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Birthdays
- Alemdar Karamanov ()
- Gary Friedman ()
- John McLeod ()
- Ton Bruynèl (26 January)
- Bernard Rands (2 March)
- Mario Davidovsky (4 March)
- Christian Wolff (8 March)
- Joep (Joseph Willem Frederik) Straesser (11 March)
- Sune Smedeby (3 April)
- Siegfried Matthus (13 April)
- Georg Kröll (3 May)
- Christiaan Verhoog (19 May)
- Filipe Pires (0 June)
- Vinko Globokar (7 July)
- Harrison Birtwistle (15 July)
- Roger Reynolds (18 July)
- André Prévost (30 July)
- James Tenney (10 August)
- Marian Borkowski (17 August)
- Peter Maxwell Davies (8 September)
- Fisher Tull (9 September)
- Vassil Kazandjiev (10 September)
- Geoffrey Grey (26 September)
- Neville Bower (3 October)
- William James Mathias (1 November)
- Alfred Schnittke (24 November)
- Alan Ridout (9 December)
Dying days
- Raffaele Calace ()
- Ernesto Nazareth (2 February)
- Edward Elgar (23 February)
- Franz Schreker (21 March)
- Gustav Theodore Holst (25 May)
- Frederick Delius (10 June)
- Francisco de Lacerda (17 June)
- Edwin Henry Lemare (24 September)
Music events
- Premiere of Symphony no. 4, in Vienna, Austria. (10 January) → Franz Schmidt
- Premiere of Giuditta, in Vienna, Austria. (20 January) → Franz Lehár
- Premiere of Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, in St. Petersburg (Leningrad), Russia. (22 January) → Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich
- Premiere of Simple Symphony op. 4, in Norwich, England. (6 March) → Benjamin Britten
- Premiere of the Paganini Rhapsody op. 43, in Baltimore, USA, with Rachmaninov at the piano. (7 November) → Nicoló Paganini
- Premiere of the Paganini Rhapsody op. 43, in Baltimore, USA, with Rachmaninov at the piano. (7 November) → Sergey Rachmaninoff
- Premiere of the Lulu suite, in Berlin, Germany. (30 November) → Alban Berg
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