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Birthdays
- Manuel Faria ()
- William Presser ()
- Henri Dutilleux (22 January)
- Bernard Stevens (2 March)
- Louis Toebosch (18 March)
- Alberto Ginastera (11 April)
- Denis Apivor (14 April)
- Milton Babbitt (10 May)
- Louis Thomas Hardin (26 May)
- Ben Weber (23 July)
- Siegfried Reda (27 July)
- Rene Touzet (8 September)
- Tadeusz Paciorkiewicz (17 October)
- Karl-Birger Blomdahl (19 October)
- Pierre Sancan (24 October)
- Jean Papineau-Couture (12 November)
Dying days
- Adolphe Biarent (4 February)
- Nikolay Nikolayevitch Lodyzhensky (15 February)
- Enrique Granados y Campina (24 March)
- Max Reger (11 May)
- Hamish MacCunn (2 August)
- George Butterworth (5 August)
- Eduard Frantsovitch Nápravnik (23 November)
- Francesco Paoli Tosti (2 December)
- Eduard Strauss (28 December)
Music events
- Premiere of Goyescas, in New York, USA. (28 January) → Enrique Granados y Campina
- Premiere of Symphony no. 4 op. 29 "The Inextinguishable", in Copenhagen, Denmark, with Nielsen conducting. (1 February) → Carl Nielsen
- Premiere of Die Toten Augen, in Dresden, Germany. (5 March) → Eugen d’Albert
- Premiere of Noches en los Jardines de España, in Madrid, Spain. (9 April) → Manuel de Falla
- Premiere of Ariadne auf Naxos, in Vienna, Austria. (4 October) → Richard Strauss
- Premiere of En Blanc et Noir for two pianos, in Paris, France, with Debussy playing. (21 December) → Claude Debussy
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