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Birthdays
- Bill Fontana ()
- Joseph Turrin ()
- Paul Schoenfield ()
- Vassily Pavlovich Lobanov (2 January)
- Hristo Tsanoff (7 January)
- Nicolai S. Korndorf (23 January)
- John Adams (15 February)
- Carlo Domeniconi (20 February)
- Marc Monnet (11 March)
- Tristan Murail (11 March)
- Gwyneth V. Walker (22 March)
- Salvatore Sciarrino (4 April)
- Michaël Lévinas (17 April)
- Nicola LeFanu (28 April)
- Milan Slavický (7 May)
- Franghiz Ali-Zadeh (28 May)
- Huub Kerstens (7 June)
- Michael Mauldin (14 June)
- Paul Patterson (15 June)
- Livio Baldissera (17 June)
- Jack Gallagher (27 June)
- Betty Wishart (22 September)
- Kees Schoonenbeek (1 October)
- Howard Skempton (31 October)
- Ivan Kurz (29 November)
- Jean-Louis Florentz (19 December)
Dying days
- Carl Adolph Preyer ()
- Vaclav Kapral ()
- Reynaldo Hahn (28 January)
- Luigi Russolo (6 February)
- Alfredo Casella (5 March)
- Willem Pijper (18 March)
- Anders Johan Ture Rangström (11 May)
- Leevi Antti Madetoja (6 October)
Music events
- Premiere of violin concerto in D major op. 35, in St. Louis, USA. (15 February) → Erich Wolfgang Korngold
- Premiere of The Telephone, in New York, USA. (18 February) → Gian Carlo Menotti
- Premiere of Die Flut, in Dresden, Germany. (4 March) → Boris Blacher
- Premiere of The Minotaur, in New York, USA. (26 March) → Elliott Carter
- Premiere of Les Mamelles de Tirésias, in Paris, France. (3 June) → Francis Poulenc
- Premiere of Die Bernauerin, in Stuttgart, Germany. (15 June) → Carl Orff
- Premiere of Albert Herring, in Glyndebourne, England. (20 July) → Benjamin Britten
- Premiere of Dantes Tod, in Salzburg, Austria. (6 August) → Gottfried von Einem
- Premiere of Symphony no. 3 “Hymnus Ambrosianis”, in Paris, France. (30 October) → Darius Milhaud
- Premiere of orchestral variations over a theme by Paganini, in Leipzig, Germany. (27 November) → Boris Blacher
- Premiere of orchestral variations over a theme by Paganini, in Leipzig, Germany. (27 November) → Nicoló Paganini
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