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Birthdays
- Khayam Mirza-Zade ()
- Noam Sheriff ()
- Roque De Pedro ()
- Bojidar Dimov (31 January)
- Jo van den Booren (14 March)
- Gordon Mumma (30 March)
- Aulis Sallinen (9 April)
- Conrad Susa (26 April)
- Nigel Butterley (13 May)
- Dick-Jan Zwart (20 May)
- Derek Strahan (28 May)
- Peter Schat (5 June)
- Terry Riley (24 June)
- Kurt Schwertsik (25 June)
- Gordon Dale (13 July)
- Peter Schickele (17 July)
- Giya Kancheli (10 August)
- Otto Ketting (3 September)
- Arvo Pärt (11 September)
- Jan van Vlijmen (11 October)
- La Monte Young (14 October)
- Nicholas Maw (2 November)
- Helmut Lachenmann (27 November)
Dying days
- Sogomon Sogomonian ()
- Mikhail Mikhailovich Ippolitov-Ivanov (28 January)
- Victor Ewald (26 April)
- Alexander Campbell Mackenzie (28 April)
- Paul Dukas (17 May)
- Charles Martin Loeffler (19 May)
- Josef Suk (29 May)
- Hendrika van Tussenbroek (21 June)
- Otakar Ostrcil (20 August)
- Johan Halvorsen (4 December)
- Alban Berg (24 December)
Music events
- Premiere of piano concerto no. 2 for the left hand, in Vienna, Austria. (10 February) → Franz Schmidt
- Premiere of Symphony no. 1 in C major, in Basel, Switzerland. (26 February) → Georges Bizet
- Premiere of Harnasie, in Prague, Czech Republic. (11 May) → Karol Szymanowski
- Premiere of Die Zaubergeige, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. (22 May) → Werner Egk
- Premiere of Die Schweigsame Frau, in Dresden, Germany. (24 June) → Richard Strauss
- Premiere of Porgy and Bess, in New York, USA. (30 September) → George (Jacob) Gershwin
- Premiere of Symphony no. 4, in Paris, France. (19 October) → Albert Roussel
- Premiere of Symphony no. 1, in London, England. (6 November) → William Walton
- Premiere of Le Paradis Perdu, in London, England. (20 December) → Igor Markevitch
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