Deaths
- January 9 - Midge Williams, singer
- January 14 - Artur Kapp, Estonian composer (b. 1878)
- January 20 - Arthur Farwell, composer and conductor
- February 13 - Alfred Einstein, musicologist
- March 17 - Percy Wenrich, ragtime composer
- March 22 - Uncle Dave Macon, musician
- April 23 - Elisabeth Schumann, operatic soprano
- May 23 - Georg Schumann, German composer (b. 1866)
- May 15 - Italo Montemezzi, composer
- June 9 - Adolf Busch, violinist and composer
- June 13 - Emma Eames, operatic soprano
- June 14 - John Kirby, jazz musician
- July 2 - Henriëtte Hilda Bosmans, Dutch composer and pianist (b. 1895)
- July 10 - Rued Langgaard, Danish composer and organist (b. 1893)
- September 6 - Gertrude Lawrence, English actress, singer, dancer
- September 16 - Vesta Tilley, music hall entertainer
- September 18 - Frances Alda, operatic soprano
- September 19 - Nat Ayer, composer
- October 25 - Sergei Bortkiewicz, pianist and composer
- October 26 - Hattie McDaniel
- November 1 - Dixie Lee, singer, dancer and actress, wife of Bing Crosby
- November 4 - Max Adler, violinist
- November 17 - Charles Penrose, music hall performer
- December 26 - Paul Breisach, conductor
- December 28 - Fletcher Henderson, jazz musician
- December 30
- Willie Brown, blues musician
- Nakayama Shimpei, songwriter
- date unknown
- Tryphosa Bates-Batcheller, singer
- Georgette Harvey, actress and singer
- Luke Jordan, blues musician
- René Voisin, trumpeter
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