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Birthdays
- Herbert Brun ()
- Jan van Dijk ()
- Willem Strietman ()
- César Augusto Ribeiro Morais (3 January)
- Gottfried von Einem (24 January)
- Kara (Gara) Karayev|Garayev (5 February)
- Bernd Alois Zimmermann (20 March)
- Marcelo Koc (4 June)
- George Rochberg (5 July)
- Leonard Bernstein (25 August)
- Paul Bonneau (14 September)
- Henryk Szeryng (22 September)
- Howard Shanet (9 November)
Dying days
- Alphonse Jean Ernest Mailly ()
- António Fragoso ()
- Fritz (Friedrich) Seitz ()
- Oskar Rieding ()
- Daniël de Lange (30 January)
- Alexander Taneyev (7 February)
- (Johan Gustaf) Emil Sjögren (1 March)
- Lili (Juliëtte Marie Olga) Boulanger (15 March)
- Théophile Ysaÿe (24 March)
- Claude Debussy (25 March)
- César Antonowich Cui (26 March)
- Toivo Kuula (18 May)
- Arrigo Enrico Boito (10 June)
- Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (7 October)
- Alexandre Charles Lecocq (24 October)
- Rudolf Tobias (29 October)
- Gustavo de Macedo Affonso Nogueira (1 November)
Music events
- Premiere of part 1 of Pause del Silenzio, in Rome, Italy. (27 January) → Gian Francesco Malipiero
- Premiere of the Classical Symphony in D major op. 25, in St. Petersburg, Russia, with Prokofiev conducting. (21 April) → Sergey Prokofiev
- Premiere of Die Gezeichneten, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. (25 April) → Franz Schreker
- Premiere of Duke Bluebeard's Castle op. 11, in Budapest, Hungary. (24 May) → Béla Bartók
- Premiere of L'Histoire du Soldat, in Lausanne, Switzerland. (28 September) → Igor Stravinsky
- Premiere of Il Trittico, in New York, USA. (14 December) → Giacomo Puccini
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