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:
“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)
“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)
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
...
What we do is not beautiful
hurts no one makes no one desperate
we do not break the panes of safety glass
stretching between people on the street
and the deaths they hire.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)