List of 20th century classical composers by death date

See also List of 20th century classical composers by birth date.

1910s

*Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
*Albéric Magnard (1865-1914)
*Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)
*George Butterworth (1885-1916)
*Enrique Granados (1867-1916)
*Max Reger (1873-1916)
*Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

1920s

*Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)
*Oskar Merikanto (1868-1924)
*Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
*Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
*Moritz Moszkowski (1854-1925)
*Erik Satie (1866-1925)
*Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871-1927)
*Leos Janacek (1854-1928)

1930s

*Vincent d'Indy (1851-1931)
*Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)
*Eugen d'Albert (1864-1932)
*Henri Duparc (1848-1933)
*Frederick Delius (1862-1934)
*Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
*Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
*Franz Schreker (1878-1934)
*Alban Berg (1885-1935)
*Paul Dukas (1865-1935)
*Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov (1859-1935)
*Josef Suk (1874-1935)
*Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936)
*Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936)
*George Gershwin (1898-1937)
*Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
*Albert Roussel (1869-1937)
*Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937)
*Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937)
*Leopold Godowsky (1870-1938)
*Franz Schmidt (1874–1939)
*Charles Tournemire (1870–1939)

1940s

*Silvestre Revueltas (1899-1940)
*Frank Bridge (1879-1941)
*Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860-1941)
*Christian Sinding (1856-1941)
*Erwin Schulhoff (1894-1942)
*Alexander von Zemlinsky (1871-1942)
*Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
*Amy Beach (1867-1944)
*Cécile Chaminade (1857-1944)
*Mykola Roslavets (1881-1944)
*Bela Bartok (1881-1945)
*Anton Webern (1883-1945)
*Manuel de Falla (1876-1946)
*Leevi Madetoja (1887-1947)
*Franz Lehár (1870-1948)
*Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (1876-1948)
*Hans Pfitzner (1869-1949)
*Vitezslav Novak (1870-1949)
*Nikolaos Skalkottas (1904-1949)
*Richard Strauss (1864-1949)

1950s

*Charles Koechlin (1867-1950)
*Ernest John Moeran (1894-1950)
*Nikolay Myaskovsky (1881-1950)
*Kurt Weill (1900-1950)
*Constant Lambert (1905-1951)
*Nikolay Medtner (1880-1951)
*Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
*Rued Langgaard (1893-1952)
*Arnold Bax (1883-1953)
*Joseph Jongen (1873-1953)
*Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
*Charles Ives (1874-1954)
*Jean Roger-Ducasse (1873-1954)
*Arthur Honegger (1892-1955)
*George Enescu (1881-1955)
*Gustave Charpentier (1860-1956)
*Gerald Finzi (1901-1956)
*Reinhold Gliere (1875-1956)
*Alexander Grechaninov (1864-1956)
*Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957)
*Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
*Florent Schmitt (1870-1958)
*Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
*José Pablo Moncayo (1912-1958)
*George Antheil (1900-1959)
*Ernest Bloch (1880-1959)
*Albert Ketelbey (1875-1959)
*Bohuslav Martinu (1890-1959)
*Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959)

1960s

*Hugo Alfven (1872-1960)
*Arthur Benjamin (1893-1960)
*Erno Dohnanyi (1877-1960)
*Alfred Hill (1870-1960)
*Jesus Guridi (1886-1961)
*Uuno Klami (1900-1961)
*Wallingford Riegger (1885-1961)
*Jacques Ibert (1890-1962)
*John Ireland (1879-1962)
*Manolis Kalomiris (1883-1962)
*Karl Amadeus Hartmann (1905-1963)
*Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
*László Lajtha (1892-1963)
*Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
*Tadeusz Szeligowski (1896-1963)
*George Dyson (1883-1964)
*Ernst Toch (1887-1964)
*Julián Carrillo (1875-1965)
*Henry Cowell (1897-1965)
*Edgard Varese (1883-1965)
*Vittorio Giannini (1903-1966)
*Gösta Nystroem (1890-1966)
*Quincy Porter (1897-1966)
*Zoltan Kodaly (1882-1967)
*Matthijs Vermeulen (1888-1967)
*Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968)
*Borys Lyatoshynsky (1895-1968)
*Ildebrando Pizzetti (1880-1968)

