Deaths
- January 21 – Ataúlfo Argenta, conductor, 44 (carbon monoxide poisoning)
- February 5 – Lew Brown, lyricist, 64
- March 24 – John Harvey Gahan, violinist, songwriter and actor, 69
- March 25
- Tom Brown, jazz trombonist, 69
- Emerson Whithorne, composer and historian, 73
- March 28 – W. C. Handy, blues composer, 84
- April 1
- Břetislav Bakala, pianist, conductor and composer, 61
- Alfred Bryan, songwriter, 86
- April 2 – Tudor Davies, operatic tenor, 65
- April 10 – Chuck Willis, singer, 30 (during surgery for stomach ulcer)
- April 14 – Gladys Presley, mother of Elvis Presley
- April 16 – Margaret Burke Sheridan, operatic soprano, 68
- May 20 – Irma Baltuttis, singer, 37 (suspected murder)
- June 1 – Henri Pensis, violinist, conductor and composer,
- June 3
- Georges Boulanger, violinist, 65
- Maude Nugent, songwriter, 81
- June 15 – José Pablo Moncayo, Mexican percussionist and composer, 45
- June 20 – Elfriede Trötschel, operatic soprano, 44
- June 21 – Eduard Erdmann, pianist and composer, 62
- June 23 – Armas Järnefelt, composer, 88
- June 27 – Marie Sundelius, operatic soprano, 74
- July 10 – Karl Erb, operatic tenor and lieder singer, 81
- July 31 – Eugène Goossens, fils, violinist and conductor, 91
- August 5 – Joseph Holbrooke, composer, 80
- August 15 – Big Bill Broonzy, blues musician and composer, 60
- August 17 – Florent Schmitt, composer, 87
- August 21 – Stevan Hristić, composer, 73
- August 26 – Ralph Vaughan Williams, composer, 85
- September 20 – Yvonne Arnaud, pianist, singer and actress, 65
- October 24 - Martin Shaw, composer, 83
- October 25 – Artie Matthews, ragtime composer and songwriter, 69
- October 27 – John Wooldridge, film composer, 39 (car accident)
- October 29 – Vassili Nebolsin, conductor, 60
- November 3 – Harry Revel, composer of musicals, 52
- November 26 – Tiny Bradshaw, jazz and blues musician, 53 (stroke)
- November 27 – Artur Rodziński, conductor, 66
- December 1 – Boots Mallory, dancer, 45 (chronic throat disease)
- December 8 – Julia Lee, blues singer, 56 (heart attack)
- December 11 – Paul Bazelaire, cellist, 72
- December 20 – Éva Gauthier, operatic soprano, 73
- December 29 – Doris Humphrey, dancer and choreographer, 63
- date unknown
- Samuel Antek, violinist and conductor
- John Strachan, ballad singer
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