Deaths
- January – Gertie Gitana, music hall entertainer, 69
- January 16 – Arturo Toscanini, conductor, 89
- January 18 – George Girard, jazz trumpeter, 26 (cancer)
- February 7 – Rudolph Réti, pianist, composer and musicologist, 71
- February 16 – Josef Hofmann, pianist and composer, 81
- February 21 - Marguerite Sylva, operatic mezzo-soprano, 81
- March 8 – Othmar Schoeck, composer, 70
- March 13 – Lena Ashwell, Forces entertainer, 84
- March 24 – Carson Robison, country music singer and songwriter, 66
- April 15 – Pedro Infante, actor and singer, 39 (air crash)
- May 2 – Tadeusz Kassern, composer, 53 (suicide)
- May 9 – Ezio Pinza, Italian singer and actor, 64
- May 12 – Marie Rappold, operatic soprano, 83
- June 5 – Frances Densmore, ethnomusicologist, 90
- June 6 – Kulyash Baiseitova, opera singer, 52
- June 12 – Jimmy Dorsey, jazz musician and big band leader, 53 (cancer)
- July 7 – Hiski Salomaa, folk singer and songwriter, 66
- July 9 – Alexander Goedicke, pianist and composer, 80
- July 16 – Serge Chaloff, saxophonist. 33 (cancer)
- August 28 – Erik Tuxen, conductor, composer and arranger, 55
- September 1 – Dennis Brain, horn virtuoso, 36 (in unexplained car accident)
- September 11 – Petar Stojanović, violinist and composer, 80
- September 20 – Jean Sibelius, composer, 91
- October 14 – Natanael Berg, composer, 78
- October 20 – Jack Buchanan, Scottish singer, dancer, actor and director, 66
- October 23 – Abe Lyman, US bandleader, composer and drummer, 60
- November 4 – Joseph Canteloube, composer, 78
- November 29 – Erich Wolfgang Korngold, composer, 60
- November 30 – Beniamino Gigli, operatic tenor, 67
- December 19 – Abolhasan Saba, instrumentalist, 55
- December 20 – Walter Page, jazz musician, 57
- December 21 – Eric Coates, composer, 71
- date unknown
- "Klondike Kate" Rockwell, vaudeville performer
- Ivan Zorman, poet and composer
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