Apr 9 Emilio Serrano y Ruiz, Spanish composer, dies at 89
Apr 21 Herman Finck, British conductor (Palace Theatre (London), 1900-20), theater and light classical composer (In The Shadows), dies at 66
Apr 25 John Foulds, British cellist, musicologist, and composer (World Requiem; Three Mantras), dies in Calcutta of cholera at 58
Jun 4 Tommy Ladnier, American jazz trumpeter (Lovie Austin; King Oliver; New Orleans Feetwarmers; Noble Sissle; Sidney Bechet), dies of a heart attack at 39
Jun 16 Chick Webb, American jazz drummer and big band bandleader (introduced Ella Fitzgerald), dies of Pott's disease (tuberculosis of the spine), at 34
Jun 18 Frans "Sas" van Aerschot, Flemish operetta actor (Paljas), dies at 73
Jul 13 Margaret Johnson, American jazz pianist known as "Countess" and "Queenie" (Andy Kirk's Clouds of Joy; Lester Young), dies of tuberculosis at 20
Jul 18 Witold Maliszewski, Polish composer, dies at 65
Jul 27 Alexandre Stellio [Fructueux], Martinican biguine clarinetist, composer, and bandleader, dies at 54
Aug 3 August Enna, Danish opera composer (The Witch; Kleopatra), dies at 80
Sep 28 Felicjan Szopski, Polish composer, dies at 74
Oct 10 Eleanor Rigby, a real person whose name may have suggested the title to The Beatles song (b. 1895)
Oct 16 Ludolf Nielsen, Danish composer, dies at 63
Nov 4 Charles Arnold Tournemire, French organist and composer, dies at 69
Nov 20 Désiré Pâque, Belgian organist, composer, and pedagogue, dies at 72
Dec 8 Ernest Schelling, American child piano prodigy, conductor, and composer (A Victory Ball), dies of a cerebral embolism at 63
Dec 10 Wilhelm Grosz, Austrian pianist, conductor, classical composer (Afrika Songs), and popular songwriter ("Red Sails in the Sunset"; "Isle of Capri"), dies at 45 [1]
Dec 19 Eric Fogg, English composer, dies under a train at 36
Dec 22 Ma Rainey [Gertrude Pridgett], American singer "Mother of the Blues", dies at 53