875)
- September 23 - Harry Macdonough, pioneer recording artist (born 1871)
- October 3 - Carl Nielsen, composer (born 1865)
- October 8 - Luigi von Kunits, violinist, conductor and composer (born 1870)
- October 18 - Thomas Edison, inventor of the phonograph (born 1847)
- October 20 - Emánuel Moór, pianist, composer and inventor of the Duplex-Coupler Grand Pianoforte (born 1863)
- October 21 - Barbecue Bob, blues musician (born 1902)
- October 29 - Luciano Gallet, composer (born 1893)
- November 3 - Buddy Bolden, jazz musician (born 1877)
- November 19 - Frederic Cliffe, composer (born 1857)
- November 23 - Leonora Braham, operatic soprano and actress (Gilbert & Sullivan)
- December 2 - Vincent d'Indy, composer (born 1851)
- date unknown
- Georgi Atanasov, composer (born 1882)
- Tomasz Bartkiewcz, organist and composer (born 1865)
- Alfonso Rendano, pianist, inventor of the "third pedal" (born 1853)
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