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Birthdays
- José Gomes Ferreira ()
- Maurice Jaubert (3 January)
- Pierre-Octave Ferroud (6 January)
- Micheal (Dewar) Head (28 January)
- Marko Tajčević (29 January)
- Isaak Dunayevsky (30 January)
- Rodolfo Halffter (30 January)
- Elinor Remick Warren (23 February)
- Kurt Weill (2 March)
- Andrés Orchassal Sas (6 April)
- Willy Burkhard (17 April)
- Henry Barraud (23 April)
- Leo Smit (Dutch) (14 May)
- Otto Luening (15 June)
- Hermann Reutter (17 June)
- George Antheil (8 July)
- Robert Oboussier (9 July)
- Alexandr Mosolov (11 August)
- Ernst Krenek (23 August)
- Aaron Copland (14 November)
- Hugo Godron (22 November)
- Cor Kee (24 November)
- Renato Parodi (14 December)
- Alan Bush (22 December)
Dying days
- Francisco Hargreaves ()
- Johann Peter Emilius Hartmann ()
- Ottokar Eugen Novacek (3 February)
- Friedrich Nietzsche (25 August)
- Heinrich von Herzogenberg (9 October)
- Zdenek Fibich (15 October)
- Arthur Sullivan (22 November)
Music events
- Premiere of Tosca, in Rome, Italy. (14 January) → Giacomo Puccini
- Premiere of Zemlinsky's Es War Einmahl, in Vienna, Austria, with Mahler conducting. (22 January) → Gustav Mahler
- Premiere of Zemlinsky's Es War Einmahl, in Vienna, Austria, with Mahler conducting. (22 January) → Alexander von Zemlinsky
- Premiere of "Louise", in Paris, France. (2 February) → Gustave Charpentier
- Premiere of Finlandia op. 26, in Helsinki, Finland. (2 July) → Jean Sibelius
- Premiere of Prométhée op. 82, in Bézieres, France. (26 August) → Gabriel Fauré
- Premiere of The Tale of Tsar Saltan, in Moscow, Russia. (2 November) → Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov
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