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Birthdays
- Diderik Wagenaar ()
- Ernesto Cordero ()
- Jorge Rapp ()
- Sheila Silver ()
- Tsippi Fleischer ()
- Wjatseslaw Semyonow ()
- Colin Matthews (13 February)
- Michael Finnissy (17 March)
- Peter Ward (23 March)
- Alexandr Morduhovich (28 March)
- Peteris Vasks (16 April)
- Giles Swayne (0 June)
- Gérard Grisey (17 June)
- Jean-Luc Darbellay (2 July)
- Laurie Conrad (5 July)
- Balz Trümpy (4 August)
- Brian Holmes (6 August)
- Bjørn Kruse (14 August)
- Ivar Danielsen (21 August)
- Thomas Brosh (25 August)
- Stephen Truelove (26 September)
- Jean Jacques Lamoureux (30 September)
- Tristan Keuris (3 October)
- Dimitri Nicolau (21 October)
- Peter Lieberson (25 October)
- Martin Bresnick (13 November)
- Pierre Even (4 December)
Dying days
- Aleksandr Vasil’evich Aleksandrov ()
- Giuseppe Pietri ()
- Jules Mouquet ()
- Jesús Castillo (23 April)
- Percy Whitlock (1 May)
- Adolf Wallnöfer (9 June)
- Heinrich Kaminsky (21 June)
- Moritz (Maurycy) Rosenthal (3 September)
- Paul Lincke (3 September)
- Sir Granville Ransome Bantock (16 October)
- Zygmunt Denis Antoni Jordan de Stojowski (6 November)
- Manuel de Falla (14 November)
- Maximilian Steinberg (6 December)
Music events
- Premiere of piano concerto no. 3, in Philadelphia, USA. (8 February) → Béla Bartók
- Premiere of the Ebony Concerto, in New York, USA. (25 March) → Igor Stravinsky
- Premiere of Symphony no. 3, in New York, USA. (5 April) → Charles Ives
- Premiere of The Medium, in New York, USA. (8 May) → Gian Carlo Menotti
- Premiere of The Serpent Heart, in New York, USA. (10 May) → Samuel Barber
- Premiere of Central Park in the Dark, in New York, USA. (11 May) → Charles Ives
- Premiere of Annie Get Your Gun, in New York, USA. (16 May) → Irving Berlin
- Premiere of Petite Symphony Concertante, in Zürich, Switzerland. (17 May) → Frank Martin
- Premiere of War and Peace (first version), in St. Petersburg, Russia. (12 June) → Sergey Prokofiev
- Premiere of The Rape of Lucratia, in Glyndebourne, England. (12 July) → Benjamin Britten
- Premiere of Symphonie Liturgique, in Zürich, Switzerland. (17 August) → Arthur Honegger
- Premiere of The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, in Liverpool, England. (15 October) → Benjamin Britten
- Premiere of cello concerto, in Moscow, Russia. (30 October) → Aram Ilyich Khachaturian
- Premiere of Die Flut, on Radio Berlin, Germany. (20 December) → Boris Blacher
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