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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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
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“Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)