Deaths
- January – Joseph Kekuku, inventor of the steel guitar (born 1874)
- January 27 – Mortimer Wilson, composer (born 1876)
- February 22 – Johanna Gadski, opera singer (born 1872) (car accident)
- March 1 – Frank Teschemacher, jazz musician (born 1905) (car accident)
- March 3 – Eugen d'Albert, pianist and composer (born 1864)
- March 6 – John Philip Sousa, composer (born 1854)
- March 18 – Chancellor Olcott, songwriter (born 1858)
- March 19 – Richard Specht, musicologist (born 1870)
- April 2 – Hugo Kaun, composer and conductor (born 1863)
- May 5 – Hilda Clark, music hall singer (born 1872)
- May 6 – Roméo Beaudry, pianist, composer and record producer (born 1882)
- May 9 – Emil Hertzka, music publisher (born 1869)
- May 20 – Bubber Miley, jazz trumpeter (born 1903)
- May 28 – Pascual Contursi, singer and guitarist (born 1888)
- June 7 – Emil Paur, conductor (born 1855)
- July 8 – Samuel Castriota, pianist, guitarist and composer (born 1885)
- July 22 – Florenz Ziegfeld, Broadway impresario
- August 16 – Pietro Floridia, composer and conductor (born 1860)
- September 13 – Julius Röntgen, composer (born 1855)
- September 14 – Jean Cras, composer (born 1879)
- September 26 – Pierre De Geyter, composer of The Internationale (born 1848)
- October 19 – Arthur Friedheim, pianist (born 1859)
- October 21 – Al Hopkins, country musician (born 1889)
- November 23 – Percy Pitt, organist and conductor (born 1870)
- November 27 – Evelyn Preer, actress and blues singer (born 1896)
- November 28 – Hubert de Blanck, pianist and composer (born 1856)
- December 1 – Amadeo Vives, composer (born 1871)
- December 24 – Eyvind Alnæs, pianist, organist and composer (born 1872)
- December 25 – Ernst Rolf, actor and singer (born 1891)
- December 26 - Dina Barberini, operatic soprano (born 1862)
- date unknown
- Hugh Blair, organist and composer (born 1864)
- Giulia Novelli, operatic mezzo-soprano (born 1859)
- Emanuele Nutile, composer of Neapolitan songs (born 1862)
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“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
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