Feb 24 Dmitri B. Shostakovich, father of Russian composer Dmitri D S, dies
Feb 28 Vicente Lleo, Spanish composer (La Corte de Faraón), dies at 51
Mar 10 Arthur Hervey, Irish orchestral and operatic composer, and musicologist, dies at 67
Mar 10 Horace Wadham Nicholl, British composer, dies at 73
Mar 27 Nikolay Alexandrovich Sokolov, Russian composer, dies at 63
Apr 12 František Ondříček, Czech violinist and composer, dies at 64
Apr 24 Richard Batka, Austrian music critic and composer, dies at 53
Apr 26 Hans Sommer, German theatre composer, dies at 84
Apr 29 Kyrylo Stetsenko, Ukrainian composer (Burlaka), choral conductor, music critic, teacher, and later, Ukrainian Orthodox priest, dies of typhus while tending to the sick during an outbreak at 39
May 7 Max Wagenknecht, German composer, dies at 64
May 22 Ada Jane Jones, English-American popular singer, among the earliest female singers to be recorded, dies of kidney failure at 48
May 28 Carl Teike, German military composer, dies at 58
Jun 6 Lillian Russell, American actress and operetta singer, dies at about 60
Jun 20 Vittorio Monti, Italian violinist, mandolin player, conductor, and composer (Csárdás), dies at 54
Jul 25 Jarolslaw Zielinski, Polish-American concert pianist, teacher, and composer, dies at 75
Aug 1 Vaclav Juda Novotny, Czech music writer, composer, and libretti translator, dies at 72
Aug 19 Felipe Pedrell, Spanish guitarist, composer (Excelsior; La Celestina), and musical scholar, dies at 81