Deaths
- January 28 – Kansas Joe McCoy, blues musician and songwriter (born 1905)
- February 10 – Armen Tigranian, Armenian composer (born 1879)
- February 26 – Sir Harry Lauder, Scottish singer, comedian and songwriter
- February 28 – Ernst Abert Couturier, cornet virtuoso, composer, inventor and instrument manufacturer (born 1869)
- March – Kate Carney, English singer and comedian (born 1869)
- March 8 – Jaroslav Kocián, violinist, composer and teacher (born 1883)
- April 3 – Kurt Weill, composer in many styles
- April 8 – Vaslav Nijinsky, ballet dancer
- April 23 – Gemma Bellincioni, operatic soprano (born 1864)
- May 7 – Bertha "Chippie" Hill, blues singer and vaudeville performer (born 1905)
- May 13 – Pauline de Ahna, operatic soprano (born 1863)
- June 9 – Joe Burke, pianist and composer (born 1884)
- June 26 – Antonina Nezhdanova, coloratura soprano (born 1873)
- July 1 – Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, developer of eurhythmics
- July 7 – Fats Navarro, jazz musician (born 1923)
- July 11 – Buddy De Sylva, songwriter (born 1895)
- July 21 – Al Hoffman, songwriter
- July 26 – Papa Charlie McCoy, blues musician
- July 30 – Guilhermina Suggia, cellist
- August 3 – Georg Høeberg, composer and conductor (born 1872)
- August 8 – Nikolai Myaskovsky, Soviet composer and teacher of Polish birth (born 1881)
- August 26 – Giuseppe De Luca, operatic baritone
- September 5 – Al Killian, trumpeter and bandleader (born 1916)
- October 11 – Emil Votoček, chemist, composer and music theorist (born 1862)
- October 15 – Clément Doucet, pianist
- October 23 – Al Jolson, singer and actor
- November 20 – Francesco Cilea, opera composer (born 1866)
- November 23 - Percival Mackey, English pianist, composer and bandleader (born 1894)
- December 9 – Georg Hann, operatic bass-baritone (born 1897)
- December 26 – Ben Black, songwriter and impresario (born 1889)
- December 31 – Charles Koechlin, composer and teacher (born 1867)
- date unknown
- Jaime de Angulo, ethnomusicologist (born 1887)
- Auguste Aramini, French singer (born 1875)
- Edouard Espinosa, dancer, choreographer and teacher
- Cenobio Hernandez, composer (b. 1863)
- Georges Mager, trumpet player (b. 1885)
- Ray Perry, jazz musician (b. 1915)
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