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Birthdays
- Claude Vivier ()
- Heinz Chur ()
- Jeffrey Jacob ()
- Rob Goorhuis ()
- Wolfgang-Andreas Schultz ()
- Woody Norvell (20 January)
- Colin Bayliss (15 February)
- Dan Welcher (2 March)
- David Saperstein (6 March)
- Jay Vosk (6 March)
- Andrew Lloyd Webber (22 March)
- Michael Kamen (15 April)
- Albert Alan Owen (14 May)
- Tommy Fowler (15 May)
- Michael Berkeley (29 May)
- Ruud Top (12 June)
- Claude Engel (14 July)
- Stephen Brown (16 August)
- Jukka Tiensuu (30 August)
- Keith Gates (29 September)
- Dmitry Nikolayevich Smirnov (2 November)
- Max Lifchitz (11 November)
- David Frederick Golightly (17 November)
- Giorgio Lanzani (23 December)
- Abraham Walker (30 December)
Dying days
- Carlos López Buchardo ()
- Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (21 January)
- Ignaz Friedman (26 January)
- Joseph Wihtol (24 April)
- Manuel Maria Ponce (24 April)
- José Vianna da Motta (31 May)
- Georges Hüe (7 June)
- John Blackwood McEwan (14 June)
- Oscar Lorenzo Fernández (27 August)
- Franz Lehár (24 October)
- Umberto Menotti Maria Giordano (12 November)
- Uzeyir Hajibeyov (23 November)
Music events
- Premiere of Les Malheurs de Sophie, in Paris, France. (25 February) → Jean Françaix
- Premiere of the piano concerto op. 28, in Göttingen, Germany. (26 March) → Boris Blacher
- Premiere of Symphony no. 4, in Munich, Germany. (2 April) → Karl Amadeus Hartmann
- Premiere of Symphony no. 6 in e minor, in London, England. (21 April) → Ralph Vaughan Williams
- Premiere of the Concerto for Ondes Martenot and Orchestra, in Vienna, Austria. (23 April) → André Jolivet
- Premiere of Les Demoiselles de la Nuit, in Paris, France. (21 May) → Jean Françaix
- Premiere of Abraxas, in Munich, Germany. (6 June) → Werner Egk
- Premiere of La Femme et son Ombre, in Paris, France. (14 June) → Alexander Tcherepnin
- Premiere of Down in the Valley, in Bloomingon, USA. (15 July) → Kurt Weill
- Premiere of Concert de Bruit, on Radio Paris, France. (5 October) → Pierre Schaeffer
- Premiere of Ein Überlebender von Warschau, in Albuquerque, USA. (4 November) → Arnold Schoenberg
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