Deaths
- February 9 – Sophie Tucker, blues singer, 82
- February 10 – Billy Rose, impresario, 66
- February 13 - Marguerite Long, pianist, 87
- February 23 – Billy Kyle, jazz pianist, 51
- March - Mohamed El Qasabgi, composer
- March 29 – Jazz Gillum, harmonica player, 61 (shot)
- March 30 - Jelly d'Arányi, violinist, 72
- April 3 – Russel Crouse, librettist, 73
- April 19 – Javier Solis, Mexican ranchera & bolero singer, 34 (complications following gall bladder surgery)
- April 30 – Richard Fariña, folk singer, 29 (motorcycle accident)
- June 1 – Papa Jack Laine, bandleader, 92
- June 12 – Hermann Scherchen, conductor, 74
- June 17 – Johnny St. Cyr, jazz musician, 76
- July 3 – Deems Taylor, composer and music critic, 80
- July 18 – Bobby Fuller, singer and guitarist, 23 (possible suicide or murder)
- July 31 – Bud Powell, jazz pianist, 41
- August 2 – Boyd Raeburn, jazz musician, 52 (heart attack)
- August 4 – Helen Tamiris, dancer and choreographer, 61
- August 15 – Jan Kiepura, Polish tenor and actor, 64
- September 17 – Fritz Wunderlich, tenor, 35 (fell downstairs)
- September 26 – Helen Kane, singer, 62
- September 28 – Lucius "Lucky" Millinder, US bandleader, 56 (liver disease)
- October 3 – Dave Lambert, jazz musician, 49 (road accident)
- October 7
- Johnny Kidd, British singer, 30 (car accident)
- Smiley Lewis, R&B musician, 53 (stomach cancer)
- October 12 – Arthur Lourié, composer, 74
- October 26 – Alma Cogan, English singer, 34 (stomach cancer)
- October 17 - Karel Hruška, operatic tenor, 75
- October 29 – Wellman Braud, jazz musician, 75
- November 1 – Dick Roberts, guitar and banjo player, 69
- November 2
- Mississippi John Hurt, blues musician, 73 or 74
- Alexis Roland-Manuel, composer, 75
- November 6 – Washboard Sam, blues musician, 56 (heart disease)
- November 12 – Quincy Porter, composer, 69
- November 28 – Vittorio Giannini, opera composer, 63
- December 1 – Carter Stanley, bluegrass musician, half of The Stanley Brothers, 41 (alcohol-related)
- December 3 - Kui Lee, singer-songwriter, 34 (gland cancer)
- December 9 - Yuri Shaporin, composer, 79
- December 12 – Nellie Briercliffe, singer and actress with the D'Oyly Carte company, 77
- December 14 – Shailendra, lyricist, 43
- December 24 – Gaspar Cassadó, cellist and composer, 69
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