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Birthdays
- Agustin Castellon Compos (Sabicus) ()
- Barbara Pentland (2 January)
- Rudolf Escher (8 January)
- Xavier Montsalvatge (11 March)
- Carlos Guastavino (5 April)
- Bernard Brindel (23 April)
- Sicong Ma (7 May)
- Arthur Victor Berger (15 May)
- Jean Françaix (23 May)
- Lydia Auster (30 May)
- Don Gillis (17 June)
- José Pablo Garcia Moncayo (29 June)
- Ingolf Dahl (9 July)
- Igor Markevitch (27 July)
- Louis Moyse (0 August)
- David Raksin (4 August)
- Herman Strategier (10 August)
- Francisco Escudero (13 August)
- John Cage (5 September)
- Tauno Marttinen (27 September)
- Hugo Weisgall (13 October)
- Conlon Nancarrow (27 October)
- Vadim Niolayevich Salmanov (4 November)
- Ivana Lang (15 November)
- Peggy Glanville-Hicks (29 December)
Dying days
- Albert Pieczonka (12 April)
- František Kmoch (30 April)
- Alphonse Hasselmans (19 May)
- Jan Blockx (26 May)
- Jules Massenet (13 August)
- Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1 September)
- Edgar (Pierre Joseph) Tinel (28 October)
- Mykola Lysenko (6 November)
Music events
- Premiere of Symphony no. 3 “Ilya Murometz”, in Moscow, Russia. (23 March) → Reinhold Moritzovich Glière
- Premiere of Die Brautwahl, in Hamburg, Germany. (13 April) → Ferruccio Benvenuto Busoni
- Premiere of Daphnis et Chloé, in Paris, France. (8 June) → Maurice Ravel
- Premiere of Symphony no. 9 in D major, in Vienna, Austria. (26 June) → Gustav Mahler
- Premiere of piano concerto no. 1 in D flat major op. 10, in Moscow, Russia, with Prokofiev conducting. (7 August) → Sergey Prokofiev
- Premiere of Die Ferne Klang, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. (18 August) → Franz Schreker
- Premiere of Fünf Orchesterstücke op. 16, in London, England. (3 September) → Arnold Schoenberg
- Premiere of Pierrot Lunaire op. 21, in Berlin, Germany, with Schönberg conducting. (16 October) → Arnold Schoenberg
- Premiere of Symphony no. 3 op. 27 “Sinfonia Espansiva”, in Copenhagen, Denmark, with Nielsen conducting. (28 December) → Carl Nielsen
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