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Birthdays
- James Dashow ()
- Niels La Cour ()
- Patrick Marcland ()
- Randall Snyder ()
- Rhian Samuel ()
- Stephen Scott ()
- Thüring Bräm ()
- William Albright ()
- Péter Eötvös (2 January)
- Yuan-kai Bao (4 January)
- Pehr Henrik Nordgren (19 January)
- John Tavener (28 January)
- Karl Jenkins (17 February)
- Leif Segerstam (2 March)
- Michael Nyman (23 March)
- Paul Lansky (18 June)
- Klaas de Vries (15 July)
- John Hawkins (26 July)
- Willem Breuker (4 November)
Dying days
- Jan van Gilse ()
- Pavel Chesnokov ()
- Cécile Chaminade (13 April)
- Dame Ethel Mary Smyth (8 May)
- Joseph Bonnet (2 August)
- Agustín Barrios Mangoré (7 August)
- Nikolai Andreievich Roslavets (23 August)
- František Drdla (3 September)
- Carlo Taube (0 October)
- Hans Krása (17 October)
- Pavel Haas (17 October)
- Viktor Ullmann (17 October)
- Amy Marcy Beach (27 December)
Music events
- Premiere of Symphonic Metamorphoses on themes by C.M. von Weber, in New York, USA. (20 January) → Paul Hindemith
- Premiere of the piano concerto, in New York, USA. (6 February) → Arnold Schoenberg
- Premiere of Symphony no. 2, in Washington D.C., USA. (5 March) → Walter Piston
- Premiere of Symphony no. 6 “Gettysburg”, in Boston, USA. (13 April) → Roy Harris
- Premiere of Guignol et Pandore, in Paris, France. (29 April) → André Jolivet
- Premiere of Appalachian Spring, in Washington, D.C., USA. (30 October) → Aaron Copland
- Premiere of the Concert for Orchestra, in Boston, USA. (1 December) → Béla Bartók
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