Deaths
- February 14 – Erkki Melartin, Finnish composer (b. 1875)
- March 12
- Charles-Marie Widor, composer (b. 1844)
- Jenő Hubay, composer and violinist (b. 1858)
- March 29 – Karol Szymanowski, composer (b. 1882)
- April 8 – Arthur Foote, composer (b. 1853)
- April 11 – Minnie Bell Sharp, pianist and singer (b. 1865)
- April 20 – Virgilio Ranzato, composer (b. 1883)
- May 2 – Arthur Somervell, composer (b. 1863)
- May 4 – Noel Rosa, singer, songwriter and guitarist (b. 1910)
- May 7 – W. O. Forsyth, pianist (b. 1859)
- May 11 – Viliam Figuš-Bystrý, composer (b. 1875)
- June 2 – Louis Vierne, organist and composer (b. 1870)
- July 11 – George Gershwin, composer (b. 1898)
- July 17 – Gabriel Pierné, organist and composer (b. 1863)
- July 23 – Charles Henry Mills, composer and music teacher (b. 1873)
- August 23 – Albert Roussel, composer (b. 1869)
- September 6 – Henry Kimball Hadley, composer and conductor (b. 1871)
- September 26 – Bessie Smith, blues singer (b. 1895)
- October 17 – Paul Lhérie, operatic tenor/baritone (b. 1844)
- October 22 – Frank Damrosch, organist, conductor and music teacher (b. 1859)
- November 3 – Winthrop Ames, theatrical director (b. 1870)
- November 24 – Tell Taylor, songwriter (b. 1876)
- November 25 – Lilian Baylis, founder of Sadler's Wells ballet company (b. 1874) (b. 1861)
- November 29 – Ferdinand Buescher, instrument manufacturer
- December 10 – Rosa Valetti, cabaret singer (b. 1878)
- December 26
- Dan Beddoe, tenor (b. 1863)
- Ivor Gurney, composer-poet (b. 1890)
- December 28 – Maurice Ravel, composer (b. 1875)
- date unknown
- Blind Uncle Gaspard, Cajun musician (b. 1880 )
- Maude Valerie White, composer and songwriter (b. 1855)
- Loraine Wyman, folk singer and dulcimer player (b. 1885)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“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.”
—Philip Caputo (b. 1941)
“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)