Deaths
- January 1 - Jaroslav Jezek, composer, 35 (kidney disease)
- January 2 - Henriette Gottlieb, operatic soprano, 57
- January 14
- Harry Champion, music hall composer
- Fred Fisher, songwriter
- February 22
- Vera Timanova, Russian pianist
- Stefan Zweig, Jewish librettist of Richard Strauss
- February 25 - Leo Ascher, composer and songwriter, 61
- March 2 - Charlie Christian, jazz guitarist, 25 (tuberculosis)
- March 15 - Alexander von Zemlinsky, conductor and composer, 70
- April 3 - Paul Gilson, composer, 76
- April 11 - Frederick Hobbs, singer, actor and theatre manager, 61
- April 27 - Emil von Sauer, pianist and composer, 79
- May 11? - T-Bone Slim, poet and songwriter, ?52
- May 14 - Frank Churchill, US composer, 40 (suicide)
- May 26 - Libero Bovio, Neapolitan lyricist, 68
- June 2 - Bunny Berigan, jazz trumpeter, 33 (haemorrhage)
- June 12 - Walter Leigh, composer, 36 (killed in action)
- June 17 - Jessie Bond, singer and actress in Gilbert & Sullivan, 89
- June 18
- Arthur Pryor, trombonist and bandleader, 71
- Daniel Alomía Robles, Peruvian composer and musicologist, 71
- July 30
- Jimmy Blanton, jazz double-bassist, 23 (tuberculosis)
- Dorothy Silk, operatic soprano, 59
- August 12 - Pasquale Amato, operatic baritone, 64
- August 18 - Erwin Schulhoff, pianist and composer, 48 (tuberculosis)
- August 22 - Michel Fokine, dancer and choreographer, 62
- August 28 - Caleb Simper, organist and composer, 85
- October 23 - Ralph Rainger, US composer and pianist, 41 (air crash)
- November - Peadar Kearney, lyricist of the Irish national anthem, 58
- November 1 - Hugo Distler, composer, 34 (suicide)
- November 5 - George M. Cohan, songwriter and music hall star, 64
- December 20 - Jean Gilbert, composer and conductor, 63
- December 25 - George L. Cobb, ragtime composer, 56
- date unknown - Stanislav Binički, Serbian composer, conductor and music teacher (born 1874)
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