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Birthdays
- Eduardo Tejeda ()
- John Lanchbery ()
- Simeon ten Holt ()
- William Kraft ()
- Mel Powell (12 February)
- Harry Cox (16 April)
- Warren Barker (16 April)
- Peter Mennin (17 May)
- György Sándor Ligeti (28 May)
- Jiří Válek (28 May)
- Daniel Pinkham (5 June)
- Karel Goeyvaerts (8 June)
- Arthur Butterworth (4 August)
- James Brown (18 August)
- Madeleine Winefride Isabelle Dring (7 September)
- Anton Heiller (15 September)
- Ned Rorem (23 October)
- Octaaf Boone (27 October)
Dying days
- Paolino Vassallo (30 January)
- Asger Hamerik (13 July)
Music events
- Premiere of the ballet Cydalise et le Chèvre-pied at the Paris Opera, France, with Camille Chevillard conducting. (15 January) → (Henri-Constant) Gabriel Pierné
- Premiere of Hyperprism, in New York, USA. (4 March) → Edgard Varèse
- Premiere of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition in Ravel's orchestration, in Paris, France. (3 May) → Modest Moussorgsky
- Premiere of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition in Ravel's orchestration, in Paris, France. (3 May) → Maurice Ravel
- Premiere of Les Noces, in Paris, France. (13 June) → Igor Stravinsky
- Premiere of Fantasia Contrapuntistica for 2 pianos, in Salzburg, Austria. (6 August) → Ferruccio Benvenuto Busoni
- Premiere of Das Marienleben op. 27, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. (15 October) → Paul Hindemith
- Premiere of violin concerto no. 1 in D major op. 19, in Paris, France. (18 October) → Sergey Prokofiev
- Premiere of Le Création du Monde, in Paris, France. (25 October) → Darius Milhaud
- Premiere of Psalmus Hungaricus op. 13, in Budapest, Hungary. (19 November) → Zoltán Kodály
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