Deaths
- January 1 – Harry B. Smith, US songwriter, 75
- January 7 – Guy d'Hardelot, composer and pianist, 77
- January 22 – Louis Glass, composer, 71
- January 23 – Dame Clara Butt, operatic contralto (b. 1872)
- January 25? – Hermann Bischoff, composer (b. 1868)
- March 6 – Rubin Goldmark, pianist and composer (b. 1872)
- March 21 – Alexander Glazunov, composer (b. 1865)
- March 26 – Maximilian Maksakov, opera singer (b. 1869)
- April 7 – Marilyn Miller, US actress, dancer and singer
- April 18 – Ottorino Respighi, composer, 56
- April 24 – Bernard van Dieren, composer (b. 1887)
- May 5 - Eva von der Osten, operatic soprano, 54
- May 24 – Claudia Muzio, opera singer, 47
- May 25 – Ján Levoslav Bella, composer and conductor (b. 1843)
- June 27 – Mike Bernard, ragtime musician (b. 1881)
- August 15 – Sir Henry Lytton, Gilbert & Sullivan comic baritone (b. 1865)
- August 19 – Harry Plunket Greene, concert baritone (b. 1865)
- August 28 – Albert Périlhou, French composer, organist and pianist (b. 1846)
- September 5 – Béla Szabados, composer (b. 1867)
- October 11 – Antonio José, Spanish composer (b. 1902)
- October 22 – Anne Caldwell, librettist and lyricist (b. 1867)
- November 11 – Sir Edward German, composer, 74
- November 17 – Ernestine Schumann-Heink, contralto
- December 6 – Emil Adamič, composer (b. 1877)
- December 31 – Oreste Riva, composer (b. 1860)
- date unknown
- Charlie Green, jazz trombonist (b. c. 1900)
- Albert Gorter, German conductor and composer (b. 1862)
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