Mar 8 Auguste Tolbecque, French cellist and composer, dies at 88
Mar 11 Harald Fryklöf, Swedish composer, dies at 36
Mar 16 Sigurd von Koch, Swedish composer, dies at 39
Apr 3 Paul Geisler, German conductor, composer, and pedagogue, dies at 62
Apr 6 Stefan Surzynski, Polish conductor and composer, dies at 63
May 9 James Reese Europe, American ragtime and early jazz arranger, composer, and bandleader in New York, and with the military in France during WWI, dies of a stab wound (received during an argument with one of his drummers), at 38
May 9 Ludwig Bösendorfer, Austrian piano builder, dies at 84
May 17 Bohumil Pazdírek, Czech composer, dies at 80
Jun 8 Jacob Christian Fabricius, Danish composer, dies at 78
Aug 1 Oscar Hammerstein, German-American cigar maker, opera and theater impresario, composer, and playwright, dies of kidney disease at 73
Aug 9 Ruggero Leoncavallo, Italian composer (Pagliacci; Zazà), dies at 62
Sep 27 Adelina Patti, Italian soprano (Lucio), dies at 76
Oct 3 Daniel Brink Towner, American hymn composer ("He's A Friend of Mine"; "Though the Fig Tree Shall Not Blossom"), and music director, dies at 69
Oct 5 Jean Louis Nicodé, Prussian pianist and composer, dies at 66
Oct 16 Charles Harford Lloyd, British organist and composer, dies on his 70th birthday
Oct 21 Sven August Körling, Swedish composer, dies at 77
Dec 13 Amintore Galli, Italian composer, dies at 74
Dec 16 Luigi Illica, Italian poet and opera librettist (Giacomo Puccini's "La bohème", "Tosca", and "Madama Butterfly"; Umberto Giordano's "Andrea Chénier"), dies at 62
Dec 18 Horatio Parker, American organist and composer, dies at 56
Dec 27 Achilles Alferaki, Russian composer, dies at 73