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Birthdays
- Bernard Gilmore ()
- Brent Heisinger ()
- Jan Welmers ()
- Katherine Hoover ()
- Lopes e Silva ()
- Manuel Juarez ()
- Marta Lambertini ()
- Pierre Lerich ()
- Robert Moran (8 January)
- Zbigniew Bargielski (21 January)
- John Andrew Howard Ogdon (27 January)
- Philip Glass (31 January)
- Ann Southam (4 February)
- Terrence Patrick Dougherty (12 February)
- Constança Capdeville (16 March)
- David Del Tredici (16 March)
- Rolf Riehm (15 June)
- Dmitri Smolski (25 July)
- David Bedford (4 August)
- Vladislav Aleksandrovich Uspensky (7 September)
- Jean Chatillon (13 September)
- Valentin Silvestrov (30 September)
- Richard Englefield (26 November)
- Gordon Crosse (1 December)
- Jan Bach (11 December)
Dying days
- Clarence Eddy ()
- Charles Marie Widor (12 March)
- Jeno Hubay (12 March)
- Mélanie (Mel) Bonis (18 March)
- Karol Szymanowski (29 March)
- Arthur William Foote (8 April)
- Louis Vierne (2 June)
- George (Jacob) Gershwin (11 July)
- Jan Zwart (13 July)
- (Henri-Constant) Gabriel Pierné (17 July)
- Albert Roussel (23 August)
- Henry Kimball Hadley (6 September)
- Auguste De Boeck (9 October)
- Walter Gronostay (10 October)
- Jerzy Gablenz (11 November)
- Ivor Gurney (26 December)
- Maurice Ravel (28 December)
Music events
- Premiere of Music for strings, percussion and celesta, in Basel, Switzerland. (21 January) → Béla Bartók
- Premiere of Die Kirmes von Delft, in Baden-Baden, Germany. (20 March) → Hermann Reutter
- Premiere of Mikrokosmos (incomplete), in Budapest, Hungary, with Bartók at the piano. (7 May) → Béla Bartók
- Premiere of Lulu, in Zürich, Switzerland. (2 June) → Alban Berg
- Premiere of Carmina Burana, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. (8 June) → Carl Orff
- Premiere of Deutsche Sinfonie, in Paris, France. (25 June) → Hanns Eisler
- Premiere of piano concerto in D flat major, in St. Petersburg, Russia. (5 July) → Aram Ilyich Khachaturian
- Premiere of El Salón México, in Mexico City, Mexico. (27 August) → Aaron Copland
- Premiere of Symphony no. 5 in c minor op. 47, in St. Petersburg, Russia. (21 November) → Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich
- Premiere of Tobias Wunderlich, in Kassel, Gemany. (24 November) → Pavel Haas
- Premiere of violin concerto in d minor, in Berlin, Germany. (26 November) → Robert Schumann
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