Deaths
- January 12 - Paul Kochanski, violinist, composer and arranger, 46 (cancer)
- January 18 - Otakar Ševčík, violinist, 81
- February 4 - Ernesto Nazareth, pianist and composer, 70 (drowned)
- February 23 - Edward Elgar, composer, 76
- February 24 - Pyotr Slovtsov, operatic tenor, 47
- March 21 - Franz Schreker, composer and conductor, 55
- April 12 - Thaddeus Cahill, inventor of the teleharmonium
- April 22 - Augusto de Lima, writer and musician
- April 28 - Charlie Patton, blues musician, 42
- May 7 - Edward Naylor, organist and composer, 57
- May 25 - Gustav Holst, composer, 59 (complications following surgery)
- May 26 - Robert Samut, composer of the Maltese national anthem
- June 10 - Frederick Delius, composer, 82
- June 13 - Charlie Gardiner, ice hockey player and amateur singer (b. 1904) (brain hemorrhage)
- September 2
- Russ Columbo, violinist, 26 (shot)
- Alcide Nunez, jazz musician, 50
- September 10 - Sir George Henschel, operatic baritone, pianist and conductor, 84
- September 24 - Edwin Lemare, organist and composer, 68
- October 3 - Henri Marteau, violinist, 60
- October 14 - Leonid Sobinov, operatic tenor, 62 (heart attack)
- December 15 - Bernhard Sekles, composer and music teacher, 62
- December 19 - Francis Planté, pianist, 95
- date unknown
- Eddie Anthony, jazz violinist
- Olimpia Boronat, operatic soprano
- Alice Verlet, operatic soprano (b. 1873)
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