1970s

*Bo Linde (1933-1970)
*George Frederick McKay (1899-1970)
*Cyril Scott (1879-1970)
*Alan Rawsthorne (1905-1971)
*Carl Ruggles (1876-1971)
*Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
*Havergal Brian (1876-1972)
*Ferde Grofe (1892-1972)
*Gian Francesco Malipiero (1882-1973)
*Alexander Mosolov (1900-1973)
*Kurt Atterberg (1887-1974)
*Andre Jolivet (1905-1974)
*Frank Martin (1890-1974)
*Darius Milhaud (1892-1974)
*Martin Scherber (1907-1974)
*Egon Wellesz (1885-1974)
*Arthur Bliss (1891-1975)
*Luigi Dallapiccola (1904-1975)
*Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
*Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
*Leroy Anderson (1908-1975]
*Walter Piston (1894-1976)
*Carlos Chávez (1899-1978)
*Aram Khachaturian (1903-1978)
*Klaus Egge (1906-1979)
*Roy Harris (1898-1979)

1980s

*Allan Pettersson (1911-1980)
*Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
*Robert Russell Bennett (1894-1981)
*Howard Hanson (1896-1981)
*Geirr Tveitt (1908-1981)
*Carl Orff (1895-1982)
*Eduard Tubin (1905-1982)
*Georges Auric (1899-1983)
*Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983)
*Herbert Howells (1892-1983)
*Janis Ivanovs (1906-1983)
*Igor Markevitch (1912-1983)
*Peter Mennin (1923-1983)
*Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983)
*William Walton (1902-1983)
*Randall Thompson (1899-1984)
*William Alwyn (1905-1985)
*Paul Creston (1906-1985)
*Hilding Rosenberg (1892-1985)
*Roger Sessions (1896-1985)
*Lars-Erik Larsson (1908-1986)
*Edmund Rubbra (1901-1986)
*Alexandre Tansman (1897-1986)
*Morton Feldman (1926-1987)
*Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904-1987)
*Ervin Nyíregyházi (1903-1987)
*Vincent Persichetti (1915-1987)
*David N. Johnson (1922-1987)
*Kenneth Leighton (1929-1988)
*Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989)
*Henri Sauguet (1901-1989)
*Virgil Thomson (1896-1989)

1990s

*Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)
*Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
*Luigi Nono (1924-1990)
*Julian Orbon (1925-1991)
*Andrzej Panufnik (1914-1991)
*Stephen Albert (1941-1992)
*John Cage (1912-1992)
*Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)
*Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)
*William Schuman (1910-1992)
*Camargo Guarnieri (1907-1993)
*Nicolas Flagello (1928-1994)
*Witold Lutoslawski (1913-1994)
*Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994)
*Miklos Rozsa (1907-1995)
*Isang Yun (1917-1995)
*Edison Denisov (1929-1996)
*Vagn Holmboe (1906-1996)
*Joonas Kokkonen (1921-1996)
*Louise Talma (1906-1996)
*Boris Tchaikovsky (1925-1996)
*Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996)
*Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919-1996)
*Jean Françaix (1912-1997)
*Conlon Nancarrow (1912-1997)
*Robert Simpson (1921-1997)
*Earl Kim (1920-1998)
*Herman David Koppel (1908-1998)
*George Lloyd (1913-1998)
*Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998)
*Michael Tippett (1905-1998)
*Einar Englund (1916-1999)
*Rolf Liebermann (1910-1999)
*Joaquin Rodrigo (1901-1999)

2000s

*Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000)
*Robert Helps (1928-2001)
*Douglas Lilburn (1915-2001)
*Thomas Wilson (1927-2001)
*Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001)
*Leo Ornstein (1892-2002)
*Luciano Berio (1925-2003)
*Goffredo Petrassi (1904-2003)
*Jonathan Kramer (1942–2004)
*David Diamond (1915-2005)
*Dennis Eberhard (1943-2005)
*George Rochberg (1918-2005)
*Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006)
*Gyorgy Ligeti (1923-2006)
*Gian Carlo Menotti (1911-2007)
*Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007)
*Donald Erb (1927–2008)
*Mauricio Kagel (1931–2008)
*Horaţiu Rădulescu (1942–2008)